'Six AM'

Whitley looked at the clock on his scroll as he rolled onto his back and looked up at the ceiling. Inition didn't begin for another two hours. He had to get ready before anyone else so he couldn't be cornered in the locker room. He went to get up to find his hand landing on something firm. He looked down to see what he had touched only to find his hand on the arm of the pink and brown haired girl from yesterday.

'Oh it's her… What was her name again? Nao? Neo? Neo… I think that's what they said her name was.'

After a few moments he realized now that this girl had slept next to him all night. He immediately jerked away and up to his feet.

'WHAT THE HECK!? Why is she next to me?! Why did she sleep next to me?! WHY IS SHE HERE!?'

Whitley was now in pure panic mode as he didn't understand what the heck this girl was doing. He was flushed and with wide eyes worried as he begun to scurry to gather his stuff up.

'Do I wake her up? I don't even know what to do. She has the bedroll I was assigned. I need to get that.'

A sigh escaped from his lips as he came to the conclusion that he'd have to wake her up. This wasn't going to his plans at all. He looked around the room to see everyone else was still asleep which was good. Hopefully this girl didn't freak out after she woke up.

'Ok… No other choice I guess.'

He leaned down and nudged her. A whisper coming from his lips "Hey… Wake up…" He hoped that would wake her up. All it did was stir her a little bit as she rolled to her side. Another sigh came from him as he nudged her a bit more this time on her shoulder. "Wake up girl…" A few more nudges and the girl's eyes began to open a bit. "I need my bedroll back…" Whitley's face began to flush red again as the girl looked at him sleepily. She just pointed to her wrist as if to ask the time. "Six AM… I need to ge-" The girl just brought her finger up to his lips to shut him up this caused him to stammer backwards. The girl then brought the finger back to her lips as if to say shoosh as she closed her eyes again. Now he was annoyed. This time he grabbed the bed roll and just lifted it up to cause the girl to roll off it. He didn't care if she yelled at him at this point.

The girl rolled off and then looked at him with an annoyed look as she got up. Hands gesturing everywhere as he began to roll back up the bedroll he was given. "I didn't ask you to come and sleep by me… Not my fault you thought I wouldn't be a bit annoyed at you being on my things." Whitley explained in a hushed tone as the girl began to tap her foot on the ground, annoyed. "Now if you excuse me I have to get ready for the initiation…" He said, still speaking softly as he grabbed his utility belt and suitcases heading towards the locker room. The girl puffed, grabbing her parasoul before walking after him.
He walked into the locker room and then started taking off his shirt only to see the girl standing there still. "Do you mi- mind?" He stammered out.

'Why is this girl so obsessed with me? She must know who I am by now.'

The girl started stomping her foot again, tapping her wrist again and flailing her arms. She was clearly not happy about being woken up two hours early for the test.

"Look like I said before it's not my fault you decided to sleep next to me! I was asleep, woke up and found you in my bed!" He shouted as the locker room should be far enough from the rest of the sleeping people. "I don't need you now watching me as I get dressed for the test!" He was getting annoyed. For a girl that could dress in nice clothes she didn't have the manners of a girl that wore them.
The girl just gave him a glare before huffing before walking over to a nearby bench and sitting down. Just watching him still.

'Looks like I won't be getting any sort of privacy.'

He just groaned as he grabbed the bridge of his nose before he decided he didn't have time for this. He stripped off his shirt and pulled out his vest and dress shirt putting them on. He then looked at the cravat his mother had given him before wrapping it around his neck and pinning it in place with the brooch that was silver and red gem. He'd make sure to never lose it.

He looked at his dress pants and his undergarments and then looked back at Neo. "Do you mind? Need to change into my clothes." He said a bit annoyed that the girl was still staring at him before she just lifted her hand covering her eyes. That was about as best as he was gonna get it would seem. He quickly got changed into them before the girl had the time to uncover them. A sigh of relief as his pants got pulled up and he put his belt on then grabbed his utility belt putting it on. He then grabbed the only non-fine bit of clothing he would wear with this outfit. A pair of combat boots given to him by his older sister. Atlas Military standard. He laced them up and then slid his pants over them.

He looked in the mirror at himself. White short sleeved dress shirt, white cravat with red gem, blue vest, black utility belt, Navy blue trousers with black combat boots. He looked like had class, elegance, and finesse. Just like a Schnee should have in combat. Not looking like a brute.
He pulled one of the suitcases aside and opened it revealing the dust inside with his homemade grenades. He began prepping them, slotting the dust crystals in then taking the box with the lens on the side and filling it with a Dust powder that was a light blue. He locked that in place on his utility belt before closing everything up. He grabbed his hoodie sliding it on before walking over to his assigned locker and putting the rest of his gear in place. This whole time not minding the girl that watched him curiously.

'She's just a weird stalker girl…'
He couldn't dwell on her for too long as he walked to the mirror and began to style his hair with his hands. Not like people would see it. He'd be wearing his hood to try and keep his sister from recognizing him.

He then heard the steps as he turned to see the girl approaching him as her hands reached up and began styling his hair. Her smirking and then looking as she parted it in a way that kept the hair from going into his eyes. He looked into the mirror and then smiled. She didn't do a bad job. "Thanks…" He said softly with a blush as she just gave him a thumbs up.
'Maybe she isn't so bad? I'm not sure'
Whitley knew one thing though. He needed to get to the cliffs and wait for everyone else to get there. "I'm going ahead to the cliffs. I'll see you later." He looked at his watch and sighed. It was already Six, Fifty. People would be waking up soon. He flipped up his hood and started walking away from the girl. "Till we see each other later" He said as he walked out the Barn. The test was soon.

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A yawn came from the one in white as she leaned up and looked through the window seeing the sunlight peaking on through. She picked up her scroll looking at the time. Seven, Thirty AM. Melanie scowled as she stood up and kicked her sister Miltia awake.
"Hey Miltia time to get ready. We're a bit behind." She said as her sister got up with a drowsy look. Melanie looked over the room and saw a majority of people already cleared out of the room. Only a few stragglers left asleep. Not her problem was all she could think. She looked over to see that all of Neo's stuff was already put away from her sleep and seeing her leaning against the wall yawning.

"Didn't expect you to be up yet Neo." Melanie said as she leaned down and pulled her sister up to her feet. Neo just shrugged then texted on her scroll. Melanie didn't look at hers when it pinged. She didn't really care why Neo was up so early. "Come on Miltia. Can't be late" She said this with a bit of distaste in her mouth. She didn't really want to be in Beacon but she didn't have a choice. The dorms would at least be better than the rundown apartment Roman had for them.
The trio began walking to the locker room. Miltia speaking up "No breakfast? Uuugh… This is gonna be a rough day." At that moment a nutrition bar flew and hit her sister in the head. Miltia looked at the culprit Neo as she silently snickered. Melanie leaned down and picked it up, passing it to her sister. "There you go. Now get dressed we have to pass this stupid thing." Melanie spoke as she slid her battle dress on and put her bladed boots on.

"Where's that one guy?" Miltia asked as her red dress flowed over her form.

"I don't know. Didn't see him when I woke up. Probably already at the cliffs." Melanie said not really caring about the heir. He was just some dumb rich kid.

Neo just looked at them giving a thumbs up showing that she was right. Seemed like Neo already knew the answer. Melanie just scoffed. The three of them didn't need a fourth member. They should just form a team in a group of three. No need for another person. She could lead the team on her own.

"Hey Melanie, isn't that?" She looked at her sister, seeing her point. She followed where the finger was going to only see a familiar blonde girl.

"Great… they just let anyone in here. Avoid her for now." She said as she walked away closing her locker again heading towards the door that led out from the barn.
"Whatever." Miltia said as she followed suit. Looking at Neo who just shrugged.
They followed the path way to the cliff side as they saw a group of people standing around talking. Melanie saw Whitley standing there with a hood covering him up.

'Still hiding I see.'
She took note of that before she heard some yelling. That was at them. She turned to see the Blonde Bimbo walking with a stomp towards them.
"WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING HERE!?" The blondie yelled.

"Uuuh taking an initiation test." Miltia said matter of factly gesturing to the where they were at.

"Ya well we both know you don't want to be huntresses. You hang around criminals!" The girl yelled at them. Melanie just scoffed.

"Last I checked when we ran into you. You sexually assaulted the owner of the club we were at. Then assaulted him. Then proceeded to do demolition work on the rest of the club." Melanie said before pointing a finger at the blonde bimbo. "So the only real criminal I see here is you" She then scoffed and turned walking towards the rest of the group of people as Miltia stuck her tongue out at the blondie and Neo following suit. She could hear words being spoken behind them.

"Yang, did you really do that?" It was a squeaky girl's voice.

"Not now Ruby…" The blonde bimbo said walking to the cliff, a bit of annoyance in her voice.

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Whitley looked at the commotion as the twins and Neo all approached the rest of the group standing to his right on the gray stonework that they were instructed to stand on. He looked at his watch.

'Eight AM'
He then heard someone clear his throat as he saw the headmaster and a group of other teachers standing nearby.
"Good, a majority of you all are here." He looked at the group of them all as he took a sip of his coffee. "For years you have trained to become warriors and today your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest." The headmaster took a sip of his coffee.
The blonde teacher spoke up. "Now, I'm sure many of you heard rumors about the assignments of teams, well allow us to put an end to your confusion." The woman eyed the group looking among them all. "Each of you will be given teammates." A glare. "Today."
"These teammates will be here with you the rest of your time at Beacon." The headmaster spoke up again. "So it's in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well" Another sip of his coffee. "That being said. The first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years"
A shout burst through the group. "WHAT?!" Whitley just ignored it as other murmurs came through the group.
'This will be a pain… I don't want to team up with Weiss, that would cause some problems.'

He thought to himself as he looked among them all, seeing Neo look at him and snicker. He had a bad feeling about this.
The headmaster continued. "After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy anything in your path, or you will die." A few more murmurs through the students. "You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene." Another sip. "You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics. Each pair must choose one. Then return to the top of the cliff."

A look over the group from his eyes. "You will guard that item as well as your standing and grade you appropriately. Are there any questions?" Someone tried to ask one but the headmaster ignored them. "Good. Take your positions." The same student kept asking questions. Whitley just ignored the murmurs as he saw the first student getting launched through the air.
'Oh that's just great… Welp no time like the present to fine tune my glyph landings.'
The boy asking all the questions got launched next screaming through the air.
"Oh Mr. Schnee by the way…" The headmaster begun speaking to them. "Take off your jacket. You'll get too hot wearing that." Whitley looked at the headmaster confused as the jacket came off. Then he was launched before he could ask why. He was now flying through the air and it seemed he was launched a whole lot harder and further than the others as a bunch of them were already landing. He threw his grenade out and an explosion caused him to hit his first glyph breaking his fall more but he was still flying. He threw another one. Slowing him down more before something grabbed his collar. He then turned to see Neo holding him as they floated down on her parasoul.
'I knew something like this was gonna happen.'
Both of their feet touched the ground at the same time as they stayed there looking at each other with locked eyes.

'I guess… This is my partner now.'

He thought to himself as he looked around their landing point. Black strings everywhere.

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The headmaster looked at his screen seeing everyone land. A sip from his coffee as he heard the blonde woman named Glynda speak up.

"Lets see, that's Miss Rose with Miss Schnee. Miss Belladonna with Miss Xiao Long. Miss Valkyrie with Lie Ren… and Mr. Schnee with Miss Neopolitan." She eyed the last pair that had formed so far.

"Actually her real name is Trivia Vanille." A sip from his coffee after the Headmaster spoke.

"Wait… the one who?" Glynda asked.
"Yes that one. Though she goes by Neopolitan now. So we shall call her as such" The headmaster said, eying his screen looking at the pair.

"She's a criminal though!?" She said annoyed.

"So are the Malachite twins. Miss Belladonna is the daughter of the founders of the White Fang. Miss Xiao Long has a record of getting into trouble as well." He explained.
"Wait… Why does the name Malachite sound familiar?" Glynda asked.
"Ever hear of Lil' Miss Malachite in Mistral?" Headmaster Ozpin responded back.

"The crime family? Why are we letting their daughters attend here?!" Glynda was getting more annoyed. "Not to mention Mister Arc who is now paired up with Miss Nikos. Mister Arc's transcripts are barely passable to let him take this test but now we have three criminals in this forest with the other students?!" Glynda was frustrated.
"Glynda. Please if these 'criminals' had plans to hurt our students we would've seen it by now." He took a sip from his coffee. "The Malachite Twins and Miss Neapolitan are staying with one of Lil' Miss's top men. Roman Torchwick. It's best we have the enemies we know here rather than the ones we don't." He looked at the screen showing where Whitley and Neo were at. "Hmmm that could be a problem."

"YES A BIG PROBLEM! THERE ARE CRIM-" Glynda was cut off.
"No, not that." Ozpin paused. "Look at where Mister Schnee and his partner are at. Ah it seems the twins are landing near them too." He said, looking carefully at the forest.
Glynda's eyes looking at her own screen saw the black oozing threads that went from tree to tree surrounding the pair of Whitley and Neo. "Tha- That's not good.. They were launched too far. They're close to the relics sure but.. They landed in that part of the forest."
Ozpin took a sip of his coffee. "Indeed."
"Should we go and get them out?"
Ozpin eyed the screen. "No. Let's see how they do. With any luck the four of them will meet up in that forest and work together to get out." He said, watching carefully.

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Miltia was flying through the air following behind her sister. Miltia spread apart her arms using her claws as best she could to help glide her through after her. She did not want to be paired up with some random person. She saw her sister flip and kick into a tree before she began to cut down it landing.

Miltia herself then dropped her arms letting her fall faster as she slammed her clawed blades into a tree cutting right down it as she landed herself not even twenty feet from her twin. Eyes being locked. "I give your landing like a seven Melanie". She teased with a smile.
"Yours was like a five then Miltia." Her sister smirked back. Then a sigh. "Ok lets find Neo.. She landed with that boy up ahead from the looks of it. Let's hope they didn't start moving too far already." She stated as she began walking into the forest.

Miltia took a step but felt something sticky against her leg. She looked down and saw black threading. "Hey Melanie… What is this stuff?" She asked trying to kick it off of her.
Melanie turned and looked at it. "Looks like some gooey threading? Cut it away."
Miltia tried cutting it away only for the strand of black goo to stretch. Before finally snapping. "Well… we should probably keep an eye out for that. Egh" Miltia said disgusted before following along her sister.

The deeper they walked the more threads of black goo they saw being careful not to touch them before they heard pitter pattering of something approaching.
Miltia turned just in time at the last second as something jumped right at her face a black blur.

"MILTIA!" Melanie screamed as she turned to see what was attacking her sister.

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A smirk on her face as she looked at the Schnee boy. She then held up her scroll as she typed something on it. She showed it to him.

'Give me your contact info.'

She said simply as she held her scroll up ready for the transfer. The boy looked at her before nodding. "Ri- Right" He responded. "Can you not speak?" He asked she just shook her head. She took her thumb up and made a cutting motion across her throat. She was born mute sure but it was simpler to say her vocal cords were cut.

'PING'
Their scrolls both rang as the information had been traded as she took a bow towards the man. She typed quickly on her scroll at him.
'PING'
"Well… we need to get the relics. So we should probably find a way out of he-" He was saying as he looked around. She did the same and noticed what he was seeing. Black threads covered in goo. All through the trees. Webbing.
She heard the man take a deep breath. "Ok… Some kind of grimm nest we've ended up near." He stated as he brought his thumb to his chin. Neo just looked at him carefully. "Well the temple didn't look too far away… probably about a mile west of us." She saw him gesture in that direction. "We should get a move on and be careful of that threading." She just smirked as she did a flip over one of the many threads.
"Ya… I can't do that." Whitley said, walking slowly ducking under a thread. Then they heard a scream. They looked both in that direction and Neo scowled.
"That.. sounded like one of your friends." Whitley said as she just nodded.
"GET DOWN!" Whitley shouted as he tackled her to the ground as she saw a black blur jump through the air she was just at. They both landed on the ground with an oomph.
She looked at what was the blur and saw a spider the size of a husky dog. A scowl forming on her face for not hearing it's approach.
"Egh spiders.. That explains this threading." She heard him state as she nodded, getting up quickly as she stood off looking at it. Whitley doing the same. They weren't moving and the Spider wasn't moving either.
"I I don't think it notices us. Why did it jump us before?" He asked watching it carefully as it's maws begun clicking as if it was trying to sense something.
She saw the Heir grab one of his grenades on his belt before throwing it at one of the webbings. It got stuck in the threading and the Grimm leaped right at it biting into it as an explosion rang out. She smiled clapping her hands as she saw the Grimm get encased in ice then falling shattering.

"Seems like it doesn't have eyesight but is rather perceptive on movement through the threads. We gotta be careful not to touch these or we could have more. It probably noticed us from are fall…" He pondered touching his chin. "... We'll need to move fast and carefully to get to your friends." He stood up tapping a button on a box on his hip. A project coming from a lens as a knife made of hard light formed. "Ready?"
She nodded her head as they begun walking quickly through the forest towards where the scream came from.

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Author's Note:
And here we go! The start of the initiation and the many friendships that are forming slowly. Well team building really. Tbh this chapter was fun to write as I got inspired from the idea of a spider grimm fight being like Shelob from Lord of the Rings. How will our protags fight these grimm off? Will they get encased in webbing before it's too late? Find out soon in the next chapter as I write these.

Tbh, Whitley's weapon isn't gonna stay being a hardlight knife projector. It feels kind of mid but the idea originally behind it was that all his gear was homemade because his dad did want him to be a huntsmen. So that meant no guns no swords. But now that he's at Beacon he'll eventually take a class that will let him build his own weapon and I know just the one to give him. It'll fit perfectly for him. It won't be a gun or sword either but you will see what it is. Whitley is meant to be a strategist that lays traps and uses tools to out play and out smart his opponents rather than be a brute. After all, huntsmen don't have to be barbarians. True heroes use finesse and elegance.

So far it's looking like it'll be Neo x Whitley but I can see this becoming Whitley x Malachites and Neo. We'll see.
Votes so far are (Don't forget to vote in your reviews!)
Neo - 1
Harem - 1
Militia - 0

Melanie - 0

As for the semblances that the twins will have? Well I've kind of decided on Militia's but not Melanie's. So I'm open to ideas.
I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and I'll see you all in the next one. Not sure when the next chapter will be as I write these as I feel inspired. Chapter 4 could easily be tomorrow!
For now I'll see you all in the next one!
~ CAWME