British troops run past the trees in a forest near the river Somme under heavy German machine gun fire. A group of Brits take cover behind a fallen tree as bullets fly past them and several comrades fall to the ground dead.
"What do we do Captain?! The Fritzs got us all pinned down!" Yells one of the soldiers. The Captain reloads his Mk VI Revolver while he tries to think.
"Alright, Douglas, you take your group and swing at the Germans from the right. Henry! Take your squad and swing from the left. We'll try to divide the Fritz's attention and I'll take everyone else through the center. Everyone understand?!" The captain says. His troops nod and ready their bayonets on their SMLE Rifles.
"Alright, let's move! Onwards lads! FOR KING AND COUNTRY!!" The Captain shouts as the British force give out a war cry and most charge the German position while others commit to the pincer move as instructed. Many soldiers get mowed down by German machine gun fire before the attention of the Germans divide as they fire in three directions. Soon the British and Germans were fighting up close as bayonets stabbed at bodies and guns went off in close range. The forest echoed the screams of the two armies.
Two British and German soldiers were on the ground trying to kill each other, the German on top of the Brit trying to stab a knife into him. As they struggled, they both noticed a bright light coming from their side. Suddenly, the German flew off the Briton and both were temporarily knocked out along with everyone else in the forest.
When the soldiers of both sides came to, they all saw a strange archway in front of them. They all grabbed their weapons but didn't shoot at one another as this had everyone's undivided attention now.
"Was zur Hölle? (What the Hell?)" says one of the Germans as they all get closer to the archway. Suddenly the archway flares up and a portal opens in front of them. Startled, the British and Germans train their bolt-action rifles at the portal. They then see a white skull/mask wolf-like creature with black fur walk out of the portal. The soldiers of the two empires move back as the beast looks at the soldiers before roaring and charges them.
"OH SCHEISSE! OFFENES FEUER!! (Oh shit! Open fire!!)" Orders one of the German commanders, the British commanders order the same as both sides open fire at this spawn of Hell. The creature grabs a British soldier and tears him apart as he screams while bullets pierce its body, but the body seems to take the hits fine. One of the soldiers fire at the head and the bullet successfully puts it down for good.
"What the bloody hell was that?!" Asks a British soldier. Everyone looks at one another and shrugs. The Germans who did understand English also shrugged as they had no idea. They all look at the portal again and see more of those hellhounds start passing through it.
"OH COME ON!!" shouts another British soldier as everyone starts firing at more of the creatures coming out. Soon both the Germans and British are forced to leave the forest and back to their own lines.
August 6th, 1916 would mark the day humanity made contact with the creatures known as Grimm. The Entente and Central Powers are forced into a truce by November 23rd that ends the Great War as they have to contain the Grimm. Unfortunately, the Grimm are not just coming from the Somme as five more Gateways have spawned in Egypt, the United States, Russia, Germany, and Japan. The Grimm became a worldwide concern, now every nation has a stake in this.
Here's where each gateway will lead:
- German and Russian: Atlas
- Japanese: Menagerie
- French: Vacuo
- British (Egypt): Vale
- American: Mistral

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