Grimm's New Leader – Chapter 1
His Arrival
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It was in the lair of Chase Young that things had taken a turn for the worse in the battle between good and evil, where Chase Young had ensured that the side of good had suffered a heavy blow. It was a blow that had ensured that the Xiaolin Warriors had finally fallen in battle against the side of evil.
Chase Young was a 1500 year old Heylin Warrior, who had the appearance of a young adult, his long black hair, reptilian yellow eyes and the suit of armour that he wore made him a recognisable figure for all of those who wanted to find the man, who had sold his soul for eternal youth. He was now forever young after he drank a potion called the Lao Mang Lone Soup, which while giving him eternal youth, allowed him to turn into a monstrous form, though the potion had to be drank every day, or he/she would be in their monstrous form, incapable of changing back into a human.
Chase Young couldn't help but laugh sadistically as he looked at the four Xiaolin Warriors standing before him, defeated and broken mentally. Three of them had tried to free their friend from his clutches, only to be defeated by him as well and give up their freedom, as they were now bound by their word to serve him for all eternity.
He had to admit, that some Shen Gong Wu were very useful when used correctly. However, Shen Gong Wu were magically objects that had originally been created by a man called Grand Master Dashi, though he did prefer to use his martial arts to fight his battles. Still, it was the Shen Gong Wu that allowed him into the position of ruler of the world, as he plunged it into ten thousand years of darkness.
Originally he had tricked Omi, a Xiaolin Warrior, who was a very small boy with a large circular bald head and yellow skin, into serving him for all eternity by changing him from the side of good to the side of evil, after getting him to rescue his mentor, Master Fung, from the Yin-Yang World, where he had trapped his master. Going into the Ying-Yang World without both of the two Shen Gong Wu, the Ying Yo-Yo and the Yang Yo-Yo, meant that you would either leave your good side, or your evil side behind, causing the person going into change to the other side.
Chase Young had successfully tricked Omi into turning evil by only providing one of the Yo-Yo Shen Gong Wu, the Ying Yo-Yo. While he was on the side of evil, convinced him to swear his loyalty to him, so that he could fight him, after the young monk was so hyper on the idea of fighting, that he was willing to fight his own shadow, if he had to. It was due to this declaration of loyalty, and the monk's own word that even when his friends had returned him to the side of good, he had stayed by Chase's side, as he turned him into one of his minions, a jungle cat.
Still, Omi's friends had come to him with a proposal. If they, Raimundo, a Brazilian boy with brown hair, green eyes and a tan complexion, Kimiko, a Japanese girl with pale complexion and black hair and blue eyes, and Clay, an American boy with blond hair, yellow eyes and dressed like a Texan Cowboy, fought him for the right for Omi's freedom and won, they he would return to them and be out of Chase Young's loyalty. However, if they lost, then they too would serve him for all eternity. They had their little showdown, and Chase Young had won it, meaning that they were now no longer able to stop him from doing what he pleased with the world.
He had won, and there was not a thing that anyone could do about it.
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It was a few more years before he finally secured his victory over all of the side of good and evil. Master Monk Guan had come to him first when he had realised that the Xiaolin Monks had fallen, only for Chase Young, with his new powers to easily take him apart and finally defeat him once and for all. The fact that the Xiaolin Monks witnessed this defeat, only crushed their spirits further.
The second person he took out was Wuya, an evil Heylin Witch who could look like a vampire in some aspects, young and beautiful, she had long red hair and copper brown skin with pointed ears and sharp canines, after she tried to betray him by going after Shen Gong Wu and secretly stash the Shen Gong Wu when she thought he wasn't looking. It was after she was foolish enough to try and convince one of his crow spies did he find out about a plan to use the Shen Gong Wu, the Rio Reversal, which was able to reverse the lifespan of objects, to try and turn oil into a large dinosaur. He ended up feeding her to the dinosaur that she herself had created, after he had given it some intelligence, in cruel irony.
Chase Young took care of Hannibal Roy Bean, a creature that was the size of a small red bean and had two small yellow arms, shortly afterwards. He tracked down the Ying-Ying Bird and torn it to pieces before it could try and go into the Ying-Yang World to try and free the creature that had turned him to the side of evil in the first place. With Hannibal's only minion destroyed, he would be stuck in the Ying-Yang World for all eternity.
During the last few years he had been collecting all of the Shen Gong Wu, so that nobody would be able to use them against him for anything, making sure that he would never be challenged using the magical objects that had allowed him to become the ruler of the world in the first place.
Yet, it was during these years that Chase Young had grown discontent with just the world he had already conquered. He decided that he wanted to take over another world, to give himself a challenge to ensure that he never allowed his skills in battle to become rusty, and to become even more powerful than he already was. It was when he decided to take over another world that he knew that he needed to gain the knowledge of creating a portal to another world that was a two-way ticket.
He would rather not leave behind his palace after having spent so many years building it up, while the outside of his lair looked like an evil, demonic face engraved on a mountain, the interior looked like a palace, filled with beauty and elegance. However, he knew that he could simply recreate it in the new world that he would try and conquer.
So here he stood in his training room, with two Shen Gong Wu, the Fountain of Hui, which could provide the user with infinite, but unfortunately, random knowledge, and the Eagle Scope, which together with the Fountain of Hui, could allow the user to unlock the greatest secrets of the universe. In this case, Chase Young was using the two Shen Gong Wu to find out how to create a portal to another universe, and later be able to travel to and from said worlds, without leaving anything of importance behind. Like his empire of evil for example.
"Fountain of Hui! Eagle Scope!" The Fountain of Hui flew into the air and created a fountain that showed random knowledge that would flood the mind to the point that it would make a person's mind completely loopy, while the Eagle Scope slowed down all of the pieces of knowledge to the point that the person inside, Chase Young, could safely pick out the piece of knowledge that he was after.
Carefully, Chase picked through the pieces of knowledge that was presented to him, before he slowly but surely found the information that he was after. The knowledge of how to create a portal to another world was now within his grasp, now it was just a matter of creating it and making sure that it worked. Chase smirked evilly, he had the perfect test subject in mind for his experiment.
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Jack Spicer was a tall, thin and extremely pale teenager, with red eyes and spiky red hair. He was dressed in a Gothic/Punk Rock style of clothing, wearing a long, black coat with a high collar, black fingerless gloves, black trousers and black boots. He had yellow spiral googles, and had a backpack which could become a Heli-pack, which transported him everywhere. He had black marks under his eyes, drawn on with make-up.
He was a skilled robotic-engineering genius, who could create an army of robots he called "Jack-Bots", which he used for his ambitions of world domination, before Chase Young achieved it before him. Nowadays, he mostly spends his time progressing with his robotic-engineering to further help Chase Young out with his plans. Chase Young was Jack's 'evil hero', someone he looked up to when he was beginning out as a self-proclaimed 'Evil Boy Genius'.
However, the most that Chase Young thought of him was a pathetic "insect" or "worm", but that didn't stop him from using Jack Spicer as a pawn for his plans. In fact, Jack Spicer was unknowingly a big part of his plan that turn Omi to the side of evil in the first place. It was only because of this and the fact that Jack was so pathetic in the first place that Chase even kept him alive. In Chase's own words, Jack Spicer was more annoying than he was evil. The fact that Jack idolised him in the first place was something that Chase took advantage of in the first place.
"Ah, hi Chase, I brought you all the things that you asked for." Jack informed his idol, as he brought out some electrical equipment, including radios, cameras and computer screens. He was honestly confused as to why Chase had randomly requested these things, but he wasn't going to complain about the chance to hang out with the Ruler of the World. "So, if you don't mind me asking, what are we going to be doing here?"
"I'm running an experiment that has never been tried before, and I need a test subject to run the experiment on." Chase explained calmly. "This is where you come in Spicer." Jack, who had been nodding along, choked on his spit in alarm, as he stared at his idol with a stunned look on his face. Suddenly, he had a fanboy like expression on his face, as he almost squealed in delight.
"R-really? Oh wow! This is the best day ever!" Jack spun around happily, causing Chase to sigh in annoyance. "So! What is Jack Spicer! Evil Boy Genius! Going to be doing today?" Jack asked eagerly.
"You will be going to a new world, to see if I can actually make a stable portal to another world that can travel both ways." Chase explained, causing Jack to pause in his celebration dance that he had just started.
"Wait… if you're experimenting to see if you can create a stable portal to another world, that means that not only did you figure out how to create one, but you're considering going to another world to take over it. Am I right with that?" Jack clocked on surprisingly quickly.
"Indeed you are, now do your job and set everything up, I want to get started before the evening." Chase ordered Jack, who smirked in anticipation at what Chase was cooking up this time. It promised to be interesting either way.
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"You know, I really don't know why we have to be here for this." Raimundo looked frustrated by the fact that he had to even spend time in the same room as Jack Spicer, but being turned evil against your will and forced to serve the man who enslaved you and your friend for all eternity did make him rather cranky at times.
"Maybe partner, we might be about to do a mission that doesn't ruins people's lives for once." Clay offered his opinion on the matter.
"Maybe Chase Young has finally decided to give up on his evil ways and change for the side of good!" Omi was ever the opportunistic, hoping that one day that Chase Young would finally give them their freedom after so many years keeping them in their service.
"Good luck with that Omi, the fact that Jack is here really doesn't give me a good feeling, I'm just happy that Chase doesn't turn us into a jungle cat like he does with his other fallen warriors." Kimiko shivered, they had all suffered that once for trying to disobey his orders, being locked in a cage and stuck as a feline was not fun.
It was at this moment that Jack Spicer walked into the room, with Chase Young following him with an eager look on his features. Jack was looking a little uncertain, but his face lit up when he saw the Xiaolin monks, who merely rolled their eyes at the sight of him.
"What are we doing here Chase?" Raimundo asked, looking like he'd rather be some other place than here. The rest of the monks nodded in agreement, to which Jack looked slightly nervously towards Chase, who merely smirked in anticipation.
"Today, we'll be witnessing an experiment which may allow me to cover new grounds in my quest for world domination." Chase announced proudly, causing the monks to look at each other in confusion.
"But… you've already conquered the world. How could you cover new ground?" Omi asked slowly, trying to figure out if there was a job being played on him.
"Because little one, I will be creating a portal to a new world which I plan to takeover. After eliminating my competition here, I feel the need to take over a new world and add it to my evil empire." Chase smiled victoriously. "With the knowledge provided to me by the Fountain of Hui and the Eagle Scope, I now know how to travel to other worlds, and I will be using Spicer as my guinea pig for the experiment."
"I'm not sure if I want to do this anymore." Jack tried to intercept, but was ignored by everyone else.
"You want to expand your empire because you want a new challenge?!" Kimiko looked murderous at the thought. They had already caused enough pain and misery in the last two years after they were forced to become Chase's slaves. Clay, Raimundo and Omi looked just as upset, but Chase merely dismissed them with a wave of his hand, not looking at all concerned by what he would be doing in this new world.
"Jack, are you ready?" Chase asked the self-proclaimed 'Evil Boy Genius', who looked rather nervous.
"Well, I…" Jack began, only for Chase to open the portal and grab Jack by the back of his head, turning on the cameras that were attached to him.
"I knew you were." Chase then launched Jack into the portal, as the teenager screamed like a little girl all the way into the portal.
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Jack continued to scream like a little girl as he exited through the portal, and started to fall from mid-air towards what looked to be some kind of forest where all of the trees had red leaves. He then remembered about his Heli-pack and activated it, allowing him to catch himself in mid-air and floated above the ground, sighing in relief as he did so.
"Jack! Jack! Can you hear me? Are you there?" Jack never felt so relieved to hear Kimiko's voice as he did then, he looked around the area that he had appeared in with a look of curiosity, before he finally replied.
"Yeah, I can hear you. Are you getting all of this?" Jack asked cautiously, not exactly sure where he was at the moment.
"Yes, we can see everything, it looks beautiful though." Kimiko told him, causing Jack to look at the forest again, before he nodded in agreement.
"Alright, I'll see what I can find and… oh… my… god…" Jack couldn't stop his jaw from dropping as he looked up to see a major difference between his world and this world. One very important fact that would make everyone look stunned. "Kimiko… I'm not just seeing things am I?"
"The moon's shattered…" Kimiko sounded just as stunned as Jack felt. Wow, something that made even the Xiaolin Losers stunned must have been rather impressive. Jack almost felt proud of himself, had it not been for the fact that he heard a roar, a roar that sent shivers down his spine. He looked down, and paled in fright when he spotted what looked like black furred werewolves with bones masks on their faces. They were jumping up trying to get to him, but weren't able to do so.
"Well this world truly is different from our own." Jack mused to himself, before he screamed like a girl when a giant bird with a bone mask on its face charged at him, causing the teenager to fly off in another direction, hoping that he could get away from the monster. He continued to fly away in desperation, screaming as he did so, merely attracting more monster as he did so. Eventually the giant bird was able to catch up to him, causing his eyes to widen dramatically, before he clutched an object in his pocket.
"Serpents Tail!" With those words, Jack as able to turn into a ghost, causing the giant bird to fly through him. The bird seemed more than a little confused when it did so, pausing in mid-air, to turn at him again, causing Jack to wave at it cheekily, shaking his backside at it, taunting the giant bird. It roared in anger, charging again, only to fly through him once more. After a few more attempts to attack and/or eat him, the giant bird simply gave up and flew away. Jack laughed like an evil villain as it did so, before he flew off towards civilisation, in hope to find some kind of human contact around.
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Chase Young watched the footage that Jack was sending them with keen interest, not knowing just what he was expecting, but at the same time not upset by what he had seen so far. The fact there seemed to be some kind of creatures that immediately attacked Jack as soon as they saw him amused him greatly, even if the shattered moon had caught him off guard. The fact that the Heylin Eclipse was no longer an issue due to the shattered moon, didn't mean that he was any less cautious about this new world.
He was just happy that Jack didn't get devoured by that giant bird when it had attacked him. He'd rather avoid having to deal with trying to find some new equipment or a new guinea pig to send to the new world.
Still, it was when Jack found himself in the city called Vale, did things really start to get interesting for Chase Young. It was in this city that they discovered that there was another type of species living alongside the humans, one that Chase Young smirked darkly at the sight of, for he could see there was a gap and a division.
"These Faunus are simply fascinating."
Chase Young wasn't the only one that was excited by what he was witnessing. Omi, looked like he was bouncing on his feet in sheer excitement, taking in all of the sights from the footage that Jack was sending their way.
However, it was what they heard from Jack's side of things when he asked about the person called Faunus that had called all of the Xiaolin Monks to really get irritated.
"They're nothing more than filthy animals! We shouldn't be forced to share anything with them!" Kimiko had to stop herself from shouting at the person who was saying this to Jack, simply because it would have deafen Jack, something that would not have benefitted them in anyway. It was Chase, who actually looked mildly irritated by this as well, that turned to the monks. He might be an evil villain that was determined to take over the world, but he still had a code of honour and would not go back on his word. It was why the monks had tried to free Omi from his control in the first place.
"Racism has no place in the world, no matter where it is." To come from Chase Young, told the monks just how upset he was by what he had just heard. Admittedly, there might have been the fact that he too might suffer from racial abuse from the humans there that might have upset him as well, but right now, it was looking more obvious that if anything, Chase had become more determined to take over this world now.
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It wasn't until the end of the day that Jack was able to return to his original world. Chase apparently had enough control to open a portal in an alleyway in the city called Vale. The group of six went over the information that they had learnt carefully.
From what they could tell, there was protectors called Huntsmen and Huntresses that protected the world, which was called Remnant, from the creatures that had tried to attack Jack when he had arrived in the forest, which was called Forever Falls. The creatures in questions were called Grimm, and they were creatures that were without souls that attacked both Humans and Faunus without a care in a world.
The way that the Huntsmen and Huntresses were trained was interesting to Chase Young though, having to go to Academies after having gone to Combat Schools for a number of years. It would take four years to pass from an Academy to become a full Huntsman or Huntress.
Then there was the concept of Aura as well, the manifestation of one's soul, something that Chase Young would always fail to produce due to being soulless. There was also other specific abilities known as Semblances, which appeared to be unique to certain individuals, but they couldn't be certain, having never seen one for themselves.
Vale was one of four kingdoms in Remnant, the others being called Mistral, Atlas and Vacuo. The way that they were powered was due to something called Dust, which was used as the power source for a majority of technology in Remnant, from airships and even androids, the latter of which had given Jack to be really excited about considering his own ability in robotic-engineering.
They also learnt that one of the largest producers of Dust was a company called Schnee Dust Company, a company that was also known for its 'controversial labour forces and questionable business partners', and the fact that the company itself had also been a target for a radical, political and terrorist group called White Fang, a group that used violent means to counter the perceived and actual discrimination that Faunus receive from Humans.
It was thanks to the information gathered by Jack Spicer, that Chase Young finally decided how he was going to be approaching this world, he decided to split the group up into three. Jack would go to Atlas, to try and become someone who worked on their robotics, the Xiaolin Monks would try and get into a Combat School or an Academy, while Chase Young would try and interact with the Grimm, to and try and see if he could potentially make contact with them, being a soulless being himself.
Chase Young opened a new portal to this world, it was time to see how they would react to a new kind of power.
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It was in Forever Falls that Chase Young found himself walking through after separating himself from the others, he was hoping to find some of the Grimm that Jack had been attacked by, simply so he could see them for himself. He did wonder if he truly only saw the Grimm the first time around because of the fact that Jack Spicer had been screaming like a little girl and so loudly in the first place.
Still, it didn't take long for Chase to find the Grimm in the end, a Beowolf, as he learnt the giant werewolf creature to be called, came out of the bushes beside him and growled aggressively. It was only when it charged and got close to him did it stop, looking at him in a confused manner, almost as if it was trying to comprehend just what he was. Chase merely smirked darkly, before suddenly he transformed before the Beowolf's very eyes. He transformed into a mixture of a lizard and a dragon, and roared at the Beowolf, who at this point took a step back out of sheer shock at what it was seeing.
The roar attracted many other Grimm, who too wasn't sure what to make of Chase Young and his other form. When Chase turned back into his human form, they looked as though they were unable to understand what he was. Chase took out an object that was shaped like a big jewel.
"Tongue of Saiping!" It was an object that allowed the user to talk to animals, something that despite not have a soul, Grimm were. "Grimm of the forest, I speak to you as one of your own!" The Grimm looked at each other, as if asking if they were seeing the same thing as each other. "I see you as creatures of habit, creatures without a goal, without an ideal. I come to you with a goal, with an ideal, with a plan to take back what is ours!"
The Grimm looked like he was completely out of his mind. A human that claimed to be one of their own? Ridiculous! They knew that he was a human, but they were more concerned as to why he was a human who didn't have a soul. They weren't the most intelligence of creatures, but even they knew that there was something wrong with him.
So why was he trying to talk to them as if he was one of them, the fact that he used that strange object to get them to understand what he was saying in itself was a rather concerning thing in itself. Yet, the fact that he was trying to get them to listen to him, going as far as to try and talk to them was enough evidence that he wasn't desperate, but confident that they would listen to what he had to say.
"Human… what is really your goal here?" It was a large Ursai that addressed Chase Young, it would absolutely refuse to call him one of their own. The mere idea that a human could become one of them was something that even they couldn't comprehend, yet the human truly believed in what he was saying.
"I am a human who has given up his soul for eternal youth." The Grimm looked surprised by this announcement, the idea that a human could even do so in the first place told them something that they really didn't want to know. If a human could give up his soul just to become like them for eternal youth, then what were the rest of the humans or even the Faunus willing to do in order to survive.
Then again, this was the first human that they were able to truly understand, a human that not only was able to talk to them, but also the first human that had no soul, making him unique compared to every other human that they had ever encountered before.
"Why come to us? Why not go to the other Humans, why not go to the Faunus?" The Ursai truly knew enough about the other species to know what they were called, while they never truly had a conversation with the Humans or Faunus before, they picked up knowledge after living for a few hundred years, knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
"You Grimm was just so fascinating to me."
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It was in the middle of Vale that the Xiaolin Monks found themselves making themselves at home, though whether you could consider beating up a load of thugs making yourself a home or not really was up for debate. Between the training that they had been given as the Xiaolin Temple, before Chase Young, and the training that they had been given by Chase Young himself, it was fair to say that they were rather strong at this point.
The thugs in question were all dressed in a black suit with a matching hat and shoes, red sunglasses and a red tie, with a small amount of variation. It didn't matter either way, for the Xiaolin Monks were easily beating up the thugs in question, after they were trying to rob a store of its Dust. It was going a little too easy if anything.
"You know, I remember when things like this actually gave us trouble, now it's just a walk in the park." Raimundo commented casually as he knocked out a thug that was trying to sneak up behind him. Omi shot a water beam at a few thugs, knocking them out, while Kimiko knocked out another load of thugs with some fireballs.
"It's times like this that I remember just why I am the best." Omi gloated victoriously, easily dodging some bullets from the thugs, while Clay knocked them out by deflecting the Dust bullets back to them.
"It really makes you wonder how Jack's doing doesn't it."
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"I am so good at this!" Jack rubbed his hands eagerly as he anticipated his interview. He had applied for a job that allowed him to apply his robotics-engineering skills to the best, and even improve them. The idea of doing his hobby for actual money excited him more than he thought that it would, but quite honestly, if he didn't at least attempt to try this, then he would have been embarrassed by the missed opportunity.
Really though, who could actually stop him from at least leaving a lasting impression on the people here. He created an army of killer robots in the past, if people wanted to hire him to make robots for hire again, then he would. As long as he didn't end up having to actually fight battles himself, then he would be fine. He was a coward after all, he wasn't afraid to admit that. He preferred to watch things from afar than having to actually go onto a battlefield and put himself in harm's way. He doubted he was the only person who thought that way either.
"Jack Spicer? We're like you to come in." It was show time.
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Chapter 1 completed
Okay, so I only thought of this idea around... Christmas time and suddenly after two days of writing, I managed to bring this out.
I've watched Xiaolin Showdown for years, and Chase Young was my favourite character, he's also the where the "Young" in my username came through originally.
In recent months, I've gotten into RWBY. I recently watched it when I saw someone do a parody about it, and it got me into the actual series itself, and I've really enjoyed it.
The Grimm fascinate me, and I clicked on to the fact that just like Chase Young, they are soulless, though they weren't given a choice like Chase was.
Chase Young sold his soul not just for eternal youth, but so he could become the strongest warrior in the world, which for most part in this story he succeeded.
I also did some thinking about what it would be like if Chase Young went to the world of RWBY and took over the Grimm as their leader, and so far this is what has come out.
I honestly wanted to wait until the end of Series 3 before truly starting this, but I couldn't stop writing this story.
Let me know what you think about this chapter, it'll be nice to get some feedback.
Until next time goodbye and goodnight.