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"Hello!" Yang called to no one in particular as she made her way through the forest "Is there anyone out there?"

She had been walking for a while now, her best guess being about twenty minutes, and during that time she had spent in the Grimm infested forest she had scene...nothing. Seriously the way Ozpin had described the forest plus what she'd been able to get from a few of the senior students she'd expected encounter some Grimm as soon as she landed up but nope. In fact she was pretty sure he'd been walking in circles.

"Helloooo!" The forest remained quiet aside from a few animals calling out, Yang stopped. "I'm getting bored here!"

Still no reply.

"Seriously I figured I'd bump into something or someone by now" The brawler thought as she let her hands drop to her sides. Then the silence was finally broken by leaves rustling and a branch snapping behind her Yang turned the direction of the noise and called "Is someone there?" When she got no reply to went over to the bush that the sound had come from and pushed the branches aside with a smale smile "Ruby is that you?" a growl answered her question and she looked up to see the face of it's source "Noooope."

Yang dove out of the way as the Ursa jumped out of the bush trying to pounce on her. She landed in a roll then unfolded her Ember Celia just as a second Grimm jumped out of the bushes and swiped it's paw at her. She back flipped out of the way and then the first ran up to try and pounce on her again, keyword here being try, as Yang drew back her right fist and punched the Grimm in the stomach causing the weapon to fire and send the beast flying onto it's back. The second Ursa charged at her once again only to receive a shot gun boosted uppercut and the brawler using a second shot to boost the force of a kick to stomach in mid air throwing the monster back.

"You guys wouldn't have happened to see a girl in a red hood now would you?" The first Ursa stood on it's hind legs and growled at the blonde brawler "You could just say no."

The Ursa then charged and tried to swipe at her but Yang just jumped away from the first swing then back flipped to avoid the second. She stood up laughing at the monster's attempts "Jeez you guys couldn't hit the broadside of a ba..." She stopped as she saw a single golden hair in front of her face falling gently to the ground.

"You" Yang growled as her lilac eyes turned red while the poor Grimm exchanged a confused look unaware of the fatal error they had just preformed "You MONSTER!" Yang through her fists to her sides and flew at the Ursa by her gauntlets then delivered a punch followed by an uppercut that sent the beast into the air then fired her weapons again propelling into the air then proceeded to land hit after hit after hit in fury then finished off the beast with one last punch that sent it flying through several trees. Yang turned and saw the other one running up to her "What you want some too?!"

The Ursa stood up on its hind legs and growled. Then froze with the sound of a blade slicing into flesh the Ursa gave a confused growl the collapsed on the ground revealing a sickle blade in its back with a ribbon at the end of it's handle held by familiar amber eyed girl with a bow on top of her head. Yang as she felt her adrenaline rush wear off while Blake pulled on the ribbon pulling the sickle from the back of the decaying Grimm corpse and caught it in the same hand. The blade then unfolded into a katana blade and she placed it back in it's sheath on her back and turned to Yang with a smile.

Yang blinked in surprise at the girl's appearance then said "I could have taken him."

Yuuto pushed his way through the thick bushes occasionally swinging his sword to clear the path. It had been a while since he landed and so far all he'd done was make his way through the undergrowth. Finally he got out of the bushes into an open area.

"Phew" Yuuto let out a breath of air glad he was finally out of all those bushes "Finally! That was getting old."

He then started walking in the direction he hoped was north placing Zerogasher on his back. As he walked he couldn't help but think "Weird I should encountered something by now" He looked around as he walked "Wonder how the others are doing. They should have partnered up now" He quirked brow "Hope they didn't get partnered with someone we don't know that would be a problem" He stopped walking eyes wide then hung his head with a groan "Great now I'm starting to sound like Deneb."

"Hmm?" Something took him out of his thoughts the sensation of something watching him. He glanced other his shoulder and slowly and slightly turned his head around scanning the area but all he saw was the trees and bushes slightly waving in the breeze. He reached for his handle of his sword slowly.

Then a twig snapped from behind him he spun around towards its just in time something shot out of the bushes in a rolling ball. Yuuto dove to left to avoid it landing in a roll then stood up sword ready to face his opponent. Said opponent went a good distance before it unrolled itself and dug it's feet into the ground then jumped round to face him. It was a Boarbatusk, a species of Grimm noted for its two large curved tusks that grew out from its jaw with a smaller pair at the front of its mouth with thick armour on its body primarily over it's face to protect from the force of it's own charges and four burning red eyes locked on him. The Grimm snorted, shook its head and pawed at the ground preparing to charge at him.

"Finally some action" thought Yuuto with a chuckle then groaned again "Great I'm starting to sound like Momotaros too. What's next I'm going to start being obsessed with crying."

The beast charged at him but he avoided it by spinning around to his right while trying to hit it with his sword but was met with the sound of metal ringing for his efforts. Yuuto grabbed his wrist that armour WAS as tough as he heard he felt it when the blade hit the plates. He looked over to the monster and saw it turn round to charge again and Yuuto knew he couldn't waste anytime he had to finish it off fast.

As the Boarbatusk prepared to perform another spin dash Yuuto focused his aura surrounding himself in a light green light ready to unleash his semblance on the Grimm but just as he was about to do so something burst out of the bushes behind him. He spun his head round just in time to see them coming and jumped out of the way as the three creatures crossed paths where he was standing somehow missing each other. Two more Boarbatusk had arrived and as soon as they had regained their footing they all charged at him from different directions.

One came in from his right he rolled out of the way, another from behind him he jumped and flipped over it, one charged at his left he sidestepped it. He kept this up dodging again and again but this couldn't last as soon as he sidestepped one Boarbatusk's attack one of his companions managed to ram him from behind sending him to the ground.

"Damn you..." Yuuto groaned as he pushed himself up then picked up his weapon. He turned and glared at the three Creatures of Grimm. It was then he noticed several scars over the beasts armour and flesh they must have survived encounters with several years worth of initiates and judging by how they kept applying pressure to him before he could use his semblance the theory seemed sound.

Yuuto gripped his Zerogasher tightly as the three beasts crouched down ready to jump into the air and use their main method of attack one more. "If a potential new partner is nearby now would be a GREAT time to show up."

Just as the middle Boarbatusk was about to make it's move the sound of gun firing and all three beasts gave a pained yelp as smoke covered their eyes.

"Huh?" The green swordsman turned to his right and saw none other then Deneb running up to him with his index fingers held out in gun shapes. Yuuto hung his head and shook it in disbelief.

"Yuuto! Are you alright?" Deneb asked in a panic fashion then turned his attention back to the squealing beasts and fired a few more bullets each hitting the small gaps in their armour with uncanny accuracy.

"Am I alright?!" Yuuto stood up, switched his weapon to his left hand then smacked Denb on the back of the head "Baka!of course I'm alright! Don't waste time with pointless questions!"

"Sorry" Deneb bowed his head while he still rubbed it.

Yuuto just waved off the apology "Forget it. Be useful and keep these guy busy so I can focus my semblance."

Deneb stood up straight like a shot with a concerned look "But-but Yuuto i'm not sure-"

Yuuto held up his hand cutting him off "Just keep them close together and it won't be a problem."

Deneb look down with a hesitant look "Deneb!"

"Roger!" He saluted then ran over to the still blinded Grimm firing bullets as he did causing them to squeal at him in anger. One of them charged at him but he just bent down grabbed it by the tusks and used the momentum to throw it behind him on its back. He then turned back to the remaining two and stated with a finger raised "Let me say this to start: Three against one is not honourable!"

The beast to the left squealed and spin dashed at him but Deneb just jumped over it and landed in crouch behind the other one turned round and shot at its unarmoured rear. This made the beast jump forward and crash into the other two Boarbatusks in a plile. Deneb then jumped on top of the pile of Grimm and landed on the stomach of the Grimm he sent flying, it was on its back, and tried to keep the monsters pinned down. It was far from an easy task as the Grimm struggled, squirmed to try and get out one even managing to kick the side of his head a few times, thank Oum for aura, but Deneb held firm and fired a few shots at the ground next to them.

Meanwhile Yuuto had his eyes closed as he focused his aura to use his semblance. The light green power waved around him as he concentrated it then his eyes snapped open "Deneb now!"

"Roger!" Deneb shout then stood up on top of the Grimm's stomach then jumped off "Excuse me!"

Before Grimm could take advantage of their freedom Yuuto through his right hand up into the air pointing skywards and a lightning bolt came down from nowhere and struck the beasts causing a large explosion. Deneb ran to Yuuto's side as they eyed the dust cloud that was kicked up from the blast. All was quiet, too quiet, the duo expected that any moment to see a rolling ball to come flying out at them. Yuuto held up Zerogasher and Deneb readied to fire his fingers. The dust cleared revealing a small crater and three Grimm corpses starting to decay.

The two dropped their arms to their sides in relief.

Deneb sighed "Well that's done" Yuuto elbowed him in the stomach "Ow! Yuuto what was that for?"

"You seriously need to ask you idiot?!" Yuuto pointed his finger skywards and spoke in an impression of Deneb's voice "'Let me say this to start: three against one is not honourable'. Their Grimm. Their mindless. Expecting them to honourable is like expecting Kotaro not to have bad luck."

"Well that doesn't make it any less true" Deneb stated as he rubbed his stomach.

"Baka!" Yuuto shook his head then asked "Well do you at least have any idea where the temple is?"

Deneb just lowered his head "Uh...no I went looking for you as soon as I landed."

The green swordsman palmed his face "Great" He removed his hand from his face then walked off to his left shaking his head and waved his hand in a follow me motion "come on let's go."

"Hmm? Yuuto where are you going?"

Yuuto looked over his shoulder to answered him "We've got to find higher ground. We might be able to see something."

"But what about the trees?"

"Can't take the chance who knows what's nesting them and I'd rather not waste my aura reserves."

"Hmm good point" Deneb nodded then pointed behind him to his left "I think I saw a cliff or something in that direction before I landed."

"Alright!" Yuuto ran back over to his partner and clapped him on the shoulder "Good work Deneb."

Deneb chuckled and rubbed his head at the praise "Thank you."

The duo then ran in the direction Deneb had pointed.

"Hey Kame keep up!" Momotaros shouted over his shoulder as he pushed another branch aside.

"I'm perfectly fine where I am Senpai" Urataros replied knowing that Momotaros was referring to the gap of distance between the two of them which he had reason for.

"What's that supposed to mean?" The red swordsman turned to face his partner after he pushed a branch away only for it to come back and hit him on the back of his head "Ack!"

"That's what I mean" then blue staff wielder replied after Momotaros crouched down into a ball holding the back of his head.

Momotaros looked up at him with a glare then stood up and grabbed him by the shirt collar peaking out of his armour "Ya think your so smart huh Kame-ko?"

Urataros grabbed Momotaros' wrist and pulled his hand off "Between the two of us? Yes."

The spikey haired boy pulled his arm out of the Urataros' grip and held it up in front on his partner's face in a fist "You smartass jerk!"

Urataros held up his hand in a pacifying manner "Easy Senpai remember Grimm are attracted to negativity."

"So?! Bring em on! I'm always up for a fight!" He declared while spreading his arms out in a bring it own manner.

"Yes but try to see sense for once. We're on a time limit Senpai. We wouldn't want to waste all the effort it took to prepare for this."

Momotaros froze for a minute not making the slightly movement not even a blink then turned away from Urataros put his hands on his hips and kicked a stone at his feet "I hate it when your right."

The glasses wearing Casanova shrugged "A fact of life Senpai."

A thought suddenly popped into Momotaros' head with a sad smile "Tch with all our baggage ya'd think we'd be up to our necks in Grimm as soon as we landed."

"Hai" Urataros nodded and looked in the same direction as him "it's been hard since...you know."

"Hmm" Momotaros nodded slightly in agreement and the two stood in silence lost in their thoughts.

Suddenly Urataros' head shot to his left "Senpai..."

"Yeah" Momotaros turned round and looked in the same direction "I sense it too."

The thick leaves and branches over hear prevented sunlight from getting through meaning most of the forest floor was left in darkness that most people wouldn't be able to see through. However thanks to their aura they were able to sense that there was a presence in those shadows watching them and if they listened carefully they could make out distant thundering noise.

"Its big. Bigger then most of the ground based beasts in this forest" Urataros commented.

"Yeah" Momotaros agreed then drew out the Momotarosword II and turned to his partner and tapped him on the arm with the back of his hand "Hey."

"Hmm?"

"Bet cha my next five rounds pudding I deal the killing blow!" And he ran off.

Urataros did a quick double take then ran after him towards the presence they sensed "Huh? Senpai at least say one, two, three go!"

Weiss dug her feet into ground after being pushed back after blocking the larger Beowolf's blow. After her dunce of a partner had vanished an entire pack of the Grimm materialized. Ruby declared she'd seen a 'whole new side of her' but so far she'd just proven Weiss' original opinion of being a careless, immature child right. She sighed and stood up straight "Looks I'm on my own no surprise."

"Remember your training Weiss" she thought as she took a stance with her rapier, Myrtenaster, pointed at the large Beowolf in front of her that was no doubt leader of the pack. She then started going over her training tips in her head as she did them "Head up, shoulders back, right foot forward, not that forward, slow your breathing, wait for the right time to strike. Aaaand..." She narrowed her eyes as she took aim then brought her sword up to her eye level, still pointed at the Grimm, spun it's Dust chamber, "Now!"

She flew at the Grimm in a straight line Mytenaster held straight in front of her ready to pierce the beast's hide and fire the Dust at close range.

"Gotcha!" suddenly Ruby appeared in a flurry of rose petals her scythe held behind out behind her and the Grimm jumping to the side it left arm held up defensively.

Weiss' eyes widened at the sight of the hooded girl right in the path causing her to loose her focus in balance. She almost tripped as she tried to stop her momentum and in doing so she swung her blade round to her right and pulled the trigger sending a line fire across the ground and ignited a near by tree which lost it's leaves in seconds.

The sound of the blast caught Ruby's attention and she turned away from the Beowolf a mistake a the beast growled and swiped its clawed hand at her. Ruby looked back JUST in time to raise Crescent Rose to block the blow from harming her but was sent flying back into Weiss then landed on the ground on her hands and knees.

"Hey watch it!" Ruby said to the white dressed girl behind her.

"Excuse me! You attack out of turn I could have killed you!"

"You'll have to try harder then that " Ruby muttered while Weiss shook her head then quietly added "Wait 'attack out of turn'?"

The two girls then raised their weapons to face the pack as the larger Beowolf howled. They saw more of the creatures making their way into the area. The pair were vastly out numbered and both reacted differently. Ruby smirked when she noticed the growing number of the creatures, she'd taken down almost as many creatures easily while just strolling through the woods, then dropped her empty Dust magazine to the ground and pulled out a full one from her pouch inserted it spun her scythe round and cocked it. Weiss however back up a few steps at the sight of the large number of Grimm and looked around for a possible way to escape.

Then the tree she had accidently set on fire fell over in front of them. Weiss did a quick look around and saw the fire at spread over good distance in such a short amount of time and the tree falling over had drawn the attention to it and the Grimm started to panic at the sight of the flames. Weiss saw and chance to escape and took it.

"We have to go!" She said as she grabbed Ruby's wrist and pulled her along as she ran from the beasts as they ran around barking in a panic while the head of the pack released a great howl as the flames over took the clearing.

The pair ran out of the air as fast as they could Weiss releasing Ruby's arm after they gotten past the tree line. They kept running a good distance eventually making their way up a hill. When they reached the top Weiss bent over putting her hands to try and catch her breath she'd never run that much in her life.

Ruby looked at the exhausted girl then the smoke rising from to forest behind them. She could find the location the Grimm pack easily as a large cloud of smoke rose from the trees accompanied by howling. She then turned back to Weiss who seemed to be getting her breath back. Ruby tried processing what just happened she'd faced a pack of Grimm around that size before and tore through them with out getting a single scratch on her but Weiss, who first time they met lectured her on how Beacon was not your typical combat school, not only ran from a fight that for two Huntresses in training could have dealt with easily she seemed out of breath from a distance that some of her old schoolmates at Signal around her hadn't been broken a sweat at since halfway through their second year.

"What was that?!" She demanded then gestured to the pillar of smoke when Weiss caught her breath "That should have been easy!"

"Well perhaps if you had exercised even the SLIGHTIEST amount of caution with the placement of your strikes I wouldn't have set the forest on fire!" She pointed in the direction they came.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Weiss put her hand on her forehead in frustration then removed it "I'm just surprised that someone who talks so much would communicate so little during an encounter."

Ruby folded her arms "Well I'm sorry you need my help to win a fight. I'm just fine on my own!"

"Well congratulations on being the strongest child to sneak your way into Beacon" She turned round and walked off throwing her hands up into the air "Bravo."

Ruby bared her teeth, unfolded her arms to her sides, clenched her hands into fists and gave a frustrated cry. She then took out Crescent Rose and sliced through a nearby tree in anger then folded up her scythe back up and followed after Weiss as she disappeared into the bushes as the tree fell over.

As she walked she muttered "I'm pretty sure that purple kid is less mature then me."

"Ah-CHOOOO!" Ryutaros rubbed his snooze after he sneezed then he started walking again kicking his legs high while looking around for a clue to his target

He cupped his hands around his mouth and called "Hello! Hellooooo! Hey Bow girl! You here?!"

He stopped and listened but silence his only reply causing him to drop his arms to his side and hang his head in disappointment "Awwww" He kicked a pebbled in front of his boot and muttered "Where' she go?".

"I can't hear you!" he shouted after he landed with his arms up in a V shape.

He then dropped his arms to sides and was about to skip of to his right when he heard something. The sound of a blade stabbing into thick wood.

"Hmm?" he looked up over his shoulder and saw someone dressed in black and white, a girl judging by her long black hair, holding a long black ribbon attached to a small blade embedded high up in the trunk of a tree. The girl swung round the tree, catapulted herself up in higher into the air, pull the blade out of the tree, then preformed a roll in mid air then straight herself out and fell towards the ground where she landed perfectly on her feet.

"Sugoi!" the purple clade dancer cheered at the feat. The girl then stood up straight and looked around. When he saw her face he recognized her as same girl he hid behind yesterday to try and avoid Momotaros "Too cool! Maybe she'll teach me how to do that."

The bow wearing girl looked straight forward the dashed into the forest.

"Hey! Wait up!" Ryutaros called as he chased after the interesting girl.

"Looks like I lost her" He muttered to the ground then gave a sigh and lifted his head "I guess I better find someone else to be my partner."

He resumed walking but without the needlessly large steps and looked around "As long as their not Momotaros I should be alright."

"ACK-CHOOO!" Momotaros suddenly sneezed causing him to break from his stance.

"OI!" He stood up, turned to his left, gestured round the forest with his sword and called to no one in particular "Who's insulting me huh?!"

"Senpai watch out!"

"Hmm? WOAH!" The spikey haired swords man looked back to what he had been facing then his eyes widened and he rolled out of the way JUST avoiding being hit by thrown tree trunk.

Ryutaros cupped his hands around his mouth again and called "Hey! Anyone out there! He-Huh?"

He looked up saw several branches on a nearby tree high above the ground were broken exposing the bright flesh underneath the hardened bark. He titled his head and ran over to tree standing under it's broken appendage then turned his head, still looking over his left shoulder and saw the branches of that tree were also broken. He then noticed the tree to that one's left was in a similar state but it's branches were higher from the ground same for the one next to it. He turned round so he was facing the direction of the line of broken wood.

The line got higher as it went on starting a hole in cover of leaves, with sunlight peaking through. The young gunmen's eyes then followed the line of broken branches and soon turned his head looking back over his shoulder until something caught his eye.

"Hmm?" The ground was torn up like something crashed into it with a trail of torn up dirt. At the end of the trail slightly propped up by a pile of dirt was a familiar gold clad figure laying on his back, arms at his sides, surrounded with several sheets of tissue paper, unmoving.

"Kuma-chan?!" Ryutaros broke into a run towards his unresponsive friend "Kuma-chan! You okay?!"

He dropped on to his knees to his friends left side and shook him by his arm "Hey! Hey! Hey! Are you okay? Kuma?"

When he still got no response the younger boy leaned his head over the Faunus' chest above his heart and heard..."ZZZZZZZZ!" Kintaros snore...loudly.

"Eh?!" The worried expression on his face vanished replaced with one of annoyance he sat up straight then slapped Kintaros on the forehead "Baka!"

However all he got in reply was a snort and Kintaros' bear ears twitching slightly followed by him folding his arms over his chest.

"Hmpf!" Ryutaros puffed out his cheeks and pouted like a child, he did not like being ignored, then looked around. He found what he was looking for in the pile of pushed up soil currently serving as his friend's pillow right above his head.

"Ah!" he picked up rock slightly bigger then his fist and tossed in the air and caught to test its weight then gave a stratified nod. He stood up and stepped in front of the slumbering axe welder and tossed the stone in air and quickly side stepped to his left after saying "Naku."

"NAKU?!" The reaction was immediate. Kintaros' golden shot open and in a flash he went from laying on his back to s sumo stance with his knees bent and his palms held out flat with his right arm held straight out. He'd sent the stone flying like a bullet straight through the trunk of a tree at the other end of the clearing, which soon fell over same for the other five behind it. Ryutaros followed the projectile with his right hand held over his eyes to block out the sun then turned back to Kintaros when he heard him grunt as he popped his neck then stood up arms folded "My strength has made you cry!"

"Yo Kuma-chan" Ryutaros waved at his friend catching his attention.

"Ryuta" He nodded at the boy in greeting.

"Hey Kuma-chan" Ryutaros skipped up to the taller fighter.

"Hmm?"

"How'd did you manage that?" Ryutaros pointed up at the line of broken tree branches then back to the pile of pushed up earth.

"Huh? What happened here?" Kintaros asked with a brow raised in curiosity.

"That's what I just asked you."

"Oh right" Kintaros turned slightly and looked up at the hole in the treetops and rubbed his chin with his left hand in thought "Hmm?"

"Hmph!" Kintaros popped his neck then preformed a sumo stomp before he was launched off the cliff hat who knew how as fast.

He did a few rolls before he straightened himself out then pulled his arms and legs close together as he's altitude lowered towards the treetops then fell asleep in mid air as he flew like a rocket turning slightly until his face looked up to the blue sky and his back was to the forest he was shooting over. He then dove straight through the branches snapping them and CRASHED onto the ground forcing up dirt as he went until he came to a stop and gave a loud snore as several pieces of tissue paper fell around him like falling flower petals.

The golden eyed fighter turned to his purple clad friend and shrugged "No idea. One minute I've been launched into the air the next I'm attacking a rock."

"Really?" Ryutaros tilted his head curiously and Kintaros turned his head back to him nodded "That's weird Kuma-chan."

"Yes it is" Kintaros nodded in agreement.

"Well that's not important right now" Ryutaros declared cheerfully "You know why?"

Kintaros turned so the front of his body was facing the young boy "No why?"

"Because" Ryutaros skipped over to Kintaros' right "Now we're PARTNERS!" He did a twirl when he got behind the gold clad boy's left.

"Right you are" Kintaros chuckled at his energy then turned to the young gunmen "Let's get along."

"Yeah!" Ryutaros gave an enthusiastic nod in agreement.

Then a loud growl caught the pair's attention.

"Hmm?" They turned in the direction the stone was sent and large dark shape with burning red eyes step out of the shadows.

Several more growls were heard and the two went back as they looked around and saw more then half a dozen pairs of the same eyes staring at them through the bushes.

Suddenly one set of eyes jumped out of the bushes in front of Kintaros revealing a Grimm a bit smaller then your average Ursa with a similar body, with large strong forelimbs ending in sharp claws like knives, heads like a tiger's with a pair of long blade like curved fangs sticking out from the front and a long tail flicking behind it. Like all Grimm it possessed bony armour or growths in this case several growths on its shoulder, elbows, and back, with two large spikes emerging from its shoulder blades. Four dart like spikes long the back of its jaw and razer like growths along its spine beginning from the middle and ending a the tip of the long tail. It had several small crescent shaped plates going up its forelimbs, lower hind legs and thighs giving them a striped appearance.

The beast curled it's lips back in a snarl its eyes narrowing at the two. Kintaros looked over his left shoulder and saw another one slowly making its way out of the bushes in front of Ryuta. The two then looked back at the first shape to emerge revealing yet another of the monster but it growled at them with noticeably more aggression and the spike on it's left was broken most likely by the stone Kintaros had sent flying.

Both boys looked back at the Grimm right in front of them and notice more of them slowly making their way through the bushes. They then exchanged a glance over their shoulder, Kintaros unfolding his arms, then turned back to the beast and pulled out their weapons.

Axe drawn Kintaros popped his neck then bent his legs and raised the Kintarosaxe II across his chest "Hmm Kaligers."

Ryutaros turned his head to him for second then looked back to the beast before him "I thought they lived in the forests round the desert in Vacuo" using both hands he raised his Ryurevolver II at the creature "What're they doing here?"

"Ozpin must have brought in a few to trip up the students that asked the seniors."

"Huuuh? But that takes the fun out of it. Who'd do something that lame?" else where a girl dressed in white and a young man dressed in a black robe with silver gauntlets both sneezed.

"Hai that it does" The Faunus agreed.

The Kaliger with the broken spike roared and charged at the two in vengeance for its wound but just before it could pounce on them Kintaros smacked it away with the cheek of his axe sending flying into the tree line. The Kaliger he'd been facing then pounced at him but he spun round and did the same to it. The beast turned away from the axe wielder and shook its head to try and snap out of its daze. Kintaros then placed his hands on its side and pushed it back to the edge of the tree line with several mighty strides then picked up without breaking a sweat then threw it into curtain of leaves.

"My strength has made you cry!" He switched his Axe to his left hand then reached into the left side of his jacket a took out a piece of tissue paper which he then threw into the bushes "Wipe your tears with this!"

The beast then jumped out of the bushes, looking none too please, at him while another pounced at his right. Kitaros tossed his axe back to his right hand then spun round in a circle catching the one on his right by the cheek with the forcing making it turn its head while slicing the fist one's head off. He stopped facing the one on his right then struck it on the chin with the back of his axe's head forcing it off its forepaws slightly then delivered a palm strike to it's chest sending it flying in an small arc and landed on another. They shoulder spikes impaling the other.

Meanwhile the Kaliger that was staring down Ryutaros jumped at him and swiped its paw but Ryutaros rolled under the attack then stood up and spun round to his foes and fired his weapon at its unarmed rear at the base of the tail. The beast jumped forward with a yowl of pain while Ryutaros just spread his arms "Mind if I defeat you?" he spun round on his foot then pointed at the Grimm "I can't hear you!"

Then two of the monster tried to pin him down from both sides but Ryutaros just spun round and used his weapon as a club to whack the one to his right and away then jumped round and kicked the other on the side of the head. His first foe then roared and charged at him. Ryutaros turned to face him raising his weapon to he beast with a smirk but behind him the Kaliger with the broken spike BURST out of the bushes behind him paws raised to crush the purple clad boy as he pulled the trigger.

Pyrrha led the way through the forest using Akouo in her left hand to push a bush aside while Milo was gripped in her right. Her eyes scanned a head for any sigh of friend or foe alike. Jaune followed closely behind then jumped a bit eyes wide when her heard a thundering noise in the distance. He turned in the direction of the sound "Did you hear that?"

Pyrrha looked back and answered and sounded quite fittingly like an experienced fighter on the battlefield "Gunfire. It seems some of our comrades have encountered the enemy."

Jaune looked to her then as she resumed walking the back to in the direction of the gunfire the hurried to catch up with her "Enemy? You don't think we'll uh encounter the enemy...do you?"

Pyrrha glanced over her shoulder at him "No we haven't encountered any foes yet and it sounds like most in the immediate area are currently preoccupied."

Jaune glanced over his shoulder again "Uh don't you think we should I don't know" He shrugged "Help them?"

The red haired amazon answered "No."

"But you just said every monster in the immediate area might be own them."

Pyrrha stopped and turned to look at him "Jaune. While I'm sure they would appreciate your willingness to aid them I'm certain their able to take care of themselves."

"But Ozpin said the teachers won't help us out if we get into trouble!"

"Because this is meant to test our abilities in combat and working together to accomplish a goal " Pyrrha state trying to calm him down "and while I admire your desire to help others Jaune remember we have a mission to complete and not a lot of time to do it" She put her hand on his shoulder reassuringly "Besides we've all spent the majority of our lives training to fight these beasts and if we were good enough to make it to this school to be tested then we should have no problem with the everyday Grimm here."

She turned round and starting walking again while Jaune chuckled nervously as he followed and quietly said "Yeah no problem" He looked downward as he went then a tree SMACKED into his face "Blurg!"

He groaned holding his head as he sat on the ground.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha looked back then gave an embrassed grimaced "I'm sorry."

"Heh. It's okay" the blonde said as he held his injured right cheek then stood up "Just a scratch."

Pyrrha walked up to him then noticed a small cut across Jaune's cheek, that was not vanishing "Why didn't you activate your aura?"

"Huh?"

"Your aura" She repeated.

"Gesundheit."

"Jaune" Pyrrha said in serious tone as she narrowed her brow at her partner "Do you know what aura is?"

"Tfft of course I do" Jaune answered clearing faking it then pointed at her "Do you know what aura is?"

"Aura is the manifestation of our soul" She answered with a small smile.

Ren walked through a dark area of the forest covered with tall grass that went over his waist with a few beams of sunlight breaking through the canopy.

"It bears our burdens and shields our hearts. Have you ever felt you were being watched with out knowing that someone was there?"

He stopped dead in his tracks as he sense something nearby, watching him. His magenta eyes narrowed and he looked round for any sign of a Grimm.

"Uh...yeah"

He heard something hiss behind him and he slowly turned his head towards when suddenly circled around him. A King Taijitu a ginat snake like Grimm. Ren look a fighting stance as the serpent coiled up in front of him then opened its maw revealing several large fangs each almost as tall as the Green clad Huntsmen himself then lunged at him.

"With practice your aura can be your shield" Pyrrha started to walk around the Jaune and lifted up Akouo as a point "Everyone has it even animals."

"What about monsters?"

"No the monsters we fight lack a soul..."

Ren jumped and flipped back to avoid the roaring beast as its head flew after him diving to the where he had stood and then at him in mid air. He crossed his arms over his chest protectively as the monsters snout jabbed at him sending back to the ground. He flipped around in the air regaining control just in time to land on the ground in a crouch just in time to see the King Taijitu coil around him closing in.

"They are the Creatures of Grimm. The manifestation of anonymity."

The beast then coiled over itself using its body as a cage to trap its prey a clever trick. But Ren had a few tricks of his own up his sleeve, literally, as he pulled his Stormflower pistols out then jumped up high just making it out before the Grimm had completely caught him. He then faced downwards towards the Taijitu with a twirl and fired his guns at it.

"They are the darkness and we are the light."

"Right. That's why we fight them."

But the bullets just bounced of its scales with little to no effect. The beasts head then shot at him with its mouth open to snap down on the green gunslinger but Ren spun round righting himself up and kicked the monster on the side of its jaw causing to land on its back. Ren landed on his feat then ran at the fallen monster jumping over its body making it just as it rose its head for a second round and slashed at its neck with Stormflower's blade. The snake hissed in anger then arced round and tried to take another strike at Ren.

"Its not about why. Its about knowing."

Then jumped into air causing the snake to miss and crash into the ground. Ren landed on its head and planted the blades on both his pistols in the Grimm's skull.

"Understanding both dark and light helps us manifest our aura. Everyone has some of both."

A shadow appeared over Ren accompanied by hiss. He looked round just in time to see a second Taijitu head, this time deathly white, fly at him in vengeance. Ren flipped out of the way just in time then turned back and saw bow heads raised side by side ready for round two.

"By bearing your soul outwards as a force you can deflect harm."

Magenta eyes narrowed at the two headed being as both heads flew at him. Ren dodged both on them and jumped on the black one's neck and slid down it firing Stormflower at the white one.

"All of our tools and equipment are conduits or aura."

Ren jumped over the white neck and descend to the ground and fired once more at the second head but it struck him in retaliation sending him to the ground dropping his guns.

"You project yourself and your soul through with fighting."

Ren stood up slightly dazed and shook his head then look up just in time to see the first head strike at him with its mouth open and raised his arms defensively.

Jaune stood with his eyes closed as he processed all this information about this crucial, almost sacred, aspect of one's self that Huntsmen and Huntresses utilized trying to find the right words to describe it. Then he found them opening his eyes and said "It's like a forcefield!"

"Yes...if you want to look at it that way" Pyrrha turned to him with a small amused smile at the VERY basic description of aura.

The Taijitu head roared as it tried to impale it's fangs into the tiny human before it but pushed against the tip of the fangs with his open palms that glowed faintly as he focused his aura, that glowed a faint pink colour. He then grabbed the fangs and RIPPED them out of the beast's mouth.

The Grimm reared back making a sound like an injuried dog then dove again at the gunslinger in one last attempt. Ren spun round and threw the fang into its former owner's blood red eye. Then spread his arms out focused his aura and threw his palm at the base of the tooth pushing it further into the snake head while channelling his aura through it causing it to fly out the other eye and the head to swell and explode leaving only a bloody stump releasing black vapour where it used to be.

With one half of the Grimm dead Ren turned to the other half and ran towards intent on ending this battle.

Pyrrha walked right up to Jaune and placed her hand on his scratched cheek "Now close your eyes and concentrate."

"Uh okay" Jaune was slightly confused but complied.

Pyrrha closed her eyes concentrated her aura then opened them again, if anyone else was present they would see the iris and pupils had shrunken, and closed them again tilting her head up. Pyrrha was surrounded by a red aura and began reciting an ancient chant used to unlock aura in her mind, as she started Jaune became surrounded by a faint white aura. As she recited the chant she placed her right hand over Jaune's heart, "For it is in passing we achieve immortality. Through this we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all else. Infinite in distance and unbound by death, I release your soul and by my shoulder protect thee."

Pyrrha took her hands away from Jaune and bent over drained from experience. The still glowing Jaune looked on concerned "Pyrrha?"

"It's alright" Pyrrha stood up straight "I used by aura to unlock yours but the energy that protects you now is your own."

Jaune gained a small smile as he looked down at his hands and saw they were surrounded by his newly unlocked aura. He felt power he never knew or dreamed he had flowling through him, yet somehow it felt like it had always been a part of him. Looked back up to his partner with a thankful smile which was returned with another.

The Mistrielian champion's eyes went to scratch on his cheek which quickly vanished quicker then most injuries Pyrrha had seen healed by aura she looked back to Jaune's eyes and complimented "You have a lot of it."

Jaune looked back to his hands as the white aura began to quickly vanish and quietly said the only thing that could sum up the experience "Wow."

Ren bent over with an exhausted sigh as he stood on top of the coiled up body of the King Taijitu as it began to decay harms holding his retrieved pistols hanging at his sides. "Finally" He thought as he stood up and held up his arms dropping Stormflower back into his sleeves which he then proceeded to dust off when he heard a strange noise, and familiar noise in the trees behind him.

"Grrrrwah! Grrrrwah!"

He turned round looking up and saw the smiling face of Nora Valkyrie drop down from the branches over head "I still don't think that's what a sloth sounds like."

"Boop" Nora stretched her arm out and poked her friend on the nose making him smile at her antics.

Yuuto and Deneb emerged from the trees on top of a very steep hill over looking the forest. While no where near as high as the one they were launched from it did provide a great view of the forest before them. For a giant maze filled with creatures of death whose sole purpose was seemingly the destruction of all human kind Yuuto had to admit it was a breath taking sight.

"Alright enough admiring the view" Yuuto turned to partner who was standing to his right "Deneb" he turned to him and Yuuto nodded at the forest "You sure you can see the temple from here?"

"Well we not know until we try."

Yuuto sighed then gestured over the cliff "Fine. Do your thing."

"Roger!" Deneb saluted then turned to the forest closing his eyes for a moment as he focues his aura, dark green in colour that seemed to give him a gold mask over his eyes, the aura vanished and he opened his eyes which seemed to glow and raised his right hand to tap the right side of his headband. A golden mask drop over his eyes with green eyes held in black.

From Deneb's point zoomed in on the forest as he scanned the distant tree tops. Humming thoughtly he slightly turned his head to the right then almost missed something "Hmm?" He ran his ring and index fingers slightly on the left side of his head band allowing his vision to zoom in and saw, at the foot of a large hill, a broken stone circle held up by several pillars with a torn down wall. "Oh Yuuto I found-AH!"

He turned back to Yuuto and saw a giant blurry eyes "Monster!" He pointed in the direction of the eyes fired but they vanished. He looked around for a sigh of them but soon felt a hand slap on the back of the head and Yuuto shouting "OI!"

Then a pair of hands grabbed the sides of his head and his vision returned to normal allowing him to see Yuuto's boots. The hands released his head and he looked up to see a not too happy Yuuto standing before him "Yuuto what happened to that creature?"

"BAKA!" Yuuto punched him in the stomach making him bend over holding it "That was me you idiot!"

"Oh" Deneb tapped the right side of his head band again causing his mask to retract "I'm sorry."

"Sorry?!" Yuuto pointed to his forehead "You almost shot me in the head!"

" I thought you were a monster!"

Yuuto put his hands on his hips "How does that make it any better!"

"Well uh..."

The sound of a twig snapping behind Deneb rendered the argument void. Deneb spun round his index fingers pointed out so he could fire and Deneb stepped up to his right Zerogasher raised for a fight. But there was nothing there.

"Hmm?" The two exchanged a confused look then they heard another twig snap. They turned back to where they were looking and saw the bushes move.

"Wait until we see what it is" brown haired boy said to his partner not taking his eyes off the bush.

"Right!" Deneb said back.

The bush continued to shake and pair tightened their hands as they prepared for what would emerge. A figure stepped out and they let out a breath of relief at the sight of the familiar dark haired girl in a white jacket and black skirt with a cylinder strapped to her back followed by a boy with black hair in a purple armour over a black jacket and blue jeans with his sword braced over his right shoulder who almost tripped.

The girl turned to the boy "You call that a shortcut?"

The boy held out his left hand "How was I supposed to know they'd be there?"

Yuuto planted Zerogasher in the ground placed his right hand on its hilt while Deneb waved at the two "Hana-san! Kotaro!"

The two turned towards them and Kotaro smiled and raised his hand in greeting as the two walked over to them "Yo Yuuto, Deneb. How's going?"

"So far so good" Deneb replied with a laugh missing the annoyed look Yuuto shot him "It looks like you two are partnered up. How's it going so far?"

Hana released a huff of air through her nose in annoyance the turned her head towards Kotaro "It would be better if my partner wasn't so useless."

"Hey!" the boy turned to her as she turned her head away "What does that mean?"

Hana turned back to him "It may mean that you should try and pick you 'short cuts' better."

"It wasn't that bad."

The temperamental girl unfolded her arms and pointed back in the direction they came from "You led us into the middle of a Nevermore nesting ground."

Yuuto perked up in concern hearing that then looked at Kotaro "What?"

"It wasn't that bad" Kotaro waved off the green swordsman's concern then looked back to his partner "Beside we got all of them didn't we?"

Suddenly a Nevermore the size of an eagle burst of the trees shrieking with its claws aimed at Kotaro's back. Before the other three fighters could react the Machteddy on Kotaro's shoulder fired a blast at the Grimm killing it in a burst of feathers. Kotaro wide eyed at his weapon going off turned round to look at the falling feathers then turned back to Hana.

"Okay NOW we got all of them."

Hana rolled eyes and growled "Baka."

"Oi!"

"Enough!" Yuuto pulled Zerogasher out of the ground and placed it back on his back then walked over to Hana "You okay?"

Hana was surprised by the question then turned away rubbing her right arm "Uh...yeah. Just a few scratches" She turned back to him "my aura already dealed with them."

"Okay good" Yuuto replied as he rubbed the back of his neck and suddenly became interested in a Nevermore feather in front of Kotaro's foot.

The four stood in awkward silence for a moment then Kotaros cleared his throat and turned to Deneb "So...any idea where were going?"

"Hai" Deneb nodded the pointed in the direction of the building he saw "Before you two arrived I saw a ruined structure over there."

"Nice" Kotaro walked over to stand next to him, placing the Machteddy back on his back as he went, and looked in the direction he pointed "You think its the temple Ozpin-sensei was talking about?"

"I'm not sure but there's only one way to find out."

"True" He patted Deneb on the shoulder then turned to the other two "Ikuze."

Kotaro started walking down the hill Deneb to his left glancing back at the other two followed in silence. Yuuto walked behind Deneb on his left while Hana walked behind Kotaro's right.

Deneb and Kotaro peaked over their shoulders at their partners who where making a point of not looking at each other. Deneb gained a concerned look while Kotaro raised a brow and turned to the metal handed fighter and spoke quietly "Their STILL being awkward around each other?"

Deneb nodded "Hai."

"How longs it been?" Kotaro looked back at Hana then to Yuuto "Three or four months?"

"From our prospective yes."

"Haven't you tried to help Yuuto get over yet?"

"Yes I have but he's very stubborn and won't talk about it" He looked back to Kotaro "Can you imagine being in his place?"

Kotaro shook his head "Honestly I can't imagine half of the stuff he's been through."

Deneb bowed his head "I just hope our time here will help them move past it."

"I'm sure it will" The purple swordsman patted Deneb reassuringly on the shoulder.

Deneb's head perked up at a thought "Maybe Yuuto will be able to make some friends as well."

Kotaro nodded with a chuckle "Maybe."

"Hey!" Hana spoke up catching the two's attention.

Then Yuuto spoke up "What are you two up to Deneb?"

"N-Nothing Yuuto just chatting."

Kotaro's brows raised slightly in surprise at the sight of the same annoyed and suspicious expression on both their faces. He then leaned close to Deneb's ear a whispered "They really are related."

Deneb nodded in agreement and the four walked on in silence in the direction of the ruins. After while Kotaro quietly sung a little tune "~We're off to the forest temple. Cause we were told to go by Oz~."

Aaaaand done I've got to say writing Ruby and Weiss' battle with the Beowolves was surprisingly fun looking forward to doing some original stuff between them later and I introduced my first original Grimm, well not completely original but you know what I mean. Any way thanks for reading and feel free to review. Next time its a race to the forest temple...kinda.