"OH We're going to get a team mates today Ren" a voice all but yelled, waking the blonde from his sleep. "They're going to make us team up with someone we first meet, so we should have a signal to know it's us" the female voice continued as Glenn sat up, yawning loudly.
Ignoring the girl who was dashing around the male bathroom, and constantly talking to the black haired boy brushing his teeth, Glenn made his way to the shower. Having one of the few, uninterrupted showers, which if you asked him Glenn would say he missed the girls and their usual antics, Glen dressed in his half skirt, tight jeans, t-shirt and short jacket and fingerless gloves.
The blonde soon found his fellow blonde sitting on the bench, talking with Ruby as the red head pulled the scythe rifle out of her locker. It still wasn't as cool as his scythe/axe. That thing could cleave mountain in two.
He wasn't being petty, shut up!
"Morning hot stuff" Yang said, waving him over as Glenn raised an eyebrow. It was ironic being called that. "Morning yourself" he replied sitting down beside her as he adjusted the bracelets on his wrists.
"You guys ready for this intuition?" he asked, looking between the smiling Yang and the slightly nervous Ruby. "Yep, can't wait, we're going to the emerald forest" Yang said happily as Ruby frowned slightly.
"What's up with you?" he asked, turning to the nervous red head. "I'm...not good with people, what if the team I end up with don't like me, I rather be with either of you" she answered as Glenn shook his head.
"Ruby, you need to branch out, you have to make some friends, and its only the start of the year, you have plenty of time to meet new people that aren't me and Glenn" Yang said as Glen wondered why he was being singled out.
She couldn't...no, they only met.
"Are you saying you don't want to be on a team with me dear sister?" Ruby asked as Yang chuckled nervously.
Then again, Erza did the same thing, forcing him on a date when they knew each other for less than ten minutes.
The blonde was forced out of his thoughts as the blonde knight came flying past them, a red and gold spear pinning him to one of the lockers. "Sorry!" a female voice yelled as the blonde turned to see a beautiful female Spartan walking with the ice queen form yesterday.
What was with these girls and wearing as little as possible!
"Well, might as well get to the cliff" Glenn said, standing up as Yang nodded. Ruby helped the blonde knight to his feet, chatting as they went to the cliff face. "And she says she not good with people" Yang whispered to Glenn.
"Everyone has their quirks" Glenn said as Yang nudged him playfully. "And what about you?" she asked, her violet eyes meeting his tainted blue. "I'm wearing a skirt" he answered walking away form the amused blonde.
"Yeah mine!" she yelled as Glenn stumbled, glaring back at her as she stuck her tongue out at him. Soon enough every potential student stood at the cliff face, standing on metal plates in the ground as Professor Ozpin and Glynda stood in front of them.
"Today you will all be taking part in the intuition test to see if you have the skills needed to stay within this academy" Ozpin started, staring at each one of them in turn. "There have been rumours of how teams will be decided here as beacon, let me put those to rest, you will be given teammates' today and will be on the same team for the next four years" he explained as Ruby looked like someone had shattered her dream.
"How they are decided is simple, the first person yu make eye contact within the forest will be your partner from now on" he finished as Ruby looked even more shocked. Glenn only looked amused, before looking down the line of students.
"What about the fact there's an odd number of students" he thought as Ozpin gave the instructions for the intuition test. "You will all land within the forest, find your partner and then make your way north to the temple" he explained as Glenn turned to him.
"There you will find a object that you will obtain and protect while moving out of the forest, killing everything in your path" he added, taking a sip of his coffee. "Do not hesitate to attack any Grimm you face, or you will die" he finished as the first student was launched unexpectedly.
"Here" Yang whispered as Glenn felt someone slip into his hands. Looking down a pair of aviator glasses rested in his palm as Yang held up her own. "Might as well match all the way" she said, winking as Glenn smiled in amusement at her.
The Jaune boy looked like he was trying to get Ozpin attention as Yang placed her glasses on, winking at Ruby as she was launched into the air. Glenn smiled following her example as he was thrown into the air as well.
The others followed soon after, Jaune screaming all the way as they all soured through the air.
"I love launching students" Ozpin mumbled into his cup as he watched them all flying, taking great amusement in Jaune's girly scream.
Glenn calmly watched as the ground grew every close, some of the students using their weapons or strange powers to move further through the forest. He didn't, he needed to figure something out and he couldn't be seen doing it.
Twisting through the air, Glenn missed a large branch as the ground sped towards him, his arms spread wide as he felt a familiar rip coming from his back. A large smile bloomed across his face as he suddenly came to a stop, his feet gently landing on the ground.
Glancing over his shoulder, the blonde smiled widely as he glanced at his air of large six foot icy demonic wings that sprouted from his back. Allowing the demon wings to retract, Glenn slowly started walking forward, the creatures of the forest all watching him from the shadows of the trees.
His gauntlets unfolded, cocking a new shell into the barrel with a flick of his wrists. "Who need fire" he mumbled, the red bullets turning icy blue as his devil based magic started to leak into the weapon.
"When you frost can burn just as much" he said, smiling as a group of Beowulf's leaped out of the bushes, each one of them pulling their claws back to slice into his flesh. Glenn fell into a boxer's stance, his hands coming up as the first one got close enough for him to act.
His right hand shot out, grabbing the oncoming wolfs wrist as he roughly pulled it forward. His left fist crashing into the side of its head a frost shell exploding on impact as the wolf was tore apart by the shot.
Grinning as he rolled forward, Glenn twisted to his feet, his left hand cocking the gauntlet as his right pulled back. Three more Beowulf's stood in front of him, each growling at him as they ready to jump him again.
The blonde only lunged forward first, getting into the guard of the closest one before it could react. His right fist smashed into his chest, cracking bone but not releasing the shell form the barrel. As it stumbled, Glenn twisted to the right, his left foot coming up and slamming into the side of the beast head.
His left foot returned to the ground, his right hand coming up in a harsh uppercut, smashing into the chin of the Beowulf beside him. The shell went off, taking its head clean form its shoulders in a gory fashion as the last one bounded towards him.
Glenn rolled backwards, the Beowulf's claws slicing into the grass in front of him as his boots dug into the ground at the end of his roll. Pulling his left hand back, the blonde shot forward, his fist already crashing into the wolfs chest before it could think.
Another shell exploded, ripping through its chest as its corpse fell to the ground dead, along with the rest of them as Glenn stood glancing at the now dead Grimm. "Reminds me of the werewolf king and his guards when I fought them, only less demonic aura" Glenn mused as he started to track through the forest, wondering if he would find a partner.
Unknown to him a pair of large reptile eyes followed him, large talons for feet digging into the ground as they began to follow the blonde at a distance, large foot long fangs forming a demonic grin as the unknown beats followed its prey, and rival in power.
That wasn't going to happen as the last pair of Ren and Nora was formed during his fight with the wolf pack. "Its seems that you were right, Mr Skellington was the only one left out" Glynda said as Ozpin passively stared out towards the forest.
"What will we do about team placement?" she asked as the silver haired man glanced at her. "I'm sure his counterpart won't mind" Ozpin said as the blonde witch raised an eyebrow at his comment.
Glenn soon found himself walking towards the temple, Yang and the black haired girl already waiting there, Yang waving a knight chess piece around for some reason. "How we all doing?" he asked, walking up to them as the two girls turned to him in surprise.
"Glenn you made it, where's your partner?" Yang asked, looking to see who would be joining the blonde, and hoping it was Ruby. "Didn't get one, more than likely everyone has already been paired up" he replied as Yang frowned, wondering where her little sister could be.
A sudden yell caught the threes attention as they looked skyward. And found Ruby falling towards the ground. "Is your sister falling from the sky?" Blake asked as Yang tried to figure out what had happened.
As Ruby landed, using her scythe to slow down, an ursa came stumbling through the tree line, falling over dead as Nora sat on its neck pouting. "Aw it's broken" she whined as Ren came in after her panting. "Nora, never do that again" he mumbled, only to see her gone.
"I'm the queen of the castle, I'm the queen of the castle" she sang as Glenn blinked how the hell did she get over there so fast. "Nora!" Ren yelled as he ginger girl vanished and appeared by Ren's side. Next to come in was Juana, catching the falling Weiss before landing painfully on the ground.
"Did she just come in with a deathstalker on her tail?" Blake asked as Glenn turned to see the Spartan girl being tossed towards them as the two tone scorpion ran towards them. "Can we please calm down before something else happens" Yang snapped, her hair on fire as her eyes bleed red.
"Don't worry I got this!" Ruby yelled, already rushing towards the charging deathstalker before anyone could stop her. Only for the blade of her scythe to bounce harmlessly off the armour of the scorpion, Ruby nervously staring at it as it loomed over her.
Glenn himself was about to move to help her, as the nethermors feathers pinned her cap, preventing her from escaping. Only for Weiss to make it to her first, her ice dust trapping the scorpion as she started to berate Ruby.
"I don't even know what's going on" he mumbled as the group grabbed their chess pieces, leaving towards the cliffs as Glenn stood there with a sigh. The large beast just beyond the tree line eyes him, waiting for the right time to attack its rival as the blonde turned to follow everyone else.
The group rushing past the columns that made up the rest of the destroyed temple, the deathstalker breaking out of the ice behind them as the nethermor flew above them. Ren was the first to see it turning, its eyes glaring down as it prepared to launch a barrage of feathers at them.
"Nora!" Ren called, the ginger haired girl smiling as she pulled her grenade launcher out. Three bullet fired, exploding on impact as the nethermor cried out in pain, pulling away as the group moved closer to the cliff.
"We need to get across!" Ruby yelled, the group making its way towards the bridge. Glenn narrowed his eyes as the nethermor circled around, coming in low, straight towards the bridge support. Behind them, the deathstalker had already caught up to them, Pyrrha, Ren, and Blake firing to try and slow it down as the rest rushed across the bridge.
The nethermor crashed into the supports, the bridge falling around them as Blake was knocked across the gap by the scorpions tail. "We need to help them" Jaune said, surprising Glenn as the dorky knight was actually able to stay calm right now.
Glenn only caught the glimpse of Nora smile as he turned to follow the others across the bridge. Leaving the scorpion to the four, Glenn turned to see the nethermor moving into the destroy more of the supports around the cliff temple.
Everything started to fall, leaving a huge gap to cross as the girls started to scale through the falling temple. Leaping forward, Glenn fired both his frost shells, propelling him above a falling wall before he kicked away from a falling column.
He caught the glimpse of Ruby and Weiss reaching a more stable piece of the temple, Ruby landing with her scythe on her shoulder as Weiss skidded to a stop beside her. Blake was higher up, actually running down the back of the huge Grimm, slashing at it with the cleaver of her Katana sheath.
And Yang...well she was shoving shotgun shells down its throat. As she leaped away from its now incinerated jaw, she landed beside the rest of the girls, Glenn leaping past another falling piece of the temple as he grabbed the ledge of what was left of the bridge.
The blonde shot off, catching up with the rest of the girls as Ruby finished explaining her plan. Following Yang, the two blondes rushing up the temple, watching as the never more shot feathers towards them.
In reply the two leaped forward, twisting as they each released a shell from their gauntlets. The fire and ice shot exploding against the nethermors right wing. As it was thrown off balance, Weiss took her chance, using her glyphs to launch herself into the air, her rapier twirling as she flicked it forward.
A second later a barrage of icy stars shot forward, exploding across the nethermors back, forcing it to fall towards the cliff face. As it slammed into the face, Weiss landed just under it, stabbing her rapier into the ground as a large wall of ice exploded, catching the nethermors tail before it could get away.
Creating another glyph, Weiss threw herself backwards, just as Yang and Blake set up the tensed ribbon for the plan. Ruby flicked her scythe, her right foot landing on the blade as she jumped backwards.
Twisting in mid air, the younger girl used her scythe to pulled the ribbon back, Weiss adding three speed glyphs, locking Ruby in place as they took aim towards the struggling nethermor. "You got this aimed?" Ruby questioned as Weiss snorted at the girls questions.
"IS that a" Ruby didn't get to ask as Weiss snapped at her. "Of course I have this aimed you dolt". Ruby only winched as she looked back towards the nethermor. Glenn watched on as Ruby was launched towards the crow like Grim, her scythe cathcing its neck as Weiss flicked her free hand forward.
An array of glyphs formed above Ruby, allowing her to run up the cliff face, dragging the Grimm with her as her scythe blade started to cut into its neck. As she reached the top, the red head leaped forward, her scythe severing the head form its shoulders as she landed on the top of the cliff with her scythe stabbed into the soft grass.
Glen whistled as he watched the red riding hood girl standing with her scythe on her shoulder blood red petals flowing from her hood as she stood smiling down at the other four of them. Behind them, the other four had taken care of the scorpion Grimm, using a tactic that Jaune surprisingly thought of to kill it with its own stinger.
He was about to turn and follow the girls up the cliff only for a deafening roar to make everyone freeze in place. Everyone slowly turned to see a large shadowy creature emerging from the forest.
the hulk beast stepped forward, large clawed feet ripping into the ground with little resistance. Its body was made of large jagged black scales, a powerful spiked tail swinging behind it. Its powerful lags moved forward, keeping its large body upright as its tattered wings were sued to keep its head from touching the ground.
The head was built like a piece of the cliff, jagged sharp spiked lining across its nose to the back of its head as it glowing red eyes locked on to Glenn. Large fangs teethed parted as a black like flame leaked from its lips.
"A, a Barroth!" Weiss screamed in fear as everyone else shared her fears.
Except one blonde.
The silence engulfed them as the s-class grim continued to stare at them, the only sound was the soft foots steps was someone actually moving. Everyone turned to see Glenn walking towards the edge of the bridge, their eyes widening in shock as his normally shy or cheery face was replaced with a calm emotionlessly scowl.
Ice erupted from the bridge, creating a pathway as the blonde continued forward, past the scorpion and the other four teens as he stepped into the clearing across from the large terrifying Grimm. If anyone could see his eyes, they would see they weren't his normal tainted blue, but a glowing icy blue that seems to freeze the Barroth in place for a second.
"Guys...let me handle this" he spoke, his voice changing to a hollow whisper before anyone could tell him to run. Only Ozpin and Glynda say that a strange mask shared now adored the left side of his face, the once bone white material now changed to gold to match his hair as the icy blue marking pulsed slightly.
"just you and me, dragon" Glenn said, raising his fist as the Barroth seemed to grin, excepting his challenge as it lowered his head, his clawed feet tensing as the claws around its wings dug into the ground.