Glory to Salem, time we get to the cabin! Time to raise some evil dead!
The Beacon kids spewed out of the RV, taking in the view of the cabin before them.
"Your Uncle Qrow sucks..."
Everyone nodded in agreement with Nora, minus Qrow's two nieces as they gawked at the shitty wooden cabin that must have been the size of a single dorm back at the Academy. Its windows were covered in dust, the wood was rotting, and the woods around it just felt... Wrong. Like Blake's hentai collection wrong.
Yang picked up her bags, "Eh, it's pretty alright, plus Uncle Qrow said he cleaned up the inside for us." The heiress rubbed her eyes, "Are you sure about that?" The place looked like what her father described as a faunus dwelling, nonetheless she followed her partner as the tyke zoomed into their weekend home. The rest of RWBY and JNPR followed, watching their steps after Jaune felt a sharp pain in his foot. Turns out that there were a few nails out of place and one was now lodged in his heel. Team RWBY went to unpack while Jaune whimpered on the couch.
"Alright, Jaune.. just, take a deep breath." Pyrrha played with his hair as the young Arc had his head in her lap, Maybe... maybe we can just prolong this a bit. He winced as Ren started slowly pulling out the nail, "Just hold still, J-"
Nora pushed him aside, "You're being too slow! Gotta tear it off like a bandaid!" She yanked out the nail, leading to the blondie screaming at the top of his lungs as his partner did her best to comfort him. "Want me to kiss it and make it better?" She blurted out, pausing before a deep blush appeared on her face. "I-i'm sorry, I.. well, it's.. it's what my mother would say when I would get splinters.." Nora and Ren looked at each other, rolling their eyes in unison as yet again Jaune didn't catch that. Nora got up and dusted her skirt, smiling. "Well, I think we should leave you here to tend to our fearless leader, P-Money. How does some exploring sound Rennie?" She helped her partner up, who shrugged and nodded in agreement. The ginger turned her eyes to the cellar and smiled, "Oooooh, think there'll be some funtime juice down there? I mean... this was Qrow's cabin, right?"
"Yep, this is definitely Uncle Qrow's cabin..." Yang sighed as she opened the fridge, revealing mostly empty and semi-empty bottles of booze. Only other thing was a carton of milk that was well past its expiration date and... what she hoped was a deer heart and veal in the back of the fridge. She shivered as she took the heart and placed it in the crisper to hide it from Rubes, she wiped her hand on her pantsleg before closing the fridge. The blonde turned to her partner, "Found anything in the cupboar-" She paused when she saw a mouse was in Blake's mouth. "Mwop..." The guilty faunus swallowed than repeated herself, "Nope... Good thing we got groceries." Yang merely held up a finger, making her way to somewhere else to burn these images from her head. While this was going on, the other half of their team were busy making the beds into bunkbeds. Just didn't feel right unless there was risk of one of them being crushed at night.
"Hmmmm, good thing there are plenty of loose floorboards we can use instead of books!" She smiled, jumping onto the top bunk and freezing as she felt a spring hit one of her pressure points. Weiss merely looked at the bed before checking under it, finding a few dirty magazines that brought a bright shade of red to her usually pale face. Dusty Dukes Trap Edition... Faunus Fucker Monthly... Oh Brothers I need to blacklight this room if I'm going to sleep here...
She put them under the floorboards, far from Ruby's curious hands. "Um.. so, I'm gonna go check on the others, let you know if anything happens." Her younger leader gave a thumbs up before laying back, smiling as she looked at the ceiling.
"Aaaah, this is gonna be great." The faintest whisper hit her ears, what sounded like a guttural growl as if a dying coyote was attempting to speak in human tongue.
Join us.
"What?!" The reaper jumped up, looking around before seeing the room empty. She got a bit twitchy, jumping off the bed and running out of the room, "Weiss, wait for me!"
In the cabin's cellar, Nora and Ren were surprised not by the massive barrels of rum and whiskey but by the the massive chest that was chained up. Nora's eyes widened as a smile spread to very creepy proportion, "Nora smash!" She pulled out Magnhild, rushing at the wooden box and doing what she does best. Ren tried stopping her but had to duck from the swarm of splinters caused by the impact. This must have been heard through out the house as the cellar door open, with the rest of their classmates coming down. "The hell is going on down here?" Yang really didn't want to explain to her uncle about any of his shit breaking, it was the one rule he had next to not touching his booze. She blinked when she saw Nora waving a book around.
"Awwww, I thought it would be something cool... like candy!" She narrowed her eyes as she flipped through the book, "It's not even in the right language!" The Valkyrie tossed it aside, only for Blake to catch it quick. "How could you do that to a poor, innocent bo-"
Blake looked down at the cover, noticing the leather binding felt just... just a bit strange. There was a strange pattern as if it was mimicking a human/faunus face. She opened it and read the title page, "Kitab al'Azif... Necronomicon Ex-Mortis... the Book of the Dead." Writing was definitely archaic, with 3 different scripts with only one being close to their language and the other two completely alien. There was a moment of silence before it was broken by Goldilocks.
"Did we find Uncle Qrow's edgy poetry?!"
The bombshell rushed over, snatching the book from her partner and giggling as she flipped through. "Dad always said Uncle Qrow was some kinda emo during Beacon, now I know he was right just check this."
Everyone got around as the blonde started to read.
"Beliel."
Outside, the wind start to pick up speed. The clouds blocked the sun. Through the howling of the wind, the sound of all animals of the forest crying out echoed throughout the woods.
"Behemoth."
Mercury was currently sitting beside a tree, watching as Emerald and Cinder waded through the bushes looking for whatever it was they were out here for. He felt a the ground start to shake, the two girls falling before him as the sounds of a thousand young filled their ears.
"Beelzebub."
Jaune heard a buzzing in his ears, looking up to see a swarm of flies circling the one light source in the room.
"Asmodeus."
Pyrrha felt a knot start to twist in her stomach, she held onto Jaune as the chant continued.
"Satanas."
Ruby started to shiver, clutching Weiss who surprisingly clutched back.
"Lucifer."
Thousands of miles away
Salem paused, her iris dilating as she felt a sudden feeling of dread fill her.
"Who. Read. My. Book."
Back at the Cabin
Yang let out a laugh, "Oum, he was such a dork. These sound like crappy RPG villain names."
Hail Salem, see you guys next time, and listen to Year Zero by Ghost B.C. It's where I got that chant and it is a catching song, this is coming from a good Catholic schoolboy.