Dragon of Wrath and Pain

by ventusx24

Follow Krok a reptile faunus who keeps a tight lid on his past as he is paired with team RWBY. What happens when he becomes friends with the girls and what will he choose when his past comes to bite him in the butt? Not only could his past destroy him but all he worked to achieve as well. (Some swearing and violence)

20. Chapter 18 Moving Forward

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"BLAAAAKE!" Ruby shouts frantically as the remaining members of team RWBY walk around trying to find their missing teammate,

"BLAAAAKE!" Yang shouts along with her sister looking around for her partner.

"Blake!" Krok shouts as well, while not having as much enthusiasm as the sister, he had far more than his white haired teammate was showing.

"Blaaaaaaaake! Where aaaare yoooouuuu!?" Ruby shouts looking around, hoping the black haired girl would come out and talk to them about what happened.

"Blake!" Yang shouts looking at the roof tops.

"Come on Blake! This is obviously helping no one!" Krok shouts loudly, his annoyance clear in his voice at his teammates reluctance for appearing for being in the White Fang. Something he didn't know, but didn't care about.

"Weiiiiss, you're not helping!" Ruby complains at her partner who this entire time has been quietly brooding as a scowl is plaster on her face.

"Oh! You know what might be able to help? The police!" She says angrily. Everyone groans at the heiress's idea.

"Ugh, Weiss..." Ruby complains walking further ahead of Weiss.

"What!? It was just an idea!" She angrily defends herself.

"Yea, another shitty one." Krok says walking in front of her. His comment angers the huntress as she quickly gets in front of him glaring daggers.

"Oh I'm sorry! You come up with something!"

"How about not going around a pissing off people because they aren't humans for starters," Krok says, his pupils narrowing at her. " Than you two can apologize as you two realize you're both acting like idiots."

"She was part of the White Fang! Does that mean nothing to you or did you already know?!" She asks accusingly. Krok scoffs at her, she really is a shallow as she looks.

"Yea, it means she was part of a group of faunus who believed they were doing the right thing, even if they went about it the wrong way. Maybe she was with them before they went all shock and awe campaign on racist people." Weiss' eyes quickly widen in anger at his comment of the attacks on racist people, including the Schnee family.

"My family are NOT racist you over sized lizard!" She angrily shouts as her eyes lock with the reptilian faunus'. Both Yang and Ruby turn as the two, once again, are at each other's throats.

"Really?" Krok asks with sarcasm laced in his voice. "Firstly I'm a saltwater crocodile, not a lizard. Second from day one, most of the times we talk and yesterday, you've proven that you view faunus as animals and feel they aren't worth your respect, if you're not a racist than I'm a girl, just look at my beautiful hair!" Krok says changing his pitch so it sounds more feminine.

"Krok, only Yang's like that." Ruby says smiling at his girly voice, ignoring her sister who in response to her taking a jab at her merely sticks her tongue out like a little kid.

"Still, her being in the White Fang is new to me." Krok says trying to think of any signs he missed from before While he did already know Blake was a Faunus, (something he thought was clear as day) she managed to hide her allegiance with the radical group, that explains why she was so adamant to defend them when Weiss insulted them. However, how long was she with them? Krok knows of the two faces of the White Fang; the one that bares the flag and olive branch, using peace protest to fight for faunus rights, and the current one, replacing flags and branches for weapons and bombs. How long was Ms. Belladonna with them, and under whose rule?

"Weiss, I think we should hear her side of the story before we jump to any conclusions." Yang says, wanting to create as little conflict as possible with her sister's partner.

"I think that when we hear it, you'll all realize I was right!" She says triumphantly, Krok lets out a loud sigh at her statement.

"And the winner of the biggest bitch award goes to!" He says dramatically before pointing at Weiss, whose face turned red in anger. "Must you always act like you know everything? Seriously, after five seconds that shit get's annoying." Krok say walking away, at least until he feels a boot pressing down on his tail.

"I'm getting sick of you and that mouth of yours!" She angrily growls at Krok.

"I'm getting this sense of Deja Vu right now. Anyone? Foot on tail, listening to Ice Queen go on her rant like I give a single fuck. Yang? Ruby? Anyone of importance?" Krok asks, acting as if Weiss didn't matter. "Oh well, you mind getting of my tail now?" He says with annoyance in his voice, you'd think when Yang tried it and it didn't work people would learn.

"Why should I? So far I've been completely right about you! You're always hiding stuff from us, you act like just because you can swing around that giant saw makes you a proper fighter. Along with the fact that you won't even tell us; what you were searching for, who sent you, and that you dragged us to some facility that looks like it came from straight horror movie. I think you owe us an explanation!"

"I think as always you need to mind your own damn businesses Weiss, what I've told you eight was all I could say." Krok says leaning closer to Weiss as her foot remains planted on his tail.

"I think you better come up with a better reason than that!" She says, as usual refusing to back down against the larger faunus.

"And I think Weiss' hair looks wonderful today!" Everyone's eyes widen, behind Weiss is the redheaded, pink bow wearing, neo green and tan colored girl, Penny. Everyone leaps back at her sudden reveal, unfortunately as Krok leaps back from the girl, his tail comes from underneath Weiss' foot, sending the heiresses tumbling down to the ground on her butt.

"HOW DO YOU KEEP DOING THAT!?" Krok shouts in a mix of shock and slight fear of the tiny girl, one who could sneak up on him, despite looking in her direction as he argued with Weiss. Penny smiles widely at his reaction,

"Aaaah! Penny! Where did you come from!?" Ruby exclaims as she backs up like everyone else.

"Hey guys! What are you up to?" She says with interest in her voice, Krok listens to the girl. Her speech is clear and almost perfect, at first someone would simply write it off as the girl being raised properly, however with the little piece of information he had on the girl, it somehow made even more sense.

"Uhh..." Ruby starts unsure if she should saything about why they were calling out their friend's name.

"We're looking for our friend Blake." Yang says, not seeing any harm in revealing the fact that their teammate had left after a heated argument with Weiss. Penny stares at her for a second, trying to recall Blake.

"You know, black haired, black and white cloths, acts all mysterious and has a large black bow." Krok says describing Blake for the girl,after his little summary Penny's green eyes light up.

"Ooooh, you mean the Faunus girl!" Everyone's eyes widen, Krok because he didn't know that she knew about Blake's identity,

"Shouldn't be too surprised after all, she figured out I was the one to raid the White Fang's base." Krok thinks as his remaining team members show the shock they feel all over their faces. "You'd think they would have realized her secret by now, or am I the only one who's perceptive?

"Wait, how did you know that?" Ruby asks completely shocked at Penny's statement. However the bow wearing girl looks at her like she asked something that was common knowledge.

"Uhh, the cat ears?" She says with a hint of 'are you serious!?' as she points to where Blake kept her bow on her head. Everyone but Krok has not only a look of shock, but their mouth open. Yang begins to laugh a little, disbelief was clear in her laugh.

"What cat ears? She wears a... boooohhh..." Yang says realizing; that where she hides her ears. The realization dawns upon them and leaves them in silence as a tumbleweed blows through in the wind. Krok's eyes follow the plant as it continues to roll down the street,

"Where'd the hell did that come from?" he thinks, not as shocked as his teammates are so he can notice things happening around him.

"She does like tuna a lot…" Ruby says quietly as she slowly connects the pieces, as the three girls stand there shocked still Krok laughs a little, drawing the attention of the four girls. "Krok?"

"Hmm? Yea Ruby?" He asks raising an eyebrow at Ruby, while his teammates give him a questioning look.

"Is something funny about Blake being a faunus?" Ruby says looking at the reptilian Faunus.

"Uh… no why?" Krok says looking into the inquisitive eyes of his

"I believe it's because he knew Blake was a faunus already!" Krok's and the remaining members of team RWBY pause for a second before their eyes widen slowly.

"Dammit Penny! Now I'm going to get a damn earful from ALL of them!" Krok thinks as his eyes dart from Ruby, Yang, Weiss, and Penny, Penny having a look on her face that shows she doesn't think she did anything wrong.

"Hold on, you KNEW!?" Weiss says glaring at him, her eyes slowly displaying the clear anger in her anger clear as day in her voice. Krok takes a deep breath as he looks at Yang and Ruby, both waiting for an answer. He simply nods his head yes, earning a scoff from Weiss. "How am I not surprised? You always hid everything from us!"

"How long have you known Krocky?" Yang asks, her voice having lost her normal playful tone as she crosses her arms at Krok. His tail coils around his leg nervously as he laughs nervously.

"Uhh… since, well… when I first saw her." Krok says as he breaks eye contact with the yellow haired huntresses, knowing the look on her face wasn't going to be a good one.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Ruby asks, her eyes and voice showing the hurt she feels for him not telling how he knew Blake wasn't what she appeared. Strangely though, the look of hurt and betrayal in those silver eyes cuts deeper than any amount of yelling or punches from either Weiss or Yang. Krok's heart clenches as Ruby's pleading eyes stare at him, waiting for a response.

"It's not that Ruby, when I confronted her about it I promised to not tell any of you, at least until she said something." Krok explains, gaining a look of understanding from Ruby and Yang, though Yang still looks upset. She gives him a punch to his shoulder.

"I swear Krocky, you make it difficult to be mad at you, you know that?" She giving him a tired look, he laughs slightly as he rubs the spot she punched.

"Am I the only one who STILL is annoyed that both him and Blake hid this?!" Weiss shouts angrily, "Why does she even feel the urge to hid that!?"

"Because of people like you." Krok says narrowing his eyes, "People who judge based on appearance, people who act like they're so much better than everyone else because they lack our traits. Tell me Weiss, when you first met me, did you consider me as someone who was trying to survive by stealing and bashing the occasional cop head in to avoid arrest? OR did you consider me a common criminal, an animal, or a monster?" Krok says narrow his eyes at her, Weiss stepped back a little but returned his stare with a glare,

"You ARE a criminal! Even if it was so you could live, you stole! No to mention your little "disappearance" to do god knows where and doing god knows what! You're still a criminal and the only thing is you dragged us with you!"

"And you're still a spoiled little bitch, who has no skills besides running her damn mouth, acting like she's entitled to something, and last and certainly not least, you being a racist little girl!"

"How dare you!"

"How dare me? Oh how rich! Coming from a little girl who's only real challenge in life was because daddy couldn't separate his work life from her personal life, because he never said "I love you" enough. Than again, anyone from your family is only interested in money, the Schnee name and power, so I doubt he even saw you as a daughter!" Krok shouts at the heiresses, without warning there is the sound of a resounding smack, Krok's head is twisted slightly to the side as his cheek begins to sting slightly from the slap from Weiss. The look in her eyes is of pure anger and hatred. Krok's eyes turns from shock to anger as he locks eyes with her. His pupils narrow as he lets out a menacing snarl and extends his claws. In response Weiss draws Myrtenaster and point it at his throat, keeping it the ready in cause he tried to strike her. "You really think that'll work?" He says raising an eyebrow and a cocky smile on his face as he begins to surround himself with fire, "You're gonna have to try a little harder than that!" Krok quickly speeds towards her, wrath and annoyance at her actions and words fueling his fires. Weiss quickly slashes at Krok, only for him to effortlessly block her slash with his claws. Krok tries to strike her with a back claw strike, she effortlessly dodges the strike as Krok and her lock up, his claws and her blade.

"I'd say it's about time I put you in your place!" She says while trying to hold her ground, but with Krok greater weight and strength, Weiss slowly slid back.

"Looks like all that bragging was just hot air," Krok says breaking the lock up and quickly spinning around, slamming his tail into the heiresses, she does a flip mid air and lands on her feet. Under her a glyph begins to form as white aura begins to radiant around her. Krok cracks his neck before his fire surrounds his entire body, burning a bright orange and yellow as he grabs Night's Edge and lets his fire roll over the blade. The two lock eyes with each other, at least till suddenly Ruby jumped in the middle, causing both of them to stare at the small redhead.

"Stop fighting you two!" Ruby cries out, a pleading look in her eyes as her partner and teammate prepare to clash with each other. Krok and Weiss are taken back for a second; however, quickly refocus on each other.

"Stay out of my way you dunce!" Weiss angrily shouts,wanting to repay Krok tenfold.

"Even to your own partner you can't be nice can you, Ice Bitch!?" Krok spits their hatred of the other only getting worst and worst for each other.

"We're on the same team! We shouldn't be fighting!" Ruby begs staying firmly planted between the two of them.

"Ruby, people like her don't listen to reason!" Krok shouts, only harboring ill intent to his white haired teammate. "The only way she'll listen is when someone beats the smug look off her face, and I plan to burn it off completely! So get out of the way! I don't want you to get caught up in this." Krok says, his blade beginning to glow a slight orange at the edges.

"Says the overgrown fire salamander who seems to always drag people into his own problems because he doesn't have the brain or skills to solve it himself! So what does he do, he goes around with some sob story about how bad his life is! Oh Boo Hoo!" She says feining pity and sadness. Krok snarls at her for her insult.

"Keep it up, you're only adding fuel to burn your corpse!" Krok warns, his blade now glowing bright orange near the edges and a dull orange in the center.

"STOP IT NOW!" Both Krok and Weiss break eye contact as they hear the enraged voice of their blonde teammate, Yang. She walks in between them with fire surrounding her that could rival Krok's. With the sheer anger in her voice, the fire surrounding her and her crimson red eye staring into their blue and yellow eyes, neither dared to move. "COULD YOU TWO STOP ARGUING WITH EACH OTHER FOR ONCE!?"

"But he/she-" they each try to start however, they're quickly silenced.

"I DON'T CARE IF IT WAS KROCKY OR WEISS! JUST STOP IT NOW!" The two recoil at the blonde's sheer volume and anger as she stops the two from arguing. The glyph around Weiss' feet disappears and the raging inferno surrounding Krok is reduced to mere embers. "We're here to find Blake! All you've done Weiss is complain and bitch about something you don't know the full story on, so do us all a favor and either shut the hell up and actually help us or just go back to the dorm!" Weiss, despite wanting to say something back to the blonde huntresses simply kept her mouth shut. Yang then turns her eyes to Krok, while still as angry and annoyed with Weiss, her gaze softens ever so slightly, though not by much. "Krok, I only know a little of what you've been through, but still you need to stop clashing heads with Weiss!" Krok stares for a few seconds before giving a dry laugh.

"Have you met her!? All she does is give me crap, make things more difficult than necessary and pretty much thinks she can spit in my face and I'm not allowed to do anything about it! Tell her to keep that damn mouth of hers shut and I'll play nice." Yang's eyes flash red again.

"And what exactly do you do Krok?! You give her the exact same shit and you two keep going on and on and on again till you're at each other's throats! It's repetitive and I'm sick of it!" Yang shouts angrily, silencing Krok of any further protest. Yang takes a deep breath, seeing as her two stubborn teammates have cooled their heads, and relaxes. The fire around her disappears and her eyes return to their beautiful lilac color. "I swear… if the two of you actually worked together you would be a dangerous combination." Yang says with a tone like a scolding mother with her children. Still," Yang motions her head toward Weiss, who has a look of confusion of her face. "Were going to continue to look else where, we'll meet up later if we don't find anything or you give us a call." Yang says as Weiss nods her head and begins to walk away. "And Krocky," her calling to him slightly surprised him as he looks into her eyes, her footsteps drawing ever closer and closer to him "We'll talk later, but for now stay with Sis and Penny and help find Blake, you two are two are important to me okay?" She says in a caring fashion before wrapping Krok up in a hug. The act manages to catch everyone slightly off guard, having been accustomed to only seeing Yang grab Krok in a headlock; however, when she presses her lips to his cheek, this is what surprises her other teammates. After giving him a soft peck to his cheek she pulls away and smiles before walking over to Weiss who is too stunned to talk. "Let's go!" Yang says as if nothing weird happened, having to literally drag Weiss away as she is still too stunned to move an inch. Krok feels the spot where she kissed, as she watches Yang and Weiss, well Yang, walk away before turning the corner though she gives Krok a quick wink before disappearing out of sight. Krok's eyes linger on where Yang was, blushing slightly from the affection she just showed, in front of the rest of them no less. He is quickly brought back from his thoughts as he feels a hand on his shoulder, turning to see a set of silver and neon green eyes staring at him. Penny had her usual, and slightly creepy smile on her face, while Ruby's was in complete shock still.

"Need any help finding your friend?" Penny replies, not being affected by what transpired before them. Krok nods his head in agreement.

"The more people we have looking the better chances we'll have of finding Blake." Krok says with a slight smile on his face. However, before they walk on, Ruby is still in shock over what happened. Krok sighs before walking in front of Ruby and lightly shaking her. "Remnant to Ruby, do you copy?" He says, knowing the minute she comes out of it she'll have a million or so questions.

"Huh? Wha?" Ruby says still in a slight daze. Krok waves his hand in front of her face, immediately her face widens and she begins to shoot questions a mile a minute, "YANGKISSEDYOU!?IMEANAREYOUTWOTOGTHER!?HOWLONGHAVEYOUBEENTOGETHER!?DOYOULIKEHER!?DOESSHELIKEYOU?!AREYOUYOUKNOWBOYFRIENDGIRLFRIEND!?AREYOUGOINGTOMARRYHER!?WOULDTHATMAKEYOUFAMILY!?MYBIGBROTHER?!" Ruby cries out with a look of confusion on her face as she asked questions faster than Krok could even understand, let alone respond to.

"How did Yang live with this for 15 years?" Krok says as he quickly cups Ruby's face in his hands, silencing the overactive girl. "Ruby I need you to take a deep breath okay?" The red haired girl nodded and took a deep breath, "Ruby, I will answer your questions as best as possible, later. For now let's focus on finding our bow wearing teammate okay?" Ruby nods her head yes before Krok let's go.

"So… you and sis?"

"Later Ruby!"

"But-"

"LATER!" Krok says not wanting to explain the entire details to his relationship with Yang, something he himself didn't fully know.

"Does this mean that you and Yang will get married Krok?" Penny asks in her usual and calm voice; however, her question causes both Ruby and Krok look at her with wide eyes and deep red blush on her face.

"PENNY!" Krok exclaims, trying to hide the redding look on his face.

"I am sorry, I thought that when two young couples who are engaged in a relationship they exchange contact via lip. Does that also mean that you two engage in-"

"PENNY! NO!" Krok exclaims, clamping his hand over the girl's mouth to prevent her from saying something possibly traumatic to Ruby. "You know what… I will search for Blake, solo." Krok eyes both girls, "I will contact you if I find anything alright? Be safe you two." Krok says as he walks down another street, leaving Penny and Ruby alone as they stared at the back of his head.

"Yang...and Krok... together...dating?" Ruby says trying to figure everything out.

"Isn't that wonderful?" Penny says happily not realizing the shock of your sibling dating someone out of the blue.

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"Dammit, trying to find a faunus who wants to remain hidden is nearly impossible." Krok grumbles as he walks down the street. As he looks around; however… he comes up empty handed. "Damn it…" Krok grumbles, "Might as well get to higher ground." Krok says extending his claws and quickly scaling the side of a building, his claws easily cutting through the building's bricks. In seconds, Krok stands on top of the five story building. The air blows through his hair as small amounts of steam rise from his body, the remainder of his heat disappearing from his conflict with Weiss, Yang's hug, kiss and supportive wink. "Let's see, where would I find you Blake?"

"Try thinking like her than,"

"Good idea, she's trying to clear the White Fangs of the claims."

"So go somewhere would they would be most likely to strike."

"But where, somewhere with a lot of dust…the harbors!"

"There's a large shipment of dust coming in from the Schnee Dust Company, that's a flashing target the Fang is aimed at." Krok smiles happily at the new lead.

"Alright, thanks Bra…" Krok pauses, slowly turning to his side to see the familiar red and black clothes mysterious huntresses sitting on one of the low walls. Krok stares at her shocked at how he not only didn't hear her, but didn't realize he was talking to her for several minutes. "Branwen!? How did you… never mind, how do you even know what I'm looking for?" She shrugs slightly,

"You and your teammates were screaming Blake for a while so I eavesdropped. I am however quite surprised that none of them realized that your friend was a Faunus,"

"You and me both."

"Of course that little display of anger didn't go unnoticed either. That was reckless and unnecessary." She complains, her tone of a mother scolding her child. Krok just gives her an annoyed look, which she returns in full.

"Everytime she opens her damn mouth she manages to piss me off. If we weren't on the same team I would probably have melted that damn needle of hers."

"Focus on bigger issues now, the White Fang plan to take the large shipment of dust, your mission is the same, either complete capture, or complete elimination of the White Fang members."

"Let me guess, shock and awe again?" She simply nods her head, Krok sighs. While he enjoys scaring the crap out of White Fang members and Grimm, there was the great chance of there being extra people... his teammates. "What about my team members? They don't exactly know I go off into the night dressed up as a grimm boogieman."

"Which if you've kept your end of this deal should be the case. Meaning they shouldn't recognize you."

"One major problem, to them if it looks like a grimm, sounds like a grimm, acts like a grimm, and doesn't look remotely close to me now, they'll try to take me down as well." Krok explains, having been at the end of all four girls weapons once, something he didn't need a reminder of, particularly when he had no intention to hurt them (maybe Weiss a little) and their intent to kill a grimm.

"You should be able to handle a few of your teammates, you know their moves and their weaknesses." Branwen says with a look of annoyance.

"Yea, real easy to deal with my teammates who can; moves faster than the eye can follow, create clones of herself, create glyphs to help her, and one who when ever you harm her hair goes batshit mad and violent, REAL easy." Krok complains glaring at her, Branwen simply scoffs, not fully listening to his complaining of the situation.

"Solution than? Don't die, or else I have to find someone else to do what I need." Krok just gives her a blank look.

"Wow, at least try to sound like you would be upset from my possible death from my teammates, White Fang, or Grimm." Krok says staring at her with a blank look. One that she returns in full, she than begins to stand up fully and walks away.

"I won't mourn you, though I prefer that you not die, you are quite useful." She says with a slight laugh, doing more to unnerve him. She quickly pulls out her sword and creates a portal, "Don't take long, unless you prefer walking through the streets dressed up like a grimm?" She asks with a hint of sarcasm in her voice. Krok sighs before walking to the portal and entering it, the despite having experienced the familiar feeling of entering her portals if felt extremely weird and made his stomach churn still. As his feet touched the ground again he was at the entrance of Beacon Academy, it was the exact location as before. Krok takes a deep breath before the buzzing of his scroll brings him out of his moment of peace.

"I suggest you hurry through, or else you'll have to find another way back."

"I swear that woman is more impatient than my teammates when they want me to tell them something." Krok grumbles as he quickly moves to his weapon locker. Once there he quickly puts in his combination and extracts his prize, his grimm armor. The black, white and red still clean and offering a slight shine to it. The entire head set stares at Krok, the empty red eye covers wide like grimm eyes along with the bone white teeth, capable of being moved and giving the illusion of Krok having a double set of jaws. Krok smiles as he looks at his weapons , the two serrated blades on his wrist and the many hooks along his tail had the faintest hints of blood from faunus and grimm flaked off. "I'll admit, as much as I prefer to use Night's Edge… I LOVE this." Krok says laughing to himself as he quickly slips into his grimm armor. He quickly attaches everything, making sure it looks as natural as possible, something the last batch of White Fangs could easily confirm. After a minute everything was on and strapped on except his mask. Krok quickly folds up his clothes, hangs Night's Edge up and closes the locker. As quietly and as stealthily as he can, despite being in milky white grimm armor, Krok made his way back to the portal, thankfully still there and immediately leaps through it. He lands roughly and stumbles forward a little.

"Good, I was about to close it." Branwen says with a small sigh. She quickly looks him over briefly, "If it wasn't for me knowing it, I would swear you're a Grimm." She says simply as she looks over the tall buildings, Branwen grabs her mask and puts it on, giving the woman an even more frightening appearance, as Krok does the same. To anyone who would possibly see the pair they were a frightening sight to behold; Krok's armor and posture makes him look like a hybrid Grimm that would easily frighten most people. Branwen though would probably scare more people than Krok with looks alone. Branwen serious and cold glare alone managed to unnerve Krok, with the mask most people would rather run than find out about her impressive combat abilities.

"Remember what you need to do. Don't let your love for your team cloud your objective." Branwen warns, her voice altered a little under her mask, making her sound even colder than normal, like she needed help in that.

"Of course, mother." Krok says earning a glare from the red eyed woman, adding to her Grimm human hybrid look.

"Just get it done," She says simply, she quickly opens a portal and jumps through it. The portal quickly closes behind her and disappeared without a trace. Krok looks in the general direction of the docks, he had to quickly get to the docks and find a good place to hide, somewhere where he could watch unseen and make a perfect ambush.

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Krok sat high on one of the container cranes as he waits for the White Fang to strike; from up here Krok has a great view of all the crates and nearby buildings, at the same time unless you were looking directly at him and even then, you probably wouldn't see him. With the shattered moon high above and the sky clear of any clouds the entire docking area was illuminated. After waiting a hour or two he saw the familiar outline of his black haired teammate, Blake. Next to her is the monkey faunus from earlier, his golden tail giving off a slight shine from the moon. Blake lays flat on her stomach as she watches the docks, possibly here for the same reason as him. It would seem the blonde brought some apples,

"Why do I get this feeling that he must've stolen them?" The reptilian Faunus thinks as he sees him offering one to Blake. The two seem to engage in some communication, however from this distance even with his superior hearing Krok doesn't hear them, only faint whispers. However judging by their reactions to one another the monkey Faunus must of said something to annoy Blake because her head turning suggest that she gave, the look to him. "I'll take that as a yes." Krok thinks with a slight chuckle, he keeps low as he watches them talk for a few seconds, apparently, Sun said something else that earned a glare from the raven haired girl, "If he keeps that up, he going to piss of the one girl who you not only want happy, but will have to look over your shoulders for. Well… there is Yang, but her mad in general is something I would prefer not to see." Krok shudders at the thought of a mad Yang. However something more important than Yang brought him out of his thoughts, a bullhead comes flying in, the aircraft creates large gust of wind as its searchlight train the ground, missing both Krok and Blake. Krok's body remains low, avoiding detection as the aircraft lands quickly, allowing the White Fang members to walk out, the red wolf and claw logo on their back clearly visible in the light of the moon. While walking on all fours Krok quietly travels along the length of the crane, taking in the relative small number of White Fang members here. For this much dust you would need a small army to get every last crate, or maybe they were simply the scouting party?

"All right, grab the tow cables!" One of them shouts, as Krok keeps an eye on the group of terrorist Krok also watches Blake and the other faunus. Blake's facial expression seems to be one of shock and of sadness while the Monkey's expression is of confusion.

"Hey! What's the holdup!?" A new voice shouts from the bullhead, Krok has to re adjust his position. Krok moves as far as he can without being seen clearly. As he does he gets a slight glimpse of the man who spoke; he has on a black bowler hat with a red stripe, his hair is orange like Penny or Nora's though it covers his right eye, he has a cane that's black and red. His jacket was a clean white and he carried a cane with him, switching between his hands and moreover holding it instead of actually needing it, possibly his weapon?"We're not exactly the most inconspicuous bunch of thieves at the moment, so why don't you animals try to pick up the pace?" He orders, the annoyance and sarcasm clear in his voice as he orders the White Fang about, some of the members seem annoyed with him however they simply get back to work.

"You must be someone pretty important if the White Fang is willing to work with you. Particularly if you're a human with a razor tongue like that." Krok thinks slowly creeping toward them. While Krok watches them he plans out his attack; with so few members he could easily pick them off one at a time while remaining unseen. However with so few members he could easily go in and take them out with ease. He is tempted to, however...something wasn't right. There were over two dozen crates of SDC containers, yet there was less than a dozen members here. This was a golden opportunity, unless this was only the first wave.

While Krok continued to watch, Blake was thinking something else. She quickly leaps from her spot and creeps towards the human ordering the White Fang around.

"What the hell are you planning!?" Krok thinks as he watches the scene unfold, debating whether or not he should intervene or stay hidden.

"No, you idiot! This isn't a leash!" The man shouts at one of the members, Krok hisses quietly as he watches the man degrade the Faunus even more; however, the cocky look immediately leaves his face when he feels the blade of Blake's sword pressed to his throat,

"Nobody move!" She shouts, holding the blade to his throat. The White Fang members turn to her with their weapons drawn and pointed at her.

"Whoa! Take it easy there, little lady." The man says holding his hands up, for someone with a blade to their throat, he's relatively calm and seems to be a little happy. As the White Fang stare down the two, Blake takes off her bow, revealing her cat ears to the White Fang. Seeing that she's one of them they lower their weapons hesitantly.

"Looks like they don't want to hurt one of their kind. Too bad I look like a Grimm, this might have been a lot easier." The crocodilian Faunus thinks looking at himself. "Well… I made my choice already… might as well go on. Besides, the look on their faces when they see me will be totally worth it!" Krok quietly laughs before hearing Blake continue,

"Brothers of the White Fang! Why are you aiding this scum?" She asks, confusion and pain in her voice. The members look away, like they know how wrong this is, the man is the first to break the silence, with a loud laugh.

"Oh, kid, didn't you get the memo!" He asks with sarcasm in his voice.

"What are you talking about?" Blake asks, her eyes narrowing at the redhaired man,

"The White Fang and I are going in on a joint business venture together!"he laughs at the shocked look on her face. Blake's expression quickly hardens as she presses the blade to his throat.

"Tell me what it is or I'll put an end to your little operation." She demands threatenly. The man's visible eye looks up at the sky. At that moment the sound of engines overhead alert everyone of the presence of more bullheads, four to be precise.

"I wouldn't exactly call it a little operation…" He says with amusement as Blake's eyes widen as the four hover closer to the ground. Unfortunately in her moment of distraction, she failed to see as the man pointed his cane at her feet and fires. The blast manages to knock Blake back and onto the ground. However she quickly recovers before moving to dodge more attacks from the cane. She quickly darts around several large crates, moving out of the direct line of fire. Krok watches from above, while he is greatly tempted to jump in now, and even more so to help his teammate, he has to wait, he'll have a better opportunity to strike when the Fang members are preoccupied with Blake and the monkey faunus, as much as he hated using them, or better yet Blake as bait. "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty…" The man says slowly walking toward Blake's last seen location. His advancement is stopped as a banana peel lands on top of his hat. Krok laughs quietly as the man removes the banana peel and sighs in annoyance. Jumping off from a high crate is the monkey faunus, he manages to land on top of the human and rolls away, a look of anger on his face as he stares at the human rising to his feet.

"Leave her alone!" He angrily says glaring at him. The man smiles, above head the bullheads begin to open up, spilling out more White Fang members, and Grimm. The grimm snarl and roar as they're finally freed from their constraints. There are only about ten grimm total, a few small Ursa, an Ursa Major and a pack of Sabers with an Alpha. As the White Fang and Grimm land the faunus laughs nervously, fully surrounded by this many would be a harder challenge than before.

"Sun!" Blake shouts as she prepares to strike at the man from atop a crate from behind, however the man seems to have predicted this and fires at Blake, forcing her to jump out of the way, the man follows with more strikes as Blake continues to dodge them. However all her jumping made her oblivious to the Ursa hat stood waiting as it hits Blake, sending her toward Sun.

"Blake! Are you alright?!"

"Dumb question, how bad does it hurt would be a better one." Krok thinks as the White Fang and Grimm surround the two. The man laughs as Blake and Sun stand back to back with their weapons drawn and ready.

"You know, I'd say you two aren't the brightest animals there are are you?" He says laughing, earning glares from the two, and even some more from the Fang members. "I bet you two are wondering; 'Why are there Grimm here? Why are the White Fang controlling them? Why aren't the grimm attacking them? How can that AWESOME man, Roman Torchwick remain so calm and ever cool?'"

"Actually I was thinking all but the last one." Sun says laughing slightly, only stopping when the grimm began to snarl even louder at them.

"Quiet, monkey." Roman says pointing his cane at the faunus. " In any event more White Fang are coming, and we'll have the entire dock's worth of dust by morning. And you two? Well, we got to feed the grimm somehow." Roman says with a slight shrug, Blake tenses up and angrily glares at the human.

"You won't get away with this! Someone will stop you!" Roman laughs before turning to Blake, a cocky glare was plastered all over his face.

"Who then kitty cat? I've already won this." Roman says before snapping his fingers loudly, the grimm began to loudly snarl and snap their jaws as they approach the two faunus.

"I'd say now is a good time to strike, lets see how much chaos and mayhem I can create!" Krok thinks before striking. With as much force as he can muster he jumps up and angles himself over a Ursa, with his claws extended and his blades facing forward, Krok lands on the Ursa with a resounding crash. With the force he muster, his extreme weight, and his claws and blade embedded in the grimm's skull, it dies instantly. Underneath the two a large crater appears as the resounding boom draws the attention of everything. Most have looks of shock in confusion at the new grimm that has grimm turn their attention to the look alike and begin to snarl and growl at it. Roman, his is slight confusion but mainly a look that say; 'Why couldn't this job have been easy? I don't get paid enough to deal with children, grimm, animals, and whatever in Remnant THAT thing is."

"So…that thing a friend of yours?" Sun asks shock clear in his voice as he stares at Krok who has taken the stance of a grimm, remaining low to the ground snarling and baring his teeth as his tail slowly sways back and forth behind him.

"Alright, looks like we have another party crasher." Roman says simply, "Hey! Why don't you animals show our guest here a good time!" Roman says with annoyance clear in his voice. Several members slowly creep towards the armor covered Faunus, the fear clear in their walk and their shaking hands. The Grimm closest to them seem to notice their fear and begin to snarl at the Fang members as well.

"I don't think I've properly said hello to them, I shouldn't be rude." Krok thinks with a slight laugh. From all fours Krok lifts up slightly and takes a deep breath. The two Fang members look at each other with a confused look till Krok gives them a hello, via an ear splitting monsters roar. As Krok roars as loud as he can many of the Fang members cover their ears as the deafening roar. Sun and Blake also cover their ears as they close their eyes in pain. The Saber and Ursa seemed shocked at the roar as they get in more defensive position. Only Roman seems in affected as he simply stares, his one eye open fully and his mouth partly open.

"Well," Roman says after the echo ends. "Looks like this things on no one's side." He sighs before his expression becomes serious, "All of you! We're here for dust, got it!? All of you and the damn Grimm, kill them all!" Roman shouts before firing off a shot at Blake and Sun. Blake went to the right while the monkey Faunus jumped. "Can't I at least get one direct hit tonight?" Roman says with an annoyed tone.

"You'd have to try harder than that." The blonde teases laughing. "Cause I'm a great-" He never gets to finish as a Saber attacks from behind. Sun quickly rolls out of the way, only for Roman to shot him. Sun rolls painfully as Roman laughs.

"You were saying?" He says with a grin.

Across the docks Krok quickly dispatches White Fang after White Fang with extreme ease. With every single strike he would send one of them flying. His superior strength and speed allows him to easily rushes toward them to deliver a crippling blow. Krok spin and slams his tail into one, sending them flying into each other. Krok continues his assault by grabbing one of the White Fang and throwing them into another.

"This is too easy!" Krok thinks with a wicked smile on his face, baring his fangs as he roars loudly intimidating the Fang members even more.

"What the hell is this thing?!" One of them shouts as he watches Krok grab one's head and slams him into the ground, creating a tiny crater. Several shoot several rounds at Krok, he quickly darts to one of the crates, snapping and snarling at them. On Krok's wrist he changes the blade so it faces forward and he shoots it forward. Most of the Fang members leap out of the way, a smug look on their faces. However, Krok wasn't aiming for them, his blade hits its target, the back of a unsuspecting Ursa. The creature roars in pain as Krok retracts the chain, taking the Ursa with it. Krok curves the blade, turning the Ursa into a living wrecking ball. Krok spins around and slams the Ursa into several unsuspecting Fang members, sending them flying as the Ursa struggles to escape its confines. Krok quickly retracts his chain and makes his second blade face forward and embeds it into the Ursa's skull, instantly killing the grimm. The saber behind Krok pounced, biting into his shoulder, Krok quickly flips the Grimm over and shoves both his claws and blade into the chest. The Grimm roars in pain as Krok sinks his hand further into the grimm. From behind him, Krok hears the snarls of of Ursa behind him and rolls to the side. Krok quickly shakes off the dead Saber and hisses loudly, his hands on the ground and his back arched. Behind him are the remaining Ursas, the two smaller ones and the Ursa Major. The three surround Krok, all of them growling and making swipes at Krok who remains in the center, eyeing the three grimm and waiting for one of them to attempt to lash out at him.

"Let's see which one of you will come first." Krok thinks as he watches the three grimm, plan their attack, which was to charge at him all at once. Krok crouches down and begins to channel his aura inward, condensing it in the very center of his body and adding as much Aura as he could to his stock pile in his center, compressing it more and more. The Ursa came closer and closer, unaware of what Krok was planning, until it was too late. Krok stood up, extended his arms, and released his compressed aura in the form of a fiery explosion. The blast sends searing hot fire outwards, enveloping the three Ursa and turning them into ashes with ease. The fire blast even manages to scorch the ground and release a powerful shock wave the knocks several White Fang members over. Krok roars loudly before going back on the offensive.

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As Blake and Sun continue their assault against the criminal Roman, exchanging strike and counter strike one after another the three manage to hold their own with great skill. As the three only focus on each other, they fail to see the shock wave of the strange grimm's attack, sending them all tumbling to the ground as the wind. The three groan as the slowly rise to their feet.

"Why can't things ever go according to plan?" Roman says with an annoyed tone in his voice. "Get several crates of dust Roman! Use these damn mutts and the grimm to help you! Don't worry about children and some unknown fire grimm ruining your damn plans!" He angrily shouts as he gets to his feet and dusts himself off. Blake and Sun quickly stand up and look nod their heads at each other. The roar that the violent grimm lets out can be clearly heard resonating throughout the docks as he charges the remaining grimm.

"You know, as helpful as that Grimm is dealing with the others," Sun says, watching as it and the Alpha Saber slowly circle one another as the three remaining at bay while they wait for a moment to strike. "I get the feeling it's not on our side." Blake looks at the strange Grimm, the Grimm had never been known to attack their own, and this one hadn't killed anyone yet. While its attacks would require medical treatment the Grimm hadn't cut anyone open, yet. Still Blake felt something was off about that Grimm, the way it acted was like a Grimm but it's blades, they were actual blades not claws or spikes, nothing metallic like actual blades! Not to mention that blast, Blake had felt that kind of blast before, at that facility, with all the bodies and Grimm, the one that Krok used! Blake looks at the ground where the strange Grimm was, the ground was completely unburnt.

"That Grimm, I-I don't think it's a Grimm." Blake says watching as the strange Grimm and Alpha Grimm clash, the smaller Grimm on top of the Alpha's back repeatedly stabbing it. The Alpha tries to shake off the Grimm as it roars in pain. The smaller Grimm lets out a wicked roar as it tightly grips the fur on the Alpha's back and continues it's savage assault.

The Grimm flips the Alpha onto its back and grabs one of its saber teeth. With its tail around the Alpha and the hooks on its tail digging into the struggling Grimm, the smaller one begins to pull.

"Oh dear, I suggest you two cover your ears." Roman says, covering his own. Both Sun and Blake look in confusion, only realizing what the human meant when they hear the sickening sound of flesh tearing, it was the sound of the Alpha's saber teeth being forcibly removed from its mouth. The Alpha struggles to escape the grip of the smaller grimm, the tail covered in hooks that cut into its flesh and constricts its air way. At least, until the fangs are completely removed, causing the grimm to release an ear splitting roar of pain. The remaining people, human and faunus cover their ears as the Alpha roars in pain. Even the smaller grimm tense up at the sound of their leader in extreme pain. The strange grimm flips the fangs around in its hands and slams them into the underside of the grimm's skull. The grimm body twitches slightly before falling dead, it's body quickly turning into ashes. The smaller Sabers hold their ground, however the shaking of their bodies betray them, they're scared of the smaller grimm.

"Whatever it is, it seemed to scare not only the White Fang but the grimm themselves." Sun says with amazement and shock in his voice, Blake narrows her eyes at the strange grimm and at Roman. As much as she wanted to deal with this man...the grimm required her attention even more.

"Can you handle Roman?" Blake says with slight anger at having to leave him. Sun smiles before twirling his staff around in the air.

"Give me a minute and I'll join you in taking down that grimm!"

"Oh! Is that so?" Roman says spinning his cane around. Roman than laughs a little before his expression turns serious. "Well than, try not to disappoint me." Roman says as he points his cane at Sun. Blake quickly darts towards the unknown grimm, now facing off against the remaining three Sabers, or better yet, it slowly approaching the three grimm.

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"Come on little kitties, come and fight the dragon!" Krok thinks as he slowly approaches the three grimm, walking on all fours like a reptile as he loudly hisses at them. Their reactions are like the ones from the facility, it's almost like they're afraid of him, slowly backing away with every step he take towards them, reluctant to even move forward. Finally one lets out a loud roar, and rushes toward Krok, it tries to take a swipe at Krok only for him to effortlessly dodge the strike. In a flash Krok switches one blade forward and the other one backward, with the backward one Krok effortlessly cuts the attacking arm off, with the forward facing one embeds the blade into the Saber's chest. Krok quickly spins around and throws the grimm into another Saber sending them crashing into several cargo crates, before they come crashing down onto them. The final Saber tries to attack from behind; however, Krok's tail wraps around its neck and quickly crushes it. The grimm falls to the ground and slowly begins to disintegrate. Krok takes a few deep breaths before he hears the clicks of a familiar set of heels. Krok slowly turns to the sound, the heels connect to a pair of black and purple stockings, black and white cloths, and a pair of cat ears above raven hair. Blake walks up to Krok with her blades drawn. Krok hisses at her as he crouches on all four, keeping up his Grimm like appearance for his perceptive teammate.

"You know for a Grimm you're quite strange." Blake says as the two begin to slowly circle one another. "Normally Grimm only attack humans and Faunus with the intent to kill, you've only killed the Grimm." Blake says eyeing Krok. He stares back at her, Krok has only fought her one and that was with the rest of the girls the first time they met, while familiar with her fighting style he was going to have to be careful, especially with that semblance of hers. "You know, I recognized that fire blast before." She says stopping in her tracks, Krok does the same, watching her closely as his tail slowly sways back and forth behind him. "A certain crocodilian Faunus with a bad temper and a tendency to hide things about himself did that exact attack a few days ago."

"You're one to talk about hiding stuff Ms. Part of the White Fang and being a Faunus." Krok thinks as he snarls at her. Still, had his one attack been enough to cause suspicion to what he truly was? The White Fang members believe he was a Grimm, of course they didn't know him like Blake or any of girls for that matter. However it really didn't help Krok that he was going against not only one of the smartest members but probably the most observant of them all.

"So, are you a Grimm? Or is it you under there, Krok?" Krok pauses ever so slightly,

"Dammit Blake, always the perceptive one." Krok thinks as he thinks about what he needs to do now. Course she didn't actually know for sure, she only thought. Meaning as long as he didn't do anything that would give himself away. "Looks like we're doing this the hard way," Krok thinks as the blade slowly turn forward. Blake notices this and gets into a defensive stance. "She'll defend herself and it'll look like I'm trying to kill her, that should cover my tracks." Krok thinks as he arches his back ever so slightly, before launching himself forward at her. Krok runs low to the ground,his mouth wide open and a monstrous roar coming from him.

Krok arches an arm back and swings at Blake, she effortlessly backflips out of the way. Krok doesn't stop though, continuing to attack her while she remains on the evasive. As he finally lands a hit the attack phases through her, a clone. Krok quickly looks around, still unfamiliar with how her semblance completely works. The hair on the back of his neck stands up as he jumps to the side, just in time to dodge a slash from her sword. Krok hisses loudly as his tail arches up behind him.

"You have some pretty quick reflexes for a grimm." Blake says in her normal matter of fact way, "Almost like a huntsmen, or another faunus." Blake continues giving Krok a suspicious look.

"Dammit Blake stop prying!"

"Still, let's see if it's luck or skills." Blake then rushes forward toward Krok, Krok slashes at her but at the last second Blake replaces it with an ice clone. Krok's claws are trapped momentarily before he easily breaks through the ice. Blake rushes him from behind, sending a flurry of strikes as Krok uses his blades and tail to block her strikes. Krok spins around and strikes one of her shadow clones, causing him to keep spinning, however he goes with it till he's facing Blake directly. Krok rushes forward using his claws to keep Blake on the defensive. Again she leaves a clone, a fire one. As Krok strikes it it explodes, sending him back a little but otherwise leaving him unharmed.

"You're just full of surprises Blake." Krok thinks as he smiles under his mask, he knew she was a good fighter, hell all the girls on team RWBY were good if not great fighters. While he would greatly prefer to be using Night's Edge against here his arm blades would have to do for now. Besides he was getting valuable information on how the raven haired huntress fought. However despite all of this Krok was tempted to use his semblance, the cost of it though would definitely give himself away though.

"How long do you plan to keep this up?" Blake says slowly circling Krok. "Anyone else would still think you're a grimm, course that look helps a lot Krok." Blake says, "Every one of your attack, you held back on. Your moves are too precise and clean to be from a simple grimm." Krok hisses loudly earning a dry laugh from Blake, "You know if you didn't hiss and snarl on a normal occasion I wouldn't have easily recognized you Krok." Krok mentally swears, how the hell would anyone remember exactly what he sounds like?! "Krok I know it's you alright? You always were bad at lying." Krok crouches and snarls at her, however she simply scoffs at him. "Face it Krok, I know that you, and I know you won't kill me."

"This One would Gladly deal with the little Kitten!" Both Krok and Blake's eyes dart to the sound of the voice, coming from on top of one of the hanging crates, Meuzerug. Its long left arm holding it up as it hangs off the side, its feet firmly placed on one of the vertical sides and its right arm hanging down, the flesh now a burnt black color that hardly moves now.

"You're here?!" Blake shouts pointing her weapons at the large grimm. It clicks its jaws happily.

"This One is here are the behest of the Orange One." It says pointing its right arm at Roman, the arm is slow and stiff, most likely the grimm hasn't fully recovered from their last fight, meaning Krok would only have to deal with one arm.

"And where exactly have you been this entire time?" Roman asks clearly annoyed.

"This One was Observing the Younglings, however This One is disappointed in their Failure." The Grimm says, losing the normal cheer in its voice and gaining a tone closer to anger and annoyance, most likely referring to the failures of the smaller Grimm. Under his mask Krok smirks, with only Roman and Meuzerug now things should be easier. Though Krok knew the well already; things were never that easy.

"Well, while you say up there in the shadows," Roman continues "I've had to deal with the little kitty, the monkey, and your friend that didn't get the memo." Roman says with a tired sigh. Meuzerug looks down at Krok, their red eyes staring at each other for several tense seconds before the Grimm's face slowly twists into a smile, a wide twisted smile that takes over his entire face. The sound of his chuckling echoing throughout the night.

"This One would be more than happy to deal with this Little Pup!" The Grimm says happily as it jumps from its perch. As the Grimm lands, it creates a crater; however, as it does it lands with only one are supporting it, the other held up off the ground.

"Well than looks like someone has only one good arm," Krok slowly paces around, walking on all fours. Blake looks from Krok and Meuzerug before sighing.

"We're going to have a LONG conversation about your attire later, got it? You, me, Ruby, Weiss and Yang." Blake says giving Krok a stern look,making him shudder internally, this day just gets better and better doesn't it? Krok growls in reluctant agreement as Blake runs off to fight Roman. Krok and Meuzerug slowly circle one another, claws slowly dragging on the ground creating small sparks as they went.

"This One is going to enjoy making you Suffer!" The grimm says happily, "You shall pay Tenfold for what you have done to Meuzerug!" The grimm says with anger in its voice. It grips its right arm as it moves awkwardly. Krok simply bears his fangs, summoning up fire from inside him so it burns in his mouth, adding to his deadly appearance. Krok closes his mouth and cocikly smiles as smoke escapes from his mouth. His body language screams one thing; 'Come and Get Me!' Krok lets out a deafening roar before charging forward, round two has begun.

Krok was at a slight disadvantage, without Night's Edge and his chains such a visible attack, he would have to get in nice and close, the only benefit would be that with its longer arms, it'll be far less effective at close range, meaning he'll have to rely on using his smaller arms and legs. Meuzerug quickly takes a swipe at Krok, he dodges by rolling under it. Krok than leaps toward the grimm and begins his attack. Using his claws and blades Krok manages to latch onto its back, his claws getting in far enough to keep from falling, but merely scratching the grimm. Krok quickly switches the blade forward and sinks it deep into its back. The Grimm roars in pain as black blood seeps from the wound, quickly evaporating in black steam as it lands on the ground. Meuzerug tries to shake off Krok, using his good arm to try and reach him, however because of the angle Krok is out of harm's way as he continues to stab deeper and deeper into him.

"You little Pest!" The grimm shouts as it flails about trying to catch Krok. After one good stab Krok instead puts his hand inside and channels his fire into the grimm. The smell of burning flesh fill Krok's nose as black smoke rises from the grimm as it releases an ear piercing roar of pain. Quickly Krok jumps off, however, not quickly enough to avoid its grasp. "This One has caught the Little Pup!" It says happily before swinging Krok over its head and slamming him into the ground. Krok's body bounces up as he gasps painfully for air, the grounds cracks as Krok's combined weight and the force of the grimm slam into the small spot. The grim smiles as it cocks its fist back and aims a powerful punch to Krok's head. Krok rolls as the punch hits the spot where he was, smashing deep into the ground.

"Looks like I underestimated this thing." Krok thinks as he shakes off the last hit. Meuzerug pulls its fist from the ground and looks at Krok, it's eyes glowing red. "Well than, time to hold nothing back, as long as no one else who recognizes me show up I should be fine." From across the docks the sounds of gunshots can be heard firing in quick succession. As the shots fire off Krok rushes into striking distance of the grimm, sliding under another sweep attack. Meuzerug smiles, before shooting one of its clawed feet out towards Krok, using its one good arm to counterbalance it. Krok easily sidesteps the attack and watches the grimm. Continuing its movements the grim twists and performs an ax kick, twisting around as it speeds toward Krok. Krok runs up and jumps over the kick, with a boost from his semblance Krok cocks his fist back and delivers a punch to the Grimm, making contact with the grimms mouth and sending it backwards and rolling into into a wall. The Grimm takes several seconds seconds to recover. As Krok approaches the sound of a fire cracker rushes towards him, immediately, Krok jumps out of the way as the spot where he was standing explodes from the shot.

"Don't you know it's never a good idea to turn your back to the enemy?" Roman says as he happily swings his cane around before firing it again, this time aimed at a hanging crate, right above Blake and Sun! Krok tries to rush over; however, something grabs a hold of his tail.

"This One is still your Opponent!" The Grimm says with glee in its voice. Thankfully as the crate comes crashing down, both Faunus jump out of the way only for Sun to be in a direct line of fire from Roman's cane.

"HEY!" Someone's voice rings out over the docks, one that both Krok and Blake recognize. That voice belonged to their young, energetic, friendly, cookie loving leader; Ruby Rose. She stood on top of one of the roofs with her scythe fully extended and planted in the roof. Standing next to her was a familiar orange haired girl with green eyes, Penny. Both girls look around the docks, Ruby's eyes widening as she sees Krok and Meuzerug along with Roman, who seemed to have lost interest in the monkey faunus.

"Well, hello, Red! Isn't it past your bedtime?" He asks as if happy that Ruby was here and ready to fight.

"What are you doing here!? Why are there Grimm here as well?!" She demands as Penny walks closer to the edge and looks at Krok, she gives a small smile, knowing it was the crocodilian Faunus underneath the look.

"Well you see Red, I was told my shipment of several crates of Dust will be arriving tonight, and I just couldn't wait! You understand, it's like Christmas for me!" He says with a slight pep in his step. "As for the Grimm? Well there were more, but the small one with a tail decided to kill them all. Now I have one that's only half as good as he once was. No matter Red, I can still collect all my little goodies!" He says with fake happiness. Penny says something to Ruby as she looks away from Roman, giving him the opportunity to shot her sending her back a little.

"Doesn't anyone listen to me? I say don't turn your back, and what does she do? She turns her back! I swear common sense seems to have flown right out the window with these kids!" Roman says with a hint of annoyance in his voice at he shakes his head. Krok snarls loudly; however, is held in place by Meuzerug, who is smiling widely.

"This One does Not plan to let the Little Pup leave just yet!" The grimm says happily as it keeps its grip on Krok's tail despite his protest. High above the sound of more Bullheads flying in as they drop more White Fang members, "The Little Pup can not hope to win this fight! The Aura Users than fight with Meuzerug may be weak but their Numbers compensate for that!" The grimm says as it quickly grabs Krok around his throat and brings him inches from his face. "This One's skills far surpass those of the Little Pup! Yet you still fight to defeat Meuzerug The Savage!" The grimm brings Krok inches from its mouth, nearly making the faunus gag at the horrendous smell that escapes from the creature's mouth. "Does the Little Lizard believe it can beat This One?! Meuzerug The Savage?!" The grimm asks loudly, sending even more of its breath over Krok's nose. Despite the situation Krok smiles.

"Numbers only help so much, right now I have only four others on my side, but I'll take them over 50 grimm or White Fang grunts like the ones you all been sending," Unknown to Krok, Penny was now fighting off the advancing White Fang troops, using a series of multiple swords to effortlessly attack and defend the White Fang attacks, the action temporarily distracts the large grimm, giving Krok enough time to angle one of his blades into the arm that had trapped it. The grimm cries out in pain as it instinctively lets go, giving Krok space to catch a breath, one that doesn't smell like decomposing bodies. "Now listen, you disgusting, snaggletooth, corpse eating Grimm." Krok says, glaring at the grimm, "I got a few things to say; One the name's Krokodil PenDragon, not Little Pup, not Slayer of Grimm or whatever you come up with! Second there's this product called mouthwash, please invest in it. And third, no, I'm not going to beat you, I'm going to kill you Grimm. This One this, This One that, This One would need to expand its vocabulary, but the dead can't talk."

"This Little Pup has a sharp tongue."

"This One has sharp claws, and hot fire, but you know about that last one, don't you?" Krok notes, looking at his burnt arm, the arm held off the as the grimm as it rushes full speed toward Krok.

"I will kill you!" Krok thinks as he dodges the strikes, he keeps it up, slowly backing up as the grimm makes continued strikes at him. "I am better than you," Krok jumps over a leg sweep and slashes the grimm's face with his tail,the hooks cutting into the grimm's flesh, the grimm roars in pain as it cover its face, black blood spilling from between its fingers. "NOW!" Krok ruses forward and slashes the grimm's side, raking his claws and leaving black oozing cuts. The grimm roars, however Krok isn't finished as he hooks one of his blades into the grimm's back, spinning him around as he delivers another painful cut to the grimm's side. The grimm swipes at Krok, missing the grimm disguised faunus as he land directly in front of the grimm. Krok channels his fire to his feet and creates an and explosion, launching him off the ground and sending him up, allowing him to launch his knee into the grimm's head forcing it backwards. Krok does a complete flip over and aims his hands at the grimm's face, "Burn," Krok channels his fire to his hands before pressing them to the grimm's face, the grimm lurches back as it covers its face as smoke rises from the burns.

"This One will KILL you! This One, will RIP you to Shreds! This One, Meuzerug The Savage WILL BE YOUR DEATH!" The grimm roars in anger as it removes its hand from its face, revealing two clear handprints, now scorched smiles under his mask, the grimm was enraged and hell bent on catching him, meaning he could set up a trap. Krok shoots one of his blades into one of the crates and jumps up, as the grimm draws closer Krok retracts, allowing the chain to pull him toward the crates and separate them. "Stand and Fight!" The grimm roars in fury, quickly running after him. Krok removes his blade from the crate and shoots it up going high onto the crates. The grimm roars in anger and begins to climb up, its good hand helping to transverse over the crates, there was only one problem, while Meuzerug was trying to quickly get to him it would make mistakes with its footing, resulting in it falling back every few steps. Krok laughs to himself as the Grimm rushes after him with fury in his eyes. The reptilian faunus ducked as Meuzerug tries to swipe at him, causing the grimm to lose its footing and tumbles downward, bringing a series of crates with it. Said crates crashed on Meuzerug causing it to yell out in pain. Several of the crates tumble past however several large ones land on his arm, the good one. The grimm's roars echo across the docks along the crashing of the bullheads from Penny's assault.

"Note to self; android girls are super deadly in fight, better as an ally than an enemy." Krok thinks as he watches her not only slicing several in half but also managing to pull one out of the sky. "Damn Penny! What are you, a killbot!? Krok marvels as he makes his way down to the trapped Grimm struggling to pull its good arm from under the crates.

"Release Meuzerug immediately!" The Grimm cries out as it struggles to pull its arm out from under the crates. Krok slowly crawl toward the trapped grimm.

"Give me a reason to free you," Krok saws in a low growl, "Didn't you remembered what I said? 'I'm not going to beat you, I'm going to kill you Grimm' Now, I'd say I finish the job, wouldn't you?" Krok says as he lands on the grimm's back, stabbing the grimm, with both of his blades, cutting through the flesh and allowing "I'm sure you remember our last fight? Now, I think it's time that you felt my full fury."

"The Little Pup can not kill This One! Meuzerug is strong! Meuzerug the Savage is unkillable!" The grimm roars in rage and pain.

"Than let's see how well you do against my fire." Krok says simply as he rips his blades out of the grimm's back and launches himself forward, landing back onto solid ground a good distance away from the grimm, Krok gets on all fours and takes a deep breath, sucking in as much air as possible, Meuzerug already knows what he's planning to do. Its eyes widen in shock as it frantically tries to pull its arm out, barely moving the many crates pinning its arm. Krok continues to suck in as much before releasing all of his fire, creating a massive spiral of burning fury, heading right toward the grimm. Meuzerug becomes even more frantic as the fire quickly advances towards it. Meuzerug stares in shock, before making a drastic, but necessary decision.

Krok doesn't relent in his fiery assault, enveloping the crates closest to the grimm and even stretching to the water itself, causing the surface to bubble and steam from the intensity of the fire attack. After several long seconds Krok ends the fire stream, taking several deep breaths as he examines his work, the very cement glows red and orange from the heat of the attack. There is only a small stretch scorch near him, however the further and further back it gets the wider and wider it gets, however this area doesn't as brightly glow, now only dull oranges shine, slowly dying completely. Krok looks at the sport were the grimm should have been, the area is darker like the rest, however there isn't a visible body there. Krok looks, the grimm should be dead, but Meuzerug had a tendency of remaining alive, even when he should have died. Krok looks around, his eyes widen at something; blood, grimm blood. There was a large amount leading toward the top of the crate. As Krok looked upward he saw something that he wished was dead, Meuzerug.

"This One will NOT fall by your Fire! Meuzerug The Savage will Rip you apart!"The grimm screeched in anger. While the grimm was alive it was in bad shape. Most of its body was now covered in burns, the worst being a near ebony black while others went to a deep red, however the burns were not the worst of it, the grimm's mouth was dripping black blood. As Krok looked his eyes widen, the reason the grimm had managed to survive was because it bit off its own arm! The flesh was torn and bloody as it hung from the shoulder, the entire limb missing. Meuzerug could barely stand now, with only a stiff burt crisp of an arm left the grimm shakily trying to support itself.

"You look like a half cooked turkey." Krok jokes as he sways his tail back and forth behind him. "Maybe I should finish it and fully cook you, huh Meuzerug?" Krok asks as he slowly paces in front, with only a stick for an arm, and most likely the rest of its body was in extreme pain, killing it now would be a cakewalk. However life loves to prove people wrong and appear when it may not suit them best, for Krok, this occurred when a bullhead flies over head toward the two. The headlight blast on as they lock onto the two grimm fighting. The airship turns to the side and launch a series of machine gun fire at Krok forcing him to jump backwards to avoid the rain of bullets. Standing at the open side hatch was Roman Torchwick, a smug smile was plastered all over his face.

"As much as I would love to watch this continue, my boss needs this one armed prune alive." The human joked earning a loud snarl from the Grimm.

"Do NOT insult Meuzerug the Savage, Human! This One will still Rip you to shreds!" The Grimm roars, violently as several cables fall from the bullhead, ensnaring the Grimms m. The Grimm's eyes narrow as it tries to shake out of the tightening cables,

"Oh shut up, you can barely stand up, let alone fight me or that thing. You might as well leave while you can because I don't plan to anger a certain person who wants you alive." Roman said, with a slight shiver. He than points his cane at Krok. "Well, whatever on Remnant you are, this has been SO fun!" He says with false enthusiasm. "However, me and this thing are on a tight schedule and need to leave early! But don't you worry, I've got a special gift for you!" Roman then fires several blasts at Krok, each whooshing through the air like a firecracker. Krok jumps back further as the bullhead flies higher and higher into the air with Roman and that damn grimm dangling from its chains. "Ta ta for now!" He says as the aircraft flies away, fading into the distance. Krok lets out an ear piercing roar that forces the remaining Huntsman in training to cover their ears from the deafening sound. After several seconds Krok ends it with a simple huff, sounding more like a growl if sort under his mask. With the immediate danger having passed there was only one more serious issue; his two teammates, Sun and Penny. Krok slowly turns to face them, Ruby and Sun stare at him with confusion and worry, clenching their weapons in case the supposed Grimm try anything. Blake and Penny on the other hand were relatively calm, Blake believing that it was Krok, and Penny actually knowing it was Krok.

"As much as I want to stay and explain to all of you my choice of attire," Krok thinks as he eyes the terrains "I think it would be best if they all believe I'm a Grimm at the end of the day." Krok once again roars loudly before rushing directly toward the four, Ruby and Sun meet the charge, Sun coming up and swinging his staff and Ruby swinging Crescent Rose. From watching the pair fight already dodging was a simple matter, along with catching both their weapons shocking the little girl and the monkey faunus. Krok throws Sun hard into a crate and does the same, however holding back a little for the small redhead. Krok than rushes toward Penny and Blake, Penny pulls out her swords and slashes at Krok. he easily dodges the sweep of swords, strange considering the speed she moved with earlier. Krok is puzzled by this until he sees a small wink from her, she knew what he was planning, and was following his lead! Krok smiles as he slams the flat end of his tail into the girl, sending her 'flying' back and a clear opening. At Least until a certain cat faunus steps in front of him. "I swear Blake, you're getting close to Yang's level of stubbornness! Annoyingly close!" Krok thinks as she pulls her weapons from back and stands in his way, glaring at him.

"Only one way you leave Krok," She than points the blade part of her weapon at him, narrowing her eyes. "Remove the mask or I'll remove it for you!" She says getting ready for anything the faunus might try.

"Damn it Blake! Why do you have to be so stubborn!?" Krok hisses loudly at her, baring his fangs, as before though she's unnerved. Already Krok can hear Ruby and Sun recovering from his initial strikes and heading toward him. With all four of them attacking him, Krok knew he was not only going to be outnumbered, and gunned, but also he would probably lose. He needed to finish this quickly and get past her. "I didn't think they'd be this persistent. Looks like I've got to hurt her first." Krok think reluctantly, however, he just needs to get her out of the way, which means getting her to move. Krok smiles slightly under the mask as he rushes toward her roaring as he readies his blades.

"So be it, I'll rip that mask off your head!" She shouts annoyed as she rushes forward. Krok doesn't back down from her, instead he jumps above her, fire in his mouth as he releases a wide blast of fire. As much as he prefers to save it for actual enemies and grimm, the cat faunus forced his hand. Blake instinctively jumps out of the way, the fire close enough so she can feel the waves of heat rolling off, yet far enough that she wasn't in any actual danger of becoming a cat barbecue. With her out of the way Krok lands on the stretch of ground that was burnt and runs full speed ahead. "Get back here!" Blake cries out, however with the flick of his tail, he knocked her back. She quickly flips and lands on her feet glaring at him, however he had plenty of time to launch one of his blades into the far building wall. Blake's eyes widen as Krok retracts the chain, pulling himself up and over the wall. Krok turns to face them, Ruby holding Crescent Rose in its gun form and everyone staring up at him. Krok lets out one final ear piercing roar before leaving the roof top. Blake looks on with an annoyance for Krok's refusal to remove his mask and even more so to run off.

"Blake?" Ruby asks, a look of confusion on her face as she approaches her missing teammate, "Was that a grimm? It could breath fire and was able to catch our weapons! I've never seen a grimm like that, or one that attacked other grimm."

"Hey kid you should have seen it!" Sun says with a mix of excitement and shock at the memory. "It took down White Fang, tore apart Grimm, and even took down that one big one!" Ruby stares in shock, before looking at Blake.

"Yea… it was a unique grimm," Blake says after several seconds, she was debating with herself; whether that was Krok or not. The other grimm could talk and clearly think and the other could breath fire and think quickly. Now she would only have to worry about her other teammates see her.

---

After several minutes, the vale police force arrived, bringing several cars, vans for the members of the White Fang that were left behind and to investigate and question the four huntsmen in training as to what exactly happens at the docks. As the four sat on several crates waiting for the police to end their investigation with them. As they sit there the definitive clicks of high heel boots becomes clear. They all look up to see the owner of those heels, Weiss. Behind her is Yang with a casual look on her face. Ruby, worrying that the two teammates would get into an agreement quickly intercepts Weiss.

"Look, Weiss, it's not what you think, she explained the whole thing. See, she doesn't actually have a bow, she has kitty ears and they're actually kind of cute..." Ruby explains or attempt to as the heiress walks by her younger leader completely ignoring her reasoning. Blake quickly stands up and walks to her white haired teammate, knowing that she owed her an explanation, particularly after bailing like that for several days.

"Weiss, I want you to know that I'm no longer associated with the White Fang. Back when I was with the-"

"Stop! Do you have any idea of how long we've been searching for you?" Weiss interrupts, she glares at her slightly as she crosses her arms with an annoyed look. "Twelve hours. That means I've had twelve hours to think about this. And in that twelve hours, I've decided…" She pauses for several seconds, causing everyone to tense as the wait to hear whatever earful Weiss has been saving up for several days. She simply sighs and softens the glare, "I don't care." Blake's, Ruby's and Yang's eyes widen. All of them had expected a long winded lecture of some kind, if not her yelling at her, not her simply dismissing it.

"You don't care?" Blake says with shock in her voice and plastered all over her face.

"You said you're not one of them anymore, right?" She asks with a slightly raised eyebrow, Blake quickly shakes her head no, not wanting to have any relations with the once peaceful protest group turned into radical terrorists.

"No, I-I haven't been since I was younger-"

"Ah-bah-bah-bah-bah! I don't want to hear it." Weiss says holding her hand up "All I want to know is that the next time something this big comes up... you'll come to your teammates. And not some..." She looks at Sun who sheepishly looks around and laughs nervously,"Someone else." She says, avoiding using the term rift raft, or criminal towards the Faunus. Blake feels tears begin to well up in her eyes, she quickly wipes them away.

"Of course." She says with a smile, Weiss gives a small smile as the two teammates look into each other's eyes, having made up with each other.

"Yeah! Team RWBY is back together!"Ruby cries out happily as there is a sense of peace restored to the small team. The four of them walk up to each other, each of them smiling at each other. Sun walks up to the four girls, his goofy smile plastered all over his face. However Weiss quickly whirls on him, pointing her manicured finger in his face.

"I'm still not quite sure about how I feel about you!" She says sharply, making the monkey Faunus back up as he nervously laughs.

"Hey, wait a minute…" Yang says looking around, "Where's Krocky?" At this Weiss and Ruby begin to quickly look around for the reptilian faunus. "Wasn't he with you sis?"

"At first, but then he went off on his own." Ruby says, now realizing that they were missing their other faunus teammate, though his traits weren't as easily hidden as Blake's were. "I haven't seen him since we went our separate after that argument Weiss and him had." Weiss sighs with clear anger and annoyance at Krok's sudden disappearance.

"Great, he decides to disappear without a word, again."

"Wait, Krocky? Isn't that the grumpy looking guy with the lizard tail?" Sun asks only vaguely recalling Krok as his attention was more focused on Blake at the time.

"His name is Krokodil, or Krok Sun. Also he's a Crocodile faunus, not a lizard." Blake corrects, receiving an appreciative nod from the monkey faunus.

"Great so we have no idea where he is. Is there anything else we should know?"

"There was this grimm that was killing the other grimm, taking out the White Fang, and this gigantic grimm." Blake says, after several seconds, trying to figure out for herself whether or not that

" A grimm that fought White Fang, and killed grimm?" Yang said with a confused look.

"I think I saw him breathing fire." Ruby says, recalling the mysterious grimm breathing fire multiple times.

"Breathing fire?! That should be impossible! Grimm shouldn't possess such skills like that!" Weiss yelled with disbelief.

"I would believe Weiss, but me Blake and Krocky saw a grimm in the Forever Falls that could talk, it called itself Meuzerug or something."

"Wait a sec, tall skinny with four arms and jagged teeth?" Sun asks, remembering how he heard the grimm talk, despite him being in a fight with Roman. Yang looks at him with shock and disbelief.

"It's right arm burnt to a crisp and it constantly saying This One?" Yang asks, still remembering the piercing red eyes of the grimm.

"Yea that it."

"However, it shouldn't cause much harm now, the smaller grimm forced it to bite off its own arm so it could survive, the one that wasn't burnt."

"Wow, looks like it could, use a hand!" Everyone simply gives her a blank look as she smiles widely. "What? Fine I know, he isn't alright!" She says again, this time earning groans from her teammates. "Oh come on! Those were good! I would ask Meuzerug for a hand but he's only got one!"

"Is she always like this?" Sun asks, wondering about the blonde haired huntresses.

"You have no idea…" Blake says with a definitive sigh toward her partner's action, and constant use of bad puns.

---

After they were cleared to leave the four girls returned to their dorm, all on the way there Blake talked about her history with the White Fang, telling all the details she told Sun about them and how she was a criminal hiding in plain sight. Of course none of her teammates saw her as such, and only saw the once quiet girl as fully opened up to them. Along with Blake's past Weiss, Yang, and Ruby talked about what had transpired while they searched for her. Including the fact that Weiss and Krok were at each other's throats, along with Yang's publicly expressing concern and even love for the faunus. Of course Blake had long suspected the two, though now was the official confirmation. The news was still a shock to Weiss, and an even greater one to Ruby.

"Sis, are you two dating?" Ruby asks with a mix of curiosity and worry. Not from her disliking Krok, but just her lacking any experience with this and that her sister had only a few would be suitors that she rejected. Yang simply smiles,

"I'm not sure Rubes," She says as they approach their dorm room, "We both like each other, but he's kinda shy about expressing those feelings, so I want to wait till he ask before I say yes to that."

"I find it hard to believe that the two of you are in love with each other," Weiss says raising an eyebrow at her blonde haired teammate.

"I find it hard to believe the two of you aren't together." Blake says looking at Weiss with a smirk on her face. " You know what they say, opposites attract."

"Oh be quiet," Weiss says simply, not in the mood to deal with anyone's jests about they open the door to their dorm. "Frankly I'm tempted to give him a piece of my mind for disappearing like that, I swear when he get back…" Weiss says as she turns on the lights to their dorm, however when she does, she's in complete shock.

"Um, Weiss? Something wrong?"

"You guys know where Krok is?"

"Um, no. Do you know where Krocky is?"

"Look inside," the three girls enter their dorm room, all of their eyes open in shock, Krok's already in the dorm room, asleep. Krok laid in his bed, curled up slightly with his tail next to his head, a peaceful look on his face as he breathes softly.

"How long has he been here?" Blake asks as quite closes the door behind her,

"By the looks of it, I'd say… the whole time?" Ruby says slowly creeping toward the Faunus and gently poking his face, his tail moving to brush off whatever was irritating his face. Ruby giggles at the reaction, halfway tempted to continue. Weiss quickly advances on the Faunus, being stopped by a firm hand on her shoulder from Yang.

"Look, I know things are still dicey between you two, but let's not start it again okay?" Yang asks raising an eyebrow at her, Weiss stairs at her for a second before sighing.

"Very well, though he's not off the hook yet." She says with a slight huff.

"As long as you're giving him another chance." Yang says with a smile, she looks at the sleeping Faunus completely amiss to the events happening around him. She kneels down in front of him gently rubbing his neck area, getting the desired results of him purring. Yang and Ruby quietly laugh, Blake smiles at the growing smile and Weiss simply sighs.

"Looks like he wrote something," Blake says seeing a letter on the small table they have. Blake picks up the piece of paper and begins to read it;

" I already know I'm going to get an earful for not appearing at the docks and leaving Ruby. So instead of trying to make up some story by the time you four get back, I'm going to tell you. I was still pissed, pissed at Blake's disappearance pissed with Weiss, and annoyed that Yang pretty much showed everyone that we like each other!

So I took a little time to blow some steam. While I did, I realized how stupid I was acting. All I've done is run and force you guys to follow in my wake. With Weiss we pretty much go back and forth like small children, and Yang… While I still admit that I am not so keen on the idea of us publicly expressing our,relationships, I'm greatly appreciative for the love, fun, joy, and occasional annoyance you bring. I am truly thankful. Also, to all of you, I'm sorry, for not being there when you needed me, I deserve whatever you want to say.

And Weiss...what I said was rude and horrible. I don't want us to be at each other's throats. We're teammates, we need to work together and stop trying to piss off each other. For what I said, truly I am absolutely sorry.

I'm probably asleep right now, so when you get back, well if you want to yell at me, do it. If you don't than I'll see you guys in the morning.

Krok,

P.S. Blake they already know about the ears, make sure they don't find out about the yarn.

Blake silently stares at the letter, her eyes lingering at the last part, her eyebrow twitching slightly at the mention of yarn. Something that wasn't true though, something she felt that her teammates would believe.

"Don't say a word, I don't have yarn got it?" She says knowing it would probably be Yang who would make a stupid joke like that about her cat parts and yarn. She could already hear Yang giggling at the idea of Blake playing with a ball of yarn during her free time.

"Fine, fine," Yang says with the slightest hint of disappointment in her voice. "So mister," Yang says quietly as she rubs his cheek tenderly. "What should we do with you?" Yang thinks for a second before sighing, "I've got nothing for now, any of you?"

" As much as I feel he deserves an earful… I'll let it slide this once." Weiss says crossing her arms and softly glaring at the sleeping faunus. "Though I don't plan to condone any of his normal and reckless action." She says sighing a little.

"I don't know about you guys but I could use some sleep." Blake says stretching a little. Ruby and Weiss agree with her and they begin to get changed into their cloths. Yang looks at the sleeping faunus, this was a golden opportunity, plus he would either enjoy it greatly, or wake up redder than Ruby's cloak, possibly both. Yang quietly laugh as she gets into her pajamas.

"Well, it's not like were having sex or something, besides I'm sure he won't mind, later on." She laughs at the possible look on his face and slowly crawls into the bed. Moving his tail and arms as gently as possible she slowly crawls in next to him, her head next to his chest. Thankfully he smelt like he took a shower before going to bed as the smell of soap and water still lingered on him. As she gets comfortable his body adjusts to the new presence, by wrapping around it. His arms pull her closer to her in a gentle embrace. Krok's tail wrapped itself around her waist, the soft under scales pressing to her belly and waist as it wraps around her leg. Yang can feel the muscles in his tail gently moving, almost like a hug to her. She looks up at Krok's face, a slight smile on his face as he keeps her close to his body, radiating a comfortable level of heat. Yang scoots up slightly and tenderly kisses his lips, lingering for several seconds before breaking the kiss and scooting back down, listen to his heart beat.

"Goodnight, Krocky. I hope we can do this again another time…" Yang said before drifting off to sleep, enjoying the feeling of her crocodilian protector.

---

"THIS ONE WILL KILL HIM! THIS ONE WILL RIP THE MUTT TO SHREDS! THIS ONE WILL FEAST UPON ITS INNARDS THIS ONE-

"NEEDS TO SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Roman angrily shouts, ever since he and Meuzerug had arrived at their hidden base it had been nothing but screams of pain and empty threats. The adrenaline had long since left the grimm, forcing it to bear with the pain from all of its burns and biting off its own arm. Several members from the White Fang had attempted to give it some pain killer and to properly close the wound, however…

"THIS ONE SHALL NOT BE HELPED BY WEAK AYRA USERS!" It screeched before trying to snap at them, actually catching one or two and ripping the poor faunus in two. With that no member was willing to risk their life to help a grimm that didn't want any help. Roman sighs as his head pounds from the shouting, being beaten by a group of children, some rouge grimm and not receiving the multiple crates of dust.

"I swear, today is not my day." Roman says with a groan, he pulls out one of his cigars and light's it, enjoying the calming feeling it gives him

"Truly not your day," Roman nearly chokes on his cigar, "How very, very disappointing, Roman." He recognizes that icy cold voice anywhere, he quickly whirls around and see the one who requested he work with the grimm, faunus and who wanted so much dust, Cinder Fall. With her are her associates, one a silver haired boy with black and grey cloths on, Mercury Black. The other was a girl, dark skin with green hair and piercing red eyes. She wore green, brown and white in a revealing outfit yet still remaining modest, Emerald Sustrai. The two of them stood silently behind their leader, staring at Roman with looks of disapproval.

" I wasn't expecting to see you guys so soon..." Roman says nervously, knowing by now that he was already on thin ice with her. She makes a tsk sound as she slowly walks toward him, her glass heels creating a loud click with every step.

"We were expecting... more from you." She says coldly, her golden eye locked onto him. Despite the situation he felt anger begin to rise within him.

"Hey! You were the ones who suggested working with those stupid mutts from the White Fang. Not to mention the now useless grimm in back screaming its head off and swearing vengeance like he now has a chance." As if on que the sound of things being smashed about and a screech of agony and pain resonates from the very back.

"MEUZERUG THE SAVAGE WILL HAVE ITS REVENGE! THIS ONE WILL MAKE THE COWARD SUFFER! KROKODIL PENDRAGON! THIS ONE WILL SLOWLY END YOUR EXISTANCE!" The grimm roars, earning an annoyed sigh from Roman as he rubbed his head.

"And you will continue to do so."

"Wha-"

"We have big plans for you, Roman." Cinder says creating a small fire in her hands, illuminating her face showing the purple highlight of her eye and the golden iris. "All we ask is... a little cooperation." She says with a smile on her face, chilling his blood at the look. " However, I do believe I will have a chat with our... guest." Cinder says, annoyance clear in her voice. She quickly walks to the back room, every foot step creating a loud click from her heels. She walks quietly and quickly an unamused look on her face. She quickly walks into the room. She quickly steps to the side avoiding a table that went flying into the wall.

"THIS ONE WILL NOT BE CONTAINED! THIS ONE WILL KILL PENDRAGON! RIP HIM APART! BREAK HIS BONES! DEVOUR HIS STILL BEATING HEART! THIS ONE WILL-"

"Be quiet, now." Cinder says simply, observing all of the damage that not only it had inflicted to the room, but also to its body. Cinder still remember the last report from Roman, a fire breathing grimm. She knew Meuzerug was quite strong and not something most people could handle. Yet, right before her, Meuzerug had severe burns and its entire right arm was gone. "What happened?" Cinder ask, no demands from the grimm. The minute he see it's her, Meuzerug stops thrashing about. Immediately it clenches its teeth and lowers its head.

"Lady Cinder, This One did not expect your return to happen so soon."

"I was expecting this fire breathing grimm to be before me, yet here you are, covered in burns, one arm useless to me now, one missing entirely and the shipment of dust that I told you and Roman to bring in strangely absent. So it would appear that the two of us were surprised." She slowly paces, every step echoing in the small room. Meuzerug simply stares at her, its teeth clenched in anger but keeping its mouth shut. "Explain why the two of you have failed in the simplest of tasks I've given you." She stops in front of the grimm, her eyes glowing in anger at the turn of events. The grimm tenses slightly at her demand.

"This One discover the grimm that attacked our facility, Lady Cinder. However when This One confronted it, This One was bested both times. This One received this from the first fight," The grimm moves its remaining arm, "This One received the rest form this night." Cinder looked at the extent; its flesh was burnt to a crisp in several areas, along with the severed arm. Cinder laughs slightly, causing the grimm to look at the woman.

"My, my, it sounds like this grimm is truly a worthy catch." Cinder says, laughing a little. The grimm snarls slightly however is quickly silenced by the glare she gives him.

"The one that did this to This One, is no Grimm. It's a Faunus, an Aura User." The grimm says with a hint of anger in its voice. "This One knows its name; Krokodil PenDragon." Cinder pauses and looks at the Grimm before thinking deeply.

"Krokodil PenDragon, Krokodil PenDragon, very well, I suppose that is still workable. I believe I can work with that, and get him to work with us." Meuzerug's eyes widen at the statement. "Now about you, I believe I know who to contact to help make you of use." Cinder says with a smile. " If not, than disposing of you will not be a real issue." She says as she leave the room, preparing to make a call to a certain group, the ones that sent her the grimm and Meuzerug itself. "Now we still need to find him, the minute we do, the destruction of Vale will be as easy as stealing a maiden's power." She laughs darkly as she walks on, both her and her bosses plan's beginning to get set in motion.

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Alright everyone! the volume one finale! Who exactly will Cinder contact!? Who is she looking for?! What will happen to Krok?! How will he react to Yang sleeping with him?! WHY DO I KEEP LEAVING IT AT A STUPID CLIFF HANGER!?

Because I can and I want you to want even more of this.

Firstly I'm sorry for the long delay in posting this I had my final Senior finals! Now that that's out of the way I will have a lot more free time to write more stories and continue with Hareta Kuso and his stories. Firstly I am happy with this chapter, and I hope everyone else loved it as well! I will continue this, and don't plan to stop any time soon! As always please Follow, Favorite, and write Review! I fully understand that many of you may be upset by the long delays so I will try to update this as soon as possible. As always though thank you all so much for all the love and support to this story! I love what this has become and I love it even more because so many of you love it as well! You all rock!

For now I must bid you all Adieu!