Daku and Aurum walked for what it felt to be hours, bush after bush, tree after tree, nothing but green. "Are you sure that we aren't lost?" Aurum asked as they passed through a similar looking rocks and tree lines. Daku grunted a bit at Aurum's lack of patience, but continued walking ignoring her question. Aurum grunted in annoyance but nevertheless followed the broody teen, after they were now stuck together for the next several years.

Steele found himself in a clearing, one of the many holes in the vast forest, he sighed. "What am I doing?" He asked himself, approaching a nearby boulder and sat on it. Steele was accepted into Beacon for his superb abilities in hand-to-hand combat and his impossible strength and durability, passing all his test without going to one of the training schools like the others. He grabbed a small rock from the grassy ground with his hand and looked at it. "Faster than a speeding bullet." He said to himself crushing the rock into pebbles with his hand. He stood up and kept walking into the dense forest.

He walked a bit further until he found a small cliff overlooking a ruined temple. He raised an eyebrow in amusement, he jumped down towards it. Steele approached the temple that had several pedestals with chess pieces on them. He looked at each of the pedestals, there were several missing probably having been taken by other students. But one of the pieces caught his attention, the white king piece. He grabbed it, "Hm, what an odd thing to use as relics." Steele said.

"Yeah, tell me about it." An orange blur passed around him, it was Naran. "What's good in the hood, partner?"

"Ugggghh…" Steele grunted in supreme annoyance. "You've got to be kidding me."

"Oh, come on, big guy, we make a pretty good team. I'm fast, you're strong. I'm dashing, you're dumpy. I'm gorgeous, you're… you!" Naran joked, "Now, we got this piece here. Nice!"

"Let's go back to the initiation cliff." Steele said turning back to from where he came from. But before he could re-enter the dense Emerald Forest, he heard a loud explosion. "You heard that?"

"Yeah barely. What the heck was that?" Naran asked.

"An explosion. Coming from the east." Steele replied, "Someone must be in trouble."

"So? It's not our problem." Naran responded.

"We can't let them get hurt, come on." Steele stated, "Unless you're a wimp."

"Fine! I'll go."

BOOM!

A massive explosion rocked the entirety of the massive forest, debris flew everywhere as trees were ripped from their roots and boulders were thrown into the air. Aurum and Daku took cover behind one of the fallen rocks, "How in the name of the Warrior King did we get stuck in this situation?" Aurum complained as blast of fire engulfed the opposing side of the rock they were taking cover behind of.

"Less talking and more living!" Daku responded. He took out a gun-shaped weapon out of the holster that hung on the back side of his utility belt. "I'll flank it from the tree line, you keep it entertained." He shot what seemed to be a grapple gun into the trees that were still in place.

"Great." Aurum said as more fire was shot at her. Daku swung through the thick foliage avoiding getting smashed into one of the trees. From tree to tree, the ninja-like teen made his way behind the beast.

"Made it." He mumbled to himself. The beast was an enormous Land Dragon, a rarity among Grimm, but it seemed that the duo had accidentally stumbled upon it's den. The Land Dragon lacked wings, but its long leathery body was covered in thick armored plates from head to tail, and it had two horns that protruded from its head. If Daku wanted to harm it he would have to have brought superior firepower. He quickly searched his belt for anything useful, "Aha." He took out several explosive shuriken. For him, making long range disposable weapons was easy, Daku could create shuriken from nearby rocks or metallic objects and used his combat knife to shape them into his bat sigil. He then would cover them in explosive dust.

Daku leaped from the tree branch he hid in and threw five shuriken at the Land Dragon, the projectiles exploded in a purple mist. The beast yelled in annoyance, turning its head towards Daku who landed on top of a bunch of torn trees. This distraction created an opening for Aurum to take advantage of. She ran out of cover, sword held high, and swung it towards the monster's exposed unarmored neck. Slash! Black blood sprayed onto Aurum's face and body, but the beast was more inconvenienced by this than anything. It once again payed attention to Aurum, it opened its maw to swallow the young huntress-in-training whole, but Aurum quickly activated her sword's second function. The shotgun. She fired her gun-sword at the beast's opened mouth, hurting it. It yelped backwards creating a small quake.

Aurum joined Daku's side while the monster regained its composure. "It might be tough on the outside but it has weak insides." Aurum told her partner. "Think we have enough firepower to blow this thing to kingdom come?"

"Unlikely. I have a limited supply of explosive projectiles, and I doubt you'll volunteer to do that stunt again." Daku told her.

"Drat!" Aurum cursed, "Then we'll have to come up with something else."

The Land Dragon was pissed, it prepared to renew its attack, Aurum and Daku took battle stances and prepared for what might possibly be their final fight…that is until they heard it.

"GENORIMOOOOOOO!" The shape of what seemed to be a teen fell from the skies, slamming right into the Land Dragon. The beast screamed in agony as its back plates were severely hit. The monster was sunk 6 feet into the earth creating a Grimm size crater. Out of it, the young man leaped into Aurum and Daku's view. "The Man of Steel, reporting for duty."

"Steele!" Aurum was overjoyed in seeing at least some form of back up, especially a heavy hitter. "Thank god you're here!"

"Did you guys see that?! Pretty cool flying, eh?" Steele happily asked with a smile on his face.

"That wasn't flying." Daku replied.

"Oh, its Mister Doom and Gloom, all right then, what was that?" Steele's smirk disappeared upon hearing Daku's voice.

"That was falling. With style." Daku dryly stated, making Steele grunt in annoyance. "Nevertheless, thanks for the assist."

"Yeah, no problem." Steele accepted the thanks anyway. An orange blur joined them, it was Naran finally having made it.

"Dude, I got so lost after you jumped half a mile away." Naran said, "It's a good thing you make a lot of noise."

"You've got to be kidding me." Aurum said upon laying eyes on Steele's partner. "Him?"

"That's what I said." Steele added.

"You bet your pretty eyes, hot stuff. I'm paired up with the big guy." Naran said blurring into Aurum's side. "That aside, we could always switch partners, you know. It's not like Ozpin would care or anything."

"I don't want to interrupt your senseless chatter, but the Land Dragon is getting back up." Daku intervened, saving Naran from a knuckle sandwich to the jaw.

"Sweet. Got any plans?" Steele asked the other duo.

"It's insides are weak." Daku replied, "If we manage to make it open its mouth and deliver a strong enough blast then it should be done for. I suggest…"

"Hmm…I have a better idea. Naran, annoy the hell out of it. Aurum stab it a lot on its back, Daku do what you do best and neutralize its tail so that Aurum doesn't get whipped." Steele came up with a plan fast, giving everyone a task.

"Wait, what about you?" Aurum asked.

"I have the best job of them all, you just watch." Steele said, "Break!"

The team separated, Naran quickly ran towards the Land Dragon which had crawled its way out of the crater. "Hey ugly! I bet that you get bully by the other winged dragons in every meeting!" The Land Dragon roared, firing several fire blasts at Naran whose incredibly speed allowed him to dodge every single one of them. Aurum jumped high into the air and landed on the beast's back taking a foot hole in the slightly damaged armored plates. The monster felt this and prepared its long tail to strike Aurum off, but before it could do that Daku threw several more shuriken at the beast's tail. They made contact and exploded hurting it, he then followed it up by taking out his grapple gun. Daku fired it at the monster's tail and pulled, the damaged tail began to rip apart.

"Now, stab it!" Daku yelled. Aurum nodded in agreement. She began to rapidly strike and stab that monster's plates until they began to break open revealing the leathery hide beneath. Aurum used all her strength to batter the monster's back senselessly until it screamed in agony.

"It's big ol' mouth is opened!" Naran yelled.

"Perfect." Steele ran past Naran, and with the inertia gained from the run, he jumped right into the Land Dragon's opened maw.

"What the hell?!" Naran was dumbfounded from Steele's sudden maneuver. Aurum was thrown off the monster's back and Daku let go of the extremely damaged tail.

"Is he insane?!" Daku was completely taken aback as well. "He's going to get killed in there!"

Aurum looked at the Land Dragon starting to move erratically, "No, no…he's doing something incredible!" She said.

The Land Dragon screamed loudly into the ether and then…

BLAAAAM!

Steele blasted his way out of the Land Dragon with his fists, exiting from the monster's back. The monster's flesh, innards, and armored plates splattered everywhere as it died. Steele landed in front of the others, with a big smile on his face. "Was that super or not?" He asked them.

Their mouths were opened at what they had just seen, it was something unbelievable. "Not only was that completely reckless and stupid…it was also genius. Good job." Daku complemented the invincible teen.

"Yeah, man, holy cow!" Naran added. "Never mind partner swapping, you are awesome!"

"You weren't kidding when you said that you didn't need a weapon." Aurum said putting her sword in its sheath and putting away her shield. "Now…we still have to find that temple."

"No need, Naran and I already found it." Steele took out the white king pieces from his left pocket. "I guess this makes us a team."

The day passed and night came, the first-year ceremony began. Professors and the students once again reunited in the auditorium but this time there was a festive feeling in the air. Professor Ozpin started assigning teams based on the students' work in the Emerald Forest. Teams CRDL, RWBY and JNPR were chosen. Naran, Aurum, Daku and Steele were called up next.

"Steele Kripto, Aurum Prinkipas, Naran Rapyd, and Daku Kishi, you retrieved the white king pieces. From this point forward your team will be named 'Team SAND' and it will be led by…Steele Kripto." Ozpin announced. Steele was surprised, he didn't think himself of having any leadership material, he was just a bruiser. "Congratulations."

"Awesome, give me a high five!" Naran said raising his hand up. Steele laughed and obliged him, giving him the high five.

"Who would've thought." Daku said to Aurum crossing his arms.

"Jealous?" Aurum asked the teen with a mocking tone in her voice.

"Not at all…just surprised. Something tells me this is going to be an interesting first year." Daku replied.