I walk towards the locker room where my equipment was stored in during my initial trip to Beacon. Students weren't allowed to bring their weapons in the ship therefore we gave our weapons to the teachers so that they could store it in specialized lockers. I never felt so vulnerable in a long time. Last time I'd walk around without my weapon I nearly was killed delivering information to a friend of mine in the Legion. Luckily for me he'd managed to get them to not kill me, but now I owe him a favor.

I walk towards the locker that had my name on it. I entered in the five digit code that was attached to my locker to open it. I'm grateful that my weapons were still intact and not tampered with. My shield, Divinum Protectus, has always been the shield that saved me ever since joining. It's been the only gift that the Legate gave to me for killing that man. It was his shield after all. It stood up to be a 5" 6' bulwark after expanding from the arm guard it collapses into. It's also has several spikes on the front of it. It deterred several opponents from trying to launch a punch into the shield.

After examining my shield to make sure that it wasn't damaged I went to grab my spear. It was also collapsible, but it fit much easier than an armguard. It was a small black staff of sorts, but when it expanded it easily expanded to seven feet. The spear tip on top weighed more than the spear itself. I checked the spear and find the words Infragilis Ira indented into the steel base of the spear. It was definitely my spear. Its light weight combined with its reach made it easy to take down any opponent who'd face against me.

"Spear and shield eh?" a friendly feminine voice says.

I turn around to see a beautiful woman with short black hair. She was slightly shorter than me, but she looked as strong as me. Her eyes were as green as grass and wore lightweight combat clothing. She cradled a machine gun that was modeled after a famous model of another gun used in the Legion: The T0MMY. It seems modified that it carried more ammo that it could hold and the barrel was expanded for maximum spread fire. Clearly she had a way with weapons if she could modify something to a weapon of that magnitude.

"So you have a name or are you just going to stare at me awkwardly?" She asks

"Archie Ruvle." I tell her. "And you?"

"Lyte Greenwell. Winner of the Vytal Junior Tournament and several other competitions."

"So what's with the gun?" I inquire.

"This thing. This thing is like my baby. I cradle it like a child every single day."

I smile for a bit. She doesn't appear that bad, but I have a feeling she's going to taunt me all day. She does appear useful in a fight though. I wonder what she thinks of initiation.

"So Archie how'd you get that scar?" She asks

"I'd rather not talk about the scar Lyte." I reply

I start walking towards the exit where the cliffs are right outside of the area. The walk isn't far and it was fairly short. It would be even shorter, but I had to walk with Lyte all the way here. I'm pretty sure I'd never heard a girl talk so much about the ethics of properly maintaining and cleaning a gun. As soon as we got there I got up on the launch pad and looked towards Ozpin and the blonde woman who was with him during my interview.

"So 'teach' what are we doing?" Lyte asks as she moves towards the landing pad next to me.

"I am not 'teach', I am Glynda Goodwitch and you will address me as so." She replied

"So what are we doing?" Lyte asks

"I can answer that." Ozpin replies. "We are here to determine your abilities and combat prowess. We will also determine who will be partnered up during your time on Beacon. With that being said the first person you come into contact with will be your partner."

So first person I come to contact with in the forest. From what I can tell the only person next to me is Lyte Greenwell. To be honest I hope she doesn't become my partner. She seems to be the type that would shoot at everything that moved. Nevertheless, I have a goal I have to complete and having someone to set me back won't be much of a difficulty.

"After you have made contact with your partner you must go towards the center of the forest where you will each grab a relic." Ozpin says. "Any concerns?"

No one said a word. The only thing I could hear was the wind rustling in the forest below. I nodded at Ozpin and I launched off the pad and flew in the air. I flew up in the air and started looking around for a clearing. I start descending down and notice a small clearing. I expanded out my bulwark and broke the first 2 branches in front of me. Then I landed down roughly on the ground. I pull out my spear and do a slow 360 around me. I'm clear so far.

I walked for 15 minutes straight into the forest when I heard something from the bushes. I took a glare at it and it started to vibrate more. I pull out my spear and pointed it towards the bush. A small rabbit came out of the bush. I pulled my spear away from the scared rabbit. The rabbit runs the opposite direction away from me and hear a deep growl right behind me. I smile a bit and slowly turn around. In front of me is an ursa. It is pretty big considering it's at least 8 feet tall and thick as an ox.

Then two more ursai appeared right behind it. They are also the same build as the ursa in front of me, but clearly the one in front of me is the alpha. So I smile and I point my spear towards the alpha.

"Go ahead." I say. "Try and kill me."

The alpha roared and flung a punch right towards me. I blocked the punch with my shield and it cried in pain as the spikes impaled into its arm. Then I thrust my spear into the alpha's leg. It then threw itself at me, but I dashed back real fast and thrust my spear towards the head. The spear went through the head. The alpha was dead. The other's ursai didn't move. I took the spear out from the corpse and prepared myself for combat against the other two. They started backing away slowly.

"Aliud cecidit in hostem, Alter anima liberator" I said to them.

They then turned around and ran away. I stowed away my weapons and started walking for a minute. The emerald forest seems peaceful; too peaceful if anyone asks. Then out of nowhere I hear gunfire and several grimm roaring. I head towards the sound of the gunfire and find Lyte Greenwell shooting everywhere. There is a pack of beowolves surrounding her.

"You want a piece too?" She yelled out

They started to run towards her and she was about to be overwhelmed. I extend out my spear and throw it towards the beowolf that was right behind her. It went through its skull and landed on another one's chest. I ran towards her and bashed the one right in front of her with my shield. I grabbed the spear from the other beowolf's chest and thrust up towards the jugular. The beowolves start to prowl around, but I get in front of her and hold up my shield so that she would have some cover while firing at the other wolves.

"Hell of a way to make an entrance don't you think?" She asks exhaustingly

I didn't care for her reaction. For the time being I was concerned about the grimm in front of us. Then the wolves dashed all around. Lyte transformed her weapon into a two handed mace. We were back to back and facing off against five beowolves. The first came straight towards me and I thrust towards its skull. I then turned right to block the attack from another beowolf about to hit Lyte. Lyte then swung her mace to the right and hit two beowolves. The other remaining beowolves, after seeing the fate of their comrades, ran into the forest depths.

Lyte falls to the ground in exhaustion. I guess I over-estimated my partner's abilities. This might be more difficult than I first though. I pull out a flask which has some water in it and give it to her. I'd never seen a girl so exhausted in my life. All she had to do was stand behind me and shoot. She drinks it all and gives me the flask. Well guess there goes my water supply. Luckily there is a river not far from here. It's clean enough to drink.

"Thanks… For the water." Lyte says.

"Don't mention it." I reply. "There's a river not far from here. We should make way towards it and fill up there."

I start walking towards the river, but then Lyte gets up slowly and says "Give me a break will ya?"

I sigh in disappointment and wait for her to catch her breath. There should be no way that a person like her be out of breath in the matter of a single fight. Even if it was as hectic as it was. So I walk towards her and put her on my back. She blushes a bit in curiosity.

"Didn't know you'd like me this much." She says

"A wave of grimm will be here in about 5 minutes. I'd rather not face off a wave by myself." I reply

"Always the buzzkill." She dissapointingly says.

So I carry her all the way to the river where I filled up my flask while she started to drink from the river. She's starting to feel better after the battle. I'm still curious on how she'd got accepted in the first place. I mean even if she's a tournament winner, a person of that quality shouldn't be exhausted that fast. I sat right next to her and drank a bit from the flask.

"So who taught you those fancy moves?" She asks

"A childhood friend taught me." I reply. "And you?"

"My dad." She says. "Know where we are going?"

"Yeah one mile down the river bank and half a mile to the left." I tell her.

"And you know this because?"

"Experience."

She remained silent for a bit wondering if I'd figure out the location. To be honest I caught a glimpse of it while flying and noticed a river that was right next to it. So I'm making a best guess on it. Then I heard a really loud explosion coming from that general direction.

"Experience and it's where all the fighting starts." I said

So we head off through the river bank and towards the sounds of battle happening. I just hope this rough introduction doesn't end badly.