Chapter 3

Cole and Delsin were in the locker room preparing for the initiation like all the other would be students of Beacon. Cole placed his Amp on his bag while Delsin wrapped his chain around his right arm. "You use a chain to fight, Delsin?"

Delsin looked at Cole and smirked. "Yep, I can have scorching embers on it like your lightning on your Amp."

"Can't judge you then," Cole said as he wrapped grip tape around his fingers. He rolled his shoulders and cracked his neck. "You ready?"

Delsin just smirked at Cole as he cracked his knuckles. "As ready as I'll ever be man."

The two proceeded to walk out until they saw the guy from yesterday who insulted Cole. He was harassing a female rabbit faunus girl who was just trying to get her equipment from her locker. "P-please, s-stop..." she whimpered out as he grabbed her ear.

"Oh, and stop my fun? No way," he said to her in a harsh tone. He then shoved her into her locker and walked away snickering. "Faunus trash," he said out loud.

This was enough to make Cole want to fry this bastard. First he called him 'The Demon of Empire City' and now he's already picking on others on the second day already. Cole felt a hand on his shoulder to see Delsin shaking his head. "C'mon, Cole, we gotta get to the cliffs," he said to him.

Cole noticed that his lightning was flowing through his arms and distinguished it. He just let out a long sigh and continued to walk out with Delsin. "Yeah, you're right." He just kept looking at the brunette rabbit Faunus who had tears coming out of her eyes. "I wish I can do something to help her," he muttered out.

The two conduits were standing on the launch pads built to launch the would be students of Beacon into the Emerald forest. Since his mom was Glynda, he has watched numerous initiation scenarios going on as he grew up when Glynda would take him to Beacon.

Cole took in a deep breath and looked out at the never ending ocean of trees before his sight. He then saw Glynda standing beside Ozpin with a smile on her face. "Good luck, Cole," she said to him.

"Thanks mom," he said to her as he nudged Delsin. "Get ready man."

"Don't tell me how to get ready," Delsin replied to Cole.

After the explanation Ozpin gave them, they got ready to get launched into the air except for the blonde haired guy who raised his hand up like it was still elementary school.

Cole and Delsin looked at each other and nodded as they readied themselves. They felt the gears underneath their pads and then they where launched into the air.

Delsin activated his smoke thrusters and started gliding down to the ground at a slow pace. He found a small clearing in the forest and cut off the smoke from his arms and fell towards the ground. He landed on the ground and looked down with a sheepish smile. He saw a huge crater beneath him and laughed. "Well I'm here now."

Cole did something similar to Delsin as they got separated. He used his static thrusters to glide down to the ground himself. He didn't bother looking for clear ground and then dropped towards the ground. He fell towards the ground and concentrated electricity into his legs. He connected with the ground and let out a thunder drop, destroying a number of trees around him as the shockwave emitted from him. He stood up and grinned. 'That never gets old." He grabbed his Amp and started walking into the forest. "Better find Delsin or someone else."

Delsin...

Delsin fixed his red beanie on his head as he ran through the forest. Personally he never really liked hiking in the forests when he was a kid and that never went away as he grew up. Nonetheless he's running through the Emerald forest. "I bet Reggie's surprised that I'm at Beacon," he said as he ran.

He stopped when he heard growling from behind him. He turned around to see that two Beowolf's were approaching him as they snarled at him. "Um, can I help you?" he asked them. He got his answer when one of them lunged for him. He rolled to his right and unwrapped his chain from his wrist, fusing it with ash and embers. "I take that as a no then?" he said as he swung the chain at it.

Cole...

Cole was walking through the forest looking for Delsin or someone decent to be with. He spun his Amp around trying to pass the time as his eyes scanned around for anyone. "I'm not making any progress here, maybe I should use my pulse."

He started to let out small electrical pulses to detect anyone near him. He kept on sending out his pulses until he got one pinged back to him. He knew it was Delsin back his conduit gene in him as well the returning pulse had traces of Delsin fighting. "Guess I found Delsin."

He started running in the direction the return pulse was originating from to meet up with the other conduit. He kept running until he heard a girl shouting from beside him. He stopped in his tracks and looked in the direction of the shout. He let out a pulse and when the pulse came back, his eyes widened. There was a girl being surrounded by three Ursa's.

"Shit, this is bad. Right now that girl could be Grimm food at any moment now. I could go save her, but that means I may become her partner. What's more important? Delsin? Or the girl?"

Delsin...

Delsin slid down as the other Beowolf jumped at him and wrapped his chain around it's neck. "Got you now," he said as he pulled himself towards the Beowolf. He got on it's back and placed his hand on it's head. He then burning it's head with embers, making it growl in pain. He kept on doing it until the body fell, the body beginning to desipate.

Delsin jumped off and looked at the remains of the body. "They didn't even put up a good fight like Fetch," he said, remembering his fight with that conduit.

He then heard rustling in the trees above him and wrapped his chain around his arm. He slowly raised his hand to a tree and made a small cluster of smoke in his hand. He compressed it and shot it at the tree. The smoked ball hit the tree, making it break. The tree fell which was then followed by a shriek as it landed on the ground. "Hey, watch where you're shooting!" came out a girl's voice.

Delsin titled his head at the tree. "Hello?" he said. The person then came out, making Delsin widen his eyes. It was girl who had a peach-complexion, dark purple eyes and orange hair. She was wearing a green tunic with dark green shorts, brown boots and some gauntlets of some sort on her wrists.. What was more obvious was that she had orange cat ears and a tail. "Um, sorry?" Delsin said to her.

She just eyed him as she snarled at him. "What, do you like shooting down trees with your powers?" she questioned him.

Delsin raised his hands in defence. "Hey, I thought you were a Grimm, not because of your Faunus heritage," he added quickly.

The girl just sighed at him and walked up towards him. "Whatever, we're partners now since we made eye contact. Since I'm your partner now, I'll tell you my name. I'm Lethe Radiance," she told him.

"Um, Delsin Rowe," he replied to her.

Cole...

Cole just stood there for a bit, weighing the outcomes of what may happen. He wasn't like that ass who called him by his insult, also he was a kind hearted person. He couldn't turn his back on a helpless person. He nodded and ran towards the direction of the scream. He felt a surge of regret that he wouldn't be partners with Delsin but knew that he would help someone. He got to a small clearing and saw the three Ura's walking towards the girl who was crawling towards tree with her back on it.

"L-leave me alone," she whimpered out. One of then got close to her and raised it's claw to attack her. She closed her eye's to not see it. She didn't feel the pain and heard the Uras growling in protest. She opened one eye to see Cole using his Amp to hold back the Ursa.

Cole turned around to look at her and his eyes widened. He saw it was the same rabbit Faunus girl from the locker room. He then faced the Ursa again and pushed harder on it. "I guess I'm helping her after all," he said as he started to electrocuted the Ursa.