Sidewinder: A Twisted Outsider

by T. Kareon

In a time where everything that can go wrong, did go wrong. Twisting a once honest and kind child into a abhorrent monster. Harry has only a few goals in mind, goals incomprehensible to humanity. Now, he is an Outsider; a twisted visage to men. (Alternate and Revamped version of Sidewinder. A more darker take.) A Multi-Crossover, Harem, and all those juicy bits in between.

4. Chapter 4

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Within Beacon Academy, dozens of second, third and fourth year students were gathering around several large screens, all of which projected each individual in the initiation run.

"Come on now, let's place some bets here!" Spoke an older student, in his fourth term in Beacon.

"Seventy Lien on that one..." An older female student said, pointing towards Cardin.

"Big armor and a big weapon, a hundred and seventy on Cardin, and fifty on that Dove guy." Another student bet.

"I heard there was some prodigy with a scythe, I bet two hundred on the girl in the red hood." A older female student informed. "She'll even be leader." She added.

After a chorus of people placing their bets, on prodigies, heiresses and people with reputations. No on seemed to be placing any bets on the rather unknown set of four individuals.

Standing a good distance away from the group of gamblers, was a teenager girl with pale skin, with short dark chocolate brown hair, with a wavy lock hanging down the side of her face, which turned from chocolate brown to a caramel color. She wore a long-sleeved cocoa-colored shirt with dark brown trousers, and dark brown high-heeled leather boots.

Coco had a hand on her hips as her eyes scanned over the dozen or so large screens, each showing their own individual Huntsmen/Huntress in training. Her eyes glanced over the usual people everyone's bet for, causing her to frown.

Betting on someone who people have bet on, kinda ruined the return rate. She glanced at the individuals no one was betting for, the blond armored boy, the rather overly cute looking blonde girl who was floating into the Emerald Forest with her Parasol. She watched as the red-armored man seemed to grip onto a tree as he fell, somehow adhering to the surface of the side-ways object. She watched the blue haired man slam into the ground, in an area infested with Grimm, that was until he laughed hysterically and began to butcher them all.

Coco shivered a bit, looking at the blue haired man. Her eyes however landed on the young man, who seemed to be in his late teens to early twenties. Most of his body was covered in a cloak, that was until he landed with his cloak flaring out and revealing his dark grey long sleeved shirt, vest and black pants, boots and sheathed sword.

She took note of his inky black hair, which was tousled and messy, and a bit long. His hair touching the nape of his neck and covering his ears, with his bangs falling in front of his eyes, shadowing them in certain angles. His dark green eyes seemed to glint in the shadows, revealing serpent-like slits, before they were concealed by his eyelids.

"Well, hello there, dark and mysterious." Coco commented quietly, feeling a shiver run up her spine, just looking at him. Her instincts honed from a year of combat told her he was trouble, unfortunately for her she liked trouble.

"All the initiates have landed, the pool will be closing up. Last bets!" An older student announced.

Coco pursed her lips, her eyes studying Harry. "...A thousand on the dark and mysterious one, Harry is his name? And he'll have the most creative and terrifying kill. And if he does, I get all the winnings." She bet, silencing everyone around her.

"Hmm, and if you lose?" The older student questioned.

Coco shrugged, as she held up her scroll. "You have twenty four hours of access to my Scroll, and anything on it, you can keep." She offered casually.

Some of the male students shared a glance, all having the excited and simultaneous thought of 'Nudes' crossing their minds. Scrolls were personal communication devices and cameras.

"Fine, deal." The older student responded, as Coco offered her Lien card and scroll to the pool.

Coco appeared casual, as she looked at the screen, but on the inside she was a bit worried. She took a lot of self-portraits of her trying out clothes, from casual attire to risque underwear. '…Please don't let me down, guy.' She thought, having made an impulsive gamble.

–In the Emerald Forest

Harry was crouched low, as his serpent-like eyes scanned the area for a moment, before he squinted them shut as the sunlight affected his sight.

There was a stillness in the area around him, Harry slowly turned and reached out with his senses trying to feel where his allies were.

However he was interrupted by the sound of a deep, reverberating growl. The growl was followed by a thumping sound, and then another and another.

Harry slowly turned around and out of the shadows of the foliage, a rather large and imposing figure of a beast-like creature crawled forward. It had a black colored body, with it's body covered in white bony spikes and armored plating, it's face was covered in a white ceramic-like mask. Which had red lines and tribal-like markings.

"Hello there…" Harry said, as he back stepped and pushed his cloak aside with his left hand, and used said hand to reach down and grip the hilt of his sheathed one-handed long-sword.

The Ursa Major growled down at Harry, as it poised itself to launch at the Sorcerer. He unsheathed his long-sword and pressed the tip against the ground behind him. "...Well, come on now. Don't be shy." He said with a mocking smile.

The Grimm didn't seem to understand Harry, but it picked up on the literal celestial-object sized amount of negative emotions condensed into the single person and was drawn right to it. The Ursa Major lunged forward, it's claws bared and it's maw open.

Harry just stepped back and slashed his sword upwards, the tip of the blade created an array of sparks, as it scrapped up against the ground underneath him. "Fuyu Kou (Winter's Howl)" He spoke, as he slashed upwards.

A stream of frost emitted from where Harry cut, with a sheet of ice shooting forward and up. Dozens of small and large icicles shot up from the ground, with several large spikes protruding upwards. Black goo began to drip down the semi-transparent ice, as the Ursa Major was suspended by the large spikes of frozen water. It's limbs twitched, before it's head slowly lowered.

"Sorry to kill you in, cold blood. No heart feelings?" Harry asked, as he looked at the massive ice spike impaling the Grimm through the chest.

There was more growling, causing Harry to slowly turn around, out of the forest a trio of Ursa Minors trekked forward. Harry frowned, as he snapped his fingers, causing the ice behind him to shatter into dust, with the Ursa Major dissolved into black smoke and matter.

"Hmm..." Harry sounded, as he raised his left hand, the hand with the sword in it. His sleeve was pulled back a bit, revealing his rings and bracelet. The two rings gave off a faint white glow, as Harry tightened his grip around his sword. "…Çatışmanın Sanatı (Art of Quickening)" Harry spoke, as the white glow from his rings spread out and formed a faint aura of silver energy.

Harry held his sword out to the side, his focus on the three Ursa Minors. In an instant his visage vanished in a flicker, leaving a faint trail of silver-mist in his wake. Harry appeared behind the closest Ursa Minor, with his sword close to his chest. A trail of black good trialed from the tip of his sword, to the throat of the Grimm.

He then vanished in a flicker again and appeared at the right side of an Ursa, his sword being raised. His blade having cut through, up from the Ursa's chest to it's shoulder, cutting off a good portion of the creatures body. He then vanished again, before appeared in front of the final Ursa Minor.

Harry sheathed his sword, as the final Ursa Minor's had slowly fell off. He sighed, as he raised his right hand and snapped his fingers, dispelling the aura of silver mist around him.

"Well, that's ov..." He started, only to stop when he heard a chorus of growled, causing him to slowly turn around and he saw a horde of around eight Beowolves, all growling and snarling at him. Harry stared at them with an annoyed expression now and swiped his left hand at them. "…Seytanin alevi(Devil's Flame)" He spoke, the crimson jewel in his ring giving off a fiery glow.

From the palm of his hand a stream of azure flames burst forward, and as he swiped his hand, he projected a crescent-shaped horizontal projectile which flew along the ground. The bright blue flames slammed into the group of Beowolves, causing them to howl and shriek in agony, as the flames burnt them to literal ashes. The sounds of their internal parts popping and fizzling.

Harry held his palm out, which had a condensed sphere of writhing blue flames. Before he closed his hand, snuffing out the flames on his palm, and as he did that, the flames that engulfed the Beowolves died away. "Ah." Harry sounded, as he shook his hand, some brightly lit cinders and embers falling from his palm.

The Sorcerer didn't comment now, his eyes darting around. "Now, where to go?" He asked himself, before he heard a distant voice...singing.

"…Life is still spinning. Your end my beginning! And everything I hoped for has been strangely set aside! Reason for living! My mind is forgiving! And destiny is proving to be absent from my life!..." A female voice sung, a cute female voice.

Harry quickly followed it, only to come onto a rather unique sight. His darling Daughter, Nui was sitting, perched on a sizable rock. Surrounding her was almost a dozen or so dead or dying Grimm, a practical storm of black goo falling from the sky, like rain, all of the Grimm having been sliced, diced and reduced to mincemeat. Most of their body parts slowly disintegrating.

Nui was happily kicking her legs back and forth, her parasol open over her shoulder. "…I know it, I feel it, I know when you're sleeping, I know the things you're dreaming, and I know you will never give up and die…Conscious fulfilling, the darkness revealing all, thoughts and insecurities are shining like the sun!" Nui happily sung, as the proverbial rain of Grimm 'Blood' fell around her.

Harry approached Nui, walking over the dissolving corpses of Grimm. "Eyes are deceiving, your mind will stop breathing, and all that you are made of will now right become mine!" She sung, a wide smile on her face and her eye giving off a bright red glow.

The Sorcerer stepped on a twig, causing Nui's head to quickly shoot in a direction, only for her eye to land on Harry. Her cheeks went red and she put a hand to them. "Daddy! Oh Geez, Daddy! I didn't know you were there! Oh, I am so embarrassed!" She said loudly, closing her eye and shaking her head from side to side.

Nui seemed to appeared right in front of Harry, leaning incredibly close. "Did you like my singing Daddy? I hope you don't mind...wait, eye contact! We're partners! Eeee-yeah!" She sounded, making cutesy squeal. "I knew we were meant for each other, Daddy!" She admitted.

Harry sighed in annoyance, as he face palmed and turned around. "Oh no! Did I make you mad Daddy, wanna punish me!?" Nui asked cutely, before the sound of a distant explosion reached their ears. "….Hmm…weird." She said, glancing up and she saw a smoke cloud billow up.

She turned, only to see Harry was walking off. "Wait! Come on, wait up for your cutest Daughter!" She whined, as she chased after him.

–

At the edge of the forest, Glynda looked at her scroll, giving it a rather strange look. "That girl...can't be sane." She commented.

"Hm-hm..." Ozpin sounded, not really caring. His focus on watching the interaction of Ruby and Weiss.

"I feel bad for this kid…" Glynda admitted, looking at Harry's visage. There was a faint glimmer in her eye, as she felt like she saw him somewhere before. But where?

–

in Beacon Academy, there were a few students that looked at the Harry/Nui paring and seemed a bit disturbed. Not by Harry, he seemed to be actively annoyed by the blonde girl. But the devotion she seemed to have in her role-play, it was rather unsettling.

"This girl takes a Father-Daughter kink to a new level." Coco muttered with a shake of her head. If her social life didn't depend on Harry's success, she would've been worried he had a weird Yandare after him.

–

Across the Emerald Forest, there was a flurry of black limbs flying about. The sound of tearing flesh-material, bones being ripped apart, and the sound of hysterical laughing filled that end of the forest.

Grimmjow laughed, as he gripped the 'mask' of the Grimm Ursa in front of him, before he brutally ripped it off the creature's face. He then turned and shoved it into the head skull of a lunging Beowolf. It stopped moving, as the top of it's head slid off.

"Come on, come on, come on!" Grimmjow hollered, as the Grimm circled him. "Come on you Hollow-Wannabes! Let's fight like monsters!" He yelled with a wide grin.

An Ursa Minor lunged forward at the Arrancar, only for Grimmjow to grab a hold of it with one hand and used his other hand to rip the Grimm's head off it's body.

"Haha, way to keep your head on, asshole!" Grimmjow commented, as he chucked the Ursa Minor head at another Ursa Minor, the force behind the head carrying enough concussive force to cause both the skull and the Ursa Minor to explode.

"Yes, Yes, yes!" Grimmjow raved manically, as the Grimm all charged at him, from all angles.

Grimm limbs began to fly out of the proverbial dog-pile, clawed arms, legs, heads, mask and bone bits, all flying out like a storm. Grimmjow laughed happily to himself, tearing the monsters apart with his bare hands. His Hierro protecting him, while the Grimm had no such protection against his onslaught.

However, eventually Grimmjow was encased in a sphere of Grimm, all condensing around him. "Hehe-haha!" Grimmjow laughed, as a flash of crimson light emanated from the gaps behind the Grimm, before they were vaporized by a point-blank Cero.

Grimmjow stood in the middle of a corpse pile of Grimm, the monsters dying faster than the previous attackers can disintegrate. "Hmhm...heheh-haha!" Grimmjow laughed, as he smiled manically and held his hands out, flexing his arms and fingers. As he reveled in the bloodshed, in what seemed like so long.

There was a faint clank of metal, causing Grimmjow to stop. "I know if I followed the stench of decay, I'd find you." A calm voice commented, causing Grimmjow to turn and glare up. Standing on a branch of a tall tree, was the pale, crimson armored, Uchiha Warrior; Madara.

"The fuck do you want, old man?" Grimmjow sneered out, at the Uchiha. Being reminded of some kind of high-breed of Aizen's holier than though attitude and Ulquiorra's blunt way of speaking.

"I know it may have escaped your grasp, but we follow Black-dono. And in turn, his objectives are our own." Madara stated. His and Harry's relationship was, unique. They'd known each-other for at least a month.

Madara didn't see Harry as his superior, but he also didn't feel inverse either, he didn't look down on the young man either. It was a relationship built in respect for one another. Harry respected Madara's insight, his intellect, and his fighting prowess. Madara respected Harry's drive and ambition; and how he was going about completing it. Madara was well aware Harry could've just taking his eyes if he wanted to on his death bed, but he instead offered him a chance to not only revive him, but offer to help complete his dream in saving his world. The act alone, of not stealing his eyes or power, was enough to garner Madara's respect. The rest reinforced it.

The two saw each other as…not equals, Harry did call the shots, but he also listened to Madara's advice. 'I could always use another student.' Madara mused, knowing Harry was probably going to be his last one.

However, while the duo respected another, Madara didn't have any respect for the man in front of him. His Sharingan eyes dispassionately stared at Grimmjow.

"I don't give two shits what Harry wants! I wanna continue having fun!" Grimmjow argued.

"Fighting creatures that can do nothing to you? Monsters that have no mind and react on pure instinct? That's fun?" Madara asked with a tone of contempt. He loved battle, don't get him wrong. But fighting mindless beasts that can't do anything, other than attack.

It took the fun out of a fight in Madara's mind. To Madara a fight wasn't just about the brute force. It wasn't about how flashy you could be. No. It was the challenge. The fighting with someone with strengths equal to your own, where you had to think about every move you were about to make. The thrill that your move, might be your last. The excitement, as you kill the enemy you so desperately trained years to fight. The sound of clashing blades, as forces opposed one another in a blaze of shrieking metal. The taste of copper from your blood, the taste of your enemies blood having been turned to mist in the air. The struggle as your bones support your exhausted body. And the relief of a long battle, being drawn to an end, with one final blow. It was a powerful exchange of pure expression, a dance.

Madara gave Grimmjow a disappointed look. When he was 'forced' into fighting the Shinobi Nations combined, when he slaughtered them all with his bare hands. He was bored, it was monotonous to him. The joy Grimmjow seemed to take in slaughtering the Grimm, was just as pointless and boring.

"If that is your idea of fun, Grimmjow-chan. Than perhaps, I should have some of that fun too." He said pointedly, giving Grimmjow a small smile. Pointing out, that while the Grimm were as useless against Grimmjow, the Arrancar was the same against the Uchiha.

Grimmjow glared up at Madara, before the Uchiha released a portion of his Chakra, causing the tree he was standing on to shatter into splinters. The Ancient Shinobi dropped to the ground and stared fully at the Arrancar.

'Just like fucking Aizen.' Grimmjow thought, his body feeling an immense pressure. If anything, Grimmjow was sure Aizen and Madara were on a similar level in power. The thing though, was that Madara wasn't in-charge. But that didn't mean Madara couldn't kill him. "...Fucking-A, fine. You got me, let's go." He said with a scowl, glancing away and putting his hands in his pockets.

The duo vanished, leaving the Grimm Corpse Pile alone. However as the Grimm corpses began to dissolve, a bright crimson dust descended from the sky, forming bright crimson sprites. The sprites spread out and seemed to 'catch' the black mist of the dissolving Grimm.

The black mist seemed to coagulate to the whims of the crimson sprites, the influence of the Keepers. The crimson sprites flew towards the ground, bringing the Grimm-Matter with it.

Within a small cave not to far away, was the sitting, decomposed corpse of an old Huntsman. Nothing left but a skeleton. The crimson sprites flew into the skull of the deceased Huntsman, with the Grimm-Matter flowing and enclosing around it, condensing and forming a body around the skeleton.

Slowly a mask formed around the skeleton's head, forming a menacing skull-mask with a pair of curved, forward pointing horns. A pair of bright crimson eyes illuminated within the skeletal-mask, as a vapor seemed to exhale from the creature's maw.

–

Harry and Nui approached a clearing, where the remnants of a stone circular temple stood, it's visage broken down and decrepit. Harry walked a head of Nui, approaching the small structure. Inside was a platform, which held an array of black and gold objects.

"...Chess pieces?" Nui asked unsure, looking at the objects.

Harry looked at the objects and deduced they were the relics they were supposed to find. They were 'mysterious' enough to be a relic of sorts.

"Oh, I want the King piece!" Nui chirped out cutely. "Get it for us!" She practically begged.

Harry started at the pieces available and he noticed there were two of each piece, with the Bishops gone. "No. This can't not mean something. These things must represent something..." He stated, looking at the pieces, as he put a finger on the Kind.

"The King, the most valuable...but with the usefulness of a Pawn. Whom ever chooses this, will think of themselves in a high esteem. But be just as useful as a pawn." Harry stated, as he put his finger on the Queen. "The Queen, the most useful piece…but usually the one that's sacrificed to make an opening for another piece. Whomever chooses this piece…might be seen as sacrificial." He commented, as he motioned to the Knight piece.

"The Knight. A rather unique one, with it's unique ability to move around; it's usually used as a distraction to the enemy...and used to move behind lines. Usually sent in with the Pawns." Harry stated, before he reached over and picked up the Rook and inspected it.

"The Rook, a piece used at a distance; using it's ability to pick off Pawns, Bishops and even Knights. Being able to move all across the board, any distance. And...in some cases, can switch places with the King, keeping it's usefulness. While being in the center of power." Harry spoke, looking at the Rook, before he picked up the other Rook as well.

"Wow...you sure talk a lot." Nui commented, as she tilted her head. "Why are you taking two, Daddy?" She asked.

"It's fairly obvious that our goal, as pairs is to gain one 'Relic'. It's not out of the realm of possibility that whom ever has the matching 'Relic' will be our team. One's for us, the other is for Madara and Grimmjow." Harry stated.

"...How do you know they'll meet up?" Nui questioned.

Harry shrugged. "Madara's smarter than I am, I'm sure he figured this out awhile ago." He admitted.

"Wha-that's not true, you're the smartest Daddy!" Nui whined. Harry smiled at that, loving the praise.

"Who's your Daddy?" Harry asked.

"You Are!" Nui chirped out happily.

"Damn straight." Harry responded, as his focus returned to the other pieces.

"Um, Daddy…if these relics are important to the progression of people here, why not destroy them?" Nui questioned.

Harry stared at the objects. "One, we're being watched. And getting possibly kicked out, would defeat the purpose of trying to be here." He said dryly. '...And I don't doubt some of the teams haven't already been made up before hand.' His mused.

"Hey! You've made it too!" Came a familiar, loud voice.

Both Harry and Nui turned around, and saw a pair of teenage girls heading in their direction. One was the familiar visage of Yang, and the other was a young women dressed in black and white clothing, with shades of purple. Her eyes were golden, she had purple eyeshadow and in her long raven-black hair was a black bow.

'Well, I think we found Kali's little girl.' Harry thought, as his eyes flickered down towards her long, smooth looking legs. The skin-tight clothes Blake wore, didn't leave much to the imagination.

"Ah, Miss Yang! It's good to see you again! My Daddy has been talking about you all the time! I think he's in love!" Nui chimed out happily.

"Whoa!" Yang sounded in surprise, when Nui seemed to appear right in between her and Blake. "Wait...Huh..." She muttered, looking at the area next to Harry, where she remembered seeing Nui and then at her side, where the girl stood currently. "But you were...what?" She said unsure.

"Even when you're confused, you look simply breath taking! No wonder he has it bad!" Nui commented, as she ran her finger through Yang's hair.

"Whoa-whoa-whoa, hands off the hair. Okay, I don't want another repeat of yesterday." Yang warned, not wanting to hit her friend's, friend.

"Nui." Harry stated, causing the petite blonde girl to look away from Yang and release the few strands of the golden locks.

"Herm..." Nui sounded with puffed out cheeks.

"…What a strange person..." A rather dispassionate voice commented, as Blake observed the strange event take place.

However, as soon as she said those words, she drew attention to herself. Nui seemed to freeze up completely, before she slowly began to turn around. The thing was, she didn't use her feet or her legs to turn herself around. Her body was completely stiff, as it slowly turned of its own accord.

Nui's eye gave off a very cute and innocent look, but Blake was caught off guard by the look her face held. It wasn't a cute one, it was a face of pure hunger. Nui licked her lips and gave Blake a rather lust-filed and demented look for a moment, before it vanished quickly.

'I've had so much fun with your mommy…I can't wait until I break your mind, and hers. So you both can please my Daddy!' Nui thought, scheming in her cute little head.

Blake immediately didn't like Nui and by extension her partner. Harry walked up towards Yang and Blake. "So, you lot ready to become super-powerful Huntresses?" Harry asked, as he motioned to the area behind him. "Well, the Relics are right over there." He admitted.

Yang gave him a grin. "Now you're speaking my language!" She commented, as she balled a fist and drove it into into the palm of her opposing hand.

"I'll keep watch, don't know if some dark creatures are wondering about." Harry said with a dry smirk, before he glanced away from the blonde for a moment. "One wouldn't want such a prospective fighter to be taken down, because her back was turned." He added, causing the blonde girl to blink a few times and look at him.

Yang actually gave him an appreciative look. "That's…That's very considerate of you. T-thanks." She said with a smile. Their eyes connected for a moment, before Yang quickly glanced away; almost shy.

"...It could be a trap." Blake suggested, not trusting Harry. Harry's eyes immediately zoned in on her, slitted green eyes and golden eyes met. The Sorcerer's mouth opened faintly, as a long serpent-like tongue flickered about.

"What's not to trust about me?" Harry asked with a smirk.

Blake looked at him and her heart beat raced, as she assumed Harry was a Snake-Faunus. Snake, Serpent, Viper, Scorpion, and all of the more venomous Faunus weren't known to be the most stable, and were as equally untrustworthy.

Yang jovially wrapped an arm around Harry's shoulder, causing Nui's eye to twitch and her face to lose the perpetual cute-look she always sported fell for a moment. She closed her eye and nodded to herself. 'I'm Daddy's number one...Daddy may fuck them...but I'm his truest love…' The artificial being thought to herself.

"Come on, Blake. Harry acts all creepy, but he does it to hide how much of a softy he is." Yang waved off.

Harry cast Yang a side-ways glance, which the blonde returned with a wide teasing grin. "You've figured me out." He said dryly, as he raised one hand up and grabbed a hold of Yang's, before he lifted her arm off his shoulders.

The total disregard of her emotional advance, caused Yang to narrow her eyes at the challenge. Something Harry was planning to feed into and she was eating it up on the spot. "Anyway, disregarding my...feelings...you should really get your Relic." Harry insisted.

"You seem awfully insistent on us going into the small enclosure." Blake observed, suspicion heavy in her voice.

Harry gave her a strange look. "You don't have to pass, I don't really care if you trust me. I just want Yang and her sister to be happy." He stated.

Yang gave Harry a smile, finding the comment sweet. "It's fine Blake, I trust him. Let's check it out." She responded, as she turned and headed towards the ruins. Blake frowned and followed the blonde.

"...I don't like her." Nui commented, crossing her arms.

"Which one?" Harry asked, as the two girls were out of earshot.

"Yang will make a nice sister..." Nui commented. "…but that Cat Girl, the way she looks at you. It makes me want to shove one of the dildos I repeatedly place up her mother's pussy and ass, and make her get a good taste of them." Nui glanced off, as a blush formed on her face. "I wanna watch as her throat bulges and she gags, and I'll keep forcing them deeper and deeper, until her pupils form cute pink hearts!" She happily chirped out.

Harry gave Nui a strange look. "Are you taking pointers from those Hentais?" He asked unsure.

Nui giggled and put a finger to her chin. "Te-hehe, I'm a real fan of the Daddy-Daughter ones, and the Mind-Break ones. When a girl is destroyed by dozens of guys, or monsters, or tentacles, or all three!" She admitted excitedly, releasing a squeal.

Harry gave her a disappointed look and shook his head, as he looked away from her. "Bloody hell. Honestly, do you want a slap?" He muttered to himself.

Nui didn't respond, lost in her own perverted and deranged fantasies. Harry felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end, before he turned and looked towards the surrounding Emerald Forest. There was a faint chiming, which reverberated from Harry's waist.

Harry pushed against his cloak and looked at the sheathed sword at his side, a faint blue glow radiating from the hilt. Faint blue particles drifting around the object, dancing in the shadows of his cloak. He took a grip of the hilt of his sword and he felt a vibrating resonance from the metal.

'What are you picking up, buddy. What do you feel?' He thought, but his thoughts were interrupted by Yang.

"How do you like it, we got the cute pony?" Yang asked, as she held out a knight piece.

Harry was broken from his thoughts, as his eyes zeroed in on Yang and the piece in her hand. "Adventurous." He commented, getting a grin from the blonde.

"You think so?" She questioned, as she looked at the piece.

"I bet you really like ponies." Nui insinuated, having a cute look on her face and putting her hands behind her back and leaned on her parasol.

Blake gave Nui a disgusted look, while Harry glanced up at the sky. "Grow up, Nui." Harry said dryly.

Nui gave him a smile. "Only for you, Daddy!" She chirped out.

Yang was about to comment, before the four heard the sound of a loud, high-pitched scream. Yang and Blake adopted a more tense stance, while the former looked around.

"Some girl's in trouble! Did you hear that?" Yang asked.

"Girl?" Nui questioned with a tilt of her head, as she looked in the direction of the forest. "That was a guy." She admitted.

"...How can you tell?" Yang inquired, looking at the petite girl.

Nui inclined her head forward and her single eye gave off a faint crimson glean. "You can never forget the sounds of men screaming in horror and agony." She said in a chilling voice, getting disturbed looks from both Yang and Blake, only for Nui's head to be sent forward a bit with the sound of flesh hitting against flesh emanating from her.

Harry stood behind her with his hand extended, having connected with the back of Nui's head and promptly slapped her. "Owie!" Nui whined, nursing the back of her neck and head.

"I warned ya. Quit trying to be creepy, it's annoying." Harry said dryly, his amused looked gone and his eyes closed.

"But Dad..." Nui started.

"Ah!" Harry sounded.

"It's just..."

"Nope!"

"It's fun..."

"Eh!"

"I'm just..."

"No, no, no, nope, nihil, nein, No, Nope, No!" Harry repeated, causing Nui's eyes to get big and watery. "Stop it!" He instructed, not falling for her act.

After a moment, Harry heard faint sounds in the distance, a high-pitched voice of a young girl. He looked from his left to his right, only to hear the sound getting closer.

"What is that?" Yang asked, as she looked around.

Blake stared up at the sky with an unsure look on her face. "…Huh..." She sounded.

Nui looked up towards the sky and saw a black and crimson blur descending at high-velocity. "Daddy, you might wanna look up and cast something." She offered.

Harry quickly looked up, only to see Ruby falling. "Heads uuuuppp!… " She yelled hysterically, falling form the sky.

In instinct, Harry quickly raised and leveled his free hand upwards, towards Ruby. "Shit, Viraj Zamanı (Bend Time!)" He said reflexively, as an ash grey and black sphere of writhing energy formed from his hand and it was sent upwards, hitting Ruby.

The orb that hit Ruby exploded, enveloping her in a faint aura of ashy energy. Her descent seemed to slow down to an almost stop, and just as Harry stopped her from falling, a teenage blond boy flew by and slammed into a tree.

Nui blinked a few times, having watched Jaune come out of virtually nowhere, and just slam into a tree. "...Hmm...Weird." She commented.

Yang looked up and saw her little sister slowly falling towards the ground, at a snails pace. Harry had his left hand raised, standing underneath the scythe wielder. "Phew, that was close." He commented.

"Oh Thank goodness, you saved Ruby!" Yang said in relief.

"Well, not really." Harry admitted, staring up at Ruby, his hand still raised. An ashy energy radiating from his hand, as he continued on sustaining the spell he was holding on the girl.

"What're you talking about, she's fine." Yang said, looking up at Ruby, who was slowly falling towards Harry, almost a foot from him.

"If she hits the ground, she's going to get really hurt." Harry quickly explained.

"…She's falling so slow, how could she get hurt?" Yang questioned, knowing Ruby's Aura could protect her from a small percent of a mile per hour fall.

"She isn't falling slowly, she's still falling at the same speed...just over a longer period of time." Harry explained, as Ruby's head was inches from his shoulder, and he clenched up and closed his eyes, gritting his teeth.

Before Ruby's head collided with him, he quickly released the spell and moved back, and caught the girl in his arms. "Ppp..." Ruby completed, before she blinked and looked around.

Ruby's head turned and looked around, before she realized something. She was in someone's arms. She slowly turned and adjusted her position, before she was face to face with the person who caught her. Silver eyes connected with dark green eyes, before the former blinked a few times in surprise.

After a moment, Ruby realized who's arms she was in and a blush began to form on her face. "H-Hi..." Ruby muttered.

"Hello." Harry said dryly. "I'd ask, if you fell out of Heaven. But now's not really the time, eh?" He asked.

"Eh-ah, y-yeah. No, wait, huh?" Ruby sounded awkwardly, her blush full force.

"...Why did you sister fall from the sky?" Blake asked Yang, giving her a blank look.

"Ah..." Yang started, only for several explosions and crashing sounds echoed from the forest line, causing Ruby to quickly wrap her arms around Harry's neck and hold him tightly.

"Why do explosions keep happening around me!?" Ruby whined out, with Harry releasing a pained gasp, as his air was cut off.

"Yee-haw!" Nora cheered, as she came ridding a Grimm into clearing, but it collapsed. "Aw, it's broken." She complained, as she rolled of it's back.

Ren came up running after her, panting heavily as he did. "Nora...please, don't ever do that again." He sighed out.

Harry gritted his teeth, with Ruby practically refusing to let go of his neck. "Get off!" Harry snapped, as he let Ruby go, causing her to fall on the ground.

"...Ow..." Ruby muttered, as she rubbed her rear and stood up.

"...I'm Queen of the Castle! I'm Queen of the Castle!" Nora said in a loud, high-pitched voice. Harry's eye twitched at the sound of her sing-song voice.

"Nora!" Ren announced, causing Nora to stop.

"Coming, Ren!" Nora cheered, as she happily skipped towards her friend.

Harry exhaled in exasperation. "Hehe, I totally ship them!" Nui happily said, causing Harry to suddenly get tense again at the sound of his Daughter's voice. Not in the mood for her commentary.

Running out of the foliage of the forest, Pyrrha was sprinting towards the group, with the large visage of a massive Scorpion Grimm chasing after her.

"Oh, come on!" Harry complained, as he looked at the Deathstalker and motioned towards it in exasperation.

"Did she just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on her tail?" Blake asked incredulously.

There was a violent eruption of of kinetic energy, as large tree came barreling passed the large forming group. Blake's, Yang's, Ruby's, Harry's and Nui's eyes trailed and followed along a rolling and tumbling tree, which tore up part of the ground as it came tumbling by.

"Haha! I fucking told you, if we headed in a straight line, we'd run into them eventually!" A loud and aggressive voice commented.

Coming out of the hole in the foliage was a pair of individuals, Madara had his eyes closed and his arms crossed. "A very astute plan. Try not to break your arm, patting yourself on the back." The Uchiha said in a faint mocking tone.

The duo met up with the group rather quickly, Madara looked towards Harry and bowed his head curtly. "Black-dono, I must apologize for our lateness. He was rather...uncooperative." Madara stated, giving a pointed look towards Grimmjow.

"Eh, fuck off." Grimmjow responded, blatantly disregarding Madara's authority in the presence of Harry. The Sorcerer cast the Arrancar a glance, before he focused on the Death Stalker.

"Alright! Can people stop showing up, and can we all just shut up for a few seconds!" Yang snapped, looking at the continuously growing group, as flames burst fro her hair and her eyes blazed red for a moment.

"...Melodrama..." Grimmjow commented, getting a look from Harry. Like he was the one to talk about being dramatic and overreacting.

"Um...Yang?" Ruby said quietly, as she tugged on her sister's sleeve and pointed upwards.

Yang and some of the others in the group looked up, only to see a white haired girl handing by the talon of a massive black avian Grimm creature.

"How could you leave me!?" Weiss yelled down, as she held on for dear life.

"I said 'Jump'!" Ruby shouted in response.

"She's gonna fall." Blake commented.

"She'll be fine." Ruby waved off.

"...She fell." Harry said dryly, as he looked up and saw the white haired girl lose her grip on the Nevermore.

"Hehe-haha!" Grimmjow laughed, watching the human descend to an almost certain death. With Nui giggling lightly.

"You're assholes." Harry insulted, as he leveled his hand upwards towards Weiss; and with an actual plan he was able to cast a spell, in which he could protect the girl and move without tremendous concentration on maintaining a time manipulating spell. "Tector!" He spoke.

A blue-ish mist coalesced around Weiss, forming a sphere around her. Harry frowned and concentrated, as he manipulated his personal Shield Technique, but instead of using it to protect himself from external forces. He was projecting it around Weiss, to protect her from slamming into the ground at Mach-speeds and become a red-print on the ground.

Harry inclined his head when he slowed Weiss down, and he got a good view of underneath her skirt. 'White Panties...I'm not surprised actually.' He thought, noticing her rather consistent color choice in her outfit.

Slowly, Weiss was guided to the ground, with the sphere dissipating around her. "...How'd you do that?" Ruby questioned, looking at the Sorcerer.

Harry looked at Ruby and in a dramatic way, he held his hands out and wiggled his fingers, causing an array of tiny sparks to crackle about. "Magic." He responded, telling her the honest truth. Knowing no one would ever believe him.

Ruby looked at him with wide innocent eyes. "...Oh, that's amazing!" She gushed out.

"Hmph..." Weiss sounded, as she adjusted her skirt and crossed her arms, giving Ruby a glare for leaving her. Her eyes landed on the man standing next to Ruby, the tall...dark...handsome man. Weiss quickly rubbed her hands against her skirt, making sure to clean any dirt that might've gotten on, off. "…Hello, I don't believe we've met." She admitted, walking towards Harry.

"A sin, I'm sure, Snow Angel." Harry commented, looking at the snow-flake designs on her dress and her over all, icy theme.

Weiss blushed faintly, as she glanced away. "I'm Weiss Schnee." She said introducing herself.

In the distance, Jaune groaned in the tree branch, having heard the 'Snow Angel' line work. "...Ah, what?" He asked himself, as he dropped down and landed on the ground.

"Harry..." The Sorcerer responded with a faint nod of his head. "…It's rather unfortunate that we meet on the battle-field, but disregarding that; it's a pleasure to know who you are." Harry said in a rather charming voice, his accent and 'smile' doing wonders to Weiss.

Weiss' heart skipped a few beats, as she took a step towards him. "It's quite alright..." She started, only for Ruby to appeared in between them.

"He-he...eh, Weiss...you took a pretty big fall, why don't you rest!" Ruby insisted, a tone of rather blatant irritation in her voice.

There was a clank of metal, as Pyrrha landed in front of the group, the Death Stalker hot in her tail. "Great! The Gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang said sarcastically.

"Not if I can help it!" Ruby announced, as she went to charge forward.

"Ruby, Wait!" Yang said in absolute worry and fear for her sister's life.

However, as she went to speed forward and vanish, a black and green ethereal chain coiled around her and stopped her in her tracks. Harry had extended his hand and summoned a black ethereal chain, and pulled Ruby back.

Harry had no idea what Ruby could do, and he didn't think an adorable girl could stand up to a monstrous, towering Scorpion-Creature.

"What? Why are you stopping me!?" Ruby questioned, looking at Harry.

"I can't just let you go off on your own, and let you attack a creature you know nothing about, with no plan!" Harry said incredulously. Madara looked from Harry, towards the sky and saw the massive avian creature coming around.

"...I can do this." Ruby said with a serious look.

Harry looked at her, before he realized something. Why was he trying to save her? Why did he save Weiss? Why did he care? They don't matter in his plan, they don't matter at all. He glanced at his side and noticed Nui was silently staring at him, an uncertain look on her face.

He turned and looked towards Yang, only to see she had her eyes closed and she looked relieved. Seeing Yang look relieved, made him feel...good. Why did she earn such a reaction from him? Why did he care how she felt?

Harry snapped his fingers, causing the chains around Ruby to vanish. "...Thank you, I'll be back!" Ruby spoke, before she vanished in a storm of rose petals.

"Why did you let her go!?" Yang demanded, giving Harry a glare.

Harry stared at his hands, not really sure why he was feeling such gut wrenching guilt at angering Yang. Why did he care? He was a bad person. But something deep in his mind, deep in his subconscious mind felt something for Yang, that even he didn't understand.

He looked up and stared into Yang's blazing crimson eyes. He saw faint blue sprites dancing around his vision, before he saw and experienced something on a cosmic-level. Feeling After affects of submerging himself in the Aether, through the Nexus of the Multiverse, Harry was able to peek into and tap into the memories of alternate versions of himself.

–Alternate Reality 'Deep Underground, Orochimaru's Base in the Sound'-'Serpent Sorcerer Not: Reality'

The sound of a beeping heart monitor reverberated through out a darkly lit room, as a young man in his mid-twenties was scanning through stacks of papers.

"Come on, come on...Neuropathy, Erratic Heart Palpitations, Osteoarthritis, an onset Neurocognitive disorder…Oh God..." An Ash-haired, bespectacled man muttered to himself, reading the results of a plethora of tests. And those were just the first ones he saw.

At his side, laying down on a hospital gurney, was a young woman. The young woman was emasculated, the natural body fat was non existent, any muscle was shriveled away. Her skin was sickly pale, she had long flowing hair, which had turned a dull shade of blonde. Her eyes were a faded lilac color.

Kabuto looked at his former experiment, the clone of an enemy, whom he helped him achieve and find his identity and humanity again. "Come on, Yang. You can survive this, you can stay strong...I'll fix you…I'll fix you..." Kabuto muttered to himself, as his mind raced through treatment possibilities.

"The cloning process was incomplete…I need more stable DNA from Naruto; I need. I need a female Uzumaki to stabilize your deteriorating DNA. You're body is falling apart...I fix one problem...two more form..." Kabuto said under duress.

His skin was pale and he had sweat pouring down his face. "I don't know where Naruto is! I don't know where to find DNA for you, Yang! I...I don't know what to do..." Kabuto muttered, horrified at the idea of letting his best friend die.

Yang stared up at the ceiling with blank lilac eyes, her appearance different compared to another Yang. Her cheeks had faint markings on them, lines. Her eyes were a faint shade lighter on the blue spectrum. She was missing her left arm and leg, having to amputate them, due to advance Necrosis.

"...There...is nothing...left..." Yang muttered weakly, her voice horse and dry.

"I am not giving up on you!" Kabuto snapped, as he adjusted his glasses. "I'll clone you again, I'll preserve your brain! Anything! Everything, I'll do everything I can to make sure you survive this! I will not let you die, because I made a mistake!" He declared emotionally.

The beeping of Yang's heart monitor slowly beeped, the rhythm getting steadily slower. "...I'm dying...There's nothing we can do to change that..." Yang admitted quietly.

"There's always a solution." Kabuto responded, looking down towards the dying girl.

"Not...Not this time..." Yang muttered. "...I know it's only...only been a year. I've only been alive for a year…And…But...it felt like a life time to me...I've...never been so happy with some...someone like you." She admitted.

"Please...please don't talk like this." Kabuto begged, only for Yang to weakly reach up and place her hand on his cheek.

"You're always so mean...so condescending…But underneath it...you're always kind, always loving to me. I know, every bad thing you do, you do for good. You hurt, to protect. You kill, to save. I could...I could never imagine myself...myself being that brave…" Yang admitted quietly, as her hand dropped, but Kabuto caught it and gripped it tight.

"We may not have had much time together…Snake-eyes. But...I'm sure...In another life, in another time and place, I'm sure…we'll meet again...we'll love each other…just like we do now." Yang muttered, her voice trailing off, the beeping on her heart monitor reaching a very, very dangerously slow pace. "Please...promise me...that...you won't...forget...me..." She trailed off, as the beeping of her heart monitor flat-lined, creating a steady beep.

"No...no, no, no, no..." Kabuto said frantically, as he quickly charged up a defibrillator. There was a high-pitched whine, as the device charged up. "Come on!" He snapped, as he ripped the girl's shirt apart, exposing her chest and pressing the paddles of the device to her bare chest.

There was a loud snap, as the electrical discharge was released, causing the girl's body to automatically arch for a moment. But it slumped again, the heart monitor reading a flat-line. Kabuto charged up the defibrillator again, it charging up slowly in his mind. "Come on, come on...no, no, no..." He muttered to himself, before the device began to whine again. And he put it on Yang's chest, activating a second time, only for nothing to happen.

"Ah! Work!" Kabuto snapped, as he recharged the device again and primed it, as he placed it device on Yang's chest again and activated, causing her body to arch, but nothing happened. "No, no, no, ah!" He yelled in frustration, as he grabbed the defibrillator and threw it at a wall, causing it to explode.

"...No..." Kabuto muttered, not wanting to accept what happened. He turned and looked at Yang, her lifeless body remaining motionless. He had his hands up to the sides of his head, his fingers digging against his scalp. "This isn't happening!" He snapped angrily.

After a few moments, he continued to stare at Yang, before his hands slowly slumped down and he leaned over pressed the side of his head, against her bare chest. Hoping in some way, in some astronomical fluke, he'd hear her heart-beat.

It was minutes of silence, before Kabuto realized it was a lost cause and turned his head, pressing it against her chest and released his pent up anguish. "…I...I won't forget you...I won't...I'll...I'll always love you, My Firecracker..." He muttered to himself.

–Current Reality

Harry stared at Yang with wide eyes, as his mind began to interpret data from his alternate self. He gained memories from several versions of himself, but his human mind naturally blocked out most of the 'empty' data. He now understood why he was so drawn to Yang subconsciously, why he was so curious of her, why he was so comfortable around her? It's why he told her his problems with his parents, when he was usually so detached. It's why he wanted to help her and her sister; because...they were connected.

The Sorcerer looked around in a bit of a daze, in the distance, he saw the Death Stalker trapped in ice. With Yang hugging Ruby tightly, littering the ground, were dozens of massive, sharp avian feathers.

"...Daddy?" Nui asked concerned, looking at her spaced out Father.

Harry shook his head. "I'm...I'm fine." He said quickly, getting looks from Madara and Grimmjow, unaware of his little existential moment.

"Ah, guys? That thing's circling black! What are we gonna do?" Jaune asked

"Well, there's no sense in dilly-dallying. Our objective is right in front of us." Weiss stated.

"She's right. Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back tot eh Cliffs." Ruby agreed, getting a nod from the white haired heiress. "There's no point in fighting these things." She informed.

"Run and live. That's an idea I can get behind!" Jaune added.

There was stillness in the chaotic chorus of people talking, silence bleed over Harry's ears and he felt a chill run up his body. He felt a wild vibration at his side, causing him to push aside his cloak and he saw his sword was giving off a bright blue glow and was trembling.

'Keeper Interference Detected…Threat insurmountable...Danger…' A voice spoke into Harry's mind, as a faint storm of writhing blue sprites danced around the sheath of his long-sword.

Harry slowly raised his head and turned, looking towards the foliage of the Emerald Forest. A loud, deafening roar reverberated and shook the forest. Causing all eleven of the grouped people to look in the direction Harry was staring towards. There was a murder of crows which erupted from the trees, all of them flying off from the origin of the monstrous roar.

Madara uncrossed his arms, Grimmjow started to sport a wide grin, while Nui inclined her head to the side curiously. Harry and the others watched as a single entity walk out of the edge of the foliage. It was humanoid in appearance and size. It was completely black in color, with a ghostly white mask. The mask was that of a demonic human skull, with black pits inside. It's body seemed to have ripped and torn clothing of a previously killed Huntsmen in Training, having died long ago. The mask had unique markings compared to the usual Grimm, it had unique mask. It covered the beings entire head, and its markings are different, for it had four spike-shaped marks, two of them stopping by the forehead and the other two stretching past the eyes and teeth, going past it's chin and joining with the black body it had. The creature's mask featured two long forward-pointed horns, and on it's forearms were a pair of protruding bone-like blades.

The humanoid Grimm-like creature prowled forward, it's black eyeless holes of it's masked focused on Harry and his group. Faint sprites of crimson lights danced around it's form, as it walked passed the trapped Death Stalker.

"What the..." Weiss started in surprise, never having seen a Grimm like this before.

"Hell..." Yang continued.

"...I've never seen something like this before." Pyrrha muttered, Jaune, Ren and Nora shared a glance.

The humanoid Grimm reached the Death Stalker and it released another demonic howl, which shook the area. With one hand it gripped the base of the Death Stalker's tail and ripped back, tearing the Grimm's tail off it's body and throwing it aside.

"A Grimm attacking a Grimm?" Weiss asked unsure.

'It's not a Grimm…' Harry thought, knowing exactly what it was. He reached up with his right hand and undid the collar to his cloak and tossed it aside, causing it to dissipated into green energy. He stood in his more form fitting attire, his left hand resting on the hilt of his sword.

"Come on, it's time we left!" Ren insisted, as the group regained their senses.

"Right…Let's Go!" Ruby instructed, as she turned and went to lead the group to the Relic point. However she, and in turn the others stopped when they noticed Harry and his group weren't moving. "Harry, come on guys, we have to hurry!" She said urgently.

Yang turned and looked back, only to see Harry had his eyes closed and was focused right on her and her sister. He held up two Rook Pieces. "It's rather unfortunate that my friends and I already have our Relics. We have no reason to go with you and slow you all down." Harry admitted, as he tossed the Rook piece to Madara, who caught it without even looking.

"W-what...what do you mean?" Ruby asked worried.

"This thing seems mighty dangerous for such a cute girl like you to tackle." Harry said in a mockingly polite tone. "So how about you let us big boys..." He started.

"And girl!" Nui chirped out.

"...And girl, deal with the taking out of this trash." Harry said seriously, as he took a grip of his long sword and unsheathed it. There was a loud almost holy chime to the sword, as it radiated a faint blue light. He raised the blade above his head and placed his free palm at the base, before he dragged it along the blade. The chime increased, as a bright blue-shadowy light coalesced around the blade, causing it to take the shape of an ethereal Great Sword, with Eldritch Runes glowing along the blade. It radiated a light, almost akin to that of a the Moon.

"But..." Ruby started.

Harry glanced back and focused mostly on Yang, opening his eyes and flinching a bit at the surrounding light, but made sure to make eye contact. "This place is a dangerous place, so please be safe, Firecracker." He said seriously.

Yang stared at him and felt a faint flutter in her chest, as she heard him call her 'Firecracker'. She didn't know why, but that nick name resonated with her; far more than it ever had when her uncle called her that. Yang narrowed her eyes back at Harry. "Then you better survive, Snake-Eyes." She returned.

"Trust me...this was over, before it began." Harry insisted, as he turned and looked back at the approaching Grimm Creature.

'Whoa, Bad-ass…' Were the simultaneous thoughts of Jaune, Ruby and Weiss.

The Grim Creature leaned forward, it's two long horns leveled the group. A loud whirling sound came from it, as a crimson sphere of spiraling and condensing energy formed. "Holy Shit, that's a..." Grimmjow started, before Harry quickly pulled his left sleeve back and leveled his sword and in turn his left hand forward.

"All of you, go, now!" Harry snapped, as he channeled his magic into his bracelet.

The group of eight move down the hill, only to hear a cry of 'Tector', before a blinding flash of crimson light illuminated the sky. Following that, was a series of explosions.

Yang closed her eyes, wishing her friend the best of luck. However, her musing were cut short, as a large shadow enveloped them and the giant Nevermore flew over the group.

–

"What on Remnant is that?" Glynda questioned, as she looked at the Humanoid Grimm Creature. "Ozpin, we have to stop that thing!" She insisted, seeing the devastation created by the crimson blast it created.

Ozpin stared at the screen, his eyes focused on Harry, who cast a shield which seemingly protected both Ruby, her friends, and his own from the massive attack. "...Magic." He said to himself, looking at the Sorcerer in some kind of recognition.

"Ozpin, did you hear me!? We have to stop that thing!" Glynda insisted.

"...No, not yet. I want to see how this plays out." Ozpin stated, getting a scowl from the middle-aged woman.

Glynda adjusted her posture, as she looked back at the screen, her eyes zoning on on Harry. Flickers of recognition flashing across her eyes.

–

"Oh Geez, I didn't know a thing like that lived in the Emerald Forest!" An older student.

"I hope it doesn't kill those three hot guys." An older female student comment.

"...I know what you mean." A male student agreed.

Coco looked really nervous, both out of her own self-preservation of her social status. Having invested heavily in crafting an image of herself. And because she didn't want her potential allies to die, or worse.

"Holy shit, look at the other team! That red-cloaked girl just decapitated a damned Nevermore, while running up a cliff wall!" Another student said in astonishment. "Well, there goes the most creative and terrifying Kill, eh, Coco?" A male student commented.

Coco's teeth chattered a bit, as she began to sweat and her eyes landed on Harry. "It's not over, until it's over." She responded quickly.,

"Heh, whatever you say. But I'm watching you, you better not be wiping anything off your Scroll." He responded.

–

Ruby panted, as she met up with her sister, Weiss and Blake, along with Jaune and his group. "That was awesome, Sis!" Yang cheered, having finally defeated the Nevermore with their combined effort.

There was a distant crimson flash, with an explosion following the flash. "We got the Relic and killed the Nevermore...maybe we should all try and destroy that weird Grimm." Ruby offered.

"We just exhausted ourselves facing the Nevermore, what could we possible do?" Weiss questioned, causing Blake to glance off and silently agree.

However, they were interrupted by loud yelling, as a figure was sent sliding down the hill. "Damn it, breaks! Break, Breaks!" Grimmjow yelled angrily, as his feet dragged into the ground, being pushed back by the force of the Grimm Creature's attack.

As Grimmjow slid down the hill, a loud sonic boom erupted in front of him, as the Humanoid Grimm appeared at Mach Speeds, it's arm reared back, a long bone-blade on it's forearm poised to impale the Arrancar.

Grimmjow stopped sliding, as the Grimm thrust it's arm forward. "Haha- Gotcha Bitch!" The Arrancar yelled, as Madara appeared at the Grimm Creature's side, in the middle of a spin. The Uchiha delivered a spinning hook kick to the side of the Grimm's face.

As the Grimm was sent tumbling, Madara raised two fingers to his lips and inhaled sharply, before he promptly exhaled a decent sized fireball at the creature. The Grimm Creature stabbed it's blades into the ground, halting it's movement, but in turn let the fire-ball collide with the creature, releasing a massive burst of fire.

The explosion created by the fireball sent the creature upwards. "Nope!" A cute voice said happily, as a curved pink handle of a Parasol attached itself to the back of the creature's neck. Nui yanked down, bringing the Grimm Creature into the ground, before she began to spin.

The Grimm creature was taken for a ride, as Nui twirled around happily, giggling to herself, as she whipped the humanoid Grimm in a wide circle. That was before she released him and sent him up into the air. The sound of a rattling chain soon followed, as a black and green serpent-headed chain was launched up after it.

The serpent-headed chain bit down on the Humanoid Grimm's arm, coiled around the creature several times, before it was ripped downwards and sent plummeting into the ground. The creature slammed into the ground, cracking the stone and kicking up dust.

Harry stood next to Nui, before he was flanked by Madara and Grimmjow. A distance away, the group of eight Huntsmen/Huntresses in training watched, a bit stunned at the display of ability.

The Sorcerer watched as the humanoid Grimm slowly stand back up. "Madara." Harry said, causing the Uchiha to nod and weave through hand-seals at an immense speed. The Sorcerer held his hand up and a swirling sphere of crackling electricity and wind began to form. The sphere extended, forming a spiraling javelin of crackling energy.

"Grimmjow, be at the ready, Nui support!" Harry instructed, before he and Madara shot forward and spread apart.

"Kreema'ahm la Ahmahm (Energy Volatile)!" Harry spoke, as he chucked the javelin of crackling lightning and wind at the creature.

The Grimm Creature released a growl, as the javelin was hurled at it. Just as the javelin touched the Grimm, the spell exploded, creating a distorting electrical sound. A Tornado of razor wind enveloped the Grimm, raising it into the air and causing it to spin, with arcing lightning clashing with it's armor.

"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu(Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)" Madara spoke, as he exhaled a large ball of fire, which collided with the tornado of razor wind and lightning.

The storm of wind was ignited by the intense flames Madara created, with arcing lightning crackling out, tearing up along the landscape surrounding it.

The Collaboration Jutsu/Spell ran it's course, with the Grimm Creature high in the air, with parts of it's body's natural armor giving off a faint glow of heat. Above the Grimm, Grimmjow appeared with his leg reared back. 'Oh Shit, gotta think of something bad-ass to say!' The Arrancar thought, before he grinned fully. "Coming At ya, Dumbass!" Grimmjow snapped, as he kicked down at the back of the Grimm Creature, creating a faint shock wave, as the creature was sent slamming down into the ground.

Harry appeared in front of the landed Grimm Creature, with his glowing Moonlight Sword ready to impale the creature and bisect it. However the Grimm Creature was standing on it's own two feet when Harry arrived, seemingly reacting to the Sorcerer's presence.

The Sorcerer slashed the Moonlight Sword at the Humanoid Grimm creature, but it used the bone-blades on it's forearms to redirect the attack, and with each missed slash of the sword, Harry accidentally projected a bright, shadowy-blue crescent light-wave projectile, which exploded meters away from the duo.

After a few slashes, Harry got a bit irritated and slashed more aggressively and used a bit too much force in his swing, and committed to much to the attack. The Grimm creature moved back, causing Harry to stumble forward. The Grimm Creature kicked the Sorcerer in the stomach, sending him sliding back.

As he slid back, Grimmjow jumped over Harry with his own Katana unsheathed. Grimmjow traded blades with the Grimm Creature, sparks flying between them as they moved at high-speeds, fighting constantly. The Arrancar spun with the blade pointed outwards, ready to decapitate the creature, but the Grimm ducked under it.

As it ducked under it, Harry lifted the Moonlight Sword over his head and slammed it down at the creature, and the hit landed. An explosion of bright blue shadow energy erupted from the hit, causing the Grimm to move back. It's shoulder was blazing in bright blue energy, releasing a crackling-hiss sound. Unlike the burns it received from Madara's flame Jutsu, which seemed to only temporary burn the creature, the cut from Harry's unique blade seemed to actually leave a mark.

Not letting up, Harry charged forward, but the Grimm slashed it's forearm blade towards the Sorcerer's stomach, causing him to quickly back peddle and duck forward to get his abdomen out of the line of fire. As he did that, he felt a hand push against his back. As Grimmjow used Harry's back as a spring board of sorts, and he slammed both of his feet into the face of the Humanoid Grimm Creature, sending him tumbling back.

As the Grimm was sent tumbling, Grimmjow and Harry appeared running after it, static following the Arrancar and a silver mist aura trail following the Sorcerer. Harry held out both of his hands, with condensing forms of spiraling wind and lightning javelins forming. Red spiritual energy began to crackle along Grimmjow's fists.

"Kreema'ahm la Ahmahm (Energy Volatile)!/Bala!" Both Harry and Grimmjow snapped, as Harry released several javelins, creating a chorus of distorting, electrical 'dubstep' sounds, with mini tornadoes and lightning storms. All of them hitting or grazing the Grimm Creature with lightning or razor wind. Grimmjow's attacks were more faster and allowed for more direct hits, but dealt less damage, as dozens of crimson fist-sized bolts of energy slammed into, or around the humanoid creature.

Grimmjow seemed to be having the time of his life right now, as he and Harry pushed the Grimm creature back. However, they ceased their assault when they saw a single girl standing in the location the Grimm Creature was going to land.

Nui held a cute smile on her face, as she closed up her Parasol and held it over her shoulder and took a Baseball Hitter's stance. "Batter up, cutie!" Nui chirped out cutely, as she swung her Parasol at the approaching creature, creating a loud crack, as the Grimm Creature was sent upwards.

Madara ran at an immense velocity, creating a warping dust trail in his wake, as he ran towards a long and tall tree. On a dime, he adjusted his own posture and was now running up the tree, vertically and continued. And as he reached the topped he propelled himself off the end, and aimed his trajectory towards the ascending Grimm Creature.

Madara passed the creature, but as he did he hooked his gloved hand underneath the Grimm's jaw and twisted around their momentum, so they both were now falling. The Uchiha forced the Grimm into a position, where it's back was firmly pressing against Madara's shoulders, one hand on the creature's jaw and the other on the crotch region. That was before Madara slammed into the ground, into a kneeling position, using the momentum of the fall to try and break the creature's back, using it's jaw and crotch region to create a good angle, and snap the Grimm's spin.

A loud crack was heard from the creature, as Madara stood up and tossed the creature off his shoulders and turned, kicking it in the chest and sending it tumbling back into the ground.

–

"Well...they certainly have teamwork down." Glynda commented, impressed as she watched on her scroll.

"Interesting...certainly interesting." Ozpin admitted, as he took a sip from his mug.

–

Harry took a few breaths, as Nui and Grimmjow were at his sides, Madara landing next to them. "This thing is tough." Harry commented.

"Fucking, I coulda told you that!" Grimmjow said sarcastically.

"It's armor is really durable. Our attacks aren't breaking it." Nui observed, her head tilting.

"You're right...Madara, what's the deal with it's armor?" Harry questioned.

Madara took a breath, as he focused on the Grimm Creature, which was slowly standing back up. His Sharingan gave off a glow, as the tomeo spun rapidly, his pupils expanding faintly, as he focused them directly on the armor. Channeling his chakra to fully enhance the eye's visual prowess.

"It's armor is thin, but how it's formed is something I've never seen in any man-made armor. The matter is to closely knit, the molecules are layered to close to another. We can't penetrate it. You're Weapon, Black-dono. It seems to be a bit affective in the weak areas. But those are far and few." Madara observed, using his Sharingan to see on a molecular level. It wasn't a far off ability, Sasuke held the ability see objects on the cellular level, which is how he survived and evaded Diedara's cellular dissolving bombs. Madara's eyes were obviously more 'evolved' and 'older' than Sasuke's, having had centuries to mature to their peak.

"The Molecules are to close together, hitting hit harder isn't going to work..." Harry commented, it was obviously a creation of the Keepers. "…So then we'll have to expand them." He informed.

"...Expand?" Nui questioned.

Harry gave Madara a smirk, before he gave Grimmjow a faint nod. "Heat. If we create enough heat, we can expand the molecules, spread them far enough, for my sword to penetrate it and kill it." He planned.

"So…" Grimmjow trialed off.

"Cero." Harry stated, getting an excited look from Grimmjow.

Harry slowly looked up at the sky, and saw the smoke from Madara's Fire Jutsus, and some of the electromagnetic discharges of his previous spells, were affecting the weather. The sky was filled with darkening clouds, with faint thunder in the distance.

"We need to bind the creature in place, and I know of an attack that can create enough concentrated heat to destroy this monster. Madara, Grimmjow; I'm going need your help to bind this thing. Nui...I give you permission to use magic in this fight." Harry instructed.

The human-sidhe hybrid gave him a devilish grin. "Don't worry Daddy, I got you!" Nui said cheerfully.

"Grimmjow, Madara. Go!" Harry instructed, as the two warriors split apart and began a flanking maneuver on the standing humanoid Grimm Creature. "Nui." He said seriously, causing the petite blonde girl nod and suddenly vanish.

The Grimm Creature followed both Grimmjow's and Madara's movements, only for an azure fireball to slam into the side of it's head. It turned and focused on Harry, only to see the Sorcerer was standing still with his arms out to his sides.

"I'm not sure a beast like you can understand the words I'm saying, but if you wanna fight someone! Fight me! Use that ultra attack of yours! Come on! You Grimm are attracted to and fight people with negative emotions! Fire at me then, I'm filled with contempt for you!" Harry said with a wide mocking smile, his eyes shut.

The Grimm Creature took a step forward and leaned it's head forward, as a crimson ball of energy formed in between it's long, pointed horns. Harry smirked and leveled his hand at the creature, as a smokey ash-like energy formed around his hand.

"Viraj Zamanı (Bend Time)!" He spoke, as an ashy projectile was launched from his hand and slammed into the Grimm creature almost instantly, enveloping it.

The Crimson energy gathering in the creature's horns slowed considerable, allowing Harry to see the gathering of Aetheral energy. 'It's tapping into the Keeper's powers? Hmm-hmhm' He thought, as he began to laugh to himself, and focused on maintaining the spell.

The Grimm Creature released a focused beam of energy from it's horn, the beam moving at a rather quick pace, despite being slowed down considerable. Harry slowly smiled, due to the spell, he can't really move from his position. But that was fine with him, he slowly raised his other hand out towards the approaching blast of energy.

Arcs of blood red energy crackled around Harry's hand, before it spread up to his arm and shoulders. 'The ability to rip energy and siphon it into your own…' He mused, as he dropped his Time Bending spell, letting the attack reach peak velocity. As he dropped that one spell, he slammed his other hand forward and cast a curse of his own. "Nihlus!" He spoke, as red lances of arcing energy lashed out at the Grimm Creature's attack, coiling around it, encroaching upon it.

The attack slammed into Harry's palm, and he was sent sliding back a few meters, but the crimson beam from the Grimm flickered out of existence, as Harry dissolved and absorbed the energy, melding it with his own.

"Thanks for the meal." Harry mocked, as he raised his free hand above his shoulder and gather whirling energy. A sphere of writhing fire and swirling molten lava formed, before taking the shape of a javelin. He channeled a lot of the energy he just collected from the Grimm Creature, using it's power to empower his current spell...it was kinda ironic, using it's own power to...well, bind it.

"Kreeaho'ahm nal Ahmhogaroc(Fall Banish)" He spoke, as he hurled the spear at the standing creature, with it slamming and exploding into the ground.

The ground underneath the Grimm Creature burst upwards, forming a stone prison around the creature, before a high-pitched shrill whirling came from the stone, before a massive vent of super-heated magma erupted right underneath the creature.

Appearing in front of and behind the trapped Grimm Creature, were two Harry duplicates, both of whom put their hands on the Grimm's back and chest, respectively. "Kor-Maroth (Eclipse-Shadow)" Both of them spoke, as an Eldritch Sigil was engraved upon the creature's back and chest, before they turned into two, small Black Holes, which created a bright purple light around the distortion.

"Ouroboros!" Both of the Harry Duplicates called out, both summoning an individual black and green ethereal chain. Both of the Serpent Heads bit down on each arm of the Humanoid Grim, before they coiled around them several times, before the other chains flared out.

Madara grabbed a hold of one of the Ouroboros Chain and looped it around his forearm several times, and used Chakra to remain firmly on the ground, as he stood a good distance away from the Grim. On the opposite side, Grimmjow dug his fingers into the chains, while also digging his feet into the ground beneath him. He ripped the chain back.

The humanoid Grimm Creature was bound in place, held by two micro-black holes, with it's arms held apart, by both Madara and Grimmjow. The two duplicates of Harry moved back and crouched down, as the began to gather Magic.

Lightning danced around one of the Harry's hands, before he spread his arms apart and seemed to form a spear of condensed lightning, as the sound of dozens of chirping birds radiated off the spear. The duplicate's face was illuminated by the bright blue spear of lightning, before he looked up at the sky and reared the weapon back. "Lanza de Relámpago (Lance of Lightning)" The duplicate spoke, as it was hurled up into the darkening clouds, creating a multitude of thunder claps, followed by arcing lightning.

"Madara, Grimmjow, now!" The Original Harry said, from a distance, as he gripped his Moonlight Sword in a steely grip.

Madara went through several hand-seals, before forming a half hand-seal with his free hand and brought it up to his mouth. "…Katon..." He started, while Grimmjow leveled his free hand at the Grimm Creature, before a crimson sphere of spiritual energy formed, creating a distinct zapping-whirling sound. "…Gōka Messhitsu (Great Fire Destruction)/Cero." The both spoke, before Madara released a massive stream, a condensed sea of immense flames, and Grimmjow released a beam of condensed spiritual energy, which collided.

The two attacks slammed in one another, melding and rising up in a turbulent force of immense heat and volatile energy. With the seemingly invulnerable creature inside it. The proverbial oven dissipated, revealing the creature was standing, it's armor was pure white as apposed to it's once pure blackness, it's armor having been burnt to such a degree, it gave of a blazing white color.

Nui appeared not to far from the creature, before she raised her hands and clapped them together above her head. "Un appel au-delà! (A Call Beyond!)" She said happily, as a cosmic pattern formed above her. A bright white star formed above her head, with gathering cosmic light. Before it exploded outwards into a half a dozen bright white balls of pure Arcane Energy, which homed in on the Bound Grimm, tearing through it's now mold-able armor, like paper; shattering it to pieces. Only further helped by the two exploding Eclipse-Shadow spells.

"Hah, Lanza de las tormentas (Lance of the Storms)!" The second Harry duplicate announced, as he appeared in front of the decimated Grimm Creature and shoved a condensed lance of lightning into the creatures chest, releasing a tremendous amount of kinetic energy, which sent the creature upwards, with the lance in it's chest. As it approached the sky, the clouds rumbled, with massive arcs of lightning shooting downwards towards the upwards-flying Grimm Creature.

"Viraj Zamanı(Bend Time)" Spoke the first Harry duplicate, releasing a cloud of ashy energy upwards towards the creature and the arcing lightning.

Everything around the Grimm creature slowed to a snail's pace, with the original Harry charging at one of his duplicates, his Moonlight Sword in his hand, poised for a stabbing. One of his duplicates turned around and dropped to a knee, as he put his hands together, just as Harry put his pressed his boot against the duplicate's interwoven hands. The duplicate thrust upwards, while Harry jumped, the combined effort, sending the Sorcerer into the air.

Harry passed the time-bent Grimm Creature and raised his Moonlight sword into the air, all the arcing lightning descending from the sky connected with the hilt of the sword. The blade began crackle with lightning, it's shadowy-blue light radiating a now brilliant blue. The Sorcerer was now poised above the creature, with the two duplicates on the ground vanishing into shadowy matter, causing the Bend Time Spell to dissipate.

The Humanoid Grimm resumed it's velocity upwards, and in turn was impaled through the chest by the Moonlight sword. The Creature released a howl of agony, as billions upon billions of watts of energy were channeled from the manipulated and natural lightning storm above, through the Moonlight Sword and through it's chest.

The immense Kinetic energy of the Consecutive Lightning Strikes, sent the duo slamming into the ground, with Harry summoning his shield to protect himself.

The ground rumbled, as the Grimm Creature laid motionless, arcing electricity bolts dancing around it's limbs, as it remained. Harry drew his blade from the creatures chest, sweat dripping from his face. He lifted his Moonlight Blade upwards, before he slashed it down, causing the 'Shell' around it to dissolve away into bright blue particles, which vanished, as Harry sheathed the normal long-sword blade.

Harry stood over the creature, as Nui, Grimmjow and Madara flanked him, looking down at it's corpse.

–

Ozpin blinked a few times, as he and Glynda watched the same feed. "...Where have these people been hiding?" He asked incredulously. People with such raw talent and fighting ability, don't just come out of no where.

Glynda's eyes remained fixated on Harry. 'Such power…he's like...he's just like...he's…' Glynda thought, as her pupils expanded and she sharply inhaled, as her mind was awash in memories that seemed to go back memories. "Harry Black..." She muttered, her eyes on the scroll. '…You've come back, Master.' She thought in reverence.

–

There was a silence in the Amphitheater of Beacon Academy, as dozens of Students stared at the same feed with wide eyes. Some of them shared glances, while others stared in an almost awe.

"What the...fuck..." An older student commented in astonishment.

Coco looked at the screen, her sunglasses having slid down the bridge of her nose, letting her chocolate colored eyes observe the screen. She looked at the tall, dark and mysterious man standing over the dead corpse of the Grimm Monster.

She sighed in relief, as she felt a fluttering in her stomach. She forced a confident face, as she pushed her sunglasses up. "It seems, I won." She commented.

"Tsk, I don't think anyone's gonna argue with that!" A student responded.

"Yeah, you got it." Another student added.

Coco looked around and watched as the gathered winnings were dealt to her. 'Geez, almost ten-thousand Lien. Heh…' She thought, as she looked at the visage of Harry on the feed. '...I am soooo gonna rock your world, guy.' She mused, as she licked her lips.

–

"Whoa..." Ruby sounded, as she, her sister and their friends, watched as Harry, Grimmjow, Madara and Nui stand over the Grimm corpse.

Yang sported a grin. "I didn't think he had it in him." She commented, crossing her arms.

"So strong..." Weiss muttered, as she felt a tingling in the back of her head. '...I must have him!' She thought in a very domineering way. The very idea, having such a man eating out of her hands, kneeling at her, being entirely submissive to her knees, sent shivers down her spine.

Pyrrha looked at Harry, the looming fear she felt yesterday returning. The instinctual warning that he was going to reduce her into...his toy, became a more real fear. And…her neither regions reacted in a way that wasn't fearful. Which was really confusing to the red-head.

"Those guys are pretty strong." Jaune commented, not really jealous, but he had a bit of admiration in his eyes.

Harry stood over the humanoid Grimm. He held his hand out and a green light formed, before it took the shape and form of his long black-emerald lined cloak. He swung it over and rested it on his shoulder.

"So, what do you want? Light meat, or dark?" Harry asked.

"Do you have to ask?" Grimmjow responded, before the Grim creature twitched from the electricity coursing through it's body.

Quickly Grimmjow unleashed several Bala on it, with Nui conjuring several bright white silver Arcane Spheres, Madara exhaled a small fireball, while Harry cast his Winter's Howl spell on the creature.

The attacks dissipated, revealing a now fully dissolved Grimm. "Heh, well, that was weird." Nui commented cutely.

"Well, it's fucking dead now." Grimmjow commented.

"Yep." Harry agreed.

In sync, the four moved, Harry threw his cloak around his shoulders and clipped it, Grimmjow slid his hands into his pockets, Madara crossed his arms and Nui opened and rested her parasol over her shoulder, as the quartet turned in unison, to the other eight.

–

The sound of clapping and cheering filled the Auditorium, as Ozpin stood in front of several groups of individuals.

Ozpin looked at his scroll. "Russel Thrush, Cardin Winchester, Dove Bronzewing, Sky Lark. The four of you retrieved the black Bishop Pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team CRDL, lead by...Cardin Winchester." Ozpin informed.

"Sam...Dean..." Nui said to herself, in a forced gruff voice. "Family, you boys is Idjits." She continued, only for Harry to jab her in the side.

Another set of four individuals stood forward. "Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie. The four of your retrieved the White Queen and King Pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR." He informed, causing Nora to laugh and hug Ren, with some clapping in the Auditorium to reverberate. "...Led by...Jaune Arc!" He informed, getting a stunned look from the blond.

"Huh...w-what?" Jaune asked in surprise.

"Congratulations, young man." Ozpin spoke sincerely.

"Blake Belladonna, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Yang Xiao Long." Ozpin said, looking at the next set of individuals, getting a large amount of applause and cheers from the other students. "The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY. Led by, Ruby Rose!" Ozpin informed.

Weiss as surprised, Ruby was in shock, and Yang was crushing her sister in a bone crushing hug. "I'm so proud of you!" Yang said happily.

Harry's eyes focused on Yang, watching her hug her little sister and a smile formed on his face. "And Finally: Madara Uchiha, Harry Black, Nui Harime, and ah...ah, Grimmjow...Jae...Jaegerjaquez." Ozpin said, being caught off guard by Grimmjow's last name. "You four retrieved the White Rook pieces. From this day forward, you'll work together as Team HHUG, led by Harry Black!" Ozpin announced, causing a wondrous chorus of cheers and applause to the formation of the team.

"Wait...Team what?" Grimmjow asked, caught off guard.

Madara squinted his eyes and furrowed his brows, with his arms crossed. '...Team...HHUG?' He asked himself in bewilderment.

"Yay!" Nui cheered, as she turned and wrapped her arms around her Father, pressing her body against his. "I knew you'd be the leader, Daddy! And of our awesome team! Team Hugs!" She announced happily, as Harry had a dry expression on his face, as he was tilted to the side, curtest of Nui.

"Hehe..." Yang laughed lightly to herself, watching the predicament her friend was in. Weiss was face palming at the fact her team was lead by Ruby, while Blake seemed to retain her suspicious look towards Nui and Harry. "...This is going to be the best school time, ever...of all time!" Yang declared.

Ozpin looked around the cheering students and the celebrating newcomers. "...It seems things are going to be fairly interesting." He commented.

–

Within a warehouse in Vale, a tall, orange haired man with a snazzy bowler hat and suit. He leaned over a table, on the phone with a certain flaming individual.

Roman closed his eyes, hearing the instructions he was receiving over the phone. After a moment, the call was ended and he closed the phone, before taking a drag on his cigar. 'What am I going to do, these people are crazy.' Roman thought in resentment, having to work with people who are threatening him and his allies.

The sound of squeaking wheels caused Roman to turn around, only to see a man in a grey mask and hood, to push in a trolley.

Roman casually put some Lien on the table, which the hooded man took, before vanishing. The orange haired man opened the crate, and looked at the dozens of different Dust Gems.

Roman sighed, as he puffed out his cigar. "...We're going to need more men..." He admitted, before he heard the sound of bubbling liquid.

The Criminal slowly turned and melting out of the shadow nearest to Roman, a pair of bright blue eyes formed and a humanoid shadow walked forward. "What are you supposed to be, her Grimm Watch Dog?" Roman asked sarcastically.

"I do not know whom you are referring to, Mister Roman Torchwick. I am Demongo!" The shadow creature informed, his watery high-pitched voice, grating against Roman's ears. "I have been sent here by my Mast-aa, to assist you in your...endeavors!" He informed, extending his hand and clenching his fist.

Roman gave the shadow-creature a once over. "Your Master, does he work for Cinder or something?" He questioned.

"I don't know who that is, my Mast-aadoes not work for others. He however, wishes to help you in your plight! And I, am here to give you that assistance! My Mast-aa, only wishes that you listen to what he has to say!" Demongo informed.

Roman took a long drag on his cigar, as his eyes remained on the shadow. After a moment he took the cigar out of his mouth and flicked it a few times, knocking some ash off. "Tell you what, If you don't work for Cinder and her little squad of misfits; and you aren't a Huntsmen, obviously. I'll give you a bit of leeway; I'll consider talking to your Mast-aaaah, or whatever you call him. I may listen to his offer." He stated.

A wide grin formed on Demongo's face. "Ahhhh, that's all he wants. And in turn, I'll help you, as if you were the Mast-aa himself." He informed.

Roman slowly nodded, as he looked at the pinned up map next to him. "Interesting...very, interesting." He said to himself.

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