'Nine Deathstalkers,' was the thought on all the kids mind, as the humongous TV shut off in the auditorium.
"I can't believe it"! One kid said.
"I know", another one said. "Most fully trained hunters can't kill that many, let alone a rookie'.
"Rumor has it he came from Signal" a girl said.
"Signal, no way" another kid said.
The instructors viewed the profiles of all the incoming Beacon students as they listened the students converse on the first day of the initiation.
"What do you think about this batch"? Glynda said.
"Impressive", said Professor Port.
"They've really up the standards at signal" Professor Oobleck said, eyeing Ren's portfolio on his computer.
"Well Qrow always was one of the brightest students to grace these halls" another teacher said.
"Yes he was" another agreed.
"Only second to Summer Rose" the last one sighed.
"Speaking of Rose's" Ozpin said. "What do you think of her daughter"?
"Naive" was all Goodwitch said referring to Ruby's portfolio.
The rest of the teachers mumbled and started ushering the kids to bed. "Remember that the second part of the Initiation will be on at nine tomorrow.
As them kids left the auditorium Professor Ozpin pulled up Dustin's portfolio. "Interesting", he said.
"What is it"? Goodwitch asked.
Seems Mr. Steslicki has achieved attunity.
"That young"! Goodwitch said shocked.
"Mhhm I think we can expect great things from young Dustin here", Professor Port said.
"Agreed", Ozpin answered.
/TIME SKIP/
Next Day
"Wake up Dustin", a masculine voice said.
Dustin slowly rolled onto his back and groaned, "what do you want"
"Wake up", the voice said, "we need to be ready for anything".
"Is he up yet"? Another voice called out.
"Yang"? Dustin asked surprised.
"Come on Dustin", Yang said, "we have to be ready of any attacks".
Dustin sighed, "alright".
As Dustin woke up he took note of his surroundings. He looked up and saw Ren standing over him looking annoyed. He moved to look around Ren and saw three girls. A redhead, an orange head and Yang.
"What happened?" Dustin groaned as he tried to get up. As he moved to stand up on his feet, he winced and let out a sharp gasp.
"I wouldn't move if I were you", another voice said.
"Who are you?" Dustin asked. As the redhead walked to his right.
Ren walked away and let the delightful rays of the sun pierce Dustin's retina. "Aghh!" Dustin yelled. Dustin turned his head to the right to escape the dreadful beams of light. Through squinted eyes Dustin made out a pair of legs clad in gold armor.
"Who's the girl with pretty legs?" Dustin asked.
The girl blushed as Yang had a smirk on her face. "Lay back down" the golden legged girl said softly, putting a pale hand on Dustin's shoulder. "Oh, hey Pyrrha", Dustin groaned recognizing her voice.
"Nora" Pyrrha called.
The orange haired girl Dustin saw turned around to reveal herself. "Hey Nora".
Nora just nodded with a serious look on her face as she addressed Dustin's wounds. "You're very stupid you know that right." She asked.
"What did I do?", Dustin asked.
"You know very well that you're not supposed to consume dust crystals like that in their raw form"?
"Really"?, Dustin asked incredulously.
"Did you even pay attention at the first aid unit we had at Signal"?
Dustin chuckled and said no.
Nora sighed as she finished bandaging Dustin's wounds. "There, you should be good as long as you don't do anything too strenuous. They heard a loud roar and the sound of guns firing. "That must be Ren" Nora said.
"Hey where's Yang"? Pyrrha asked. "Knowing her she's probably with Ren helping him look for food".
Meanwhile as Dustin was in the tender care on two young lady's Ren was fighting for his life. "Dang", he grunted as he dodged an Ursabear yet again. "Where did these things come from"? Ren asked.
"I don't know, we literally just left the zone. Its like they were waiting on us" Yang replied. "Lets hurry though ,we only have an hour until the limitations are put back into place.
"I doubt they were waiting on us". Ren said rolling his eyes.
Since there is four of them well both fight two", Yang said.
Ren used the blades on Stormflower to cut down a mid sized birch tree. As the tree fell Yang used Ember Cecilia and fired at two of the Ursabears. She hit one with her weapons but the other one dodged it, and landed right below the falling tree. As the tree landed on the Grimm, Both humans knew that tree wouldn't hold it for long. With a roar of anger two Ursabears charged toward Ren, and one circled around Yang.
Ren let Stormflower loose as the two Ursabears got within firing range. As the two Grimms hid behind an overturned tree Ren took something out from within his shirt. Once Ren ran out of ammo in his guns the Ursabears jumped from behind cover and charged.
When they got within striking distance Ren dodged the first swipe, and flipped over the second. The first Ursabear tried to stab him with its paw. Ren jumped up into the air, then landed on the outstretched arm. The second Ursabear backhanded him off the arm, but not until Ren managed to place one of the two packages on to both of their arms.
As Ren was flying through the air by the backhand, he managed to reload the ammo in one of his guns. As Ren finished reloading one of his guns he quickly recovered and landed on the limb of a low branch. As the two Grimms barreled over to attack them Rem took steady aim targeting those two small packages, but the Ursabears were faster than they seemed and were able to get a light gash on Ren's arm.
Ren jumped of the limb and flipped over the Grimms. 'Fuck it'. Ren thought as he soared right over them. Once he was right above them in mid air he did the old western technique, spray and pray. And spray he did as a few bullets hit their mark.
There was a huge explosion as the highly unstable dust cartridges exploded. The force of the explosion killed both the Grimms, but launched Ren high in the air, hitting many branches on his way up. Ignoring the pain in his back Ren used the blades on Stormflower to catch himself on a large branch near the top of the tree.
As Ren caught his breath he assessed the damage done. 'Nothing broken' he thought, ' I'm just bruised up'. As Ren gingerly climbed down,and he heard the tell tale signs of Yang fighting.
Once Ren got down the tree and over to Yangs position he got there just in time to see her do an elegant spin and land a vicious right hook to the Ursabears's head, knocking it out. Ren noticed a lot of blood and asked where was the second Ursabear.
"Oh, he's here,"Yang said. "And there, and a little bit of him might be over there" Yang pointed to the bushes where a lot of blood was on the ground. Ren just shook his head and walked in a random direction to find food.
"So why is Yang and Ren not in the designated zone"? Dustin asked. "Oh Yeah, you weren't here for that" Nora said.
Flashback
"Attention all students", a voice said all throughout the forest. "Congratulations on making it through the night". "I am pleased to say that nobody failed to get to a zone".
"As I am sure you are all aware that your initiation isn't over yet. You still have to survive until eight o'clock." Since you are all probably hungry I am allowing you to travel outside of your zone for three hours".
"Seeing as it is nine o'clock now that will give you all enough time to eat and enjoy your challenge. Thank you all for listening and remember, you're not the only ones out there looking for food.
Flashback End
"And that's basically all of it", Pyrrha said. Dustin looked up at the sun. "They should be back soon its almost twelve o'clock".
"Here take this", Nora said handing Dustin some tea. "What's this for?" he asked.
"It will numb most of the pain". She said.
As Dustin drank his tea he grimaced at the taste. 'This taste horrible', he thought. 'I'm sure it does', another voice said in his head. 'Night?, Dustin asked. 'Well who else would be in your head?, Night said sarcastically.
As Dustin conversed with Night the two girls hovered around last nights campfire and talked in hushed voices. "Hows he doing?", Pyrrha asked.
"Not good", said Nora. "He doesn't know it but he got hit twice. On in the side and another in the arm. One of the Deathstalkers he fought must have been pregnant because the poison running through his system is extremely potent."
"What can we do?" Pyrrha said.
"All we can do is give him some of our aura to help him combat the effects of the poison. At least that way he could somewhat fight" Nora said solemnly.
"You know," Pyrrha said changing the subject, "you suddenly get very serious when someone you care for is hurt".
Nora had a silly look on her face as she poked Pyrrha on her nose, "Boop".
"Man you really can cook." Dustin said.
"Thank you."
"He's right you know." Pyrrha said.
Ren just nodded as he took a drink of water.
"I can't believe there are other things out in this forest then just Grimm." Nora said.
"We just ate an entire family of rabbits," Yang said softly.
"Good rabbit," Dustin countered.
As the group continued eating they conversed on what they plan to do after Beacon. Everybody could notice that Dustin's condition was slowly deteriorating. All the way to the point where he didn't even notice the helicopter that dropped a huge crate on their campsite, nor did he notice the voice that said good luck. But he did notice when a five hundred pound Ursa major came charging at their group.
Dustin looked around and noticed all his friends had their weapons out, he struggled to pull his out but it was too late. The Ursa major was already on top of him, mouth wide open.
Dustin screwed his eyes shut as heard somebody scream.
"Dustin"!
An: Hey everyone its kitsuneknight09 again and I just want to encourage you all to vote on the poll thats on my profile for the pairings of this story.
Pm or send a review if there's a pairing you want to see that isn't on the poll and I'll put it on there.
I'm just going to explain this now because I know someone is going to ask it. An Ursa major is the big Ursabear that Juane fought in Forever Fall Part 2, and an Ursa minor were the Ursa bears seen in Emerald Forest.