Hello everyone, I hope it has been a good long fucking while since last chapter, so let's not waste time and get to the fun, shall we? Because I had spent so much fucking time on this fucking chapter and I just want to start writing the chapter afterwards to finally finish this fucking initiation test to get to what I really want to write, even if what I want is something I'm not good at and have no writing experience in.


Chapter 5: Running and Fighting. Teams vs Grimm Part 1: Teams Meet

Initiation Arc Part 5


Up in the air, where the Elder Nevemore was flying towards the ruins, there were two people that were holding to the claws of the gigantic ancient beast. More accurately, a young teen of 15 years of age in a black outfit with a red trim as well as a long, red cloak, and a woman of 17 with white hair and a scar above her left eye. These two were Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee, following a crazy plan of the youngster to reach the ruins, and so far it seemed to work.

"I'M GOING TO STRANGLE YOU TO DEATH FOR THIS, YOU INSANE MANIAC!" the young woman resembling a snowflake shouted furiously as she had clanged to dear life as she had shown quite enough of her partner, and that was even before the first day. The two had seen the monstrous creature sleeping on the other side of the forest, and when they saw it waking up and starting to take flight, the "brilliant" plan of the partner of the Schnee Dust Company heiress was to cling to the claws of the darn thing. To say that she was furious was quite an understatement.

"OH COME ON WEISS, I CAN ALREADY SEE THE RUINS FROM UP HERE! TOLD YOU THIS WAS A BRILLIANT PLAN!" the girl shouted with a large smile on her face because she had a hard time hearing with the wind blowing hard against her face. She was looking ahead of them as she saw the stone structure, waiting to arrive and jump off the monster the moment they were going to arrive to the ruins themselves. At least, that's what Ruby had planned, Weiss was not going to play ball as easily.

"THIS IS NOT WHAT BRILLIANT MEANS AT ALL, YOU DOLT! IT'S SUICIDAL AT BEST!" the young heiress shouted at the top of her lungs as she glared angrily at her partner, eyes slightly crazed and teeth constantly grinding against each other as the young Schnee was at a dead end when it came to communication with the younger girl.

The young teenager was silent for a few seconds as her new partner was grumbling angrily, but the girl in red cloak couldn't hear her. She was a bit saddened that all she had been doing with Weiss was argue, despite her wanting to be friends and work together, but the white-haired girl was just yelling and insulting her. Well, she could try and smooth things out by starting a conversation. "SO ARE YOU ENJOYING THE VIEW?!" she asked her scarred partner, showing that she really wasn't the best when it came to social interactions.

"AAAAAGGGGGHHHH!" Weiss screamed in unadulterated rage as she clanged to dear life while showing her utter anger at the young Ruby Rose.


[Openign Theme: This Will Be the Day by Jeff Williams feat. Casey Lee Williams]


"How are we going to deal with this situation and stay alive?" Koichi asked as he hid alongside his taller partner and the other two girls in the bushes as they hid and tried to calm down after getting a good sight of the Elder Nevemore that was heading towards the ruins that the pieces were in.

He looked at each one of the girls around, all gave him a different reaction: Blake looked silent and had the attitude and feeling as if she was acting like a survivor, so she just crawled up into herself and stayed as quietly as possible, gesturing to the grey-haired teen to do the same. Yang looked at him and just shrugged, showing that she didn't know what to do as well and Yukako merely tried to calm him down by passing her fingers through her hair. "Stay silent and calm, and nothing will notice you." she said silently as a whisper.

Immediately afterward they all heard noises from a different direction, with two people coming out and reaching the ruins themselves. One was the scar-faced, thug-looking Okuyasu, and the other was the girl with the purple hair and the lollipop in her mouth, as they looked around while reaching to the stone structure.

"I guess this is the ruins." Okuyasu said as the two stood at the center of the structure, looking at the pieces that they were supposed to take one of. He saw what kind exactly were those pieces, but he himself wasn't sure about which ones to take. "A bit of a shame that we're here first, I would have loved to chat with some more people." he said as he put his arms behind his neck nonchalantly.

"No, there were others here before." Mizore said as she pointed at a column that didn't have a piece on it as she spoke with a nonchalant and with a bit of a monotone to her voice. "See? Some pieces were taken." she said as she walked to another column and took a piece that looked like that of a queen chess piece. "Anyway, I'll be taking that one, the queen is obviously the strongest piece in chess." she said with the same tone as she kept the lollipop in her mouth.

The Stand user then walked up to her partner with a confused expression on his face. "Well if there were others here before, why aren't they here now? Wouldn't they want to learn who's on their team?" he asked her with a perplexed expression on his face and a confused tone to his voice.

The Ice Woman looked up. "It's probably because of that." she said as she pointed at the sky, making the teenager look his head up and stare into the distance, only to see the Elder Nevemore himself. His eyes bugged out as his jaw dropped and a frightened scream erupted from his throat in terror and shock.

After a few seconds in which he screamed his guts out, he took a deep breath and pointed up at the sky as from the distance the giant bird monster of darkness was getting closer and closer to the ruins. "HOLY SHIT! HOW CAN A GRIMM GROW SO BIG?! I'VE NEVER SEEN ONE THIS BIG!" he shouted over and over as he looked at the thing heading their way, frozen in place.

The Ice Maiden simply shrugged. "Well, it's an Elder Nevemore, and Elders are probably the biggest stage of life in a Grimm's life, so..." she explained to her partner as she talked with her regular deadpan monotone while the lollipop was still in her mouth. Her fingers were then wrapped up by ice, created her large ice claws and she pointed at the creature. "I believe that with some more people we could take it." she said, though it was hard to know through her monotone if her words showed actual confidence in those words.

"Okuyasu!" the voice of the short, grey-haired boy shouted as he ran out of the bushes, making the others get out of the bushes as well. Yang immediately waved towards the thug-looking teen and Yukako merely stared at Mizore while Blake looked up with a completely tense body language. Koichi then continue to cry in relief. "I'm so glad seeing you here!" he shouted with joy as he immediately hugged his friend with a frightened tone. After a few seconds he let go as he looked at his friend with a concerned look.

"You haven't seen Josuke, right? After seeing the Elder Nevemore, I'm kinda concern for him with what other kind of powerful Grimm could be at this forest." he said as he tapped the tips of his fingers against each other nervously as he looked up to the sky at the distance, with the bird now being pretty close to them.

The thug-looking teen was a bit nervous as he looked at the Nevemore in the distance. He then looked at Koichi and chuckled nervously. "Hehe, I wouldn't worry about Josuke too much Koichi." he said while sweat rolled down his brow. "Just remember that Mr. Jotaro said that Josuke is as strong as he was when he was 17, so we don't have to worry about him, okay Koichi?" the tall adolescent tried to calm his friend, even if he was clearly nervous as well. The small teenager wasn't entirely convinced, even if he nodded in agreement to that statement.

The silver-haired boy then noticed the queen piece in the hand of the purple-haired girl with the lollipop in her mouth and his eyes widen. "Holy cow! Okuyasu, you guys took the queen piece too? Yukako and I took the same piece. That means that we're on a team together!" he declared happily though still incredibly nervous at the giant bird heading their way.

The slow-minded adolescent thought for a bit before his eyes went wide as well. "Holy shit, you're right! We're going to be a badass team of asskickers Koichi!" he said with excitement as well as he extended his fist towards his friend, to which the short teen extended his own and they fist-bumped each other.

Suddenly there was a loud roar from the bushes, as an Ursa Major ran on all four towards the ruin, with two people riding on top of it. The first was an orange-haired teen with a giant hammer who wore a black vest that reached down her waist, with a pink emblem of a pink background with a black hammer with a pink lightning bolt over it on the back of the vest. Under it she wore two layers of clothing, colored red and light-blue respectively. She also wore a white sleeveless top that formed a tiny heart shape cut out over her chest, with a white detached sleeve on each arm. She also sported a short pink skirt that started at the waist and ended at the mid-thighs. Her shoes were a mix of pink and white with black laces, showing her emblem on the soles. On top of all of that, she had a layer of armor that started at the shoulders and went down until reaching the waist.

The girl immediately jumped up and lifted up the hammer over her head. The other person, a boy, jumped from the Ursa's back as the girl plunged down and slammed her hammer on top of the skull of the creature with enough force to shake the ground beneath her and create a large crater, which surprised everyone a little bit.

The boy of the pair, who had a long, black hair that was tied into a ponytail that reached down to the midway of his back. His hair also had a magenta streak of hair on the left side of his head, with his eyes matching in color to his hair. He wore a dark green, diagonally-buttoned, long-sleeved tailcoat that was red on the inside, with black and gold trimming and pink cuffs. The trimming went down the right side of his torso and formed a black collar. His color scheme was reminiscent of the colors of the lotus flower, and he wore a black, long-sleeved shirt beneath his tailcoat and white-tan shirt and black shoes.

As the Ursa Major had his head crushed while what remained of his body started to disintegrate into ash in a crater, the orange haired girl jumped up with joy as she turned to her apparent partner. "Yay! We made it Ren! I knew that if the two of us would be together we could do anything!" she exclaimed loudly and joyfully, only for her to stop bouncing for a second. "But you know, I mean not 'together' together." she said with a bit of shyness to her tone, which instantly disappeared as a gigantic smiled appeared on her face from ear to ear. "So tell me my idea wasn't brilliant!" she returned to bouncing as she seemed so lively and happy, much to the confusion of the group of teenagers already at the ruins.

Blake herself was the most curious at the attitude of the orange-haired girl, despite the fact that she herself was horrified from the fact that a giant Grimm was headed their way, but she herself was too quiet and suspicious to try and gain the new pair's attention. Her partner was kind of the opposite to the traits she had, so the blonde didn't waste any time trying to call the new pair.

"Hey there!" Yang shouted as she waved towards the two, immediately gaining their attention. "I'm Yang. You look quite chirpy, so what's your deal? Enjoying the test?" she asked with curiosity and a bit of cheerful playfulness to her voice, despite the concern of the giant monster heading everyone's way, but her curiosity was something that usually needed to be satisfied.

The two new teenagers immediately looked at the rest of the group and the orange haired girl smiled back. "Oh hi there, didn't see ya. Ren and I were having so much fun riding on an Ursa to get here." she started to explain to the blonde. "We actually knew each other since we were little kids. We planned how to partner up during the headmaster's explanation. Get this, we were doing sloth noises." she was saying with excitement in her voice as she was starting to bounce.

"Not really. We just kinda found each other by chance. I guess what headmaster Ozpin said about fate was true." the boy added with a calm and stoic tone to his voice, though he didn't seem to mind the enthusiasm of his partner that much, if at all. "Nora and I were traveling alongside one another since we were children, so it's nice to know that we can still support one another here at Beacon." he continued to speak to the blonde woman as the rest of the group that were in the area of the ruins joined them.

The orange haired nodded with a big smile on her face. "Yep, Rennie and I have been together sine forever!" she shouted happily, only for a few seconds later to blush a little bit and become slightly more timid than she was a second ago. "But you know, not "together" together..." she mumbled with a slightly embarrassed tone to her voice as she tried to make it as clear as day that the two of them weren't a couple.

The bruiser simply raised her hand to stop the girl from talking. "It's cool, I get it." she said with an understanding tone and a warm, motherly smile that she adjusted to herself for years upon years, even though both her and everyone else present clearly understood that the hammer-carrying girl had a crush on her childhood friend.

Nora sighed with relief as she immediately looked at the ruins themselves, making her quickly run and look at the pieces. Her eyes went wide as she looked around, seeing the chess pieces on the column, seeming to be looking for something in particular. She finally seemed to find it after a few moments of searching as stars appeared in her eyes and she ran towards one of the columns. Her head rose slowly as her eyes came to view with a chess piece of the tower, which she instantly grabbed and started to slide on the stone.

"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle~" the young adult began to sing merrily as the world around her felt like it had disappeared completely. She held the piece close to her chest as she slid around the column back and forth several times, then started to spin as she raised her arms up above her head with a childish smile that reached from ear to ear being plastered all over her face.

"Nora!" her partner shouted towards her with a bit of urgency in his usually stoic voice, instantly snapping her out of the joyful moments for distance from the rest of the world, making her look at him with.

"What is it Ren?" she asked with curiosity and happiness as she kept her joyful expression plastered all over her face.

The young man with the ponytail gestured her to remain close to him. "We should stick together right about now." he told her, his tone of speaking returned to being more calm and stoic as he looked up with an emotionless expression while a bead of sweat rolled from his brow. "We have a bit of a problem." he told her as a giant shadow covered the entire field. The Nevemore has finally reached the ruins.

The monstrous bird was now flying in circles above the broken stone structure, as many of the people around were now scared and concerned for their safety, with Blake's hair even standing up slightly and running to hide inside the bushes. The rest were frozen in their place with fear of the elder bird, with the exception of Ren who seemed completely stoic and Nora, who kept that large grin on her face as she looked utterly fearless, showing no concern of the bird whatsoever while walking next to her partner and best friend.

She put her hand on her forehead to focus her eyes on the giant Grimm that was now doing circles in the sky above the ruins. "Huh, that fella is kinda big." she said as she stated that little tidbit of information to the rest of the people who were standing around frozen in place from the sight of the creature. Her smile then turned to a crazed and confident smirk. "I wonder what will happen if I'll smash its wings apart?" she asked with curiosity to her childish tone and loud, high-pitched sound of her voice.

The long-haired boy looked stoically at the orange-haired girl, not showing any real emotion. "I think it will just fall, Nora." he said with a deadpan tone to his voice as he raised his hand, releasing something that seemed to have calmed everyone in the surrounding. 'My Semblance will suppress everyone's negative emotions, allowing the Elder to fly away and leaving us unharmed.' he thought to himself while looking around at everyone else, who were now calming down and releasing the tension in their muscles while turning completely grey and surrounded by his purple-colored aura. All except his best friend, who wasn't showing any negative emotions.

As everyone calmed down completely, they gathered together, even Blake, who was now also affected by Ren's Semblance. They all looked up as they saw that the monstrous bird kept circling around the ruins, much to everyone's confusion, especially the black-haired adolescent boy.

"OKAY WEISS, IT'S TIME TO JUMP!" a high-pitched voice was heard shouting from the sky, right from the same place as the monstrous Grimm was flying. As everyone figured out that someone was riding on the giant creature, Nora almost exploded out of excitement.

The woman started to jump up and down while holding her arms close to her chest while her eyes shined like those of a little girl. "Oh my gods, oh my gods, oh my gods! THAT IS SO COOL!" she shouted with a thrilled tone to her voice as she looked up at the sky while squeeing loudly. She then grabbed her childhood friend by the shoulders and started to shake him. "Hey Renny, I want to ride an Elder Nevemore too!" she shouted with glee as she shook the young man, to which he only sighed mentally and smiled outwardly as he focused on keeping his Semblance up, as the blonde bruiser was now starting to get really concerned on top of being slightly afraid, which was making it more difficult to suppress.

"Is that Ruby?" Yang asked around the same time that Nora bounced up and down with a calm tone to her voice, which resulted from the suppression of her negative emotion, but it was clear as day that she was afraid for her baby sister.

"JUMP?! WE'LL DIE!" another voice that was rather familiar to most people who were listening to Ozpin's speech, as the voice belonged to Weiss Schnee.

"NO NEED, WE'VE GOT LANDING STRATEGIES!" the young silver-eyed girl shouted while still up in the sky, where the group all heard what the crazy young girl was planning to do, which seemed pretty crazy, though Nora seemed excited from listening to it. "JUST LOOK DOWN AND LET GO! EASY AS PIE!" the youngster kept on shouting as she tried to convince her stiff partner to fall from the insane height while having a gigantic bird above them.

"ARE YOU NUTS?!" the group below kept hearing all of the shouting, now hearing the voice of the white-haired heiress once more as she furiously shouted at her black-and-red-wearing partner. "OF COURSE YOU ARE! DID YOU FORGET THE GIANT FLYING ELDER NEVERMORE THAT WE ARE HOLDING ON TO FOR DEAR LIFE?! IT'LL EAT YOU FROM THE AIR BEFORE YOU CAN REACH THE GROUND!" the heiress kept on shouting as suddenly a group below saw a small spec falling down at incredible speed. Then they heard a gunshot.

The Nevermore recoiled slightly in what seemed like pain, though a shot to such a thing would be like a bee sting to humans, there was such a huge different in size that whatever caliber of dust round exploded against its frame, it probably didn't do too much damage. Now the group managed to see that flying down in such incredible speed was the girl in red robe, to which Yang had quickly had her eyes widened. "RUBY!" she shouted as her concern for her as she started to act immediately to stop the plummeting of the young teen towards the ground, even if the girl had a landing strategy. Yang was her older sister after all and a good sis always protected her little sister.

She ran towards one of the larger stone pillars of the ruins and easily climbed over it, launching herself into the air in the direction that her sister had heading towards the ground using a big leap with the addition of the power of Ember Cilica that pushed her upwards. "I've got you Rubes!" she shouted as the two sisters were heading towards each other really fast.

"Yang!" the girl exclaimed joyfully, only to smash into her older sister with a loud "POW!" sound, causing both of them to grunt "Oof!" with pain from the collision that sent both of them crashing through the pillar Yang stood on to launch herself, the bodies of both huntresses smashing the stone apart before they crashed into the grass outside of the stone structure with enough force to slightly shake the ground and cause a large amount of dirt to fly up into the air.

The entire group that was present looked at what just happened with a shocked expression on their faces as there was silence for a good half-a-minute, until they saw that the two sisters got out of the small crater that was on the ground completely unharmed, thanks to the resilience and large amounts of Aura that the two possessed. The only thing they did was dusting themselves of all the dust and dirt that was now covering a bit of their clothes.

"That...was...AWESOME!" the hammer carrying girl declared with excitement and adrenaline pumping through her veins as she gave a "WOOHOO!" shout and raised her arms into the air. She then ran to the two teens with glee. "Woo boy, this was incredible! Super cool landing!" she kept on shouting with childish, adrenaline-filled uproar of excitement. "Firing at the Nevemore while falling from the sky with a super cool landing strategy sure was awesome!" she kept on talking non stop, her voice filled with energy.

Ruby, hearing the praise from the newly encountered girl made her blush, as she was constantly scolded by her partner during the last hour, which was really mean and nasty of Weiss to do and really hurt the confidence of the girl in the red cloak, even if she didn't show it on the outside by letting her quirky personality shine along with her fighting capabilities.

A few seconds later, the 15 years-old girl remembered that she needed to pick a piece from the ruins to determine her team. Before her older sister could grab her by the arm and scold her, which Ruby knew that the blonde would do, since her older half-sister was the mother figure in her life since dad shut down, she used her Speed Semblence to rush towards the ruins themselfs, leaving behind her a trail of rose petals.

When she reached the center of the ruins, she looked around, wanting to see what kind of pieces there were for the pickings, as well as finding out which ones were already taken. However, after looking at a few columns that had pieces and several that had none, her eyes suddenly glowed with joy as she dashed towards one of the pillars, which had the piece of the knight on it, though to Ruby it looked like a horse.

"PONY YES!" she shouted with child-like enthusiasm as she grabbed the piece and hugged it close to her chest, smilling as her face turned a bit red. Then the black-haired young teen dashed back to her half-sister using her Semblance and showed her the piece that she had picked. "Look sis, I picked a cute little pony!" she exclaimed as she seemed as bright and energetic as ever.

Yang then pulled her own knight piece as well. "Seems like our minds are connected sis." she said with a smirk, to which the girl in black and red immediately jumped up in unbelieveable excitement and joy. "YAY! Ponies unite!" she shouted as she raised the stone piece above her head and exclaimed with the energies of a youthful girl like her.

The two immiediately hugged and embraced like loving sisters, though the blonde held her sister very, very tightly, causing a bit of pain to the 15-years-old aspiring huntress. After they stopped hugging, the bruiser immediately grabbed the arm of her siste. "Now what were you thinking by doing such a stunt? You could have gotten yourself killed." the blonde bruiser started to scold her little sister, who scowled and glanced aside towards Nora, who was now returning to the others.

The rest of the group was still maintained under the Semblance of Ren, making them invisible to the Grimm. The first one to talk about was the younger teenager did was none other than the shortest of the group. "Hey, don't you guys agree that what Ruby did was a bit too insane? Jumping from a flying Elder Nevemore that is flying above us high in the air?" Koichi asked as he felt a bit of fear bubling up from seeing the crazy things that were going in the test, all the while looking up at the giant black bird that was circling around the ruins.

The others didn't really reacted aside from Okuyasu, who looked up and nodded. "Yep, but it was certainly super cool. I've gotta say she has a ton of guts." he said as he put his hand on his forehead to focus his gaze in case he could see the Schnee heiress that was still hanging on the talons of the monster. "I definitely wouldn't have the brains or the balls to pull this stunt, that's why I leave the thinking to you and Josuke. Also Mr. Jotaro would kill us if we were to do something that crazy." he said with a carefree attitude that was covring over his fear of the Grimm above them all.

Blake was still hiding as she watched Yang scolding her little sister with an unbelieving expression on her face, not knowing what to think about the quirky ball of energy other than that she was completely insane and too careless for her own good. The fact that she was also paired with the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company was also something that made the adolescent girl feel a bit sour, though she couldn't blame it on the little Huntress-in-training, but rather fate if what the headmaster of the academy said was true. She herself wasn't the biggest believer of fate, so she took that explanation with a grain of salt, just in case.


With the Teachers,

The adults looked through the cameras in the drones, sending the live stream and video segments to their scrolls. Ozpin and Nurari looked and silently chuckled at the tactics the young Ruby Rose had used to get her and her partner, who was still clinging to the talons of the Elder Nevemore, to the ruins. "Miss Rose is quite a surprise. I didn't even think that she would use such an extreme yet effective tactic go achieve her goal. That is certainly the "out of the box" thinking that would make her a good leader for her new team that consists of her, Miss Schnee, Miss Belladonna and Miss Xiao-Long. Truly a team I'm excited to see in action." the headmaster said across the open channel as he spoke aloud to himself.

Nurari smirked creepilly. "I quite agree. This is definitely something I didn't think possible, or would require a turly insane individual to pull off." he said as he looked into Ozpin's scroll, seeing the image of the young Ruby being scolded by her sister, which made him chuckle.

Glynda, on the other hand, looked absolutely furious. "There is a reason no one would ever try to pull this kind of stunt. Because they would die!" she suddenly shouted at the two men next to as she held to her own scroll tightly. "She might cost her partner her life in this manner, and it's completely unacceptable! And why didn't we make sure that there were no dangerous creatures like Elder Grimm in the forest?!" she questioned her silver-haired boss angrily as she ground her teeth and constantly resetting her glasses on the bridge of her nose.

"I highly disagree Glynda!" the voice of professor Port was heard from the scrolls through the channel. "I believe that having our students fight these kind of beast on their initiation test is a great way to show them why they are going to the best of school in all four kingdoms! And Miss Rose's idea was one of pure brilliance, second only to wrestling with it!" the man shouted with great enthusiasm, which made the blonde teacher roll her eyes and groan with irritation at the support the older teacher in those kind of crazy stunts.

"While I don't think we should coddle them," the voice of the new teacher in the staff said with his regular cool, stoic and calculating demeanor that he always had. "I believe fighting Elder Grimm should not be taken lightly. Even if they can beat it, there are other creatures heading their way, if you haven't noticed." he told them as a different video appeared on the screens, taken live from a different area, where Pyrrha was running away from an armored Grimm scorpion while Jaune was holding tightly to its tail, far from the sting.

The video made Ozpin's second in command even more concerned. "An Adult Death Stalker?!" she exclaimed with surprise and concern. Sure, this creature was nothing to her, but to the students could be a very difficult challenge. She immediately turned to her boss. "Ozpin, we need to interfere right now. Consider the danger of the situation. Do you really want a repeat of Gretchen Rainart?" she questioned the headmaster with a darker and more serious tone to the whisper that she had just used.

This immediately got the attention of Ozpin and Nurari, who glared daggers at the woman and scowled, as if she said something that should not be mentioned. He then returned his eyes to the scroll and smiled warmly again. "Don't worry Glynda, that case will not repeat itself today. Fate has deemed it so." he said with a hopeful tone as his expression was now bright and glimmering, something the didn't completely relieve the concerns of his second-in-command.

However, while most of the teachers allowed the more silent conversation to go away unmentioned, Jotaro immediately latched onto it. "Rainart? That name sounds very familiar to me for a very good reason. Is there something you want to share, Ozpin?" he inquired with an interested and very accusing tone to his voice, which made Ozpin a bit nervous. This was something he didn't want someone like Jotaro to know the full details of. At least not yet.

There was a few seconds of silence as there was a feeling of tension, but it was quickly cut when the demonic airbus driver said something to calm things. "So let's talk about the teams we currently have of this little group of youngsters. The first one is consists of Okuyasu Nijimura, Mizore Shirayuki, Koichi Hirose and Yukako Yamagishi. We also have a team that consists of Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao-Long. What do you think of these teams and who should be assigned as the leader." Nurari asked with a smirk on his face as he was a bit intrigued of the two current teams, also with the intent of changing the subject, because the information Glynda, Ozpin and himself kept among them considering that incident didn't need to be revealed. He knew that he needed to cover for Ozpin, though he knew that that bag will be opened eventually, just not at the worst moment to bring it up.

"Make Koichi the team leader." the voice of the Joestar descendant said instantly, so fast in fact that it even shocked Glynda and the other teachers who were watching through their scrolls. "Koichi has plenty of potential to grow and he seems like the most logical, methodical and reasonable person among his team. Putting him as team leader will push him because of his responsibility." the man explained his reasoning without even being asked to why he immediately suggested the small guy to lead the team of four that he was now a part of.

The headmaster smirked upon hearing this, as he knew already what to do with the two teams that they already had, but he had no intention of sharing those plans with the others. At least not yet.


Up in the sky, the gigantic Elder Nevemore was still circling around the ruins, with the rich heiress of the Schnee Dust Company still clinging to the talon for who knows how long. She was terrified of the monster that she was holding on to, but she was downright furious with her partner, who not only acted like a rash, careless idiot who risked herself multiple times during the test, but was now at fault for the situation at hand. Weiss promised to herself that when she was going to get down there somehow, she would give that child a big piece of her mind.

She took several deep breaths as she prayed internally to the brothers that nothing would happen to her as her fingers slowly loosened their grip on the Grimm's talon, until finally she was falling down from the sky towards the ground, screaming in terror as she did. She tried turning around mid-air to get a better position to summon a glyph that would slow her down and let her bounce towards the ground with a bit more safety, but she noticed that the Nevemore was now turned its head downwards, its eyes locked on her, much to her terror.

As it started to fly towards her falling frame, a girly scream of fear was heard in the distance getting louder and closer with each second. This caught the attention of everyone, from the fearing for her life Weiss to the entire group down on the ground, to the Elder Nevemore itself. In a matter of moments, Jaun, who was somehow flying in the direction of the ruins, accidentally slammed into the falling Weiss, both spinning in the air and shouting like crazy in terror before they slammed into a tree, which stopped their momentum but had been completely split apart from the impact, causing the two of them to hit the ground, although with not as much momentum as they should have had.

Fortunately for Weiss, the impact didn't do any damage to her aside from an insane amount of pain, as her Aura protected her body from any kind of injury. She also had the fortune of having Jaun's body as a pillow, as he was the first to slam into the tree trunk and while the force of impact still broke apart the tree, she was more or less fine and so was the blonde man, though he was barely conscious and incredibly dizzy form everything.

She got up, slightly staggered from the impact, her anger subsided for a little bit because of the pain and confusion of the entire situation. The only good thing she could say was that she was on solid ground and not bird food. Her aura had protected her from harm, but it was not as if she was impervious to pain, which she could feel heavily across her body from smashing into a tree. It was barely anything to her aura though, so she could handle a lot more hit than just breaking a stupid tree trunk.

She looked down at the unconscious blonde in white armor, who had stars spinning around his head, his mouth open and drooling while his eyes were swirling. "My hero." the white-haired girl snarked as she grabbed her head and glanced away, with the first thing that she saw was her young, insane partner who nearly got her killed, causing the flame of her anger to flare up once more as she ground her teeth, ready to give the girl in the red hood a piece of her mind.

"HEY ,RUBY!" she shouted at her partner, getting everyone's attention, including the two sisters who were standing next to one another, while the heiress stomped her way quickly towards the younger girl in the red cloak. "DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH OR SOMETHING?! YOU NEARLY KILLED THE TWO OF US WITH THAT FOOLISH STUNT!" she shouted as she got angry again, but she then noticed a pair of hands firmly grabbing her by the shoulders and felt Aura a soothing feeling covering her, cloaking her.

The white-haired girl turned her head to see the boy with the long, braided hair grabbing her by the shoulders, a firm, stoic but slightly fearful expression on his face. "Please calm down, Miss Schnee. Your negative emotions would have attracted the Nevemore towards us, as well as other Grimm. I'm currently using my Semblance to hide the presence of almost everyone here from the Grimm, and It's very taxing on me. So please, calm down." Ren said as he panted heavily and spoke quietly.

Hearing the pleads of the man, the heiress started to ponder upon his words of warning and he was right, having her display such furious behavior would in fact draw the unwanted attention of the giant bird, which she saw was again flying circles around the ruins themselves. In addition, it gave her time to calm herself, so she could once again compose herself and act accordingly for her status. The exasperating antics of her younger partner had made her incredibly annoyed, irritated and angry, but her own behavior was disgraceful and unsavory. She needed this time to sooth her anger.

She took several deep breaths while closing her eyes, with everyone around watching her, with both the slightly tired Ren and Ruby being the most concerned. Ren felt fearful that his words did not go through the pride of the Schnee girl and would go on a rant on her partner, in which case his Semblance would be ineffective at all, while Ruby was afraid of being yelled at again. After a few deep breaths, Weiss opened her eyes and walked towards Ruby, with the older of the two sisters putting her right arm in front of the younger girl with a concerned and protective expression on her face.

Weiss stopped right in front of the two sisters, her expression showing that she was trying her best to restrain her frustration. "At least apologize." she said with a more calm, yet more stuck up tone than before, rather than her angry screaming at her partner.

"Huh?" both the blonde and black-red-haired sisters said with a confused look on their faces from the request or demand of Ruby's partner, while Blake was hiding in the bushes, perfectly and carefully sizing up all three of her teammates, trying to gather as much information as possible on their behavior from sight and mannerisms alone.

"I want you to apologize and admit that your idea nearly got both of us killed." Weiss spoke regally. "As a member of a team, you have to think not only about yourself and your desires, but also about the desires and well being of the rest of your team members, since the two of us will be on a team with another pair of partners. You have to adjust yourself to their mindset as well." the heiress spoke while gaining more control on her emotions as she grew calmer. "Do not fret, I shall teach you all about that when as your team leader." she spoke with confidence, already assured of her position of leadership.

Yang snorted from what the heiress said, starting to chuckle. "Yeah, I think your a bit too stiff to be a team leader, Ice Queen." she said with a whimsical tone to her voice, but her remark immediately got a reaction from the heiress, causing her right eye to start twitching rapidly, all the while the robe-wearing teen hid her face using her hood as the she anticipated another round of shouting.

"You? You're the one...that called me...Ice Queen?" she asked as her hands clenched into fists and shook angrily as her eyes twitched faster and faster, veins throbbing across her forehead as she seemed like she was about to burst in anger, much to the concern of Ren, whose partner started to laugh out loud from hearing the nickname. Tension could have been cut with a knife at this point.

"Honestly, I don't get why she's getting that nickname." the voice of the purple-haired girl with the lollipop who, alongside Yukako, Koichi and Okuyasu, the latter two silent with conern as beads of sweat rolled from their brow, watched everything occurring, as everyone now looked at her. "In all honesty, I'm the one who should be called 'Ice Queen', since my main power is ice manipulation." she talked with a deadpan tone and expression that she carried in a non-caring attitude while the grass beneath her feet literally froze in an instant, much to everyone's surprise.

Okuyasu immediately jumped back in shock and fear, as well as Koichi, who was shouting in horror. "Seriously Mizore, warn me the next time you do that! You almost froze me!" the punk-looking teen shouted at his partner as he got away from the frozen grass.

Mizore merely shrugged. "I only freeze what I want to freeze." she said nonchalantly.

"Seriously though, this is scary!" Koichi said with fear in his eyes.

The long, black-haired girl from Morioh looked at the two with a bit of a stoic expression on her face. "Don't you have Aura to protect yourselves from these kind of attacks?" she asked with a deadpan tone to her voice, only to then use her Semblance to lengthen her hair and wrap it around the silver-haired boy. "Don't worry though, Koichi-kun, as your partner, I'll keep you safe." she said calmly with an almost possessive undertone to it. She then looked at the other people around. "The name's Yukako Yamagishi. Like Koichi-kun, I'm also from Morioh." she introduced herself with a pleasent and refined pattern of speech.

Koichi, though was immediately latched onto something that was loudly heard when she spoke. "Wait, Koichi-kun? Who uses Western-Mistrali honorifics nowadays? And why me specifically?!" he questioned his partner with a bit of a concerned and a bit whiny tone to his voice. He had an idea of why she would use the honorific, but he really hopped that he was wrong. After all, he barely knew the girl and he didn't want to believe that she might have stalked him when they were in Morioh or something.

Something then seemed to click in the blonde girl's mind as she realized something very important. "Oops, I think I kinda forgot to introduce myself." She said in a slightly embarrassed tone, mostly because of how much she remembered her father and step-mother always mentioned on the importance of introducing one self, even if refinement wasn't a priority in doing so. "I'm Yang Xiao-Long," she said with a big, confident smirk plastered all over her face before gesturing to the girl in black and red. "and this little troublemaker here is my little sis Ruby." she said whimsically as she started to rub the scalp of her younger sister with her knuckles.

This made Ruby blush in embarrassment and frown in annoyance. "Yaaang..." she whined with an annoyed tone to her voice as she puffed her cheeks.

Yang then looked at the other pairs of two who were around. "I also met Okuyasu and Koichi earlier, and I just acquainted myself with Nora and her friend here." she said as she stopped rubbing her sister's head and pointed at the man with the pink streak of hair. "Ren, right?" she asked him, to which he simply nodded and looked at everyone else.

"Yes, my name is Lie Ren, but you can call me Ren." he spoke calmly to the group.

However, before he could continue, his partner interrupted him. "And I'm Nora Valkyrie! Me and Ren are the bestest of friends and are always together! And this is my beloved Grenade Hammer: Magnhild, the electric hammer of DEATH!" she declared loudly and proudly as she spoke and introduced herself along with her weapon, which she lifted way above her head as she started to laugh maniacally, making everyone sweat drop at the sight.

Blake finally came out of the bushes into the sight of everyone once more while sighing. "Fine... My name's Blake Belladona, I'm Yang's partner." she said to everyone with her regular tone of voice. Her sight set her glare at Weiss almost immediately. "And you're Weiss Schnee, heir to the Schnee Dust Company, the largest mining company and supplying company of Dust across the entire Four Kingdoms and second oldest company still operating after the renown Speedwagon Foundations." she kept her eyes constantly on the white-haired girl, not blinking at all as she kept firing out factual information.

The white-haired heiress smirked and crossed her arms in front of her chest. "Finally, someone who knows something around here." she said with a bit of a smug attitude, as it was rather obvious that she enjoyed whenever her family's company was mentioned with its achievements.

The girl in black and white clothing then continued on speaking. "Unfortunately, the Schnee Dust Company is also infamous in its lack of care for its employees, working them to death in many cases in their mines, especially Faunus and Witches. Many lawsuits against the company never even reach court and families of workers who died under the care of the company never recieve proper payments, such as with the family of Henriech Tangerine, a 14 year-old mole Faunus who died from exhaustion from working in the mines. Did you know that he didn't go to school in order to work there to provide for his family?" the amber-eyed girl asked the heiress as she kept a calm tone to her voice, but it was now visible on her face that she showed utter distain towards said heiress.

Weiss' smirk immediately changed into a frown as she then glared daggers at Blake. "Oh great. Let me guess, you're one of those activists for Faunus and Witches rights groups who constantly blame me for my company's faults and either turn a blind eye or show support to The White Fang's terrorist activities, aren't you?" she asked with venom in her words, causing the bow-wearing girl to glare daggers right back at her before she continued to speak. "People like you are total hypocrites! You blame the SDC for "killing innocents", all while celebrating terrorists like Sienna Khan and Adam Taurus when they murder just as many people, if not twice or thrice as many people who die in the mines!" she spoke with fury and hatered in her voice, making the others feel uncomfortable hearing all of this, with both Ren and Koichi feeling really fearful at this, looking up at the Elder Nevemore that was still flying in circles around the ruins.

'Shit! This is bad.' Ren thought to himself as he started to sweat.

Nora noticed her best friend's body language. "Is everything okay?" she asked him with concern in her voice as a sad expression appeared on her face.

"No. We need to get out of here and soon." he said as his body twitched and he entered a prepared flee stance.

While this exchange had happened between the two friends and partners, Weiss had continued her rant. "Oh oh oh, and people like you love to blame me for everything that my father does. Such firm believers in sins of the father, aren't you? You people never even consider the fact that I have completely different values from that bastard. No, not at all. Such a thought would be inconceivable to activists like you." While didn't shout this, her words were filled with such venom and hatred that it was no doubt to everyone present that this was something that had been torturing her and been building inside of her for a while now.

Blake at this point was scowling herself and giving barely audible growls and snarls. "What do you mean by "you people"?" she asked angrily as she herself now crossed her arms in front of her chest.

"IS IT NOT OBVIOUS?! STUPID HUMANS WHO WOULD CHEER FOR HUMANITY'S DESTRUCTION AT THE HANDS OF THOSE ANIMALS AND WILDER-PEOPLE YOU LOVE SO MUCH!" Weiss shouted as she snapped, using the famous deragatory terms for both Faunus and Witches as her furious rant reached higher volumes. "AS A HUMAN, YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!" she shouted as the rest of the group started to feel really, really uncomfortable and afraid.

This was the breaking point for the black-haired girl, who ground her teeth angrily. "Screw. You." she said with a hardened glared.

"What was that?" the white-haired teenager asked with the same anger in her voice, though now she was shouting.

"I said screw you, you pampered... You know, I'm usually willing to stay quiet and let bygones be bygones, but I don't think I can't with this. I agree with you on how deplurable The White Fang's actions are for killing hundreds of innocents, and while what you went through might be unfortunate, I don't give a damn! You don't know anything about the lives of people like us, who aren't professional boot-lickers from the top echelon of Atlas' high society. You have so much influence and instead of trying to learn how to change things there, you RUN AWAY HERE TO SWEEP THINGS UNDER THE RUG AND HOPE THAT CHANGE WILL COME WHILE YOU'RE AWAY SO YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT YOURSELF?! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HERSELF!" the young woman started to scream angrily and relentlessly as her rant went on and on and on as her words were also filled with hatred and venom as she walked right up to the white-girl's face and grabbed her by the collar, though at this point Blake herself had tears coming from her eyes as well, one that showed that her words weren't intended for Weiss alone.

"Why you- YOU'RE THE ONE THAT KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT ME, SO DON'T YOU DARE JUDGE ME, YOU HYPOCRITICAL-" Weiss shouted furiously at her new teammate as both of the young young women glared daggers at each other and growled and snarled at one another.

"Weiss!"

"Blake!"

The voices of the partners of the two cut off the SDC heiress mid-sentence as the two sister shouted at them with a fearful and concerned tone to their voices, making the two girls finally notice their surrounding, which was now filling up with a very large pack of Beowolves surrounding the entire group, with a large shadow being cast over Weiss and Blake in particular, making them look up to see the Elder Nevemore heading right towards them, making their eyes widen with fear.

Suddenly, something flew out of the trees surrounding the ruins, leaping right towards the charging Grimm in the skies. while it looked like a tall man moving really fast, one thing in particular was really standing out: a purple-colored pompadour.

"DORA!" Josuke shouted as he sent a powerful punch from his "gauntlet" on his fist right into the face of the creature, stopping and redirecting its momentum tto fly backwards as its gigantic side of its face was compressed and then rippled from the force of the fist, which was tiny in comparison. Immediately afterwards he started to fall down with a large smirk on his face, as he didn't seem concerned. It didn't take long for him to crash with his feet first into the ground, creating a small burst of air that pushed back the girls slightly and raised a lot of dirt into the air. When the dust dispersed, the pompadour teen looked completely fine as he dusted his clothes and looked up to see that the giant creature had just regained its barring.

The Nevemore roared but it decided to fly upwards instead of charging forward once again, deciding to retreat to a safe distance.

"Josuke!" Kochi shouted with tears of joy in his eyes as he saw his friend landing on the ground.

"I'm so glad you're here pal. I was kinda concerned when I didn't see you here first." Okuyasu said with a big smirk on his thug-looking friend, but he was genuingly relieved to see his friend again, just after punching a giant Nevemore in the face. Yep, entrances like that really did run in that family.

The Higashikata teen sighed with relief. "Phew, thank the brothers above that we arrived in time." he said before turning to Ruby and Yang. "Hey there, I assumed that the two of you would get into trouble. I did that we are similar in many ways, after all." he spoke to the two nonchalantly while giving them a cheeky grin.

The blonde retorted to the adolescent man with a cheeky grin of her own and a big thumbs up. "Sure read us right Josuke, thanks a bunch." she told him with gratitude, to which he gave her a thumbs up of his own.

Josuke then turned around and saw everyone else fighting the Beowolves and then looked at Blake and Weiss and smiled at them. "Thanks for shouting so loudly. My friends and I managed to find the ruins thanks to you two." he told them as he extended his hand to them. "The name's Higashikata. Josuke Higashikata." he told them with a genuine and warm tone to his voice. His eyes though still checked the surrounding and so did the eyes of the two girls as they all saw the monsters starting to surround the group, growling as they stayed still.

Weiss reluctantly extended her arm and shook the young man's hand. "Weiss Shnee. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Mr. Higashikata." she said as she tried to restrain her shock at what she saw him do, as well as trying to be police and regal despite how angry she was at the moment. Then she glared once more at the teen with the bow on her head, only to then look at a growling Beowolf in another direction.

After finishing shaking the hand of the guy, who seemed unfomfortable at the way she talked, she immediately turned around and charged at the Beowolves in the hopes of releasing all of her pent-up anger on it. During that time Blake merely glared at the purple-haired adolescent.

"I'm Blake Belladona, and as much as I would like to shake your hand, we should handle the Grimm around here first." she said bluntly before charging herself at an incoming Beowolf. The young Morioh Huntsman-in-Training merely looked at the now ensuing chaos as the Grimm launched themselves at the group at last, trying their best to hunt the teens.

The first to intercept the wolf-like creatures of darkness were the now pissed-off Weiss and Blake, both attacking Grimm on different sides of the ruins to avoid one another after their argument. Blake started shooting Dust rounds into one Beowolf that charged straight at her, but she jumped back, using her Semblance to create a clone of herself which recieved the slash from the claws of the Grimm, only for the skilled adolescent girl to charge forward and impale Gambol Shroud's sword form straight through the skull of the creature, killing it instantly.

After killing the first Beowolf, Blake then focused on a second one, using the ribbon of her weapon, wrapping it around on of the legs of the beast and tripping it, making it fall face first into the ground. As she ran forward and prepared to finish it off, a large spike of ice erupted from beneath it and impaling it with such force that it was ripped in half, shocking the amber-eyed girl.

When she looked down she saw a trail of ice, which her eyes followed until she saw the point of origin: the left foot of the purple-haired Ice Maiden Mizore, who gave her a stoic nod, which Blake return in kind. When two Beowolves charged at the elemental monster, she simly stopped down on the ground with her right foot, sending a freezing wave of Yokai energy, creating a small iceberg with several ice spears that impaled and killed the creatures.

Meanwhile, Weiss charged quickly towards the Grimm, looking like she was skating on the ground beneath her like it was ice, her rapier Myrtenaster cocked back until she reached her target and then unleashed the sword forward and started to send a lightning-quick barrage of stabs towards the torso of the creature, causing it to screech in agony from the ferocious attack that still retained its incredible refined technique, despite the girl's fury.

As another Beowolf charged at the SDC heiress, it was intercepted by a big, red blur that was, even in its state of a blur, barely caught in the heiress' eyesight. Moreover, the instant that the blur bypassed the monstrous black creature, the thing was cut in half, with the top half of the Grimm flying up, only for its torso to be compressed under the fist of the blonde brawler, who gave an overconfident smirk as she rammed the top half of the Grimm into the ground, blasting it apart with a loud "BANG!" sound coming out of her shotgun gauntlet.

Yang got up from her crouching position and Ruby flashed-stepped right next to her older half-sister, both looking at a pack of six Beowolves gathering around the two of them, but the two Huntresses-in-Training merely had confident and slightly sadistic grins on their faces.

"So... What will it be, Rubes? You take two and I take four?" she asked her baby sister as she entered a fighting stance, preparing herself to launch forward at the creatures of darkness.

Ruby crouched, entering a stance of her own. "Pfff no way! We both take on three each Yang, I'm a big girl now." she said smugly as she used her Semblance to zip from one place to the other, moving so fast the she reached behind one of the Beowolves, much to the confusion of the creatures, and sliced the head of one Beowolf off clean, before landing on the ground, jumping back as Crescent Rose shifted to its sniper rifle state. By the time the creatures turned around Ruby had already locked herself of a good view, firing off a powerful explosive Fire Dust round, blowing off the head of a second Beowolf.

In the Grimm pack's confusion, Yang charged forward by blasting herself head first towards her pray with a shotgun blast from her gauntlets, as she then slammed both of her feet into one of the Beowolves, pushing it back with enough force for it to fly backwards.

At that same time Ruby landed on the ground and shifted Crescent Rose to its scythe form and then dashed forward with her Speed Semblance forward, flying as a blur and leaving behind her a trail of rose petals, before reaching the wolf-like Grimm that was flying backwards from her half-sister's kick and slicing it from the center of its skull until the entire body was cleaved perfectly in half, landing on the ground with a "Thud!" sound.

While that was happening, right after kicking the monster backwards, the long-haired blonde did a few sammersaults in the air before landing in front of three other Beowolves, who had frozen from the sight of their pack member being sent flying back. She used this time to grab one of the three creatures' face and bent it down, having it meet with a powerful knee strike that smashed its face inward, before letting go and ramming a fist to the back of its head and releasing a shotgun blast from her gauntlet, blowing the head apart into black ash that dispursed into the wind.

Following up on that, she fired a Fire Dust shotgun blast from each of her gauntlets, sending it right into the chest of the other two low-level Grimm, knocking them on their backs while their torso seared and raised smoke while they wailed in pain. Wasting no time, she blasted herself upwards with her shotgun gauntlets, redirecting herself and then using another blast to sent her plummeting down into the ground, with her cocking her arm. As she reached the ground, she released a thunderous punch into the skull of one of the downed Beowolves, smashing it with such force that it turned into paste.

With a simple gesture of her arms, two canisters were ejected from her shotgun gauntlets and she walked towards the third beast that she had to kill. Well... had wasn't really the right, more like "needed" so that her little baby half-sister won't have more kills than her. At that point in time the Beowolf started to get up, but Yang slammed a soccer kick straight to its jaw, causing it to fall on its back once more. "I would have let you get up just for a fun fight, but..." she said as she walked next to the fallen creature and raised her leg above its head. "I have a baby sister to protect from doing something stupid, so I can't waste time with you. Sorry buddy." she said as she stomped on the Grimm's head with all of her might, crushing it and killing the third Grimm.

Meanwhile, on the ground, the young man in the white armor was finally starting to wake up, but he was still dizzy and confused. He sat up and grabbed his head as he groaned in pain. "What? Where am I? What happened?" he asked aloud as his tone was dased and confused. He looked around and saw several people, some of which he knew and most others he didn't, fighting Beowolves, but he barely reacted as he pushed himself off the ground, trying to get up.

Finally what he just saw clicked in Jaun's mind, as he quickly looked around again and saw a little less than a dozen Beowolves around, with one of them looking straight at him, though its body showed that it intended going to a different target, but now it noticed him, making the young man freeze. 'Oh crap, I'm in trouble! Where's Pyrrha?!' he thought to himself in a fright before the memories of the Death Stalker that had thrown him of its tail while chasing the red-head, causing the adolescent to shake with concern and fear. Not just for his own safety from the threat in front of him, but for the safety of his partner as well, knowing that she might have been killed by now.

The Grimm turned until its body was fully facing Jaun, growling at him. Then it started to run towards him, charging with the intention of killing the young man. However, Jaun was saved as something wrapped itself around the neck of the creature, causing it to stomp into the ground to stop its own momentum to try to shake the thing off. When it fully stopped, a young man with silver eyes holding to a whip, which was what wrapped itself around the neck of the Beowolf, flew forward towards the Grimm, only to land face first on the ground a meter away from the Grimm it tried to attack.

The young man groaned in pain as it lifted his head to look at the Beowolf, only to press on some button on the handle of his whip. "I don't like violence, but Belmont was made to defend myself and other, so sorry about this." he told the creature with pity and a kind tone to his voice as the whipe was charged with an electric current that gave a powerful shock that made the creature wail in pain. It howled so loud that Jaun covered his eyes and the black-haired teen grimaced in pain, but held firm on the handle and the button that he pressed.

Immediately Jaun looked to his left and saw that another two Beowolves were running in his and the other adolescent's direction, charging while roaring with hatred in their demonic voice. By the time the two additional Grimm were close enough to their vicinity, the electrocuted Beowolf fell down on the ground lifeless, which made the silver-eyed boy to get up, leaving his whip on the ground, and stand in front of the blond teenage boy. The black-haired boy crossed his arms in an "X" shape and a dome of light surrounded the pair.

However, when the two Grimm hopped and prepared to strike the barrier, they were both intercepted in the air by a young woman who looked like she was the same age as Jaun, who had light-blue hair and purple-black wings coming out of her back, along with a dark-purple tail. She used her nails, which were elongated and sharp, the slice through the head of one of the creatures of Darkness with her left hand, killing it instantly as the head was cut into five different slices, while her right slashed the torso of the other charging creature of darkness.

As both Grimm fell to the ground, the blue-haired monster, or at least Jaun thought she was a monster, or a Bat-Faunus, twirled up in the air and flew then looked down at the two young men and started to wave her hand happily. "Did you see me, Tsukune-kun?" she asked cheerfully, and the blonde could only assume that she was talking to the guy that just protected him. He wouldn't lie, the blue-haired girl was kinda pretty... Wait, was this really the time to think those kind of thoughts? While he was surrounded by Grimm?!

"Um... Thanks for saving my hide. The name's Jaun." he said to the other guy, who lowered his arms and panted quite heavily as the barrier disappeared. He turned around and gave a friendly smile to Jaun and Shook his arm.

"Tsukune Aono, nice to meet you." he said with a nice and frienly tone while a big smile was plastered over his face.

Jaun then sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. "Well, I have to find and help my partner. She's in a lot of trouble and we got separated before a woke up here. Mind helping me find her?" he asked with clear concern in his voice, though he still tried to sound friendly with the guy.

Tsukune merely nodded as the girl landed on the ground. "Sure thing, Kurumu and I will help you." he obliged to the request and seemed more than happy to help. He then turned his head to the blue-haired girl. "Oh, and you really saved my butt there Kurumu. I don't think my Aura barrier can take much more before my Aura breaks." he said sheepishly while rubbing the back of his head and laughing with a sheepish tone.

The girl, Kurumu, gave the silver-eyed boy a Cheshire grin and bent herself forward in a way that Jaun could see a bit more of her... assets. His cheeks went red as he tried to look away in order to not peek. "Oh, but of course. I'm just watching your back like any good partner would, Tsukune-kun." she said with a bit of a flirty tone, or at least that's what Jaun thought was the tone that she spoke in, though the wink she immediately gave clearly confirmed it to him.

Suddenly, the Grimm that the girl cut across the chest slowly rose up from behind the winged girl, much to the boys surprise and fear. Their expressions caused Kurumu to look behind her to look behind her to see the Grimm standing on all four, growling angrily. "Shit." she said as she prepared to fight against the single Beowolf.

However, before the Succubus could charge and slash her target once more and defend the two teens, a pink-haired girl, who Jaun could swear was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his entire life ran towards the four-legged, wolf-like monster while she was huffing and puffing heavily.

The girl reached to the creature and gave it what seemed to be a gentle, girly push with both hands, but the creature was then sent with incredible force flying backwards in a straight line in a mach cone towards a tree trunk, only to hit the three and break apart to pieces and then dispersing across the four winds.

"NANIII?!" Jaun, Tsukune and Kurumu shouted in shock at the display of strength as their eyes bugged out of their skull and their jaw dropped to the floor.

"Where was all that power earlier?!" the blue-haired girl asked as a little bit of anger was heard in her voice.

The girl turned to the three of them and rubbed the back of her head while laughing sheepishly. "Hehehe. Sorry it took me so long to get here, Tsukune. Josuke just launched himself towards the Nevemore and I froze for a little bit until I gathered the courage to move again. By that point you and Kurumu were already heading towards the ruins. I ran as quickly as possible and when I saw the two of you protecting that blonde guy over there." she explained with a warm, friendly and gentle tone to her voice while pointing at Jaun. "By the way, I'm Moka Akashiya. Nice to meet you." she told Jaun with a respectful and refined bow that gave her unimaginable grace and beauty.

Jaun's face turned red with a blush and after he gulped he gave her a clumsy bow of his own. "A-and I'm Jaun Arc. N-nice to m-meet you." he slightly stuttered as he tried not to look directly into Moka's eyes. After he finished introducing himself, he caught a glimpse of Kurumu looking at Moka in kind of a funny way.

"Anyway..." Moka continued to speak. "When I saw the three of you, I used all the power I could, since most of it is restrained by my Rosario." she said as she held a the cross necklace that was around her neck. "So I myself am not that great at fighting, so I just shoved it as hard as I possibly could and..." she explained as she looked at where the Beowolf had hit the tree trunk, which has completely fallen apart. Moka chuckled awkwardly while scratching her chin lightly. "Guess I didn't know my own strength, hehehehe..." she said while keeping an awkward chuckle as a bead of sweat rolled from her brow.

Meanwhile, while all of the events of Jaun awakening and Tsukune, Kurumu and Moka's arrival and elimination of three Beowolves, the rest of the group was taking care of all of the other Grimm in the area. Josuke rushed at a pair of the dark, skeletal monsters, slamming both of his ethereal gauntlets-covered hands into their skulls, smashing it apart, before the remains glowed with a yellow glow and reformed into the shapes of the heads that they were before, reviving the Grimm just as they died by fixing them before their consciousness could disappear.

'It puts a bad taste in my mouth killing something, but they are still Grimm, so I don't have to make it easy on them.' he thought to himself with a smirk on his face while cocking back both of his arms next to his waist. "DORARARARARARARARARARARARARA!" he screamed at the top of his lungs as he released a thunderous and lightning-quick barrage of punches that hit and dented the two monsters across their entire bodies, turning their living body into living mush that wailed in pain, as the young man held his punches so that he won't rip his targets apart.

After sending the two creatures of darkness, the pompadour teen looked up to see the Nevemore looking down while still in the air, not moving to attack and glaring at him with its red eyes. 'So it seems to be wary of me. Seems like this was why it didn't attack again. He sees me stronger and tries not to awake my ire and put my focus on killing it.' he thought to himself as he lowered his head and looked around for more Beowolves to fight, to clear the area of them.

The rest of the Grimm were by now swiftly eliminated, as Nora ran to one and gave it an uppercut so harsh with her beloved hammer that it ripped off the head with ease, killing it, while Ren stabbed another one with both of the knives on his two handguns, before pushing it even deeper with a palm strike that sent so much force and Aura into the skull of the creature that it exploded. With Koichi, he wasn't too efficient at close combat, so when he had barely held back a single Bewolf with his sniper rifle, Yukako's elongated hair wrapped around the Grimm and raised it to the air before impaling it with a Hair Spear, killing it.

It wasn't long before all of the packs of Grimm were eliminated and all that was left was the Elder Nevemore, who returned to circling above the ruins, and all of the Hunters-in-Training gathered together inside the ruins as quickly as possible in order to form a group. The blonde boy was still feeling concern for the well being of his redhead partner, causing him to sweat and gulp continuously. "Hey, while we're all here together, mind helping me find my partner?" he asked the entire group of teens around him.

The pompadour teen gave him a smile and a nod. "Sure thing, just would to know some information about you and your partner, we'll take a piece from the ruins and travel together to find her." the purple-haired boy said as he allowed the ethereal gauntlets and boots disappeared completely and turned his attention to the pieces.

"Oh, that's Jaun. Weiss and I met him earlier and he was rather nice." Ruby complimented the blonde with a cheerful attitude on her voice.

Meanwhile, Moka looked around at the pieces on the pillars, her eyes focused completely on every little detail of every piece. However, she stopped moving completely as her eyes saw the tower piece, which looked like a castle, and flashes started to appear in her mind. A quick flash of the large castle hidden in the mountains of Vale, the place where she was born and grew in for most of her childhood. Another flash and four figures appeared in her mind. Her family, the ones she hasn't seen in ages.

'Father... Kahlua... Aqua... Kokoa...' she thought to herself in her mind as on the outside she merely stood in shock, looking at the piece, not noticing the tears or the fact that what she thought inside her head was said as a whisper that came out of her lips. Another flash of white in her mind, and she saw a woman who looked almost identical to her in every way: the shape of her face, the hair color, the warm and comforting sweetness in her voice. 'Mother...' she thought as she broke into tears and ran as fast as she could towards the pillar that had the tower piece on it, grabbing the piece so decisively that after she grabbed it, she fell on her knees and started to cry and whimper in sadness.

This got everyone's attention, making them look at the vampire. "Moka? What's wrong?" Tsukune asked while Josuke immediately ran to comfort his partner, which made Kurumu cross her arms in front of her chest, puss her cheeks and glance aside with a look on jealousy, which was noticed by several of the girl, aside from Ruby.

Nora on the other hand looked down at her own tower piece and a huge smile of excitement on her face. "OH MY GODS, WE'RE CASTLE PARTNERS!" she shouted with childish glee as she started to bounce with joy over discovering who that someone else chose the castle like her, making both her and the pink-haired girls fans of castle and teammates. "I'M NORA AND I'M THE QUEEN OF THE CASTLE!" she exclaimed with the same enthusiasm as she pointed at herself with her thumb and giving a large smirk on her face, making her partner sighed.

"Nora, our new teammate seem to be distraught. We should go and check on her as well as and comfort her to make sure that she is okay." he said with a calm tone to his voice as he walked towards his new teammates.

"I know, I know. I was just excited." the orange-haired girl said as she walked with him towards the pink-haired girl who was crying on her knees and the purple-haired pompadour teen and the silver-eyed teen kneeling next to her, trying their best to comfort her and making her feel better.

"It's okay, Moka, it's okay. If you don't want to share anything, you don't have to. But if you do, we'll listen." Josuke said with a silent and sympathetic tone to his voice as he tried to help his partner with words. He put his hand gently on the girl's back as then stayed silent.

After a little while of silence between the entire group, as slowly the vampire's cries started to die down as she started to calm down as she wiped the tears away and sniffed, a sound reaching Moka's ears made her raise her head and look to her right towards a group of trees. From that area a young redhead clad in armor, holding to a shield and a spear in her hands, as she ran as fast as she could, panting heavily as she looked back for a second before accelerating, much to everyone's confusion.

Jaun smiled wide with relief as he then raised his right hand and started to wave it towards the girl. "Pyrrah!" he shouted towards her with a relief and enthused tone to his voice, making her look in the direction of the ruins.

The Mistrali champion looked at the direction that the voice came from, seeing her partner in the ruins, making her to smile slightly with relief and a sign of happiness in her eyes, despite being filled with fear as she kept on running. "Hello!" she shouted with her usual friendly tone that she used to greet others, just to use it to cover the intensity and fear that she was experiencing for a while now, even if some of her fears were now relieved.

Trees then began to fall as a Death Stalker arrived to the ruins, much to the shock and disturbance of several of the Hunters-in-Training. The large creature was a black amalgamation of a spider and a scorpion that had bone plates over all of its body, with the exception of its legs. It had a large armored body that made its body taller than at least 2.2 meters, with its giant, long tail reaching up even higher up until it reached the size of an entire tree. It had also very large pincers that were also covered by the bone plates. The large Grimm was continuously chasing the skilled area champion.

The group looked at the arriving monster, with Josuke also looking up to check on the Nevemore, which was still flying in the air, circling around the ruins. A "Tsk" came out of his lips as he snickered and his aura flared around him, causing the arms and legs of his Stand to appear over his hands and legs like gauntlets and boots. 'I can't show all of [Crazy Diamond] just yet. Jotaro said that I shouldn't allow anyone know what exactly a Stand is, so I have to use this for now.' he thought to himself as he looked at both of his friends. "Koichi, Okuyasu, I want you to stay here and don't fight unless it is an absolute must. I'll handle things here for the moment." he told them, to which they simply nodded, Koichi with an understanding and firm nod, and Okuyasu with a confused expression on his face, not sure what his best friend meant by saying that.

The team of the confident blonde bruiser, the dark and aloof girl with the boy, the white-haired heiress and the young teen with the black clothes and red hood were frozen in place as they saw the large insect-looking monster of the darkness. "Well daaaamn..." Yang said with her eyes bugging out of her skull as she looked at the creature chasing after the adorned redhead, who kept running and evading with such extreme grace from each of the strike of the large creature that even Weiss was a little bit jealous.

"No wonder she is called "The Invincible Girl". She is utterly incredible. Way above my skill level." the white-haired girl with the scar over her left eye said with awe at the sight as the Death Stalker was catching up to Pyrrha and sent a tail strike with its sting aimed right at the redhead, who jumped backwards while doing incredibly athletic twirls in the air like a screw, throwing her spear mid-air while twirling into a small gap between the stinger to the rest of the tail, which hit the spot perfectly, partially slicing the stinger off the tail, but not completely.

After landing, Pyrrha ran towards the large Grimm and somehow managed to jump and get back her spear with such agility, dexterity and speed that the four could barely figure out how she actually did it. After that maneuver, the redhead area warrior landed on the creature's body and started to run on top of its tail, which the Grimm pulled quickly to swat the girl off it, though when it did so, the stinger was still stuck in the ground, as it was completely cut off from the rest of the tail, causing the large creature of darkness to wail furiously, all while the adolescent woman landed safely on the ground and started to run in a different direction in an arc motion.

Even Blake was impressed from watching the girl managing to hold her own against an Adult Death Stalker by herself, something she knew that she couldn't do, at least on her own. "Wow... I don't even have the words to describe how impressed I am." she said with a genuine sense of awe at the skill of the fighter from Mistral.

Ruby was the most silent of the four as a big smile and an idea came to her head. She then used her Semblance to dash towards Jaun, which shocked everyone in the group with the exception of Yang, who was already used to regularly seeing the Semblance in action all the time. Even Weiss, who had now seen it quite a lot now, still wasn't used to seeing her partner move so fast that she looked like she was teleporting. "Hey Jaun, that's your partner, right?" she asked the blonde boy, who gave her a nod to give a positive answer to her question.

"Yeah, that's Pyrrha. I really need to help her..." he said with concern in his voice, despite being frozen in place and shaking while his teeth clacked against one another as his eyes showed how why he couldn't move. "But I'm so scared. This monster is so scary. But I can't just leave her." his voice cracked there with fear as he lowered his head with shame.

Ruby merely raised his head by putting her hands on both of his temples and gave him a large, warm and hopeful smile. "Don't worry, I'll help her. You just get a piece." she told him as she then turned around and used her Semblance to dash forward. Looking with awe at the younger teen as he was still frozen, this time at shock from the rash decision of the red-hooded girl. However her listened to her advice, as he went to look at the pillars that had pieces on them, keeping on what was still not taken by others. He quickly decided to take a leap of faith and took the bishop piece from atop one of the pillars.

Meanwhile, the team of Koichi, Yukako, Okuyasu and Mizore looked at what was going on with the redhead Huntress-in-Training, while the girl in the red hood dash towards the field around the ruins, shifting her weapon to its gun form, or sniper rifle from what it seemed to them. Koichi was astounded by the way that Pyrrha Nikos was faring against the last Grimm and from the bravery both her and Ruby showed to even decide to take on the creature without any assistance. The two girls were impressed, but not to the same extent that Koichi was, and their stoic expressions managed to cover as much emotion as possible.

Okuyasu on the other hand... "Damn! That Pyrrha Nikos girl is as awesome and badass as she is shown on prodcasts! Watching her fight is so freaking cool!" he exclaimed with excitement and glee in his eyes. "Man, I wanna help fight this scorpion-spider thing too, but watching is so cool that I just want to see what happens!" his voice was so joyous as a huge grin was smeared all over his face.

While all of that was happening, Tsukune was kneeling next to the pink-haired vampire, who was now calmer than before, as she had stopped crying, but she was still silent and filled with concern. "Moka, are you okay now?" the silver-eyed boy asked her with concern in his voice as his expression was soft and worried, making look kind and gentle as the adolescent girl looked back at him, her eyes looking straight into his silver eyes, making her blush.

She gave a simple nod and blushed. "Yeah, I'm... Fine. Thank you for worrying about me, and I'm sorry for making you and Josuke concerned. I didn't mean to worry you, that outburst of tears just... happened." she told him as her cheeks turned even more red than before as she shied away by glancing to a different direction, which he did as well.

Meanwhile, the succubus partner of the teenage boy looked at the two with her arms crossed in front of her chest and a sour expression on her face. She decided to look around at the pieces for a bit, but didn't spent much time or thought into it, as she simply walked towards a pillar and took the bishop piece from it, holding it in her hands and smirking. 'Yes! Tsukune and I aren't on the same team with Moka! Now I can have been all for myself and manipulate him against her.' she thought to herself as her smirk became slightly more devious.

Meanwhile, Pyrrha kept running away and dodging from the Death Stalker, as it angrily tried to attack her with one of its pincers, trying to catch her and squeeze her to death, but she jumped into the air, dodging the attack with ease as she somersaulted in the air with ease and safely landing on the ground before she started to run away again. While she ran, she shifted her spear into its rifle mode, preparing to try to attack from afar.

Then a loud "BANG!" sound was heard, followed by a loud "BOOM!" sound echoing in the redhead's ears, as she looked back to see that the Death Stalker that had been following her had stopped after being hit by an explosive Fire Dust round. She and the large predator searched for the origin of the shot, but it took merely a few seconds of this for Pyrrha to stop searching and use the opportunity, as she raised her weapon in rifle form and shot an Ice Dust round right into one of the eyes of the creature of darkness, creating a large shard of ice inside the hole that the round created, popping out the eye and making the insectoid Grimm screech in agony.

"HEY!" the voice of Ruby echoed as she shot another Fire Dust round against the shell of the creature before reloading. "I'm the one who shot you! Come at me!" she shouted before sticking out her tongue in an insulting fashion before firing a third round, which this time hit an eye, blowing it up in a fiery explosion, which made the creature roar as it started to run towards the girl in the red cloak.

Seeing this, Ruby chuckled as she started to run away herself using her Speed Semblance, moving in a flash and leaving a trail of rose petals behind her as she moved. She flashed-stepped into one place and fire a Dust round against the white bone plates of the creature, which exploded against it without causing any harm to the Grimm, then she reloaded and dashed quickly to another spot, all while the creature was following after her.

Much to the daughter of the famous Huntress, however, she didn't fully noticed her environment and her foot hit a rock that was on the ground. The impact caused her to trip was she twisted her ankle, making her scream in pain as she fell to the ground and rolled so fast and with such force that she created a cloud of dust and dirt that rose from the ground as she rolled against it. When she got up, she yelped in pain as she was a bit unbalanced. Despite the fact that her Aura protected and healed the injury to her foot and ankle, she still felt all of the pain. "Ow, ow, ow..." she moaned in pain as a few tears ran from her eyes, but this distracted her long enough for the Death Stalker to reach her.

Pyrrha kept running after the Grimm herself, trying to fire on it, but the bone plates were so strong that the bullets of her rifle caused it no harm. However, when it stopped right in front of the girl in the red hood, the Mistrali champion took the opportunity and threw her shield at one of the legs of the creature, which were not protected by bone plates, with enough force that the spinning piece of metal chopped the last back left leg of the large spider-scorpion Grimm, to which afterwards she used her Semblance to make it return to her, making it seem like she threw the shield with enough force to both chop the leg and rebound back to her.

Despite losing one of its legs caused the Death Stalker to momentarily lose its balance, it still tried to attack the young 15 years old Huntress-in-Training with its pincer. "RUBY!" Yang shouted in terror at the fear of seeing her baby sister in danger, to which Weiss quickly reacted and dashed forward, intending to freeze the area between the girl and the incoming pincer. However, the two of them, nor everyone else expected what happened next.

Moka looked at the scene with fear and concern. She immediately and forcefully grabbed Tsukune's hand, wrapped it around her Rosario had pulled with all of her strength, causing him to scream in pain as the Rosario detached itself from the necklace around her neck. In an instant she pushed herself off the ground with such force that the entire structure cracked violently from her hand putting pressure on the stone ground of the ruins. She then dashed in between Ruby and the large Grimm, moving incredibly fast to the point that she reached there while said Grimm was mid attack, catching its pincer with ease, shocking everyone around, who looked at the scene with eyes bugging out of their skulls and jaws hitting the ground, with Weiss even stopping mid dash.

Then there was an explosion of white light, which created a shockwave that pushed back both the Death Stalker and Ruby, while everyone else covered their faces to protect themselves from the violent winds caused by this event. What they saw in the light amazed everyone, as Moka's hair rose up while her head leaned backwards, before turning into silver. Her fang grew slightly longer and she spread her arms wide as power surged out of her body. It took less than twenty seconds from when the transformation started and when it had finished, but when it did it felt like a completely different person stood there.

Moka then opened her eyes, revealing that her irises turned blood red and that her pupils became slithered. She had a hard and stern force to her attitude and body language, but after immediately opening her eyes, she made a pose by her right arm stretched forward, her left hand covered the right half of her face and her back leaned backwards, making her body look like it was at 70 decrees instead of the natural 90 degrees and a large smirk rose to her face.

"Hmph, seemed like Tsukune Aono has the ability to fully wake me up." she said as she gave a small chuckle left her lips. "Good, it's been far too long since I had been awaken. Outer Moka made a smart move bringing me out. Risky and rush, but I won't bite the hand that gave me freedom after so long." she spoke to herself aloud as she straightened herself, glaring at the Grimm, which was finally starting to move again, this time with the intention to attack the vampire.

The silver-haired Moka smirked smugly at the creature of darkness. "Fool, does a mindless beast such as yourself truly wishes to fight me? You probably don't know that you are more than a thousand years away from being a worthy fight for me, do you?" she said with a serious tone despite her overly confident attitude, as she merely gave a deadly glare to the monster, which merely stopped for a moment when the red-eyed vampire spoke, but the Death Stalker didn't seem to be fazed by this, as it charged towards her, sending forth its pincer.

Moka merely grumbled, as in an instant she closed the distance between herself and the creature, much to the utter shock of everyone present, as she was now right in front of its face. "KNOW YOUR PLACE!" she roared as she slammed a powerful kick from beneath into the head from underneath, releasing a powerful shockwave across the entire body of the Grimm, immediately breaking apart all of the bone plates across its armored body, not to mention the fact that the head, which was the first thing that was hit almost immediately exploded, killing the large creature of Darkness instantly.

The corpse of the large Death Stalker was raised a few inches into the air before it landed on its back, shaking the ground as it did. A few seconds later and the corpse started to turn to the matter that composed the creatures, spreading it across the four winds. Everyone else in the group were completely silent, shocked and amazed by the stupendous feat that Moka had just performed. The most worried though was none other than Kurumu, who gulped in fear.

{To Be Continued]


[Ending Theme: Rather Be by Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne]


With now the group having teams, I am finally happy to let you guys guess the team names. However, know that I had decided to leave out the color naming scheme for these teams since I couldn't decide on what color name can I make from these teams, aside from canon team RWBY, which is the only team which will stay canon because that's how I wanted.

And now it's finished! It's fucking finished! After 4-5 fucking months fighting on writing this fucking chapter I finally fucking finished this chapter! The process was so fucking annoying and I still have to write the fucking finale to the fucking initiation test and it's going to be a fucking nightmare! Whyyyyy?! Sorry for cursing so much, but I'm just so relieved that I finally managed to finish this because I am so exhausted from writing the initiation test and I just want to get to the school chapters with all the drama and other stuff that will happen there.

Also, I'm sorry for writing Weiss a bit too out of character this chapter. I know I really fumbled up with her in this chapter, as well as Blake, but I wanted to set up conflict between the two that they will set aside for a while next chapter, but will still be a bit of tension between the two. I will try to improve my writing of Early!Weiss in the next chapter, and I hope that I will do better. Until then, all I can do is apologize to all Weiss and Blake fans.

Okay, okay, okay. Here are the team compositions:

Team 1 (Team RWBY led by Ruby Rose as in canon): Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao-Long

Team 2 (Guess the leader and think of what will be the team name. It's a small challenge): Jaun Arc, Pyrrha Nickos, Tsukune Aono, Kurumu Kurono

Team 3 (Same as the above): Josuke Higashikata, Moka Akashiya, Ren Lie, Nora Valkyrie

Team 4 (Guess team name, led by Koichi Hirose): Koichi Hirose, Yukako Yamagishi, Okuyasu Nijimura, Mizore Shirayuki

So I hope you enjoyed the chapter at least. Now I can finally focus on my other project before trying to return to this. I love all of my readers and I hope you enjoyed yourselves and that you have a lovely long period of time until the next chapter comes out. Good night!