Chapter 2: What happens to our body?
The Kooplings were scattered… the kingdom in disarray. Blorbed Minions littered the landscape like oversized novelty balloons… and Lord Bowser Jr. was defeated.
These were some of the toughest times the Minions had ever faced.
Yet despite the staggering odds… I never lose faith.
I knew that Lord Junior and Lord Bowser would pull us through… somehow...
- Kamek
When he opens his eyes, the world is spinning, and his mind foggy, Ludwig dunno what has happened, but he knows that their new scheme has ended in failure.
Sigh, things always won't work in Bowser's flavor is it?
Either way, time to regroup, remodeling, and starting it all over again, the good O' Plan B.
Ludwig pushes himself up, only to immediately notice that something isn't right.
He feels… higher, his legs have somehow got longer, and his hand and body all felt different, not wobbly or frail, he still feels… himself. But something has changed.
Brought his hand to the face, Ludwig's eyes shot wide open, this doesn't feel like his hand.
There is a fifth finger, a new finger that wasn't there before.
And his face, he knows how his face's shape feels like, and yet what this hand is feeling tells him his face has changed.
Ludwig drew a deep breath, to calm himself down, maybe his mind is still wobbly, maybe he is seeing things from stress, maybe he gets this all wrong.
So he breathed, calmed himself down, and then stood up.
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His body still doesn't feel right.
And so he looked down.
Expecting to see the old Koopa body with yellow skin and claws, as well as a round nose in his vision's way; all he saw are human hands and a body dressed in fancy royal-style of clothes, and a small nose.
"What?" Ludwig says dumbly.
Panic began to rise up in his mind.
He immediately starts touching himself, desperately hoping to find some body part he's familiar with.
He then brought his hands to his magnificent hair.
*scratch* *scratch*
…
At least his hair is still the same style.
A loud shriek from Wendy put a stop to his panic.
"YAAAAAAAAA!"
Ludwig immediately turned his head toward the source of the voice.
"Wendy!"
Except only to see a blonde human girl dressed in pink with a familiar pink bow, who's touching her hair with a shock, panic, scared, and exciting look.
"Huh?" Was all Ludwig can manage to utter out.
- Play music: Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story - Dimble Woods (overworld) -
"Ok, so let me get this straight, we all remember the teleport magic conjure goes wrong. And then after Bowser punched that thing, everything goes white, and then we're somehow half-humans in the middle of nowhere all of a sudden now?" Roy speaks tiredly. As he is trying his best to compromise the situation at hands.
"That's about the gist." Larry replied.
Now, seated in a circle, the important members of Bowser Kingdom, The seven Koopalings, along with Prince Bowser Junior are in a green forest of some sort and somewhere.
They all have turned into humans somehow.
(But first, skin and then height chart: Ludwig/white/5'8'' , Lemmy/white/4'6'' , Roy/slight yellow/6'3'' , Iggy/slight yellow/6'0'' , Wendy/white/5'4'' , Morton/brown/5'9'' , Larry/white/5'7'', Bowser Jr./slight tan/5'0'' AN: Don't bother comparing their height to their cannon height order. I simply look at the RWBY height chart and decide how high I want them to be compared to RWBY characters.)
Ludwig retains his trademark hair, as well as the sharp bucktooth (except it is no longer exposed despite closing his mouth), his blue shell with spikes on his back, and his tail.
His attire consists of a black blouse with a blue three-button-double-breasted vest; a small white jabot tie around his neck; and a blue swallow-tail coat with gold and white stripe lines and black cuff, a metal shoulder pad print with a Bowser emblem on the left shoulder, and a normal shoulder pad with light blue clothes that runs down the back for decoration, and his own emblem print on the back of the coat; Black pants hold up by a yellow belt and a pair of deep-blue knee-high boots, a keychain with a white hostler that stored his blue wand; white gloves on both hands, and around his wrist is the familiar black spike metal band his brothers and him wear.
Lemmy's hair had one new change, his colorful mohawk and ponytail didn't change, but the base of his head had a green bald cut that resembles his green Koopa head, and a pink braid that goes down from his left ear, and a blue braid from his right ear; the orange rectangle line birthmark now moved to both his cheeks like a face print. Shell on his back and metal spike band on wrists like Ludwig.
His attire consists of a jester's clothes style. White sleeveless vest with flower petal-like cut at the bottom, with his emblem print on the back of his vest, the out scratching lapel part separate to two colors, left in green and right in orange, with a white hairball hanging on the end; he wears a long-sleeve fingerless-hand-sock glove, orange with white stripes on the left hand, green with white diamond pattern on the right hand, a black armband with a Bowser emblem on his left shoulder; a yellow belt with a white hostler that stored his green wand on his waist; Puffy shorts that divide into two colors, green with long white stripes on the left, and orange with white dots on the right; Over knee-long stockings on both legs, green with white stripes on left, and orange with white diamond pattern on right; and yellow puffy shoes with white hairball on the front tip.
Roy retains his hot-pink cat sunglasses, his hair is faux hawk cut, shell, tail, and metal bands like the rest of his siblings.
His attire consists of a mix of punk and military style, black tank top with his emblem print on the front, an unbuttoned white military jacket with hot pink stripe hanging on his shoulder, with Bowser's emblem print on the back of the jacket; a silver and gold necklace on his neck, purple fingerless glove, and bandage wrapping around his arms with elbow guard on the top; white military pants with hot pink stripe hold by a black belt with metal pin, a black hostler tied on his right trouser that stored his black wand; black military boots with the trousers tucked in.
Iggy had messy lime-green hair that stopped around at shoulder length, but the trademark pineapple hair is still presenting on the top of his hair, tied by a purple band. He had purple eyeshadow paint on the button of his eyes.
His attire consists of perfectly capturing his odd-crazy style, yellow dresser shirt with loosening trumpet sleeve; with purple vest and a green tie; a green worker-apron warping around his upper body; a white mad scientist coat with super long sleeve and his emblem print on the back; a long gold necklace with a smaller version of his koopa shell hanging on his neck, pine-green long chemical glove in his hand; forest-green baggy pant with 3 zipper pockets on each side, with one zipper pocket storing his yellow wand, and a Bowser emblem sticker stick to the down-left of the pants; and white soft shoes with green stripe.
Wendy was perhaps the one with the most change, she had hair, actual hair! Blonde hair tied in a ponytail with no bangs on the forehead, Her pink bowtie with white dots is still present on her head, with small drill braids running down both sides of her head. Her puffy lips, red pearl necklace, and gold wrist ring are still there.
Her attire consists of a mix between ballet and punk lady, shoulderless waterproof black ballet top with white lapel, and 4 diamond-shape cuts that expose her front belly, side waist and back; white bolero jacket with neapolitan cuff and pink stripe-line, with her emblem print on the back, foot-less waterproof black pantyhose with black safety pants (AN: No lewding material for you horny people.); white wrap-skirt held on with a black belt with hot-pink diamond pattern, with a yellow ring keychain holding her purple wand, short black fingerless glove; a white leg band with Bowser emblem; and pink high-heel boots.
Morton had his gray star birthmark on his face, he too has hair now, gray short hair, as well as the three cowlicks still sticking at the top.
His attire consisted of a light brown dress shirt with a red tie; black sleeveless zipper jacket with white fuzzy neck-tuff, with his emblem print at the back; spike shoulder guards that looked similar to his shell; brown pants with few torn holes hold up by black slingshots; light-brown fingerless gloves, a black armband with Bowser emblem; and a brown brisk boots.
Larry had green bald cut base like Lemmy, his light-blue up-cockscomb still at the top, the blue birthmark moved to his left cheek.
His attire consisted of sport theme, white sport shirt with green lines and a blue star print at the front; light-blue zipper hoodie with black sleeve, and the head part being gray, his emblem print on the back of the hoodie; a black music headphone with white star rest on his neck; black sport pants with blue stripe; a white military jacket with light-blue stripe he ties around his waist; white sport shoes with blue stripe; and a black backpack that was holding both his tennis racket and orange wand.
Bowser Jr. still had his distinguished trait, the short bull horns, the spooky scarf, the tied-up red ponytail, his head however, unlike Lemmy & Larry, actually gains red short hair.
His attire consists of rough royal-prince like outfit, yellow short sleeve shirt with a green vest and a red tie; orange coat with green lines tie around his waist; orange fingerless gloves; brown work-short with orange over knee sock underneath, white socks, black army-boot with red stripe; a red cape with metal shoulder pad and purple inner, with his emblem print on the cap, and his paintbrush hanging on his back by a brown side-body-belt.
"I swear, this is possibly the weirdest day ever." Roy sighed.
"Well, at least we didn't turn into some sort of princess or weird things like genderbend." Lemmy says, as he summons a bounce ball and balances on it.
Many shot him a weird look, including Morton.
"What makes you think that?" Ludwig asks with a cross arm and a raised eyebrow, which only earns a shrug from Lemmy.
"O~k, back to the matters at hand, we don't know if this appearance transformation is the result of the backfire from the spell or something, but we're currently in the middle of somewhere, and we need to get back to Lord Bowser." Ludwig shifted the attention back.
"Yep, Star Spirits knows how Lord Bowser is when he doesn't know Lord Junior's whereabouts." Larry says, earning a wave of nods from his brothers.
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"Will ya stop playing with your hair?" Roy scoffed at Wendy, who was touching and feeling her new hair for the past 15 minutes.
"Buzz off, I never have hair to begin with, and of course can touch my hair whatever the hell I want." Wendy hisses dangerously at the sunglass brawny, which makes Roy back off a bit.
Ignoring the dynamic duo, Ludwig focuses on forming a plan.
"So, our best chance is to find out any nearby town, kingdom, or anyone that could help us pinpoint where we are, then we can start finding a way to return to Dark Land and Lord Bowser."
His siblings and Jr. agree with him.
but there is just one problem.
"Yes? Lord Junior?" Ludwig noticed that Jr. raised his hand.
"Which way should we go?"
- Earlier today, in Beacon Academy.
In Ozpin's long life, he had seen a lot of stuff, be it good, be it bad, he had seen enough of it, but, despite that, it did not prepare him for what happened today.
Imagine sitting in your office, going over some paper of business and handling students' education, while sipping some good soul mending hot coffee.
Then all the sudden a vortex opened up in your office, and dumped a man in your office.
No, he really did not see that coming. And so didn't you.
Crouching down near the unconscious men, Ozpin looks for the pulse to see any sign of the man's well-being, as well as any unusual part he can identify about them.
He's an odd one, he'll give him that.
The unconscious men in question was a lean yet well build old man, if the big white mustache that could rival Port's is anything to go by, he dressed in a high-class black business suit, with a gray stripe tie, but the gold crown on his head made Ozpin raised his eyebrow, he knows people may wear accessory to improved their look, but crown is an unusual choice, especially in Remnant.
Before he could decide what he should do with the man's situation, the elevator to his office opened up with a ding.
"Ozpin!" Glynda Goodwitch called him, a sense of urgency in her voice.
Looking up, Ozpin facing the deputy, as the said woman looked at the unconscious man in Ozpin's hand in surprise.
"We have a situat..." Glynda's voice dies down as she looks at the man with a big mustache that reminds her of Port's.
"I'm going to take a guess, a portal of some kind opened up and left an unconscious person in front of you?" The headmaster cut straight to the point. Earning a nod from the deputy.
"A man dressed in pure white with thick eyebrows and a long braid wearing a crown was dropped in my office. I have Peach taking care of him right now, this isn't an isolated incident." The deputy informed the headmaster.
"Another man with a crown?" Ozpin muttered, as he brought his hand to his chin, wondering what could this mean.
Suddenly, his scroll rings, Ozpin has a good feeling the day is going to get even more interesting, he picks up the call.
"Ozpin." Comes through the speaker is Peter Port, who's voice is still as energetic as ever, but with concern mixed in it. "You're not going to believe this, a portal opened up and spit out a man in my office."
The headmaster and deputy looked at each other as they processed the information.
"How's his condition? What does he look like?" Ozpin asks.
"Well, he's still breathing, no sight of any visible wound, and he's an old man with a hairy mustache and eyebrows, wears some formal high-class coat and suit, and a bejeweled crown on his head."
"Another one." Glynda muttered in her hand.
Suddenly another call cuts in, this time Oobleck's.
"Headmaster! You will not believe the strange event I just experienced!" Making the call Multi-party, Oobleck began his side.
"A vortex or portal of some sort opened up in my study, and a huge bull-Faunus in deep-blue armor was dropped out from it!"
Ozpin looked at Glynda, then looked at his scroll.
"Let's get these men to the infirmary, then you can tell us the details of the situation."
"Sure, but oh man, this guy is super heavy, I require assistance!" Oobleck cries as he tries to lift up the huge man.
- A few minutes later.
With the four mysterious men taking care of, the Huntsman professors now sit down outside the infirmary to discuss the event of earlier.
"So, aside from the clue of the portal, until they wake up, we have no idea who or why they are here." Oobleck looked down as he and his co-worker tried their best to solve this big mystery. To no available.
They all looked down, out of idea what to do.
The door of the infirmary opened up, as the medical staff moved out.
The doctor informs them the men are all healthy, but just unconscious for some reason, but they'll wake up eventually within a few hours.
But, the medical staff inform them there's no record about these four men in all four Kingdom's databases, they're like a ghost. Thus troubled the professor more.
The headmaster and deputy exchange looks, as they came to a silent agreement.
"Gentlemen, while our mysterious guest's well being is of great concern, let's not forget that we still have duties and students that need to be taken care of, I'll stay here and wait for our guest to awake, then I'll inform you all what I can find." Ozpin suggested, but in truth, it's more of an order, not that the professor and doctor know.
The professor and doctor salute to the headmaster, and return to their post, again being kept in the dark from the real big picture.
Seeing that the coast is clear, Glynda whispers to Ozpin. "Ozpin, do you think this is her work?"
Ozpin let out an exhausted sigh. "No, in all my past clashes with her, never once did she pull something like this, nor do I believe they to be her agents, she rather has an element of surprise on me if she wishes to send an assassin." He takes a chair and sits down. "Moreover, if they really are assassins, why send them in unconscious?"
Glynda looks down, a frown present on her face. "If they're not her underlings, then… who are they?"
"Glynda, I wish I know..." He sighed again. "For the first time, I believe we're dealing with something that might be beyond us."
- Back with the Koopalings and Koopa Prince.
The group of now-humanized Koopa, walking aimlessly in one direction, with Junior leading the way.
How did it come to this? Simple, a little while ago before today's event, there was another incident, one that included Origami of all the things, but anyway, during that incident, Junior learns one thing, when it comes to multiple opinions, always choose the one option nobody chooses… something like that, at least, that's what Junior remembers why Kamek always seems to be correct all the time.
So Junior simply tells each of the Koopalings to pick one direction, and then he'll tell them to follow the direction nobody picked.
Well, despite being the top henchmen of Bowser, Kamek's word holds more power than they, and so is Lord Junior, plus, Kamek is rarely wrong, and they could handle anything thrown at them usually.
Without an argument, they followed Junior, and started walking in one direction, hoping to escape this forest in no time.
But fate had another idea in mind.
Walking in the last, Ludwing, Larry, and Wendy will act as the long-range defense, while Iggy, Lemmy act as middle defense, and Morton and Roy act as frontline charge, Junior is the jack of all trade, the kid can take care of himself.
"..." With a familiar sense of deja vu, Ludwig found himself constantly looking back, despite nothing being behind them.
'Again with this feeling, I can not shake off the idea that someone or something is following us.' His weird behavior didn't go unnoticed by Wendy and Larry.
"Well, what is it? Boss?" During the past experience of working as a team, Larry finds himself most comfortable with Ludwig when working with his siblings, as he doesn't mind letting Ludwig be in charge, hence the nickname of calling him boss.
"Nothing, must be my imagination." Ludwig dismissed, but his expression and hand gesture says otherwise.
Wendy rolled her eyes. "Spill it, Ludwig. what's going on?"
Looking back once more, Ludwig faces his siblings. "I feel like we're being followed. Just like that time with the Blorbs."
"!" Both Wendy and Larry immediately catch on to the severity of the deal.
"You would've thought that we might have come across some random Goomba or Shy Guy already, but so far, nothing like that came to view… and what's more..." He paused, as his brow furrows. "Something isn't right with this forest, something is there in the shadow, and we better get quick on our feet. I feel like… we're being watched..." Ludwig says grimly, as he looks behind once again.
Rubbing his neck uncomfortably, Larry asks. "You don't think… this is another scheme plotted against the Kingdom this time do you?"
Ludwig shook his head to dismiss the idea. "No, I don't think so, the result when a teleport magic goes wrong is unpredictable as Kamek said, let alone to get us all teleported in a position they want, I don't think today's incident is someone's doing."
"Then what is it if nobody is messing with us?" Wendy asks.
Looking behind him once again, Ludwig says. "I feel like we're in a dangerous territory, something's territory, and we're the unwanted trespasser."
The three exchange a look of uncertainty, finding the situation may be worse than they let on.
"What do you suggest?" Wendy asks.
"Getting out of this forest, ASAP." The young sister and brother couldn't agree more.
"HEY! What's the hold up back there!" Junior yelled from far, noticing someone slacking off behind.
The three looks at each other and nod, quickly unite with the rest and move on.
Junior had an impatient look on his face as he crossed his arms and tapped the ground with his foot.
"Sheesh, what's with the slack off, I thought we all agreed to get out of this forest?"
"Lord Junior, I believe there's something wrong with this forest." Ludwig politely informs.
Junior however rolled his eyes. "Pff, of course, just some plain trees and rocks, boring. Like, this place could use some punching bags for me."
"I..." Ludwig was about to continue his concern, but some noise interrupted him.
*Growl* A low growl unlike any creature in the Mushroom Kingdom coming from nowhere.
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"Morton, was that you?" Wendy asks, a bit on the edge.
"BELLY NO GROWLING, MORTON NOT HUNGRY!" Morton simply answered.
"If that was not Morton, then who was that?" Roy raised his finger in confusion.
*Growl* A much louder growl from earlier reached their ears.
*rustle* Then Jumping out from a pile of bush, was an ugly looking black wolf-like beast with white bone faceplate and multiple bone-like spikes extended out from various parts of their body.
They jumped back as the wolf-looking thing tried to pounce on them.
"What the… what is that thing?" Ludwig said, as he and his siblings all take on a battle stance.
"Some kind of wolf. Bahaha!" Iggy giggles crazily as usual.
"And it smells." Wendy complained as she pinched her nose in disgust.
"Doesn't seem like anything back in Mushroom Kingdom." Larry points out.
"That could only mean we're not in Mushroom Kingdom anymore." Ludwig added as he looked at the creature intensely.
"Oh great, we're so far away from Dark Land." Roy rolled his eyes under the sunglasses, great, long-distance travel without a proper vehicle.
Then, behind the black wolf, several more appear as the backup, each gritting their teeth at them dangerously.
"Well, at least Ludwig wasn't worried for nothing." Larry comments, a fireball charging up in his mouth, as he takes out his Tennis racket.
"Doesn't matter, I say we pummel these things to the ground, then we get back to dad!" Junior takes out his paintbrush happily as he grins.
Finally, some action.
"No problem!" The Koopalings followed his lead, ready to teach this thing a lesson of who it's messing with.
- Back with Ozpin and Glynda.
Remember when Ozpin said today is an interesting day? Scratch that, today is super odd.
Cause right now, he and Glynda are watching different camera feeds from Emerald Forest, and they saw a group of teenagers and a kid, and a man dressed in a weird red and green planet monster mascot suit rampaging through the forest.
The group of teenagers and a kid is mopping the floor with Beowolfs, and the man dressed in mascot custom was fighting a King Taijitu, but what shocked them the most was they appeared to be wielding magic of all the things.
There's no mistake, the blue-haired Faunus dressed in a fancy suit was using a wand in his hands as he fired multiple fire blasts at the Beowolfs, without any sight of the use of Dust.
One multicolor mohawk Faunus dressed like a jester was rolling around on a big bouncy ball as he summons bombs in his hand as he juggles said bombs.
The Faunus wearing the pink bow was dancing around the Beowolfs as she shot out glowing golden rings to bind the Grimms in place.
The Faunus with pineapple-leaf-like hair was spinning around the Beowolfs fastly, and then teleporting around them to confuse them even more.
The biggest Faunus out of the group was punching the Beowolfs like sandbags, and picking up boulders with ease and throwing them around.
The Faunus with a star painted on his face threw his wand up in the air, only for it to transform into a giant hammer, and swing it at the Grimms, sending them flying.
The Faunus with a light-blue mohawk was jumping around the Grimm with great athleticism, spitting fireballs out of his mouth, and hitting them around with the racket in his hand.
The Faunus with a paintbrush was perhaps the oddest one out of the group, he spat his paintbrush on the ground, creating a pile of goop, and then summoned a monster that looked like the planet monster mascot the man on the other camera feed was dressing.
Speaking of the mascot dressing man, Glynda was baffled by the man's sheer power he possessed, he appeared to be welding no weapon, yet he was able to hold off the King Taijitu from biting when the beast had the man in its jaw. The two head snake has made several attempts to bite him, only for him to open the jaw and knock the head away with a pure fist or headbutt.
He then holds his arm back, and swings it forward, to create several small hurricanes to blow away the giant Grimm snake.
"Ozpin, you're seeing this, correct?" Glynda asks, a little bit disbelieving of the footage she was witnessing, nobody in Remnant can use magic freely, all except Ozpin, the Four Maiden, and then the big enemy mastermind Salem.
Ozpin didn't answer back, too focusing on the display of magic these people were showing.
Inside his head, multiple thoughts and theories crossed his mind, but none made much sense, all except one possibility, but even then it is still hard to believe.
'This is too much of a coincidence, something definitely is going on around Remnant. And...' He looked at the feed again. 'If they can use magic, maybe…'
With a goal in mind, Ozpin made his gamble.
"Glynda, get these people off the forest." Turning his head to the deputy, Ozpin ordered her, with a rare sternness that means no room for arguing. "These people know how to use magic, we can't let her or her agent know. This is not a coincidence."
"!" Understanding how serious the immortal headmaster is, Glynda nods and immediately rushes to the elevator.
With the deputy off her way, Ozpin looked back at the camera feed, not saying any word after that.
It has been a pretty uneventful week for Petey Piranha. Like… he's been eating, and napping, and then eating… and then go back napping.
Then big boss Bowser suddenly summoned him, requiring his service, so as many others, well, he doesn't have much things to do usually, so he was fine for having a chance to stretching arms. Besides, he can meet up with Gooper and Boo, he was more than happy for that reason.
Uhhh… he didn't remember much about what the big plan Bowser had was as he slept through the part. He only knows it has happened when he wakes up from his nap. That his body was changed and he was in the middle of nowhere.
Well, if he was already deployed to the position, then it means he just needs to do the usual stuff, right?
So that means he'll just smash any people that come in his way, right?... Yeah, that sounds about right.
And then here he is. Fighting against some sort of big snake with two heads.
It confused him first, as he thought he was going to fight the mustache man in red, or maybe the mustache man in green, but ehh, whatever, he'll smash regardless.
*Ssssssss* The black head hiss at the Piranha costume dresser, looking annoyed as its past attempts of devouring its prey all ends with a mean punch to the head.
The said prey just scratches its itchy butt, looking as careless as ever.
*Ssssssss* The two heads decide to try different attempts, finally changing its tactic. The white head shot toward the prey first, only to make a sharp turn in the last moment.
"Gha?" Petey was not expecting that, he was expecting the jaw to nib on him again. He quickly followed the white head, wondering what is it trying to do?
This turns out to be the mistake the snake needed.
The black quickly shot toward the prey's back, this time opened its mouth wide.
"Geh?" Petey turned his head back at the last second. Only to see the thick bone plate of the snake's head on the collision to his face.
*cruch* And then everything blacked out for Petey.
- Back with the Koopalings and Bowser Jr. A bit earlier before Petey getting eaten by a snake.
"Well, that's the last one." Roy dusts his hand in satisfaction. A bunch of punching bags for him loses some steam.
His siblings too are in the same state of mind as him. Ludwig dusting his clothes; Lemmy goes back to balancing on his ball in idle; Iggy just giggling like a weirdo, as usual; Wendy took out a pink light-travel makeup-mirror to check her appearance; Morton was checking Junior is he's alright; and Larry took out a comb and arrange his mohawk.
Junior, however, wasn't satisfied.
"Awww man, these guys suck, it's not even funny." He crossed his arms and attempted to make an angry face, except all he did was make a pout, which Wendy found adorable.
"Ehh, what were you expecting? We're the elite for reasons, normal guys stand no chance with us." Roy shrugs as he too finds these weird wolves so much of a pushover. But ehh, punching bags are punching bags, and Roy's fist won't say no to free punching bags.
"Although, it's pretty weird how they disappear when we defeat them." Ludwig suddenly piped in. As he looked around with his head down in thoughts.
"How so?" Lemmy asks.
"When normal creatures, say: a goomba, get defeated, they usually explode into stars, but these things fade into a cloud of black mist."
His siblings look at each other with blink eyes.
"You know… that's pretty weird." Wendy raised a finger at that.
"Now that you mention that… it's pretty unusual." Larry agrees.
"Who cares, these clowns don't put up a fight. I'd rather get back to dad than wasting my time on these clowns." Junior says annoyingly.
"Bah, who cares what way they die, they're all pushovers like normal goombas." Roy waved his hand at them, not caring about the small detail.
'Because you two are muscle brains.' Ludwig and Wendy deadpanned at the two.
"Well, if you guys are done playing detective, then can we move on already?" Junior ordered, already impatient.
*Growl*
They turned their head, this time finding a bigger and uglier-looking wolf-like thing facing them.
"Huh, if I were to make a guess, I say that guy probably is their boss." Larry pointed at the monster that made its appearance known.
*Howl* The big howls toward the sky.
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"Was that supposed to be an attempt to scare us?" Roy asks, disappointed.
Until more and more black wolves show up.
"Looks like it doesn't want us to leave." Lemmy says as he looks around, finding another wave of black wolves surrounding them.
"Well then? Bring it on! I'll defeat as many as I have to" Junior declared as he aimed his paintbrush at the Alpha monster.
The rest of the Koopalings took battle stance again, preparing for another round of battle.
The Alpha beast lunged at Junior, who smirked as he can tell this one must be the strongest, jumped out of the way, he looked at the rest of Koopalings. "This one is mine!"
Roy looked over his shoulder as he was surrounded by 4 normal beasts, rolling his eyes, he replied. "Hey! Squirt, not fair!"
"Is now seriously the timing for picking an enemy?" Wendy scolded her hothead brother.
"LESS TALK! MORE FIGHT!" Morton simply yelled as he slammed a beast onto another beast.
"Bahahaha! He gets the idea!" Iggy cackled as he drop-kicked a beast in the skull.
The beast locked its eyes on Junior, finding him to be the most dangerous and troublesome of the group, as earlier it was watching their fight with its kin.
The ability to summon creatures from a pile of goop is dangerous, this one needs to be taken out first.
With that in mind, the alpha lunged at Junior again, brought its claws to slash him, Junior just maneuvering around the big beast, using his paintbrush to parry the strike.
He smirks in excitement. "Not bad, not bad, but not good either!" He uses more power in this next parry, knocks the beast's claw away, before jumping toward its face and kicking it in the jaw.
The beast was pushed back a few feet, it held its jaw in pain, it did not expect this little one to have this much strength behind its kick. But trial and error, this tells it doesn't underestimate its prey.
Changing of tactic, it roars and then circling around Junior, attempting to use speed-fight to out-smart its prey, aiming to break out a single moment of opening.
Junior was amused by this. "So you know you can't win with brawn, so you choose to win with speed? Clever, but I have fought Mario before, and he's more agile than you!" Grinning, he retreats in his shell… or rather, in this case, having a physical illusion that is his Koopa shell cocoon him.
This proved to be not what the beast was expecting, as it tilted its head at the sight it was witnessing.
Junior's shell spinning was proven far faster than the beast, as he zips past the beast left and right, before striking it from multiple angles, he then came out of the shell, before swinging his paintbrush at the beast's face, temporarily blinding it.
*Howl* The beast howls in pain as it can't see, it then randomly attacks, swinging its claw around hoping to get some lucky hit. Of course, in its dream. Junior will never let a clown like this hit him.
Having enough fun with his enemy, Junior decides it's time to finish it, he then opens his mouth, and shoots some fireball on the beast, setting the beast on fire, burning it alive.
Looking around, he saw the Koopalings had just dealt with the other weakling at the same time.
Ludwig looked at him. "Well, are you satisfied now, Lord Junior?"
Said prince shot him a grin. "Could be better, but ehh, this will do." Many rolled their eyes at his hard to pleased stander, but said nothing otherwise.
It was then around this time a weird-looking metal aircraft flew toward them.
From the hanger of the Bullhead, Glynda looked at the group of teenagers with surprise, they can take care of themselves just fine, whoever they are, they're skilled.
'Ozpin, I hope you know what you're doing.'
She then approaches the group, already having a script in her mind of getting these people to Beacon without provoke.
"I do not know how or why a group without authorization is in Emerald Forest, but that can be discussed later, this isn't a safe place for talk, please come on board."
They looked at each other, quickly turned their backs to discuss something, then turned back to her, the one in formal dress and blue hair spoken.
"Of course, we… apologized for our trespassing, a little accident happens, which is why we're here, you're?..."
"Glynda Goodwitch, now please get on board before more Grimm shows up."
"Grimm? So that's what those are called." The Faunus mutters to himself.
They said nothing and followed her request. None seems to be paying her any mind… all except the one with the paintbrush. Just looked at her for a moment, before turning away.
"So, Miss Goodwitch, if you don't mind me asking, where are we going?" The blue hair Faunus asks.
"To Beacon Academy, but before that, we have to pick up another person." This seems to pick up the Faunus' interest. Let's see if she can fish more info. "Interestingly enough, he was wearing some sort of mascot suit of a planet-like monster with a red head with white dots and yellow flower petals."
Several heads of theirs perked up at the mention of the appearance of the mascot.
"Planet-like monster?" The one with the pink bow says.
"Red-head with white dots?" The one with sunglasses says.
"Yellow flower petals?" The one with light-blue mohawk says.
They looked at each other before saying in unison. "It's PP."
"PP?" Glynda smirked under her poke face, but was confused with the reply.
"Petey Piranha. He's… a friend of ours." The blue hair says, hesitate a bit in his word.
Glynda narrowed her eyes, but did not pursue. 'Now is not the timing. There will be plenty more chances.'
Sending the pilot their next coordinate, the Bullhead moved to a different part of the forest.
During the short flight, they didn't exchange any word, only occasionally looking at others.
It was then Glynda's scroll rings. Breaking the silence.
"Headmaster?" She picked up the call, expecting to hear either Ozpin tell him their guest was awaked, or he had something he wanted to ask her.
Only to hear Ozpin tell her the man was devoured by the King Taijitu.
"What?!" She almost yelled, trying her best to not make their uninvite guest get suspicious.
"Then what do you suggest I do? I talked with them to confirm they and this person have a relationship. They say they know this man to some degree."
[Don't worry, I believe the man is not dead.] Ozpin's claim only makes her even more confused.
[After he was swallowed, the King Taijitu began to feel unwell, before starting to howl in pain. It's best if you see it for yourself.] Again, even in a situation like this, Ozpin still had to play riddles.
And with that, Ozpin hung up the call, leaving a confused Glynda who later groaned silently.
They arrived at the location where the man and King Taijitu were, watching through the windows, the giant Grimm snake was still there, but like Ozpin said, it didn't look to be well.
It was constantly twisting its body, as if it's in some sort of pain.
Until something bursts out from the middle part of its body.
*GASP* The man in the mascot suit actually manages to bust through the giant snake's flesh and thick scale, covered in some black substance, breathing heavily for fresh air.
"Hey, that's Petey." The Faunus with multicolor mohawk says as he presses his face at the window.
"Has he turned to a human like us?"
"Was that a giant two-head snake?"
"Hey move it, I can't see anything!"
The others try to shove him away as they all want to get a better look.
Glynda watches with a deadpan look, there are other windows right next, they don't have to fight at all. But she did not fall to catching on to the weird term they used.
'Has he turned to a human like us?' What does that mean?
Focusing back at the man, he quickly jumped out of the meshy escape hole he made, facing the giant snake once more, his expression says he doesn't look too happy at all.
Then, in an instant, he quickly rushed toward the black head of the snake, and punched super hard on the center bone plate of the head.
The force behind his punch was massive as the black head was immediately flattened, the red eyes bulging out, and the head buried in the dirt as the ground cracked.
The white head howled in pain as its black counterpart probably just died from one punch.
The man wasn't done yet, he jumped toward the remaining head and punched it at the cheek.
Again, the force was so great it sent the snake flying, and yanking the dead head off the ground, the whole snake body smashed into a nearby cliff.
Knowing the enemy is defeated, Petey roars toward the air, holding both hands up triumphantly.
The Koopalings and Junior cheered as they watched Petey making an awesome finish on an enemy, despite not knowing what that thing was. Meanwhile, Glynda's jaw was hanging as she could not process what she just witnessed.
'Just who exactly are these people?'
To be
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