"Speaking"
"Transmission of thought"
Jaune POV
I woke up to the sound of wood grinding dirt and of foot steps.
"Hey I think he's waking up?" a girl's voice called out.
"Where am I?" Jaune ask.
"Your with the Travelers of Dragonland." She reply.
"Ilia sweety we are not going by that name." A woman commented.
"But mom what's wrong with the name?"
"You understand when you are older." The mother of Ilia responded.
"O what's your name friend?"
Friend my last friend were the Malachite twin until I nearly got them killed in a fire. "Friend?"
"Ya my mom said stranger are friend you haven't meet yet, I'm Ilia Amitola." she said sticking her hand out for a handshake.
"I'm Jaune." I said after shaking Ilia hand. Her skin was a light tan color with dark spots on her cheek and forehead. Her hair tied in a ponytail at the back of her head. We are in the back of a wagon full of barrels. The smell of sea water is coming from the barrels. Fish, this is one of those thing trader do to keep them fresh and from the strength of the sea water we are heading inland. "Are we heading inland?" I ask for confirmation.
"Yes we are. O and what happen to you? You were asleep for like four whole days?"
Well that news. "I can sense your confusion to make it clarify it's also the reason the elite grim and the grim lady are not in this world. They would be asleep until they gather enough energy to awaken. That's why the grim of this world are weak and inexperienced."
"So basically cause I'm halve grim and weak, the worry these people produce was what a waken me?"
"Ya. So what do you plan to tell them? Cause telling them the truth of us would be ill advised." The Faunus get enough shit as it is.
"I was running from a pack of old werewolf grim( technically not a lie). I manage to get away but in doing so I overuse my semblance(the explain all thing that goes against science)."
"Wow your a hunter." She said amazed.
"No I'm not."I answered, outside the wagon I see we are in a narrow passage of a canyon( or mountain but not likely) which, was about 10 feet wide.
"What your semblance?" She continue on like she did not hear me. "Since you said you overuse it to beat an ancient pack of wolf grim." Beat that not what I said.
"My semblance make me an army of one."
"What's your soldier like?"
"They are monster, of my own design."
Ilia POV
"Can I see one?" Wow I can't believe I'm talking to a hunter( clearly he is, no civilian would ever have their aura unlock unless they were becoming soldiers). And he clearly not from these part calling beowolfs, werewolf grim. O what type of grand quest is he on to bring him to these part of the world.
"I don't know."
"Please." I said pouting and with that a four legged creature leap out of his shadow and is sitting right in front of me. It's skin was rough and hard like a bug it was the color black. The hind legs were double bent the first née bent back while the second née bent down to the ground. It's bone like armor was color blue like Jaune eyes. "What do you call these?"
"They don't have a name yet?"
"What how could you not name them yet?"
"Hey I only got my semblance only recently."
"Could I name them?"
"Sure."
"Zergling."
"What? Where did you come up with that?"
"Well look here." I went to my box. Its nothing special just a wooden chest with my carving of grims. Within my box I keep my treasures. I pull out a book that is mostly destroyed. "This book talk about a an insect like grim." I turn to a page with only its bottom halve still intact. "Zergling the infantry of the Zerg these dog like monster. And that all I have but I think Zerg is what our ancestor called the grim."
"I … well I guess creep grim are similar in a way to mine."
"Where are you from Jaune?"
"What makes you think I'm not from around here."
"We don't have hunter here it's common knowledge here that having your aura unlock draw grim to you."
"Really how so?" Jaune ask actually confuse. Yep not from here.
"You know how moths are attracted to light?" with his nod I continued "Well people with lock aura are like candles while people with unlocking aura are like campfire."
"Well then in that case I should leave." He got up to leave.
"Wait. You should stay we are at least a week away from the nearest town and you are not from here."
"Ilia, grandpa want to talk with our guess after lunch." My older brother called and apparently it's lunch time. Funny I don't smell anything cooking yet and when did we stop.
"Well you must be hungry after sleeping for four days."
"Not really."
"Does having your aura unlock make you less hungry?" He shrug. "Come let introduce you to the others."
Jaune POV
"Hey does that unlock aura attracting more grim thing true?" I ask the yet to be name voice
"Sort of only in active use. Hunter in the past have use the trick to sacrifice themself for the greater good."
"How do you know that?"
"I have access to all the memories of the grim injection."
"I should have ask this sooner but how was our reserve effected?"
"We lost most of it but we have enough to start a base."
"Ok and what did you do to the zergling?"
"That one chose to show of its investment in armor."
"Its?"
"Yes, we are individual mind our body may be destroyed but our mind will live as long as you do."
"So that's why they are willing to run to their death? Does that apply to the grim?"
"Not enough experimentation."
"Hey come on let meet the other." Ilia called.
Author note
So I'm going to have Ilia be a companion character for Jaune in the Journey ahead.