A/N: Now I know it's been a long time. I can't give you any of you sixteen people apologies that would make anything better, but I'm sorry anyways. The problem is that I just didn't hold onto the interest in this idea long enough. That's the honest truth, and I'm not going to write a story I don't want to. I still do and always did like this idea, but the interest just fades. I'm sorry about that. You all may have also noticed that I have now put this in Evolve/RWBY crossover, as opposed to the original just RWBY category. I figured it should go here instead. Regardless of all this, I make no promises for another chapter any time soon. And while you all have every right to hate me, I still hope you enjoy this chapter.

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Not A Fairy Tale Anymore

Ruby Rose's fist slammed down on the clock beside her bed that dared to wake her up. She groggily turned over in her bed and cracked her eyes open. Only to immediately shield them from the suns harsh rays that came through her window. She rolled over and shoved her head into her pillow in annoyance. "Why didn't I close the blinds?" She groaned to herself.

She laid in bed in that position for a few minutes before finally forcing herself to get up. She stretched and yawned quietly as her body got used to the new state of awareness. She rubbed an eye and walked up to the window. It was a clear, sunny morning with barely a cloud in the sky. It was a good day to do some training.

She slipped on her pair of slippers before walking out of her room and heading downstairs. She walked into the kitchen and saw her dad, Taiyang, reading the morning paper while sipping his coffee. Meanwhile her half sister Yang was watching TV with the family dog Zwei in her lap.

Her father looked up from his paper and noticed her. "Hey Rubbles. How'd you sleep?" He asked with a loving smile.

"Fine." She grabbed an apple from the fridge. "How long have you guys been awake?"

"Not long. Just got up actually." Her father replied as Ruby joined her sister on the couch.

Yang looked over and smiled at her. "Hey sis! What's up? Anything planned for today?" She asked.

Ruby shook her head as she bit into her apple. "Nope. I'm gonna go and visit mom today." She said with a mouth full of apple.

"Don't talk with your mouth full Ruby." Their dad scolded lightly.

She swallowed. "Sorry." Ruby looked over to Yang and asked, "So, you're going to be going to Beacon soon. Do you think you're ready for it?

Her blonde locks bobbed up and down. "Oh yeah, I was born ready."

"You're lucky you get to go now. I wish I wasn't a year behind you." She mumbled glumly.

Yang nudged her shoulder. "Cheer up sis. You'll be at Beacon in no time. Just imagine all the things you'll be able to do there and it should help pass the time. Just think about it. New school, new students, different classes, cute boys-"

"Over my dead body!" Their father erupted.

Yang rolled her eyes. "Against someone as old as you, I'm sure some of them could arrange that."

"I am not old!"

"Whatever you say senior."

Ruby smiled at her father and sisters antics. "Well, at least I know I have a good chance at getting into Beacon. I hear uncle Qrow knows the Headmaster."

Tiayang nodded. "Yeah, Qrow's known Ozpin for a while. I'm sure he'll put in a good word for you. By the way Ruby, if you're going out today, I suggest you leave soon. It's supposed to rain later." Tiayang said, much to Ruby's distress.

"What!? But there's barely a cloud in the sky!"

"Well that's going to change later." He replied, making Ruby frown.

In a burst of rose petals she disappeared from the couch and rushed back to her room to get dressed. She faintly heard her father yelling from downstairs, "Ah, my coffee! Hot! Ruby, no using your semblance in the house!"

"Sorry!"

She shut the door behind her with a click, giggling as Zwei jumped around her feet, yipping happily.

She hung Crescent Rose to her waist behind her cloak and set off in the direction of the cliff. The small corgi following eagerly behind. The cliff that had quickly become one of the most important and dreadful places in her life. It was the place that held her mothers memory, but at the same time reminded Ruby of her death.

Ruby shook her head to clear it of the unpleasant thoughts. It was those kind of thoughts that sent her into a spiral of depression all those years ago.

Instead, she tried to remember all the happy things about her mother. She was always so pretty, she baked the best cookies ever, she always read her and Yang bedtime stories, and she was the best fighter she'd ever seen. A smile grew on Ruby's face at the happy memories.

"Grrk!" Ruby gagged as her cape was pulled taunt against her neck. She looked back and saw Zwei with his teeth locked onto her cape and trying to pull her back.

"Zwei, I don't feel like playing right now. We can play later." She said and tried to pull her cape free, but the dog absolutely refused to release it. "Zwei, cut it out! You're going to rip it!" She scolded, and with one more quick tug she pulled her cape free. She had to pull it closer to her when the Corgi tried to grab it again.

"Zwei! Stop that! What's gotten into you?" Ruby asked the small dog as she worked to keep her cape out of reach. The dog only whined in response, and Ruby raised a curious eyebrow. "You've never acted like this before. I wonder if your sick?" She said, mostly to herself. "When we come back I'll ask dad to take a look at you." She decided before turning back around and continuing her trip, Zwei following carefully behind, shaking like a leaf the whole time.

Ruby pushed some brush aside to get past some shrubbery, grunting when the tree limb swung back and hit her in the face. She rubbed her face, irritated, before lowering her hand and looking out into the clearing.

She gasped at the sight.

It was unlike anything she'd ever seen before. It was something entirely new.

And it was floating in front of her mothers grave.

"This is very bad." Willow thought as she gazed at the young girl. And she was right, it was bad. Because now she had to make a choice. She either had to kill the young girl, or let her go.

Willow didn't want to kill the young human. She was still innocent and had done nothing wrong. And though she was in a similar situation as with the Bullhead Pilot, and she felt no remorse for killing him, this human was still young, just like herself. In fact, she seemed to be the same age of around 14 like her. It was difficult to kill a young, sentient, innocent creature. Different species or not.

But, if she let her go then she would probably tell everyone she saw. Humans were such gossipers. Although, there was a chance that no one would believe her. Especially if she had no proof.

Before Willow could make her choice, it was made for her.

The red caped girl reached behind her back and pulled out a red box that quickly transformed into a large scythe. Before Willow could process what she was seeing, the young human charged at her with surprising speed and swung the weapon at her.

Willow quickly brought her own scythe to bear and blocked it just barely in time. She tried to reach out and grab the human, only for a booming gunshot to hit her chest and the girl to fly away.

Willow growled and examined the girl closer. She took a deep sniff and smelled something that she hadn't smelled before. It was a peculiar smell. One that was only linked with certain individuals. One that only lingered around those who had a natural shield. Hunters.

Huntsmen were serious threats. They were dangerous. During the war, Huntsmen were feared more then an entire Atlas army. And while a fully grown adult Monster could hold their own against three or perhaps four Hunters, they still were not taken lightly.

But for Willow, a half grown Monster, against a single young hunter, the outcome was predictable. She would win.

The young human, which Willow had mentally started calling Red, stabbed her scythe into the ground and opened fire on her.

Willow growled as two of Reds rounds hit her armor. She channeled some Warp Energy throughout her body and forced it out of her, making a nearly identical copy of herself appear to peel off of her, while she was rendered invisible. She ordered the copy to charge towards Red, while she sneaked around to her behind.

Red did look confused by Willows ability, but still took the bait nonetheless. She fired on the copy, it turning a whitish-pink after every strike. The copy got close enough to strike Red, only for Red to switch he reason back to a scythe and slash through the copy, causing it to disappear just before it could do any damage.

Just as Red realized she had destroyed nothing more then a fake, Willow was upon her. She pounced from behind, intending on pinning Red to the ground. But the human suddenly disappeared in a flurry of Rose petals.

Willow looked around, confused by the disappearing act, before noticing Red standing several meters away. Willow turned to look at her, and was only infuriated further by the smirk on her face.

Willow channeled Warp Energy through her body once again, only this time keeping it in a vary small and condescend orb by her chest. She continued feeding the energy until it became unstable. When it did, she warped towards Red.

Red was surprised at the sudden burst of speed, and was unable to get away when the unstable orb exploded around Willow and threw Red back several meters.

Red quickly got to her feet just in time to block an overhead slash from one of Willow's scythes, but was defenseless when her other came from below and uppercut her.

Her weapon flew from her hand and she was sent flying into a tree. Before she could recover, Willow grabbed Red and slammed her into the tree. She moved her face closer to Reds and released a menacing hiss. The girls arms were pinned to her sides by Willows claw, and no matter how hard she struggled against Willow's iron grip, she couldn't get free.

Willow moved one of her scythes up to her neck. Red did her best to move her head away, but her efforts were pointless, and she knew it.

All Willow had to do was whittle down the girls aura and deliver one quick slice, and she would be safe. No one would find out about her or her species.

Reds eyes welled up with tears. "Please... Don't..." She whimpered.

A part of Willow wanted to laugh. Here was a young human that had attacked her, and thought it'd be so easy to beat her that she smirked and treated it like a game, yet now she was begging for her life. That part of her wanted nothing more then to slowly kill the human while savoring every pained noise she made. To make her cry and beg for her life as she was slowly gutted down the center, before finally ripping her to pieces.

But another part of her hesitated. She didn't know why, but staring into Reds teary silver eyes made her anger dissipate. In her mind, it felt as though her instincts were screaming at her not to kill Red. But it didn't quite feel like her normal instincts. It felt... Different. She briefly considered listening to it.

She felt a slight pain on one of her tails and turned her head around. To her immense shock, she saw the small dog she was hunting biting onto her left tail. There were no words that could describe how stunned she was. Here was her former prey, something that was vastly inferior and should have been cowering in fear, biting her tail. Just to save a human.

She lightly flicked her tails and sent the dog flying like a bullet into the bushes. Willow looked back at Red, and the two of them stared at each other long and hard.

After several minutes of contemplation, Willow slowly moved her scythe away from Reds neck, and she looked up at the Wraith with surprise and shock.

"Ruby!" Willow flinched at the sudden noise that pierced the temporary silence the battle had created. She sniffed the air and smelled two more humans, both with aura. She looked back down at Red, but she hadn't reacted to the voice other then to look in its direction. Probably thinking that calling back would cause the Wraith to strike.

Willow was in a difficult position now, and she knew it. She would have to try and kill the girl as quickly as she could, but then would no doubt lead the two humans right two her. Three Hunters she couldn't deal with. She just wasn't strong enough. Not to mention the strange instincts were still screaming at her to leave the girl unharmed, while a piece of her agreed.

Suddenly, an old memory popped into her mind. She remembered Krell once mentioning that humans could sometimes lose their memory if they were hit on the head hard enough.

"It's worth a try." Willow thought. She dropped Red to the ground and moved her left scythe to her side. Before Red could react, she slammed the dull, top side of her scythe into her head. Hard. And she fell to the ground limp.

Not wasting any time, Willow quickly created a portal back to their continent and warped through it, happily welcoming the familiar cold shiver it gave. As soon as she was through she dispersed it.

Willow allowed herself a small sigh of relief, happy that the situation was finally over, and the strange instincts had mercifully disappeared. She looked up to go home, but noticed something different.

"This isn't home." She thought, and she was right. The forest around her wasn't where she had set the portal to go. Instead it had taken her somewhere else entirely.

"Where am I?"

"Where am I?"

Ruby asked as she slowly came to. Her eyes felt so heavy, and her head ached really badly. She felt a familiar hand grab her own. "It's okay Ruby. Your in the hospital." Yang answered.

Ruby groaned. "What happened?" She croaked out. She opened her eyes slightly, revealing her half sisters worried face.

"We were hoping you could tell us that." Ruby looked over and saw her father, Taiyang, standing at the end of the bed. He walked over to the opposite side of where Yang was sitting and grabbed Ruby's empty hand. "I'm happy your okay. We heard Crescent Rose going off and when we found you, you were unconscious. And your aura was almost completely drained. The Doctors say you have a small concussion from a strong hit to the head, but you should be fine to come home with us tonight."

"What do you remember Ruby?" Yang asked. "What did that to you?"

Ruby thought for a second. "What did happen to me?" She thought. "I remember I was going to visit mom, and then Zwei pulling on my cape. But after that... Things go all fuzzy." Ruby rubbed her head as the pain of her headache increased. "But I think I remember I was fighting something."

"What were you fighting?" Taiyang asked.

She shut her eyes tightly and thought hard, to the point that it almost felt like her head was splitting open. But gradually, a shadowy image began to form in her mind.

"I... I think it was some kind of Grimm." Ruby scrunched her eyes in an effort to remember.

"What kind of Grimm were you fighting?" Yang asked.

She blinked. "I don't know. I've don't think I've ever seen or heard of one like it before. It was really big, and it had a long tail. And arms! It had lots of arms. Some of them had scythes on them, like Crescent Rose." Ruby tried her best to explain as the image began to fade.

Yangs eyes narrowed. "Doesn't sound like any Grimm I've ever heard of before. Dad?"

Their father thought for a second, then shook his head. "I've never heard of a Grimm with that description before. Ruby, you might have just discovered a new species."

Yang smiled. "Hey, that's cool! Maybe you'll get to name it." She said.

Ruby nodded. "I would be more excited it didn't just whip my butt." She said with a small pout while her family laughed.

"Actually, why did it just whip your but? What kind of Grimm knocks someone out before leaving?" Yang asked, leaving out the unspoken question of 'how was Ruby still alive.' But no one had an answer to give.

After a few minutes of awkward silence, Taiyang said, "Maybe it's best to just forget about that for now. I'll alert the authorities that there's a new, dangerous Grimm on the loose. I would also alert the Grimm specialists out there that there's a new species running around, but without any evidence they probably wouldn't believe me." He explained.

Ruby visibly slouched. "It must have been pretty strong to beat me and knock me out. I just wish I could remember more." She said sadly.

Yang patted her on the back. "Hey, don't worry about it. It'll all come back to you eventually. And when it does, we can go and find that thing and give it a serious beat down." Yang said and punched her fists together.

Ruby giggled. "Yeah. We'll teach it a lesson."

"Oh no you don't. If it was strong enough to defeat Ruby, it might be strong enough to do more then that. You're not going looking for it and that's final. When it pops up again then professional Huntsmen will be called in to kill it. You two will be staying far away from it." Taiyang said with a look that told them there was no room for argument.

"Awwww." They both whined.

Their father chuckled and pulled them both in for a hug. "Come on. Let's go get Ruby's discharge papers and go home. I've had enough excitement for one day."

He couldn't believe he was doing this. Again. Why did he have to go and find his siblings every time they ran off? These were the thoughts of Garthis as he lumbered through the forest.

Willow had left early in the morning, and hadn't been back since. It was obvious she had left the continent. As for his other siblings, they had left as well. But not through Willow's portals. No. Since she was gone, Krell and Brawl had asked their older cousin, Wyvern, for a portal from his nearby territory. Wyvern was very similar to Willow actually, just more responsible. Yet Wyvern still made portals for his siblings when they asked. Gallien had figured it out and tasked him with going to find his siblings, so Garthis had gone and asked Wyvern for a portal to his siblings so he could go and get them. Wyvern opened up a portal to where Brawl went first, since Krell was probably back in the human city again and there was no way Garthis was going there. And then there was the fact that he had no idea where Willow was.

He found it odd that his mother had been so relaxed on the matter recently. Normally she would doll out punishments the moment she found out. But recently, she'd just dismissed anything she heard about their little excursions and then leave for a little while. That was another thing, she had been spending a lot of time in the territories of other Monsters recently. But whenever he or his siblings asked her why, they weren't given a complete answer. Garthis didn't know what to think.

"Why must I always go find them? Why can't they just hunt on the continent?" Garthis grumbled to himself.

He stopped and took a big sniff of the air, hoping to catch Brawls scent. He caught the promising scent of smoke on the air. Since Brawl literally had lava inside him, on occasion he accidentally lit things on fire. So the smoke could have been a sign of his presence.

He changed his course to head for the direction the smoke originated from. After several minutes of travel, he finally arrived. He immediately knew that it wasn't Brawl. He knew that because Brawl didn't go around attacking human settlements and setting them on fire.

Garthis sighed, annoyed that it wasn't a part of Brawls trail like he'd hoped. He would have to keep looking.

But as he turned his back to the burning town and prepared to leave, a thought crossed his mind. He currently owed Krell a kill for a favor he did from a while back, which was something that annoyed Garthis to no end. He didn't like sharing his kills. But, Krell did love collecting the humans worthless technology at every chance he got. So if Garthis copied Willow's example and got him something from the damaged human town, Krell would probably forget about the favor if he was brought something.

His orange eyes turned to face the flames deep in the forest. He didn't like the thought of entering a place that was home to humans. But for the sake of settling his debt, and hopefully a little distraction, he would do it.

With a loud sound that was a combination of a sigh and a growl, he walked to the human settlement.

He arrived to find the place in pieces. Buildings were shattered and damaged, bodies littered the streets, and the stench of death and fear choked the air to the point that he could smell nothing else. Screaming and loud cracks filled the air almost constantly.

Then of course, there were the Grimm. Beowolves and Ursa crawled through the streets, while some small Nevermores circled in the sky above.

As he paced through the town, the Grimm filling the streets gave him a wide berth and bowed their heads submissively. They recognized a true predator and threat when they saw one, and we're not going to risk angering him.

Monsters and Grimm were not friends. There was no doubt about that. However, they did rightfully respect each other. The Grimm respected the Monsters incredible strength, power and intelligence, and accepted them as the apex predators. Meanwhile the Monsters respected the Grimm's immense population, their diverse number of forms, as well as the strength of any Elder Grimm that they happened to come across. They respected each other enough to stay out of one another's way, and sometimes to even work together so long as their goals were similar and it benefited them both. But that didn't mean there wasn't conflict between the two species. Occasionally there were sometimes territory or food disputes that resulted in a fight.

More often then not though, the most common outcome was the victory of the Monster. Simply because their strength outmatched most single powerful Grimm, or packs of young Grimm. Very rarely was there a Grimm or pack of Grimm that could outclassed a Monster. Even pups were dangerous on their own.

He wasn't really sure what to look for. He'd never actually been in a human controlled area before. He'd always taken every precaution to avoid all contact with the species, except for the odd occasion when he found one of a few alone in the woods. If that were the case, then he'd happily kill and consume them. Food was food after all.

Since he figured it would be the only time he'd ever actually be in a human town, he took in the surroundings a bit. Most the the homes, while on fire or damaged in some way, he was able to see were made up of either wood or stone. They looked really quite fragile, but at the same time held the appearance of considerable age to them. Trees and bushes were spread around the walkway here and there, helping the town to avoid a completely artificial look.

His height didn't quite reach that of the taller buildings, but he towered over the shorter ones. He knew that, if he wished, he could destroy the whole town and the humans probably couldn't do anything about it. Even the buildings made of stone would crumble beneath his strength.

For a brief moment, he actually considered going through with his plan. It would probably be fun actually, getting to use his strength to knock down things other then trees. He was really tempted. But he reluctantly threw the idea away when he realized there were probably some humans still around, and would spot him if he did. It was unlikely any humans still alive would survive the Grimm, but it was better to be safe then sorry.

Garthis grabbed the headless body of a human nearby. The Beowolf that had been feasting on it wasn't happy with that decision and growled at him. But a small turn of his head and a deadly glare immediately made the Grimm turn defensive as its ears folded back and whimpered fearfully.

Garthis only snorted before tearing off one of the bodies arms and began to chew. He honestly wasn't the biggest fan of humans when it came to eating them. They were always so bony and skinny, and rarely had any real meat on them, and whatever meat they did have didn't usually taste the best. But at the same time he enjoyed the crunch of hard bone between his teeth. The marrow that was inside bones was good for him as well, according to Krell at least.

He grabbed the body between his teeth again and ripped the upper body off, shivering in delight as the still warm blood rushed down his throat. Tasty meat or not, it was a sensation he always enjoyed.

He continued down the street and jumped over a bloody stream of water as he came into an open courtyard. He noticed the common Beowolves and Ursa loitering around, likely looking for more humans. But he was surprised to see a Taijitu slithering along the ground as well. His eyes briefly met the soulless red ones of the snake. He thought he saw a glimmer of surprise in its eyes, but with Grimm it was always hard to tell.

The large snake hissed at him, and he growled right back in return. But neither one made a move against each other. Neither liked each other, but there was no reason to fight.

The snake broke eye contact first and slithered through the rubble of a collapsed building, and soon out of sight.

But as Garthis' sight moved away from the snake, he saw something peculiar. It was some sort of object, made up of metal. He swallowed the last little piece of his snack and moved in to inspect the odd looking device.

It was made up almost entirely of metal and had four squishy circles, two in the front and two in the back. He moved his head closer and took a sniff, only to recoil at the disgusting stench. It reeked of feces and another scent he couldn't identify, but it had a sharp and strong smell to it.

He looked closer to its front. It had a large, silver device that looked like it was made up of several dozen different parts. He couldn't help but be intrigued by its purpose. And Garthis knew if he was curious about it, Krell would be to.

He reached one of his large four fingered claws forward and gripped the odd chunk of metal, while grabbing the rest of the object with his other. With barely an effort, he ripped the two apart with a loud sound of rearing metal. Some parts of the metal chunk fell off, but that didn't really matter to him. All that did matter was that enough of it stayed intact and he could give it to Krell.

But as he inspected his new possession, he heard a loud roar overhead. He looked up, and was concerned as three large metal birds flew over his head. They soared past without slowing down, and their roar quieted slightly as they got further away.

He raised his head higher and took a deep sniff, before growling. It reeked of the same sharp and strong scent as the housing for his new item. That meant more humans.

Garthis chuffed. He had Krell's new little gadget. He was done here. There remained no further reason for him to remain there. He turned his back to the direction the flying human creations had gone and began walking.

His weight crushed the stone that made up the walkway beneath his feet, creating large footprints as he walked. The stone had obviously been weakened by age, but he didn't give it much thought. So when he walked through the rubble of a partially destroyed building, he did so without a care. But as the floor collapsed beneath him, he quickly began to care, momentarily thinking that it was some sort of human trap. But he quickly realized that he had only walked over a hidden basement that couldn't hold his immense weight. Garthis growled in annoyance and picked himself up. He was simply glad non of his siblings were there to see it.

After he crawled out of the hole on his four limbs, he unintentionally came face to face with two members of a species he despised more then anything.

Humans.

A/N: And that's that. I originally intended for this to be longer, but oh well.

Please review and tell me what you think, and as always, I'll see you next time.