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Ok now that that is out of my system I would like to say that this chapter will reveal something that will shock you greatly. (No spoilers though). Oh and also in this universe King Taijitu's are either one gender or another and the two heads are like conjoined twins with a tail.
Ok and now onto the story
narration and "speech"
Thoughts
Phantoms Perspective, setting Dark Forest.
3 weeks later...Outside New Cave, Night.
It has been 3 weeks since I first ended up in this world. 3 weeks in this new body, since my first kill, and the fight for my new family.
After we had left the cave, we started heading east and more inland. The other Grimm that we met did not try to interact with us for the most part, however, I explained to the ones here to spread the word that Hunters were on the island, and to run and hide if you see them. We are currently living in the cave of a King (Technically Queen) Taijitu's and her child.
Flashback to a river about 17 miles from our(new) cave. (Still Phantoms perspective)
"Phantom, I think we should stop here for the night." Suggested Lute as we stopped to take a drink from a nearby stream. "We will be out in the open and we don't know if the other Grimm will mind?" I tried to argue even though my body needed rest, badly, as we have been walking since sunrise. "Then we take turns watching 3 hours for each of us then we leave in the morning." Suggested Jak walking right behind us carrying Mira on his back as she was sleeping calmly. "Ok that, should be good, but we should let Mira sleep." I said agreeing with the amount of sleep.
Suddenly we heard a loud rumbling, the sound of trees crashing from the south and coming towards us, fast. We then started running over to the side as to not be run over from whatever was coming towards us
Bursting from the trees was a stamped of buffalo with a giant twin-headed Grimm on their tails, it killed what looked like 5 buffalo before stopping and grabbing two of the carcasses in its mouths and slithering away.
It stopped abruptly and sniffed the air (Using its forked tongue) and looked towards us. It then started slithering towards us and I instinctively got in front of my Family, ready to fight if need be.
Suddenly, the White head spoke in a threatening female voice. "What are you doing in our territory? You better not be trying to take it from us." She said accusingly of us, barring her fangs and teeth.
I guess I will try diplomacy for now, but if she threatens my family again, I will not hold back. "We are looking for a place to stay the night, and we didn't know that this was your territory. If possible, please just allow us to sleep here, and then in the morning, we will be on our way." I explained in a calm manner to not show any aggression. She then looked at all of us and her look softened at seeing that we were all actually just kids upon hearing my voice. Mira's stomach rumbled loudly and we all remembered that we have not eaten in 3 days straight. Suddenly, a different voice was heard, again female but it was from the Black head. "You are hungry and without a home, Help us carry the buffalo back to the den and we will allow you to sleep in our home for the night."
We each grabbed a buffalo and started to haul it to where we would be sleeping for the night. I had 2 on my back while Lute had 1 and each of the heads was carrying 1. Jak was still carrying Mira on his back being careful not to wake her as he jogged to keep up with us.
The Heads tried to start conversation, most likely to see if we were to be trusted. "Do you have an alpha or guardian as you are quite far from Beowulf territory?" Jak then spoke up and explained to the 12 foot tall 26 foot long Snake Grimm. "Our alpha was killed by hunters about 2 weeks ago. Our little sister was shot in the leg by one of their tools and was bleeding. Our Alpha and Mother sacrificed themselves to allow our escape, we were running from them when we met Phantom."
"Phantom?" Questioned the Black snake, while the White one was looking concerned at me almost like I was a threat. "He is with the Queen?" she asked with a shaky voice. Thankfully Jak cleared up the confusion. "No, he is not with the queen, it is just that he already named himself and even gave us names as well. Mine's Jak, little brother is Lute and little sister is Mira (nodding with his head to each). Anyway after we met Phantom, He took us to a nearby abandoned cave and checked over Mira's wound which was pretty bad however not unfixable." The Snake Grimm continued listening on in silence and intrige at Jak's tale as he continued "He then brought me with him to get the berries that could heal and water to 'clean' the wound. As we were taking the materials back we were attacked by the hunters, but Phantom, by himself, fended all of them off and even killed the leader and the one that killed our mother. We then buryed the head, patched up Mira and then we headed off to find a new home to be safe." Jak finished his story at the same time a large cave appeared in the distance. "Quick question, how can you understand us so fluently? I mean you can't be older than 5 years at the most...Jak, so how did you learn how to speak King Taijitu?"
"Phantom taught us the Grimm speach of every one of our kind, from Ursa Major to Goliath. Although he does not know how he actually learned the language to begin with." Lute explained instead surprising the Snake Grimm and having them look at me.
"Hey Phantom, what type of Grimm are you? We have never seen a Grimm of your kind before in our entire life of 15 years." Now that surprised me. "I am a Dracolisk...Wait your only 15 years old?, well that kind of makes this weird." I said.
"Why if we may ask does us stating our age make this weird?" They said eyes narrowing, like I insulted them. "Because I myself am 18 years old, and I am still a kid." This was really weird as they sound like grown worm in their 40s or something.
Then I heard a large and loud "WHAT!?" From everybody including Mira who just woke up. "You are just 2 years away from elder Grimm status and you are still a kid, how many of your kind are there are to have survived for so long?!" Chorused the snakes who were still in shock of having a supposed kid be older than them. "Well, I think I am the only one...left alive." This caused them all to look at me in sadness but it lasted only for a moment as we had arrived at the den. The snakes then confirmed that "We are here, please put the buffalo in the back of the cave where it is the coldest." Then she yelled "I am back with dinner!" Suddenly a smaller Double headed snake about our size came out from the back of the cave, yelling "Mommy!"
It then lunged at the bigger snake slithering around the white one's neck and hugging it some type of embrace.
"You didn't tell us you had a child Yin(white one)-Yang(black one)." I said walking past them to follow everyone else. She looked at me with wide eyes as they knew that it was a name that I gave them and started crying tears of Joy while embraceing her child.
Later that Night...
"So how did you meet these people Mommy?" asked the young snake with both mouths. "I met them hunting for dinner and they will be staying the night for now." Said Yin. "They might stay for longer as well" said Yang. We were situated deeper in the cave which was illuminated with crystals that glowed different colors but mostly blue. The crystals seemed to keep the buffalo from spoiling by freezing them when Yin-Yang smashes one of them and washes the buffalo in the crystals.
"Wait, will you really allow us to stay here?" Asked an excited Mira that was currently eating her half of the buffalo that she was sharing with Lute while the small snake, Jak and I ate the other, while Yin-Yang ate hers.
"What is the catch?" I asked knowing that this seemed convinient, I mean we did need a home, we can hunt for an abundance of food here, there is a river for water nearby, this place seemed perfect for a home.
"The catch is you have to find a name for my son just like you did for me and I will allow you to live with us." Yin said smiling at us. "Really? That's easy. Well, let me think." I replied "Well I will suggest, Prince, if you like it. I think it fits because he is always waiting for his mother, the queen, to come home."
The Taijitu looked really happy, "Yes, I like the name, you shall now call me Prince and my mom is the queen of the cave." He said slithering up one of the crystals and raising his heads high like he was royalty. But then he slipped and fell on top of Mira who got knocked into Lute who accidentally spit his meat out which flew over at Jak who jumped out of the way inadvertently pushing my head down into the Buffalo we were eating. "I'm ok" was then chorused by everyone except Yin-Yang, who was laughing at her sons antics.
Soon after, every body finished eating and was settling in to bed. I went back to the entrance and I layed down to contemplate about our new home, I mean it was good we finally found a home but we can't just free load (and my armor still glows green illuminating the space around me).
"Well, well, well, look who is drowning in his sorrows." Somebody said behind me. I whiped around to see who it was but they were not there."And after the supposed hero of Amity Park found something to protect." "Who are you? How do you know about that place? Show yourself NOW." I said trying not to freak out. "Aw, I am hurt, don't you recognize me?" It said in front of me. Suddenly, I saw movement through the bushes and bolted after them. "I guess that it would be hard to remember after all that has happened." I then ran towards the voice that was now to the left. "After all, some time ago, we were as one, brother." Fenton, no it's not possible.
I then ran into the clearing with the stream. I then dunked my head under the cold water trying to make me snap out of this. "Who knew that you would break our Solomon Vow so quickly, to never kill is what we agreed upon." The voice was slowly becoming more like mine. "No, You are not Fenton, he is in a better place, he is flying in the sky." I said trying to convince myself that this was not real. "Are you really so sure that I am truly in the sky? Or in the ground because of you?" As I removed my head from the stream, a figure appeared on the other side, starting to take shape but I could only see the outline. "You have killed twice already; the leader of those hunters and the one who killed with explosives." No they deserved it. Iwas starting to sweat so much. I am TERRIFIED. "They killed so many Grimm they deserved to die, I couldn't just let them go."
"Yet, you allowed 2 to get away before sentencing 2 to death. How is that fair? One didn't even get to say goodbye to the one they love. Oh, how far the mighty has fallen." The figure mocked. "Oh, I actually miscounted, you have actually killed three, and you enjoyed all three of them." No, I didn't enjoy killing any of them, I am not a killer, I killed for the safety of others, but I still did kill them. Wait, 3? I have only killed two. He obviously saw my confused face and answered"Did you truly forget? Your motto is even 'No Regrets means No Tomorrow', if you don't have Regrets you are as good as dead." Suddenly the figure walked out and into the moonlight becoming clear. "Phantom, Brother, Partner, You KILLED Me!" Screamed Fenton with a huge gaping hole in his chest. I was panicking yet frozen in place and couldn't move. Suddenly blood blossoms sprouted up behind me, blocking myl escape, as well as on my right and left.
"No no no no no no, I didn't kill you, I didn't, I wouldn't, I swear!" I said almost screaming at Fenton. However, Fenton started walking towards me, blood gushing from the wound, his footprints making pools of blood, the trees near him withered, and he started reaching out to me.
"Brother you killed me, you killed me because you didn't live up to your obsession, even though, I apparently didn't count." When he reached the water, its color turned red, Blood Red. The fish that were in the water turned up dead and were quickly decaying, The blue night sky was also turning blood red while clouds appeared suddenly raining, but instead of clear rain it was black, Grimm BLOOD. When he was halfway across the water his skin started falling off at the chest, and his organs were just falling into the water, yet, he was still moving towards me.
"Phantom, look at what you did, you didn't help me, you didn't help anyone, you only made things worse." The decay finally reached his face and started tearing out his throat causing blood to start spraying out, and causing the grass on the other side to start rotting away and for fire to start spraying up. "Look at my face, look at what has happened, I thought I was your friend, apparently you don't care about the past as you have not even thought twice about what you did." No, we both agreed, didn't we? Maybe we didn't? Did I actually kill my best friend? Then he reached the other side where I was, he just a rotting, decayed version of the one I held closest, the one true family I had ever had, and once he was 2 feet away from my snout he started charging an ecto blast to truly unstable levels, "Come join me...IN HELL!" He said laughing maniacally as he launched the blast straight at my face and when it was just about to hit me, I heard "Phantom, are you ok?"
Suddenly, everything faded and I was at the stream except Jak was just waving his paw in front of my face trying to get me to snap out of it. I jump back from how everything changed in a second and shaked my head for a moment.
"Jak, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be asleep?" I asked/said, because I didn't hear him follow me. "Shouldn't I be asking you that?" Questioned Jak.
Flashback: Setting Cave Perspective Jak
Phantom can't keep doing this, I mean we have grown used to his glowing armor, he can sleep by us. I was heading to the cave entrance to convince Phantom to come and sleep further in. When I came to the cave entrance I saw Phantom laying down to the left of the cave in a dark corner (although not dark now because of his glowing green armor) when suddenly he shot up and looked around. He then said "Who are you, how do you know about that place, show yourself NOW." To particularly nothing, it was honestly scary as he was now growling at an unseen force. Suddenly he whiped to the left of the cave entrance and bolted into the woods. I considered the thought about getting the others just in case it was more hunters, but decided not to before bolting after Phantom, hopeing to help from afar. Once I was able to catch up with Phantom, he then bolted again this time towards the river from before. I was able to catch up to him, and just watched him, as he was just walking forward, he then dunked his head into the water and then started walking backwards from the water.
I then saw him stiffen up and then yell "No, You are not Fenton, he is in a better place, he flying in the sky." Wait, who is Fenton? Was he a friend of Phantom, or even family? Wait flying in the sky, what does that mean? Then I suddenly saw him stiffen and start looking around frantically, he then looked towards the ground and was whining and sweating, almost like he was in danger of something that was STRONGER than him (It was terrifying to think about, it was almost like my old packs encounter with the Queen) and then he started muttering "No no no no no no, I didn't kill you, I didn't, I wouldn't, I swear!" He is hallucinating, that is what is happening, and if he is talking to nothing, I need to snap him out of it. But instead of acting immediately I just waited and watched for the next few moments. When he closed his eyes and breathed in I walked over and asked calmly into his ear Phantom, are you ok?" Before shaking his shoulders with my front paws, even waving a paw in front of his snout.
Long Flashback ends, Perspective change Phantom
"And that is what happened and how I found you. So, I was hoping that you would explain to me who Fenton was?" Wondered Jak. Well he heard my talk about him, might as well. "Well Fenton, even though he was not the same kind as me, was more of a brother to me rather than a friend. He was kind, mature, and hardworking." I told him. "What type of Grimm was he? I mean if he was like your brother." He questioned. Time to break it to him. "He was a human." I said in a calm voice, even though Jak just then, stared at me with a lot of very conflicting emotions, but eventually he asked "Can you please repeat that?" And I obliged. "Although he was human he was not like any of the cruel hunters, he had two best friends that also were pals to me. Even though Fenton lived in a hunters household, he was extremely against killing. We lived in a small village named Amity Park, which was a hotspot for extremely powerful beings, Grimm and Human, When Fenton convinced me to help him protect the town using my unique powers. Ever since then, I have made multiple enemies of Grimm and Humans including Fenton's own Parents. The Grimm would attack me and Fenton multiple times a day which caused him to almost drop out of school. We also made a rule to never kill another living being no matter how desperate to win. And I BROKE IT 3 WEEKS AGO."
"What? But Grimm are forbidden to attack each other unless severely provoked, and even then the Grimm would be severely punished by the Queen. It is one of the laws that define how we live in harmony with each other even though some Grimm cultures has ritualistic fights, like us Beowulfs fighting for Alpha position in the pack, and Goliaths to decide who leads the herd." He looked severely confused about my (Relatively False) Predicament. "If the queen knew she could get them to cease hostilities, although that would normally lead to all of them being sent back to the void for her 'psychological evaluations' and they would never be seen again.. Anyways, what happened to amity park and Fenton because I mean you are here with us right now." He continued. I then tried to look severely troubled and terrified (and it was working on Jak) "One of the Grimms, that attacked us, he was a monster, he was so powerful that he was able to single handedly defeated both of us, then he killed Fentons father, mother, and, the only other one of Fentons family that treated me like family, was his overprotective sister, then he killed Fentons best friend Tucker and his crush Sam, and as an added bonus he killed Fentons Teacher that did not harbor any feelings of animosity towards us. The worst part of it all was that he was another Dracolisk, like myself and he killed Fenton (Which was not far from the actual truth, as me and Fenton both agreed to suicide after he did that) after that he just faded away, when I just ran and didn't look back, now that everything I had ever held dear was gone I didn't have anything left. I kept running till I found myself in that forest where I met you, Lute, and Mira."
It seems my lying had worked and now Jak was looking at the ground before lunging at me and hugging me as if he was the one who had lived through the traumatic event. "Jak, I am fine now because I have a new family, and I will never let any of you be hurt." while letting him hug and look up at me with a smile in his face. He then released me and backed up three steps, and asked "Want to head back to the cave? Oh and next time you are sleeping with the rest of us." He said in a scolding tone. I nodded and we started heading back.
I then asked a question that I had been meaning to ask for a while now. "Hey Jak, who is the Queen, she sounds like a cruel women to do all this stuff for you and yet she does not look out for any of you. It seems wrong to me." He then stopped and hesitated for a quick second before he started telling me about the women called Salem, and with each word he said I immediately knew that it was not a monarchy that she rules by but more of a rule composed of Tyranny and Cruelty towards her subjects. I hope I meet her soon just so I can beat some sense into her thick skull.
Perspective Change Salem, setting Salems Castle
What is that? That Grimm does not exist. There was no way for it to have just appeared in the first place. I was just looking through the eyes of one of the baby Nevermores to look for this new Grimm which was NAMED Phantom, this was a major infraction of the law. Once I spotted the Grimm my mind went frantic through the intellect of Grimm records and my experiments and none of them matched at all. And this Grimm radiated power, so much so that it almost surpassed hers, HER the Queen of Grimm, then their was another problem, that it had aura and a soul. Which meant that it could defie her orders at every turn and it seemed to spread to every Grimm it encounters.
"Ahhhh!" I screamed as I slammed my hand onto my throne in anger, which caused a groan of pain from somewhere in the castle. "I am sorry my baby, mommy is just angery." I said rubbing the arm of my throne causing a low groan of pleasure to come from the walls.
I then got up and thought about the time, and walked outside the castle, the walls morphing themselves and creating an opening for her, the sun was currently to the Far East, which meant I had 3 hours until my pawn's next report, sure they were humans, but she was able to take a part of the fall maidens power so she had her uses. And Tyrian was off doing what he called making 'offerings to his Queen' which he goes and massacres villages, which were fun to watch, especially the children, when they run to their parents for protection, but in fact they just lead them to her death. Thinking about children made her enraged again as it made her think of her own child, who she just wanted companionship with her quest to rid humanity, (Sure she did kidnap her and forcibly change her DNA to a half Grimm Varient, but still she merged some of her DNA with her and that makes her, her beautiful Alma, her Daughter.) and what does she do, she runs away horrified by the idea and has been missing for a full ten years.
"I need to de-stress myself or I am going to cause my baby pain again. Well time to go to the lab, hopefully torturing the human that can't seem to die will calm my nerves." She said to no one in particular and walked back through the balcony to a stair way the led to her laboratory, which housed her experiments and tools, most of them just cause pain, but some are used to combine Grimm into something else, which she was fond of.
She walked past all of those though and went to the back of the room which had a single black door. She opened it and walked inside, a light flickering on in the room. And inside strapped to an examination table with medical tools all around him, along with whips, knives, and wooden beams, was a boy. A boy with Black frizzled hair and Pale BLUE eyes.
He looked up noticing the light and looked on in fear. Once again struggling to escape like the hundreds of times before. I smirked and grabbed a knife and then slashed his chest with blood draining out at a rapid rate, when it suddenly healed over immediately. I repeated over and over again for close to an hour. Occasionally using whips and other items to cause a great amount of pain. Suddenly he said something but it was to quiet to hear, I then whipped him again "Speak louder, I can't hear you." He then defiantly yelled "You won't do this forever, I will get out." I then stuck the knife I held in my other hand into his chest and left that there. I then quietly left the room while he was screaming in pain.
Perspective Change Boy
I watched how the cruel woman walked out of the room and the light shutting off putting me back into complete darkness again, "Phantom, Brother, please help me, please save me." I said before crying, not just because of the pain, but the fact that Phantom was gone while I was still alive and being tortured by this woman. "I wish, so I could be with my brother, I wish I was dead."
Before succumbing to unconsciousness because of blood loss and the wound healing over.
