It's early in the morning at Beacon Academy and many of the students are getting ready for the first task as Junior Huntsmen, initiation. Most of the students are gathered in the locker room, mentally preparing themselves for the coming mission. Jaune, however, is looking at his schedule while looking around for his locker. "I know I didn't put my stuff in locker 636 yesterday. I would've remembered counting that high! Why does this have to happen to me?", he says as he looks around, hoping for some sign of where he put his sword and shield.
In his confusion, he bumps into someone. When he looks up, he sees it was the guy who was mocking him last night, only this time he has a large mace in his right hand, with its head resting on his shoulder, and is covered in a fair amount of armor. "Hmph, watch where you're going, Vomit Boy.", he says with a snarl.
"I-I'm sorry.", Jaune replies, afraid of angering the bully any further.
The bully suddenly gets a large grin on his face as he grabs Jaune by his chest plate and shoves him in an open locker. Jaune tries to fight back, but is beyond helpless against the bully's raw strength. As he slams the locker shut, locking the helpless boy inside, he laughs to himself before saying, "Your name's Jaune, right?"
"Hey, this isn't funny! Let me out of here!", Jaune begs through the vent on the front of the locker.
However, the bully just chuckles to himself before saying, "What are ya talking about? This is hilarious! Weaklings like you just make my day."
Jaune goes to say something, but he's cut off when they both hear someone say, "Great, another pig-headed jock without any class. Just what we needed."
They both look to see a black haired boy dressed in black dress pants and shoes, a white dress shirt under a silver dressy vest. Compared to the bully, the boy's a bit on the short side, which causes the bully to laugh at him.
"What's your name, tough guy?", he asks as he looks at the black haired boy with a grin.
"Reginald, Reginald Wolfe. Now how about you take your little hammer outside and play with some rocks or something. A meaningless task for a meaningless human-being.", the black haired boy replies as he adjusts his gloves.
The bully grinds his teeth before saying, "You talk a big game, punk. How about I crush you like the bug you are?"
Reginald just grins before saying, "Like some brute like you could beat anything other than an unarmed girl."
"Girl?", Jaune says, slightly insulted by that comment. The bully finally snaps and swings his large mace down at Reginald, but before it can crack open his skull, it stops. It stops completely in its tracks, and as the bully get a confused look on his face, he thinks, "What? I know I hit something. Is this his aura? His semblance maybe?"
Reginald chuckles at the bully's confusion before saying, "You're nothing more than some animal. Come at me when you've figured out how to use that weapon of yours." As he finishes his insult, he flicks his left wrist to the left, causing the bully's mace to go flying across the locker room. It bounces off a locker and flies high up into the air, where it hits one of the chandeliers, causing one of the gems from its base to fall out. This gem then falls straight on the bully's forehead, as he was watching in complete aw as his weapon went flying across the room. He's left holding his forehead in pain before his mace falls on his foot, causing him to let out a loud, pain-filled shriek.
Reginald just grins at his handy-work before walking over to the locker holding Jaune captive. He tries to unlock the locker, but it's protected by a passcode. Reginald just sighs before saying, "This might take a minute. Just hold on, I'll get you out."
Jaune smiles at his kindness before looking over to the bully. His eyes widen and he shouts at Reginald, saying, "Behind you!" Reginald simply dodges to his left as the bully's mace meets the locker with a loud crack. Sparks fly from the console before the locker door pops open.
Reginald laughs to himself before saying, "That was a close one. You should really watch where you're swinging that thing. You might end up breaking something."
The bully finally tires of Reginald's mocking and simply leaves, saying, "This isn't over.", as he storms off.
Jaune just falls out of the locker, mentally exhausted by what he just watched happen. "You alright?", Reginald asks him as he walks over to Jaune, to whom he extends his hand to help off the floor.
Jaune just looks up at him and asks, "Are you crazy? That guy was like two of you!" Reginald just chuckles at his response before gesturing for him to take his hand.
Jaune grabs his hand and Reginald pulls him to his feet while saying, "He's tall, I'll give him that, but that's about all he has on me. I could take a punk like him in my sleep." Reginald looks around at the nearby lockers and says, "You're still missing your weapon, right? I'll help you look for it."
Across the locker room, Sapphire is walking up to another girl from behind. This girl has long red hair done up in a large ponytail with an outfit designed like that of a Greek warrior. "Long time no see, Pyrrha.", Sapphire says as she finally gets close to her.
The girl quickly turns around and smiles at her before saying, "Ah, Sapphire. It's been a while. So you're also attending Beacon?"
Sapphire simply nods before saying, "Yep, I managed to convince my parents to let me go here. But I'm surprised you chose to come to Beacon over going to Heaven."
Pyrrha looks away nervously and says, "Well, I visited Heaven Academy, but I'm afraid it wasn't as interesting as Beacon."
"To think two champions would both be attending Beacon Academy. How grand.", a girl says out of nowhere, causing the two to check where the voice is coming from. They see Weiss walking up to them with her rapier on her left hip.
"Ah, Miss Schnee, the heiress of the Schnee Dust Company. I must say, seeing you here is a surprise as well.", Pyrrha replies with a kind smile aimed towards the heiress.
"Yeah, I'm surprised you didn't attend Atlas Academy. Wouldn't that have been closer to home?", Sapphire adds, causing Weiss to sigh.
Weiss quickly changes the subject by asking them, "So, have you two taken any thought as to which team you would like to be on? I'm sure everyone's just dying to have strong and well-known individuals like yourselves on their teams."
"Well, there are a few people I'd like to see on my team, but I'll just take whatever I can get.", Sapphire replies, causing Weiss to look at her in confusion.
"I was just planning on letting the chips fall where they may.", Pyrrha replies with her usual kind smile as she retrieves her weapon and shield from her locker.
Weiss just smiles at this before saying, "Maybe the three of us can be on a team together?"
"That doesn't sound terrible.", Sapphire replies and Pyrrha adds, "That would be grand."
Weiss gets an evil grin on her face as she thinks, "This will be perfect! Two of the strongest girls in class lead by the smartest girl in class! We'll be unstoppable! Nobody will get between me and my goals now!"
Right as she finishes her thought, she's pulled back into reality by the sound of someone saying, "You know who else is great? Me, Jaune Arc." She turns to see Jaune acting all cool as he leans with one hand placed against a locker, looking straight at Weiss as he completely ignores Sapphire and Pyrrha.
"Great, it's you.", Weiss says without a hint of enjoyment in her voice.
Jaune just grins, not seeing her blatant sarcasm, before saying, "Hey there, Snow Angel. I've been hearing rumors about teams and I was thinking the two of us would make a good one. what do ya say?"
Pyrrha interrupts him by saying, "Actually, I've been hearing rumors that the teams are made up of four students."
Jaune turns to her and says, "Well Hotstuff, play your cards right and maybe you'll end up on the winning team.", as confidently as possible.
Sapphire smiles at Jaune's confident nature and says, "Aren't you just the poster boy for confidence today? Didn't you just have your head stuck in a trashcan yesterday?"
Jaune doesn't seem phased in the slightest by her comment and replies with, "I got distracted by your beautiful eye, it seems, and in that instance, someone thought it would be funny to shove my head into that trashcan. I assure you, it was just a fluke.", earning a slight giggle from the girls as a confident grin comes across his face.
Weiss gets between Jaune and the two warrior girls before putting her arms up between then, stopping him from getting any closer to them. "Jaune, was it? Do you even have the slightest clue as to who these two are?", Weiss asks in a scolding tone.
Jaune just smiles down at the angry Snow White and says, "Not in the slightest."
Weiss points to Pyrrha first and says, "This is Pyrrha Nikos."
Pyrrha waves happily at Jaune and says, "Hello, Jaune."
She then points to Sapphire and says, "And this is Sapphire Cobolt."
"It's nice to meet you, Jaune.", Sapphire says to him with a nod.
Jaune raises an eyebrow and says, "Never heard of 'em."
This causes Weiss to growl under her breath before saying, "Pyrrha won the Mistral's regional tournament three years in a row. And Sapphire won the Vale regional tournament two years in a row. They faced off in one of the largest tournaments for hunters in training not even a year ago at the Junior Remnicient."
"Never heard of those either.", Jaune simply replies, causing Weiss to flair up with frustration.
Suddenly, Reginald walks over to him, leaning over the boy's shoulder as he tells him, "Jaune...the busty redhead is from that shitty cereal with all those marshmallows, remember?"
It suddenly clicks in Jaune's head and he exclaims, "You're that girl on the front of every Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes box!"
Pyrrha reluctantly smiles at his comment and says, "Yeah, it's pretty cool. The cereal isn't very healthy for you though."
Reginald then points at Sapphire and says, "And she's the only one to beat Pyrrha here in a fight throughout her whole life as a fighter."
"Ohhhh, so she's probably pretty strong, right?", Jaune replies as he looks over to his new friend, and Reginald nods in response.
Then Reginald points at Weiss and says, "Then there's this special little snowflake, Weiss Schnee: the Heiress of the Schnee Dust Company. Her achievements are...well...nothing really."
Weiss' reaction starts with just being irritated by Reginald's presence to furious with his comment. "That means nothing coming from a thief!", Weiss exclaims as she turns her back on him.
He chuckles to himself before saying, "At least I'm able to close a bottle and not get myself blown to the moon and back."
She quickly turns back to him and shouts, "That wasn't my fault! That was that dumb little red idiot's fault!"
"Always throwing the blame onto someone else, huh? I guess that's to be expected of a Schnee, huh? Can't let the world see your faults so you pawn them off as someone else's and hope nobody will be crazy enough to stand up against it?", Reginald begins to go on, causing Weiss to start to back away slowly. "And look at you now, you're already scared of what's going to happen, aren't you? You're afraid that these three are finally going to see you for what you really are, aren't you?", he continues to question her as he slowly walks toward her, keeping the space between them relatively the same, while not making it look like he's going to attack her physically.
As she continues to back up, she runs into Pyrrha, who looks down at her with a concerned look. "Pyrrha, a little help here?", Weiss asks desperately, causing Pyrrha to glare at Reginald. She quickly launches her javelin at him with all her might, but he manages to dodge at the last second, causing it to fly by him at a remarkable speed.
Reginald only laughs to himself, causing the three girls to look at him, concerned for both themselves and his mental state. He smiles at them before saying, "I was only teasing you, Snowflake. No need to get all defensive like that. That attack could've killed someone, you know."
Suddenly, they hear someone call out, "Guys, a little help here?", and they turn to see that Jaune is pinned to the wall by Pyrrha's javelin, the blade stabbing through the hood on his hoodie, pinning the boy to the concrete wall behind him.
As the group walks over to the helpless boy, they hear Glynda over the speakers call out, "All first year students are to meet at the Cliff for initiation. I repeat, all first year students are to meet at the Cliff for initiation."
Weiss walks off in a huff, still upset about all of Reginald's accusations, leaving everyone behind without a word.
Sapphire looks over to Pyrrha and says, "Come on Pyrrha, we should hurry. I heard that Glynda isn't the kind of teacher that likes her students being even a second late for anything." Sapphire walks past Jaune while saying, "Thanks for the complement, Jaune. I hope to see you again."
And as Pyrrha retrieves her javelin and follows Sapphire to the Cliff, she tells Jaune, "It was nice meeting you, Jaune."
As he slides to the ground, he replies in a defeated tone, "Likewise."
Yang and Ruby walk up to the two boys and Ruby asks, "What was that all about?"
"Lady Killer over here seems to 've bitten off more than he can chew.", Reginald replies with a sigh.
"Yeah, we saw that. Now who are you?", Yang adds as Ruby remembers seeing Reginald before.
"Hey, you were there when I met Weiss!", Ruby exclaims as she points at him.
"Good to see you too, Little Red. Now, who's your friend?", Reginald replies before turning his attention to Yang.
"Oh, um, this is my sister, Yang Xiao Long. Yang, this is... who are you again?", Ruby introduces the two and Reginald just grins.
"Reginald Wolfe, it's a pleasure to meet someone as beautiful as yourself, Yang.", he replies with a bow as he puts one hand behind his back and takes Yang's right hand with his other hand.
Yang just rolls her eyes and pulls her hand free from Reginald's grasp. She then looks over to her sister before telling her, "Come on, Ruby. We should get moving. We don't want to be late to initiation. We'll see you later, Jaune."
As they walk off, Ruby turns back to Jaune, who's finally standing up, and waves to him while shouting, "Good luck Jaune!", before rushing to catch up to her sister.
At the edge of a large cliff, Ozpin looks out toward a large forest that seems to go on for miles in every direction. He takes a sip from his mug before saying, "This forest will be the first of many trials that you'll face as future huntsmen." He turns around to see many new students standing there in a perfect line from left to right, listening attentively to every word he has to say. He takes two steps toward the students while saying, "It is filled with many creatures of Grimm. Some you may have seen before while others are so rare they are only found in this forest. Don't be afraid to destroy everything that stands in your way, or you will die."
The thought of dying doesn't seem to phase any of the students too much, with the exception of Jaune who gulps loudly as he hears this, and Glynda steps forward to continue the explanation. "We've heard that there have been rumors circulating about teams. Well, let me put an end to these rumors. You will all be receiving partners, today.", Glynda begins to explain and Ruby lets out a worried moan. "You will be partnered with this person for the rest of your time here at Beacon, so it is best that you're partnered with someone you are compatible with.", Glynda continues, causing Ruby to moan slightly louder.
Ozpin finishes the explanation by saying, "The first person you make direct eye contact with will be your partner for the rest of your time here at Beacon.", causing Ruby's jaw to drop in disbelief.
"WHAT!?", Ruby shouts in her mind as she hears this.
Before she can raise her hand to ask about this rule, Glynda continues on with her explanation, saying, "Once you've found your partner, you are to head for the ruins located at the center of the forest. Once there, you and your partner will choose a single ruin to take with you. After obtaining your ruin, you both will receive a location to bring your ruin."
"Once you've made it to that location, you are to protect your ruin at all costs. You will be graded based on multiple factors, but if you lose your relic or don't obtain a relic or partner, you will fail and be sent back home. And neither I nor Glynda will be interfering in this test. You all are to rely mainly on your partner's power and your own.", Ozpin adds before taking a sip from his mug.
There are murmurs through the crowd before Glynda's glare suddenly quiets them all. "Now, are there any questions?", Ozpin asks as he glances through the faces in the crowd.
As Jaune raises his hand, he says, "Yeah, um Sir, I have a question."
"No questions? Good. Then we can begin the test right away.", Ozpin says, not hearing Jaune at all. As Ozpin presses a button on his scroll, Reginald is launched high into the air.
"Professor Ozpin, you forgot to explain how they'll be sent into the forest.", Glynda points out as Persi is sent flying, causing Ozpin to chuckle to himself.
"That's what I was going to ask!", Jaune exclaims in frustration as Ash is launched into the forest.
"Oh, it seems I did. Well, in short, you will be catapulted into the forest by those plates you were all told to stand on. Hopefully you've all already figured out your landing strategies.", Ozpin says as Sapphire and Pyrrha are sent flying into the air.
"D-did you forget to hand out parachutes too? Or am I the only one that didn't get one?", Jaune asks nervously as the bully who tormented him earlier is sent flying into the air.
Ozpin raises an eyebrow before saying, "Parachutes? No no no, you all have to make your own landing strategies without any help from the two of us."
Yang looks to her little sister, who seems to be smiling at her, before nodding and putting on a pair of sunglasses. As she looks forward, Yang is sent flying into the air with her sister following close behind. "And that, what exactly is a landing strateg-", Jaune barely manages to say right before getting launched into the air himself. As Jaune screams out in fear as he's sent hundreds of feet into the air, Glynda and Ozpin turn and look up at the first years students falling straight into the forest.
Ozpin simply smiles and says, "This is going to be an interesting year."