3 days later
Weiss sat alone in her new 'room', which had been and technically still was just a storage area. The space that Weiss would live in for probably the rest of her life was fairly spacious enough to allow a team of S. (scientist, builder, engineer) to work on a 400 hundred feet long and 200 foot wide secret project.
When Weiss had arrived at the First Factory she had been introduced to no one, not even Butler the kind faithful man that Weiss had come to know as some one you could rely on was allowed to escort her to her new home. Weiss's parents had stuffed her right smack dab in the middle of the most secret experimentation lab of Schnee Dust. What were the S. working on?
Well Weiss after enduring three days of their work decided to check things out. As Weiss approached the team currently working on the massive (literally and figuratively) project, she saw that the focus of the S. was currently under a covering…a sort of tent if you will. The phrase 'storage space' was just used to dissuade other lesser members of Schnee Dust from taking a peek…or being remotely interested.
And for the most part it worked, mainly due to company policy that no employees were allowed to examine or touch the items contained within the storage areas without express permission from the head of company. The storage areas…well most of them anyway, usually contained Dust and other such related products. Some of the more secret and quite literally buried beneath the earth storage areas contained original prototypes of patented and non-patented Schnee Dust inventions.
The chamber that Weiss now called her home was 10 miles by 10 miles by 10 miles; the oddly shaped square cavern was almost perfectly symmetrical, all except for a gathering of stalactites and stalagmites gathering near the entrances. One of them went up from the experiment chamber, and the other down from the experiment chamber.
Weiss's home was situated at the other end from the entrance, Weiss had chosen that spot since 1) it was so far away from the entrances that no one would bother her if they immediately entered and didn't know she was inside 2) it was at the end of the chamber that had two depressions that Weiss referred to lovingly as 'hot pool' and 'cold pool'. What the pools did was give Weiss the option of either freezing something, because the cool pool really contained water cold enough so no germs would spawn, or taking a nice hot bath; which Weiss had done once every day since moving in.
Around each pool the temperature was different, around the cool pool the temperature dropped therefore Weiss made her home nearer to the hot pool. These first few days Weiss had just been given a military cot to sleep on, which despite it's firmness Weiss appreciated because it kept her on her toes. Sleeping on what was basically a soft yet stiff piece of fabric made Weiss somewhat of a light sleeper, which was fine since as soon as Weiss had a nightmare she liked to wakeup from it and then go splash her face with water from the cold pool.
Weiss had arrived at the First Factory sometime in the late afternoon but didn't get situated until the evening, or so she was told since Schnee Dust didn't really allow any manufactured products that weren't theirs into their factories. And since Weiss had to pass though the bulk of the factory before getting to the experiment chamber she had to leave behind everything except for Myrnaster and her two very large duffle bags containing literally all she owned at the moment.
Weiss asked one of the S. what they were working on, and the man (human) said, "We are looking to see if we can revive this ancient mythological corpse that was found in this very chamber."
"Oh really? And how long ago was this corpse discovered, and finale question for now what is it exactly?" Asked Weiss nonchalantly but no matter how she put it the S.B.E could obviously tell that the heiress was curious.
Not being one to be the causer of complaint from the future leader and owner of Schnee Dust the S.B.E. said, "Yes really. It was discovered around the same time when the Darkness Plague struck Beacon. So about a month ago we discovered this chamber containing a massive Grimm corpse, but it's unlike one we've seen alive for some time."
"This man's name is David, hi him Linda. We both work here in the secret lab. The Grimm's type as David said has not been seen for a long time, by which we mean since the time before the Great War." Said Linda with genuine politeness but barely contained contempt at being interrupted.
Weiss could tell that she was interrupting something that was very important, but she wasn't leaving until she got the answer to her question. "I don't fucking care about all that crap." Hiss Weiss in her now famous venom induced snarl, "What I want to know is what type, NOT WEATHER ITS SPECIES IS ALIVE OR NOT!"
Weiss's voice rang out loud and clear and the S.B.E. named David backed off and went back to attend the secret project. Linda however stayed a moment longer and added, "You be sure to keep you head down, and I mean it. There will be some people visiting this secret lab soon, some very dangerous people. To speak plainly we have information that the White Fang has learned of our location and are secretly going to attempt to raid us. Why haven't we contacted the rest of Schnee Dust? That would expose the very existence of the S. to everyone inside the company."
"And that would be bad why?" Weiss asked just as she was about to go back to her corner.
"Well that's because we feel that if Schnee Dust found out about what creature we've been hiding down here they would want to resurrect it…which is entirely possible. Trust me when I say this…you do not want a resurrected Colossi in any form."
I've been uploading two stories at once, this one and Fox Flower my other story. So in order to clear up my schedule up a bit I'll be putting Fox Flower on Hiatus and will pump this story out like mad. I have a 5k word chapter for the ending, that should be interesting and hopefully it wont be such a cliffhanger like Hunting the Grim Sphere. I'd like to personally thank all those who still read this story, you guys are awesome!