AN: I do not own either harry potter nor RWBY there respective licences are owned by respective holders.

AN2: My Beta reader is currently away I am looking for help as a beta for either temp/perm basis feel free to scream at me if interested

Chapter 5

The cliff top allowed for a extremely exquisite view of the surrounding forest, the Emerald green of the foliage, the soft rustle of the leaves with the smell of the woodland on the air was almost enough to make one forget about the dangers that always lurked in such places.

It is at the top of such a cliff that raven was feeling home sick, not that anyone but her idiot of a brother could tell. It was true that she never cared about the tribe. They had only ever caused her pain and suffering. They had even caused her to have an irrational fear to this day. But for all the negatives she had found that she adored the woodland, she loved how quiet it is. So here she was standing on a cliff waiting for her 'class mates' after being pitched into beacon with nary a choice in the matter and thanking whatever deity that allowed her this one little moment of pea...

"RAVEN!" screamed Qrow.

"god dammit" she mumbled every time she tried to relax he did this... the idiot.

Turning round she saw the class approaching, she completely disregarded them as her brother got right up in her face again.

"raven..." he whined " where were you last night we were supposed to be in the hall?".

She just looked at him out of the side of her eye and sighed " the people here are unknowns therefore I was...elsewhere."in actuality she had broken into the records office and hacked the personnel files, she just hadn't had time to go over them yet … as they say old habits die hard and she had a habit of needing to know who was around her.

Time passed and everyone arranged themselves in a line in front of Ozpin who showed up with a cup of what appeared to be coffee.

"Good morning, and welcome this morning we will be conducting your initiation." he said catching everyone's attention.

"during this initiation you will have to make your way through the forest to a temple where you will collect an icon at which time you can return to the cliff."

The assignment sounded easy enough to raven...god if she wanted to reveal her semblance she could get there instantly. That thought brought a small smirk to her face which was notice by Ozpin.

"Now during the course of this you will encounter the Grimm you will have to engage and destroy the enemy to progress and complete your task do you understand this?" this got a positive response from the class .

Good now here comes the tricky part" Ozpin lectured with a smile. Getting a look of confusion from all the arranged kids.

"For the next four years you will each have to have a partner who will fight with you and watch your back both in training and on missions, it is advisable that your partner be someone you can work with well."he said with a smirk working its way to his face. Raven had a foreboding feeling, the man was up to something she just knew it!

"That is why the first person you make eye contact with will be your partner!" he said causing a minor riot among the hopefuls.

"Excellent now we shall begin I wish you all good luck and may you all have a good hunt." he said before pulling out a scroll opening it and pushing a button. Upon the press of the button the pad that raven had been standing on immediately catapulted her into the air with incredible force.

Raven was flying through the air feeling the wind on her face and looking for a decent place to control her decent to, as she was free-falling she spotted a small clearing up ahaid and deciding to make a controlled decent .She waited till she dipped just bellow the tree line and then kicked off one of the tree trunks, after bouncing back and forth from trunk to trunk while getting lower she landed on her feet and started her stalk through the woods towards her objective. She could only hope that this nonsense wouldn't take too long as this was a test designed to test those soft useless children from cities not the survivors who lived in the wastes like herself. The more she thought about it the larger the frown on her face got as she thought about how much of a waste of time this whole exercise was for her.

It took about 10 minutes and one dead death-stalker for her to reach the objective to look at the icons , they were two of each and they were all a type of animal so she picked up the bird and waited as she needed to get a partner or she wouldn't pass due to her lack of a partner. As she sat on a pillar she wondered what the the up incoming time will be like with this unknown person and she couldn't help but feel that old shudder of dread. She hoped that they weren't a city born softy, she really didn't need to spend all her time teaching them the ropes. And most of of she hoped they were female. She would never admit it but her time with the tribe had left its mark... deep marks.

And she just always felt more comfortable around women. Only her brother seemed exempt from this for some reason, she never could understand that.

During her contemplation she had noticed that a Beowulf had been thrown from the edge of the woods only to be followed by what looked by a small white bullet. This caused raven to raise an eyebrow in interest as she remembered the small girl from the hospital ….spring? Was it ? Ah whatever any way. She watched as the girl stood up and sheathed a pair of wickedly curved butterfly swords in hip mounted sheath's and made her way towards the ruin.

Smiling at the possibility of not having an incompetent as a partner raven jumped down behind her.

" Nice kill" she complemented the girl quietly causing her to spin quickly pulling her blades and striking only to be blocked by ravens own nodachi.

"and very good reactions" she said with a feral grin, She was liking this girl more and more.

"who are you" the girl growled pushing on her blades trying to get some purchase.

"well I am one of the candidates for the school"raven replied silkily causing the girls eyes to slightly open more in shock, but to ravens pleasure she never dropped her guard as they both backed off she just started to circle raven with her blades out causing raven to jump for joy inside .

"well I guess I should ask do you have a partner yet?" raven asked causing the girl to falter in her circling.

"eh no...eh heehehehe I kind of forgot about that. Ooh my name is summer by the way." said the girl. Causing raven to smile slightly

"well it looks like we are partners then and my name is raven. Now we head to the cliff." at this point she just couldn't be bothered any more so she channelled her energy and focused on where she wanted to go and literally tor open space/time using her semblance.

"follow me" she said to summer who had her jaw on the floor and just nodded as they entered the rift raven could only help but think maybe my time here wont be as bad as I was thinking.