I walked into the office and saw Ozpin sitting at his desk watching a video. From the sounds coming from the speaker it was pretty gruesome. His glasses sat low on his face and his hair was longer than I remembered. What happened to him?

"You wanted to see me?" I ask sitting down in front him tapping my fingers. He was zoned out looking at the screen, something really bad happened. "Professor Ozpin?"

"Yes, oh I didn't know you came in. What way do you take your coffee?" He stood up and moved to the pot over in the corner.

"One sugar is fine, is something wrong?" he handed me the cup and sat back down turning the screen to face me. He'd paused it at a certain point where one Grimm was tearing through an Ursa in a single swipe. "What is that thing?" Then I noticed jacket hanging around its shoulders "oh."

"That is you Brendan; can you explain what happened today? Because I flipped over to your camera and saw this thing!" He slammed his hands down on the desk and had a crazy look in his eye. "And now you welcome part of it being released, that claw alone has enough to take down some of the best fighters this world has to offer. Your father once tried the same thing and he was in the hospital for 6 months, are you sure you can handle this?"

"You have nothing to worry about Professor; after all I'm not my father. This thing has no hold on me whatsoever now. If anything you should consider me an asset in the event of an attack. With all this new power nobody could stop me except for you. My senses have been heightened, my aura is ten times stronger, my physical ability has sky rocketed." I flex my arm and see a little bit of red light flood out from the inside. The claws will take a while to get used to but I'll get the hang of it.

"Alright, know that I'm keeping a close eye on you, you may leave now." He opened the door and closed it immediately after I was out. I walked to my room and started to clean up a little. I got all the clothes out of my bathroom and made my bed. That was actually it; since my mom visited I'd been pretty good at keeping it clean. I heard a knock on the door to open it up and see Ruby standing there.

"What's up Ruby?" I ask letting her in the dorm.

"Brendan, do you think Garnet's been acting a bit distant since he lost it in class?"

"Wouldn't you? It's not exactly easy to keep your sanity in check when something like that happens." I say sitting down at my desk.

"Well the thing is he heard me and Jaune talking out on the balcony the other day. He remembered the accident with the crystal."

"WHAT!? Ruby you can't just go around talking about that to anybody! No wonder he's acting like that! He's probably gone suicidal with all the memories! I gotta go find him and see if I can help." I got up and started to open the door when I felt something hit my side and I was sprawled out on the floor. Ruby was standing there with her fist in mid-air and rose petals surrounding her.

"I can't let you leave Brendan. Ozpin's orders, if you get out of here then we both get into some serious trouble. You should call Aunt Ruby and tell her what happened with your arm. We're gonna be stuck here overnight." I picked up the phone that sat by my bed and dialed the number.

"Hello? This is the Grimm residents."

"Mom? It's Brendan, I have something to tell you and it might take a while." I spent the next hour or so trying to explain all that'd happened recently and every time I brought up the fact the both Garnet and I had lost it she would start to cry. She never wanted me to get along with the Grimm inside me; she wanted me to destroy it forever. She said that it might have solved the problem for the rest of the family for future generations.

When we finally stopped talking Ruby was lying down on my bed and sleeping, the only problem was that Crescent Rose was blocking the door. Might as well get some sleep. I put on my Pj's and pulled out the backup bed from under my own and put my self down for a deep sleep.

The next morning

I woke up and my arm gave me a shot of adrenaline to help with the process. They say that adrenaline can hurt your heart but I felt like mine was built for taking in a ton at once. I went through the usual routine in the morning and when I was all done I woke up Ruby and sat down at my desk. There was a typewriter I got from my grandpa on it and I started to type a daily log to make sure I was staying as sane as possible for me while I could.

Ruby got up and started to fix her "battle skirt" then walked over when she saw what I was doing. I could see her eyes follow the letters I typed out and her eye brows rise.

Day 1

So far the Grimm hasn't tried to resurface from the cage I put it in. The arm is a useful tool; it has made me stronger in every way possible. Maybe I can pull off some more extravagant pranks with this thing now but I don't see a mastery degree coming my way in using this thing anytime soon. The claws take a second to make appear and the armor takes an enormous amount of concentration.

Perhaps in time I can let the Grimm out and try and master it all together but for now I'll stick with what I have. This will end Day 1.

"Are you sure you want to try that Brendan? You already seem changed with that thing. But the whole Grimm itself? Have you told Zora about this idea yet?" I heard a knock at the door and when I opened it up Zora was standing. Speak of the devil.

"What's up Zora? Is anything wrong?" Her eyes were narrow and her arms were crossed with her hip popped out to the side. It doesn't take aura to know that she's angry.

"What happened to you yesterday? You said you'd be right back, we waited on you forever."

"Ya sorry about that, Ozpin put me under house arrest with warden Ruby on the job, I couldn't have left if a Nevermore tore my wall open. Am I free to go now?"

"He said to keep you in your room until the morning. You're good to go in my book. Let's all go get something to eat! I'm starved!" Ruby walked out of the room but Zora stepped in and closed the door behind her. She pulled me into a huge hug and wouldn't let go.

"What's wrong Zora? Hey, it's okay you don't need to be that worried."

"But I do! I thought you went to the forest and you turned into a Grimm again. You need to promise that having your arm like this doesn't put you at many more risk than you were before."

"It doesn't if anything it helps calm it down, letting a little out helps it to be satisfied without the Grimm being to take complete control."

"That is not a little Brendan! It's your entire right arm! Not just your forearm where the mark was. Keep in mind I just learned how to keep from changing so this whole concept is a bit lost on me." I gave her another hug and then we went downstairs to get some breakfast then headed to classes as if the conversation. The monster hunting class teacher Mr. Peter saw my arm and nearly shot me with his blunderbuss/battle axe thing! I saw Garnet at the front of class looking like he was dead. His eyes were emotionless and his body hunched forward as he listened to some music. I activated my aura and saw these massive waves of grief were rolling right off of him, I saw a big wave hit the kid next to me and he got depressed too!

I know what happened to him was bad but, he's just doesn't know the half of it sometimes. He always did know how to feel sorry for himself at just about any given time. Even though he and Ruby were twins they are complete opposites. Nothing can touch Ruby where as Garnet gets beat up daily; she's a half-full and he's a half-empty. I should hang out with Zora more, if she's that worried then I should stick around her to make sure she doesn't have to.

That afternoon after classes

Everyone was hanging out on the balcony listening to some music Yang was playing on her ihome. I recognized it, it was one of my favorite songs; 50 ways to say goodbye by Train! Zora was sitting on the bench while everyone else was having a good time dancing and messing around. So being the amazing brother I am, I pulled out my most embarrassing dance moves, then grabbed her from the bench and pulled her in with everyone. People say I'M bad at dancing. You should've seen her! I wish I'd had a camera!

"Check this out!" Jaune said then started to moon walk and pull out some Jagger/Jackson moves on us all. We probably watched him dance to Yang's assorted songs for an hour before he was tired. I heard a ton of OneRepublic when I got back out there and I actually started to dance getting into an all out dance off with Jaune!

He tucked himself into a ball and was spinning faster than my eyes could follow then popped up into a front flip. So I pulled a Jackson classic and leaned forward facing the ground with my face just inches away from it then rolled and came up on one knee with my arms waiting to catch someone when Zora jumped into them and we started doing some weird tango thing with Winlen in my mouth instead of a rose.

Jaune started to do some weird 60's two step thing and it was getting intense when an alarm went off down in the courtyard and red lights started to flash. Unloading from the sky dock were about 60 guys in white fang uniforms. Each of them had about ten vials of dust tied around their waste waiting to be thrown in some random persons face. Which I could respect if it weren't for the fact that they tried to shoot me off of the balcony!

"Oh hell no, ain't nobody gonna get the jump on a Grimm, right sis?" I crouched on the railing and looked over at her.

"Not a chance." We both jumped off and landed on the ground quiet enough not to disturb the soldier right in front of us, his back was turned until I whistled and punched his lights out. "We need to tie them up or when they come to they'll just keeping attacking us."

"On it" I pulled some cable from my pocket and tied his hands behind him. Zora suggested splitting up when the others got their. It was Zora, Jaune, Pyrrha, Nora, Ren, Yang, Ruby, and I against around 60 guards with high caliber weapons. Well, I feel bad for those guys! I just knocked a guy out when a couple of his friends turned around and started to shoot at me. Why aren't there more students out here helping? The answer to that was simple really; the rooms had closed up with 9 inch iron draw down doors when the alarms went off making it impossible for them to get out. I dodged anything they shot at me, either they just got those guns or this entire group is brand new.

I took them all out in about a minute, the new arm really helped when guy pulled a sword and nearly got me, it bounced right off of the skin like it was made of medal. I tried to pull out Eld but out of nowhere it started to get absorbed into my arm. I tried to pull it out somehow but I all I managed was learning how to shoot fireballs from it.

"Holy what the frick? Hey you! Get back here coward!" I chased one guy over into a group of about 20 where Ruby and Zora were having a little trouble holding them off. I jumped in with them and used Winlen to bash all of the guys I could over the head making them a little brain dead until I had the chance to kick them into a wall. To be honest it was all going by so quickly that I don't remember much. Eventually we a regrouped only to find that the planes had already left the dock and were too far gone to catch up with. The alarms stopped and a ton of 3rd and 4th years burst out of their rooms while the 1st and 2nd years just stayed in there.

The next morning

My alarm went off and this morning I was feeling a little tired, I got up and cleaned my self up a bit then left the room. When I stepped out into the hall I was swarmed by kids asking what had happened the night before and how I didn't die from those "awesome" guns. I just told them they weren't so awesome from the other end of one and walked on. I got downstairs and grabbed a muffing from the cafeteria before going outside for a bit of a jog. Right as I was turning on my ipod an announcement rang out over the whole school.

"Zora and Brendan Grimm please report to Professor Ozpin's office immediately. I repeat, Zora and Brendan Grimm please report to Professor Ozpin's office immediately." I started to head up when I turned around and knocked over a girl. I'm always so smooth with the ladies. I said I was sorry then darted up the stairs knowing that soon enough he would be looking for me. Sitting in the waiting room Zora was talking to some guy. Who's this? He was wearing a blue and white jacket with some jeans, a loose white t-shirt, and something was attached to his belt.

"Hey Zora, might I ask who this is?" I sat down and slipped a protective arm around her "name's Brendan."

"Oh grow up will you? Brendan this is Cerin, he just transferred here." He waved at me and they went back to talking about whatever for a few minutes before we were called into Ozpin's office. He had his usual green outfit in a very neat order and his glasses had just been cleaned. Zora sat down in the one chair and I stood behind her wondering what this was about. As usual his expression was almost mocking, he knew he was better than you and wasn't afraid to admit it either. Although no one has seen him fight in a few years I heard a rumor that he can take on three Ursa Major's without even running out of breath.

"It's nice to see you again Brendan; how have you been?" He asked sitting down pouring ANOTHER cup of coffee. I swear that stuff powers his very soul.

"A lot better than you might think. Care to tell us what this is about?" He nodded and then looked Zora in the eye. I activated my aura and he was trying to read her for any sign of depression, than I sensed Ms. Goodwitch walking up to the door. "We have company." Just after I said someone knocked on the door and she walked in.

"The president would like a word when you have the time Professor; he needs some experienced students to guard him on the way to the Vytal festival."

"Thank you Glynda you may go now." She closed the door and was back in her seat before I turned off my aura. "So Zora, have you had any…problems with your condition lately?"

"No I haven't, why do you ask?" she said starting to rub the mark on her arm. What happened Zora? Why didn't you tell me? "I've been better than I have in years."

"Just tell him Zora, I can see you rubbing your arm." I say walking over to the corner bracing myself against the walls. My arm pulsed red when I flexed it before I crossed my arms and leaned back. "What happened?"

"Okay fine; I was talking to mom on the phone when she started to talk about you as a kid and I got a little angry and jealous. I went to walk it off and I saw how everyone had somewhere they belonged, I don't have that. After I get done here I'm all alone, no more foster homes. My mark started to spread and I ran into forever fall and hoped I could keep it controlled but I woke up this morning surrounded by Grimm bodies and blood covering me. I washed in a creek then ran back and changed before anyone noticed."

By the time she was done explaining things I was about to tear down an entire wall after demolishing three houses. How could she not come and tell me? Am I really that bad a brother?

"Zora, you do belong somewhere, besides we still have most of this year to blow through and then it's on to year 2 where we're still having plenty of time to figure things out. Next time this happens you tell me or this arm will spread a little more just to freak you out." I moved over to her and put a hand on her shoulder.

"I need to be informed as well; this is a major risk to lives of many people. Remember you started at this school to protect, not harm." With that he shooed us out of his office and we went on to our classes. First up for me was History. Well, at least they can't fail me in a class like this. The whole school is a peace of history.

What's up wild people? Thanks for check in on the new chapter and I wanted to thank Ventusblade for all the help he's been giving me on the new story. Go check out his story on my profile. I have a pole running for who I should develop the most besides Brendan in this story. I know that it's getting a little old with Ozpin, but expect a lot of great things coming soon! Just had to push through the boring stuff first. See ya!