Her creation stared up at her, like a child. Well, technically they were. The boy standing before Salem was wearing all black, a special kind of black that her grimm use. It absorbs all light and helps to blend in. panning her head up to his face, she saw two cat ears and scraggly black hair. "Hello, Lynx."

The boy looked down at himself, as if he had just regained consciousness and was seeing himself for the first time. "H-hello?" He said unsurely, not knowing how he knew to speak or where he was. "W-where am I? Who are you?"

"My name, is Salem." She said with a soft, caring voice. "I created you, my first faunus. This place is home."

Walking with the woman with white features, outlined by red veins and black clothes, he looked outside and noticed creatures with black bodies and white bones poking out from their skin crawling from pools in the ground. They were strangely cute and he felt protective of them, wanting to run to them but resisting while in the presence of the automatic authority that Salem had.

They came to a large room with weapons adorning the walls. "Lynx, you will be spending a lot of time in this place."


Lynx awoke one morning and heard Salem screaming in anger. There was also a male voice that was obviously scared of her. He jumped out of bed and ran to her office, using shadows to mask his footsteps. He had been taught early on about his abilities, control of shadows and grim. They were once difficult and out of his reach but now they were second nature to him.

"My lady, you have to understand the unprecedented nature of the warrior." The man managed to stutter.

"We have dealt with them before, one well times slash to her eyes would have rendered her useless and Mountain Glenn would have fallen. Now all we have done is force them underground and my plans are destroyed, Vale will not fall." Salem growled. Standing outside the door, Lynx had no idea what they were talking about except that it had to do with mankind.

Salem had been training him to destroy men with ease but had yet to tell him why. He was always left curious when she stalked off into her office to order some pitiful human around. He always wanted to question one when they were walking from her office but he never did, not wanting to disappoint Salem.

She stalked out of her office before Lynx could hide himself and took his collar, dragging him along. "You know your purpose, you know how to do it. Now go and don't disappoint me." They entered a room with a hole in the floor that seemed to extend down forever. She waved her hand over it and red rings began to form and a portal began to take form. Before Lynx could react he was shoved from behind through the portal and it shimmered before disappearing.