Chapter 28: Grimm Detective

Hey, I'm back. Sorry for the wait, but sadly it has finally happened...College. Yep, I'm back in school, and combining that with work means this story might just be a once a month story. Can't say I'm happy about that, but hey, what can you do. Life throws sucky things, but at least I'll continue on. In any case, enjoy.

"Alright then my good people, time for another world." Instead of oddly the theater, Mayden was instead speaking to the good folks inside the wormhole tunnel whom all were still floating in. Having decided to have the rather antagonist group instead watch the first film known as frozen.

Oh were they going to whine! Hahahaha!

"And what world will we be seeing this time?" Ozpin asked.

"Please don't tell me it'll be one where we're all monsters." Jaune asked worryingly.

"Or one with girls turning into men." Blake said fearfully. She was slowly recovering, but she doubt she'll ever see her father the same way again.

"Don't worry folks." Mayden said with a non-existent toothy-grin. "This one will have simple school life."

Many in the audience relaxed. While action was nice, an ordinary school life felt nice for the peace. The most they'll probably see is either some funny jokes or someone getting hurt. Because its a fact that people getting hurt is sadly funny to those watching such pain.

The screen then turned on revealing what they were about to see.

Liam Grimm, also known as Professor Grimm, also discretely known as the God of Light, walked into the club his brother, Diam Grimm, also known as Detective Grimm, and not-so-discretely known as the God of Darkness, owned.

"!" Instantly many-particularly Ozpin-were shocked so badly that they were uncertain how to even say what they're watching.

"Holy fuck! It's the Gods! Except for Qrow who just spat his drink like crazy.

"The Gods!" Yang said surprised. "As in-the guys who supposedly creates us!?"

"Not to mention extinction." Ozpin in Oscar's head said fearfully. Never in his life did he ever expect to see those two again. A major surprise that made him terrified on how the others would no of what they did.

Yet it made him wonder, what were these two doing on Remnant? Did they deliver doomsday, or salvation. Peace, or destruction? And who was it that he was carrying?

Right away at first glance, a creature who appeared as a man with horns of a stag atop his head stood out in the crowd of short and weaker humans dancing all around him without a care in the world. His brother might have said something about him having brown skin as well, or perhaps the glowing golden blonde hair or even the silver eyes, or even because of the unconscious fifteen-year-old girl he currently had passed out across his shoulder.

"Ruby!" Yang shouted now worried that a literal God had her baby sister on her shoulder.

"That...can't be good..Right?" Weiss asked fearfully.

"I mean, it doesn't look like he's hurting her." Blake said though also uncertain.

"Let's just see where this goes." Qrow answered them.

But Liam preferred to see it as his own form of blending in. Besides, to these outsiders, he must have looked like a huntsman. That or a criminal considering what he had on his shoulder. But after going to the same man Diam did, he now had the official records to support the claim that he was actually a huntsman, and Ruby Rose was now his student. It wasn't his fault that she was too young and inexperienced to keep up with his special training routine he made for her.

"I'm a God's student!" Ruby shouted in both uncertainty yet awe. After all, in the books she read the god of Light gave birth to great warriors and had his own special champion. Always choosing a student to raise as a grand hero!

"That's...pretty cool." Jaune wondered what it would be like if he ever got a God to be with him. Then pushed the thought aside thinking it was to silly. Like there's such a world like that.

"This is unexpected." Ironwood rubbed his chin.

"Yes, but at least Miss. Rose is safe." Glynda felt satisfied with that. "Still. Just what kind of training did he put her under?"

His unknowing subjects seemed to be having fun despite him walking around with Ruby passed out on his shoulder. He wondered what the reaction of humanity would be if he were to reveal his true form and return to the world as it is now. Would they declare him an enemy and try to destroy him because of a lack of understanding? Would they love and revere him? Both, yet divided? The thought of his return doing more harm than good went through his mind once or twice, but any chaos could be fixed in literally a snap of his fingers. Because while his brother specified in destruction and pain, he specified in creation and love. With a decent universal level of destructive force behind him as well, just as a precaution.

"H-hey their big guy." One of the drunk women said as she leaned bodily up against his body, somehow oblivious to the way Ruby groaned uncomfortably in her sleep on his other shoulder. She hiccuped once before she continued. "What's a hotty like you doing all alone in a club like this?"

"She's hitting on...a God?" Qrow then took another swig. "I can't see this ending well."

"Likewise." Winter agreed.

"I'm not alone," Liam politely replied. The woman had no idea who she was trying to proposition. "My brother runs this club."

"No shit? Are you the big brother or the little one?"

"Older."

"Well then," The woman purred as she traced a finger up his hard arms. "I'm quite curious to see how the elder compares to the-"

"Please let this end." Oscar said hoping this world won't get into such graphic detail. Luckily for him, it won't as his wish was granted soon after.

"Enough of this," Liam sighed and waved a hand across the woman's face. "I'm not interested in fornicating with humans like my brother is." A burst of knowledge came forth through his mind, information about everything in this woman's life in a little too much detail. "You have a husband and a child waiting for you at home, go see them and be loyal, you still have a chance."

"I…" The woman felt the influence of warm magic flow through her body. If any normal person said this to her, she might have told them to fuck off. But Liam Grimm was no ordinary person, and he had a different way of handling annoying people other than making them disappear. "You're right! Oh my gosh, I can't believe I almost did that-"

However, as far as Liam's knowledge went in the way of influencing humans to change their way of life and become a better person. He was not able to detect that the woman was about to throw up. And all over his shoes at that.

Ignoring his instinct to punish the woman for doing that, he sent her on her way back home and he cleaned the vomit off of his clothing with a wave of his hand. A wave of golden energy shimmered, and he was clean. Simple as that, and none of that flashy nonsense that his brother was known for.

Seriously, he was starting to wonder how no one started putting together that his brother was not a normal human like them.

"I'm sorry, what?" Ironwood said confused. Luckily Mayden was there to help.

"Yeah, to put it in, the God of Darkness came first and has a hell load of flashy power. Perks of being a god, you know. However thanks to a thing called stupidity (Creator Powers), the people of this version of Remnant are unable to see how tough both Gods are. Plot convenience! What a lucky thing.

"I don't get it." Weiss just sighed at her partners words.

In any case, he came here for a reason, and it was to bring up a serious issue that has become a recurring problem in these past weeks. There was a certain pest problem that his brother is responsible for fixing, but he hasn't gotten to it yet for whatever reason. Sadly, this was a matter where Liam could not simply sit back and let his brother do whatever he wanted until he eventually got to it. So here he was.

"Bwuuuh…" Ruby seemed to agree.

"Thank you, little Rose," Liam smirked as he stepped past some of Junior's guards, he let him in on sight because of his known relation to Diam. Good. It would have been a pain of Diam ordered his men to shoot him again and name it a fire drill as a poor way to excuse himself for it.

He walked through the simple map of corridors it took in order to get to Diam's room, and when he did so, there was black blood leaking from underneath the door. Liam sighed.

"A murder!" Nora said putting on a detective hat that she got from nowhere. Time for baby Nora to solve this mystery. Ren just rolled his eyes.

"Brother," Liam knocked on the door as lightly as he could, the wood only cracked slightly this time. "I know this isn't your blood, we don't even have blood save for our human bodies." He grimaced with disgust as the black blood started to climb up his leg. "I certainly know that this isn't human either."

"Just a moment!" Diam exclaimed through the door, he sounded like he'd just finished giggling like one of those 'Special needs' children he saw giggling about earlier. "I'm just finishing something up!"

A strange demonic chant was heard through the door and the black-reddish blood retreated off of his legs and back into the room. Liam humored his brother and give him the moment that he desired, idly whistling a tune as he rocked side to side with Ruby Rose still groaning in her exhausted comatose state. After another few moments, the chanting ended and Liam decided that it was time to let himself in. Twisting the doorknob a little too quickly and ripping it off entirely.

"Not again…" Liam sighed as he threw the doorknob away and stepped through the door that was now part of the wall. The first thing that he saw from within Diam's room was his brother holding a head. Not a human head thankfully, that would have caused problems, but the head that his brother was currently holding in one of his hands held a very dead expression, with black-red eyes looking in different directions and with a barbed tongue dangling out of a mouth with rows of razor-sharp teeth.

"Oh now that's ugly!" Yang admitted looking a bit disgusted.

'Never thought I'd see a demon after all this time.' Been a while since Ozpin-Ozma-faced such creatures back in his early youth. Good days.

"What abominations are these?" winter said holding back a look of disgust.

"Well, must be something bad. But hey, it's dead at least." Ruby said trying to hold herself from the nausea.

"Ah!" Diam casually placed the head on a pedestal that had the words 'The one who thought he could do something with his life' engraved on the front of it.

Strangely enough, Liam thought he recognized that head.

"What are you doing?" Liam asked his brother.

"Oh, you know," Diam put the last touches on the pedestal, and then proceeded to try and shove the entire thing into a closet that was very obviously too small. "Just getting rid of a mistake. And who are you to ask me what I'm doing? You're the one with an unconscious underage girl draped over your shoulder."

"There is a reason for this." Liam steadfastly defended himself. Then his silver-eyed widened with shock. "Wait, is that Aba-"

"Aba- who now?" Diam asked, plucking something out of his ear as if that was the reason why his divine sense of hearing wasn't working properly. "I don't know that person."

"What do you mean? I came here in the first place to tell you to deal with the dem-"

"Demolition of humanity?" Diam raised an eyebrow. "Already did that once I'm afraid. It loses it's satisfaction when it is done more than once however, so I don't think I'll be doing it again."

Demolition? Eh, probably nothing.

"Brother, I am talking about the-"

"This is not the robot you are looking for," Diam smirked smugly as he waved his hand in front of Liam's face.

"Damn. I wanted to see where that plot might head to." Qrow said snapping his fingers.

"Probably wasn't anything important." Ironwood suggested.

Oh if only they knew, is what Ozpin thought.

The God of Light sighed. "Well… at least it has been handled then. Is that a new outfit?"

"It is! I'm glad you noticed." Diam said he spun on his heel to show his brother the entire outfit. "I literally had to kill a few people in order to get it, and the Daisy twins are ever loyal and trustworthy."

"Ah, that explains your absence from earlier this week." Liam nodded his head with sudden understanding. "Well, it is a good look for you I suppose. The Twin Gods of Fashion certainly follow up on their obligations to us rulers."

"Twin Gods of fashion...You know what, not the weirdest things we've seen." Jaune then went with everybody agreeing. I mean, overpowered Team RWBY, Yang working with Criminals, Magical Blake, this wasn't even top ten of weirdenest. Though it was close.

"Wonder what other stuff we'll see in the future." Yang wondered of the possibilities.

"Knowing Mayden, weird crap he spews." Suddenly Blake felt the doggy hair on her grow longer. She then glared at where the voice of Mayden came from.

Keeper Retribution" He simply said.

"Yes, they certainly do. Now, are you going to explain to me what exactly you are doing with the silver-eyed abomination? And why did you bring her here of all places?" Diam asked next.

"I thought you could look after her until she wakes up," Liam replied to the second question.

"No!" The suddenness in Diam's voice surprised him. "I've had enough of babysitting young girls! First, it was the heiress, and she was just the beginning of my issues. Second, it was that weird android girl with the dopey personality that kept trying to hug me and convince me to call her my daughter. And now a silver-eyed warrior, the literal bane of my greatest creation, is being offered to me to take care of. I will not, and I repeat. I will not become a glorified babysitter for the third time!"

"...Pha!" Qrow then chuckled. "A God as a babysitter! Good one!"

"Definitely funny alright." Now this is something Ozpin didn't mind hearing. The God of Darkness himself being forced to babysit. Now that put a smile on his face.

"Heiress and android." Ruby already figured out the android-unless Atlas had more than one-but heiress had to mean Weiss. Though it made her question how her bestie is involved. Also her now included.

"I see."

"Why didn't you just give her to her sister or something? Why does it have to be me?" Diam asked next.

"She has a sister?" Liam asked. To his credit, it wasn't like Ruby and Yang came even remotely close to looking like each other.

"Fair enough.' Yang recalled times when she and Tai went to pick up Ruby once as kids. The people always looked confused upon her saying they were sisters.

"Oh my non-existent God." Diam ran a hand down his face. "Just throw her there or something, I don't care anymore. I'll teleport her to her teammates later."

"Thank you, brother." Liam threw Ruby on the floor, she bounced once and coughed as she tried to bring the wind back into her lungs before going back into unconsciousness.

Diam put his hands on his hips, looked down at Ruby, and then back up to his brother, who seemed to not have taken into account that humans aren't meant to be dropped on the ground like that without them being prepared for it beforehand.

"How did this even happen?" Diam asked with a huff. "How is it that I am at the center of everything in this damn comedy of a vacation."

"Well, I started training her today." Liam helpfully informed him.

"You're doing what!?" Diam transformed into his God form and grabbed Liam by his collar. "Are you not aware that the silver-eyed warriors hold the same power that you do? There is a reason Salem tried to exterminate them all, they have the power to harm anything created from the dark, and guess who is literally made out of dark!" He pointed to his dark energy form.

"I can do that!" Ruby said happily. Imagining all the things she could do with that power.

"A kiddo," Qrow then said. "I told you this a while ago. When you left Patch." Ruby turned red as she was indeed told, but had forgotten.

"So wait, that means Ruby can K.O the God of Darkness!" Yang asked excitedly. Always wondering what it'd be like to be a God Slayer.

"Relax," Liam said in a soothing tone. "Silver eyed warriors are mortal, despite sharing a very minuscule amount of my power they would never be able to hurt you. Maybe cause you a minor discomfort in a large quantity, but a single one - especially a young one, has no hope of hurting you."

"Or not." Yang said disappointingly.

"But hey, least she can still kill ton of Grimm!" Nora cheered her up. Yang smiling as the two fist bumped.

"Hmph," Diam quickly shifted back into his human form. "It's still annoying, but I suppose I see your point. Very well, are you going to tell me what happened with her now or are we going to drag this out for another few sentences?"

"It might get awkward trying to force a conversation." Liam pointed out.

Diam waited for Liam to start his story, and Liam waited for Diam to lose patience. But being immortals like they are, they literally had all the time in the world and their perception of time could make a second feel like hours or an hour feel like seconds. In this case, Liam just wanted to mess with his brother, because there was nothing really harmful from telling him what happened with his new student that morning.

He let the awkward minute pass anyhow, just to see what happens.

"So I may have gotten a little bored…"

"Gods can get bored?" Ruby asked.

"Of course." Mayden answered her. "While there thinking can be fundamentally different from mortals, Gods can still feel certain emotions that humans have which include boredom."

"That's interesting." Weiss said wondering how much Mayden knew on Gods. "Though can you elaborate further on there thinking."

"Oh. Hm? How to give an example." Mayden reviewed his own memories and then found the perfect one. "Like say a planet extinction would get most mortals outright horrified, for the Gods not so much."

That didn't sound good at all.

Even worse for Ozpin as he knew such a thing.

Luckily everybody decided to move on with watching the show opting to ignore that ominous warning just said.

The relieved look on Diam's face as he started to explain was palpable to his satisfaction.

That morning…

"Eh? Professor Grimm?" Ruby Rose balked at the very tall and broad man before her at the entrance into her dorm.

"Grimm?" Yang perked up and prepared to make a break for it, but upon noticing that the Grimm her sister was speaking of was not the purple man, or the creature of darkness, she raised an eyebrow as she peeked over her bunk. "Oh yeah, you're the purple guy's older bro right?" The blonde asked.

"So I am," Liam politely replied with a courteous bow. "I am sorry to interrupt your day of rest, but may I borrow Miss Ruby Rose here for the morning?"

"Eh!?" Ruby pointed to herself and asked for confirmation as if there was another Ruby that Liam was speaking of. "Me?"

"Yes, you," Liam chuckled. "I've decided that I want to pick up a student while I am here in Vale."

Blake looked up from her book of love at the sound of that. "Are Huntsman able to just choose apprentices whenever they want?" She questioned.

"Of course we can," Liam said with a kind smile. "Training the younger generations is paramount to the future of all humanity. You are the ones who are going to be picking up our slack when we grow old and slow after all."

"Mentor did the same with me," Weiss spoke up from their study desk. "Though I was the one who pressed for it originally, he did accept me as his student and trained me to become as good as I am now."

"I'm trained by the God of Darkness!" The former heiress said the same way as Ruby.

"Now that's awesome!" Yang went alongside Nora. Both thinking of what 'Dark' moves the God of Darkness could have taught her.

"That sounds like a sweet deal!" Jaune noded imagining him with 'Dark Powers' of a Grimm. While possibly bad in reality, he couldn't help but think it felt awesome all the same.

While Weiss wouldn't say it, even she thought her with a 'Dark Look' looked sweet.

"Good enough to compete with Pyrrha Nikos like you are now?" Blake asked from across the room.

"I yearn to surpass her in time," Weiss said confidently. "I have faith in my mentor's teachings, and if his brother wishes to train my partner as well, then I for one think that it is a great idea."

"W-wait, don't I get a say in this?" Ruby wailed.

"Sis, look me in the eyes and tell me you wouldn't take the chance to get trained by a fully trained huntsman other than our uncle or dad?" Yang challenged, she stared into Ruby's panicked eyes and watched as her sister grew more and more uneasy as her face lit up with a red color. Finally, Ruby gave in and looked away, giving Yang the easy victory as she looked back toward the newly hired professor with an eager glint to her eyes.

"Totally accepting!" Ruby said wishing luck to her counterpart.

"So, do you accept?" Liam repeated the question, extending the offer out literally with his hand for her to shake. Ruby looked at it and after a moment of useless contemplation, she put her much smaller hand in his and shook it curtly. The deal was made and now she could not escape it. The God of Light smirked and pulled her gently under his arm, Ruby looked tiny in comparison to her new teacher, the man being nearly seven feet tall, even taller than his brother who was already monstrous in his height. It was like he was something more than a human.

"You've made a wonderful choice Miss Rose, I look forward to our Mentor-student relationship."

"Heh, I have a mentor now to Weiss!" Ruby laughed giddily. Weiss rolled her eyes playfully and waved goodbye for now to her leader.

"So, is anyone going to mention we let a near-complete stranger come and take our leader away?" Blake asked.

"Hey, say that when you're an actual main character that doesn't run away from her problems and almost never gets punished for it Blakey," Yang teased.

Blake blushed at that as many in the 'Good Side' looked at her. Ironwood still a bit suspicious, Oscar just whistling, and Glynda shaking her head. She was very lucky she hadn't ended up in jail.

"He's not a stranger, he is the brother of my Mentor. If Mentor trusts him, then I shall too." Weiss added.

Blake scoffed and went back to her book. If even Weiss was going to give her sass about it, then she wouldn't bother. But if anything happened to Ruby and she wasn't the same girl that she was when she left the room, then she was ready to tell them all 'I told you so'. She swore that running away from her problems usually worked, given that she hasn't been punished at all for running away from Adam and the White Fang and while running toward trouble she always got help and everything turned out okay.

How bad could it be anyway? It's just some training, and Ruby is incredibly strong for her age. She was sure she could handle it.

"I can't handle this." Ruby panted as she struggled to keep a high plank position while her new teacher was standing on her back. Her being less five two inches and barely over a hundred pounds and her teacher being almost seven feet tall and three hundred pounds of pure muscle and power, it was a wonder how her already shaking arms haven't fallen off after the first minute passed.

"..." Ruby wished even more luck to her counterpart. And maybe a few good painkillers. 'So glad that's not me.'

"No, no, you have two more minutes left." Liam stared at a timer on his scroll. "This pain you are feeling is necessary-"

"I'm pretty sure this pain is my muscles tearing." Ruby choked out.

"-for a girl such as yourself. As a warrior who relies completely on speed and conditioning, your biggest weakness is strength. Therefore if you get caught or grabbed, you are more or less done for." Ruby coughed twice, but for some reason, she couldn't bring it within herself to let her body fall flat on the ground right underneath her. It was right there, she never thought a hard concrete floor could look so comfortable.

"God has a point Ruby." Qrow told his niece. "You are kinda weak on the strength field." Ruby just stuck her tongue at him.

The fact that he took her not to the padded and comfortable mats of the training room or the weight room should have been her first warning that this was going to be a nightmare training session.

"Pretty much." Jaune laughed with Ruby glaring at the betrayal.

"Almost done, after this we get to the good stuff," Liam said as he raised one foot up, putting a hundred percent of his weight on one leg. In the more concentrated position in the center of her back, Ruby nearly felt herself get split in half. "Just thirty seconds left Miss Rose," Her bastard Mentor told her.

"Three… Two… One... down," Liam stepped off of her back and Ruby fell face first on the floor in a heap of sweat, exhaustion, and torn muscles.

Liam hummed as he took a deeper look into the senses of the world and looked at the small girl's actual condition. Despite her attempt of exaggerating, she was actually correct. She did have some torn muscles on her shoulders, biceps, and upper back. It seemed like he may have pushed her a little too far just now, and perhaps next time their warmup wouldn't be a half-hour sprint without breaks or semblances. With Ruby using her speed semblance, it wouldn't have been a true work out.

Note: Humans are more fragile than I remember. Liam thought to himself as he pressed a hand against Ruby's back. She winced from the pain she felt, but quickly found herself rejuvenated of some of her stamina and the pain she felt all over her upper body faded away into nothingness.

"Feel better?" Liam asked as he helped the girl up. Ruby looked at him with a questioning and confused look in her eyes, and even though she was too shocked for words, he understood what she was trying to say to him. "I removed the pain from your body but speeding up the time of which your muscles heal. Making you slightly stronger and even a tiny bit bulkier, your dress feels a little tighter, does it not?"

Ruby did a few test stretches and found out that yes, her outfit was indeed a little tighter around her body. Some parts of the outfit were already snug on her, but the areas like around her corset, her belt, and the material around her shoulders were a teensy bit tighter. If she wasn't looking for the changes, she wouldn't have noticed it at all.

"Oh." Yang then gave a teasingly look at Ruby. "Bigger huh. As in fat, or maybe an extra cup si-"

"Do not dare finish that Yang!" Weiss reprimanded her teammate who just giggled. Ruby on the other hand looked embarrassed yet didn't seem to hate where that was going.

"That's… That's amazing!" Ruby exclaimed happily. "Is that your semblance? Because if it is that is so cool! Is this how you and Mister Grimm were able to get so strong? How far can you push your semblance? Can you do it again!?"

"Depends, do you want to go through that particular workout once more?" Liam asked, and that was just what he needed in order to get Ruby to pipe down in sudden fear. "My abilities are a mystery to the public eye and I prefer to keep it that way, I only used it now because I could not leave you in so much pain. I will have to ask you to keep what I do during our training sessions close to the chest."

"Ah, okay. I will!" Ruby promised.

"Good, now if you'll come with me, we shall proceed with the rest of the training. In the meantime, let us talk as we walk." Liam said as he started walking away, rightfully expecting Ruby to run up to his side and match his pace in order to keep up with him.

"Well, first let me ask you something." Liam looked at her through the corner of his eye. "What color are my eyes?" He asked her, knowing very well that his eye was quite visible.

"Er…" Ruby narrowed her eyes to get a better look. She would have gotten up on her toes, but not only was the man too tall but they were also walking. "Gray?"

Ozpin inside Oscar looked at Ruby who smiled.

"No, try again."

"Iron?"

Weiss then gave a odd look while Ruby just rubbed the back of her head.

"Closer."

"Sheet metal?"

Qrow just laughed with Ruby having a hint of red cheeks on her.

"That's not even an-" Liam sighed and stopped walking. Ruby did the same and he turned fully to face the girl and leaned down enough so that she could get a clear look into his eyes. "Do you see them now? Our eyes are the same color, and what color is that?"

"Oooh," Ruby laughed, embarrassed. "You mean steel."

"Hehehe...My bad.' Ruby tried laughing of that excuse. Dedicating her memory to recall that moment.

"Silver," Liam said through gritted teeth. "We both have silver eyes. Don't you remember what Ozpin first said to you when you first met him?"

"Oh yeah, he said something about that. Now I remember." Ruby nodded her head. "But how do you know that when you weren't there to hear it?"

"Uh…" The God of Light found him remembering something.

"Ooo, flashback scene within a flashback scene? What is that, a double flashback?"

"The more you interrupt the longer it takes for me to get to the point."

"Fine, fine, get to it then."

Ozpin tapped his pen nervously against his desk as the God of Light in disguise of a human form sat before him in the seat where a student would normally sit if they got in trouble. But in this case, it was more like he was the one in trouble as Liam looked at him as though there was something he'd done wrong and he ought to explain himself. "Is there something you need?" He finally asked the silver-eyed deity.

Liam perked up. "Yes actually, what was the first thing you said to Ruby Rose when you met her?"

Ozpin tilted his head with confusion. "Er… that is an odd question. I almost expect that more from your bro-"

"Yes, I know, me too. Now answer it."

Ozpin was too scared to say no.

Oscar chuckled with some of his other Inner Circle members also doing the same. Even Glynda of all people, who's known for her professional attitude. Glynda!

"S-sorry Ozpin-" Ironwood tried saving face. "It's just..Ph!"

"Now that's a nice expression." Qrow joined in.

"...Not to bad." Glynda gave a smirk.

"Really? That's it? No terrorizing him or making him feel powerless like I usually do just to laugh about it later?"

"I happen to be more civilized than that, brother."

"You mean more boring, how is that supposed to be even remotely close to entertaining? Think of the ones who will read the legendary tale of the return of the God brothers in a thousand years' time!"

"And how will you complaining about it bringing any progress to my conveniently specific way of explaining everything that happened this morning?"

"If I didn't already agree with you I would have punched you in the face. Proceed."

"What are we going to be doing here Professor Grimm?" Ruby asked as she looked over the cliff of the Emerald Forest, hundreds of feet below was the beginning of the vast woodland Grimm infested Forest. She wasn't afraid of heights whatsoever, a huntress like her couldn't when her semblance was moving close to the speed of sound and at any moment she could accidentally move a little too fast for her reaction reflexes and run herself off a cliff.

"Training," Liam said with a proud huff. "You are going to survive in this forest for a night. Use your eyes to help yourself against the Grimm. I'll come pick you up around this time tomorrow."

"Eh?" Ruby looked up at her teacher with wide eyes. "How am I going to sleep?"

"Don't have a nightmare." Liam shrugged as if it should have been obvious. "Grimm are attracted to negative feelings and emotions, I hope you know. Silly girl."

"Ruby was now seriously starting to question if training with an all-powerful diety was worth it.

"I don't know, this seems awfully dangerous. I don't even know how to use my eyes like I did before!" Ruby exclaimed as she began to pace, going through all of her possible options in her mind to try and piece together a way to try and use her eye's apparent secret abilities for the second time. "How do you do it?" She asked eagerly.

"Me?" Liam hummed as he tried to find a way to explain it. "I've lived with these powers for a very, very long time Miss Rose. I hardly remember how I was able to use them for the first time."

"Psh, you don't look that old."

Liam chuckled. In truth he was quite young when it came to Gods, the universe itself was only a few million years old, as was he and his brother. Compared to humans, earlier thirties or late twenties would be the equivalent to the lifespan of a God. Which was immortal, but it was the only way he could see it. Creating a human body would have been difficult if he tried to make it match his actual age when they crumbled the dust the moment you make their age over a measly thousand.

His powers just came to him, as did some knowledge on how to use them. Over time he has been able to master those abilities and become the God of Light, and the same went for Diam, the God of Darkness, when he was born from the presence of light. Though obviously, his were more destructive in nature.

What made it easier for him to explain himself to Miss Rose here was that there was already a set roster of unwritten rules for mortal silver-eyed warriors, and it was all basic things. "Think of life, and the defense thereof," Liam said cryptically to the girl. She looked even more confused than before. "By the time I come retrieve you tomorrow morning, you should know what I mean."

"I… okay." Ruby took a deep self-confident breath and steeled her determination. "I can do this, I can do this! All right, where's my scythe?"

"Down you go," Liam said as he shoved Ruby off the cliff with a heavy hand. Ruby yelped and screamed as she began to fall. Her scream echoed all the way back up the cliff for several seconds before her form was swallowed by branches and leaves. After a few moments of waiting for a sign of life, Liam sat down on the ledge of the cliff and looked out into the distance. "The sun is very bright today." He said to himself as he looked up at the glowing star.

Nope. Ruby decided it wasn't worth it. Her and many others just staring open mouthed at the sight of one of their creators pushing her like nothing and into the deadly forest. All while having the gall to just staring at the sky like nothing even happened.

A glare made his human body twitch and he looked down and to the left to see what sort of trick made him react that way. Crescent Rose shimmered tauntingly at him.

Liam clicked his tongue as he realized his mistake.

He casually jumped after the silver-eyed girl who hopefully suffered just a severe concussion.

"Yeah...Good luck me." Ruby said nervously now feeling glad she had been trained by Qrow and the Beacon staff and not a God that will likely end up with her killed. Weiss herself now fearing that if the God of Light did this to her partner, then...What about the God of Darkness's training to her?

Winter prayed for her sister's health.

Nora giving a small baby hand pat on her shoulder with pity looks from even Jaune.

Diam broke out in laughter and held his stomach as to prevent himself from falling over. He calmed down for a moment, but after seeing the unconscious Ruby on his bed he burst out into a fit of giggles once more. It was just too much for him to handle. "To think that the fucking God of Light could be this bad of a teacher," He wiped a tear of sheer joy from his left eye. "This is priceless, truly so. What did you find when you went down there?"

Liam looked away shamefully. "She may have had a few bruises…"

"Thank goodness." Yang said wiping away some sweat. Though in a few seconds she would sweat more.

"A few bruises as in she was injured or fucking dead?"

"A mix of both, but I used my powers to heal her and then erase her memory that it ever happened in the first place," Liam said as he looked over to his sleeping student. "As far as she knows, she had a very tough training session."

"Hack powers.' Ren simply said.

"Smart, so was there any progress made on the whole silver eye power thing?" Diam asked next, still on the verge of losing his control and laughing again, but was able to control himself before that could happen. He stood with his arms crossed as he waited for his brother to complete his explanation. Convenient timing as well, this was just around the time he was supposed to have another therapy session with Glynda.

"None," Liam sighed as he leaned on the door frame. "This served as a valuable lesson to myself, humans are more fragile than I thought."

"Or maybe you guys are just to strong!" Yang shouted at them.

"I know, ugh." Diam rolled his eyes annoyingly. "All it takes is one snap and they turn to dust, I can't shake a hand without accidentally crushing there's. It took some time for me to get used to suppressing my power. I'm sure you can do the same, however. You are the older brother after all." He condescendingly teased him.

"Your jests and hypocrisy are duly noted," Liam said with an internal sigh.

"I'm glad it is, now I must figure out what to do next now that the Specialist is back and at it. You'd think a human woman would want to rest after nearly getting killed, but not this one. She's special. Haven't you sensed the magical presence from within her? She isn't one of those maidens that Ozma created, I've already checked."

"I… may have an idea," Liam admitted softly, Diam raised an eyebrow toward him. "Only an idea, honest. I have to look into it before I can tell you any more."

Winter felt some stares at her, but she ignored them. Though as for the magical part...if things went the intended path, she'll be getting the Winter Maiden's powers very soon.

"Hmph, very well. As much as I'd like to paint you as the bad guy you are literally called the God of Light for a reason. You follow your own rules." Diam said as he ran a hand through his dark purple hair.

Liam smiled out of genuine joy to hear those words from his brother. A few thousand years ago the God of Darkness would have said no such kind words to him, even though he said them in his own special way he might as well admitted that despite everything that happened in the past, Diam does trust his older brother. And against his better judgment, Liam trusts him as well. It doesn't change the fact that Gods are not to mingle with humans lest chaos ensue and tragedy follows. But steps were being made in order to gain a better understanding of the God of Darkness. However small, progress as still progress.

"This Specialist of yours, Winter Schnee is her name correct?" Liam asked, a small smile on his face as he did so.

"Hm, I believe so." Diam nodded his head. "Specialist is easier however, it has a certain ring to it that I so enjoy."

"Celeste has told me that she is one of the few people you interact with on a daily basis, is there something going on there dear brother?" Liam attempted to tease.

Diam being the king of teasing didn't even register his brother's words as such and took it as a legitimate question. "Hardly, the Specialists has proven to be quite resilient to my charms. When we first met any other woman would have joined me in bed with that team that was sent to collect me, heh." He smirked with nostalgia at the memory. "There is something different about her that intrigues me, she's brought much excitement to this little vacation of mine."

"I see." Liam committed all of that to memory. "Is it possible that you may be falling in love with her?" He broached the question, finally testing the waters to his greatest

"!" Once more everybody fell into shock again.

The God of Darkness..in LOVE! That would defenitly be a scandle in the making. Winter herself actually blushing while Blake thought of some interesting scenes between mortal and immortal.

"Love?" Diam burst out laughing. "Of course not. You know just as well as I that the literal King of Darkness and all that is evil cannot feel the emotion of love. Besides, I could do much better if I wanted to."

"That theory has never been tested," Liam pointed out softly. "And in the body of a human, such emotions seemed to have affected you. I believe you refer to them as 'issues' however."

"Ugh, don't be like Glynda," Diam groaned indignantly. "She always goes on about accepting others and kindness and that disgusting notion of emotion. Ugh… At least that rhymes." He said as he sat down on his bed and rested his head on the hand that was propped up on his elbow. "It's like hardly anyone is even concerned about Cinder and whatever the hell she is doing in this kingdom, what's wrong with mortals these days?"

"You know you could just find her if you use your powers." Liam pointed out.

"Yes, but where's the fun in that?" Diam asked, exaggerating and stretching out the word. "If I just go out and kill Cinder and end whatever schemes she has set up before they can come to fruition, how is that going to entertain me? Sure, her screams of pain might be endearing but I am here for the long term brother, I can't let all my fun go to waste here!"

"Mm, I can't say that I understand, but I can see why you would be so adamant in going about things the way that you are doing so now." Liam nodded his head with understanding. "Anyway, I'll take my leave now. The job of a professor of Beacon is ever full of work."

"I still think you stole my idea for that." Diam pointed out before his brother could leave. "So I'll just have to do you one better and become the headmaster!"

"You? As the headmaster of a huntsman academy?" Liam snickered. But his amusement aside, this was the God of Darkness he was speaking to. Anything was possible when he was involved, even the most ridiculous of concepts. "We'll just have to wait and see."

"So we shall. Now get the hell out of my room!" Diam shouted. The God of Light nodded once and made his leave, trying to fix the door behind him as he did so and therefore officially entrusting the health and safety of a fifteen-year-old girl to the God of Darkness. It wasn't exactly a sound plan when said out loud, but he knew that his brother wouldn't harm the girl unless given a good reason, or if she insulted his horns for some reason. He's come a long way from destroying most of humanity millennia ago, and honestly. Liam was proud of his brother's growth.

"Now, what am I going to do with you?" Diam asked the unconscious Ruby Rose sleeping rather comfortably on his bed. "It's not every day a woman is lying in my bed and isn't naked, and while you are cute you are much too young for my tastes sooo…"

"He better not do anything to her or I'll-" Before she could continue, Qrow interrupted her.

"Or what Yang? Hate to be rude, but this guy will just snap you out of existence.' He told her with Yang just looking away. "Besides, he just said that he wouldn't touch Ruby. Thank goodness."

With a snap of his fingers, a hem of purple glowed around Ruby's head and her eyes snapped open as the rest of her injuries were instantly healed and her stamina was refreshed. She looked around the strange room for just a moment before Diam helped her up and took her by the shoulders, holding her still as he prepared to teleport her.

"M-mister Grimm? What happened I thought-"

"Sh, sh, sh, sh," Diam squeezed her shoulders in what he might have thought was a comforting fashion. "Silence, this will only take a moment."

"What-"

Purple flashed around her entire world.

"-do you mean?" Ruby finished her question as she suddenly found herself in her own dorm room. She blinked a few times in her shock before she fully understood what she was actually back in her room and that this wasn't some kind of illusion. So that was what it felt like for your body to instantly be teleported from one place to the next.

"Okay, I'll admit. That's a pretty cool power." Yang loved her Semblance, but the power to teleport just looked cool. So useful.

"Oh look, she's back," Weiss said with a triumphant smile on her face as she looked to Blake from the corner of her eye. "It looks like we can trust the Grimm brothers after all."

"Hmph," Blake tilted her chin up and looked away to bury her face into her book to escape Weiss' annoying to look at smile. Above her, Yang waved nervously toward the purple man, in return he offered her a sly smirk. He certainly remembered her, and would for a very long time.

"What does that mean?" Yang wondered.

"Oh." Mayden decided to chime in. "I should mention, this version with you picked a fight with God-"

Everyone for a second couldn't decide if that was very brave, or very stupid.

"-And lost badly."

Stupid it is.

Yang just muttering how at least she did something cool, while Ruby just gave her a smile.

"Anyhow, I hear that there is a tournament coming up!" Diam exclaimed in mild excitement. "So many new children for me to torment- I mean, for my brother to look after. Simply amazing."

"Yeah…" Yang looked anywhere but him awkwardly. "Sure. Actually, didn't you make a few new friends recently Ruby?"

"I think so?" Ruby shrugged her shoulders.

"New friends?" Diam stopped himself from snapping his fingers at the sound of that. "What kind of friends are we talking about here?"

"The kind where you accidentally bump into." Ruby sulked. "Man, and I'd take a rough day of training over meeting new people any day of the week. But they're pretty cool though. I like them!" Her mood made a complete one-eighty as she hopped up and down in her excitement.

"What were their names again?" Yang asked.

"Er…" Ruby crossed her arms as she tried to remember. "Mercury and Emerald I think, and they're quite teammate!"

Dun Dun Dun!

"I already see what's happening. And it can't be good." Qrow said with a small scowl.

"Are you kidding me? We just heard the music you hear on television when things go bad." Ironwood told him.

"Perhaps the Gods will help." Glynda thought hopefully.

"Doubtful." Ozpin knew the Gods a bit, and unless it was world disaster he didn't think they'd do much of anything. He could be wrong, but you never know.

"Well," Ruby said grabbing Weiss. "Since we're being trained by Gods, I bet we'll handle Cinder and her lot!" Ruby said with a grin with Weiss also giving a small smile.

The sudden sound of an intimidating ringtone made all of RWBY jump, it didn't take long for them to figure out where it came from when the only one it could have come from was Diam Grimm himself.

"Huh, and here I thought it was just background music." Oscar says.

"Oh, sorry," Diam said as he looked over a text notification from his scroll. "That's the ringtone sound I made for the Specialist, really gets your attention, doesn't it? Anyway, I've stayed for much longer than my stomach could handle. Bye!"

"Huh," Yang wondered once Diam left in another flash of purple. "I wonder what that was about."

"Trouble. That's what." Yang said even though she knew her dimensional counterpart couldn't here. "Man. I hope these guys have better luck than us. Other than that, those Gods seem pretty cool."

"Pretty amazing." Jaune agreed.

"And wicked." Baby Nora smiled.

Many also thinking the two Gods, while a bit strange, were rather impressive. Ozpin on the other hand just gave a small sad smile. He hoped the Gods of that world would judge humanity good. Otherwise extinction is all that will be left for everyone.

Another story done and finished. Until Next Time!