Chapter 29: A Grimm Fate
Here we are again, another story. This one written crusader76. I won't hold you back, just read to see if you like it or not. This story should be wowing you as we go back to those in the theater. Enjoy.
"So then my kiddies." Mayden joked to those in the theater, going right back to them. "How did you like Frozen."
"I liked it." Velvet said.
"The song was pretty cool." Coco nodded.
"More like pretty gross." Mercury gagged.
"I'm with him. That was annoying." Russel agreed with Mercury.
"The stupid power of friendship and sisterly love. How irritating." Roman deadpanned with Neo feeling disgust at what she saw.
"I did like that snow golem." Cardin enjoyed some of the action. Though he wasn't really good with emotions.
"Those sisters are truly merciful." The red eyed girl enjoyed how those two sisters got back together. She hoped that she can have something akin to that with her sister one day. Her plan having been to kill her, yet now...she didn't want that.
"Please tell me we will see something else?" Cinder emotionlessly pleaded to Mayden. For she has never felt disgusted as today by this film.
"Yeah." Emerald also said. Though she quietly hid an album full of the Frozen songs.
"Don't worry folks, we'll see something else. In fact, its something pretty nice." Mayden's opinion at the least, but the cast decided they had nothing else to lose.
"Like what?" the gentle giant that is Yatsu asked.
"Let's just say a person who's fate looks a little grimm, hehe." The screen then turned on ready to show the cast what was up. And it was a doozy.
Weiss ran full pelt down the long hallways of Beacon, all too aware of the giant Beowolf barrelling after her a few feet behind her. Any students still milling about in the hall quickly scattered at the sight of the Schnee heiress being hounded by a giant, black behemoth of a Grimm close behind her.
"And I'm liking this already." Cardin says chewing on his food ignoring the glares from his classmates. "What? Not like this is our bitch."
"I agree." Roman chuckled as he recorded this.
Adam also seemed to find this amusing himself.
The Alpha was unceasing in its pursuit of the white-haired female, barely stopping to breathe its desire for bloodshed was that strong. Slowly the Grimm inched closer to his prey, his hot breath crawling up Weiss's neck.
Just at the last second however, Weiss sharply turned left at an intersection, using another Glyph to quickly change direction without losing any forward momentum. The Grimm wasn't so lucky and ended up crashing headfirst into a brick wall. Shaking its head roughly, the Alpha rounded back onto his target, it's eyes alight with fury.
Weiss wasn't just aimlessly running, she was attempting to lead the enraged Grimm outside, in the open away from the school so that way he would do less damage. So, once she was a sufficient distance away from the Alpha Beowolf, she turned back to wait for the monster to gather its bearings.
"Good plan." Fox agreed with this version of Weiss. "By going outside she'll have a much better advantage as well. Her power is more suited for the outdoors."
"Assuming she lives." Mercury teased.
As the Grimm locked eyes with the young heiress, Weiss tried to search for any sign of the moody Teen underneath the bone white mask that covered the Grimm's face.
But there was nothing there, just rage and hatred that was typical of the blight of humanity.
With a hellish roar, the Grimm resumed it's chase and Weiss quickly took off down the hallway. As the Grimm bounded after its quarry, memories started to resurface in its blackened haze of a subconscious.
"I…KNOW…THIS…PLACE"
"That thing can think!" Emerald said a bit shocked. It wasn't just her either, as many were amazed at how this Grimm is actually thinking.
'Did Salem do something to it?' Tock thought knowing some Grimm can either gain intelligence after years of killing or if Salem gave them some.
Cinder had the same thoughts, but she was more curious on why this one had intelligence. She would assume so that it can kill the students more easily, yet the way it attacked didn't indicate it had any plans other than killing the heiress. She'll have to watch further to find out.
Eventually the Grimm realised that its prey was attempting to lead it outside, and that no matter how fast he ran, he could not catch the disgusting Dustling who always managed to stay just out of his reach.
After turning another sharp bend, The Grimm finally pieced together where exactly it was in the building.
And knew that there was a short cut nearby that would allow him to get the drop on his hunt.
So as quietly as it could, the beast broke off from its chase, and launched itself out a nearby window to begin scaling the side of the human foundation and sprint along the rooftops of Beacon.
As the monster continued to pursue its prey from above, it licked its lips at the thought of sinking its fangs into the brat's weak flesh and tasting her blood.
Whitley shivered.
He held little to no love for his sister, ever since she left the manor. Leaving him behind no different from Winter to them. But even he wasn't cruel enough to want to see her dead. Or to be more specific, he'd rather not see her ripped apart on the screen. That would be traumatizing.
"I hope she comes out okay." Velvet says worried that Weiss is facing an intelligent Grimm.
"She'll be fine." Yatsu says to calm her.
"Assuming she isn't caught in a dead end." Dove mutters.
Ozpin walked purposefully through the emptying halls of his academy, his scroll locked onto Fenrir's current location in the school.
It appeared Miss Schnee had the right idea, leading the confused Grimm away from the school grounds, away from any potential victims of his rampage.
But this did place a target on the girl's head, meaning Ozpin still had to hurry if he wanted this to end without bloodshed.
"Just when I thought we were making actual progress" Ozpin couldn't help but think disdainfully.
He had already contacted Glynda and instructed her and Peter to prepare the pacification devices that had been built specifically for the Grimm just in case of such an eventuality and bring them to the academy entrance.
"Professor Ozpin!" A female voice yelled out from behind "Wait up!"
Looking behind his shoulder for but a moment, the headmaster saw Miss Rose and Miss Xiao-long running to catch up with him, weapons already in hand and apprehension written across their faces.
"Professor" Ruby gasped out once she caught up to the headmaster "It's Fenrir…he… he just"
"Turned into a Grimm I know"
"Huh. What's he saying?" Roman asks out loud. "We already know it's a Grimm."
"And who's Fenrir?" Neo also asked.
"That would be the Grimm you saw, who was a faunus awhile ago." Mayden then tells them instantly.
"Wha?" Mercury's mouth opened wide.
"A faunus Grimm?" Tock rubbed her forehead confused.
"What the heck does that mean?" sky unable to figure out the puzzle before him. Missing a few pieces to figure out what was just said.
"Can you explain more." The red eyed girl asks.
"Sure." Mayden agrees. "Basically put, due to an incident that Grimm somehow turned into a faunus thanks to liquid Dust and Ruby's rose petal."
"That...that makes no sense at all." Roman points out the obvious.
"I have never heard of liquid Dust. And even if such a thing exists, I doubt it can turn a Grimm into a faunus." Adam explains.
"Yeah, that makes no sense at all." Coco also agrees.
"Sounds like a bad plot!" Cardin states.
"Eh, different world different rules." Mayden just shrugged his non-existent shoulders as the show continues.
At this Yang's eyes nearly popped out of her skull
"Wait you knew he was a Grimm? Then why would you…"
"I promise Miss Xiao-Long, I will explain to you in due time but first we have to stop Mr Lupus from doing any lasting damage to either the school or himself"
With a tone of finality, Ozpin carried on, almost breaking out into a jog in his haste to get to the school gates. The two sisters, seeing little else in the way of options, simply followed their headmaster.
Ruby's mind was still a myriad of conflicting emotions, and while Ozpin said he would explain later, she felt the need to ask him something right now.
"He said it's my fault he's like this"
The people leaned a bit closer to hear this.
Ozpin glanced at the small girl from the side of his glasses, before looking forward, a deep frown on his face.
"In a way Miss Rose, he's right"
"Oh sure. Not even bothering to explain why." Cardin throws his hands in the air.
"No no no, where did he go! He was right behind me"
"Die! Die! Die!" Neo's signs said hoping for blood.
As Weiss continued to make her way towards the exit of the main building, she eventually became aware of the fact that she could no longer feel the Beowolf's breath on her back. Turning to look back revealed that the Grimm was nowhere in sight.
Slowing down, Weiss feared that maybe the beast had given up and had gone to look for easier prey.
RRROOOARARRRRGGHHHH!
But then that theory was promptly ruined when the Grimm came crashing in through a nearby window and before Weiss could even hope to react, punched the girl square in the face. The white-haired girl was sent sailing through the air, her aura being the only thing that stopped her head from being turned into a bloody smear decorating the walls.
"Yeah!"
"Now that's hilarious!"
"Hahahaha!"
"That had to hurt."
Most of these comments came from those on the side of bad or just the jerks from Beacon like Cardin.
Team CFVY just shaking their heads at them and wishing they can put them in their place. But with these rules, that becomes impossible. So the most they could do was throw dirty looks and nothing more.
Struggling back to her feet, Weiss watched helplessly as the Grimm towered over her, it's mask crunched up in pure rage as it glared down hatefully at her. Weiss tried to crawl away, her aura too drained both from the blow and excessive use of her Glyphs to attempt to fight, but the Grimm trapped her in place with its massive paws, holding her down by her arms. The Grimm growled in victory as its fangs extended and drool dribbled from its maw as it prepared to devour her.
"HEADS UP!"
Before either the heiress or the Grimm could react, an explosive, pink rocket collided into the Grimm's back and sent the beast stumbling away in a cloud of explosive dust, howling in pain all the while. Getting back to her feet, Weiss saw Nora and Ren running towards the battlefield, weapons locked onto the raging monster as it spun round to face the new opponents.
A normal Beowolf would have been reduced to fleshy mush from just a single round of Nora's hammer/rocket launcher, but an Alpha's hide was tough, tougher than the strongest armour and so the Grimm suffered only minor singes to its fur.
That didn't mean it was any less livid from the sudden interruption. Without pause, Nora let loose with another volley of explosive shells, driving the Alpha backwards with every hit. Ren added to the beast's anger by firing off his own weapons rounds.
"That's what I call teamwork." Yatsu liked what he saw.
"I've seen better." Cardin mutters.
"Sure. Just say that to your team that lost." Mercury laughs at them with Cardin throwing the middle finger.
Cinder on the other hand just waited to see what this sentient Grimm will do. She had the feeling this won't be over.
Weiss took this moment, to quickly grab her scroll and call for Myrtenaster's assistance, feeling rather exposed without her weapon.
The Alpha collided with the back wall, small pink fires covering its arms where it tried to protect itself from the Dustling's rounds. Looking to its left side, the Grimm spied a giant metal door that led to an elevator. The Grimm's mind raced as the small female reloaded her weapon, at this rate, the Grimm's arms would be reduced to bloody stumps if he didn't do something.
He needed a shield.
Grabbing the elevator door, the Alpha wrenched the metal slab off it's hinges, the sound of rending metal screeching through the hallway. Nora unleashed another rocket at the Grimm, but this time the Alpha was prepared. The Beowolf swiftly brought the giant hunk of metal round and held it in front of itself, the pink round exploding against the improvised shield.
The kinetic force of the blast caused the Grimm to step back, but the second the smoke cleared the Grimm was back on its feet, growling sinisterly at the ginger haired girl. The girl meanwhile appeared unfazed by the monsters display of intimidation and prepared to fire another shot.
The Grimm wouldn't give her a chance though as in a blur, the wolf leapt up into the air and aimed to slam the elevator doors into the duo's heads. Both however, nimbly dodged the attack, the slab of metal instead forming a crater in the ground. Unfazed, the Alpha swung the door round itself in a wide arc. Ren practically bent backwards to avoid the attack, the door just inches away from scraping his chin. Using the momentum from the swing, the Beowolf brought itself back up to its feet, and swung the door in an axe swing, trying ferociously to hit one of its aggressors.
Ren rolled out of the way, another crater forming where his body used to be. Nora meanwhile had switched Magnhild into its hammer form and jumped up behind the distracted wolf.
"SMASH!"
Nora swung the hammer down onto the Grimm's skull. Such was the force of the blow that the Grimm's head was sent plummeting down to the floor, blackened blood spewing from its fanged jaws from where it bit its own tongue. For a moment the Grimm simply kneeled on the cracked floor, panting from exhaustion and dazed from the blow. Nora brought her hammer up to rest on her shoulders, grinning cheerfully down at the stricken Alpha.
"C'mon boy, don't you wanna play. C'mon doggy, c'mere boy"
The Dustling's mockery only fuelled the Grimm's fury to rise higher and higher than before, to the point where it's crimson eyes were now glowing with unholy hatred, black smoke billowing from its maw.
GRRRRROOOOOOOAAARRRRGGGHHHH!
"Hah." Coco shakes her head. "That girl messed up." While she didn't hate Nora's bubbly attitude, she really should have just attacked instead of letting that Grimm have time to attack.
"Looks like this won't end well." Sky says.
"She let her guard down. Not good." The red eyed assassin says knowing full well that such a thing is dangerous to do. True Nora isn't facing a human enemy, which many can say is worse, but this Grimm showed signs of intelligence. Meaning it knew some semblance of tactics.
With shaking muscles, the wolf forced itself once again to rise back to its feet, metal door still in hand. Nora brought her hammer about in front of her, stance low to the ground and bouncing on her heels in manic glee. The Grimm raised the elevator door above it's head and swung down towards the smaller female. Nora swung her hammer to meet the Alpha's improvised weapon.
As the two clashed, a massive shockwave blasted outwards from the impact zone, shattering the glass of a nearby window. Of course, Magnhild had an advantage that the Grimm's weapon did not possess. It could still fire explosive rounds even in its hammer form, so as the Grimm tried to apply pressure onto the door to try and force Nora to the ground, the girl simply pressed the trigger and the Grimm's weapon was blasted backwards from the sudden explosive force.
Once again on the backburner, the Grimm was helpless to stop the oncoming swing from the girl's hammer. The force of the blow snapped the Alpha's head backwards, a tooth being jarred loose from the impact and sent flying through the air. A howl of pain pierced the air as blood started to leak out from the Grimm's gums. Nora brought her hammer back, intending to end the fight with one more swift blow.
But the Beowolf had officially lost all sense of calm and rationale.
In a blazing burst of speed, the Grimm dropped the elevator door and sucker punched the girl in the gut, sending her up into the air. Frothing at the mouth in blind fury, the Grimm elbowed Nora in the spine at the apex of her flight, sending her hurtling back to the ground with a crash.
The beast sneered down at the prone form of the girl, and then exclaimed in pain as Ren sliced at his back to divert the monster's attention away from his teammate. The Beowolf spun round and roared in hatred at the male's interference.
Ren backed up, gaining some distance between himself and the Wolf Monster as it got down on all fours and then lunged towards him, claws outstretched. Ren leapt up and over the charging beast and brought Stormflower in front of him, preparing to fire at the Grimm from above.
It came as a great shock to Ren then, when as he soared through the air, the Beowolf's burning eyes followed him through the air and then latched onto one of the boy's ankles.
"NOT… THIS TIME…. HUMAN FILTH!"
"This is probably going to hurt." Roman enjoys the view.
"Definitely." Adam says.
"Oh yeah." Mayden laughs.
Before Ren could even try to pry himself from the grip the Alpha had on his leg, the Grimm had Ren promptly reacquainted with the ground in a very vicious body slam.
And then he slammed him down again.
And again.
And then the Hell Hound slammed the magenta-eyed boy into a stone pillar and before the male could even take a breath, sliced his ivory coloured claws across Ren's back, eliciting a cry of pain from his opponent as his aura finally broke, that was music to the beast's ears.
"REN!"
The Grimm's ears twitched at the cry of alarm from his second opponent, the Female quickly getting back to her feet and rushing towards the Wolf before he could do any more damage to her oldest friend.
The Grimm felt a cruel, sadistic smile cross his face as a particularly nasty idea came to it's head. The Grimm spun to face the hammer wielding girl, and then lobbed the long-haired male at her as if he was a softball.
As the Grimm had hoped, Nora was taken off guard by the sudden throwing of her teammate and dropped her hammer to catch the boy.
She wasn't given the opportunity to retrieve her weapon. In a flash the Beowolf was upon the two of them, grabbing both of their heads in it's giant paws and then bringing them slamming them down to the ground.
Lifting the two of them back up into the air, the Alpha pinned them against the stone wall and slowly started choking the life out of the two of them, his claws slightly digging into their skin inch by inch, their blood slowly seeping out and covering the beast's paws.
"DIE!... DIE!... DIE!"
Velvet looked away, not liking their chances. She really felt they would die.
Team CRDL also looked away, rather not be seeing someone die live. Sure they didn't have much care for those two, but no way they wanted to see them torn apart.
As for the newcomer from another world, she just sighed believing this was their end. The Danger Beasts of her world were much like the Grimm. She was strong now, but back then when she trained against the beasts, she nearly died multiple times against their power.
Within a matter of moments, Weiss's locker crashed through the ceiling, its rocket engine bursting blue flames as it settled slowly onto the ground. Quickly inputting the six-digit code on the lockers keypad, Weiss grabbed her trusty Rapier and started loading it full of dust cartridges.
Before she could re-join the fight and help Nora and Ren against the raging Grimm, her scroll lit up and started incessantly ringing. Looking out across the battlefield, Weiss observed as the combined efforts of Nora and Ren's were pushing back the Beowolf with a steady stream of bullet's and cannon fire and judged that for the moment she could leave the Grimm to be dealt with by the two fighters'.
Looking down to open her scroll revealed that Ruby was the one trying to contact her.
"This had better be important Ruby" Weiss silently fumed as she answered the call from her partner.
"Weiss!" Ruby yelled before Weiss could even get a word out
"Ruby, what is it, now is really not a good time for this"
"I know but listen, you need to get Fenrir to the school gates. Professor Ozpin says he has something that should be able to knock him out"
Weiss couldn't help but blink incredulously, even though Ruby couldn't see her.
"I'm sorry did you just say knock him out?"
"Uhhh… Yes?"
"Ruby" Weiss huffed in annoyance "He's a Grimm, we're supposed to kill them not capture them"
As if to emphasise Weiss's point, a loud roar shook through the halls of Beacon as the Grimm tried to bat away its opponents.
"I agree with the brat. Who wants to keep a Grimm as a pet?" Roman says while lighting a cigar.
"It does seem rather dumb." Fox couldn't fathom why the creature should be allowed to live. Seemed risky.
"Who would be stupid enough to even want that?"
"Ozpin." Cinder tells Emerald.
"I know but Ozpin said he wants him alive, he…" Ruby paused for a second, trying to find the right words that would get the heiress to understand "He says that Fenrir's still in there somewhere, we've got to try and bring him back out"
Weiss was still conflicted about this whole scenario. Like every child on Remnant she was taught to fear the Grimm. She was told about how they were all soulless monsters that had been around since humanity's beginnings and that they wanted nothing more than to devour their whole race.
"Smart girl." Tock mocks.
Capturing a Grimm for scientific purposes, that Weiss could understand. But to take one alive simply just because just didn't make any sense to the white-haired girl.
Weiss was then brought out of her internal conflict at the sound of a massive crashing sound. As she turned to look back at the battleground, her eyes widened in fear at how in just a few short moments, the balance of control in the fight had shifted massively.
The Beowolf now held both Nora and Ren up in the air, their weapons cast aside on the ground. The Grimm snarled as it slowly but surely strangled the two would-be Huntsmen in it's giant paws. From the side Weiss could just make out tiny droplets of blood seeping out from underneath the Alpha's spear-like claws.
"Weiss are you there?!"
Weiss barely heard her leaders question as she brought Myrtenaster's blade up in front of her, the dust barrel spinning as the girl prepared to fire a salvo of shock dust at the distracted Grimm. In a flash, the blade of Weiss's weapon started to glow a bright yellow, with tiny electrical sparks dancing along the blades edge as the weapon was effectively coated in a thin layer of the powerful crystals.
"Get… the Grimm to the entrance. I got it"
And after snapping her scroll shut, Weiss unleashed a giant arc of lightning from her sword, which then sailed through the air and collided against the unsuspecting Beasts back.
The Grimm howled in pain as the electricity coursed throughout it's body, causing him to drop his prey who crumpled to the ground, breathing heavily. The Grimm spun erratically, eyes darting about in a furious frenzy as it was once again interrupted during a kill. Eventually the Grimm zeroed in on the battle-ready stance of the Schnee heiress, body upright, stance confident and face betraying not even the slightest hint of fear as she pointed the tip of her blade towards the thoroughly enraged Wolf.
For a moment there was silence in the wrecked hallway as the human and Grimm stared each other down.
And in an explosion of movement, the Grimm charged towards Weiss, roaring to the heavens in hatred all the while.
Weiss stayed put as the Beast charged down the hallway towards her, until just as the Monster was about to be on top of her, she darted backwards with a slight nudge from one of her intricate glyphs.
And just like that the chase resumed.
Ruby fidgeted nervously as she stood beside her Headmaster whose eyes never once wavered from the large front doors of the school, as if expecting them to burst open any second.
"Kinda like a television show." Cardin then realizes.
"To bad the danger is real." Russel reminds him.
On his other side, Glynda, Port and Oobleck stood to attention, weapons at the ready in case the plan went sideways in any way. The rest of the student body had long since been evacuated from the main campus, being kept on the opposite side of the school far away from the rampaging Beowolf.
The only other students present was the rest of team RWBY and the two remaining members of team JNPR. Apparently, Miss Valkyrie had decided she wanted to take a swing at fighting the giant Alpha Beowolf, and Mr Ren had been reluctantly dragged along for the ride.
"Hold on a second!" Roman then calls out. "Those staff members has all the students outside and away, even the fourth years, yet they have the first years out with them?"
"That...seems rather dumb. Stupid actually." Coco didn't like saying mean things to her teachers, but she agreed with Roman. They let the first years join yet not the more experienced students. What is up with that?
"I'm more curious as to why those two teams seem to be the stars of every little thing." The red eye girl felt like those two teams seem to be involved in a lot of things.
"Creators like them." Mayden provided his short answer to them.
Ozpin glanced upwards at the top of the archway of the front door, where two metal devices had been temporarily affixed to the age-old stonework. The strange devices looked like a pair of fishing harpoons but attached to the machines were giant chambers of glowing, yellow crystals.
Tanks full to the brim with shock Dust. The machines had been made courtesy of Oobleck who had created the machines at the request of the grey-haired headmaster, just in case of such an eventuality.
That didn't mean that Ozpin was necessarily happy about having to use them.
"And he was making such good progress too"
"Hold on, the way he says it makes it sound like that Grimm was in school." Cardin pointed out smartly.
"But that can't be true." velvet says. "Can it?"
"Oh no. Ozpin totally let the Grimm turn faunus into the school." Mayden throws Ozpin under the bus.
"Why?" Fox said in disbelief. Not sure who the headmaster would do something so reckless.
"He thought he could make the Grimm a good person." Mayden explains. "And while this one shows some mistakes of doing so, the Grimm now known as Fenrir got pretty well along with the kids-RWBY and JNPR."
"You've gotta be kidding me." Tock wasn't even sure if that made sense. So just because a Grimm enters the school, he just slowly becomes a good boy. How stupid is that!
"I think it sounds interesting." Yatsu believes such a thing had promise.
"Interestingly stupid." Whitley crosses his arms.
"Ah whatever. Let's just see Ice Queen get eaten." Mercury butts in ready to see someone die.
Suddenly a deep, bellowing roar reached the teachers and students ears and all immediately snapped their attention towards the large doorway. The ground started to shudder as large, thundering footfalls started making their way closer and closer to their position, getting louder and louder with each second.
Until suddenly Weiss came barrelling through the doors, sweat covering her face and breathing as if she had just run a mile.
And less than half a second later, the giant, wooden doors were blasted off their hinges as a second, much larger form came charging after the Schnee Heiress. Splinters and chunks of wood sailed through the air, one particularly large chunk catching Weiss right on the small of her back, causing her to fall flat on her face.
RRROOOAAARRRRGGGHHH!
"WEISS!" Ruby yelled out in fear as the Grimm stalked towards her downed teammate
"Oobleck now!" Ozpin called out
With no hesitation, Oobleck hit a button on his scroll and the twin machines started whirring to life. Two harpoons shot out from the machines and latched themselves onto the Grimm's arms, piercing the Beasts thick hide and the barbs on the ends of the long pieces of metal keeping them locked in place in the Alpha's shoulder blades.
As the Grimm let out a tooth grinding shriek of excruciating pain, Oobleck hit another button on his scroll and the wires of the machines started to rapidly pull backwards, yanking the Grimm along with them.
The Alpha furiously struggled against the metal wires as they pulled him back towards the doorway, his feet digging grooves in the stone footpath and his muscles tensing and straining against the machines pull. But slowly the Grimm was pulled back towards the door it had just busted through.
While this was happening, Ruby made her way over to her stricken teammate.
"Weiss, you okay?"
At the sound of the silver-eyed girl's voice, the Alphas struggles against it's restraints ceased abruptly. The Grimm brought its gaze downwards to see the cloak wearing female from it's nightmares trying to help the white-haired female back to her feet.
"YOU…. YOU!"
"Now he just looks pissed." Adam was going to enjoy this.
And just like that, the Beasts rage returned tenfold, it's bone white mask visibly starting to crack from just how much it was scowling in blind hatred. With an enormous surge of strength, the Alpha started inching its way back towards the distracted pair, the machines groaning and whining in protest.
Weiss looked back and felt what little colour she had left drain from her face at the sight of the nightmarish creature that was once again looming over the two of them, it's eyes looking like they were on fire as it glared hatefully down at them.
"Ruby, get back!" Weiss exclaimed as she shoved the younger girl away from her and away from the Grimm's reach. Unfortunately, this just caused the Grimm to refocus on her as the Beowolf roughly grabbed her left leg and dragged her back towards him.
The students wanted to look away on what they felt would be a gruesome death, but watched anyway.
The 'Bad Side' all showing amusement at this.
Mayden just feeling indifferent to what appears to be a death.
Weiss was powerless as she was yet again pinned underneath the hulking form of the wolf Demon, drool and blood dribbling out from the Grimm's mouth and splattering on Weiss's clothes and face as it snarled at her.
"Weiss!" Ruby was immediately back on her feet, preparing to aim Crescent Rose at the Grimm's head before she was stopped by Ozpin who strode up towards the Grimm without a trace of fear in his eyes.
"Fenrir Lupus!"
The Alpha slowly turned to look up at the bespectacled man, breathing heavily from exertion.
"I know you can hear me Mr Lupus" Ozpin carried on, the other teachers standing behind him warily and Ooblecks fingers inches away from activating the machines shock dispensers. "I know your still in there, you are better than this now Fenrir. You are more than just a monster, but if you keep on like this then I will no longer be able to help you"
"Oh wow. Like that will do anything." Tock laughs.
"What a fool." Cinder smirks.
The Grimm stared in silence as the older male continued to talk. Soon a slight dizziness took over the Grimm's mind and it started to shake its head rapidly to try and clear away the fog.
A few, tense seconds passed as the professors and students watched on in apprehension as the Grimm scrunched up it's eyes and groaned in discomfort. And then as it looked down at the still form of Weiss, a foggy memory made its way to the creatures' brain.
"You either explain why you have a grudge against Ruby, or you can forget about getting assistance from me or anyone else here"
"Sure Ozzy. Like that will help with his anger." Roman insults the fool.
"That seems unwise." In the red eye girl's opinion, that thing should just be killed. Sure Night Raid took risks with certain members, but even they made certain they wouldn't do anything to harm them. This Ozpin person didn't seem very wise right now.
"Just throwing logs to the fire." Mercury comments.
"Plus it doesn't look like the ting can talk even if he wanted to." Emerald could tell Ozpin wasn't bright in this point of time. I mean, who tells someone to explain their problem when they're literally in rage and hate. Didn't seem like a good time to say your feelings.
The Grimm remembered how this tiny, pathetic little creature had threatened him and demanded that he explain himself to her. With that thought clouding his mind, the Beasts muzzle twisted in fury as it leaned down and let loose.
"RRRROOOOOOAAARRRRRGGHHHHHH…. HHHRRREEEEEAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHH…. WWWAAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!"
Weiss was normally a very calm and collected individual, with very little being able to faze her. But as she stared into the gaping maw of the Alpha Beowolf and got a clear view of every single one of it's razor sharp, brilliant white fangs as it roared straight into her ears, she suddenly felt incredibly small.
And completely terrified.
In a flash, Ozpin shoved the crazed Grimm off his student with his cane, picked her up in his arms and darted back to the other's who could only watch in silent terror as the Wolf violently spasmed and shook against its restraints, its eyes rolling into the back of its head.
"I'LL… KILL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU! I'LL RIP OUT YOUR GUTS, SLICE OUT YOUR EYES! I'LL DEVOUR YOU!"
Ozpin could only sigh in disappointment before turning to professor Oobleck with a defeated look in his eye.
"Do it"
Oobleck hit the button and all at once, the machines unleashed their dust reserves and sent them surging through the metal cables that were connected to the thrashing Grimm. The Alpha's roars transitioned into howls of pain as the electric type dust rocketed through his body.
It was a full minute before the Grimm's cries finally ceased, as it finally slumped forward unconscious, smoke steadily rising off its singed body.
A collective sigh of relief echoed across all those present as the beast was finally down and out. Ozpin walked towards the unconscious Grimm, whilst Ruby, Blake and Yang gathered around their unnaturally still teammate.
"Weiss, thank god your alright" Yang cried out as her big sister instincts took over.
"Huh… oh yeah I'm… fine" Weiss spoke painfully slowly, her eyes never once leaving the still form of the Beowolf that had been inches away from tearing her throat out, silently fearing that it was just an act and that the Grimm would just get back up, shove Ozpin aside and come gunning for her again.
Ruby could see that Weiss was anything but alright but decided to talk to her about it later. For now Ruby got back up and walked over towards the headmaster who simply stared forlornly down at the Grimm.
"It appears Glynda was right, the second you got your old body back you turned on us." Ozpin shook his head and sighed, suddenly all too aware of his years and age "Perhaps it was foolish of me to think that a Grimm, one of 'her' creations, could be turned towards the light. Maybe you really are nothing more than monsters"
"Obviously!" Pretty much everyone in the room said.
"Sir, look" Ruby exclaimed
Looking towards where Ruby was pointing, Ozpin watched silently as black smoke started to come off the Alpha's body. Eventually it started looking like the Grimm's body was beginning to evaporate, but then as the black fur fell away, pale skin and faded leather was revealed underneath. The Grimm's paws melted away revealing sturdy, black hiking boots and fingerless gloves with long fingernails tipping off the end of each digit. The muzzle flattened and gave way to an angular face and black, neck length, shaggy hair with tiny streaks of blue woven throughout.
Fenrir took a big gasp of air, before resuming a normal breathing pattern. Team RWBY, JNPR and the professors gathered around the unconscious boy, each of them trying to process what they had just witnessed, their reactions ranging from morbid curiosity, to apprehensive caution, to disbelief, to fear, simple undiluted fear.
"Okay, where did the clothes come from?" Roman asked aloud.
Not even Mayden knew how.
A groaning sound caught Ozpins ears as he looked past the knocked-out Faunus. Coming through the smoke was the twin forms of Ren and Nora, battered and bruised but alive.
"Oh, look at that Ren" Nora called out weakly "He's back to normal"
Immediately Glynda was on the pair, mercilessly lecturing them about the dangers of their actions, but Ozpin was more preoccupied with the large crowd that was steadily gathering behind the injured pair.
His students, both Human and Faunus looked down and gawked at the sight of the late entry student, lying slumped on the floor with two harpoons sticking out of his shoulders and thin wisps of black smoke petering off his body.
Silently Ozpin watched as the student body whispered amongst themselves, trying to figure out just what in the name of Dust had just happened.
"Well, this got a lot more complicated"
As Ozpin mused to himself, Port walked up beside his superior and turned to him with a questioning look
"Well Oz" He said as the two men looked down at the blissfully unaware Grimm "What do we do now?"
The screen then turned off.
"Man is Ozpin an idiot. Hahaha!" Mercury enjoyed the look on his face. Something cinder agreed on with a smirk.
"And here I thought he was smart." Cardin smiled.
"At least Weiss lived." Velvet thought for certain the former heiress was dead.
"Shame." Neo thought otherwise.
"I guess its an interesting world." Whitley admits.
"Yeah, it is pretty good. A bit slow paced, but eh, I like it. Welp, onto the next." Mayden simply says. "Time to see...an Opening."
Before you ask, I already chose what opening I'm going to show them. Until Next Time.