Act I: Fresh Snowfall
"Ugh, what happened?" Pyrrha opened her eyes and surveyed the area. She was in a forest, surrounded by the thick winter snow. She remembered the events that transpired at Beacon with Cinder. "Oh right I died, well the afterlife is more... normal than I expected." Pyrrha realized that she was neck deep in snow, while standing, and that the trees upon reflection looked much larger than they should.
"Odd," she commented as she raised her arm to wipe the snow off her head. However, instead of the gauntlet clad hand that she was used to, she was greeted with a white paw-like appendage. Pyrrha did not take this well and surveyed the rest of her new body. Her body was small and fox like, she decided to look around for a place to look at her face. She ran over to a nearby lake and looked at her reflection through the ice.
Her body was completely white and a quadruped, she had pointed ears and her eyes appeared to be pure green. What scared her however, was the patchy bone-like substance on her head, back, and front paws. "Am I a Grimm?" She questioned as she backed away from the lake. "No, that's impossible, right? Humans can't become Grimms. This must be some odd purgatory, or some strange afterlife, or maybe I'm not dead and this is some bizarre dream, or ... or ..." Pyrrha fell to the ground sobbing. "But *choke* if I'm a Grimm, then why is my fur white, and why can I think? *sob* Can all Grimms think, *sniff* will I become like them?" Pyrrha's stomach then began to growl. She realized that it must have been a while since she last ate and composed herself. "What do I even eat like this? We never learned what Grimm eat in school, I guess *sniff* that wasn't important *sniff* *sniff* at the time... Something smells delicious!" Pyrrha began to follow the scent, hoping that she course ld get some of whatever it was.
After a little while of searching, it began to get dark but she was finally able to get to the source of the sweet scent. She hid in a bush and began to listen to the people. She was able to figure out that there were four of them on the group and she began to listen to their conversation.
"Guys, it's starting to get late we should set up a camp before the sun goes down." Commented an oddly familiar male voice.
"No, the faster we get to Haven Academy the faster we can get answers, and the faster we get answers the sooner I, I mean we, can get revenge." The second male replied angrily.
A high pitched voice chimed in next, "if we get to Haven too exhausted to move then we won't be in any condition to fight if we need to. Besides, it's been weeks, what is one more night."
The first male jumped in again. "She is right, we haven't had a good rest in a few days, we should set up camp now Jaune."
"Jaune!" Pyrrha lost her balance and fell out of the bush landing in the center of the small party.
"Oh my god, that is so cute!" Nora squealed as she lifted Pyrrha up.
Well this is certainly not something I would have ever guessed would happen. Pyrrha thought to herself.
"Nora, do you know what that thing is?" Asked Ren, concerned over the Grimm-like appearance of their new companion.
Nora replied as upbeat as usual. "I have no idea! But look at it, have you ever seen anything like it?"
Ruby began to look closely at Pyrrha. "It does kind of look like a Grimm Nora, maybe we should keep it away from us." Pyrrha's stomach growled again.
Oh right, I was looking for something to eat she thought to herself.
Haha I think our new little friend is hungry." Ren commented as he pulled out a protein bar from his backpack. Pyrrha ate it without removing the wrapper.
"Guys can we please get going we really don't have time for this." Jaune commented, trying to move the party forward.
"Jaune, we need to sleep and eat. We can just set up camp here and get started again in the morning, and who knows maybe the little guy can help us." Ruby said, already putting her sleeping bag on the ground.
"Nora and I can get some firewood if you and Ren set up the tents."
Ren cover Jaune's mouth before he could respond to Ruby's comment.
"Great idea, we shouldn't need that much so please don't almost level the forest again."
Nora set Pyrrha on the ground. "Ok stay here while we get firewood, do you understand?" Pyrrha nodded much to Nora's amusement. After they finished setting up their camp the party got some rest. Pyrrha curled up next to Jaune and fell asleep.
She woke up in a strange place covered in red fog. She was human again and was missing her tiara. "Darn, I wish this wasn't the dream." She said to herself surveying the new area.
"Well, you are partially right, this is no ordinary dream dear." Pyrrha turned around and saw a woman sitting at a chess table. Her skin was deathly white and she had red markings on her face like a Grimm.
"Oh, I haven't introduced myself yet. You may call me Salem. So do you play?" Salem asked, gesturing to the table.
"Yeah, I used to play with my grandfather all the time as a child." Pyrrha sat down and moved a piece. "So what is happening to me? I assume you know." She asked the mysterious woman, continuing their game.
"Isn't it obvious dear, you became a Grimm. Well mostly, something inside of you is resisting me. To be honest, this has never happened before. But rest assured whatever is giving you this power is fading, so you will eventually join my army. But until then, tell me, what is it like? I have been curious what goes through one of their heads as they are losing themselves." Pyrrha took her king.
"Wait, so you turn people into Grimms? Why, what do you even gain from this? Also, I will not become like the other Grimms." Pyrrha responded angrily.
"Well dear to answer your questions in order, yes, because I can, power, and that's cute, you think you have a choice." The world around them started to fade. "Congratulations on your momentary victory dear, there will not be many more for you." With that the dream ended.