((This is probably the last OC snippet. That way, there should be no more hurdles when writing down more ideas.))

The other girls have gone to sleep. In the ruins of a city overrun by Grimm, this would be an impressive feat for the wrong reasons. Only Ruby remained awake since she volunteered on night watch.

Still, Ruby was concerned. She just learned that there were Grimm that Hunters shouldn't even hunt, and the worst part was that these super-Grimm were apparently smart enough not to bother hunting her. And as the plank shifted-

"Don't shoot! It's us!"

"...Team Ashbringer?" Ruby lowered her scythe, seeing Harosata and his team treading quietly into their camp. "Wait, what are you doing here? I thought first-years weren't allowed on this mission."

"Special research mission." Harosata shrugged. "Not that it matters. It ended already, so we were going to rest and head out in the morning."

Ruby was curious. "What kind of research?"

"Grimm seem to flock towards negativity, but when Grimm live for centuries, they seem to develop an immunity to that pull." Skitts lectured. "However, this isn't an immunity but a balance between a Grimm's hunger and its own negativity due to gaining intelligence, and when centuries turn into millenia, their negavitity is so massive that other Grimm flock to them. These Grimm are far more dangerous that anything you'll find in Vytal, but in the Outer Rims, they are called gods. The name I have given them are the Zodiacs."

"The Zodiacs?" Ruby tasted the name. The only Zodiac she knew were the constellation of the stars. "How powerful are they?"

"Uncontested. The only things that could stand a fighting chance against a Zodiac is one of the twelve Zodiacs." Aka Moro warned her. "The only reason they have not gone to Vytal is because they will fight over it, and they will not risk losing their lives over what they consider a small island."

Ruby blinked. "You mean no one fought a Zodiac before?"

"Oh, Hunters do fight them. It doesn't mean they win, if they survive that long." Skitts glared at Harosata. "The idiot there even went against one."

Ruby gawked at Harosata. "How was it?"

"Don't." Harosata knocked on his side, producing a metallic noise. "Had to get half of my body rebuilt, and all it did was breathe out. I only got to live since Skitts created an offering of nice air."

"One...breath?" Ruby gulped. "What kind of Grimm has that kind of power?"

The Lifegiver, Hercule. She is the king of the Nightmares riden by legends such as Lu Bu and Odin, who were nearly beaten to death just to gain her favor. What makes her dangerous are her lungs. Just by taking a breath as if she was yawning, she could create a vacuum no life could survive in. The only mercy is that her lungs are so huge that she could go for decades living on that pocket of air.

And yet, the other eleven are just as dangerous.

Medusa of the Garden, a beautiful snake. It is said that those who look into her eyes are petrified. They liken her to a seductress, but no one has seen her in person, only the remains of armor and the husks that resides in them.

Niflheim, the Sheep Zodiac, is one of the friendlier Grimm, yet its presence still cause great destruction on the lands. Its body is surrounding in miles of fog so thick you could not even hear your own voice. Many wars were postponed until it left so that the tribes would not destroy their own village.

Specter, and I know that is a modern name, but he is incredibly smart for a monkey. Every weapon the Hunters fight with is reverse-engineered, and I suspect that Specter was behind the design for Atlas' Paladin. The only reason we haven't been overrun is because the rest of his armor are still normal Grimm that don't have a brain.

Then there is Cu'cco, the Sunbringer. Just like Hercule gives the breath of life, Cu'cco is said to wake the sun up every morning. It's hard to know if this is true or not, but its crow can also call forth its clan, and its clan is so numerous that their presence blots out the sun. What's more interesting is that a Hunter can see an empty field and lure Cu'cco into a soundproof shed, and he will still get mobbed to death.

Cerebus, the Gateguard of Hades, is perhaps the only Grimm to ever be tamed by man, but he was a greedy man, and so he continues to guard his secrets jealously even to this day. That man was said to own even the secrets of returning the dead, so many Hunters flock in, but so far, nothing has escaped that Grimm's three heads.

Ippondatara, he's perhaps the largest Grimm in existence, if he is even a Grimm at all. His appearance is a man so big that when people look up, all they can see is his feet, and yet he seems to disappear into thin air. It also seems that when he is gone, a boar the size of a house roams where he was.

Next, there is the Rat King. It does not have a name of its own, for it is actually a collection of smaller Rat Grimms, but they act as one body. They could be written off as a minor threat, but even in death, they spread a disease so deadly and vile that death is welcome and yet so difficult to obtain.

Bun'yun is less of an ox and more of a natural disaster. It never rests, and it never stops for anything. Even if a town was in its way, it will tear through the walls and not slow down even for a second. No one knows why it always runs, but it has been known to shift its attention to an unlucky person every once in a while, and the best that person can hope to achieve is to die from exhaustion instead of the horns.

After that, there is the Ghost of the Great Wall. It was believed to be an actual ghost, but an accident managed to reveal that it is actually a beast. It still hides to this very day, and no one knows where the beast is unless their head is in its mouth.

Caerbannog is perhaps the smallest Grimm, and it is a Rabbit Grimm. Don't underestimate it, for it is also the most bloodthirsty Grimm of all. Harosata had to fix the metal half of his body after he ran away screaming like a little girl.

And then there is the Dragon, perhaps the strongest and oldest of the Zodiacs. No one know where it is or its original name, but it is said that when it returns, it will tear a hole in the center of the earth and reshape the world into cataclysm.

Ruby gulped. "And none of them are in Vytal?"

"It was foolish to think that they would come here in the first place." Skitts admitted. "For one, there is more Dust in Vytal than in the rest of the world, so you have a better chance than those living in the Outer Rim. Vytal is also home to Semblances that are better at fighting Grimm, more notably the Arc family and their Light Aura."

"Jaune...is cool?" Ruby blinked.

"Yeah, impossible to believe, right?" Harosata poked at the campfire. "Maybe half of the Zodiacs could sneak into Vytal if they had a way, but like their effect on Grimm, their presence should be noticeable to us by now. Anyway, it's been a long discussion. You should probably get some sleep."

Ruby was sure that even if she had a few more hours, she wouldn't be able to sleep with this new information.