Chapter 7: Initiation

Sun stood on the catapult and looked over at Ozpin. The professor was as calm as ever, standing over to the side drinking his coffee.

"Are you ready?" Ozpin asked the nervous boy in front of him.

"Of course I am, get on with it." Came the slightly wounded reply.

"Alright, you know your mission, and you have accepted. Start the launch sequence."

Sun could feel the mechanics working under his feet and he switched to a stance more suited for takeoff.

"Here goes nothing." He breathed, feeling the plate begin to launch forward.

"Good luck." Ozpin said as Sun was flung into the sky, he pulled out his scroll to watch the proceedings.

Sun looked around for a place to land, he found a suitable looking tree and aimed for it.

As he got closer, he grabbed one of the higher branches with his tail. He released and flipped forward, clinging onto another as he slowed himself down. He finally hit the ground and rolled to decrease the risk of injury.

"That wasn't so hard, now where are those flags." With that, he took off, looking around constantly.

He had been running at a steady pace for about five minutes before he caught a glimpse of white among the trees. He moved over to it and looked around before grabbing the white flag that was hanging from a branch.

"One down, three to go."

Meanwhile, back at Beacon, Jaune was getting ready for the day ahead. As he pulled on his uniform, he looked over at Pyrrha, who had been putting her makeup on.

"How do you think Sun's doing?" He asked as he walked over to her.

"I'm sure he's fine, Ruby seemed impressed with the way he fought, and Blake seems to trust him." Pyrrha replied with a smile.

"Yeah, but even the best can have problems." Jaune still wasn't convinced.

"He's fine, now hurry up, we have to get to class." Ren broke in, trying to herd them towards the door.

"Hey, where's Nora?" Pyrrha asked.

"No clue, haven't seen her."

They heard giggling coming from the closet that Ren and Nora shared.

"HOW DID YOU NOT SEE ME?" Nora yelled gleefully as she ran from behind the wall of clothes. "YOU GOT READY RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME!"

"You watched me dress?" Ren asked quietly, quite put off by the fact.

"Well, I um." Nora seemed to be at a loss of words for the first time.

"That's a bit creepy Nora, even for you." Jaune said.

"But," Nora was still searching for words to say. "That doesn't change the fact that it was a really good hiding spot."

"Oh, nobody was questioning that," Pyrrha cut in. "But still, you need to tone it down."

Pyrrha took on a look of mischievousness and then said, very quietly.

"Unless, there is something happening here that we don't know about."

The two people in question turned very red at this and turned away, mumbling incoherently. Pyrrha wanted to press the advantage, so she nodded to Jaune.

"Yeah, you two troublemakers have been spending a lot of time together." Jaune helped.

"But, we always have, we're best friends." Nora was still very red in the face, but she held a flickering hope that because Ren was very red too, he harbored the same feelings for her.

"Yeah, for a very long time." Ren was thinking along the same lines as Nora, but Jaune and Pyrrha were the only ones to notice it.

Pyrrha gave Jaune another look to tell him to let Ren and Nora off the hook. Jaune nodded almost imperceptibly, and Pyrrha started towards the door.

"Well, I guess we'll leave you two to deal with the obvious emotions you both have for each other."

As the door closed, Pyrrha caught the two already red faces becoming even worse.

"Job well done, now let's go have some fun." Pyrrha said to Jaune as the two walked away from the room.

Sun looked up and saw a flash of red. As he moved closer to the tree he had seen it in, he heard a roar from the trees. He leaped sideways as an ursa charged out of them. He pulled out his weapon and hit the ursa as it ran by.

He turned and jumped into a tree using his tail. The first Ursa's mate came at him from the other side, smashing the branch he had been sitting on a moment before.

He switched to shotgun mode as he swung to another branch. The two Ursi charged him and he shot both of them in the chest.

He leaped higher and grabbed the red flag that was hanging from the top of the tree, before falling back down and blasting both.

The Ursi fell to the ground lifelessly as Sun walked away, tucking his staff away and adjusting the flags on his back.

"Two down, halfway done." He muttered, walking away.

Weiss woke up to the sound of muffled laughter and looked over at the bed across the room.

Blake was looking down at Yang from her slightly elevated position, she was doing her best to stifle the laughs that were threatening to overcome her.

"It's not funny," Yang pouted from the ground. "You pushed me."

"I did nothing of the sort, you flailed out and fell off the bed." Blake replied, still having trouble keeping her composure.

"Will you two quiet down?" Weiss asked, clearly annoyed. "You woke me up and if you don't stop, you could wake Ruby up."

"Too late." Came a voice from above. "I've been awake for quite a while."

Ruby leaned over the side of her bed and smiled at Weiss.

"Good morning!" She said.

"Good morning, Ruby." Weiss replied in a much kinder voice than before.

While all this had been happening, Yang and Blake had continued their argument.

"But you should have at least tried to keep me from falling." Yang said.

"By the time I had awoken, you were already on the ground, crying like a baby." Blake responded, with a little heat.

"Well, I wish you had woken up a bit fast-" Yang suddenly seemed to realize she was still on the ground.

She stood up and looked over at Weiss and Ruby.

"Those two are growing closer all the time." Yang said to Blake with a smile.

"Yeah, I agree that they have been spending a lot more time together."

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" There was a devilish grin on Yang's face.

"I have to say I'm really glad I'm not. Come on, let's leave them be."

With that, Blake grabbed Yang and dragged her out of the room. Weiss and Ruby looked on with amusement.

"Well, that was interesting." Ruby said.

"Yes, those two have an interesting dynamic." Weiss replied, sneaking a look at Ruby as she did so.

"It's kind of creeping me out, the whole two girls thing."

"Are you against it?"

"Not really, it's just that I've never seen it before. Why do you ask? Are you against it?"

"No, I'm not against it. In fact, you could say I am very supportive of it."

"What do you mean?" Ruby felt a bright spark of hope ignite inside her.

"You know how I said I brought a lot of people home to my parents?"

"Yes."

"Well, not all of them were males. I brought home some females too, and I think I loved some of them more than some of the guys."

"Really?" Ruby felt the small spark grow into a warm glow.

"Yeah, and I still think that I prefer girls over boys." Weiss looked up at Ruby with a small smile and caught the excited glint in her eye. "Ruby? Is there something you want to tell me?"

"Well I uh, um, you see, uh, maybe?" Ruby stuttered.

Weiss smiled, already realizing what Ruby was starting to say.

"Ruby?"

"Yes Weiss?"

"Just say it please."

"I, I, I, I love you Weiss."

Weiss looked away, and Ruby felt the fire start to go out. But then Weiss turned back with a huge smile on her face.

"I love you too Ruby." Weiss replied as she pulled Ruby into a kiss.

Author's Note:
Oh the fun of writing action sequences, this chapter took FOREVER to write because I kept trying to make the fight scenes longer. Oh well, guess you can't be good at writing everything, or in my case, anything. On another subject, keep your eyes out for some new characters, you don't know when they might drop in on the story. Thank you to everyone for reading and sticking through the way-too-short fights. As always, constructive criticism is always appreciated and don't forget to follow, favorite, and review if you liked it! Enjoy the Super Bowl today, GO SEAHAWKS! Chas1881