A/N: It has come to my attention that I need to space things out more. Apparently, my story is getting a bit hard to read with the never-ending text. To those of you who feel this and just didn't want to voice the issue, I'm sorry. To the person who brought this to my attention, thank you. I used to space my paragraphs by sections, but I think that doesn't really work. Going forward I am going to try some different things to fix this, please let me know what you think so I can improve it. Also, punctuation. I am apparently a huge fan of comma's… sorry. I like to type how I talk, and I use commas to symbolize pauses in my speech. I will try to stop this so that sentences make more sense.

Please send in your OC's so I can include them in the story… I haven't received any. My account says that I'm at over 1000 views in total. So like… one of you… please. If I don't get them soon, I won't be able to incorporate them in the story early on and will probably only be able to work them in at the breach or at the Vytal Festival.

Anyways, that's enough of my ranting/bitterness/begging. You all came here to read a fanfic, and a fanfic you will get.

POV – Percy

I woke up to my alarm at 7:45. This gave us all just over an hour to get up and ready for our class at 9AM. I quickly shot out of bed and began to nudge everyone awake, which turned out to be quite dangerous.

As it turns out, Kat isn't really a morning person. As soon as I began to nudge her shoulder, I took an elbow to the kneecap. 'Thank god I'm tall.' Was all I could think to myself after that incident. Shortly after we all got out of bed, we all took quick showers and got changed into our school uniforms.

After Kat got out of the shower it was about 8:20, and we were all ready to go to the cafeteria for breakfast. On our way down, I began to tell my team about our day. "Alright guys, first up is Grimm Studies with a Professor Port" I informed them. "That class starts at 9"

Kat looked the absolute most enthusiastic out of all of us. (Sense the sarcasm there?) "Yay, a morning class. At least it's an interesting topic." She said tiredly.

Her brother looked over at her then laughed. "She is going to be like this until she gets to, at least, her second cup of coffee." He informed us. With that comment, Kat began to drool at the scent of it as we came up to the cafeteria.

"Oh thank god they have real coffee for us." She exclaimed. She then started to sniff the air. "It even smells like a Dark roast from Mistral." At this point, there was no denying the fact that she lived off of coffee. I also came to the conclusion that I am never getting between her and her morning cup of coffee.

"You do know that there is a coffee maker in our dorm room, right?" Katie asked the girl. Immediately, Kat looked like she would die from happiness while her brother wanted to kill Katie.

"aaaaahhhhh shit. You shouldn't have told her that. Now she is never going to stop drinking it." Cam scolded Katie.

"Well it's too late now. I am just going to have to set a curfew for when she is allowed to make her last pot of coffee." I said to the group while piling my plate high with pancakes, eggs, and bacon. I waited for my friends to come over and finish grabbing their food, and in Kats case, coffee.

When we found a free spot, I looked over at the group and said, "We have about 30ish minutes before we have to get to class. So, lets eat up and get ready for an interesting first day." While I said this, I was pouring a ridiculous amount of syrup onto my plate.

"What are you doing?" Kat said while raising an eyebrow. "Your drowning your pancakes."

I looked back at her and responded in a completely serious tone. "I can't drown, and neither can my pancakes." At this point Katie died of laughter while the twins looked confused.

"What do you mean you can't drown?" Cam asked, wondering what the reason is. "Is that your semblance?" at this point Katie and I couldn't stop laughing.

By the time we managed to calm down, 10 minutes had passed. "It's just an inside joke, don't worry about it, alright." I told the two of them. They seemed to take the answer well. Katie and I took the next 10 minutes to quickly eat our food and get ready to leave.

Before we went out, I noticed that Pyrrha and her team didn't make their way to the cafeteria at all. 'I guess they slept in' I thought to myself. "Hey guys, the class is in building B, Classroom 1024. I'll catch up to you in a few minutes. I forgot something at the cafeteria." After telling them where to go, I went back to the cafeteria in order to grab some food to go. I knew that all of the first years had the same schedule, so I could give Pyrrha some food in class.

After grabbing a few cereal bars, an apple, and two cups of coffee in go cups. I put the food as well as some stir sticks, sugar packs, and cream into a bag to carry it. After that, I quickly made my way to the class and saw that my team was set up right behind Team JNPR. Katie had conveniently made it so that there was no room for me, leaving the only available seat next to a heavily breathing Pyrrha. I sent a glare in Katie's direction on my way over and she winked at me as I took my seat next to her.

"Enjoy a morning run or something?" I asked her while commenting on why she was winded.

"Yes, it turns out that we woke up late. We all had to run here from the dorms." She said. "Unfortunately, that also meant skipping breakfast." As she said that, her stomach growled in a way that rivaled Nora's. I looked at her and smiled while putting down the food bag and the two coffees.

"I guess it's a good thing I noticed that you all missed breakfast then." I told them as I began passing around the food to Pyrrha and her team.

"Percy, thank you. You didn't have to though." Pyrrha said gratefully while I also slid over the extra coffee to her.

"it was my pleasure." I told her with a smirk.

Before Pyrrha could say anything else to me, class began. At this point, it became extremely obvious that I wasn't going to be able to pay attention in this class, so I'll probably just buy a Grimm Bestiary and read whatever Grimm comes up for each unit.

While Port was talking, I looked over to team RWBY and saw that Ruby was acting somewhat like I used to during classes. As I watched, all I could think was 'God, I hope I wasn't that bad when I was in school.' I was quickly brought out of my thoughts by something the Professor finished saying. "The moral of this story? A true huntsman must be honorable. A true huntsman must be dependable. A true huntsman must be strategic, well educated, and wise. So, who among you believes themselves to be the embodiment of these traits?"

Just as he finished asking the question, I decided to raise my hand. As I raised my hand, I noticed that Wiess shouted out that she did while raising her hand. Port looked at the both of us with a vicious smile. "Well then, let's find out." He stated then gestured to two crates that somehow showed up next to him. "Step forward, and face your opponents."

Wiess stepped out of the class quickly in order to get her weapon. I simply walked up to the front of the class and waited for the girl to get back because I always have my weapon on me. It didn't take too long for her to get back because this class, as well as the combat class, are both in the same building as the locker-room for easy access.

When she got back to the class, she continued to act entitled and assumed that she would be going first. I figured I should just humor her so that I can get on with my life and gestured for her to go right ahead and stepped off to the side.

As Wiess got into her ready stance, her team sent some quick cheers her way. She, however, decided that Ruby wasn't allowed to cheer as she quickly yelled at Ruby to shut up. "Ruby, I'm trying to focus."

After that outburst, I felt it necessary to say a few words. "Hey, if you're gonna be a bitch, then do it to everyone. Not just the person who got the job your entitled ass thought should have been handed to it on a silver platter." I snapped at her.

"Hey, you can't say that to me." She immediately yelled back at me.

"Why not, you're being an ass. A complete bitch, now shut up and pay attention because Professor Port is about to open the cage." I quickly responded. Her reaction was the best part. At the beginning, she was turning beet red, then at the end, she looked like she was going to explode.

Just as I finished my comment, she looked ahead and saw Port bring his axe down and cut open the first cage. It slammed open and revealed an armoured Boarbatusk that was angry and ready for a fight to the death.

The first thing the Grimm did was charge ahead at full speed. Wiess reacted by spinning to the side and sending a slash into its heavy-duty armour. 'Really… a slash?' I thought to myself with amusement. 'She's using a Rapier, slashing will do next to nothing, she should try stabbing more.'

I was brought out of my thoughts by Port making what sounded like a smartass comment. "Oh, a new approach. I like it." As he said that, I looked over to what he was talking about and saw Wiess trying to wrestle her sword out from between the tusks. 'and that is why you should never put spikes in your crosspiece. It can get quite messy.' I thought to myself.

My musings were interrupted by Wiess getting distracted, yet again. When it happened this time, her sword went flying across the room. She then got slammed back by the small, armoured Grimm. "Oh hoho" Port laughed. "now what will you do without your weapon?" She looked up to see the Grimm charging at her and in turn, me, as I was standing behind her. She dove out of the way and made a break for her weapon while I just hopped up onto the low barrier and raised my legs as the Grimm sailed harmlessly into the wall and fell.

While the Grimm got up, Wiess grabbed her weapon and then proceeded to yell at Ruby for giving her really good advice. "STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO!" I was definitely going to embarrass her and rip her a new one in front of the class. Ruby looked like she'd just been slapped and began to slouch into her seat.

The Boarbatusk began a spinning roll attack and Wiess made two glyphs, one to stop it, and one to jump off of and attack from. The Grimm proceeded to slam against the first one, and then fall onto its back. She quickly took advantage and jumped up onto the second glyph and launched herself at the Grimm. She plunged her Rapier into its belly and killed the Grimm.

"Bravo, Bravo." Port stated. "It appears that we are indeed in the presence of a true huntsman in training." He stated.

I snorted in laughter and everyone began to look at me. "Definitely in training, HA." I said out loud.

"Why do you say it like that Perseus?" Port asked.

"To start, this whole thing began with her losing her temper, her first mistake. Her second was trying to slash at an ARMOURED Grimm with a rapier, a very thin STABBING weapon. Third, she kept removing her attention from her opponent. Fourth, she doesn't accept assistance well, even going as far as to yell at her team leader for giving her good advice. The fifth and final thing that she did wrong that I noticed, was that she used more energy than needed. The second glyph she used to jump off of was useless, she could have stabbed it just as easily by taking the two steps forward to the Grimm." I scolded her.

Wiess looked like she was about to erupt, but Port cut in before she could freak out. "That is true, however, this is the first day." He stated. "You all came here to learn, and that is what she will do."

"yes," I conceded to the point of coming here to learn. "but we have all already been into combat. Our initiation was in the Emerald Forest, A place teeming with Grimm. If she ran into more than one Boarbatusk, hell Just a Boarbatusk and any other Grimm in existence, and she would have died." I took a second to look her in the eyes. "She needs to figure out either how to use her weapon and semblance properly, or change things up. Because if she goes out into combat as is, she stands no chance for survival." I finished off.

"Hey!" Jaune yelled at me. "What gives you the right to talk to her like that." I looked at him like he was stupid, but then noticed that Pyrrha was oogling at him for standing up for Wiess. I felt a little sad that the girl I liked was eyeing up a different guy.

"Simple, Jaune. I know what I'm talking about." I told him, then looked over to the teacher. "Professor, would you be so kind as to open the cage for my fight" I finished by striding over to the middle of the room, My coat billowing behind me.

Port proceeded to begin the match by bringing his axe down on the lock. "Begin!" he shouted out as the door slammed open. After the door slammed open, an even more heavily armoured Boarbatusk charged out. I responded to the charge by stepping to the left and planting my feet at the last second and grabbing its right tusk, pulling it to the side. This change in momentum caused the Grimm to fall over while I still had a grip on its tusk.

I proceeded to hold it down by its right tusk while walking around to its front. "I can tell her how easy it should have been Jaune," I stated coldly while looking at Jaune. I planted my foot onto its shoulder to hole it down while grabbing its left tusk. I then finished my sentence to Jaune. "Because I can Kill one unarmed, within ten seconds." With that, I wrenched up and back with its tusk, and with a sickening crunch, its neck snapped.

Jaune looked like he was about to be sick, and Wiess looked like she was now ashamed of herself. After my display, Professor Port began to speak again. "I'm afraid that's all the time we have for today." He told the class. "be sure to cover the assigned readings, and stay vigilant. Class dismissed." After that, Wiess stormed out of the class. Ruby quickly followed to check on her teammate. 'they're gonna argue' I thought to myself.

I went over to my desk and was broken out of my thoughts by Pyrrha. "Why do you treat Wiess with no respect?" she asked me. She looked like she was angry with my behaviour.

"I treat her that way because she doesn't deserve respect." I told her. She looked at me like I had grown a second head.

Before I could say anything, Jaune cut in. "Of course she deserves respect. She is a huntress in training. You're just mad because she is probably better than you."

I barked out a laugh at his statement. "HA! Like I would be jealous of the combat skills to struggle against a single Boarbatusk." I remarked. "Now please don't butt into conversations that you aren't a part of. If you want to know what we talk about, then ask Pyrrha about it later. Until then, please leave." I told Jaune.

I then looked over to Pyrrha. "To answer your question more fully, she demands respect, she hasn't earned any from me." I told her. She looked at me with the silent question to continue in her eyes. I quickly obliged. "The only thing that I have seen Wiess do, is bitch and complain that she is surrounded by those she is better than, and belittle those that have earned their place in the world. She thinks that because she is the Schnee Heiress, she must be treated like royalty. The moment that she does something to earn my respect, I will show her that respect." I finished the conversation there. "I won't see you till combat class later today, So I'll see you later. And try not to miss lunch."

After Grimm Studies, my group went to a good, fun old geography class with Professor Terra. The hour-long class passed by without any real incidents. After that was our hour-long lunch break. At lunch, we ran into Velvet and her team. Much to the confusion of Kat, the teams name was Team CFVY AKA coffee. It was really funny.

"While we're on the topic of coffee. Kat, you aren't allowed to brew any coffee after 9PM. That way you're done drinking by 10." I told her.

She looked at me like I had just ended to world. "NOOOOOOOOOOOO! You can't do this to me. I need coffee." She pleaded while grabbing fistfuls of my shirt. At this point everyone was laughing hysterically.

"It's not up for negotiation. We all need sleep. That means last pot is brewed by 9, and no more coffee after 10. I told her." After that she decided to sulk in her seat while drinking ridiculous amounts of coffee and eating food. Both of out teams were getting along really well while we picked on Katie and Velvet to make them blush. Nothing cruel or anything, just some good-natured sex jokes and quick comments to make them blush.

Lunch quickly came to an end, which brings us to our three-hour long combat class to finish our day off. "I wonder how this class is going to work?" Katie asked to no one in particular.

"Ya, me too." Kat said. "I wonder who teaches it?" Cam finished off. They didn't have to wait long in order to get the answers to their questions as Professor Goodwitch walked into the class.

"Good afternoon class, I'm Professor Goodwitch and I will be conducting your combat classes throughout your stay here at Beacon." She told the class. "This class will be conducted as a sparring class where I will randomize who is sparring for each portion. While a group is sparring, the rest of you will watch, and analyze each others technique. This ensures that you aren't always fighting, and get some time to observe ways that different fighting styles can be used effectively."

After her little speech, she went on to explain the nitty-gritty details as well as where we can quickly get into the locker-rooms as well as access the arena part of the class from the locker-room. "Now, our first spar today will be between," She paused and looked down at her screen. "Sky Lark, and Katie Gardner."

At this, I looked over at Katie and smiled. "Go get'm" I told her while giving her a pat on the shoulder.

"I'll be sure to show velvet just how well you do" Kat said with a smirk while holding out her scroll. Katie Blushed a bright red and quickly ran to the locker-room to save herself anymore embarrassment. After about 5 minutes, Sky and Katie both came out, both armed to the teeth.

Sky was wearing some plate-mail armour like the rest of his team. His weapon of choice looked to be a simple halberd with nothing special about it. Katie came out with her full Greek Style armour on and her weapon in its crossbow form. They both got into the ready stance while Sky said something to Katie. "Y'know, you should probably just stay at home like a good little bitch. All that you're probably good for is cooking and cleaning anyways." He said quietly enough that if you didn't have advanced hearing, you wouldn't have heard him.

Katie sent him an impressive glare that made him flinch and then made her own comeback for everyone to hear. "Oh that's really creative of you, telling me that I belong as a housewife." She remarked so everyone knew what he said. "But please, just tell me this one thing? Is that pole to compensate for you impressively small dick, or your lack of courage to get close." She said with a smile.

After that Goodwitch had a grin on her face as she shouted "Begin!"

Katie started off the match very quickly using her Earth dust crossbow bolts. She used the automatic fire setting and created a set of walls on both sides of Sky. She finished off by firing another one directly at him. He easily dodged to the side. "HA, you missed!" he shouted to Katie, who was still smiling.

"Yup, and now you're trapped." She told him right back.

As he realised the situation that he was in, he quickly panicked and tried to find a way out, but the walls were too high. His only way out was forward, right into Katies waiting arms. He couldn't even use his weapon properly due to the narrow passage.

Once Sky came to his conclusion, Katie switched her weapon into its scythe form and began firing some orange dust (A/N Lava Dust. Don't ask, I looked up the dust types and this came up as one of the actual types.) arrows at Sky using the slower fire rate of the scythe form. When Sky dodged the arrows, they exploded into small pools of lava and began funneling him out of the tunnel while slowly depleting his aura.

As he panicked about what to do, he made his way to the entrance. He stood at the ready as soon as he reached the opening so that Katie didn't have a chance to attack, but while he was focusing on her, the lava pool crept up from behind him and burned the back of his legs. He leapt forward with a cry of pain and put his attention to the danger behind him, forgetting about the combatant in front of him.

Katie took this opportunity and lunged into action. She started with a horizontal sweep so that he could either stay still and block while in the lava, or jump further into the lava. He chose to block the blow and then used the blows momentum to launch himself out of the danger of being melted. At this point, he glanced up to the screen and saw that it showed him at 60% while Katie hasn't been touched.

He returned his focus to Katie and began to try and use his reach against her. "What's the matter?" Katie asked with a smug smile. "having some performance issues?" she continued with an innocent smile. This sent Sky into a flurry of attacks that she blocked with a visible show that she was actually having to pay attention to the fight.

Eventually she was able to get another comment in as Sky was pausing to look for an opening. "It's okay, stamina is a common issue among boys your age." She told him with a sweet smile. The rest of the class was laughing hysterically at her banter. "of course, if you keep finishing this quickly, I don't think anyone is ever gonna stay too long with the likes of you." She finished.

As she said her last comment, Sky went over the deep end and began to let his anger control him. "I'm gonna crush you for that!" he yelled at her while making a mad lunge to her torso.

She gave him a quick retort to make him angrier while making a move of her own. "I think you need to figure out that you can't crush things with a blade." She told him as she batted his thrust to the side with the staff of her scythe. She followed up the parry with a spin to the side with two vicious slashes to the side of his head and neck while finishing the move with a flourish, sending the pointed but of the handle into his back, making him fall to the ground.

She took this opportunity to look at the display and see that she was crushing him. He hadn't even touched her, and he was almost out of the match, with his aura at 37%. She looked back at him as he was trying to get up and took the two small steps to clear the distance between the two. "Now that I've made you my bitch, how about you be a good dog and stay on the ground" she grunted out at him as she slammed the staff point onto his back and then kicked his gut, sending him flying back into the lava.

After about 5 seconds of his pained yelling from the heat, the buzzer sounded, signaling the end of the match due to low aura. As that happened, Professor Goodwitch used her telekinesis to pick the poor boy up out of the lava and dropped him off a safe distance away from it for his aura to heal him. She then looked at those assembled as all of the lights turned back on.

"As you can see, Ms. Gardner took advantage of her opponent's weapon and created an environment in which it was ineffective. She furthered the effectiveness of it by using another form of dust to create a trap where her opponent's aura is constantly drained while they can't focus on both the trap, and their opponent at the same time. This intelligent use of dust made her first match here at beacon, a flawless victory. Congratulations." She told the class, looking at Katie for the last part.

After that, Katie went to get changed quickly along with Sky. While the two of them were doing that, Goodwitch looked at the class to announce the next match. "The next matchup will be Katherine Halsey vs. Pyrrha Nikos." I was excited to see how this match goes.

"I don't know how well this is gonna go guys." Kat said nervously. "There's a reason she's called the invincible girl. I'm gonna get my ass kicked."

"Don't think like that." I told her to cheer her up. "even if you're going lose, make her work for it. Your going to just roll over and take what she gives you?"

"Hell no." She responded with a smile on her face.

Cam clapped her on the shoulder and looked her in the eyes. "Good, now go kick some ass." He told Kat.

She quickly left and got changed. As her and Pyrrha were coming out into the arena, Katie made a reappearance. "This is going to be an interesting match." She said while we congratulated her on her win.

We quickly quieted down as the lights dimmed and the arena lights brightened. "May you fight well, and this be a fair fight." Pyrrha said to Kat with a smile.

"to be honest though. Is a fight against the invincible girl ever really fair?" Kat replied.

"I guess we shall soon find out." Pyrrha said. And with that, the match began.

Pyrrha made the first move, she brought Milo up in its rifle form and fired at Kat. Kat turned her second Khopesh into a tall, shield. She used the shield to block while she turned her first one into a hand crossbow. Kat loaded in explosive, fire dust bolts. She quickly popped out from behind her shield and fired an arrow right beside Pyrrha to throw off her aim. After that, she began advancing and firing more arrows so that Pyrrha couldn't shoot.

Kat quickly ran out of arrows. Instead of reloading, she changed the crossbow into the khopesh and engaged in close quarters. Pyrrha turned Milo into a Xiphos without a cross guard and advanced. As they fought, they became a flurry of slashes and blocks, Pyrrha was slowly gaining the advantage. They broke apart and both took a second to check their aura. Pyrrha was at 75% and Kat was at 55%. Kat shifted her shield into her second khopesh and prepared to go back into the fight. Pyrrha shifted Milo into a spear and once again, they clashed.

As they came together, Kat made to slash with her offhand, Pyrrha blocked with her spear and then went to bash her with the shield. Kat moved to the side and managed a slash at Pyrrha's exposed side. After that, Kat began to get the upper hand. Kat began closing the gap in their aura. Suddenly though, Kat began missing all of her hits.

As Kat began to miss her swings more and more, she kept getting angrier. As this happened, she made more mistakes, leaving openings in her guard. Pyrrha capitalized on this and regained the advantage. She used her shield to block all of Kats strikes and used her spear to capitalize on all of the openings. By the time Kat hit 25% she lost it and began to use her Semblance.

As it turns out, Kat can create and control fire. She began to throw balls of fire at Pyrrha, but it could only last so long. Pretty quickly, Pyrrha closed the distance and laid the smackdown on Kat. Shortly after, the buzzer sounded and the match was over. Kat with her aura at 14% and Pyrrha at 45%.

"that was a great match. I hope that we can spar again sometime in the future." Pyrrha told Kat after she had calmed down.

"Ya, it was pretty fun. Until that end there when you put a beatdown on my ass." Kat told her with a smile as they walked out to get changed.

After that, I didn't really pay attention to the matches because no one I knew was fighting that I haven't seen before. Eventually class finished and we all went to get dinner together. After dinner, we all went back to our rooms. As it turns out, we are only three doors down from teams JNPR and RWBY. After we got into our rooms, we began to talk about our combat abilities so that I could plan for future battles.

"So obviously Kats semblance is fire." I said to the group, stating the obvious. "Got all hot and bothered because you couldn't get your hands all over Pyrrha eh?" I finished with a smirk.

At this Kat blushed. "It's not like that. I-It just seemed like My attacks had a mind of there own." She stuttered out.

Katie smiled and looked between the two of us. "It's okay Kat. He's just jealous that you could tap that fiery red ass before he could." She said while winking at me. It was my turn to get flustered now.

"N-no. Th-That's not why I said that" I managed to say.

After that sentence, the team burst out into laughter at my embarrassment. After the laughter died down, we got down to business. "Okay, so me and Kat both use shields and Cam and Katie both use polearms. So, in combat, we can pair off with Kat and I taking the attacks while you two," I said gesturing to Cam and Katie. "can deal damage from a distance, using us as a mobile cover."

After that, we began to figure out the nitty gritty details of our physical combat abilities. After that, we moved on to talk about the twin's semblances. "As you know, my semblance is fire. I can create limited amounts and control fire so long as it exists." Kat informed us. Then Cam continued. "And I can control the air. It's really useful with throwing people off balance in combat or directing my arrows. My personalized Glaive makes for very fluid, spinning combat that is enhanced when I add the air to it."

"My air control also makes aiming with my arrows almost perfect. What do the two of you have for semblances?" he asked. Katie and I looked at each other, then back at the twins. "We don't actually have our semblances unlocked yet." I told them, then Katie finished. "But we hope to get all of that fun stuff soon." Shortly after that, we went to bed, getting ready for the days to come.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX – TIME SKIP! – XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

The next week passed by in the blink of an eye. I've been trying to flirt with Pyrrha every once in a while, but it looks like she only has eyes for Jaune. The only thing I can do is try. Jaune still doesn't like me for how I treated Wiess at the start of school, I really don't get how he got into this school. I've started getting along with Wiess better because she learned from her mistakes and started to earn respect.

We all got to learn a few things about Grimm, if you can notice the actually useful bits in Ports stories. Combat class has also been going really well. I've only had really easy fights, and so has Katie. We are both currently marked as untouched. This is because we both haven't lost any aura in our classes, although we have been hit.

No one knew that we both don't have our aura unlocked, the screen is only measuring how much we have, and not how much is actively used. This really changed though when I was set to spar against Pyrrha in class. The invincible girl versus one of the untouchables.

"Good luck out there Percy" Katie told me.

"Ya, try not to get too banged up out there," Kat told me with a smirk.

"Unless that's what you want Pyrrha to do to you" Cam finished with a smile at my blush.

"I-I-I'm just gonna go now." I sighed in defeat. They have gotten really good/bad with their jokes.

I walked down into the changeroom and quickly got into my armour and grabbed my weapons. I saw that Pyrrha was almost ready while I was just finishing up. I went over for a nice little talk before our match began.

"Hey, are wondering how much people are gonna bet on this fight." I asked her with a smile. She turned around to look at me and laughed. 'Gods I love that laugh.' I though to myself.

"I think that this will be a very interesting spar." She told me. "Good luck out there, and don't hold back." I held out my arm for her to grasp. We locked forearms and smiled at each other.

"Then I expect the same from you too." She told me with a grin. With that, we both walked out to the arena for the spar.

"You all know the rules. When the buzzer sounds begin." We didn't have to wait too long, the tension in the room could be cut with a knife. The buzzer sounded and we sprang into action. The blessings from Apollo told me that she was going to start with a stab.

I took my shield and parried the movement to my left and opened up with a slash of my own, but Pyrrha was expecting my counter and blocked with her own shield. I took advantage of her exposure and punched my shield into her ribs, knocking her back and giving both of us some room.

She smiled at me and turned Milo into a spear and put her shield away. I nodded at her and turned my shield back into a gauntlet and then turned Riptide into a trident. I flourished riptide into motion and rested it at my side, prepared for the next move.

After a few seconds, we both sprang into action again and locked weapons. We broke apart and she thrusted in my direction and I parried it to the side. She then spun around and tried to slash at my exposed side. I locked Milo within the prongs of my trident and twisted it towards me causing the spear to fly from her hands. I turned my weapon back into a sword and went on the offensive, keeping her away from her own weapon.

I delivered multiple blows to her arms and body while she tried to use her shield to defend herself. Eventually, I looked up at the board to see our aura and saw that I was at 100% while she was at 70%. She used my brief distraction and made way to her weapon and got ready for more.

I rushed over to her and made a diagonal slash at her and as she moved out of the way my sword veered slightly off course and threw me off balance. Pyrrha used this opportunity to punch me in the face and move out of the way.

I was still confused about my sword having a mind of its own and made to attack again to keep the pressure up. As I went to parry one of her slashes to my head, I felt a pull on my arm and suddenly my arm moved too fast and she landed a slash from my nose to my jaw.

Her sword cut cleanly through my face as blood splattered onto the arena floor. Pyrrha looked horrified at what she had done. "I-I-I didn't mean" she began before I cut her off.

"It's not your fault. It was my choice to enter the ring" I told her.

I reached over to calm her down but she flinched away while dropping her sword. I quickly grabbed her arms and pulled her in so that she could look me in the eyes. "Hey, hey, look at me. Look at me." I insisted. "This is not your fault. I'm okay, you have nothing to worry about, alright." I said, staring into her eyes.

"I'm sorry, I didn't think that your aura was that low." She told me after a few seconds of calming down.

I smirked at her, now knowing what had her worried. "It's okay, you didn't take out my aura. You didn't take things too far." She looked confused as I said she didn't take out my aura. I continued talking before she could say anything. "My cousin and I both don't have it unlocked yet."

After my statement, Pyrrha's jaw dropped. She was completely speechless, and so was the rest of the class. At this point, I was intentionally repressing my healing abilities from the blessings of Apollo. After a few seconds, the class exploded in a flurry of comments. Ranging from "He's totally lying." To "Holy shit, they've been in combat class for a week without aura."

Goodwitch finally collected her thoughts and addressed the class. "Class is over early for today. Please go to your dorms and study for your other classes." She told everyone. After dismissing the class, she walked over to us and looked at the cut across my face while my teammates and team JNPR came over. "Ms. Nikos, Please escort Mr. Jackson to the school's infirmary to get this stitched up."

"Of course. We'll go right now." Pyrrha told the Professor. As we walked out, we were joined up by both of our teams. Pyrrha pulled me along in the direction of the infirmary. "Were you lying when you said that you don't have your aura unlocked?"

"Nope." I told her with a smile on my face. "Why do you think my cousin and I make it such a point not to get hit." At this point she couldn't even for coherent thoughts while the twins looked furious with me and Katie.

"Why the hell didn't you tell us you don't have your aura?" Kat was practically yelling in Katies ear.

"hey, hey, hey. Careful with the yelling near the ears." Katie told her while holding her hands over her own ears. "We didn't think it was relevant. Ozpin found us fighting Grimm in the forest and we killed them all without getting hurt. Now we go to school here." Katie told everyone.

As she said that, we came up to the infirmary, it wasn't that far from the combat classrooms for obvious reasons. "It's not like we got all of our scars because we were protected by a shield of aura." I stated to them all. "All of our friends and family fought side by side with us. No safety nets, no semblances. Just our weapons, skills, and planning. People died all of the time."

As we waited for a nurse, the others mulled over what we had said about safety nets. Eventually a nurse came over and looked to see what had happened to my face. She immediately set to work on stitching it up. In the end, it only took an hour to go through the whole process. After that, we all left for supper together.

After we all parted ways for the night, I went for a walk to clear my head. My thoughts kept drifting back to the fight with Pyrrha. I kept thinking on why my sword kept moving of its own accord, then I thought about how during Kats match, she suddenly started missing all of her attacks. When I thought about that, I started to list off the similarities of the two matches in my head. Soon I realised that it was Pyrrha that was moving our weapons and that her semblance must have something to do with manipulating metal.

My thoughts were soon cut off as I ran into Pyrrha sitting on the ledge of a roof crying. I quickly walked over making sure that she heard me so that she didn't panic and fall. "Hey, what's wrong Pyrrha?" I asked her, concern clear in my voice.

"Oh, Percy." She responded, surprised. "I'm sorry. It's just that I hurt you today in class-" I quickly cut her off.

"You don't have to worry about me." I assured her. While I was saying this, I grabbed her hand and gave it a comforting squeeze. "believe me when I say that I've had much worse. I've shown you some of my scars. Fighting without aura is a risk that I've taken for most of my life." Before I could continue, I was cut off by my scroll buzzing. I saw it was a text and opened it up.

"Please grab your teammate Katie and meet me in my office." – Ozpin.

I looked over at Pyrrha. "Sorry, I have to go. I'll see you in the morning. Cheer up, I'm perfectly fine." And after that, I gave Pyrrha a hug. We split apart, both of us blushing as I got up and left to grab Katie to go to Ozpin's office.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX – Itty Bitty Time Skip – XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

After I met up with Katie, we began to make our way to Ozpins office. I looked over to her and started talking in Greek. "I think that we should come completely clean about our past to Ozpin." I stated.

Katie looked like she was thinking about the idea before she replied. "I think you are right." She told me. "It would be useful to have someone in our corner to help us with our situation." After that, we finally arrived at the office. The doors slid open and we walked towards Ozpin and Goodwitch.

"I am glad that you could join us so quickly. It has come to our attention that you both haven't actually unlocked your auras." Ozpin stated. "I believe that this is something that we should rectify quickly, so as to avoid more injuries in class."

I nodded my head while Katie made to reply. "I think that that would be best. After that is done, Percy and I have something else that we'd like to talk to you about."

Goodwitch quickly made to approach us while replying to Katie. "If that is the case, then we should get this over with quickly so that we can move on to your topic of interest." After that she stood in front of us as Ozpin grabbed my head and put a hand on my heart, Goodwitch did the same with Katie. "Now close your eyes and clear your minds."

With that, both Katie and I closed our eyes as Ozpin and Goodwitch spoke in unison. "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. I release your soul, and by my shoulder, protect thee."

After that, there was a blinding combination of blue and green Light mixed with silver. When that happened, I relaxed my control over my blessing of Apollo and immediately felt the gash on my face heal completely.

When that was over, Katie and I looked at each other and smiled. Both of us were relieved that we now had a way to shield ourselves from harm when our skills weren't enough. We also both remember that we can use our aura to boost our speed, strength, and stamina. We quickly looked over to Ozpin and Goodwitch.

I gave them an awkward smile as I looked at the both of them, "Now, Katie and I wanted to come clean about something." I stated. "we weren't exactly telling the whole truth when we said we weren't from around here." I started to awkwardly scratch the back of my head as Katie took over the rest and explained the whole story.

A/N Alright, I finally finished this chapter. Sorry for taking so long to finish it. I just felt depressed and had zero confidence in my abilities, then I had a stupid amount of coffee today and realized that I don't actually give a shit what other people think about me so I finished it. I'm gonna move onto the next chapter right away, hopefully it will be done soon. Totally not sorry about the end of this chapter though. I think I'm just going to skip the whole explaining their real past part and summarize it in the next chapter as them proving it by showing some of their powers. Anyways, that's it for now. Until next time, Greatatthinkingbadatwriting.