Garou:-

While watching some of the matches of the Vital Festival he noticed a peculiar group. A team of four that was strangely familiar to him. The team was of a dark skinned girl with mint green hair, a grey haired and white skinned boy, a fair skinned girl with raven black hair which looked older than she was said and finally a black haired girl with black dress faIr skin and had fox ears. While the fox eared girl wasn't familiarizing the other three were. Garou tried to remember them but to never did.

But now he was running upwards the wall of the Beacon Academy to reach at the top to get the dragon. To his fortune, for some reason the dragon decision to circle the Academy instead. Garou quickly made it to the top of the tower and was surprised to see the scene their. While people were fighting to protect each other down there, here at the top of the most safe place in the city he saw two women fighting each other. One was the girl Pyrrha Nikos while the other was Cinder Fall. When those two noticed him they had different reactions. Pyrrha was surprised by the sudden intrusion while Cinder was horrified seeing him there. Cinder's facial expression made everything fall into pieces. The attacker from the Bullhead on his second day, the person who was with the group who murdered Tukdon. It was her, and it also made a sense to him that she worked for Salem. Garou tightened his fist and within milliseconds threw devastating blows to Cinder. He didn't kill her but he made sure that she stayed unconscious and with heavy pain.

When she fell on the ground, it was Pyrrha's turn to show horrified expression while Garou just stared at Cinder's stated and said, "For Tukdon", and spat on her.

Suddenly another figure charged into Garou, it was the unknown assailant that has been bothering Garou. Garou slammed his foot in the ground and suddenly a wall of concrete flew up disturbing the path of the assailant, he then gives a powerful punch on its but and sent it flying away. Without giving a glance at Pyrrha he ran a short distance and jumped to get into the dragon.

Garou landed on the dragon but was having trouble to balance for a bit and it wasn't easy since he hit the Grimm dragon like a heavy canon. Garou quickly formed a stable footing on the dragon and readied his fist to strike. The first punch he threw was weak and the dragon didn't fall, so he readied his fist a second time to truly knock the Grimm out, but something else crashed into it making giving dragon problem in flying. Garou turned his head and saw the assailant again. Garou was getting more annoyed, not only his opponent was persistent but was also of his match(which would have excited him in some other circumstances), and also was troubling him at an insane rate. They both charged at each other making the back of the Grimm a battlefield. Their clashed disturbed their footing even more, but they still kept going on.

When the intruder came he was nothing but a normal fighter with insane strength, speed and endurance, but as their fight kept going on it improved, but only by copying what Garou used on him. This lead to thier current situation where neither of the fighters can land hits on each other. Garou was getting impatient as he saw the dragon spawning more smaller Grimms, but if he kills the dragon now he may get citizen more trouble as he has to handle his opponent as well. He dug his foot into the dragon and managed to take it outside the city of Vale and into the forest. When they reached he continued his plan and punched the dragon as hard as he can and destroyed the dragon on the spot, the dragon before dying breathed fire straight into the forest creating a forest fire. The dragon turned into dust and flew away and the fighters started free falling. Garou took this opportunity and used Whirling Wind from his feet and charged at his opponent like a torpedo. They both crashes into the burning forest.

Garou landed on dirt while his opponent crashed into the fire. Garou stood up looking at the fire and then he sees a silhouette. It looked as if he was looking at himself for a second, but when the figure came into light it's clothing burned revealing it's true form. Garou's eyes widened looking at the creature itself.

Few days before the attack on Vale:

Salem carried the strand hair as she went to the Pool of Darkness. Years ago she was able to create a humanoid Grimm. While it wasn't anything new, what's new was that she added DNA in the pool to create the Grimm. The specialty of the Grimm was that it could learn and adapt to surroundings. But there were many complications. The Grimm was only as strong as its DNA donor, it wasn't as ferocious as she needed, and the most important of all it left her more weakened than creating normal Grimm, and as strong the donor would be more energy will be utilized. If done in excess it could also leave her powerless for few days, but this was a golden chance she was ready to take. You just don't get DNA of strong monsters everyday, especially when it's hard to find. She took Watts and dropped the strand of hair into the pool. Watts dropped miniature bomb as contingency measure. Salem placed the bomb herself and also made it soft from the inside to make it work. Salem started feeling weak, she knew if she went on she may loose her ability for a long time, but it was necessary as Garou itself could be a threat to her plans. Eventually a creature started coming out of the pool, as it started coming out it radiated death. It was so strong that even Salem was afriad of it, but she still went on. The creature finally came out and at that moment Salem dropped down on the ground. While panting she looked up and saw her creation, it was perfect. The creature kneeled before her as if it was ready to take orders. Salem smirked, she finally had something to challenge that monster.

It was a Grimm. A humanoid Grimm with a features similar to Garou. Not his human self but as if his human and monster part mixed to form a monstrosity. The copycat had jet black skin and had white bone armor covering most of his body, like its chest, elbow knees, foot, shoulder and face. It had a mouth but was too wide, but the armor made its lips look like slim but hard teeth (imagine Baraka from Mortal Kombat here). And finally had red shining eyes. Garou stood up and still looked at the creature. Suddenly his face was not of a shock. His lips curled up and formed a smirk.

"So... The witch was scared enough of me so she made a copy of mine eh? Interesting", Garou remarks, "If circumstances were to be different then I would have enjoyed fighting you", his face instantly showed a frown, "but you had to mess with the innocent"

Garou took a fighting stance and seeing this the copycat took it as well and in within a second a storm formed in the forest. The trees nearby destroyed, the Grimm nearby died, their battle field itself was nothing but a no life land. Everything seemed to be destroyed as both the fighters move beyond the speed anyone can comprehend. Garou and his copycat traded blows after blows.

The copycat used Fist of Flowing Water and Garou deflected them, he threw his punch and the copycat deflected it as well. Garou jumped backwards and and changed his style. He used Watchdog Man's style and leapt at the Grimm with all four limbs. The copycat punched but at the last second Garou used his hands and threw himself to a little left of the monster to avoid the hit and leaps again. This time he was successful and grabbed it by it's waist. He jumped up high above the ground and threw the Grimm on the ground. He used Fist of Whirling Wind at the copycat to kill it. Garou landed on the ground looking at his work. He thought that the Grimm was dead but the beast stood up and looked at Garou as if nothing happened. After all it was made from Garou's DNA, and now he showed its donor what it was capable of. It lunged at Garou and attacked an this time Garou noticed another development. The Grimm was getting stronger and faster just like he used to. The monster finally landed a hit, punching straight into Garou's face and sending him flying through many trees. Garou got up getting ready but he couldn't as the monster came quickly and attacked Garou with wave after wave of hits Garou raised his hands and deflected on strike giving him an opening. He didn't waste any time and threw his own punch. The monster tilted it's head and let it pass through as it used it's other fist aiming straight for Garou's gut. Garou felt pain, something he never felt for a long time, and after a devastating wave of punches at Garou the monster was at the verge of victory. Garou was lying on the ground, his body unable to move, hi body badly beaten up, cuts and bruises over his entire body, blood loss so much that normal people would have died at that point, and the monster looking at him with its red eyes showing its mistress what he did to Garou. The monster grabbed Garou by his throat and raised him. They looked into each other's eyes. Garou's eyes told that he was not giving up, he will defeat it while the monster's eyes were lifeless.

The monster would have ended his life at that spot but Garou kicked the monster in the chest, making the monster stumble back a bit releasing Garou. Garou dropped on his knees and took one final stance. One of his hands formed a straight palm, while his other had it's outer fingers curled. With a deep breath and concentration he moved to attack. The monster threw a punch but Garou deflected it and threw one fist for attack, it was followed by a blue streak and then he attacked with his other fist as it was followed by a crimson streak. The Grimm stumbled back and then Garou threw both his fists at the same time. With a mixture of blue and crimson streak colliding with the Grimm, it suddenly showed glowing cracks within itself. Garou continued his attack and finished it off with a roundhouse send it flying away.

Garou never got a chance to see whether the Grim died or not, but he was damn sure the monster couldn't have made it. Finally the exhaustion took aver him and something unexpected happened he fell to sleep.

Author's Note:

If you are all wondering, why I'm uploading it all fast all of sudden. The reason is in the next chapter.