Side Story: (Guardian's) Grit

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(A/N: Disclaimer, Rating has been changed to Mature for reasons below just to be safe. You have been warned.)

"I'm shaking, hands on my knees, panting. Let the monsters come. Let them come forever. Let them climb the piled bodies of their dead. I don't care. That's the thing I do better than anyone. Not care. Let them come in their hundreds and every one will die at my feet. I don't care about their homing rockets, their exotic matter slugs, their blades from another dimension.

I don't care because I cannot be moved. I am the wall against which the Darkness breaks.
Malphur can turn his gun to fire and Shinobu can dance with lightning, but when the horrors run out of the dark, I am the one who does not move.

I am a wall. And walls don't move. Because walls don't care." - Sentinel Titan Lore Tab

Fire blazes across the land as trees brighten the night sky with both red and yellow lights. Ash and smoke permeate the land as one of The Forests of Menagerie continues to burn down.

The Fire had reached Kuo Kuana, the capital city of Menagerie, one of the last remaining homes to the Faunus people where segregation and discrimination against them is almost non-existent.

Yet what was once a beacon now is naught but fuel for the fire that had overtaken the land, its people run and scream away from the overpacked village.

Children could be heard crying as well as people who panic and rush out of the villages borders watching their home burn down.

At first what seemed to be a horrible set of circumstances was made worse when the people who were at a safe distance overlooking the destruction on a barren hill, metal stomps were heard from behind them.

As many looked behind them in the darkened forest many would see them clearly.

The single Eye the Army all had appearing one by one

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The single Eye the Army all had appearing one by one. That was when they attacked.

The screams continued as people rushed to safety, as they ran but unknowingly they were being chased, herded like cattle as they are led back to the burning village.

The Menagerie Guard and anyone willing to fight against the destructive force had banded together to hopefully make a last stand as the remaining Faunus people had a last resort to something like this.

Ships were being pulled out, it was a plan in case the Grimm ever try and overrun Kuo Kuana. There would be a last stand and the civilians would try and escape by ship.

It was but a small moment, but criminals, White Fang, and The Menagerie Guard joined in this fight together. There was something about these things, these heartless machines that caused them to fight.

Their instincts told them that running is a pointless endeavor and if they failed they would keep going.  Yet still, the cowards joined the civilians and people continued to die as The Faunus People were not even close to a full evacuation.

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