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Ashford stood in the back of the crowd watching his daughter and her teammates fighting their first opponents in the tournament, Team AUBR a good team in his opinion. That didn't help them against team RWBY as he watched as they were beaten by one out and three aura depletions. Ashford turned to walk out of the stands a smile on his face. He checked his scroll looking through the daily reports from Chains Gate, and with all of the incoming Vampires arriving some of the unoccupied floors were being inhabited and run by the newcomers. He frowned as a call came through from the tech department, which he had expanded after gaining permission from a cautious Grimoire who disliked much of the new technology claiming 'Grimcraft! it has to be Grimcraft!' as he cowered in a crevice he had fled to after his computer began to crash. Ashford frowned the small smile growing on his face vanished replaced with a curious eyebrow raising. Then with all speed he walked to the airship dock to get a ride to the festival grounds.
Krieg growled as he sat in the tech department hall. The sound of all the computers running made an infinet hum that soothed most people with the exception of Krieg. What he was reading was only confirming his and his leader's worst 'Black Queen' character that had caused so much damage already was within Beacon and what's worse is another piece of news of vampires numbers growing within the White Fang. Shaking his head he turned his attention to other matters within Chains Gate, Like the weapons foundry! Said weapons foundry was pumping out better weapon pieces for wanderers whose equipment has not been fixed in a while and also restocking ammo as much as possible. He clicked his tongue at the current number of armed and trained troops he had. Numerically the Fang had them three to one, training wise they had better quality troops and equipment. He sighed turning back to his other work with the guards.
Grimoire had dropped off the Vampires from Mantle at the nearest entrance to chains gate and was now wandering around the drop off zone looking for stragglers until he heard a familiar voice shout. "WINTER!" 'Weiss sure seems happy about whoever this Winter chick is.' the vampire thought as he decided to wander on by. As he did so he heard Winter berating her sister for missing three strikes. Grimoire huffed 'bet you can't put your money where your mouth is.' He thought watching the two sisters walk off leaving Ruby to sigh in defeat. Grimoire decided to follow the pair and their guards from afar before being overtaken by an intoxicated man who wore a torn cape and had a sword strapped to the small of his back. The man with a quickness that was normal for a vampire but extraordinary for a huntsmen disabled the two bots by tearing one's head off and severing the others servos. Weiss turned to berate the drunkard but he merely brushed her aside and began speaking to Winter, Grimoire could not here but he felt bad for the man when Winter drew her blade on him and they began their dual.
Grimoire watched with an amused smile growing on his lips as he walked around the circle of spectators. He then noted with great joy that Winter had already missed more times than her sister had. He saw Ruby and Weiss watching the fight and walked up behind them. "You missed three times, She has so far missed six, she should hold her tongue in regards to accuracy from now on." The two surprised Huntresses in training turned to him Weiss looking as though she would respond before they returned their gazes to the fight which had taken a striking turn with the drunkard sheathing his weapon and gesturing for Winter to strike. Grimoire's eyes narrowed 'now what's your game?' He looked for an answer and saw one in an approaching General Ironwood who looked enraged. Just before Winters blade could slit the man's throat Ironwood roared for her to stand down and after a brief explanation that she had struck first Ruby sprinted forward and latched onto the man's arm. "Uncle Qrow!" 'Ah so that's her Uncle eh? Guess I should tell him if there's a meeting soon, or in private.'
He watched as the two partakers in the fight left with Ozpin, Ironwood, and Goodwitch and quickly walked over to an isolated area with shadows after bidding farewell to Ruby and Weiss. He then used his powers to travel from that patch of shadows into the clockwork of Ozpin's tower that hung above his office. He lounged in the rafters as the five mortals below him bickered with one another. "He was drunk!" Winter shouted. "He's always drunk!" Glynda responded. Grimoire rolled his eyes. "And I thought the Schnee's were better than what you showed." He stated loud enough for those under him to notice. Ozpin as usual was first to respond. "Hello Lord Grimoire, might I ask why you're in the clockwork?" Grimoire chuckled while dropping down from the machine his landing causing the floor to shake slightly. "I am here to introduce myself to general Ironwood seeing as his forces have possibly ruined any chance of my troops and I finding and dealing with the traitor from Chains Gate." Grimoire looked at the three new faces stopping at Winter and frowning deeply. "Your sister speaks highly of you, so far my first impression does not meet the standard that I expected." Winter looked as though she was going to respond but Ironwood cut her off. "And what is your forces called, and what is this Chains Gate?"
Grimoire chuckled. "Boy I am far beyond Human, that is what I once was but now a days people like you would call me a Vampyre. Now before you call your troops I want to make it clear that My fellows and I's goal in this world is to protect the kingdom's from starting another war. Something that has become rather hard since your fleet showed up and hampered the arrival of the other Lords, except for the Lady of Atlas she got here with only a little bit of trouble."
Winter looked as though she was going to launch into starting another fight, if she hadn't been interrupted by General Ironwood. "Schnee we will discuss this on the ship." She tried to respond but he cut her off giving her no option. She left after sending a glare towards Qrow and the doors of the Elevator closing. "Can we trust him and his 'friends'?" Qrow stated looking back to the table then at Grimoire. Ozpin responded "Without Grimoire we would be down one of our best first year Team leaders and possibly more." Qrow and Ironwood looked to Grimoire then Ozpin. "Who was it then?"
"Ruby Rose." Qrow's eyes widened staring at the Vampyre whose eyes had turned from their steely grey to blood red in seconds. "I will explain it to you after this but to put it simply without Grimoires intervention Miss Rose would have been buried by now." Qrow nodded shooting a glare at Grimoire and then returning to his exclamation. "The Black Queen is here, They are the one that broke into the CTT tower as well as instigating the Breach and putting Autumn in her condition." Grimoire listened to Qrow and Ironwood go back and forward until Ironwood stated that the people of Vale would feel safe with a fleet above their heads. Qrow gave a low laugh but immediately stopped when he heard Grimoire cackling. "For one they probably wouldn't fear your ships in the first place but now that they have Vampyres even though they are weaker versions they will definitely not fear you, They will be overjoyed that you brought so many meatbags to be sucked dry and thrown aside for them to feast on." Qrow shook his head. "I saw no Vampyres or Vampyre esque creatures out there but she has made and they are fear."
"And fear will bring the Grimm." stated Ozpin with Grimoire shouting 'food!' both as excitedly and quietly as he could to the surprise of Qrow and Ironwood. "A guardian is a symbol of comfort and an Army of Conflict. There is now a question at the back of everyone's minds, 'if this is what we have for defences then what are we expecting to fight?'" Ironwood looked around the room and with a sigh grabbed his scroll from Ozpin's desk a Black queen flashing on it which Grimoire saw. "Than what do you expect we do?"
"I suggest we find our Guardian." Ironwood nodded and left to go talk to Winter but just before he entered the elevator someone tapped his shoulder, it was Grimoire. "I would ask you to teach Winter how to be humbled by peoples who are not her superiors, for it may be possible that she will meet a stronger foe and not know when to lower her banner." Ironwood thought on that for a moment before turning to face Grimoire and Bowing much to his and the other occupants of the rooms surprise. General Ironwood entered the elevator and went to find Winter and talk to her regarding her fight with Qrow.
"Now then, Ruby." Grimoire stated. "What happened?" Qrow asked the worry and furry in his eyes burned with a need to find and end the damn bastard who dared to harm his niece. "Brutus, he was one of my investigators who was trying to find out the Fangs Plans, instead he was turned to their side, likely by the Black Queen herself. His first mission as we have deduced was to make an example of Ruby likely to break morale of our forces. She was poisoned with an old poison called nightingale which causes uncontrollable bleeding, aura fluctuations and organ failure." Qrow's eyebrow rose slightly "Then how did she survive?" Grimoire looked him in the eye. "Don't be mad, but when Ozpin and I stumbled across her she was already in an early stage of the poison so the only way to keep her alive without suffering was to well… make her a Vampyre." The room was silent for a minute with Qrow's eyes twitching slightly before he closed them and sighed. "Did you tell her father yet?" Ozpin and Grimoire cringed and Glynda smacked her face. "He's going to kill you both." The two moaned. "We know…" Qrow chuckled while shaking his head as Grimoire got a determined look in his eye. "I have a question for you Qrow." Qrow looked at Grimoire and noticing his aura fluctuating Glynda and Ozpin left the room to leave the conversation between the two. "About what?" Qrow asked his laid back expression slowly leaving. "It's a question about the last lead that I got on my Older brother, the former king of my peoples descendants, It's a question on my last lead which was a name. The name was Summer and from what I know she was your teammate and Ruby's mother."
Lets drop that cliffhanger right there so that I can have some fun with that later. Like always Review your opinion on this story and how it's been so far. Have a great rest of your weekends.
- LostPrimarches
P.S. I was thinking on some new story Ideas should I pursue them or no?
