Chapter 24) Mission Start!
A/N: See, I can stick to a regular upload schedule if I try! It just takes a few late nights and a whole lot of caffeinated beverages.
Ruby stared at the board's glowing blue display and scanned high and low for the best possible option.
There were plenty of requests for aid up north, a good number of requests listed as inner-city, and a fair few requests whose mission parameters lay far beyond the borders of Vale…
But not very much in the southeast.
In fact, it didn't seem like there was much of anything at all going on in the southeast regions, which was more than a little bizarre given what they already knew. Either the White Fang were really good at keeping a low profile when they needed to, or…
Ruby wasn't sure she liked the alternative.
"Over here!"
Tearing her gaze away from the listings that she had been browsing, Ruby slid over to Blake's side. She was pointing at one particular mission near the top of the display.
'SURVEY REQUEST: Vale Council requires the aid of a Huntsman team to investigate Mountain Glenn and report on the population and behaviour of Grimm in the area to determine what action, if any, is to be taken ahead of the Vytal Festival. HIGH PRIORITY. Mission Rank-2, fee negotiable.
"This one," Blake said firmly. "If there's any part of the southeast where the Fang could be hiding, it's here."
"Makes sense," mused Weiss, sidling up beside the two of them to read the mission advert herself. "If Grimm numbers are higher than normal, it's probably because something is drawing them there."
"Or someone," Ruby added under her breath.
A hand reached out over Ruby's head and tapped a finger against the holoscreen.
"Then let's go for it," said Yang.
An error noise sounded out, and a window appeared on the screen.
MISSION LOCKED. LICENCED HUNTSMEN ONLY.
All four girls let out simultaneous groans of frustration.
"Come on!" Yang huffed. "It's a survey mission! They give those to unlicenced people all the time!"
"It did say Rank-2," interjected Weiss, sounding quite annoyed herself. "Even if that seems excessive."
Blake just lowered her head into her hands and exhaled loudly. "How many times are we going to be tripping up at the first hurdle?"
Ruby continued to stare up at the display. She too was exasperated. This whole saga had been nothing but failures, let-downs and disappointments. Now that they had something concrete to latch onto, they were once again stymied in their efforts.
"M-maybe we could s-sneak onto a transport going to M-Mountain Glenn?" she murmured under her breath sarcastically.
"Well, that certainly is one option."
Ruby squeaked in surprise and spun around. Professor Ozpin was looking down at her with his oft-present smirk, one eyebrow raised.
"I see you four have your eyes on the survey request the council posted," he said airily.
"Well, it doesn't matter," Yang huffed. "It's blocked."
Professor Ozpin inclined his head slightly. "Yes. Unfortunately, given the deteriorating nature of the environment around the Glenn in recent years, most missions to that region are rated higher than they used to be. The Grimm populations have only grown larger as more time has passed."
Ruby felt her teammates sag in disappointment beside her.
"W-well… I guess w-we'd better l-look for something else," she said without energy.
Professor Ozpin hummed. "Perhaps you should. Then again, I have a sneaking suspicion that the four of you will nonetheless attempt to make your way to that region regardless."
Ruby could only fidget with the hem of her cloak awkwardly as Professor Ozpin continued to smirk at her and her team.
"So how about this," he continued. "Instead of waiting for you all to break the rules again and give poor Glynda even more of a headache, why don't we bend them a little instead?"
Ruby's eyes widened. "Huh?"
Professor Ozpin withdrew his Scroll from his pocket and tapped at the screen. A few moments later, a sound rang out from the holoscreen behind her, prompting Ruby to spin around again.
MISSION ASSIGNED: TEAM RWBY. REFER TO MISSION BRIEFING FOR FURTHER DETAILS.
Ruby stared in open-mouthed shock as she took in what she was seeing. She seemed to be doing that a lot these past few days.
"Professor…" said Blake slowly. "Thank-you."
"Do not thank me for this." Professor Ozpin no longer sounded jovial. His tone and his words were serious and sharp as he addressed them all. "You have all grown and learnt a great deal these past few months, but the things that await you beyond the borders of Vale will not care. Out there, you will not be able to rely on any hope of a timely rescue. If you are not vigilant, you will die."
The Huntsman-turned-Headmaster slowly scanned his eyes across the four of them, and Ruby couldn't help but gulp as she listened to his blunt warning.
"Stay close to your handler at all times. They will be leading you on this mission, and you are to treat their word as the law for the duration of your time together. Follow their direction, learn from them as best you can, and keep each other safe."
Professor Ozpin tapped one more button on his Scroll, and Ruby felt her own Scroll buzz in her pocket.
"Familiarise yourselves with the details of the mission parameters, then get a good night's rest. You are to report to the bulkhead hanger at precisely 6AM tomorrow morning to begin your assignment."
"I wish you all the best of luck."
Blake zipped up her small travel bag after double-checking its contents.
"Weiss, we need to pack light," she heard Yang stress behind her. "We're gonna be on the move constantly. Trust me, you don't wanna be lugging around all of that."
"But what if we need it?" Weiss responded indignantly. "I'd much rather be over-prepared than under-prepared, wouldn't you agree?"
Blake turned around in time to see Yang roll her eyes exaggeratedly. "You're the one whose gonna have to carry it all."
"Fine by me," Weiss huffed, closing her own travel bag… at least, she attempted to. So much stuff had been packed inside that the zip refused to budge, no matter how much she pressed down upon the contents.
Ruby slid her bag across the floor next to her partner's. "I have s-some extra s-space in mine," she offered, which Weiss quickly took her up on, transferring a number of items of questionable utility into Ruby's red duffel.
"We should all set our alarms for 5AM," Weiss suggested after finally succeeding in closing both hers and Ruby's bags. "To make sure we don't oversleep."
No chance of that happening… assuming I even sleep at all tonight…
"Blake?" called Ruby. "We can s-still change our m-minds if w-we want. W-w-we'd understand if…"
Blake almost bristled at the imagined insinuation, before she caught herself and just sighed instead. Ruby might not realise it all the time, but Blake knew that she was a good friend and leader. The fact that Ruby was making sure to regularly check that she was OK after what had happened the day before was genuinely nice, if a tad overbearing.
"I'm fine, Ruby," she said. "I told you all yesterday, I'm not backing down now."
"And neither are we," Yang added, slamming her fist into her palm. "We're gonna do this, and this time we're gonna win."
Blake nodded firmly, trying her best to echo her partner's confidence. Maybe if she acted well enough, she might actually start to feel it.
KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK.
Four short knocks. They had a visitor.
Ruby, closest to the door, made her way over and pulled it open.
"H-hi, Ren."
Sure enough, Ren was standing in the hallway, arms laden with a number of packages and envelopes.
"I grabbed your mail when I went to get ours," they explained, offloading two letters and a cylindrical parcel to Ruby as they spoke.
"Thanks," Ruby said brightly. "S-so, do you h-have a mission for tomorrow?"
Ren nodded once. "We're manning the outer border of West Vale for a week. You?"
"Uh… M-Mountain Glenn."
Ren's eyebrows shot up into their hairline. "Excuse me?"
"Oh, don't you start," Weiss called from across the room. "We've already heard plenty from everyone else."
Ren looked like they were about to say something, but apparently though better of it. Instead, they nodded once more, bid Ruby and the rest of the team farewell, and turned to enter their own dorm.
Ruby closed the door, then rounded on Weiss, looking somewhat disapprovingly in Weiss' direction.
"What?" Weiss asked.
Ruby just shook her head and looked down at the mail she had been given.
"It's f-for us," she said, holding one envelope out towards Yang. "Dad's handwriting."
Blake watched as Yang quickly went over and retrieved the letter from her sister's grasp, smiling as she tore it open.
Did the sisters get letters from home often? Blake hadn't noticed. Or maybe she hadn't been paying much attention.
They both look happy about it.
…
Would I be happy too?
Blake pictured herself in Yang's place, eagerly opening a letter from her parents that was full of well-wishes and cheerful updates on what was going on at home. She tried to imagine what it would be like to be able to do that whenever she wanted, to just pick up a pen, scribble down her thoughts and send them off without a care.
A pang of longing clenched her heart, followed by a surge of jealousy.
Why couldn't she have that?
You know exactly why.
"Dear girls," Yang read aloud. "I've got to leave the island for a few days, so I'm sending Zwei to you to take care of. Love you both, Dad."
Ruby's face shifted from excitement, to confusion, then her eyes widened and her whole face lit up in childlike glee as she looked back down at the tube in her hands.
"Zwei!" she cheered happily, popping one end of the tube open and upending it over the ground. "Come on out!"
Something small and fluffy slid out of the tube and landed on the carpet, bouncing once before unfurling itself, revealing…
Blake instantly stepped backwards and scrambled up to her bunk as she registered the presence of the creature that had emerged from the package that had contained it. It flicked its ears, wagged its tail, and let out a bark.
"Zwei, you little rascal, come here!" Yang crouched, opened her arms and laughed as the dog leapt up towards her, catching it and cuddling it as she rose back to her feet.
"Your father sent a dog in the mail!?" Weiss exclaimed incredulously.
"Oh, he does stuff like this all the time," said Yang casually, as if such a blasé statement in any way explained how such a thing could happen.
Blake had never seen Ruby so positively bubbly and cheerful. She was playing with the dog's paw, shaking it as if she were shaking someone's hand.
"I missed you, Zwei!" she cooed. "It's good to s-see you again!"
"Hey Blake!" Yang called. "Come say hi!"
"No I'm good up here thanks," Blake said quickly in response, voice perhaps a little higher-pitched than usual.
It wasn't because she was a cat Faunus…. Well, OK, maybe that was part of it, she'd always thought dogs were a bit unsettling… but no, it wasn't just that. She'd had more than enough run-ins with various guard dogs over the years to develop, in her mind, a perfectly reasonable apprehension towards canines of all kinds.
Blake watched as Weiss approached the sisters and their newly-arrived dog. She looked uncertain.
"Are you telling me that this mangy… drooling… mutt…" she began slowly, stopping when the dog leaned forwards in Yang's grasp and bumped its nose against hers.
Weiss' face and tone transformed in an instant, mirroring the expression on Ruby's face as she began to pet the dog's head.
"Is going to wiv wif us foweva? Oh, yes he is, yes he is!"
Blake had just been starting to feel like she had a good grasp on who Weiss was, but the display before her at that moment shattered all notions she had.
"Oh, Ruby, he's just adorable!" she cooed.
"He sure is," Yang said smugly. "But what are we gonna do with him?"
Weiss' face fell. "Can't we take him with us?"
"No," said Yang bluntly. "We can't."
"But we can't leave him here all on his own." Weiss withdrew her hand from the dog's head, crestfallen. "He'll be lonely."
Send him back home send him back home send him back home-
"We just need someone to watch him for a few days for us."
Darn.
"Who? PRAN are leaving tomorrow as well."
Yang shrugged. "Eh, let's worry about that tomorrow. Who's the second letter from, Rubes?"
Ruby jolted, seemingly only just remembering the other envelope in her hand. Opening it up, she unfolded the single sheet of paper and began reading it to herself.
After a few moments, she silently folded it up again and slid it into her pocket.
"Just a good l-luck m-m-message," she mumbled, a light dusting of pink on her cheeks and a small smile on her face.
Weiss knew she was probably holding everyone up, but she really didn't want to leave just yet.
"I'll miss you. I can't wait to see you again, we'll be best friends I know it!"
"As amusing as this is to watch, you're gonna be late, so maybe wrap this up?" Coco snarked playfully.
Sighing, Weiss stood up and left CFVY's dorm to join the rest of her team.
"I take it you never had any pets back home?" Yang asked.
Weiss shook her head. "We weren't allowed. Whitley and I did bring a mouse back home once, but…"
Weiss trailed off. That particular memory was just one more from her childhood that she didn't like dwelling on much.
"Am I allowed to say your Dad sucks?"
Weiss snorted. "I'd be happy to hear you say so as much as you like."
"Awesome," Yang replied, shooting Weiss a wink and a thumbs up.
"W-well, s-something to look forward to w-when we get back," Ruby added. "Zwei will be h-happy to s-see you too, Weiss."
All the more reason for us to get this mission done. The sooner we find the White Fang, the sooner we can get back and the sooner I can play with Zwei.
Weiss lightly slapped her palms against her cheeks to refocus herself.
Keep your mind on the mission now, Weiss. This is serious. We need to find a lead, before it's too late.
The four entered the elevator, and Ruby pressed the button to take them all to the bulkhead hanger.
The doors slid closed, the elevator jolted into motion, and Weiss found her mind wandering once again, but this time in a different direction.
We're going to work with a real Huntsman! There's bound to be so much they can teach us, so much they can tell us. And we'll get to see them in action, observe them as they fight and scout and lead us through the Glenn.
Weiss couldn't help but let out a tiny noise of excitement.
This is going to amazing!
All Weiss' prior excitement withered and died as she beheld the person who was going to be leading them on their first ever mission.
"Throw your stuff in the back and get in," drawled Professor Greene. "We're leaving."
"We need to inform the teachers at once!" Weiss said, sounding quite close to panicking. "The police as well! And my sister, she asked me to tell her everything, I need to tell her too!"
Weiss rounded on Ruby and reached out towards her. "I need your Scroll again, now!"
"H-h-hold on a… a m-m-minute," Ruby stammered. "W-W-Weiss-"
"Your Scroll Ruby, now!"
"Everyone, cool it!" Yang yelled, raising her voice to be heard over them all. "One thing at a time!"
Blake appreciated that Yang was taking the role of the calm(ish) one at that moment. She herself wasn't feeling very calm. She felt a lot like how Weiss was acting.
"First thing's first," Yang began. "Blake, did this… Ilia say anything else?"
Blake shook her head, not quite trusting herself to speak again just yet without her words coming out in a jumbled mess.
Yang took a deep breath. "Dammit," she huffed.
Ruby held out her Scroll towards Weiss. "Call y-your s-sister and tell her everything," she said. "Blake, y-you and I w-will go tell Professor Ozpin. Yang, call th-that n-number the police gave us and… and explain it all to th-them. We'll all m-meet back at the dorm l-later."
Two months prior, Blake would never have expected Ruby to be able to take charge of a situation like that. It was quite something to see how much she had changed in the short span of time they had known each other.
Their roles assigned, Team RWBY split off and each went their own way, Blake following after Ruby as she led the pair of them towards the elevator.
Once inside and on their way up, Ruby turned to face Blake directly.
"Blake?" she asked hesitantly. Her 'leader-mode' persona was replaced by her more familiar nervousness. "If y-you w-w-wanna l-leave… w-w-we'd be…"
Blake did something then that surprised herself as much as it probably surprised Ruby.
She hugged her.
"I'm not running," she whispered as she pulled the smaller girl close. "I won't leave you all behind."
Ruby stiffened in Blake's embrace, and for a moment Blake worried that she had crossed a line. Ruby was OK with Yang hugging her, but Blake had noticed that she tended to be a bit more averse to touch from other people.
Just as Blake was about to pull away and apologise for breaching Ruby's boundaries, she felt her return the hug, bringing her arms up to wrap around Blake.
"I'm glad," Ruby whispered back.
…
…
…
"We're here," announced Professor Greene.
Blake opened her eyes and pushed herself to her feet. Peering out one of the windows, she saw a mass of grey buildings sprawled out below them, all looking quite a bit worse for wear.
"Mountain Glenn," Greene said. "I assume you all recall what Dr Oobleck taught you?"
"Indeed," responded Weiss promptly. She began checking off her fingers as she spoke. "Envisioned as a large-scale expansion of Vale, intended to house a population equal to the Capital over time, it grew too large and spread beyond the safety line that had been established, and Grimm were able to overrun the outer limits and force an evacuation."
Greene hummed. "Well recalled, Weiss."
Weiss smiled a little smugly at that. It seemed her earlier sour mood at seeing Professor Greene had passed, and now she was back to her usual self, eager as ever to impress her teachers.
The speaker crackled, and the pilot's voice came through the static.
"We are approaching the landing zone, ETA four minutes."
Greene turned to face all four of them. Her usual impassive face looked slightly more serious than usual.
"The landing zone is one of the more intact areas that are still mostly defensible, and far away from the main Grimm pockets. We'll set up a base camp, then begin scouting from there. Once we've established-"
The sound of something colliding with the side of the bulkhead rang through the interior, and the whole craft shook violently, causing them all to stagger and fall.
A moment later, another, more bestial sound could be heard.
"Weapons!" barked Professor Greene. Her own knife was already in hand as she pulled herself back up.
A second animalistic cry filled the air, followed by another, then another.
What is that?
Whatever it was, Blake didn't recognise its cry. It sounded strangled and warbling, somewhere between a birdcall and the whinny of a horse.
Greene slammed her fist into the panel beside the main door. It slid open, filling the bulkhead with harsh winds that drowned out the sounds of the Grimm.
Flying beside them, somehow keeping pace with a ship at almost full throttle, was a dark mockery of a horse, its front hooves replaced with grasping talons and its head that of a bird of prey. A pair of ragged black wings beat furiously at its sides to keep it airborne, and its tail was laced with spines as bone-white as its masked face.
A Gryphon. Blake had only ever seen them in books, but now one was right on top of them.
The Gryphon let out another warbling cry before banking sharply towards them, reaching towards the open side of the bulkhead with its talons outstretched.
Blake drew her weapon from her back and shifted Gambol into its pistol form, taking aim at the Grimm and firing off two rounds.
Greene fired twice at the same time, and all four shots hit home, driving the Gryphon back with a screech of pain. Its wing took the brunt of the impacts, causing it to loose speed and fall behind them and out of sight.
But they did not have time to catch their breath. No sooner had the first Gryphon been driven away when a second one took its place, swooping in to attack even as Blake and Greene fired upon it.
"Get back!" Yang yelled, firing a shot of her own that hit the Gryphon head-on, sending it plummeting towards the ground as it evaporated.
A third Gryphon managed to avoid the next volley of rounds sent its way and hooked its claws into the fuselage, moving to pull itself inside.
Ruby and Weiss were on it in an instant. In perfect sync with one another, they both sliced at its front legs and severed them. The Gryphon flew away, leaving its claws behind to evaporate, the wind carrying the black mist away before it could fill the inside of the ship.
"Was that all of them?" Weiss asked.
Her question was quickly answered by the sound of metal screaming, as the top of the bulkhead was torn open by the talons of yet another Gryphon.
The sharp beak of a fifth Gryphon stabbed through one of the windows, sending glass shards scattering across the floor of the bulkhead. Two more windows were put through by another pair of Gryphons, and the sound of even more of the beasts could be heard as they clambered over the ship, swarming them from all sides.
"Ace!" cried Greene, addressing the pilot. "Abort landing! Get out of here!"
"Yes, ma'am!" the pilot, Ace, replied.
Greene then turned to face the team once more. "Follow me!"
Blake blanched as she saw Greene turned and throw herself out of the bulkhead, her form vanishing from view as she fell.
"Everyone out!" barked Ruby. "Now!"
The top of the bulkhead was forced apart, and the head of the Gryphon responsible pushed inside, snapping at Blake and just barely missing her ear.
There was nowhere else to escape to. They had no other choice.
Weiss leapt out first, followed by Ruby, then Yang, and finally Blake.
Jumping from the bulkhead, Blake found herself tumbling through the air and surrounded by roaring winds and screeching Grimm. For several stomach-churning seconds, all Blake could do was spin helplessly and watch her surroundings blur together.
Fortunately, this was not the first time Blake had jumped out of an aircraft under duress.
Recalling the necessary advice, Blake shifted her body and spread her arms and legs out on either side of herself. She stopped tumbling, and was able to make out her surroundings at last.
Just in time to see the ground rushing up to meet her.
She had maybe ten seconds before she was a stain on the concrete, so she had to act fast.
Flipping over, Blake cocked Gambol and threw it upwards, using the recoil from a shot to send it spinning towards a Gryphon that was above her and embedding itself in its soft underbelly. The Grimm was pulled down with her, but its panicked flapping of its wings slowed their descent enough for Blake to take care of the rest.
Activating her Semblance, Blake pushed off her Shadow and translated her downward motion into horizontal motion. With her speed reduced from her earlier action, what would have been a deadly impact was turned into a safer, but still painful, slide across the ground.
Blake came to a stop when her shoulder slammed into the dented side of an abandoned car, causing her to grunt in pain.
But there was still no time to rest, as the Gryphon she had hijacked moments ago was now galloping towards her, furious at having been used as a makeshift parachute.
Yanking Gambol back into her grasp, Blake took her stance, both Gambol and Shroud at the ready.
The Gryphon leapt towards her, beak wide open and talons outstretched. Blake flipped over it, slashing at its back with Shroud and leaving a deep gash in its flesh.
The Grimm's spined tail lashed out, striking Blake in mid-air and swatting her down. Rolling with the impact, Blake was on her feet again in an instant and ready to intercept the next strike, parrying the lashing tail and breaking off one of the spines in the process.
Screeching with pain and rage, the Gryphon charged once again.
Blake responded in kind. Activating her Semblance a second time, Blake pushed herself forwards and drove both of her blades directly into the skull of the beast, killing it instantly. Both her own Shadow and the slain Grimm evaporated, leaving her alone in the ruined street.
The sounds of combat still filled the air however, indicating that the rest of her team were still fighting.
Following the sounds, Blake staggered off to find her friends.
Yang drove her gauntleted fist into the side of the final Gryphon, firing a round directly into its body and blasting it into pieces that swiftly vanished.
She remained on guard, head on a swivel as she scanned her surroundings for any other Grimm.
But there were none. It seemed the bulk of the swarm had either scattered or continued to pursue the bulkhead. The only sound Yang could hear now was her own rapid breaths. The gunfire had ceased, indicating that the rest of her team were also out of danger, at least for now.
Now to find them all.
Keeping Ember Celica deployed just in case, Yang began to walk in what she hoped was the direction she had seen the others fall in.
All around her, ruins and debris and rusting wrecks loomed large. Everything looked grey and brown, lifeless and still. The windows of the various buildings along the sides of the street she was walking down were either broken or caked in grime. One half of a mangled delivery van lay beside the decaying remains of some wooden crates, their contents long gone. A few sturdy plants had begun to push their way through the asphalt, cracking it and making the road uneven in places.
Yang noticed a few other things as well. Things that painted a picture of years gone by.
Spent bullet casings scattered beside one open door.
A pair of glasses, lenses cracked, frame bent from being stepped on.
A bicycle, too small to be for an adult, rust eating away at it.
Yang did her best to not dwell on what she saw, focussing instead on keeping her eyes peeled for any signs of her team.
She considered calling out for them, but decided against it for now. She didn't want to risk drawing any more Grimm just yet-
Footsteps. Several sets, approaching from around the next corner.
Breaking into a run, Yang rounded into the next street and let out a sigh of relief upon seeing them all.
Ruby and Weiss and Professor Greene all looked similarly relieved to see her… well, Ruby and Weiss did at any rate. Professor Greene looked as impassive as ever.
The only one missing now was…
"Did anyone see where Blake landed?" Yang asked after a brief hug with her sister.
"I think she was the last one out," Weiss answered. "She's probably further on ahead."
"Then let's keep moving," Greene said, resuming walking at a brisk pace. Yang and the others fell in step behind her.
Sure enough, they found Blake two more streets down the way.
"Well," said Yang. "That was a thing."
"Did the pilot make it out OK?" Weiss asked.
"Ace will be fine," Greene said. "She's flown through worse than that. Now, did anyone remember to grab our gear before they jumped out?"
All four girls shook their heads.
Greene sighed. "Well, in that case we can't waste any time. The safe zone has some basic supplies, and we can scavenge for extras if we need to, but if we don't make it there before nightfall we're in trouble."
Yang watched as Professor Greene withdrew her Scroll and expanded it into its tablet mode, bringing up a map on the screen. She drew a finger across it, plotting out a path through the area and mumbling something inaudible under her breath.
"OK," she said, collapsing and stowing her Scroll before turning to face the four of them.
"Team RWBY, as of now, your first mission has begun. Our initial objective is to reach our pre-designated safe zone within the next three hours. Once there, I'll direct you to gather whatever supplies we can find, then we'll set up camp for the night. At first light, we'll commence out scouting operation. Any questions?"
Weiss raised her hand. "I have a question, Professor."
Greene sighed. "Is it important?"
"Well, I was just wondering… how are we going to get back without the bulkhead?"
Greene shrugged. "We'll figure that out later. For now, just focus on getting to our objective."
With that, Professor Greene turned and began to lead them all deeper into the remains of Mountain Glenn.
"One more thing," she added, not turning around. "We're not in school any more, and I am not your teacher right now. I am your comrade. So for the duration of this mission, you may call me Ann."
Nothing else was said as the five of them pressed onwards.
Hello to any new arrivals, and hello again to the rest of you! I'm Not Scot.
Team RWBY's first mission is underway, and the rest of this Volume will follow them as they search for answers in the ruins of the past. What will they find? What will they learn? Join us next time to find out!
The Gryphons are some of my favourite Grimm designs in the show, so I decided to have them show up a bit earlier than in canon. If they ever release figures of the Grimm as merch, I hope the Gryphons get to be in that line-up.
Next chapter, 'Career Counselling With Professor Greene', will probably be up sometime next week, after I finish the next chapter of 'Friends'. I hope you'll all look forward to that one.
My caffeine high is falling off, so for now, I shall take my leave.
Until next time,
Not Scot.
P.S: What are your favourite Grimm designs? I really like the Gryphons as I said, but my top pick is definitely the Nevermore. The giant demon-bird will always be my favourite Grimm.