Author's notes:
Hi, another new story, this time a crossover between RWBY and Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal. This may be one of the few fanfics of Primal, if there are any.
Hope you guys enjoy it and note updates maybe be random. I might update my other RWBY crossover story, Dino X Machina first before this story.
*Disclaimer as always, I don't own RWBY or Primal and both are owned by their respective creators and companies i.e. Genndy Tartakovsky and Roosterteeth.
Here is the chapter enjoy!
Chapter 1: Fang and Rose
She felt cold…
A perpetual cold covering her scales, body, and entire being…
The chill bombarding her every side, similar to the time she was weathering the blizzards in the winter landscapes she's traverse before. But the entire sensation was not completely the same, and somehow far more different than what she has felt so long ago.
The cold felt like it was with her longer, like she was trapped with no heat to warm her and no fire burning and driving the chill away.
No light, just darkness, and a hazy mind as she felt no one with her. No companion to huddle closer with her or grunting softly like they did before when sleeping next to each other—
Her companion!
A sudden thought that spurred her to… to do something… to act… to remember… someone important.
In her head, she began to picture a stout, broad shoulder figure. A humanoid being wielding a long stick with a sharpened tip made of rock or whatever suited to cut, pierce and—
SPEAR!
She remembers, locking in to that one thought, of her companion and an unconventional lifelong friend.
One she fought with, survived with, and cared for so long, after many seasons that passed since the tragic day of losing everything…
And then gaining something else new, and entirely unique that their world has never seen before.
That gave them the edge to survive and thrive in the primordial death world they called home. So many fights, so many close calls, and so many things learned that helped both of them along the way.
With the most important lesson that she took to heart, was to PROTECT and FIGHT for each other no matter the cost.
Sudden flashes of old memories and the past she once lived begin to seize her mind.
A throbbing pain in her skull she couldn't bear, as jumbled sequences of her life are laid before her very psyche. Until one very particular and striking memory resurges.
I-It was… was… was… a—
A memory of snow… There a cliff edge… on one side…
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An enemy… on the other—No, enemies before them… cornering them…
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Danger to them, a threat to their… new family—Her and her Spear companion's new family...
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Him, Mira, child, newborn… Enemies getting closer to them…
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…Spear occupied with one group, she fighting the others.
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…Mira escaping with children, finding new path.
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Spear follows but careless …was going to get killed… Herself blocked by enemies.
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She had to do something… something…
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'Reckless'
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But why? Why did she do that? What made her do it?
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'Care. Empathy. Not wanting him to lose anything else anymore. Because of Her… it was her f-fault…'
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Running quick, killing many… her weight heavy. Can't reach them in time…
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'She knows she couldn't get anything else from the world. The world was moving on without her.'
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Ground… is breaking. Her weight making cracks… Enemies are shaking… She has idea forming…
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'No new mate. No meeting members of her kind for so long. No longer capable of laying or nesting… too old...'
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Stomp.
Her foot cracking the ground more…
Stomp.
Not stopping, putting more force.
Stomp.
One last and after…
enemies falling…
She's falling…
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'She's last of her kind. Of all kinds. Unique. Wanted. Hunted. Coveted.'
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Hear her companions yelling and she roaring back to them…
Maybe to apologize for doing this, for sacrificing herself…
…or thanking them for protecting her for so long.
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'New time, new era coming. But not with her. No place for her. She's not needed anymore…'
'Spear has new family to look over now…'
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Acceptance… she knows her life will end that day. Falling down, deeper, and deeper to the abyss.
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'Eyes closing, life knowing to cease and stop.'
Hope to see them someday.
Hope Spear happy.
Hope to see hatchlings soon.
Now looking forward to rest. Be free of pain… Finally.
The End of her long journey…
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…Or is it?
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Heat… emanating outside.
Warmth… growing.
Cold… leaving. Scales are feeling them. More. Wanting more.
Mind blurring to focus on heat. Hoping for fire to thaw.
Her mind still fuzzy but clearing. Feeling everything, twitching of all sides and body.
Eyes… opening. Seeing…
The Darkness parting with an excited grin.
The Light greeting with a welcomed smile.
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Then ice breaking.
*CRACAKATTIIIKITITI
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*THUD!
The sounds of ice shards shattering echoes throughout what seems to be a cave, while a large body falls to the ground with an audible heavy thud. Melted ice sloshes to the floor as water, coating the ground and the recently thawed figure lying on it.
An odd creature forgotten to time and of ancient origins.
"h-hurak…HuRAKH!"
Animalistic coughing follows as the figure hacks and expels the excess liquid from inside its body and begins to regain consciousness. Yellow slit eyes open, slowly adjusting its vision to its surroundings and the sudden brightness experienced after being in the dark for so long.
The being's other senses begin to return, feeling the warmth contrasting the lingering cold on its scales, the stiffness of its muscles due to not being of use for so long, and the smell of new foreign scents it has never picked up before. Everything its picking up from its new surroundings was overwhelming, and hard to comprehend for the being to know what is happening and how they got here in the first place?
Except for one fact that was immediately noticed.
She is alive. Miraculously.
Somehow, the figure knows that it shouldn't be possible for herself to be alive, she was sure she'd died at some point because of her sacrifice to protect her family—
Her family!
The sudden thought returns, and with new knowledge that she is still alive, hope rises within her chest to reunite with them and help them if they are still in danger.
New strength fills her inside with a drive to force her numb limbs to respond and rise. Standing up on her two feet and do action, moving her massive weight despite the tiredness she's felt or how weak she feels for some reason. She almost slipped due to how slippery the ground was but ignored it as she moved away from her previously frozen prison, uncaring to how she got there in the first place.
Using her senses, mainly her vision and sense of smell, She heads directly to the nearest exit and leaves her current location, despite still lacking clarity in her sight.
As she makes her way through the cave, she doesn't notice the different colored crystals brimming with energy, specifically the larger red ones that were emanating heat and placed close to her frozen cage, the likely cause to her thawing out.
She didn't bother to even take a second look at how there were others frozen in ice like herself moments ago, all sharing the same suspended look of horror and last struggle to escape the cold trap that claimed them. Some of which was her own kind, their silhouettes of various shaped large beings with different appendages and tails. Creatures of unimaginable and monstrous appearances with horns, sharp teeth, and claws.
The being ignored them all, choosing to focus on the path ahead and drawing closer she could see a faint glimmer of light. Despite the struggle and the pace her tired legs gave her, she arrives at the exit and is greeted by a blanket of snow covering the ground and trees before her.
A white surface welcomes her to an unknown and new world, one that she didn't recognized, and realized unfortunately to her dismay, that she may not be at the same place she was before.
Once outside she could tell, from the scent in the air and after exposing herself to it, that everything was different.
A gut instinct telling her everything is not what it supposed to be or what she thinks is supposed to be. And what clinch it, was what she saw passed the trees and the snow-covered surroundings.
A small city… a town… a Patch of land filled with a civilization far more advance than what she remembers in her memories. Especially with the flying metal birds she could view vaguely in the sky, cluing her in. Their flying was far more mechanical and unnatural than those of her kind with leather wings and other animals in possession of feathered limbs. They looked to be releasing a faint light behind them as they flew.
The sudden bright rays of the sun shining above her, causes her to lose focus from the metal birds flying above. She shakes her head and spots the sun's rays reflecting from a pond just right in front of her.
Feeling the thirst and absence of water after so long, the being approaches the pond to quench her parch throat and recover some of the energy she spent to get out of the cave.
She plops her face, or rather her snout, onto the surface of the water and begins to greedily drink the cold water and have her fill of it. Finding the fresh liquid delicious and not caring of the cold or the ice that would occasionally splash about as her erratic lapping increases with vigor, she didn't realize how thirsty she was.
After few minutes of drinking, the figure finally relents and rests, sitting down on the snowed covered ground. She slowly begins to get her bearings, with her senses and state of mind gradually stabilizing, losing the previous haziness she felt in her head when she was inside the cave.
Eyes begin to glance at the surface of the pond as the water stills and her reflection is seen clearer after the ripples subsided. She gets a good look at herself and begins to take note of her appearance, standing up and getting closer to pond's edge to examine herself.
She stood on two strong legs resembling a birds with three clawed toes as her feet. Carrying a large body covered by greenish blue scales with dark stripes patterned on her as well, accompanied with a litter of faint scars from past battles throughout her time and proof of her survival against numerous struggles and encounters of adversaries.
Her large body was balanced by her long tail and her big reptilian box shaped head. She also had small arms possessing two finger claws on each limb and forward-facing yellow slit eyes, with her nostrils near the front end of her snout.
But the trait that was most defining of her, was the large jaws filled with bone crushing teeth that many opponents were felled by. Most prominent was a large snaggletooth on the right side of her lower jaw, much bigger compared to her others.
A Fang that distinguishes herself from the rest of her kind and what others have grown to recognize her by. Even when being addressed by her old companion or being introduced to any newcomers they've passed; they would always take note of her enlarge tooth than anything else they find unique of her appearance.
And somehow she pickups the sounds they made associating her snaggletooth to herself. Recognizing them whenever they are calling out to her.
Leading to her impartial acceptance of herself going by it as her name:
FANG.
And Fang was feeling a sense of relief from knowing that there was nothing wrong with her body or seen any injuries she's sustained that would hinder her or isn't fully healed yet. The only thing she took note of was how thin she looked, no doubt from her lack of sustenance and would start feeling the hunger pangs soon, just as she felt thirsty minutes ago. She hopes she'll be able to find enough game for her to eat and satisfy her, after an unknown amount time spent fasting in the ice.
Unfortunately, Fang also remembers that she was much larger than she was before meeting Spear.
Her years spent successfully surviving and thriving together with her human companion, has led to random growth spurts in between adventures and seasons passed. With her size exceeding those of the red horned rivals of her kind, except for their massive—and probably black liquid mutated— Alpha.
Last time Fang and Spear checked her size; her companion measured her with the use of at least 13 sticks as long as his arms.
She was definitely larger and would require much more food intake to survive as the cost. But her superior size made it easier to defend themselves from smaller threats and tackling giant enemies. Plus, later down the road, help easily carry their new family together on her back.
There was benefits and cons from her growth that they were able to work around. But at the present, Fang knows that she needs to find a lot of prey to hunt and satisfy herself before her hunger becomes unbearable.
Deciding her next objective and feeling lost in this new unknown world, Fang leaves the pond to explore and get a read of this new land.
While hoping to find a meal along the way and what next to do after her abrupt revival.
At least she doesn't have to feel guilty of not sharing, since she's alone and there's no one around for her to share her food with.
"Rrrrr…" Yet Fang growls in a forlorn manner and considers the sudden thought negatively.
While having company led to rationing and splitting portions to eat, it didn't make one feel lonely and anything but comfort with their presence. Especially with good company or a family who cares for you.
Fang didn't have any that. Not anymore. She was lost and alone in this strange new world. With no one to call as a friend.
Again something reminded her, may it be from her gut instincts again or somewhere deep in her heart against her denial, that the world isn't what it used to be anymore.
And not just from seeing the advancement of human civilization, but also to a personal matter Fang knows from her instincts…
That Spear won't be reuniting with her anytime soon.
After leaving the pond, Fang's exploration has led her to discover a few things, besides good game of prey to hunt ranging from small to medium size deer and large elks.
She was currently marching through the snow in pursuit of one of these discoveries, whilst reflecting to some of the things she's learned and in relation to her current situation.
First off, She found out that she was on an island off the coast of what seemed to be the mainland of a larger land mass. Most of the metal birds flew towards its direction and back and forth, no doubt their pattern of departure acting similar to the ships she's observe with Spear before, with the other civilizations they encountered in the past. Fang could guess that the metal birds were transporting people, food, or objects that humans occasionally need, and desires that she wouldn't understand.
Regardless, Fang at least has a destination in mind and somewhere to head on over to start her traveling again.
Yes, travel. Traveling is what she and Spear always did before since they didn't have any permanent place to call home. They went on as nomads and occasionally stayed in one place for a certain period of time before moving on again. The time stayed depending on how dangerous or how accessible food is in their current place they found themselves in.
It's because of the latter reason to why the large saurian knew she would be leaving the island as soon as she can. Since Fang could tell that there wouldn't be much game to hunt for food in the island, based on the lack of scents of prey in the air and the size of the few she caught recently aren't enough to satisfy her. And it's better for her to leave, less she ends up hunting everything down and upsetting the island's ecosystem.
And in relation to why she can't stay in the island for a prolonged period, the second thing Fang learned from roaming about the island was how easy it would be for her to attract the unwanted attention of the humans. While there is a main city where most humans live in, there were still some buildings or small settlements outside and spread across the island.
Fang realized that she may end up risking getting close, or near the vicinity of some of these settlements. She doesn't know how the humans of this place will react to her presence, but she suspects with fear and wariness that might lead to unwanted conflict or a fight Fang may be unprepared for if they are not benevolent.
Humankind was one of the few she considers as highly potential threats, based on her experiences alone with Spear and encountering others who were also from advance civilizations of their time. Leading to Fang having a general knowledge of their capabilities and how dangerous they could be, even for the likes of her and her kind.
Yet, Fang couldn't help but feel the ease of familiarity with knowing humans still exist and are walking the current earth. The thought comforted her and offered a slight sense of normalcy to herself, knowing that there's still something that remained from her old world.
Sadly, to a certain degree, she couldn't say the same for the rest of the creatures like her and the other savage threats she's met before and know of in her experiences. Their fate looked to have been far different than the humans in this new world she found herself in.
Which was the last thing Fang discovered and suspiciously took note of.
That is, in the island, there was so far no sights, sounds or scents she could detect of any beings similar like her.
This confused her and she didn't want to believe it at first of the absence of saurians. Fang knows even in an island like that one she was standing on presently, would still have some saurian life persisting and with other species still be roaming about around their territory. Even small ones or others that are waging small conflicts with humans should still exist in remote locations.
But as Fang went on, continuing to search and fail to find other signs of life besides the humans in their settlements and the other animals she's hunted living on the island, she slowly came to remember a chilling thought that occurred to her before when she was with Spear. A buried fear that manifested within her a long time ago, which began to grow anew…
It was when they were still traveling together. It started when they all took notice that others of her kind were slowly disappearing and becoming far more scarce as time went on, with them encountering less and less after every season that passed.
From old watering holes housing herds of all kinds to plains were large titanic long neck saurians roam, and even the seas where great leviathans dwell, Fang and her family found fewer numbers of her kind after every visit and counting each saurian they could find until they couldn't.
It's from this observation when the fear took form, it being the likelihood that Fang's kind will likely disappear entirely from the face of the earth.
Including Fang herself.
An uncomfortable truth and one that would have mark her as the last of her kind in the near future. An idea before, she didn't particular like or would want to come terms with. But as for this case in her present scenario, one she already has to consider and accept.
Since Fang didn't know how long exactly she was in a state of suspended animation, from when she fell to unconsciousness and to suddenly waking up thawing out of ice. But she could tell that many countless seasons must have passed with how much the world has change and how advance human civilization has progressed further than what she previously imagine before. Based on how their presence seems to dominate much of the entire island.
And all this evidence has led Fang to the conclusion, if not a grim possibility, that enough time has passed and all large prehistoric savage animals like the saurians …are extinct.
And as much Fang wants to deny it, coupled with some others she's in denial with too, she couldn't refute this fact.
Oh how the world has changed. That she knows, and part of the change she could already feel is already in the air. Or rather felt through her nose, with the lack of scents that use to fill the world of the many strange but familiar scents of her kind.
Those pungent orders that gave a primordial feel to the atmosphere and mix with the scent of blood from fights, hunts, and conflict their world had as the norm…
And are now gone.
Though only the scent of blood remained, still giving off a different but similar savage and primordial feeling to the air. And at the moment, quite literally for Fang as she continues to march through the snow to investigate one scent she's pick up on, and to answer one question that was running in her mind.
If all of her kind was gone, who took their place and did all the killing?
It was after a few more moments walking towards the scent, did Fang arrived at her destination and found her answer to what creatures replaced her kind. And at first glance they were a chilling new kind of threat, one she's quick to be wary of.
Seeing that the scent she was following was also their recent kill.
A human corpse.
While a small group of these creatures surround the dead body, feasting and bathing in the blood of their victim. Fang has seen many instances of this scenery, either by wild dogs, accursed ape men, or large carnivores like herself with a taste for senseless killing. The creatures before her were no different and held a particular kind of malice on them.
And Fang took note of their appearance as well, taking note of their unnatural and otherworldly selves.
The creatures looked to be beings made out of pure darkness shaped as bipedal wolves. With black tar like complexion on their fur and possessing pale white dead bones sprouting around their body. On their heads were bony masks and glowing yellow eyes that seemed to give off the same sense of malice they were giving off, and a promise of destruction within the glowing orbs to any who would lock gaze with them.
They also carry the same unfathomable and vile scent she's grown to associate with beings influenced by dark magic and death voodoo. Like the ape-men and their black liquid for their blood lust warriors, the rotting flesh sauropod monster that chased her and Spear, and the Night feeder with its black tar like coat or blood that got caught on her face. The latter she still has lingering disgust and was happy with burning the bastard alive.
Fang could even sense the same feeling of dread emanating from these dark creatures, similar to the matriarch of the coven of witches she's encountered before, who took control of her and nearly took Spear's life in their strange birthing ritual. She hopes these creatures don't spawn in a similar manner, much less know how to subjugate her mind.
Unfortunately, it only took catching their gaze and sending a threatening look that lead to a confrontation with these monsters. And for Fang to have a permanent opinion on these… soulless creatures.
Permanently labeling these dark beings as her enemies.
Vile, evil and must be destroyed, something that she and Spear in the past would have normally fought off, or if they could wipeout, for the threat they possess towards others.
But with Fang alone at the present, she had to face them by herself when they decided to attack her momentarily. Either because to her encroaching close to their territory or from disturbing them from feeding on their kill, the dark wolf like monsters rushed at her in droves with their teeth bared and sounds of growls.
Some even howling announcing the other members for a fight, while Fang simply gave a threatening growl in return.
"Rrrrr…"
The fight ended up being a short one that Fang barely had to do anything to exert herself.
She found them lacking any experience and seemingly fought mindlessly against their opponents relying with numbers and brute strength. But she was stronger and much smarter than these dark creatures, easily dispatching the small pack she was fighting.
They attempted to surround her, but a quick tail slap sent a lot of them flying to the air, breaking bodies as they flew and crashed at some trees. Then Fang quickly showed them the power of her jaws and crushed the rest of the pack members who decided to attack her up close. Snapping the dark wolves who were unfortunate enough to meet her teeth in half, and others crushing them outright while tossing their mangle bodies to their other members.
But Fang began to notice as some of dark wolves died, they seemingly dissolve into black ash or smoke, leaving no body behind. Puzzled, she also found it odd that they tasted like nothing despite the faint scent they share with the black liquid the ape-men tribe possessed before in her memories.
Even those who were in her jaws and being crushed to death, simply broke down to smaller particles and flew into the air similar to ash. This strange phenomenon of how they dissolve upon death, greatly disturbed Fang and added to her current assessment of these creatures that they are beings influenced by magic or mystical voodoo in nature.
A concept that she still struggles to understand but not a stranger to from her own experiences.
She took this observation into account, with the added caution of their strange magical properties, getting worried if there were any implications that the monsters would suddenly reform themselves from the ash they turned into.
To her relief they didn't and as the more she killed, the pack slowly dwindled and become more cautious when facing her as the knowledge began to sink in that they were outmatched and losing.
But before Fang would have slain the entire pack, she saw the obscured silhouette of a larger wolf way beyond the tree line of the forest.
It suddenly howled at the rest of the pack and calling them to it. The rest of the members dropped their focus on her and began to follow their leader somewhere, ending their fight abruptly and making Fang slightly curious to why they were retreating.
In the past when she was younger, she wouldn't have been bothered to indulge her curiosity knowing that she may end up in danger or a more perilous situation. But Fang took a glance at the dead corpse of a human, who looked like a young male, and then suddenly had the urge to follow the dark wolves and see what was going on.
The sudden sounds of something cracking or snapping in the air caught her attention, with the added howls and roars of pain that followed after. Birds flew away from the direction the sounds came from. The same direction where the pack of dark wolves being led by their larger alpha were heading to.
Against her wary nature, Fang follows them, curious to what the commotion is about. She sprints to catch up with the pitch-black monsters, running through bushes and passing by trees until she finds herself staring at an open clearing near a cliff.
She spots the wolves joining a larger pack… that was slowly circling around a lone human, who appears to be wearing a large bright red cape and black colored garments mix with hints of silver pieces adorning the clothing.
At first glance, the color of the human figure's cape reminded Fang of blood and thought that it was worn as a warning to confrontative predators, with a promise of death.
But seeing how calm and composed the figure was against adversaries, while giving off a veiled threatening aura beneath her visage, Fang couldn't help seeing the color as something else entirely against the white field the figure stood in.
She was Red… Red like Roses.
A beautiful flower in her nature, that obscures her hidden thorns under her bright vivant visage.
And it was at this moment, Fang noticed the lone human was a female. A small young girl in fact, looked to be much older than a hatchling but not old enough to be an adult. Just right in the beginning of adolescence.
…While right in the middle of a dangerous situation with some dark creatures.
Fang was about to intervene and come roaring into the young girl's aide. Until said girl suddenly pulled out a large contraption she didn't recognized and watched in shock, as it shifts to a larger shape in contrast to the girl's petite figure.
When it fully unfurled, Fang realizes it was a weapon. Based on how its overall shaped reminded Fang of a spear with a large curve blade at one end of the length instead, with a smaller straighter blade at the other. It was also red in color matching the young girl's garments and together invokes the lone human to a red reaper like image.
Similar to the paintings Fang remembers Mira made that shows personified death. And often accompanied by that former horned humanoid enemy she'd used to draw to them as well. When they were still running away from him and avoided being enslaved by his army.
Fang decides to watch and observe the coming fight between the young girl and the dark creatures she was facing, instead of intervening. She may see firsthand of how humans face combat at this present age and how it differs from how they fought in her past, a good way to gauge how threatening they are now than before.
BANG!
With a sudden sound cracking in the air that caught Fang off guard and shook her for a moment, she watched as the girl moves with alarming speed, like a blur towards one of the dark creatures. And in a near instant, one of the dark wolves was bisected cleanly at the middle before dissolving in the air.
Fang was shock at how fast the human moved and attacked. And she continued to be impressed as the small human figure began to repeat her action towards the rest of the pack. Zooming around the field with blinding speed, cutting limbs, or decapitating her enemies. Fang would notice that the young girl would leave trails of rose petals as she rushes around, which is one of the few things that helped the saurian keep track of the speedy human, besides the dissolving corpses of the dark wolves as she brutalizes their entire pack.
Fang couldn't help feeling like she was watching the Night feeder's rampage all over again, but this time instead of a demon's psychopathic slaughter, the young girl's rampage was more of a righteous assault to vanquish an unknown evil in rows.
And the young girl was clearing the wolves far more efficiently, wielding a different variation of Spear's weapon.
What more, Fang witnessed the girl at times suddenly put some distance between herself and the wolves rushing towards her before stabbing her weapon to the ground and began to do something.
BANG! BANG!
Whatever Fang thought the young girl was doing, it came with a sudden sound cracking through the air before an unseen force or projectile looks to be fired at the end of her weapon towards the wolves. It wasn't arrows or spears being fired that Fang was familiar with, but whatever it was, the wolves were being killed outright with the sudden shots. Some having their limbs blasted off from the force of the shot or torso lidded with small holes before disappearing into ash.
The young girl was clipping through the pack with ease from this method of attack, dwindling down more of their numbers, before resuming with her melee and began to shift between shooting and slicing her adversaries. She was carving her way with ease, and Fang begins to think the girl didn't need any help and continues to watch the spectacle of the entire fight.
Fang found it a bit amazing that humans must have grown stronger after some time. And evolve to have more ingenuities, possessing even more dangerous weapons for them to fight with and in tandem with the superhuman abilities they possess like what the young girl was showing.
This one observation she'll keep close in mind, with Fang knowing that she has to be more wary of humans now, more than ever before. Seeing how big of threat one young warrior was and unaware how powerful an adult warrior could be.
A curious thought for Fang, since watching the lone human, she could tell the petite girl couldn't compare to the size and stout bulk figure of her old companion, Spear.
Yet still she was fighting far more efficiently than the primal neanderthal, using her speed rather than physical strength, like most humans from Fang's time would rely on.
And the girl is shown to be just as deadly, if not more so, as the battered warrior Fang has come to know of in the past. She didn't have any doubts that the young girl was to triumphant against this dark creatures.
"AWWWOOOOOOOHHH!"
That is until Fang spots the alpha of the pack, its appearance much clearer to her, spotting the much larger and spikier bipedal werewolf figure suddenly howl to its members. Its size was almost triple of a regular pack member and becomes more prominent when compared to the ones coming right behind it.
The Alpha called for reinforcements, more members of its pack coming out of the forest to the clearing and adding themselves to their already greater numbers. Fang noticed the girl actually had to pause from her assault and dashed back to give some distance between herself and the retreating members she was previously devastating, looking to assess this new development.
At first Fang thought the Alpha was sounding a retreat like it did before, knowing that they were at a disadvantage against a superior opponent. But instead it looked like the dark creatures were forming up and going for a full-frontal assault against the red robed girl.
Fang was appalled at their actions, seeing no reason for them to continue to attack the girl and much less gang up on her with greater numbers, knowing it would just lead to more of their pack getting injured or slain. Yet their glowing eyes staring at the girl in droves, shown no care for self-preservation and only the destruction of their enemy.
This made Fang's blood boil, knowing it came from her distaste of creatures like them who only killed just for the sake of killing. She's met many and held grudges with more individuals than she expected, wanting to crush and stomp them to the ground for their psychotic and far more savage tendencies.
And if they targeted children… calling Fang livid was an understatement and it wasn't enough to describe the rage she holds against those who harm or kill hatchlings.
"RARRH!"
The alpha sounded the command to attack, with its pack members following and rushing towards the young girl. The girl had a brief look of panic, before steeling her expression and meets the charging pack head on.
When they collided the girl didn't waste time slicing and slashing though the waves of enemies before her.
But try as she might to fight back the pack of dark wolves in mass, their numbers were starting to overwhelm her and began to swarm and surround the young girl as she continues to fight.
"Ah!"
Fang saw one wolf claw swipe the girl and disarming her weapon in the process, the blow forcing it quite a distance away from her.
From there everything was going downhill for the red hooded girl, as her tactic now was to run or flee towards her dropped weapon and retrieve it for she was defenseless. But the dark creatures were boxing the girl in and preventing her from reaching it.
And from what Fang could observe it was the dark wolf alpha's plan. Leading and howling at its members to continue trap the young girl. After just one missed claw swipe to the girl's head that nearly clipped her red cape, Fang knew she has had enough and charged to intervene. She couldn't stop herself even if she wanted too, her eyes were seeing red and her desire to kill these monsters for attacking a child was taking over.
Especially when a distant memory, one she thought she buried long ago, returns to the recess of her mind.
For a second, Fang saw her own hatchlings in the young girl's position.
Trapped, surrounded, and no doubt about to die again in front of her, because of her inability to act.
"ROOOOOOAAAAARRR!" A primal roar escaped Fang.
Both the red hooded girl and the wolf pack paused in their actions as they heard Fang bellowing war and pain. They were all frozen in place, stunned and shock at her sudden appearance with neither knowing what she was going to do and seeing that she was heading towards the group surrounding the young girl.
"HUUURAAAAOOOH!"
Fang jumps to the air as she gets closer and falls, crushing two wolves under her weight. Before proceeding to tail slap a lot of them out of her way and then violently lunging with her jaws open to the nearest wolf, snapping it into half with a crushing bite.
Her attack gave room for the girl to rest easy while the pack dispersed to avoid her as she continues her assault. Fang hoped the girl could tell that her immediate actions meant that she was helping her. While moving to position herself in between the girl and the wolves, keeping the dark wolves away from getting any closer to them.
She makes a small glance towards the young girl, yellow eyes meeting silver orbs, who's expression held both awe and confusion towards the being that suddenly came to her aid.
Vaguely remembering what Spear would do in similar situation, Fang made a small nod to acknowledge the girl, who shakes off her awed stupor and returns it with an amaze expression from the simple gesture. The girl gives a timid nod back, acknowledging and understanding Fang's rescue, to the tyrannosaur's relief.
The young girl quickly got her bearings and stood closer to Fang, still wary of the large saurian, but returned her focus to the dark creatures facing them.
Unfortunately, the monsters began to surrounded them once again but this time with more of their pack circling the two. Leaving Fang with no other option but to be the sole defender for the both of them.
That is until she took note of the girl's weapon, which was just a little further away from their current position. Quickly getting the idea to help her young ally retrieve her equipment back.
"Ruur…" She snorts getting the girl's attention and points her snout towards where her weapon is. The girl's gaze follows, and she emits a small gasp of elation.
"You're going to help me get Crescent Rose back?" She whispers in question, which Fang didn't understood entirely but grunts in affirmation, earning a bigger smile from the red hooded child.
"Okay… let's get my baby back and then we can kick butt together." The girl excitedly spoke before getting into a sprinting position, ready to move at notice. While Fang, still not understanding entirely of what the red hooded girl said, brace herself as well, knowing that they'll be making their way towards her weapon soon.
"ROOOOAAAAARRR!"
Deciding to take point, Fang bellows a roar before stomping ahead, breaking the circle of wolves surrounding them and out of their to trap. The Alpha pack howls an order to pursue them and attack, with a few of the wolves jumping to pounce Fang or the young girl following behind her.
Fang headbutts those in the air and slams her tail against others trying to flank them. Fang opens her jaws and crushes several wolves with successive bites to those who got too close. She even caught one mid-air with her mouth before shaking it around and throwing it back to the others like a ragdoll.
The wolves tried a different tactic to charge at her front and overwhelm her with their sheer numbers, but Fang's greater size and bulk allowed to her to body check them with pure force, sending many wolves flying with a tackle and trampling those under her feet as they come closer to the young girl's weapon.
"Yes!" With her weapon much closer to her, the young girl dashes ahead with trails of petals left behind as Fang follows whilst continuing to kill more of the wolves. Within a few seconds the red hooded girl easily reclaims her weapon and proceeds to swing it around, slicing through several wolves attempting to pounce her.
BANG. SWISH. SKISH.
A chorus of sounds erupts from the young warrior once again in combat, shouting in exuberance. "Heck, yeah!"
Fang soon joins the young girl in her melee and found it surprising on how fast they were able to work together. Fighting with each other's tempo and instantly melding with each other's fighting style.
As Fang stomps and chomps down wolves, while occasionally sweeping her tail to whip around small groups, the girl would dash in and cut down the stragglers or firing her weapon, attacking long range against those fast approaching them. Any that went passed the red hooded girl's line of fire was instantly met by Fang's open jaws.
And as the fight continued on, the more Fang and the girl became synchronize and started to help each other.
When one wolf attempted pounce on Fang, a shot from the young girl's weapon killed it instantly. Fang returns the favor by crunching an unexpected wolf about to do the same to the young girl.
The young girl would then launch herself to the air, while Fang tosses several wolves up to her, which the girl would then use her weapon to slice, mince and turn them to ash being blown away by the wind.
Fang proceeds to whip her tail around, hitting and pushing the wolves back for the young girl to have space to land safely, before launching herself again with her speed and swinging her weapon in quick succession towards the nearest enemies daze by Fang.
At times, the young girl would even swing the blunt end of her weapon and send some wolves flying into the air towards Fang's jaws and are met by a gruesome death of bone crushing teeth.
As the dark creatures continue to be relentless, Fang and the young girl continued to decimate them in tandem. Not noticing how they slain a majority of the pack and causing the Alpha to feel some fear and trepidation towards the duo.
Fang bites another wolf in half cleanly, before noticing the alpha staring at them. She narrows her gaze and growls threateningly, causing the larger wolf to growl back but suddenly summon a few of the pack to shield it. In her mind, Fang knew eliminating the Alpha would make it easier to deal with its pack and its absence would send its members in disarray.
"ROOOOAAAAARRR!"
Fang roars, just as the young girl she was fighting with somersaults from the air and lands beside her. Fang found it fortunate that the girl instantly took note of the alpha and immediately sported a similar expression, conveying the same thoughts of needing to slay the leader to handle the rest of the pack.
If they're lucky, the rest of wolves would just turn tail once they witness their alpha squashed under their feet.
Locking eyes briefly, no words were exchange between Fang and the girl. Only action, running together as they both made a beeline towards the head honcho of the wolf pack.
"ROOOOAAAARRR!" Fang roars in intimidation, with the alpha of the wolves reacting with mild panic and howling for its packmates to defend it.
But Fang continues to bulldoze through the wolves launching themselves at her and the young girl, meeting them with headbutts while her companion swings her blade and cuts them to ribbons.
The young girl goes a steps further and launches herself with a resounding crack made in the air. Her petite figure suddenly envelop by a swarm of rose petals, zooming ahead of Fang and straight to the Alpha wolf for a killing strike. But several wolves jump in her way to slow her down and sacrificing themselves to stop her charge.
Which they succeed to do so, as Fang watches the young girl suddenly made to stop with a swing of her weapon, bisecting one wolf before launching herself again to the air horizontally by the recoil of her shot, avoiding to get dogpiled by the dark creatures.
Fang charges in, batting away the wolves and catching the young girl dropping from the air, the petite warrior landing on her back.
"W-What? —Woah!" Fang felt the young girl cling to her neck from the sudden movement and finding herself riding her.
Fang didn't wait for the young one to adjust her sitting, as they were still being attacked and the saurian decide she'll be the one to force their way towards the alpha as more wolves began to rush towards them.
"Woah! WOAH, EASY! WAIT—Slow down—AH! Duck! —I mean GRIMM!"
Fang heard the young girl's warning from her back and saw one wolf jump into the air to pounce on them. She ducks her head just in time for the young warrior to get a clear swing of her weapon and cutting the monster down in half. Another pack member attempts to do the same, but Fang raises her head and catches it in midair with her jaws, before chomping down with a stronger bite killing it.
"ROOOOAAAAAAAARRR!"
Fang roars a war cry, with her unexpected rider joining in with her own cheer.
"Yeah! Yeeehaaww! Killing Grimm while riding like Cowgirls! Eat your heart out, YANG!"
They make their way through the waves of wolves fighting against them, with Fang stomping and biting wolves with her jaws and the young girl on her back swinging her weapon in large arcs, cutting any attempting to flank their sides or back.
Finally the Alpha wolf was at its last straws and howls for the rest of its pack to form themselves as another wall, acting as a meat shield for itself, while planning to escape and leaving them behind to keep the two of their adversaries busy.
"It's trying to get away!" The young girl calls out and noticing the alpha wolf making a run for it. Fang sees it as well and makes a loud snort.
The large saurian makes eye contact with the young girl, trying to convey an apology for something she was going to do. The red hooded girl tilts her head in confusion, not understanding the sudden gaze before Fang turns her attention back to the wall of wolves blocking their path to the alpha.
"What are you doing? — Ah! AH! AHHHH!"
The girl figures it out quickly, as Fang suddenly leaps over the wolves, shocking them too of seeing a large entity jump over them into the air.
"Why didn't you tell me you were going to JUMP!?" The girl exclaims, clinging tightly on the saurian's neck while they were briefly in flight.
Midair, Fang continues to unceremoniously lower her head, feeling the young warrior suddenly lurch forward to her snout from the sudden loss of her grip and then fluidly launching the girl in one motion towards the Alpha wolf. Having faith that the girl would know what to do with her weapon and taking advantage of being up in the air. At that moment, Fang remembers that she and Spear did a similar maneuver before. It was during their first team up and it was an effective maneuver to boot to kill the alpha horned Rival and avenge their murdered families.
Fang felt a brief sense of nostalgia, as she lands back to the ground and resumes fighting the rest of the black wolves. Decimating the rests of the pack, while having full confidence on the young girl to kill the wolf alpha this time.
If she could listen closely, Fang would bet the girl was roaring with a primal determination.
"Why did you throw me!?" The young girl was screaming in confusion for being thrown off and asked why.
Until she saw that her fall was in trajectory to the Alpha.
"Oh! Oh! That's why you threw me!"
The girl rights herself and expertly adjusts her stance like a seasoned warrior before she lets loose a sudden shot from her weapon, and yells with determination.
"RAAAAGHH!"
The recoil sends her shooting off to the Alpha wolf, who could barely react in shock until a sudden feeling of a cold blade stabs through its head.
*SHIK!
Despite it happening in seconds, it felt like time slowed down everything for a moment.
The body of the large alpha wolf slumps to the ground with an audible thud, before pieces of it begin dissolving into the air as black ash. While the girl stands with perfect balance on the head of her now deceased enemy.
The girl fluidly pulls her weapon free from the skull and leaps off, landing gracefully back boots first on to the snow-covered ground.
Fang watched the young girl strike a pose that seemed to intimidate the rest of the pack watching her too. Shortly after a few moments of staring at their slain leader's ash being carried by the wind, one wolf howls a retreat with the rest following after it, calling it quits as well.
Not wanting any stragglers, Fang continues to bite and kill any that were too slow until every trace of the dark creatures presence were gone from the clearing and running cowardly away from her and the young girl.
Leaving only the two of them left standing in the open area.
Both fighters lock gaze once more and stare at each other, unsure how to proceed with the fight now over.
The large T. rex watched the young girl shuffle awkwardly in place, even scratching her head as she sheaths her weapon back, nervous, and unsure on what to do next.
Fang would have mirrored or similarly done the same actions… if it weren't for her intentions to leave as soon as the fight was over and from knowing the girl was not in anymore danger. Fang knows the young one was a warrior and knew that she could handle herself alone too, now that she wasn't facing a massive pack of black wolves by herself.
She turns away and begins to walkout, getting ready to leave the island. No doubt their fight would have caught more attention from the locals, especially with how loud the young girl's weapon sounded from afar when firing.
"Hey, wait! Where are you going!?"
Fang could hear the girl's cries and her small footsteps attempting to follow her. She begins to sprint, intending to move quickly before the girl could use whatever power she has to catch up to her. The young girl's speed outmatches her own and she would no doubt catch up to her easily even if she runs at full speed.
And apparently the girl might not hesitate to do so either, seeing for whatever reason she kept following Fang and calling out to her to stop.
"Come back! I still need to thank you! And probably figure out what you are!"
Fang already knew that she did her part helping the girl because she wanted too and not for any other reason. She hoped the young one understood she didn't have any need for compensation. That she didn't want any payment or favor back, only the need to move away before more humans arrive at their location. She didn't want to meet any other humans who would attack her because of her appearance.
Fang already had one to many similar cases happening to her in the past, even with Spear by her side. And She didn't want to add anymore in the present, especially without any one to rely on and explain on her behalf.
But the young girl's sudden incessant chatting wasn't helping Fang from making her escape discreet. Even if the child was seemingly an approachable and overtly friendly individual.
"Don't be afraid! I'm nice and I won't hurt you! My name's Ruby, we can be friends! Do you like cookies?!"
How baffling the child was and why she insists on following her with questions, was in the forefront of the tyrannosaur's thoughts. Fang wondered if she needed to give a warning growl to back off.
She did.
"RRRRRR!"
But it backfired.
"YES! That's right 'Rrrr' for Ruby!"
Horribly.
The young girl was now even more eager to follow her. Can't the human see that she was trying to leave in peace and avoid more confrontation?
Even Fang herself knows the basics of interaction and understands social cues from both humans and other saurians. She knows she gave the right warnings and made her intentions visible with how quickly she was running away from the young girl. Yet the child still pursues her.
She was starting to think if the young girl could not read the mood… or she was one of those humans who were awkward with social interactions. Maybe the poor girl didn't have a herd or other hatchlings to play with to gain some experience in the social aspects of life.
When Fang glance back at the girl, it looked like she was ready to run or use her special power to catch up. But fortune seemed to favor her at the moment, when the young girl suddenly paused, distracted by other voices coming from the forest.
"…Ruby!"
"…"
"…Sis!"
Fang saw the girl stop in her tracks and looked at the direction where the sounds were coming from.
"RUBY! WHERE ARE YOU!"
…
"C'MON SIS! GIVE US A SHOUT!"
…
"Yang do still hear any gunshots?!"
…
"No! But I think I heard that roar coming from over there!"
The young girl looked to be conflicted between continuing to follow Fang or pursuing the voices calling out to her.
But hearing how close the voices were getting, it was Fang's cue to leave promptly and used the girl's sudden pause to create more distance between them and entering the forest once more, disappearing from her view.
The girl could only give one last look at the direction where Fang disappeared to, before simply cupping her hands together and shouting:
"THANK YOU, FEROCIOUS LOOKING GIANT LIZARD! IT WAS FUN FIGHTING WITH YOU! HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN!"
Fang didn't stop running until she came to a beach side of the island. She took a few moments to catch her breath and scanned her surroundings to see if she was alone or wasn't followed.
Seeing that there isn't anyone nor hearing the young girl from before calling out to her, Fang sighed in relief. Satisfied that she was finally alone and no monsters to fight. When she turned to look at the sea and saw the giant landmass she saw before, she knew that was her next destination and that she may have to swim to get there.
It would be strenuous, but Fang didn't mind. She'd done far more difficult trials and treks in her lifetime with Spear.
How fitting that she found herself on a beach, a familiar setting where some of her biggest life changing decisions were made.
Like deciding to travel with Spear and start a new life together and the decision to pursue Mira when she was kidnapped, are one of the few significant memories that Fang could name and happened in a beach as she remembered.
Now she was making another, dawned with the knowledge that she was alone in a new world, filled with new threats, dangers, and creatures she'll encounter along the way. By herself without Spear, Mira, or anyone else from the world she lived her whole life in.
With only humanity that remained from it. Drastically changed and advanced to a new kind of civilization.
Fang was sad that she may have lost a lot from her primordial world and wondered what to do, now that she was giving a second chance in life in this strange new world.
But waking up to a new world wasn't all bad when it came with some new possibilities and places to explore. Fang saw a lot in her travels with Spear and found some places amazing and worth seeing, despite the savagery they faced in the past.
So maybe there's something out there for her find…
A new place that she could probably call home or somewhere she could belong to…
No matter what it is, Fang knows she can't turn and head back to her old life from this point.
She could only move on forward…
And it would be what Spear wanted best for her to do. And what she wanted for him to do too if their situations were reverse.
Fang knows that it's from their time together, did both she and Spear learn not to let pass losses and tragedy from weighing one down, get lost in grief, and unable to move on.
There's more to life to see and opportunities to find the happiness or whatever it is they seek if they just keeping moving forward.
Closing her eyes briefly, Fang remembers her last memory of Spear and the family they found together. How they were ambushed by another tribe of ape-men and had to fight them yet again. Fighting hard to protect the new family they found together.
But once Fang knew she couldn't be with Spear anymore, when she needed to sacrifice herself to save their new family; in her last thoughts before fading into unconsciousness, she hoped her friend was able to go on and lived a good life once she's gone.
Especially after all the struggles they faced together. Fang knows he deserves every amount happiness he could get from fighting their primordial world. And she knows he didn't stop fighting no matter what circumstances or trial he had faced in the future, never giving up ever.
Fang makes a personal promise to do the same this time. Now that he's gone and with only herself to face this new world alone.
With the sounds of waves crashing along the beach, and feeling the sand under her clawed toes, Fang opens her eyes and once more settles her gaze at the landmass—or rather the new horizon to look forward to.
Filled with renewed determination and resolve to explore and see to what this new world has to offer.
Feeling a sudden surge inside her chest, Fang takes a deep breath and lets out roar to the sky for the world to hear.
"ROOOOOAAAAAAAAARRR!"
Fang was telling the world, its people, the enemies she'll face in the future, and to whatever deities out there watching her:
That she will fight, kill, and survive whatever it is this new land will throw at her face.
Adapt and evolve if she must! Taking a lesson she learned from Spear in order to do so.
She won't stop struggling to keep on living and find her own place in this new world.
With her cry heard, her message ending, and echoing through the beach…
…Fang steps into the waves and dives.
Author's notes:
And that's that!
I hope you guys enjoyed the first chapter to this new series!
I'll give you the basic idea of the next chapters. That is their content would be based, similar, and running parallel to the episodes of Primal, including the titles.
Just like this first chapter being titled Fang and Rose, which is based on the first episode of Primal: Spear and Fang.
And the time setting of Fang traveling around Remnant would be before RWBY's first season. As you can tell from this first chapter, set during the first RWBY character trailers.
SO, I think you can get an idea of what you can expect and WHO would appear in the next chapter...
…With little help with the short preview below!
Thanks for reading and hope see you in the next chapter!
I'd like to hear some comments too if you don't mind. Though nothing offensive or flaming.
*Preview
Chapter 2: Forest of Snakes
Fang gaze back at the golden orbs similar to her own, expressing unease and wariness of being cornered like prey with no chance to escape. She took in the black attire of the figure in front of her and the unsheathed weapons consisting of two blades of different lengths and width.
The blades were drawn in a defensive posture and ready to lash out should Fang take another step closer, a warning she understood clearly.
But the Tyrannosaur was compelled to approach. No. Wanting to come closer.
In order to know if her eyes weren't deceiving her and to sate her own curiosity. Because Fang saw something she thought not possible for humans to possess.
Seeing it clearly, pass the flimsy ribbon that got loose on top of the figure's head—
Were a pair of Feline ears.