Chapter 3: Disagreements and make ups
AN: Welcome again ladies and gentlemen to another chapter of Evolution. Thanks for reading it up until this point and wanting to see where it continues. I noticed the last chapter was kind of shit in my opinion and that's because I kind of just wrote a bunch of bullshit because I was stressed, this chapter will have more thought into it and hopefully be better. Oh and one last thing Ares can speak but only in through snarls and growls that Rei and Ken can understand. So without further adieu let's roll on with the story.
The siblings and RWBY were following Ms. Goodwitch to Ozpin's office, though the trip was quiet. Ares looked back at his siblings and noticed that they were sticking closer to the team rather than him and it made him feel even more guilty of his actions. No one dared to talk as the group made their way to the headmaster's office in fear of pissing off the older brother, as the group neared the elevator Glynda spoke up to the team.
"Children, I want you all to go back to your dorm room. I need these three to speak with the headmaster." She said as she entered the elevator. The team nodded and began to walk back to their room leaving the siblings and Glynda in the elevator. The ride up to Ozpin's office was quiet for the most part with the exception of Ken and Rei shuffling in place, as the elevator opened the two younger siblings were struck with awe at the room.
"This way children." Glynda instructed as she made her way to Ozpin's desk and stood beside it. The three followed close behind with Ken and Rei in front of Ares walking fast.
"Good evening children, how are you all today." Ozpin said with a small smile.
"...Fine I guess." Rei said softly while rubbing her arm.
"...We're okay..." Ken said as well while softly swaying his tail.
"..." Ares just stared at the headmaster in distrust, something about this man rubbed him the wrong way.
"That's good. Now what are your names young ones?" He asked.
"Rei" Rei said quietly.
"Ken" Ken replied just as quiet while avoiding Ozpin's gaze.
"..." Ares didn't reply as he just stared at the headmaster some more.
"Is there a reason you're not talking young man?" Ozpin asked.
"He doesn't really talk sir, he hasn't talked since we got here." Rei answered.
"What is his name then?" Ozpin asked.
"His name is Ares." She replied.
Ozpin hummed in response while rubbing his chin as he looked at the older sibling in curiosity. Ares just glared at the older man in front of him and found him odd, he acted just like the scientist back on Shear with the way he was observing them and it unnerved him.
"I assume you all don't have anywhere to go?" Ozpin asked the two younger siblings.
"Well... not really. We haven't found a place to stay yet." Rei answered to the older man.
"Well how would you like to stay here? We can provide you all with all the necessities you all need until you find a suitable place to stay. What do you all say?" Ozpin asked the three.
"Um... I don't know... what do you say Ken?" asked Rei unsure.
"Hmm, I think we should take it." He answered with the shrug of his shoulders.
"Why?" She asked.
"Just think about it Rei, we have all the stuff we need here. We have food, shelter, and etc. I think it's the perfect place to stay for the time being." He answered.
"...Wow. That's the most intelligent thing I've ever heard you say." She said with humor in her voice. Ken just stuck his tongue out at his sister before turning to Ares.
"What do you say Ares?" Ken asked. Ares thought about it for a minute. On one hand they had a place to stay but on the other hand he didn't know what intentions the man in front of him had, this whole thing could be a trap waiting to happen.
"No" Ares said through a growl, the two younger siblings were surprised he spoke. Shaken out of their stupor they began to question as to why he disagreed.
"What do you mean no?" Ken said through his own series of growls.
"It means exactly as it sounds Ken. For one we don't know what he wants from us, for all we know he could be another hunter waiting for us to be at our weakest before killing us." Ares replied back.
"But he doesn't even seem that bad Ares. Just think about it, we have shelter, food, and even people we can have a conversation with." Ken said hoping to get his older brother to see the big picture.
"Looks can be deceiving brother, have you even bothered to ask him what he wants from us?" Ares asked.
"Maybe he doesn't want anything from us Ares. Why would you think like that?" Ken asked.
"People like him always want something from others if he's offering hospitality." Ares replied.
"At least give it a chance Ares, we have no other place to go." Ken said.
"No Ken, this whole deal seems shady. We're not staying and that's final." Ares said growing frustrated at how this conversation is going.
"Well what do you suppose we do then hmm?" Ken asked his older brother, his own frustration growing.
"We do what we always do. Find a suitable shelter, make use of the wildlife, and thrive. If that plan goes haywire we do what we always do... relocate." Ares said.
"Well I'm tired of relocating every time something bad happens!" Ken shouted, "Why is your plan every time something bad happens is to relocate?! You don't even think about Rei and I do you?! You just think that moving will solve all of our problems huh?! It doesn't Ares!" Ken screamed at his older brother.
"Well what do you want me to do?! Huh?! Just wait for the wildlife find us when we're at our weakest and kill us?! Or how about the other monsters?! You know how they are Ken, they wouldn't hesitate to kill us if they got they chance! I do this to protect you two!" Ares roared in his brother's face.
"Well stop worrying so much about us! We aren't babies anymore Ares!" Ken screamed back.
"I worry about you two because you can't defend yourselves! I'm the only one who can defend you two!" Ares snarled back.
"Well stop! You're not dad!" Ken screamed before clasping his hands around his mouth. Ares froze while looking at his brother and Rei gasped while she had her hands on her mouth. Glynda and Ozpin were confused as to what the two were arguing about and were about to say something until they heard Ken say something to Ares only for him to interrupt him.
"A-Ares I didn't mean to say tha-" Ken tried to explain.
"Save it Ken. I may not be dad but I'm the closest fucking thing you two have to him. You think I want to move all the time? No, the reason we move so much is so what happened to him doesn't happen to you two. I do this shit to keep you two from harm, but don't you ever think I do this without thinking of you two first. I do this for you two." Ares said walking to the elevator but not before looking back, "You two can stay here, I'm not. I'm leaving and I suggest you two do the same."
As the elevator descended to ground level Ares had a million thoughts crashing in his mind 'Why the fuck would he say that?! He knew talking about dad was off limits!' his angry side screamed in his mind.
'He was angry, moving around that much at such a young age can do that to someone especially when a few of the places is somewhere they've grown attached to.' His reasonable side said.
'That still doesn't give him the right to talk about dad, it was uncalled for. So what if we leave? He'll realize his mistake and come crawling back to us like he always does.' The angry side of him said as he walked outside and began to leave the school grounds.
'But that doesn't excuse us to leave them with two complete strangers. Go back and make up with him, without you in this world he would be lost and you should probably go back and get them since you don't know what that man and women are capable of.' His reasonable side said. Ares' eyes widened as that final thought popped in his head. He quickly bolted back to the tower and began to climb the wall by sinking his claws in it and quickly scaling it, as he was climbing the wall students began to look in his direction and stare with their jaws wide open. As he reached the window he stared looked into the room and saw Rei and Ken still talking to Ozpin and Glynda with looks of slight fear and confusion on their faces before they noticed him and waved... well Rei did while Ken just had a guilty look on his face. Ozpin and Glynda turned around to see what the two were staring at and adopting a shocked look on their faces as they stared at the older brother. Seeing that there wasn't any open window Ares started headbutting the window to break it since he needed both hands to hang onto the wall. As the glass started to give away Ozpin and Glynda began backing up to avoid being hit by the glass. The glass finally gave away and Ares entered the room and stared at the four before moving over to his siblings and kneeling down.
"Ken?" Ares said as he looked at his little brother.
"..." Ken just remained silent as he kept his head down in guilt.
"Ken look at me..." Ares said as he grabbed Ken's chin gently and made him look at him. He noticed that his brother had slightly red eyes and a few tears trailing down his face, "I'm not mad at you anymore." Ares said.
"You're not?" Ken rubbed his eyes
"No. Frustrated yes, but mad no." Ares said as his tail was swaying back and forth.
"But why did you come back?" Ken asked.
Ares just sighed, "The reason I came back was for you two, plus who's going to tease you two and roughen you up a bit?" Ares smiled as Ken giggled and punched his shoulder before he engulfed him in the biggest hug he could muster with his tiny arms.
"Does this mean you're going to stay with us?" Ken asked as he looked at his older brother.
*sigh* "...Yes it means I'm going to stay with you two little bastards." Ares chuckled
"Hey! I'm not a little bastard, I'm a big one!" Ken puffed out his chest as Rei snorted trying not to laugh and Ares began to laugh at his little brother.
"Yeah I'm a big bastard... wait, what's a bastard!" Ken asked as he had never known what it was. At that comment Rei couldn't control it anymore and began to giggle uncontrollably and Ares just chuckled before ruffling his brother's hair.
"So what do they want from us?" Ares asked
Well... it's more of what they want from you." Rei answered while swinging her legs on the chair. Ares raised an eyebrow at the comment.
"What do they want from me?" Ares asked.
"They want you to join their school and 'teach them our ways' " Rei said while doing the bunny ears at the last part of the comment making the older sibling laugh.
"What ways do they think we have?" The older brother asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I dunno and I don't really care. Can we go now I'm getting hungry." Rei said while patting her stomach for emphasis.
"Seriously? You two just ate like what... and hour and a half ago?" Ares asked.
"Hey we kids need our nutrients to grow up big and strong." Ken said while flexing his tiny arms.
"Brother... stop, you're just embarrassing yourself." Rei mused from her seat, "All joking aside what do you say Ares?" she asked.
"...Fine... We'll stay here." Ares finally said after giving a quick thought.
"Yes!" both siblings said as they turned towards Ozpin and Glynda who just observed quietly from the sidelines.
"He said we can stay here." Rei said somewhat excited.
"Oh well that is certainly good news. Now here are some of the things you three have to do-" Ozpin said but was interrupted by Ares who spoke in his language.
"On one condition." Ares said to his siblings who turned to look at him.
"What did he say?" asked Glynda.
"He said on one condition." answered Ken.
"And what is that condition?" Ozpin asked while sipping from his mug.
"Every few nights I need to hunt." Ares stated his demand.
"He said every few nights he needs to hunt." Rei answered the witch.
"Why would you need to hunt, you have all the food here." Glynda stated not seeing the reason for the brother to hunt for food.
"Oh! He mainly hunts just to hunt or when he's super angry, he usually just likes the thrill of it all. From the tracking, to the stalking, and finally the thrill of the kill. Most of the prey he hunts he either throws it away for the wildlife to eat or for us to eat." Ken answered for his brother already knowing the motives for him going out.
"...Well that's um... unexpected and how long are these hunts of his usually?" Glynda asked clearly interested in Ares' hunts.
"Hmm, usually from the start of the night to the break of dawn." Rei answered already knowing the time it takes for Ares to hunt.
"Hmm." Ozpin rubbed his chin, "If he is able to get to classes on time then I don't see why not." he stated.
"So does this mean we can stay here?" Rei asked hopefully.
"Yes that means you three can stay." Ozpin answered with a small smile, "You three will have to reside in another team's dorm for the time being." he said.
"Ok, thank you! Bye grey haired man and blonde lady!" Ken shouted as he and Rei climbed onto Ares' back as the three were heading in the direction of the window.
"W-what are you doing?!" Glynda shrieked as the three turned around to look at her in confusion.
"What?" Rei asked while tilting her head.
"Why don't you use the elevator?! That way is to dangerous for you three without aura!" Glynda shouted trying to get the three children away from certain death.
"Oh come on! It's not that bad." Ken said looking out the window before looking at her again, "Yeah it's not that far of a fall, worst case scenario we'll crush something." Ken said while waving his hand dismissively.
"Absolutely not! You children will do such dangerous things at such a young age." The woman said while crossing her arms. The siblings just stared at her then each other before jumping out the multistory window drawing a worried shriek from the witch as she rushed to the window to try to save them. Only to stop as she saw that Ares had dug his claws in the side of the building slowing their descent before leaping off the side of the tower and landing on the ground making a spider web of cracks in it. The three looked at her and waved... well two did the last one just stared at her before turning around and making their way to the dorm rooms unaware that some students were recording the whole thing to post it on the internet.
In the dorm room area after dinner:
As the siblings were making their way to the dorm rooms they began to hear the chatter among the student body.
"Did you see what those three did?" One students asked.
"Yeah, they leaped out of the headmaster's window. That's fucking insane." Another said.
"What was the older one thinking? Risking the younger one's lives like that." another student said disgusted.
"I don't know man, but what kind of faunus are they? I've never seen one that had spikes on their back." some other student asked in curiosity.
"Holy shit that's actually kind of terrifying now that you look at them more closely, why are the younger one's climbing on the bigger one's back" a student asked intimidated by the presence of Ares.
"I don't care what some people think I think it's cute." a female student commented.
"Lisa you think anything is cute." another deadpanned.
"Fuck you Linda so what if I think it's cute especially the older one." The student named Lisa flirted. At this point the three began to tune the voices out as they reached RWBY dorm room. Knocking a couple of times they heard a startled yelp and a loud thump as the door swung open as Ruby face was met with Ares' abs. Ruby's face flushed a bright red as she slowly looked up to look at Ares' confused face and saw that Rei and Ken were peeking from his shoulders, Ruby then looked back at his abs and turned into a sputtering mess.
"O-oh my Oum! I-I'm sorry I d-didn't mean to stare I-I just kind of... Y-you know what I-I think Yang called me! C-coming Yang!" Ruby shouted as she bolted back passed the three drawing looks of confusion from them as they just shrugged and entered the room. Rei and Ken hopped off of Ares' back and began to explore the room while Ares just snorted in amusement and began to lay down on the floor. As the younger two were looking around a certain black book was found on Blake's bed Rei, with her ever growing curiosity, picked up the book and read the cover Ninjas in Love 2.
"Whatcha got there?" Ken asked while peeking over her shoulder.
"I don't know. I found it on Blake's bed, I mean I know it's a book but I don't know what it's about." Rei shrugged before walking to Ares' lying form.
"Hey Ares? We found this book on Blake's bed and we want to know what it's about, will you read it to us?" Rei asked.
"Fine... hand it over." Ares replied while getting in a sitting position and reading a few pages before his eyes widened and he quickly shut the book.
"What?" Ken asked.
"I'm not reading this to you guys." Ares stated firmly.
"Why not?" they both asked.
"Just trust me on this..." He replied stoically.
"Okay?" Ken asked with a raised eyebrow. Just as he finished saying that team RWBY walked into the room and looked at the three, Blake then noticed what was in Ares' hand and turned a shade of crimson before bolting over to his figure and snatching the book from him. He raised an eyebrow at her action before shrugging it off as her face reddened even more as she stared at his body when he stood up.
"Hey guys!" Ken and Rei shouted at the girls in excitement.
"Hey!" Ruby shouted back with as much excitement before looking at Ares and quickly turning away with a red face.
"The grey haired man and the blonde lady said we can stay here!" Ken said.
"Really? That's pretty cool!" exclaimed Yang, in truth she loved these two kids and she usually never likes kids but something about these two brought something out in her.
"Where will you guys be staying?" Weiss asked the three.
"Well he said something about staying here for the time being so it's safe to assume that we're staying here." Rei answered simply.
"Hmph, just don't sleep in Ruby's bed to much she's terrible in bed." Weiss said without realizing what she said but a certain blonde haired brawler did.
"Jeez, Weiss didn't know you were so judgmental about who you bring to bed~" Yang grinned at the heiress's reaction.
"S-shut up! Y-you know what I meant you oaf! I-I just mean she gets feisty when she doesn't get enough of the sheets." Weiss tried to explain only to blush a deeper shade of red as she just realized when she said.
"Damn ice queen, didn't know you like em rough like that. You sure do know how to pick them sis." Yang grinned.
"Yaaaaaaaaaaaang. That's not funny!" Ruby stomped as her face began to blush again. Ares merely chuckled at the sight before him and then remembered he needed to go hunting tonight.
"Rei. Ken. Come over here." Ares said as he got the attention of the two. The four girls eyes widened at the sound of his voice -err well snarl- it was deep and rough but soft and gentle to the ears. The girls began to draw looks of confusion as Rei and Ken adopted the same language Ares was using to communicate with them, and tried to decipher what they were saying but failed in the end.
"I'm going hunting tonight okay?" he asked the two.
"Okay, but if there is anything shiny can you bring it to us?" Rei asked him.
"Sure I'll try, but if I don't find anything I'll bring something back next time." He smiled as he kissed her forehead and placed his forehead against Ken's.
"I'll see you two in the morning goodnight." Ares said.
"Night Ares! Happy hunting." The two exclaimed as Ares leaped out the window drawing gasp from the four girls.
"Where's he going?" Blake asked.
"He's going hunting." Ken stated simply while playing with his wings making them spark with electricity and a giggle from him.
"Hunting? Why's he doing that, he's got all the food here." Ruby asked
"He just usually hunts to hunt." Rei sort of explained, she already explained it once she's not doing it again.
"So he just goes out there and sees what kind of game he can bag?" Yang asked.
"Pretty much." The two answered simply.
"When does he usually get back from his hunting trips?" Weiss asked.
"Usually around dawn. He often comes back with something for us." Ken said with an excited tone. For some reason when Ken and Rei smiled it brought loads of joy to RWBY.
"Huh, that's pretty cool. What kind of weapons does he use?" Ruby asked them.
"Um, his claws, tail, fire breath, boulders..." Rei listed off using her fingers.
"OHHHHH!" the team exclaimed in surprise.
"Corpses from the numerous people that tried to kill us." Rei stated simply.
"Wait what was that last one?" Yang asked.
"Nothing." Rei quickly replied.
"Well I think we should go to bed since it's pretty late." Weiss said while looking at the time and saw how late it was.
"Yeah seems like a plan. Night girls and boy." Yang said while stretching and getting in her bed.
"Goodnight." the girls replied back. They all turned to the sound of a loud snore and found Ken hanging upside down on the bed post, they all stared with open mouths (with the exception of Rei) at his position.
"Is that safe?" Blake asked.
"Not in the slightest." Rei answered before climbing up to Ruby's bunk and getting comfortable.
"Shouldn't he I don't know... be in the bed not on the side." Weiss asked.
"Hey I don't judge how you sleep. Especially when you're cuddling Ruby like the way you do." Rei shot back with as much sass in her voice as a six year old could (which wasn't very much).
"Oh so my vision isn't going bad, huh? I knew you were doing something with Rubes this morning Weiss cream." Yang grinned.
"Q-quiet you! Just go to sleep." Weiss blushed at the comment. Yang just chuckled and turned in for the night as did everybody else, the only sound other than the quietness of the room was Ken's snoring.
30 minutes later:
Blake woke up to someone shaking and groggily turned to see who it was. She was surprised to see Rei standing there twiddling her thumbs and looking around nervously.
"U-um Blake? C-can I s-sleep with you tonight?" she asked in a quiet nervous tone.
"Yeah sure, why?" Blake asked surprised at the young girl's question.
"Ken and I usually sleep with Ares when we have a nightmare or are cold." Rei answered meekly.
"Sure climb in." Blake said while scooting over for the young girl. As Rei got in the bed she pressed herself against Blake's figure and snuggle into her, after getting comfortable she began to fall asleep. Blake stared at the young girl in her arms and smiled before setting her head down on her pillow, she then saw that Ken wasn't on the bed post anymore. She began to look around worried before her eyes caught a glimpse of his sleeping form in between Weiss and Ruby snoring softly, she smiled at the sight and noticed that Weiss had her arms wrapped around his waist and pulled him close to her body. Her attention was brought back to the young girl as she tightened her grip around Blake and snuggled in closer. Blake blushed at the girl and wrapped her arms around her pulling her closer before falling asleep but not before hearing a roar that echoed throughout the night which woke the six occupants but two were still half asleep.
"What was that?" Weiss asked before noticing she had her arms around Ken and quickly let go of him drawing a whimper from the young boy. She quickly wrapped her arms around him again and blushed when he did the same.
"Yeah what was that? It better be something big to wake me up." Yang tiredly growled.
"I was having the best dream about cookies." Ruby pouted and noticed that Ken was in the bed with them. She looked at Weiss and giggled at her holding him before he shifted over to grab Ruby which drew a giggle from the heiress making the reaper blush in embarrassment.
"Ugh, Ares needs to keep it down." Rei groaned.
"That was Ares?!" Yang quietly shouted.
"Mhmm." Rei hummed in response, "He usually gets like this when he fights something bigger or stronger than him." Rei answered tiredly.
"So he gets all riled up when he takes on something big and strong?" Yang asked in a sultry tone.
"Yeah he does, he gets aggressive something tries to overpower him." Rei stated simply before falling back asleep.
"Heh, I like the sound of that~" Yang flirted.
"Yang stop. Go back to sleep." Blake
"Oh come on Blakey, You're telling me you don't want someone big, strong, mysterious, and quiet trying to overpower you. He sounds like my kind of guy." Yang teased and blushed at the thought of the older brother.
"S-shut up and got to sleep." Blake blushed, "And the reason he's you're kind of guy is because you never had one in the first place." Blake shot hotly before falling asleep.
W-what the... O-oh that's not even remotely... You k-know you got a lot of... Never mind forget it." Yang said in a sputtering mess before mumbling angrily and falling asleep.
This is what he lives for... the thrill of the hunt. He loved every part of it, the wind brushing against his skin as he ran, the feeling of the soil under his feet, the night air scent flowing through his nostrils, and finally the hunting. Tonight was a hunt night and these so called 'predators' think of him as prey but tonight is the night where the hunters become the hunted, the prey becomes the predator, the man becomes a monster. It was a hunt night and he will be taking lives no matter how big or small, he will be killing something tonight and the prey will be plentiful.
Ares chuckled at the thought of what a Behemoth told him "Happy hunting Goliath, may the prey be the sheep and you be the wolf, " he chuckled at the the quote from the wise Behemoth as a savage grin formed on his face. The blood lust tank was empty and by dawn it would be full.
AN: Holy shit 4,902 words this chapter. Anyway thank you everyone for reading this story and thank you those who reviewed on it, expect a chapter for this probably next Tuesday or Wednesday... I dunno. This is a shit excuse for not finishing it but I was to busy playing Gears of War 3, Ryse son of Rome, Warframe, Layers of Fear, and Evolve. Originally this document was going to be another chapter for Remnants of a Golden Gear but I decided "hey people like this story and I can't disappoint them, so fuck it let's give them something to enjoy." so here we are. So remember to review I'm interested in what you guys have to say plus I need some ideas on the Behemoth and Gorgon because I have no fucking clue what their names are going to be. Anyways thank you all and I will catch you all on the flip side, have a good one.