RWBY: The Hidden Grimm Book 2

Chapter #11 Nostalgia

After another few hours of sailing our ship docks on an abandoned "beach" outside of Atlas reach.  We drop anchor and I jump off the side of the ship and hear the snow crunch under my boots. "sorry that we have to leave you here lad but docking in an Atlas port is too dangerous so your gonna have to get to Mantel on foot. Best of luck lad and may you find what you're looking for. Oh and before I forget you may want these, the blizzards out here can get so thick you can't even see your own hand." The captain says as he throws me down a lantern and a pair of goggles.  "Thanks, captain, good luck with the business, and may the waters be kind." I say as I turn and start walking into the snowy wasteland. I hear the captain laugh as the anchor raises and his ship disappears into the distance.  "Brrr it's cold out here, hey did the cap happen to say anything about some kind of shelter nearby cause I don't know how long we can be out here." Aaron says as I get to high ground. "Oh quit your complaining its only...-30 degrees... shit ok I'll look for something we can hide out in for the night. We only got a few hours before night hits so you keep a lookout too." I say as I scale a small hill that gives me a clear view of the area around me. I look through the sniper scope that I got to keep when the blacksmith remade Hellsing and see Atlas far off in the distance. "Damn that far off that's gotta be at least a weeks hike from here. Aaron, you see anything close by?" I ask as I look around through my scope. "On your left." Aaron says as he points to a cave. "That will have to do let's get moving before a white-out appears." I say as I put away the scope and slide down the front of the hill. I walk through the snow for an hour before something catches my eye off in the distance.  I see smoke off in the distance and in my need for warmth, I rush over quickly. As I get closer and closer an all too familiar smell makes its way into my nose, the smell of blood. I climb over a small pile of snow and see a campsite that's been destroyed by what looks like a grim attack and at the base, I see a man with blood running down his side while two wolves sit next to him. "Hey anyone still alive down there!" I yell as I come closer to the campsite. The two wolves notice me and get into an attack stance before the man raises his hand and whistles. The two wolves stop and sit in place as I walk past them and to the man.  "You don't look too good buddy here let me see what I can do." I say as I reach into my duster before he grabs my hand and shakes his head. "I don't have long left so please hear a dead man's last wish, take care of these two for me and let my kin know of my death. Fang, Howl, this is your new master, treat him well and protect him. Sir my kin reside in Mantle in sector 4, look for a girl in red with yellow eyes that is my sister. Let her know that I have met my fate and that she need not worry about me any longer." The man says as I see the last bit of life leave him and his arm falls limp off mine. The two wolves move up and sniff his hand and then nudge it but they quickly realize that he's gone. They whimper as they rub against his head one last time before howling as night falls. I let them finish howling before I start moving again with the two wolves following behind me. 

We take shelter in the cave and rest by a fire that I made from a few sticks I picked up from the campsite. The two wolves huddle together on the opposite side of the fire from me as I warm up a ration I still had from the boat. The wolves just stare as I eat my rations until I realize why. "You want some don't you?" I say as the wolves' ears perk up and I see their eyes go into puppy mode. "Here I'm full anyway," I say as I toss a piece of meat to both of them. They both snag the meat out of the air and scarf them down quickly. The wolf with the collar labeled fang walks over to me and lays down in my lap which is a welcome change to the cold that has me chilled to the bone. Howl just stares until Fang barks for Howl to come over as well. Howl reluctantly crawls over and rests next to me. Now covered from the cold I drift off into sleep.  I awake in a black void with nothing around me but Aaron. "Ah, it's been so long since I've been back here. Okay, let's see what we want tonight's dream to be." I say as memories emerge from the darkness and I start swiping throw them like an app on my scroll. "Oh can we-" "No we're not gonna relive me and neo, not while the wolves are on us at least." I say as Aaron hovers above me. "Ugh your no fun. Well, I was out for so long so can I at least see some of what I missed." Aaron begs. "Fine hold on I've got something here somewhere." I say as I swipe through more memories.  I keep swiping until I find what I'm looking for. "Ah here we are this should get us started, this was not too long after you first blacked out." I say as we enter the memories of me entering Ruby's house. "Wait I see Jaune, Ren, and Nora, but where's Phyrra?" Aaron asks. "She died battling cinder at the top of Beacon tower." I explain. "What!?" Aaron says in shock. "Yeah, that was about my reaction when I heard it myself. Now watch the rest." I say as I resume the memory. "Aww, at least Ruby and yang made it out in one piece." Aaron says as Ruby hugs past me. "Yeah about that." I say as past me enters Yang's room.  "Ok WHAT!? Aaron says in confusion. "Yeah according to Ruby Yang got in a fight with Adam while she was looking for Blake. After he was done with her he likey was making his way out when we bumped into him before he.... you know, you were still there." I say as I continue the memory. "Yeah, but we're gonna give him his piece once we're back at full strength right." Aaron says excitedly. "I don't know bud, something tells me that someone else beat us to the punch. We have been out for two months now so anything could have happened in that time. Besides were literally on a trip to the gates of hell so that we can grab so Grimm juice and get us back to 100%. I doubt that Salem is gonna let us get it without a fight of some kind." I explain. "Oh please we can deal with her no problem, she's not immortal." Aaron says. I just stare at him as the memory ends. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me. She's fucking immortal! How did you even find this out?" Aaron asks.  "I stole her diary." I say as I try and find the memory. "YOU WHAT!" Aaron yells. "Hey in my defense I didn't find the immortal part out until after I stole it...and basically told her to go fuck herself." I say as I scratch the back of my head. "How has she not tried to kill you yet?" Aaron asks as he facepalms. "Oh she's tried but so far she's just sent flunkies." I say as I play the memory of me throwing the loin brothers out of a train. 

After some more catching up morning comes and I wake up. I let out a yawn and stretch which wakes up the wolves as they move off of me. "Morning, ugh time to get moving I guess." I say as I wipe of what bites of snow made it through the wolves fur and onto my duster. I look to the entrance and see that it's been blocked off by snow overnight. "Dame must have snowed pretty good last night, lets see if Hellsing can help out here." I say as I pull out Hellsing and load her you with fire dust rounds. "Might want to cover your ears." I say as the two wolves take cover behind me and cover their ears. I fire a round at the snow and make a good-sized hole in the snow but it's still blocked off. I fire off the rest of my ammunition but still don't clear a way out. "Damn! Well if we can't shoot our way out I guess we could explore what's in the rest of the cave and see if we find an exit. Although we're out of food so if we don't find anything and soon well starve, but on the other hand if we do manage to get out from this way we would likely have to make our way through a shit ton of snow and use up more energy. Shit, come on then let's explore the cave, who knows we may find some bugs to eat or something." I say as I put on my flashlight in my scroll with one hand and have Death's finger drawn in the other. "Well if push comes to shove we do have the wolves." Aaron says as licks his lips. "Only as a last resort Aaron, but something tells me we're not alone in here." I say as shadows dance from the fork in the road in front of us.  I look down both paths and see nothing but ice and darkness. "Well shit, what do you think you two left or right?" I say to the wolves who both just look at me. "In that case, let's see eeny mine miney, you." I say as I pick the path on the right. "You know its a really good thing our scroll can do so much cool shit like have a flashlight built in. It would suck if we had to make a torch and wind up having it go out while were in the middle of here." Aaron says as I slide down an ice slope. "Yeah and its a good thing that deathstarkers hate the cold otherwise we would have a good chance of us running into a deathstalker, and I do not like the idea of being in an enclosed space with those pincers and that big ass stinger." I say as I see the terain slowly change. "Uh is it just me or did it get a lot less cold and a lot more sticky in here." I say as I walk past walls covered in webs. As I keep walking deeper and deeper into the cave the temperature changes from a freezing cold to a muggy and smelly warmth. "Oh gods that smell is foul, it smell like something .... died..in..here." I say as I enter a new part of the cave and see bodies stuck to the ceiling that are covered in webs. "Oh thats not good, uh you sure we cant just turn back and trect through the snow, cause I do not want to meet the spider that is big enough to do that." Aaron says with a shaking voice. "Your afraid of spiders to huh, well that makes to of us." I say as four massive spiders drop slowly from the ceiling behind us. "Uh b-boss we got a b-b-big problem here." Aaron says as he points behind me. "oh fuck" I say as I tighten my grip on Deaths finger.