They still weren't sure about this…about any of this. A talking Grimm, coming up to the border, and then sitting down, waiting for them to speak with it. Not anyone in particular, just someone to listen to a deal it wanted known. A Grimm offering to free the faunus of the chains that had bound this whole world, if they did it a single favor? That was a deal that sounded like it came from heaven…or hell she supposed.
Sienna Khan was not sure if she cared one way or the other, as she, Adam, and almost a hundred of Menagerie's…of the White Fang's best walked along the ruined streets of Vale. Everywhere she saw the destruction, the horror, and the death that the Grimm could bring. A reminder of why she was here, she told herself. To prevent this from ever happening to her own Kingdom, whatever it might cost the humans.
Jaune had told them, Cinder had a way with the Grimm. Adam had confirmed, she'd seemed to be able to communicate with them. And there were those people leading the armies of them in Mistral and Vauco. Sure, they died, but they'd died to Huntsmen or Huntresses, not to the Grimm. That didn't mean she was stupid though, and she, along with her guards and the Grimm Ward's own stalked the streets, keeping an eye out.
For all that, the Grimm never came close to them. Just like the woman's voice coming from the Beowolf had promised. If they get her what she wanted, they'd be free of the Grimm, for the lifetime of the Ward, her children, and her grandchildren. That deal was too good to pass up, especially if the Ward's abilities didn't breed true, so they were here, with Null, with the illusion girl, and with enough firepower to vaporize a megoliath if it dared to show itself.
They had landed close to where they'd been told, and soon entered a cavern, eyes up, weapons hot, and everyone at a hair trigger, as they slowly made their way into the rear of the space, where water was falling down in small sheets, sparkling with some kind of bioluminescence, creating an effect a more poetic soul might call…beautiful, but which she thought was distracting.
Just as the woman had said, at the end of the path, on an outcropping over the underground lake, there stood a set of pillars. They looked…barely there, like natural things, or perhaps made things that had sat with no one to attend them for centuries. But they were there, and so Amber, as the group pulled away from her, approached, her brother at her side, never leaving it, as the pair closed their eyes.
A swirl of color came from their orbs as they opened them, but it was barely noticed as the space between the two pillars suddenly began to crack and flow, like something was trying to tear itself from between them, making the group bring up their weapons, Adam using Wilt and Blush to blast a brick that suddenly came clattering out, as Null and the Ward retreated a few steps, more coming from inside.
It didn't take long for something other than bricks to fall, and the moment it did, the Ward let go of her power, and Null charged forward, grabbing it, and then hoisting it up. As it had been described, it was a beautiful crown, fit to sit on the head of the ruler of the world. He handed it to Amber, who looked at it fondly, running her fingers over it, and then nodding, before slipping it into a pack at her side.
This was her ticket to freedom, to not having to be the Ward anymore, and she would hold onto it, for now. Sienna watched her smile at that, and couldn't resist a scoff. To think it would be so easy, all that prep, and they just walked out with it. On the ride back to Menagerie, where they'd be turning it over to this 'Queen of the Grimm', Sienna had time to wonder if this was the right thing, but…what choice did they have, in a world that they shared with only Atlas and the Grimm?