Chapter 5: Odd Behavior

/This chapter will be focusing on our hero's ability to adapt to situations while using different weapons. And how the Grimm act around him.

You may have been hinted at a strange behavior Grimm has around him, at an earlier chapter, but I won't tell you right away.

Also this chapter takes place during week two of the school year, two weeks before the next cannon episode of the show.

Honestly with the whole 1 month gap between the first day episode and the next one, I can make a lot of chapters if I wanted to.

Recently I got my very first review/comment on a story I've made, this one to be exact. I've got to say, I'm disappointed. I thought it would be someone saying how much they like this story, but instead I got a critic telling me how I should format my story. News flash! Don't tell people how their stories should be formatted, that's just plain rude. So whoever you are, just don't. If you don't like how my story is formatted, then go read something else. This is meant to be something that I want to write, I'm the author, I can format MY story how I want, I don't need a stranger's opinion on how I should format my story.

Sorry for the rant. That comment just frustrates me.

Anyway moving on.\


It was Combat Class, and via the bracket system, Colton was facing off against the blonde brawler of their friend group: Yang.

Colton himself was using a new weapon that he constructed the week prior.

This weapon is known as HeatLeo. HeatLeo is a pair of claw like gauntlets that run on fire Dust.

/Authors note: just imagine the claws/hands of Salamangreat HeatLeo, or imagine the Claw-gauntlets on DecodeTalker Heatsoul. After all they're the same thing.\

Colton was testing his adaptability skills, using a weapon he isn't used to.

Currently the two combatants were about even, with Yang having more experience in hand-to-hand combat, and Colton's adaptability allowed him to not be overwhelmed.

The two were exchanging punch after punch, chipping away at each other's aura.

Yang threw a fist, Colton blocked.

Colton threw a fist, Yang blocked.

Colton then activated HeatLeo's special function: Heat Soul. Heat Soul is when the gauntlets ignite in flames, giving them an small power boost.

Colton charged in intending for a punch, Yang got ready to block. When Colton got close, his true intentions were revealed. Colton sank into the ground becoming a shadow, and got behind Yang.

Colton emerged from the ground, and delivered a solid kick to Yangs back. He gave a kick instead of a flaming punch, so he doesn't damage Yang's hair and get her mad.

Yang flew forward a few feet before using her hands to flip herself upright. She turned around and charged.

Colton jumped over Yang, spinning upside down as he does. That is something his friends found out about him, he likes to show off a little by throwing in a fancy movement here and there.

Yang anticipated him jumping over her, so she was able to land a solid shotgun powered punch to his chest, causing him to fly out of the arena.

However, before he was out, he used HeatLeo to create an explosion of fire behind him, canceling his momentum, then he fired out a stream of fire from HeatLeo to start flying towards Yang.

"Time for a fiery finish!" He shouts.

As he was flying towards Yang, he started spinning while generating fire with HeatLeo, causing him to turn into a sideways tornado of fire.

As Colton was approaching, Yang got ready for the initial clash.

When Colton got close enough, he stopped spinning and threw a fire powered punch at Yang. At the same time, Yang threw a shotgun punch at him.

The two attacks hit their targets without clashing, causing a big explosion to occur.

Once the smoke cleared, it revealed both combatants to be lying on their backs.

Looking at the large screen, it shows both of their auras in the red.

"This match has ended in a draw!" Goodwitch voiced out.

"Man. I think I broke my everything." Colton says.

Yang gave out a laugh. "Yeah! Me too. That match will forever be Burned into my heart!"

"Ugh. Yang just don't." Colton complained.

The two friends shakily got up, having their gauntlets mechashift into bracelets. HeatLeo was designed to be similar to Yang's Ember Celica, so it could turn into fashionable bracelets as well. The two then looked at each other.

Yang was he first to speak. "Are you sure you just started using those? Your a natural at them."

Colton gave a small chuckle. "This was their test run, I just adapt quickly. I actually based my attacks off of how you fight, while adding my own flare to it... no pun intended." Colton says this last part after seeing a grin on Yang's face.

The friends walk over to their group while talking about how Colton could improve on his hand-to-hand techniques.

Getting to their seats, they both immediately collapsed upon sitting down.

"When we get back to the dorms, I'm taking a nap, that fight was intense."

"Do you need any help getting to our dorm?" Pyrrha asked.

Colton looked at her and smiled. "Thanks, but no thanks. I'd rather not be a burden."

Pyrrha shook her head. "Your not a burden, and I won't be burdened helping you walk back to the dorm."

Colton relented. "Alright, you can help me back."

Pyrrha gave the happiest smile ever, looking like that one sentence made her the happiest girl in the world.

Colton saw the smile and blushed, the others saw it and Ruby, Yang, and Nora had sinister looks on their faces. Colton shot a glare at them, the glare giving the message: 'Say anything and I'll turn you into ashes'.

The 3 girls silently chuckle before dropping the looks.

The 8 friends then wait for class to end before heading back to their dorms for the day.


The next day, which was a Saturday, team CRNN was called to Ozpin's office.

They reached the office via the elevator, and stepped in.

"Ah, good, you came." Ozpin said as soon as team CRNN walk into the clockwork room.

"What do you need from us, professor?" Pyrrha asked.

"Ah, Ms. Nikos, straight to the point, I see." Ozpin gave a silent chuckle.

Ozpin cleared his throat. "There is an unusual gathering of common Grimm in the Emerald Forest. The gathering is larger than what we have considered normal for the Grimm."

"How big is this gathering?" Ren asks, interested.

"Around 40 Grimm in total, a combination of Beowolves, Ursai, Boarbatusks, and an rare type of Grimm, although we haven't identified what they are yet."

"Well then, I guess it's initiation all over again." Colton joked.

Everyone snickers, with Nora snickering the loudest.

Colton then speaks up. "So I'm guessing that you want us to go deal with the Grimm problem?"

"That is right Mr. Lux Tenebris." Ozpin confirmed.

"Let's get going!" Nora cheers.

Team CRNN then leaves the office to head to the Bullhead that will bring them to their destination.


An hour later, team CRNN jump out of the Bullhead, and land in a clearing in the Emerald Forest.

"According to professor Ozpin, we need to head north of here." Colton says getting to business.

Everyone else nods their head, as the team heads off north.

It tools around 10 minutes, but the 4 teens arrived at the location of the sighted Grimm.

Hiding behind some foliage, the team starts discussing plans of how to approach the situation.

They decided that Colton would sacrifice some Dust crystals to create an explosion to wipe out a majority of the Grimm.

Colton throws some Dust crystals towards the Grimm and fires a light burst. The burst hits the crystals causing a chain reaction, taking out 10 of the 40 Grimm.

After the explosion, the team runs out of their cover and charges at the Grimm.

They got close to the pack, and started attacking it. The Grimm present start getting aggressive, more aggressive than what is normal for the creatures of darkness.

Team CRNN immediately noticed this as they were surrounded my the remaining Grimm.

All the Grimm had their sights set on one particular member of the group. _RNN look over at where all of the Grimm are staring: the leader of team CRNN: Colton Lux Tenebris.

Colton looked back at them. "Yeah, I know they're all looking at me. I'm not sure why, but I think it has to do with the light part of my semblance. They're creatures of darkness, they hate beings of light, and I'm more light than others thanks to my semblance."

The others seem to buy this as the turn to face forward.

Brandishing his keyblades, Colton gives the command to fight. "Alright, there about 30 Grimm surrounding us. They're the only thing between us and Beacon. We have to fight our way through. Now let's do this!"

Team CRNN charge the Grimm, making quick work of the small ones, none of them had to put too much effort into killing them.

After the common Grimm were taken care of, the team stopped to catch their breath.

Before the teens could rest easy, the ground began to shake.

Emerging from the trees, a horde of small human-like Grimm appear. These Grimm are small and have no bone armor, alongside some antennas, and have yellow eyes instead of the usual red.

"Crap! Heartless!" Colton shouts.

"Say what now?" Nora asks.

"Heartless are a rare type of Grimm, they don't have the bone armor that other Grimm have, and they have yellow eyes instead of red eyes. They also vaporize much quicker than any other type of Grimm." Colton explains. The rest of the team listened intently.

Colton continues. "They're known for traveling in packs, as a single heartless is very easy to deal with, a complete push over. What makes them dangerous is the fact that they can sink into the ground like how I can, which I have no idea why I share that ability with them. Another reason they're dangerous is because they can start to cluster together to become one of two things: a Demon Tower, or a Demon Tide."

"What's the difference?" Pyrrha asks.

"A Tower is more of a cylindrical structure, going upwards like a tower, thus the name. A Tide which can be told apart just by appearance, moves around like a snake when gravity is turned off, basically it can move around unbound by gravity, and it also isn't as solid of a mass as a Tower, but it is much more unpredictable."

The heartless Start to cluster, forming a cylindrical shape going upwards.

"That is what a Demon Tower looks like." Colton states.

The 4 teens get into battle positions, getting ready to attack.

The Tower starts moving towards them, and stops halfway, it started to spin even faster than it was already.

Seeing this Colton had to warn his team. "Get on the defensive! The Tower is going to shoot heartless at us!"

Colton creates a barrier of light, which his team and him hide behind.

Heartless start shooting out at the barrier, as soon as the first few got close, Colton has the barrier grow spikes.

The heartless ram into the spikes, instantly dying, and turning into smoke.

The Tower stops firing heartless, Colton uses that opportunity to drop the barrier and shout. "Use long range attacks, it's too dangerous to get too close, and melee attacks don't do to much damage to it."

Team CRNN starts shooting at the Demon Tower, Pyrrha and Ren firing Dust bullets, Nora firing Dust based rockets, and Colton firing burst of darkness and light at it.

In response, the Demon Tower starts moving back and forth, dodging some of the attacks, while the attacks that hit didn't seem to do much.

CRNN stop firing. "We need to hit it with a powerful attack to collapse the thing... I've got it! Everyone, send an aura wave towards me!" Colton commands.

RNN charge up their aura as Colton dismisses his keyblades and pulls out Mistsplitter.

The three team members released their aura waves straight at Colton, which he responds by catching all of them with Mistsplitter.

Mistsplitter starts glowing, signaling that it had absorbed the energy. Colton then charges his own aura and pushes it into the sword, causing it to glow a little brighter.

Colton then swings Mistsplitter in an arc, the energy is released from the sword, in the same shape as the swing.

The energy slash quickly travels towards the Demon Tower, and cuts right through it.

For a few seconds, nothing happens, then all of a sudden, the Tower collapses leaving a bunch of heartless scattered.

"Now! Let's finish them off!" Colton shouts.

Team CRNN charges the heartless, killing each of them with a single hit, until there were none left.

The 4 friends collapsed to their knees, exhausted, yes even Nora.

"That was great thinking, but if I may ask, how did you know what to do?" Pyrrha asks.

"I've encountered one before, it didn't go too well, I was able to beat it, but not without some major bruising and a shattered aura." Colton responds.

"Well, I'm glad we were able to get out unscathed, if facing one solo was hard for someone like you, then I'd hate to imagine how it would go for someone else." Ren adds.

"No kidding! That was hard!" Nora chips in.

Colton then stands up. "Well, let's get going, we have to report this to Ozpin."

"Right!" The other members respond.

Team CRNN start to head back to the bullhead, to report back to the headmaster of Beacon, and to get a well deserved rest.


/Alright another chapter down.

Now a few things to explain.

1: The keyblades are tied to semblances, and are not magic, sure you can channel magic through them, but they themselves are not, meaning: no aura, no keyblade.

2: The heartless are actual Grimm in this story, and are only going to appear as the shadow heartless. No other heartless will appear, so when heartless is mentioned, it is to be only referring to shadows.

3: The reason Grimm focus in on our hero, is actually because they know he's a Grimm, and is deemed a traitor of Grimm kind.

Alright thanks for reading this chapter, see you guys soon.\