The Next Step

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In a land of dark red and purple crystals and red sky pools of black slime dot the land in front of an opulent black Gothic castle that hangs precariously on the edge of a cliff with large bay windows watching over the pools as black claws begin to climb out of the pools soon followed by their arms and then the bodies revealing multiple Beowolves the slime sliding off its body as it looks towards the castle before stumbling away. 

In the Castle watching out one of the windows Emerald and Mercury hang with their mouths open in disgust as they watch the new Grimm being 'born' into the world as they all walk off into the horizon. Behind the two sits a long meeting table before a gloved hand snaps its figures causing them to turn around towards the rest of the room at the previously mentioned table sits five people and one black and red robot that almost looks unfinished. One of the people is a battle-scared Cinder as half her face is covered with an obsidian mask and she now wears a long dress reminiscent of her original dress but she has one long sleeve and her gloved hand. 

Emerald and Mercury make their way towards their master with Mercury taking a spot slightly too close to Cinder causing Emerald to push him out of the way like children before they stand next to her.  Across the table from Cinder sits a tall middle-aged man with a slim build and slightly tanned skin with a thick black and grey moustache and the matching hair to go with it. He sits looking at his Scroll occasionally his eyes dart up and look at the seemingly deactivated robot sitting in the seat next to Cinder. 

Next to the robot sits a scorpion faunus but the term squatting would probably be better since he squats on his chair with his arms clasped together in front of him and a crazy look in his eyes. Across from the crazy guy sits a very large man with broad shoulders and dark brown hair a beard to match his large tree trunk-like arms have scars running up and down them as he sits with his arms crossed and his eyes closed.

Moustache man: Yes, yes, please keep your posse in check. 

The man looks up from his Scroll and readjusts his tie before insulating the three as Mercury grunts and attempts to make a move toward the man but Emerald just puts her arms in front of him. However, it doesn't look like the man is done as he decides to take an extra jab at the three while he looks to the others for gratification.

Moustache man: You hear that? Silence.

The large man opens one of his eyes while he gives him an unimpressed sideways glance. 

Moustache man: I've half a mind to thank the little girl that bested you. But this wouldn't have happened if the world had turned on the Gundam like you planned they would. For once I'm glad your plan failed.

The man continued to berate them while he changed his sights to the robot once again. It looks like an AK-200 on the body but the head looked like it was attempting to pass for a human just if it had no skin only metal. The crazy guy decides to jump into the conversation.

Faunus: If I were you, I'd hunt her down. 

He snickers a little as he can almost see himself peeling Ruby's skin from her body as she screams in pain. 

Faunus:  Find her and, well, she took your eye, didn't she?

Cinder is only able to stare at the Faunus as he cackles at her before she slightly leans away trying to get as far from him as possible. She tries to speak but only quiet pained exhaling noises come out causing Emerald to lean down to listen to her. This seems to anger the moustache man even more. 

Moustache man: Fucking pathetic. First, you can't kill children correctly and now you can't even- 

 The room falls to silence as the sound of a heavy metal door opening fills the room Emerald and Mercury could even swear that the room dropped a few degrees as she walked in and everyone shoots to their feet, the robot is slow as its eyes light up and it joins the others. 

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