Grimm Wars

Chapter One: Escaping the Vale - I

Her eyes fluttered open slowly.

There to greet her was a pale ceiling of dull blue. And the sound of something tapping on glass reached her ears. After a few more times of opening and closing her eyes, she turned her head to the source of the sound.

Yang found a cracked window with raindrops sliding down and hitting the glass as it fell from the heavens above. Gray clouds covered the sky. By her best guess by the way it looked outside, it was mid-day on a rainy day.

Yang tried sitting up, but a throbbing pain on the right side of her ribcage quickly stopped her. Thinking quickly, she channeled her Aura to numb the pain and try to heal the damage she sustained. Her mind was hazy at first, but then it all came back to her in a flash of pain in her head.

Her fight against the damned Monster, the damage she got from it, and finally her sister protecting her at the last second.

Moving her right arm to hold her left, she narrowed her eyes in frustration. She was the one who was meant to save her sister from that Monster, not the other way around.

Did Ruby make some kind of deal with the Monster? Did she promise to return to it without a fight if it spared her sister?

She sighed out her frustration. Not like she could do anything about it now...

But Gods above, it hurt her heart knowing she failed... again. Failed to keep her baby sister safe for a second time. Twice now, she had failed to keep her sister away from that Monster! She hates herself for it!

But before she could give herself a bigger mental whipping, the cold feeling she was having brought her back to the here and now. She was freezing!

And a quick look at herself told why as well.

With the blanket that was covering her fallen away, she could see that all her had on her right now were bandages. They covered her bust, her left arm, and her forehead. Looking underneath the blanket, she also saw she only had her underwear on at the moment. Someone must have stripped her to check for injuries. While she was glad someone found her, a light blush came to her face at the thought of them seeing her twins without a bra.

With her Aura now fully kicked in, she no longer felt like she needed her bandages and thus began to remove them all. She stood up from the bed and quickly got to work removing the cloth wrappings around her head, arm, and bust. It took her about two minutes to get rid of them. During that time, she took in her current state of being.

Her left arm got the most abuse from that fight. And while the cuts on her arm have fully healed thanks to her Aura and the bandages, she could already tell that there will be some noticeable scars.

Oh well. Better than having to lose the whole arm or something similar. Besides, it was the scars you couldn't see that hurt leagues more.

That just left one last question for her. Where was her savior?

Bark! Bark!

Yang's head snapped over to the sound quickly, only to find a familiar little black and white corgi wagging his tail at her. A happy smile upon his canine face.

"Zwei?" she asked, completely shocked to see the dog here.

She was about to walk over to the dog, when the sound of running feet came from the door to the room. Within seconds, the door bursts open to reveal another familiar face. There stood Rojo Toro, with concern on her face and his combat knife in hand in case something was wrong.

Within seconds, even as it seemed like time slowed to a crawl, both faces of Yang Xaio Long and Rojo Toro slowly became beat red in embarrassment. But just before a shrill scream of said embarrassment could escape the blonde's mouth, a strong hand suddenly covered her lips and silenced the scream off in an instant.