"Eliminate the Faunas!" a thirty year-old, white-skinned man clad in a black cloak, sturdy dark grey boots, gloves and a grey full face mask with black markings yelled, holding one of his two swords forwards with the moonlight to his back.

"Yes, sir!" a male soldier, with brown hair and white skin, clad in a dark grey infantryman uniform replied, "Search the village, burn all of the homes!"

The man remained quiet until the soldier and his platoon had left.

"They will all pay for their insolence," the man said.

Elsewhere in the village, an adult, white-skinned male that was a Faunas, who had a cheetah tail, was searching an intact home.

"Samuel, Rachael, where are you?!" the adult male asked.

"Here, daddy!" a young girl's voice replied.

The adult male turned to his left and found a brown-haired human boy, a female Faunas who had a tail like the adult male's and blonde hair, a young male African-American bear Faunas with black hair, and a Japanese redheaded girl who was a Fox Faunas with fox ears and a tail (all of whom were ten years old), hiding in fear under an old-looking table.

"Dad, there you are," the boy said.

"Samuel, I'm so glad you and your sister are okay," the father replied.

"Daddy, what's going on?" the girl asked.

"I don't know how to tell you this any other way, Rachael, but we're under attack," the father said.

"Under attack?" the girl now known as 'Rachael' asked, "What's that mean?"

"We're leaving," the father said, "Come with."

"Honey, there you are!" a human woman, with the same skin color, and about was about the same age, as the father, said coming into the house, "We have to leave now!"

"I know," the father said, "Kids, you and your friends come with me."

The father grabbed Samuel and Rachael and led them out of the house, only to be surrounded by the soldiers from earlier.

"Put your hands in the air or we shoot!" one of the soldiers said pointing an assault rifle at the family.

"I know your kind; you'd shoot anyway," the father said, "Human or Faunas."

"That's not true," the man in the black cloak said passing through the wall of soldiers, "We have no intentions to harm humans, but you Faunas are a disease."

"No, it's people like you who are a disease," the mother said.

"Just for that comment, we'll shoot all of you," the cloaked man said, "Ready?"

The soldiers aimed their guns at the father, the mother, and the kids.

"Not so fast!" a deep, man's voice yelled.

The soldiers looked in the direction of the voice and saw a big, bulky, African-American, bear Faunas holding a large broadsword flying through the air. The broadsword's hilt changed into a gun handle and a small box, the blade separated, revealed a rail and, as everyone could see, the broadsword was now a miniature rail gun.

"Take this!" the bear Faunas said loading a small projectile onto the rail, pulling the trigger and firing it.

"Move!" the masked man cried.

The soldiers and the man rolled to the side as the projectile hit the ground and made an explosion that had a five foot radius.

"So good to see you," the father said.

"Thank me later, we need to get the children out of here," the bear Faunas said, "Is my son with you?"

"Yes, William is here," Samuel's dad replied.

Moments later, an African-American woman and a Fox Faunas husband and wife came into the area.

"Danielle, are you alright?" the female Fox Faunas asked.

"Yes, mom, I'm fine," the young fox Faunas now known as 'Danielle' replied.

"Thank goodness," Danielle's father said.

"Your reunion is about to be cut short," the masked man said approaching the group and pulling both of his swords out.

"Stay back, I'll protect you," William's father said changing the rail gun back into a broadsword.

"Allow me to take care of this," one of the soldiers said aiming his gun's barrel at William's dad.

"No, please, let me," the masked man said, "I've been itching for a good fight."

"Take the children and run," William's father said, "I'll hold this guy off."

"Yes," Samuel's dad replied, "Let's go."

Samuel and Rachael's parents led the kids away.

William's father ran at the masked man, who simply stood there as the bear Faunas' blade bounced off of him.

"What?" William's father asked, "How?"

"My turn," the masked man said.

The masked man leapt over the bear Faunas and, as he did so, the swords divided into multiple small segments and became something similar to chain whips. The masked man swung the whips, which wrapped around the bear Faunas' legs and then the man pulled the whips back and tripped the man.

"To the end of the Faunas," the masked man said turning his whips back into swords and raising them up.

"Dad!" William cried, trying to run back to his father.

"William, no!" Samuel's dad said grabbing William's arm and stopping him, "We have to go!"

"Dad! Dad!" William cried as he was dragged off and lost sight of his father.

"There's nothing we can do," Samuel's mom said, "I'm sorry."

Samuel looked at Danielle, who was carrying a wide array of gadgets and gizmos along with one of the soldiers' assault rifles.

"Danielle, how did you get all that?" Samuel asked.

"I picked them up off of the ground," Danielle replied, "How else could I get them?"

"How can you be comedic at a moment like this?" Samuel asked.

"I'm not, I was just answering your question," Danielle answered.

"Freeze!" a soldier yelled as he and a bunch of other soldiers blocked the group's escape into the nearby forest.

"Kids, when we attack, run as fast as you can," Samuel's father whispered to the kids.

"What?" Samuel asked.

Samuel's father put his hand on the sword hilt that was in the sheath on his back while the mom put her hands on a pair of nightsticks that were hidden in the long sleeves of her shirt. The other three adults also readied their weapons and, moments later, the parents leapt at the soldiers and began to attack them.

"Run!" Samuel's dad cried.

"But…!" Samuel protested.

"RUN!" Samuel's dad yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Guys, we need to go," Samuel said, listening to his dad.

Samuel, Rachael, William and Danielle ran off into forest as fast as they could, with tears streaming down their faces.

After running for a very long time the group was all tuckered out, so they found shelter in a cave.

"Gasp, gasp," Samuel said, breathing heavily, "Is everyone okay?"

"…No…" Rachael replied.

"I figured," Samuel said, "It's just…this is all so sudden."

"Losing our homes, families, friends," Rachael said, "I'm so tired I can't cry anymore."

"My father, my mother," William said, "They're both gone."

"Everyone's gone…" Danielle said, "How is anybody supposed to live after something like this?"

"I guess we're on the run," Samuel said, "So that's how we live, on the run."

"It'll be a miracle if we live seven or more years out here," Rachael said.

"Well then, might as well pray," Samuel said.

Back in the village, the soldiers had almost finished their jobs.

"Sir, we've found everyone in the village and we've rounded them up," a commander said.

"But?" the masked man asked, noticing something off in the soldier's voice.

"But four of them escaped, a female Faunas that resembles a Fox, a male that has the features of a bear, a girl with a cheetah tail and a human boy, all of whom are children," the commander said.

"You let children escape?" the masked man asked.

"I'm sorry, sir," the commander said, "We shall remedy that mistake."

"Don't bother," the masked man said, "They're just children; they won't be able to survive out in the wild, not with Grimm around."

"Yes, sir," the commander said, "I hear you."

The masked man walked away.

"Attention," the commander said talking to an officer, who was a lower rank than him, "I want you to send a squad to search for those kids."

"But what about our leader's orders?" the officer asked, "He told you not to bother."

"I won't be looking for those kids," the commander said, "You and your team will, no matter how long it takes, find those kids."

"Yes, commander," the officer said, "I'll get started right away."

A dark figure watched the whole thing.

Many years later, in a distant land, one which those kids had arrived in...

"Seven years ago," seventeen year-old Samuel said (he was wearing worn blue jeans; a dark blue T-shirt with a white light jacket over it; and he also had black sneakers), "That was the day we went on the run."

"I still worry for our parents," seventeen year-old Rachael said (she was in a dark brown shoulder-sleeve shirt; a brown half-length vest; blue shorts; brown wristbands; and she also had black sneakers, just like her brother), "I hope they made it out."

"I'm sure we'll find them someday," Samuel said.

"Hey, guys," seventeen year-old Danielle said coming into the clearing that the group was resting in with a bunch of stuff in her arms (Danielle had black-brimmed, square frame glasses; a white shirt with black sleeves; dark grey pants; and white shoes), "I finally finished our weapons."

"Took you long enough, I was getting sick of using wooden weapons," big, bulky seventeen year-old William said getting up (he was wearing black pants with a leather belt; a dark green tank top; black fingerless gloves; and dark green shoes), "Who's weapon is who's?"

"The broadsword is for you, I kept the design as close to your father's sword," Danielle said putting the weapons on the ground, "The knives are for Rachael, the sniper rifle is for me and the assault rifle is for Samuel."

Everybody grabbed their respective weapons.

"Go on, try them out," Danielle said.

William swung his broadsword around and cut clear through a tree. He then pressed a button on the hilt and it turned into a rail gun, just like his father's.

"Just like my dad's," William said, "Thanks."

Rachael cut up a few bushes with her weapons and then pressed a button on the bottom of each knife's hilt; this caused the blades to collapse, get smoother edges so you couldn't cut yourself with them and then the hilts turned into gun handles and then Rachael could see that she now had two pistols, one in each hand.

Rachael tried them out by shooting a few Nearby rocks to pieces.

"Well, Danielle, aren't you going to show us yours?" Rachael asked.

"Just to warn you, I gave myself a little bonus," Danielle said pulling what appeared to be a jetpack out from behind a nearby tree.

"That's cool," Samuel said.

Danielle put the jetpack on, pulled out her sniper rifle and showed off her marksmanship skills by hitting a few faraway rocks.

"Showoff," Rachael said.

"What else does it do?" Samuel asked.

"If I used the other function, I would burn the forest down," Danielle said.

"I guess it's my turn," Samuel said.

Samuel fired his assault rifle at the tree and made an 'X' in it, then he clicked a button on the grip of his gun and the gun converted into a nightstick.

"Huh, nifty," Samuel said, "But is that all it does?"

"Press the button on top," Danielle said.

Samuel held the nightstick the right way and pressed a small button on the top and a blade popped out of the end of the nightstick.

"Neat," Samuel said, "Nice work, Danielle."

Little did our heroes know, they were being watched.

"Finally, we've caught up to them," a soldier from the village said, "Tell the commander we found them."