This is my first story about an op oc I have created for RWBY

I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did writing it

Any reviews would be kindly accepted

I do NOT own RWBY, it is owned by Rooster teeth and created by Monty Oum (R.I.P) :(

[Backstory]

A single breath and life was gone, Grimm running rampant across a burning village. Screams of death could be heard for miles around as one woman walked through a field of corpses.

A crying child could be heard in a pile rubble and caught the attention of the woman, she walked over to the small child and hushed them.

"Quiet child, it's ok now." She said in a calming voice as she looked in the boy's purplish red eyes.

The woman named Salem picked up the child and held him in front of herself. "You are safe now boy, no need to cry." His face was covered in ash and soot, his eyes were covered in black tears from the ash.

"I want my mommy…" the boy pleaded softly with sorrow in his voice.

"Your mother is dead child….. I am your mother now." Salem claimed with hesitation as she glanced at a dead body she assumed was his mother.

[10 years later]

The corpse of a Beowulf faded away as Gridelin took off his training helmet, "Mother! I have defeated the Grimm!" He yelled out to Salem.

She turned her head towards the boy and smiled in pleasure. "Well done my child, I have trained you well. I suppose it is time for me to give you a gift of true power." Salem droned.

"Mother Salem, I have a question." The child asked her.

"What is it child?"

"Why did you save me when I was younger?"

"Because I saw great potential in you dear." She replied immediately.

"Why have you given me the name Gridelin?" He asked another unnecessary question.

"Enough questions Gridelin! It is time." She scolded as she walked over to Gridelin and held the palm of her hands on the boy's head. A black glow was coming from her arms and was streaming from her arms, her body turned black for a moment and darkness flooded into the child's body through her palms.

Gridelin fainted as an ancient and sentient Grimm spirit entered the child's body causing his soul to become corrupted. His skin turned white like Salem and black markings appeared all around his body, just how Salem appeared.

From one moment to the next a 12 year old child became the embodiment of a grim/human transmutation.

Salem looked at him with displeasure and yelled, "Wake up child! You are stronger than that!"

Immediately Gridelin woke up and looked at his adopted mother. "You are to never speak of this event in your life my dear, you will from now on have no emotion or disobedience. You have inherited a great spirit from me which will greatly increase your power exponentially and strength beyond that of any human could ever achieve." She explained.

For the next 5 years Gridelin trained day and night and developed a great semblance through his now Grimm possessed soul.

He developed a set of armor and a weapon from a distant land and trained extensively with his glaive.

Soon when he had grown to the age of 17 he managed to secretly apply to beacon academy and swore to never show any part of his body around others.

First day of school

Gridelin looked at the large academy through his helmet from an airship carrying students to the school.

A noticeably skinny and weak man stood next to him with a bag at his face Supposedly for vomiting, He thought.

"Hey man I don't know why you got this armor on…...vomits in bag….but it looks pretty good." The man said as he ran over to a trash can and began to puke in it.

"Hmph.." Came out of Gridelin's helmet while he stood his ground as a girl in a red hood and silver eyes started to pester him about his armor and why he wasn't talking.

"Hey why do you have this armor on? What's it for? What's it made out of? What's your name? Not a talker, I see." The Teenage girl pestered.

An older girl with yellow hair and noticeably more matuclothing came over to the other girl.

"Come on sis, let's leave this guy alone since it seems he doesn't like to talk." The yellow hair girl explained.

"Ok fine, I'll see you later mister!" She yelled at him as she followed her sister.

What a nuisance, at least the other girl was more mature, Gridelin thought.

The ship lowered to the ground and landed in the front of beacon academy.

A big ramp lowered from the ship as the students flooded onto the grounds. Gridelin waited on the ship until most of the kids were out and finally walked onto the school grounds.

The first day, I was not particularly excited for this part, but who am I to have an opinion on it.

And that's it for the first/prologue chapter

Hope you enjoyed!

I know it is very short but give me some slack since I have work and a limited access to the internet at the time.

I'm also a brand new writer so as I have no experience writing a story.

God bless!