Yavinus here, sorry for the delay, as I was having some problems with my writer's block and homework. Hope you enjoy this chapter as I did writting it.

It was a good day, the sky was clear and sun was rising in the sky. Of course, this was the typical day in Vacuo, where the air was dry almost all year and precipitations were scare. But for anyone who was born and lived in the Kingdom, it was a nice day. Even more for the new students that were going to Shade Academy, the place where their dream to become huntsmen could be accomplish.

In one of the many airships that were going to the same destination, Nebula Violette was watching in awe the grand structure that comprehended Shade Academy (even from far away), a place where a the new "shades" for the people threatened of the Grimm around the world could protect them. The purple haired woman barely contained her excitement, trying not to act as the little girl who heard the adventures of an older huntsman around a fire.

"Don't let yourself go to much Nebu, if you don't control yourself, you would jump directly into the initiation exam's territories and being killed instantly," the young aspiring huntress breathed heavily and left a sigh, remembering herself to not be so brash. "Be patient, the time of being a guardian of humanity will come in time"

After saying goodbye to her family, things were normal for her and she wasn't nervous at all (okay, maybe a little, but that was because the next day will be the initiation) and was accustomed to go alone and deal things for herself. Unfortunately, there wasn't anyone that she knew that was in the ship to talk with it and the ride was getting a little boring for her taste (plus, she needed someone to share her enthusiasm and worries).

Apparently, though, she was the only one who didn't have a conversation group and Nebula didn't know how to integrate into one. However, she saw a peculiar image that called her attention. It was a girl with black clothes and curly black hair that was, honestly, very cute on her. She was smaller than Nebula and was standing in a corner while looked at the windows with a both curiosity and a bit of nervousness.

Nebula recalled her, back when she was waiting in the skyport the girl came with her baggage with two tall and intimidating looking people in black suits (maybe bodyguards?) and they waited with her and almost nobody dear it to go close to her. Maybe she was the daughter of some important family?

When the airship arrived, she went inside of it alone, while the bodyguards tried to go with her, she said something to them and they exchange glances. It was possible that strange girl didn't want them to go with her, and obviously, the Academy wouldn't permit the presence of external bodyguards in their terrains.

Nonetheless, nobody wanted to go close to her and Nebula felt a little bad for her. Maybe some company, even from a strange like herself wouldn't be so bad. With a deep breath, she walked towards the solitary teen.

"Hi there," Nebula said while rising her right hand and gave her warmest smile.

The girl almost yelped when she was took from her own world. She gave a nervous look to the purple haired woman and gave shy "Hi"

"You look pretty alone there and I was the same, so, don't you mind my company?" Nebula said while trying to be the less threatening person ever, "By the way, I'm Nebula Violette, nice to meet you"

The girl blinked a couple of time before giving a bow towards her, trying to be the most polite person eve.

"Greetings Nebula Violette, I'm Gwen Darcy" she said with a small smile.

"Eh…" Nebula was a little confuse by the display of the eccentric girl "No need for so much formalities, we are students after all"

"Oh, I'm sorry about that" Gwen said with a hand in her mouth, while her cheeks blushed.

"Nah, It doesn't matter" Nebula said "We need to relax and rest for today, we need all the energy for the initiation"

Gwen nodded in agreement.

"By the way, from what Combat Academy did you came?" Nebula asked with curiosity "I went to the Oasis Academy, a nice place to train"

The smaller girl didn't say anything for a straight minute before she answered.

"I…I didn't went to a Combat Academy" she said while she played her hair in a finger "I only trained at home with a private mentor…a professional huntress"

"That's…interesting" Nebula said whit a strange look on her face, it was weird that someone who wanted to be a hunter didn't went to a Combat Academy as the formal way. Her training method was a little unorthodox, maybe her parents wanted to keep a close eye on her? That would explain the bodyguards, although they let her go to the path of the hunter. Also, the surname Darcy, it felt a little familiar to her…

Suddenly, the holographic image of a teacher appeared in the ship, announcing the future students that they would arrive to the Academy soon.

"So, ready for a new, exciting four years of training and study?" Nebula asked with a smile, trying to encourage her, and to herself too "It would be great!"

"Yeah…, it would be great," Gwen said, not very secure of herself, something that Nebula could relate.

When the ship landed on the skyport, Nebula and Gwen walked together in the main avenue while talking. Well, it was more Nebula talking for the majority of the time while Gwen only nodded in occasion.

"And then, when this Creep is about to bit my hand, but the dumb monster didn't know that I had a star in my hand and before it could know it, its ugly head exploded like a balloon" Nebula narrated the first time she killed a Grimm back in the day.

"A star?" Gwen asked with curiosity.

"Yes indeed, I can form "stars" which I utilize them in many different ways, it's my Semblance"

"Can…can I see it?" the smaller girl asked, a little shy and nervous, thinking that she was a little too curious.

"Yes sure" Nebula shrugged, she didn't have problems showing her personal abilities to others "Here, let me show you"

The enthusiastic huntress to be formed a small, brilliant star with her left palm, showcasing her abilities to a perplexed Gwen.

"Incredible, with that ability, you could have defeated any foe easily"

"To be honest, I was dead nervous during the fight, but I had enough Aura in me, so I wasn't in imminent danger and a teacher accompany me in that moment," Nebula said while they walked, only to the purple haired girl to run into a standing woman with red hair who was watching her scroll. Nebula couldn't see her in time and Gwen was too distracted watching the beautiful star.

There was a small explosion of light, followed by screams of surprise and bunch of incomprehensible words that sounded like swearing. Both Nebula and the other girl were in the ground, while Gwen helped the former to get up while the red haired girl did it with her own hands.

"What was that!? Are you crazy!?" the young girl shouted while cleaning the dust of his blue shirt "Don't you pay attention where are you walking!? And you broke my scroll!"

The girl raised her hand, showing the broken monitor.

"I'm very sorry about that," Nebula tried to calm down that girl who was livid "Aren't you hurt? I mean, that star wasn't big or powerful but it could have done something to you"

"No, I'm perfectly fine" the red haired girl eyes were like two burning embers and the strength of her words made Nebula and Gwen to flinch back "But you can't just walk using those…stars or whatever was that and my scroll was broken because of your clumsiness"

Other students stopped walking and watched the scene with curiosity, Gwen was moving her head from one side to another and without anyone noticing, and she ran away rapidly.

"Gwen!" Nebula screamed her name but she only gave a look to her before she went to the main building, the purple haired girl was about to follow her when she felt the firm (and strangely hot, like more than normal for a human hand) grasp in her left shoulder.

"Not now star lady, you will give the money to compensate me and…" the red haired woman was definitely not going to let her go until all was did, but when she was about to continue, someone else interrupted them.

"This is embarrassing; you are all acting like children," the voice sounded dull and unimpressed "And this the best the other news students can offer, what a shame"

Both girls moved their heads to find the source of that voice and they saw a blond girl, who was one of the onlookers, stepping inside.

"And who gave you permission to listen your opinions right now?" the red haired girl asked with a hostile tone of voice.

"Our rights as citizens, duh" the blonde woman responded while rolling her eyes "Look, right now you are making a scene and if you don't want a teacher to scold you even before the initiation, it will be really shameful"

"I…" the red haired girl was about to protest, but she changed of opinion and rapidly grabbed her baggage and went to the main building while murmuring something.

Nebula mouth was still open; trying to process the situation ended as soon as started and lowered her shoulders and head, leaving a heavy sigh.

"Great, you meet a nice person in the first day and ruin the still forming relationship at the same morning, wonderful, really wonderful"

The huntress to be was about to say to her rescuer, but she was already walking away. Truly, her performance was very low, even before being an official student.

"Well, at least I can do something tonight to undone my mistakes…I hope so" Nebula though to herself.

For Octavia Ember, that day was absolute awful. While the airship travel was generally quiet and calm, when the ship arrived to Shade, things went downhill from there, when a stupid girl was playing with her "stars" whit an audience of one tripped over her and made her scroll broke.

Worst of all, it was in the moment she received the message from one of her cousin from mother's part. She only stopped to read, but she couldn't, thanks to a certain clown trying to be a huntress. Right now, she and the rest of the news where in the ballroom, already preparing to sleep. Octavia pull out her Scroll and tried to turn it on, but she couldn't. She sighed, damn show offs, always ruining the day.

The red haired woman tried to localize with her eyes the two women who ruined her day, and then, after some searching, she found them.

The one with purple hair was sitting alongside with the girl with a (honestly, kind of cute) black hair. Both were wearing dark sleepovers and they were talking about something that Octavia couldn't quite understand. Suddenly, the taller girl looked at her and said something to the other one. The former tried to stand up, but was interrupt by her partner who took something from her bag and went instead walking towards Octavia.

When she was close enough, Octavia noted that her checks were blushing and her eyes averted hers.

"Hmm…," the shy girl tried to talk, with her hands in the back "I…I'm sorry for what happen this morning"

Octavia raised an eyebrow.

"I mean…it was my fault, you know, I made Nebula use her Semblance because of my curiosity" she said while she moved her right arm. Octavia looked carefully and saw that her hand was holding a handful of lien. "I think this is enough for your Scroll…and sorry for everything"

Octavia doubted for a moment, while she preferred Nebula to give herself the money, she didn't know if that clown had any and if wasn't her only chance. With a heavy sigh, she grabbed the money.

"Apologies accepted…and please tell your friend to not do something like that again," Octavia said while she packed away the lien.

The shy girl nodded and turned her back, going towards Nebula, when she returned from her steps.

"Oh…sorry if I didn't presented myself, I'm Gwen Darcy, nice to meet you"

The red haired woman took her time to respond.

"I'm Octavia Ember…and please at least alert me the next time" she said and Gwen blinked twice before she left her.

Now Octavia was alone, with a little comfort that at least she could repair her scroll. Still, she preferred for now not to get close to them. Moreover, for some reason, the surname Darcy sounded familiar…

"So, what we do have here?" Octavia heard another familiar voice; one that didn't wanted to hear before going to sleep.

Yep, it was the blonde woman, now wearing a dark green sleepover.

"Why are you here?" Octavia asked with resignation.

"Well, you see, I wanted to be a huntress, so I trained in one of the Combat Academies, then passed the entrance exam and got an invitation to Shade," the tall woman said without hesitation and with a certain joking tone. "By the way, I'm Dew Gayl, nice to meet you"

"And I'm Octavia…" the red haired woman said slowly while her mind though something else. "Smartass"

"So, did you see that girl, she's a Darcy" Dew suddenly pointed out.

"And…?" Octavia didn't understand what she tried to say.

"You know, her family used to be the one of the most wealthy and influential in Vacuo…" Dew began to explain "Then, after a series of incidents, they went to be the richest to not so rich"

"Ah…" Octavia tried to remember. "Nope, I don't recall any of that"

"Well, I don't blame, the media barely gives them any attention anymore" Dew said while watching Nebula and Gwen talking "I mean, they aren't precisely poor, but I think they don't have as many properties as in their golden years, for not saying relevance in the world of politics"

"And how do you know so much?" Octavia asked.

"I read it in some books" Dew simply answered, "Honestly; I believe they send her daughter to Shade in an attempt regain some former fame, who knows"

Octavia shrugged, she didn't care at all about the girl family's background honestly and the red haired girl was pretty tired.

"Well, all interesting, but I will prefer to sleep right now, tomorrow will be a very moving day"

Octavia closed her eyes, abandoning herself to the dreaming world.

While flying through the air thanks to the launching mechanism, Dew Gayl almost giggled while she saw the others participants. With a move of her spear, she began to create a whirlwind that controlled her descent easily. She saw Nebula Viollete a few meters away, trying to have a secure landing.

A sudden idea crossed her mind, and with another spear movement, she created a small tornado that rapidly went towards the purple haired girl. Dew could hear a scream and she smiled mentally. Of course Nebula wasn't in danger at all, in fact, Dew only make her trajectory change, so that the wind user could find her more easily.

Her feet landed the rugged terrain, her hand protecting the light of the intense morning sun. She saw a human form slowly rising from the ground and Dew walked with tranquillity towards it. When she was close enough, she raised her and screamed.

"Hi there! Do you need some help?"

Nebula moved her head and her eyes saw Dew's, now both of them were partners, united for the following next four years.

"Eh, nothing at all…" the purple haired girl cleaned the dust of her combat suit "It just that I was trapped by some air current…you know, the forecast of today said that there wouldn't any…and I guess you are my new partner…"

Dew tried very hard not to giggle, that girl was clueless about what happen, and even didn't account of her wind Dust in her spear, for not to say that it didn't cross her head maybe that wind was the work of someone else Semblance. It was hard to believe that Nebula could be a huntress, but of course, Dew didn't saw the best of her and still didn't have a definitive opinion of her.

"Don't worry about that…" Dew said with a small smile "By the way, I'm Dew Gayl and you must be…?"

"Nebula Viollete" the purple haired woman answered with enthusiasm "By the way, did you saw a girl with curly hair with an armoured skirt over here?"

Dew shook her head "Nope, but I saw her flying close with Octavia when they launched us, the one who screamed at you yesterday"

"Oh yeah, her" Nebula said putting her right hand in her back while laughing nervously "Maybe I should have to apologise to her today, even in the middle of the initiation…but Gwen will be alright with her, I think"

"And why do you think that?"

"Well, she gave her the money and I think Octavia wasn't angry with her"

Dew resisted the urge to roll her eyes; it was a very naïve way to see the current situation.

"Look, we better must find them quickly; I don't think the Grimm would be quite after the sudden apparition of…"

Then, suddenly, they could heard someone screaming behind them.

"Who was that!?" Nebula asked worriedly "It sounded like Gwen!"

"Then we must hurry" Dew said and without hesitation, she dashed towards the source of the scream, followed closely by her new partner.

Gwen Darcy was nervous.

It was a normal reaction for every student, even if the dancing girl was more nervous with big crowds that with Grimm. She tried to remember her training, only to realize that the only memory that was recalling was the incident of yesterday. The accident, the fight, when she gave to Octavia some Lien and the conversation with Nebula, already felling secure at that person's side.

Then, before she realized, she was launch towards the initiation's terrains. Gwen sighed mentally; she wanted to land at Nebula's side, but her own though distracted her and soon enough, they both went to separate ways. She saw the purple haired girl and the blonde girl that she saw that same morning. For some reason, the latter was doing something with her spear

The daughter of the Darcy's family looked away from the scene, trying to concentrate. Landing wouldn't be difficult, she only had concentrate her Aura and…

"WATCH OUT!" a voice suddenly shouted behind her. She recognized Octavia's voice.

Gwen only had a split second, only to see a whirlwind coming towards her. But it was too late, she was trapped by the rapid wind. She could heard more screaming and then, someone's hand pulling her from small tornado.

Octavia rescued her from the malicious wind, but now both of them were falling without control towards the ground. Gwen saw that the red haired girl raised her sword, pulling the trigger, and releasing a big wave of fire towards the ground. A small explosion occurred, slowing down the fall of the teens. Octavia was the first in landing, without any problems. Gwen was next.

The ballerina tried to land at Octavia's side, only to her left feet to use her rescuer's head as a platform, she could heard a small, but strong "ouch" from Octavia and then Gwen landed in the hard ground.

The smaller girl saw that Octavia was in her knees, grabbing her head, while her eyes went teary.

"Are you alright?" Gwen asked with a worried expression on her face.

Octavia opened her mouth to left a sharply sigh before she stood up.

"You know, I believe I don't have much luck lately," the red haired woman said with a defeated tone. Both girls landed at the shadow of a small rock formation, a nice place in the heat of the day.

"I'm sorry about that," Gwen said with head low.

"Nah, it's alright" Octavia was watching the terrain trying to localize the terrain "So, what about your friend, Nebula? I mean, we're partners for the following four years, but I think you are better with her"

"Eh…" the ballerina tried to answer, "I think she is farther from us, so..."

"Well, better looking for them throu…" Octavia didn't continue, as a bigger shadow covered them both suddenly.

Gwen was the first to scream, as the Deathstalker who was living inside the rock erupted from its nest.

The girls reacted rapidly, Octavia releasing a wave of fire and Gwen throwing three knifes against the creature. However, the Grimm covered its face with its claws, the flames doing barely any damage and the knifes only penetrate the surface of the flesh.

"It's not use!" Gwen shouted, "That Grimm's armor is too thick"

"Yeah, big guy here sure it's tough" Octavia commented, cursing her bad luck.

Both huntress-to-be decided that the best strategy was to run away from the creature and prepare themselves with a better strategy. When they were about to do it, a strange white light with the form of an arrow came towards their direction very fast. The girls tried to dodge it, but they saw that the projectile's objective was the giant scorpion. The Grimm couldn't react in time, and one of its eyes exploded, leaking blood. The Deathstalker screamed and stepped back from the girls.

"Gwen!" Nebula's voice could be hear, as the purple haired woman came into view as Dew followed her. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine…" Gwen responded. "But we encounter with little problem"

"Yeah, no kidding" Octavia said sarcastically.

"Hello there Octi" Dew said with an overall out of place tone in contrast with the current situation.

"Don't call me Octi" Octavia said drily, while her eyes didn't took away from the Grimm "Sorry to interrupt your heartwarming reunion, but I believe out little friend is coming back for us"

Indeed, the giant scorpion decided to continue its hunt, now with renovated fury and desire of human flesh.

"I can take care of it easily," Dew said with security "Just step aside and I will deal with it"

Octavia game a look of incredulity to the blonde girl.

"Are you crazy!? You can't deal something like that alone!"

Dew simply smiled, and using her spear, she began to make circular movements. Three tornados formed instantly, and the huntress-to-be send them towards the Grimm. The others three watched with fascination how the tornados combined just under the Deathstalker body, lifting it up violently into a belly up position, displaying its vulnerable parts.

Dew didn't wait for her partners to react, and rapidly jumped towards her for, ready to strike to its heart with her weapon. But she was about to do it, the tail of the scorpion hit her body, flying away again to the rest of the group.

However, Octavia and Nebula didn't waited to the Grimm to return to full force, and attacked simultaneously. One with waves of fire and another with three arrows made of stars. The fire burned the flesh, making it easier to the arrows to penetrate its body. The third projectile managed to hit its heart, killing it instantly.

Octavia didn't waited for the Deathstalker to dissolve completely to scold Dew.

"Did you say something about being able to take care of it easily?"

"Well, I made it easier for you" Dew said without a single worry.

Octavia rolled her eyes and put her palm into her face "And you still try to act all cool and stuff"

"I think you did very well Octavia" Gwen praised her partner "I mean, you save me from that tornado too during the launch"

"Ah, talking about tornados, I was too catched by one" Nebula commented.

"Wait…you too?" Octavia raised an eyebrow.

"Yeah, it was weird, it came almost from nowhere and…" suddenly, the rest of the group realized something. Three pairs of eyes went towards Dew, who didn't say anything.

"What?"

"It was you!" Octavia shouted, pointing a finger to the blonde woman, "You almost make me and Gwen lost control of our launching, we were lucky that we managed to land safely and not simply losing our entire Aura instantly!"

"Well, I have to confess that the second tornado was an accident but in the end I help you finding a nice partner, and I choose Nebula to be mine so that I could be with someone more competent" Dew gave her reasoning.

The purple haired girl raised an eyebrow, while she was happy to be someone skilful as Dew as her partner, she felt a little offended by the way her partner's choose of words.

"And you are trying to say I'm not competent!?" Octavia now was closer to Dew, a vein marking her forehead,

"I'm not saying you aren't good in combat, I'm saying that you could be better at controlling your emotions"

It was the last straw for Octavia; she raised her sword and was about to Dew with the hilt when Gwen grabbed her arm.

"Please, just…stop" her eyes were looking at Octavia's with mercy. The red haired girl sighed and simply dropped her arm.

"Look, I know some of us are a little nervous," Nebula tried to harmonize the ambient, her voice calm and firm at the same time. "But we must stick together and find the relics, it would be easier and our chances would be higher if go as a team, got it?"

Everyone nodded; knowing that Nebula was right, even if Octavia and Dew didn't wanted to go close to each other.

"Good, follow me!" Nebula waved her hand, indicating that it was time to move up.

They walked forwards, always trying to go at the same direction that the platforms launched them. They barely talked, as Grimm came from time to time, as they were always the weakest.

Finally, after half an hour, without finding any other student, they were close to a big old circular structure inside of a depression. The terrain around it was sandy rather than hard, with big chess pieces on pedestals.

Octavia was about to jump directly towards the final goal, when Dew stopped her by grabbing her shoulder.

"Look, I believe we aren't alone" the blonde girl indicated.

The group watched as the sand surrounding the structure seemed to move, only to reveal part of the body of a Grimm, whose cylindrical body emerged and submerged rapidly, without showing its head.

"A Gut!" Nebula said while her eyes widened "I heard about them, they aren't powerful in the surface, but incredible dangerous in sandy terrains"

Octavia growled and Gwen was in doubt.

"I admit, even this type of Grimm is something I couldn't take it easily" Dew commented. "It would be better if I…"

"No, but doing it as a team would be better" Nebula said, looking at Dew with determination. Octavia smiled to herself, at the purple haired girl was putting some sense to the arrogant wind use. "We just need a plan…"

The four girls rapidly tried to form a plan, while the giant black worm was still guarding the relics. Suddenly, Gwen gasped with excitement.

"People, I think I have the solution!"

"And what it's? Dew asked with curiosity.

Gwen pulled out a knife, showing them the fire Dust inside of it.

"Guts are sensitive to vibrations; their bodies can detect any steps in sand, even the ones from ants"

"And…?" Octavia tried to resonate.

"Well, I can make these things explode, not big enough to hurt the Gut, but enough to distract him"

"Who will be the one who collects the relics?" Dew asked.

"Easy, Nebula will go first, then you…" Gwen said "I will be here and distract the Grimm"

"Yeah…" Octavia said while she was smiling, "It sounds pretty damn good"

"Well though it Gwen" Nebula said while she patted her partner. "Now, when I count to three, launch the knifes as far as you can from the relics"

Gwen nodded.

"One…" the purple haired girl counted.

"Two…" Dew was prepared.

"Three! Now!"

Gwen threw three knifes towards the sandy terrain, as far from the structure, and the three of them exploded. The vibrations made the creature being attract to it, and soon it went away from the relics.

Dew jumped first, followed by Nebula. Both grabbed their chess pieces and they were about to return, when Gwen saw that something was wrong.

"Look out!" she screamed.

Octavia saw that another Gut was swimming in the sand, trying to get its prey. Gwen threw another knife, trying to distract them, but it was too late. The Guts were too fixated in their human prey to pay attention to the explosions now.

The two Guts were moving in circular motions, surrounding the two girls. Gwen tried to jump towards them but Dew stopped her.

"No! You would only die in vain!" she screamed to the shorter girl.

"But…they are alone, it's my fault!" Gwen said while trying to be free Dew's grasp.

"Look, we can only help them from here" Dew said.

Nebula was nervous, it was the first time fighting a Gut in her life, and the prospect to fighting two of them at the same time wasn't reassuring at all. She tried to remember her lesson in the Oasis Academy, trying to remember their weak points.

However, before she could think in any solutions, one of the Grimm jumped from the sand towards Nebula. While it wasn't as big as King Taijitu and lacked any class of eyes, it was certainly bigger than an Ursa and quite fast on that. However, a powerful gust of wind saved the purple haired girl. Both she and Octavia jumped towards the firm structure, trying to have some security in the higher ground.

"Ok, I think we're kind of screw" the red haired woman said whit a nervous laugh "I don't fell to be a worm's lunch today, so, any plans?"

"I…" Nebula closed her eyes for a moment, trying to remember, something came to her mind "Their mouths, they are big enough to shallow their prey whole, but they are vulnerable enough there, we only need to hit them there when they jump"

"Yeah, great plan" Octavia said sarcastically "But there are two of them, if we try to attack one, the other will jump, and dealing with them in a one and one is not very wise"

"I think I have a plan," Nebula said with determination "Dew! I need you to make a tornado, remove the sand and expose the Guts! Gwen, throw your knifes to only one of them, distract it long enough, we will deal with the other!"

Both girls nodded, they understood that it was the best plan possible in this type of situation.

Dew moved her spear, creating a tornado, sending it towards the extreme behind Nebula and Octavia. The fast wind lifted up the sand, as one of the Gut was passing in its direction. Soon, its body was exposed.

At the same time, Nebula prepared her crossbow and formed a star in form of a bolt, seeing the other Gut coming to her. Octavia concentrated her Aura and her sword was cover in flames. Gwen prepared herself, activating her Semblance, putting enough Aura into the Dust of the six knifes she hold, and calculating her next attack.

For a moment, one could hear many heartbeats, some humans, other not. Then, with a muffled scream, one of the Grimm swam rapidly towards the trapped huntress in the stone structure.

"Now!" Nebula shouted.

The Gut jumped directly towards her, its wide mouth ready to shallow the awaited prey.

A bolt of light and a wave of fire were shoot instantly, combining into a single attack, crossing in the air with a peculiar sound, getting inside of the creature.

Gwen saw that the uncovered Gut prepared to jump, opening its mouth. She threw six knifes into its throat.

There were two big explosions; the Gut's head that Gwen attack exploded, killing instantly. But the other one that Nebula and Octavia were dealing literally blew up like a balloon full of blood and entrails, covering the two girls of red instantly.

"Wow!" Octavia exclaimed, barely disgusted by the blood in her body. After, it was Grimm's blood, so it would disappear in no time. "Did you see that!?"

"Yeah…surely we should be more careful next time we decide to do a combination attack" Nebula said with a nervous chuckle "But I believe it was useful this time"

Dew smiled towards the girls and congratulated Gwen.

"You did it very well, I didn't know how, but you reacted incredible fast!"

Gwen simply shrugged "It was nothing really, just a trick I learned"

The blonde girl didn't said anything, and instead, saw if there wans't any more Guts. After seeing the zone was secure, she jumped towards the other two, followed by Gwen.

"So…it's over isn't?" Octavia said, and then she sighed, "Because right now, I'm too tired"

"Well, we should only wait and see if…oh, there is" Nebula pointed out the Bullhead that came towards them ready to take them to the Academy.

The auditorium was full of people, both full freshmen and upper classmates, witnessing the ceremony.

"Nebula Violette, Gwen Darcy, Dew Gayl, and Octavia Ember…" the headmistress said while the faces of the group were show in the giant screen "As you retrieve the white bishop pieces, from now on, you will work together as…" the faces in the screen began to move "Team NDGO!"

There was a thunderous applause of the people in the auditorium. Nebula and Gwen exchanged smiles, while Dew and Octavia's faces were stoic.

"Lead by…Nebula Violette!"

Now this time they were catch unguarded. The mentioned new leader's eyes went wide for a moment, while Gwen's mouth opening in a silent scream of surprise and happiness. Dew gave a strange look to her new leader while Octavia was dumbfounded.

"Congratulations, you have a bright future ahead," the headmistress said with warm smile in her face.

Nebula blinked twice before she nodded with enthusiasm. She didn't expected the way that the last days went, much less being the leader of her own group, but she hold her own promise and decided that it was a chance that the cosmos itself offered to her.

She wouldn't disappoint her grandfather and her own dreams.

Author Notes: So, did you like it? Any reviews and constructive criticism is highly appreciated. See you next update and take care.