A.N. Hello everyone, here is chapter 2. I hope you enjoy. Please leave a review.

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"Wake up Amaranth"

Ruby, no Amaranth now, began groggily rising from where she was laying. She began rubbing her eyes, before she noticed the cold metal covering her hand.

"Gah, what the heck?" She then fell back over noticing that the same black metal also covered her legs. She bent over her legs to look them over, but as she bent down to examine her feet her eyes met with her reflection in the water beneath her, unbroken despite her sitting on it as if it were solid ground. In it, she was met with a completely unfamiliar visage. Her skin was extraordinarily pale, as if she hadn't been in the sun for years. Her hair, formerly black, was now a similar silvery white that glowed in the moonlight. Her eyes now had a distinctive red glow surround the silver iris. Her clothes now were all black, not even the formerly red cloak had escaped this. She began looking at her hands, now covered in a black, clawed metal gauntlet. Her legs were also covered in this material, going down from her thighs to her ankles. As she began to stand up, she balanced herself, feeling two unfamiliar weights on her lower back. Turning around she was met with the sight of two thick appendage extending from her spine. They were also covered in those same black plates that seemed to cover most of her extremities. As she picked one up to bring it closer, the triangular tip opened and revealed a large maw filled with razor sharp teeth, looking more at home in a shark's mouth than anything else.

"Ahhh! What, what the heck is that, why is it attached to me? Tiamat, you have some explaining to do." As she said this, the other tail opened, revealing a similar visage to the other.

"As I said when I brought you back child, you would become one of my children, and thus you were given a body more befitting one of children. Isn't it beautiful?" Tiamat cooed.

"I mean, I just thought it would be some different hair, maybe a nicer face, heck maybe even some Faunus bits, not, whatever this is!"

At this, Tiamat's voice grew frigid "If it is so much against your liking, I can always take it back."

Ruby grew rigid at this before waving her arms frantically in front of her. "No, no, it is perfectly fine, it just wasn't what I expected exactly."

Tiamat was quiet for a moment before she delivered in her neutral voice. "Good, I would hate to be disrespected like that."

Realizing that now would most certainly be a good time to ask, Ruby promptly asked. "I have to ask though, where am I? How do I get back to shore?"

Tiamat delivered in the same level tone from earlier "Well dear, you are currently standing where you fell into my home. And to get back to shore form here, just turn around and keep going. You will reach it by staying straight ahead. Now before you leave, I can't leave you unable to defend yourself."

As she said this, Ruby saw more than felt a shimmer. On her arm, a gun barrel had appeared, and she had gained boots made of the black metal her gauntlets and leggings were made of. She turned and saw yet more gun barrels on her tails towards the head. She then heard some chittering and saw several small black shapes crawling underneath her cloak.

Ruby turned around, more than a little uncomfortable at the sudden addition of little creatures onto her body. She quickly grabbed one to examine it. What she saw looked vaguely like arrowhead, if they were entirely back and possessed luminescent yellow eyes.

Ruby shuddered as the one she grabbed moved back onto her back, before she asked "Anyway, would you please tell what, er, who these little guys are?"

Tiamat huffed before she stated "Those would be some of your siblings, my darling children. Don't worry, they don't bite, and they can help you defend yourself. In fact, why don't you just see?"

As she said this, one of the Ruby's tails straightened out before some plates on it flattened out. Then, one of the little black things climbed down and stood at the base of her tail. Ruby then felt a small voice asking for permission to take off. Ruby, wondering about what it was going to do, gave permission. The small creature then clicked into place at Ruby's tail before being shot forth at high speeds. Ruby was worried the little thing was going to hit the head of her tail before it suddenly went airborne and began flying around Ruby. It did a few tricks before landing on Ruby's other tail. It then crawled back into place with the rest of the others.

"You may call upon them any time you need help. They are not as powerful as you, but they will be able to give you air support. Now, if you are quite done having me give you an explanation, I would suggest you hurry to shore."

Ruby, deciding that she should probably get going, stood up and began heading forward.

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It takes a bit, but Ruby manages to get to the docks relatively quickly. As she makes landfall, she quickly looks around looking for a way to get back home unseen when she hears a loud yell.

"GRIMM!" Shouts a faunus in yellow overalls before he begins running away from Ruby. Realizing what would happen if the man managed to make it back to other people, she quickly chases after the man before she manages to tackle him into the side of one of the warehouses. Ruby quickly covers the man's mouth, grateful no one else was close by, before she looks at him. "Quiet, I am not a Grimm. My name is..." she tried to use her name, but she couldn't even manage to say it. She tried for a bit before she tried using the name Tiamat gave her. "...Amaranth. Would you be able to tell me how to get to Patch?"

The faunus begins struggling and yelling into Ruby's hand, desperate to get out of her grip.

Ruby began panicking as the man's struggles increased. "Please sir I am not trying to hurt you would you please calm down and be quiet?"

The man's struggles increase, before he finally bites Ruby.

At this, Ruby's tails raise up above her shoulders, opening their maws. Ruby tightens her grip on the man's mouth and shoulder and practically shouts "I said Quiet!"

At this the man begins trembling before Amaranth loosens her grip. "Now, once again, how do I get to Patch?"

She briefly uncovers the man's mouth while he shakily whispers, "Just go south a few miles, the ferry should be able to lead you right to it."

At this Ruby's grip relaxes more before she gently holds the man's shoulders "Excellent. And again, please don't tell anyone, I wouldn't want anyone to get the wrong idea."

The man frantically nods as Ruby let's go of him and begins heading south.

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Hunyadi counts himself lucky, he didn't expect to be attacked by a talking Grimm of all things while he worked the nightshift. He was just glad that he managed to get away. But he must get back and inform Brother Adam about this, he was capturing Grimm after all.

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Post Script: Anyway, I look forward to any reviews or critiques you guys have. Again, next chapter should be up one week from now.