Vol. 2The Key and the Mist

Nick survived the Predator hunt, killed Adalind, and escaped a ghost into a new world where he faced a secret sacrifice operation and a deadly mist. Back in Portland, he resumed police work as Renard revealed that Catherine and an envoy had come to claim the key, setting up a family power struggle.

  • Nick escaped the Predators’ hunting ground with Major Dutch’s help, returned to Portland, and investigated Bee Wesen murders tied to the Primrose Paper Mill.
  • Adalind attacked Nick in her Hexenbiest form, and Nick shot her dead before demanding a proper talk with Renard.
  • Nick and the Winchesters investigated Faith Collins’s murder and the White Lady, and Nick escaped her attack through the Magic Movie Ticket.
  • Nick entered a new movie world as Horton Parker and began building a life at Portland State University.
  • Nick led his companions through a secret facility where researchers planned to sacrifice them, and they escaped after releasing the monsters.
  • Nick and Lila fought creatures in the Hood River mist and ran toward the Humvee as more monsters approached.
  • Nick helped the supermarket survivors withstand the mist and its creatures until the military cleared the danger, then returned to Portland and resumed police work.
  • Renard told Nick that Catherine and an envoy had come to claim the key, and Nick proposed using the Grimm descendant requirement as leverage.
Chapters 104–204 Read from Ch. 104

Arc 5From the Hunting Ground to Portland

Nick survived the Predator hunt, returned to Portland, and helped Hansen and Gracie prepare a food truck while investigating murders tied to the Primrose Paper Mill. Melissa Wickoft warned him about a threat from Vienna, and the arc ended with Nick killing Adalind after she attacked him and confronting Renard.

  • Nick and the survivors escaped the Predators’ hunting ground with help from Major Dutch and his companion, then Nick returned to Portland with Dahlia and recorded what he had learned about the Yautja.
  • Nick offered Hansen and Gracie a chance to run his food truck, and Labe finalized an agreement that could lead to their full ownership.
  • Nick investigated the deaths of Serena Dembrooke and Camilla Graypool, traced the killings to Bee Wesen connected to the Primrose Paper Mill, and learned that Melissa Wickoft had arranged them to warn him.
  • Melissa told Nick that Vienna posed the real threat and that she had also tested what kind of Grimm he was, then Nick urged her to leave the country.
  • Renard shelved the investigation after Melissa and the Primrose Bee Wesen vanished, and he assigned Nick and Hancock a case involving missing travelers.
  • Nick discussed Renard and the Royal Family with Dahlia, then found Renard and Adalind together in their apartment.
  • Adalind attacked Nick in her Hexenbiest form, and Nick shot her dead before taking Renard’s pistol and demanding a proper talk.
Chapters 104–12825 summaries Read

Arc 6The White Lady and the New World

Nick investigated Faith Collins’s murder, captured Billy Capra with help from Sam and Dean Winchester, and joined them in searching for their missing father and confronting the Woman in White. After the Female Ghost attacked him, Nick escaped into a new movie world as Horton Parker and began building a life at Portland State University.

  • Nick exposed Renard’s ties to the Royal Family and the Hexenbiest world, made him promise to control his relatives, and burned Adalind’s corpse with Labe’s help.
  • Nick explained Wesen and the Council to Hancock, then investigated Faith Collins’s murder and discovered evidence pointing to Billy Capra and his Thorn House inn.
  • Nick and Hancock tracked Billy to the Blue Moon, where Sam and Dean helped reveal his Goat Wesen form, and Hancock found three women imprisoned in the inn’s gas-filled basement.
  • Nick warned Renard to keep Billy’s aphrodisiac gas from people with ulterior motives, then told Sam and Dean he valued order and protecting people over blindly following rules.
  • Nick connected the Winchesters’ search for John to the White Lady legend, and he and Dahlia joined Sam and Dean at Sylvia Bridge, where the ghost appeared and attacked them with two cars.
  • Nick found John Winchester’s motel room and followed a lead to Joseph Welch, who told him Constance and her children were buried on Breckenridge Mountain.
  • After Sam and Dean burned the remains, Constance appeared in Nick’s car, drove him to an abandoned farmhouse, and attacked him when he refused to take her home.
  • Nick escaped the Female Ghost by tearing open the Magic Movie Ticket, entered a new world as Horton Parker, recovered from near-fatal injuries, and later accepted Kurt and Jules’s invitation to vacation in Hood River with Dana and Martin.
Chapters 129–15425 summaries Read

Arc 7The Cabin and the Mist

Nick and his companions were drawn into a secret sacrifice operation, escaped after unleashing the facility’s monsters, and then faced a deadly fog in Hood River. The group reached Carol’s home, while Nick and Lila fought creatures in the mist and headed back to the Humvee.

  • Kurt brought Nick, Jules, Dana, and Martin to a remote cabin, where Nick discovered hidden cameras, one-way mirrors, and signs that the place had been carefully arranged.
  • After the group found Anna Faith Buckner’s diary and read the cellar’s Latin spell, hallucinogenic gas and monsters attacked, but Nick protected his companions and Martin disabled the cabin’s surveillance.
  • Nick led the group into an underground facility, where they found cages containing monsters and learned that the researchers planned to sacrifice five people to appease the Ancient Gods.
  • Nick gave Dana a code manual, and the group released the facility’s monsters before escaping through maintenance passages toward the ancient altar.
  • Nick killed Ripley and led the group out of the base, where they survived the emergence of an Old God and escaped in a Humvee as Nick, Kurt, and Martin suffered injuries.
  • The group reached Hood River and entered a supermarket for supplies, but an air raid siren sounded and a supernatural mist began swallowing people outside.
  • Nick stopped Kurt from escorting Carol home and took her there with Lila, where Carol reunited with her children and Nick left them supplies and safety instructions.
  • Nick and Lila fought a Venom Bee Wesen and a pterodactyl-like creature in the fog, then ran toward the Humvee as more monsters approached.
Chapters 155–17925 summaries Read

Arc 8The Mist and the Key

Nick helped the supermarket survivors endure the mist and its creatures, then returned to Portland and resumed police work while investigating Frederick Calvert’s murder. Renard revealed that Catherine and an envoy had arrived to claim the key, leaving Nick and Renard preparing for a family power struggle.

  • Nick warned the supermarket group about the danger outside, and David Drayton showed them the blood and severed tentacle left by the creature that took Norman.
  • Nick helped organize the survivors, armed defenders, and challenged Mrs. Carmody when she demanded a blood sacrifice, sending her into the fog to retrieve a book.
  • Nick and the defenders fought off insects and a Pterodactyl monster, then the military destroyed the behemoth and cleared the mist, allowing the survivors to escape.
  • Nick drove the White Lady from his car and helped her reunite with her children, but she later possessed Dahlia and revealed that she was not an ordinary ghost.
  • Nick named the White Lady Gwen, set rules for her, and returned to police work after his vacation, while Dahlia investigated the unusual psionic patterns in his sword.
  • Nick met Bud, a Beaver Wesen who recognized him as a Grimm, and let him go after warning him to keep Nick’s identity secret.
  • Nick investigated Frederick Calvert’s murder with Hancock and Monroe, found evidence that the killers had searched for illegal herbs, and asked Rosalie Calvert to help identify what was missing.
  • Renard told Nick that Catherine had arrived and his younger brother had sent an envoy to claim the key, while Nick proposed using the fact that only a Grimm descendant could open the treasure as leverage.
Chapters 180–20425 summaries Read
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