Diane smiled as she drew her massive axe out her shield resting on one arm “I have not fought an opponent my equal, very well I accept your challenge.”

Starlight drew her halberd and rushed at Diane, Diane blocked the blow before swinging at Starlight. Starlight dodged to the side and swung again“Impressive speed but not good enough.”

Diane teleported behind Starlight striking her back with the axe, Starlight turned around with a growl “That was cheating!”

Diane rolled her eyes “I thought this was a death match, there is no cheating in a match like that. You coming with an army of Grimm made me think you were an enemy. I was going in for the kill with that strike, besides it’s not like I was getting external help. I was simply using one of my many powers.”

Starlight smirked “Well I can do that too.”

Diane grimaced “Then start.” Diane slotted her axe into her shield and it transformed into a giant rocket hammer. Starlight and Diane began teleporting their weapons clashing as massive waves of energy echoed across the arena.

Meanwhile Nora, Ren, Tempest, Vinyl and Octavia were sitting on the back of a a huge scorpion Grimm known as a Death Stalker. Octavia frowned at the Grimm“Are you sure he’s cool Vinyl?”

Vinyl laughed “Our buddy here is more intent on watching the fight, it seems to think it is foolish to mess with us considering how powerful our friend up there is. Besides the others are even crazier.”

Cardin, Weiss, Blake, Sunset, Ruby, Yang, Rainbow, Jaune and Pyrrha were sitting on a Nevermore. The Nevermore was watching intently as well, the Death Stalker looked at them with a frown “We are Creatures of Destruction but make no mistake we do have a level of free will that grows with time and power. We are not merely mindless beasts.” Everyone on the Death Stalker’s back save Tempest looked at the Death Stalker.

Meanwhile the Nevermore was having the conversation as everyone save Rainbow and Sunset were stunned. Sunset frowned “That makes sense, it does explain some things.”

The Nevermore nodded “The Death Stalker with your fiends is explaining the same thing. One of the things most of you don’t know is that Faunus are descended from Grimm. In truth Faunus didn’t exist until the second coming of humanity.”

Weiss’s eyes narrowed as he demanded “The second coming of humanity, what does that mean!”

The Nevermore frowned “Don’t make demands of me!” It then took a deep breath “Still in simplest terms Salem was at fault, she wanted to revive her husband but when the god refused her and made her immortal.She then lead a human rebellion against the gods. The gods then decided to destroy all humans and left the world blowing up part of the moon on the way out.”

Diane then landed on the Nevermore “Sunset hold my weapon.” Sunset took the heavy hammer with help from Pyrrha.

Diane then flew towards Starlight the two swung their fists creating a massive shockwave of aura. Diane grinned as she swung her fists rapidly clashing with Starlight’s fists “Mighty impressive, this is the first time I fought someone my equal before.”

Starlight chuckled as she exchanged blows “I’d say the same, being the one leading the Grimm Faction in Vale gives me quite a bit of influence. There are two others, the Queen of Change, Chrysalis commands the Grimm Faction of Vacuo and the Master of Shadows, Sombra commands the Grimm Faction of Mistral.”

Diane managed to dodge a punch and with one of her own sent Starlight hurtling into a mountain that shattered into dust. Starlight burst back towards Diane as she swung her own punch which was blocked by Diane “The truth is we are missing one of our number, Atlas doesn’t have one holding dominion over the Grimm in the area. We are the one stopping Grimm from going on an all out war. I wish for you to be General of Chaos for Atlas.”

Diane grimaced as she exchanged blows with Starlight “Wait, that means you haven’t fought either them.”

Starlight sighed as she stopped fighting “We are not allowed to fight each other, stops us from being power hungry. Sombra got to induct Chrysalis so this is my turn.”

Diane raised an eyebrow “What about Salem?”

Starlight shrugged “She leads a small contingent of Grimm outside of the nations despite her immortality, it is nothing that we can’t overwhelm with enough power. She is small fry, we are more concerned about the state of the gods. We fear they may come back unstable and we will be forced to put them down. The worst case scenario is that out there they merged into a twisted horror of creation and destruction.”

Diane nodded before assuming a combat stance as did Starlight. The two then rushed at each other exchanging punches and kicks. Explosions echoed throughout the air as reality began to shatter as their full powers were bought to bare.

Ozpin and Glynda watched on in shock as the power of the above deity level beings clashed. Glynda looked at Ozpin fearfully “Who are those two?”

Ozpin frowned as he took a deep breath to regain his composure “Beings above gods, that is all I know.”

Glynda blinked “And one is a student at our school, what could we possible teach her? She took out the biggest Grimm I’ve ever seen like it was nothing more than a fly. She has been trained by Ironwood so she has the discipline.”

Ozpin frowned “Teamwork and Leadership, still I think it’s safe to say that she has no real need for sparring.”

Glynda sighed as the pair returned to watching the fight unfold. Starlight grinned as she formed a triangle with her fingers firing off a huge purple triangular beam“I’d say it’s time to end this fight! Fear my Master Destructor!”

Diane silently held up a finger forming a mighty pink ball of energy that grew to easily the size of the castle. Everyone was watching on in shock as Pinkie through the huge ball of energy that struck against the purple beam. Starlight was sweating profusely as she tried to push it back “That is a powerful technique.”

Diane was pushing as well, sweat running down her armour. Diane grinned as one hand was pushing the huge pink ball of death “The simplest techniques are sometimes the best and this only needs one hand which means…”

Her other hand created a second death ball throwing it into the first causing it to double in size and power as it pushed Starlight’s beam back before striking her. It detonated in her face sending a huge waves of energy, leaving anything in the immediate vicinity of the blasted in strange colours. The sky changed to neon plaid as the ground changed to a the black and white pattern of checker boards.

Starlight was puffing as she floated there exhaustion visible in her eyes, she landed on one of her Wyverns “You did well… Diane .. what do you … think of … our offer.”

Diane smiled as she flew over to her “I will after my time at Beacon is complete, keep the Grimm and by extent Salem in check.” Starlight tiredly waved goodbye as Diane did the same, she then landed in on the Nevermore and chuckled “I haven’t felt this tired ever.” She then blinked as she saw the stunned looks “Did something happen?”

Author's Note

Yes Grimm can talk to an extent in this story