It’s been six months since we all returned to Forever Free and things have been… odd to say the least. Qo and Iilah enrolled into the academy, which made most teachers and students weirded out since they were ten year olds that turned sixteen. It’s funny that they got put in Indigo’s class for that. Yang gave birth to an adorable baby girl with yellow hair and gold scales, which for all of us looks a lot like a little Yang. She named her Hotaru or in Yang’s case her little firefly as sometimes Hotaru’s tale glows a bit.

With Yang’s pregnancy coming to an end, it just left Blake and I to deal with ours. The biggest thing was that I was getting bigger than Blake which gave me some alarm until Father told me that I wasn’t having one kid but two. Twins. Yang made a joke that I was following in her footsteps but I basically passed out after hearing that. We also got some word that the other teachers weren’t very thrilled that we were living in the school and having families. Father and Axycia’s answer to that was to make small homes for us that were much, much bigger inside. We also have spas in there, it was glorious.

At the moment Both me and Blake were sitting down on a blanket with Ruby and Indigo nearby as Qo were sparring with RB. So far, RB was winning against Qo. The Other Yang was nearby as well, sleeping as this went on.

“So… how’s things?” I asked Indigo and Blake as the latter was eating a fish sandwich that was more fish than bread.

“Challenging for the most part, I have to keep up with her cravings.” Indigo said, answering my question with a chuckle as she had his arm around his beloved Blake. “If she want something and I can't make, she ain't gonna happy.”

“If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.” Iilah said as she laid in front of Indigo and Blake.

“That’s my girl.” Blake said with a mouthful of food, earning a look from Iilah and Indigo. “What?”

“You think that’s bad, Viri’s worse.” Ruby said, making me frown.

“Hey, I’m not that bad.” I whined at her. Ruby looked at me and then down at what I had.

“Who has a tub of pudding with chocolate and marshmallows in it?” Ruby asked. I didn’t say anything as I shifted away from her. Ruby chuckled at this as I put another spoonful in my mouth.

“So good~” I said happily as I ate. It’s every way bad for me but I didn’t care. Just then I heard a yell as Qo landed near us after getting kicked over here.

“I'm okay!” Qo announced as she gave us a thumbs up. RB chuckled at this before looking at Iilah.

“What to go around?” she asked, cracking her knuckles.

“No, I'm good.” Iilah quickly said, not wanting to face RB after seeing what she did with Qo. RB gave her a look but shrugged as she walked over and sat down beside her sleeping sister. I watched the two of them before putting another spoonful of pudding into my mouth. As we all sat there and chatted I noticed some ways away a man in purple. Looking over I saw the man was Drake with Skyler talking. From the looks of it, he had the same look Tak had when he helped Skyler study. It was then Skyler noticed us and waved, coming over with the Dragon Faunus in tow.

“Hey!” Skyler greeted us. I said hello with the spoon in my mouth. Ruby gave me an unamused look before taking the spoon out of my mouth. I was quick to swipe the spoon away from Ruby, sticking out my tongue to taunt her.

“Fine then, no more morning snuggles for you.” Ruby declared and hearing those words shattered my whole world. No more snuggles!? I gave her back the spoon in hopes she would reconsider. I also gave her a pouty face at her. “Alright, you get snuggles!” Ruby exclaimed, pulling me closer to her. Skyler saw all of this and chuckled while Drake caught up to her with a book in hand.

“Skyler come on, you can't just walk out on me like that.” Drake said with a frown. Skyler simply smiled at him.

“Sorry.” She said before looking at me. “Wow… you're… uhh…”

“Big? I know.” I finished as I grumbled a little. Ruby rubbed my belly and petted me behind the ears as soon as she heard me grumble. I sighed happily as I leaned into her hand. She smiled at this as Drake chucked a little. Blake was in a similar position, being soothed by her loving husband’s gentle caresses.

“Where's the others?” Skyler asked.

“Weiss and Tak are out on a mission with Yang… other Yang.” Ruby corrected herself as Skyler looked over at Short haired Yang. Blake purred loudly, the gentle caressing of Indigo’s hand had brought her up to cloud nine. Iilah chuckled at her mother's loud purrs before purring herself when Indigo gently scratched her behind her cute cat ears. She was quick to regain her composer before swiping his hand away, bringing a laugh out from Indigo when Iilah blushed.

“You can't deny it, you were enjoying it.” Indigo said, pulling his Tek arm away with a teasing smirk. Iilah flattened her ears atop her head. “There's nothing wrong with enjoying a little behind the ear affection, sweetie.” He said, lightly ruffling his daughter’s hair. Iilah didn't protest, she merely leaned her head onto his tek hand. It was odd seeing Indigo with arms again, even odder still was the fact that it was Tek that didn't need to use element to function as long as its attached to him which brought relief to Blake and Iilah.

I didn't think much of it as I was getting my own relief from Ruby as she scratched behind my ears. Skyler looked at Ruby and I and then at RB and her sister.

“You know, I’m still not used to seeing two of you.” Skyler said.

“Eh, it’s normal to me.” Drake said with a shrug.

“Really? How so?” Skyler asked. The Dragon Faunus simply deadpanned her.

“I live with a unicorn that has OCD with everything.” He explained with his arms crossed. Skyler nodded silently, knowing that what he said was true. Drake suddenly hurked and burped out a puff of green embers that quickly formed into a neatly rolled and sealed scroll.

“Uhhh, neat trick kid.” Indigo said as he looked at Drake with an odd look. Drake ignored him as he grabbed the scroll and opened it. Skyler peeked around and started to read it aloud.

“To my most Faithful student, I send this message in dire need of aid. As of right now there’s a monstrous being in Equestria that’s destroying and killing everything in its path as well leading the Grimm. I ask you to go to Forever Free academy and give this note to Headmistress Zecora. From Princess Celestia.” Skyler read outloud, loud enough for everyone to hear. This brought Blake out from her blissful state and gained Indigo’s full attention as well as Iilah’s. RB sat up at the mention of a being who leads the Grimm.

“I’m sorry what?” RB asked, looking a little more serious now. “A Being that leads the Grimm?” Drake nodded at this.

“Yeah… that’s what it says.” he said as she slowly turned to leave. “I’m going to do what the Princess said and give this to Zecora.” Drake ran off towards the Academy and as he did, a familiar beowolf ran by him and stopped near Indigo.

“Oni?” Indigo said in confusion at the sudden appearance of his longtime friend. Oni let out a few whines before sitting down a few feet ahead of Indigo, Blake and Iilah. The latter looked at the Beowolf in confusion, never seeing Oni act like this before. “I think whatever Celestia mentioned in that letter, Oni can sense it.” Indigo said, getting up and walking up to Oni. The latter whined before shaking his head. Indigo placed his normal hand on the beowolf’s head. “He's trying to guard us.”

“From what?” Iilah asked. Indigo rolled his eyes and responded with.

“Do you honestly expect me to know everything Grimm related?” Indigo asked sarcastically. Iilah kept silent after that and Indigo walked back to Blake before helping her back up to her feet. “I got to take you two back to the academy.” Indigo said before pulling Iilah up to her feet.

“Hey! I can help!” Iilah said with a frowned on her face as Ruby helped me up to my feet, which already started to complain due to how much weight they were holding up.

“And I know you can but I'm afraid that you'll end up getting hurt or worse.” Indigo said to Iilah, his fatherly side taking over as he spoke. Iilah frowned at this as she spoke.

“Oh, so you allow me and Qo go fight some Monster that’s five times bigger than us but not some Grimm?” Iilah said.

“Hey~ don’t drag me into this!” Qo said, hiding behind Ruby and I. Indigo opened his mouth but closed it several times before RB spoke.

“And from what I heard, you all were wearing some sort of high tech armor and had there was over ten of you.” RB pointed out to all of us. “Which two of them are heavily pregnant, some of them aren’t here, and the armor is low on power.” Iilah glared at RB as she continued. “Sit this one out kid.”

“I’m not a kid!” Iilah yelled. Indigo looked Iilah after she yelled this before sighing and saying.

“... You're right, you're not a kid… not any more.” Indigo said though saddened to admit it. Iilah looked over at him right before Blake pulled her into a hug.

“You’re still my baby girl!” she said with tears running down her face.

“Ah! Mom, no~ I’m trying to prove a point here!” Iilah said, squirming in her mother's grasp. Soon enough Blake let her go and wiped her tears away, finally letting Iilah look back at Indigo before he continued.

“You can come but only if you follow my every word.” Indigo said to her, giving her a small smile as he said this. She had a large smile as she nodded happily.

“Umm, can I sit this one out… please…” Qo said in a nervous voice as she hid. Both Ruby and I looked at her then at each other before I spoke.

“If you don’t want to go, then you won’t go.” I told her. I heard a sigh of relief from Qo at this.

“Wait… Viri, you can’t go either.” Ruby said to me. I arched a brow as I faced her.

“Who says I was going?” I asked her as I rubbed my large belly. “I have two kids in me and can barely walk five feet before my feet start complaining.” Skyler chuckled at my words before I glared at her, silently telling her that I wasn't kidding. Skyler raised her hands defensively before Drake ran up to us with a message from Zecora. He handed it over to Indigo who read it silently before looking back up and saying.

“She wants us to go and deal with whatever this is, a chariot will come pick us up in a few minutes.” He said with the message still in his hands. He looked over at RB and asked. “You coming with?”

“Yes.” RB said in a serious tone.

“And what about your sister?” Indigo asked, gesturing to the still sleeping Yang. RB looked down at her sister before lightly kicking her. Yang woke up with a snort before yawning.

“What’s up sis?” She asked after she yawned.

“Mission, might be dangerous, want to come?” RB asked.

“... Does dad know?” Yang asked. RB simply shook her head. “Then I’m in.” Indigo watched this with confusion but simply shook his head and said.

“Alright then, everyone has a few minutes to get their weapons and get ready, we'll meet back at front gates.” Indigo said to everyone that will come with. He looked back at Blake and said. “Come on, allow me to escort you back to premises, milady.” He said, offering so Blake could wrap her arm around his. She did and the couple walked away with Iilah in tow. The latter was excited to be able to go on her first official mission. I smiled at this as I looked over at RB and Yang, who seem to walk away to talk.

“Come on, let’s go back to our home.” Ruby said to me with a smile.

“Why our home? We could hang out at the academy.” I said to her as Qo stood by me. Ruby arched a brow and smirked.

“If we do then we can snuggle~” she teased, making my ears perk up at this.

“Home away!” I said happily as both Ruby and Qo laughed at this.

I stood where we were supposed to wait for the chariot listening to my music. I was the first one there as I waited for the others. The source of the music was my new scroll, one Sanns had given me to stay in contact with the others, also he said something about this being almost indestructible. I asked him why and he just chuckled. As I waited I saw Indigo and Iilah walking towards me, with a large man in armour with a helmet with horns attached to it. I believe his name is Hound something. If I remember correctly, Hound and another named Ashe were visiting Rose for the week.

“First one here?” Indigo asked me. I nodded silently as I paused the music and put away the earplugs. “What about your sister?”

“Looking for her new weapons.” I told him. “She was cleaning them one day and forgot where she put them.”

“That sucks.” Hound said as he crossed his arms.

“How can she forget her weapon like that?” Iilah asked baffled at the thought of anyone, let alone a huntress would forget their weapon.

“Well she was cleaning them, then fell asleep, then woke up and wandered off.” I said in the order that I remember Yang say. Indigo sighed and muttered how she would fail right off the bat if this were a test. We waited for Yang to arrive and soon enough the chariot landed near the front gates. We gave Yang five more minutes before Indigo spoke up.

“Let's just go, another minute we waste is another pony dead for Sunbutt.” Indigo said, walking past me and towards the chariot. Iilah started laughing when Indigo said Sunbutt which made me confuse.

“Right… well I’ve better get going or I’ll get in trouble.” Hound said with a sigh before looking at Indigo. “Just to let you know it’ll take time before they are done. I would say I’ll work a bit faster but I won’t.” he shrugged. “Can’t rush a good craft.” Indigo nodded in understanding, gaining a confused look from me and Iilah. We all boarded the chariot and before Indigo could tell the robotic equines to send us off, we could hear Yang yelling in the distance.

“WAIT! DON’T LEAVE ME!” Yang yelled as she ran and dove into the chariot right as it started to move. Indigo blinked before informing the robotic equines that we were ready to go.

“What took you so long?” Iilah asked the short haired blonde.

“Sorry, just had to find these.” she said, showing off two short rods attached to her belt. Indigo looked at them with a curious brow.

“Tonfas?” He said in confusion as he looked up at Yang. Yang nodded as she took one of them and with a flick the rod turned into one of her tonfas.

“Since I need to have new weapons I had help making these…” she as she smiled at the tonfa. “They… well, they were inspired by our version of Indigo.” Her smile faltered at the mention of their Indigo. Our Indigo kept quiet, knowing this to be a sensitive topic. Soon enough the silence became awkward and he spoke up.

“So what do you girls think we're up against?” He asked everyone, wanting to make idle chatter.

“Something strong?” Iilah said but not so sure of herself.

“Something smart.” I said with a frown. Iilah and Yang looked over at me as I continued. “If I remember, Grimm aren’t like wild creatures, if they survive longer the smarter they are. The fact this one has Grimm following it means it’s really strong and smart.”

“That's what most worries me.” Indigo said with his arms crossed. It's odd seeing him with two arms even after the six months he had it. “Hopefully I can them down out of violence, if that doesn't work we'll just beat them to submission.” Indigo said. I frowned at this as the others talked, feeling that this is something familiar. I closed my eyes as I thought back when I was back home, when I was with Raven and always on the move with the tribe. Grimm were always after us, or more importantly, me since Salem wanted me dead. Large bands of Grimm of every kind were hunting me down, sleepless nights of worry and pain. So much pain. I was pulled out of my thoughts as I was getting shaken by Yang.

“Huh? What?” I asked, looking at everyone as they were staring at me.

“You zoned out there, kiddo.” Indigo told me with a curious look. Beside him was a sleeping Iilah, she must've gotten sleepy at some point.

“Oh… right.” I said as I looked out of the chariot. I stayed silent for a few minutes before speaking. “So… how’s the robot arm?” Indigo looked down at his mechanical hand.

“Well… it's still an odd sight even for me but it does has its uses.” Indigo said before closing his hand and added. “Blake likes it as well though I'm sure she likes one feature the most.” He said with a chuckle. I stared at him as I looked at his arm before giving him a look.

“Right~...” I said to him. Indigo simply chuckled at me as I looked away from him. I looked out of the window for a bit before asking. “So, kinda weird seeing two of us for so long… even though the other is more… cheerful.”

“Too be honest, it stopped being weird after a day and when the pain numbed my lower body.” He said with a shrug. He soon added. “Taking account that there are an infinite number of our world with different variables, sometimes minor and sometimes major.” He said in the tone he usually takes when he teaches class. I stared at him for a minute before speaking.

“Okay, I guess I don’t need to feel like an outsider.” I said before adding. “Didn’t realized one version of me was into girls.” Indigo shrugged and said.

“It wasn't much of a surprise, I kinda saw it coming especially with Viri.” Indigo said, unfurling his arms as he spoke.

“Yeah…” I said as I stared at Indigo. “Those two were meant for eachother.” As soon as I said that the whole chariot was hit from the side that sent all of us falling over and waking Iilah up. Yang seemed to get up first and head to the window.

“Nevermore!” she yelled.

“Great, just what we needed.” Indigo grumbled as he got up. Iilah groaned a bit as she too got up. Another hit shook the chariot, this time we were ready. We heard the screech of the Nevermore before a pair of sharp talons pierced the rook of the chariot before ripping it off, revealing a strange looking Nevermore. Indigo looked at in shock as if he's seen something like before. “That's not… possible.” He said before shaking his head and raising his metallic hand up. The arm hummed as the palm of his metal opened and fired a beam that struck the odd looking Nevermore and turned it to… Shadows? The shadows were quickly drawn to Indigo and he yelled in pain as he absorbed the shadows. “Hang on!” He yelled and we quickly grabbed onto something before another odd Nevermore struck the chariot and sent it plummeting down to the ground, resulting us landing with a crash.

We groaned as we picked ourselves up. I helped Iilah up and pulled her out of the crashed chariot. Soon the second Nevermore flew down to us and beat it wings as it looked at us.

“Okay… that’s no Nevermore!” Iilah yelled as we saw what looked like shadows coming off of it as it looked right at me. As I looked at them all I saw was hate in them. We all prepared to fight it… right as a large claw grabbed it’s head and slammed it into the ground.

We all watched as a Giant black and dark purple Grimm creature holds the Nevermore in it’s claw. Large antlers attached to it’s Grimm mask as purple crystals protrude out of it’s body. The ghoulish creature stared at it before let it go. The Nevermore flew up into the sky as the creature did a downward motion, making the crystals glow. The odd looking Grimm soon rocketed to the ground. With another quick motion, the creature killed it, turning the Nevermore into shadow. Indigo winced as the shadows came to him. It was bringing pain but why?

“Ah good, a Gravity Ghoul.” Indigo said, rubbing his head as he spoke. Iilah looked at him with worry. The Gravity Ghoul looked at us before away. With an odd sound coming from it the Ghoul started to leave, brushing past the trees before disappearing.

“Aren’t those like… rare to see?” Yang asked.

“Yeah… count yourselves lucky.” Indigo answered before looking down at a shadow feather that was left behind. He picked it up and examined it. “This by any means can't be possible.” He said out loud to himself.

“What? What’s can’t be possible?” Iilah asked him. Indigo glanced at Iilah before looking back at the feather before crushing it in his hands, absorbing the shadow.

“They weren't Nevermores, they were Shadowmores and they shouldn't even exist.” Indigo said, somewhat answering Iilah’s question. “These things aren't born, they're made and I'm the only one capable of doing that… At a smaller scale.” To prove his point, a much smaller version of the Shadowmores was formed on his hand and cawed.

“Well then, why did we got attacked by a much bigger Shadowmore? Two even.” Yang asked before looking at the rest of us as we stared at her. “No, really I really want to know.” Indigo shrugged as the tiny shadowmore dissipated.

“I'm afraid of finding out.” He finally said as he and Iilah looked up in case there were more. “Whoever we're dealing with has the ability to manipulate shadows like me albeit to a much greater extent.” He said looking back down at me and Yang.

“Well… I think whoever controls those ShadowGrimm knows we’re here… odd that the Staubgrimm didn’t look like they're a part of this.” I said as I looked at where the Gravity Ghoul went. Everyone nodded in agreement at this before Indigo spoke up.

“Yeah, I doubt the Staubgrimm will ever aid the Grimm. They're nothing alike, Grimm are mindless and crave destruction while the Staubgrimm rather steer clear from danger than to start it.” Indigo said adding to my point.

“Yeah… I feels like that Ghoul looked like that Shadowmore was invading it’s area.” Yang said. Iilah looked at her then at her feet.

“I… don’t like it.” she said. Indigo sensed Iilah’s fear and glanced at her with worry. He said nothing for a solid minute or two before finally saying.

“Let's find whoever's doing this.” Indigo said, summoning his scythe as he said this. Yang looked to direction opposite to the crash site and said.

“I don't think that's going to be necessary.” Yang said, grabbing everyone’s attention. When we looked at her, she simply pointed at the masked being walking up to us with a two Ursa Majors following beside them like obedient pets.

“Well… made things a bit easier for us huh.” I said as my gauntlets form around my arms and hands. The armored being simply pointed over to us and both Ursas charge towards us with killing intent. One of the Ursa Majors was quickly cut down to size by Iilah and Indigo with incredible speed. The other one was crushed by me and Yang with a single punch from both of us. The armored figure simply stood there, watching us.

“Hey! Is that all you got?!” Yang yelled with a smirk on her face. The armored being chuckled as several more Ursa Majors formed from the shadows. Yang's smirk immediately vanished.

“You had to say it, didn't you.” Indigo said with a frown at Yang.

“Sorry…” Yang said before the Ursa’s charged at us. Each of us fought them to a standstill as the man simply stood there, watching as more and more Ursa’s formed and attacked.

“That's it, I've had enough!” Indigo yelled as his scythe doubled in size and his speed increased. He was quick to mow down the Shadow Ursa and brought us closer to the armored being before finally they stopped coming and the armored being simply clapped as if having enjoyed our struggle to stay alive.

“Good for you, you've managed to beat a bunch of overgrown bears.” Said the armored being, though their voice distorted I could tell that it was man. Indigo frowned at the armored person before pointing his scythe at him. Though Indigo was caught off guard when the armored man grabbed the blade of his scythe, pulled Indigo close before kicking him away causing him to let go of his scythe.

“Dad!” Iilah yelled as she ran up to Indigo. The latter groaned, having kicked by an armored foot. Normally Indigo’s scythe would've dissipated by now but it the man still held it in his armored grasp before snapping it in two. Both halves quickly dissipating before they could touch the ground. Yang and I stared at this in shock.

“But… how…” Yang said as I simply stared. I shook my head as I got ready.

“All right you ass, you want to go a few rounds.” I said as I got into a fighting stance. The armored man chuckled as two shadowy blades formed in his hands.

“This'll be over quick.” Was all he said as he too went into a fighting stance. Though he then looked down at his shadow with a curious hum before being skyrocketed into the air by The Fist.

“Fuck you too, asshole.” Indigo growled as he stood up. The armored man fell down with a thud and groan. I groaned a bit at this as well.

“The Fist? Really?” I said to him with a frown. I sighed as I saw the the guy pushing himself up. With a flick of my wrist I shot out leaf shaped knives out of my gauntlets which only seemed to dent his armor. “Ah hell.”

“An interesting concept, mind if I use it?” He asked as several large hand rose up from the ground, each one bearing resemblance to that of beowolf’s claw.

“Oh great, a copycat.” Indigo said with groan as his scythe reappeared. One of the clawed hands swiped at Iilah but was cut away by Indigo. Iilah was quick to dash towards another clawed hand before cutting it down with a fury swipes from her twin blade.

Yang charged up to one of the clawed hands and with a shotgun blast, hit it with her tonfa. She spun the other one until it was backwards and fired a few more at another one. I grabbed one of them fingers and pulled it back before it broke it off before grabbing it and throwing it into another. With a push I rocketed forward and tore the two apparte. I saw the armored figure and changed directions so I was rocketing towards him. He blocked my attack with his swords.

“You know, you and your shadows are pissing me off.” I said with a growl. He simply chuckled before kicking me back, he then charged at me and swung with intent to kill. I was able to dodge and block all of them but he was getting too fast. Once I blocked his swords but both blades were directed towards me and he forced them closer and closer. It was then that Yang struck him with her tonfa, and from the sound of it she was coming at him at full force. He was sent flying away as Yang stood over me.

“You okay sis?” she asked me with a smile. I smiled back as she helped me up.

“Yeah, thanks.” I said as I stood up. The groan or growl that came from the armored man was obscured by the constant static his voice distorter was emitted thanks to Yang. He grabbed his helmet and angrily tossed it to the side.

“I was planning on only killing the silver eyed girl.” The man said turning to face us with a look of rage. “What's three more going to do?”

My eyes widen as I saw the mans face, the sickly pale face with black veins that go up to his cheeks. His eyes were pitch black as they had a blood red iris les looking right at me. I felt like this was some sort of sick joke… that I was living a nightmare.

“Indi… go?”

Author's Notes:

Everyone, meet Evil Indigo or as Uncle Death likes to call him: Grimmdigo