One Good Turn Deserves Another

Chapter 8

Okay, here we go. Thank you all ever so much for your reviews! To a recent reviewer, yeah I made some mistakes calling them Grim, thankfully another corrected me early on – so it should all be Grimm now. I should probably go back and change things, but I'm always worried it will alert people, and they might be disappointed that it's just grammar changes...

But onto another reviewer question I got multiple times for the last two chapters. About Grimm intelligence and bodies, I'll explain briefly here, but feel free to skip if you aren't interested.

Grimm Intelligence – The series calls them mindless multiple times, but I feel there is a distinction here. In language we do not mean "without a brain/intelligence" when we say mindless, it's more like – no deeper reasoning, in a rage... As such Grimm have shown in the anime that they have some small amount of intelligence, otherwise how would they know how to even bite? Or gather in packs? Or that they should DODGE attacks? Also how could ancient Grimm learn, if early Grimm have literaly ZERO intelligence? So Grimm in my tale are the same – they can't learn until they are older, but early on if they see a person entering a door – they know the person is behind the door. Like any animal would. It's more instinctual behaviour, which is why Pyrrha talked of prey, and such. The Grimm do hunt humans, so it makes sense that the main group would have moved on once the humans were dead. She doesn't think that Grimm ARE like animals, but is drawing a comparison because their behaviour does mimic animals in certain ways. I.e. method of attack, hunting behaviour, etc... Grimm hunt humans in almost the exact same way that wolves/other four legged animals hunt their prey. They are BASED on animals after all.

Grimm Food – You are all right, they do not need to eat. There is some reference to them choosing to, etc. In this chapter you might gain an idea of the scale of the attack, so things might make sense.

Grimm Bodies – Do the bodies dissolve? Yes and no, the anime actually keeps changing its mind on this! I see some dissolve instantly, others simply smoke, and some just leave body parts. Similarly Port has a skeleton in his classroom. =/ - In this fic I have made it so that Grimm dissolve based on their size. I.e. Beowolves might start vanishing ten minutes after death, while Ursa might take an hour. But they begin to smoke and slowly dissolve almost instantly. It just takes time, ergo some bodies are left over.

Sorry for the size of the AN!

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Beta: Super Saiyan Cyndaquill

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Chapter 8

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Jaune's eyes flickered open slowly, the vision in front of him blurring as he gritted his teeth in pain. Everything ached. From his neck and shoulders down to his legs, dull pain rocketed through every vein and artery in his body, and it felt like something was crushing his chest, constricting his breathing painfully.

Eyes scrunched closed in an effort to minimise the pain, his gloved hands fumbled towards his chest, running up and down his body to find what was suffocating him. Biting leather straps across his chest, and a single buckle in the middle of his sternum were pushing into him. Numb fingers fumbled with the buckle to release himself, not quite understanding why it was so tight in the first place. The metal release catch gave way with a gentle push, and the straps snapped open as gravity caught him. Blue eyes snapped open in sudden clarity as he plummeted four feet towards metal, his body twisting at the last second so that it was his shoulder that struck the metal floor and not his face.