(A/:N If you saw the other note then forget it existed, thank you for correcting me BlackRock_Agent)
I am not a morning person. I never liked getting up too early, but even worse was waking up because of something else.
I was rudely woken up by Nora's loud voice practically screaming "It's morning, it's morning, it's morning!" To Ren, the guy looked better than I did up this early, which probably shows how used to her he is.
Pulling out my scroll, I saw that the time read 6:00 AM exactly, making me let out a small groan that I'm sure was mirrored by other students as I forced myself up and to where the bathrooms were to start getting ready.
After that rude awakening and some water splashed onto my face, I was at least semi-ready to start my day, though I ended up by Ren most of the time so I consistently had to listen to Nora speak with no regard of who else was nearby, I wasn't even safe in the cafeteria at breakfast cause she was so damn loud.
It was good food at least, the pancakes were very fluffy, 10/10 would eat again.
By the time I had gotten to the locker room, I was thoroughly awake and somewhat close to strangling Nora, but a lot of other people looked the same in that regard so I wasn't alone in my thought process.
When I approached my locker and opened it everything I expected was in there. A simple quiver and arrows. The quiver and arrows I got were courtesy of Ozpin, I thanked him for getting me the two, honestly I was glad it was normal arrows and not like laced with dust or something, I'll stick to the simple stuff for now thank you.
"Will all first year students please report to Beacon Cliff for initiation. Again, all first year students please report to Beacon Cliff immediately."
Hearing the intercom shut off, I stretched, listening to my bones pop as I rolled my shoulders and let out a low groan. Initiation time.
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Once at Beacon Cliff, I was lined up with the rest of the first year students and stood on one of the many launchpads. I listened to Ozpin's words and it was exactly how I remembered it. Make a team, collect a relic, and don't die, skipping the rest of the details anyway it was 1:1 to what I remembered.
As the launchpads began to work one by one, I took a few deep breaths, trying to steady myself as much as I could.
One second I was standing next to Yang who gave me a small wink once my turn was next, and in the next I was launched probably a few hundred feet into the sky, the wind hitting my body as I couldn't help but spin and laugh.
"Hahaha! This is so cool!" Once I remembered I had to land I tugged on the familiar mental pull of my familiar. 'Horus!'
In an instant the icy skeletal bird creature manifested next to me as I began to rapidly approach the trees and ground.
"Landing strategy, landing strategy... Got it!" I pulled on the instinctive feeling I felt after I had gathered my bearings in this world and called on my aura, directly strengthening my body to a noticeable degree that I felt was enough to survive my landing before I began to channel the rest into Horus.
In an instant I felt the temperature around me drop as a large amount of ice began to form, I felt a pressure hit me from the sheer volume of what I was trying to do with no training but I pushed through, forcing the ice to shape as it hit the ground before me.
When I was maybe 70 feet from the ground, the structure was completed enough for the tip to nudge by shoe as I forced myself to lock into the aura I used as I began "skating" down an incredibly large iceberg ramp like construct. "WOOHOO! YEAH!"
Sliding alone the ice down, I jumped slightly and landed safely on the ground, my legs buckled in protest at the sheer height I had came from as the adrenaline of soaring through the sky began to slow as I let out a short laugh and took more breaths.
"Fuck! That was awesome, and so damn stupid... I'm a little winded but not too tired, why the hell do I have so much aura?" By Ozpin's words I had a respectable amount even by pro standards, and even after the large action I just did, I felt like I used up maybe 25-40%
It was enough to be noticeable but I wasn't that tired from it. "How odd... Whatever."
Shrugging at the general mystery I let the construct collapse on itself as the ice began to fade away, a small smile tugging on my lips as I pulled out my scroll to make sure I was heading north before I pulled the Hoarfrost bow out and held it tightly. "Time to get that relic, and a partner. Wonder who I'll find?"
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~General~
For every student, excluding Jaune, a landing strategy was simple. For the Schnee heiress, she formed a glyph under her foot to step off of and continued until she touched the ground, for the Invincible Girl, Pyrrha Nikos, she simply let her shield take the hits of branches before gracefully rolling onto a thicker tree branch of one of the very large trees.
Everyone had figured out their landing strategy, however everyone collectively let out a gasp in surprise or shock as they saw something form.
A massive glacier had formed at the side of a forest, and for those who could see that far or were close enough to see the top, they would see a student gliding down the ice like a ramp before they were hidden in the forest and the ice had simply ceased to be.
It took only a few moments, and yet if you hadn't seen it happen, you would never even believe that someone had made a large ice ramp to stop their fall, and one blonde haired boy who was stuck to a tree thanks to a spear having stopped his fall after piercing part of his hood, stared in the direction of the disappearing ice in disbelief.
"You're telling me people can do that? Oh I shouldn't be here..." He looked down at the ground dejectedly. Only he knew his thoughts, and it would be unsure if the boy's confidence would keep him afloat.
~Ruby~
I began running through the forest, not too fast and without using my semblance, but still pretty fast. 'Oh man, whoever made the HUGE ice ramp must be super strong! Was it Nix? He used some kind of ice bow and he's the only one I know to use ice, but maybe it's someone else.'
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't running somewhat close to where the ice ended, I was mostly looking for Yang but that was really cool! Plus Nix was someone I could partner with! He was super nice and he was friendly when we talked a bit, other than Yang he was probably the best partner I could have.
"Yang! Nix! Can one of you please be nearby!?" As I continued to run, I saw a figure come out from the trees, making me slow down as the figure came into view and I smiled. "Nix!"
"Ruby? Good seeing you." He spoke, making me smile as I ran around him, excited as I waved my arms around. "EEEE! I'm so glad I ran into you! I wanted to run into Yang but you're great too! Uh, no offense by the way."
"None taken." He shrugged, rolling his eyes with a small smile on his lips as I began walking next to him.
"So, you haven't seen anyone else around?"
"Nope, you're the first person I've seen, so you're my partner it seems."
I nodded, my smile never wavering as I chatted with him, all the while looking for another pair to form our team while still heading north.
~Myst~
I continued to head north with Ruby by my side, while we did we talked a bit, though it was mostly Ruby talking with me following along, nodding, or giving very small inputs and responses. I was way out of my element with someone like Ruby, she just talked so much and so fast that I could barely keep up.
Our talking was quickly interrupted however by multiple red eyes beginning to come from the bushes, making me pull my bow back as I realized we had been surrounded on all sides by these things.
"It's a whole pack of Beowolves..." I heard Ruby say as she unsheathed her scythe and held it, ready to attack at a moment's notice.
The beowolves were bigger than average wolves, they were completely black with white bone spikes covering parts of their arms and the back of their neck, they had sharp bone white claws and finally a bone-like mask covering their face, red lines marking the mask and trailing up.
They growled, their stances low, their claws gleaming from the sunlight reflecting as I swallowed down my fear and took a deep breath.
They're imposing, it's so different compared to just seeing them on a screen. I was scared, but not by a lot.
Hell, most of my fear was crushed under the excitement I was feeling to fight a pack of Grimm, I should be way more scared but I'm not.
Taking an arrow from the quiver I had strapped to my back, I pulled the string back as the arrow began to produce a freezing mist. Funny thing with the bow, when I first shot an arrow out of it I didn't even have an arrow to shoot, so how did it work? Well by using aura I could apparently form arrows out of them.
If they got too big or went too far it would take more aura but I learned that I could do that as a last resort. I realized after shooting the arrow at the Bullhead when Roman escaped, I used a lot more aura than needed for something so small and to hit a target not too far from me.
I filed the entire thing for later since I haven't had time to properly try making arrows out of my aura. I wasn't even sure if this was even possible since I couldn't remember someone making a tangible construct out of aura, though if it did I probably just forgot about it, and if not...
Then I guess I'm just special.
"You ready Nix?" I heard Ruby say as I took one more breath before a small smirk curled on my lips.
"You bet."
(A/N: 1800 words, not including this note, longest chapter I've made ever I think. Sorry, again that's it been a while, I am horrible at updates if that wasn't painfully obvious. Though I have also started to work full time so we'll see how things progress from here. Also, wanted to clarify something I said in the last chapter.
I am using one of SimplyBoi's suggestions, HOWEVER, it was kind of the last "suggestion" more so in the sense of by his words; "But if we're talking WITHOUT worrying about any word jumbles, then I'd like to see MC interract with Blake & Ruby most." So its kind of a whole new team. And this is the case cause I put the suggestions on a wheel and spun it, then had to think of a team name and who would be the members.
Pretty sure two of them are obvious, and you could probably guess the last one, I won't say anything, but I'm sure someone could guess. Anyway rant over, see you in the next chapter which hopefully won't take 3 weeks)