Team DELV

Chapter 1: Half a team

It all began on a dark rainy day in the middle of nowhere, or to be exact, a couple of miles to the left of Nowhere, in a city known as Vale.

"Hey! Derrek! Derrek Entity! What are you doing?"

Shouted an annoying, long green haired, black-robed, 6'1 feet tall, 135 lb, (why am i describing all his characteristics in my head right now?) pale, and overly optimistic seventeen year old known as Eddie Digit from the top of a snow-covered tree in the Emerald forest. He was now (and sadly) my partner for the rest of the time i would be spending at Beacon.

"Cant you see?! I'm trying to get our bearings, in this stupid god forsaken forest!"

"Nope"

"Damn, can't you do anything?" I said.

He responded with "Yes, I can do something, i can kill."

" Eh, heh... well that's threatening, but how good are you at it?"

His voice became low suddenly "you're about to find out."

He was on the ground now, and I could hear howling and snarling, coming from nearly all directions. This did not sound comforting in the least.

"Dammit! Our Headmasters insane! Why would he send all these students out into the forest, at night, in the middle of the Winter during the horde season?" I shouted as we started to sprint in the only direction that sounded safe.

Eddie responded saying. "With so many people trying to get into Beacon, they need to figure out who's the strongest, smartest, and most skilled out of all these different students, they can't just let in every single wannabe hunter or huntress that comes to them with an unnecessarily over complicated weapon and a depressing sob story."

"Wow, But doesn't that seem a little harsh, even for a combat school" i said as i pondered over Eddie's severely altered composure and attitude, and his words on their situation.

"i could be wrong, but judging by the amount of Grimm we've seen so far in this forest, i don't think you could have the Selection Day at a time like this without a suitably dark and valid reason, and I guess that's Ozpin's motive."

" Oh God, they're getting closer! I don't want to fight these things!" I shouted.

Eddie objected, saying, " This would actually be a good spot for the fight, look at this clearing!"

We had just entered a large cleared space with trees knocked down all around, blood stains and burn marks scattered everywhere.

" *sigh* Its better than being in that tight forest i guess..."

We turned around and stopped running, preparing our weapons: me with dual chained pistol knives, officially known as "Mark Vl close combat pistols", and a white chain mail shirt, with Yellowish cargo pants with knee pads, and Eddie with two large broadswords with green cartridges on the inner blade, a black cloak, light green chinese shirt and tight black pants with metal stitched into the cloth.

Grimm flooded into the clearing, mostly beowolves but also some Ursa and boarbatusks, there were dozens of them.

I started to sweat. I knew i could take down a couple beowolves if i needed to, maybe i could even take half of these if they came in pairs, but this... This was too much, plus I've never even seen a live Beowolf Alpha. Let alone fought or killed one.

I looked at Eddie and noticed him smiling with Grimm determination. (HA! Grimm Determination! i crack myself up.) He looked like he was prepared to die. "The idiot didn't know a thing about Grimm! They would rip us apart if we made one mistake!"

Suddenly he turned and looked at me, saying "C'mon, we can take em! just use your semblance!" This was startling, i had completely forgotten about our Auras and Semblances! I hadn't even activated mine yet!

I let it pour out of me and around my body, cloaking me and warming myself right down to the bone, this was largely appreciated due to the intense cold. ( How could i forget about something so basic!)

The Grimm were finished studying us and they charged. We ran straight forward at them, side by side, almost like it was out of a movie. We hit them at full speed, Eddie hacking straight through the first one and i leaping right off its falling body, plunging knives straight into the top of an Ursa's face(God, does an aura help or what?!) The beowolves were all charging at Eddie but he held his ground spinning his strange green swords in intricate, deadly and very (circleish?) patterns, and then i saw his weapon really work! The swords were spitting acid! It looked like a scene out of a horror movie. Limbs flying and melted bodies tumbling all around.

Eddie was really starting to earn some respect from me.

I turned back to my work and nodded in contentment. Having a semblance that boosts your dexterity, flexibility, agility, and balance really helps out when you're the guy literally hopping from one Grimm to the next. I switched one of my knives to an automatic pistol and started blasting away at the Grimm running around the clearing, the dust enhanced bullets tearing right through their fragile bodies, dark thick fluid poring from the bodies as the dead started to fade, i hopped off the body of the fallen Ursa Major and ran through the already thinning carnage.

Eddie was still surrounded but it seemed like he enjoyed being in the thick of it, smiling and laughing as he chopped right through the mask of a boarbatusk, splitting it's face in then proceeded to whirl around slicing a Beowulf fully in half!

The Grimm were starting to retreat, but it was obviously only temporary, we needed to leave ASAP.

We started to run in the direction of the middle of the forest, Eddie inquired " Why are we headed in this direction?! It's just moving even further into this war zone! we'll be destroyed!"

I responded " While you were busy slaughtering Grimm I managed to come up with a theory that what we're looking for is most likely in the center of this forest. This seems more like a test of Strength and skill then a test of the mind!"

"So basically we need to get "the whatever he wants us to get", display ridiculous amounts of speed, endurance, strength and skill, and make it back alive?"

I thought about it and decided that was the gist of it "yup, pretty much."

We continued to jog in the general direction of the forest center, "Things are starting to look up" I thought to myself as the snow continued to fall.