[b]-Enyo-[/b]

Oh dear. It seemed she'd be flying in, sans wings. She wasn't concerned. She sighed, braced herself for the initial launch, and when it was her turn, off she went. She almost wished she'd brought a magazine or something to pass the time while she flew, but it probably would have been blown out of her hands. Before long, the treetops grew close. She threw her arms up and prepared her aura, crashing through the canopy and into the forest itself. Seeing a tree trunk growling close, she used her semblance to compress the air before her and change course, pushing herself away. She then kicked off of another tree, and used her semblance one last time to cancel out most of her downward momentum, the rest of her drop being far from threatening. She landed in a crouch, stood back up, took a moment to stretch, and then looked around.

"Anyone but Felix..." she repeated out loud now that she had no witnesses. "One... two... that way." She pointed in a semi-random direction that should take her in the direction of her final objective. She was sure she'd run into someone eventually if she just headed in the right direction.

[b]-Amalger-[/b]

"Might as well make a splash," he spoke to himself as he flew. As he reached the peak of his trajectory and began to head downward, he extracted a puck from his right weapon affixed it to the front of his left. Boosting his aura and semblance to the max, when he finally hit the ground, he hit it left fist first. To say he went in with a bang would have been putting it mildly. When the dust cleared, Amalger stepped out of a five foot wide, knee deep crater in the earth. The explosion had canceled out his momentum, and the mix of aura and semblance had protected him from the concussive force. "I guess I should add human meteor to my list of titles..." he mused and looked around. It seemed he'd landed by a clearing in the forest.

An inhabited clearing that was.

Within the clearing were two, no, three boarbatusks. They all eyed him rather intensely. It seemed a quieter landing may have behooved him, but it was too late now. He was in for a fight already. The first one charged at him rapidly, apparently eager to kill him. Amalger quickly loaded a puck into his right weapon's extractor arm and then flung it like a disc. It flew and hit the ground in the path of the charging grim, and then detonated when the beast was upon it. The grim tumbled and skidded to a halt a few feet from Amalger, who quickly stepped forward and then drove the massive spike of his left arm's weapon down into the beast's side, impaling it.

As he moved to pull the weapon free, the next boarbatusk charged. He pulled his weapon free in time to swing and swat the grim in the side of the head. It stunned the grim, halting its charge. He then quickly retracted the blade back into its housing, only to fire it back out full force, stabbing down and smashing it straight through the armored skull of the boarbatusk with a satisfying [i]crunch[/i]. The last boarbatusk curled into a ball and spun, launching itself at Amalger.

"Never a moment to rest with these things," he sighed and weighed his options. He didn't have much time though and quickly came to a decision. he extracted another puck, and this time left his blade partially extended, affixing this puck to the rear of the weapon. At the last moment, he jumped aside, and as the boarbatusk rolled by, he set off the puck, launching the blade completely out of its housing. It was like thrusting a stick into a bicycle wheel, except much more violent and nothing like that at all really, but long story short the boarbatusk was dead with 30 pound hammer-blade sticking out of its side.

With the threat over, Amalger took a deep breath and let his adrenaline subside.

"It does get harder than this, right?" he asked no one in particular. Well, according to his studies boarbatusks were hardly the most threatening of grim. The biggest issue was their armor, and his weapon crushed that with ease. So yes, he was sure it would get harder. If only he knew.

"Hmm, not bad. You'll do." Amalger turned around to see a short, blond girl standing behind him, arms crossed with a tiny smirk on her tiny face.

"Will I now? I guess I'll have to since we're officially partners. You're that violent girl, right? I don't suppose you're as good at stomping grim as you are at stomping the faces of your classmates?" Amalger asked her, a ponderous expression upon his face.

"If you can keep up, I'm sure you'll find out soon enough. This way." The girl pointed and began walking. "Oh, and I'm Enyo Allaway, partner."

". . . Amalger Brandt, a pleasure to make your acquaintance... partner." It seemed he'd picked up an interesting one, cocky as she may be. Oh well, she'd be sorted out by the end of this. Whether 'this' turned out to be this test or their time at Beacon in general was yet to be seen.

[b]-Randy-[/b]

Yes... any moment now... YES! It was her turn. Her heart leapt as she felt the plate beneath her feet jerk and send her flying.

"Wheeeeeeeeeee!" she cried out in wide-eyed excitement as she flew like a bird. A bird covered in armor, blades, and guns, but still. Well, as fun as this was, she figured she should probably start thinking about how to land. It wouldn't be so fun anymore if her flight ended with broken bones and/or death. She reached down to her hips and stuck her hands into her bladed gauntlets. She braced herself, crashed past the first few layers of branches, and then quickly took aim. She found a mid-level branch and fired the under-barrel cannon on her right weapon. A grappling hook shot out and clawed into the branch. She swung forward and heard the mechanisms in the weapon creak as they struggled to handle all of her forward momentum, but in the end they held. She reeled herself in and stood upon the branch. 

"Partner, partner, partner, where art thou?" she muttered, wondering where she should start.

[b]-Felix-[/b]

It was the most free he'd felt in a while. This was something he could control. With every person who became a speck in the distance, he felt a weight lift off of him. As he flew through the air, alone, he felt weightless... until he started falling, then he felt really heavy again. Heavy, but not afraid.

He gripped his left wrist, and then dragged forward, extending his metal gauntlet out over his left hand with a series of clicks. As he neared the first tree, he stuck his hand out, raking his claw against it, slowing himself ever so slightly. He repeated this on the next tree, slowing himself much more significantly. He then vaulted off the side of the tree, swung from a branch, landed upon and jumped from another, before swinging from one last branch and then rolling to a stop on the forest floor. 

He began carefully walking deeper into the forest until he heard a noise. His heart rate spiked, the soothing feeling of loneliness suddenly leaving him. He quickly a quietly moved to investigate and found a familiar face standing over a fallen foe. It was the girl, Aurelia. Was this to be his partner? Wouldn't they be an awful team though? But then again, she'd just proven that she could slay a grim. She didn't look all that nervous at the moment. Perhaps she was more calm in a fight, somewhat like him? Perhaps it would work, perhaps he'd at last found someone who could understand what he was going through!

Now he just had to make eye contact!

"Oh, hey!" Felix froze when he heard a voice. He looked over his shoulder to see a red headed girl waving at him. "I guess you're my partner then?" Wait, what? Oh, dust! He'd met her eyes, hadn't he? "I'm Randy Riley, boy's name I know, but it's not so bad! Now, what do you say we get going and finish this test and kill some grim?" she grinned. "Ah, but I guess this means I'm not partners with Melody..." She began talking to herself. "But then again, there's more than two to a team, so I guess there's still hope for that!"

This Randy girl was his partner. So far she talked way too much. He sighed, pouting, and looked over his shoulder. Aurelia had wandered off somewhere out of sight...

[i]'. . . FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-'[/i]

"Anyway, I think I recognize you! No no, don't tell me! I got this!" Randy squinted her eyes and grabbed her head, clearly thinking hard. "Fernando... Fred... Felix! Felix, right? There were a lot of rumors about you and that Enyo girl back at Signal. She's here too right? Maybe we'll run into her too!" Randy said.

[i]'-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-'[/i]

"So, which way should we go... umm... I kinda lost track..." Randy mumbled, looking at the ground and scratching the back of her head helplessly.

[i]"-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-'[/i] On the outside, Felix just groaned and pointed in the direction he thought best. [i]"-UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-'[/i]