Everknight

Chapter 3

The Creatures of Grimm are the embodiment of destruction unless you're a Grimm Seer named Pythia. They are attracted to negative emotions and tend to attack humans and faunus on sight, leaving animals and insects alone for some reason.

They're also very whiny about doing other things that are not lollygagging or attacking something. That really explains a lot about Pythia.

"Come on."

"Raaaowr."

Jaune was using his entire body to push a giant Ursa Major back to the right path while the giant Grimm was making unintelligible noise that sounds like a mixture between whining and groaning. The Ursa Major had stood on its hind legs, its head raised straight to the sky, arms hanging loose and jaws lazily agape. This Grimm was the biggest and oldest of the Ursai he found in Forever Fall and it simply did not want to move boulders at the mountainsides.

"Don't make me use my glove."

His smooth white-glove bore Salem's emblem, which is the source of two interesting abilities he can utilize. The first ability is something she calls the 'Grimm Portal' which lets him store or summon a certain amount of Grimm. This is the same ability he's 'threatening' the Ursa Major with.

The final ability lets him mask his presence and mess with people's face perception. That's how he was able to move around undetected for the most part.

Anyway, Salem wasn't kidding when she explained that older Grimm can be very stubborn. They're essentially old people who refuse to do anything they didn't want to do because they're 'old'. If anything, this Ursa Major is acting more like a lazy teenager whose been told to go do their chores, letting out another groan as Jaune slowly manages to push the Grimm back to the right path.

His ever so faithful personal Grimm Seer, Pythia, was floating overhead keeping an eye out on things. In all honesty, it was probably redundant unless you have someone that can hide from plain sight like that Neo girl.

Why?

Because there's a giant Nevermore sitting on top of several large boulders, watching over everything along with a lot of lesser Grimm shuffling through the forest. That same giant Nevermore is his flight attendant and pilot across Vale.

"Good boy."

"Ra, Raaaowr!"

"Don't mock me." He rolled his eyes and walked back to the Nevermore, ready to move on to the next part of the forest. "Alright, let's go you two." Pythia floated down and wrapped itself around his chest since Jaune can't hold the Grimm while riding the Nevermore. "Not too tight, Pythia. You're stronger than you look."

The giant Nevermore descended from its perch, landing near Jaune for him to get on. He leaped on the Nevermore and patted its neck. It let out a screech and took off to the sky towards their next destination. One more stop, a quick check on the Grimm horde in the mountains and Jaune is off on vacation for the week.

"Wonder what we should do during vacation." Jaune raised his voice over the rippling winds for Pythia to hear. "I heard that the Vytal Festival will be hosted in Vale, so the shops are selling or stockpiling their stuff. Good time to go on a short spending spree."

Pythia hissed loudly over the winds.

"I know you're not good with money, cause you're a Grimm. No offense to you guys." He patted the Nevermore gently. "But just because we're rich doesn't mean we can recklessly spend money. My mother taught me good finances tricks."