Chapter 4: A New Enemy.

Earth, Unknown Location.

In a cold, dark place, a woman stood upon her throne, she looks up into the dark violet sky and into the horizon with her dark red pupils, her lips formed an evil smirk, her appearance shows to be a slim figure with extremely pale tone skin with the lines of blood colored veins.

"So much sadness, so much anger..." She spoke maliciously while looking up to see the red clouds clearing themselves thus viewing her a full moon. "So much...madness.."

A single large Wyvern Grimm screech through the skies, then landed nearby the Queen of Grimm, the head of the Dragon strolled behind her with it's menacing gold eyes staring upon her, growling softly.

"Shhh...it's alright."

She hushed while stroking the large skull head, the Grimm purred for a while before she let it go.

"This world is our home now...go." She said. "Let us greet the people of this world with our appearances... and Ozpin would be surprised by our welcoming party..."

The Dragon Grimm then made a loud screech, causing all other Dragons hearing upon his call to gather themselves and then they flew off into the skies.

Late January, 2002...

*BUZZT!*

"This is just in, at CNN, strange black creatures are running throughout the city of Los Angeles and began their rampage against the civilians-!"

*BUZZT*

"We don't know from where the hell they came from!" Said a reported out loud while they are stationed on a news helicopter. "The Canadian Police Department in Vancouver started to evacuate many citizens as they can, from what it looks like around the city may look like an alien invasion or a zombie infestation going on from what the movies predicted."

*BUZZT!*

"US Government enacted Martial Law and dispatched military to protect the states by the events of these unknown Black Creatures since they've began to spread throughout the Western states of America."

*BUZZT!*

"We must protect our country at all costs." President Bush declares his speech within the halls of the Whitehouse. "This is not a terrorist attack, it was something else, tons of reports from the survivors from these states tells us that it is...far more sinister than Mankind itself, it was an invasion, by these unknown horde of monsters that runs around and destroy whatever it see."

*BUZZT*

"Countries around the world such as China, Russia, Britain, Mexico and Brazil are affected by these horde's of countless monsters and this was reported by other international news channels two days ago." Informed a CNN reporter, Anderson Cooper in the TV Screen, while two image's appeared aside him, showing dozens of Nevermores attacking London and another picture of Christ the Redeemer standing in front of the city of Rio de Janeiro, with several large black smoke's emitting into the air from the city with a swarm of Griffins flying through the skies. "Since after the encounters by these beings in North America, the United Nations made an Emergency Assembly meeting in the New York Headquarters, to call other nations, including the Four Kingdoms, decided to fight off against the global invasion from these monsters."

*BUZZT*

Event: The Great Grimm War.

Date: January 31st, 2002.

Location: New York, United Nations Headquarters.

Inside the Assembly hall, James Ironwood, the General of the Atlesian military and the Headmaster of Atlas Academy, stood behind the rostrum with his white attire, he clears his throat before declaring a speech.

"Ahem, Greetings, members of the United Nations, as we heard about the problems you were expecting, these creatures are, for us, was eventually familiar but yet dangerous in our everyday lives, they were strolling around near the borders of our Kingdoms for more than a thousand years."

He then stopped the speech for a while then activated a dust powered hologram, showing images of an Alpha Beowolf, an Ursa then a Nevermore "These monsters what we called them were known as "The Creatures of the Grimm", or simply Grimms, our ancestors were nearly driven into extinction by these monsters."

Thus then, the images are replaced by colorful crystals. "Until we found the Power of the Dust, we managed to survive and established countless of civilizations, however, most of them fell to the Grimm's onslaught, leaving only the four kingdoms which they existed today."

"So...uh, Mr. Ironwood, sir." Suddenly, a single British UN representative stood up with a hand raised in the air. "Can the Grimm's be killed by any normal weapons?"

"Yes, they are vulnerable from all sides but they are still extremely dangerous, even in large horde's of them, however, these creatures are attracted to negative emotions, such as fear, anger or depression for an example, but still, the Grimm's will always attack when it sees anything Human in front of them, even if you're happy, people getting panicked in cities will be much, much worse." James answered, suddenly, the holograms images of Dust were now replaced by figures of armed human individuals, carrying various of exotic weapons. "We had an elite warriors known as the "Hunters" or sometimes we consider them as Huntsmen, they were our protectors, the Guardians of the kingdoms and mankind itself, I bet that these individuals are the only thing that you all need.."

Then the UN members began to wonder, confused and clueless at first then taking a slight interest about these Hunters.

"Every four kingdoms had them, they were also known for their supernatural abilities and performing various of exotic combat skills" Ironwood informed. "They are even capable to fend of against a horde of Grimm's in countless numbers as much as they could."

With the information explained by the Atlesian General, most members went went with awe and surprise, then Ironwood finishes the presentation and began to leave the rostrum,then the President of the UN General Assembly stepped in.

"Thank you Mr. Ironwood for presenting some of the useful information." Then Han then placed a piece of paper on the desk. "As for now on, I was currently informed that the NATO has decided to aid the Russian Federation including Turkey to fight against the a larger Grimm invasion, therefore, we must mobilize our military in defending to help other nations for the sake of mankind under the UN Charter, Article 49 and 51."

USA, Nevada.

A horde of a thousands of Grimms strolled across the hot deserts of Mojave, they were in a deadly combination of Goliaths, Beowolves, Ursas, Creepers and Deathstalkers including a medium swarm of Griffins and Nevermores flew around above the horde, they march to look for more human settlements to destroy, meanwhile, in the Stratosphere, a medium squadrons of Lockheed F-117's Nighthawks sore through the upper troposphere.

"This is Angel-1, the Grimm's seems to be exactly below us, over."

"Positive, The targets are in position, get the bombs ready then, over."

"Roger, out."

As the doors slides open, a rain of bombs dropped down from the skies, in the ground, the Grimm horde stopped on it's tracks while hearing the screeching sounds from above, until the one of the first ordnance exploded right in the middle of the horde, the other bombs soon takes a devastating effect, on a far hillside, a line of 15 M1A1's, 10 M109A6 Paladins and including 2 squads of 5 Desert Patrol Vehicles appeared on the hilltops, suddenly, two squadron of ten F-16 Fighting Falcons each began to sweep off against the Nevermores and the Griffins, surprisingly for the airborne Grimms, the US multi-role fighter jets were proven to be more faster and deadlier, the F-16's began to unleash their M61 Vulcans against the Nevermores and the Griffons while some other jets commence strafing runs against the ground based Grimm's with the help of ground based armored vehicles and artillery.

The battle lasted for one and a half an hours until the Apaches reinforcements arrived, then the attack helicopters destroys the last pockets of the remaining resistance, back on the sandy hilltops, a single Tanker came out from the hatch for fresh air, but instead, smells the smokes and burning chemicals throughout he air.

"Ahh, I love the smell of napalm in the morning." He said with nostalgia.

"Uhh, sir, it's afternoon." Spoke an another Tanker from inside the Abrams Tank.

"Shut up Ralph and leave him be." Groaned the other Tanker.

California, Los Angeles.

In the streets of the city, chaos ensues everything, debris, decimated cars, black smoke emitting from large flames and dead corpses laying around while a small numbers of fortunate survivors in the infested areas are armed to teeth whilst stay hidden away from the views of the large flying monsters encircling the skyscrapers, they were making themselves to head for the evacuation area, the large section of the City was overrun by a horde of Grimm.

While people are running for their lives, the Grimm's continued their onslaught, not even the local Police would hold them off, their Glock 9mm Parabellum pistols are nearly useless to kill them which costs them almost an entire magazine to kill one ordinary Beowolf, however, their Pump Action Remington Model 870 Shotgun takes some serious damage against the ordinary Grimms in a single or a couple of shots, fighting armored Grimm's needs more than a couple shot, meanwhile, one SWAT Sniper was lying on top of the buildings of Los Angeles while looking through the battle in his sniper scope, behind him were a small family group of Los Angeles citizens boarding a Bell 206 Helicopter with the other SWAT teams.

"Shit's goin' to hell.." The sniper muttered.

On the ground, the SWAT's are trying to hold off the Beowolves with their riot shields as much as they can while the the local police behind them and those who stood on top of the SWAT's heavy transport vehicles and police cars fired them back with much more heavier firearms, however, the line staggered back and fell when the Ursas and Boarbatusks dashed in with their sheer strenght and numbers while continuing their rampage, the police and the SWAT's Fireteams began to fell back when the Beowolves howled victoriously and vehicles flipped over by larger Ursa's, the monsters began their pursuit to chase down the policemen then decimating them with their sharp claws.

*BOOM!*

Suddenly, a single missile flew out of nowhere, thus decimating a pack of Ursas, as the police saw up and felt in relief while most of them cheered, the reinforcements had arrived, this time in a serious military action, a squad of flying AH-1 Cobra's hovered in the skies along with some UH-1 Iroquois carrying a load of heavy armed Marines and Army soldiers, the Grimm's were now pushed back by the flying war machines, in the highest level in the skies, the Nevermores and Griffon's were getting decimated by the a larger squadron consisting sheer speed and firepower of the US Air force's F-16's.

On top of some skycraperss of Los Angeles, the Police Forces along with some civilians cheered upon seeing the arrival of the military came right in time to eradicate the Grimm's might, 4 Valean Hunters are also present and helped them to finish off the strongest Grimm's which were still alive, as they made their actions, most people, including the military personnels looked in shock and awe by the combat performances of Hunters-in-action right in front of their eyes.

"Mommy, are they superheroes!?" Yelled a young boy who was watching in excitement while the Hunters began to decimated a group of Boarbatusks in mere seconds.

"I...I think they are sweetie." His mother replied then gasps with her hands covering her mouth while looking at them with wide-eyes in disbelief.

Meanwhile, the Police only stood there and watched with amazement, however, one SWAT Officer tilted his head back into reality then his M14 Rifle was raised in the air.

"HEY! People! Why are we standing here and watching them do awesome shit!?" He shouted. "Let's help these guys and send these monsters back from where they came!"

"YEAH!" They all yelled while the Cobra's soared over the armed crowd and unleased a fiery heavy caliber from it's chaingun together with a TOW Missiles to kill a single Death Stalker.

"Target eliminated." the Pilot muttered with a smirk.

Back on the ground...

"Move aside."

Two Police officers felt a sudden chill feeling behind their backs, they knew that heavy austrian accent tone voice belongs to, which is that they were awefully familliar at, as they turned around, seeing no other but Arnold Schwarzenegger himself while raising a .40 Magnum Revolver then pointing against a Beowolf while lunging itself against the body-builder and former Austrian Military personnel.

"Hasta la vista, schweinhund." With his last words, he clicked the trigger, the revolver sends a large bullet with a powerful blow against the Beowolf's head, then leaving a large hole in it thus fell on it's demise.

"Holy shit, it's Arnold Schwarzenegger." Swore an African-American gangster with wide-eyes while holding a rusty iron pipe.

"What are you looking at?" He said curiously to the two police's and the gangster with an eyebrow arched. "We must go, get the civilians into the choppa, now."

"Jesus Christ, I got a feeling that we're in some movie or some shit." The police officer muttered in excitement.

"Shut the fuck up Kenny and let's kill some shit." the other officer groaned in annoyance while pumping his Remington Shotgun with a shell popping out.

On the sea, ten Arleigh Burke-Class destroyer and a single Nitmitz-Class Aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, appeared near the shores of Los Angeles, it was Command Carrier group 1, the Command group began to send a dozens of F/A-18C Hornet's and Tomahawk missiles to head straigh to demolish the Grimm infested areas, ending the Grimm siege of the City.

History event:

Most people says that the Great Grimm War was a global invasion by the creatures of the Grimm, however, it wasn't just an invasion, it was also an infestation which they brought fear into the public eye, the first countries were invaded by these monsters of the darkness was the United States and Canada during within the first week, ever since before it became a threat, the people living around the world, instead of those who are living within the 4 Kingdoms, had no knowledge about the Grimm's existence, not until in January 20, locals have reported a mysterious large black dragon flying off in a distance where no people was around in the coasts of Califronia.

A few days later, in the 30th of January 2002, a large horde of Grimm's made it's appearance in Angeles National Forest around early in the morning and then began their offense against the city of Los Angeles while most people are still asleep, the chaos began around one hour earlier when the neighbourhood was now currently under attack by a horde of Grimm's, the people began to flee in terror, but the terror attracted more Grimms within more than a single mile while the other horde's in Nevada began to spread through the Mojave Deserts, numbering a thousands into a millions of monsters scattering across the state and then spreads quickly into Idaho, Utah, Arizona, including the south-east regions of California.

Within five days, most small towns in the desert regions were swiftly decimated by the overruning Grimm's while some horde's and airborne swarms outside the US, some cities in a few countries are also affected by the invasion, the US Goverment heard that the so-called "incident" was an invasion, upon the reports and stories spoken by the sole survivors whilst suffering by the traumatic events, the US Officials went on high alert and called for an immediate martial law in the Western states.

In the meantime, the Grimms left most US Military bases in the West isolated from civilization and laying a siege, but it couldn't stop them while the military are communicating wireless for reinforcements from the Eastern-Northern and Southern United States, in the north, Canada had suffered with the loss of Vancouver, soon Las Vegas and the City of Phoenix fell during the day when Los Angeles was successfully held by the military, armed civilians, including Huntsmen tourists. Later on, the UN declared an official War against the Creatures of the Darkness.

Asia Campaign.

In the other side of the world, the same day when Los Angeles was under a siege, the Grimms had now somehow appeared in the north-eastern coasts of Russia, now spreading south-west into central asia, the largest known horde was ever encountered was seen between the borders of North Korea and China, which soon these two nations had now suffered an invasion by these monstrous incursions.

During the Grimm infestation of North Korea, the KPA led a massive large scale war against the dark beings with no aid of the UN but with the help of chinese military, ever since in the beginning, the North Koreans had first thought that the Grimm's were the capitalist bio-weapons from the US and made propaganda posters of it, who could have believe such thing?

The battle went smoothly for three weeks, but now the KPA are suffering some serious attrition, due to a lack of supplies, manpower, including the lack of industrial strength, as the fight went on, the chinese did whatever they could to help the KPA, but in March, the Grimm's soon invaded China from the north in countless numbers, damaging their industrial and agricultural infrastructures in their way, most supplies and resources from the chinese mainland were suddenly came to halt, leaving the KPA to fight against the Grimms for themselves until the majority of the population soon began to flee into South Korea.

After Pyongyang fell and the city, along with the entire regions within north korea was completely eradicated itself by nuclear warheads as a last ditch effort to destroy the Grimm's onslaught thus turning it into a wasteland, however, the Grimm's re-occupied the North Korean peninsula while the Republic Army from the South realized the threat and began to erect heavier defenses at the 38th Parallel.

Meanwhile in the White House, 2 Days later.

*Knock**Knock*

"Mr. President..."

Bush then suddenly turns his face towards the door, a CIA agent entered the room with a manila folder in his hands then placed them at his desk, President Bush flipped one of the papers then reads the notes.

"Yesterday, the South Koreans have confirmed that North Korea was completely overrun by the Grimm's." the CIA explained. "Now the South Korean Government are calling us for help to aid their military."

"Welp, as North Korea has fallen, thanks to their ego and self-proclaimed as a "powerful" country, this leaves them a large amount of refugees thus went into the South... Then we don't have to worry about them and their serious threats anymore." Bush stated with a loud sigh of relief, then grimaced. "But now we have to worry about the Grimms."

Battle for Russia and War in the Middle East.

A month later after the UN declared War, the Grimm horde's scattered throughout asia, across the middle east and into africa while eradicating human towns and settlements in their way, the Terrorists factions such as Al Qaeda or the Talibans in Afghanistan are proven to be more formidable fighters in the wilderness against the creatures of the darkness, however, they soon began to suffer in the same fate just like the North Korean Army, disorganization, low supplies and of course, their negative emotions of hatred against the Western Countries and it's western ideals, had immediatly attracted Creature's attentions, the Arab Nations and Israel were on high alert, begins to develop deep logistical defenses to fend off the creatures.

In Syria and Iraq, both of these nations was almost annihilated with the result led the refugees into US Bases and took their oppurtunity to make strongholds of it with the sake of survival, meanwhile in the Eurasian regions was still barely held off the Grimm's by the joint Russian-NATO forces and began to commence a major counter-attack to re-occupy some of the eastern regions of Russia and some areas in central asia.

United Nations Counter-offensive.

Most of these operations in Russia and some areas in Asia are successful, the UN forces soon realized the Grimm's major weakness that they coudn't take out the well prepared fully mechanized human military with a strong firepower in open battle, this was predicted by James Ironwood, therefore, due to the sudden presence of Earth's large and vast military strenght with trained professionalism and war experiences throughout the historical centuries of bloodshed, the Kingdoms soon saw their potential armies to combat the Creatures of the Darkness.

The four kingdoms decided to help by sending Huntsmen to aid soldiers in the battlefield, the Grimm's invasion came in a screeching halt and was pushed back by the armies of the three major superpowers, including some other powerful countries led to the war's end, when the conflict ended, the human militaries of the UN then suddenly stopped the waging battle against the Grimms while due to an extreme costs of materials and manpower.

This leaves only most of the areas around the world consisting of heavy forest regions, to the hottest deserts and into the artic areas where the Grimm can still continue to roam, the war took almost six months until the entire world declared a global victory for humanity, but costs of caualties are extremely huge, incuding some of those cities that are still lays in ruins and infested along with their important infrastructures, within a few months later, the people from all over the world began to rebuilt their homes, had erected their city defenses and walls to maximum with all their resources, securing all agricultural areas and supply lines, they included to quarantined the Grimm infested areas, this costs them years to rebuilt their military and improving more heavy weaponry until the military recaptures the areas from the Grimm.

Vale, Beacon Academy, Year 2002, late June...

A month had passed since the Great Grimm War, team STRQ finally graduated from Beacon and became full fledged Hunters and Huntresses, they returned to Vale after the UN's final battle against the Grimm in Vancouver in a few months prior, they returned as heroes in front of the eyes of the students of Beacon, but upon their homecoming, they are bombarded by hundreds of questions, asking about the society, the lifestyle, technologies and of course, the Great Grimm War outside the four Kingdoms.

Some students whom were interested in this topic are awed by the epics and journey's spoken by Team STRQ, including some tales told by some few hunters and hunters-in-trainings who are also involved in the conflict. It is hard for them to imagine that a large armored convoy with aerial support in combined arms warfare was extremely effective against the Grimm's, even the large scale battles against the Grimm's was extremely epic and unreal, Qrow and Taiyang agrees it was for themselves felt like an epic journey.

"And those explosions, can't you believe that!? They're extremely larger!" Summer explained with glee and her enthusiasm of weapons she had ever see. "Their military doesn't seems so advanced as the Atlesian Military, but believe me, they had larger armies, thousands of armored vehicles called "Tanks", hundreds of armed ships which those people refer them as "Battleships" or "Aircraft Carriers", they had much more faster fighter jets than the altesian aircraft and had a lot of various weapons carrying much heavier caliber and much more stronger firepower, they aren't powered by Dust, but uses a substance called "Gunpowder". There are also hundreds of gun types out there, which I could start experimenting them immediatly! I remembered some of them, Remington Model 870, M14, Ak-47's, .40 Magnum, 1911 Pistols, Desert Eagle, Dragunov sniper rifle, *murmuring other weapons*"

Some students and the rest of Team STRQ stared at her with their frowned expressions with sweatdrops rolling down under their foreheads, while Summer keeps muttering the weapons name.

"So Tai, do you have any plans?" Raven asks to a blonde who stood near beside her.

"Well, I'm planning to move in the Unites States." Taiyang responds, Raven began to stare at him with a bewildered face. "I was offered a job by the CIA that I could help out the new Californian Desert Ranger Militia and to protect some nearby cities from the Grimm's, I agree and Ozpin permitted that."

"I'm heading there too." Qrow added.

"You too?!" Raven staggered back in shock.

"Yeah, the UN had already announced a project to the public in the outside world." Qrow explained with a sigh. "I was summoned by the CIA and Ozpin himself, me and Tai meet each other in the same time, I'm going to be enrolled as a Teacher in a new Huntsmen Academy which was currently reconstructed from an old abandoned school in Treasure Island, located in San Fransisco."

"Wait, what kind of project was that?"

"Seriously? you still haven't watched the CNN?" Qrow raised a brow as Raven titled her head sidewards.

"It's called the Hunter Project." Ozpin suddenly interjected. "Since before the War against the Grimm had started and after, there had been hundreds of reports consisting of young civilian individuals, including some of their famous young celebrities, mostly teenagers and children, had got their aura's unlocked by Hunters whom were tourist for reasons unknown, that was since you had arrived in America at that same day, therefore, the United Nations had an agreement with the 4 Kingdoms to train their own Huntsmen and Huntresses. Although, they have seen the Huntsmen's potential in combat which gave them a surprise."

"I...see..." Raven stated a bit blankly, she first glanced her eyes to Qrow, then to Summer, who was keep muttering the list of weapons she could remember, then saw Taiyang who was heading to the landing platform to wait for the Bullhead while carrying a camping sack that hung on his shoulder. "I...have to talk something to Tai."

"Go and tell him." Qrow gave her a mischievous smug. "I know you have feelings for him."

"Sh-Shut up!" Raven nearly yelled at him with her cheeks blushed red.

The jet black haired woman began to walk towards to the muscular tall blonde, she then took a deep breath and poked two times on his left shoulder and then he turns around to look at her with his eyebrow raised quizzically.

"Raven?"

"Tai...I..I want to tell you something."

"...Then what is it?"

"I...I just heard from Qrow that you're going to America to help out the people." Then she paused for a while, her cheeks felt heat, creating a blush once more. "After we've been all through since the day where we first met, in the tournament and the war, we were been always...together."

Taiyang was clueless at first, until he recognize what she meant.

"So, I decided that...I wanted to join you."

"U-Umm, hold on a sec!" Tai staggered back. "You...are coming to join with..me?!"

"Well, well, my senses are right." Suddenly they yelped and then turn their heads to Qrow, he stood there with a smirk plastered across his face and Summer stood beside him with both of her hands covered her mouth and her face paints red, then Qrow teased. "You both seemed to have developed your relationship, I never thought my sister had fell for you, Tai."

"Oh my dust!" Summer blurted out. "You've confessed each other?!"

"Brother, I-"

"Hey, no worries." Qrow then interrupts Raven while raising his hand. "Besides, I'm okay with that, we're friends, right?" However, Qrow gave a glare towards Taiyang. "But, if you left my sister crying or getting hurt, then this, my blade would end up shoving in your as-"

"Qrow!" Summer then scolded him and giving him a face that Qrow never resisted this, her cute angry pouting face. "Please, don't scare Tai like that!"

"I...Ugh, fine." Qrow groaned in irritation, then he asked Summer for what she wanted to do. "So Summer, what kind of plans do you have?"

"Oh, I wanna kinda join to help the California Desert Ranger Militia." She beamed with glee. "And that makes all of us staying in the U.S."

"Ah, okay-wait WHAT?!" Qrow blurted in shock. "You too?!"

"Yeah, I've asked Ozpin and that CIA guy, which I could join." She then pointed to Ozpin walking together with a CIA agent while discussing some things they need to talk about. "They say it's okay, they really needed some Hunters to lower the costs of casualties and fights against the Grimm's from coming into Union City."

"I...uhh, nevermind then." Qrow sighed in defeat...then he stood straight up once again with a brightened face. "Well at least I'm still glad that I could buy some of their Heineken Beer."

"Then let's head off into our new home!" Summer finally declares with her arms raising up in the air and her finger pointed skywards. "To America!"

The Great Grimm War

Location: North/South America, Europe, Asia, Middle East

Belligerents: United Nations (with Support from the 4 Kingdoms) vs The Creatures of Grimm

Casualties and losses:

• One-fourth of Human lives lost (mostly civilians)

• Unknown numbers of Grimm's eradicated (extremely heavy, mostly in billions).

Outcome:

• UN halted Grimm Expansion.

• International Military Armed Forces quarantines the Grimm infested areas in many parts of the world.

• UN establishes Hunter Project with the agreement of the Four Kingdoms

• Vancouver recaptured by joint US-Canadian Forces

• North Korea was completely overrun

• Most of Middle East including some parts in Africa and Asia was infested by Grimm.

• Grimm expansion in Eastern Russia came in an abrupt halt

Result: United Nations Strategic Victory

Chapter Ends

Coming soon Events:

Rebuilding Days - The Change of Society.

The Cries of the Faunus - Into the way of Equality.