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Chapter 2 part final: And So it Begins

Now officially taking OC ideas cause I'm moving in a new direction. Give me gender, age, Weapons, Aura levels, Leader Yes or No (because Adrian is not leader material and I need a Leader), Semblance, And any other things you can think of like appearance, Try not to make any OP suggestions, I know Adrian seems OP but I try to balance him out by having him tank EVERYONES hits.

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When Adrian finally broke through the Grimm and shouted at everyone to run everyone was just so mentally exhausted that none of them even really thought about the fact that they had just started sprinting through the woods, or even took into account anyone trying to stick back to play hero. They all just ran. All nine of them came together in their run to form a large block as Adrian brought up the rear knocking out any Grimm that caught up with his heavier swings. Jaune was focusing on making sure no one tripped despite the fact that everyone else was practically running backwards the whole way. At some point everyone had shifted to their long range weapons and started firing without abandon at the Grimm on their heels. The Grimm had answered in kind by launching boarbatusks at high velocity and then propelling them off the Ursas backs effectively making cannons.

The group that would later come to be known as The Nine after the circulation of Initiation recordings from the cameras that Ozpin had bugged throughout everywhere in the forest as well as on the initiates themselves were running full sprint through the forest watching for flying boarbatusks that would burst through trees as they run blowing wooden shrapnel everywhere, bushes and tree roots that are highly viable to trip you up and leave you at the mercy of the no less than 20 million Grimm on your tail, but you are also pushing through severe exhaustion running your legs through biting pain because you know it's better than the alternative.

"17 meters, medium bush, Blake!" Jaune called out to the hidden cat Faunus as another tree exploded to the girl's rear right flank. "Watch out for that tree as it falls! 12 meters, rock, Pyrrha! 25 meters from me, fallen tree, everyone!"

As Adrian watched the others about to vault over he almost stopped for a moment before he immediately snapped back into action again. As he was running in the back he was able to see Ruby faltering and very clearly not about to make it over the fallen tree due to her exhaustion. Not skipping another beat Adrian changed his direction to intersect Ruby's and then just as Ruby made it to the tree Adrian came up behind her and picked her up into his arms as he collapsed his weapon and shield back into the space in his gauntlets. Now princess carrying Ruby who had proceeded to fall into a state of half consciousness the second she left the ground and trying to trip up any Grimm who catch up which thankfully he was being assisted now in that effort by Nora.

"Hey is that the tree line!" "Yeah! Get ready to run in the direction of the tower whichever way it may be!" shouted Adrian

As The Nine crashed through the tree line there was no breath of relief as they were too busy with the Grimm not far behind them. "There! Everyone that way run!" to the right of their exit at a decent runs distance was a large tower in the middle of the cavern connected to the forest by a stone bridge. As The Nine ran along the cliff the faster Grimm chased them from behind while the real army came in from the forest on the Initiates side like a large wall pressing down making them run even faster.

As the young teens ran from the oncoming flood of death itself Ruby managed to wake back up and realize she was in the arms of a boy she just met getting rescued. She felt conflicted about that but she's a 15 year old girl that built her own sniper-scythe to kill soulless beings of darkness, it's to be expected. As they got to the bridge Adrian started to slow down confusing the girl in his arms before he suddenly stopped on the forest side of the bridge. Ruby hated being so tired for the moment Adrian decided throw her over next to the others because after she was across he lifted his fist and punched out the bridge leaving him over with the Grimm as Ruby scrambled up to look at him.

It was that look again! The one that hurt to see. With his bittersweet smile and defeated stance. Why would he do this? Why would he leave us here? Thought Ruby. Then the Grimm, an Ursa major, came up behind him and tackled him which he retaliated to by twisting around and slugging it straight in the head as the Ursa, Adrian, and all the rest of the Grimm went falling down into the cavern.

Time seemed to stand still almost as if everything were going in super slow motion like the movies they watched as kids ad all of the Grimm that had so viciously chased the two teams down continued to throw themselves off the edge of the cliff to follow their friend and savior in the hundreds of thousands. Most didn't even register Ruby's screams of agony until the scythe wielder had made to go down after the boy martyr and was stopped by her sister, the ensuing struggle in the blonde girl's arms snapped everyone out of their shock.

As everyone collected themselves they started to notice the bullheads and the airship that were making their way from the direction of the school that took a firing line position along the length of the forest cliff and as the airship docked at the top of the tower the bullheads released large anti-infantry mini-guns that were designed for clearing large groups of Grimm that were all together (like Coco's mini-gun) and fired into the masses of Grimm coming out of the forest preventing them from getting over the cliff.

As the teens stared in shock once more they were once again broken of it as they were joined by Professor Glynda Goodwitch, who promptly instructed them all to immediately board the airship without answering any questions. So, left in the dark and, at the moment, currently mourning their comrade in arms who had saved them, the two teams climbed reluctantly aboard the airship.

While the airship left to head back to the school the bullheads stayed behind and continued to attempt to cut down on the Grimm until a boarbatusks shot out and rammed straight through the engine on one of the bullheads in the center sending it spiraling down into the cavern as the Grimm attempted to leap onto its falling form. As Ruby tried to protest to the professor about how the people in the bullhead and Adrian need help, Glynda repeatedly shot her down while avoiding the topic of Adrian until necessary until finally she had had enough and decided to just answer the girl's questions.

"We need to help them!"

"The pilots of that bullhead were both trained personnel of Beacon that can handle themselves in a difficult situation, they knew the risks of this assignment came with one of them being a high probability of them dying yet they were brave enough to take this task on anyways. Rather than trampling on their bravery and sacrifice try to honor it by becoming a better huntress."

"What about Adrian?"

"Adrian made the same decision when he decided to take the initiation test, the four nation's Hunters school's all have initiation exams that expect the best of the best and are often plagued by unfortunate deaths of those who could very well be known as heroes in their own rights. So once again do not tarnish the boy's decision by throwing your life away, he meant for you to live Mrs. Rose so I expect you would follow his wish and cease your attempts to go down into that cavern." Said professor Goodwitch in a terse tone more due to her anger at her uselessness than her anger at Ruby's attempts to get the secretary to allow them down into the cavern.

As the airship landed at the school docks the eight battered and defeated looking students were greeted with the surprise of loud cheers and adulation as they exited into the arms of Beacon's medical team. As team RWBY and JNPR looked around themselves they found that they were surrounded by the entirety of Beacon's upper classmen and staff, teaching as well as the mundane, praising the two teams for their work in what had been unanimously declared Remnants hardest initiation since the beginning of the huntsman system.

Everyone from the two teams were led through the crowd by the medical staff as well as some of the more trusted teachers who were preforming crowd control. The eight silent teens were led to an isolated medical ward where the nurses ran some checks on everyone before assuring them all that they were all fine and that miraculously other than them all being low on Aura other than Jaune and the lot of them being severely exhausted that they were all perfectly fine and didn't have even a scratch or bruise to show for the whole ordeal.

At that the eight all fell asleep wherever they could in the medical ward as they had been told not to leave. Nora slept on Ren who was just laid out on the ground under the window. Pyrrha and Jaune leaned up against the cabinets and then ended up asleep on each other's shoulders. Ruby somehow climbed into the bed that Weiss was in after the Schnee had fallen asleep. Yang and Blake consented to share the other mattress despite it being meant for only one but neither really wanted the floor and in the end sharing with your comrade won out over civility.

As the teens slept Beacon's headmaster and secretary gathered with a few of the more trusted teaching staff were gathered around three active screen displays currently showing live video feeds from cameras on the equipment of three individuals that Ozpin himself had placed. On two screens were the pilots of the bullhead that crashed into the cavern, on the other is the young man that sacrificed himself earlier to save his friends, who is now using the contents of his medical bag to patch up the two fifth year students of the support program aimed to those who wish to fight Grimm but do not have the potential to become huntsmen or huntresses. Often this is because they do not have the necessary Aura capacity which is the case of the two pilots under Adrian's care.

"This will likely end up putting the boy through even more punishment given that semblance of his and his need to protect people. Now rather than just internalizing all the damage of everyone in the group he will be taking physical wounds in order to provide the other two Aura shields potent enough to prevent any damage to them as they don't have the Aura to supply themselves." Said professor Port rather seriously.

"Yes well we will need to be prepared to take care of them the moment they make it back." Ozpin said as he took everyone's attention away from the screens. "The thing is I need your opinions on where to put the boy as he would only stagnate if left on a team by himself. The boy, Adrian, has severed all of his emotions in order to repress the normal everyday negative feelings that people have that the Grimm can track. I believe it is one of the reasons behind the reaction we witnessed today from the Grimm as they haven't been able to track him for years and they must see him as a threat at this point. Which is why I need to know where to place him, so we can bring him back into the light as he has so obviously lost his."

"We could always just finally accept and call in those three and team him up with them. Who knows? Together with the other two teams they might be able to make quite formidable bonds and become quite the fighting force!" said Port.

"You couldn't possibly mean?" asked Professor Obllek before Ozpin cut in.

"Actually I quite like the idea, Glynda see if you can get the three of them here for team placements by tomorrow at 1:45 things shouldn't go any faster to require you needing to be here until then"

"But sir! Need I remind you why we have not accepted these students already! They are all well above Beacon standards and really have no need to be enrolled at all. The two have yet to even reveal an actual reason as to why they want to come here other than 'for fun'." Mrs. Goodwitch kindly interjected at the convenience of the author.

"Which is why we are pairing them up with a fourth student who has the skills to not be here, OH! Looks like he took care of the last of the Grimm, we better head out to meet him soon! But we are pairing them up with Adrian so that they can have their 'normal' school life while at the same time not being drug down by a fourth wheel below their level." Was Ports response to Glynda's complaints as they got up to head out to the cliff side to meet up with the boy who was currently scaling said cliffs with two unconscious and precariously bandaged pilots over his shoulders.

The entire way up the cliff it wasn't as obvious but as the boy got to the top and slung the first pilot over the edge, a male, and adjusting the other so she wouldn't fall off as he made his way over the top of the cliff. The amount of blood that was leaking from the boy-savior's body became quite obvious as he left a thick red smear wider than his entire torso as he drug his front across the ground. He left pools of the life liquids when he stopped to gently lay his second charge to the side before hoisting himself up.

Now at the top and standing the headmaster got a good look at the boy and could tell that the cameras did no justice to the devastation that fell upon the young man before him. In front of Ozpin was a tired boy whose face had long since gone pale and started to thin from the loss of blood that was raining down from his torn and ripped clothing as if the boy were some sort of rain cloud as the last remnants of his Aura put up a vicious fight to both replace the blood his body was losing and seal the wounds that the fluids were leaking from.

Despite it all the boy stood with a state of humble defiance in acknowledgment of his victory over the forces of evil once again. With his knees slightly bent and leaning ever so slightly back as if his legs could just randomly give at any moment his head is raised high, facing at an upward angle a little higher than the rest of his body causing him to send his gaze down to see the welcome party. His shoulders are slumped in acknowledgment of his current weakened state and his resolve to hereby accept his fate. But he still stands in defiance of all that would see him submit because he would win or he would die trying, but he would never submit.

"Congratulations Adrian on not only successfully surviving by far one of the most dangerous initiations in the history of Remnant but for successfully keeping your comrades alive as well." Said Ozpin as a few nurses approached the boy and the pilots.

"Thangs…" was all Adrian got out before his eyes rolled into the back of his head and passed out into the arms of the young nurse who gave a startled cry as he fell forward with blood pouring out his mouth. When the medical staff saw the condition that Adrian was in they were about to write him off as dead anyways but were told to just dress his wounds and give him some Aura replenishing supplements before sending him off to rest with the rest of the kids that made it back from the forest with him, which they begrudgingly did.

(The next morning, Medical Ward)

Adrian had woken up a while ago, long since used to recovering from the obscene amounts of damage and Aura strain that came from fighting massive armies of Grimm. So when the others started to arouse around him he was a little unsure of what to do, ultimately he came to the decision to leave them alone and focus on modifying his shield. It wasn't until he noticed that they weren't even giving him a second glance that he started to get worried.

"Morning guys. Oh hey Adrian, hey wait a minute. ADRIAN YOU LITTLE S*** WHAT WE'RE YOU THINKING FALLING OFF INTO THAT CAVERN LIKE THAT! Do you have any idea how we felt!" Yang was screaming as she shook Adrian around in the air in front of her before he slipped out and for a moment everyone got a good look on the boy's face before he bolted out the door and down the hall being chased by Yang all the way as she had missed the look on his face, the look of a scared cornered animal. As Yang's shouting started to make their way further and farther away at an alarmingly fast rate Ruby spoke up in a spooked and slightly fearful tone.

"We gotta stop her guys! She's gonna kill him at this rate, then his surviving would have been useless!"

"Well we need to find them now as they seem to be long gone, and considering the fact that we were told to stay in the room I have a feeling things are about to get very interesting the moment we get out there." Commented Blake.

"Well if we're all in agreement on going after them then I suggest we split into groups before we go rather than going alone. As another person with the feeling things are going to go wrong I suggest that us from the rook team split into our groups of two as you three stick together out there. Try and make it back here by noon I guess?" declared Jaune continuing with his great command abilities.

Back with Adrian and Yang, the two were continuing the chase through the crowded hallways of Beacon as they dodged and weaved through the masses of students, leaping up and down whole flights of stairs in two or three steps or occasionally diving out a window of a classroom after running unashamed through a teacher's class in session. At some point they had started to double over and started crossing over paths they had already ran through. Adrian knew he couldn't keep this up forever but he also really did NOT want to confront Yang, thankfully Blake had gotten separated from the rest of her group by some of the older students that had seen the initiation recording. Adrian ran and vaulted over the wall of upperclassmen before chambering over and hiding behind Blake as a flaming Yang broke though the wall of students.

"Give him here Blake."

When Yang demanded Adrian be handed over from her it set something off in her that sheet assumed to be part of her Faunus heritage. Not only did Blake refuse Yang but she also straightened up and stepped forward to confront the blond which got all the nearby students roaring, especially the males.

"No he isn't yours." Blake said in an aggressive tone as walked up confronting Yang in the middle of the circle of miscellaneous students as Adrian was long gone at this point. When they finally reached each other and we're pressing up against each other in attempt to one up the other because they knew neither had the energy to fight. Yang knew she was winning so she smirked but it immediately fell when Blake grabbed her right fun bag and yanked down, and she did it hard damn it! Yang wouldn't let that go so she retaliated in kind by grabbing Blake's left breast and pulling up as hard as she could starting a back and forth tug of war that had the entire student body around them screaming and yelling as if they were at the Vytal tournament watching two blooded hunters going at each other full tilt.

Adrian was walking through the hallway in one of the rarer less populated areas when he came across the two heavily breathing teammates of Blake as if they had either ditched her like Adrian had or they had made a run for it as a group and lost the cat girl along the way. Either way Adrian decided to approach the red member of the team when suddenly she straightened up, grabbed his sweater with one hand and pulled the other back then proceeded to slap the shit out of the poor boy.

"-you have any idea the trouble you've caused us! Not to mention how worried we were, how worried I was! I thought you were dead Adrian, Dead! Don't you ever do something like this again you hear me?!"

"ok." was all Adrian could mumble out before a class opened up to their left.

"Hey! Aren't you three supposed to be in the medical ward?"

"Oh no. Run!" shouted Ruby as she grabbed Adrian's hand and took off down the hall next to Weiss for the medical ward. "Weiss call everyone back to the room, tell them to make sure they aren't followed!" with that Weiss pulled out her scroll but before she could dial anything Adrian grabbed her hand and pulled the two girls around the corner before running up to the first classroom and kicking the door open and pulling the dumfounded heiress and scythe wielder into the ongoing class as the teacher continued to lecture in a monotone voice without missing a beat completely ignoring the three as Adrian shut the door. And coaxed the girls over to the window before pushing them out of the open one and following not soon after.

After running through the courtyard and back across to the medical wing the trio snuck into the private medical ward to find JNPR already there leaving them only to wait on BY who didn't show up for another 30 minutes. When they did finally walk in they came in looking like a total fright. Yang's hair was a mess and both of their cloths looked like they had been ripped off and put back on in the middle of a fistfight. The fistfight theory was further proven by the bruise and scratch marks all over the two of them though Blake seemed to be slowly falling back into a presentable state as time goes by while Yang still looks like she just threw down, and they both looked irritated with each other.

Oh well doesn't matter to Adrian any.

Read and review, sorry but I couldn't think of anything farther so this is as far as it goes for now.