As we walked into the village, we noticed that there were many people scurrying around the village to evacuate. At least they're smart enough to evacuate the area before the Grimm show up. This place… doesn't look like it has a blacksmith. Maybe this was a village for producing food and supplies.

"It looks like they're in a hurry to leave…" Raphtalia kept staring at the people that were trying to get food from their houses, and put them into a bag for travelling.

"Let's hurry and find someone who knows about the Grimm. The quicker we do this, the more time we have to see the other villages."

"Huntsman, oh dear huntsman!" Before we had the chance to walk, a man in his middle ages had ran in front of us. Due to the random guy running in front of us out of nowhere, Raphtalia moved back a bit in shock. He started to catch his breath before saying anything.

"Oh Huntsman, you must save our village! The Grimm! The Grimm are coming for our precious family!" I can get the panic, but please, don't scream when we're right in front of you…

"S-Sir, calm down! Can you tell us how you know the Grimm are coming?"

"We have seen tracks that lead to our village! Please, save our village! We'll give you anything that you want after this!"

"Can you show us the tracks? It'll be a great help if you did." Before anything else, we should hurry and try to figure out where these tracks came from. If we did, then it'll be a lot more easier to find these Grimm. But it's odd. Why would Grimm come close to around here, and not attack with the chance?

"Sure! Please, follow me!" We followed the man to where the tracks had been first seen. He didn't follow us that far because he said that he was scared to continue. Well, I guess I can't blame him. The tracks weren't that far from the village, but we were able to tell that there were tracks that had stopped near the village.

"Jaune-sama, what are you thinking?"

"It just seems… odd. Why didn't the Grimm attack first?"

"Yes, that does seem odd…" These tracks… they seem more thinner than most Grimm's tracks. Beowolves and Ursa tracks are much larger than these. Could it be some other kind of monster that came from Raphtalia's world? This might lead to a huge problem now.

"Jaune-sama, these tracks… don't they look like that they came here recently?"

"We're going to follow them, Raphtalia. If they are recent, then we're going to have to get rid of these Grimm as fast as possible."

"Understood." Just by that one word, we began to walk forward.

"Now!" Moving away from a Beowolf, I granted Raphtalia the opportunity to strike it down.

"Eat this!" Cutting the head clean off, the Beowolf was killed. Ever since we started following the tracks, we've been encountering some Beowolves along the way. Luckily, there wasn't any Ursa around. Strange, but I guess that's alright then. Currently, I'm level 19. Yeah, we've encountered so many, we were able to level up from them.

"Raphtalia, aren't you level 24 right now?" If I did my math correctly, she should be level 24 right now.

"Sadly, no. I'm level 22 right now. Why, is there something wrong?" I looked at her level that was above her head that said that she was actually level 22. So she's getting less exp than me? It must be because she's a higher level than me. Well, if she's levelling up, then there's no problem.

"Nothing. I just wanted to know our status right now." Since there's nothing around, I think I should look at the shield's abilities again.

"Oh wait, I forgot!" Getting rid of the screen, I pulled out the Ursa claws that we had recently defeated.

"Are you going to use that for an ability?"

"It's worth a shot, I guess. I want to know if I gain any ability from the Grimm." Inserting the Grimm claw into the green gem on my shield, a screen had popped up in front of me.

Error

Error? Didn't the claw go inside the shield? Why wasn't it giving me an ability right now?

"Raphtalia, I just got an error screen." She walked next to me to look at the screen, only to be shocked as much as me.

"An error? I haven't seen this before. Did you do something wrong?"

"All I did was insert the claw into the gem like it said I should! Aw man, I was kind of hoping for a new type of shield that gives me an ability of the Grimm. Something like an Ursa shield would be nice…"

Ursa Shield:

Defense:1500

Ability: Grants the user huge amounts of defense.

No other stats had been changed.

All of a sudden, the error screen disappeared and my shield had changed into the mask of the Ursa that we had killed earlier. While I wasn't fazed by that, I was shocked at the fact that this shield granted me that much of a boost.

"It changed!?"

"Was it because I gave it a name? It wasn't on the shield's skill tree before."

"Is that so? It might be because the monsters from this world are different from my world. You might be able to expand your abilities because you're here, Jaune-sama." Expand my abilities, huh?

"Jaune-sama! Where's Filo!?" Raphtalia's sudden scream had scared the crap out of me. I didn't expect her to yell while she's right in front of me.

"Where's Filo? Isn't it right on my…" I touched the top of my head to touch Filo, who had been resting on my head the entire time, only for the bird to be missing…

"Oh my god, Filo!" Did it fall from my head when we were moving? Crap, why didn't I notice this sooner!?

"Jaune-sama…!"

"Raphtalia, did you find it?" I turned and grabbed Raphtalia's shoulders, who didn't mind it strangely. Instead, she was pointing at something behind me.

"Jaune-sama, Filo…" I turned to look at what she was looking at, only for something to shock both me and Raphtalia…

"Pi!" The missing bird, Filo had been standing right behind us, waiting for us to move to our next destination. She wasn't missing at all. So she was with us the entire-

"Filo, what happened to you!?" I yelled in shock. Filo, who was almost the size of my head, had increased in size again. This time, she was as tall as a horse!

"So you're a Filolial, Filo?" Raphtalia walked up to the full grown pink bird and started to pet it's fur. Am I the only one who's shocked, or is it just me?

It might just be me...

"Raphtalia… why aren't you shocked?" She looked at me and stopped petting Filo. She doesn't seem to be fazed, so it might just be me who's shocked...

"Huh? Oh, I am. I'm shocked that Filo was actually a Filolial this entire time!" She started giggling a bit before she started petting it again. I looked at her with the most deadpanned expression that I had ever made.

"Raphtalia, it was the size of my head not even two days ago…"

"Hm, it does seem strange that it's growing fast. I wonder why though…?"

"Raphtalia, what are we going to do with Filo now? We can't hide Filo in our room anymore!" I don't even want to know what would happen if Filo kept growing. It could even be the size of a dragon if it continued to grow!

"I… don't know. I don't want to say goodbye to Filo though…" Both her and Filo had stared at the ground in sadness. Wait, it could understand what we're saying? It's either I'm crazy, or Filo's just sad because Raphtalia's sad. I'm going to go with my second choice…

"We'll… think of something. For now, let's go continue to follow the tracks."

"...Alright then." Letting go of Filo's fur, she started to walk up to me again.

"Pi!" Before we continued to walk, Filo had stopped us in our tracks by standing in front of us. She's really fast…!

"Pi!" It looked like it wanted us to do something. While continuing to make its usual 'Pi!' sound, it turned around, exposing its back at us. So what exactly does it want us to do?

"You want us to ride on your back, Filo?" After Raphtalia said this, Filo had nodded her head. I'm… thinking that she can understand us. Oh Oum, what bird had you given us?

"Jaune-sama, I think we should climb up now." Wait, so we're going to use Filo for our transportation now?

"...Okay." After climbing onto Filo, I grabbed Raphtalia's hand and pulled her up to me. My results… were the same as usual.

"I-I have to wrap my arms around you waist?" She looked at me with... spiral eyes?I didn't think our eyes could even do that.

"How else are you going to hold on tight to me? Just wrap your arms around my waist and we'll-woah!" Before I was able to finish my sentence, Filo had started moving.

Really, really, really fast…!

"F-Filo, hold on a second!" As soon as Filo started moving, Raphtalia had instantly wrapped her arms around my waist with instinct. She was going to fall off if she didn't hold onto anything….

"P-Please, Filo, stop!" Hearing our voices, Filo automatically stopped and looked back at us. Don't you even dare look at us like that, Filo. I can tell that Raphtalia wasn't that much of a fan of this speed. If anything, I was kind of expecting that Raphtalia will be hurling-

"Huh?"

"Jaune-sama, is there something wrong?" With her arms still wrapped around my waist, she asked me with a voice of concern.

"I'm… not sick…?" Now that I just noticed it, I wasn't sick when I boarded the Bullhead with Raphtalia. And here, I'm not even showing the slightest amount of signs of being sick at all! Was I finally learning to adapt to transportation now!?

"You're not sick…?"

"N-Nothing, don't worry about it, Raphtalia." Her arms around my waist had tightened. Was she angry, or just concerned?

"Hey Filo, I think you should take us back to where we were. We had to follow the tracks, remember?"

"Pi!" Filo made her usual 'pi!' sound and looked at the ground. Wait, we were following the tracks this entire time? How long had we been moving!?

"Jaune-sama, look!" Looking at what Raphtalia was pointing at, I was greeted with the scenery of a huge, and wide open space in the forest. What should be Grimm, were birds that were resting in the middle of the area.

"What… are those things?" I asked, hoping that Raphtalia could answer.

"Pi!"

"They're Filolial, Jaune-sama! And there's so many of them!" So… these were the 'Grimm' that scared the villagers…? I won't lie, they're beautiful creatures, but I just can't hide the fact that I'm a bit upset right now.

"Filo… take us back to the village…"

"Pi?" I could already tell what Filo was thinking. 'Wait, so soon?' I won't blame Filo, I'm just upset at the fact that we were chasing these 'Filolial' tracks this entire time for the past 30-40 minutes! Well, at least we were able to level up though.

"Yes, Filo, we're going to have to tell the villagers that the 'Grimm' that they were talking about, was just birds that was scavenging around to find something to eat. The sooner, the better.

"Pi!" Turning around, Filo was ready to follow the tracks back to the village.

"Raphtalia."

"Yes, Jaune-sama?"

"I'm scared about the fact that monsters from your world, are coming to mine. I don't know the threats from your world, so we have to get stronger."

"...Alright. Just promise me that you won't go overboard, okay?" I smiled back at Raphtalia, reassuring her that I won't push myself too hard.

"Jaune-sama." Her voice sounded a bit more concerned than usual.

"Something wrong?"

"Do you… think that this had something to do with me coming here?"

"What do you mean by that?" I'm pretty sure that Raphtalia had no links to the weird monsters that we had been facing from the past. Like, how would Raphtalia tie into something like that?

"N-Nothing. Filo, let's go!" She dodged the question as quickly as she could. Even if Raphtalia had something to do with these monsters, I wouldn't blame her. Before I could ask her anything else, Filo had immediately started following the tracks with insane speed again.

I don't know why these monsters keep appearing. But if anything, we're going to have to be the ones that stop the violent ones at most…

But all of this could be discussed after everything is over. I'm sure that the other villages might have Grimm to slay, right? Nothing could possibly go wrong, right?

Right…?