Prologue II

The sun was going down as the beast made it's way out of the building it's blue eyes infected with fear and the right side of his body was riddled with bullet holes but the worst thing for him was the guilt, the image of the little girl's terrified face stuck in his mind, the other girl though, he rubbed his snout, she was strong. 'Must have been her sister' he barely finished the thought when he heard beeping, then a hail of bullets came his way, he dropped to all fours and ran as fast as he could 'damn that turret' he thought. A log was in the way, he was going too fast and crashed into it. He lay in a clearing, surrounded by grass, mushrooms and guilt. A smell introduced itself to his nose… Dust! He turned his head to see the barrel of a gun, deep inside the tube was a dust crystal, looking up from the barrel he saw two brown eyes staring at him and brown hair hid under the figure's hood. Looking at him he looked about 10.

"Blue eyes?" The boy muttered "Ah well you still look like a Grimm to me" He began to charge up his gun.

"WAIT!" A voice said, the boy looked around to see where the sound came from, the creature sat up while he wasn't looking "I said it" it mumbled. The boy turned back to look at it in shock.

"Y-you can talk?" the boy said, sitting down to join the beast.

"Y-yes, I can" the beast mumbled in return, somehow his voice sounded somewhat normal with no accent, it was also quite low.

"But you're still a Grimm are you not?"

"No, no I'm not… well I am but I...I...I DON'T KNOW!" The beast said flailing about a bit

"Show me you have a soul" The boy said "You need a soul to use your semblance, so show me your semblance"

"Okay, I'll try" The beast then stood up, a green glow emanated from the him, then eight vines burst from the ground, all turned to 'look' in the boy's direction, two much thicker vines with large pink bulbs on the top burst out from behind the beast and finally six huge leaves burst out of the ground, emanating from where the beast was standing. "Introducing Phyto-manipulation!" The beast said with a grin.

"What's it's use in combat?"

"The eight thin vines can whip or grab, the bulbs fire seeds at high velocity and the leaves are for protection" All the plants returned to the ground and the beast stopped glowing, he then sat back down "Say, what's your semblance?"

"I can slow my own perception of time, meaning I have more time to react to situations in combat"

"That's pretty cool!"

"Yeah I- wait where are my manners, my name is Petros, and you?" The boy asked

"My name huh?" The beast thought for a while "It's been a while since I've heard my own name, Alcatraz, but you can call me Al"

"Random question, Al, but how can you speak?" Petros asked inquisitively.

"Well I've been living in an old building and there's a load of books and I taught myself" Alcatraz said with the stupidest grin on his face. "Ok my turn for a random question, do you go to Signal?"

"Yeah I do" Petros answered

"Oh my, that's sooo cool!" Alcatraz looked ecstatic "So you're a hunter!?"

"I'm training to be one, this is my weapon, Thunderfairy, its a mix between a dust railgun and a tomahawk, but there's an odd number of people in my class so finding a sparring partner is hard"

"Sounds awful, I've dreamt of being a hunter for so long"

"Wouldn't that mean killing Grimm?" Petros asked

"Yeah but they hate me as much as humans do, I don't have a weapon though" Alcatraz said solemnly.

"Do you know what kind of weapon you want?" Petros asked

"Yeah"

"What if I gave you my toolkit, then when I go to school you tell me what parts you need next and I'll get them for you" Alcatraz practically launched into the air.

"You're not being serious, are you?"

"Dead serious, just seems like the right thing to-GAH!" He didn't finish his sentence before Alcatraz hugged him

"You're the best!"

Two months later

"Finished!" Alcatraz said triumphantly.

"Really, how is it?" Petros asked excitedly.

"Meet the Heartbreaker, it is a hand axe that can turn" he flipped it over so he was holding on to the axe head "A flak cannon " he fired a round and a huge hunk of dust in the shape of a bullet came out and decimated a tree in front of them, "Whaddya think?"

"I love it, but it looks a bit big for you" Petros said.

"I'll grow into it, I mean I'm only 10"

"You're 10? Same here! Anyway now that you got a weapon" He pulled out the Thunderfairy "Wanna spar?"

"Hell yeah!"

Author's notes: hey guys thanks for being patient, i'll try to be more consistent later also sorry if this chapter isn't up to the standards of the last one I just wanted desperately to introduce the OC's, thanks for reading!