"So what is with the steel shutters?" Adam asks as she touches the shutters.
"You think all animals here are friendly?" Alex asks walking by.
"It also allows us to sleep in peace." Konata informs.
"And the bugs are relentless." Alex says shaking his head.
"A Tricera freaking tops." Blake says.
"Enough about that Blake." Alex says walking by her and gives her a sushi box.
"Oh Alex, you shouldn't have." Blake says smiling.
Alex shrugs. "You loved it since even before I came into your life."
"So how long are these going to be up?" Coco asks reading a book.
"About one more hour. The bugs really like the morning air…and the animals." Alex says sitting near her and relaxing in his seat.
"That and Tricky is…" Konata stopped when a dent formed in a shutter.
"That was her killing one now." Alex informs.
"Killing what?" Yang asks looking to the dent.
"Giant bug. Mostly mosquitoes." Alex informs.
"How big?" Coco asks lowering her book.
"I'll show you the ones that Tricky is killing out there later." Alex says before kicking the dent and the shutter seems to reform to its original shape.
"I'm assuming you've been through this a lot." Yang says watching him.
"Oh, this is all Ligorgan made." Alex informs.
"And they rewarded or you bought it?" Ruby asks looking through the books.
"Paid for them to build this one." Alex says going over to the black couch. "I really like this couch. It feels nice."
"You said that every time you sit down." Konata says snacking on chips.
"Oh, you are just mad you don't own this couch." Alex says.
"Shut up. At least I have the love seat." Konata says jumping into it and reclining in it.
"That is just a massage chair." Alex points out.
Konata flips a switch on the side and the chair starts to shake. "And it's so good."
"I worry about your mental health sometimes." Alex informs.
"And I worry about…nothing, but thanks for the sentiment." She says happily smirking as she eats away at her chips again.
"Yeah. That is a given." Alex says sweatdropping.
They all look between the two as they both stare at each other. "Is this every day?" Coco asks closing her book.
"You now know why I avoid her as much as possible." Alex says.
"You now know why I try to catch up to him as much as possible." Konata says chuckling.
"She is that biggest threat to my sanity." Alex complains.
"She loves you." They all say looking to him.
"And she made me regenerate twice now." Alex says glaring at Konata.
"That's what girlfriends do sometimes." Coco says raising an eyebrow.
"Which means she nearly killed me twice on purpose." Alex informs.
"I just like you like that." Konata says chuckling.
"I'm sorry. Repeat that Alex?" Ruby asks very calm and sweetly.
"She almost killed me twice." Alex repeats.
"Really now?" Yang asks activating her weapons.
"Twice." Alex repeats holding up two fingers.
"One more time." Weiss says bringing out her weapon as Konata started to realize what was happening.
"Twice. Twice she killed me." Alex says smirking as he catches what is happening as Konata digs out another chip and prepared to bite.
"How strong are those shutters?" Blake asks.
"Very. The Ligorgans are very good at making durable materials." Alex says getting up and tiptoeing away.
Konata looks to everyone pointing their weapons at her and she takes a bite of the chip and stops as she grits her teeth hard and they realize she has a marble in her teeth. "Wait. What's…?" Ruby asks confused.
"Uh oh." Alex says quickly diving behind the island countertop.
Konata bites hard and crushes the marble before aura flares out and wash over them before they open their eyes again and sees their weapons gone. "Where did she…?!" Yang yells seeing Konata gone.
"Ha! I know that trick. How does it feel Konata?" Alex calls boasting as Konata looks at the yellow glowing energy cage she was in.
Konata looks to him before tossing him a marble. "Deal's a deal."
"Yes, now you can no longer try and make me regenerate ever again." Alex says knowing it urked her something fierce.
Konata huffs and crosses her arms as she looks away.
"What was that?!" Weiss yells near him.
"Aura marble." Alex says holding up the marble. "Allows an influx of aura to be sent to the nearest aura user. But…bad drawback."
"It burns out one's aura." Konata says looking to her. "That's why only we can use it."
"Go to bed. I will see you in a few hours." Alex says deactivating the cage.
Konata yawns and walks off as she tosses another marble up and down.
"I'm afraid of her…wait! Where're our weapons?!" Blake yells and Konata pulls a cord hanging from the ceiling and Blake yells out as all the weapons get dumped onto her. "Owie."
"And that was half speed." Alex says freezing all of them.
"Seriously?!" They all yell at him.
"Yeah, but she can't sustain it for long." Alex says.
Konata yawns loudly. "And the loudmouth loves to exploit it."
"She is a vampire remember?" Alex asks scaring them.
"And he loves to burn me." Konata says shaking her head.
"Go on to bed you." Alex instructs.
Konata sticks her tongue out at him.
"Shoo." Alex says poking her with a broom.
Konata hisses and walks off.
"THE BROOM!" Blake yells.
Alex raises an eyebrow and brushes towards Blake and makes her hiss at him.
"Calm down Blake." Adam says as she clung to her back.
Alex sighs. "Then I guess I should get rid of the vacuum." He says bringing it out.
What followed was a series of cuss words that nobody thought Blake knew.
Alex hums as he brings his gun and fires at the vacuum and destroys it. "Better?"
"DIE!" Blake yells grabbing Coco's weapon and opens up on the vacuum.
"Maybe I should get more for her to shoot." Alex says watching it.
"Blake is terrifying." Yang comments.
"And I like it that way." Alex says smiling.
"Mommy's little boy." Nora calls.
Alex smiles as he holds out his hand and knocks it onto Nora's head. "Breaker."
"You done?" Adam asks Blake who was breathing hard.
"Nope. I want more." Blake says looking to Alex.
"I don't…wait. When did I get a vacuum?" Alex asks.
"Yesterday." Konata says around the corner.
"Actually, I d…Konata, did you follow me and Tricky instead of watching them like I told you too?!" Alex demands.
Konata stares at him as she stayed leaning around the corner.
"KONATA!" Alex yells.
"He got Blake's lungs." Ruby comments.
"And her style." Yang says watching Alex yell out.
"Ok. Looks clea…" Alex stops as he loves the periscope and walks over and pushes a button.
They hear a buzzing and then something burning. "Something's burning." Adam says sniffing the air.
"Mosquitos." Alex informs.
"Good. So what now?" Adam asks looking to him.
"First, we wait for it to burn them all to ash." Alex says as Konata snores loudly.
"Can we shut her up?" Ruby asks frowning.
"No, we can't." Alex inform.
"Can we try at least?" Yang asks.
"I have. Trust me, I have." Alex informs.
"You won't win." Konata mumbles in her sleep.
"Now let's see." Alex is looking out on the periscope again.
"Anything?" Ruby asks leaning over.
"They are burning. Give it another minute." Alex says.
"So what's the plan now?" Coco asks as they all pack what they have now.
"Gather intel. The Ligorgans were surprised to see me. Meaning they had no idea I had been summoned by the alarm. At this point, it must be automated." Alex informs.
"So are we going to get shot at again?" Weiss asks trying to look over the papers left over the counter.
"That was obviously those who were responsible for this. The Ligorgans prefer railguns for their navy so if that was them they would have also been firing those at us." Alex informs.
"So mercenaries maybe?" Adam asks.
"Most likely." Alex says.
"So…kill them or are we going to knock heads?" Adam asks tapping her sword.
"That is complicated. We are here under the authority of their government and they are arguing what to do with freed purists. It is equal on both sides. Half want to put them back into the cells while the other half want to keep the promise they made to the purists when they were imprisoned. That promise was you escape and leave the cells on your free will there would be no second chances and all of them will be executed." Alex informs.
"That's heavy." Konata says walking by eating chips.
"They don't even care who freed them right now. That is how all-consuming their argument is." Alex says.
"And makes it dangerous." Konata says jumping into the love seat.
"It's a headache." Alex comments.
"And fun for me." Konata says grinning.
"Quiet you." Alex instructs.
Konata sticks her tongue out at him.
"Ok. That is good." Alex says heading over and presses the button again.
They watch as the shutters pull up and shine the bright sunrise into the room, blinding them. "Everyday here?" Ruby asks trying to block the light.
"Tricky, here I come!" Konata calls running out.
Alex shakes his head as he grabs his guns. "I resent her."
"Alex." Konata calls.
"What?!" Alex yells annoyed.
"Found the big cat." Konata calls.
Alex peeks his head out and stops. "Huh."
"Big cat is here." Konata repeats.
Alex smiles as he walks out and leaves the others. "Awesome. Come here Columbus!" Alex calls.
They all peek out and stop at the sight of the large tiger looking animal rushing up to Alex and nuzzling him as it rose up to his chest. "He's got a…" Yang stops as she didn't know what to think now.
"Good boy." Alex says holding the feline.
Columbus growls and nuzzles and licks his face.
"Come on big guy. Where are the others?" Alex asks. Columbus just growled. "You split up to hunt then?" Alex asks.
Columbus growls and nods its head.
"Ok. Go lay in the living room and don't attack anyone." Alex instructs.
Columbus licks his face and walks over to the house and passes by everyone before stopping by Ruby and sits and stares at her.
"A saber tooth tiger." Blake says.
Columbus growls at Ruby and licks her face before padding off.
"I am speechless." Yang says.
Ruby blinks confusedly. "Why did it lick my face?"
"You have my scent." Alex says leaning around the door before heading out again to Konata. "You know the plan."
"Yes. Me hugging Tricky." Konata says.
Alex stares at her before flicking her head hard. "Come on you. We are going to go talk to the Ligorgans." Alex says pulling her along.
"Whaaaaaaa!" Konata whines as he drags her away from Tricky who was snacking on a bush.
"How many more dangerous pets does he have?" Yang asks.
"I'm thinking a lot." Adam says as they watch them leave.
"Breakfast or lunch?" Coco asks.
"Brunch?" Weiss suggests.
"So they are sending drones to scout and asking us to wait for the info." Alex says walking with Konata.
Konata hums as she eats away at her chips. "That's stupid."
"Remembered what happened last time we went in with no information. We landed in the middle of a fortress." Alex reminds.
"We had fun. That was why." Konata says rolling her eyes.
"We killed a man." Alex retorts.
Konata shrugs as she still eats. "He was evil."
"With a bomb that scorched the surrounding land." Alex informs.
"And the land was covered with mystic symbols." Konata defends.
"They were flyers for a music festival." Alex says shaking his head.
"Wait for what?" Konata asks.
Alex slowly nods. "They were just flyers. No magic or anything like that."
"But…" Konata says trying to think about it.
"Don't bother piggy." Alex says snatching the chip bag away.
"Give me that back!" Konata calls jumping onto his back and tries reaching for the chips.
Alex keeps it out of her reach and wraps an arm around her neck and holds her close. "There. Now then, are you going to be a good girl?"
"Never!" Konata proclaims.
Alex hums as he smiles. "Then I guess you will never get this back."
"I will." Konata says as she kept reaching.
Alex nods as he grins. "Then I will throw this away."
"No, you won't." Konata says now sitting on his head.
Alex sighs. "You have to lay off Konata. Otherwise, you might shrivel up and…you know what? Here you go." He says holding the bag up to her.
"Yay!" Konata calls.
Alex smiles as he hopes she dries out quicker before he notices she had his cantine.
Konata smiles as she drinks so much water. "Ah. So much better."
"And all my hopes dash away…how long are you going to be on my head?" Alex asks frowning as he looks up to her.
"I have a good view up here." Konata says.
Alex scoffs as he kept walking. "Great. I'm a walking landmark."
"Maybe I will make a sauna up here." Konata jokes.
"Invite me." Alex says frowning.
"So where are the rest of the hunters? We went a hundred miles to the nearest town and are heading back and still no signs of them." Konata points out.
Alex looks up to her. "You planned that part. You should know."
"No, I didn't. They aren't around here. If they were, we could find them." Konata says.
"Yes, you're right. What are they up to?" Alex says thinking as he launches forward again.
Konata hums no as she kept eating.
"We should at least be able to find Don Klink given his size." Alex says.
"But then he might get hungry quicker if staying still." Konata points out as she lays on his head.
"Yeah, and he is faster than his size leads you to believe." Alex says before they hear an explosion.
"What wasWOAH!" Konata yells out as Alex runs off towards the explosion.
"Let's see who is messing with my land." Alex says going at high speed.
Konata keeps yelling out before being jerked forward and sees someone running away from a group of Ligorgans. "Who is that?"
"Well, I would say those are purists. Konata, they are on my land destroying it. That gives us ground to kill them." Alex informs.
Konata growls under her breath. "You want to take first shot or should I?"
"Can you still do that whistle that gets all of my predators to come running?" Alex asks smirking as the Ligorgans kept firing lasers.
Konata smirks as she raises her finger to her lips and almost quietly whistles before stopping.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Alex asks throwing his voice, making it seem to be coming from everywhere.
Everyone down in the field stops as they look around and some of the Ligorgans were pointing their guns everywhere.
"It looks like a bunch of lost idiots destroying our land." Konata calls, mimicking Alex.
"What should we do my dear sibling? Tear them limb from limb?" Alex asks before snickering to himself.
"No. I think it's feeding time." Konata calls.
"Release the beast." Alex says simply before snickering again and whispers to Konata, making her smirk before making a whistle again at a different tone.
The Ligorgans kept looking around for them before they feel a rumbling and then trees creaking and looks toward the direction of some trees shaking before seeing a large creature run at them with shape spikes on its tail, roaring lowly as it kept running.
"Don Klink is the first to arrive so he gets first chance at eating a Ligorgan." Alex calls.
"But only if they don't stop tickling him with those puny things." Konata mocks giggling to herself.
Klink roars before charges forward and grabs one who tried to move away with his claw.
Alex smirks as he watches the Ligorgans run and shoot at Klink and sees the woman nearby watch them before running off in the opposite way. "I'm going after her." He says before falling into the shadows.
"Now, now. Who said you could run you good dinner for our hungry hunters?" Konata calls before the bushes started to rustle.
More roars came out and then the trees split to show velociraptors running at them with their claws bared as the Ligorgans stopped firing and run off to get away.
The woman frowns as she kept running before Alex rises up quickly in front of her. "Gotcha!" He cheers grabbing her before falling into the shadows again and then reappears next to Konata. "Got her."
"Kite and his boys have shown up." Konata says.
Alex smiles as he watches the action. "Ah. Good. That makes things ten times easier." He says before looking to the woman. "You okay pretty lady?"
"Hey, you forgot something." Konata says before tying her up with ropes.
Alex gives a playful hurt look. "Aw. Why do you have to do that? She is too pretty for ropes. You need cloth."
"I already can gag her." Konata.
Alex chuckles as the woman was tied up before looking to the group of predators. "Looks like they are done." He says looking to the group chewing on an arm. Alex whistles, getting their attention. "Come on you lot. Back home." Alex calls.
They growl and keep chewing as they start to follow them and Konata leads the woman with them.
"Run for it. All of you or Columbus will eat everything as he is now home without any of you and the compys are there too." Alex informs.
They all rush off as they hope to gather the most bites. "Are they always like this?" The woman asks curiously as she looks to him.
"Yes, now come on. We have a few questions for you. Like why a human is here in a restricted continent where most humans are forbidden to be." Alex says leading up the rear as Konata kept pulling on the rope.
"Wonder how long this will take just finding them? You think this group they are talking about is good?" Ruby asks watching out the window.
"You feel that?" Adam asks.
"Feel wh…?" Blake stops as they felt a rumbling before seeing a large amount of walking creatures run past and toward the lake nearby. "What was that?"
"That would be apart of my hunting pets. Now you take a seat while we think of what to do with you." Alex instructs walking in with Konata leading the woman to a couch.
"Cinder?!" They all yell shocked and makes the woman look up at them.
"Oh, crap." She says not liking this.
"We can talk…why is a compy have a sausage in its mouth on the counter?" Alex asks.
They all turn toward the compy who looks at them before squeaking and gains teary eyes. "That's why." Weiss says covering her eyes.
"Alright fine. You can stay, but not on the counter." Alex says.
The compy immediately stops using its eyes and jumps off the counter chewing on the sausage. "I got an idea. Zwei!" Nora yells grinning evilly and a bark was heard before the oven opens and Zwei bounces out and lands in front of the compy before sitting.
"Wha…?" Alex asked confused.
"And let the cuteness begin!" Nora calls into a microphone and Zwei just sits there as the compy gives the eyes at him.
"Why was Zwei in my stove? Where did he even come from? He wasn't with us." Alex proclaimed.
"You do realize who you're talking about, right?" Ruby asks leaning over.
"No. Bad Nora." Ren says spraying her with water from a squirt bottle.
Nora hisses and scratches at the air at her.
"Bad." Ren says squirting her again.
"What is going on?" Cinder tries to understand.
"Konata, you can't drain her of her blood." Alex calls.
"Aw!" Konata whines walking away from Cinder.
"So what are you doing here?" Alex asks.
Cinder hums as she looks to him. "By whatever do you mean? I am just visiting here to see what makes this place so special."
"Grimmshit." Blake says frowning.
"Don Klink, you may be getting seconds!" Alex calls out the door.
A roar is heard outside as Cinder frowns a bit. "Something as simple as this, I can escape."
"But you won't. We got many hunters, many, big, hulking monsters, and us two. Well…one and a half." Konata says smirking.
"Hey!" Alex complains, frowning to her.
"Cinder, look to your left." Ruby instructs.
Cinder slowly turns her head and sees a growling big cat with large sharp teeth that don't even fit its mouth. "Oh. That's something."
"Meet Columbus." Alex says petting the saber tooth tiger.
"You named that thing?" Cinder asks, watching it purr and lean into Alex's petting.
"Why not? He is one of my pets. Isn't that right Columbus?" Alex asks holding and petting the sabertooth.
Columbus growls affectionately and nuzzles his side.
"Now answer or I will feed you to my pets." Alex says seriously.
Cinder frowns and shakes her head. "I am here to simply find more power since everything is gone after what happened. Namely what happened at the school."
"And you came here and unsealed a bunch of purge happy Ligorgans." Alex says not amused.
"How was I supposed to know? They were sealed and hidden away." Cinder tries to explain and defined herself as she tries an innocent look.
"Columbus." Alex says, making him growl and gets ready to pounce.
Cinder jumps a bit and frowns. "Alright. After what happened my power base is very damaged and I need resources and people to put it back together." Cinder says.
Alex pets Columbus making him relax again.
"And?" Ruby asks carefully and slowly, her scythe clicking as it moves slightly.
"I thought this continent would have a large amount of vast untapped resources." Cinder admits.
"Well too late…mostly." Alex says shaking his head.
"So what now?" Yang asks.
"It changes nothing. We are still going to kill all those who escaped their imprisonment as per the deal that was made between their government and the other kingdoms." Alex says.
"So we going hunting?" Weiss asks raising an eyebrow as they mostly watched Cinder.
"We still have to wait a day. If still no answer, I and Konata will be going to see their council and we won't be happy." Alex says.
"Yep." Konata says walking past with her arms loaded with large leaves.
"Seriously, this is a serious moment." Alex says looking at her.
"And Tricky needs food." Konata says.
"He can find it on his own." Alex says rolling his eyes. "He's a big boy."
"No. He is my light boy." Konata says going out the door.
Alex groans and facepalms. "Why did I shack up with her?"
"I know what will cheer you up!" Nora cheers, bouncing ahead of the group.
"What?" Alex asks.
Nora smiles and reaches behind her and pulls out a candy box. "I never did get you that candy."
"Oh, hey, candy seals. They are still making my creation?" Alex asks.
Nora blinks and looks to the box. "Really? You made these?"
"Yeah." Alex says.
Nora blinks before smiling. "You have to be my business partner."
"Konata, remind me to check the royalties to see if I am still getting paid for the candy seals." Alex says.
Konata sticks her head in the doorway. "Call your damn lawyer."
"What lawyer? The last one died before I went into hiding again." Alex reminds.
"His papers were passed on. You know you can head in and say you are an heir, right?" Konata says raising an eyebrow.
"It's supposed to all go to an account or was it all in gold and silver? I can never remember." Alex says.
Nora clears her throat and shoves the box of chocolate in his face. "You can have these though. Your own creation and my present and promise to you that I made all that time ago."
"Well, thanks." Alex says as music from an old shark movie started to play.
Alex hums before suddenly lifting the box up high and Konata jumped onto him and tried to reach for it, waving her arm widely. "Give it!" She whines.
"You want some?" Alex asks smirking.
"Yes! Give it to me!" Konata yells whiningly.
"Nora?" Alex asks.
Nora shrugs. "Hey. Whatever you decide." She says calmly.
Alex puts one in Konata's mouth.
"And that is a big bad vampire." Blake says sweatdropping.
Alex shrugs and smiles. "She's my good friend and enemy at the same time. I don't really mind because she does spice up my life. It would be very boring if I just lived on my own."
'Vampire?' Cinder thinks.
"It's been two days since they left to see the council of this continent." Yang says leaning back.
"And no word. You would think he has a good radio." Weiss says looking to the antenna nearby the building from the window.
"I see them…back away from the door." Blake says.
"Why…?" Ruby stops as the front doors busted open to see Konata so angry her hair was raised.
"What happened?" Yang asks as Konata stomps past them and Alex walks in.
"The council pissed us off." Alex says calmer and contained.
"And what's the decision?" Ruby asks, keeping her scythe level at Cinder still tied in a chair.
"We are going to deal with them." Alex says walking over and pushes a button and the wall moves, showing an arsenal of guns and melee weapons.
"You've been busy." Yang says proudly.
Alex smiles as he tries to see what he can take. "Alex…?" Ruby asks as she looks to one section where her own weapon seems to be hanging with Yang's, Weiss's, and Blake's.
Alex smiles sadly. "When I finally learned how to make my own…I only had yours on my mind so I decided to make them first…improved in fact."
A/N: As you can see, this where we stopped writing this story and moved on to other things. We realized we went off the rails a bit too much but this is where we really went into this particular story. Looking back and then our new stories, we have traversed far in writing. And now we have better stories where we are trying to better stick to the main core of the series we are writing about, e.g. RWBY. So read on and enjoy this story if you want, but I encourage you to try to read the other RWBY stories we have.