Sorry about what happened to the previous chapter four. This entire chapter had to be re-written because of technical difficulties with the site, and now I am extremely pissed off.

Oh well. Here's the chapter.

(Justdoit)

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Two students partaking in Beacon's initiation sat high above ground while remaining out of sight. One of them, a female with long red hair tied up in a ponytail, paced back and forth on a sturdy tree branch while her partner was clinging to the trunk of a tree out of fear of falling down. She glanced down now and then at her mobile device, but after a while she seemed to lose patience.

"Jaune, I don't think this is going to work," she voiced her opinion as she looked to the side where said student was beginning to slip from his position. "I'm not even sure if this is allowed."

Jaune nervously smiled. "Of course it is," he insisted, "why else would they let us bring our scrolls in here?"

"Usually you don't get to use any electronic device when you're taking an exam," Pyrrha pointed out. She walked over to Jaune and pulled him up before he could fall and disqualify himself. "And anyways, the reception isn't very good over here."

"Try waving it around," Jaune suggested. "Did you at least get on Google Maps?"

She nodded. "I did, but I'm waiting for it to show us the directions we need. It's been loading for quite a while now."

Just as her partner suggested, she waved her scroll around in the air while feeling somewhat foolish for doing so. She counted for sixty seconds before checking the screen again.

Luckily, the directions from point A, "Somewhere in Emerald Forest" to point B, "relics" had loaded.

"It says go down," she reported, while glancing at the ground beneath them. "Um, Jaune... I think this is a trap."

"What?" Jaune exclaimed. "Why would it say go down?"

She shrugged and put away the device as it had proven that it wasn't going to be very useful. "Maybe the teachers altered the results to prevent students from cheating."

"There's no way they could have thought of that," Jaune expressed his doubt and took out his own scroll to double check. "Teachers aren't so smart that they can figure out what their students are thinking..."

Meanwhile, every instructor at Beacon Academy sneezed. They were befuddled by the event but said "bless you" to each other, and moved on with their lives.

As Jaune checked his device, there was a rustle followed by low murmurs nearby. Pyrrha excused herself after warning her partner to stay silent and went to go check out the source of the disturbance.

The voices became louder further north and lower towards the ground. She descended the tree tops while being careful not to touch the "lava" floor. She thought over how strange of an initiation this was to keep herself occupied as she snuck closer to what she was sure would be other students.

Her assumption turned out to be correct. Four students from the airship (right before it crashed) were stepping over large stones to avoid contact with the floor, but were currently stranded on the last rock in the middle of an opening in the forest. Two of them were carrying what she quickly recognized as enlarged chess pieces; those were likely the so-called relics the school was using for the test.

"What do we do?" she heard the Armored Asshat ask the others. "We're stuck."

"We can always go back," the blue-haired kid said. "We can find another path and maybe travel through the trees like everyone else has been doing."

The guy with the mow hawk frowned. "Haven't you heard, though? Slenderman lives in forests. If we go in there again, we're screwed."

"Slenderman isn't real," the brown haired guy- what was his name, Dove?- said as he moved onto the rock behind them for space. "You guys are dumb if you think those sort of monsters exist."

Pyrrha didn't really focus on the conversation at hand. She stared intensely at their apparent leader. His name was Cardin Winchester, if she was correct. She didn't know why, but something about him was very...

Or rather, to her weapon...

Very attractive.

Her spear went flying through the air and landed beside Cardin. He let out a very loud, high-pitched scream and jumped, nearly losing his balance off of the rock before the group members he was with caught him.

"She's here!" he screamed, searching the forest behind them frantically. "That spear chick is back to kill me!"

"Where is she?" Dove asked. "I don't see her..."

"That's because your eyes are closed," the blue kid said bluntly.

Dove opened his eyes. "Oh, thanks," he said, "I forgot they were like that."

Back over in her hiding position, Pyrrha was very dissatisfied that she had missed her mark. She was about to toss her shield as well, but out of nowhere, a brown-haired girl with bunny ears fell out of the sky and landed on Cardin, knocking him over entirely and onto the floor. She didn't seem to notice him beneath her as she used his body to jump back up into the trees, leaving his teammates to stare after her in complete shock.

"I wasn't the only one who saw that, right?" Dove glanced at his fellow group members for confirmation.

No one answered him.

Pyrrha backed away into the forest. There was no reason to stick around and watch these people. All she had to do was take this information back to her partner so they could complete their assignment faster. Those people already had the relics and were headed back to the school. This meant that the relic site had to be somewhere south of where they had been.

Hopefully this would give them an advantage compared to everyone else.

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"Nora, slow down!" Lie Ren called out to his partner, who was madly dashing ahead and fueled by an unfortunate sugar rush (candy which she looted from a student she found on the ground and disqualified a while back). He rushed after her while making sure he didn't slip from any of the tree branches, but his childhood friend was simply too fast for him. "NORA!" he shouted. "Where are you going?"

His partner paused up ahead and waited for him to catch up. She jumped in place with excessive energy, grinning madly as he finally made it over to her.

"Please don't do that," he requested between breaths. "I'm not exactly the fastest runner."

"But we're jumping," Nora said, "You can't run from tree branch to tree branch."

Not unless you can walk on air.

Ren took a deep breath to calm down. They had already spent over four hours in this forest together; he couldn't let Nora's hyper behavior get to him. Not when they were so close to locating the relics. He just needed to survive a little longer...

"You know what I mean," he crossed his arms. Nora began climbing the tree to get to higher grounds, and he followed after her. "Do you have any idea where you're even leading us?"

"No," she responded simply as she climbed. "Oooh, look over there!" she pointed up ahead. "There's a green flash coming right towards us!"

This was a cause for alarm.

Especially when Nora started to wave at whatever this flash was in an attempt to catch its attention.

"Nora, don't wave at it!" Ren tugged on her shoes to get her to stop. "What if it's a monster?"

"Then we fight it," she smiled down at him. Then she blinked. "Oh, you might want to close your eyes by the way."

He was too tired to ask why, but he had a feeling he knew what would happen if he didn't listen to her. He shut his eyes momentarily, and sure enough, there was a sudden and strong wind that shook the branches around them.

Good thing he wasn't looking up.

"JUST DO IT!" came a dramatic shout.

Ren opened his eyes to look in the direction of the shout. Nora had (gratefully) moved to the other side of the tree and was also staring at the new arrival.

Just a little further away, a man with wild green hair and slightly disheveled work clothes had struck a dramatic pose. He was alone. Ren wasn't sure what to make of this, but it seemed as though he was one of the staff members.

"Just do it," the teacher repeated mysteriously as he moonwalked away. "Just do it..."

They watched him for a little longer. He paid them no mind as he jumped down to the floor where a student was walking and in clear violation of the initiation's rules. Neither of them were able to hear him from where they were, but he appeared to be telling that student that they were disqualified. Then he dashed away and was gone.

Nora pouted as she thought over what she had just seen.

"Ren," she looked over at her partner seriously, "let's go do something else. I don't like this initiation."

"We have to, though," he said. "Otherwise we won't be able to pass."

"I don't care!" Nora huffed. "Let's go find a volcano instead. That would be easier than trying to find those relics."

"We're only unable to find them because you keep running in random directions..."

"Also, I want more sugar."

"That just going to cause more problems..."

"I also want one of those cool chess pieces!" she continued. "One of the groups earlier had a castle piece. I want to be queen of the castle, Ren, can we go and steal theirs?"

"..."

He didn't want Nora to get in trouble for assaulting other students, but Nora was set on either that or giving up. He wondered if he would be able to convince her to continue their search.

Most likely, he wouldn't be able to do this.

Another pair of students arrived before he could decide on what he should do. He was about to warn his partner to hide, but it was too late; Nora had left the tree and was heading full-speed at them.

"HELLO!" she cheerfully shouted. She jumped in between a blond guy and a red-haired girl who he vaguely recalled seeing on their way to Beacon before they were forced to jump out and land in the body of water beneath them (and reach Beacon by their own means, then start the test later than everyone else). While she greeted them and started to chatter off, he remembered that scary lady who had caused them to jump out of the ship.

He had also heard from other students they passed that the airship had blown up anyways due to technical difficulties. While he had no evidence, he was certain that the girl he encountered had something to do with it.

Actually, he was confident that she was the cause, but he hadn't been there to witness it like these two had (assuming they hadn't been forced to jump ship before it blew up).

He just didn't have any a proof.

"Do you guys know where the relics are?" Nora asked. "We're lost!"

"Nora, you don't have to announce that to the world," Ren cringed but joined the three over where they were.

The red-haired girl sighed.

"We were going to ask you guys the same thing..." she sulked.

"We tried asking Google Maps, but it told us to go down," her partner said. "I'm Jaune and she's Pyrrha, by the way."

"You tried to use Google Maps?" he frowned. "The relics don't have an address so there's no way you can properly get directions... Um..." The two students appeared shocked by this. "Didn't you know you needed an actual address?"

Pyrrha covered her face in shame while Jaune said absolutely nothing.

Evidently they had been unaware of this fact.

"Let's go find a volcano!" Nora cheered. "This is boring, anyways!"

Pyrrha and Jaune wordlessly agreed.

"..." Ren wanted to tell them that they should complete the initiation, but he resigned after thinking over how much longer that could possibly take. "Volcano it is," he sighed.

"HOORAY!" Nora energetically began to jump up and down in excitement. "Volcano time!"

No longer caring about initiation, the four students turned north towards the exit of the forest and left.

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The chapter contains most of what the original has, so I'll leave it here. I'm really sorry about the mix-up and I'll try to be more careful in the future when re-visiting chapters.