Chapter 3

I woke up to surprise, surprise Region poking me in the side.

"Grr, I will never get any sleep as long as you attend this school will I?" I grumbled

"Nope!" Region grinned.

"Yay, now were all up. Let's get breakfast!" Ruby jumped up in excitement. After getting changed into my leggings and blouse I followed them to breakfast passing a very overly excited girl in pink with way too much energy practically teleporting around who seemed to be her brother. He was dressed in green and was the exact opposite of Miss Caffeine behind him. I smiled and rolled my eyes when I passed them. We made it down to the cafeteria at some point where I stalked up on fresh fruits. Yes, fruit not blood who do you think I am some kind of vampire, ugg stereotypes. I sat down at a table with Region on one side of me, Ruby on the other, Yang across from me, a prissy-looking girl in white on her left and a cat fanus girl sitting on her right.

"Region, Yreva, meet Blake and Weiss" Ruby introduced us.

"Hello." I smiled noticing Blake's bow. It seemed real enough but every now and then it seemed to flick. She obviously has cat ears. I expected a louder Hello from Region but she seemed to be staring off into space.

"So does anyone know what this initiation thing is?" I asked once again attempting conversation.

"I think we're going to find out soon enough" The prissy girl, I mean Weiss responded. Ruby, Yang, Black, Weiss, and Region continued a conversation that I tuned out of.

When we finished up breakfast we found our way to the locker room where I grabbed Lámpsi and Aíma. I saw Region grab her bow and quiver. I noticed that her bow was mechanical so it must have another form. Just as I turned to leave I saw the one and only Pyrrha Nikos. I grew up in mistral so naturally, I have heard of Pyrrha, but I know her better than most. You see I was given an assignment to assassinate her. It was my first failure and I have a scar on my back to prove it. Pyrrha turned around the corner too soon and I ran abandoning the mission and paying for it in blood.

"Hi, Pyrrha Nikos is it?" I started hesitantly.

"Hello, and you are?"

"Yreva, Yreva Moon" I smiled maybe she won't recognize me. I was only ten when we first encountered.

"Well it's nice to meet you" Pyrrha smiled, I sighed in relief.

After getting our equipment we headed outside to a cliff overlooking the emerald forest. I stood on one of the launch pads and smirked. It sure is great to have wings. I scanned my opponents or allies depending on how you look at it. At the end of the line on my left, there was a scrawny blond boy having away too hard of a time figuring out the landing strategy.

Ospin gave us a brief overview of what was going on. I was barely listening until he brought up partners and that we would be getting are partners that we would spend the next four years of our life with today and they would be the first person we made eye contact with. I blinked trying to process that information. What if I was paired with the Schnee girl, she gave a look of disgust or blond, scrawny and stupid over there. I sighed and shook the thoughts out of my head. The other students had started launching and it was almost my turn. Right as my pedal stool when off I spread my wings and took flight with little to no work when I was right over the emerald forest I began to look for my friends but my search came to an end when…

"Look Out!" Ruby fell knocking me off balance and wing beat causing me to tumble down towards a tree where I barely caught onto a branch.

"Dang it" I muttered to myself and started trekking on foot. I came to a clearing and rested for a minute checking my wings for injury and activating my silver aura to heal a small cut. A rustling in the bushes caused me to spread out my wings with their sharp blades attached. A large Rancor, a rhino Grimm came thundering into the clearing. I spread my wings and took to the sky divebombing the Rancor on the back of his neck where he has no plating. I grabbed my wing blades and transformed them into gladius before contact driving one into its neck. I was thrown aside by its massive head and my other gladii tumbled across the clearing.

"Curse you stupid beast" I hissed dodging its next blow. I grabbed its horn and jumped onto its back barely holding on. I managed to grab my gladius before falling off. It didn't get up just yet but I waited until it got close enough for me to strike and just as I was about to an arrow sprouted from its neck and it collapsed into dust. Not to my surprise, it was Region who helped me up. I grinned seeing my friend again.

"So let's find some relics "