A Harsh Reality Ch. 34: Opposites Attract
Okay, so I actually got 5 twitter followers but only 2 lemon votes that way {since I had the whole tweet #lemonz}. So changing it. It's quite simple, I want you to get me to 120 followers and 80 favorites for lemon. At this point in the story, 6 more followers might be difficult but I just wanna see how this plays out {gotta step up how ridiculous these are every time}. Questions and whatnot to address, Grimm is an it. It has no human allegiance to gender, so it goes by it. It's sarcastic and condescending because I want one of my villains to be like that. As for Krazyfanfiction1's comment, yeah no I have no life. Kidding-ish. Fanfiction takes up a lot of time in my life, which is fine because it's a great stress relief. I don't really have that much important stuff going on. I do have a girlfriend finally, so I might actually try a date or something and be good at writing romance and stuff. I still don't think I'm as good as Rapey Lemons. I mean, my username alone is already putting me behind him. I don't proofread or anything, but I'll take the compliment. Finally, thank you to everyone for getting me at 110 followers. This is the first time that one of my stories has hit a major milestone before Child of Grimm has {which makes me extremely happy}. Thank you, and let's get going.
Torchwick kneeled to the ground, and sighed. It had been a long, awkward flight over to the location. The beast was seated next to him, and every time it... Spoke, it was done in the voice of Grimm. Torchwick had to guess that it was currently under it's full control, which made him feel panicked. The beast had been designed specifically to combine what made man so strong against Grimm, and Grimm so strong against man. Now, it was time to execute their plan. The largest source of raw dust within the given radius that Grimm had requested, and it was time to hit it. It was time to see how well this beast worked for their plan.
Torchwick finally stepped out of his hiding spot, and confidently stepped forward. The security guards spotted him, and quickly raised up their rifles.
"Good evening gentlemen," Torchwick said, using the lines that Grimm had prepared for him. "I can promise that I won't hurt you. So, if you will, let me go in peace."
"You're a wanted criminal," the first guard said. "We have to take you in." Several other guards, and even some hunters, started to form a wall in front of him.
"Well, I am a man of my word," Torchwick said softly. "I said that I wouldn't hurt you, any of you. I shall instead allow my pet to demonstrate it's ability." Torchwick stepped back, and felt a presence jump up into the air behind him, and land directly in front of him. All of the guards backed away, and gasped in shock.
A Beowolf had landed just in front of Torchwick. It wasn't exceptionally large, nor exceptionally tall. But there was one thing that made it stand out. On all of the bone spikes that were protruding out from it's body, was coated with layers of dust. Red, blue, green, orange, and several other types of dust.
"What the fuck?" One of the guards asked.
"Shoot it!" Another one yelled out. All of them open fired with their rifles, and the Beowolf just waited.
It waited for it's chance, and then slammed it's paws on the ground. A sold wall of stone was raised in front of it, and all of the bullets just reflected off of it. The bullets all stopped, as every security officer had run out of ammo. The wall lowered, and the Beowolf leapt forward. It quickly used the added strength from the dust in to crush two of the guards heads. It quickly turned around, and shot out a ice from it's spikes, impaling some of the guards. It quickly blew out a column of flames, and burned down some of the other guard's.
Torchwick just calmly lit a cigarette, and then stood in wait. There was no reason for him to feel concerned. The Dust Grimm would kill the guards, and he would simply just load the ship. Times had never been so easy.
Later On
Ruby just kneeled over the mangled body, and sighed. Local forces had gotten a call a while ago, and they called hunters. But whatever had done this had done two things. It left no survivor's, and it left no evidence. Well, no clear evidence. They had bite marks, claw marks, burn marks, water, stone fragments, and many other small pieces of items that made no sense together.
It was a disturbing sight for the members of RWBY. Every body was completely destroyed beyond recognition. Security, hunters, workers, families that had been visiting. If there wasn't a log to account for who went where, they would never learn who had died. It was a sobering sight for everyone. Signs pointed to one attacker, but how could one person do that much damage?
"RWBY," one of the hunters on hand said. "You might want to see this." The four girls nodded, and ran off to meet him.
Upon entering, they noticed that the hunter had his scroll hooked up to the security footage.
"So we patched into the footage like you asked," he explained. "And the camera's were taken out, but we were able to recover some of the footage." He tapped out some things on his scroll, and froze two of the images. He pointed at one of them, and just shook his head.
"Roman Torchwick," he said. "He's back at it. But, he didn't attack any of them from what we could tell." He zoomed in on the second images, and just shuddered. "It's a Beowolf, but look at it's bones." The girls all looked closer, and realized what he was talking about. Every piece of the bones was coated in dust. How was that possible?
Unknown Location
Torchwick unloaded the last crate, and just breathed a sigh of relief. The DustWolf {as he had decided to call it} had watched over him the whole time, not showing signs of letting up for a moment.
You did well, Roman, Grimm's voice came from the DustWolf. It must of have not been easy to do what I asked you to do with the price on your head.
"How do you know about that?" Torchwick asked angrily.
Simple. Because I have been observing man for years. Do you really think that I'm not prepared for the eventuality of myself coming back and having to deal with man?
"Ahem," a loud cough came. Grimm spun around his DustWolf, and Torchwick turned around. They both saw the other three waiting on them, and the DustWolf let out a wolfish grin.
Hello, it greeted. And how are you three? One of them opened up their mouths for a moment. If you're answering my question, I will kill you.
"Good thing that wasn't my plan," the one in red said. "What are your plans moving forward?"
Craft more Dust Grimm. Craft more elaborate Dust Grimm. Craft stronger Dust Grimm. Kill every man, and eradicate their presence on this planet. Of course, I'll be keeping you as my pets.
"Better then death," Torchwick said softly.
Yes, and you would do well to remember that. Now, let us do something for a show of force. We have the dust, now it is time to show hunters exactly what it is that my new creation can do.
Beacon Academy: Team RWBY's Dorm
The four girls wordlessly entered into their dorm, the image of the Grimm still in their minds. Never before had anything like this been spotted, but all four of them knew what this meant. The one main advantage that man had over Grimm was always dust. The ability to wield dust kept them one step ahead of Grimm, but now they could do the same. Nothing about this made sense, and worse nothing about this made any of them feel confident. That incredible feeling that they had not too long ago, all of it gone.
All four of them heard their scrolls ping, and they briefly checked.
Hunter outpost station that is nearby. All hands on deck.
Team RWBY put away their scrolls, and pulled out their weapons. They all took off towards where they knew the base was, and ran as fast as possible.
Hunter Outpost
The DustWolf crushed another two hunters, and quickly raised up a wall of stone to block bullets. As soon as one of the hunters jumped over the wall, it threw forward ice spikes. The hunter's aura managed to break them off, but the DustWolf was relentless. It kept up a solid barrage of ice, not letting up for an instant. Soon, one broke through. After one did, the hunter's chest became a pincushion of ice.
Team RWBY arrived in time to see the hunter fall over, and they just looked on in horror. They knew this particular hunter, and they had just witnessed his death. It filled them with sadness, and rage. Yang ran forward, and took a swing straight at the DustWolf. It easily jumped out of the way, and blew forward a column of flames. Yang managed to roll out of the way, but she quickly stood on her toes and waited. Blake jumped over her partner, and swung around Gambol Shroud's ribbon. The DustWolf easily blocked it, and raised up a line of stone into the Faunus' stomach. Blake fell back, and Yang managed to catch her just off the ground.
Ruby sprinted forward, and fired off a round from Crescent Rose to bring herself forward. The DustWolf blew out flames, and Ruby was able to slide underneath it. The DustWolf timed his strike to the ground with her slide, and was able to raise up a wave of stone. Ruby was sent flying, and Weiss managed to raise up a glyph to help lower her. The heiress quickly flew forward, and swung around her blade at the DustWolf. It easily blocked the strike with stone, and quickly hit out one of the sections of stone and sent it flying into Weiss' stomach.
After she landed, all four girls stood up. This thing showed no signs of slowing down, no weakness, nothing. Unless, Ruby thought.
"Guys," she said, her brain making a connection. "It's only blocking strikes with things like stone. The dust must be volatile. Aim for the dust." The other girls nodded, and open fired. The DustWolf easily blocked all of the bullets with stone, and then blew out a column of flames. RWBY was able to get out of the way, but the DustWolf started to move forward.
"Weiss," Ruby called out. "Protect me."
"Protect you?" Weiss asked. Without elaborating, Ruby jumped out and ran forward. The DustWolf blew forward flames, and Ruby fired off a shot to get herself into the air. The DustWolf just shifted it's attention to above, and kept up the flames. Weiss realized what Ruby wanted, and raised up a glyph to block the flames. Ruby kept up her course, and Weiss kept up her glyph.
When Ruby was right over the DustWolf, she fired off as many rounds as she could. The fire was still there, blocking her vision. But Ruby would of have been able to tell when it was that she hit something. A bullet finally made contact with one of the spikes, and the spike exploded. The single explosion caused a chain reaction, and sent Ruby flying through the air.
The younger girl blacked out almost immediately, and Yang ran forward to catch her. She caught Ruby just off the ground, and immediately checked for a pulse. She breathed a sigh of relief, and gently laid Ruby down. She looked behind her, but saw Weiss and Blake looking above her.
"What?" Yang asked. She turned towards where they were looking, and her heart dropped to the floor. There was a large, black cloud that had red and yellow glows visible within it.
So you have defeated the prototype, it said. It wasn't said, that was the wrong word. They could hear it's voice within their minds. It was deep, scratchy, and echoey. Wonderful. But, your struggles have encouraged me moving forward. Goodbye for now, and carry on this message. Grimm will destroy man this time, make no mistake about it. The cloud disperesed, and the three girls just watched on in stunned silence. Did it just say, Grimm?
End: Dust basically enhances a Grimm's strength, speed, and it gives them to ability to do dust-y stuff. Questions, comments, follows, favorites, and feedback is appreciated.