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A Grimm Rose
Chapter vinte e dois

Much to team RWBY's frustration, even with the help of Ruby's new pack they had been searching for a few hours by now, and had nothing to show for it yet. This was mostly due to the fact that the Grimm had a hard time grasping what they were looking for, while the students and their teacher on the other hand were preoccupied with navigating the unfamiliar ruins. On top of that, Ruby was still getting used to how walking on her new feet felt, her claws clicking on the concrete walkways they traversed.

"[Come Alpha]" A sudden howl grabbed the half Grimm's attention and after it was repeated once more, the girl in the red cloak led her teammates and Professor Oobleck towards it.

"They found something over there." Ruby informed the others as she continued to move towards the howling Beowolf, not waiting for any questions to be asked.

Luckily the pair of Grimm wasn't very far away and a few minutes later they were joined by their alpha, her companions not far behind. What the Grimm had found seemed to be a wide staircase leading below the streets of Mountain Glenn, a nearby sign barely readable as saying 'Subway'.

When Oobleck finally caught up to the redhead, he pointed on hand at her accusingly, standing slightly hunched over, his other hand holding his side.

"Miss Rose, while this is indeed very urgent, running of without the rest of your team is not how a Huntress to be like you should act, no matter how friendly the Grimm might be towards you."

Ruby hung her head low, ears drooping own, as she had nothing she could say to justify not waiting those few seconds for her teammates to come with her instead of running after her. All in all she looked quite similar to a chastised puppy, but that did not stop the teacher from continuing.

"In the same vein, I would suggest you recall the rest of your Beowolves miss Rose. After all we can not be sure who we will actually encounter down there, and how many hostiles there will be."

Her ears and tail still hanging low, Ruby nodded and let out a howl of her own. "[Come here, all of you]" Looking up at the Huntsman's face she continued. "They should be on their way now Professor."

"If I might ask." Weiss began carefully, waiting until Oobleck had turned towards her before she continued. "How will we continue once we are underground?"

Taking a short drink from his ever present thermos, Oobleck replied to the white haired girl. "A very good question Miss Schnee. As we are not aware of the actual extend either these subterranean Catacombs or the terrorists use of them, I would suggest we send a few of miss Rose's Grimm, what a strange thing to say, ahead as scouts, following their instinct to the source of 'fear' which will hopefully be the White Fangs base of operations." Holding up his free hand, so the students wouldn't begin questioning him, Oobleck took a short sip from his thermos, before he hooked it to his belt as he continued.

"Once we find them, I trust miss Rose to be able to command her Beowolves to hold off the majority of whom ever we might find, while the rest of us find out what is actually going on here. Any questions?"

"What will we do when we have captured them?" Blake asked, her bow seemingly twitching as her gaze was fixated on the professor's glasses.

"Once we finish escorting back to the surface, I will call Beacon to request a prisoner transport. Once they arrive, we hand the criminals over so they can be brought to proper justice."

When noone else voiced a concern or question, Oobleck continued. "Well then we just have to wait for our reinforcements."

Half an hour of tracking through the Subway tunnels beneath the ruins, the Grimm sent ahead had finally found other humans and Faunus in a rather sizable cavern at the end of a set of Subway tracks. Inside it, the rails continued on, flanked on either side by buildings.

As they carefully made their way towards the other peoples' assumed position, Blake and Ruby's more sensitive ears began to pick up parts of a conversation.

"You're even worse than the men I lent to Roman. We need to get all this finished by the end of next week!"

Sadly whom ever had been shouted at replied to meekly for even them to pick up what was said, so instead they relayed what they could understand to the humans of the group. After that they began to move more quickly, hoping to catch the terrorists while in the middle of whatever they were setting up. Rounding the corner of the last building between them and their targets, they were noticed by a man in a black suit, judging by his voice he was most likely the one who had shouted a moment ago.

"Blondie!?" Junior shouted with surprise as Yang step out behind the corner, just as surprised to see the club owner and information broker here as he was to see her.

"Junior?"

While Yang was getting over the surprise of seeing the familiar criminal here of all places, the rest of her team and their teacher observed what else was happening before them.

A number of White Fang members in their uniforms were working on a subway cart together with a few humans wearing Black suits and red ties. Going by the fact that most of them were lying beneath it, next to the wheels, or handing parts and tools to those who did, they were more than likely trying to get the engines up and running.

Turning to his confused underlings, Junior shouted. "What are you guys waiting for? Get them."

With that thy finally began to get up and rush towards the newest arrivals, some of them holding their heavy tools as clubs, others pulling out hatchets or blades.

At the same time, Ruby began to bark out orders of her own. "[come and get them]" Which resulted in nearly all of her new Grimm charging into the open space between the buildings around them, rushing past the Grimm like girl and her companions.

Seeing the horde of monsters coming straight at them without even looking at the girls they passed by, more than half of the criminals and terrorists stopped their charge, while the other half continued on, undaunted by the Grimm, or just overestimating their own abilities.

Those who closed in with the pack of Beowolves were quickly taken out, but strangely not killed. Instead the Grimm's attacks were aimed to only break bones or knockout their attackers with as little risk of death as the beasts could manage. A few of the mooks managed to get a few strikes in against their attackers, but none managed to do more than cripple a limb, for which they were soon flung against their closest comrade.

As Ruby continued to direct her pack, the remaining mooks decided to surrender, dropping their weapons in the hopes that they would be left unharmed. While the first few were still smacked over the head by a Grimm, the half Grimm soon realized what was going on and ordered her Grimm to stand down for now.

Seeing his forces surrounded by Grimm and surrendering, Junior raised his arms and spoke.

"Don't worry, I learned when I need to fold em after our first encounter, Blondie,"

slowly stepping closer to the students he continued, "Besides prison is going to be the safest place I could be from that blackmailing bitch."

It took quite a while to fashion appropriate bindings from what they had available, but in the end team RWBY, with a little help from Professor Oobleck, managed to restrain them adequately, after which they began to make their way to the closest Subway station still leading to the surface, the unconscious criminals carried by a few of the redhead's pack members.

Once they were outside, Oobleck stepped aside to make the call to Beacon, and roughly an hour later, an airship landed before them, Ozpin stepping out of it.

"Well I think congratulations are in order." The Headmaster began, a smile on his face until he noticed the changes miss Rose had gone through. "Do not fear miss Rose, I was fearing something like this was going to happen sooner or later. But I fear with these new changes, it will be nigh impossible to continue keeping your heritage a secret." Seeing the young girl's eyes widen in fear, he carefully place hs free hand on her shoulder, feeling a set of hard plates covering it, as he continued. "Do not worry miss Rose, I will have professor Goodwitch prepare a press conference and speeches for both of us to make this reveal as smooth as possible. And if this-" He gestured towards the captured criminals who were slowly boarding the airship. "- is not enough to show them that you are just as willing to help Humanity as anyone else, I will make sure that Beacon will be a safe haven for you. No matter what comes from this, as long as the Academy stands, I will make sure that even half Grimm like you are allowed to finish their training."

With a deep sigh of relief and a few tears of joy, Ruby hugged the grey haired man before her, careful not to injure him with any of her new bone spikes.

"Thank you professor."

Inside her private chambers, Salem was sitting before a desk made of ebony, her bone white face illuminated by the screen of the scroll laying before her. It had been sent towards her by Cinder and had arrived a few hours ago. On it was the video of a press conference that had taken place a few days prior revealing the true nature of the silver eyed girl Ruby Rose. Seeing this half Grimm standing next to Ozpin, the bony growths of a Beowolf sticking out of her sleeves, she couldn't help but feel reminded of her own past, all the wary looks the palace servants gave her, the feathered girl. And with the brilliant silver eyes the girl shared with everyone in Salem's family, well except her father, there was no doubt about it that they were related in someway, in addition to the blood of Fafnir flowing in both of their veins.

Rising out of her chair, Salem stepped onto her balcony and let out a loud caw. Soon after that a few bird like Grimm swooped down and hovered before their leader, looking at her expecting more instructions. "[Go find the Grimmslayer and bring it to my servant.]" After bringing up picture of Cinder on the scroll she had taken with ehr to make sure they knew whom she meant, they took off, searching for her family's oldest possession, which had obviously not been handed down to the youngest as was tradition.

Moving back to her desk, Salem propped the scroll up against the wall. before sitting down before it. She had a few recordings to make in addition to the new orders Cinder would receive soon.

Starting the scrolls video recording, Salem began to talk slow and carefully, a hint of joy in her voice not heard for a long time.

"Greetings Ruby Rose, I am Salem Valorious, your sister by blood, grand aunt and …"

So, Thank you all for reading once again, I hope you enjoyed the newest chapter, please tell me if you did and why not if you didn't.
Now after this we are going to head into the Vytal tournament, or as much of it as Ruby is tolerated in.