Chapter 7:

Beacon Academy 1 day before Ruby's injury

Headmaster Ozpin was seated at his desk. He had just received a report from all five groups. The newly discovered information was on the super Grims, and the possibility of a new artifact.

The first two reports had come in from team GILZ and team MOVE. These two teams had, to his knowledge joined a sizable group of Faunus scouts. They had been tasked with hunting down super Grims and killing them, all the while leeching off as much information about the new monsters as possible. The next two reports came in from team JNPR and team MACE. These two teams had also joined up with a group of Faunus scouts.

The second group had been tasked with the same assignment. Both teams had found super Grims, and gained useful information. The first group, with teams GILZ and MOVE, had discovered and logged information about a super Grim they called Macropussimia, the name meaning Kangaroo Ape. The second group consisted of teams JNPR and MACE. The two groups had essentially the same report, further solidifying the accuracy of the necessary information.

The Faunus scouts worked hard, despite being plagued with discrimination against their race. They did, Ozpin had to admit, make some of the best scouts in the world. Their keener senses let them track down targets a lot easier and more efficiently, and their senses also let them avoid danger safely.

The last report had come in from team RWBY. The main focus of the assignment was them; if they failed humanity may very well suffer the wrath of the darkness plague. 'And we certainly wouldn't want that to happen.' The headmaster thought to himself. If team RWBY failed two things would immediately happen. The first was that everyone's hope of escaping the darkness plague would be greatly diminished. The second thing would cause a general mourning, and also for certain people at Beacon Academy to have it feel like their hearts had been violently ripe out of their chests. The thing Ozpin was thinking about came in team RWBY's report. Their leader wasn't dead yet, but she was close. Ruby Rose, one of the more promising students to have ever attended Beacon, was their leader. The letter was as follows:

Dear Headmaster Ozpin,

We, the members of team RWBY regret to inform you that our leader has been seriously impaired. She still can function physically. Her mental state has been our concern for the last couple days. Her reaction times are much, much slower than they used to be. We've seen that her temper now has a tendency to flare up more often than not. She is still suffering from the effects of shock trauma. Long story short we happened upon a super Grim that looked like a Black panther. In fact it was a Black Panther, only the monster version of the animal. Surrounding it was a group of regular type Grims. These only served to protect or provide back up for the Black Panther, as we soon found out from fighting them. Ruby took on the super Grim, and we took on the substantial group of regular monsters.

The results were different on both sides. While both Ruby and the rest of us both had great success, Ruby's success came with a price. The first and very much lesser of the damages was the disintegrating of the enchanted suit of power she wore. Did you know about this? We weren't informed of any such thing. The second, and the most horrible incident we have ever witnessed, Ruby Rose our dear leader was injured. The trauma was caused from fighting the super Grim. However we did manage to revive her spirit by pumping our combined auras into her. So far besides the setbacks she has been getting better. Ruby has promise us she will feel, think, and be in much better shape tomorrow.

We aren't requesting help. We merely wanted to give our first report. On to the subject of super Grims, the one we faced as we said earlier in the report, was patterned after a Black Panther. It was as Ruby told us, once she recovered enough to talk, very fast and very strong. The only way she was able to kill it was with her scythe, Crescent Rose. However even then it wasn't without a price.

We are coming up to the cliffs overlooking much of forever fall. We should be able to find the Grim Sphere artifact we were informed about. We will never give up, short of dying in battle. Even then we will make an impact on these monsters, taking as many as we can down before we ourselves fall.

Ruby wishes the rest of your day to be good.

Big thanks from team RWBY.

Ozpin didn't know where the power suit had come from, although he did know Ruby had it in her possession before sending her out on this assignment. This letter did have a plus side, the headmaster admitted to himself. It had provided him with more useful information about super Grims. It also had informed him of team RWBY's progress. This would give hope to the other teams and groups of scouts. Thinking some more, Ozpin decided to leave the part of Ruby being injured out of the report he would send. No need to spread unnecessary misery and cause a panic. Especially if it would be solved by tomorrow.

Deep within forever fall

"Another one of the super Grims has been eliminated." Roman Torchwick informed Cinder Fall, "I thought you said their race of monsters would last?"

"You idiot. I told you that I didn't create them. How should I know how many are left?" Cinder replied clearly frustrated with Roman. "Its that pesky Headmaster Ozpin's fault that the super Grims are being targeted by teams. These teams have apparently been informed of the creatures' weakness, their hearts."

"Ha, Ozpin? That bumbling fool, the Darkness Plague will be the end of him." Roman fantasized.

"Good things come to those who wait, more specifically, good things will come to us if we wait." Cinder answered. "Do you remember the rest of the deal?"

"Yes, defend this place while you work with that artifact. I remember." Roman sighed working with Cinder and dealing with her abilities could be a pain sometimes. However he was confident in his abilities as well.

Surrounding them was very, very ancient ruins. Roman, finally getting to use the Grim Sphere, had summoned two-dozen of the same Creature. A very horrifying creature called a super Grim.

The entire group of super Grims were identical. They stood over 9 feet tall, they had the build of a weight lifter, they resembled humans in appearance, the only thing that they didn't have going for them was their clothing. Completely naked, even if they didn't exactly resemble humans they were too close to looking like them to not be awkward. So Roman had dressed them in simple rags, farmer cloths as far as he was concerned. The color of the cloths all bled from light tan and brown to black. Their cloths were still on their bodies, they were now just dyed a black color.

'Soon.' Roman thought, 'Soon the White Fang will strike at the center of Beacon. This will eliminate a great source of the problem plaguing the Faunus race. With the Grim Sphere, the Faunus will finally get the respect they deserve.' Roman didn't say this out loud, for fear of Cinder discovering his true planes. His plans of killing her were the real reason he decided to get close to her. After all the closer you are to someone the more efficiently you can kill him or her.

"Roman, the deal is not done. I can see this endeavor failing. Thanks of course to that meddling Ruby Rose along with her team. You may now have control over the Grim Sphere. If you can defeat them and destroy Beacon Academy with the Darkness Plague, you will have restored what little faith I had in you to complete your side of the deal." Cinder said, walking to a parked flying vehicle. She took off after entering it, flying out and beyond Forever Fall and away from Beacon.

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Thank you for reading Chapter 7. Fell free to leave your hones reviews, telling me what I should/shouldn't change about the story. I'm not sure how long this series will be. I'll still keep writing it. Hope you have a good day.