The lone sliver blue-eyed wolf in the forest of red (OPEN)

Apollo walked down the dirt path which had been paved over by countless red leaves and petal, worn from countless travellers walks using it as a path to get to the train tracks hoping to maybe jump onto an empty cart as it slowed down while coming around the bend running along the shore of the lake. He pulled along a large net in one hand inside ton of wooden spikes bundled together and a cloth sack and in the other twirled sword as it folded back onto itself turning into an over sized cross-guard and rain guard leaving him with an over sized hilt which he clicked into a 'scabbard' on his back moving it as if a completely normal sized sword.
Now with two hands he pulled on the net he had been dragging along lifting it off the ground carrying it as he turned off onto a different path still worn down and paved in red but it was hidden thanks to some over grown bushes, it was a few minutes but he eventually arrived at a small abandoned gothic church with cracks Ina few of the stones and ivory and moss grow up an on all the walls, as for the stain glass windows were still intact, he took a left turning into a field with broken pieces of stone everywhere some of which were engraved. Apollo dropped the next, unbundled the wooden spikes (which were each a metre long) and drove them into the ground upright randomly spread around the field. Out of the cloth bag he pulled out what looked like a skull mask but not of a humans...but of a Grimm and placed it onto top of the spike and proceeded to do the same to rest.
The skulls were mostly those of Beowolfs, Boarbatusks and even a few Ursas were mixed around among them. He then walked back to the abounded church and entered looking exactly how one would expect...in ruins with grass growing through the cracks in the marbled tiled floor large pieces of rubble lying on top of a few smashed bleachers and the beams that reached half way into the great hall that once held up a balcony to be a sorts of second floor was ringed with ivory and the balcony was gone. Apollo jumped landing on top of the beam that was opposite of the stain glass window over looking the alter and lied down on it closeting his eyes as he listed to the sound of the birds in the forest chirping as the sunlight began shining through the stained glass window. This was his life at the moment and he loved every aspect of it....it sadden him knowing that this was soon going to all have to end after the deal he was forced into by the VPD and his parent's hunter associates. "We'll all good things do have to come to an end," he thought aloud and sees a poppy in the floor titles popped spreading it's seeds and dying "but then yet out of the end of one pleasant thing can come the birth of several more."

Lee, rather frustrated from missing initiation,took to the forest in search of some peace and quiet. Within his rather subconscious state he had discovered the lately used dirt path. "These tracks are rather fresh, who would need to be out here as of right now?" he questioned. Lee proceeded along the path, and the eventual scent of plant decay caught his attention. Immediately, drawing Kazoku from his sleeves, he took to cover. This part of Forever Fall was not known to Lee. He tracked the scent until the lone structure of the church caught his eye. He climbed to the top of a tree, semblance at the ready, and waited, for he knew that he was not alone.

Apollo sighed as he felt as is somebody was watching and sat up on the beam he was lying on and saw a small shadow of (what ever colour Lee's aura is) on the church wall as if it was at a distance away, somebody was outside his home. He cupped his hands around his mouth and imitated a Beowolf's howl throwing his voice thanks to the echoes produced in the church making it sound like it came from the graveyard left of the church.

Lee, upon immediate detection of a Beowolf, activated his aura and switched Kazoku into HaHa, returning to the ground. He did not feel the need to battle this afternoon. [color=#FF9933]"Blast, if it isn't a damn pack of Beowolves that had to ruin this discovery. So long as this rubble stays standing overnight, I will return tomorrow."/color] Lee hastily retreated back to the beaten path, deactivated his aura and began his trek back to Beacon. Even though he has not been assigned a team or dorm, he felt compelled to eventually try to set up a working shelter back at that church; for the sake of his dust experiments. The path back to Beacon (and Ozpin, as well) was quite the distance. The journey will take a while, and he hopes he can return without the slightest chance of another encounter with the creatures of Grimm.

Apollo stayed on the beam he was on in the posture one of the stone gargoyle would have, his eyes following the coloured shadow showing the person's location thankfully he didn't see any black outlines so there were no Grimm in the area so if his howl did attract any the skulls he placed on the spikes most likely warded them off. Letting his curiosity getting the better of him he exited the building walking along the beam before he jumped out of a hole in the wall and onto the roof where he ran silently not being visible to the naked eye not even a blur imaged of him would be seem until arriving at the steel cross at the peak of the chapel's bell-tower which had a weather vane on top of it. Apollo grabbed onto the cross and hung off the side of it in the same manner of a person who was about to swing around a lamp post while holding onto it. He could know see the person who had crossed onto his territory, a boy who looked about a year older then his actual age while he probably looked one to two years older then the boy, the boy didn't seem like a threat so he decide to continue to watch him.

Lee never estimated the true distance of his journey, but he knew he had ventured much too far. It was becoming rather dark now, a few minutes past dusk. The thought of an impending encounter compelled Lee to break into an easy, quiet jog. "Keep your pace, and quiet your tread."He always appreciated Forever Fall, but the constant decent of leaves in the near dark presented quite an illusion to his eye.  Lee did not fear the Grimm, but he knew a pack of Beowolves would have the advantage in the dark setting of the environment. After all, Kazoku's current Dust effect (extreme cold) was still in the prototype stage; there was no guarantee that, if he re-equipped into Chichi, that the Dust would effect the rope properly. Mental analysis of this fact stopped Lee dead in his tracks. For the sake of being sure, Lee took a battle stance, and reactivated his Aura. By doing this in a rather coincidental round opening of trees, he used them as targets. Lee braced himself. He knew Haha worked, but could Chichi? Taking a deep breath, he brought both his arms back, and flung both at the nearest tree. Chichi, upon striking the first tree, illuminated a bright length of cyan light that was its rope. The tree responded with a loud crack, and shattered at the frozen site of impact. "Damn! Too loud, way too loud!" Lee quickly scrambled up the tallest tree he could find within the immediate area. It was completely dark now, and he set up "shelter" for the night. Laying against the center of the tree, Lee prepared for a sleepless night. Retracting Kazoku back to primary form, he hoped that the nearest Grimm wouldn't have the best of hearing, and come to investigate.

OCC: what colour is Lee's aura?

Apollo followed the boy swiftly moving through the tree top branches looking as if he was reappearing and disappearing to the naked eye from branch to branch hidden from sight when he stopped by the trunks, branches and leaves of the other trees. He waited until late into the night before coming down from the tree silently and began walking back down the path, until he a howl which stopped him in his tracks, because this time it wasn't him.

Lee jolted up from his light sleep, and froze. That howl was close, way too close. Even though he had gotten barely any rest, it did rejuvenate his alertness and concentration. Lee knew that his aura wasn't much use in the dark; anybody could see the faint grey glow from a good distance. But then again, the silencing of any movement would prove useful, so long as he wasn't seen. Sticks cracked at the base of the tree. This was not good. Taking his mental advice, he refrained form using his aura. Peering down slowly, he identified 6 different sites of movement. He looked up again. Over to his 1 O'clock, the silhouette of another human was posed as close to the ground as anyone would after the detection of a Beowolf. Lee slowly brought up his hands, and displayed six of his fingers as far into the moonlight as his arms could reach. Bringing them down slowly, he let Kazoku silently slip down from his wrists, and into his hands.Moving to a crouching position, he again surveyed the ground below to identify the leader of the pack. It was still grouping about the base of the tree, obviously nearing the source of fresh meat. A second stood by, simply waiting for an interaction from his superior.  He had two throws before he would have to re-equip his second set of (Fire Dust) Kunai, to use Chichi. He drew both arms back, threw them both forward as quietly as possible, letting Kyōdai fly towards its targets.

Apollo turned and leaped over the single beowolf under a blink of an eye, as two beowolf caught on fire and dropped to the ground as if they had just been stabbed. He pulled out his sword and as he swung it activated opening into an oversized claymore blade, and moved it as if it was a combat staff or a halberd. He the proceeded to attack moving as a blur looking like he was in two places at once sometimes for a spilt second or a cloud of what looked like greyish slivery blue metallic dust of where he once was. In a fluid movement he decapitated the beowolf in front of him before twirling the handle and chopping on that moved behind him to try and attack, as he was pulling his sword back around it split in half allowing him to defend/parry an attack from on of the two remaining beowolfs making and opening to stab it in the heart before preforming an upwards slash cutting the beowolfs torso and head in half. he pointed the blades at the last beowolf and growled imitating the alpha on of it's pack as he then swung his sword to get the blood off his sword and stain the ground but blending into the already red painted ground by the leaves.

Lee was impressed. This other boy, a wee bit younger than him, took care of entire pack of beowolves within a few minutes. Well, almost. He took Chichi, and wrapped both hands worth around the alpha's neck with a throw of the arms. Chichi's contact with the beast caused a large orange "light show" as the rope quickly melted through the flesh of its large neck. "Mine" said Lee with a blank expression as the creature fell to the ground, a pile of ashes. "I am Lee, and I assume your the one occupying the Church?"

O.C.C. : Sorry for the short post, rather small on time.

OOC: It's fine my posts are going to be shorter then usual a times so don't worry about it, but just a reminder though Apollo is 16 he looks as if he is 17, 18 or even 19 years old.

Apollo looked at the boy who introduced himself as Lee, he picked the skulls of the bro wolfs he killed and looked the boy in the eye "....yes...." He replied unknowing that his eye piece through the darkness of the night showing his face which looked naturally cold hearted and fierce making him even look intimidating to Grimm. He turned around let his swords reconnect into one sword, deactivate it and sheathed it before he began walking back towards the church "....Follow..." he told Lee. Once he go there he walked up to the alter and placed the skulls on it, before leading Lee to a small doorless shed out side the church a little bit to the right of the church it looked like at one stage of time it was connected to the church because instead of a cobblestone wall on the side facing the church it was made of wooden panels and it was the only one made as such on the shed. Inside there was a large pile of hay and straw along with an until candle, "tonight you can stay here......." He told lee before walking off back to the church.

Lee thanked his host for the place to stay as he became familiar with his surroundings. He touched the tip of Kazoku to the candle wick, which lit with ease. As he lay down on the straw pile, questions began to fill his head as he slowly drifted to sleep. Who was this guy? Why an old Church? Does he even know of Vale? He slept with one eye open, just to be safe.

Apollo now feeling restless after being woken up earlier, so he went up to the roof of the church and looked out to it's right hand side watching the stars and their mirror like reflection in the lake in the distance as a train passed every half an hour or so until the sun began to rise over the tree tops turning the water a bright red along it's shore while the majority stayed a reflection of the sky with leave scattered all over the surface of it. Finally his body's needs caught up with him as he subconsciously laid back on the roof as his eyelids blind folded him and he awoke from the roar of a passing train's whistle from the position of the sun he could tell it was around nine in the morning "...well five hours of sleep is better then none..." he muttered as he thought aloud. the chirping of birds caught his attention pulling him towards the small marble bird bath he had made out of the baptismal font that he found in the church and attached a few dishes to hold seeds in as bird feeders, he then made way his way down into the church through the hole in wall grabbed a cloth sack of grain and then made his way to the baptismal font bird bath which had moss and ivory growing up it, as he refilled the dishes and changed the water some of the birds landed on his head and shoulders and tried to eat the seeds out of his hand when he was refilling the feed dishes.

O.O.C: Sorry for being late. Was out of town+ Really short on time.

Lee woke up the next morning feeling surprisingly well, having slept on just a straw pile. He left the shed, and backed up from it to take in the entirety of the ruin. It must have been a great structure back in its time. After taking a minute to take it all in, he worked his way around to the front of the Church. Walking up to the figure, he said "Thanks for helping me last night... you never really told me your name, but that is alright. So, what is your story?"

OOC: sorry for taking so long school

"Is my name and story really that important to you?" Apollo asked as he finished refilling the bird feed dishes, this is when the birds scattered off him to the bird bath and feed, he pointed at a sundial made out of a tree stump and then out in the direction of the train tracks "A train passes by at one o'clock, it is a cargo train so it has to go slow around the turn so it would to be easy to sneak on." He explained "If you wished to return to Vale that would be the best way."

Lee rubbed the back of his head with one hand. "Well, I guess not. It was for curiosity's sake." He looked off. "I feel no longer welcome here. I think I will just head back then. Once again, thanks." And with that, Lee turned, looked at the Dial, and began walking in the direction that he was instructed to travel. Hmm... this could've been quite the adventure.

Apollo sighed at the boy's response realising he didn't come across as the kindest of people...social skills we not his strong suit "My name is Apollo," he stated aloud so the boy could here him before he was out of his hearing distance "if you do plan on leaving you have an hour or two as it is only in the ninth hour, you are welcome to stay if you wish."

Lee stopped. Quite the change of mind. Turning around, he walked beck over to Apollo. "Apollo, I guess Ill hang around then". Looking back at the ruin, he never took notice of the field of skulls. "Not one for Beowolves, eh? Neither am I.

"Those are't just Beowolves' skulls, you would see that if you walked around...but the majority of them are Beowoloves...I don't think anybody likes the Grimm..." Apollo explained as pulled out two jars of red sap from a hollowed out tree trunk and tossed one to the boy ".....your name?..." He asked afterward as he walked over to the bird feed bag (basically full of oats, grain, seeds, etc., etc. stuff that humans can eat to) as he took a few handfuls of the feed and mixed in into the jar of red sap using a spork carved from bone which at the end of the handle was sharpened to be used as a knife (there is one stuck in the lid of Lee's jar).

"Ah, i see now, indeed." He catches the jar with a smile. "Wow, haven't had this in a long while. Thanks." He unscrews the lid and begins chowing down. In between bites, he managed to get out "and my name is Lee". Finishing, he tosses the jar back and looks back up at the Church. " Wow, how long have you been here?

Apollo shrugged as a response as he finished off his jar of sap "...I don't remember it's easy to lose track of time out here......it quite pleasant really." He began to walk around the corner following along the wall of the main building slowly enough so if Lee wished to follow he could ".....it's a shame that it will come to a end........but I guess all good things do......" He quietly mumbled sounding quite sad, once he arrived at the front of the church he entered to collect the three beowolves skulls he collected from last night along with three wooden pikes he had over in the corner.

Lee followed. "an end?" he asked as he made his way into the church behind Apollo. Wow, look at this place. He looked all around the interior of the place. Sure looked a lot smaller from outside. What do you mean by an end?"

A black silhouette with small streaks of gold can be seen.
Sonny's mind is quiet. A racing calm plagues both his thoughts and movements. The Forest of Forever Fall is not a very mysterious place to the Schwartz clan and has been the sight of their hunting and training grounds for five generations. It is upon these grounds that Sonny's family members have gained their amount of combat prowess with the Creatures of Grimm.
Today, Sonny woke up early and went to the forest to carry on this tradition of ancestors and kin. He knows much of the area, through either natural or family-made synthetic landmarks, like a large rock or a carving in a tree, but has not been in this area before. New hunting grounds are not required. However, it does help with the amount in game.
In his classic hunting weapon form set for in between conflict (Licht Hecht in spear form and shield put away), Sonny emerges from behind a grouping of trees to find a threatening sight. Around a small church, the heads of beowolves and other Creatures of Grimm rest atop wooden stakes. Just as soon as the aura of Sonny appears, it disappears with little trace.
That doesn't look too good. The scent of decomposing flesh would only attract the carnivorous breeds among the Grimm.
Sonny's family has adopted the technique to attract more practice for them in the areas that lack a large amount of game. The only difference is they do not make a display of it...
Whomever is responsible mustn't have made this display for more game. It's-...
"It's a warning...Hm.."
Who knows what they might do to someone wandering as close as I have. They could be territorial.
In classic 'someone could get hurt' fashion, Sonny puts away his spear and hurries to halt an unknown-strength threat for people he's never met and who may-or-may not ever be in danger.
The scrawny boy then climbs a tree he spotted to have a branch growing within jumping-distance to the roof of the shabby building while doing his best to listen for movement and/or voices inside of the structure.

OOC: Cap' it's just the skulls no rotten flesh. Also the skulls are in a field to the left of the church...stated that in an earlier post

Apollo stopped dead after picking up the pikes on his shoulder and the three beowolves skulls in a small net "....I was just thinking aloud please pass no head of it....." he then felt the presence of another entering his territory "...excuse me..." he said letting the skulls shatter as they crashed to the ground with the wooden pikes after disappearing (to Lee it would looked like he just vanished in thin air) by running up to the roof through the hole in the corner of the ceiling after jumping onto/off one of the wooden beams. He arrived silently roof and glared at the black silhouette with small streaks of gold.

[Whoops! My bad. Knew I should have read the thread again the day after the first time, when I was about to post, to make sure I didn't miss any key details.]

So far nothing.
The figure dressed in black and gold reaches his targeted branch and looks over to the roof. Good, it isn't likely that they heard me. I should have the element-
A tall boy, with piercing eyes, glares at me.
-of..surprise...
"Hm."
Sonny runs the length of the branch and leaps. While in air, he removes his shield and pushes his cape to the back. When he lands, he removes the spear and twirls it once to flip it open. While twirling the spear to the right, he lifts the shield to an angled guard position so it just protects his full front. The spear is spun over Sonny's head and the middle of it is tucked behind the shield, leaving the ends of it sticking out beyond the edges of the shield on an angle, as the top of it folds up. Another folded out half slides down to its respective position to create a round cover of intimidating size. His eyes just peek over the top while his thighs just escape sight below. It is a stance developed by Sonny himself to create a deflecting protection against ranged weapons-much like slanted tank armor-and fast-movers while making it very easy to fire the .308 rifle in his shield. The position also serves as an excellent tactic to initiate a conflict (and, in cases of enemies with no aura and a well-placed shot, end it) when it is least expected. All it takes is a slight movement of it to the left and back to defending.
You kidding me? The person is just a kid, as I am. Given, he seems a little older but still. What's he doing? That gaze, though...and the way he carries himself...this one is someone who would put the skulls of defeated Creatures of Grimm on that timber. Yes, he is the one who has slain at least some of them as well. Definitely trained at Beacon. Maybe even an alumnus of it...No, a huntsman wouldn't do this. He's a student. Who knows what type of people are inside the church...
"That display you have down there. What's its purpose?"
Sonny's voice is a little louder than normal speech volume to make up for the range between the opposite ends of the church and the men on either side.