Ch.4

It's the initiation day!

Head Master and witch lady were leading many other student including me, Nero, Neon and Cobalt to...Em...umm… Emerald Forest! The Head Master asked us to line up on the cliff of the mountain. I'm at the very left of the line, err, my left. Neon is right next to me, then Cobalt then Nero. Right now, The Head Master is saying something about what we are supposed to do. To sum it up, go north, get something and come back. Also, some stuff about landing.

Neon poked me with his finger and said, "Tyrian, you got all of that, right?" He voice and face showed worry.

"Yes" I said, confidently. "We get the relic and come back, right?"

Then Neon said "Yes, and you're clear about the launching pad right?"

I gave him a confused face and began to say "What launc-", but at that moment, something pushed me and got me flying towards the sky.

As soon as I was in the middle of the air I thought this: This was my final moment... I could not fulfill my dream to have a beautiful wife and 3 daughters with 2 sons, where all the girls called me 'papa' and the boys call me 'old man'. I could not experience the moment of having a very delicious dinner that my future wife cooked for me when I got back home from hunting. After that, every decision that I made throughout my life flashed by and I thought; I've lived an okay-ish life in the end. Probably, standing on the launching pad without thinking was one of my worst decisions.

Then slowly, I began falling towards the ground. I hope the Grimm are not going to eat my dead, cold body. Finally, before I die, I must say something out loud which I've been holding back up until now. I guess I can say it right now.

"NEON IS A STUPID, STUPID,MORON!" There, I have no regrets.

"WHO'S A STUPID MORON!?" Then I saw Neon diving towards me with eyes flaring. He grabbed me with his left hand. Not needing a special landing strategy, Neon made a good landing with his stupidly overpowered legs and I was safe from death by falling. Now I was in danger of death by a demon. Neon held me high by gripping my collar with his left arm and he asked "So Tyrian, what did you say?" He gave me a very sadistic smile.

"Ummm...That you are very charming and I respect ya from the bottom of my heart?" I stuttered as I attempted to cover up my outburst.

"I thought so..." After spitting out those words, he dropped me and flicked me on my forehead with his middle finger, which made me dramatically lock my head back as if someone had suddenly pulled my hair from behind and gazed at a few stars hover around my head. I probably lost 80% of my health. Oh C'mon, I said you were charming, no need to hit me this hard! Ugh, I thought my skull would crack.

After he smashed my forehead he helped me back up. I stood up and looked directly at Neon. Right now Neon's battle extensions had spread over his usual outfit. Now the whole of his left arm was covered in armor, and the forearm guard around his left wrist had expended into a huge gauntlet/shield. This left arm was probably built for a defensive purpose, but that didn't stop Neon from smashing Grimm's (or people's) face in with it.

His main weapon was alance which was now attached to his back. This was an old weapon, unlike his armor set, and apparently it was a family heirloom or something.

As soon as I stood up I let out a cry in agony. "Can we have like a 10 minute break to recharge my health?" I asked Neon out of desperation.

Then he rolled his eyes and said "Fine". Then he pull out his lancechecked the surrounding woods. Just to be ready if a Grimm ambushed us.

"Good!" I sat on a tree trunk and pulled out my weapon: an electronic guitar; its name is Harmony. Then I started tuning it.

Neon sat on the ground as well and asked, "Is your weapon okay?"

"No problem~!" I finished tuning Harmony and checked on my 'Picks'. There are six of them like usual. Shaped like a normal guitar pick, but as big as my hand, these 'Picks' could store dust crystals, such as the kinetic dust crystals that allowed them to fly around, and could be controlled remotely with the combination of my semblance and the notes that were played on my guitar. In summary, these 'Picks' were my flying death machines of dust-firing-goodness. I loaded the Picks with various dust crystals, preparing for the battle that may happen ahead.

Around ten minutes had passed and all of my weapons were checked. I put back my Picks into my bags attached to my belt and put the left over dust crystals back in to the dust pouch. "Okay, I'm done." I positively expressed my readiness.

"Right, Nero and Cobalt should already be on their way to the north." Neon explained the current situation."They have already met up; I saw them near each other in the air. Anyway, Nero told me that we should meet up at the temple and go back together."

"Ok, any other information?"

"Well you and I are in the same team and Nero and Cobalt have partnered up. So I believe we should do our best for the four of us to be in the same team."

"Let's get going then!" I started walking towards somewhere when Neon stopped me.

"North is this way." Then Neon pointed at the opposite direction I was trying to go.

"Oh..." Then I walked with Neon towards north.

"By the way, we landed nearest to the cliff because you were falling." Neon said as he let out a bitter laugh.

"I didn't know I was standing on a launching pad!" I shouted and let out a sound of frustration.

"You should have listened to ."

"Yeah, I should have..." Then I let out a sigh. A moment later, I asked "This forest is full of Grimms right?"

"Yes." Neon answered.

"So on the second day, they put us into a forest filled with monsters. When we came here to learn how to fight them."

"I'm surprised that you didn't notice the other option of this task," Neon gave me a surprised look. "Remember what you said before you were launched?'

"Huh," I gave a bewildered face to Neon and gave it a thought. What I said was "-We get the relic and come back-". Then it hit me and I shouted out happily. "THIS CAN BE A STEALTH MISSION!"

Neon did a face palm. "Yeah, and shouting is a part of stealth," He sighed. "So fighting the Grimm isn't necessary. Also, I believe Prof. Ozpin is observing us right now since he said that we're going to be monitored."

"Oh, really?"I started to focus to try to hear where the observing machine could be..."Oh there it is!" After shouting in excitement, I waved at the direction where the machine was.

"It's not the time to say hi to , let's keep going." Neon is such a party-pooper.

While we were walking north where temple was supposed to be, I noticed something strange from the forest. I hear a few things up ahead; something burning? And-!

"Neon, duck!" I shouted as I pulled out Harmony. Neon ducked as I told him to and he was able to dodge the Beowolf's stupid diving attack, after it came out from a bush at Neon's right. As soon as it landed on the ground and before it recovered from its attack failure, I smashed its face with Harmony. "Neon there is another one coming from the same bush!"I warned Neon again.

"I'm aware." Then he started spin to his left and when the second Beowolf came out to attack Neon, he slammed that Beowolf with the back hand of his shield. The Beowolf crashed into a tree and as soon as it hit the tree Neon took out his lance and hurled it at that Beowolf. "Anymore?"Neon looked at me and asked.

"No, but I do hear a lot of them to the north, and some burning trees too." I answered.

Neon walked towards the tree so he could retrieve his lance. "I noticed the huge smoke pillarrising from the forest as well... I assume, there will be some beautiful flowers burning over there as well...I really don't want that…" There's the expression of the only love he has; for flowers…

"Umm, I'd rather stop the fire in the forest too." I answered with uncertainty.

Neon let out a sigh, "Well, this task doesn't have a time limit." Then he pulled out his lance crudely from the Beowolf. "So, how many are there?" He asked with a small smile.

"Around...Twenty to twenty five."I answered.

Neon's smile became bigger. "I'm getting them." He started to walk impatiently towards the smoke.

"Umm, Neon... Please don't bring the madman out." I became very concerned.

"I'll let you hit me if I do." He answered to ease my worry.

"DEAL!" Then I pulled out my pinky finger to Neon "Pinky promise!? You gotta Promise with the Pinky! Promise!?Promise!?Promise!?Promise!?"

Neon rolled his eyes and pulled out his pinky finger to make the promise. Then we both started running towards the burning part of the forest.

"I'll use Ice dust to stop the fire. Any preferred songs?"

"Something exciting!"I could see that Neon was trying to control his excitement.

Then we arrived. A great fire had spread across the forest, and the Beowolves were standing around the fire, afraid. Some of them were trapped in the burning forest as well. The fire was great but it wasn't big enough to make me think twice about stopping the spread. I started to play a song with Harmony and threw 2 of my Picks (which contained Ice dust crystals) to the air. As soon as I played a cord, both of them began gliding and moving through the air. Then I shot the ice dust at the fire to make way for Neon.

"I'm just gonna focus on the fire, so you deal with the Beowolves!"

"JUST WHAT I WANTED!"

Neon let out a sadistic laugh and hurriedly sprinted towards the pack of Beowolves. As soon as he reached the pack of Beowolves, he stabbed the first Beowolf he saw along with another Beowolf behind it. Some of the Beowolves didn't even know what was coming. With that he placed himself in the middle of the pack of Beowolves. Hetossed the two dead wolves to the ground by swinging his lance.

"Guys, I'm just going to ask you one thing...Try not to run." Uh-oh, his blood thirst has awakened.

One of the Beowolves broke the tension and lunged at Neon. Neon simply thrust his lance towards it, and the tip came out through its back. The Beowolf growled in pain and Neonchuckled as it did. Three Beowolves who were behind Neon dashed towards him, to which he replied: "Take your friend!" He swung his lance towards the approaching trio of Beowolves to throw the impaled Beowolf at them. Two got hit, but one dodged and grabbed Neon's lance. Then Neon punched the Beowolf in the eye and again with a very sadistic laugh. He began to brutally pulverize the pack of Beowolves...and... After I saw that…I decided to focus on the fire.

Neon's semblance is Strength. Yes, he is a pure barbarian. The Armor of Grimmsmean nothing but butter for Neon. He does have his limits, but he wouldn't lose an arm-wrestle against a Nightstalker so easily.

After 10 or 12 minute, I was pretty much done with stopping the fire, andNeon was pretty much done with the Beowolf massacre. There were a lot of bodies lying around, some sliced in half, some stabbed and others beaten to a pulp. Now, Neon had two normal sized Beowolves and one big Beowolf to kill.

"When you guys look at this scene how do you feel?" He asked the remaining Beowolves as he began strolling towards them. "For me, just imagining what you could be feeling thrills me so much that I can't contain my laughter…" He let down his lance so that it would scrape the ground and make a chilling sound as he walked.

I knew that he would lose himself if he fought... That stupid, stupid moron.

"There is something about your scream that soothes me." Then the two normal sized Beowolves launched themselves at Neon. He crushed one of them with his shield and pierced the other one with his lance. When it let out a growl of pain, Neon placed his mouth next to its ear and said "The sound you are making is like music to my ear." Then he hurled it to the other side of the forest.

Seriously, he's totally lost himself and he might even start drooling. I started dashing towards Neon before he really lost it.

"Neon!"

I shouted and Neon turned with an irritated face. Before he had time to react I smashed his face with Harmony and made him hit the ground. At that, the big Beowolf started running towards me to attack. However, I had already positioned my 2 Picks to aim at it and when I strung acord,the Picks shot multiple icicles at the big bad Beowolf. Its claws stopped short of my face and then it heavily collapsed.

When I looked back at Neon, he was daydreaming sprawled on the floor. After two minutes of peace, he woke up and commented "Thanks man, but did you really have to hit me that hard?" He finally made a pained expression while he got himself up.

I gave him a big smile and said "You pinky promised."