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Wayle found himself in a large room with the floor covered in mattresses. Now, he had no problem sleeping in a room with a large amount of other people, back in the Sith Academy that would have been one of the safer situations as no one would do anything with so many witnesses. No, the problem with the current situation in his opinion was the fact that there were both girls and boys in the room. It didn't help that Ruby's sister was checking him out.

"See anything you like?" He decided to start a conversation with the blonde, if only so he could get her to stop.

"Maybe." The blonde replied coyly. "If you took of the shirt as well it would be easier to decide."

Wayle had taken of his vest as he most certainly would not be able to sleep in it. He was on the other hand not about to remove his shirt as well. While he was confident about his body he was not one to show off, at least not physically.

His muscles were sharp and lean, a perfect balance between strength, endurance and flexibility, those of an athlete or martial artist. He believed in the adage: "A healthy body houses a healthy mind" so he kept fit. It helped that it had been necessary for his survival.

"Hi Ruby." He decided to get the attention of the young girl lying beside her sister.

"Oh, hi Wayle." She replied, slightly startled, apparently having missed that he had started a conversation with her sister.

"You know each other?" The blonde asked, surprised. "Why Ruby, why didn't you tell me you had met someone." The way she said it made Wayle think that she was implying something inappropriate and gave her a frowned glare.

"I meant to introduce you but I couldn't find him after the speech and then it kind of slipped my mind and…" The girl seemed flustered, obviously a bit embarrassed. It was kind of adorable, and Wayle almost wanted to tease her.

"Don't worry Ruby, I'm the one who didn't seek you out." He refrained from doing so, instead opting to try and calm her a little. He then turned back to the blonde. "My name is Wayle Tyran. A pleasure to make your acquaintance." He completed his introduction with a theatrical bow.

"Oh, don't be so stiff! I'm Yang, Ruby's older sister!" Her cheerful introduction told him that she was a free and chaotic soul. Might need to be a bit careful around her, you never know what she might do.

There was one thing that bothered him a lot though, they looked nothing alike, and the styles of their names where different. "Forgive me for prying, but how exactly are you related? Not that I doubt your claims but…" He let Yang fill in the end of the sentence, assuming that she would understand what he meant.

"Oh! That!" Yang seemed to have understood his meaning. "We have different mothers but share the same father." For just a few seconds Wayle felt pain and sadness from the cheerful girl, but she didn't let it show.

"I see. That makes sense." Wayle decided not to dig deeper, it was not a fond memory and Wayle preferred to be friendly for now, if they continued to associate with each other then Wayle was certain that he would learn. And he had no doubt that they would.

Suddenly something seemed to have caught Ruby's attention as she looked in another direction. "That girl…"

"What, do you know her?" Yang asked curiously.

"Not really, she was there when I met Wayle but she didn't say much and left."

"Well, let's go talk to her!" the older girl said with cheer and grabbed Ruby's shirt collar.

"Wait! What are you doing!?" Ruby exclaimed as she was dragged along. Wayle, slightly curious decided to follow.

"Helloooooo!" Yang said in a sing-song voice and waved to the black haired girl sitting against the wall reading a book. "I believe you two may know each other." She said, indicating Ruby.

"Aren't you that girl Wayle was holding?" The girl asked, indicating Wayle.

"So you remembered my name, I'm flattered."

"It's nothing, just that you are the only person whose name I've heard since getting here."

"Hold on. Wayle was holding Ruby? What happened back then?" Yang finally seemed to have realized just what had been said earlier.

"It was nothing, I just fell over and Wayle caught me, that's all." Ruby explained abashedly. "Oh, I'm Ruby." She held forth her hand to the girl who made absolutely no move to shake it so she retracted it again and scratched the back of her head sheepishly.

"Okay…" The girl seemed to not care at all and probably just wanted them to go away.

"What are you doing?" Yang whispered to Ruby.

"I don't know help me!" Ruby whispered back.

"Soo, what's your name?" Yang finally asked the girl.

The girl sighed. "Blake."

"Well, Blake, I'm Yang." Yang pointed to herself. "Ruby's older sister." She seemed a bit unsure what to say next. "I like your bow."

"Thanks." Blake seemed just a teeny tiny bit annoyed, and Wayle started wondering if the two girls somehow hadn't noticed.

"It goes great with your… pyjamas!" Nope, they most certainly seem to have missed the memo.

"Right…"

"Nice night don't you think?"

"Yes. It's lovely. Almost as lovely as this book." Okay, they have to notice now. "That I will continue to read." The pause of silence in between said otherwise. "As soon as you leave." If they don't get it soon someone's going to get shocked. Wayle was actually getting a bit annoyed.

"Yeah, this girl's a lost cause." Yang finally said.

"What's it about." Dammit Ruby! Why?! Wayle facepalmed.

"Huh?" It seems the question was not expected as Blake showed confusion.

"Your book, does it have a name?"

"Well, it's about a man with two souls. Each fighting for control over his body." Wayle admitted to some interest in the book as there was a slight parallel to the force in there. Not intentional obviously but still. He would see if he could get more details out of her at some other point.

"Huh, that's… real lovely." It seemed Yang was not much of a booklover.

"I love books." Ruby confessed still not giving up on trying to connect to the girl in front of her. "Yang used to read me every night before bed." That did surprise Wayle a bit. "Stories of heroes and monsters. They're one of the reasons I wanna be a huntress."

"Oh, why is that?" It seemed to have worked a bit, as a hint of amusement had entered Blake's voice. "Hoping you'll live happily ever after?" A hint of sarcasm. So Blake could be a bit cynical, wonderful.

"I'm hoping we all will." Seems Ruby's innocence and naiveté was greater than Wayle originally thought it was. "As a girl I wanted to be just like those heroes in the books, someone who fought for what was right and protected those who couldn't protect themselves." Great, the girl would fit in just fine in that bastion of hypocrisy that is the Jedi Order. Just what he needed.

"That's very ambitious for a child. Unfortunately, the real world isn't the same as a fairy tale." Sadness crept into Blake's voice and face, a slight hint, but to Wayle she could just as well have broken down into a sobbing mess and it couldn't have been more obvious. Although he was technically cheating with the force.

"Well, that's why we're here, to make it better." Seems like Ruby has something of a twisted way of seeing things, still as far as goals went it was noble. And at least it was something, even if it was hopeless, that goal is probably what brought her here in the first place.

"Oh, I'm so proud of my baby sister." Yang suddenly resumed activity, picking Ruby up in a bear hug and cuddling her.

"Cut it out!" Ruby suddenly punched Yang, starting a fight that somehow turned into a cloud with legs and feet popping out every so often, sometimes in ways that should not really be possible.

"Well, Ruby, Yang. Wayle." Blake tried to say something but was cut off when a familiar voice started up.

"What is going on over here?! Don't you realize some of us are trying to sleep?" Weiss, disturbed by the commotion had decided to come over to shout at the source of it. She had let her hair down and Wayle had to admit that it looked good on her. And he realized just how long it actually was.

"Oh, god she's right. People are trying to sleep!" Ruby suddenly seemed to have realized that Weiss was right.

"What, you're on her side?" Yang seemed a bit annoyed.

"But she's right." Ruby meekly replied.

"Of course I am!" Weiss seemed to have forgotten why she came in the first place.

"What's your problem?" Yang and Weiss had very clashing personalities so this should have been expected.

Wayle looked towards Blake who had seemed to have given up on reading and simply picked up the candelabra next to her and blew out the candles.

-Break-

Wayle had slept about as well as you could expect from someone who was used to the possibility of being killed in his sleep sleeping in a room full of other people. Which for clarification meant badly. He wasn't too tired, but he had been woken a few times by the people around him. Luckily the night had passed without incident and he had awoken around dawn, long before the others.

He got up and left the room, looking for some place he could go through his morning routine alone. After some walking around, wandering away from the academy he found a reasonably secluded spot where he wasn't as likely to get interrupted. It had taken some time to find it so he decided to cut down on the exercises he was going to do.

His routine consisted of some stretching, followed by a series of different martial arts exercises, mostly unarmed with some of the lightsaber forms to round things off. This helped keep him in shape and keep his combat skills from deteriorating. All in all he saw no problem with it. For finishing off he meditated for a bit, stretching his senses, allowing the Force to flow through him, strengthening his bond to it.

After he was done with his morning routine he returned to the academy for breakfast. He found the mess hall and was met by an astounding variety of food. It seemed they had taken all preferences into account. Other students had started to trickle in as well. He scanned the crowds and spotted Ruby, Yang and Jaune sitting together. Yang saw him and waved him over enthusiastically. He made his way over and sat down across from Yang.

"When we woke up you were gone. What have you been doing?" Yang asked curiously, eyeing him with interest.

"Just going through my morning routine. It's something I have been doing for a long time now. It helps me keep in shape and helps me prepare for the day." Wayle answered, feeling that there was no harm in telling them that.

"I see. And what does it consist of?" She queried further, clearly interested.

"Just some stretching and martial arts routines followed up by some meditation." He replied after finishing of a pancake. 'Although normally I would also have practiced some Force usage, but since I can't guarantee that it goes unnoticed I refrained from doing so this time. Not that I can tell her that.'

"That alone isn't enough to maintain a body like yours." The blonde almost purred out the last few words. Wayle wasn't sure whatever to be flattered or worried. He settled for both.

"No, I train more obviously. But that is more fluid and flexible, I set my training depending on what I feel to be necessary at the moment." His reply was said as a matter of fact and was the complete truth. He could sometimes perform a completely different training one day than the other.

-Break—

After having gotten their weapons and Jaune having tried, and miserably failed at, courting Weiss and another girl Wayle didn't know, although judging by their conversation she seemed to be famous, they found themselves on the top of a cliff, lined up on top of a group of metal plates. Wayle had a bad feeling about them but he couldn't quite figure out what it was.

He was standing next to Jaune, and just in front of him stood Ozpin with his mug and Glynda with a device.

"For years you have trained to become warriors and today your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest." Ozpin said, starting his introduction to their initiation.

"Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumours about the assignment of teams." Glynda continued. Wayle did remember some mention of it and while he wasn't too worried, he had no experience working in a group. "Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates. Today." Oh great, forge the teams in a trial of fire. Wayle quickly revaluated his opinion of them, this was the kind of insane idea you might find among the Sith.

"What, hohh…" Ruby could be heard despairing slightly. Wayle did remember that she had been worried about the teams.

"These teammates will be with for the rest of your time here at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well." Ozpin seemed to have no interest in what Ruby's complaint and continued completely unaffected.

Ruby could be heard complaining some more, but if she actually said something coherent Wayle couldn't hear.

"That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years." Wayle swore he could hear Ruby's reality shattering and he almost swore himself. How was anyone supposed to choose their partner in that case…? Wait, landing? Wayle's bad feeling grew stronger. How was they supposed to get to the forest?

"After you have partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path. Or you will die." These guys are like some crazy cross between the Jedi and the Sith! What is this crazy crap?!

"You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene. You will find a temple at the end of the path containing several relics. Each pair must choose one and return to the top of the cliff. We will regard that item, as well as your standing and grade you appropriately."

Kind of reminded Wayle of the Sith Academy all of a sudden. It was a weird feeling.

"Are there any questions?" Ozpin asked to see if there was anyone who didn't understand.

"Yeah, um, sir?" Jaune raised his hand, trying to ask a question.

"Good." It seemed Ozpin had no intention off actually answering any questions. "Now, take your positions."

'Positions? What are we going to do?' Wayle considered asking the professor about it but suspected he wouldn't actually get an answer.

"Um, sir? I've got an, um, question. So this landing strategy thing, what is it? Are you, like, dropping us off or something?"

Wayle didn't need an answer to that. Or more correctly, the answer was plain for him to see as Weiss was launched off into the air by the plate she stood on. He quickly altered his stance to keep him upright after he was launched. He had done something similar before, under his own power. The only problem was the height. It was really high up. Higher than anything he had dealt with before.

"No, you will be falling." Ozpin's reply was short and concise, if a bit lacking in actual answer.

"Oh, I see, so, like, did you hand out parachutes for us?" It seems Jaune had an incredible ability to miss the obvious. Either that or some greater force had decided for him to be comic relief.

"No, you will be using your own landing strategy." It was amazing how Ozpin could keep a straight face throughout the conversation, considering it was obvious he was messing with the poor fool.

He could see Yang wink towards Ruby before putting on a pair of glasses before being launched herself. It seemed as if Ruby realised what was about to happen to Jaune as she looked at him and smirked mischievously. Wayle also knew what was coming and couldn't help but smirk as well.

"Right, that. So what exactly is a landing strategyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!" The last vowel of the word was drawn out to ridiculous length as Jaune was launched right as he said it. Wayle's smirk grew even larger and he chuckled as he saw Jaune fly off, spinning around in the air. Then he felt a rush as he was launched as well, following the rest.

Author's notes: And off they go. Will Wayle survive the fall? What team will he enter? And how can Jaune miss something so obvious? Only two of those things will be answered in the next chapter or two, or three, or however many the initiation will be.