Chapter 7

Big Brawl in the forest

Still running from the howling and snarling Beowolf pack, Naruto aimed behind him and fired every so often to keep the Beowolf from lunging at him he turned and lashed out with his chakra chains shooting out and giving the bitch slap equivalent of a hit to one of the lunging Beowolf he heard the sickening crack of a neck being broken as he continued running.

When one of them got close to him it backhanded him to the right with Naruto adjusting his landing he held two revolvers, Lions Rage in his right hand and his very own in his left, the Trickster.

Unlike his many other forged weapons this one had a random element selecting function which allowed each shot to be a different element.

A masterpiece the many smiths of academies wished to create themselves if it were possible.

Pulling back the hammer of both revolvers the Grimm were held back by the barrage of bullets Naruto stopped abruptly as Lions Rage ran out of ammo along with the Trickster, looking to his guns and to the recovering Beowolf the Alpha snarled as it got up, showing its left eye socket smoking from a fire round.

"Uh, BYE!" Naruto yelled as he ran once more, sealing Trickster to reload Lions rage he ducked on instinct to avoid the second backhand the alpha attempted to strike him with, jumping Naruto turned mid-air with both his feet kicking the Alpha's face to act as a spring board, catapulting Naruto further ahead he looked down to see he sent himself off of a cliff to more foliage below, throwing his arms wildly Naruto summoned a chakra chain to shoot to the cliff side he swung to the ground safely with a roll, looking up he saw the Alpha snarling before it howled and dropped down, making Naruto groan he ran onward with the Alpha gaining on him he saw Jason wave a hand the Blonde saw the plan that took the form of a readied machete.

Running towards Jason's hiding spot he ducked into a slide with the Alpha halfway to biting his head off if not for the machete skewering it through the throat.

Shoving the Grimm away Jason and Naruto saw it clawing its own throat in a futile attempt to save itself before it finally stopped moving with Smoke instantly rising off of its deteriorating corpse, standing beside each other Naruto held a fist to Jason who looked down t it before he bumped his own fist with it he spoke.

"Well, guess we're partners for the next four years of Beacon" Jason said as Naruto nodded before bringing out his weapon to reload them, the two looked up to see a stone tower just over the ridge of a hill.

"Huh, do not know how I missed that while running?" Naruto said to himself the two failed to see the shadow of something stalking them, human in shape but horrific in Grimm state.

Followed by its two red eyes suddenly joined by six more as arachnid legs grew from it's spine, moving into the sun light the Grimm showed a heavily distorted face of a once whole Spider Faunus with its bottom jaw crudely split in two with black saliva flowing down to the greenery.

"Huuuuunnnnnggggeeeerrrr"


Walking through the foliage in expert silence, Vlad looked to the scenery in calmness as he walked by a set of small red eyes in a tree, his weapon slung on his shoulders he stopped with his left eye twitching towards a small squeak in the air he frowned at recognising the sounds of one of the rare neutral Grimm Remnant had, looking up he saw a Bat Grimm hanging upside down on one of the really shaded trees he inhaled calmly before hearing the sound of a heartbeat.

Hearing the steady heart rate growing louder he turned to see a large shadow in the trees moving towards his position, unslinging his weapon which was an assault rifle with its barrel designed like a tightened spring with a pop up scope.

Watching the unknown leap into the air and into the sunlight lad kept looking up as the being stood up with a growl of approval as the slightly unrecognisable face of Lucien joined the visage with his clothes stretched from his grown muscles the wolf Faunus showed himself to have changed slightly with parts of his body having the characteristics of a wolf with black fur joining his darkened skin his eyes glowed yellow he spoke.

"Told you I'd find you" Lucien said with an accent in his voice.

"Yeah you said that, Lucien, but from what I can hear you got the attention of a nearby pack of Beowolf, if we move now they'll miss us" Vlad said as he began to walk away, with the lycanthropic Lucien letting out a whimper he followed his fellow Faunus towards the stone tower in the distance.


Ducking under the many foliage Jason had followed Naruto through the forest with the inkling of paranoia of being followed, a feeling Naruto had as well once they heard the eerie clicking of mandibles they pushed onward each time with renews speed to get to a clearing.

Which is what they walked out to with Jason shivering at the thought of whatever had made those noises he looked forward to the tower to see two girls trying to open the door, walking after Naruto he raised a hand in greeting towards Summer and Raven.

"Summer, Raven, good to see you both here" Jason said with the two girls turning to the duo, with raven looking away from Naruto who gave out a small chuckle.

"Hey Dominic, Jason, do any of you know how to open the doors?" Summer questioned with Jason giving Naruto a look as he walked to the doors, running a hand on the right door he frowned as he felt weight on the other side.

"Either the Headmaster is testing us or some asshat decided to block the doors from inside, and the fact the windows are large enough for someone to squeeze through says my theory is logical" Naruto said as he channelled Kurama's chakra into his right leg he lifted said leg up and kicked forward, shattering the doors into splinters it showed a chiselled boulder in front of the doors.

"Once I find whoever did that I'm going to break their arms!" Raven growled as she walked by Naruto who stepped aside.

"You and me both" Naruto said as they stepped inside to see many of the pedestals broken along with the relics, only a few remained and many missing, looking to Raven who looked at the chess piece relics.

Picking one up with a tilt of her head Naruto spoke.

"I take it you've noticed it too, the relics taken are also missing the second set" Naruto said as Summer walked in with curiosity as Jason stood at the doorway.

"Indeed" Raven said as she held the relic to Summer who took it thankfully, it was this moment two others arrived.

Looking Naruto and Jason recognised Qrow but his partner was an enigma.

Standing beside Qrow with a look of annoyance he had blonde hair with two strands sticking up on top with a pair of blue eyes that matched Naruto's and he wore brown cargo pants with a dark brown belt, black shoes, an orange bandana on his left arm, and a brown leather vest over a tan dress shirt with the right sleeve cut off. For armor, he wears a metal spaulder, leather vambrace, and a brown fingerless glove, all on his right arm.

"Uh, Qrow… what did you do to the poor guy?" Naruto questioned the male Branwen who had the face of a goldfish that made Raven giggle, making her clear her throat in embarrassment while the poor sod sighed, his left eye puffed out slightly.

"He didn't do anything, I literally ran for my life when a pack of Beowolf chased me towards him, than they leave us alone and went after something else that got the Alpha's attention- why is he looking at me like that?" the kid said as he noticed Naruto's right eye twitching in fury at him, it was this moment Jason spoke.

"When we grouped up he was being chased by the pack of beowolf, and judging by when you reloaded you took them pack out?"

"Oh yeah, than the Alpha started to chase after me, heck it jumped off a cliff after me!" Naruto yelled in exaggeration with the blonde sweat dropping.

"Anyway, I'm Taiyang Xiao Long" the second blonde introduced himself with Naruto grabbing his hand and shake it.

"Uzumaki Naruto but I go by Dominic Grave for my adopted family" Naruto said with Qrow and Raven looking at him.

"Your real names Naruto?" Raven questioned with Summer "hmm"ing in thought before she shrugged.

"I'll stick to calling you Dom, more quicker than Naruto" Summer said with Naruto shrugging in reply before they heard a explosion from outside, making Qrow and Taiyang move to protective positions Naruto suddenly held an M240 machine gun with a bullet chain reaching to the added backpack that came with it.

"What?" Qrow questioned with wide eyes as Naruto smirked as he got ready for a fight, pulling the guns ammo lever back he took aim before he heard another explosion outside, followed by coughing.

"DAMN IT LUCIEN!" hearing the voice of someone outside the castle Naruto walked out to see two Faunus.

Seeing the two faunus from the Airship Naruto and Jason had instant recognition along with Summer waving to Lucien before she took notice to his current state of being as he reverted back, the two not even acknowledging their presence.

"WELL SORRY FOR THINKING THOSE OLD GRENADES WERE INACTIVE!" Lucien yelled back as he reverted back to normal, an Axe strapped to his back.

"THAN WHAT WOULD POSSESS YOU TO SEE IF THEY WERE ACTIVE!?" Vlad yelled as he held an old rusted grenade to his fellow Faunus' face.

"WE WERE SURROUNDED BY GRIMM!"

"LOUD NOISES!" Naruto yelled with everyone turning to him as he had a calm smile.

"Now that we have your attention, what the hell happened?" Naruto questioned with the two Faunus sharing a look before Vlad spoke.

"We found old rusted Grenades and thought we'd bring them for souvenirs… along with the cache of old loot smugglers probably brought in without the school knowing, and then we ran into a pack of Beowolf on our way out of the loot place, and then SOMEONE decided to see if the grenades worked by lifting up a boulder and placing it on top of the fricking pile of grenades and use them as a catapult" Vlad said as he stared at his fellow Faunus with slight irritation, making Lucien rub the back of his neck awkwardly.

"Yeah not my proudest moments" Lucien said before they perked up at the sound of a horrific shriek from the forest, making the others facing the two Faunus look and pale at what stood behind them.

With a human like body and darkened skin, the Grimm like beast had what could have been messy black hair with two red eyes staring at the future Huntsmen and Huntresses, Summer froze at seeing the poor souls split jaw as it stood on its two feet, black saliva leaked from its mouth with six more eyes suddenly opening with six arachnid like legs sprouting from its back as it slouched forward, letting out a clicking sound with Naruto aiming his LMG with a look of determination while the mutated creature looked directly at him.

Letting out a hiss.

"Feeeeaaassssst, I… must… FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSST!?" the Grimm roared as it charged at the group of students, with Naruto instantly firing his LMG with the creature roaring in anguish as its reared its head back, letting out a shriek of a roar it jerked its head at Naruto who ducked in time to avoid the web ball aimed for him, with Summer moving but Raven not so lucky due to her right ankle being caught, making her scowl she looked to the beast to see it shoot a string of web at her if not for Jason tackling her out of the web trap, flipping onto his feet with his mask glowing with his eyes Jason stood up with his neck popping, walking forward he ducked to the right to dodge a web ball shot at him he unsheathed his machete to flip it in the air he threw it at the Grimm like creature.

Nailing its right human shoulder it roared as Qrow fired his weapons shotgun mode as he ran around it with Taiyang following suit, Summer rushed forward to attack its human legs she looked up to see one of the spider legs about to impale her if not for Naruto's chakra chains forcing it to miss, looking at the scene before them, Lucien and Vlad looked to one another with Lucien grabbing his axe and run towards the creature with Vlad pulling out his sniper.

Firing at one of the eyes the creature let out a scream of agony with the Huntsmen and Huntresses in training feeling a chill run down their spine.

Firing once more Naruto let out a yell of defiance as the creature went to strike Raven as she struck one of the spider legs, raising its arms to stop the barrage of bullets the Creature's eyes glowed crimson.

"CANT… stop… MUST SERVE… what queen… TASTE THEIR BONES!" the creature roared before its head jerked to Naruto who flinched as a string of web clung to his chest, making Raven turn and try to free him until he was flung into the distance, leaving the Huntsmen and Huntresses to the new species of Grimm as it let out a roar that evolved into rapid clickings.


Crashing through a tree with the force of a fired bullet, Naruto slammed back first into a rock with a gasp of pain escaping his lungs as he slid to the ground, coughing up air to breath clearer Naruto looked up to see himself in some kind of hunting ground with a lot of webs.

With a few animal carcasses shrouded in web Naruto got up to hold his side with a wince, feeling it softly he winced at the feeling of a healing rib.

Letting out a hiss at the sound of the bone popping into place Naruto looked around before he noticed some fresh corpses in the distance… corpses that belonged to the other students that were hoping to join with them.

Clenching his fists in anger to the hopefuls early demise he scowled with Kurama's chakra rising off of him he inhaled calmly as he approached one, flipping the poor sod onto his back Naruto noticed an object fall out of its grip.

"A chess piece…?" thinking of how one of the people got a chest piece he looked to the other corpses to actually notice the fresh wounds littering their bodies, narrowing his eyes Kurama spoke.

"It seems these poor souls were the ones who blocked the entrance… they weren't trying to sabotage others they were trying to escape that monster" Kurama said with Naruto looking up with a curse.

"How are we suppose to fight that thing if it took down these guys easily, maybe it wore them down before striking"

"No, the wounds look like they were high speed related"

"Yeah, but with the speed it didn't show it to us" Naruto said as he looked around before he took notice to another presence behind him, turning his eyes widened at the sight of a struggling Goliath grimm rumbling as it tried to break free with Naruto summoning a AK47 he stopped himself from pulling the trigger as he took notice to the scars on the Grimm armor.

"It seems whatever that thing was doesn't like Grimm very much" Naruto said as he saw the creatures claw marks on the Goliath's forehead he looked into its eyes to see nothing but anger… but not towards him.

Perking up at getting an idea Kurama had an "OH no" moment as Naruto summoned a knife he began to cut the webbing entrapping the Goliath he was mid way of cutting the webbing on its right foot before he was pulled off his feet by the Goliath's trunk, its eyes staring into his own that flashed crimson red.

"You and I have a common nuisance, that web creep is hurting my friends right now and I'm going to guess you also want some payback, how about a small truce until that thing is dead, you go your way and we go ours" Naruto said with a smile forming as the Goliath stared at him before it lowered him to the ground, raising its trapped foot Naruto cut the webbing with the Goliath groaning as it stood tall once more, turning its head to the sounds of battle Naruto went to run towards the sound until he was snatched off the ground and placed on the Goliath's back as it rushed full speed, ready to settle a score with an abomination, holding on for dear life Kurama appeared beside Naruto.

"HOW DID THIS WORK!?"

"DON'T KNOW DON'T CARE, IT WORKS!" Naruto yelled as they broke free from the foliage to see the others fighting the Grimm monster with a struggle, with Qrow and Taiyang trapped by webbings with Summer trying to help free them, the Goliath focused more on whatever had invaded its territory.

Letting out a roar of anger the Goliath elder charged forward with Naruto using his chakra chains as a set of reigns t help keep himself steady.

"ROUND TWO YA FREAK!" Naruto yelled in triumph.

Looking for the source of the voice the creature was tackled into the tower by the Goliath with Naruto firing his AK with vengeance.

"BACK UP IS HERE BITCH!"