RWBY Fanfic: Team EMRC Volume 2

The Sirens Call for Your Heads

"F... Father?" Ellis looks at her, his expression somewhat tired and confused, while in the mirror world, Chiaro looks at her also. Diana stays silent for a few more moments before Ellis speaks up, "What did you say, Diana?" Diana stands up and begins walking into the woods, Ellis standing up and walking over to her, "Diana? Diana are you okay?" He places his hand on her shoulder but is almost immediately met with a punch to the gut as he does, Diana having been the one to deliver it. Ellis' aura took the hit but still, she held nothing back on it. Ellis falls down to his knees and clutches at his stomach. Diana beginning to run into the inky black forest.

Ellis feels someone grab under his arm and his shoulder, helping him up, seeing Professor Bianco adjusting his goggles, "Wake your team up. I'll chase after her." As Professor Bianco begins running after Diana in the pitch black of the night, Ellis moves over to his other two sleeping teammates.

Diana continues running into the woods, hearing words, her fathers words, on repeat in the air, calling out for help, calling for her, she couldn't stop herself, even if she wanted to. She didn't even realise what she was doing, her brain was too fixated on the voice that her body was on auto-pilot. She's in too deep now, the voice is so close. He's so close. Eventually she reaches a clearing in the forest, only lit by the shattered moon in the sky. Her fathers voice so loud in her head, she couldn't even hear her own thoughts. Then everything stopped, she couldn't move, almost like she'd frozen, her fathers voice stopped in her ears and nothing else came into her mind, not even her own thoughts were there at this point. She then hears a voice in the tree line, but she couldn't move. It was the priest, Hellfire, "They're truly magnificent aren't they."

Diana struggled to get words out, but through the stiffness she was able to get out, "Where's... my... father!?"

"Aah... so it was your father they lured you in with... how tragic." Hellfire walks out of the trees and holds his arms out as if he were presenting something, Diana seeing everything in front of her but powerless to stop it, "Witness my queens latest creations." The sounds of several wet slaps on the forest floor started ringing out from behind the trees until 'they' come out, it was five Grimm. But these were none like what Diana had seen before. They were Ink black like normal Grimm, but their legs were replaced by a bony, still black tail reaching around 5ft, their upper bodies also skinny, but still slightly bigger and longer than the tail at 7ft, thin arms with large bony hands reaching down to halfway across the Grimm's tails with long fingers used to transport them, due to them having no legs. Its head wearing a bone mask like most other Grimm, with four bright red eyes and red lines running from inside the bone mask and fading out towards the side of its head, the creatures' necks seeming so thin that a single tap could snap them. They also have a hair mane that flows as if they were underwater, bits of the mane seeming to fade off but the hair still remaining.

Hellfire looks at them in amazement, "My queen never ceases to amaze me... I've been working with these creatures for days, but I can never get over their beauty..." He looks back over to Diana and laughs slightly, "Seeing as you're as good as dead, I might as well tell you how they lead you here." Hellfire begins walking closer to her while the five of the Grimm follow behind, slow, but still keeping a pace, "These are what my Queen labelled... Siren Grimm, they search through the deepest reaches of a random targets mind. They find a person inside them to lure the target out with... or imitate whatever their target wants more than anything in the world." Diana's eyes tear up, she cant move, she's surrounded by Grimm and a madman who has no qualms killing her on the spot. Hellfire begins laughing at her and faces her with a giddy laugh, "You let your family die!" He begins walking up to her, "You've let down your team. Your school. Yourself. What would that dead father of yours think of you now, missy? I think he'd be very disappointed in you." Hellfire laughs again, happily stating, "You let your father die!"