Chapter 18: (Vex) Infestation

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Side Story (Vex): Infestation

"Guard your heart and mind against double-minded pretentious beings. Do not allow infiltration beyond the surface. If their influence travels on the inside, they become like an incurable disease." - Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Kuo Kuana, a small sea side village on the continent Menagerie. Within the middle of it all was a large Mansion where one Ghira Belladonna lived and worked.

As a Chieftain of Menagerie it's often his duty and job to look over and protect all of Menagerie and it's people.

Be they Faunus and or Human, but as he reads numerous reports across all the villages it's seems that he is incapable of doing so.

It all started when people journey on too far into a certain part of the forests deeper in, they don't come back. It's like they, disappear, no trace is left of the missing people.

Either this is the work of a very smart Grimm, or the work of really smart bandits who found themselves fortunate to get a total of 23 victims, with 15 of those men Menagerie Guard.

Whoever these men were Ghira Belladonna knew they were dangerous, very much so, so with great reluctance on the Menagerie's Council part, two teams of Huntsman were hired to find the cause of this treachery.

"After all they're not cheap these days, expecting exuberant amounts of money now for a job like this, it's ridiculous". Ghira finds himself saying.

He thinks back on the days of when he was a child, about how the Huntsman back then would take any job as long as the people were safe.

Things weren't easy as well since the Huntsman hired HAD to have a Faunus individual with them, so that took awhile as well, and with the amount of time grew so did Ghira's annoyance.

"Weeks, it took three weeks before we can finally have some help, three weeks before we lost Twenty-Three good men and women", Ghira found himself sighing once more.

Standing up from his desk filled with stacks of paper work Ghira decides to take a walk around his home. Thinking on how exactly the Huntsman would take on this situation.

There is a high probability that it is bandits, and if it is it just brings up a whole slew of problems, bandits somehow found their way in Menagerie, they're successful in killing both people and guards.

And Menagerie is now a venerable target because of it, to both them and Grimm.

Ring~ Ring~
Ring~ Ring~

Looking at his scroll he finds that it was one of the council members calling him,

Beep! "Hello?"

"Ghira, I was just notified that they're here in Kuo Kuana, they should be making your way, I hope you have a plan of action for them." Ghira was appalled.

"A-a plan of action? With all due respect I wasn't informed I had to make a plan for them."

"It was your choice to hired these Huntsman, as Chieftain I was certain you had it all figured out."

"Well yes but-"

"Ghira, you had three weeks of hiring these Huntsman but you haven't thought of a plan of action against these Grimm?"

"It's because we don't know what exactly we're dealing with, it could be Grimm, Bandits, rough Huntsman. We don't even know!"

"Then you better make one soon."

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