As we run towards them, thoughts start to race through my head. Like how their bickering caused all of those Grimm to pinpoint on them, and how did these two people happen to become partners? Statistically this made no sense, but I guess that that obviously doesn't matter because it actually happened. A massive tree fell down in front of the pack which gave us a chance to meet up with Ash and Pan. "Ah mate, it's a relief that you showed up I've had to deal with this chick this entire time," Pan stated earning a glare from Ash. "Dude, this is seriously not the time," Pan looks bewildered upon me saying this, "We need a plan before these things get to us; now which one of you has a long range weapon?" "My shield can turn into an Anti-Material Rifle," Ash says. "Perfect, here's the plan: Susanoo, Pan and I will go in and take care of as many of them as we can while you shoot down the as many of the Beowolves you can before the Ursa get in range. I don't care if all you do is slow them down; we need as much time as possible so we can clear out the pack first. Okay break," I shout out with all of them nodding their heads in agreement. The guys and I run towards the pack while Ash begins unloading into the pack, and while bullets whistle passed our heads, we begin to get close enough to hear them over the storm. Susanoo is the first of us to engage the Beowolves, and he expertly cut one in half in passing as he goes on to kill more around him. Not wanting to be left behind, I immediately throw myself into the battle as well, shooting my drills out and killing two of them. While pulling my right drill back into the gauntlet, I begin swinging the left one around like a flail; I smash it into the head of two more before I can get the chance to reel it in. When I take a sec to look to my right to check on Pan, I see him using the crook of his staff to trip them as he shoots them. He gives me a cocky smile as he looks at me before getting back into the fight. I duck under a paw of one of the Beowolves as I counter with an uppercut. Soon as the pack begins to slowly dissolve and the smarter ones realize that this a losing battle, I look up to see that all of the Beowolves were gone and all that were left were the Ursai. As the three of us get ready to take them down, a loud battle cry was heard as Ash tore past us. She threw her shield at the Ursa on the right, and it sinks into its flesh with a sick thud. Still running forward, she tackles the Ursa down, rips her shield out, proceeds to cut off its head it. She unfortunately forgot about the other Ursa next to her. Right before it was able to hit her though, I had leapt into action and had tackled her out of the way. While we were down, I heard a thunk as I can only assume Susanoo had cut off its head. "You're kind of heavy," I hear Ash muffle from under me. "Sorry, got caught up in the moment I say as I flash her a quick smile. Pan helps me up while Susanoo helps out Ash. We walk over to the temple to finally grab the relics. Which appear to be chess pieces, huh wacky. "I say we grab the white donkey things," Pan says as he grabs the white knight. Susanoo face palmed and then quickly glared at him. "It's called a knight dumbass," Ash really doesn't seem to like Pan, huh wonder why. "Cool, let's just grab both of the white knights, that cool with all you guys," I say grabbing the piece. "That's fine with me mate," Pan says grabbing the other piece. Just as we were about to begin our walk back to the Cliffside, two people hurdled into the ground in front of us.

As the smoke clears it reveals- "Oh damn not again, not him," Ash moans. "Fear not citizens, for I Speed Justice have arrived unharmed by the fall!" The guy gets up with that damn top hat still perfectly on his head. What does he do? Staple it to his head? "Mata and I require your assistance, for our fellows are in need of help. Because they are being chased by nefarious creatures!" Man this guy has powerful lungs. "Speed we need to get back to them," the fuchsia girl said carrying two chess pieces in her hands, "Don't want them to get over run." When she finished talking, they started running back where they came from. We ran to keep up with the two of them, hoping that we could help out with whatever they were facing. What came next I would never have seen coming, there were the other two trainees fighting a Bouldillo. As I stood there wondering how it could have been in this region since they are from where I'm from, Speed Justice and Mata jump up to help out their friends take down the Bouldillo. "Wait, didn't she say creatures. Where's the other one?" Pan asked. He did have a point as we began looking around to try to get a bead on it. "Uh guys I found it," Ash said pointing to pointing in front of us, to reveal a Sobek watching us. As soon as it roared at us, Ash opened fire on it and Susanoo charged at it. While they try to take down the huge Grimm, I try to think up a plan. But the more I think the more I realize that I don't know enough. I turn to Pan who is firing at the Sobek, "Pan, what can your pipes do," I say needing to find an edge, "Can they use Dust or something?" Pan shakes his head "No mate, they're a conduit," he stammers out. "A conduit for what," I demand looking back at the Sobek, Susanoo was trying desperately to cut though the Grimms armor. "My Semblance, I can control plants and make them grow. I use these seeds if plants aren't really around," He says pulling out a bag full of seeds and beans. Suddenly an idea sprung into my head as Ash having run out of ammo had begun battling it too. "Pan give me the bag now," I demand. "What, why?" I don't much time to answer. "Pan, when I plant these under the creature , make them grow as fast as possible," this plan really needs to work. Pan looks bewildered as Ash slams into a tree next to us as she rushes back in. "How are you going to plant the damn things when we need to fight this damn thing," he asks clearly confused. "You told me your semblance, now you will get to learn mine. When I give the signal grow them." I run towards the Sobek. Ash is caught between its jaws holding them apart while Susanoo slashes at the top of its mouth. I then dive forwards, but not at the Grimm but at the ground. Before I hit the ground I activate my Semblance, and I slip through like the ground was water. As I move through the ground I can feel the Sobek above me, and I begin to open the bag and disperse all of the seeds and beans into the soil behind me.

When I pop up behind the Sobek, I can see Susanoo holding on to the top of Grimms mouth with. Ash was down in front of Pan who was desperately shooting at it. "Susanoo get off of there, Pan NOW," I yell at the top of my lungs. Susanoo lunges off the Grimm as Pan brings his Pipes up to his mouth, and he begins playing. As soon as he starts trees and vines grow beneath the beast; the vines wrapping around the limbs as the trees begin pushing the Grimm off the ground. Unfortunately the trees and vines aren't strong enough to support something of that much mass, but that didn't matter as when the plants broke it caused the Sobek to land on its back leaving it open. "Ash, Susanoo go for the belly," I yell as I start running towards the struggling beast as some of the vines were still keeping its limbs tied together. Ash throws her shield into the beasts belly, while Susanoo began slicing his way through the softer scales. I on the other hand, rushed over to its head and began drilling into the base of its throat. With a sick sound I pierced through the scales and kept going; when I looked to my right I saw Susanoo and Ash ankle deep when the Grimm began to dissolve. "WOOHOO," Pan and I both holler after our amazing victory. I rushed over to him and we do a spinning arm holding thing. We were really giddy from the adrenaline. "How did you know that would work," Ash asks after we calm down a bit? "To be honest with you as soon as I saw the trees breaking I thought we were screwed," I admitted. Wait weren't there other initiates, I think looking around for the other trainees who were nowhere to be seen. Though there was a path of destruction that was probably caused by the Bouldillo. "Huh, wonder where the other guys went," I say. "Do you think we should go look for them?" Ash asks everyone. Pan only shrugs "Eh I'm sure they're fine. We should probably get back to the cliff top." We began our trek back up the cliff, which didn't take all that long this time. As it turned out we weren't actually all that far from where they got launched, we all grumbled as we began to climb back up the cliff side. As soon as we reached the top, the storm stopped. Well that's great I think. When we pull ourselves up, there in front of us were the Headmaster and Head Teacher. They looked the same as when we left, even the coffee was still steaming. "Congratulations on clearing initiation, now where are your relics?" Professor Goodwitch asked while looking at her scroll. Pan and I pulled out our Chess pieces while she checked off our names. "Well done, now that you have finished your test you may go back to the building, and shower and change," Professor Ozpin said. I raised my hand; a question was burning in my mind. "Yes Walter?" Professor Ozpin asked with his eyebrow slightly raised. "Yeah, how did a Bouldillo and a Sobek appear in Vale. Bouldillos are from Vacuo and Sobeks are from Mistral, how did they get here?" I asked because I had to know, or this would have bugged me for days. Professor Ozpin took a drink from his mug before he answered, "Those Grimm were acquired by Professor Port, one of the teachers here, on some of adventures around Remnant over the Summer. They must have escaped due to the storm. I hope that answers your question Walter." I notice Susanoo open his eyes wider when he heard Ports name. "Yes Sir thank you," I respond as we start to walk back towards the school. "I will see all of you in a few hours," He says behind us.

We all nod a little at that as the effects of the test finally started to sink in. When we got back to the school we all showered and changed into fresh clothes. Waiting for Susanoo was Renata who immediately grabbed his arm and pulled him away, for what I don't know and can only hazard a guess. Pan and Ash started bickering again, and with that happening I did the only reasonable thing to do and began napping. When I awoke it was time for the ceremony. As we wait to be called up I dozed a little off. I vaguely remember the guys we helped out during the test becoming team VENM which would be lead by a named Verde, and we saw Renata and Banan with their team HART. Finally we were called up. "Walter Gurren. Ashley Bolide. Susanoo Odayakanaumi. Panikos Voskós. The four of you collected the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team WASP. Led by . . . Walter Gurren." He finishes talking when the applause comes. Ash pats me on the back, while I think "me team leader" huh why not. As we are ushered into our room we all begin to get changed for bed. "Your last name is really hard to pronounce," Ash said to Susanoo. He looked up to her in faint surprise. "I get that a lot," He said as he looks back down. I swear I can see him smile a little. When Ash finishes getting ready she tucks herself in, and before she falls asleep she lets out a warning, "Whoever wakes me up tomorrow is a dead man." Having said that she curled up in to the sheets. Pan and I exchanged glances, I shrug we can deal with it in the morning. I look over to where Susanoo is and I see him slumped against a wall watching us, his weapons were right beside him. "Aren't you going to use your bed mate," Pan asked eyebrows raised. "Don't need it," he said with a stare that told us to drop it. Pan shrugs and pulls out two scarves which he then began to wrap around his horns. When he caught me staring he told me that he didn't want to poke any holes into the pillows. After that he lied down on his bed and went to bed. As I got into my bed I looked over to where Susanoo was still sitting watching us. "Night Soos," I say before snuggling in. "That's not my name," is the last thing I hear before I go under. I smile at that.