So...I'm personally very proud of myself for this chapter. When I started to write it I never thought it would get as long as it did, but as I kept writing it I couldn't get myself to stop. People will notice that I am a bit more liberal with the breaks in this chapter, but that is to manage differing perspectives as things in this chapter go on. I hope people like this one, but either way thanks for reading up to this point!

"No one else is at all weirded out by all of this?" Yang asked the rest of the group standing in the elevator as it descended back to the base of the tower. They had given it a few minutes, at Ozpin's suggestion, to let Frost cool off before having him go with them to one of the school's facilities once they found him. Ozpin needed to head over there and prepare a few things while the girls went searching for Frost, to which he had taken a different lift down than the girls when they all decided that it had been enough time to wait.

"A lot of the things we've done in the last few months would be considered weird, Yang." Weiss commented curtly as Blake and Ruby nodded in agreement. "Between the initiation upon reaching Beacon, our classes, the tests, the trips, and some of the run-ins we've had with criminals recently, our lives as Huntresses has been nothing but unpredictable."

"Isn't it great?!" Ruby squealed as the lift came to a halt and the doors gently slid open before them. "We're not even done our first year of training, and we're already kicking butt and taking names! Just like real Huntresses would!"

"I'm pretty sure most of those in training wouldn't have had to try and stop a train leading Grimm into the city or a large-scale Dust heist on the docks all in the span of a few months, though." Blake stated coolly as they all turned to face the courtyard and a sudden snapping sound, like that of stone breaking.

"What was that?!" Weiss snapped as they all quickly hurried towards the sound they had heard, eventually coming across Frost as they looped around the statue in the centre of the large open area. They all immediately took note of the cold expression on his face, and that of his fist pliantly firmly in the statue a ways, cracks spider-webbing outwards from the point of impact. "What did you do that for?!"

"Huh?" Frost started as his expression calmed before he glanced over to see the girls all looking at him with varying degrees of shock, surprise, and/or anger. "Oh…hey girls…didn't see you there." Frost briefly struggled with his stuck gauntlet for a moment before it eventually came loose, taking a few small chunks of granite and foundation with it before he shook off any of the dust and debris. He put on a small smirk as he placed both hands calmly behind his head. "They don't make statues quite like they used to, huh?"

"Why…I…you…" Weiss stuttered as her gaze flickered between Frost, the hole in the statue, and the debris sitting at his side before she turned her steely gaze directly to Frost's cocky expression. "How dare you deface such an important monument to this school! Do you not have any sense of respect for what people do here?!"

Frost relaxed his arms at his sides as he spun and stretched out the limb that had recently been embedded in solid rock. "More than you think, actually. Hunters and Huntresses are the sole reason we're here right now, and not hiding in the woods and mountains of Remnant trying to hide from the Grimm as they pick us off, one-by-one." His emotionless expression as he stated these facts startled Weiss into silence, the girl not expecting a response like that to her question.

"Anyways…" Yang started as she moved forward slightly to gain Frost's attention. "Boxing practice aside, Ozpin needed us to bring you to one of the school's other facilities once we found you. Said he needed to prepare something and that he needed you to be there for it."

Frost waited a moment, twirling his hand slightly as if expecting more from the group at Yang's statement. "…Was there anything else?..."

"Nope. Just said that you needed to follow us once we found you. Didn't tell us what it was for, either." Yang finished as she turned to start walking off in the direction of the training facilities, Frost the only one unaware of exactly where they were going due to having only briefly looking at his campus map for getting to the cafeteria and to Ozpin's office. He still had a lot of the area to figure out before he would know exactly where he was at all times.

After the group spent a little while travelling across the campus grounds and getting a few odd looks from students as they saw the random boy walking with Team RWBY while geared up in his normal attire and weaponry as they passed. Frost's curiosity eventually got the best of him as he let out an exasperated sigh at the lack of talking before moving a little faster to get in line with the girls.

"Mind telling me where we're going at least?" Frost asked with a bored expression as he waited for one of them to respond. They never did as Ruby continued to skip happily along, Weiss and Blake walked along at a decent pace, and Yang casually took her time with her own hands behind her head as they got closer and closer to the training facility. Frost groaned as he continued to be left in the dark. "Fine. But don't look at me if I'm less than impressed by our destination. Not my fault no one told me what was going on."

The girls all exchanged knowing looks towards one another, unbeknownst to Frost as he continued to examine the school grounds during their trip. After another minute or so of travel, at which point Frost looked about ready to punch something again, they finally stopped in front of what looked like an ordinary school building, with a higher than usual roof atop it and a complete lack of windows. Frost raised an eyebrow as the girls all filed into the set of doors for the building before eventually following them inside into a dimly lit hallway. They all walked along the corridor until the came to another set of doors, these ones looking much sturdier as well as what looked like a set of large braces on each side of the door, for what purposes Frost would soon discover.

Upon opening this set of doors, Frost's jaw dropped as he gained a slightly elevated view of a large empty battlefield in the centre of the auditorium-sized room. After shaking his head to compose himself he stepped forward, past the group of girls, as he looked around to see rows upon rows of what looked like seating, and noticing numerous sets of barred off passages inside the arena itself, which was lowered a few dozen feet below the lowest row of seating, with what looked like a set of chest-high guardrails running along the perimeter of the of the field. He finally turned back to the sound of a cane and shoes tapping on hard flooring, seeing Ozpin and another woman standing with the girls of Team RWBY.

"You seem rather impressed by our training facility." Ozpin said with a small smile as he propped both hands atop his cane. "No doubt you are also curious why I specifically asked these young ladies to bring you here of all places?"

"Well it might help set my mind straight a bit right now, yes." Frost stated before taking a brief look up to find that the roof was in fact VERY high up in the air, even more noticeably so than when they were outside of its walls. "I mean, I like watching a good spar every now and then, but it's kind of empty in here right now."

"That is for a very good reason, to be fair." Ozpin started as he walked past Frost and towards the rails overlooking the battlefield below. "You see, all of the students who come to enroll at Beacon must undergo a test in the Forever Fall Forest. Upon getting everything prepared in advance, we send the new students into the forest to retrieve a set of artifacts, which helps them determine who will be teamed with whom, as well as pairing up students that first lay eyes on each other."

Frost looked at Ozpin inquisitively as the girls all smiled at each other, all of them partially prepared for the gist of Ozpin's next statement. Ozpin motioned towards the other woman, who nodded her head briefly before pulling out what looked like a riding crop, Frost's expression immediately shifting from intrigued to downright confused. His eyebrow piqued as a purple aura surrounded a faraway lever, the sound of metal groaning the next sound he heard as the field pulled away in segments and a forest-like area rose in its place.

"Okay." Frost started as he looked at the "forest" for a moment. "So I'm guessing I'm going into that forest area for a bit to retrieve something then. Small problem though." Frost looked around the room for a few moments before turning back to the rest of the group and shrugging his shoulders. "There isn't exactly another new student here for me to partner up and hunt for artifacts down there."

"That's perfectly acceptable." Ozpin stated cryptically as the blonde woman once again raised her riding crop as it began to glow purple once more. Frost's eyes widened as he began to feel like he was floating, his feet slowly leaving the ground below as he began to flail his arms and legs wildly in a panic. "You won't need to worry about artifacts anyways. This exercise will be more to test your endurance and skill in combat than anything else."

And then he fell to his doom.

…Well it was more like 50 feet, but Frost was able to think quickly and quickly draw his sword and plant it into a nearby tree as he continued his descent, the wood splintering as his sword eventually found purchase and held fast within the tall oak. He paused to take a deep breath for a moment before pulling his blade from the trunk while at the same time kicking off of towards a longer hanging branch, continuing this approach until he had safely reached the floor of the arena.

"A little warning would have been nice!" Frost yelled upwards in the hope that the words would carry through to Ozpin as he began to examine his surroundings. Unbeknownst to Frost, the rest of the current inhabitants of the facility were sitting upon a couple rows of seats, the girls crowding together as they watched the screen that had a bird's eye view of Frost as he looks around.

"So…anybody wonder how long he'll last down there?" Ruby asked apprehensively as she looked between her teammates.

"I give him 2 rounds, tops." Yang stated with a smirk as she watched the screen, eager for the ensuing fights to begin.

"I think I'll wait and see what happens since none of us actually know what he is capable of at this point." Weiss stated patiently, her analytic eyes never once leaving the screen. Blake however opted to remain silent, instead deciding to watch and see what Frost would do considering the endurance he had shown during their "brawl" in the streets nearly a week prior.

Ozpin simply glanced at Glynda, the blonde woman simply nodding again before activating one of the other levers on a console next to the lever that had altered the field itself.

The first thing Frost heard was that of a metal grate sliding open, his head turning to face the direction of the disturbance. The next thing he knew, he could hear the rustling of leaves as something moved quickly through the brush in his general direction. Frost's eyes narrowed as he raised his sword in front of him in a kendo stance, his armored hand also gripping the hilt of the sword tightly.

For a few moments there was only the sound of rustling leaves and underbrush, shortly followed by a few sharp grunts and sniffs as whatever was out there attempted to find him. Then, after a moment of silence, the bushes around him exploded. 3 Beowolves, all with their teeth bared, pounced at Frost from 3 different directions with a murderous intent in their gleaming red eyes. Frost simply stood as he had positioned himself, his eyes flicking in the direction of the one just off to his right before he moved, his body suddenly jerking entirely to the left as the other two Grimm collided with one another. Frost impaled his sword in the chest of the Beowolf he had turned to, its body immediately disintegrating into dust as it groaned out a weak cry of defeat.

Frost then reoriented himself, returning to the stance he had been using before the fight had begun. After a brief moment of deliberation, Frost dove directly forwards with his sword level held straight out at his side. Both Beowolves raised their claws as they charged as well, both of them beginning to wildly swipe with their claws in an attempt to rend Frost. At the last moment however, Frost once again changed directions suddenly, the two Grimm only finding air as Frost leaped above them, his sword swinging in a wide arc as it beheaded both Grimm as they passed beneath him.

Frost then landed on one knee, taking a deep breath as a faint glow disappeared from his legs once more, as they had when he had pierced the chest of the first Beowolf. Before he was given more time to rest however, he quickly rolled forwards as a loud thunk sounded where he had just been positioned. Upon turning around to see what had nearly reached him, his eyes widened slightly as he gazed upon a slightly larger Beowolf, this one with a few extra spines also protruding from its shoulders as well. Frost smirked slightly as he and the Grimm charged at each other with a roar.

"Well…he's certainly got some good moves out there." Weiss commented with wide eyes after having displayed the quick reactions Frost had performed, now watching intently as Frost managed to deflect a few blows from the Grimm before leaping back to a safe distance.

"Meh…it's only the first round." Yang shrugged her shoulders with disinterest. "He's not even up to the challenging fights yet. It's just a few Beowolves."

"Except he's had no experience fighting Grimm before, and even with any training he may have gotten while working for Torchwick, he's still been fighting with those weapons and his Semblance for less than a year if what we've heard is true." Blake pointed out calmly as she continued to watch the screen, Frost now egging on the large Beowolf as he dashed from point-to-point, leaving markings on the Grimm from each pass he made while the beast had no luck in landing a solid blow on the white-and-black blur.

"Does he have a Semblance like mine?" Ruby asked aloud as she watched Frost's movements as well, her eyes alight with wonder.

"I doubt it, considering he's still fairly visible when he moves." Weiss commented for a brief moment before grimacing as the Grimm managed to land a sweeping blow to Frost's chest, knocking him back a few feet as his shoes skidded on the ground in his attempt to find footing without falling over. His Aura meter diminished by a small portion as he leapt forward once more, his body jerking again at the last second as his blade cut across the entirety of the Grimm's torso, it's head raised as it too disintegrated into the air. "His movements are being altered somehow, but not through a Semblance like yours, Ruby."

"Doesn't matter now. The Beowolf round is up." Yang looked excitedly at the screen in front of them, her previous interest restored with fervor. "Next up is the Ursa!"

"Damn…those things were fast…" Frost panted out as he took a few deep breaths to cam himself and wipe a thin layer of sweat from his brow before resting both arms at his sides for a few moments. He smirked slightly as he looked upwards slightly, unknowingly looking directly at the camera that the group was examining him from. "Good thing I read up on those things when I was younger. Never thought my infatuation with wanting to hunt Grimm would pay off like this."

His musings were brought to a halt however, as another sound of something shifting open caught his attention, his body once again turning on instinct to face the oncoming threat. His breathing quickened for a moment as he felt, more than heard, the rumbling of something charging through the forest, a tree of two falling to the side off in the distant edge of his field of view. The rumbling grew louder and louder until an Ursa came lumbering out of the shrubbery, its large round body shifting slightly as it took deep breaths. It shifted its body so as to make itself appear larger before opening its mouth in a loud roar before it swung a paw at Frost.

Frost just managed to leap away from the attack with a small assistance of his Semblance, his legs barely glowing as he pushed in the necessary amount of energy to back off in time. He then drew his sword behind him as he ran at the Ursa, his body level with the ground as the Ursa roared once more before lifting both arms up to attempt to squish Frost beneath them. Frost's body jerked to the right at the last second, but not without receiving a scrape from one of the Ursa's descending arms, his Aura meter going down a bit less than when the Beowolf had landed an impact on him. He grimaced slightly as he turned his body to align his feet with the tree he was coming into close proximity with, his body perfectly plants before he kicked off, the wood splintering slightly as he extended his sword in front of him towards the Ursa's exposed back.

The beast roared wildly as it felt the searing pain of metal run along its body, its body turning sharply as it swung another paw out towards Frost's flying body. Due to him not having a surface to gain footing on, Frost curled himself into the fetal position just as the blow landed, his body sailing through the air as he skidded along the ground for a few feet, his body eventually coming to a stop as he slowly got up from his laying down position.

Frost panted slightly as he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, his body starting to calm down as he focused on the areas that had taken the majority of the impact. He winced slightly as the scrapes and bruises that adorned the front of him faded into his skin, the feeling slightly unpleasant as the "treatment" took effect. He then opened his eyes to see the Ursa once again lumbering towards him, its teeth bared and mouth open as though it intended to eat Frost in this attack. His smirk was larger this time as his armored hand began to glow for a moment before he swung his arm upwards, catching the Ursa's jaw with what appeared to be a claw of ice that had formed around the glowing metal of the bracer. Its body sailed backwards a few meters before it landed in a heap in the clearing that the fight had made, its chest moving weakly for a few moments before it sagged, its body meeting the same fate as the other Grimm that Frost had managed to defeat.

"Well…that was unexpected." Weiss stated with what little she could come up with, the sudden appearance of the ice claw on Frost's hand catching herself and Ruby off guard. Weiss noticed the approving smirk on Yang's face and the unsurprised look on Blake's as she turned to face her teammates. "Why do you look so pleased, Yang?"

"Huh?" Yang asked as she turned to face the person that had spoken to her. "Oh, hey Weiss. Nah, Blake and I have just seen him do something like that before when he first met him. He made some type of shield from that gauntlet last time, so I thought at first that's all he could really do with it."

"It's definitely more than just that." Blake stated calmly as she watched Frost catch his breath for another brief interlude. "He also froze my arm to a wall by shooting a cluster of ice from that gauntlet that froze on impact. So my guess is that he can do a number of things with it, depending on the situation."

"Do you think that's his Semblance then?" Ruby asked as she looked at Blake expectantly. At Blake's shrug and shake of her head, Ruby shrugged as well before returning her attention to the screen as the third indicator light came on. Her face scrunched up in worry at what this meant. "Oooh, I don't know if this is going to end so well though."

"Hah!" Yang laughed as she patted Ruby roughly on the back, the smaller girl wobbling on her seat briefly before realigning herself with Weiss' assistance. "This is gonna be more interesting than anything! I wonder how he'll take this thing on!"

Frost's ears twitched slightly as he heard a metal grate opening once again, but this time there was only silence, whereas before there had always been the rustling of the Grimm moving around. Frost focused on his surroundings as he slowly inched forwards into the brush, his sword raised and his armored hand glowing slightly as he scanned the forest for any signs of an attack. As he moved further into woods, a long black shape slowly slid behind him before once again disappearing into the foliage, a slight hissing sound passing through the air as it passed. Frost's body stopped as he heard the hissing sound before slowly turning around. His face paled as he came face-to-face…-to-face with a King Taijitu.

"Oh boy." Frost groaned to himself slightly as both heads darted towards him, his body sharply adjusting with a quick surge to his leg as they neared him so as to leap away from both attacks. His vision swam for a brief moment as the powerful surge of adrenaline got to him for a moment, his body wobbling slightly as he landed before he righted himself and once again stood in his kendo stance. He tightened his grip on the sword slightly as he released his armored hand from it, the limb already aglow with energy as he steeled himself for the Taijitu's next attack. After a few moments of the foes examining one another, the white head of the Taijitu lunged towards Frost, its fangs bared as it hissed in its approach.

Frost was faster however, as he leapt into the air and plunged his sword into the roof of the Taijitu's mouth, and pinning it to the forest floor as his blade sank into the group with a sharp stab. The second head then spurred into action, it's maw also open as it came at Frost from a slightly different angle, assuming that it was now free to attack the vulnerable prey barely paying it any attention. It's motion has halted mere feet away from Frost's outstretched and glowing metal arm as a cold feeling seeped through its entire head and it fell to the ground, the ice-encrusted head shattering upon impact with ground.

This left the white head of the snake, which was still presently pinned to the ground through Frost's original plan to subdue the beast. One thing Frost had neglected to think of however, was that the white head could still control the entire body on its own. This was the last thing he realized as the headless end of the large snake lashed out at him, knocking the air from his lungs as he crashed through a few trees, his Aura now dipping dangerously close to the red portion of the meter that had been setup to monitor him throughout the "test". The remaining head took this opportunity to dislodge the sword from its head due to Frost no longer being there to apply a Semblance-enhanced pressure to his efforts. It then bared it fangs once more as it lunged for Frost's body, his chest rising and falling rapidly as he attempted to regain his breath.

His vision swam and faded as he attempted to keep a hold of his consciousness, unaware of the impending doom as the King Taijitu's approaching head came closer and closer to his body. Just as the snake came into view and his eyes widened in the fear of the inevitable…its head suddenly snapped back as it pounded against a purple barrier that had sprung up out of nowhere to defend him. The next thing he knew there was a sharp clicking sound before the remaining head fell, its body also disintegrating before it made impact with the ground. As Frost attempted to struggle to his feet he saw Ruby running towards him with what looked like a large scythe in both hands with her face, as well as those of the rest of her team, bearing an expression of fear and worry on each of their faces.

"Are you alright?!" Ruby exclaimed as she was the first to reach him, Frost imagining a few rose petals floating by as she stopped next to his body as he continued to get his body to cooperate with him. The rest of her team soon followed, all of them examining his body for any serious injuries as they got closer.

Frost managed a weak cough as he smirked slightly, one of his eyelids bleeding slightly from being flung through the trees when a branch had scraped across his face at one point as well as a few cuts and bruises scattered across his tattered apparel. "I'm good…just a…little tired after over…exerting myself there." Frost managed to lift his head slightly, catching a glimpse of the damage to his outfit with a short laugh that turned into a cough. "Looks like I'll…need to fix my….clothes when I'm…in town next." Frost sighed for a moment as he let his head fall limply back to the ground beneath him, the grass a welcome embrace as he felt his consciousness beginning to slip.

"But first…I think I need…to rest a little bit…"