Child of Grimm Ch. 86: Finale

Okay, so this is indeed going to be the finale. It could be long, it could be short. Either way, expect an A/N monologue after this chapter {posted as a separate chapter of course} about this story. So anyways, here you go.

Xander stood up, and stretched out. He, Junior, the twins, Adam, and the rest of his team had been waiting for almost a full day. They still had yet to see Derek separate from RWBY, or anyone else. It was beginning to get a little boring.

"I have an idea," Xander grumbled. "How about, I lay down some fire with Hive and Nest, Ginseng tosses a couple of grenades, Junior launches off a couple of rockets, and we deal with Derek and anyone that survived?"

"How about we stick with the plan?" Adam asked angrily.

"Jeez, okay. If you wanna die of boredom, be my guest." Xander stood up, and pointed Hive and Nest forward. Before he got off a shot, both weapons were pulled from his hands. He looked over, and saw them resting in Ginseng's hands.

"How about we stick with the plan?" He asked, more calmly the Adam had.

"Since I don't have my weapons," Xander sighed. "I guess I'll have too."

"Have patience Xander," Ginseng said, a smile worn plainly on his face. "Another hour, and our plan will be achieved."

"Plan?" Adam asked.

"A plan that doesn't affect you, Adam" Xander said instantly. "You just have to follow along, and we'll try not to leave you for dead."

Beacon Academy: DRGN's Dorm

Derek pulled his arm away from his sword, and looked over it. At that point, he had switched away from using a conventional sharpener and just started using his scales. They worked along the same principle, and nothing really changed as long as he kept up the correct angle. He briefly checked outside again, and looked around for his team. So far, they were all still out to get food. He volunteered to stay behind since most store owners didn't take too kindly to his presence. He had been waiting for about an hour, which meant the Monica's car had most likely broken down.

Finally, he caught sight of the three of them walking up to the front of Beacon. He briefly weighed going down to help, but tossed that away. What fun would that be? He watched as they entered into Beacon, and he just started forming pictures.

The front door opened up a short while later, and the rest of his team walked inside.

"Glad to see you again," he said almost instantly.

"Sorry about us being so late," Monica said instantly. "Everywhere was closed."

"No car troubles?" Derek asked, a smile worn plainly on his face.

"Well, a little bit of that," Gwen confessed. Derek just shook his head, and grabbed the bag of food laid out in front of him. He quickly started to eat, determined to finish up as fast as possible.

30 Minutes Later

Gwen tossed the container that had been holding her food into the trash, and leaned back in her bed. Gwen was the slowest eater {since Derek and Nathan both ate like animals and Monica ate at a good pace} so everyone else had finished. Derek watched everything happen, and looked outside. He let his night vision do it's work, and he quickly picked out a good route.

"I'm taking a walk," he said absentmindedly. He almost never took flights. Not since the Black Knight had defeated him so handily. "Would anyone like to join?"

"I'm game," Monica said, picking up her spear. Nathan and Gwen both just nodded, and checked to ensure that they had their axes at the ready. Derek nodded, and jumped out of the window. He quickly extended his wings, and flew level with the opening.

"I'll meet you down there," he said instantly. Everyone just sighed, and nodded.

Nearby

"It's showtime," Xander said, a smile worn plainly on his face. "Junior, get ready." The thug nodded, and pulled out his batzooka. He quickly leveled it down to the spot that they had agreed on, and just waited.

Team DRGN

The four of them walked around Beacon, and eventually into the Emerald Forest. Gwen, Nathan, and Monica were all talking quite well, but Derek was silent. Since his first loss, he had become distant. Sure, there was his near defeat against Bush Ido, the swordsman, and the mercenaries, but he had managed to escape both times. The Black Knight made his fighting ability look like a joke, which made him afraid.

Despite everything that had happened, he still had one goal. Kill Adam, and get vengeance for his parents. There was nothing in life that he wanted more, even now. The entirety of everything he had ever done had been solely motivated by that one goal. He had been so close far too many times to give up now. But since he had finally been defeated, what would that do? Adam could get to him first, kill him beforehand. That simply wasn't something he wanted.

Something caught his ear. He briefly signaled for everyone to stop moving, and just titled his head.

"What's up D?" Nathan asked, his hand resting over his axe sheath.

"I hear movement," Derek said quietly. "It's not a small animal. It's... Something."

"Thanks for the wonderful-."

"MOVE!" Derek quickly dove to the side, and everyone else on his team did the same. A loud explosion was heard in front of them, and when everyone stood up they noticed a crater. Derek quickly drew his weapons, and burned off his clothing to get down to his armor. He extended all of his spikes, and puffed out some flames. Monica drew her spear, Gwen and Nathan pulled out their axes, and the four of them stood in a formation. A group of men started to form around them, and it took all of a few seconds for Derek to recognize their apparel. White Fang and Junior's guards, how perfect.

"Let's get this going," Derek growled. He quickly ran forward, and blew out a column of flames. Most of the enemies were unable to get out of the way, and they were burnt to a crisp. The ones that were successful in getting out of the way were left with little time to celebrate as Derek quickly cut through them with his sword and spear. He briefly looked behind him, and saw that the rest of his team was doing well.

The numbers started to lower, and with that came a revealing. Four people were standing just behind one of the groups, and Derek recognized all four of them. Junior, the twins, and Adam. It's time to end this. He went to run at Adam, but he saw Junior raise up his batzooka. He quickly fired off a barrage of rockets, and one of them caught Derek. He had no time to think as another wave of rockets was sent at him. He didn't have time to dodge this, and he could tell that his wings were damaged. So no flying, he thought grimly. He quickly barreled through some of the White Fang, and cut to the back of the crowd.

Some of them moved forward at him, but Derek just swept around his tail to take out their legs. Without another word, he sprinted towards Adam. Unfortunately, the Faunus had already taken off in a sprint away from him. And so the chase begins.

Monica watched as Derek ran after Adam, and sighed. His blind rage wasn't going to be reasoned with, and he was already long gone past the point where she might be able to catch up with him. But still, she had to try. Just as Monica took a step forward, something hit her in the back. Monica flew forward, and landed with a hard thud. She brought her head up, and saw Junior with a small group of guard's.

"Hello again," he said gruffly. Monica just slammed her spear into the ground, and let volts of electricity fill the ground. Most of the guards weren't able to jump, but Junior got up before he could be fried. "Nice trick," he said in a mock compliment. "Try this one." He flipped around his rocket launcher, and fired off several rockets. Monica zapped as many of them out of the air as she could, and then jumped forward. She swung around her spear at him, but Junior just blocked it.

Nathan and Gwen cut down another one of the guards, and smiled in satisfaction.

"Melanie, what are they smiling about?"

"I don't know Miltia, but let's end them." Nathan and Gwen sighed, and turned around to face the two that they were expecting, the twins. Both of them had their arms folded, and both of them were smiling.

"Let's repay the favor," Nathan said instantly. He jumped forward, and swung around his axe. Melanie jumped into the air, and swung her boots down at him. Nathan blocked the strike, and reached his arm out. He used the bracelet that he had received a while back to freeze the ground, causing Melanie to slip when she landed. Nathan swung around his axe to finish her off, but a pair of claws met his path, and Miltia threw him back.

Before she could make a move, a strong gust of wind hit her in the side, and sent her back a ways. Gwen stepped to where Nathan was, and twirled around her axe to build up a breeze. Miltia struggled to hold her ground, but she held fast. Something hit her in the back, and Gwen spiraled out of the way. Melanie managed to crawl over to where Gwen was, and knock her off balance.

The two friends looked at the twins, and looked at each other. Gwen and Nathan had been working together for a long time, and they knew exactly what to do. Nathan slammed his axe into the ground, and raised up a wall of ice. Gwen stuck her axe into that wall, and pushed as much wind as she could into it. Spikes appeared on the other end, and she finally launched them forward. All of the spikes flew forward, and the twins managed to dodge most of them. Some of them still caught them, but they were left somewhat undamaged. But that wasn't what Nathan and Gwen wanted, both of them jumped over the ice and swung around their axes at the twins. Neither one of them had time to block the strikes.

Monica blocked another one of Junior's strikes, and pushed him back with the electricity. Junior quickly fired off several rockets, but Monica easily jumped into the air and out of the way. She fired off a volt of electricity, and Junior managed to just roll out of the way. Monica landed, and sprinted forward. Junior tried to swing around his bat to meet it, but Monica made contact with him just before hand. Her body was so charged with electricity, that Junior was thrown back. Monica swung around her spear after that, and nailed Junior in the ribs.

She knelt down, and recovered some of her energy. Nathan and Gwen both walked over to Monica, and looked around at the bodies.

"Not a single one left," Gwen muttered.

"But there's no Derek," Monica mumbled. "Where did he go?"

Derek

Derek was still chasing after Adam. White Fang occasionally met him along the way, slowing down his progress. The fights between Monica, Gwen, Nathan and the twins and Junior didn't last all that long, and Adam and Derek were fast. They had traveled a good distance in that time, but it still hadn't been a long run.

Derek finally started to gain good ground on him, and he blew forward a column of flames. Adam unsheathed his sword slightly, and absorbed all of the flames. He swung around the blade towards Derek, and let all of the flames out of his blade. Derek kept along, not at all concerned by the line of flames. Soon, he bent his knees and jumped forward. He tackled Adam to the ground, and rolled up to his feet. Adam also recovered fast, and got to his feet. He quickly recognized that there was no way that he was going to be able to outrun him.

"So you have me here," Adam said, raising his voice so that it would carry to the mercenaries.

"Yes," Derek growled. "No tricks, no help, nothing. Just me and you." Derek immediately ran forward, and swung around both of his weapons towards Adam. He raised up both Wilt and Blush to stop both weapons, but Derek just headbutted him. Adam backed away, and Derek blew forward a column of flames. Adam dove out of the way, and Derek chased after him. Adam fired off three rounds from his shotgun, but nothing actually punched through his scales. Derek swung around his weapons at Adam's weapons, and knocked them out of his hands. He quickly raised up the weapons to Adam's neck, and held them there.

"Your journey is at an end," Derek growled. "You'll finally pay."

"Eighteen years is a long time to hold a grudge," Adam said, smiling to himself. "What do you think you can do after that? This is all your life has been. I am what your life has been. What do you think will happen now?"

"I don't know," Derek said, his grip faltering slightly. "But I'm more then willing to find out." Derek lowered his blades, and quickly slashed his claws across Adam's chest. His aura deflected the first strike, but Derek just slammed his elbow spikes into his chest to follow up. Adam let out a surprised gasp, but then slumped to the ground. Derek threw the body off of his spikes, and looked down. He reached for his scroll to contact his team.

"Ah, ah, ah," a voice said. Derek sighed, and realized that he knew that voice. He raised up his hand, and started to turn around. He saw Ely Swift standing right in front of him, her shotgun mace pointed straight at him. "I wouldn't do that," she said.

"What's to stop me?" Derek challenged.

"How about you take some inventory," another voice added in. Derek turned around him, and just sighed. Accompanying Ely, was Yi, Vlad, Hawk, Ginseng, and Xander. All six of them had their weapons leveled at him, and Derek had experienced all of their weapons hitting him at the same time. Even though individually he could survive, if his team didn't find him he was doomed.

"Hey," Xander said casually. "Looks like we have you in a precarious situation."

"Yes," Derek sighed. "So it appears." He raised up his weapons, and got ready to fight.

"If we were to fight you right now, completely surrounded, you wouldn't stand a chance," Hawk observed.

"I understand that," Derek said, trying to find his team.

"Mr. Scars," Ginseng said. "What time is it?"

"I have no idea," Xander grumbled. "Vlad, my assistant, time!" Vlad sighed, and looked at the time on his scroll.

"It's currently 8:01," Vlad said. Xander, Ginseng, and the Hawk all sheathed their weapons, and backed away. The other three paused in confusion, but followed their lead.

"You see," Hawk said instantly. "A lesson in business is always necessary. Cinder and Torchwick had us under contract, but they had us under a timed contract."

"This date at 8:00," Ginseng continued. "All of our contracts end. It is now 8:01, thus meaning that we're done with our contract."

"We've never had a personal dispute with you, dragon," Xander continued on. "So since we have no more time, we do more no crime for them. Besides, I'm sure someone is going to put a much larger price on your head." Ely, Yi, and Vlad started to walk away. Hawk shortly followed, and then Ginseng left.

"I'll probably see you around D," Xander said. He suddenly laughed, and turned to run. A larger price had already been placed on Derek's head. Ah well, time for details would come later on.

Derek watched them run off, and shook his head. Perhaps in the midst of everything, he had forgotten one thing. Mercenaries only owed allegiance to one thing, and that was money. He looked down at Adam's body, and pulled out his scroll. His goal of 18 years, had finally ended. Now, it was onto the next chapter of his life. One that might involve letting more people in.

But he had already started that. He had his friends, his team, and Monica. He would never get to know who his parents were, but that was strangely fine with him. His life had to move forward, but now it was the first time that he felt he could.

Hidden Complex

"He escaped. The mercenaries left him be. Adam, Junior, and the twins are all dead. What now?"

"Now, we wait. Our main plan can still happen."

"Both of you quiet! Our main goal, should be turned towards others."

End: Ending is literally just in case I want to move forward. I have a lot of assets to work with, I have an interesting concept, and I'm just wondering if I'm going to pursue anything from here. Prepare for the final A/N monologue, and then I'm going to call it quits with the final C. Final Questions, comments, follows, favorites, and feedback is appreciated {if any final questions come up I probably will do a questions thing after like a day}.