Forrest Encounter

"You know Velvet." Coco spoke softly as she stood up, it was getting late and they were going to need their rest for tomorrow's task. "… you would look a lot cuter with your hair down" Coco finished as she dusted off her knee's and smiled, turning and leaving the girl to blush uncontrollably.

Coco had said this to see what sort of reaction she could get out of Velvet and what she got was pure gold.

The night passed easily for Coco, she was nervous but she wasn't scared. Some of the students were awake even late in to the morning worrying about what tomorrow would bring. Coco did not worry about it.

Velvet was worried but she had put herself to sleep very easily during her long years in the gutter, living in hostel's.

When the morning came, everyone showered and dressed in their armour and clothing for the trial. Meeting Professor Ozpin and Professor Goodwitch at the top of the cliff face, they were given a speech about what they would expect in the forest, Grimm would be prowling around and their task was to reach a ruined temple where they would find objects they were to bring back.

Coco was excited, she stood in her best outfit, a brown cocoa coloured shirt with a dark brown waist cincher, dark brown trousers and a black scarf around her neck. On her hip was her bag, containing her weapon of choice.

Down the line of students she saw everyone she saw in the meeting hall, Velvet was only a few feet down the line and looked nervous as she stared out into the forest.

'Grim… out there…' thought Velvet, yep, she was scared defiantly scared.

"I do wish to warn you, the landing may be difficult" Ozpin added finally, snipping from his drink as he turned to look out into the distance. One by one the students were thrown in to the air. Coco smirked as she felt the rush of air past her face, holding onto her beret as she let the wind catch her body.

She turned on her back and looked at the other students.

Screaming through the air, Velvet had not realised he meant that they would be thrown through the air by a catapult. She screamed as she flew through the air, stopping for a moment as she saw the beautiful world around her, the real outdoors. She'd never been out the cities since she left home, remembering her time with her parents, she bit her lip. She wouldn't let that happen again to anyone.

Coco used her gun to slow her descent, the shots ripping into the tree line as she fired in front of her. Bouncing off branches, she closed the gun down into her bag before skidding to a stop on the ground.

Looking up to make sure the other students were doing okay, she saw Velvet fly past. Jumping up into the tree's, she smirked softly. The little bunny was smart.

Velvet had opened her arms and grabbed the bottom of her shirt to create a wing suit with the overly sized shirt she wore. When she'd slowed down enough, she began to bounce on the tree tops and landed on the ground further ahead.

Coco jumped down and began to lightly jog ahead, Velvet and a few other students had a head start and she wanted to get there first.

It was a few minutes later that she began to note people around her but had yet to spy anyone. She'd heard the rules that the first person they eyed would be their first team member and the other team members would be determined by the item they brought back.

Coco was about half way to the temple, able to see it in the distance over the tree tops when she heard a scream. Bringing her weapon out and turning to where the scream was getting louder, she waited and watched the underbrush and tree's move until something ran out and screamed again.

Thick bushy ears and a long set of brown hair came running at Coco before stopping, and diving to the side. "GRIMM!" Velvet yelled as something jumped out of the tree's where she had come from.

Coco pulled the trigger the instant the little bunny had jumped out the way, lacing the tree's with bullets from her minigun.

The Grimm was large, bigger than any she'd ever seen but it buckled under the relentless onslaught of her primary weapon. Turned to mush, Coco packed it up and walked over to Velvet who was hiding behind a large rock.

"You can come out now, its dead" she told her firmly, looking down through her sunglasses at the cowering girl. 'Why did this girl want to be a huntress if she's terrified of Grimm' she pondered.

"Thank you… Coco… I… It was so big… it saw me…and then ran after me. I… I just had to run" she explained quietly, nervously, her hands were shaking and wouldn't stop.

"Its fine, come on now, we're now team mates, just don't get in my way, if you see another Grimm, tell me and we'll try and take it out" Coco explained and began to walk away, Velvet quickly joining her close by. The poor girl looked terrified, she was jumping at all the noises around her.

"What made you want to be a Huntress if you're terrified of the Grimm you see?" Coco asked, it was rather rude but she just had to know.

"I… my father was a huntsman, and…" she bit her lip and looked down. "When my family died, I was left alone, so… I joined something I thought was good for me but later turned out not to be" she looked away nervously then back to the path they were taking.

"I ended up fighting the people who were my friends. Professor Ozpin saw me and offered me a place here, he said I'd have new friends, new family. That I'd do more good here than doing what I was doing before on the streets" She admitted quietly, giving a half-answer and not going into too much detail.

"There must be something about you if Oz wanted you here. We'll see what he saw in you soon" She laughed softly and kept on walking.