The Child of Grimm (Rewritten)

Chapter 9: Do You Believe...?

(Opening Theme: RWBY V3 Opening-When It Falls Performed By Casey Lee Williams)

-One Week Earlier-

RWBY had contacted JNPR, soon after the Grimm vanished in the forest. They told them about what happened and even what Destiny had been hiding underneath her eyepatch, and needless to say, they found this kind of thing unbelievable. After making sure the couple had been alright, they headed back to Beacon and went straight towards the dorms.

Destiny laid in Blakes bed, with the pillows propped up so that she had been sitting up, while Cristal sat at her bedside looking at her feet, staying silent, while RWBY and JNPR looked to the two of them, not knowing what to say to them. Often at times, they looked at Destiny's eye as she pet Zwei who laid in her lap.

Sometimes, one of them went to say something, but immediately shut it, as if they were afraid they would say words that they wouldn't take back.

Cristal finally turned to look at the group.

"I know that look anywhere." She merely stated, "You all have questions."

"I--" Ruby started to say before she had been cut off when Cristal spoke again. "You guys get three." She soon said.

The group looked to one another at this, still unsure of the situation. "I... Think we might have more." Ruby soon said.

"I know." Cristal told her, "... But... It'll be overwhelming for the two of us, if you all just ask at once. So you only get three."

Both teams nodded in understanding at this, though each had been a bit hesitant as to ask, seeing as how she was only going to allow them to ask three. It hadn't been long before Pyrrha spoke first, directing her attention towards Destiny.

"When... You told me about the other secret..." Pyrrha soon said, "... Is this what you meant...?"

The child didn't reply using words, she only nodded, "I didn't say anything about it, because... I was scared of what you all would think of me. I was worried that you were going to hate me."

"Well... Hate isn't the word we would use." Blake told her gently, "We're more surprised."

Cristal and Destiny looked to the group surprised, when they realized they had the same thought as Blake did. "Gotta admit, that wasn't the kind of response I was expecting." She said.

"That almost sounds like you were expecting us to hate you and her." Ruby added.

Cristal didn't seem to add onto that, as she stayed silent for a moment. "You got two left." She told them, "What else do you want to know?"

"How..." Jaune soon started to say, "... How did her eye end up this way?"

The sisters glanced to one another again. "Want to or should I?" Destiny asked her older sister.

"You know what Princess?" Cristal said, "Let's tell them together."

"Tell us what?" Nora soon asked.

The two sisters nodded before they turned back to the group. "What we're about to tell, never, and I mean NEVER leaves this room." Cristal told them with a serious look, "Never repeat this to anyone else, understand?"

RWBY and JNPR nodded their heads, before Destiny had been the first to speak up, "Well, this might be hard to believe but... To tell you the truth... I didn't always have an eye."