Prologue 1:

It was nighttime as the shattered moon shined down in the forest full of Grimm. The atmosphere was freezing as there was almost nothing in plain sight except there wasn't. On a path trail that leads to somewhere, there was in a figure in the distance walking silently through the night. They were wearing a brown tattered cloak covering their appearance and face. The figure stopped and turned around wondering if he or she was being followed by Grimm or someone. The coast was clear as they continued walking to their destination.

The figure walked for 10 minutes hearing nothing but the sounds of the wind blowing, trees rustling and sounds of their own footsteps. The figure then came to a halt as they looked up and in view came a house. The house looked old though and had burnt marks on the outside, walls, and windows. The figure then talked to themselves.

"It's been 7 years since that day." the voice sounded feminine. The figure then removed her hood revealing her face. She had long black hair covering one of her amber colored eyes and her skin was pale white. She looked over to her right and saw an old almost destroyed sign that says, "Fall House". She remembers how it was destroyed. She was the one who burned it after the house. She walks up to the porch, well whatever's left of it really. The rails and the steps were pitch black from the fire and looked it could come down any minute. The figure kicked the stairs a few times before advancing, she walked all around the porch and touch the railings, feeling the ash left behind years ago. The figure stopped as she came across a small picture frame with a name labeled to it. She picked it up off the ground and saw her family, all happy together except for her as she was in the corner of the photo, their shadow. She moved her eyes up to the name label and it said 'Cinder' which was hers. She scoffed at the photo before adding lighting it on fire from her hand and tossed it on the ground as it incinerated to ashes.

"Mother, Father, Sapphire, and Edna." She reminisced her past life with her family. She hated them, always being treated as a peasant by her sisters and abused by her mother and father. She couldn't deal with it anymore until that day came. The day where they ruined her life, her semblance was discovered and when she killed them. She didn't feel any remorse for killing her family after what they did but she kept coming back here every year.

"So why, why do I keep coming back here to this awful place?" she asked aloud. She couldn't figure out why she did come back maybe because some small part deep within her did feel a bit guilty when she killed them but..

She shook her head at the thought. "No, as far as I'm concerned they were awful people and this place is nothing more than a bad reminder of them." She told herself not wanting to continue. She then looked up at the sky and wondered how long it would take to get back to where she was staying.

"I guess I better get back to the inn before Grimm start coming out. The last thing I need is those beasts running around trying to kill me." She said. She then turned around and walked away from the house leaving it. Although a small part of her knew that she would come back willingly still not knowing why she would.

As she left she did not notice the small growl that came from the window or the number of red eyes glowing from all over the place.

Forest Clearing:

She's been walking for about 15 minutes. It's take 10 minutes to find her old home and 5 minutes to get out thanks to a shortcut she found. She now walks in the clearing in an open field as wind blew into her direction.

"Brr. Why is it so cold up here, there's no snow or rain so there's no reason for it to be this damn cold!?" she hissed as she shivered from the temperature. She then lifted her hand and opened her palm as she formed a small flame in her hand gathering warmth.

"Ahh, that's better. I may still have a hard time controlling my semblance but it sure does come in handy from time to time especially for chilling temperatures." She stated as she continued walking. She continued walking a few paces ahead until she heard a small growl. She stopped and turned around looking for the voice but saw nothing behind her. She looked again suspicious for any other commotion before walking again.

"Grrrrr." There it was again. That growling sound. She turned around and again saw nothing. She knew something was following her and from the sound of it, it could be Grimm or another animal. Either way she knew something was following her.

As she continued walking a large shadow loomed over hers. She noticed and cursed at who was behind her. A wolf like Grimm roar into the night sky as it raised its claws and swung them at his prey only to miss when it hits nothing but air. The wolf looked around wondering where it's prey went before looking up and before it knew what happened it got struck in the eyes howling in pain and collapsing to the ground. Cinder came back down landing gracefully on her feet before standing up, in her left hand she had a black bow that looked like it was made of glass and the bowstring was glowing a bright orange before fading back to black. She walked up to the downed Grimm before it faded and heard several howls coming from all around her.

"Beowulfs, of course they just had to come out now. Why couldn't they come out early where I looked like a suspicious person wandering around the forest, couldn't they have attacked then!?" she exaggerated. She looked around as more Beowulfs came out of hiding and surrounded her leaving nowhere to run.

"Well at least it Beowulfs and not Ursas. I'm strong enough to take them but not a whole horde and from the looks of these Grimm, none of them have any spikes meaning they just been around for a year or two." She hypothesized in her head. None of the Beowulfs she saw had any bonelike spines on their backs, bonelike spikes on their arms or bonelike face plates. This just makes things easier for her as she can pretty kill all of them with one strike to their bodies but knowing Beowulfs they attack separately and not together.

"Oh well, this just makes it easier for me to kill you all and not waste any time so come on. Who's brave enough to attack me?" she taunted them. One of them got angered and ran on all fours to her, jumping into the air and raising both claws to attack. Cinder's visible eye then glowed as she too jumped in the air toward the Grimm and did a spin kick to its midsection sending it down to earth crashing into two other Beowolfs.

She used her momentum to flip in mid-air as she held out her bow and reach her right hand towards the string making it glow. This time she drew back three arrows as she focused on the downed Grimm and fired. The arrows reached their targets and hit all of them straight in the chest as they collapsed and laid limp on the ground before disintegrating into thin air. Cinder landed on her feet before ducking from a strike as a claw reached out from behind. She did a sweep on the creature before firing again and hitting her target in midair. Another one came from behind as it was running towards her, she jumped and did a backflip dodging the attack and landed on the Beowulf's shoulders before jumping off the shoulder and firing an arrow into its leg stunning it. She turned and saw one running towards her again on two legs instead of four. A strike was aimed for her head but she ducked and slid in between it legs as it crashed into the stun Beowulf, they both then howled in pain as arrows struck their chests and disintegrated again into the air.

Cinder landed and was again met with a barrage of the same attack by four more Beowulf. She just did the same thing as earlier. Duck, Dodge, Shoot. She knew she couldn't keep up this strategy for long but the Grimm weren't really giving her a difficult time to deal with.

"Okay this is getting boring. I think it's time for a fight up close and personal." She said as she took her bow apart, detaching it into its normal form. Cinder now held to obsidian swords to her sides as she got into her fighting stance getting ready for another attack. The Beowolfs were circling around her trying to gain the upper hand but Cinder wasn't waiting any longer. She wanted to deal with these Grimm now.

So, she dashed forward and jumped crossing her swords and arms over her chest aiming for a Beowolf's head and sliced it off. The second attacked with a claw to her head but she raised her right arm over her head and blocked the strike. It went for another strike straight to her leg but she jumped over and stabbed both of her swords on its back making howl in pain. She saw one coming from behind not giving her time to turn around, so she kicked off the beast into another one and while she thrusted her swords out to the one behind her and stabbed it straight into the eyes.

The creature fell backwards as she used her swords as a stance and moved her body backwards to land on her feet. Then the rest of the pack of Beowolfs were coming into attack her all at once. She looked around and saw about 10 coming at her. She was surrounded but she was also smiling.

"Perfect." She whispered to herself in excitement. She waited for them to gather around her and come closer. They were coming closer and closer, she kept being patent waiting for her chance. As soon as they huddled around her they all decided to attack at once.

"There." She said as she jumped towards a Beowulf on its head and pushed her foot off the creature to jump up high in the air. The rest of the Beowulfs ran into one another clashing at the same time before all of them landed into a big pile. As they try to get up, they felt scorching heat from above. They looked up and saw a figure firing an arrow down towards them. Cinder was high in the air with her obsidian bow aiming down at them. Her eye was glowing brighter than before and her arrow was also glowing a bright orange, she steadied her aim down at the pile of Grimm and fired. The arrow was on fire as it came crashing down to the ground.

It hit one of the Beowulfs, and then…

BOOOOOOOM! As explosion rocked the forest as it went up in smoke. Cinder casually walked out of the smoke as if it was nothing but in full view of what she was wearing. She was wearing a beige leather sleeveless jacket with beige details, grey pants and boots with brown gloves, two sarashis one around her chest and the other around her hips, and she had a pauldron on her left shoulder. She also had a belt with multiple brown pouches attached to it around her waist.

Cinder looked all around her as she saw pieces of the pack of Beowolfs all around on the ground. She felt slight disgusted at the view.

"I was trying to disintegrate them not blow them up into a million freakin pieces." She said to herself as she picked up her cloak off the ground and dusted it off. She then looked at one of her pouches and found that she was almost empty and sighed to herself. "Looks like I need to refill on fire Dust, and the closest Dust shop available is the one in Vale. Well I might as well get going, doesn't look like I need to be anywhere else for the time being." She finished as she started walking out of the forest to her next destination Vale.

Edited on 12/31/17