The arrival at Vale! Having come from the south, approximately in the area between Vacuo and Vale the little Beowulf who could has made it no small distance to get here.
Thanks for all the appreciation! I plan on making this a weekday thing, no promises on every day, especially Friday but Monday through Thursday are going to be getting stuff happening regardless, did you know writing is a great de-stresser?
Yesboss21: Our Alpha will have a name but I decided getting a number specification from the lab was... well, it could be introduced a little better at least, I wanted its name to at least come from something, nevertheless it will be getting a name within the next few chapter.
TheAwsomest5: No, You are, but thanks, makes my day!
Reaver17: I always love a good think tank on silly what ifs for stories, also, yes, write all the stories on the Grimm, maybe then the Grimm character tag will be implemented, or, even better, specific Grimm!
~I do not own RWBY
Chapter 10
Crashing its way through the forest the Alpha put as much space as it could from the facility it had barely escaped, it was tired, wounded and it felt that unfilled feeling again, perhaps it should go find some Grimm to kill…
Diverting only slightly it ran into a few tiny Grimm, slicing them in half as it passed and siphoning off their essence, re-energizing it for the trek ahead.
It would have to run for quite a while to find an intruder… village. Human village, that it could hide out near and listen to, having finally understood the language it might even try something… devious.
Four Full Moons or around Four Months Later
It had found the village, but this one was huge, it was ridiculously large, its whole pack couldn't run through something like this, but this did fit in with its plan of hiding and learning what the population knew about The Intruder.
It had approached the… City, from the south but almost immediately it saw a target, much like the village it had observed from before this one had a ridge overlooking it, this one was vastly larger though.
The only problem being a large building on top of it, the building looked like it was still being constructed but the central spire was completed and it looked like a huge… this must be what a clock was the Alpha considered, though it was reasonably sure they should be smaller according to what it had understood.
Nevertheless setting up behind that cliff would do, perhaps it could even figure out what that majestic building is for.
Moving its pack away from the city and then circling the Alpha moved gradually towards its target, hiding to avoid patrols of humans that passed by.
Taking the long way as it did the Alpha arrived after a week had passed, none the worse for wear and quite filled with the warmth in its chest at the precision its pack showed when directed.
Surveying the area it wished to claim was hindered by the fact that human hunters and huntresses positively littered the area, patrols were constantly active and only at night did it get the chance to move at anything akin to a pace.
It was with an itching sense that the Alpha came across a series of ruins, they were significant, old, yes, but more importantly they were large and it could see caves attached to them all over the place, not to mention the ruins sat over a seemingly endless valley, yes, this would do.
Walking out onto the ruins the Alpha had its pack spread out to cover the area, it needed to find a singular point that would act as its center of operations, it wasn't sure why it needed this, really it wanted its pack to hide in the many caves scattering the mountainous area but for some reason the presence insisted.
It decided on the most inconvenient to sneak up on location the entire area had, the cave temple at the far end of the pathway of the ruins surrounded by nothing but a long fall.
There it decided to have its pack dig into the cave further to extend the area it could leave for the inactive resting creatures, or at least minimally active pack members, there appeared to be a Nevermore nest situated above them on the cliff.
Settling in at the front of the cave the Alpha made the executive decision to rest, perhaps for a few days, it felt like it needed some dedicated rest, the likes of which it had not had in all the days since its flight.
Sleep came fitfully as it saw images of the jaws of light again, this seemed to be a reoccurring dream, they came in many forms but the jaws were always there, especially at the end, consuming the Alpha and it fell, but not into the comfortable Shadows, but somewhere different.
This dream left it chilled when it awoke, no matter how many of its pack it was surrounded by, the cold piercing its bones and making the miasma in the area no longer feel truly comfortable as it had before.
Morning was coming soon and it could almost feel the world outside the cave waking, preempting the sun, its time was at hand and it needed to beat the humans to their patrols.
Running out of the cave the Alpha began towards the south end of the cliff, the south side of the town seemed of lower security compared to the north or anywhere near the clifftop building.
Taking only five individuals from the pack it was intent on making this a quiet mission, ideally it would make it in and out without anyone being the wiser, especially anyone who might raise an alarm.
Arriving at an external wall the Alpha began its search for a way in by moving east along the wall while its pack moved west along the wall to better use its time.
Eventually it found a guarded indent in the wall, closed off, multiple lights and guards atop the wall, this would not be an easy access point, but it still was one in case it found no others.
The guards there would not be expecting it to sneak by, its brethren tended towards more frontal assaults and this checkpoint was designed with that expectation.
Making its way up to the wall from an angle outside of the view of the guards the Alpha sidled up to the entrance, well aware of how it would look to anyone who may be attempting to enter through this entrance, speed was of the essence.
Dropping to all fours from the awkward state it had been in while trying to keep as close to the wall as it could it rounded the corner on four very surprised guards.
Immediately the guard nearest the gate was flung into the forest with a powerful blow from the claw of the Alpha, his screams weak due to the massive internal damage.
The other three found it to be in their best interests to grab their weaponry, a series of blocky weapons without blades that spat out brightly colored bits of heat, cold and pain.
Confused by the painful but otherwise ineffectual weapons the Alpha jammed its claws through one then another, pinning them to the ground and leaving the last one to its remaining claw.
Having resolved the four guards the Alpha walked to the gate, hoping it would not be complicated, it knew very little about doors or gates, for some reason the presence had very little information on them.
The barrier in front of it was quite durable and simply pushing it didn't seem to do anything, in fact it seemed to get jammed slightly, deciding to wait for a bit the Alpha rested in front of the gate, curled into the nook in the wall the gate acted as.
Pack members came up with a distinct lack of information other than there was another gate further west which they were unable to get close to due to having some trouble killing the humans there, the humans hadn't seemed very dangerous, why had its pack had any trouble… Oh.
It did not count on this, the presence illuminated it as to why they had problems killing the humans and it realized it had done something bad to its pack, it had told them before they went to sleep not to harm the humans, though not quite in those words and apparently the years had solidified the command.
How was it going to infiltrate the humans with a pack whose senior members wouldn't kill them? This entire situation just became incredibly odd, would it have to do this on its own?
A sound behind it jarred it from its thoughts, "Conney? Why's the door stuck, you mind getting this open? Your shifts over." Oh, well, that worked it supposed.
Moving its bulk away from the door the Alpha then tapped its huge claw ever so lightly against the door as a sign to the ones on the other side, hopefully they wouldn't think too deeply about the sound and just consider it as acknowledgment from their compatriots.
"Finally, Jerry wouldn't be particularly happy if he missed another chance to… Oh Shit?!" Quite. Slamming its arms through the door that had been opened the Alpha beheaded the talkative one on the other side before squeezing through the clearly meant for humans passage and coming face to face with 3 more guards.
A light chuckle of a growl escaped its mouth, food should really be harder to acquire than this, before it lunged forward biting into the closest and slapping the other two to the ground, winding them.
The first and second were quite dead but the other two lived yet and as the Alpha began pressing more weight into them it began feeling that crippling effect that only seemed to occur when it killed humans.
Killing them would be too much effort anyway, it picked them up and promptly threw them outside telling the pack to grab them and… do something with them, promptly blocking itself from them, even as it could feel the presence repeatedly trying to reestablish the connection.
All around it were fat stone… they were houses, places where humans resided, though there appeared to be many made of metal that were very large, perhaps there was a distinction there.
Making its way to one of the large metal houses it poked a claw through the thin metal and created and eye hole so that it might see what is going on inside.
Humans were everywhere, there must have been at least fourty of them, though most of them had strange traits such as small tufts of hair on their head in odd shapes or tusks and horns, what were these animal humans, it had seen them before but never in such concentrated numbers.
Perhaps the humans all had strange animal traits like that, it hadn't really bothered to check a humans body over the few times it had access to one, it would need to look at the guards it had killed earlier if it got the chance.
Moving on from the metal house the Grimm began moving through the cluttered side paths between the many houses avoiding detection where it could and retreating where it would not be able to, if it was seen then getting back in would become even harder than it had already made it by killing the guards.
Settling down next to a large green block of metal filled with foul smelling refuse the Alpha considered on the area, it would not be difficult to stay hidden here, no one had found it and sun had already risen to nearly its peak, if they hadn't found it by now then as long as it didn't fail they wouldn't get the chance to.
It needed to find a place within the walls that it could rest in that was not anywhere near where it had breached the walls, it had traveled far enough that it most likely already resolved the first condition but the second wasn't so obvious.
And yet, as it pulled itself up by the edges of the houses to get a better view it may not be so difficult, there ahead of it was a place that was filled with metal containers arrayed everywhere, it was also near water so it could escape that way if it needed to.
Running carefully to the place of containers the Alpha began inspecting the area, no clear sight lines, multiple open and empty containers everywhere and small hills made of broken and rusted metal only a short distance from the many containers.
Backing into one of the containers was a bit of a squeeze but the Alpha figured if something went wrong it could probably push the walls out destroying its would be cage.
Settling in it felt a curious sensation near its left arm, a gentle rustling, almost like breathing.
Turning its head in the confines was difficult but very possible and it saw something it had somehow missed while fitting itself in backwards, a small human child with triangular fluffs of fur on its already hairy head.
Not feeling like killing another human right before it began sleeping the Alpha decided morning or screaming would determine its fate, jammed its claws into the internal mechanism of the container doors and enclosed itself in darkness.