Evolution

AN:Thank you all for reading the previous chapter and sticking with it. I'll keep adding chapters probably every few days to keep the flow going. Next chapter will be Friday or Saturday. Now without further adieu let's roll on with the story!

Chapter 1: Strange encounters

Ares woke with a start and began coughing to get some air to regulate into his body. The first thing he noticed was the sun beating down on him and closed his eyes blocking out its rays, slowly opening them up to let them adjust he noticed how green the forest was. Slowly standing he took in his surroundings and came to a conclusion that he wasn't anywhere on Shear. The conclusion came to be when he noticed that Shear had never really had anything that looked so peaceful in a long time due to all the humans and their pollution of the ecosystem. Anger rose in his chest as he thought of them killing his siblings and him without even letting them live their lives to the fullest, He even gave them signs to back away when they had the chance but like any other human they chose to attack without trying to understand. As the anger subsided a single thought entered his mind.

"Where are Rei and Ken!?" he thought as he took off running in a random direction hoping he could find their scents. As he dashed through the forest he noticed that the trees were a lot bigger than last time and he felt slower running. He found a nearby river and looked in the water and saw his reflection. His eyes were still that magma color that all Goliaths had but the rest of his body had completely changed. His skin was a dark brown with dark red tribal like tattoos that ran from the base of his shoulder down to his wrist. His hands were like normal human's but going from the middle joint of his fingers on down was wicked claws that could tear the flesh off of any creature. His feet had claws to grip the ground and prevent slipping. His tail still had all of its spiky goodness and had the same tribal tattoos like the rest of his body. As he stared at his new body his nose picked up a familiar scent of his younger siblings and made a mad dash towards their direction, he would be damned if they died on his watch.

Moving faster and faster through the unknown forest Ares saw his siblings sitting on top of a rock looking at the lake, giggling as the fish jump up in the air only to descend back into the water. As he looked at his siblings he could only stare in confusion at what they looked like as humans or half breeds... whatever they were now. Rei had silver hair with white streaks in it that stopped at the middle of her neck. Her talons stuck out of her back as did the little spikes and her three 'tails' were behind her swaying in the wind, her skin was a little pale due to her being an albino Wraith while her eyes ran a dark shade of silver. Ken had a very dark blue almost black hair that looked unkempt giving him a wild look. The tentacles on his back cackled with electricity every once in a while and his tail swayed in the wind like Rei"s. The fins on his arms would glow sometimes and move every few seconds. His fingers were webbed like a fish to propel him faster in the water and instead of having four eyes he had two that glowed a hypnotic blue. Clearing his throat he dashed towards them and tackled them to the ground.

"AH!" the both yelped in surprise and began to thrash around trying to break free until they stopped and look who it is.

"Ares is that you?" Rei asked as she gazed up at him and he hummed in response.

"Whoa! You look so cool " shouted Ken as he began running around his brother observing every inch of him with awe.

"Yeah you do, but aren't you a little concerned a little about this?" Rei asked

Ares just shrugged his shoulders as an answer and began looking around the forest. It looked so peaceful here, almost as if it was heaven as the humans called it. His thoughts were interrupted as he heard a growl and got into a battle stance, scanning the area for enemies. His eyes found the source of the growl when they landed on Rei and Ken who were shuffling their feet with their heads down and faces red with embarrassment.

"H-hey Ares... um can we get something to eat? We're kind of hungry." Rei meekly asked with a flushed face.

"Yeah. I'm really hungry too" Ken added while patting his stomach.

Nodding his head and sniffing the air he found a scent of something that could possibly be food. He crouched down for his siblings climb onto his back and peer over his shoulders to see what's ahead. After an hour of searching the trio came upon a dead deer that was freshly killed, not even waiting for him to let the two down Ken and Rei charged at the deer and began tearing into its flesh with their claws. Ripping fur, skin, muscle, and organs to shreds before stuffing it in their mouths coating their mouths with blood and gore. As Ares walked over to the two and crouched down they moved to the side as he took a spot by the deer's head and with a little force tore the head off of the deer and cracked its skull open to gorge on its brain matter. Stuffing the rest of the brain in his mouth he moved to its eyes and skewered them out with his claws before popping them into his mouth and swallowing them with a disgusting gulp. As he was finishing his portion he noticed the two siblings arguing.

"I want the kidney!" Shrieked Rei as she tugged at one of the kidneys.

"You already got one! Now you're just being greedy!" screamed Ken as he tugged at the one Rei had in her hands.

"You already got the stomach and liver! I want to see what a kidney taste like!" she screamed back.

"Well you got most of the intestines! So why can't I get the kidneys?!" He roared and was about to tackle her and pummel her into the ground. Ares sensing that the only way to get the two to stop bickering was to do something they both loved and would share without any arguments... the heart. Giving the heart a savage pull he brought it up to his mouth and let out a gentle flame to cook the heart but not burn it in the process. The two younger siblings turned to the older one with watered mouths as he cooked something they loved so much which immediately put a halt to their bickering.

"Ares we will stop bickering if you give us that." Ken said with droll dripping down his chin.

"Y-yeah we stopped right Ken?" Rei stuttered while having a hunger filled gaze at the heart.

"Yeah" he quickly agreed to get the best part of the body. Realizing he could toy with them Ares waved it back and forth in front of their faces as they followed it with hunger in their eyes. This went on for a few minutes before Ken charged for the heart trying to grab it from his older brother, Rei then later joined the struggle as Ares raised it above his head keeping it away from them. Both siblings backed off a few feet before charging at Ares and hitting him in the stomach making him lose some grip on the heart, this was all the two needed to quickly grab the heart and split it in half before savagely devouring it spraying blood all over the dirt. The siblings gave their older brother the best glare they could come up with but only made themselves look cute. They eventually climbed back on his back and the trio left the area unaware that a camera was watching them the whole time.

Ozpin sat in his office looking at the three individuals that roamed the forest without a sense of direction. They first appeared on the camera this morning when he entered the office. His interest was peaked when he saw the older one blow a gentle flame out of his mouth to cook the heart of the dead deer port set out to attract nearby grimm. Seeing these three in the forest alone raised some concerns for him as no one is able to survive that section of the forest for more than a few hours but these kids survived an entire day. Looking at them more closely he noticed their physical features more, the older one was muscular with a spikes jutting out of his back, tribal looking tattoos (he wondered if it was from some type of religion ), a barbed tail, magma like eyes, and looked to be around 17. The little girl had talons coming out of her back, silver hair with white streaks in it, three 'tails' that flowed in the wind, dark grey eyes that shown innocence and savagery, and looked to be around 6 years old. The little boy had a set of tentacles that were folded like wings that cackled with electricity every so often, very dark blue hair that was almost black, fins on his arms and webbed fingers, a long aquatic looking tail, and looked to be around the same age as the girl.

Seeing that these children looked like orphans Ozpin called Glynda up to the desk to take a look at the kids.

"Glynda?" Ozpin called to her.

"Yes Ozpin, what is it" She asked.

"Can you come over here please?" he asked her. Glynda came over to see what had Ozpin's attention this time.

"What is it" she asked

"Look" he said as he showed her the video of the children. As she looked at the children she couldn't help but make a face of mild disgust as they savagely tore into the dead deer that Port had left out there. At first she thought they were just some random kids but upon a closer look she noticed how close they were almost as if they were family the way the older one stopped the younger two from bickering and constantly looked out for danger even while eating.

"What do you want me to do about it? We obviously can't leave them out there." Glynda said.

"Hmm." Ozpin hummed while rubbing his chin.

"Gather team RWBY and go see if these children need a place to stay." Ozpin said.

"Sir, They were just formed about a few weeks ago. I can go out there and get them myself." Glynda argued.

"I understand your concerns Glynda but think of this as a training exercise for them... they'll be fine I assure you." he replied calmly.

Glynda just sighed in annoyance as she realized he was right, as future huntsman and huntresses they needed to be prepared for trials ahead.

"I'll prepare the team... what if they resist?" Glynda asked.

"...Then we must do something we'll regret. I'm hoping it doesn't come to that." he answered seriously. Glynda paled at the thought of taking children's lives and quickly left the office.

"Please don't let it come to that." he muttered as he took a sip from his mug.

As team RWBY sat in the bullhead they wondered what this mission was about.

"Ohhhhhh! I'm so excited! our first real mission!" Ruby squealed as she bounced up and down in the bullhead.

"Calm down you dolt. It's probably some grimm that are out of control." Weiss said. She had been trying to become a better teammate after dealing with the whole issue with Blake being a White Fang member.

"If it is then I'm ready to crack some skulls!" Yang said excited that she got to fight some grimm.

"I am curious as to what is out there in the forest." Blake coolly replied while reading her book.

"Alright children listen up!" Glynda said, "We are here to negotiate with three individuals. Now if you think this is a game of some sorts I can assure you it's not, since we do not have any information on any of them." Glynda stated sternly while looking at them.

"When we land I want all of you behind me and don't try anything to provoke them, especially the older one." Glynda said as the Bullhead opened up and she jumped out leaving the team wondering what she meant about the older one.

Glynda and the team trekked through the forest looking for these three individuals that Ms. Goodwitch talked about. As they were walking Blake notice a set of tracks in the dirt and called everyone over.

"I found some tracks, they look somewhat fresh." she said as she rubbed dirt between her fingers.

"Whoa, what kind of footprints are those?" Yang wondered, never seeing a human footprint with claws before.

"Dunno maybe it's our 'mysterious' individual." Weiss summed up while looking at the footprints in curiosity.

After she said that a roar could be heard coming from the north of them making the group run in that direction. When they arrived they saw a tall muscular man fighting a group of beowolves and an Ursa. They were about to intervene until they saw the man jump on the Ursa and dig his claws into its eyes effectively blinding it and making it roar in agony before he dug his right hand into its neck and rip out its windpipe and letting it suffocate on the ground. A beowolf leaped at the man from behind only to have its face turned to mush as his maced tail collided with its face, two beowolves decided to come at him one from the front and another from the back. The man grabbed the leaping wolf from the front and used its momentum to throw to the wolf in the back who jumped over its pack mate and at the man who used it's momentum to grab its face and slam it into the ground before spinning around to backhand the previous wolf and gripping its neck in his left armpit He then grabbed the wolf who was on the ground in front of him by the snout closing its mouth before slamming them both on top of each other and curb stomping their heads to a bloody paste. The rest of the pack just stared in caution at the random person that had decimated a majority of the pack, but before they could make a decision on what to do he charged the nearest wolf and dug his thumbs into its eyes. The beowolf screamed but it was short lived as he drove its snout into his knee and caved its skull in before setting his eyes on the next one who actually started backing up away from him as he stalked closer to it. The beowolf turned around and tried to run only for the man to grab its tail in a vice like grip and throw it into a tree, while the wolf was down he place both of his hands on its mouth, pried it open further than what it was meant to go, and blew a stream of fire out of his mouth and down its throat. This went on until the neck of the wolf eventually gave away to the heat and tore from the head letting the body slump to the ground with a burnt hole. With the head still in his hand he looked at the rest of the pack who all stood in fear of this... this... monster, giving a sadistic grin he gave a feral roar that sent the grimm running.

The girls could only stare in awe and a bit of fear at the man in front of them who actually managed to send grimm, creatures who showed no fear, running with the tails between their legs. They were about to confront the man but were stopped when two small figures ran out from a set of bushes and ran up to him. They listened in on the conversation that the three were having.

"Ares! Ares! Can you teach me how to do that thing with the grabbing?" shouted Ken as he practically jumped up to his older brother.

"Yeah! I wanna learn how to do the thing you did with your claws!" Rei practically squealed in excitement after watching her brother fight the wildlife.

Ares thought about it for a minute and eventually nodded his head basically saying he would teach them when they're older. He wouldn't teach them now due to bodies still developing, it's never good to fight when you're younger than a stage 1 since you could damage your body and have complications in the future.

"Yay!" the younger two cheered as they attempted to tackle Ares only to make him stumble a bit and scoop them up before setting them down again. He was about to have them climb on his back until he heard a snap in the nearby bush making him whip around and snarl into the bushes. The siblings hid behind their brother's legs as he snarled into the bushes at the unknown presence.

Everyone stood stock still as the older one whipped around and stared into the bushes and snarled sending chills down their spines. He placed the younger ones behind him as he snarled again but this time is was more angry and feral to point where it was downright terrifying.

"He knows we're here." Ruby whispered as she stared at him and his siblings

"Yeah we noticed, but we can't go out there now. He'd rip us to shreds." Weiss replied back to Ruby.

"If he tried anything we'd just have to beat him down." Yang said cocking her Ember Celica.

"Yang, he took down an entire Beowolf pack, brutalized an Ursa, and scared the rest off. I seriously doubt you could take him." Blake stated as her grip on Gambol Shroud tightened, there was something about the way he stared at them that unnerved her.

"Regardless we need to talk to him." Glynda said as she slowly stepped out of the bushes followed by the rest of the girls. She noticed how he tensed up more and how the younger ones receded further back behind his legs as they stepped out.

"Excuse me sir, but may I ask what you and the others are doing out here?"Glynda asked him as the grip on her riding crop tightened.

"..." Ares remained silent as his tail swayed back and forth in a malicious way, almost as if he expects them to make the first move and he makes the last. He glared at them and noticed how they all had some sort of weapon trained on him.

"Sir we can't go anywhere if you don't say anything, so please state your business here." Glynda stated again this time more forcefully.

"..." He was going to remain silent until they were either dead or they state what they're doing here.

"Well if you won't tell me that will you at least tell me your names?" Glynda asked hoping to get somewhere.

"U-um mam?" Rei stuttered out from behind Ares' right leg and looked at Glynda nervously as she got her attention.

"Yes? What is it?" Glynda replied softly hoping not to scare the child which worked as Rei began to relax a bit.

"I-I'm Rei and this is Ares" Rei softly said from behind his leg as she introduced herself and Ares who still glared at the group with distrust.

"Yeah! And I'm Ken!" The smaller boy replied with a smile on his face but quickly faded once he noticed he was the center of attention and hid behind his brother's leg drawing 'awwws' from the four teenage girls.

"Can you tell us what you're doing out here?" Glynda asked as Rei seemed to come out from behind her brother's leg and walk towards her only then did the other four girls see what kind of faunus she was and wondered what kind she was.

"W-well we don't know really... we kind of just woke up here." Rei softly answered as she was a few feet away from Glynda who noticed how Ares was glaring daggers at her as if saying 'do something to her and I will brutalize your corpse' making her choose her next words carefully. Before Glynda could ask a question Rei and Ken's stomachs growled loudly making them both flush in embarrassment.

"Are you two hungry?" Glynda asked somewhat amused.

"Yeah! Do you have food?!" Ken asked excited at the thought of food.

"Heck yeah kid! We got tons of food!" Yang said with a smile on her face.

"Alright! Ares! can we go with them?! Please?! Please?! Please?!" Ken shouted as he gripped Ares by the tail and swung around excited.

Ares thought about it for a minute, on one hand if he goes with them they could capture them and probably experiment on them, but on the other hand if they stay out here they'll starve to death since those black creatures disintegrate upon death. Drawing out a heavy sigh and blowing some steam out of his nostrils he nodded.

"Alright!" Ken and Rei shouted as they jumped around drawing a few giggles from the team. The siblings eventually stopped jumping and hopped onto Ares' back like they always do, drawing confusion from the girls.

"Hey, isn't that dangerous. Hopping on his back I mean?" Ruby asked

"What do you mean?" asked Rei as she tilted her head making her look innocent and making the girls gush a bit.

"She means with all those spikes on his back." Blake said as she stared at Ares, the way he kept looking around for danger drew some suspicions about him. In all her life she had never seen a faunus with spikes and a tail like that and the look in his eyes unnerved her... they look like the eyes of a predator always scanning for an escape route as or weak spots.

"Ohhhhhh. No it's not, well maybe the people that hopped on his back trying to bring him down but not us." giggled Rei as she got comfortable and Ken did the same as they made their way to the bullhead.

The trip to the bullhead was somewhat quiet with the exception of Ken and Rei asking questions about the wildlife here. When they finally got to the bullhead Ares stopped and stared at it taking in its details before boarding it and taking a seat near the exit. After the siblings made a conversation with the team and Glynda they walked over to Ares and fell asleep taking in the warmth of his body as he radiated heat.

"H-hey Ares... I have a question." Ruby said as she scooted a little closer to him only to scoot back as he glared at her.

"Are you guys siblings?" she asked him.

He merely nodded and returned his attention back to his sleeping siblings, shifting his arm so that Rei's head got in a more comfortable position.

"Oh... that's cool. Yang and I are sister. Well half sisters." She said trying to make a conversation and failing at it until the rest of her team came up to ask their own questions.

What kind of faunus are you? Because I don't recall any faunus having spikes or a tail like that." Blake asked with curiosity.

"What the fuck is a faunus" he asked himself before shrugging his shoulders in response to Blake's question.

"Hey hot stuff do not where a shirt for a reason? Because I like what I see~" Yang flirted and tried to touch one Ares' muscles only to find herself at the tip of his barbed tail indicating he doesn't like being touched except by his siblings. Hugs he could do, anything else he found weird and useless.

"Where are you from?" Weiss asked with a raised eyebrow.

Knowing they were going to ask more questions he scraped the answer on the floor of the bullhead 'Shear' and with that he fell asleep.

He was woken up by touching... unnecessary touching. Knowing who it was he smacked the floor with his tail in front of said person drawing a startled yelp from her. He then noticed Ken and Rei were still asleep so he carefully picked them up and carried them to the front of the bullhead where everyone else was waiting drawing a 'awww' from all of the girls excluding Glynda.

"You look tired. Team RWBY take them up to your dorm for the night." Glynda said.

"Understood" The girls replied in unison.

"You're going to love it there!" shouted Ruby excited only to shrink down as Ares quietly snarled at her indicating that Rei and Ken were still asleep.

The trip to the dorm was quiet for the most part due to the siblings asleep. As they entered the room Ares immediately began searching for a spot to set them down for the night. While he was searching the girls couldn't help but notice how muscular he was and didn't realize he already moved to Ruby's top bunk and set them down.

"H-hey that's my bed. Where am I supposed to sleep?" she asked

He looked at her and shrugged in response to her before lying on the floor and closing his eyes trying to go to sleep. This worked for about twenty seconds before he felt something lick his face, he opened his eyes and found Zwei looking at him with curiosity. Ares glared at the dog before flipping his body over so he was lying on his stomach, the dog merely walked over to his face and sat down in front of him. He glared at the corgi even more as it curled up to his body as he radiated heat. He quickly rose up from the ground and walked over to Yang's bed and laid down in front of it to get away from the damn dog. The girls started giggling as they witnessed the scene in front of them, someone who could take down an entire pack of grimm with his bare hands and scare them shitless, was bothered by a simple house pet. Finally having enough of the dog Ares picked up Zwei and threw him in the bathroom and shut the door to prevent any further annoyances.

"Hey can I ask you a question?" Ruby asked him and he nodded.

"Ummm, can I sleep in my bed because I don't have anywhere else to sleep." she said as he tilted his head in confusion

"It's uh... that one that you put your siblings on." She said as she pointed to the top bunk. His gaze followed her finger and he shook his head no.

"But whyyyyyy? It's my bed." she groaned

"Ruby, here. You can sleep in my bed for the night." Weiss said.

"Really?" Ruby asked a little red at the question.

"Yes really you dolt now get in" Weiss huffed.

"Whoa there Weiss cream at least take my sister to dinner before you get her in bed." Yang teased.

"T-That's not what I meant you dimwit." Weiss said blushing at Yang's comment.

While the girls were arguing Blake couldn't help but notice how Ares' muscles glowed a bit when he breathed. At the sight of his muscles she began to have dirty thoughts about how strong he was, how his voice sounded, what he looked like without pants-, Blake cut off her thoughts as she blushed a deep red about the boy she just met a couple of hours ago. As she was turning she noticed how his siblings started to shiver and was about to say something until she saw him walk over to the bed they were sleeping on and crawl in with them, she noticed how his body acted like a radiator and they stopped shivering soon after. What Blake saw in him was a brother who would happily give his life for something he loves and it made her smile, she fell asleep soon after not noticing how Ares knew she was looking at him the whole time. Pretty soon he fell asleep with his siblings and wondered what the next day would bring.

Well hot diggity damn that took forever. Thank you those who reviewed my last chapter and commented. So thank you dracohalo117

Swiftblood: They will be in the story but not until later on.

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