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Chapter 1

It began with a unique perspective, the outside was cold.

A simple concept, cold, one which any species should understand, a bane to motion and antipathy to the fire within living beings.

Yet, even as the intimidating creature thought this something sparked within its strange mind, setting its impossible physiology onto a path every one of its brethren eventually treads.

It began to notice things, the difference in trees it ran around whilst patrolling, the brightness of the day and warmth of the sun which came with it.

Even as the world started to become more filled in its pack seemed to notice something was odd with their sibling, to the point of even the Alpha becoming wary and aggressive in its actions.

This came to a head on a day where the sun hid behind grey skies waiting to unleash their gift upon the waiting land. The pack was excited, prey had moved into its territory, a sibling had met their end at the intruder's hands but the death had not been in vain, the pack had heard, they knew.

The howling began as the pack chased, following the scent, the individual Grimm knew that the one it chased had killed one of its siblings and something new happened to it again, even as it was still coming to terms with it having a perception of the world, it felt a twinge in its chest, some strange form of heat from deep inside.

The heat burned it, it did not like the heat, but the heat drove it forward, for some reason a memory occurred to it, a Grimm, like any other, but this one was somehow different. Its sibling, its fellow pack member.

The heat burned hotter, painful beyond belief, or perhaps that was the strength in its legs flagging, it noticed it was far ahead of its pack now, moving so much faster than them.

Then it saw the intruder, a strange being, shaped like a deformed version of itself, yet so colorful, so vibrant, it was like the world whereas the Grimm was like the darkness of a cave.

For a mere moment they both stared at eachother, one in resignation and the other in curiosity then the intruder burst into motion, pulling out a strangely shaped claw and pointed it toward it.

The intruder pointed the claw at the Grimm and suddenly pain exploded in the Grimm's mask, something had cracked it and injured it and with the pain came the burning in its chest again, the Grimm began running at the intruder with a ferocity it had never had.

As the Grimm neared its target the intruder swiftly sidestepped the lunge and brought the claw down it felt its world go dim, crashing into a nearby tree it lay there watching as the rest of its pack came down on the intruder with righteous fury.

A scratchy cold effect began running down the length of its back, settling in its lower stomach, it wanted to go back to its pack, rip the intruder to pieces, anything for the pack, but it could not move, not the slightest motion came from it.

The intruder changed its claw from its blunt form to its sharp form constantly, leaping over others and inflicting lethal wounds on them one at a time, all the while its Alpha sat there observing, watching as its pack was torn to pieces in front of it.

The burning returned as it watched its leader prowl at the edges of the fight waiting, searching for the right moment to attack and it felt a cracking sound coming from its neck area, it could move its feet ever so slightly!

Finally the last one of its fellow pack members fell desperately trying to hold to this side of the Shadows before slipping away, the intruder stopped and looked toward the Alpha, snapping its blunt claw back to its sharp claw as it looked up at the powerful being.

With no warning the Alpha charged letting loose an earth shattering cry before lunging to take a bite out of the intruder. With almost no effort the intruder tapped its claw to the side of the muzzle of the Alpha and shoved them both away from each other, leaving the intruder standing only a few paces from where it started and the Alpha recovering from crashing into a tree.

The Alpha turned around just in time to glimpse the shine of the claw as it was jammed into one eye, then almost as swiftly, the other, causing the Alpha to yowl out in surprise and begin desperately slashing out in front of it blindly.

Leaping out of range the intruder changed his claw to its blunt form again and began throwing something from the claw so fast the observing Grimm could not even see the claw moving nor the objects being thrown, only that the Alpha was suddenly being hit by something like small rocks in its gored out eyes.

With a final scream the Alpha fell and the intruder relaxed slightly before looking around into the woods, seeing what the Grimm had heard quite a while earlier the intruder looked around the clearing until its eyes came across the unmoving but not returned to the shadows form of the observing Grimm.

The hair above the eye of the intruder raised slightly until it lifted up its blunted claw and point it at the Grimm. As it was about to throw the dangerous invisible stones multiple flying Grimm swooped in and began their attack.

Despite the attack the intruder was still able to fire on its injured target once before fleeing again, the shot struck with the force of a tree falling on it in one small area, its bone mask again, just below its eye, creating a bleeding teardrop shape in its mask before it fell unconscious.

The world returned slowly to the Grimm and the first thing it noticed was the shattered white shape in the sky, the view of it caused the chilling effect settling in its stomach that was slowly encroaching to lighten and the tension in its body disappear.

Immediately afterwards it noticed it could move again and therefore rose on shaky limbs but it found it didn't quite understand its own movements and fell on its side. The sudden collapse confused it further as it began trying to move and found that its limbs were not the ones it had before it fell unconscious.

Stronger, defter, larger, it was in every way superior, realization slowly dawned on it, for some reason, it was like its Alpha, it was not as large as its Alpha but it was still significantly superior to its former siblings.

The thought of its siblings brought back the uncomfortable burning in its chest but it decided that the intruder would have to wait until it recovered, then it would track the intruder down and rip it asunder. Perhaps even if the intruder was no longer in its territory even… no, the Grimm would never leave its territory without the guidance of its Alpha.

The view of the shattered sky rested in its eyes as the being lay down and quietly extinguished the blood red of its eyes from behind its damaged mask, rest well deserved, complications could wait until later.

The light rose over the trees and the new Alpha gradually awoke noticing the sound of breathing all around it, the sound startling it into leaping up on its strange new limbs.

All around the Alpha were pack members, they looked just like it used to as well as its siblings, though admittedly they did appear a little on the small side compared to what it recalled its siblings looked like.

Slowly the others woke up and surrounded him, sitting in a half circle around the Alpha and remaining unmoving as though waiting for something.

Gradually realization dawned upon the alpha that this was its pack, these were the members that would listen to it and it would control.

The thought confused it as another feeling swelled up upon seeing its pack, this one was a slightly warm feeling that suffused its body, even if its pack was only four members at the moment.

Stretching its body to full length the Alpha looked past its pack and remembered the intruder, with this it could hunt the intruder down as it is no longer stuck inside the territory of its former Alpha, indeed it needed to find its own territory, to travel and search. Time didn't matter, it would remember its pack, it would always remember.