After a few months of being in his cell, Nero had seen hell. He would always test his captors with something that would earn him new injuries. New kids coming in every other few weeks, they cry. To scared to say anything, not one of them bothered to share their name as they were expecting not to make it out from their prison. Their unvoiced thoughts terrified each and every one of them. When they thought about what would happen to them and what had happen in their villages they would usually sit in solitude. Only to move away from the door when the guards came and dragged them out. At first it started out with some basic things like drawing blood and checking their mental and physical status, but then it devolved more and more by the weeks as they were forced to be subjugated to the hellish torture to see how much pain they could endure and see how much their mental state could hold out. Often they were forced through mazes like lab rats to test their reaction, speed, and memory if they moved to slow or not move at all they would shock them with a cattle prod and more.

On some nights one or two kids would be taken away for some time and then returned with the guards dragging them back after being forcefully injected with dust and other drugs. Those poor individuals would curl up into a ball inside their cells. While sobbing from the agonizing pain that kept them from being able to move knowing that even the slightest movement would be too much to bear. They begged and pleaded for an easy death, but it would never come. Others however, would be unlucky to survive those procedures and often times when someone was dragged away for these tests. They were never seen from again. Hazel and the guards would always come back the next day to check on the ones they dropped off the night before. If they lived they would drag the unlucky child back out and continue with the test. If not, she would shake her head in annoyance and complain "Great, another one dead. Dispose of it and return to your post."

Hazel would then just walk away as the guards grabbed the lifeless corpse and disappear. This had become a routine for the guards and the prisoners. On most accusations, Hazel would not show up and it just is the guards. These guards would often not carrying weapons, since they felt they didn't need them and then one day. The door opened and the unarmed guards came walking in, the children yet again scurried towards the back in fear as the two men walked up to the first cage. The staff made sure that each cage held it's max of fifteen or so people. "So she wanted the wolf faunus right Giel?" the lead guard asked as they walked in. "No, she wanted the "purple bear faunus", think you can handle that Noct?." Giel stated sarcastically "Hey shut up man it's hard to listen to her when you have a kid screaming in pain right next to you, ya know." Noct said annoyed "Awww getting soft are we?" Giel mocked while laughing but it was cut short as they saw the faunas in question lying curled up in a ball not moving away from the doors.

"Shit I think the brat is dead, director won't like this, and after all she specifically wanted him for a new test idea for today." Noct noted in a bored tone "Who the fuck cares? Just go inform her and I'll get rid of the body." Giel said as he started to dig for the keys from his pocket. "Fine be back soon." as Noct left closing the door, Giel grabbed the key for the cell he opened it up and walked up to Nero. As he stopped at Nero's body he glanced at the kids and noticed they were all glaring at him "What the hell you glaring at? You want to die or something?" Giel spat at them then he shook his head and went to reach down to grab Nero.

When the young wolf saw his chance, he pounced at the guard. Startling him and causing the guard to fall on his back as Nero wildly scratching for the eyes and biting his hands when they got to close. As soon as the man was on his back the other kids rushed in jumping on top to try and hold the man down. The eldest child ran up to Giel's head and kicked him as hard as he could, connecting his foot with the guards temple making him go slack. They all got off and looked at the guard frightened that he would get up, but he didn't he just stayed sprawled out and limp. "Ok check him for keys and start getting everyone out, today we are making our escape to get away from here!" Nero said.

As the others were being released Nero did a head count as best as he could coming up with fifty-one kids in total "Where are we going?" asked the one who had sat by himself for the time Nero had been there. "I don't know yet, but we need to get away. Then we can run to the nearest village we can find. Ok?" Nero said as he glanced at the door "Crymzen get the door, and then everyone run once the door is open."

As Crymzen got close to the door, it opened on its own. Blinding everyone for a split second as a figure had stopped in her tracks. "Hey what the hell!" she shouted out in surprise and she tried to block the door as best as she could. As Nero's eyes adjusted and saw what she was doing he yelled to everyone around him in a panicked voice "RUN!" And with that single word, chaos ensued. The kids charged knocking the woman down as they shoved past her or stepped on her running down the hall. Not long after the alarms sounded as they made their way down further. Running down the long corridor they passed multiple doors that they have been tested and experimented on. Behind a few of these doors they could hear the others who were still screaming in the rooms. Nero knew that they could not stop or risk getting captured, so they continued to run. Tears of the memories ran down their face; soon they saw an exit sign above a single brown door that had a small window that shined a light blue hue from what seemed to be the moon.

Upon seeing this, it inspired them to run harder at the sight of freedom just right in their grasp. As they burst outside they saw what appeared to be a warzone of guards fighting off a horde of grimm that was currently attacking the compound. Izabell looked back at the hallway to see Hazel and several guards coming around the corner. Scared of being caught and put through even worse experiments than before, She turned and shouted "Run, she's coming we need to go now!" Izabell ran into the front of the herd grabbing a few hands and lead them all towards the woods. In hopes they had heard her as she lead them away from the building. Nero didn't notice as he was focused on the scene before him remembering what he saw from his bedroom window when they had attacked his home. As they ran off into the woods, Nero was grabbed up by a large man shaking him out of his moment of terror. "Well now, look what we have here. Aren't you the one my wife mentioned to be the trouble maker? Well go ahead and try something if you want"

The man mocked as he held Nero by the back of his neck laughing. "Aurum look out!" the man known as Aurum dropped as a beowolf tackled him from out of nowhere straight down to the ground. This allowed Nero to get away, as he scrambled back up to his feet and took off. When he looked back he regretted it when he saw Hazel screaming as the beowolf tore into Aurum's chest and throat causing blood, skin, and some bone to fly around before the grimm was shot dead.

Out of fear, Nero turned around and continued to run into the woods. He didn't know where the others went but he didn't care as long as he got away from here. Nero kept running as far as his legs could take him until he finally collapsed due to exhaustion. He sat there breathing hard, with his legs feeling like they were on fire. It wasn't long before everything came rushing all at once as he tried to empty his stomach of what little food they did give them. After that he sat there and cried for everything that had happened with his time in the prison cell. The tests, the torture, and the death of the other kids, everything he had seen had just come out. After some time the wailing slowed down into hiccups and soon sniffles.

As he started to gain his senses he noticed everything around him was silent. No sounds were being made, not even the crickets dared to disturbed the unsettling night. Not long after Nero had his answer when he heard it. A low terrifying hissing could be heard from his left as he could hear something moving through the bushes. Slowly he turned towards the sound with fear showing more in his eyes. As he looked towards the bushes he saw a small group of glowing red eyes staring back at him and then it crawled out. It was a grimm. He had never seen this grimm before but one he could recognize. It stood about five feet tall with eight long, thick black legs with two mandibles near its mouth and, white bone armor on its head and upper back with eight red eyes looking directly at him.

The spider grimm then gave a terrifying screech and charged at Nero with horrifying speed. As he sat there too exhausted to move he stared at the grimm charging him knowing that it was too late. Nothing he could do would save himself from this monster. And after everything that had happened he could almost see this as an ending of a very long nightmare. So he closed his eyes and waited for the grimm to end him.

After a few seconds Nero realized the monster had yet to end his life. Slowly after counting to three in his head he opened his eyes wondering why the grimm stopped only to see a sword sticking out from the top of its head and a tall man standing in between Nero and the grimm. As the man pulled the sword out of the already fading grimm he turned around and looked at the child in front of him with piercing red eyes. The man was dressed in black slacks and a gray button up shirt with a red cape that showed a lot of scars that held its own story. The man then reached into his back pocket and took out a small metal container and took a swig of it "So, what's a little kid like yourself doing out here in the wood's?"