Chapter 2: Mornings issues
AN: So I noticed a couple of you have been asking if Behemoth and Gorgon will be in the story and the answer is yes. I just haven't figured out how I'm going to input their characters in it, but rest assured they will come in future chapters. They'll probably be introduced in maybe... three or four chapters? I don't know. Another thing I noticed is you all are asking why is Ares so short, so I forgot to mention that he's at least maybe a couple inches to a foot taller than Yatsuhashi. I didn't want to make him to tall or it wouldn't be it wouldn't be very realistic in my book. I also noticed you all are wondering if they can turn into their original forms and the answer is yes they can, I don't know if I'll make it their semblance though, time will tell. Last thing I swear, if by going down the cliche route you mean where they accept the invitation to Beacon right then and there, fall in love with the cast, Beacon falls, and what not. No is the answer and the reason being because I've seen a lot of fanfictions where it's the same thing and I want to do something different than them, not saying it's going to be better, just different. I'll add some cliche elements to it but not a lot. Without further adieu let's roll on with the story.
The sun entered the room with a inviting feel to it as it woke the occupants of the room one by one. As the four girls of RWBY awoke from their slumber and got ready for the day they noticed that the three siblings were still asleep in a comfortable position and looked peaceful as they slept. They looked at the positions they slept in and found it rather odd, Ares slept on his stomach with his tail hanging off the edge, Rei slept underneath Ares' right arm snoring softly which made the girls gush a bit, and Ken... Ken was sleeping on Ares' head snoring loudly which somehow didn't wake the other two.
"Sooooooo, who wants to wake them up?" Yang asked while stretching, "Because big man would kill me if I did it." she said.
"That's probably because you tried to violate him in his sleep you brute." Weiss huffed.
"Oh come on, you're meaning to tell me you didn't want to touch those guns he's packing? They felt like diamonds." Yang said as she recalled how Ares' muscles felt before his almost maimed her with his tail.
"Unlike you I have common courtesy for people I just met." Weiss said.
"Then why were you staring at him while he slept?" Ruby innocently asked.
Weiss cheeks took on a shade of red at what Ruby said, she didn't think anybody saw her doing that but she forgot Ruby is extremely perceptive.
"Ohhhhh, so you were looking at those bad boys huh Weiss?" Yang grinned as she found out what Weiss did and stored it for future blackmail later.
"S-shut up! I-I was just curious as to why his muscles were glowing every so often!" Weiss defended herself as her cheeks grew a shade redder.
"Hey, no need to be ashamed about it Weiss cream. I think we all were." Yang said nonchalantly.
"I wasn't looking." Ruby said.
"Sis I've lived with you all my life, I can tell when you're lying. You were staring." Yang replied and saw Ruby's face turn a tint of red at being caught red handed (AN: sorry couldn't resist it.).
"I'll do it." Blake simply replied and everyone in the room looked at her.
"You sure? I mean I could do it." Ruby said looking at the faunus member of the team.
"Yeah I'm sure, it's not like he would do anything." Blake said but deep down inside she knew he was probably one of those who woke up on his own or by his family only. As she reached out to shake him awake Rei slowly woke up and rubbed her eyes looking at Blake curiously.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"O-oh, I was going to wake up Ares so we can show you guys around the place." Blake replied.
"Yeeeeeaaaaaahhh, that's probably not a good idea for you to do." Rei advised.
"Why's that" Weiss asked from the other side of the room.
"U-um Ares... usually lashes out at anyone other than us who tries to wake him up." Rei answered in a slightly nervous voice.
"What's the worst that could happen?" Yang asked not seeing the big picture.
"He could go on a rampage, cost millions of funds in damage, injure or kill any living thing in the area, and/or possibly find the nearest power plant and blow it up." Rei answered simply as if he had done it before leaving the other girls in the room flabbergasted at how violent he becomes when he is woken up by the wrong person.
"Y-y-you're not serious are you?" Ruby asked in a scared voice hoping the young girl was joking.
"No, I'm not joking in the slightest... soooo a word of advice for future references." Rei answered
"Noted." The girls replied in unison.
Rei giggled at their reactions and proceeded to wake up Ares, first he growled at Rei's shaking because he knew when she was shaking him and when Ken was shaking him, then he snarled as her shaking got more excessive, and finally he huffed in annoyance at her finally getting him up. After he woke up he noticed that Ken was still asleep, a devious plan formed in Ares' head to wake Ken up. It involved: Water, a bit of blood, a sheets, and a lot of shaking. As he began to get the components Rei sat down behind Blake and watched as her oldest brother woken Ken up, this drew confusion from the RWBY and wondered what he was doing.
"What's he doing?" Yang asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Waking up Ken" Rei replied simply while swaying her tails back and forth gaining the attention of RWB.
"So what's the plan for waking him up?" Yang asked confused.
"He mixes his blood in with water and it makes it into a really thick paste. Ares then carefully wraps Ken in the sheets to make him feel like he's been captured. After he's been wrapped in the sheets Ares' proceeds to pour the mixture on him and shake him violently." Rei explained the plan to Yang who looked at Ruby with a devious smile in which the latter returned with a glare. After Ares wrapped Ken up in the blanket he poured the mixture on him carefully in order not to wake him up and then shook him violently while snarling. Ken shrieked as he violently thrashed around in the bed trying to get out of the sheets, after 30 seconds he used his claws to tear open the sheets and look around frantically before he set his eyes on his older brother. The two stared at each other stoically for 30 seconds before Ken leaped off of the bed and wrapped himself on the back of Ares' neck trying to choke him out but only prompted him to grab Ken's tail and swing him around before lightly tossing him to the ground and pinning him.
"Ahhhhh! Ares! Get off of me! Your fat butt is crushing me!" Ken screamed as he began to thrash around under Ares before looking at his sister.
"Rei! Help me!" He screamed.
"Sorry, no can do brother. You know what happened the last time I tried to help you when he pinned you like that." She replied while playing with Blake's hair.
"No I don't! Just help me so we can go eat!" He screamed now that Ares was covering his face with his chest. Rei sighed as she leaped onto Ares' back making him spin around to try and shake her off of him, which proved to be working since she was losing her grip. Just as Rei lost her grip she found one of her tails in Ares' hand and her world began to spin, as she was on the verge of vomiting she found herself on top of Ken and under Ares' chest.
"This is what happens when I help you, you always get me dragged into these situations." she said through a muffled and irritated voice.
"Well it's not my fault you actually listened to me. Can you get off of me now?" Ken said
"Yes it is your fault and what do you think I'm doing you doofus. Ares can you please get off of us now, Ken really stinks." Rei asked her older brother.
"Hey I don't stink! You stink you butt face." Ken shot back.
"No you do." Rei said back with sass.
"Nu-uh" Ken said.
"Uh-huh" Rei said back.
"Nu-uh"
"Uh-huh"
"Nu-huh"
While the siblings were having their interactions the girls were in the sidelines giggling at their argument and noticed how relaxed Ares looked. Instead of having the scowl that adorned his face it was replaced with a relaxed and comfortable expression, the kind when someone feels like their at home. As the bickering came to an end Ken came up to the girls and started talking to them.
"So where's the food at?" Ken asked as he tilted his head making the girls gush internally.
"In the cafeteria, I think they're serving chicken tenders or pancakes... Pray that it's not pancakes." Yang muttered the last bit hoping Ken didn't hear it but he did anyways.
"What are we waiting for let's go eat!" He shouted excitably at the thought of food in his stomach.
"Alright Alright hold up kid we need to get our stuff first." Yang replied back while grabbing her scroll.
"Hurry up! Food can't wait!" Ken said while pacing around the room waiting for the girls to finish getting their stuff.
"Alright we can go now." Yang said as they all walked out of the door.
As the group of seven were walking towards the lunchroom they began to get stares from various people with mixed expressions, some had looks of wonder, disgust, fear, hate, and awe at the siblings. Rei and Ken tried to shy away from the stares that peered onto them while Ares just ignored them, if anyone tried anything he'd just kill them and eat their corpse. As they entered the lunchroom Ares took the time to survey the place seeing if it had any vantage points in case there was a fight, they were greeted by team JNPR that waved them over to the table.
"Hey Ruby over here!" Jaune shouted from across the room. Gaining her attention she led the group to their table and began talking to introduce them to the siblings.
"So who are they?" Pyrrha asked curiously as she looked at the three, she noticed how the younger two were on the older one's back and retreated back further when the attention was on them.
"So this is Rei" Ruby introduced the little girl as she just gave a timid wave to the group and they waved back.
"This is Ken" Ruby introduced the boy as he gave a wave and a small smile before retreating behind his brother's back.
"And this is Ares." She introduced the oldest one of the group. JNPR waved at him but noticed how he didn't do anything back to them, and kind of just glared at them with calculating eyes... almost as if he were sizing them up, like a predator does to its prey before it brings it down.
"So what kind of faunus are you guys?" Ren asked.
"Um... what's a faunus?" Rei asked confused, she had never heard the word faunus in her life. JNPR stared at her in shock, as did RWBY, how could they not know what they were?
"You're joking right?" Yang grinned thinking the young girl was joking only to come to shock at what she said next.
"No I'm not. We've never heard the word faunus in our lives. Have you two heard of it?" she asked Ken and Ares.
"Nope." Ken replied while looking at the food people were carrying as they passed by and Ares just shook his head no.
"Oh... well. Okay, then. Basically a faunus is a human with animal parts." Pyrrha explained.
"Hmm, that's cool. When do we get to eat" Ken asked as he actually started drooling and almost swiped someone's tray if Ares hadn't moved to prevent him by turning his body.
"Ohhhhhh! C'mon we'll show you the way to the best food in the world." Nora said as she attempted to grab Rei and Ken only to have Ares snarl and glare murderously at her which forced her to back off. She hid behind Ren who glared at Ares with contempt and received one right back, the two were staring at each other for so long that it began to get uncomfortable for the parties, this was going on until Yang decided to say something.
"O-okay I think now would be a good time to grab some grub right?" Yang asked trying to mitigate the situation as much as possible which prove to be working as the younger two jumped off Ares' back and began to follow her with Ares close behind but not before giving Ren a look saying 'Stay away from us and I won't have to eat you alive'.
"W-well that was something." Ruby nervously laughed trying to bring the spirits back up.
"Who are they?" Pyrrha asked coming out of her shocked stupor.
"Truth is... we don't know" she replied, "We were on a mission with professor Goodwitch to search for them and we found them in the forest." Ruby said.
"The older one actually scares me." Nora said now coming out from behind Ren's back.
"I think he scares all of us." Blake replied voicing all their opinions.
"What'd he do to scare you guys?" Jaune asked, a little afraid of the answer since Blake's face change to a look of slight fear at the thought.
"You know how grimm aren't scared of anything?" she asked.
"Y-yeah." he answered with a scared tone.
"He managed to do it after a single fight." she said. The rest of JNPR's facial expressions changed. Nora hid behind Ren some more, Jaune almost fainted, Pyrrha covered her mouth in shock, and Ren had a neutral facial expression as always but if you look closely enough you could see a tiny trace of fear on his face. No one had that much influence to scare grimm away... right?
"So what kind of food do they have here?" Ken asked as he grabbed a tray to get as much food as he could.
"All sorts kid, what's on your mind?" Yang asked.
"Hmm." He hummed while tapping his chin, "Trapjaw" he said.
"Uh...what?" she asked not knowing what a trapjaw was.
"Trap-jaw." He said more slowly to get her to understand, seriously who's never heard of a trapjaw before.
"I don't think we have that here." Yang said with a raised eyebrow.
"...Can I just have to sweetest thing then?" he asked in a sort of solemn voice.
"Sure." She replied, "What do you want Rei?" she asked the young girl.
"Hmm, I want that!" Rei said pointing at the a full plate of eggs, bacon, sausages, and an orange.
"Hehe, alright kid. Hey, big man what do you want to eat?" Yang asked Ares. All he did was stare at her... to be honest his silent attitude is starting to piss her off. After ten seconds of staring at her he picked up a plate that carried the same thing as Rei.
"...Alright is that what you want?" Yang asked, only to get a look that said 'I chose this for a reason'. Huffing at his silent treatment towards everyone she made her way back to the table after paying for the food. As they were making their way to the table Yang saw someone or some people she really despised... Team CRDL, the group of narcissistic racist assholes with nothing better to do than pick on people weaker than them. Reaching the table and sitting down Yang could hear the four racists make their way over there to harass the new arrivals.
"Who's the new animal here?" Cardin sneered as he got a closer look at the three siblings and noticed they're ignoring him,"Hey animal, I'm talking to you." Cardin said as he snatched the food from Ken who let out a cry distress as his food was gone, not noticing the flames steaming from the corners of Ares' mouth.
"I don't know if you all know... but animals like you have to pay a fee." Cardin said as his friends started laughing with him.
"Leave em alone Cardin" The girls threatened.
"Or what? You going to snitch on me? Sluts like you think you're so big and bad because the headmaster chooses your team over anyone else." Cardin sneered as his jockeys started howling with laughter at the jab that he made towards the girls.
"Or are you just mad because no one wants to give your team a chance because all they see wasted potential." Rei said before sticking a piece of bacon in her mouth, she may have just met them but team RWBY were nice enough in her book so it's not wrong to defend them.
"What did you just say you filthy mongrel?" Cardin growled out to the little girl.
"I said this. All. They. See. Is. Wasted. Potential." She emphasized each word to get through his thick skull.
"Why you little BITCH!" Cardin roared raising his hand up and bringing it down to hit Rei... only for it to stop half way from its mark in an iron grip. Looking up Cardin saw the face an enraged Ares with an absolute murderous look in his eyes. Cardin attempt to free his hand only for it to stay put in Ares' right hand, as Cardin tried to free his hand teams RWBY and JNPR looked in awe at Ares. They never noticed how tall he was until now, he might even beat Yatsuhashi in height and he's the tallest kid in this school. Ares released Cardin's arm as Dove tried to punch him in the back of the head only to have a maced tail smash into his stomach drawing a crack that resounded throughout the lunch room, Sky then tried kick the back of Ares' knees to which he blocked by placing his tail in front of them. Ares then crouched and spun in a 360 knocking Sky off his feet while breaking his legs in the process which sounded painful enough, it didn't help that Ares stomped on the legs breaking them further and giving Sky's legs compound fractures and drawing a scream of agony from the boy. Ares turned around slowly and stared at Russel who looked close to shitting himself as he looked the monstrosity that injured his team, he turned to run only to feel clawed hands grab his shoulders and yank him back into the lunchroom. He looked up to see the beast staring at him with a sadistic grin that occupied razor sharp canines that looked ready to tear the flesh off of his bones, fearing for his life Russel's body completely shutdown and he fainted leaving only Cardin left to deal with a pissed off older brother. As Cardin nursed his hand he noticed a shadow loom over him and was scared to look up but made the mistake anyways, in front of him would be considered the devil himself. As he stared up at the monster in front of him he made one last attempt to harm this creature by punching it in the mouth, this proved to be the worst mistake of Cardin's life as Ares bit the fist crushing the knuckles between his teeth. Cardin started screaming as he felt bone being turned to dust by this thing's mouth, he then felt an intense burning heat that started cooking his fist, which forced Cardin to actually start sobbing as his had turned to a smoldering piece of meat. Cardin thought that his hand would be gone but his saving grace came from someone you don't want to piss off... Glynda Goodwitch. She then used her telekinesis to throw Ares into a nearby wall and pin him there while he thrashed around and snarled like some sort of rabid animal in a cage.
"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS!" She screamed as she looked around and saw team CRDL on the ground either unconscious or in massive amounts of pain. She then turned to Ares who was still thrashing around under her telekinesis and after a few minutes she found herself looking in horror... he was actually breaking out of it. Little by little he broke out of her spell and soon she found herself having to lift Cardin off the ground to protect him from the raging older sibling as he leaped and threw objects at him. Ares then picked up an entire table and threw it with such precision that Glynda had a hard time maneuvering Cardin out of the way. Just as she was about to use her semblance again two shrill voices echoed throughout the lunchroom making the raging sibling stop in his tracks as he picked up another table.
"ARES! STOP!" Turning around Ares found himself looking at his younger siblings and the teams, his siblings had tears coming out of their eyes and the teams had a look of horror etched on their faces. Setting down the table gently and walking towards them he noticed the teams took a few steps back but his siblings took a few steps forward, pretty soon they were a couple of feet apart and just stared at each other.
"Y-you promised you weren't going to that do that again." Rei choked a bit as she looked at her older brother in fear, something she only ever did once in her short lifetime.
"Y-yeah, you promised us that we would never have to see it until we were older." Ken cried a bit, he had been scared of a lot of things and got over it but seeing your older brother turn partially savage was one of the scariest things in his life that he'd never get over.
Ares looked down in guilt as he looked around the room and noticed it's completely trashed, then he noticed the boys that he had fought. While they may have started the fight and he finished it that's no reason to turn savage on them and almost kill them but it became personal when he almost hit Rei. Eventually the two younger siblings hugged their older brother and sobbed into his chest, to be honest it broke his heart when his siblings cry and it broke it even more when he realized that he's the cause of it.
Turning savage is the worst state of a monster's sanity, it marks when their bloodlust is massive enough to where it clouds judgment and harms anything around it, whether it be loved ones or enemies no one is safe when a monster goes savage. Thus why his skin is savage, he embraced his savagery and came into terms with it which marked him as the savage skinned Goliath. The one who haunts young one's dreams, the boogeyman of monsters and humans, and the one that serves as a reminder of what true bloodlust looks like when it's out of control.
Well,well,well look who it is... my viewers. Anyways creepiness aside thank you for reviewing on this story and sticking with it. So in the AN at the top I forgot to mention how they got here. You all remember that rock that Rei and Ken loved so much? Well, it's actually a transporter beacon which leads to a place called the abyss or rift, it'll be explained later on in the story, anyways it basically transported them to this Remnant due to them holding that certain beacon. Like I said it'll be explained more when the Behemoth and Gorgon are introduced into the story. Anyways remember to review because I'm always interested in what you guys and gals have to say. ăăăȘă (Sayonara). I actually forgot I can speak Japanese and English.