Chapter 2 of Act 0
"Hi, baby bro."
Said a young woman with a small smile, long dark blue hair and green eyes on a less tanned skin, large beetle mandibles coming from the cheeks, and horn of darker tones than Orion and Alister's. Wolf ears replacing human ones, and a long tail slowly wagging. Vivian Cosmoul, older sister of Alister and the twins. One of the middle siblings, being 21 years old. A young man and an armored one stood next to her, the one with a lighter armor said.
"Hey, little brother, I see dad got you the gift, congrats. Happy Birthday! "
The teen then stared at the light armored man that greeted him: A bright green armor with red trimss; with a greatsword strapped on the man's back; mid lenght, blue hair hair reaching to the chin, an ivory skin with outstanding pure white eyes, which are all usually hidden by a helmet with similar coloring of the armor that he held in his hand. Isaac Cosmoul is the 2nd oldest son of the family, his beetle mandibles missing, since in their place are scars showing they were ripped off, a broken horn and a wolf ears with missing fragments; beetle wings closed on top of his chestplate. Being 25 years old, a graduated huntsman from Beacon Academy, he always cared about his family. Alister then looked at the bulkier armored man, whose mandibles he recognized, which had hooks. The teen said, excited.
"Vivian, Isaac, Prayetor!" He ran to hug the three young adults. Prayetor, with his deep yet raspy voice replied.
"It's good to see you, Alister. Happy birthday." The tall armored man hugged his little brother, who barely reached the man's chest. Orion being the tallest of the family, 2,94 meters tall, while Prayetor is 2,37 meters tall. The hybrid brithday boy responded, with a lot of joy.
"Thank you so much, I'm so happy you came! But, don't you have to do jobs as Huntsmen?" He asked, wondering if it was right for his older siblings to not be on the watch for Grimm or any mission. Vivian answered, confident.
"Don't worry! We got this day off just in time so we could all see you!" As she hugged her younger brother. Prayetor then said.
"You've grown a lot, brother. By the way, have you improved your Blast Punch, yet?" He asked to Alister, who said as answers.
"Not really, my right hand has been aching lately, and I'm still practicing with my left hand." The armored sibling nodded.
"I see, don't worry. One day you'll master it, I know well you will."
Prayetor Cosmoul, 37 years old. Experienced Atlesian Army Huntsman, a cracked horn with no beetle mandibles and huge beetle wings, which have their own armor parts. The armored young man gave Alister a few headpats, hearning some happy mandible clicks from the teen. Orion spoke as he approached his children.
"Alister, I asume you want to go spend time with your brothers and your sister after a long time." The hybrid teen nodded, responding:
"Please, I really want to show them my weapon!" As he held the Axe-Shotgun weapon, then Orion gave the teen a few boxes of shotgun shells, telling him.
"Don't forget the ammo, son!" As the teen grinned and grabbed the boxes and shells, loading the weapon to its full capacity, transforming the axe into a lever-action shotgun with the head of the axe directed in a vertical way, one side of the head at the top, the other at the bottom. Isaac then said:
"Woah, old man, this one's crazier than ours, not even Vivian got a transforming one like that." Although he knew that Alister wouldn't be careless when it came to weapons. But Isaac was always very attached to the Therian-Arthropod young hybrid. Prayetor, in reassuring tone said.
"Alister already handled shotguns, before, he always wanted a lever-action one. About axes, dad trained him well, I think this is a great combination and I trust that he will be a great fighter with his weapon." As he stared at the teen who was had one of his ears down. Around the group, some people were speaking about the three hunters with their father and younger brother.
"I can't believe it, it's Vivian Cosmoul!"
"Isaac Cosmoul? Qrow's apprentice!"
"Prayetor the Slayer, he's so tall."
"That boy is brother of those three? Orion surely didn't lose time."
"Holy shit, Vivian is here!"
Orion looked around, noticing some local fans of Vivian; Isaac and Prayetor. He sighed and said, clicking uncomfortable his mandibles.
"Alister, spend time with your brothers and sister. I will go back home and help your mother prepare the lunch. Have fun and take care." He hugged his young middle son then walked away as he said to the older siblings. "Take care of him, don't get too away from the village, there has been a rise of Grimm activity, lately."
The three nodded as they signaled Alister to go with them, who put the shotgun on his back, as he caught up to them. A wide smile on his face as he walked alongside his eldest siblings. 'This will be the best birthday ever.'
Slimes, transparent blobs made of gel, a flammable substance, usually not bigger than a hunting dog or a child of around 9 years old, at mos in total size, with their globe-like bodies, They usually are passive, sometimes they fight back when attacked. Alister stared at a green slime, remembering when he hunted slimes before with a crossbow. Andre back then ate a chunk of gel from a blue slime, he said it tasted like jelly but less sweet, Zen tried to make him throw up to not digest the gel, thinking it was toxic. The teen chuckled at that memory, as he patted a green slime that was laying in a rock. Vivian then said, as she crossed her arms.
"They are very adorable when they don't try to ram you ¿Right?"
"Yeah, I can't help but feel bad that I used to hunt them."
"Alister, don't feel bad for them. They literally don't know when to stop reproducing..."
"Oh...Wait, really?"
Isaac laughed as he stomped on a blue slime and responded to Alister's question.
"They keep duplicating non-stop until night comes. Since they don't exactly need mates, they just make their kids out of their own mass."
"Ugh..."
The teen cringed as Vivian and Isaac laughed, Prayetor looked around, making sure there are no aggresive animals or creatures of Grimm around. The Creatures of Grimm or Grimm to make it short, are creatures made of a black dust, often with boney armor on their bodies, glowing yellow eyes. They also can leave behind corrupted remains that can be purified. Isaac asked, sitting on a fallen tree log.
"Hey Alis, remember when we used to train?"
"Yeah, I remember."
In 1025, at that same place, were sparring Isaac and Alister, the huntsman being 20, recently graduated, while the boy was 12. Both were fighting without weapons, since the younger hybrid didn't have any, yet. The older brother was blocking the younger's punches and kicks, barely counter attacking. Alister threw jabs, hooks, knees and elbows, both all were either blocked or parried by the graduated hunter. Isaac taunted him, playfully.
"Come on, sluggy pup, you gotta get faster. Are you a fighter or a plush toy?"
"I'm a fighter!"
Alister landed a quick knuckle blow on Isaac's cheek, then blocked the bigger hybrid's palm strike, who was holding back to not hurt too much his little brother, since the boy was barely becoming a teen, his body was just starting to develop to its prime. Alister threw a spin kick, hitting Isaac's belly right side of the abdomen, then hit him with a left hook in the left ribs.
"Keep going, bro!"
The pre-teen hybrid keeps throwing blows at his older brother. Isaac kept parrying and blocking, a rare jab or kick here and there. The young boy got dragged by the force of a kick he blocked, which knocked him a meter and half away. With a dash, Isaac tried to stomp kicko on Alister, the younger one rolled out of the way, as the big brother created a small mark on the dirt ground, making a faint dirty dust cloud.
"Not bad!"
The pre-teen kicked the man's left knee before he could look at him, as he started throwing jabs and hooks at Isaac's face, whose face was getting faint bruises.A punch in the nose made the man react to kick the kid in the chest, knocking him into a tree, the log getting cracked from where the young boy hit. Alister growled as he sprinted towards his older brother, ramming the graduated hunter with his shoulder, in the belly. Isaac grunted, then grabbed his younger brother, throwing him away behind him.
"Alright, that's enough, brother. You did well"
"That was actually fun."
The two siblings sat in the middle of the clearing, panting slower as they rested, the hybrid huntsman drank water from a canister, after few gulps, he passed the recipient to the younger hybrid, who replenished and stopped after the same amount of gulps. Isaac spoke, ruffling his little brother's hair.
"You're quite the Wolf, Alis. You'll soon get some muscle on yourself, and with a fitting buster, you'll soon be able ravage Grimm."
"You think so?"
"Yeh. You remind me of myself when I was like you, a little buglin."
"Psh, I'm not a buglin"
"No, you're an overgrown larvae."
"Hey!"
"Ha ha ha! Hey, you still have to get strong, and stronger, but remember that you also need to use your brain, then your heart. Fight with the head, then fight with the heart, sounds simple, but doesn't mean literally ripping of your head and heart, then start smashing them on the Grimm or whatever idiots you might fight. You need both to even be alive."
The two laughed a little, getting up as they shook the dust off their bodies. After making sure they were well rested, the two hybrid brothers headed back home. Isaac then turned to Alister, saying as he smirked.
"Watch this."
The young man then extended two big beetle wings from his back, the two wings were closed, looking like some sort of long backpack. The graduated huntsman starting flapping his wings as they made a loud buzzing noise, although the kid wasn't bothered by the noise due to being so impressed by seeing his big brother start flying. Isaac started doing some acrobacies among the trees as Alister watched, amazed by the sight of the flying huntsman.
"Wooh! Hoo-Hoo-Hoo!"
The swordsman made a spin maneuver, as he flew high above the woods.
"Feast your eyes with this, brother!"
The kid simply watched in awe, unaware of a dark, furry biped figure approaching him. Isaac looked down, shocked yet wuickly reacting and heading down upon noticing the monster approaching his little brother. Alister's wolf ears twitched, as he heard steps behind him, he then turned and saw the beast in front of his eyes.
A Beowolf, biped creature of Grimm, with humanoid physical structure, yet canine legs and face, white boney armor covering most of its body and face of black fur, an additional mouth on its belly as it had a yellow light coming out of it, as well as it's feral yellow eyes.
The monster was about to feast on the hybrid's face, which didn't happen thanks to Isaac stomping on its skull. Alister reacted as he fell on his butt, staring at the headless monster that got up, even without a head. Isaac unsheated his greatsword, grabbing Alister by the shirt and launching him on a big tree branch, to safety. The boy yelled, annoyed, yet still scared.
"W-Warn me next time, you scared me!"
"Stay there, lil'bro, and watch how big bro gives these monsters what they deserve!"
From behind the headless beowolf, five other ones arrived, slighlty less armored and smaller. 'The headless one is an Alpha' Isaac thought as he got on guard. He stabbed his greatsword into the ground near a few rocks, keeping his eyes on the pack as he kept his posture. 'Stay calm. Wait for the moment.' The Alpha hissed at the other wolves, as they all seemed to be hissing at each other.
Alister watched scared from the tree branch, holding himself onto it tightly. The graduated huntsman's ears twitched as three of the wolves charged at him, he kicked hard the flat end of his blade, slinging the rocks from the ground at the beowolf of the middle, while the other two run to the man's sides to flank him. The rocks hit the monster of the middle and stun it.
Isaac dashed forward, between the two wolves flanking him, they chased after him as he rammed, and impaled the middle beowolf, which let out a pain-filled howl. As the two other wolves that charged were approaching him, while the Alpha and remaining two circled him, the young huntsman swung his greatsword in a desperate attempt, as the dead monster slid off the blade, being flunged at the two charging monsters.
The dead beowolf hit the wolf of the right, as both exploded from the impact into a black curtain of smoke and dust, the graduated huntsman quickly performed a swing to block the third beowolf's path, as it almost dislocated its jaw from trying to bite onto the wide blade which also cut into the wolf's mouth. Isaac took the chance to kick the beast in the chest, the monster lets out a pain howl as its sent knocked away.
Hearing the other two minor wolves charge at him as the Alpha stood back, the young man ran at the third beowolf, the one he just kicked, holding out his greatsword while he was being chased by the snarling monsters, Alister watched impressed, mandibles spread wide as his mouth as open wide in aew, too. Isaac slashed at the stunned wolf, slicing it in half, as the tree started faling in the direction of the charging wolves, Isaac kicked it, making it spin in a diagonal direction as it hit one of the charging monsters and it almost crushed the Alpha, which dodged it in time as the tree rolled on the ground.
The remaining minor beowolf jumped to pounce on Isaac, who grabbed the beast by the head and flung it at the great sword that was stabbed into the dirt again. The beast's snout got sliced in half by the dug blade, and Isaac kicked the monster further against the sword as the wolf's whole skull was chopped in half. Then he turned to the Alpha, who was creeping towards him, he glared at the beast while he held the hilt of his weapon.
The Alpha beowolf growled as it circled the man, its glowing eyes staring into his soul. The leader of the slain minor wolves stood on its hind legs and hissed, spikes growing out of the cracks of their bone armor, its head finally regrown, then dashed at the great swordsman.
Isaac performed a rising slash, knocking the beast away as it spun in the air and crashed on a rock, destroying it. The monster quickly got up and started running towards him, throwing a right claw hook, Isaac blocked it with his blade, but he was scratched by the Alpha's left claws as he cut its left eye, making it let out a shriek. The Alpha shot spikes at him, which got blocked by the wide blade. The young man threw a right to left horizontal slash, which the major monster dodged by jumping over, also spinning as it clashed against his chest.
"Ah!"
Isaac dodged another set of claw attacks, counter-attacking with his heavy swings which made the beast retreat but return with an elbow ram, stabbing more spike into the graduated huntsman, but it was surprised by a knee strike, followed by the blade cutting the Alpha's lower jaw off. Isaac impaled the beast with his great sword, but it survived the blow. Chuckling, he said as he held the monster impaled by his blade.
"Not surprising, coming from an Alpha. You guys still are a pain in the ass to me."
Alister smiled as he watched his brother be victorious, but he noticed a tall fat figure with glowing orange eyes approaching from behind his big brother. He yelled, distressed and scared for his brother.
"Big bro! A monster is coming from behind you!"
Isaac turned his head as he saw a bear-like Grimm beast emerge from the woods. The Ursa, usually are about to evolve to a Major when roaming alone, but this one had only its boney mask. The huntsman swings his greatsword, as the Alpha Beowolf slides off the blade and knocks the Ursa against a tree, both creature are left groggy, as the hybrid rushed towards the Alpha and slashed at their right leg, cutting it off as the monster growled and tried to claw him with their jaw half regenerated.
"Perish!"
The Alpha let out a roar as its head was sliced off head, then their body was chopped piece by piece, until Isaac finally cut in half a black heart with orange veins, which let out a black goo come out. The Ursa let out an angry roar as it was about to bite onto Isaac, but a familiar blade that looked like made out of bones stabbed into their skull, as Vivian was standing on its shoulders now, she started twisitng the nailed blade as the Ursa started tumbling against other trees, trying to pry off the huntress in training.
"Vivian!"
Alister yelled in joy as he looked at the girl that was on top of the bear-like creature, now stabbing thier back with her said as she pulled her ninja sword off the monster's skull.
"Stay there, Alis, big sis came to help!"
Isaac panted as he watched, happy to see his sister. He dashed forward, running towards the Ursa as it was still struggling with the female beetle-wolf girl. The new hunter warned his sister.
"Get off it, sis, I'll go through this one!"
Vivian jumped off the Ursa, right on the branch where Alister was, as both younger siblings hugged together. Meanwhile, Isaac impaled the Ursa with his greatsword and started raising it, slowly cutting through the monster as he channeled Aura into his blade and it was flaming. The bear monster was stunned by the Aura and Dust powered attack as it was getting sliced from its guts to above their skull. Isaac cooled off his blade as he put it back on his back, while Vivian and Alister finished climbing down the tree.
"Well, that was quite a show. Can't lie, to be my first fight as a huntsman, I sucked, gotta improve soon." Said Isaac.
"What are you talking about, Isaac? You were awesome!" Responded Alister, shocked by his big brother's words.
"I know, lil'bro, but you'll understand in some time, that this is nothing compared to what actual huntsman have done over history. It's my duty to keep becoming stronger, wiser, and to find out new ways to apply my skills."
Alister said, with a smile as he was loading the shells into his shotgun axe.
"Heh, I bet you got better since that time."
"Hopefully I won't have to do all the work, like that day." Isaac said.
"I'm not that kid you threw on a tree branch anymore. Isaac, you know that." As the young hybrid said that in a cocky, the 2nd oldest looked away with a hint of sadness in his smile.
"Yeah, you've grown so much. It's very cool that you will soon be in Beacon, or maybe you'll join Arthas Military Academy."
"Wherever I go of either places, I'll do my best, although I'd like to to Atlas Academy like Prayetor did, better."
Prayetor spoke, with his voice that made the younger siblings feel safer despite it being actually menacing.
"You flatter me, brother. But I don't think it would be easy considering how far Atlas is from here. And you can't live with me since I have to constantly be aware of people attacking my home. Can't take such risk."
"Aww..." Alister's ears lowered, as his head was patted by the eldest brother. Prayetor then rubbed below Alister's left cheek, which made him smile and wag his tail.
"You still have that soft spot, heh. Listen Alister, no matter where you'll go, do your best and learn what you must, and much more."
"You kinda sound like dad. But less like a knight."
"You are right. I guess I'm very similar to him." Prayetor chuckled as he and Alister kept talking about Beacon, Arthas and Atlas academies.
Isaac then asked to Vivian.
"Hey sis, how's the thing with Kyosuke?"
"It's actually pretty good. Past week, he took me to Trolling Land, we did...quite a fair amount of tomfoolery."
"I imagine, ha ha! Does he treat you well?"
"He's such a gentleman." Vivian blushed a little as she was thinking of the times her boyfriend treated her so gentlemanly.
"I'd like to meet him, myself. We should invite him over to the village so he can meet Alister and the twins ¿What'cha think?"
The huntress crossed her arms as she thought about it, bobbing her wolf ears side to side and clicking her mandibles.
"Sounds good to me." She responded with a smile. Isaac smiled and said.
"Nice. Good thing Dad already accepted him into our family, heh. you know how the old man is very protective of us."
"Considering that he and mom had just the money to maintain the family and treat our health complications, like your weak tear glandules, or my poor sight that glasses didn't work with."
Suddenly, growling and roaring was heard as the four held their weapons and Prayetor slowly advanced to the direction where the noises came from. Alister made sure he was holding properly the axe in melee mode. His wolf ears twitched. Isaac gripped tightly the hilt of his great sword, and Vivian's green eyes glowed as she was focused.
Meanwhile Prayetor arrived and watched from the bushes a fight between a Treant Bear and an Ursa. Treant bears are a species of bear with matching fur of the trees of the environment they live in, not only that, but their skin is made of wood that is reinforced by their Aura, as well as they have twigs with leaves coming out of their body that they can use to cloak among the trees. When cloaking, they can grow tree tops to look like actual, short trees.. Their meat below their hard-wooden skin is known for being bittersweet, and very nutritive for most arthropod humans.
The treant bear landed a paw strike on the Ursa's chest, followed by a claw stab on the belly of the monster, the Ursa started kicking the Treant Bear as it struggled against the wooden animal. Prayetor quietly said.
"Huh, Treant Bears, not my favorite meat. Although mom does love them. Maybe..." He trailed off as he focused on the fight.
The Ursa managed to scratch badly on the Treant Bear's face, then stabbed their claws on the animal's ribs, piercing deeply through the reinforced wooden skin. The forest bear bit on the Ursa's neck as both creatures kept trading blows, ocasinally knocking each other into rocks or trees, not close to Prayetor as he was soon joined by his younger siblings. Alister watched the fight, impressed, yet he said quietly, with slight disgust.
"You don't plan me to hunt a Treant Bear. Right?"
"Not if the Ursa wins."
"Ugh..." Isaac laughed quietly.
"Oh come on, would be nice for mom, Treant Bear meat's her favorite."
"Yeah...maybe."
Vivian smiled as she kept watching along her brothers. She felt a bit bad the twins weren't here to witness this.
The Ursa smashed the Treant Bear's cracked face against a rock, getting countered by another paw blow that broke half of its snout. The grimm bear bit with their broken snout the paw of the wooden one as they started hitting each other with their shoulders or throwing headbutts. Alister said as he kept looking.
"It's kind of a shame I'll have to fight one of them in such a poor state."
Vivian replied to him.
"Don't worry, we wait for one of them to regenerate, both can do that when not fighting."
Isaac spoke next, talking to Prayetor.
"I thought only pack leaders could do that."
"No, all Grimm can regenerate. It's all about how fast to start healing, the speed of regeneration is the same, but some take more time to start regenerating. That's why we must destroy their hearts quickly."
"Holy shit. I forgot."
The Treant Bear started pressing their paws on the Ursa's skulls as the black furred bear scratched the wooden beast's torso wildly, the wood creature crushed the Grimm bear's head then started to rip open their chest to destroy their heart. The headless Ursa started cutting with its claws into the neck of the Treant Bear. Wood skin shards fell on the grass along a glowing yellow liquid, the Treant Bear's blood or sap, which starts bitting into the black heart of the Ursa.
As this was happening, the Treant Bear's body started regenerating very fast, since it was puriying the remains of the Ursa's corpse and healing it. Prayetor then nodded at Alister, who slowly got out of the bushes as he held tightly his shotgun axe. Finger close to the trigger, yet not touching it, to avoid firing accidentally. The Treant Bear kept feasting on the purified flesh of the Ursa.
'First time you will fight an animal, this won't be like training with the others.' The tanned boy thinks as he sneaks behind the wooden beast. He then slashes at the left knee, shooting at the right knee as the Treat Bear roars in pain and tries to smack him with its paw, but the teen dodged the blow and chambered the next round by spinning his axe, followed by a direct cut to the left eye of the creature, then a shot to the chest.
'Look around for any weak spot, a crack or something.' He looked at the body of the wooden animal as he dodged and rolled out of the way of the deadly limbs of it. Alister blocks a paw strike then slashes at the right arm of the Treant Bear, leaving a big gash on its elbow. After that, he rolls between the legs of the beast and climbs on its back, holding his axe tightly, he starts striking the head and nape of the bear, which stumbles and tries to shake him off. With a firm grip, he shoots and chambers the rounds of his shotgun axe, damaging further the head of the tree beast.
The treant bear grapples the leg of Alister and starts smashing him into the ground, then throws him into a rock as the stone cracks and breaks. Alister quickly gets up after rolling back, focused as he loads and chamber one round.
First shot, it hits the right feet of the bear.
Chambering round.
Second shot, the beast is closer now, its right knee is hit and starts bleeding as the wooden creature starts limping.
Chambering third shell.
Third shot, left knee of the Treat Bear is hit and broken, more sap flowing out as the monster is a very few meters away, Alister starts to walk away as he chambers the next round. The wooden animal tries to scratch him, but he steps away, barely grazed by the claws. He shoots the fourth round, which hits the forehead of the beast that is left stunned, he starts cutting with his axe the legs of the creature, firts the toes, afterwards the knees, the treant bear falls on its back as their legs bleed.
The hybrid teen then starts striking with his axe onto the weakened wooden animal, sap splashing all over him as he kills the beast with his sharp axe. Once the treant bear is limp and lifeless, Alister gets on his knees as he starts praying.
"May the light cleanse my soul, and protect me from the evil of this world." Once finished, he started picking the meat and some of the wooden skin. Unaware of the humanoid figure approaching him from the shadows in front, with red glowing eyes. Isaac yelled as he noticed the figure.
"Alister, watch out!" He tries to run to help his little brother, but to his surprise.
"Hm!" Alister grunted.
His right fist impacted against the face of a humanoid black figure with boney armor, which held what looks like a bloody machete, the figure had a skeletal appearance, the mask had a creepy and exaggerated grin as its eye sockets were empty.
"It can't be, a Chuckler!?" Isaac questioned as he watched how Alister quickly quick stepped away from the skeletal grimm.
The chuckler lets out a creepy laugh as its head shakes. Other chucklers started digging themselves out of the ground around the four siblings. The three hunters prepare their weapons. Alister stayed close to his bigger brothers and his sister. Isaac spoke, as he held his greatsword low.
"Wait for them to attack first, we must stay defensive here."
The chucklers kept laughing as they surrounded the siblings. The teen looks around as he sees all of them have only close combat weapons, he speaks to Prayetor, asking.
"Big bro, they don't have ranged weapons, should we use our firearms as advantage?"
"We could, but maybe they are prepared for that. Isaac, get it ready!"
Prayetor and Isaac got ready their swords, which aren't common swords, these are chainsaw swords. Prayetor had a long chainsword, while Isaac had his Great chainsword, which had its name written on the middle of the blade 'Lumberjack'. The oldest of the brothers also held a sub-machine gun, which looked very bulky and actually slightly bigger than any smg. Vivian readied her bonesword as Alister held his axe-shotgun ready. All the surrounding chucklers charged at the same time at the siblings, who decided to shoot, except Vivian. Isaac pulled from his waist two big handguns, which were as bulky as the heavy armored huntsman's sub-machine gun. Few chucklers were hit yet kept going, even with most of their heads blown off, while only 3 fell and dissipated.
"Here they come!" Vivian yelled, as the four got into battle position.
One chuckler with a dagger tried stabbing Alister's face, but the teen striked its neck and beheaded it, however one with a mace swung down on him, he blocked it, then parried a spear tip. Isaac was shredding a chuckler in half, dodging as much as he could the attacks of the four chucklers at his side, Prayetor succesfully blocked all blows at this side, while counter attacking with his smg's rounds. Vivian blocked with his sword, she was spinning it a few times, then stabbed the humanoid skeletal monsters, as they all kept surrounding them and trying to stab, slash or hit them as much as they could.
"Alright, let's try gunning them down at point-blank, Vivian, use this!" Prayetor said as he passed his sister a thompson smg, the young woman started firing along her brothers.
Dead chucklers started falling around the siblings as they kept firing the weapons, Prayetor stared reloading as injured and crawling chucklers approached him, same with Isaac and Alister. Vivian decided the finish with her sword the remaining weakened grimm humanoids. One getting stabbed through the skull, the other getting stomped on. Isaac was hitting many with his greatsword, knocking them away as they fell apart from the 'teeth' of the chainsaw blade. However, more chucklers are coming out of the woods, as the siblings battle against the close ones.
Alister decapitated a chuckler then shot one in the face as its skull was blown into pieces, but from behind, a slash from a shortsword held by another chuckler cut onto his back as he tried to retaliate, but his swing was blocked by one more other of the creatures, he chambered another round and kicked the chuckler that blocked his attack before firing into its chest as it fell limp behind the shortsword wielding one. Other chucklers started charging towards the teen, but Isaac's Lumberjack cut them in half, as the young huntsman blocked the swarming attacks of the other chucklers. The evil laughter of the monsters made the young hybrid shiver as he kept hacking against the chucklers attacking him.
Prayetor kept shooting his boltgun while cutting a grimm that held an axe, Isaac used the same rock-fling technique like he did with the beowolf pack, the rock he threw crashed through the horde of monsters like if they were bowling pins. Black boney limbs and torsos flying from the impact of the boulder. The greatswordsman revved his chainsword and slowly cut in half an armored chuckler. Prayetor kicked a skelethal monster sneaking on his little brother, knocking it against another one with a spear, Alister shoots his shotgun axe, killing two chucklers by the bullet piercing one and hitting the other behind.
Vivian covered Isaac who was slowly taking down two or more of the monsters out per swing, his heavy greatsword cutting through the grimm with the rust chains and teeth of the chainsaw greatsword. Prayetor tossed a magazine at Vivian to reload, Isaac covered his sister with a wide swing of his weapon, cutting the chucklers that tried to tackle Viv down. After Vivian finished reloading, she opened fire to some of the humanoid creatures, which tried to attack the huntsman without mandibles from behind. Prayetor used the butt of his gun to strike some chucklers, while Alister chambered and shot many rounds, spinning the shotgun axe every time he chambered. The eldest sibling 's left hand started glowing brightly, and he thrusted his fist against the skull of a chuckler in front of a small group, the blow created a shockwave towards the chuckler group, blowing them into pieces, as if an explosive blew up right in their faces. Aura punch, one of Prayetor's Aura techniques which creates an aura wave that heavily damages those we are hit by the wave.
Alister snatched a mace from a chuckler as he started jumping on it, smacking it with the weapon he stole from them. While the monster was stunned, the teen took the chance and kept using his transforming hybrid weapon while standing on the shoulders of the monster. He throws the mace at a chuckler that is trying to bite the bulky armored man, who was already struggling with a whole dozen of chucklers. The jockey chuckler fell dead, as Prayetor continued what he does when he is overrun. Rip and tear, he smacked a chuckler's head into its torse, ripped another in half, kicked a hole through another one, and some other ways of brutally finishing off such pests like the chucklers. Isaac and Vivian kill the last monsters of their side as Alister is cutting in a diagonal half a remaining chuckler, after the last chop, all the siblings regroup, the eldest asking.
"Anyone is wounded gravely?"
Isaac put his greatsword on his back as he responded.
"No, we're fine. For now." Vivian sighed after few pants.
"I think we should head back to the town."
"Yeah, it's a good idea, wait, Vivian. Don't this much chucklers mean something?"
"If I recall, chucklers most times are distraction for guards or huntsmen so other Grimm or even raiders attack towns or villages- The town!"
Alister looked alerted at his sister. Prayetor then said with firm tone.
"We must head to the town, let's go now!"
The four siblings start running to the direction of their village/town, reloading their weapons and holding them tightly.
"Damn it, if it's not our town then we must go check the others!" Said Isaac as he jumped over a rock. Suddenly, in the distance. Gunshots and shouting was heard from the direction of where the town was.
"No, it can't be!" Alister said as he started sprinting and getting ahead of his siblings.
"Alister, wait! It's gonna be too dangerous to just charge in!" Yelled Vivian as she tried to catch up to her younger brother, the other two brothers went to catch up with the two fast moving ones.
End of Chapter 2...To be continued.
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