Author's Note:

Please take a look at this before reading the chapter. I did a huge time skip because

1) What else could have happened any way?

2) I was feeling downright lazy(I blame quarantine for this).

Well now the story takes place in the near end of Vol 3 so please. Enjoy

Please leave review, it helps me in staying encouraged.

Garou:-

Vale, one of the most prestigious place in Remnant. The place where beauty, comfort and most importantly peace is maintained. For many people this city would be considered a haven for them, but due to the rise of crime within the city, some people thought it wouldn't be safe anymore to live, but Ozpin the most influential people, told them that nothing will go wrong. Just how wrong he got.

Amity Colosseum, the monument of peace now created a total chaos. Grimm were everywhere, civilians were running for their lives, huntsmen and huntresses including the ones in training were fighting for safety, and the even the Atlas military which got half of its units jeaopardise were fighting for their safety, many people already lost their lives, and unfortunately even the principal Ozpin wasn't spared to protect the people. In the chaos within a women stood at the top of the Beacon Academy, watching everything as the city got destroyed. Even with the full powers of the maiden in her grasps, she still had doubts if anything could go wrong. If he were to appear. But then she suddenly remembered, he was about to be dealt with, as she sees the sudden shock-waves emerging in the city bringing a smirk on her face she took her scroll out and said, "He is here. Bring the monster"

Meanwhile-

Garou would have had a normal day, but Vital Festival made it hard. With Alister being around, since he had no where to go, he felt like a big brother to the kid, even if the 'brat' was annoying. They both looked at the TV screen Garou had to look at the final matches. Garou was quite impressed that the 'kids' here were equivalent to B, C or maybe some A-Class heroes, they still were far away from where Garou stood. The match was between the 'Invincible Girl' Pyrrha Nikos and Penny Polendia. The match went great, but in the match Garou noticed something. Pyrrha started getting nervous, and was acting as if she was afraid. Garou being observant noticed that in some of the matches the combatants were acting weird. In Coco and Yatsuhashi Daichi vs Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black, Yang Xiao-Long vs Mercury Black and now this. Things didn't make any sense, unless someone had a semblance that could do that. As Garou saw suddenly something unexpected happened, Pyrrha Nikos used her semblance and killed Penny. Her body scattered on the stadium and everyone looked at horror as this all happened. The screen changed and Garou and Alister now saw a red screen with a black queen chess piece on it and then a feminish voice came out, "This is not a tragedy. This was not an accident. This is what happens when you hand over your trust, your safety, your children, to men who claim to be our guardians. Our Academies' Headmasters wield more power than most armies, and one was audacious enough to control both. They cling to this power in the name of peace, and yet, what do we have here? One nation's attempt at a synthetic army, mercilessly torn apart by another's star pupil. What need would Atlas have for a soldier disguised as an innocent little girl? I don't think the Grimm can tell the difference. And what, I ask you, is Ozpin teaching his students? First a dismemberment, now this? Huntsmen and Huntresses should carry themselves with honor and mercy, yet I have witnessed neither. Perhaps Ozpin felt as though defeating Atlas in the Tournament would help people forget his colossal failure to protect Vale when the Grimm invaded its streets. Or perhaps this was his message to the tyrannical dictator that has occupied an unsuspecting kingdom with armed forces. Honestly, I haven't the slightest clue as to who is right and who is wrong. But I know the existence of peace is fragile, and the leaders of our kingdoms conduct their business with iron gloves. As someone who hails from Mistral, I can assure you the situation there is... equally undesirable. Our Kingdoms are on the brink of war, yet we, the citizens, are left in the dark. So I ask you. When the first shots are fired... who do you think you can trust?"

With this the screen turned off, the alarms started blaring and people started panicking. Garou knew what was going to happen, he turns his head to Alister and says, "Stay here, lock all the doors. If Grimm come in just shout, I'll save you", Garou had to say this since the kid was no fighter.

Alister protested but Garou went outside of the house started slaughtering every Grimm in sight, with speed beyond the any eyes could see he nearly cleared 3/4th pf the city within minutes, but things got worsened, the Atlas got jeopardize and their units started attacking people, Beacon Academy itself was getting destroyed and a giant Grimm dragon appeared and with it, it spawned countless Grimm itself, but before Garou could do anything his face met with a flying kick. The kick was so strong that Garou crashed through four wall before he stopped and fell on the ground. He looked at his attacker and his eyes widened. It was a figure with cloak surrounding itself making the surrounding people not being able to see its looks. Garou looked at the newcomer and was fascinated by the fact that it radiated death like himself.

'What the hell is this thing?', thought Garou.

Garou took a fighting stance and lunged at the newcomer while the newcomer just stood there waiting to get attacked. Garou sent a furious wave of punches and kicks, the beast went flying and crashed through dozens of building but it could still stand. Garou jumped forward to give a dropkick but the newcomer tilted a little and punched Garou in the gut instead. Garou flew a crashed on a building wall, dumbfounded on the creatures wrath.

"Help! Help!", cried a voice. If it were a normal person no one would have heard it, but Garou knew exactly what it was it was Alister.

Garou ignored the perpetrator and ran for Alister only for the beast of the human to get in between his way and send a furious wave of punches and kicks at Garou. Garou dodged it but noticed one thing, he jumped back and sent his own furious wave of punches and kicks, the same ones he pulled at the beginning. This time the person dodged them and jumped back. Garou was shocked, the person in front of him wasn't just his a fighter with lots of raw strength and durability, it learned and adapted the same way he could, because it used his moves.

'Just what the hell am I fighting anyway?", Garou thought

Garou wanted to appreciate the fighter but seeing the current circumstances he wasn't sure about his current feeling.

"Help!", Alister cried again

Muscle in Garou's body tensed, he had to do something quick and the Grimm around were not helping either. He turned his back against the fighter and ran in the direction opposite to it. It followed. They both ran around the city, Garou slaughtered every other Grimm on his path, but their was another thing that astonished him, the fighter was just after him and not the others. He took a sharp turn and made it to his house. Time, for both of them was frozen because of their speed, making Garou reaching and protecting Allister just in the nick of time. He sucker punched the Grimm and sent it flying away. Garou's opponent followed soon but it met a roundhouse Flowing Water kick at its face and was also sent flying away in another direction. Garou looked at Alister with a worrying look in his eyes. Suddenly a loud boom was made. Garou and Alister looked at the source and saw Garou's opponent standing there looking for its pray. Garou went ahead and fought it, but not before pushing it to take the fight elsewhere.

The dragon outside was not joke either. It was flying too high and was too big to take out from the ground using Fist of Whirling Wind. Not only that Garou had to deal with the mute fighter to make sure everything could get alright. They both punched each other but blocked the other's attack with their other arm, they kicked and their feets collide, they headbutted and the same happened. It appeared that as more they fought the more powerful and skilled the fighter became. It not only created more trouble for Garou but also created more chaos in Vale and made even more Grimm to appear. Garou ran away again, but somehow his opponent got faster and interrupted him by punching in his face and sending him flying through the building. The beast of the fighter fought well but it didn't one thing coming or perhaps going. Garou got into a bartered state but he still made sure that he could get hit in such a manner that he could get a head start from his opponent as he went flying towards Beacon. Not a smart idea but he could handle it. He used it and went reached Beacon in no time. He formulated a way to take the dragon out, and he figured out there was only one way to do it. By going at the top of the academy and launching himself at the dragon. He had one-shot at this before his opponent showed up. He saw students protecting there school, but Garou had to remove them. He punched the ground using Flowing Water and created not only a also a tremor to stumble the students but also a crack in the ground reaching the building. He later used the Whirling Wind to create a tunnel so his copy could get in without harming the kids. He ran straight for the top of the building to continue.

Author's Note:

Sorry to leave you guys at the cliffhanger but that was to be done. I did not wanted to make any chapter long but this made it quite far, more than I thought. If you guys are disappointed you were told many different times, including previous chapters and the first Author's Note of this chapter. If you want to know more about Garou's opponent, you will get to know about it in the next chapter.

If any of you enjoyed it, please leave review it helps me getting encouraged and write more stories. Till the next chapter please stay strong, stay inside and stay safe.