Interlude: Grimm, kitsune and the Past
AN: Hello all, something a little different, this chapter? Will be talking about the two Grimm that have been introduced as well as the Kitsunes, enjoy.
Beowulf: These Grimm are not to be confused with the Beowolf. Where the Beowolves are more werewolf like in looks the Beowulfs are purely Wolf like in looks and behaviour.
Appearance: This Grimm can stand anywhere from four-feet-tall and six-feet-long to six-foot-tall and eight-feet-long. As with many other Grimm, they have black fur, with bone plating, but not all Beowulves have this bone plating many don't so they can move at higher speeds.
Behaviour/mentality: One of the many this most hunter forget about this Grimm is that It NEVER hunts alone, finding one on their own can mean a few things first it is a trap and second it is a scout for the main pack, if it is a scout kill it quickly because once it spots you it will call its pack. The smallest pack of these Grimm could run into would a pack of six and the largest recorded is a pack of twenty, in each pack there are four types, the Alpha, the Beta, the regulars and the scouts, lastly the rogues as you could tell by the name they are not part of the pack. The most important thing to remember about them is that they are smarter than other Grimm and have a more wolf like behaviour as well as their own pride
The Alphas are the strongest and smartest of the pack, it calls all the shots they stand at the upper size for this species of Grimm, the bone plating of the Alpha cover the back, some parts of the sides and the legs.
The Beta is what you could call the second in command and does what most would suspect, their bone plating covers only the back and legs.
The regulars are what you could call the grunts of the pack, they follow orders and their bone plating is sporadic, and on rare occasions challenge the Alpha or Beta, failure to beat one of them forces the challenger out of the pack becoming rogues, winning forces the previous pack Alpha or Beta out of the pack with them becoming rogues.
The scouts these are the fastest of the normal Beowulves and no Bone plating on them and they do exactly what you would think.
The rogues are Beowulves that were beaten and sent out of the pack.
The Beowulves are fast, numerous, prideful, smart and very dangerous.
Abyss Beowulf: This Grimm is very elusive and hard to track down, they are a variant of the Beowulves.
Appearance: The Abyss Beowulf stands at the smallest seven-feet-tall and ten-feet-long, at the largest the stand no shorter than fifteen-feet-tall and nineteen-feet-long. They have thick bone plating protecting the most vital areas without reducing mobility, all the masks of the Abyss Beowulves that have been seen all have at least two red lines going down from top to bottom and over the eyes the more pair of lines the older it is.
Behaviour/mentality: The Strangest thing you would find about this Grimm is its pride, well they will try to kill you if you are unaware of its presence or if you try and run, but if you spot them they will stop and watch you before issuing a challenge towards you, one of the other oddities of this Grimm is that it will run when it thinks it can't win that is unless the one attacking hasn't insulted its pride, a blow to its pride in losing and living only makes it smarter and stronger, which it seems to accept. This Grimm also hunts along and will only work with other Grimm if there's a lot of negative emotions pulling it towards something.
The Abyss Beowulf is very strong, very fast and very hard to beat, insulting its pride does make it angry and it does make it more predictable.
The Kitsune: they are an almost forgotten race of Faunus mainly because they are practically extinct. The reason behind them being nearly extinct is mainly because the last one to be seen was over two hundred years ago,
Appearance: The Kitsune's most definable feature would be the multiple tails they have and the two ears they have as well, they can have anywhere from two to nine tails. All Kitsunes have at least one golden eye it doesn't matter which eye it is but there will be a golden eye, there have been cases where the gold is mixed with the natural eye colour. They also have a two-tone hair colour, other than those definable features they will look like any other Faunus.
Abilities: The abilities that all Kitsunes have is their golden eyes that let them see the Soul, aura and little of what another person's Semblance is (not enough to tell what it is just some) and on rare occasions, they can tell exactly what their Semblance does. This ability is locked away but can be unlocked how is unknown.
The next ability that Kitsunes have would be the number of Semblances they have; this power is linked to a number of tails they are born with. They will always have at least one Semblance but if they have six tails they will have two Semblances and if they have nine tails they will have three.
The final power they have would be the amount of Aura they have for every tail after the first they have fifty percent more Aura per tail than one would normally have, as everyone is born with different amounts of Aura a Kitsune born with three tails can have the same amount of Aura that is equal to another child born with a normal amount. (in short Kitsune with 100 units of Aura with three tails means if they only had on tail it would be at only 50 units, and a normal child Human or Faunus born with 100 units would be the same)
When comparing the Kitsune to other Faunus in terms of physical ability puts them almost at the top in all areas, this is because if you compare a Kitsune to a Faunus that is naturally fast they would be second to them, they are just below those Faunus that a specialised in one area but better than all other when comparing across the board.
History: Two hundred years or so ago, the Kitsune went extinct for all intensive purposes. The reason behind them going extinct is unknown to almost everyone in the present day, as the story is not a pleasant one.
Two hundred and twenty-three years ago, there lived many Kitsunes they were living peacefully with both the humans and the Faunus, this was before Human started to discriminate the Faunus, there was one Kitsune that was stronger than all others, a Huntress who fought countless battles against the Grimm and every time she battles the Grimm all that was left after the battle was a destroyed land and the woman walking away.
After many battles of this repeating people started to fear the Kitsune whispering 'what will happen if they turn on us' and other such things, because all creatures fear that which is stronger, while many people ignored those paranoid ones there were enough to start a plan that would end the 'treat' as they believe.
Fifteen years pass and the huntress had retired and started a family of three with a fox Faunus and a fox Faunus child with one tail and no golden eye. It was then that those people put their plan into action, reports of Kitsune turning up dead along with their families started to show up, the huntress fearing the worst sent her family somewhere safe.
It took four and a half years of a war between the Kitsune and the Human, Faunas alliance, during those four and a half years the huntress had fought far, far too many battles for any one person should, it was during the first half of the final year that she became the last of the kitsune, it took them the second half of the year of her running and battling before they were able to corner her in what is now the great desert the sits between Vale and Vacuo, by the battle lasted for a full week with neither side giving in and at the end of the final battle she had won but she had expended almost all of her Aura and fall soon after reaching the location of her families, she remains buried there by her family to the present day.
The reason why the huntress was so powerful is because she was born with a naturally large pool of Aura, then add in that she was born with nine tail boosting her Aura limit by five times the normal amount, so she is already very powerful with just that, when people found out her Semblances which were, telekinesis, Detonation and causality. The first is self-explanatory but whenever she used it the objects had a silver glow surround them, her second Semblance Detonation cause explosions at a point of their choosing, the size would depend on how much Aura is put into it and would look similar to an explosion made by a bomb, her final Semblance Causality is what many people who faced her fear with all they had because it rewrote cause and effect, for example, an attack that would kill her turns into an attack that bounces off her armour or using her detention Semblance for a small explosion only for it to turn into a massive explosion, this was the only reason she was able to survive the five years of war and not be kill by the assassins that were constantly after her life.
AN: I hope you liked reading about the two Grimm and the history of the Kitsune, I feel that I did a good job describing how they went extinct, and the reason why the huntress was so powerful, if people want a short description of what she looks like and what her name is I will make a small piece for it. Before I go one final thing I was tempted to give Rai the causality Semblance but chose against it. Well until next time.
