Log:Return to Grimm Reality

Grimm Family Matters 2020/07/15 	 Radical Grimm

7

In Steinberg Tower, after finishing getting Dialydd and Slinger assistance, a gate of pure light suddenly manifests in the relative area of the clinic nearby. The same not-quite-blinding light in the forest prior.

Radical was on his way to the Arcane Studies area to see if he could find out anything about the man they were fighting...and to keep his mind off the fact that he didn't know where Grimm was. He stops in his tracks and he waits to see if anything comes out of the gate.

A silhouette, feminine, becomes visible, blocking out the light, but it's hard to make out her features. After a few more steps through to this side of the gate, the gate closes and winks out of existence, leaving a drained and naturally blonde Gabrielle Grimm behind.

Radical waits a moment to make sure it's her..and then he goes to give Grimm a hug, "Gabrielle, are you okay?"

Grimm falls into the hug and lets out a ragged sigh. "I'm okay," she says quietly, but she doesn't really sound okay. With the gate closed and given a few moments, the roots of her hair begin to grow black, the darkness spreading its way slowly to the tips. "She's alive. She's safe. But the Source wouldn't let me see her..."

Radical furrows his brow. "The Source?" He starts to think back to see if he recalls that particular term.

Grimm nods weakly, feeling a bit stronger as her powers return. "I was in this...cosmic construct. My powers were gone. I walks to the light and it took a feminine shape. It said it was...was the remains of the source of power that formed the see of Yggdrasil. Creation." She pulls back a bit from the hug to look at Radical. "Are you okay? Slinger? Dialydd...?"

Radical nods. "I'm fine. Slinger has been tended to and healed. Dialydd is reseting and recovering, but my magic did nothing to restore him."

Grimm looks relieved when Radical says he's fine, and Slinger as well. Though concern returns to her features as he says his magic hasn't helped Dialydd. "I hope he'll be okay. I'm...I'm sure we'll find something," she says as the last of her blonde tips fade to black. She closes her eyes and takes a breath. "I can feel everything again...sense everything...it felt like being blinded over there."

Radical nods. "I think he'll just be okay with some time. Time to heal."

Grimm nods weakly as she opens her eyes, still looking sorrowful. "I'll have to make it up to him. To all of you getting hurt helping me. But...thank you for encouraging me to go. I was able to learn a little more. And what I have to do to get Gwen back."

Radical nods. "So...what do you have to do? And...what else happened?"

Grimm doesn't look too happy when she has to think about it. "That man who attacked us was Victor Price. He's the father of the man who sacrificed me and ended up making me the person I am today. And Victor's after Gwen because it was foretold that a daughter of Grimm would be a conduit to the end of all things, and he wants to make that happen. The remnant of the source acts as...as a sort of Shepard of Creation and can't let that happen."

She takes a deep breath and holds it a moment as she thinks of the other part. Then finally, "He won't stop hunting her. So in order to be able to see her again, I have to make sure his hunt ends permanently."

Radical nods. "So...you might be the person he's looking for as well? I'm assuming he's not that picky about his target.

"Maybe that's why he wanted me to go with him. But he's still obsessed with Gwen. The Source didn't protect me because it thought I was strong enough, I guess. Jonathon followed in his father's footsteps though. He went after me because his father failed to get his true target," Gabrielle murmurs, sounding like this is all bringing up painful memories.

Radical takes a deep breath, "So...Randal did protect her from a dangerous event after all. He'll be happy to know that ended up to be the case." He pauses and looks to Grimm, "So, what more do you know about this Victor Price?"

Grimm shakes her head. "Not much. Just that his power will make him difficult to contain. If he's anything like Jonathon, he probably has, or had, ties with DEMON. And he's studied magic to channel Qliphothic energy. That's probably why he's bent on ending creation. It seems anyone it touches starts to go mad and wanting to devour and end everything," she says, deeply troubled by that and herself.

"He's so obsessed with Gwen that he keeps scrying that same spot where he lost her. But he's still searching everywhere else for her, so he moves around a lot, I imagine," she adds.

Radical says, "So, when we showed up, he recognized you? Or are least your magical signature? I'm guessing he had no idea who I was."

Grimm nods. "That's what I think. One of those. Though he may look into you since you were seen with me."

"He knew my name. I'm pretty sure because Jonathon told him all about what happened," Gabrielle says bitterly.

Radical nods. "Where is the younger Price now? Do we know?"

Grimm shakes her head. "He's got the same access to the powers I do. He could be anywhere he pleases across the multiverse."

Radical nods. "So he could also be the conduit if he wanted to be, instead of making you the sacrificial victim.

"Maybe. Jonathon wants me dead so he can claim all the power for himself. We each split half of what was intended to be his. He thinks with all of it, he'll have the strength to open all the Elder Gods from their cages," Gabrielle explains. "I don't think that was the method Victor was going to try and use. I was never meant to have this power. It was a-a fluke," she stammers.

Radical watches her for a moment. "Are you okay?"

Grimm rubs her forehead and closes her eyes as she thinks on that. She shakes her head slowly. "I'm...I'm really not." She opens her eyes an looks up at him as she tries to bring up her emotional barriers again to compartmentalize. She's partially successful. "But I have to be. For Gwen. Maybe...maybe-maybe Victor thinks he can get power the way Jonathon did. Or maybe he's still not crazy enough to sacrifice his son. O-or maybe...they're at odds with each other?"

Radical nods. "What's important right now...is that she's safe. Not dead. And we know that. And we can do something to help her."

Grimm nods softly and takes a breath to focus on that. "And that you're all safe now, too," she adds with a faint smile of gratitude for that. "This has been hard, but...I can't tell you what it means to me to finally know. And that you helped me discover the truth. I owe you."

Radical chuckles. "I'm sure I can come up with some kind of family issue you can help me with eventually."

"You got it," Grimm smiles.

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