[jjb2158]

It was a cold, brisk Autumn morning at the entrance to the Emerald Forest. Like any other morning, Oberon started it off with a canteen full of hot coffee in one hand and a lit cigar in his other. Taking a puff from his cigar and enjoying the warmth it provided, he blew the smoke out as he continued to wait. As much as he would've rather wanted to be in bed in the warm embrace of his wife, he knew his duty to Beacon required that he would have to sometimes forgo the warmth of his bed to be out early to train the next generation of Huntsmen and Huntresses. His duty was simple: to teach the students how to work together to achieve their objective and succeed their mission without any loss of lives. Though many teams would go through their four years here at the Academy with no losses, he knew that it wasn't always the case for every team, as his helper with today's mission knew all to clearly.

As if the mere thought of his helper was enough to summon him, Oberon heard the heavy footsteps approach his location. Not surprised he would come early... he thought, a slight smile creasing his bearded face. "So glad you could join us this morning" he said, his gruff voice breaking the morning silence. "Your mission today is simple: you will be sent to observe a newly formed first year team, team REBL. You are simply there to watch and make sure they fulfill their mission on a timely manner and make sure that none of them get killed in the process." Taking another puff, he blew it out into the cold wind. "Alban has informed me of what happened to your team and the crippling effect it has had on you" he continued, his eyes giving the giant of a man a sympathetic look as he activated his semblance. Pinning the man, Oberon watched as the student glowed a light blue color. "I can understand your hesitancy to not want to take on a mission where the lives of others will be placed under your custody again, but I personally chose you for this mission because you are the best suited fourth year for this. Now, do you have any questions?" Taking a sip from his canteen, Oberon waited for an answer.


Walking up towards the entrance of the Emerald Forest, Savas let his heavy footsteps echo through the quiet morning. It had been many months since his last mission, which ended with the death of his childhood friend, Vigdus, and the love of his life, Auburn. Those months had not been easy as his last teammate had decided to leave the Academy due to the trauma, leaving him alone to cope with everything as he went into his final year. If daytime wasn't enough to rack his mind with thoughts of his team, night time continued to wreak havoc on his mind as nightmares filled with watching Auburn devoured before his eyes continued to haunt his dreams. Many would've gone mad or gone into a depression from all this. However, Savas had grown accustomed to this type of things. His hometown of Frouri was renown to creating strong warriors, and where warriors were created, warriors would fall. Thus, Savas did the only thing he was trained to do...and that was to keep moving forward.

Seeing Professor Oberon at the entrance, Savas continued to make his way to the teacher, not hiding his presence from the Huntsman. Upon reaching Oberon, Savas listened to the man explain the mission. Cringing ever so slightly under his heavy lamellar armor set that he wore for today's mission, Savas clenched his teeth as the professor spoke about the death of his comrades. Putting his things down against one of the trees, Savas unharnessed Sandalphon and Metatron and leaned them against the tree. Regaining his composure, he turned to face Oberon. "Ngggrh, no questions here" he rumbled, his deep voice resonating through the trees. Folding his arms, Savas took a seat by the tree and waited for the first year students to arrive. All I can do is protect the younger classes so that they never face what I faced he thought as he let his thoughts stray to Auburn as he began to meditate to calm himself before the others arrived.

[Dead_Proxy21]

The smell of gunpowder and plastic explosives could be smelled as Eva walked towards the area specified in the packet she got on her scroll. It was obvious that she looked like she was up all night preparing her gear and ammunition, even going so far as to make a few remote detonation rounds for her grenade launcher. She saw the professor and someone else. She kept her pace as she approached the Professor.  "Hey teach, beautiful morning isn't it?" The light of her cybernetic eye was a little dull as she had it on morning mode to prevent excessive light messing with her vision.

[Leycil]

Lucillé walked into the area specified. She made sure she was all prepared, aura fully recovered, fan blades nice and sharp and oiled. She grasp her two fans and shifted her bag, the throwing glaive neatly tucked in along with the folding pole. She sees two men and the awful smell of gunpowder overpowers her nose. Then she sneezes, indirectly accidentally annoucing the weasel's presence.

[Nooguy]

A soft sigh of relief left Robin as she stretched, soft pops and cracks leaving her as she worked the last dregs of slumber and sleep from her body. The redhead's morning had been rather routine, having awoken at an early hour to go through some practice sparring with simple dummies at the academy's sparring arena as well as go through maintenance on her equipment. The activities were more to help her mind calm itself with the rather big event of the day rather than train her abilities or skills. A stop by the dining hall to grab a simple sandwich and apple was the last detour before Robin made her way toward the meeting place near the emerald forest. The student's armor glinted faintly in the sunlight of morn, Haven collapsed along her left forearm, Reprisal collapsed within its holster near her back, and her small satchel of munitions fastened just beneath Reprisal. Even as she walked, butterflies fluttered through her stomach causing the girl to take a deep breath. "Relax Robin you're getting yourself worked up. Nervousness and uncertainty are shallow barriers, don't let them impede your will." She spoke softly to herself, echoing words her mother used to tell her when growing up and when at Signal. With another breath the young girl made her way to the entrance of the emerald forest, steeling herself as she looked forward to the challenges not only she herself would face, but her team as well. Robin wanted one thing and that was to help those she worked with succeed, and she planned on doing exactly that.

Soon enough Robin saw her destination, a few others standing and waiting having already arrived before her. She recognized one figure at a distance being Professor Falcov, an outright titan of a man visible even from her distance, and two others whom she knew to be of her team. Giving a friendly wave as she arrived, Robin smiled as she finished her bite of apple. "Good morning everyone, Lucille, Eva, Professor Falcov, very large and silent man." She greeted in a friendly tone, nodding to her teammates and the professor, her tone slightly amused as she looked to Savas. "Hope all had a pleasant sleep." She added as she took a seat on a nearby rock, munching on her apple as she enjoyed the peaceful silence of the morning air and the nearby forest.

[jjb2158]

Watching as the first student came to the meeting spot, Oberon pulled out his Scroll to review each student as they arrived. "Ahhh, you must be Eva. Good morning to a fine day indeed" he replied, activating his semblance and "pinning" her. As she glowed a light orange color to his own eyes. Hearing the sneeze from another newcomer. Looking down at his Scroll to see who the newcomer was, he gave a slight smile. "And you must be Lucille. Glad you could make it" he said, his gruff voice echoing slightly through the quiet forest.

Just as he finished "Pinning" Lucille, a third student came into view so Oberon proceeded to "Pin" her as well. "Good morning Robin" he said, looking at his Scroll again to make sure he didn't get her mixed up with the last of the group that hadn't arrived yet. "Pinning" Robin so that she also glowed the same light orange color as the other two, Oberon deactivated his semblance for the time being, though the students still glowed for his own eyes to see. "Now we wait for the last student to arrive. For now, allow me to at least introduce myself to each of you. My name, as Robin pointed out, is Professor Oberon Falcov, and I am the Team Strategy teacher here at Beacon. And this "very large and silent man" that you see behind me...." he said, motioning towards Savas, "...is Savas Carnellian. I will explain why he is here later once the last student arrives so, for now, go ahead and get situated while we wait."


Listening to the cheerful greetings coming the first year students, Savas all but ignored the students until Oberon introduced himself to them. Hearing his name being said, Savas opened his eyes and gave each of the first year students there a hard, deathlike, glare that would make a stone cringe. Despite the fact that he was sitting, his eyes were near level with each of the students due to his sheer size. "Ngggrh..." he snorted, his horn above his nose, indicating his faunus heritage, pointed at one student then at the others as he switched his gaze to each person there. This is only a mission...no point in trying to get acquainted with any of these people... he thought, closing his eyes again as he continued to meditate and clear his head of the myriad of thoughts that flashed through his mind of Auburn.

[ArosFarron]

Liliana ran up to the group. "Sorry I'm late. I had a slight wardrobe malfunction this morning." She explained panting, her outfit not really matching. "One of us forgot to do laundry so I had to mix and match stuff." She caught her breath and walked up to the meeting point in full.

[Dead_Proxy21]

Eva looked at all the others that showed up. She wouldn't know how they would work together but she decided to run with it until a problem came up. The only one person that gave her a slight irk was the girl who just got here. "Great one of those. I hope I don't have to hear her complain about her breaking a nail, or I swear I am gonna burn this forest down." Eva thought as she focused on her weapon. The iris of her cybernetic eye turned red as she proceeded to check her weapons.

[jjb2158]

"So good of you to join us Liliana, albeit a little bit late" Oberon replied, nodding his head in her direction and 'Pinning' her with his semblance also. "Tardiness is not acceptable so please make sure you're well prepared the night before. This will affect your grade, but we shall discuss that at another time."

Taking a breath from his cigar, he blew the smoke out into the cool air. "Now that everyone is here, let's begin with the mission briefing. First off, my name is Professor Oberon Falcov and I am the Team Strategy teacher here at Beacon. This also means that I am the one who helps oversee the creation of teams as well as running their team initiations. Today is one of those days: the four of you have been selected to form Team Rebel. With that said, today's mission for you is a test to see how well each of you will be able to work together as a team to accomplish a single goal."

Taking a sip from his canteen, Oberon paused briefly to let his words sink in. "Your mission today is simple: about three days ago, a caravan had left the city to bring supplies to one of the neighboring towns. We were informed yesterday that the caravan had not reached the town and so we are going to send a group to aid in the search of the caravan. Your mission today is to go out on the same route that the caravan went and see if you can find it. Upon finding it, you will then escort it to the village, unless it is too damaged in which you will escort it back to Vale." Looking at each student individually as he paced in front of them, Oberon again took a pause to let the words sink in. "Due to the possibilities of there being an overpopulation of Grimm in the area or a group of rogues who may have attacked the caravan team, I have requested that an upperclassman accompany you on this mission. Behind me sitting is fourth year student Savas Carnelian." Pointing behind him towards Savas, Oberon continued his speech. "He will be accompanying you, though he will mostly be there to observe as that is his mission. Unless the situation arises where he needs to intervene and help, he will simply be there to watch."

Pausing in his pacing in front of them, Oberon stood with his arms folded across his chest. "You will have until the end of today to accomplish this mission. Should you not find the caravan by the end of today then you are to come back and your mission will be fulfilled and finished. Now, any questions?" Hearing the footsteps behind him of Savas walking up, Oberon arched one of his eyebrows as he waited for the student's reply.


Listening to Oberon speak, Savas kept his eyes closed as he took everything that the teacher was saying into account. More than likely, this mission would either mean the first years either going up against a large quantity of Grimm or having to go up against a group of marauders or thieves. Probably the White Fang...cursed group that's giving all of us faunus a bad rep... he thought, a scowl crossing his face.

Upon hearing his name being mentioned again, Savas opened his eyes. guess that's my cue he thought. Gathering up his things, Savas stood up and made his way over to where the teacher was standing. Reaching the group just as Oberon asked if anyone had a question, Savas simply stood on the teacher's side, his lamellar armor clinking slightly as the metal pieces hit each other. Looking down at the small first years who stood before him, Savas decided that silence would be the best answer for himself and continued to stand like a lone mountain amidst a few small trees, his scowl looking like a ridge breaking through the mountainside and a penetrating stare that would make the ground beneath him weep.

[Dead_Proxy21]

(It's been a little over two weeks. I'm gonna jump the order)
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As Eva was hearing the Professor give the debriefing for the mission details and checking her gear. She accidentally pulled the trigger of her weapon while it was in its grenade launcher form, forgetting that it was loaded, aimed at the Professor. Luckily, she always keeps unknowingly putting beanbag rounds while it's in that form. As she hears the gun go off a horrified look comes across her face.

"I'm gonna get expelled. I'm gonna get expelled. I'm. Gonna. Get. Expelled." Those words started racing through her mind.

[Leycil]

(Sorry guys I was out of action for like forever! I'm so sorry!)

Lucillé trembled at the thought of how many Grimm could have overtaken the caravan as she listened. She grabs her fans tightly and her tail shifts. But she gave a nod to show she understands as she flips her hair back.

[jjb2158]

Looking at each of them in turn, Oberon's attention was grabbed as he heard Eva's gun go off. Quickly transforming Hamia to it's shield form, he lifted it up and effortlessly blocked the beanbag that flew his way. "No, Eva. You may not want to use beanbags as your ammunition." he remarked, his eye twinkling slightly as he smiled at her. "Seeing that the rest of you are rather quiet, you are all dismissed. Savas will lead the way." Retracting Hamia back into its bracer form, he moved to the side to allow the group to pass into the forest.


Standing there wait, Savas was quickly alerted when he heard a gun go off. Watching as the beanbag ricochet off Oberon's shield and fall to the ground, Savas' brows furrowed deeper as he stared down the first year who seemed a bit too trigger happy at the moment. What a pain... he thought irritably as he heard the professors amused remark. Seeing that they were dismissed, Savas all but ignored the others as he began walking off into the forest. What a bunch of novices...hopefully they won't do anything too stupid while on this mission... he thought as he began scanning the forest for any signs of them being watched.

[Nooguy]

Robin paid close attention to Oberon as he spoke and detailed out the group's mission, her mouth more interested in munching on her apple at the time. A concerned frown washed over the youth's face  as she began to ponder exactly what had resulted in the caravan's absence. Robin was jolted from her thoughts, eyes going wide in surprise, as Eva incidentally fired her weapon. The sudden sound caused the redhead to jump slightly, doing a quick juggle to keep her apple from falling onto the ground before regaining control of herself and looking between the professor and student. Much to her surprise Oberon didn't give any sharp tongued reprimand for such an incident, especially considering the lack of any other round could have resulted in a rather nasty explosion with the group included. While Oberon seemed to just give a lighthearted remark, the very large, very stoic gentleman appeared to have a rather different albeit quiet opinion on the matter.

With the professor's send off Robin headed off not too far behind Savas. Munching the last of her apple, the redhead tossed the bare core to the side for nature to take care of the rest, dusting her hands off as she looked to the rest of her team, and back to the silent titan that was to be their protective chauffeur of sorts. Not one to be silent amongst her teammates, Robin looked around at the other three before speaking. "Well seeing as we're going to be working together how about we get to know one another? " She asked, glancing over at Eva, then Liliana, and finally Lucille before her eyes fell upon the large faunus before their group. "Savas feel free to join in. I'm sure one of your experience has some wisdom or words to share." She remarked, rather curious if the faunus was even capable of speaking outside of stoic stares and snorts. As she spoke Robin threw her gaze around the group's surroundings as well, keeping an eye out for anything of concern or danger whilst she spoke.

[Dead_Proxy21]

Eva sighed in relief as she emptied out the ammo from her grenade launcher. She loaded flechette rounds in and stowed her gun as she started taking off with the rest of her teammates