Jaune looked around the forest, scanning for any grimm or other students. Even from his spot up in the tree he couldn't see much, the foliage much too thick, pulling Crocea Mors from the tree he started down from where he'd caught himself after being launched. As soon as he set foot on the ground he pulled his compass from the pocket of his jacket, Ozpin had said the ruins were in the north. After getting his heading, he started off hoping to run into Weiss along the way, it'd be easier for him if became her partner but he'd make do with who ever he ended up with.

Not even ten minutes later he could hear rustling in the brush, calmly he pulled his weapon from his back not even bothering to free the blade just as a beowolf burst from the bushes to his left, dodging it's first strike he proceeded to blugen it to death with the sheath of Crocea Mors. After the beast started to dissolve he replaced his weapon and reached into his pocket once again, this time he pulled a pack of cigarettes and lit one taking a long draw before heading north once again

Ruby was running as fast as she could, quite an impressive speed given her semblence, she was determined to find her sister. She only knew a few people here and didn't really want to be partnered with any of them Weiss was too angry, and that Jaune guy seemed like he had a few screws loose. She was quite honestly a little afraid of him, he had stopped Yang without any real effort on his part, and even their dad hadn't been able to do that and he trained her. Ruby snapped out of her thoughts when she heard someone up ahead, bursting through the undergrowth she skid to a stop, with the barrel of a gun against her head.

"Oh," Jaune said as he re-holstered his sidearm, "it's Ruby right?"

"Y-yeah, and you're Jaune, we met on the bullhead." Ruby looked up at him scared to say something that might set him off.

"Ah, yeah sorry about that, I was having a bad day, now we need to find the ruins." Stepping past Ruby she flinched when he patted her on the head, "come on kid let's go."

"Hey, I'm not a kid I drink milk." Ruby stated proudly, Jaune just chuckled and kept moving, pouting Ruby followed after him. "You know smoking's bad for you." Ruby stated as she saw the cigarette hanging from his mouth.

"I can guarantee you, I've been through worse than a coughing fit pipsqueak." He said over his shoulder, Ruby made a noise of irritation at the nickname.

"You don't have to be mean, I just thought I would let you know smoking's bad, my dad always told me to never do it." Ruby crossed her arms and looked away.

"Yeah I wouldn't know, my dad's been dead since I was a kid, never really was around much before then either." Jaune said without looking back, Ruby looked at him a sad look in her eyes.

"I'm sorry," Ruby stopped in her tracks, her gaze firmly on the ground.

"It's okay, you didn't know." He turned and placed his hand on her head, "come on munchkin, we still need to get a relic."

Ruby brought her gaze back to the man in the white military long coat, 'maybe he's not as crazy as I thought.'

Weiss couldn't be happier, upon landing she didn't have to walk far before finding a partner, Pyrrha Nikos walked behind her a clear look of disappointment on her face.

"I'm so glad we became partners, with our skills we will be the best team at Beacon." Weiss exclaimed proudly.

"I'm sure we'll be near the top, but there might be people more skilled than us here, best not to get our hopes up." Pyrrha replied in a slightly strained voice, Weiss didn't notice her tone and simply thought her humble. Before either could speak again a group of grimm burst from the treeline. They drew their weapons and prepared for a fight, only for the creatures to run past them.

"Get back here, I'm not done with you yet!" The former soldier they had met that morning sprinted by firing a handgun at the retreating beasts, as they got out of range he smirked before pressing the button on the side of the gun. The rounds that he had fired into the backs of the grimm detonated incinerating the beasts in seconds.

"Jaune, wait for me!" Ruby yelled as she cleared the treeline, how did he run faster than her? She stepped from the foliage breathing heavily as she, looked at her partner. Jaune pulled a magazine from a pouch on his hip before reloading his handgun, place the empty one where had removed the full. "How is it you're calm one second and crazy the next?" She asked neither of them noticing the two girls off to the side.

"Oh Ruby, I'm always crazy. I'm just good at hiding it." He replied with a smirk, hearing someone scoff to their left the two turned. "Oh, hi Weiss and Pyrrha, how long have you been there?" He smirking at them, Weiss rolled her eyes and Pyrrha chuckled into her fist.

"Can't you take this seriously Arc? Initiation is supposed to be about showing what we know." Weiss stated folding her arms across her chest and glaring at him.

"Really now? I thought it was supposed to determine our teams and partners. Usually a school, combat or otherwise, use test to see what we know." He said back, earning chuckles from Pyrrha and Ruby, and an irritated look from Weiss.

"Well," Pyrrha interrupted before the heiress and the soldier started really arguing, "now that there's four of us we should be able to make it to the ruins with much less hassle."

"Pyrrha's right, follow me." Weiss stated proudly, she had just turned to start walking when she felt a hand on her shoulder, turning she saw Jaune smirking at her. "What?"

"You're going the wrong way." He said simply.

"How do you know that? I'll have you know I was taught how to tell direction from the position of the sun." She crossed her arms and glared at him, until he pulled a compass from his pocket and showed her she was head south not north.

"I think my compass would disagree with you, plus it's still morning, if you were heading north the sun would be on your right not left." He said, no condescension in his voice. Weiss blushed realizing he was right and she had been leading Pyrrha in the opposite direction from the ruins. "Don't worry, it's an easy mistake for your first time being in the wilderness."

When they arrived at the ruins they were just in time to see four more students fighting a deathstalker, weapons drawn they charged into help. Even with the eight of them attacking and keeping the deathstalker from focusing on anyone specifically they weren't doing much damage, and they couldn't run because Jaune's group had yet to get their relics.

"Weiss," Jaune called as he dodged the grimm's stinger by mere inches, "can you freeze it in place?"

"Maybe, but it'll only be for a few seconds." The heiress replied as she readied her dust.

"That's all I need." He replied. Weiss fired her dust at the grimm as it brought its claws done freezing them to the ground. Taking his only chance Jaune dropped his sword before sprinting toward its face, hands glowing with aura. Just as Ruby was about to yell at him, he brought his hand together over his head before bringing them down on the beast's head.

A shockwave of aura erupted from his hand, blowing a hole in the beat's face killing it instantly. He turned back to the others a smile on his face, before he fell to his hand and knees, vomiting blood.

"Jaune!" Ruby screamed running to his side. He raised his hand to stop her short.

"Don't worry. Just a recent injury reminding me I'm not indestructible." He sat back against the ice that still held the decaying grimm's claws. "Just need to rest for a minute. Why don't you go grab our relic, I'll catch up in a second."

"Are you sure?" She asked, he might have attacked Yang on the bullhead yesterday, but he was still her partner and she didn't want him to be hurt.

"Yeah, I'm fine. This has happened a couple of times since my injury." He smiled, slight pain still showing on his face.

Still a bit hesitant Ruby nodded and walked over to the ruins with Weiss and Pyrrha, Yang followed to talk to her and the oriental boy stood talking to the short ginger some ways away.

"So," Jauned turned to the source of the voice, eyes hardening as he looked at the dark haired girl causing her to flinch, "how did you get injured?" She had asked more out of wanting something to say to the man who had killed a deathstalker with a single hit, then curiosity.

"Well I'm surprised you don't know," he said with venom in his voice, gaining a look of confusion from the girl. Lifting his shirt to show a jagged stab wound on his chest, "I mean you're the one who stuck the blade in my back." A look of terrified understanding that crossed her face as she realize why his voice was so familiar, he was a man she thought dead, and he knew her secret.

AN: Holy shit I'm back! Over a year without an update, I sincerely apologize for that. I'm not going to sit here and rant about my problems, so I'll just say some shit came up with my family and my life is pretty fucking hectic right now. I'm not going to promise more frequent updates because my life isn't going to settle down anytime soon, but I'll try. Until next time dear readers, remember to enjoy the good things in your life, because you never know when they'll go away.