This was it. This was her chance.<br/><br/>Yumi watched as the braver students took the leap out of the plane, one by one. She stood among the many unsure or scared students, trying to calm her hammering heart. The young girl certainly stood out among the small crowd, gaining a good six inches with her shoes. Her short, silver hair was brushed back out of her bluish-purple eyes, and her forest-green shirt was billowing in the strong winds from the open door on the side of the plane. She made sure to tighten the sash around her waist, making sure it was properly slid through the belt loops of her denim shorts. She did not want to loose her memento of her cousin.<br/><br/>Yumi took a deep breath, closing her eyes. She had worked hard to get to this point. She wanted to make Marcus proud. She wanted to make both their dreams come true, and by god, she'd do it! She wasn't going to let fear stand in her way, not now. The girl turned away from the open door. It seemed there had been a pause as a Faunus took a graceful fall rather than a running leap. Those brave enough to start were gone, leaving the anxious and unsure. But Yumi was about to shed her anxiety. With another deep breath, she raised her arms, making a small hop. With a shift of her balance, Yumi took a step backward, letting gravity pull her down towards earth. She bent her back, catching her weight with her hands and flipping her legs over herself. When they met the floor, she quickly brought her upper body up, using the momentum to repeat the process.<br/><br/>Yumi proceeded to back-flip towards the door, her eyes still closed. Her mind had blanked, and she was simply letting her body move on it's own. No fear, no anxiety, no indecision. Her feet hit the metal again, and Yumi opened her eyes. She'd landed right at the opening, the barrel of the gun that made the heel of her shoe half hanging out of the plane. With the flex of her foot, the gun fired, and she kicked off from the floor. Both the force of her jump and the recoil sent Yumi upwards. Thoughts came rushing back in to her head. Doubt, fear and anxiety creating a mish-mash of feelings and concerns as she went up. At the apex of her ascent, Yumi twisted, using her Semblance to keep from spinning out of control and stay pointed down. She could see the ground, the trees, birds, and even the plane a few feet below her. Gravity soon took hold, and Yumi started to plummet. As the wind started to roar in her ears, all that doubt suddenly vanished. She had trained hard to get here. She could do this.<br/><br/>Yumi let out a cry of elation as she plummeted past the plane, though only those close to the doors were able to see or hear the blur that was Yumi. The wind stung her eyes and deafened her, but Yumi felt nothing but joy. This was it, this was her chance to prove herself. She was going to do everything she could to be a Huntress, and nothing was going to stop her. The ground grew ever-closer, and it was time Yumi started trying to keep from turning in to a pancake. With a shift in her balance, Yumi face diagonal to the ground, and let loose a shot from her gun. The recoil sent her in to a spinning flip, but she had expected this, and used the momentum to fire off another shot, and then another. She fired a full volley in to the trees, turning her fully vertical fall in to a more horizontal movement. Perfect.<br/><br/>But the trees were coming up fast, and Yumi needed to make sure she didn't get clothes-lined by a branch. Yumi managed to stop her spinning, but continued to flip and somersault, firing off a few more shots to increase the speed of her flips. She was nearly at the trees now, and with another flex, three blades extended from her shoes moments from impact with a branch. unfortunately for it, these blades were sharp. It was cut from the tree it was attached to, and soon many more followed behind it. Yumi literally cut through the trees, taking down branches and limbs without discrimination. Though this helped to slow her down through friction, it wasn't enough to keep her from dying upon impact with the ground. Luckily for her, she was headed right for the trunk of one of the larger tree trunks. With another shot from her guns, Yumi increased her momentum, and extended her legs as she hit the trunk. Her blades sank deep in to the bark of the tree, and she started to quickly slide down, leaving deep gouges in the tree. Yumi closed her eyes, hoping she'd stop before she hit the ground. A quick look behind her told her she would not. Yumi fired her guns again, shooting backwards. She'd angled it perfectly, and the Recoil slowed her down enough to land on the ground without injury to herself. It wasn't graceful in the least, landing on her back, but she had survived. The sound of omminous creaking made her look up to find the tree she'd slid down starting to fall away from her. The combination of being cut down the middle and a powerful blast from her guns had been enough to cause it to start to fall backwards, a large hole in it's trunk. Yumi winced and covered her ears, watching as the tree fell, creating quiet the ruckus.<br/><br/>Well, that was one way to start things off... Now she needed a partner.