The wandering knight walked for several days and nights without rest, not since that one night where they had met a little girl in black and red. If there was some sort of danger in the areas they had traversed through, they had not encountered it. However, they did run across the bodies of those who were not so lucky as they have been so far. The knight scavenged the bodies, making use of the items the corpses no longer needed.
In combination with their sword, they now sported a heater shield on their arm. The knight also possessed a belt pouch that contained glowing crystals. The silent suit of armor had yet to figure out the purpose of the crystals. They tried planting it in the snow, tossing a few of the jewels at trees, and even stomping on them, but all attempts to figure out what they did came up fruitless. So they left the crystals in the pouch for further investigation later.
With a new inventory and equipment, the knight continued on their neverending trek. But what was going to be another long walk abruptly came to a halt when they found a road. Unlike the snow they had been trudging through, there was not a speck of snow to be found on the dirt road.
The knight picked one direction and walked down its trail. The path eventually led to the sight of a settlement. They had walls surrounding the building with towers at certain points and people walking on the wall armed with weapons. However, the people looked different from the girl in red they had met. Some of them had tails behind them or ears on the top of their head; a few even had fur on their exposed flesh.
The armored suit began their approach towards the gate, which had two guards standing behind its metal bars. When the guards took notice of them approaching, the pair quickly raised up their weapons, but they did not point it at the knight.
"Who goes there? What business do you have here?" One asked, looking up and down at the suited person. They made a sniffing noise before furrowing their brows. "You don't carry the scent of a Faunus, so that means you're human."
"Your kind are scum. Get out of here before we resort to violence like you've done to so many of our brothers and sisters!"
The silent warrior stared as they started to raise up their weapons, but the sound of screaming beyond the gate made the two turn around. The roars and snarls of beasts could be heard in the distance along with flares of colors and gunfire. The knight is vaguely reminded of these noises prior to meeting the red-haired girl.
"The Grimm are attacking again!?"
"Damn, it's too soon! We haven't had time to recover from their last attack!"
Their attention lost on the warrior, the guards quickly ran off to the sounds of fighting and screams of terror. The knight stayed where they were, continuing to watch from the outside of the gate. The noise inside didn't seem to be subsiding at all, but there were less screams than when it started.
"Please! Somebody help me!"
A man in the distance could now be seen coming towards them, holding their side where red substance dripped out of: blood. But the man wasn't alone, running behind him was a creature shrouded in black with the only color on them being their sharp teeth and eyes which were both red. When the man turned around, the creature leaped onto the man and attempted to bite him, but the man evaded the attack and kicked the beast off of him all while crawling back until his back was pressed up on the gate. Realizing the position he was in and the creature already back up on its feet, the man shielded himself as the creature leaped at him once more with the intent on finishing him off and dining on his corpse.
Instead, he heard a yelp. Lowering his arms, he looked up to see a sword inside its skull. Tracing the hand connected to the sword, the man saw an armored knight behind the gate with their arm between the gate's bars. The body of the Grimm dissolved into smoke as the man breathed a sigh of relief. The knight pulled back their arm between the gate's bars, holstering the blade.
"T-thank you, stranger." The man got back up on his feet, clutching his wound. "I never would have expected kindness out of people from outside our walls...much less a human."
The knight remained silent before turning around and walking away.
"Please wait!"
Stopping in their place, the warrior turned around to see the gate pushed open by the injured man.
"You've already done me a kindness, that's more than enough from a human...but can I ask for your help once again?" The man asked, leaning against the wall for support. "I know we're Faunus, but the fact that you saved me proves you're different from other humans. Could you prove me right once again by helping us defeat the Grimm?"
The man waited in silence for an answer, but the knight never answered back. Hope nearly started to sink in the man's eye until the warrior drew their blade once again and walked through the gates. But after passing through the entrance the knight started jogging into the center of town. Along the way, there were several fights between the 'Faunus' and the 'Grimm' with neither side paying attention to them.
It wasn't until they reached the plaza that they came across several dead bodies of 'Faunus' that they found a 'Grimm' that set itself apart from the other monsters. It was larger, with bone-like materials and spikes on its body. Unlike the other creatures the 'Faunus' were fighting, this 'Grimm' had burning yellow eyes. The Grimm was staring down female 'Faunus', whose legs and arms were shaking, barely holding their spear upright.
When the Grimm roared, it terrified the 'Faunus' woman as she was struck by its claws. The knight charged forward as the woman fell, raising their shield up to block the incoming attack. They bashed their shield at its face, stunning it temporarily and sliced upward, pushing it back. The 'Faunus' woman got back up on her feet and moved to stand alongside the knight.
"A-allow me to help you, Human." The woman spoke. "This is the Alpha Beowolf. If we kill the leader of this pack, the other Beowolves will be much weaker without its presence."
The Alpha Beowolf roared as a small pack of lesser Beowolves entered the area.
"I'll keep the normal ones off your back. You take out the leader!"
With that said, the nameless knight and Faunus woman charged forward.