A/N: Hey everyone, this is more the upload speed y'all were used to huh. Just keeping things short I am going to begin crossposting to AO3 just as a means to start moving over there in general and as Yoshi3000 mentioned in a drunken skater review, FF is kinda going down the toilet. Drunk Skater will also be crossposted and is already up and any new stories will be released just over there. I may never really see myself as part of this fandom again but that can change. Time marches on and sometimes we need to be the change we want to see. Also, ironically enough it was a scammer PM that reminded me of these fanfictions and got me writing again. So, if y'all think thats a good thing chalk one good point for them lol.

RWBY belongs to Roosterteeth and the late Monty Oum.

Chapter 14: Blooding the Immortal

"What is it, Sis?" Slade asked, drawing his knife.

"It is a Lucifer type Grimm, Slade." Kyron answered placing himself protectively between the monster and his siblings. "We don't stand a chance."

"What is a Lucifer type Grimm?" Tyson asked.

"A species of Grimm far over your heads," Kyron explained. "They are said to be some of the first Grimm created by the God of Darkness. Lucifer type Grimm tend to be faster and stronger than most other Grimm and smarter than most people. Slade, Tyson, get back to the group. Leave this one to the guardians, if necessary, you two will have to lead the other Whelps home."

Slade and Tyson looked at each other. As the other teens and their father joined the group. The Grimm across the clear was staring intently at the group of Faunus that had woken it up. "Interesting," it said in a raspy voice, "most of you are mere children. Easy prey."

"Do what your brother told you, you two. We will handle this beast there is no reason for you to risk your lives fighting a battle you can't win." Their father added stepping up next to Kyron.

At this point, the two boys decided what they were going to do. They turned and locked eyes with their sister and she instantly knew the plan. "Sorry Old Man, but we aren't here to just sit and watch," Slade said sprinting around his father and siblings Tyson close behind. "Tyson, boost."

Tyson nodded his hands glowing a deep black, "Agcella Rece." Tyson gestured towards the white-haired boy; Slade felt his body gain speed as he shot towards the monster in front of him.

He heard the protests of his father and siblings as they tried to stop the three younger faunus. Slade was about twenty feet from the Lucifer Grimm when it spoke again, "A child so eager to be eaten. Haha, this is almost too good."

"I'm not that easy to kill, Demon," Slade responded, jumping and punching the Grimm in the face. It didn't even flinch, the Grimm grabbed Slade's right holding him up. Slade struggled to free himself by kicking his capture in the face. 'Four seconds before Carla and Tyson catch up.'

"We will see," the Grimm smirked bringing up its other arm and trust it's claws into Slade's unarmored chest. He heard the screams of his family and friends as he was tossed aside. He knew his father, Carla, and Tyson realized what he was doing. He felt someone catch him and move him away from the fight as his vision faded.

"Indraga Arclum!" Tyson shouted at the top of his lungs.

Slade felt the heat from the huge blast his brother created, and he heard the others engage the beast. "How long do you need, Niisan?" Carla asked.

"From this?" Slade felt his body with his aura. "Two minutes."

"Hurry this already looking bad," Carla said setting Slade down and running off to join the fight.

Slade let his consciousness fade into blackness as his body worked on repairing itself.

When he returned to the world of the living, he shot up ready to rejoin the fight. As he took in the situation his face took on a look of shear horror. All around the clearing were the bodies of the children he had spent the past five years training and playing with in the village, as well as the bodies of most of his siblings. He noticed that Tyson, Carla, his father, Kyron and Shira were still fighting the beast. As he made to rejoin the fight he saw motion to his right. Turning he saw Kara still alive if just barely, she was covered from head to toe in blood, most of it appeared to be hers, if the missing arm was anything to go by. He ran to her, "Kara, what the hell happened to everyone?"

"Slade, don't worry about that you need to get Tyson and Carla, and run. The three of you need to get out of here. Get to the village and warn Mother."

"But I can…"

"No!" *cough* "GO!" She pushed him towards his siblings, "I know you never listen to what you're told but please just this once, do it." he looked at her and saw the desperation in her fading gaze.

"Got it. Moon guide you, Sis." He turned towards the fight and took off knowing that sister probably didn't hear him. 'You know full well I can't back down now, Sis. This monster is dead.' Tears rolled his cheeks as he passed through the bodies of his fallen comrades. "Damnit."

The Grimm was currently fending off several copies of his father and Carla. Once he was close enough, he jumped into the air behind the monster drawing his knife again, wondering how it hadn't fallen off when he'd been thrown. He came down his knife poised to stab the beast in the spine. The blow connected but instead of piercing the flesh and bone, it shattered. "Nice try kid," it said as it spun around slamming a clawed hand into Slade's side sending him flying again. "I'm surprised you survived earlier, don't worry I won't make that mistake again."

This time Slade corrected himself rolling to a stop next to Tyson. "Any ideas?" The white-haired Faunus asked his brother.

"None we are out classed, but if we try to run, it will just chase us down." The others joined the two boys, Shade and Carla releasing their copies for the moment.

"Any elemental weaknesses?"

"None that we have noticed." Shira stated.

"Great, that is just awesome."

"Just focus on killing it," Kyron said, looking at the Lucifer type Grimm. It seemed to be sizing up the remaining Faunus, gazing at them hungrily.

"Well I think I should properly introduce myself since you have all lasted this long. My name is Kyros. With that said, why don't we finish this little farce. I'm getting pretty hungry, and you are looking quite tasty my dear wolves," the Grimm bowed while introducing itself. As it straightened back to its full height smoke began pouring out of its skin. "Now die."

The Grimm charged and was met by Shade, his tachi slicing through the air and slamming down on the creature's head. Kyros twisted its head trapping the weapon in its horns. The Grimm then jerked its head away tearing the sword away from the Patriarch. Shade then kicked the Grimm in the leg as Kyron moved to the side of the beast and punched as hard as he could, firing the last of his aura into Kyros' flank, collapsing to his knees as he felt the exhaustion kick in. It roared as it finally felt some pain from the faunus attacks. The monster turned on Kyron and struck, its clawed hand flying at the teens heart, while it kicked Shade away.

"NO!" in an instant Tyson appeared in front of Kyron taking the blow. The claws pierced the young faunus chest clean through.

Slade stood there for moment processing what had happened looking at his brother on the beast arm. 'So, this is what they felt when they saw me get stabbed.' He felt numb, he felt as if he had failed his friends and family. He was immortal, they weren't, yet they reacted so easily, throwing their lives away for each other. Tyson met his gaze and smirked. He held his hand towards Slade, it glowed with his familiar black aura, "Take my power and break apart this horrible reality. Transen Rece," he said. With that a stream of black energy shot towards Slade, when it hit him, he felt his Aura increase and felt a foreign power fill his body. Slade began to focus on it, remembering how his brother had often used his abilities. Once the power had left Tyson's body he fell limp on the demon's arm.

"Damnit, you bastard!" Shira had seen enough. Her body began to glow as sparks of lighting roiled off her skin. She charged the beast, the energy focused around her fist, the beast turned towards her shaking Tyson's limp form of its arm. As Shira got close to the Grimm her silver eyes flashed causing it to freeze for a second, the Faunus woman capitalized on this by slamming her fist one after another into the beast pushing it back away from the others, "Thunra!" Shade joined in, his own body seeming to split into multiple versions of himself. Each attacking from a different direction.

"Looks like they have seen enough death today, and Tyson was just the final straw." Carla said as she helped Kyron to his feet. She looked just as exhausted as her brother.

"So, have I," Slade took a sprinters stance watching the fight waiting for the right moment. 'There.' "Agcella," Slade took off towards the three combatants, leaving a small crater where he had been standing.

"Wait, Slade!" The other two siblings shouted.

"Shira! Old Man! Clear the way!" They both turned back and saw Slade rocketing towards them at insane speeds. They both jumped out of the way as the younger boy shot past them. As he got within striking distance, his right hand began to glow with a silver light. "This is for my friends and family you damn monster! Indraga!" Slade's open palm ignited, and fire engulfed the beast. The creature howled in pain; the sound shaking the trees and disorienting the Faunus.

The creature shot its tail out of the flames and wrapped it around Slade's leg, yanking him up and throwing him away. He hit the ground hard, his breath getting knocked out of him, he also felt a few bones crack and break as he slid across ground eventually slamming into something semi-solid. As he got his breath back and used his aura to reset his bones. He looked to see what he had hit. It took him a second to recognize the mass of bloodied flesh beside him as the girl that would often sit next to him during meals at the training hall, "Tara, damn, I'm gonna kill this bastard." Slade stood up his Semblance having finished healing his injuries.

As he turned back to the fight he heard the scream that he knew would haunt him for the rest of his life.

"ONIISAMA!"

The monster had somehow killed his father while Slade was healing, and now had Shira impaled on both of its hands. Then it ripped her in half. For probably the tenth time that day Slade felt his heart sink in his chest. The beast then turned on his exhausted brother and sister. "You're turn, you little snacks."

The beast shot forward towards the pair while Slade took off running to try and intercept the demon, but he had been thrown a couple hundred feet. A distance that he could have covered using his brother's powers, but in his panic, he forgot he had them. So, like the rest of the day so far, he had somehow been too slow. As the beast got close, Kyron threw Carla to the side and put his guard up only to have the demon tear into him in seconds due to his broken aura. The demon tore Kyron's head from his shoulders. "Ha-ha, this is to easy." Then Kyros laughed turning to Carla as she collapsed to the ground her will giving out. "I'll kill you next then enjoy fighting that immortal brother of yours that should be fun. Slade felt his blood began to boil and steam began to rise from his skin as shot forward seeming to shatter the air itself as he sped towards his target.

"LIKE HELL!" came the response from the very pissed off Faunus, as Slade slammed himself into the Grimm. He felt his body began to burn as he wreathed himself in flames that gradually turned from the usual red and orange to a blinding silver. "You touch her, and I'll tear you to ribbons with my bare hands if I have to. You aren't taking any more of my family away from me," Slade growled at the beast as he landed on all fours. "Better yet I'll devour you instead. That way you can't hurt anyone ever again."

"I like you kid, but you can't stop me from killing your little sister."

"What?"

"Look behind you."

Slade turned around, and saw the last thing he wanted to. The Grimm's tail was sticking out of the ground and was wrapped around Carla gagging her with one end the other's spike pressed against her throat. "No, don't. Fight me just let her go."

"I don't think so kid. I think that this will be more fun, if you have nothing holding you back." With that the demon slit Carla's throat with his tail and released her.

Slade caught her before she hit the ground, the flames vanishing as he moved holding, his hand over her throat to try and stop the bleeding. "No no no no. NO! Not you too."

"HAHAHAHAHA this is really fun; I'll let you say your goodbyes. Don't worry I'll wait."

"Niisan," Carla coughed out getting her brother's attention.

"Shut up, you nerd, save your strength. I'll get you out of this somehow," Slade racked his brain for any healing spells Tyson would have used but couldn't think of any as tears started to flow freely down his face.

"Niisan, take my power to, you can win if you do," *cough* "do it so you can live on and end this."

"No, I can't your gonna live and we are gonna go home together."

"Shut up, and do it you are gonna have to live for all of us. You have to keep moving forward."

"But."

"Do…It…"

Slade closed his eyes knowing that taking Carla's power would erase her personality from her soul and add it to his own, as Tyson had done giving him his power. "Fine, I'll live for all of you… Transen," Slade said as he focused his energy in his hand and drawing her fading Aura to him. Slade saw a pure silver aura flow towards his hand and into his body. He watched as his sisters ragged breathing slowed and eventually stopped. her eyes closing and her body going limp in his arms. Tears still flowing freely he set her down and stood and turned towards the Grimm that was smirking at him. "Goodbye Carla, I'll live on. I'll end this, and I'll keep moving forward."

With that he took a step towards the monster, the flames bursting to life around him once more. "You are going to die here monster. I'll make sure of that."

"Then let us battle, child."

"The name is Slade Grey-Wolf, but you can call me the Immortal."

"Argh," Slade grunted as he woke up again. He had lost track of time as he tried to kill the Grimm that had taken his family from him. All he knew was the sun was low in sky now and he had died a few dozen times, each time waking up to the smirking face of that damn monster. It seemed that every time his Aura faded and broke the beast would kill him and once his body repaired itself his Aura would be back in full force. Slade, with a thought, set his body ablaze again. If nothing else this cycle had given him plenty of time to figure out how to properly use his brother's abilities. "Die you fucking demon!" Slade sped towards his opponent again and for the millionth time was blocked by the clawed hand of Kyros.

"Yes, all that hatred, you could be an eternal meal for me kid. That and your lust for my blood is almost amusing," the Grimm answered. Slade pushed on, his assault becoming a relentless flurry of super-heated punches and kicks crashing into the monster.

'There must be a limit to this thing's power. What is it?' Slade thought as he aimed for any possible opening. Suddenly he felt the creature's arm give slightly under one of his blows. Then the beast pushed him away. Wait, was that it? It pushed me away once I felt it's guard give. It must be tiring even if only slightly.' Slade smirked, "Looks like that thirst will be sated soon." Slade took brief notice of the moon rising over the horizon.

"Agcella Ult," Feeling the strain in his muscles he charged his enemy. He waited until the creature went to counter jumping onto the creature's arm and pivoting while focusing the flames around his left foot. He landed a vicious burning roundhouse kick into the creature's jaw, feeling the flesh and bone give, tearing and dislocating. The Grimm's lower jaw broke and hung limply from the monster's face.

Slade jumped back, realizing what he had done. "It may take a thousand deaths to do it, but I will kill you." Slade felt his power surge, something clicked, what his brother and sister told him replayed in his mind. Slade closed his eyes for a moment.

'Break apart this horrible reality.'

'Keep moving forward.'

'If I can hurt this thing, that is all the hope I need. I know I can win now.' He felt his Aura surge again as the Grimm charged him having recovered from its shock at having been injured. Slade took a deep breath calming his nerves and letting the monster close in on him, as it reared its arm back Slade focused his energy into his hands. 'Calm, serenity, balance, Mother Moon guide my soul,' eyes shooting open and ducking under the attack he unleashed a flurry of open palm strikes into the beast's flank where his brother had injured it earlier. Letting his Aura run rampant, he finally let lose giving into raw instinct. Slade let his body move to the rhythm of the battle stepping to the side with each of the creature's attacks. Countering with a precision that was uncharacteristic of the hotheaded boy.

As he moved, Kyros seemed to sense the change in Slade's pattern instead of the fury fueled attacks that had come from the young Faunus before. There was a calm almost nonchalance. Almost as if. "What… the hell…?" The monster tried to ask, its jaw still hanging by only a thread of skin. "That is impossible."

Slade backed away from the monster looking at it with a determined look on his face. "I told you," Slade said his eyes flashing with an electric looking glow the silver flames had vanished, but there seemed to be more power roiling of him. "I would kill you, tear you limb from limb. Well, here we go." Slade vanished appearing right behind the Grimm, "Don't blink."

Kyros spun around to be met with silver eyes boring into its being. Slade punched the Grimm in the face ripping the last of the skin holding the creatures jaw on. Landing Slade kicked the creature in the knee breaking it. Kyros screamed in agony, the sound coming out as a loud gargle do to the missing jaw. "I'm not done yet," Slade said taking hold of the demon's arm, and broke it at the elbow. Grabbing Kyros by one of its horns, Slade pulled the beast down to eye level. "You will feel their pain," silver eyes flashing again Slade shaped his aura like a blade around his hand and stabbed the demon's shoulder. Kyros tried to break free of the boy's grasp, but the intensity in those silver eyes kept the Grimm paralyzed in fear.

Pushing down Slade used the advantage he had while it was still there. He pinned the Grimm to the ground and began tearing into the monster's chest, ripping at flesh and breaking bone, he found the heart pumping the black blood through the creature's veins. Grabbing hold of it with both hands, "Now die you damned monster." With those words Slade crushed the organ in his fists, feeling the creature buck and jolt under him. Then without knowing why he was doing this he came to a decision that would ensure this beast would never hurt anyone again, "and be devoured, Transen!" Slade felt the Darkness from the Grimm enter his body fusing with his soul and corrupting his mind, but Slade managed to hold on to his sanity, forcing the creature's thoughts into the corner of his mind trying to erase its will through the spell. He absorbed the entirety of the beast standing once it had dissolved into nothingness. Slade looked at the moon, felling his battle rage drain from his body he saw that night had settled over the forest.

"What now?" He asked the empty space. "What do I do now?! They are all dead, I'm the only one left."

'You could go kill the rest.'

"Who said that?!" Slade said looking around frantically.

'The Grimm you just absorbed into your mind.'

"What I thought that I had you locked up or better destroyed."

'You do I can't get out of your head without you letting me, but that doesn't mean I can't torment you from in here.'

"If you're in my head then your opinions are not important." Slade noticed a glimmer in the moonlight to his left he walked over to it and saw that it was his father's sword lying on the ground. The black blade shone in the silver light, Slade picked it up then made his way to his father's corpse. "I'm sorry, Old Man," Slade said as he moved his father's body to take the scabbard off and attached it to his belt. "I promise to bring some help so you all can have a proper burial." Slade then turned to the forest and walked away from the scene of devastation. Disappearing into the shadows of the trees.

Two hours later, just after midnight Slade came with in view of the village. He walked calmly up to the open gate seeing the group of adult Faunus waiting for the return of their children. His mother approached him. "My child, why are you alone? Have you been sent ahead because the others were delayed?" The rest of the adults waited with bated breath hoping that he wasn't the bearer of the worst news.

"No Mother, the rest are dead killed by a Lucifer type Grimm," there were gasps from most of the other adults at the news.

"What about the Grimm, Slade," asked the matriarch obviously disturbed by the news.

"Dead. I made sure of that before I left," Slade held his father's sword out to his mother, "I also retrieved Father's sword as proof of his death, but as for the Grimm you will just have to trust me." Slade said, obviously wishing to end the conversation.

"Keep the sword child, you have earned that much. As for the bodies, I will gather a team to go collect them. Get some rest, Son," She placed a hand on his shoulder, "I'm glad at least someone made it back."

"I think you are the only one, Mother." Slade retorted shocking everyone as he walked back to his home.

Then everything faded to black.

The darkness retreated from around the room eventually pooling back around Slade's feet before dissipating entirely. Slade looked at the other teens in the dorm all sat there for a second seeming to regather their bearings. Nora and Ruby lacked their usual energy and in fact seemed to be on the verge of tears. Ren placed his hand on his partner's shoulder and waited patiently for the rest to speak. Weiss was staring blankly at the floor seemingly in a state shock. Blake had pulled her legs to her chest and seemed like she wanted to just hide in her books for a while. Pyrrha was sitting silently trying to take it all in. Jaune had tears slipping down his face no doubt thinking of how he would feel if all his sisters died, and he could have done nothing to stop it. Yang was the one to break the silence.

"How the hell do you live with that? Watching most of your family and friends die in front of you. Then literally becoming possessed by a demon. That would drive me insane," Yang asked the assassin.

To everyone's surprise and near horror Slade started laughing at that, it wasn't a happy laugh, but one filled with pain and sorrow. When he calmed himself, Slade looked at Yang and said, "I never once told any of you I was in any way sane. I lived with that because it is the only way I can honor the memory of my family and friends. I lived with it, because when I woke up the next morning, I vowed to become so strong that I wouldn't lose anyone I cared about ever again. I'm here today because I was cursed with the ability to not die, because my siblings gave me the power to win against all odds at the expense of their own lives. It's unfair really."

This time it was Ruby who spoke. "What is?"

"That girl that the demon threw me into just before killing my father, Tara, her parents approached me the next day with a letter to me that she had them hold on to. She didn't want it to get destroyed during the fight I guess. It was a damned love letter. She was going to give it to me once we were done with the Blooding, but I ended up getting her killed because I couldn't just do what my father and older siblings told me."

"It's not your fault," Pyrrha tried to comfort the Faunus.

"DON'T GIVE ME THAT SHIT, PYRRHA! I made a choice that if I hadn't maybe some of them would have survived, maybe some of them would be here with me now even!" Slade shouted, surprising everyone. "Saying that never helps, I've heard it a million times over the years and I'm sick of it. I appreciate the sentiment, but I just don't care to hear it. It is my past, my mistakes, my burden." Slade took a deep breath settling down after his outburst. "Sorry, just don't say that."

"Ok," Pyrrha responded obviously stunned.

"Do any of you have any questions about that part of my past," Slade asked.

Weiss looked up from the floor, "So, you have the powers of your brother, sister and one of the most powerful Grimm in existence."

"Yep, you want to see? I won't do anything crazy just a small demonstration." The other teens nodded looking on as Slade's body seemed to split in two. Both halves solidified one having white hair and two silver eyes the other have black hair and red eyes, the black-haired Slade bowed and said, "Hello, I'm Kyros but all of you can just call me Slade's Shadow."

"This is the manifestation of all the darkness within my soul, the monster I keep trapped in my mind. The same monster that killed my family," the white-haired Slade explained.

"Well, my respect for you just went up," Yang said, "the fact you have the monster responsible for most of the pain in your life living in your head that is just, damn."

"Thank you," both Slade's said at once.

"Now, Shadow, get back in my head."

"Awe, do I have to?"

The white-haired Slade's eyes flashed.

"Ok got it got it," both Slade's bodies merged back together. Slade's hair turned silver again and his right eye closed.

"Sigh, I'm surprised he was so well behaved."

'I heard that.'

"Screw you, Shadow."

"Um, Slade." Ruby raised her hand nervously.

"Yes, Ruby."

"Why did your eyes just flash like that? I saw it happen with your sister and remember you doing it a couple times while you were fighting the Grimm, then just now." Ruby asked looking very confused.

Slade looked at Ruby like she had just grown a second head, "You don't know what having silver eyes means do you?"

"No," Ruby said.

"Didn't you tell me your uncle is Qrow Branwen?" Slade asked.

Ruby and Yang both nodded.

"I'm going to regret calling that drunken bastard and telling him I'm on your team, but I need to talk to him before I explain that, ok?"

Ruby nodded seeming a little disappointed with the answer.

"If that's it with questions for now, I do have work to do this evening and it looks like I've killed enough time." Slade said looking out the window seeing the sun was just below the horizon. He then looked around the room and upon seeing that no one else wanted to question him he put his coat and cap back on and opened the window behind him. "In that case goodnight my friends." He then leapt out vanishing into the night.

"Wait, Slade knows Uncle Qrow?" Ruby asked after Slade left.

"It looks like it," Yang answered.

"That is funny, considering he knows my sister as well," Weiss added.

At this Yang looked at Weiss with and smirk, "How screwed do you think Slade is when they figure out, he is on our team?"

"Well since your father and uncle are both Huntsmen and my sister is a Specialist for the Atlesian military. Very," Weiss stated.

"Uh oh," Ruby said thinking about how her partner would handle the mess he was about to get himself into.

A/N: I do love this story but geez editing some of these chapters together can just feel repetitive if I'm not adding anything lol. I did combine two of my longest chapters here so yeah sorry for the lengthy one, but I just wanted to get through the blooding this time. What are y'all doing when y'all read these chapters?

Thanks for reading; please leave a review. Brazenark.