Ruby screamed as she plummeted towards the forest floor below. She inwardly cursed the man who thought throwing kids off of a cliff was a good idea to suffer in a world without cookies. Yeah, she might have been going a bit overboard, asking fate to doom a man to a torturous existence, but he had doomed her to this nightmarish situation.

Her train of thoughts were broken as something collided with her, knocking the breath out of her as something hard collided with her stomach. She twisted in pain bringing the thing in front of her as she was about to hit the tree line. She felt it impact the branches of a tree as she clung to it for dear life.

The something groaned in pain, wood smashing against metal and flesh with horrifying noises being a byproduct. It moved, something silver cutting a deep furrow into a tree trunk as Ruby's momentum began to bleed out.

She came to a rough stop, the silver thing in the tree running out of trunk, and the something that had acted as her shield slid across the ground, a red blob of cloth and flesh hanging on until the ride came to a stop.

She sighed in relief as she gently loosened her death grip on whatever she was holding onto inspecting it for the first time, a now ruined black jacket, torn, and stained to the point of no return. The wearer of said jacket moaned in pain.

"ow. . . my back." The person rolled over, leaving all occupants of the Jaune Arc express to scramble for more stable ground. Jaune leaned up into a sitting position, blue eyes looked up for the culprit of his agony. They landed on a pair of silver ones. Ruby tried not to freak out as her new partner sent an accusatory glance at her, his eyes shifting to the side to look at the ten-foot-long dent in the earth his face had caused. She smiled sheepishly.

"I am glad to know that my pain wasn't in vain". Ruby cringed, not just at the withering glance but also at the horrid play on words. She had dealt with people who thought they were clever with words for too long, puns especially.

"hi… uh, sorry about the whole, using you to break my fall thing…". The blonde in front of her sighed shaking his head.

"Don't worry. It's not the first time something like that has happened to me. My name is Jaune Arc. It is nice to meet you.

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"When I say to screw off, I really mean to burn in hell". Blake winced as Jaune's tirade of insults curses and general foul language came to an abrupt end. She was by no means happy that he said it in the first place. The withering gaze of her partner aside, giant birds of death rarely were rarely cause for celebration. It was so typical of him to have the one type of grimm he couldn't deal with come to find him. Poetic even when compared to Jaune's thoughts on the matter.

Shrouded Gambit rose to the occasion, a slug round hitting the new opponent. The round didn't seem to faze the avian grimm much, bouncing off of the hardened feathers. She didn't expect it would. Maybe she could have gotten off a lucky shot but her semblance wasn't perfect, or reliable in any sense.

A round of gunfire clicked from behind her as the deathstalker screeched, disengaging from combat with five huntsmen, focusing instead on Jaune and his partner. Her comrades in arms seemed to luck out, at the expense of her friend. She cursed her semblance, finding a perfect way to deal with the grimm. It didn't matter if that method was letting Jaune clean up, she was just lucky that something came along that took the deathstalker away.

"Focus the Nevermore. Kill it faster. Jaune, just don't die". A claw smashed into the ground next to him, the boy dodging it by a fraction of an Inch, the red cloaked girl screaming out his name in panic. Blake knew he would be fine. It would take more than an oversized bug to keep Jaune Arc down. Hopefully.

Rounds flew towards the new target, the screeching of the giant bird above indicating that they were doing more to it than they were to the Deathstalker. Unfortunately, they were not the only ones that had a ranged option. Black feathers rained down upon them, and someone yelled to scatter.

The projectiles tipped around her toes as Blake cut the ones aimed at more vital points of her body down, the dark blue blade flashing in front of her. She raised her own sheath retaliating the projectiles with her own, shotgun shells launched out of it. They weren't alone.

"Draw it away from the deathstalker. We can't deal with both of them together if Jaune loses its interest". It wasn't going to happen but the expression but the expression" hope for the best and plan for the worst" came to mind. Blake's Partner, the golden-haired girl flicked her eyes to the tree line, the one where Jaune and his partner ran into to avoid the deathstalker.

"We get the Nevermore on the ground and its toast". Lilac eyes flicked back to the current problem as her eyes flicked between her allies. The hammer girl and Goldie were the best bets for bringing the bird down. Ice Queen could get up the easiest. Pyrrha and the green clad boy were the best at ranged. So where did that leave her options?

Blake loaded the next round of shells into her weapon with a click. The shots might bring the grimm down, but it would take too long and be too heavy on their ammo cashe. That meant someone had to go up there, so what she had to do was…

"You two, get up that tree. When it gets close, make it land". Goldie and White nodded, running over to a nearby tree climbing with gusto, white glyphs allowing them to make their way to the lowest branches.

"You two keep firing. We need make sure that we can bring it down when they get up there". Red and Green nodded, the rhythmic ringing of bullets increasing its tempo.

"Pinkie. I got something special in mind for us".

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Ozpin glued his eyes to the screen, transfixed by the fight occurring before him. The scorpion swung its claw forward, bark flying through the air. A black blur stepped away, a silver blur coming up in time to catch the muscles between the armored plates. Smoke eked out of the cut. It was superficial, another nick to add to the aggression of the beast. Behind the creature, a red cloaked figure weaved between the broken trees, just trying to keep up to the Deathstalker. The entire fight was a chase, one huntsman being chased and the other chasing his pursuer and Ozpin had to wonder what the young man had done in the first place to catch the creature's attention.

Jaune's figure blurred as the claw came back around, a small tree being uprooted by the creature. The tree was flung behind the creature, and the Ruby barely had the time to avoid impacting it. Ozpin flicked his eyes to the girl, face buried into the grass, then back to the fight.

The camera begun to shake as the deathstalker struck the tree the camera was attached to, Jaune lunging away from the tree, the grimm following. Ever so slowly the tree began its descent towards the ground.

A black exoskeleton blocked out the camera a few seconds before its impact, the lens cracking upon impact. The deathstalker screeched in pain as a large tree fell upon it. Between the cracking of branches, there was a quiet squelch as a blade cut through the deathstalker's mask, past the eyes and into the soft tissue beneath. The camera switched in time to see the dissolving deathstalker with Jaune's blade coated in dissolving black goo.

"Glynda". The blonde-haired teacher beside him met his eyes.

"Headmaster?". Ozpin flicked his eyes back to the screen, watching as the pair met back up with the larger group. Laughing, smiling, friendly conversation and bombastic story telling if Nora Valkyrie's erratic hand waving was any indicator.

"Tell Oobleck to have the rooms of team JNRR and BPWY prepared.

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Yang couldn't imagine having a worse first day at school. Say what you will about waking up on the wrong side of the bed or making a fool of yourself immediately, at least they were harmless at the end of the day. Finding your untrained sister at your combat school was horrid.

It was even worse when you find out in the middle of combat with something that could easily kill her. That something, specifically a ton of thick armor, strong muscles, and glowing tail, all of which was held together by the power of hate. Of course, that was excluding the big bird that had chased her through what must have been half of emerald forest. That was no laughing matter either.

Yang took a deep breath, one of several attempts to keep from having a panic attack every time she looked at her sister, a scant few meters away from her, about to be accepted into a combat school with fake combat records. That was another thing that added to this clusterfuck of a scenario. The fact that she couldn't just reveal her sister's lies, else she be charged for fraud and serve out a lengthy prison term. Sure, it would keep her sister safe, but she wasn't sure that their family could afford that kind of pressure.

Even if she did tell the truth, there wasn't a guarantee that she would be believed, considering the surprising web of deceit that her sister had woven. Defeating a deathstalker that six students had issues dealing with tended to make seem qualified for the job, regardless of circumstance. There was also the whole Roman Torchwick deal that had happened, Blake being her informant of the basic details of that particular event. Yang couldn't even comprehend how Ruby had managed to hold off the notorious criminal, or on the other side of the coin, take the credit for holding off said criminal.

"Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Ruby Rose, and Lie Ren. You four collected the white rook pieces. From hence forth, you shall be team Junior, led by Jaune Arc". The boy in question nodded, maybe… the orange haired girl, Nora, slapped him on the back at roughly the same time. It was tough to call. Next to her, Ruby raised her open palm towards the last member of their team. After a moment's hesitation, his met hers, the impact making a loud slap noise as Ren attempted to get his hand back from Nora. The newly appointed team leader began to guide them off of the stage.

"Your room assignments have been sent to each of your scrolls. Your personal items have been delivered to them. If there are any issues regarding this, please see Doctor Oobleck. You are free to go". Yang shuffled as the crowd began to disperse, her red cloaked sister being drowned out in a sea of moving colors. The golden-haired champion internally swore as she followed her own team to their dorm room. Classes began tomorrow. She just hoped that nothing would happen before she could corner her sister over it.

I finally got the chapter done. Between taking a new spin on initiation while also keeping the content fresh, team displacement and names, and a limited amount of free time, this chapter took way too long to publish. Let it be known I tried to get this out much earlier.