Hello everyone! Welcome back to my little interlude between seasons 3 and 4. We will pick up right from where Act I left off so you might want a refresher of the ending if you just came back from last week. Everyone good? OK! Remember to leave a review it really helps me out, yada yada, all that other clichéd stuff. Now without further ado, please remain in your seats. I am your host Gadreel, and it's time for the show to continue. Let us begin...

Act II: Fear

Pyrrha woke up in a cold sweat. Was that actually real? If it was then what now? They can't understand her and she didn't even know what they could do with that information.

Oh yeah, some Grimm woman played chess with me in my dream. Oh, and I am special for some reason so I'm not evil. Also I am your dead friend. That wouldn't make me sound completely insane. She thought to herself. Pyrrha looked around and saw that the only one left at the camp was Ruby, who was currently cuddling with her sniper. Well at least I know they didn't leave me behind. She thought as she sat next to Ruby. She noticed that Ruby was mumbling in her sleep.

"No... Not... It's... My fault... please..." Pyrrha leaned in closer. "...Sorry... YANG!" She jolted awake.

Wait what happened to Yang? Was she killed too? What happened while I was still dead? Ruby looked at Pyrrha, who had just realized that she was about a centimeter away from her face.

"Hello, *yawn* I guess Nora didn't want to leave me alone." She said rubbing her eyes. "Well you decided not to run away so you must like being around us." Ruby began to pet her.

This is crazy, Pyrrha thought, I need to find a way to communicate with them. As she was thinking that Nora came walking down the path.

"Hey guys, great you finally woke up! Common, we found a river where we can fish! Haha, Jaune is really bad at it!" Nora exclaimed grabbing Ruby and Pyrrha and dragging the former down the path. They reached a lake where Jaune and Ren had set up a campfire and three makeshift fishing rods which were resting in the river.

"We have been sitting here for two hours and we haven't caught one fish." Jaun commented to Ren.

"Shh, you'll scare them away." Ren said while lazing on the ground next to him.

"Hey guys how is the fishing going!" Nora yelled.

"And there they go." Ren said barely opening his eyes.

Suddenly, Pyrrha became very hungry. She jumped out of Nora's arms into the freezing lake and somehow caught a fish and ate it whole. How did I do that? She thought to herself. That fish was like half my size, there isn't enough room in me to fit a fish that big. Also, shouldn't I be freezing to death? Pyrrha realized that she was neck deep in freezing cold water yet she wasn't cold.

"Maybe we should have her do our fishing for us, she seems to be pretty good at it." Ren said sitting up.

"But now the fish have defiantly been scared away." Jaune commented.

Nora lifted Pyrrha out of the water and set her next to the fire. The group fished for another hour and set off along their way once they had eaten. Somewhere along the path Nora had decided that the best way to transport Pyrrha was to have her ride on her head.

Wow *yawn* Nora's hair is surprisingly soft... Pyrrha fell asleep. She once again woke up in the strange world human again. Salem was sitting in a chair in front of her.

"Well that was a lot faster than expected. How have you been. Your friends must be doing fine." She said sipping what looked like tea out of a cup.

"Wait, what, I was only awake for like four hours, and what do you mean 'how have I been?' Horrible, I am still a Grimm and why do you even care. Also how did you know about my friends?" Salem summoned a chair and motioned Pyrrha to sit down.

"Well I really don't know how much time we have so I will answer fast. How do you think you get energy? I care about all of my 'children,' especially you, because for the first time in a while I don't know what is going on. And finally, a combination of the first two." Pyrrha became slightly annoyed and the world began to fade again.

"Hold on you just asked me another question ..."

Pyrrha woke up in Nora's lap at another campfire with some kind of curry cooking over it. Ren and Jaune were nowhere to be seen and Ruby and Nora seemed to be mid conversation. "It really isn't your fault, you weren't even there. She's just angry, give her some time and I'm sure everything will be fine." Nora said stirring the contents of the pot.

"Yeah but she lost an arm and I wasn't there to help her. I wouldn't feel so bad but I wasn't able to save Pyrrha either and I was at that one." Ruby said lying on her back.

"Yang is a strong girl, she won't let losing an arm keep her down, and Pyrrha shouldn't have went in there alone, you did all you could when you got there. I mean you froze a dragon, how many other people can say that." Nora said leaning back on a tree.

Ok well at least I know Yang isn't dead, she just lost an arm. That's still not good, but better. Pyrrha thought walking over to Ruby and sitting next to her.

"Haha, she really likes you Ruby." Nora said removing the pot from the fire.

"Yeah, so what are you going to call her?" Ruby asked, petting Pyrrha. Pyrrha's ears perked up.

Oh yeah, I probably should have seen this coming. It's not like I can tell them who I am. Or can I? Pyrrha began to sloppily write in the snow, and suddenly stopped. Why can't I move. She thought, desperately trying to move her paw. She then heard a familiar voice in her head.

"Sorry about this dear, but I can't have you ruining our game. Also, this is very hard to do so if you try a stunt like this again, I will send an army after your friends. Am I clear?"

Pyrrha loosened up a bit. Go to hell. Pyrrha responded.

"I will take that as a yes. Have fun." Pyrrha got her ability to move back and fell into the snow.

I hate that woman.

The voice came back. "Love you dear!"

Get out of my head! Salem went silent again.

"Umm. Nora I think there might be something wrong with your pet." Jaune said from behind Pyrrha. She realized that she was growling at the sky.

"It's fine, she probably just saw a bird." Nora said lifting Pyrrha up.

"Now it is dinner time with Nora's Special Inferno Curry." She proclaimed from atop the log she had been using as a seat. The other three members all gave nervous laughter. "Oh common you wimps. Look even snowflake will eat it." Nora said putting a spoonful of it into Pyrrha's mouth.

"Wait Nora..." Jaune tried to interject.

"You're going to kill that thing." Ren said worried.

"Mmph..." Ruby would have said something to try to deter her friend but she had already eaten some of the curry and was now contemplating jumping head first in that river from earlier.

Wait when did she say she was gonna start calling me that? Pyrrha thought, now realizing that she didn't taste anything.

"See guys, she is fine. Now, eat up." Nora said, handing each of the guys a plate.

"Well if snowflake can eat it, how bad could it be... right?" Ren said as he and Jaune began to eat, failing to realize that Ruby had now completely submerged her head in the snow.

After nearly an hour of Ren, Ruby, and Jaune wondering how Nora could have perfectly captured the feeling of if the entirety of hell was condensed down into a spoonful of curry, they finally decided that it was time to get ready for bead. While they were doing that, Nora and Pyrrha had finished the curry. After all of her friends had fallen asleep Pyrrha desperately tried to stay awake to avoid another confrontation with Salem. However, she eventually became extremely tired and passed out.

She woke up in the same world with Salem sitting on her chair and motioning to another one sitting across from her. "Hello dear, must have been an active night. You are about an hour later than last." Pyrrha sat down and scoffed at her.

"So how long have you been able to mess with my head?"

Salem giggled, "always dear but because of your resistance it takes a lot out of me. I can't just get energy back like you do. I mean look, there is no one here but us." Pyrrha became confused.

"Wait, what do you mean when you keep saying I can get energy back? This is the second time you have brought this up and I still don't get it."

Salem giggled again. "Oh common, you are the famous huntress regaled on the cover of cereal boxes everywhere surely you can figure it out."

Pyrrha looked at her un-amused. "Ok darling, think about all the times you have gotten hungry in the past days."

Pyrrha thought for a bit. "Right after I woke up when I found my friends, when I woke up this morning, when Ren and Jaune were fishing, and at dinner tonight. I don't get the connection." It was now Salem who was confused.

"Ok dear, those moments sound really random and I am not going to even try to make sense of them. But because I don't want to be here all night, the answer is negativity. Like any other Grimm your body 'feeds' off the negative emotions of others. That sensation isn't hunger, you're body is just telling you to get more of that negativity. Unfortunately for you dear, your body isn't scary, it's cute. So instead of feeding off the fear you instill in people who see you, you need to work with the constantly changing emotions of your friends. This means that if your friends aren't constantly in a state of melancholy you will run out of energy really fast. This also isn't helped but the fact that you are really tiny and can't hold much negative energy."

Pyrrha tried to wrap her head around this new information. "But wait, what about Grimms that stay away from humans?" She asked.

"They either rely on the fear of the other animals around them or occasionally attack a human civilization once in a while. Common honey, it's not rocket science." She said flicking Pyrrha's head.

"Okay, one more question, why are you telling me all this?" Pyrrha asked.

Salem grinned, "because the person I usually have conversations with has up and disappeared, so you are the only one left to have an intelligent conversation with. Also dear, you are entertaining. I have never seen anything like you before and I want you on my side. I figure if you join me like you are now, with your free will and everything, you could be a very valuable asset. Finally dear, you can't really talk to other people so yeah, not really a major concern." The world began to fade again. "Well it looks like one of your friends is up or having a nightmare, either way, until next time dear." The world faded away and Pyrrha woke up.