A/N: After you and the other students land in the Emerald Forest, you face off against the vicious Grimm that inhabit it.

You were soaring through the air after having been launched off the cliff. You were merely just waiting to land since you figured there wasn't much of a point of just flying at the moment unless really needed. Plus, it wasn't like the landing would hurt anyway.

Jaune: ahhhh!!!!!!

You turned your head saw Jaune still falling helplessly.

(Y/N): I'm sure he'll make the landing.

He was spinning a bit.

(Y/N): Then again, I can tend to be wrong at times.

You maneuvered yourself through the air to Jaune as he was still falling. You reached your hand out to him.

(Y/N): Don't worry, Jaune. I've got......

Suddenly, a javelin got Jaune by his hood and stuck him to a tree.

(Y/N): I've don't got you.

You looked and saw he was on a tree, hanging from the javelin.

Jaune: Thank you!

Pyrrha: I'm sorry!

You soon stopped yourself in mid-air and floated as you saw Pyrrha Nikos in the distance from another tree. You then turned your attention back to Jaune.

(Y/N): Need a little help there, buddy?

Jaune: Huh? Oh uh....I'm good. I'll be able to get myself out.

(Y/N): Um .....are you very positive on that?

Jaune: Oh yeah, I mean ....I totally got this.😅

You simply gave a light sigh.

(Y/N): if you insist. I won't argue about it.

You said before descending deep inside the Emerald Forest. Once on the ground, you looked around the area to see if anything else was there.

(Y/N): Hm .........doesn't seem like anything else is here from here I'm standing. Eh....don't matter. Just focus on find the relic thing and then getting the hell out of here.

You started to walk as a serpentine-like Grimm with two heads was slithering behind you. One head was black and the other was white. It was a Grimm known as a King Taijitu. It kept slithering closer and closer behind you while you continued to walk. Just as both heads of the beast were about to attack. You turned around and slashed off both of its heads with a ki blade.

(Y/N): There was not a chance a serpent of that size would be able to try and sneak up and NOT make a sound.

You said before continuing to walk through the Emerald Forest for a while, some of the Grimm tried to attack you, but you knocked them aside or blasted them with ease. However, you were annoyed how many of them there were that were attacking you this whole moment.

(Y/N): No wonder they have trouble with these things, they like glorified ants!

You then heard a yell that wasn't too far from where you were standing. It sounded like Weiss.

Weiss: Ruby!

(Y/N): Why am I not surprised that the first person I'm coming into contact is the grouchy princess?

You headed to the direction of where you heard Weiss yelling. You started to hear the sound of slashes and growling.

(Y/N): Good grief, are the two of them just straight up fighting now?

You looked past a push a saw Weiss going toe to toe with a Beowolf.

(Y/N): Nope, just a case of bipedal wolf.

Weiss dashed forward with her weapon at the Beowolf in front of her, but Ruby suddenly appeared 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!

You were amazed by her speed.

(Y/N): Damn, that's some impressive speed.

Weiss was caught off guard and screamed as she quickly had to stop, swinging the sword in a random direction and creating a line of fire that set a nearby tree ablaze, followed quickly by the rest of the forest around the clearing.

(Y/N): I best tend to that!

Ruby was distracted by Weiss' mess-up and the same Beowolf scratched at her weapon, knocking the younger girl into Weiss.

Ruby: Hey, watch it!

Weiss: Excuse me! You attacked out of turn! I could have killed you!

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

The duo wielded their arms as the pack of Beowolves whine and growl around them. However, multiple purple beams went right through all of the Beowolves skulls, killed them all. Ruby and Weiss looked to the direction of the beams and saw you standing from out of the bush.

(Y/N): Hey.

Ruby: Wow.

Weiss: You.

(Y/N): Please, no need to give any thanks for the assistance.

Weiss: We didn't need your help. We could've handled them ourselves.

(Y/N): oh, so I guess Ruby is your partner then?

Weiss: Wh......what?! I never said that! She was only helping me with a simple problem, that's it.

(Y/N): If it was simple, then couldn't you have handled it yourself?

Weiss: Yes, but it would've been much faster if I had a small assistance. Though, it would've been better if it were someone else.

Ruby: Hey. ;-;

(Y/N): Whatever. I can never understand you Tsundere personality types anyway.

Weiss: HEY!!!!

(Meanwhile).

Pyrrha Nikos managed to help Jaune out of the tree and now they were walking through the forest.

Jaune: Uh .....tha........thanks back there.

Pyrrha: It was the order I could do to help.

Jaune then heard a noise far away and turned his head.

Jaune: Did you hear that?

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

They keep moving forward with Jaune still staring in the direction of the sound as Pyrrha raised a branch to pass by and accidentally released it right at Jaune's face, flooring him instantly.

Pyrrha: Jaune! I'm sorry!

Jaune laughed as he lowered his hand showing a gash from where the wood hit him.

Jaune: It's okay. Just a scratch!

He stood up.

Pyrrha: Why didn't you activate your Aura?

Jaune: Huh?

Pyrrha: Your Aura.

Jaune: Gesundheit.

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

Jaune: Psch! Of course, I do! Do you know what Aura is?

Pyrrha smiled at him and started to explain what Aura was.

Pyrrha: 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?

Jaune: Uh ...yeah.

Pyrrha: With practice, our Aura can be our shield. Everyone has it, even animals.

Jaune: What about monsters?

Pyrrha: No. The monsters we fight lack a soul. They are creatures of Grimm, the manifestation of anonymity. They are the darkness, and we are the light.

Jaune: Right, that's why we fight them!

Pyrrha: It's not about why; it's about knowing. Understanding dark and light helps us manifest our Aura. Everyone has some of both.

Pyrrha: 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.

Jaune: Oh, It's like a force field!

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

Pyrrha started walking up to Jaune and touched the side of his head.

Pyrrha: Now, close your eyes and concentrate.

Jaune: Uhh ...Okay.

Pyrrha smiled and closed her own eyes as well. Her skin soon glowed and her irises shrunk before shutting them again. The two stood there, now with Pyrrha having glowed a faint red and Jaune a bright white.

Pyrrha: 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.

She placed a hand on his chest.

Pyrrha: I release your soul, and by my shoulder protect thee.

Pyrrha stopped glowing red and hunched over in tiredness.

Jaune: Pyrrha?

She started to get back up.

Pyrrha: It's all right. I used my Aura to unlock yours, but the energy that protects you now is your own. You have a lot of it.

Jaune: Wow...

(Meanwhile).

Somewhere else in the forest, Ren was walking through tall grass before coming to a stop. He narrowed his eyes and looked around him while a different King Taijitu rose up from the grass behind him and quickly surrounded him with its large, hissing body. 

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Ren adopted a sighting stance as the snake coiled together in front of him and attacked with its long fangs. Ren leaped out of the way, the King Taijitu's mouth hitting the ground and instantly came up again to hit him back with its snout. He landed in a crouch when the serpent encircled him again, and he unleashed his StormFlower before jumping up and firing at the creature. He even managed to kick the serpent Grimm's snout and slashed at its head. This angered the beast as it soon tried to flow around Ren and bite him again, but he flipped over it and drove his weapons into its head. However, the King Taijitu's white head rose up behind him.

Ren: ?!

He turned and looked up at the white head as it launched itself at him. He dodged it and landed just in time to see the head slither towards him. As it got closer, he ran at it and leapt onto the black head, sliding over its body and blasting the other head. But Ren was unprepared for the white half to hit him with its head, knocking him off as he dropped his weapons, and leaving him to merely raise his arms and distantly cry "No!" to the mouth of the black head. He was holding the front fangs of the King Taijitu in his hands, glowing a faint, pulsating pink as he gripped the teeth and yanks them from the monster's mouth, causing it to flail away. It attempted to bite him again, but Ren had spun to the side and stabbed a fang into its eye, rotating his arm to deliver a final blow that drove the makeshift weapon into its skull, which rippled, expanded, and blew apart in a dark mess as its headless body falls over its fellow creature. Wasting no time, Ren runs right at the white head and finishes it off. After that, he stood atop of the body of his enemy before sliding the weapons into his sleeves and brushing them off before a strange animal-like noise is heard above him twice. He looked up and met eyes with Nora, who was upside down.

Ren: I still don't think that's what a sloth sounds like.

Nora cutely booped Ren's nose.

Nora: Boop!

A/N: Nora Being cute.