The Hunter of Beasts and Grim

Chapter 2: New World, New Dawn and New Beasts

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I awoke to the smell of fresh grass and dew and the feeling of laying on soft grass and soil. I slowly got onto my feet struggling a little with the weight of my great sword and attempted to open my eyes only to get blinded by a dazzling light.

"Son of a bitch it's bright!" I yell my eyes hurting from the sudden barrage of light. "What it's bright? If it's light out that can only mean one thing". I slowly open my eyes little by little letting them adjust. When I finally open my eyes fully I look towards the sky and see the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life.

It's the sun standing proudly over the world warming it with its golden rays, " the night is finally over." I say in disbelief, I can feel tears of joy forming in my eyes its hard to believe the nightmare is finally over. After an entire night of hunting beasts and ungodly creatures, dying countless times in the most painful ways possible, now it's finally morning, the hunt is finally over.

I wipe away the tears in my eyes and begin looking at my surroundings, "were the hell am I?" I seem to be in the middle of a forest filled with abnormally tall trees and considering the fact I can only see trees far as my eyes can see it's very dense and to my right is my Threaded cane laying promptly on the floor along with my great sword.

"Where did Gehrman send me, and why do I still remember the Hunters Dream?" I say out loud to no one in particular, "Gehrman said I would forget the dream and awake under the morning sun, did something go wrong is that why I remember the dream and was transported to this strange forest?"

GRRRRRRR, the growling of a beast distracts me from my thoughts, I quickly turn around and see the beast. This beast is very different from the others I've fought" I think to myself. The beast was roughly eight feet tall, had razor sharp claws for hands and feet, spikes on its arms, bipedal, had black fur all around its body except for its face which beside having a mouth full of dagger like teeth was covered in some kind of solid white substance forming a mask.

"No doubt that mask is some kind of natural armor just like the one Rom and her children had better go for the body." I think to myself, Using my right hand I reached for the ground and pick up the Threaded Cane, the cane had the handle of an ordinary cane but the base of a straight sword with a pointed end, this trusted cane had seen me through the horrors I faced in Yharnam and after infusing it with the numerous bloodstones the blade was far stronger than any ordinary blade.

With my left hand I reached for my waist and upholstered my trusted Hunters pistol, " I better be careful I don't dream anymore, this is my one and only life." I say out loud to remind myself.

The strange masked beast charged at me attempting to crush me with a double-handed overhead smash I quickly rolled to the left and slashed its side, it roared in agony and attempted to swipe at my head with its left claw, but I ducked the strike and shot the beast in the chest with my Hunters Pistol, the impact staggered the beast and sent it to its knees, I toke the opening and dropped my Threaded Cane and plunged my right hand into the beasts chest, digging deep into its body I tightly grabbed its insides and ripped out its flesh, the beast fell to the floor and with one last weak cry died.

Surprisingly this did not paint me in blood, "does this beast not have any blood in its body?" I think to myself. Suddenly the beast body began breaking into smaller pieces, floating into the air and evaporated. "I'll never understand that." I say out loud.

During my hunt in Yharnam I slayed hundreds of beast and learned that each beasts body reacts differently upon death, some died and left ordinary corpses, others would explode upon death and shower me and my surrounding with foul smelling blood, others would follow this beast example and evaporate after I killed it.

"This is no time to think about such trivial things I need to find civilization assuming the closes one hasn't been over ran with beast and killed all its inhabitants". On that dark thought I picked up the Threaded Cane put my great sword back in its sheath and put my Hunters Pistol back in its holster and began walking through the mysterious forest using the cane to support me.

(Ozpin POV)

"Today was going to be one of those days" Ozpin thought to himself. It was only ten AM and things were already going wrong, the coffee machine was broken denying him the sacred drink, causing him to feel tired and cranky. Also monitors picked up an unknown entity in the Emerald Forest and it appeared to be killing Grim at a rapid rate.

So I decided to call team RWBY to my office and send them on a mission to discover what the entity was. " They should be here by now, where are they?" I question, perhaps by fate or chance team RWBY decided to bust through the doors at that exact moment.

" Good of you to finally show up." I say to the team of four. "Don't blame us professor are leader decided she wanted seconds at breakfast" said Weiss in a annoyed tone, "Nora actually wanted to share her pancakes that may never happen again I had to eat them" said Ruby. " Well no matter now I have a mission for you girls" I say to stop their argument, " What kind of mission professor" asked Blake.

" A unknown entity has appeared in the Emerald forest I want you four to go in and discover what it is and if it's a threat do not engage it if you have to" I instruct them," Roger, lets go team RWBY we have to find a mysterious something." Said Ruby cheerfully. "Truly a majestic speech" Weiss said sarcastically while rolling her eyes.

(Drake POV)

"How big is this damn forest?" I yelled angrily, "I've been walking through this forest for hours and have found nothing but beasts and old ruins I'm starting to think humans lived here a long time ago but not anymore."

Grrrrr, I sighed on top of everything else I'm starving my stomach has been rumbling for hours, it was strange to feel hungry again during the Hunt I didn't need sleep, food or rest, "Can this truly get any worse?" I complain out loud. As I say that a chill goes down my spine and that can only mean one thing,

"I'm being watch but by who and where?" I think to myself, I look around at my surroundings and see nothing whatever is watching me is keeping it self well hidden meaning I'm either being stalked by an unusually intelligent beast or I'm being observed by fellow humans. I upholster my pistol and take a defensive stance holding my Threaded cane in front of my body and say "who or what ever you are come out and face me like a man." I say raising my voice loud enough for anything in mild range of me could hear but not loud enough to alert far away beast to my location and make this situation even worse.

"YIPE!","RUBY!" I hear two loud voices from behind me and quickly turn around to face my stalkers. I saw my two stalkers face down in the grass they appeared to have fallen from the tree they were hiding in. The two stalkers get on their feet and I received a surprise to find out their both young women.

One was fairly small I say somewhere around five feet she also had a black and red outfit with matching skirt a red hood around her neck, pale skin, silver eyes and her face in a pained expression.

The other seemed to be a few years older and taller her skin so pale it was almost pure white matched with a white skirt and shirt with a little red, white hair, pale blue eyes and a rapier by her side how she wasn't impaled when she fell is a mystery.

"OWWWW, Weiss why didn't you stop me from falling that really hurt." Whined the red hooded girl, "I did but you grabbed my arm and made me fall with you, you dolt." Angrily replied the girl named Weiss. " It's not my fault that guy in the cool outfit scared me and I fell." Replied the red hooded girl.

"Cool outfit?" I glance at my clothing I am wearing the blue constable chest piece that also had a gold chain to hold up the blue cape and gold buttons, the white constable gloves, the blue constable pants with black leather shoes and the beat up grey old hunter cape with a mask to cover my face, the armor keep me warm making her comment on it even stranger.

At her last statement both girls seem to realize they were arguing in front of their target and turned around to face me. "Great job trying to be stealthy guys." Says a rather sarcastic voice, I turn around to the new voice and see two more girls.

One was a girl in a black and white outfit, black hair with a black bow on it, amber eyes that were giving me a cold and calculating stare, she already had her weapon drawn a rather large pure black cleaver. "I thought Eileen liked black," I think to myself.

The last girl is wearing a mostly yellow shirt with a little white near the collar and I could also tell she had rather impressive assets under her shirt, pure brown boots blonde hair, purple eyes, a huge smile on her face mostly likely finding it amusing to see her allies fall out of the tree and bicker like children and finally she had some kind of yellow gauntlets on her hands.

CLANK! I hear some kind of metallic clank and turn back to face the other duo. The girl named Weiss had drawn her rapier and was pointing it towards me. The red hooded girl had somehow drawn a giant red metallic scythe that was nearly twice her size.

"Where the hell was she hiding that, and how can she wield a weapon of that size so easily? These girls must be stronger than they look, better be cautious." I think to myself.

" Who are you and what do you want?" I demand, "I better see if I can solve this without having to break any bones" I think to my self. " That's are question" says the black bowed girl. "What are you doing in the middle of the Emerald forest killing grim like its hunting season?" the bowed girl demands.

"Emerald forest huh, now I know the name of where I am, though it doesn't really help me in this situation, also what the hells a Grim is that what they call beast in this land?" I think to myself.

Damn it Drake now is not the time to be thinking about unimportant crap like that I need to think of something to say and fast, I cant just tell them I somehow woke up in the middle of the forest after being freed from the Hunters Dream, God's know if they even know what the Hunters Dream is, during the hunt I only meet two other hunters that knew it even existed and for all I know only people in Yharham are sent to the Hunters Dream let alone whoever they are"

. Racking my brain like mad I finally think of a decent lie " I'm training to be a hunter" I say, "pleases let them buy it" I pray silently.

"What? Why would you want to train in the middle of the Emerald forest are you crazy or stupid?" says the girl name Weiss.

"I find that hard to believe as well," says the black bowed girl.

"It maybe a little dangerous but how can I be a true hunter if all I do is train normally, when it comes time to hunt are skills and preparations wont mean anything if we don't even have an idea how to fight the beasts we hunt." I reply to them. On the outside thanks to my mask and tone of my voice I appear to have calm rational demeanor but on the inside I'm a nervous wreck my stomach feels sick and my heart is practically beating my chest trying to force its way out.

" That is true guys, its like Yang is always telling me you need to go out and experience the world" says the red hooded girl.

"Ehh Ruby now's not really the time to be quoting me." The one named Yang says to the red hooded girl who's name appears to be Ruby.

"You dolt don't tell our target our names" Weiss says as she slaps the back of Ruby's head, " Owww that hurt Weiss" whinnied Ruby.

I silently laugh at their little scuffle. "As adorable and funny as it is to see them fight with themselves I'm still in a tight situation I need to get on peaceful terms with them and fast." I think to myself.

" How about we properly introduce ourselves before we do anything rash? I am Drake Richard hunter in training." I say giving the girls a hunter's bow as a sigh of respect. The girl with the bow looks at me no doubt trying to figure out if I'm trying to trick them, after a few moments her expression softens slightly,

" I'm Blake that's Yang, Weiss and Ruby" she says pointing to each member of her team as she call out their names. "Were from Beacon and we were instructed to find the intruder in the Emerald Forest which is you" she says pointing at me.

"Who sent you to find me?" I ask, "Professor Ozpin headmaster of Beacon" said Blake. My mind is trying to process all the new information I've just heard, these four armed girls where from some unknown place called Beacon and sent by its master a man named Ozpin who I've never heard of before to find and bring me back to there base of operations, I see two options for myself try to escape, fight these girls and run the risk of a true death or go with them in peace and see what this Ozpin wants with me and leave my fate in his hands.

I take one last look at the girls and once again notice how young Ruby is. "She looks about the same age as she was." I think to myself, my eyes sink to the floor remembering my greatest failure, "I won't be responsible for the death of another young innocent girl that make me no better than the beasts." I think to myself.

I take and deep breath and sigh and holster my pistol and place down my cane. "Very well I'll go with you to Beacon and see this Ozpin." I say as I raise my unarmed hands as a sign of peace.

"Really no fight, no threats, no trying to escape?" Says Weiss with a skeptical look on her face. " Let's just say I've had a long night and want to rest and the only way I'll get that is if I go with and see what this Ozpin wants from me" I reply.

" Welp that settles that lets had back to Beacon" cheerfully replies Ruby, I can't help but smile under my mask at her adorable cheerful attitude.

"Just stand where I can see you and don't try anything funny" replies Weiss pointing her rapier at me. "Lead the way your majesty" I say giving her a mock bow. She says "humph" and gestures me to follow Blake. I pick up my cane and begin making way to the mysterious Beacon.

Well Drake has meet team RWBY how will he react to this new world, can he fit in and can he finally forgive himself? If you want to find out continue reading my story. Feedback is welcomed, have a nice day and goodbye.