3rd Pov

We open to an overhead view of the Emerald Forest as the camera pans down into the misty underbrush, where Yang Xiao Long is walking and looking around.

Yang:*calling out* Helloooooooo?*not seeing a shadow quickly pass by* Is anyone out there? Y/n? Ruby? Mostly Y/n? Helloooo?*stops and raises her arms* I'm fuckin' getting bored here!*hears a rustling in the bushes behind her and turns* Is someone there?*the rustling continues as Yang comes over, peaks inside and bites her bottom lip* Heyyy Y/n, that you~?

A low, inhuman growl is heard, and Yang's head rises up as she stares at the creature.

Ursa 1: Nope! Thanks bitch you wasted my appetite!

Yang quickly rolls to the side as an Ursa 2 charges out of the green. She gets up and activates her Ember Celica, staring at the monsters before another Ursa runs out behind her. She leaps over it, and its companion runs at her again, only to get knocked back by a fiery punch.

Ursa 2: Ow! Why you little!

Ursa 1:*sitting on a rock* You know she's not worth it, right?

Ursa 2 and Yang charge at each other, and Yang manages to get under it and deliver several punches and a kick to send the creature back.

Ursa 2:*in pain* Mother-

Ursa 1: You know what? Fine. Ignore me.*leaves*

Yang: You guys wouldn't happen to have seen a girl in a red hood and a tall hot guy with lots of guns, would you?*the Ursai merely growl at her* You could just say "no".

Ursa 1:*in the distance* No!

Yang:*to Ursa 1* Thank you!

Ursa 1:*in the distance* No problem!

One of the Ursai stands on its legs and swipes at her twice, Yang barely dodging the attacks.

Yang:*laughing* Missed me......

Before she can complete her insult, a single strand of her golden hair falls in front of her face and lands on the forest floor.

Yang:*getting pissed* You...

Yang closes her violet eyes, then opens them to reveal red, making the Ursai look at each other confusedly before Yang screams.

Yang:*pissed off* YOU BASTARDS!!!!!

Ursa 3:*scared* Oh shit, not good.

An inferno surrounds Yang for a moment, and she rockets forward, unleashing a devastating combo of flaming hits and blows on the offending Ursa 3, making it fly through several burning trees. The Ursa 2 just looks at the madness in shock, but stops short at Yang's gaze while a tree falls to the ground behind her.

Yang:*pissed off and pointing at Ursa 2* YOUR DEAD, SON!!!!!

Ursa 2:*yelps* Ah!

Yang:*pissed off* YOU MOTHERFUCKING DEAD, SON!

Ursa 2:*screaming like a little girl* AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH-*gasps and holds chest where its heart is*

Yang:*confused* What happen? You good?

Ursa 2:*is having a heart attack* I can't feel my left arm.

Ursa 2 makes a befuddled noise, falling down a second later to reveal Blake Belladonna with her Gambol Shroud ready to it, but died before she could land a blow.

Yang pants in exhaustion while Blake recalls the weapon to her back, sheathing it and smiling to the side.

Blake:*to the audience*We should've filmed that right?

And now I need flex tape.

Yang, now purple-eyed again, speaks to her new partner over the smoking remains of Ursa 2.

Yang:*pointing to Ursa 2's remains* You gonna eat that?

Blake: What?

Yang: What?

The scene suddenly changes to Weiss Schnee's predicament from the end of "Birdie, No!", deflecting the swipe from a Beowolf with her Myrtenaster and getting pushed back into the middle of the beastly circle. She holds out her sword as she goes through her dueling motions and practices.

Weiss's Right brain: Remember your training, Weiss. Head up, shoulders back, right foot forward-

Weiss's Left brain: Not that forward!

Weiss's Right brain: Shut up! Slow your breathing, wait for the right time to strike, and... 

Weiss:*brings her rapier up, the revolver spinning* Now!

Weiss dashes forward with her loaded weapon at the Beowolf in front of her, just when Ruby suddenly appears between the two in a blur of rose petals and a swipe of her Crescent Rose scythe, landing a hit on the monster.

Ruby: Gotcha!

Weiss widens her eyes and screams as she quickly has to stop, swinging the sword in a random direction and creating a line of fire that sets a nearby tree ablaze, followed quickly by the rest of the forest around the clearing.

Ruby, distracted by Weiss' mess-up, is barely defended when the same Beowolf scratches at her weapon, knocking the younger girl into the heiress.

Ruby: Hey, watch it!

Weiss: 'Watch it!' Excuse me! You attacked out of turn you little shit! I could have killed you!

Weiss's Left brain: I mean....

Weiss's Right brain: No murder!

Ruby: You'll have to try a lot harder than that to kill me.

Weiss: Why did you say that like, it was a completely normal sentence.

The duo wield their arms as the pack of Beowolves whine and growl around them. Ruby reloads her scythe just as a flaming tree falls near them.

Weiss:*grabbing Ruby's arm* Oum give strength. We have to go!

She leads Ruby out of the blaze as it engulfs the grass and sets the Grimm to running back the way they came or suffering in the fire.

Beowolf that's on fire: STOP, DROP AND ROLL! STOP, DROP AND ROLL!

Ruby and Weiss stop a safe ways from the smoke and flames. Weiss leans over and pants as Ruby looks behind her.

Ruby: What was that?! That should've been easy! Also swear jar!*pulls out swear jar*

Weiss: Well perhaps if you had exercised even the slightest amount of caution with the placement of your strikes, I wouldn't have set the forest on fire!*puts five lien in the jar* Also where did that jar come from?

Ruby:*scoffs* What's that supposed to mean? And my pocket.

Weiss: I'm just surprised someone who talks so much would communicate so little during an encounter!

Ruby: Well, I'm sorry you need my help to win a fight. I'm just fine on my own!

Weiss: Well, congratulations on being the strongest child to sneak your way into Beacon. Bravo!

Weiss begins to walk off on her partner yet again. Ruby, with an agitated shriek, unfolds Crescent Rose, slices a tree down to the stump, refolds it back, and follows her partner as the tree crashes behind her. Neither notice the large dark feather floating onto the fallen trunk behind them.

Meanwhile across the Forest, Pyrrha Nikos, armed with Miló and Akoúo̱, and June Arc are making their way through the bushes. June hears a noise far away and turns her head.

June: Did you hear that?

Pyrrha: Gunfire and swearing. It seems some of our comrades have encountered the enemy.

*BANG*

Y/n:*in the distance firing Nevermore* CAN GET A HELL YAH!?!?!

Cherry:*in the distance* HELL YAH!!!!

Pyrrha: And Y/n.

June: Was that Ruby?

They keep moving forward, June still staring in the sound's direction as Pyrrha raises a branch to pass by and accidentally releases it right at June's face, flooring her instantly.

Pyrrha:*looking back behind her* Ah biscuits, June! I'm sorry!

June:*laughs, lowering her hand from her cheek to reveal a gash from the wooden recoil* It's okay. It's just a scratch!*gets back up when Pyrrha approaches her*

Pyrrha: Why didn't you activate your Aura?

June: Huh?

Pyrrha: Your Aura.

June: Gesundheit.

Pyrrha: June, do you... know what Aura is?

June:*waves the question off, avoiding eye contact* Psch! Of course I do! Do you know what Aura is?

Pyrrha smiles at her and gets ready to explain as the scene changes to Lie Rin's trek through the forest's tall grass.

Pyrrha (off-screen): Aura is the manifestation of our soul. It bears our burdens and shields our hearts. Have you ever felt you were being watched without knowing that someone was there?

June (off-screen): Uh... yeah.

Pyrrha (off-screen): Wait really?

Rin stops and narrows her eyes, looking around her while a huge black Grimm serpent rises up from the grass behind her and quickly surrounds her with its large, hissing body. Rin adopts a fighting stance as the snake coils together in front of her and attacks with its long fangs.

Pyrrha:*back on screen, walking around June* Moving on. With practice, our Aura can be our shield. Everyone has it, even animals.

June: What about Grimm?

Pyrrha: No.

Switching back to Rin as she leaps out of the way, the snake's mouth hitting the ground and instantly coming up again to hit a jumping Rin back with its snout.

Pyrrha: The Grimm we fight lack a soul. They are the manifestation of anonymity.

June: Wha?

Rin lands in a crouch when the serpent encircles her again, and she unleashes his StormFlower before jumping up and firing at the creature.

Pyrrha: They are the darkness, and we are the light.

As Rin kicks the snake's snout and slashes at its head.

June (off-screen):Right, that's why we fight them!

Pyrrha (off-screen): It's not about why; it's about knowing.

The snake flows around Rin and tries to bite her again, but she flips over it and drives her weapons into its head, pausing a moment without sensing the serpent's white head behind her.

Pyrrha (off-screen): Understanding dark and light helps us manifest our Aura. Everyone has some of both.

Rin turns and looks up at the white head as it launches itself at her, dodging it and landing just in time to see the head slither towards her. As it gets closer, she runs at it and leaps onto the black head, sliding over its body and blasting the other head.

Pyrrha (off-screen): By baring your soul outward as a force, you can deflect harm. All of our tools and equipment are conduits for Aura. You protect yourself and your soul when fighting.

Rin is unprepared for the white half to hit her with its head, knocking her off as she drops her weapons, and leaving her to merely raise her arms and distantly cry "No!" to the mouth of the black head.

June:*opens her eyes with the revelation* It's like a force field!

Pyrrha: Yes, if you want to look at it that way.

Rin is now holding the front fangs of the colossal snake in her hands, glowing a faint, pulsating pink as she grips the teeth and yanks them from the monster's mouth, causing it to flail away. It attempts to bite her again, but Rin spins to the side and stabs a fang into its eye, rotating her arm to deliver a final blow that drives the makeshift weapon into its skull, which ripples, expands, and blows apart in a dark mess as its headless body falls over its fellow creature. Wasting no time, Rin runs right at the white head.

Pyrrha:*walking up to June and touching the side of her head* Now, close your eyes and concentrate.

June:*complying* Uhh... Okay.

Pyrrha smiles and closes her own eyes, opening them as her skin glows and her irises shrink before shutting them again. The two stand there, now with Pyrrha glowing a faint red and June a bright white.

Pyrrha:*mentally speaking* For it is in passing that we achieve immortality. Through this, we become a paragon of virtue and glory to rise above all, infinite in distance and unbound by death.*placing a hand on her chest* I release your soul, and by my shoulder protect thee.*she stops glowing red and hunches over in tiredness*

Jaune:*still glowing, concerned* Pyrrha?

Pyrrha:*getting back up* It's all right. I used my Aura to unlock yours, but the energy that protects you now is your own.*grins as she watches the scratch close up and vanish* You have a lot of it.

Jaune:*smiling and looking at her hands as the glow stops* Wow.......You think I could tank a missile?

Pyrrha:*deadpans* Let's not get crazy.

At the same time, Rin stands atop of the body of her enemy, sliding the weapons into her sleeves and brushing them off before a strange, animal-like noise is heard above her twice. She looks up and meets the upside-down eyes of Nora Valkyrie.

Rin:*chuckles* I still don't think that's what a sloth sounds like.

In response, Nora gives her friend a "Boop!" on the nose, causing her to smile and the scene cuts to black.