Rwby is owned by Roosterteeth and The late Monty Oum
I will be specifying dates in tandem to 'the war' in flashback chapters
Vale harbor district
Two weeks after the meeting at Chains Gate
Teams RWBY and JNPR moved swiftly through the city of Vale's downtown district. "Do we all remember the plan?" Jaune looked to the rest of the group as they moved towards the small warehouse that was a marked White Fang facility. Ruby nodded, "Weiss and I hit from the east, Yang and Blake North, Ren and Nora to the south, you and Pyrrha from the West." Jaune nodded.
The group rounded a corner and spotted the warehouse easily. "Alright pair up and move out." The pairs spread out activating the small earphones hooked around their ears. When Weiss and Ruby got into position they noticed something strange. "Jaune hold on there's someone standing by the Eastern door." The figure continued to the door and knock until without warning the door flew off its hinges and into the air. "The unknown just tore the door off its hinges!"
"Move in!, careful for the unknown!" Ruby and Weiss moved into the warehouse but got no further than the door. "Oh dear dust..." The rest of the group entered through their doors and saw floating body parts, organs and bloated corpses floating around the room,blood seemed to float in the air as well as corpses, several of which appeared to be melting into nothingness or just simply disappearing. The figure turned to face whiterose. "I was wondering when I would meet a Vampire of Vale." He turned while holding a large crate. "I apologize for stealing your mission but these men had something that I 'left' here during my last visit."
The others moved forward. "I advise you be careful with where you step." Thin wires seemed to float around the room only being seen due to the blood dripping off them. "I see a young one among you." Ruby launched into the air in surprise, the stranger stood in front of Weiss and Ruby. The rest of the group soon surrounded the stranger.
"Who are you, What are you doing here?" The stranger turned to a queasy Jaune. "Ah an Arc, strange to see one of you here, no matter what I am doing here is gathering information and artifacts of the White Fang, they seem to have vampiric artifacts as well so if you will please lead me to Chains Gate."
"We should check for information and survivors first." Blake stated Ruby and Jaune nodded. As the group spread out the stranger spoke. "My name is Wolfram by the way, and you Probably shouldn't search for survivors." The group, primarily Blake glared at him.
Several minutes passed by as the group searched for any info on the White Fang's force positioning. "Theres nothing here, only the soldiers and supplies but no actual papers or scrolls…" Ruby trailed off as she observed Wolfram as he walked among the corpses, straightening them out and lining them up.
The group gathered in the center of the room. "What should we do with him?" Pyrrha looked to the rest of the group the question hung in the air for a few seconds. "Well for starters you could have called us about a wandering Vampire." The group and Wolfram froze upon hearing the voice of [a slightly peeved] Ashford Belladonna.
"Uh sorry sir!, We just had to check for survivors and info of the Fangs movements." Ashford nodded before turning to Wolfram who smiled at him. "Ah, the Arch Baron of Chains Gate!, I was wondering when I would meet you." Ashford nodded, "The pleasure is mine Mr…"
"Weber, Wolfram Weber, At your service." Ashford nodded before gesturing for him to follow he turned to the hunters in training. "Team RWBY go to Chains Gate later tonight, Grimoire wants to ask you some questions, and before you ask I have no clue what he wants, he did tell me to notify you that you should probably bring your weapons." With that eerie warning Ashford and Wolfram vanished into a cloud of ash.
Ozpin's office
"So you're going to go down tonight?, I'll have Glynda keep the door unlocked for you." Team RWBY stood in Ozpin's office for the debriefing on the mission. "Now about this new Vampire, I have not gotten the chance to search or ask about other groups that move around so if possible learn about him and others like him." The four girls nodded before making their way out of the office and back to their dorm room.
"I don't trust him." Ruby turned to Blake as they walked. "I don't trust him either but it seems that your dad and Grimoire do, at least slightly." Blake nodded as they entered their dorm room. Blake jumped up to Yang's bed almost immediately to avoid Zwei whom was now running around the room a mile a minute. Weiss [being Wiess] sat in a chair and began petting Zwei as Ruby and Yang sat down.
Ruby picked up a large tome outlining the history of the vampiric race since before the war to now. Yang jumped up to sit next to her as Ruby turned to the first page. "Hey Rubes this guy looks a bit like uncle Qrow, who is he again?" Ruby thought for a minute. "King Thorn of the Rosewood, the first vampire of the second generation." Blake sat on the other side of Ruby and began reading the page. "Born 30 years prior to the war, black and red hair, one foot shorter than Grimoire, wielded a double ended war scythe, was an officer of the guard in the independant town of Rosewood, later became the vampyric king and fought all four kingdoms, destroying hundreds of towns and villages and killing thousands, prior to the birth of his mortal child and in the process allying the Vampires to the kingdoms and defeating the Grimm in the final battle, died at the hands of... Alexander Arc, first knight of Dorme in the final attempt to kill the 'Arch Grimm'." The group continued reading through the tome until night fell.
Chains Gate
The four girls of team Rwby procceded down the steps until they entered Chains Gate where they were greeted by the guard who allowed them access. As the four walked into the cavern they saw that some things had changed. Primarily their was a larger quantity of armed guards near the gate. One of said guards approached them. "Team Rwby?, Baron Krieg would like to see you all regarding Grimoire." He gestured for them to keep going as a group of seven Chains Gate soldiers armoured in plates and chain mail of steel, passed them two of them carrying a stretcher with another of their number on it. He was torn up, his throat had been opened ear to ear, one of his eyes was gone replaced with a puddle of blood and bits of his now gone eye.
The unsettling part is he was smiling at a joke one of his carriers told him and his body shook spilling blood onto the floor and stretcher as they passed.
One soldier stopped in front of them briefly bowing. "Good evening ladies, apologies, Flavius here tends to get cut up whenever we go hunting. Also Lord Grimoire requires your presence in the war room." With that he briskly walked off with the other soldiers.
"What was that about?" Ruby shrugged as she then realized a vital detail. "Guys I have no idea where the war room is." This was met with Weiss sighing. "I dont think that will be the problem." Blake stated. Across the cavern, wearing a pink polo and jeans was Krieg, looking directly at them. Krieg waved for them to come over to where he was.
Chains Gate [Ashford POV]
"Soooo Ruby and Weiss?" Ashford sighed as his leader and friend listed off the pairings that the vampires [the truly insane ones mind you] had put together. He looked over to Grimoire, "They both seem to be the two most oblivious people on the planet if they haven't figured it out yet." Grimoire nodded. "Not as oblivious as Arc is to Nikos. It seems that your daughter has found a bit of a crush in the dragon." Grimoire smirked as He sighed.
Changing Topics Ashford looked to his leader and asked a question that had been in his head awhile. "Does she look like him?" Grimoire's face immediately fell into one of a pondering sort before sighing. "She looks like his descendant alright, The height may be different but, the hair, the eyes, the way she talks to people! The only difference between them is gender." Ashford looked at Grimoire. "Are you going to tell her then?" Grimoire shook his head. "Not yet I need to teach them how to fight us first."
They both turned and walked back into the catacombs of the ancient fortress. "And how do you plan to do that?" Grimoire smiled. "Simple" He stated "I'll train them myself like how my brother taught me, with a guiding hand and an Iron fist."
22 Years prior to 'the war'
Minor Independant town of Rosewood [Location, between Vale and Vacuo]
A Young twelve year old Grimoire ran through the streets of Rosewood, his black hair reaching his lower back. He should have been working in his father's blacksmith shop with his father but today was special. Today was the day Grimoires brother Thorn would be promoted to a Sergeant in the garrison. He gripped the long cloth wrapped gift closer as he ran, others were moving to the armory as well to see their kin who served in the garrison be promoted.
Grimoire entered the thick crowd that had gathered around the small bastion that served as Rosewoods central militia headquarters. Squirming his way to the front Grimoire saw the three young men who were to be promoted to leaders of their respective groups.
"Farlan Evergrove!, You are prompted to the rank of captain of the north gate!" The militia commander smiled as he watched his nephew don his green officer's cloak. "Taranda Irested!, You are promoted to the position of captain of the south marches!" The young woman with eyes of amber and a pair of fox ears on her head donned her yellow cloak. "Thorn Rose!, You are prompted to captain of the central guard!" Grimoire looked to his older brother whose dark red hair was tied onto a ponytail behind his head pull the Red cloak onto his shoulders. "People of Rosewood, these are your guardians!" The three sergeants snapped their chainmail covered boots together. "Dismissed!"
The three figures moved into the crowd with Thorn towering over the others he marched right into his significantly smaller sibling. "Hello little forger, what're you doing here might I ask?" The young man leaned over and easily picked up his smaller sibling who was squirming in his arms. "Thorn!" The small figure tried to get out going as far as to reach out with several shadowy limbs to try and dislodge himself.
When the older sibling finally released his brother he noticed the large package in his younger siblings arms which dwarfed his younger brother by a foot in length. "Now what do we have here eh?" He reached for the package before his younger brother scampered off shouting for his brother to follow. Thorn smiled and easily kept up with his smaller sibling.
[Third person]
[Training grounds]
The large field in the center of town served two purposes, feeding the cattle and drilling the troops. "Now then little forger whats this gift you've made?" Grimoire smiled reaching under the cloth he pulled out a long staff and holding it horizontally. "Ready for my latest gift and invention?" Thorn raised a curious eyebrow as his brother flipped a small switch on the staff allowing two scythe blades to spring from either end of the staff. "May I present to you 'Fallen moon'!" Grimoire handed the weapon to his brother who swung it several times before executing a complicated series of strikes onto the nearest dummy which was hewed into quarters in seconds.
"Grimoire..." The tone in his older brothers voice worried him at first. "Yes Thorn?" Grimoire was thrown into the air with his brother hugging him and laughing. "This is the greatest thing I've seen you make, I mean how did you achieve this?" Grimoire smiled. "Elbow grease and fire." The motto of their father's blacksmith shop made the elder of the two laugh at his brothers attempted jape.
"So, you've begun forging your own little weapon now?" Thorn smiled as his younger brother nodded. "A quad hander sword I aim to call it Ragnarock." Thorn whistles 'not so little then' he thinks. "Isn't it going to be a little well... BIG for you?"
Grimoire shook his head. "I aim to make it on guess work on how tall I'll be when I join the Garrison." Thorn nodded. "I see, well we should head home it is getting dark after all." The two brothers walked away from the training yard oblivious of a cloaked courier who passed them on the street. The symbol on the cloak was that of the kingdom of Atlas the very kingdom Rosewood had broken away from.
Hey guys! Im sorry with how late this is! I will resolve to try and get more chapters out before the month is out! [and to fix my computer] so as always favorite and follow!
P.S. I am still looking for people to throw in vampire OCs
