RWBY: INNER DEMONS

Chapter 1: Mayday

Location: 300 miles in Aletian Waters

Research Vessel USS Saigon

Owner: Project Ascension

Lead: Dr. Matthias Domino

Research Vessel USS Saigon was owned by an unknown corporate backer, as they thought they could create the key to a Utopian-style world by creating a "messiah-like" figure to control the Grimm, and Matthias decided to submit for the candidacy the one person no one had expected: his own daughter Alexis. Alexis Domino was a shadow mage, a uniquely gifted person with power over the shadows. Her father had kidnapped her, and he had brought her aboard the Saigon to make her into the messiah figure for the Grimm in order to control them.

" Ugh, where am I?" Alexis said.

She was laying restrained to an exam table in a set of patient scrubs, her face was completely wrapped in bandages, and was surrounded by several doctors. They were all surprised she had woken up after being drugged unconscious for several hours.

" How are you feeling today, Miss Domino?" One doctor asked.

" Like I am about to puke." Alexis said.

" That's just sea sickness dear, the worst is yet to come." One female doctor said.

Alexis was starting to realize the situation she was currently in, and slowly started to panic at the fact she was being used as a guinea pig for an experiment.

" What? What's going on?" Alexis asked in a worried tone.

" Calm down, sweetie, the implants haven't finished bonding yet." Matthias said.

" Implants? Dad, what are you talking about?" Alexis inquired.

" You'll understand later, Begin the final phase." Matthias said to a fellow doctor, who punched a combination into a console.

Alexis's head began to hurt, and she felt as if her brain began to be torn apart from the inside and screamed at the top of her lungs in agonizing pain, while the doctors and her father stood back and let it happen. Her screams were heard throughout the ship, annoying crew members and causing even the Grimm specimens the scientists kept onboard to feel pain, and one ancient aquatic Grimm the scientists kept below in a special cage, a Grimm with a secret, and it was a Leviathan and it had a name: It was Kephreziel, and it was one of seven, ancient and powerful Grimm.

3 days later...

Alexis was restrained to a metal chair and had a special headset placed onto her head so the doctors can observe her brain activity following the installation of the cerebral implants, which was the latest in the forefront of Bio-synthetic technology. Matthias was talking over her progress with Doctor Sylvia Quinn, the person who he placed to monitor Alexis's state.

" How fares my daughter?" Matthias asked.

" Sir, her neurological activity has been off the charts these past few days." Sylvia said.

" You sound alarmed by this, what's your concern?" Matthias inquired.

" Sir, your daughter's neural scans show she is at B.P 109. She's supposed to be dead by now." Sylvia said.

" 109? The B.P scale only goes up to 100." Matthias said.

" It could be a system glitch, I check it while I am doing the overnight work." Sylvia said.

Matthias proceeded to his quarters while Sylvia proceeded to the lab. But, while Alexis was in the room, she began to hear a voice, a voice that came from below, a voice that had belonged to Kephreziel, as it was lost and confused.

" What's going on? Where am I?!" Kephreziel demanded.

" What, who are you?" Alexis inquired.

" I am Kephreziel, one of the Fallen Seven, the first seven Grimm to walk upon this earth and wage war against the first of your kind." It said.

" I can't believe that I am communicating with an ancient Grimm." Alexis said.

" How is it possible? You are a child of-" Kephreziel said.

" Something important must have cut you off mid-sentence, what is it?" Alexis said.

" You are a Shadow-touched child, born in both the light and the dark." Kephreziel said.

" Shadow-touched child?" Alexis inquired.

Kephreziel explained that back during the first war with the Grimm, humans and Faunus born with shadow abilities were considered abominations and abandoned to die either at sea or in the forests on land. He and his siblings took pity on these children, so they took them in and raised them as the humans they were. They had helped them by defending the Grimm's children while the adults were at war, but they sadly were massacred by the humans that attacked their homes. Their existence was covered up and any shadow-touched children born in the near future are placed into federal holdings.

" That's...surprisingly nice of you and siblings." Alexis said.

" I was captured at the cost of my sister's life, and now I wish to know the sea again." Kephreziel said.

" I might have an idea on that." Alexis said.

Matthias's quarters

12:00 pm

Matthias was sound asleep in his bunk, having a dream about his first expedition into an underwater cavern where he had discovered Kephreziel and discovered the totem with the runes on it. It was in the spring, and he was accompanied by his assistant, Sylvia.

" What is it sir?" Sylvia said.

" It's a warning marker." Matthias said.

" What does it say?" Sylvia inquired.

" This is the den of Kephreziel, the destroyer of man and slaver of Grimm." Matthias said was the translation as an aquatic Grimm lunged at him as a bright flash occurred.

He awoke atop a strange mound alongside the one person he never had expected: Alexis herself and it was a bright and sunny day with large columns of smoke rising up in the background behind.

" Hello Daddy." Alexis said.

" Sweetie? Where are we?" Matthias said.

" (Chuckle) We're still on the Saigon, and you should be asking when." Alexis said.

" When are we?" Matthias asked.

" You just need to...keep your eyes forward." Alexis said as she held up Sylvia's severed head.

Matthias panicked, the mound he was sitting on was actually a pile of the remains of the crew and staff, as they had been torn limb from limb. Several Grimm slowly climbed up the pile to approach him and Alexis, with their eyes set on hunger. He eventually awoke in his bunk and fell to the floor as the ship's alarms blared aloud and heard Victor Kinsler, the Saigon's captain, speak over the intercom.

" ATTENTION, ALL HANDS, WE ARE AT THREAT LEVEL EPSILON, SCIENCE STAFF, REPORT TO YOUR SAFE LOCATION, ALL SECURITY PERSONEL REPORT TO COMBAT STATIONS."

" Matt, talk to me." Matthias said.

" We're under attack, massive sonar contact." Matt said.

Matthias raced to the observation deck, passed by Alexis as she sat still in the neuro-observation chair, and looked out into the open water as Matt contacted him over the radio again, while he saw a set of massive spines move across the ocean.

" It's the Aletians, sir!" Matt said over the intercom.

" No, it's far worse than them." Matthias said.

" What are you talking about?" Matt asked his superior.

" It's that damned Leviathan!" Matthias exclaimed.

Matthias immediately knew that Kephreziel had escaped his captivity and was now attacking the ship in retaliation for his imprisonment onboard the ship and the torturous experiments he had succumbed to. Meanwhile Alexis had been approached by another of the seven, one who died in the attempt to rescue Kephreziel from the humans who had enslaved him.

" You're the one who succeeded where I had failed." A voice said.

" Huh?" Alexis said.

" I am the sister who died trying to rescue Kephreziel, and now I am your ticket off this boat before he sinks it." The Voice explained.

" How can you get me out of here?" Alexis said.

" Us both combined, we have a power greater than anything these mortals can throw at you." The voice said.

" What is your name if you had happened to know Kephreziel?" Alexis asked.

" My name is...Arcadia." The voice said.

" Let's do it, I don't want to be my father's tool." Alexis said.

A black shadow-like mist came out from the darkness, enveloping Alexis's entire body and scrubs. The chair creaked and groaned underneath her, as she began change, to transform. After just 1 minute, the chair exploded out from under her, flying straight into a back wall, and Alexis was gone. The creature that was now in the room was actually a Grimm, but not like the Grimm that is seen in the modern world, it had a human-like stance, its bone plates were on its chest and legs like armor you would see on a human knight, It had a feminine body shape, and looked as if a hybrid combination of Grimm. Her bone plates were as thick as a Deathstalker, her hide was as thick as an Ursa's, it stood as tall as a Beowolf, and it's upper back and the back of it's arms and head were covered in smaller versions of Nevermore feathers. it had talons like a Nevermore as well, but the hands of a Beowolf. A bone plate was on it's face, but it looked like a mask covering the entire face but not it's mouth and eyes, which completed the beast's form.

This was Arcadia's true form, and she was the most powerful of the Seven...

" WHAT THE HELL!" Sylvia screamed from behind her.

Arcadia spun around and was face-to-face with none other than Sylvia, who was horrified at what she saw. She immediately ran for the door, in which Arcadia became excited as she enjoyed the thrill of a grand hunt, in which she quickly gave chase.

" WHERE ARE YOU GOING, YOU JUST MADE ME HAPPY THAT I AM NOW HUNTING YOU!" Arcadia screamed.

Arcadia exploded out the room, sending it flying across the chamber, and into an office. Two whole squads of Security came out to block Arcadia's advance, in which she took out half of the guards with her feathers, in which she got an idea, an idea that had Sylvia and the guards worried.

" ( Low growl) You made a mistake... TRYING TO LOCK ME IN WITH AN ARMY!" Arcadia said as she hurtled three feathers into a large power box, causing a short-out.

All of the cage's automated locks shut down, and dozens of Grimm poured out of them, surrounding Arcadia, backing the security teams and Sylvia into a wall.

" Leave the female be, kill all the others." Arcadia ordered.

" Yes, mistress." The Grimm responded.

The Grimm lunged forward and massacred the security staff, and Sylvia ran into the doorway of the Observation room to warn Matthias, only for Arcadia to throw a barrage of feathers into her back, killing her right in front of Matthias.

" Oh my god!" Matthias exclaimed.

" That's my father, he's the one who made this happen." Alexis said inside Arcadia's mind.

" Let's punish him for it." Arcadia responded.

A long bone blade slowly surged out of Arcadia's arm and she violently drove it into Matthias's chest, causing blood to explode out of his mouth and fall backward out the window of the observation room. Arcadia's arms had transformed into a set of wings and she flew away and Kephreziel felt the fact his sister has returned and is more powerful than ever.

" Arcadia? You Have Returned!" Kephreziel said.

" Yes Brother, Our family may have lost influence, but we will return and change this world." Arcadia responded.

" Humans like these deserve to be punished for everything they have done to our kind, we must show them our superiority." Kephreziel exclaimed.

" The child that communicated with you, she has shared with me that we can be more than our primal cousins." Arcadia said.

" You have read her thoughts, seen the world as she has." Kephreziel said.

" Yes, she is an anomaly to their race, her powers rival that of any semblance, she can reach into the ethereal world and bring fourth warriors." Arcadia explained.

" She is shadow touched sister, and was a lab rat to the humans aboard the ship." Kephreziel said.

" I sensed it when I first merged with the child, she can teach us much more." Arcadia said.

Arcadia's original outlook on the world was dark as she believed humanity deserved to be extinct, but now her outlook is about to change quickly as she was bonded with Alexis and began to transform for the turn of events that was going to change both of their lives...forever.

This is the end of Chapter 1, and it is the beginning of a Jekyll and Hyde character's journey to transform seven ancient Grimm from the world's greatest threat, to the worlds mightiest protectors. She eventually journeys on a mission to change the world. I'm Whitethorn23 and I hope you all enjoy RWBY: INNER DEMONS