hellooooo, and welcome to the new and improved first chapter. i will be updating chapter two and three soon as well, but I'm a lazy butt sometimes so please be patient with me. enjoy.

It had seemed like such a good idea at the time. But not anymore, not really. I was escaping from a secret government base, but they thought I was taken by the enemy. I had been ejected from my ship, before entering the atmosphere and was hurtling towards the planet. Well, I've had worse. I just straightened myself out to increase my speed. Within minutes I had crashed into the planet causing a massive crater. Unfortunately, entering the atmosphere had burned my armor off all except for my led . But my armor did keep me alive, so it worked.

but I was on an unknown planet, in my underwear with god knows whats out there. Plus, there was people headed this way. I had seen them on my way down. I needed desperately to find cover until rescue came for me. They would send a rescue party, right? Of course they would, I mean I'm too valuable to them. I think. I hid in a nearby forest. And then they walked into the clearing. Four teenage girls about my age it seemed. Well, at least the red and black girl with the silver eyes was. I wasn't sure about the rest. One was in an all white battle skirt outfit and had white hair topped off with blue eyes. She wielded an odd fencing sword. The second had long beautiful golden hair and a mostly brown and black battle outfit that seemed a little too revealing, but I guess that was just psychological warfare. All she had for weapons were these strange knuckledusters on her wrists.

The third girl was in a black and slightly white battle outfit wielding a strangely shaped katana like sword. She had raven black hair and a bow on her head. The fourth girl seemed to be leading the group and had what looked like a short barrel compact, yet probably high impact sniper rifle. And then it unfolded into a gigantic scythe. She had short black hair with a hint of red, and a black, more battle fit combat skirt dress on and dark Grey leggings topped off with a red cape. She was the one with the silver eyes. I heard rumbling behind me, but it was distant so I didn't give it a second thought. The white warrior kneeled beside were I had landed and looked up in my direction. Crap. "it would seem, although there is nothing here now, whatever landed had someone inside and they walked in that direction. And it was shortly before we arrived"

well, apparently I left footprints behind and they could tell I was close. And then I heard a thunderous roar behind me and out from the bushes came a huge bear like creature. So either reveal myself before getting clothing, or probable death. I would take my chances. I ran like a crazy person in the opposite direction and the bear followed me for a while. Pretty soon after that though I heard the sound of battle. Looks like I'm going to have to survive here for a bit. That kind of reminded me of a game I used to play when I lived on earth. Minecraft or something like that. I found an axe like weapon eventually and cut down a few tree's to start I continued until I had a clearing about 7 yards in all directions. From there I made a fire, and got to work within three days I had built a decent sized shelter. I got comfortable inside, and put out the fire before I went to sleep. When I woke up, there was another mutated creature, except wolf like looking around the clearing.

I slowly got up and picked up the hatchet weapon and approached the wolf. But then it noticed me, and attacked. It tried to jump on me but my 8 years of military hand to hand combat training kicked in and I kicked him over me when he knocked me over. I got up and jumped on it's back repeatedly hacking away at it's neck with my weapon. Eventually the head came off, and I got to work skinning it.

1 year later {so basically after rwby volume 2 ends}

I woke up. When I came here, I didn't have a name. But after silently observing these people and learning about them unnoticed for a year, I had a name I liked to call myself. Grim was my first name and reaper was my second. Fitting since as of yesterday I had a grim kill count of more than 5000. since my arrival the clearing had doubled in size, and my shelter was a first class cozy wood cabin with a soft bed, a bookshelf of their history and knowledgeable books, and weapon racks of weapons I had forged. It even had insulation plumbing, sort of, and a fireplace inside for heating. My clothing was made from the fur of grim and my coats and warmer clothing had the fur included.

But enough about the house, I also had a fine forgery I used to make weapons out of the rich mineral mines in the side of the mountain, which was about a 4 hour walk. I ate the meat of deer I hunted, and vegetables from my small garden. My clearing was surrounded by a fence capable of keeping most common grim out and was covered by a net with tree branches on it. And in the middle of the clearing was a water well. One that would last me at least a few more years. My favorite weapon I had made was a silenced semi-auto shotgun that could transform into a katana, or a small scythe. It had thousands of grim kills to it's name. Although I had named it deadly midnight and I had used blood magic when forging it. With every kill it gained, it became more powerful and so did I. After a little more practice, I would become a master of the dark arts.

Sometimes I did get lonely, but then I would think about all the people I would meet next year when I applied to this beacon academy everyone seemed to talk highly of. It was where one would go to train to become a hunter or huntress. I got up and went downstairs. The first thing I saw every morning when I went downstairs was my trophy room. The head of a mile long wingspan grim crow, a large death stalker, a giant Ursa, and a beowolf pack leader. Even my dinner table I had carved out of the stinger of a death stalker stinger. But my dinner table chairs were still wood.

My favorite chair was a leather armchair by the fire place. I went outside and took a moment to admire the welcome mat made of Ursa fur and nevermore feathers. I had sowed in leather in the shape of letters to say welcome to grim hell on it. I grabbed my sword, deadly midnight, and walked out of the clearing to work out, and then hunt for food. After two hours of excersize, I picked up my bow which I had hidden, to hunt with that way I wouldn't waste bullets, and instead arrows which are much more easy to make. I headed to my usual hunting ground. Man, I loved it here.. it was so much better than those huge city's they put me in before. Not a tree in sight for mile's and mile's. I got to my hunting blind and waited for my dinner to come. Two deer at once. That's a record.

Yang POV

I checked my scroll to make sure I was in the right area. I was. Well, I couldn't see a darn thing. That's it, after this next cliff, I was heading back to join the rest of the team at the rendezvous. We were on a patrol mission in the forests that were supposed to have the largest amount of grim, but we hadn't run into one yet. I walked up to the edge of the cliff and looked out at the forest. I didn't see anything. Wait, was that a camouflage net? It was. Hmmmm. I called ruby on the scroll, and she responded. "hey sis. Find anything?" she said. "yah. There's a camo net over a part of the forest. And now there is smoke rising from it. I think whatever is responsible for the lack of grim is residing there. I''m going to go check it out, so have the team on standby"

I told ruby. "sure thing! Be right there." and then she was gone. I made my way toward the site where the net was and on the way, I found piles of dead beowolf bones and tuffs of fur. Well, I found the grim. But that wasn't the weirdest part. When I walked just a little bit further, I found a huge clearing with a well, a forge, a cooking fire pit and an awesome looking log cabin. It was surrounded by seemingly harmless fence, but when I tried to jump over the fence, I just hit a wall that wasn't there before and fell on my ass. I walked around and found a gate door. I walked through and saw a doormat there that said welcome to grim hell. Well, that was cheerful.

I found the door of the cabin to not even have a lock so I went in. wow. This place had a ton of cool stuff! But then I heard a noise and looked out a window. Craaaap, a guy just walked in and he does not look friendly. He was carrying two large deer over his shoulders and was dressed I some sort of leather. He was armed with a bow, and a sword. I could take this guy out, I just needed to surprise him. I walked outside, and my weapons armed themselves.

Somehow, he heard that and turned around with a loaded bow pointed at my face in seconds. I hit the bow out of his hands and the arrow hit he side of his house. i punched him in the gut, and he flinched but he didn't do anything else. Okay, this guy could really take a hit. He punched me in the face and then in the stomach really fast and I blasted him in the eyes. That made him mad. He pulled out a katana and it formed into a scythe. before I knew what was happening he had me on the ground without my weapons armed and my arms were twisted behind my back. A bag went over my head and soon I was in a cave chained to the wall.

grim POV

I did a quick patrol of the area and then returned to the girl I chained up in my cave. Wasn't she one of the people who had come to investigate my landing zone? "okay here's how this works. Were gonna have a nice friendly conversation without the fighting. Got it?" she nodded. I unchained her and got ambushed by three other female warriors. Well, now the gang was all here. I clapped my hands together catching the scythe before it hit my face. Then I spun sideways in midair to dodge a blade attached to a ribbon. I grabbed the ribbon and pulled the girl towards me and her face met with my foot. Another ran at me with a lethal fencing sword and hit me in the side sending me into the cave wall.

I got up and saw the goldy swing right by my face with her fist gauntlets. I caught her second punch and punched her in the face rapidly. After which I pushed her away and jumped over another ribbon swing and dived past a shock wave of ice. I punched the ground and created a shock wave of my, them all out of the cave. I jumped out and kicked red in the stomach leaving her winded on the ground. I turned around and ducked under a large black sword. I rolled forward and hit black in the waist and kicked her away. The white girl hit the ground with her sword again and caught me in ice. She hit the ground again creating fire all around me. She used a glyph to jump above me and her sword glowed red and green. I shattered the ice ad caught the sword swinging her around and then letting go.

She flew backwards and hit a tree. I ran towards red and slid on my knees while ducking, the scythe missing my face by inches. I got up and double backfliped away escaping her combo of deadly attacks. She began shooting at me with her scythe. It would appear it is the same scythe she had that day so long ago. I jumped over the next swing and matrix style dodged a swing from a black sword and a blast from the fist enhancers. The blast hit black and the sword flew towards gold, but she deflected it. The scythe went end down in the ground and red spun on it like a pole and kicked me in the face. Then several glyphs took control of my hands and legs and held me in mid air. White glyph jumped downward at me and hit me in several key places. I dropped to the ground hurt badly.

"fine. you want to fight? Lets fight" I shouted at them and I pulled out MY weapon and it turned into a non lethal katana. I deflected countless combo attacks from each of them before charging and running super fast between them hitting them all over. And I finished it off by jumping in the air and smashing the ground with my fists causing several nearby trees to fall over, and all four of them to go flying. I would have to upgrade my clearing defenses. I grabbed red, gold, white, and black and headed back to the cabin. My deer were probably almost done cooking. When they awoke, they would have breakfast with me, and we would talk rather than fight, hopefully. Plus, I had some spices I had been saving for this kind of occasion.

On my way back, I saw a woman in a glowing red dress watching me. She smiled. Well, that's creepy, but at least she didn't attack me. some are better than other I guess. I got back to the clearing and used my blood magic to start an automatic construction expanding my border enough for two guest houses each with three beds and four small rooms. It finished within the hour and I put the four of them inside one of the houses. The second was just in case another team showed up to look for them. I locked the doors until morning and headed to my cabin.

But I was stopped by the red witch lady. "hello there stranger, are you here to kill me also?" I asked sarcastically. "actually, I want to make a deal with you. My cause could really used someone with hand to hand skills like yours" good. She didn't know that I knew the dark arts extensively. "I'm listening. By the way, If you were wondering they are locked inside that house without their weapons until morning. Come in, and warm yourself while we talk" I offered. We talked for five hours until midnight. And then she left. I was considering her offer while I reheated the deer. I went to sleep and was awakened by people leaning against my door listening to me outside. i got up and stood in front of the door.

I snapped my fingers and the door opened. They tumbled in and sat there in front of me. "good morning girls. Come in, make yourselves comfortable. Breakfast is on the table to the right." I walked to my armchair to fasten the leather straps that tightened around my grim skin combat boots. I entered the dinning room and found the deer meat to be half gone. "i see you were hungry. I hope you enjoyed it." I said. I sat down with them and began to eat. "so, why didn't you kill us. Aren't you working with that witch lady and roman torchwick?" black asked me. "are you kidding! That's why you tried to kill me? I wasn't approached by her until last night. And you of all people should know that roman is in jail. by the way, the name is grim. Grim reaper" I said.

If that's the only reason I was attacked, then I definitely wasn't going to take her up on her offer. if your ever nearly assassinated because you talked to someone, you should stop talking to that person. "um, roman escaped yesterday. Your name is grim?" red said. Well, that's fun, roman is free. "yes" I looked her in the eye's. Silver. Her eye's were silver. We just stared at each other for a minute until I looked away and left the table. I went outside and locked the door behind me. I headed to the forge to get their weapons, and to forge another. I returned and handed out their weapons. "you may return whenever you like. But for now you must leave." I told them.

I walked back outside, and continued forging the weapon I would use to battle against roman and witch. When the company left, I followed them back to beacon. Perhaps our encounter could at least get me a job there, or if I was lucky then get me accepted as a student. I listened in on them for the whole day. I learned a lot. For example, Gold was named yang, her sister red was ruby, black was Blake, and white was wies. They were second year students and had a couple close friends that were on the team that lived in the next door room. When the time came for them to visit with the headmaster about their patrol. I was unable to follow them in there without being seen. So I ran back home as fast as I could and completed work on my weapon within three days. It was a chest strap and it had a sheath for a katana. And the third part of it was an arm strap, or mre like a gauntlet really.

It had the single rarest type of diamond on this planet in it as well as a fair amount of dust. This along with several mirrors and other pieces, created a shield of solid light when I flexed my arm in just the right way and it would stay on until I flexed again. I also had a hidden blade on both my arms that activated when I raised my hands, or activated them manually. I'm pretty sure my katana was the strongest and the sharpest in vale. And I had made a miniature crossbow that folded up into my secret gauntlet. Plus the chest strap had a pressure pad that was enchanted so it would only work if I pressed it.

It would cover my legs, in armor made out of the armor of Ursa majors beowolf leather and deathstalker armor, cover my chest and my shoulders in black grim serpent scales and leather fabric, wich is resistant to fire and most blades. Plus it would cover my head with a water proof and fire proof hood. And I had made a magnetic pad on the back of my waist to hold the deadly midnight. The armor of a modern assassin. This is what I would wear if I was ever accepted by beacon. And then as if they knew what I was thinking team RWBY walked up to my fence gate and tried to get through. I walked over and let them in.

"welcome, team RWBY. Make yourselves comfortable, I will be with you in a minute. Ruby, if you would like to check out the weapons they are right next to the trophy room. Blake if you would like to use the library, the key is under the death stalker stinger table. Yang, if you would like to use the sparring room it is in the basement. And finally weiSs, my favorite armchair and my dust collection is all yours if you want it. Oh, and Blake one more thing. The tuna is hidden under behind the ice in the water cooler room if your hungry" they stared at me wondering how in the hell I knew them so well.

Ruby POV

how was it that he knew us now as if he always had? Whatever. He mentioned something about weapons in the trophy room or something so I'm totally there. "come on guy's, we will investigate his info source later. For now lets dig in. he said we can" I said. yang hesitated at first, but then followed the three of us in. I don't know what the others did, but I went straight to where grim said the weapons were. Wow! And he made all of these? Their so cool I almost forgot what we were here to do. He had three katanas all on a stand and they were matching but the higher it was on the stand the shorter it was.

The end of the handle had a Japanese dragon head and under that was all kinds of inscription. In the center of the handle there was a pretty red jewel on each side. And then there was his weapon on a smoothed hardwood stand with a plac underneath. It read: the deadly midnight. It also said it was a shotgun, a sword and a small scythe all in one. And a normal hatchet? What does the plac said: with this hatchet I survived, built my life, and killed my first grim. Huh. After I finished looking at the weapons, I joined yang in the sparring room.

"hey sis. Come on, let's go up and talk to grim. He's probably back by now" I said. Our mission was to spend the weekend with him to make sure it was safe for headmaster ozpin to come see him, because he did kick our buts. That, plus I wanted to learn everything about him. He seemed interesting. Yang turned from the dummy she had been punching and nodded. We went upstairs and found Blake first. She was reading a book in the library. I was relieved to know she wasn't actually eating any of this guys tuna. That would be a little weird. "Blake, come on lets get ready for grim to come back" Blake looked up from the book and put it down. When we turned our backs to leave, she sneaked some tuna into her mouth.

Weiss was looking at his trophy wall. He did have some trophy's of impressive size. "wies, were going to go look for grim" yang said. Weiss turned and followed us saying "finally." we went outside and I spotted him immediately at the forge. He was pounding something with a hammer. He turned and dropped the hammer, then moved towards us. "i see you became impatient. Well, lets get to it." he said. "what were you making over there?" I asked him. "if you must know, I was fixing my sparring katana wich you guys screwed up last week" he said. Oh yah. I forgot about that. The way I saw it though this guy was really nice. We try and kill him, and he serves us breakfast and invites us to his house. Who does that? "sorry about that, but we need a favor. Can we stay here the weekend?"

grim POV

did they just ask if they could stay here for two days? I approved, but I'm pretty sure that if I had parents that they wouldn't. To hell with it! "no problem. You may reside in whatever place you want!" I told them. "thanks" ruby said. I had taken a hearing aid from someone in the city so I could listen in on them. That is where I had really been. So when they began to whisper about me and if they could trust me despite the fact I knew them so well. I might be able to change that. But I'd much rather be mysterious.

I took out the aid and walked towards them. "Blake, please come with me." she didn't want to which was reasonable, but yang whispered something into her ear and she followed me into my cabin as the others went to their desired cabin. All except for yang. We sat down in the library, and Blake spoke first. "did you want to speak to me about something?" she asked. "yes. why do you even wear that bow on your head Blake? especailly when your out here. i mean, who's gonna see you? I've already figured out that your a fawness, so really whats the point." I said.

Blake looked at me for a second in shock that I knew she was a fawness. Then she spoke. "how did you know? You can't tell anyone!" who would I tell that lives out here? "now who could I possibly tell out here? And furthermore who would see you out here?" I said. There was no way she could argue against that logic, I thought. And I was right. "you know, your a lot older than you look." she told me. "what is that supposed to mean!" I asked slightly offended. "you seem much more wise and matured than your supposed age lets on" Blake explained to me. "I'm flattered, but I am no older than ruby! Yang, you might as well come in you can't sneak up on me" I told her.

She joined me and Blake in the library. "how do you hear so well?" yang asked. "living out here in emerald forest, are you kidding me!? it's listen more carefully and hear better than grim or your dead. And don't worry about the initiation area, I make sure to kill as little grim as possible over there." I heard a distant boom and rushed outside. Was that a girl on a flying hammer? Yep. Now I have seen everything. "would you guys happen to know her" and I got an immediate response "Nora" OK. Next question. "should I kill her, or knock her out?" I said half joking. "just keep her away from here. This is our mission!" wies said, immediately covering her mouth.

I ignored that last part and ran off into the forest. She was still a kilometer away at least by the sound of the booming, and since I was a kilometer away this seemed like a good spot. When she got closer, I climbed a tree and jumped off the top hitting her in mid-air. I kicked her away, and landed on the ground. A spear landed next to my feet and a man in green and white holding two automatic pistols with blades jumped out of the bush and shot at me. I rolled to the side, and jumped over a pink grenade. I picked up a branch, and ran over dodging bullets and whacked him in the face and kneed him in the stomach.

He fell backwards and a man in chest armor with a sword and shield jumped out at me along with a woman in gold and red armor using the spear and a shield. I hit the man in the face, and rolled over the back of the green mans back as he got up so that a certain spear would miss me. What I didn't see was a hammer hitting me in the back of the head sending me into a tree. I got back up and grabbed the hammer and threw Nora into a tree for revenge, and I jumped on the back of the green man, controlling his arms. I pulled the triggers on his guns and fired at the other man and woman who deflected the fire with their shields.

I decided until I learned their names I would call him green, her red, Nora well, Nora, and the second man blue. Green jumped backwards crushing me under him. He rolled off and got up and I did the same. I picked the branch up again well they regrouped. I was at a disadvantage against them in the forest, so I ran and they gave chase. I kept this up until I reached the mouth of a cave. They caught up and I attacked, disarming blue and throwing him into red. Nora shot at me with a grenade launcher and I picked up blues shield deflecting it into her. I threw the shield and it hit green in the face giving me the time to jump on red and deliver several blows to the face.

I backflipped off landing in front of Nora, and I kicked her in the chin. From there, I ran to green and elbowed him in the neck while kicking blue in the gut. I pulled greens head down and brought my knee upwards and knocked him out cold. Blue picked up his sword, being the only one not on the ground coughing, and clubbed me on the head with it. "that's for pyrra and the rest of my team!" thinking he had knocked me out he picked up his shield and used it to sheath his sword. He helped pyrra get up and then the rest of his team. They approached me and I waited for the right moment. "nice going jaune" pyrra said. And when the rolled my body over to check my pulse I jumped up kicking jaune in the face and landing on his chest.

Pyrra's spear turned into a rifle, and Nora's hammer became a grenade launcher. All three warriors weapons were aimed at me so I picked up jaune's sword grabbed him and put him in front of me with the sword to his neck. "stand down!" I yelled at them. They put their weapons down and I released jaune then proceeding to knock him and the rest of the team out cold. I loaded them in the trunk of a truck in the village and drove them to beacon dressed as a villager. I dropped them off in front of the school and ran off.

When I returned to my home, the four girls were nowhere to be seen. Probably back at beacon now that I knew they had been here on a mission. "i think it's time I finally met this ozpin guy in person." I put on my new hunter armor and gear and headed towards beacon. When I arrived, people were staring at me as I walked down the halls towards where headmaster ozpin's office. I got there and pushed the doors open suddenly a little annoyed. Twice teams had been sent to attack me wich gets really old really fast. Both teams were there as well as the headmaster and Glynda Goodwitch. The two teams didn't recognize me and I didn't blame them. Plus, we had a rough start.

"I'm here to see headmaster Ozpin" I announced. He stood and looked me up and down. And then ruby was the first to recognize me, probably by my voice. "grim?" she said. "hello again, ruby. Nice to see you. Now on to business! All due respect ozpin sir, but I'm tired of your people trying to kill me and invading my home. And to think I wanted to apply here!" I said. The school headmaster walked up to me. And I removed my hood. Thus alerting the remaining warriors as to whom I was. Team JNPR raised their weapons but ozpin held them back. "i apologize greatly, but I did what I did to ensure the safety of anyone who might wander out near your home. We had no proof that you wouldn't attack us on sight." he told me honestly.

Ruby spoke up. "actually sir, that's what we were about to tell you. After he knocked us out, he gave us warm beds and made us breakfast in the morning. And when we arrived today he welcomed us. But he does know who each of us are without even asking. so all in all, he's a nice but creepy guy" she told the headmaster. He nodded. "so, you would like to come to my school? It just so happens we have an initiation today" he said. Perfect. "i would love to attend your school. But there is one problem. Aren't you already full for one initiation. You will have to make an exception of five per team, or make me go alone." I said puzzled. "i know" he responded.

3 hours later...

we were led out to a cliff. Everyone stepped onto a metal platform except for me. I was an extra, but they said they had figured something out for me. Weiss walked up behind me and put a large white glyph underneath me. "what is this for?" and then the first launch pad released and the student went flying. "oh, that" and soon I was in the air.