Chapter 3: The Deathwidow

Lavern and Vince had arrived to where the noise had come from earlier, in front of them stood a Deathwidow, a spider like grim that instead of eight legs and eight eyes had sixteen legs and sixteen eyes, it would also be where most Grimite would find the easiest place to grow, for of coarse the dens of most grim would be dirty and disgusting places, while the caves they were different, they would be cleaned of all gore or even dust by the spider grim inside them, this would finally lead to the hatching site of most dream striders, this place would be covered in disgusting format for the area was the safest the grim had found to hatch. Grimite would need a place of disgusting nature to grow, for the dust, bones, and even other rocks would all be absorbed into the ground to form the Grimite.

Lavern and Vince had grabbed their weapons when they saw the shadows of two reach for them from the shadow's, they both lunged forward with the business end of their weapons before having them grabbed and tossed to the floor by none other than Alvaro and Rosalva. "Are you trying to kill us?" Rosalva looked at Vince in disgust as he picked up his weapon. "For a matter of fact, I was acting on instinct." Vince calmly replied. "Well your instinct could have stabbed one of us! And one of us is already stabbed!" Rosalva glared at Alvaro who just tied the cloth around his leg tighter. "You really think I would have noticed a grim that is said to be extinct behind me?" Alvaro yelled as Lavern focused more on the Deathwidow. "You guys having a good fight?" Lavern said sarcastically. "Having a nice conversation of nothing useful?" Lavern said without missing a beat, her voice showed she was clearly annoyed and angry. "If you all could be nice enough to shut up for a few minutes while we kill this thing that would be nice." Lavern picked up her swords and went to dive at the Deathwidow before being pushed back by a sound wave that sounded like a guitar. "God damn that sound!" They covered their ears as they saw a man dressed in blood red walk out.

"Oh is this where the schools send their students now a days?" The guy laughed as he played his guitar causing it to shoot out bullets of ice and fire hitting the Deathwidow. "You know, these caves are pretty dangerous." The man smacked the Deathwidow with his guitar and laughed as it sliced his leg causing Alvaro to question him. "Why didn't you use your aura?" The man smiled as his blood hardened into dust and he stabbed it into the Deathwidow's body causing it to ignite into flames. "Because I was using my semblance kid." He walked over to them and light a cigarette. "So tell me you four, what you doing in these caves, don't you know it's not a good preschool play area." They glared at the man before Lavern spoke up. "We are students of Beacon academy, we are here to get Grimite." The man smiled and pulled some out a bag. "This stuff? Here take these, don't need the cash, I would much rather help the outcast students gain money." The man smiled as smoke came from between his teeth while they looked offended at his comment. "You know if you were really smart, you would just get a job, not join a blind leader like Ozpin!" The man laughed as Alvaro held his weapon tightly. "What do you have against Beacon and Ozpin?" He asked angrily before the man took up some more of his blood forming more dust and laughed as he threw it to the ground forming a cloud of dust. "You will find out sooner or later, you should just trust me." When the dust cleared the man was gone and so was the bag of Grimite except a single piece of it.

Lavern, Alvaro, Vince, and Rosalva stood on a stage as Ozpin walked out and looked at them. "You are one of 5 teams that successfully returned with their pieces. This makes you the fifth new addition to this school, Welcome, Team LAVENDER (LAVR)" Lavern smiled at Alvaro as Vince and Rosalva just glared at each other. "Please go to room 34B." Glynda said as she gave Team LAVR schedules. "Classes begin in less than 24 hours." Glynda smiled as she also gave the new team their uniforms. "Uniforms are to be worn and unedited for all classes." Team LAVR took both as they walked off stage and looked for their dorm room as behind them followed a tall man with grayish blonde hair, greenish purple clothes, and a cane sword. "You are heading the wrong way, rooms D-F are this way, Rooms A-C are on the next floor he pointed out as Lavern turned to face him. "You look oddly, familiar." She pointed out as Alvaro spoke up. "That would be Ozpin's son, He watches over the students when Ozpin or Glynda can't." Rosalva and Vince looked at him. "Is he also allowed to read our files?" Ozpin's son laughed. "I read much more than your files, while my Father may trust everyone for a 2nd chance, I do believe in knowing about what students are allowed in." All looked at him with fear. "So you know…" He laughed. "I know that Lavern is a freelancer who finally joined us after her grandfather suggested that she stop being a worthless crook, Alvaro is a Student under Lavern's grandfather, He joined him after he was found at the age of 5 abandoned by unknown parents in the forest of grimm." Ozpin's son took a breath before moving on to Rosalva and Vince. "And you two, we have no files on besides one, one arrest at a peaceful faunus moment that turned extremely violent causing 4 human deaths and 10 faunus deaths, 3 of which were a combo of your parents. Seems Vince is the only one with a father, who is now on a top 10 list of wanted White Fang." Team LAVR glared at him. "And you know all of this, yet let us stay?" Vince asked as Ozpin's son turned around to leave. "Only my mother and I know of this, Ozpin has no interest in it, I would just cause no trouble and we will have no problems." Team LAVR watched him walk away as they went to where he suggested to find their rooms.

Ozpin had finished building and naming all the teams as Glynda entered his office. "Are we sure it was correct to send pairs of 4 too many different places, all with different objectives? Weren't we supposed to let the stones fall where they may and not play god with the team creations?" Glynda questioned as Ozpin sipped his coffee. "We must sometimes make choices that we believe are best for all, no matter how incorrect they seem." Ozpin said not even turning to face her.