Chapter 10
Grimm Day
Team SHDE gathered and began to make there way out of the Kingdom to a village nearby.
By the time they reached the village it was close to night.
"We're finally here"
Shade said as he yawned.
"We would have been here faster if we would have been packed we wouldn't have taken so long"
Dawn looked at Erika and Shade
Erika smiled
"I forgot"
Shade yawned again
"I've pulled a lot of all nighters"
A man dressed in a suit approached the team
"Hello there are you the huntsman and huntresses helping us?"
The team nodded.
"Well then welcome to our fair village"
It's shown that there were several people walking around doing business with merchants or walking home from working.
"Now it's quite late"
The man said
"I recommend sleeping at our local inn and then will discuss the villages needs tomorrow."
"All right then"
The village leader led them to the inn where they payed for four separate rooms for eaçh of them.
Shade immediately passed out on the bed.
The next day
Hiroki, Dawn, and Erika were all dresses and ready.
They went to Shades room and Dawn knocked on the door.
There was no answer.
They entered the room and Shade was still out cold.
"Wow he's really out of it"
Erika said poking his face.
"Leave him"
Hiroki left the room.
"He has a point and he does need rest"
Dawn said leaving and Erika soon followed.
They went outside and were immediately approached by the village leader.
"Hello Huntsman"
He noticed one of them was missing
"You seem to be missing one person"
Dawn spoke next
"Yeah our friend was spending a lot of nights training so he's out of commission for now but he'll be up soon and ready to help"
The village leader simply nodded
"Well I have some tasks that I will show as I mention"
The man began to walk the three to the village walls which were very damaged and we can only collect so much wood in a day without being detected by Grimm so if any of you could help our team collect wood or defend us from Grimm it would be appreciated "
He bowed towards the three.
"I think we can work something out"
Dawn said simply
The man stopped bowing
"Now then I'll show you another one of our village's problems"
The man walked towards the center of the village and points at an open window.
They all looked and saw it was a man and his two children sitting on a couch.
"Whats wrong with them?"
Erika said looking sad.
"Grimm aren't are only problem I'm afraid"
They all looked at him.
"We've recently had some bandits come by and threaten some of the locals they took that man's wife as collateral for the family not paying them and if they don't pay them double they were gonna kill her"
"That's awful"
"We know there camp is somewhere south of here could any of you please get her back for her family"
Erika nods looking determined
The village Leader bowed again
"Thank you so much"
He then looks up and leads the group to a nearby table.
He unrolled a map.
"Now as I said Grimm arent the only problem but there are some strange things happening in this cave right here"
He points at a place on the map.
"We've noticed a large amount of Grimm here so we're hoping one of you can take out the source"
Hiroki nods silently.
The man rolled up the map
"Well I wish you luck and thank you"
The man walks away leaving the three alone.
They all nodded to each other and went to complete there separate tasks.
At Dawn
Dawn made her way to the wood chopping team and wasn't surprised that the area was so small from what the village leader spoke of.
The boss of the group went up to Dawn.
"Are you the huntress that's come to help us?"
Dawn nodded.
"Show me what the problem is"
The boss lead her to an area where there was plenty of fresh trees.
"Anytime we get close to here the Grimm chase us out"
The boss walks away
"Have fun"
And he was gone.
Dawn but her hand on her head as she shook her head.
"Guess not everyone here is nice"
She turned her weapon into its ax form.
"It's a good thing my ax isn't just good for fighting"
She began to chop some of the trees into perfectly cut logs when she heard something.
"Grimm"
Using her reflexes she quickly jumped into a tree.
And when she looked down she was shocked to see several beowolves in armor.
"What the hell?"
She noticed a symbol on the armor and immediately jumped down trying to hit the armor with a downward slash but it didn't do any damage.
She quickly jumped back to avoid being hit by the beowolf.
"That armor is tough what's it made of"
She dodged as another beowolf tries to bite her.
Dawn began to shoot at the Grimm but it was no good.
She began to run further from the village the Grimm followed her.
"Alright I should be far enough."
She flinged a bottle of red dust in the middle of the three beowolves.
"I hope this works"
She shoots at the bottle and it explodes hitting all of the Grimm.
When the dust from the explosion cleared the Grimm were still alive but there armor had several holes in there armor.
Dawn quickly took advantage of the situation and used her blades on her guns to take out two of the beowolves and then using the ax mode finished off the last one.
"How did they put armor on these things"
She put her hand on the armor.
A message suddenly beeped on Dawn's scroll.
"No way?!!?!"
Back at Erika
Erika had began to move towards the direction of the enemy camp.
There was several huts made out of logs around a fireplace.
Erika began to sneak around to the back of the huts.
She quickly looked at a nearby bandit standing between two of the huts.
Erika pounced on him knocking him out and threw him into a bush.
She smiles and sneaks inside a nearby hut where she saw a woman tied up.
She looked at Erika in fear.
Erika shushed her.
"I'm gonna get you out of here"
She untied her.
"Thank you"
The woman whispered.
"Now as soon as I do this run straight and you'll be home don't worry I'll take care of the rest"
The woman nodded
Erika placed her hand on the back of the hut and the wall began to break until it was molded and dead with a large hole.
The woman immediately ran.
"Hey the hostage is gone"
A bandit shouted.
Erika turned around to see another bandit who she quickly punched in his gut and kicked him out of the hut.
The rest of the bandits drew there swords and began to ran at Erika who drew her weapon.
She tripped the closest bandit with her spear and then shot the second closest with the shot gun part.
The third bandit jumped and tries to downward slash against Erika.
She countered by shooting the ground sending her forward causing the bandit to miss.
Erika quickly jumped up and shot and the bandits who tried to dodge but failed causing the rest of them to fall.
Erika landed on the ground and smiled.
Suddenly a bandit ran at her from behind trying to slash her.
Erika blocked with her spear with out looking.
"Nice try"
She uppercuts the bandit knocking him out.
"Well mission accomplished."
She then saw a map in one of the huts
"Huh what's this"
She looked at it.
"What how could they plan this"
At Hiroki
Hiroki was making his way towards the cave that was marked on the map.
He hid behind a tree when he noticed two beowolves enter the cave.
Hiroki began to think.
"Whats causing the Grimm to enter there?"
He began to sneak in when two more beowolves went behind him while the two from before turned around to face him.
Hiroki sighed as he drew his two blades as they all charged at him.
He quickly slid under the ones near the cave entrance.
He jumped up and stabbed one of the beowolves with one blade and then sliced it killing it.
The beowolf next to it pounced at Hiroki who responds by stabing it in the head with his second blade.
He jumped back as the Grimm began to vanish and faced the last two he turned his katana into there sniper mode and finished off the last two grimm with just one shot each.
Hiroki put his weapon away and walks deeper into the cave.
"How far is this cave and who put up all these torches"
He kept walking deeper into the cave until he reached a dead end.
"Strange"
He put his ear close to the wall and heard some noise in the wall.
Hiroki hit the wall a few times and it was hollow.
He took a deep breath and his dark aura surrounded him.
He hit the wall breaking it revealing a hidden base with people working in it.
"White Fang?"
Hiroki said as they all noticed him.
"Great a kid found us"
One of them said.
"Wait that's no kid it's a huntsman."
Another one said.
"Kill him"
The white fang immediately aimed guns at Hiroki who readied his weapon.
"Pathetic"
He simply said as his aura free fierce.
He ran at the group.
They all began to shoot at him who began to dodge there bulltets.
He jumps and lands in the center of the group.
He slashed two of them and jumped back as the other three shot at him again.
Hiroki quickly shot two of them and ran at the last one.
He destroyed the man's gun and knocked him unconscious.
"What were the white fang doing here"
He said as he looked around.
He looked at book on a table and read the notes.
"So that's there plan."
Present time.
"So the white fang are"
Dawn said
"To flood the kingdom of Vale"
Erika said
"With Grimm"
Hiroki said sending a message to his whole team.
"We have to go back and help"
Dawn said running towards Vale from her position jumping from tree to tree.
Erika began to run using her animal insincts to run like a tiger.
Hiroki simply ran towards Vale.
When they reached Vale they were all in separate parts of the town and Grimm had already invaded the area.
Huntsman and huntresses were already fighting off the Grimm.
But in the middle of the fighting was a child surrounded by three beowolves began to close in on the child.
But before they could attack the three out of the 4 members of team SHDE killed the beowolves.
"Oh"
Hiroki said
"Hey"
Dawn said
"Good to see you two"
Erika said happily.
Another beowolf began to run at them and it jumped towards them but before it strikes a spike rose from the ground killing it.
As the smoke cleared it was revealed that Shade had slayed it.
"Sorry I'm late"
Back when shade was asleep.
As shade slept he was unaware his comrades were doing any tasks.
He was suddenly awoken by a gunshot.
"What the hell was that?"
He looks outside to see a group of bandits entering the town.
He went to the inn keeper who was hiding behind her desk.
"What's going on?"
"The bandits always come here and take all our money and dust"
Shade simply shook his head.
"There about to come in you better hide."
Shade smiles.
"Don't worry I'll make sure they never harm you again"
One bandit entered the inn and was immediately punched by Shade with his gauntlet arm.
The other bandits looked at Shade in shock.
Shade looked closely at the bandits.
"The white fang why are they here?"
A bandit with a sword tried to stab shade who used his gauntlet's shield mode to block.
He disarmed the man and kicked him to the ground.
The third bandit tried to attack Shade from behind.
Shade turned around and launched his blade rifle to the man so the handle hit his stomach.
Shade then took his blade and uppercuts the bandit.
The bandits tried to surround him afterwards but shade smiled as all the bandits shadows began to spin around all of them.
"Should have tried harder."
Shade jumped up and the remaining bandits were knocked into each other by the shadow knocking them all unconscious.
Shade lands and heard the cheers of the town.
Shade walked over to the man he first punched and grabbed him by his shirt.
"What do you want?"
"Tell me why you were attacking this village"
The man spoke in fear after seeing what shade could do.
"We were taking from this village to complete our master plan"
"And that is?"
"To destroy Vale"
Shade punched the man knocking him out and began to run back to Vale.
Present time.
"Took you long enough"
Dawn said with a smile.
Several Ursa began to head towards the team.
"Guess now would be a good time to try out our team attacks"
Shade said with a smile
"Ready when you are leader"
Dawn said
Hiroki nodded and Erika was laughing.
"Alright let's start with Plant armor"
Dawn and Shade jumped back.
Hiroki ran at one of the Ursa.
He slashed with both blades when the Ursa was about to slash him a root went and blocked him from the slash.
Hiroki continued to slash at the Ursa as the roots protected him till the Ursa died.
At Dawn and Shade.
"Alright let's use shadow puppet"
Shade ran at an Ursa holding his blade rifle and a shadow blade.
He began to slice at the Ursa when a beowolf jumped at him.
Suddenly shade's arm moved back stabbing the beowolf.
The Ursa prepared to slash at Shade.
But he was suddenly pulled back.
"Can't hit when all is seen."
It is shown that Dawn had attached her spirit strings to Shade's body.
He finished the Ursa off as another one ran at them.
Dawn nods at Shade and she ran back and Erika ran to him.
"Ready for Nature Barrage"
Erika smiled.
They both ran at the Ursa.
Erika and Shade cut and hit the Ursa's legs causing to fall on its back where it's arms were restrained by large roots.
Shade and Erika then stabbed it finishing it off.
At Dawn and Hiroki.
"Let's do warrior Hell"
Dawn said ready for the next Ursa.
Hiroki nodded.
Hiroki began slash rapidly against the Ursa before jumping back and Dawn shot at it constantly.
The Ursa began to move slower.
Hiroki and Dawn delivered on final blow to the head.
Dawn switched places with Shade and her and Erika faced the next Ursa.
"Let's do marionette"
Erika said happily.
Dawn jumped up while Erika surrounded her body with wood armor from nearby trees.
Dawn began to control the wooden armored Erika to dodge each of the Ursa's slashes and damaging the Ursa tripping it before finishing it off.
Back at Shade and Hiroki.
One Ursa remained.
"We're ending this with True Darkness."
Shade said looking at Hiroki.
"Let's get this over with."
Shade nodded and began to spin a shadow around Hiroki who's aura grew dark and fierce.
His aura grew stronger from the shadows that surround him.
He immediately slashed at the Ursa constantly killing it fast.
He returned to normal and the Grimm were all dead.
Several hours later.
Team SHDE was standing on a balcony at beacon watching the destruction caused by the Grimm being cleaned up.
"What a day"
Shade said looking at the destruction.
"Yeah though we made it and no one got hurt"
Dawn responded.
"Yeah and we got to test some of our team moves."
Erika said happily.
"It was good practice"
Hiroki simply said.
"You know what"
The three looked at him.
"This was a good experience to help us for what's ahead."
They all looked at the sunset.
Volume 2 End.
AN:Holy crap this took a lot out of me this was probably one of my favorite chapter to write but my least favorite volume though anyway thank you for all the support and expect something special for volume 3 of SHDE now if you excuse me I have some sleep to get