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Grimoire watched as team RWBY left Chains Gate having learned enough to protect themselves as best they can against any vampires that would seek to attack them. He sensed Ashfords presence as the Cat Faunus returned to his side. "The Atlesians will be here by weeks end sir, the Vacuans and Minstrelians will take longer i'm afraid." Grimoire nodded, "It will do, how many do they bring?" Ashfords response was quick, "Atlas brings 50 of their Strike troops along with 20 wanderers, Vacuo and Minstrel have gathered roughly 100 Regular troops and over 70 wanderers." Grimoire nodded in approval. "And we have all 500 of our full time soldiers and 1500 militia ready to be raised with our one warship, what of the Wild Barons? Have they responded?"

Ashford nodded, "They have sent a combined 90 Veteran Soldiers and 50 Wanderers, They have also dispatched a heavy bullhead." Grimoire smiled, "Have them land it in one of our warehouses." Ashford nodded flipping out his scroll to send the instructions to the Baron's pilots.

"Grimoire, Lady Althea Macht is coming with her Huntmaster, she stated multiple times that she misses you very much, which leads me to ask what your relationship with her is." Grimoire smiled at hearing that Althea had called. "Well you can't a young man turned vampire to not have relationships no?" Ashford stared at Grimoire for a moment. "You mean to tell me that you have a girlfriend and you haven't told me?" Grimoire smiled. "Surprise?" Ashford stared at Grimoire before running towards the edge of the platform they stood on launching himself at one of the hanging chains, grabbing it, flipping back towards the platform, raising his hand up at the same time as Grimoires and giving him what they would later call 'the sickest high five in Chains Gate' which everyone would try to beat including any Huntsmen/Huntresses who would visit and any trainee hunters.

The two then after finishing on talking about the subject turned matters towards current military movements within Vale itself. "The number of White Fang fighters in Vale is currently 5000 and slowly rising with reinforcements from outside of the Kingdom, We have yet to find whoever was in charge of Torchwick and we know Brutus has roughly 100 White Fang Vampires with him if estimates are correct." Grimoire scowled, "If we attack now then we will be risking breaking teh edict, we will have to wait for them to strike first..."

"Which means," Grimoire nodded "Yes, the tournament, they will likely strike then, Get a group of our best troops, tell them to prepare for possible combat during the tournament."Ashford nodded striding off towards the barracks. "Also call a meeting of my council! I want to be as prepared as possible."

Meanwhile in a dorm room at Beacon. "I said you didn't kill her!" Cinder growled at the scroll and the man with short straight blonde hair on the other side. "I put Nightengale into her system!, If she survived that means that a vampire of Chains Gate found her before it could kill her, Which in turn means that Lord Grimoire and Ozpin are in contact with one another, probably." Cinder clenched her fist thinking rapidly, "How could they have stopped the poison then?" Brutus looked nervous now. "They made her a Vampire, it's the only way someone can survive nightingale." Several moments passed before Cinder sighed, "Let's just hope they do not discover our presence here for it would lead to our plans failure if they find us." She turned off her scroll ending the call as well before looking around her empty dorm as she had sent Mercury and Emerald to scout the young huntress. "Brutus you better hope that immortality is good because we are risking a lot for it." With that she went back to work with organising her scheme against the kingdoms this time taking into account the new threat to her plans which was nearby.

An Atlesian airship flew through the sky of Remnant speeding towards Vale at its best speed to avoid the aerial Grimm. This ship was one member of a small transport fleet headed to Vale for the Vytal festival where some if not all of the ship's living cargo will be going to celebrate. On one of the observation decks a Short Woman stood in a Three piece Black suit with a White crown sewn onto the back. "Lady Althea we are nearing Vale shall we notify Lord Grimoire?" The woman turned her Hazel eyes scanning her huntmaster before she nodded her shoulder length Brown hair bouncing slightly with the motion. "Thank you Jagd, tell him that we are arriving ahead of schedule also try to get into contact with the local Barons, I haven't heard from those kids since I left to manage Atlas's Vampiric population." The Huntmaster bowed to his Lady, leaving to her ponderings as he left to send the communication. "I wonder what those two thick headed fools are up to?" The Lady of Stones Grove wondered as her thoughts went to the Lords in Vacuo and Minstrel.

She remembered them both, The lord in Vacuo, Dao, a kind hearted if childish faunus, the Badger faunus had originally been a thief in one of Vacuo's many desert towns before joining Thorn and Grimoires company on their path to vengeance, mainly so he could become a master thief which became easier after he became a vampire with the rest of them.

Her thoughts shifted over to Minstrel and Lord Eidos Thymo, a kindhearted man who had offered them lodging for the night after they had gotten lost in the mass of islands around the main Minstrel continent. He later came to join them during an Atlesian raid on Minstrel which had resulted in forces of both factions burning and pillaging the countryside where Eidos lived. He is the only Lord that Althea knows of that became a Vampire after the first turning. 'Good times…' She thought as she heard the flap of wings approaching she looked up to the small nevermore like bird that flew about the small observation deck.

She lifted her arm to allow the bird of prey to land on it, after which she placed a hood with eye slots for her precious creature to see out of before turning and walking in a similar direction to Jagd had went. "I believe we should be wondering what has got the Lord of Chains Gate so riled up,I mean it's been years since he lost the trail on that possible descendant and i'm pretty sure he's still looking for at least a little bit of closure on the subject of his Brothers descendants."

VOLUME 3 IS TOMORROW HOLY CRAP! Allow me to elaborate, due to this story slowly, [but steadily] gaining views and the like but that's beside the point. I am going to write the shenanigans of this story at a later time [IE after the first episode of V3] But otherwise I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I'll see you next time!

-LostPrimarchs