Not As Grimm

(Republished)

Chapter One

A/N: Ok, yet another fanfic! Wow, I'm just banging these out left and right (Note the sarcasm).

This is heavily adapted from 'Not As Grimm' By Dr. ForgottonFables, who (to my knowledge) has stopped writing fics. They put this up for adoption on March 10th 2016, but they didn't finish the original fic. So, here I am to finish it - along with all the others who decided to do this much earlier.

Other than that, I've really only changed a few sentences/grammatical errors and one or two things about everyone's favourite ghost boy. All I can say is sorry, and that I am not a Furry (not hating!

These really only show up later in this chapter, so...this is basically just blatant plagiarism. Sorry 'bout that.

Anyhoo!

Please remember to R&R, and enjoy!

They've reached sector G4! Phantom and his cohort have broken through to... ahhh!" The government hired ghost hunter shouted in panic into his radio before a furry black claw with green nails slashed the phone out of his hand and pinned him to a wall. "No, please, I have a wife and child..." The Guy in White agent begged as the large, black, wolf ghost dressed in a green hoodie and jogging pants snarled in his face.

"Funny, so do I." An echoing voice said and floating above the wolf was a figure that any agent would know. 'Phantom', or Danny Fenton, a half ghost who was well known throughout the world after he led the project to save it from the Disasteroid. He was considered to be a class eight spectral entity, one of the most powerful beings in existence, due to his human like ability to adapt to his surrounding, his ghostly power, and resistance to damage.

His white hair and glowing green eyes were also known throughout the world, and almost every government in the world feared him after what had happened with Vlad Masters, another half ghost. And to make sure that nothing like the Disasteroid ever happened again, they were reactivating Project Exorcist, a plan to destroy the Ghost Zone.

"Where is she?" Phantom asked, his green eyes blazing even brighter.

"We... they have her in block W1, down the hall and to the left." The agent said fearing the sharp claws that were dangerously close to his throat.

"Thanks for the info. I suggest you go home if you want to live through the day. Come on Wulf, lets go," Phantom said, flying down in the direction that the man had instructed. Three more agents rushed into the block and Danny blasted them down with a heavy ghost ray. A week ago, he would have never used such a strong attack on a human, but he had learned not to treat the agents of the GIW like humans. Not after they killed his parents to steal the family ghost portal. Danny had managed to get his older sister and best friends to the safety of the Ghost Zone, but the monsters of the GIW had taken something important.

"Don't worry Dani, your daddy's coming," Danny muttered as he and Wulf reached the research room.

Wulf clawed through the ten inch anti-ghost door it was butter. After all, his claws could rip through the fabric of dimensional space, something like a door was nothing to him. The sciences gazed in numb horror as Phantom floated in.

He saw his own daughter laying on a lab table, strapped down and with dozens of cuts and needles in her. Splotches of red and green colored her normally black hair and her sharp blue eyes were dimmed from the drugs. "Daddy," She whispered as she saw Danny. Rage pumped through Danny's veins as he lifted a hand before vaporizing the scientists for what they had done to his daughter.

Danny and Wulf cut Dani free and Danny held his daughter to his chest. "Don't worry, Dani, you're safe now. I won't let them touch you again," Danny whispered to the little girl.

"I knew you would come for me, Daddy," Dani whispered, before falling asleep. Danny was only fifteen, but he still felt responsible for his three year old daughter. Dani was a clone made from Danny's DNA using an egg that was created out of ecto-materials. But Danny didn't care about any of that. To him, Dani was family. To him, she was his daughter.

"They've reached subject P02! Hurry, we can't let them escape!" Shouts came from beyond the shredded door.

Phantom handed the injured girl over to Wulf, "Wulf, I need you to take her home for me," Danny said as he turned to the door.

"But what of you, friend?" Wulf asked with his broken English.

"I need to destroy their ghost portal. As long as it still exists everyone is in danger," Danny said but he gave his old friend a sad grin.

"I have to do this, so that everyone can be safe... but if I die... take care of Dani for me," The young hero said.

Wulf looked torn, but finally nodded before tearing a hole in space and flying through with the girl in hand, the gate closing quickly behind him.

"Subject P02 got away!" One of the GIW shouted, having seen what happened.

"Doesn't matter, get Phantom, now!" Another shouted as they all pointed their guns at Phantom.

Phantom put up a green barrier between them their blasters' shots just bounced off. "You bastards think you can take me!? Think again!" Danny shouted, before releasing a blast of energy that burned all of the agents and launched them back. Danny jumped over them and flew through the building.

He knew where the portal was. It was almost as if the swirling gateway to Ghost Zone was a part of him, the birthplace of his powers. It didn't take long for him to find it; the last man made gateway to the Ghost Zone.

"After this is gone, everyone will be safe," Danny whispered as he grabbed onto the ecto-filtrator and began to overload it with his powers.

"He's trying to destroy the Ghost Portal, stop him!" An agent shouted. Danny felt a flare of pain run through his body as he finished his work.

"Ahhh!" Danny shouted as he staggered, seeing about twenty agents with heavy weaponry pointed at him. The one in front was holding a remote of some kind.

"We figured you would try to destroy the last working gate, Phantom. So we booby-trapped this entire room against ghosts. A piece of ectoplasmic scum like you should have been vaporized instantly, but I guess your human half is making it harder to destroy you," An agent said, grinning, "But it's only making you suffer longer, just like you deserve."

Danny managed to stand straight and face them. "Well then, I guess this is the last time I'll be seeing any of you. So let me just say... have fun in hell," Danny said venomously before falling backwards into the Ghost Portal, several of the agents' weapons firing on him, some actually managing to hit. Danny felt his skin being torn apart by the blasts as he entered the portal, but before he was all the way through the slip space, the ghost portal's filtrator overloaded and the whole thing exploded, killing the GIW agents and throwing Danny into a different dimensional slip stream and off to another world.

"Look at all the flowers, mommy!" March cheered as the five year old faunus ran into the flowerbed in a small clearing in the forest near their village. March Usagi had short chocolate brown hair and red eyes. Like most faunus she had a clear visible animal like trait- she had rabbit ears that flopped down and covered her more human ones.

"Don't run off too far, March. We're just gathering some tree sap and then we'll be going back home, okay? I don't want you to be gobbled up by a Grimm," March's mother, May, shouted to her baby girl. May had the same brown hair as her daughter, though hers was much longer, and instead of having rabbit ears, May had goat horns growing out of her head.

"I wouldn't worry too much, dear," January said to his wife, "we've never had any Grimm attacks in this area before, so it should be safe. And besides, I think the Grimm would just get sick from our little March's positive attitude."

January had naturally wild gray hair and dark eyes to go with his own pair of rabbit ears that stuck straight up on his head.

March had moved along to the edge of the clearing before she stopped and screamed, shocking both parents and sending them running towards their baby girl. March was running as fast as she could, but a Beowolf was sprinting after her. A fifteen foot tall black creature with a wolf-like head and long monkey-like arms tipped in white claws, the white mask-like shell that covered its face showed no hint of true life. January and May were horrified as they pulled out guns, but they were no Huntsmen, and they didn't know how to fight Grimm.#

March stumbled and fell to the ground in her haste to get away from the monster. The Grimm took it's chance and leaped at the girl. March screamed, "Help me!"

There was a loud yelp and the world went still. March turned back towards the Grimm to find a human boy standing between her and the Grimm. He looked around fifteen years old, with black hair. His body was covered in cuts and burns that seemed to give off a greenish glow. He was holding a long icy spike in both hands and had skewered the Beowolf straight through its throat.

The boy pushed the Grimm to the side, letting go of the icicle in the process. The Grimm's body quickly started to fall apart and evaporate.

"Are you alright?" The boy asked, turning to March. The little faunus girl was stunned, she had never seen a human before and she had always heard bad things about them, and yet one had appeared out of nowhere and saved her. She nodded, not taking her eyes off of the boy's own blue eyes. "That's... good..." The boy muttered, collapsing to one knee. He was breathing heavily and his eyes were unfocused, but he pulled himself up and walked off towards a large pine tree, where he leaned against the bark and closed his eyes.

January grabbed March's hand. "March dear, we have to go back to the village right now," The father said urgently.

"But what about the boy?" March asked as her father pulled her away.

"He's human, March, humans aren't allowed in the village. Leave him," May said she gathered their things, "Grimm like that one live in packs, we need to hurry back to the village immediately and warn the elder."

"No! We can't just leave him here!" March shouted and tried to pull away from her father but she was quickly dragged away. As she left the clearing she could see the boy watching her with a sad smile on his face as he waved goodbye.

March was finding it hard to understand the chatter of the adults in the village square. She was still trying to figure it out when the elder, a silver haired faunus with a long beard and bushy tail, called for order. "Quiet everyone," His rich voice rang through the room bringing silence in it's wake, "January, you say that your family came into contact with one of the Grimm at the northern edge of the village?"

"Yes, elder, we were going there to gather sap from the trees when one came out of the woods and attacked our daughter," January explained respectfully to the elder.

The elder sighed, "This truly is grim news. It seems that the Grimm are starting to be dawn here to our village. We will need to prepare to move our settlement and start over."

"We're going to move again, mommy?" March asked, holding onto her mother's dress.

"Yes sweetie, we are," May said patting the girl's head. It hadn't been the first time since March's birth that they had moved due to Grimm. The Grimm only had one purpose, they were creatures of destruction that were drawn to sentient creatures and their settlements. They did not eat, they did not sleep, they did not feel, and only the oldest of Grimm ever thought of anything more complicated than attacking the human or faunus in front of them. So whenever a Grimm pack got too close to their settlement, they packed up and ran away before they could be attacked.

It was true that there were four great cities that were protected from the Grimm by Huntsmen and Huntresses, but the small band of faunus had avoided such places for over five generations due to the way that faunus were treated by the humans that ran the cities; they were treated as nothing more than animals and subjected to cruelty and slavery.

Living outside of the cities was dangerous, but at least they were free. Though if they had stayed in contact with the outside world, they would have found that a war had happened since then and that slavery was outlawed, so even if the faunus were not treated as 'equals' in the city, they had their freedom and rights.

"But what about that boy?" March asked, still thinking about the boy that saved her life.

"Boy? What boy?" The elder asked, hearing the little girl's comment.

The parents exchanged glances. "When the Grimm attacked, a... a human stepped in the way and killed it," January said rubbing his knuckles. The people in the village became rigid at the word 'human'.

"A human... was it a Huntsman?" The elder asked.

"I... I don't know... he seemed rather young, only a teenager," January said.

"By the dust, a human and Grimm showing up on the same day," One of the women of the village commented.

"I doubt it is just a coincidence. That human boy probably led them right to us," A man spat.

"Yet another reason to move the village, but we must be even more careful not to leave a trail, lest the humans come and take us all away in our sleep." The elder said.

"But he saved me from the Grimm!" March yelled, not understanding why everyone was acting so badly towards the boy that saved her.

"That is just one of those games that the humans use," The elder spat, "You stupid child. You are falling right into his hands."

"Where is the human now?" Someone else asked.

"He... he was heavily injured whenever we first saw him," May said clasping a hand over March's mouth, "After he killed the Grimm, he collapsed against a tree. I would suspect that he has bled to death by now."

March's eyes widened with horror at the thought of the boy dead, but the others in the village seemed to be giving sighs of relief.

"Then get some rest tonight. Tomorrow we will pack up and leave."

"But mommy, shouldn't we help that boy? We can't just let him die," March asked back at the Usagi house; the last night the family would ever be staying in it. Her mother and father were already packing.

"No March, we never interact with humans. This is something you will understand when you are older," May said before pushing her child into her room, "Now go to sleep. We have a big day tomorrow."

But March did not go to sleep. She waited until she could hear her mother and father's shallow snores in her rabbit ears before climbing out of bed and grabbing some bandages and apples. Then she carefully opened up the front door and headed out into the night to try and help the boy that saved her life. She wouldn't find out until later that it was this act of selflessness that ultimately saved her life.