Next-Generation Grimm (A Grimm Fanfiction)

Chapter 1: Dear Diary

Dear Diary-

My name is Brooke, and I see the monsters inside of people.

They are called Wesen, and Mau-Mau (the Maushertz who raised me) says that not everyone is Wesen, but there are plenty in the world. They survive.

I miss Mau-Mau. She was killed when a pride of lion-men invaded the Kinderhaus where I lived. They killed everyone else, but they left me. I hid from them, and they never found me. Now I am alone, and I am scared.

Mau-Mau said I was a Grimm, but I don't know what it is. I have tried many times to woge, but it never happens. The others teased me a lot for it. Do you know how terrible it is to be teased by an Eisebieber? I asked Mau-Mau what sort of Wesen a Grimm was, and she said a Grimm wasn't a Wesen, it was another kind of person. I asked her once if all the non-Wesen people were Grimms, and she told me no; you had to be special to be a Grimm, and there weren't as many Grimms as there were Wesen. That was all she ever told me about being a Grimm. She could tell me all about the other Wesen, like the Hexenbiester and the Könningschlangen, but she could never keep a straight face when she talked about Grimms.

I've asked her before if my parents were Wesen, and she said no, they were both Grimms. She said they died when I was very young, and Mau-Mau was working with Child Services at the time, and so arranged to have me sent to the Kinderhaus. She said I would have died without someone to protect me...but she wouldn't say why.

Now she is dead, and I don't know why. The Löwen ripped her belly open, tore apart the other children, and they ransacked the entire house. I survived because Donny the Rheinegen taught me how to hide. They never found me, and I didn't come out until dawn. I can still hear their screams ringing in my ears, amid the snarls of the Löwen. Now I am alone, and the house is dead and silent.

I found Mau-Mau in her sitting room-at least her body. They had smashed the large desk in the front hall that we used for mail and such. I saw an envelope with my name on it, in Mau-Mau's handwriting. Why had she written a letter to me? I opened it and found a heavy green pendant on a chain. I remember seeing Mau-Mau wear it a few times. It has strange markings on it. I wonder why she wanted me to have it? It is all I have left to remember her by, so I will keep it forever.

What can I do? This is all the home I have ever known, and it is destroyed. I have nothing left-nothing but a name and a necklace.

Who am I? Where do I go from here?

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Dear Diary,

In the end, there is only power. And none can wield power like a Hexenbieste.

My name is Raven, and I serve the most powerful force in the world, the Royal Family. I was placed in the care of Lady Aurelia when I was six years old. My parents were her bodyguards, elite servants called Grimms; they were killed in the line of duty, and so she raised me herself until I was old enough to learn my duties. I trained with the Verrat until I was too good for them, then Lady Aurelia accepted me as her only agent. I accomplished my first mission when I was thirteen: removing a greedy Klaustreich who was embezzling from the Family. I cut off its head, and presented it before her. She smiled and said I was ready to learn the true meaning of what a Grimm ought to be.

I held a secret conference with Milady a few nights later. She showed me the pendant she wore around her neck, saying that at one time, the Royal Family held six more just like it. Then one day, seven Grimms rebelled against the Family and took the pendants for their own. The Royals were able to recover three, and they knew the location of one more-but there remained three unaccounted for.

She asked me if I wanted to be the one to find the remaining pendants. I swore I would do anything she asked me.

"Even if it means killing another Grimm?" she asked.

In the end, there is only power, and power must not show any doubt.

"The Grimm who withholds the pendant from its rightful owner is rebellious and unfit for service," I replied.

Lady Aurelia sat back and smiled. "I will need twenty Hundjaeger to watch over me while you are gone," she mused.

I smiled at the praise, "I must find all I can about the pendant and its history before I depart, but while I am not here, so long as you remain exactly as you are, no harm should befall you."

She gave a small chuckle, "I shall grow restless without you, my Raven."

I bowed low before her. "I shall hasten my departure, that I might return the sooner."

She raised her eyebrows, "Not empty-handed, I hope?"

I set my mouth, "Never."

I have sworn my duty; here I sit in the library at the Royal palace in Lyon. Who knows what clues I will uncover as I discern what the seven rebels possibly hoped to gain? What of that fourth key? Why, if its location is known, have none of the Family attempted to retrieve it? Perhaps Lady Aurelia will answer these questions when I speak with her again tomorrow.