Author's note: Still don't own anything but Trepp so let's start this thing.
~~~~~~~~Story start~~~~~~~~~~Story Start~~~~~~~~~
"Khezu and Gigginox? Odd names to say the least,"
"But it does make them sound unique i think,"
"Also cave dwellers? Does that mean they only stay in caves or something?"
"It's mostly just a nickname some give them. Personally I'd call them something different but I'm not too creative and any ideas seem a bit risqué in a sense," Trepp explained nonchalantly with a shrug of his shoulders.
"And one of them fits me?" Mina asked, smiling in anticipation and excitement.
"Correct, I figured it would be an interesting one for you," Trepp said, gazing at the students like a teacher.
"This'll be awesome," Mina cheered, "let's start now please."
Trepp silently nodded as the class settled in for what could be an interesting viewing.
"Hello, my fellow hunters... today it's time to get creepy..." Rage spoke quietly as the view of a cave was shown, moving back and forth. This was revealed to be from the point of view of a moderately sized, pale and veiny monster with a round body, strange gecko-like feet and both a head and tail with a rather disturbing shape.
"Meet the Khez- Aaah!" Rage began introducing the creature, before crying out in shock and pain as the beast let out an ear-piercing roar that lasted five seconds, but those five seconds felt like nearly an eternity.
"That thing is worse than nails on a chalkboard," Tokoyami flinched at the sound, feeling Dark Shadow grumble from his shadow.
"It looks so ugly," Aoyoma cringed once he saw the sight of it.
"I think I can see it's viens," Sato gagged, feeling like he'd lose his appetite if he saw any more of the monster. Sadly he knew there was no way to avoid it.
"Can you not!?" Rage asked in annoyance as the creature stood high, almost looking innocent as if to fool him that it wouldn't be doing it again [2], before quickly leaning forward as he tried again. "Meet the Khez- AAH!" He cried out again as the creature let out the same piercing roar as before. "Gah! Meet!" Rage snapped, losing his patience and going word by word to test if Khezu was going to try and mess with him again, but it sat there innocently again. "The!" He went on. Still nothing. "Khe!" He broke the name in half, not risking more than a syllable as the creature began to lean forward. "Zu- AAAH!" He cried as the creature let out its roar once more.
"I swear if i hear it scream one more time," Bakugo snarled
"You'll what? Rant and yell?" Tsuyu suggested flatly.
"Shut it you wart faced Fuck," Bakugo snarled.
"All of you shut it before you serve detention once we get back," Aizawathreatened, getting all the bickering to stop. A few other students snickered at the two which earned them a glare from the ashen blonde boy.
"Daaaaah!" Rage cried out, before a test screen was shown, returning to the hunt to show Aylia standing next to the beast, which was horribly battle damaged, lying dead on the ground beside her. "Meet the Khezu. Meet the FUCKING Khezu!" Rage snapped, before regaining his composure. "And, I guess his cousin, Gigginox, but we'll get to him later." He explained as the image of a strange quadrupedal, gecko-like dragon made its way across the screen.
"Not gonna lie, they both look creepy as hell," Sato shivered, feeling a bit of dread at the sight of the monster.
"Gigginox looks a bit cooler though," Tooru admitted.
"This is suppose to be my monster?" Mina asked, frowning in disappointment and sadness. She felt that a monster that would represent her would have been a bit cooler.
A deer-like creature was then seen walking out of the bright light and into a dark cave, where it began drinking from a source of water in the cave. "For now, it's time to talk the rubbery screamer!" Rage declared, before everything went black for a moment. "Which, incidentally, I'm thinking is also a fantastic villain name." He quickly threw into the conversation.
"If that is a villain then what would they be?" Izuku wondered, scratching his head in confusion.
"Well with a name like that, the villain is either made of rubber and screams or has a screaming quirk and wears rubber," Momo theorized, tapping her chin lightly.
"What about made of rubber but it affects his screaming?" Tenya said, raising a good point with the other two nodding.
"You nerds seriously need to talk about this now?" Bakugo grumbled, getting annoyed from their constant talking.
It then returned to the scene with the deer creature in the cave. "Khezu then, is the shadow in the mountain, the Charging Wyvern. He is... Well, divisive, I would say. Some appreciate him for the ghostly specter creeping along walls, slowly but surely approaching, before..." Rage explained slowly and ominously as a strange mass was shown on the ceiling, flesh and veins moving beneath transparent skin, which was then revealed to be Khezu as it leaned back and hung on the ceiling, its neck slowly elongating at a snails pace as it silently closed in on the Khezu, being only mere feet away, before shooting forward and grabbing it.
"Aaah! Who would've thought drinking creepy cave water would lead to this!?" Rage cried out as the camera zoomed in on the Kelbi, as if the host was speaking the animals thoughts as, through a series of muscle spasms, it was pulled deeper and deeper into the Khezu's throat and to its stomach.
"He kinda deserved that," Denki hesitated while watching the deer get eaten
"What the hell?" Sato asked, looking at his classmate weirdly.
"Hey, that thing went into a dark cave. You never do that for anything alone," Denki replied hastily while pointing at the screen, "That crap only happens in horror movies."
"But then other people kind of see him and have a sort of- 'really? What is-what?!'" Rage laughed as if the people in question were clearly mocking the intimidating creature on screen. "So, I think we should start by getting this out the way. Many people believe that Khezu is, of coursed, related to a-" He began, before a sudden beep was heard as if to censor what he just said. "What? No. No! What? No, I'm saying a-" He tried again, but was beeped once again. "A... Who- what?! No, it's not like that! I'm saying a giant, long-" He attempted once more, only for the same result as before to repeat. "Oh, my god! Who is- stop! Stop doing that!" Rage insisted.
A man with a pink pompadour and a scar over his left eye was shown laughing, wearing some strange lobster-like armor. "I'll stop! I'll stop!" He laughed.
Everyone started to laugh at the interruption.
"Don't know who that is but that was genius," Sero laughed, finding it amusing
"That's just Cotton," Trepp said as if talking about the weather.
"What kind of a name is Cotton?" Kirishima asked, wanting to know if they'll see more of him.
"It's what he goes by and mostly helps hunt monsters when he's needed," Trepp explained, "His main thing is helping Aelya there and just getting into crazy shenanigans from getting in monster's faces as they roar to being confused by whatever they hunt. Though he does have fun and it makes me laugh a good bit."
"Wish we could see them," Sato admitted with a hearty laugh.
"Not in this realm," Trepp muttered quietly.
"No respect. I- just no respect." Rage complained, then sighed. "A lot of people think that Khezu is a distant relatively of a leech and its a fairly valid comparison. In fact, there is also a school of people that believe it is the evolutionary cousin of a ghost slug." He explained as the image of a long, almost pure white slug was shown as a choir creepily sang its name. "Which is a white- okay, check... blind- okay, check... lives underground- check, is carnivorous- check. But, it has no relation to the slug, so that's a no." He elaborated. "It's more than likely got lamprey roots. I mean, look at the mouth of a lamprey, it suckers onto you with those circular jaws and then just slowly scrapes away at your blood. Ugh!" Rage explained with a shudder as a worm-like creature indeed with a circular mouth filled with numerous curved, spiked teeth and a small hole for a mouth with even a tongue that looked like a cutting tooth.
Koda screamed, trying to hide from the slug. This had the effect of everyone, including Trepp, to at the boy with concern as the being asked, "Is he okay?"
"He's a bit shy," Jiro answered, making their host nod understandingly.
"Remind me to never go where those things are," Mineta shuddered, imagining them taking off his head because of his size.
"Pussy," Bakugo stated, enjoying the pervert fearing something. Anything that makes the pervert's day worse was a good thing to him.
"Still wouldn't want any of those slugs biting me," Shoto admitted, wondering what would be worse, his father's training or those things.
A Khezu was then shown on the ceiling of a cave, its neck stretching down, mouth wide open and resembling the lamprey as it snatched up an electrocuted Aylia in its jaws, whipping her around violently, although with strangely romantic music playing briefly. It then stopped with a snap and Aylia was being pulled into its mouth like the Kelbi was, only her legs free. "So what makes this haunter of dreams... well, exactly that? They are wholly unique: little, chubby balls of blubber, coated in a thick layer of fat that insulates them in the stark colds of the caverns and underground passageways they call home. Nestled in rock crevices, they spend their days crawling along ever so quietly on softly quietly on ceilings and walls, looking for that next victim." Rage explained as Aylia was following an oblivious Khezu around as it was completely unaware of her, simply sniffing out its surroundings.
"So Izuku couldn't hurt it?" Uraraka inquired curiously.
"It's still possible though you need to hit him to see," Tenya admitted, trying to rationalize everything.
"And even if he can't hurt it, I'm sure one of us could," Kirishima said, his arms hardening and everyone agreeing.
"Completely blind, they see the world through an impeccable combination of smell and hearing. Constantly sniffing to see who might be unfortunate enough to be nearby. If you ever think you're alone and hear..." Rage explained the creatures more complex features, stopping to let them hear the beast's sniffing sound, accompanied by soft, but eerie and dreadful music. "Ever faintly on the breeze... Run." He declared with no room for argument as Aylia was shown diving away from the creature as it planted its tail onto the ground and let out a powerful discharge of electricity in a moderate radius around itself.
"So be quiet and don't fart, got it," Denki chuckled as a few others laughed a bit.
"Gross," most of the girls cried as they all wrinkled their noses in disgust.
"But we did learn one thing," Mina said, gaining everyone's attention.
"What?" Shoto asked the question everyone wanted to know.
"Not to have Bakugo sneak up on it," Mina answered, making everyone slowly process what she said before laughing out loud.
"Fuck you!" Bakugo yelled and looked ready to throttle someone Homer Simpson style.
"When the Khezu is excited, when the kill is near, it salivates. Saliva pouring from its grizzly maw, each drip drop acidic, melting away at very stone, disabling anything unfortunate to be caught in a lethal shower." Rage warned as a Khezu hung by its tail from the roof of the cave, its mouth wide open and saliva dripping from its mouth as he said, indeed melting away at the ground below it, letting out a burning hiss as steam rose up from the spots they hit. The creature then dropped down and let out its signature roar, but fortunately this time was silent. "It's head, more so a neck with a mouth at the end of it, filled with rows upon rows of teeth and one slather-y tongue." He finished noting the physical characteristics of the creature, before they were suddenly shown an image of a girl hugging a Khezu tightly as it practically had its mouth around her head, its tongue licking her cheek, romantic music playing.
"What?" Rage asked as if he hadn't shown the group a piece of absolute heresy.
"Okay, I can see what you meant by being close to me," Mina admitted as she was warming up to it a tiny bit.
"Told you, plus it does have a unique appearance like yourself," Trepp complimented and getting a smile in return.
"It can whip out, extending and grabbing, in an instant, a would-be passerby and then they are dragged screaming ever so slowly, tortuously down the gullet of this creature, until they are to be digested alive in a fleshy tomb. And if this so far wasn't enough, the Khezu is electrical. Huge thunder sacs producing incredible amounts of voltage, so much so that it crackles through his skin and out into the atmosphere, arcing to nearby aggressors. He can also condense it and fire it in ball lightning form, both along the ground or through the air, from above." Rage declared as the very moves he described where shown as the blind beast attempted to fry Aylia with electricity.
"And it has a stretchy neck, great," Sato moaned in despair, "It has a few ways to attack us from a rage."
Mineta opened his mouth to say something.
"You say anything related to a certain part of the male body and I'll make sure yours gets broken," Bakugo promised evilly without turning to look at his short classmate.
Mineta closed his mouth and whistled innocently as sweat poured down his face.
Another female hunter was seen digging through the ice, apparently searching for or trying to gather something, as a Khezu could be seen sneaking around her. "In fact, the Khezu is such an expert in cave combat, in silent assassination, that within its dark home, it holds great advantage. Outside, where it can and does roam, looking for easy meals, it is an easy meal itself. Nargacuga or Tigrex would take it down quickly and without issue, yet should they wander into a cavern, it is more than likely they would become the hunted." Rage declared as the girl looked around for what stalked her as the Khezu was on the ceiling behind her. Images of Nargacuga and Tigrex were shown as they were mentioned as well, before everything returned to Aylia battling the beast.
"Reminds me of those old slasher movies where they sneak up on you," Shoji said as he remembered a few he saw.
"Just makes it creepier," Aoyoma shivered in disgust.
"Not a very capable flyer, but capable of flying, he can just about get himself up and in the air for a hasty escape, though he much prefers to stay groundward bound. His tail then, a short, stubby, yet strangely hardened part of his body, the normal stretchy flesh there, rigid towards the tip, but it can expand outwards, acting as a living suction cup, allowing the Khezu to dangle, bat-like from ceilings, or similarly anchor himself to the floor during his most violent outbursts of charge. It also doubles up as a handy dandy grounding tool. The Khezu's feet, then, no claws to be found, but much akin to that of geckos," Rage explained as a gecko's feet were indeed shown, "it's what allows them to grip to any given surface, the tips of their wings featuring the same." He explained as the beast escaped Aylia by crawling along the ceiling through a hole in the cave wall.
"But, it does not stop their. The Khezu's skin, with its pearly-white luster, is transparent, allowing one to see the throbbing mass within, in some horrific visage." Rage informed as, like shown before, the Khezu's innards could be seen moving underneath its skin, the sound of a heartbeat beating heavily. "He is very prone to scarring, the tissue so easily damaged. The Khezu will keep its skin moistened, the water, acting much akin to a frog, allowing it to both breathe and drink through its very pores. And, you know, prevent it from becoming a dried out husk. In fact, Khezu is very amphibian-like. He has spring, frog-like legs, allowing him to launch himself through the air and come crackling down with force, crushing rock and hunter underneath, or even spring straight skywards and end up attached, upside down, above the would-be aggressor." Their host declared.
"Hearing that almost makes me feel sorry for it," Sero hesitantly admitted as if unsure of what to feel.
"Really? You feel sorry for that squishy monstrosity," Denki replied, thinking the monster doesn't deserve any of his sympathy.
"I said almost not entirely," Sero huffed while holding his arms up in surrender.
"Still to hear it's somewhat a frog is interesting," Tsuyu admitted when she saw and heard that fact.
"But, by far, the most disturbing aspect of a Khezu is its reproductive cycle. There is no male Khezu, there is no female, there is just Khezu. And each one of them is capable of paralyzing a victim, injecting their eggs inside and then leaving. Soon after, they will wake up and..." Rage began to explain, before realizing something. "Oh, my god, they're fucking Alien!" He declared, before the image of a strange, worm-like creature with Khezu's face over it was shown having just burst from a woman's body as she cried out in horror.
"That's it, knew it reminded me of something," Kirishima yelled excitedly.
"Now that he says it, I can see a few similarities," Mineta admitted imagining this monster in the movies thosestionable appearance between the two.
"They even have acidic saliva! It really is just an amalgamation creature! Or, a walking penis, if you're gonna be like that. And I know some of you are gonna be like that." Rage said, a bit disappointed. "And as an extra little tidbit, this is the same method the tarantula hawk wasp uses. It finds, well, a tarantula, paralyzes it after one hell of a fight and lays its eggs inside. They will then hatch into larvae and simply eat, burrow their way through the tarantula." He explained as the battle between the spider and the wasp was then show, the spider clearly the loser, the wasp climbing on and injecting her babies.
"And that cements it, I can see why it's yours," Ochako cheered for her classmate.
"Guess it really is, wish it was better looking though," Mina grumbled, slowly warming up to it.
"So, that's your basic Khezu. There's also a Red Khezu that's a bit better with electricity, a bit faster and stronger, but that's about it. It's red now." Rage explained, sounding like he was just done with Khezu.
A clip from a movie was shown where a man was buying something at a convenient store. "You got red on you." The cashier declared as a Red Khezu's face was put over the man's face.
"Well that's a let down," Ojiro said with a disappointed look.
"Still the red's not bad on it. Does at least make it seem somewhat normal," Shoto
"It is a fairly unique fight, or was at least, until his friend came along." Rage set up the introduction for the next monster.
"So, moving on, then, to the Gigginox. A white... blind... cave-dwelling Wyvern..." Rage explained as a monster that appeared to be a flatter, quadrupedal version of Khezu with a head similar to its tail was shown crawling along a wall, before dropping down.
"It doesn't look that much better," Aizawa grumbled, not that disturbed by the monster.
"Still wouldn't want that thing to bite me," Koda whimpered, flinching at the pain they could cause him.
"It's, essentially for many people, a better Khezu. It was discovered a few generations after by the Third Fleet and share the same general structure and frame as Tigrex and Nargacuga... and... Barioth, I guess..." Rage elaborated, although sounded a bit hesitant as he had to explain the last monster, while another hunter was seen running into the cave to fight the Gigginox.
"I'm liking those names already," Jiro said, replaying a few in her head.
"They do sound intimidating and fierce alone," Tokoyami chimed in, thinking those names were pretty dark.
"And you'll love it when you see them, I can promise that much," Trepp said cryptically, making the others wonder when they'll see it.
"In the general sense, it is lithe to Khezu's bulk, flat instead of round, no layers of blubber, no see-through skin, no moistened body. It presses itself against any given surface, still blending in, waiting for the right moment to strike. It is agile where Khezu is slow and deliberate, it is fast where Khezu is lumbering, outside of the frog-like jumps which are relatively quick, but Gigginox is gonna be there doing flips and just being a generally bigger nuisance, one moment you're looking at it, the next its behind you. You kind of have a yin-yang situation, but it does, of course, go deeper." He listed the basic differences between the two cave creatures as the creature moved around the hunter quickly and with ease as the hunter struggled to keep facing it.
"That is an interesting concept, the two are similar in some ways yet complete opposites," Aizawa commented with Allmight nodding.
"Watching this thing move around makes me glad we don't have to fight it," Koda shuddered in fear.
"For example, instead of gecko feet, it is more akin to a spider, with thick, bristly hairs that anchor it into surfaces, giving it its full spectrum of movement. Its body, then, deliberately fashioned so that one can tell not whether its head or tail currently faces you, near identical at both ends. This causes monsters to react fearfully. A previously bold attempt on a Gigginox's life ends in fleeing as the would-be attacker thinks there are two instead of one. Defensively, it works quite nicely, too, because if something lunges and grabs you by what it thinks is the head, but is actually your tail, suddenly you have room to, well, try and survive." Rage continued on the creatures physical characteristics as the hunter was indeed struggling to discern which end of the creature was the head or tail.
"So that's how it climbs," Ojiro said, getting an idea or two he might try out.
"That seems a bit confusing and tricky on his part. Though that' a good advantage since you could be attacking the wrong end without even knowing," Izuku mumbled as he tried to think of how to combine this with some of his hero analysis.
"Stop the muttering before I come over there and make you," Bakugo yelled and stood up menacingly.
"It has these lovely purple markings that glow eerily in the gloom, a purple light spelling your doom. Its body, then, distinctly two colors: the underside red in stark contrast to the pale white above. Gigginox is a quirky little creature. The tail, then, hides a much deadlier secret. It can lay a little sac of poison, purple and pulsating that will pop with powerful potency, perforating people that potentially pose a problem. And they will melt as the toxin overcomes them. It really is a potent venom, a step above what you'd find in creatures such as a Rathian." Rage explained as the Gigginox indeed left behind a deep purple sac on the ground that released dark purple mist that was clearly harmful to the hunter.
"Not only do those hunters have to watch this thing, but they gotta be careful of traps," Tokoyami warned as it sounded good to pay attention.
"What does a rathian have to do with this?" Izuku asked, looking up from his notebook and pausing to write.
"Let's just say Fire, poison and blackflips are annoying and leave it at that," Trepp answered
"Hopefully whatever does that can fight a villain," Kirishima prayed with everyone else agreeing.
"But there is a second option, for the Gigginox can lay a different type of sac, this one the more traditional egg variety. One this, ugh! Has been completed, you now have a little spawner of death, in that it spawns little bringers of death: The giggis! The juvenile form of the Gigginox and the most adorable little creepy-crawlies that are gonna SUCK OUT YOUR HEART!" He continued as the Gigginox yet again laid another sac, but this one paler and with small pulsing pockets, that opened up to reveal tiny creatures that looked like a mix between worms and the Gigginox itself.
"It's like a worse Mineta," the girls said at once.
"I'm not sure how to take that to be honest," Mineta grumbled
"They are quite amusing. They flail around, flop, leap at you, attach and suck your blood, filling up like a balloon as you watch." Rage elaborated as it suddenly showed a cartoon with a character repeating "giggidy!" over and over, incredibly fast while doing man random and rather inappropriate things.
"What was that?" Tenya asked, feeling confused.
"A character from a show called family guy," Trepp answered, not giving the sex fiend any attention.
"That sounds nice, but why does he do that?" Uraraka inquired, thinking it sounded like a fun family friendly show.
"The show is good, but Quagmire isn't someone I'd leave alone with the adult female heroes. He tends to charm the women for a night at his house if you know what I mean," Trepp answered, watching most of his guest's nose wrinkle in disgust as a pair of students wanting to meet him.
Rage laughed at this. "But is that not a brilliant aspect of a monster? It will quite literally spawn a swarm of young to try and suck you dry. It's something that really, you don't ever quite forget. Especially the first time. You're like 'What the fuck is it doing? What the hell is that?! Wait, is that- is something coming out of the- aah!' And it just springs at your face. It's just bloody awful and wonderful at the same time." He declared.
"Good god, it can create an army," Toru realized and started to flail her arms, or sleeves, in panic.
"Though those smaller ones seem like more of an annoyance than a threat," Tenya summarized with a thoughtful gaze directed at the screen.
"That doesn't mean they should be taken lightly. If anything the swarm could be used strategically to confuse and distract anyone," Allmight explained, getting his students to mull over his words.
"It's able, then, to shoot out poison in various forms and balls to clouds and look, you spend A LOT of time poisoned, fighting the Gigginox, like A LOT of time, like an irritating amount of times, it ruins hunters. Like, the amount of hunters that have to go to AA meetings, Antidotes Anonymous, it becomes a lifeline to them. Support your local Gigginox-killing foundation today." Rage alerted them to the issue of Gigginox poisoning as, like always, the Gigginox was shown firing out poison in many different forms against the hunter facing it, although he seemed to do a good job of staying out of the poison clouds.
"Cause of course it needs poison," Momo groaned, finding these monsters crazy.
"Feels like a bit overkill at this point," Jiro sighed, feeling she would lose to it in a one on one fight.
"It just means that Gigginox isn't straight forward as one would think. You would need to watch out and plan accordingly," Aizawa lectured and giving his students a sideways glance.
"This, then, is the Creeping Venom Wyvern, its a very apt name. When he enrages, his white turns dark, almost black, giving him this BEAUTIFUL color scheme, changing his entire hit zones. You have to respond on the fly and generally, he's a much higher tempo fight, an intense back and forth, ballet-like dance as opposed to Khezu's slow, deliberate, almost turn-based battle." Rage finished as the fight slowly faded to black.
"So with that, we can close this little chapter. Your thoughts on the cave monsters?" Trepp asked while looking at his assorted guests.
"It was frightening," Koda shivered.
"I apologize for showing you that. I didn't know you'd find a slug like that scary," Trepp replied, getting a scream in return.
"To be honest it was a bit gross, but I Liked it," Mina admitted with a bright smile on her face.
"Hopefully we won't see anything that scary again," Denki prayed with Jiro looking at her dork of a friend weirdly.
"I can't promise that but the next one is gonna be for your classmate Yuga Aoyoma," Trepp announced, getting a few surprised looks and one silent cursing.
"Really Monsieur Trepp?" Aoyoma inquired with his eyes sparkling.
"Really really. Now what I'll show all of you one of the more interesting monsters. The monster that uses laser beams like it's going out of style, the Agnaktor," Trepp explained while getting ready to show them.
~~~~~~Line Break Line Break Line Break`~~~~~~~~~~~~
I apologize at this taking so long, my job and life stopping me. The next chapter will take awhile as I'll be writing it up myself.
So Khezu and Gigginox are done. As you saw above I'm not writing The Pro and Noob series for obvious reasons, see Katana's reason if you want and personally I'd rather do a Million Dollars But story than Pro and Noob.
I just want to thank Katana once again for providing the transcripts and looking it over.