The next day early in the morning, grim had called team RWBY together into his room.
"Now you all may be wondering why I called you in here yes. All of the girls nodded in response and groaned from loss of sleep which made grim laugh as he smiled and turned around.
"Well good, so the reason why I called you all in here today is to address the threat that therist poses to all of us. All of team RWBY's members eyes widened at this and grim raised a hand to keep them silent.
" now I know some of you may be shocked that therist is targeting you but, let's face facts girls you're a well-oiled war machine, and therist sees you all as a threat so, my solution is simple, all of you train against me in a fight. Ruby quickly protested this as she zoomed up to grim and hugged him.
"No you just got out of the hospital I will not have you injured for our sake. Grim chuckled at ruby's concern and hugged her back before setting her on the ground.
" ruby I know you care for me very much, but to be honest your one of the four things I have left that I love, and I care about you the most, if you want to fight therist then you need to learn how a shadow user fights. While ruby blushed at his words yang giggled and put an arm around ruby.
" To be honest ruby he's right, but is up to you sis you are team leader after all. Ruby nodded at her sisters words before turning to her other teammates and speaking.
"Alright then what do you girls think about this training idea. Weiss thought on if for a moment before nodding at grim, while she spoke.
"Grims words have merit ruby, we have all seen how he fights, and that's not to mention the fact that therist is currently stronger then grim, we wouldn't stand a chance so as dangerous and stupid as it is, I vote for grim. Blake, ruby, and yang all looked at Weiss in surprise causing her to become annoyed.
"What are you all staring at me for! Blake smirked at Weiss' expression and giggled before she spoke.
"Well normally your one hundred percent against someone else's ideas. Weiss rolled her eyes at this and threw her arms up in disbelief.
"Oh yeah that's because most of our plans are stupid and dangerous. Grim grinned at Weiss' statement and decided to add in onto the conversation.
"But they work don't they? Weiss opened her mouth to argue, but found herself unable to as the room burst into laughter.
"Alright yes they work now can we just please vote on this stupid issue. After hearing Weiss' statement, the group began to stop laughing and slowly quieted down to the point where Blake could speak.
"both grim and ruby have a point, grim you have a chance of over working yourself and getting hurt in the fight, but we do need training in how to fight someone like you, my semblance aside, yang wouldn't stand a chance by herself, the others however, would have a slight chance by themselves Ruby's speed and Weiss' glyphs could keep both of them alive in a fight with therist but not for long so I vote for the training. Ruby sighed at this outcome but nodded as she turned to grim.
"Well looks like we're all in agreement here grim. Grim nodded and smiled before clapping his hands together.
"Great first let's get some breakfast and then we can go ask ozpin where were going to train at. The girls all nodded in agreement and grim smiled as he shadow traveled all of them down to the dining hall. When the group arrived, they quickly found that they beat everyone else to the food, and ended up in front of the teachers.
" such are the perks of being early girls eat up cause once your done, your training begins, and we won't be stopping until lunch time. Ozpin perked up at this from behind them and walked up to grim to stand next to him in line.
" did somebody say something about training. Grim smirked as he turned to look at ozpin and nodded his head in response.
" oh come now you know nearly everything that happens In this school ozpin you must know I was talking about training them to fight therist. Ozpin smiled at grims words and shook his head before putting a hand on grims shoulder.
" well I didn't before but I do now, that sounds like a wonderful idea, what do you need to do this. Grim thought about this for a moment and smiled as he thought something up.
" just a couple hours in the emerald forest is all then we should be able to come back but if not ill contact you on my scroll. Ozpin nodded at this and rubbed his chin thought before smiling and agreeing.
" those terms sound acceptable very well grim I give you permission to train team RWBY, just make sure you take a standard survival kit with you, even with your powers and ability to transport others, you might just find your self in a situation where you have to stay the night. Grim nodded at ozpins words and smiled at him before putting some pancakes on his plate.
" that sounds reasonable very well then its settled have a good morning headmaster. Grim then headed over to team RWBY's table and began to eat with them as he thought up a training plan. Half an hour later, and the group was geared up and all ready to go.
" alright girls grab onto me and we will begin our training session soon enough. Nodding at grims instructions, each girl grabbed onto him along with a different bag of survival gear each before grim shadow traveled them into the emerald forest, along where the artifacts were found. Seeing where they were all the girls looked in surprise at grim who quickly spoke up after seeing their looks.
" calm down girls yes I know where we are but, this is all part of the exercise if you cant fight Grimm and shadows at the same time then your going to fall in battle, this isn't simply stopping the bad guys anymore this is war, now then to start you all off, each of you is going to pick a number one through four the one who geusses the number im thinking gets to fight me first, the others must put on these weights and run laps around the area until my match is done. The girls all gawked at grims training plan but after seeing him glare at all of them, quickly stayed quiet until he spoke up again.
" alright I have a number who wants to make a guess, if you fight now, your training will be exhausting so pick your number wisely girls. not wanting to be the one too fight first, yang quickly said a number first.
" one i pick one. grim grinned at this as he gestured for yang to come stand by him. yang at this point thought she was safe from fighting grim, of course that was until grim spoke up.
" well that settles that way to go yang you guessed the number. yang sweat dropped at grims words and began to panic.
" huh- ah what but- i want a redo?! grim and the other girls smiled at yang's behavior as grim brought out four arm and leg bands.
" now that thats settled, these weights weigh about ninety pounds each, after tomorrows matchs we will train again and increase that out put by ten is this understood? the rest of the girls all nodded at grim and he nodded as he slid his mask on.
" alright then for your starting exercises do thirty sit ups pull ups, and push ups, then run around this area for fifty laps, until my fight with yang is done then one of you gets to switch places, by the end of this, i guarantee you will be stronger then you were one month ago. as the girls nodded at this information and went to follow instructions, grim turned to yang and got into a stance as he crafted a shadow sword.
" now yang to simulate the experience of fighting therist i have made a copy of his weapon and will be using it along with my shadow powers for the duration of this fight, are you ready? yang stared at grim for a second, but snapped out of her trance as she got into a fighting pose.
" bring it on. grim grinned hearing these words and faded into the shadows as he spoke.
" oh i was hoping you would say that, keep up your guard. yang tensed up at grims words but as she looked around her, she never thought to look back down at her own shadow and this would come back to haunt her as grim rose up behind her and grabbed her by the hair, making her growl at him.
" you son of a Bi-. before yang could finish her insult, grim threw her over his back and into a couple of trees, destroying them.
" i told you not to let your guard down yang now come at me with everything you have. yang in response exploded with anger at having her hair pulled and quickly fired her gauntlets behind her so that she would rocket towards grim.
" argh ill kill you for touching my hair like that! grim grinned at the approaching girl and raised his shadow sword to block her attack at the last second, making him skid back as yang crashed into him. extremely pissed off, and not willing to show mercy, yang began to attack again and again against grims sword, but to no avail as he was able to predict every attack she was going to make. eventually grim got bored of dodging her attacks and shadow traveled behind her before kicking her hard in the back sending her hard into the dirt.
" your anger makes you powerful but you have no control that makes you sloppy yang. yang growled at grims words from the dirt, and fired her gauntlets into the ground and back flipped behind grim so that she could attack him from behind but, to no avail as grim spun around and caught her first.
" that was better but i can still catch you. grim then reared back his sword arm and slammed the sword into yang's stomach, sending her flying into some more trees.
" you know this isn't really challenging for me perhaps i should end this now. as grim said these words, a rapid fire volley of dusts blasts came at him from the forest causing him to be forced to dodge them as they exploded behind him.
" yes yes much better now then get ready i'm coming for you, please try to impress me. grim then ran into the jungle towards the shots of dust, determined to make yang work hard for a win. however as grim ran through the forest the shots suddenly stopped making him suspicious.
" come on yang don't give up now, you'll only make this boot camp harder on your self you know that right? in response to grims question, a tree came flying towards him from behind and he barley got away as it slammed into his side.
" agh, hmph that was a dirty trick but, a good move, i'm impressed that you finally did some damage to me, but can you keep it up yang? in response, more trees came flying towards grim which made him grin as used his shadows to form tentacles and slash them into saw dust.
" that little trick wont work on me any more now then lets get you back into the open. grim then concentrated his powers and wrapped a shadow around yang's leg as he found her with his powers.
" heh gotcha. yang's eyes widened in surprise then as her leg was pulled out from under her, causing her to be dragged away back to grim, who grabbed her by the hair as he picked her up.
" i bet this pisses you off doesn't it. yang growled in response and grabbed towards grims face as he held her up.
" i'm going to kill you, you son of a bitch! grim chuckled at this as he threw his arm back while he spoke.
" now now, no cursing your trainer yang, respect your betters! grim then threw yang hard back towards the artifact site, sending her smack dab into the marble columns making grim cringe.
" ooh that looked like it hurt a lot sorry yang! yang groaned loudly in response to grims yell and struggled to stand up as he shadow traveled over to her.
" i already told you you would be hard pressed to hurt some one like me yang be happy you did what damage you did. yang shot up at these words and landed a great sucker punch into grims face, causing his mask to fly off as his head bent to the side.
" you- landed a good hit that hurt me a lot so have a prize. grim then reared his hand back and slammed his hand into yang's neck knocking her out.
" you should have stayed down when i told you, as a trainer i have to spare you, if your facing therist and you have to retreat you should, he will kill you if he has the chance. his first fight done, grim grabbed his mask and put it on, as he slipped an aura pill into yang's mouth and healed her with his aura before he woke her up.
" ugh my neck hurts what happened did we fight? grim nodded and chuckled as he handed yang her weights.
" well yeah we did your rage broke, and you tried to kill me because i touched your hair so i knocked you out after you punched me in the face. yang paled at these words as she backed up from grim.
" oh geez i'm sorry are you alright. grim chuckled at her expression and held up a hand to calm her down.
" yang, yang calm down i'm fine were done fighting, you however get to pick who goes next. yang grinned at these words as she thought up a plan to exhaust grim.
" i get to pick huh, alright then i'm going to choose the ice princess. grim chuckled at weiss' nickname and nodded.
" very well then go switch places with her then. yang nodded at grims words and slowly made her way over to the others who were just about to restart the cycle of their exercises, while grim watched.
" hmm she did better then i thought she would, but this is a one on one scenario not a team one, they should work well together against therist. after ggrim spoke another voice could be heard behind him from the shadows.
" i would have to agree with you grim but i would have to ask you to not kick my daughters ass that much. grim chuckled at the voices words and turned around to see raven and nocturne in the tree.
" ah father, raven enjoying the show? raven shrugged as she looked down at grim and spoke while nocturne ate popcorn.
" well we didn't have anything to do today without alerting therist that were onto his lackeys, and we were bored so when nocturne told me you were going to train both summers, and my own child for combat against therist, i wanted to come see you work. grim nodded at this and grabbed some popcorn with his shadows before eating the snack he grabbed.
" fair enough, as long as you don't interfere they submitted to my training and so, i am going to put them through what Andrew put me through. raven nodded and crossed her legs to get comfortable as nocturne spoke.
" you'll train them right son, i have faith in your abilities, even if i wasn't the one who helped you with them. grim chuckled at his fathers words and took off his mask to smirk at his father.
" you don't have to be jealous of Mr. nevermore dad, he was my adoptive father but you didn't leave me for anything vain, you left me to protect me, had you stayed therist might have regenerated years ago. nocturne sighed as he crumpled up his popcorn bag and sat back against the tree while he answered grim.
" am i that see through? god Ozpin was right i need to talk to my friends more. grim chuckled at his fathers words and slid his mask on as he saw weiss coming.
" well as heart warming as this was, i have a trainee coming so i'll have to go now bye dad love you. grim then shadow traveled over to weiss in an instant surprising her and making her yelp.
" hey why did you do that! grim smirked at weiss' expression and and tilted his head.
" really thats how you act when i come out of no where come now weiss, you cant get surprised by an ambush you must be ready for everything. weiss bristled at grims words and fell to one knee from the exhaustion of the weights.
" ah i'm so sore! grim smiled sympathetically at weiss and put his hand on his fore head and weiss'.
" ill take care of it weiss just hold still now. grim then began to charge his aura into his hand and began to heal weiss' wounds.
" there we are all better. weiss grimaced as she stood up and then smiled as she felt normal again, if not a little off balance.
" thanks grim i feel much better now. grim smiled at her words but shook his head as he spoke.
" don't thank me yet weiss, the fight hasn't started yet and i can guarantee this is going to hurt. weiss grimaced at grims words and got into a fighting stance.
" very well then shall we begin. grim nodded as he let his aura course through his body and the air making a faint white glow cover him.
" we begin now oh and brace your self. weiss opened her mouth to ask what he meant by that but, before she could grim tossed her into the forest before fading into the shadows.
" lets play a game. grim then shadow traveled over to where weiss landed and circled around her from the shadows.
" when therist attacks he loves to fight them face to face but he also likes to strike from the shadows, you need to be prepared to counter anything he launches at you. as grim finished this sentence, he launched a dozen shadow tentacles at weiss. seeing some of them coming, weiss quickly spun around and erected a wall of ice around her self guarding her from the attack. grim rubbed his chin at her move and grinned as he thought of how to counter it.
" very clever weiss but using ice to sheild yourself wont protect you forever. grim then sent his shadows under the ice and shattered it from the inside only to reveal a hole in the ground. seeing this, grim quickly ran over to the hole and looked down into it.
" how in the hell did she do this? where in the hell did she go. as grim tried to figure out what weiss did, he was suddenly knocked off his feet as weiss came out of the hole and uppercut-ed him. grim flew up five feet in the air from this attack but quickly caught himself with shadow wings before he could go to far.
" hmph impressive, but you know this only is equivalent to a fancy game of battle tag right? weiss stayed silent at grims words and kept her sword raised and ready. grim circled weiss from the air for a moment, and thought on a new plan.
" hmm therist can fly as well what can you do if you can't hit your enemy. grim then began to throw disks of shadows at weiss as she ran towards him and activated her glyphs as she began to jump up towards grims position. seeing weiss getting closer, grim drew his sword and flew towards weiss to meet her in battle, the two then clashed as grim landed on weiss' glyph and began to sword fight with her. weiss found that with her new found strength, she could barely hold her own against grims sword as their weapons clashed again and again. seeing that grim was winning their little stalemate weiss began to make others glyphs and jumped around them to attack grim. however much like on the train with scar, grims strength and cunning would allow him to come out on top as he grabbed weiss' leg after their swords clashed again for the twentieth time.
" last stop ground floor. grim then jerked his arm down and threw weiss to the ground hard almost knocking her out. as weiss struggled to stand grim slowly floated down to her and walked over to her.
" everyone gets a different lesson weiss, now you have yours fighting isnt just about the moves you pick, or the technique you use, you also need the strength to back up what you do, that is my lesson to you learn from it cherish it and you shall prosper. grim then gave weiss an aura pill and healed her again before sending her to get blake.
" there you are now back to your exercises, and tell blake shes next. weiss nodded and left while grim sat down to meditate. a few minutes after grim began to meditate he sensed a shadow coming towards him.
" blake before we fight sit down with me and relax. blake looked a bit unsure of grims intentions but sat down anyway as grim then spoke again.
" so you spoke to adam? blakes expression quickly turned to a happy one as she smiled.
" yes we talked for a little bit and he told me what you told him. grim nodded at blakes words and smiled before he stood up.
" well thats good to hear did he say anything else. blake nodded once more and her smiled seemed to get bigger as she spoke.
" he said he would support humanity from now on and earn the respect that we crave. grim nodded at these words and smiled as he put a hand on blakes head and healed anything wrong with her before their fight.
" yes i expected as much when i talked to him last, he was very adamant about changing his ways, now then shall we begin. blake nodded and grim grinned as he then summoned his shadow sword to his hands.
" then let the game of cat and mouse begin. right after grim finished his sentence, he swung his sword towards blakes legs. blake however heard his attack coming and jumped over his strike before, kicking grim in the face knocking him into a tree. blake then followed this up by pulling out gambol shroud, and began firing it at grim sending him through the tree. as blake reloaded she also, transformed Gambol shroud into its katana state before charging to where she saw grim land. however, when she got there all she found was grims cape.
" always keep a keen eye on your opponent blake. blake jolted up, and turned around after hearings voice but could not find a trace of him.
" whats the matter blake cat got your tongue. blake growled at the cat joke and scanned the forest around her, this however left her open as grim came out of her shadow and punched her hard in the back sending her to the dirt. as blake was in the dirt, grim tried to bring his sword down to stab her, but she rolled out of the way, causing grims sword to be buried in the ground. blake smirked at the sword in the ground and pointed her own weapon at grim.
" looks like i win. grim began to chuckle at her words and snapped his fingers causing a new shadow sword to be made.
" ah ah ah, this game of cat and mouse is not over yet, for example think fast! grim then faked a strike towards her causing her to step back to avoid it, only to trip on a root and fall on her butt. grim laughed as he walked towards blake and picked her up with shadows.
" your powers of stealth and shade wont save you here you may be able to blend into the shadows but, i control them so what can you do to escape . blake struggled for a moment, and then thinking quickly sent an ice decoy of her self at grim to freeze his body. this move then turned out to work as blake was freed and grim was in a block of ice. this didn't last long however, as grim soon broke out of the ice and shot shadow tentacles at blake. try as she might, blake couldn't keep all of the tentacles away from her, and eventually they began to hit or trip her. blake quickly got tired of being attacked and launched a fire decoy to take out the shadow tentacles, causing a plume of smoke to rise. grim rubbed his chin at blakes move and thought about it before blake came out of the smoke with her sword ready to pierce his throat. grim however merely caught the sword in a shadow covered hand and swung blake around until he tossed her back into the clearing. after blake landed grim walked up to her and held a hand out for her to help her up.
" do you give up? blake shook her head no and grit her teeth as she struggled to stand.
" n-never i won't give up. grim opened his mouth to protest but before he could, blakes fist found its way into his gut before he was sent into a fire decoy . blake then followed up these to attacks by kicking grim into a lightning decoy causing him extra burn damage. finally, blake decided to end the fight and once again froze grim with a decoy. grim was not done yet however as he broke out once again and stood over blake.
" hmm this fight got me down to fifty percent good job blake, you already know your flaws and are working on them so after i heal you up go get ruby for me ok. blake nodded and sighed in releif as she felt her wounds heal.
" that was a good fight indeed grim thank you for the talk as well. grim nodded in reply and sat back down to meditate as blake left. the next thing grim knew was that ruby was next to him looking almost fine.
" reporting for duty master grim. grim chuckled at rubys enthusiasm and patted her on the head.
" ah yes i see you are, i saved the best for last after all. ruby blushed at his comment and looked away to hide her face as she spoke.
" so what are we going to do. grim smiled as ruby said those words and whistled for the others to come over as well before speaking.
" as you all know ruby here already has experience with people like me thanks to the grimmirror and therist so be that as it may, I have a test for the whole team to take will you accept. all of team RWBY shared a look before nodding making grim clap his hands in joy.
" excellent , now then the details, i will be going deep into the forest, about where i was taken to the first time i was kidnapped by that godzilla, but you have to engage and try to beat me in a fight mission success earns you one wish that if i can fulfill it i will, loosing will result in a major increase in your weights to two hundred pounds. all of the girls sweat dropped at the punishment but grinned at the thought of a wish making grim sweat drop before he shadow traveled away. ruby already knowing what she wished for, and eager to get it gestured to the others.
" come on we should move quick. team rwby then ran deeper into the forest after seeing a glances of grims shadow, unknown to the girls however was the fact that grim was leading them right where he wanted the fight to take place. when they finally reached grims location, they found him sitting there meditating. not knowing if this was a trick, the team rushed him and tried an all out attack from all sides, but only collided with each other. as they separated the girls looked in all directions as they formed a circle leaving a perfect portal for grim as he rose up from behind all of them.
" never group up when caught in a trap girls. the girls all gasped at the sound of grims voice but as they turned around, grim too each of them to the ground. he punched all four girls hard in the back sending them sprawling in the dirt before they jumped to their feet and glared at grim as he took his mask and shirt off while he spoke.
" you shouldn't have rushed in here blindly just because of a potential reward, the risks should always out way the reward. rubys eyes narrowed at grims words but she nodded at him as they stared each other down. getting impatient of all the waiting, yang spoke up making her annoyance known.
" can we just fight already and talk about our mistakes later. grim nodded and chuckled as he waved a finger at yang.
" it doesn't matter when i say it, if an enemy is confident he can defeat you he wont waste the effort in coming at you, so all of you attack me give me everything you habe, hit me with your best shot! ruby nodded at these words and quickly turned to yang and the others.
" alright, Dragon rose, and black ice now. unbeknownst to grim, the girls had been making new moves, and this one was one grim didn't expect.
" dragon rose and black ice eh?, interesting names lets see if you can hit me let alone attack me. grim then shot shadows forward at the four girls but, to his surprise yang shielded them all and took the hits head on making grim contemplate why she did it.
" why would she just take my attack like that. as grim pondered this yang activated her semblance and was covered in flames, causing the shadows to be destroyed as yang grabbed a hold of rubys scythe and began to spin ruby around. while this happened weiss and blake weren't idle either, as weiss conjured up an ice sickle the size of an oak tree, and helped blake load it onto the make shift launcher using gambol shroud.
" do you think this is going to work weiss. weiss smirked at blakes uncertain face and laughed.
" who cares if it works, this is far from the other crazy and whatever else dangerous things we've done plus i want my wish so lets do this. blake looked a little disturbed at weiss' happy crazy attitude, but lined up the shot on grim and fired as yang was launching ruby at him. dragon rose was a strange name to pick for an attack, but it was accurate, as the flame that usual covered a pissed off yang, transferred over to a spinning ruby and took the shape off a dragon as she sped towards grim. sensing the power build up both behind and in front of him grim became distressed and tried to use his shadows to stop both attacks, but the red fire surrounding ruby burned away at any shadows he sent, while the ice sickle, seemed to go through his shadows, glowing a faint black. knowing now that he would have to dodge or block, grim turned around, and decided to take rubys hit to his back and slashed the ice sickle in half as he summoned his scythe to carry the deed out.
" impressive team work but even after this hits me i wont be done yet. rubys eyes widened at grims words as she tried to figure out how much aura he had left, but this didn't stop her scythe from landing a solid blow into his back, sending grim through dozens of trees, and finally stopping when he got stuck in a boulder, which of course exploded from the impact.
" son of a bitch that hurt, damn it my auras down to twenty percent i cant use much more of my power. sighing to himself grim slowly picked himself up and dusted himself off before glancing at a stunned team rwby.
" well now looks like im bringing the fight to you. after these words, grim quickly shadow traveled in front of ruby and began to fight her with his scythe as the others watched for but a moment.
" this is our chance girls come back me up and we can win this. wanting to help their leader the rest of team rwby split up and decided to attack from different angles but grim was ready for this as he kicked ruby away, before turning to a charging yang and throwing her into blake, before using his shadows to knock weiss away from his back.
" a good attempt team rwby but all of us are tired now so this last attack better count or you will lose. hearing this, ruby singled the team to form up again as she quickly thought of a plan.
" alright blake, weiss, and i will combine our semblances to not only make three decoys of each of us, but to also allow us to all attack grim at once, sound like a good plan everyone? the rest of the team nodded with the exeption of weiss who looked stunned.
" that could actually work, when did you become so tactical. ruby smirked at weiss and shrugged.
" I've always been this way haven't you noticed. weiss rolled her eyes at rubys words as she set up the glyphs, and then turned around and got into position before she spoke .
" yes well don't get cocky yet we still have a fight to win. ruby nodded as she added her semblance along with blakes, as the team got on top of the glyph.
" on the count of three we unleash the glyph and attack. seeing what they were doing, grim began to charge up his aura as a shadow sphere formed in his hands.
" making solid energy out of my aura and shadows will use up the last of what i have left if they can dodge or counter this they win. seeing what grim was doing ruby knew that the time to attack was now and nodded towards weiss who activated the glyphs around them causing three decoys of them to be created. after this, all four different versions of team Rwby attacked grim at once. sensing this through his shadows, grim sent his shadow ball in a slash starting from behind him, hoping to make a full three sixty take down of all of the rwby teams, but only succeeded in taking down the decoys as the real team rwby all slammed into his back at once, sending him into the ground and knocking him out. with the fight over and grim not awake team rwby began to celebrate unaware of nocturne dropping down behind them to heal grim.
" good job girls we did it, that was so cool! yang chuckled at rubys enthusiasm and hugged her.
" couldn't have done it with out you sis. weiss nodded in agreement with yang and grudgingly smiled at ruby.
" thats the second crazy plan you've came up with thats worked if i wasn't so smart i'd be jealous. blake smirked at weiss' reply and chuckled.
" yes good job in leading today ruby we really couldn't have done this with out you. ruby opened her mouth to speak but was cut of as clapping from behind made them all jump as to their surprise, grim was standing back up perfectly healthy.
" congrats team rwby you have passed my first training exercise you may now ask for your wishes. as team rwby stared at grim in shock he chuckled and put his gear back on.
" whats the matter grimm got your tongue?, in case you didn't know my father was watching me train you, and was impressed at what you did as he healed me. as the team continued to gawk at him, grim walked over to them and wrapped his arms around them.
" come on girls snap out of it wishes time, lets start with you rosey. ruby blushed at her nickname and whined as the others all smiled teasingly at her.
" i well- i want to go on another date with you only i get to set it up. grim thought about this for a moment before nodding and smiling at ruby.
" of course rosey set it up however you want to. with ruby done grim then turned to weiss.
" anything you want in particular snow princess. weiss glared at grim for the nickname but smiled as she said what she wanted.
" i want a date with neptune tomorrow. grim sweat dropped at that and took a second to compose him self before nodding and turning to blake.
" and what about you, do you want a date with sun or to meet up with big brother adam. blake chuckled at grims choice of words and thought for a moment.
" well sun and i did go to the dance together but, i did just recently talk to adam even if it was about therist. grim nodded at this and thought about it for her.
" well romance isn't always permanent family however is forever no matter what mistakes one might make. blake smiled at grims words and nodded in agreement, accepting what grim said.
" your right grim i'd like to have a nice talk with my brother again. grim nodded and winked at blake as he spoke.
" alright then but i wouldn't tell big bro about sun he might get over protective and see red before he charges. yang laughed at grims joke as he turned to her, causing her to have a smirk on her face.
" well looks like its my turn, what i want is simple grim a date with some one you know. grims eyes widened at her words and he frowned as he brought out his scroll.
" well i know one person who would be right for you if i could find him. grim then dialed in the number and waited for it to answer.
" hello this is bleak falls orphanage how may i help you. grims expression darkened hearing the caretakers voice and seeing her made his own dark and menacing.
" yes im calling about a boy in your care he should be sixteen by now and his name is atrial knight? the caretakers gasp could clearly be heard and seen over the scroll and the next time she spoke her tone was full of fear.
" what- what happened has he escaped, the man i sold him to said he would-btzt. the scroll then cut as another line answered the connection, causing a man with grey skin, long red spiky hair, and a death stalker mask tattooed on his face to show up.
" this is atrial speaking who are you and what do you want with me. grim hesitated to speak for a moment hearing his adoptive brothers voice again, and quickly spoke up as his mind came back up to speed.
" atrial its grim?, whats happened that old bitch just said she sold you to a person. a soft gasp of surprise could be heard over the line, and atrials face softened, before all hostility was dropped from atrials voice as he spoke again.
" grim! its good to hear from you, and i regret you had to hear that hag say that, but it is the truth, i was sold to a necromancer. grims eyes widened at this and shadow wings gathered on his back from rage and worry.
" a necromancer!? what are you alright. atrial laughed at grims concern and grinned while he teased him about it.
" aw you do care and here i thought you only found me funny when i bugged people. grim glared at the scroll in response and dispelled his shadows
" damn it man this is no time for puns about your death stalker tail, are you alright. atrial chuckled at grims reaction and nodded before he frowned.
" yes im fine although i my self can use necromancy now, a lady i met on the road of life has freed me from my necromancer slaver, and i work for her now along with some of my team mates. grim smiled at this and sighed as he ran a hand through his hand.
" oh than goodness, you almost gave me a heart attack here. atrial chuckled again, and smiled as he looked grim over.
" ah so your the famous grim reaper i have been hearing about should have known with your name that, that would be you, so why has the hero of vale called me. grim rolled his eyes at atrials teasing and smirked at him.
" well i happen to have a girl with me who wants a date. atrial perked up at this and looked at grim dead serious.
" oh really is she hot. grim groaned at atrials words and face-palmed himself as he handed the scroll to yang.
" see for your self shes right here you dumb-ass. atrial chuckled and rubbed his hands through his hair akwardly as he sweated dropped.
" oh uh hi, sorry about what i asked grim just curious. yang chuckled at atrials reaction, and shook her her head.
" oh no its fine go ahead and judge me, i think you'll find that im yangtasstic. grim and the rest of team rwby groaned at yangs pun, but atrial just laughed.
" ha, thats a good one so whats your name, hot stuff. yang grinned at atrial and put on her sunglasses before speaking.
" i am the great yang xiao long, a pleasure to make your acquaintance atrial. atrial grinned back at yang in agreement.
" a pleasure to meet you as well yang, so about that date, when and where do you want to have it. yang grinned at atrials words and her eyes seemed to light up as she spoke agian.
" does tomorrow at six work for you, as for location, well i have a club we can go to. atrials eye brows rose at the mention of a club, and he smiled and nodded as he spoke again.
" sure, but a club huh, im pretty sure we aren't old enough to go to one of those yet. yang grinned at atrial and shrugged at that.
" eh who cares screw the rules the owners my friend anyways. atrial smiled at yangs choice of words and turned to grim.
" i like this girl grim thanks for the hook up. grim groaned as he shut off his scroll and put it away.
" now that thats done lets get some lunch eh?, where do you all want to eat? all of team rwby looked at each other and grinned before looking at grim.
a half an hour later, and the team had finished their lunch at a simple wok.
" i cant believe how good their food was, with the name they have i thought it would be under par. ruby shook her head and sighed as she leaned on grim.
" well it certainly was good sun and neptune were right. the rest of the team agreed with this and grim smiled as they neared the school.
" alright girls i have a report to drop off with ozpin, and other then that the day is yours remember to keep up training with your weights. most of the girls looked surprised at grims words, as they hadn't felt the strain from them even half as bad as when they were first put on but nodded in agreement as they smiled.
grim then turned to leave, but was stopped as ruby grabbed his arm.
" hey uh, can that date be tonight grim? grim smiled at ruby and nodded as he took off his mask and kissed her on the cheek before putting it back on.
" of course rosey, what should we wear? ruby smiled and winked at grim as she pulled away.
" just normal clothes but you have to let me lead you to where we'ere going. grim seemed surprised at this but nodded as he agreeded with ruby.
" alright then i'll see you later tonight then rosey. grim then shadow traveled to ozpins office, and handed ozpin the documents he compiled on the training exercise.
" they did very well against me as a team though none of them would be able to take on a full powered therist alone should my father and i be killed, they our the last hope and line of defense against therist. ozpin sighed at grims words and looked into his eyes to judge his emotions.
" must you always think so bleak like ironwood. grim chuckled at ozpin and shook his head no.
" no, i have to prepare for anything therist might be planning, and even now i could be wrong so the best thing to do is-. grim and ozpin then spoke at the same time finishing each others sentences.
" to prepare the best defense we can, as the best offense is a good defense. both grim and ozpin nodded at each other and smiled before calming down again.
" you have done well grim, i thank you for your service. grim chuckled hollowly at ozpins words and looked out into the world.
" dont thank me yet, the war hasn't even begun. ozpin stayed silent at this, and grim took that as his cue to leave.
" have a good day headmaster. grim then disappeared into the shadows, leaving ozpin alone with his thoughts. later that night, after changing into his casual wear, grim was riding ranma with ruby to the destination of their date.
" ruby is it really necessary to ride ranma when i could just shadow travel. ruby giggled at grims words and nodded as she held onto him tighter.
" why of course it is, it wouldn't be a surprise if you just shadow traveled there, besides this place is special with me and i want to share it with you. grims eyes softened at this, and he smiled as ruby finally told ranam to land.
" alright then rosey are we here now? ruby shook her head no and giggled again.
" not yet, come on its just on this cliff. grim chuckled as ruby sped ahead of him and jogged after her. however when he reached the top of the cliff, he was surprised to find ruby sitting down in front of a grave. hearing grims footsteps, ruby turned around to greet him.
" hey grim come on, come sit by me i want to introduce you to my mom. grims heart ached at those words and he did as ruby said, watching as she spoke, and began to tear up.
" hey again mom, its been a while since i've been up here, but uh, i came to introduce you to my boyfriend grim, - you probabley already know who he is since you knew nocturne but, yang and grim are looking after me and- im(sniff) - im happy, but i miss you mom, i miss your cookies, and your hugs, and everything about you, i- i just wish i could have spent more time with you. at this point, ruby was crying and grim knew what he had to do as he hugged her.
" ruby, i under stand what your going through, when i lost andrew i thought my life was over, i had never had a family before that, but now i have beacon i have the other teams, and even my real dad ow, but most importantly i have you and thats all that matters too me now okay?, i am here for you ruby and i always will be i promise. ruby stopped crying while she listened to grims speech, and once he was done, she surprised him with a full on kiss. after they got done kissing and seperated for air, both grim and ruby cuddled together as they looked up at the stars.
" wow ruby the stars look amazing from this cliff. ruby smiled at grims words and nodded , staring at the stars before turning to look at him.
" yeah thats why this place is special apart from my mom. grim smiled softly at this as he hugged ruby closer to him.
" well thank you for bringing me here ruby- i -i love you. ruby blushed after hearing grims words but didn't move away as she instead turned to look at his face.
" i - i love you to grim. ruby and grim then stared at each other for a few seconds more before kissing again, finally accepting each others feelings fully. when they did stop kissing, both grim and ruby just decided to stay on the cliff and enjoy the night together much to a spying nocturnes amusement.
" those two are just so cute, hehe if only you were around summer. nocturne then waited until the couple were asleep, and brought ranma over to them to keep them warm before leaving a white rose by the grave.
" i hope you all have sweet dreams, goodnight, grim, goodnight ranma, goodnight ruby, and goodnight- summer. nocturne then left in a swirl of darkness unaware of a cloaked figure watching him.
" soon i shall reveal myself but not yet, - not yet. the figure then disappeared leaving the sleeping trio alone on the cliff.