AN: Welcome back everyone to another chapter of Evolution. I've been a sort of grind with writing all of a sudden, I don't know why. Don't have much to say other than review time.
helkil: First, don't call it bullshit because it's fucking insulting and unnecessary; I get that there are some flaws in it but it's not bullshit. Second, if I want to let them have some human characteristics then so fucking be it. It's my fucking story not yours; you're not my parents, boss, or anybody else that has control over me so if you don't like it then leave. Finally, if you punch your computer then you do what makes you feel comfortable in life. If you don't like the story then leave, you have millions of other stories you can read on this site; I'm a fan of Evolve and RWBY which means my story isn't canon. Plus there are stories where fucking grimm have human characteristics and can do shit humans can, so piss off.
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XCOMHEAVY12: Wow... I didn't mean to make you feel like a dick, my bad. It wasn't my intent to make you feel like a dick. You actually managed to think of an aftermath of what happened on Shear after the monsters went extinct, kudos to you man.
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Well that's all I've got to say other than if you guys have any negative reviews then keep them to yourselves because it's rude, unnecessary, and fucking childish. So if you don't like the story then please politely leave; I'm saying this from one respectable person to another.
"Stupid fucking nosy ass girls." Ares snarled as he marched through the forest, breaking everything in his path. A Beowolf tried to leap at him from his right but got its neck snapped as a result. His negativity began to draw grimm from all over the forest, making him the negativity hot spot. Ares stopped and looked around to see multiple Beowolves, Ursa, and a Deathstalker closing in on his position. He sighed in frustration and pinched the bridge of his nose before glaring at the creatures surrounding him; he swiftly dodged to the left as a Beowolf lunged at him from behind. Quickly getting up and charging the Beowolf, he grabbed it by the neck and sank his teeth into its throat making it flail around wildly. Ares then ripped his head back while the throat was still in his mouth and threw the suffocating Beowolf to the side; it held its throat to try and stop the bleeding but eventually gave up and slumped down. Spitting the throat out he looked at the Ursa that started to charge at him, its speed caught him off guard for a second when it smashed into his stomach and sent him into a nearby tree. He slumped down and quickly got up to dodge a clawed appendage, the Ursa swung again at Ares who caught it in his arms. He then sank his teeth into the arm and began to thrash his head around, sawing the Ursa's arm off. The Ursa roared in pain for a second before it was suddenly cut off when a clawed hand grabbed its windpipe; Ares then squeezed the windpipe and ripped it out, making the Ursa claw at its throat before falling to the ground dead.
The Deathstalker screeched at Ares and charged at him with great speed. He sidestepped the stinger then ducked under its claws when it to grab him; when he was under its belly he suddenly jumped up using the spikes on his back to penetrate the soft underbelly of the grimm. The Deathstalker screeched in pain and fell on Ares trying to crush him, it thought it won when it didn't feel anything until a massive pain erupted from under it. The pain eventually grew to its stomach making it screech in agony, it felt like there was something inside it trying to force its way out. Eventually its legs grew weak and it fell on the soft grass with a loud thud; its back started to bulge multiple times before it suddenly erupted in a shower of blood and gore staining the grass. Ares jumped out of the hole with the Deathstalker's heart in his hand and looked at it with wonder.
"It's so... warm." He said as he gazed at it curiously. "I wonder how it'll taste." He added as he sniffed the heart and took a bite out of it. His eyes widened at the taste and he began to gorge on the heart; blood splattered against his face coating it like paint to a blank canvas. His eyes turned to slits the more he ate and he began to eat more quickly, trying to get as much of it as he could. When the heart was gone and only blood remained on his hands and face he began to quickly lick the remainder off and let the accumulated blood sit in his mouth to try and savor it as much as he could.
"That... was amazing. If this is what these so called monsters of the night taste like, then I think I've found a new feeding ground." Ares smiled savagely. He quickly looked around and noticed that the other grimm were looking at him cautiously and began backing away when he advanced; he suddenly charged the closest Beowolf and tore out its throat with his teeth before swallowing it and licking his face to get the blood off. He began to tear into the Beowolf with his claws and started stuffing its flesh into his mouth quickly. Blood, organs, muscle, and pieces of bone entered his mouth and found their way to his stomach where they melted in its acids. The rest of the pack backed away from the one that was eating their pack mate and flinched when he turned his attention to them; his eyes were reddish orange and slits, his teeth glistened in the moonlight making the blood that dripped from his mouth shine, and his tongue slowly came out and cleaned his face. He got up slowly and marched to them and they started backing away but didn't get the chance when he took in a deep breath and blew a stream of fire at them, burning them to crisp. Ares then snapped off a piece of the burnt flesh from one of them and tasted it, his eyes widened when he quickly ate one of the bodies before frowning when the rest disappeared.
"The flesh taste so good, this hunting ground definitely suites my needs. If only I could find a way to bring some back to Rei and Ken, I'm sure they would just love the taste." Ares said as he trekked further into the forest, he stopped when he looked at the sky and snarled in frustration when he saw it was close to dawn... wait! Today is Friday, which means he has all weekend to explore the forest. He just needs to get back to the damn school and finish those damn classes, honestly you don't need to go to school to learn how to kill. If you want to learn how to kill, just go out there get experience from getting in fights. Ares walked back to the school in a much slower pace, now that he learned that he could eat the wildlife here; he just had to get Rei and Ken ready for the day and deal with... the girls. A figure slowly descended from the trees.
"Quite the interesting fellow... I wonder what he'll do when he finds out I've been following him around. Oh, I do hope he puts up a fight before I wrap him up. I always enjoy prey that struggles." A figure giggled as they quickly jumped back into the trees leaving a burning puddle of green slime on the ground.
In the room:
Rei slowly woke up and rubbed her eyes while yawning. She looked around and noticed that everybody was still asleep with the exception of Ares... he's been gone more than he has been before and it's worrying. At first she enjoyed him being gone because that meant she could do whatever she wanted to, but now it feels colder without him. She missed it when he would come back with something to eat and entertain her and Ken about the fights he got in, the different wildlife he would encounter, or just sleep with him; knowing she'd see him in the morning. Rei sighed and quietly hopped off the bed, she entered the bathroom and tried to look in the mirror but couldn't due to her small height. Peeking out of the bathroom she saw that everyone was still asleep and went back in; she slowly put energy in her 'tails' and slowly levitated in the air to look at herself in the mirror. Pale skin, dark silver eyes, and silver hair; nothing out of the ordinary other than her being a half breed. She pondered how they got that way and began to recall when they...died.
"Why did we have to though...we didn't even do anything wrong." Rei said quietly as tears began to well in the corner of her eyes. "We were just playing..." She sniffled. Her sniffles became soft crying as she levitated back on the ground and sat on it, she brought her knees up to her chest and cried in them; she didn't notice someone kneel in front of her until they said something.
"Rei?" She heard Ares say and looked up quickly before wiping away the tears.
"O-oh hey Ares. I was just cleaning my eyes from dirt." She tried to lie making Ares give her a stern look.
"Rei, don't lie to me. Why were you crying?" He asked.
"I wasn't crying. There was dirt in my eyes and I was wiping them away." She smiled, Ares saw through her lie.
"I'm your older brother Rei, I know when you're lying. I just want to know why you're crying." Ares said. Rei looked like she was about to tell another lie but sighed and looked at Ares sadly.
"Ares...why did those people kill us?" She asked surprising Ares for a second before he sighed.
"I don't know Rei. Maybe it's because they're violent psychopaths with nothing better to do than hunt monsters." Ares answered sadly. Rei didn't say anything and began to cry again, she felt Ares wrap her in a hug and squeeze a little bit making her hug back. She wrapped her arms around his neck and he picked her up and began to sway in a back and forth motion, he did this for a few minutes making her sobs become sniffles. She put her face in the crook of his neck and closed her eyes; she eventually fell asleep in his arms but still kept a tight grip on him as if he would disappear any moment.
"I got ya baby sis... I got ya." Ares said as he kept swaying back and forth. He went back into the room and sat down in front of the bookshelf, leaning on it while humming softly. He looked over to Blake and saw her look at him and blush a deep red before looking away quickly and setting her head on her pillow; dismissing it as one of her weird antics he turned to Rei and noticed that she began to shiver and made his body glow red, generating heat for her; she eventually stopped shivering and snored softly. His eyelids began to grow heavy and vision started to blur, he slumped his head down and rested it on Rei's before closing his eyes and falling asleep.
Morning:
Ares slowly opened his eyes and looked around to see everybody up and getting ready. He noticed that Rei wasn't in his arms and Ken wasn't anywhere to be seen until he heard the bathroom door open; he saw Rei and Ken with towels around them and their hair damp. They noticed him up and quickly ran over to him and sat next to him, leaning on him and closing their eyes.
"Any reason why you two are leaning against me?" Ares asked.
"We just cleaned ourselves and you're warm." Rei said sleepily.
"What she said." Ken agreed just as sleepily. Ares just laughed a bit before closing his eyes and leaning against the dresser, this only lasted a few minutes before somebody decided to interrupt his sleep by lightly kicking his foot.
"You got to get up big man." Yang said without much emotion in her voice. Ares sighed and picked up his siblings and set them on Weiss' bed before entering the bathroom. When he entered the bathroom he looked in the mirror and noticed how he was covered in blood; wasn't that supposed to disappear when the grimm died? Dismissing it as another weird thing that this world has, he entered the shower and began to let the water wash away all the blood and dirt from his body; the water was cold but that didn't matter since he could raise his body temperature. He looked around and saw a tube of white sludge (Shampoo) by the nozzle and picked it up; looking at it he opened it and smelled it. He recoiled with a scrunched up face at the smell when he accidentally squeezed it and it splashed against his chest.
"Dammit I hate this white crap! What the hell is it?" Ares said angrily as he wiped the stuff off his chest. When he finally got the white sludge off of him he noticed another jar of sludge; this one was green and instantly drew his attention to it. He picked it up and smelled it and instantly like the scent, it reminded him of the forest. Getting a large amount and pouring it on his body, he began to spread it all over to try and get as much of it as he could to mask the scent of blood on him. His shower ended when the cold water eventually got to cold and made him growl in response; he exited the shower and saw that some clothes were sitting on the sink.
"How the hell did these get in here...you know what? I don't care how they got in here." Ares said as he picked up the clothes and began putting them on. He saw a note underneath his shirt when he picked it up and frowned when he read it.
Here's you clothes. Classes start in about 20 minutes so you better not be late, and apologize to Ruby because she isn't being her usually happy self. So apologize or else -Yang. Like hell he was going to apologize to her; she was one of the ones to get pissed off at him for defending his family. If she had just let him go to sleep like he wanted to then she wouldn't be in a solemn mood, not his fault she can't take the truth. Didn't matter though he had stupid classes he needed to attend to and a forest to explore later; he just needed to get through the day, shouldn't be to hard right?
Oh how wrong Ares was about the day not being hard. The moment he entered Port's classroom everybody glared at him; apparently Yang had told everybody what he said to Ruby and that immediately made his reputation go down, not that he had one to begin with nor cared about one. He only had a couple of problems with everybody's new found hate for him: One, he couldn't get anything done because somebody decided to take his shit. Two, people would actively try to make him late which ended up getting him a session of detention. The final thing, is that he isn't allowed to each in the lunch room for some odd fucking reason which made him hungry and when he gets hungry, he gets feral. Right now he was in Goodwitch's classroom with a scowl on his face sitting next to her since somebody thought it was funny to pull his seat when he was about to sit down...they didn't think it was so funny when he broke their legs.
"Alright class this is the last match for the day." Glynda stated as she randomized the chart. Ares and Yang's names popped up on the screen, the whole class went quiet. Ares stood up and twisted his neck making a loud crack that made the audience shudder at the sound; Yang just cracked her knuckles before shooting Ares a small glare. Both of the opponents headed to the armory to get their weapons and combat clothes...well Ares just went to go get his pants while Yang got her huntress gear. Five minutes later both of them came out and stood across from one another; Ares glared at Yang while swaying his tail back in forth while Yang glared at Ares while flexing her fist. The audience didn't dare to speak in slight fear of either of them turning their anger on them, no one dared to piss off fire dragon Yang or the monster known as Ares. Goodwitch saw the tension between the two start to rise so she decided to begin the match.
"Begin!" She said making Ares bolt towards Yang and leap at her. She quickly sidestepped him and threw a left hook at his stomach making him wince in pain. Ares tried to swipe at Yang, only to have her duck under it and uppercut him in the chin throwing his head back. He then jumped back as Yang gave a low sweep kick at him; Yang rushed at him and spun around to elbow him but failed as Ares caught it and kicked Yang's leg making her go in the air for a second. He then grabbed Yang's leg and spun her around before throwing her across the arena making skid before she got upright and used her feet to slow herself down. Ares jumped up in the air and smashed the ground before him making the crowd confuse, he then took a large piece of rock and threw it at Yang who smashed it with her fist. Ares used the momentary distraction to run on all fours and charge at Yang who barely had anytime to vault over him and watch as he collided with the wall, creating a smoke cloud. The arena went quiet for a second before a stream of fire erupted from the smoke making Yang dodge to the right, she could feel the heat just brush her skin even though she was a few feet away from it. Yang then fired all of her Ember Celica shells into the smoke and heard a pained roar emit from it, she smirked a bit until she saw Ares come out of the smoke with bullet holes in him and blood slowly leaking out.
"I-I didn't mean to-" Yang said but was interrupted when Ares shot off at her and shoulder charged her into the nearest wall. All breath in her lungs left her body as she fell to the ground and coughed violently; she was suddenly tossed up in the air and smacked with a barbed tail, launching her across the room. Yang slowly got up and placed a hand on her right knee, his hits hurt...a lot. Yang saw she was in the red and placed a hand on her knee to stabilize herself and took a few deep breaths until she heard footsteps getting closer to her and looked up. Ares gripped her by the throat and lifted her up, bringing her eye level to him; she could see the anger in his eyes. He began to tighten his grip on her throat making her wheeze and gasp as she punched him in the face to try and make him loosen his grip on her throat but it only made him tighten it.
"Mr. Ares!" Glynda shouted, making him look at her. "Release Ms. Xiao Long this instant!" She commanded. Ares looked at her then at Yang who was still struggling in his grasp before throwing her into the stands and storming out the room snarling. Yang coughed and gasped while her team tried to help her up, she eventually caught her breath and sat in her seat. The whole class didn't say anything, they could hear stuff being smashed in the distance and a violent roar echo from the hallway making everybody shrink.
A few weeks later: (AN: Unnecessary time skip I know, but I can't have the whole story take span within a few days.)
It's been a few weeks since the fight between Ares and Yang, and needless to say everybody's been steering clear of him. After that day since he fought her and won, everybody's been either to scared to try and go near him or usually end up in the infirmary for trying to test him. Right now he was sitting at the lunch table with his siblings and Mrs. Miles (Someone he had grown somewhat accustomed to), since he wasn't welcome at the table with RWBY and JNPR right now.
"Hey Ares, how come we can't sit with everybody else?" Ken asked while shoveling a bunch of meat in his mouth.
"You two can, I'm not. It's because I beat Yang's ass and put numerous people in the infirmary because they tried to test their luck with me, and what did I tell you about eating so fast?" Ares scolded making Ken eat more slowly.
"But I mean it's not the same without you with us when we talk to them." Rei said as she ate a hamburger, well the meat anyways. Her and Ken have been eating more meat lately and it's a little concerning; it must be near that stage when they evolve.
"They don't like me because I said something to Ruby and didn't apologize. Then Yang told everybody making them immediately hate me because apparently Ruby is some star student or whatever." Ares said as he shoved a large piece of steak in his mouth. Ares ate the rest of his food quickly and set his head down in his arms; he hasn't been feeling good lately. He's been vomiting up this black sludge a few hours after he eats and his senses are going haywire, one moment they seem to sharpen then the next they seem to dull to the point where he can't even function.
"Hey Ares? When do we get to evolve?" Ken asked making Mrs. Miles look at them curiously.
"Evolve?" She asked. Ares was about to tell his siblings not to tell her anything but he was already to late.
"Yeah, as we get older our bodies seem to go through a rapid mutation to where we have more things." Ken explained making Ares slap his face.
"What kind of mutations?" Mrs. Miles asked.
"Well, it depends on what species you are. Like Ares' spikes on his back grow bigger and he grows larger when he evolves. Rei can warp faster and she can create copies of herself." Ken explained making Rei go wide eyed.
"Wow... that's fascinating. What type of species have these mutations?" Mrs. Miles asked.
"They're-" Ken was interrupted when Ares slammed his hand on the table making him shut up; looking up he saw Ares with a slightly agitated expression on his face.
"Ken...stop." Ares said sternly.
"Why?" Ken asked.
"Because I said so. She doesn't need to learn every little thing about us; she's not mom or dad and she's certainly not them." Ares said. Ken was about to argue until Ares said something. "If you don't tell her anything else then I'll take you two exploring with me tonight." Ares said making Rei and Ken go wide eyed.
"Will you really?!" Rei gasped, Ares nodded in response making her cheer.
"Sorry Mrs. Miles we can't tell you anything anymore." Rei quickly said as she quickly ran out the lunchroom excited with a confused Ken in tow. Ares turned to Mrs. Miles who had a confused expression on her face and began to type something.
"You don't need to know everything about us, so don't bother asking anymore questions. The only reason Ken told you something is because he's young and doesn't know any better; and as for what I promised them is taking them exploring." Ares typed and handed the scroll to her; she read it and handed it back.
"Why're they so excited about exploring?" She asked.
"They're young and like being free, something I want them to be. They like exploring and discovering new things with me, but they can't do that since we're being constricted by this place." Ares typed.
"Well...I guess I'm sorry you can't explore more." Mrs. Miles apologized. Ares snorted and walked out of the lunchroom, he brushed past a blonde haired boy with a monkey tail and a blue haired boy; both gaped at his size before walking in the lunchroom.
Later that day:
Ares was in the bathroom vomiting up the black sludge that's been bothering him for a few weeks. He spit the last of it out before flushing the toilet and watching the water swirl along with the sludge; it seemed to get thicker as time progressed and it made it harder to hide. He exited the bathroom and saw the girls and his siblings talking to the same blonde haired monkey boy and the blue haired one. The blonde one was the first to notice him and walked up to him with a smile.
"Sup big dude, I'm Sun." Sun greeted while holding out his hand. Ares stared at the hand with a stoic expression before slowly shaking it and quickly letting go; the blue haired one decided to introduce himself.
"Hey man, I'm Neptune. You should put on a shirt, might catch something." Neptune joked and lightly slapped Ares' arm, making him scowl.
"You shouldn't do that." Ken warned as he hung upside down form the side of Ruby's bunk.
"Eh, why?" Neptune asked.
"Last guy who did that got his arm ripped off." Ken said while using his tail to swing. Everyone went wide eyed at what he said and looked at Ares who only stared at Neptune with a stoic expression while swaying his tail.
"Y-you really didn't do that right?" Neptune laughed nervously.
"Yeah, he did. I watched it happen too." Rei said as she played with Blake's hair. Neptune visibly paled and slowly backed away from Ares who continued to give him a neutral expression, eventually he blinked and looked away and ignored everybody's expressions towards him.
"You two ready?" Ares asked making Ken and Rei smile.
"Oh yeah!" Both of them shouted as they climbed up on Ares' back, confusing Sun and Neptune. Ares walked towards the door and turned around before suddenly dashing towards the window and leaping out making the two boys scream.
"Did he just do what I think he did?!" Neptune shouted.
"Yeah he did! I mean it would be cool except for the fact that he had his siblings on his back." Sun said. He noticed how the girls didn't really react that much and raised an eyebrow.
"Why aren't you four concerned?" He asked.
"We've seen him do it numerous times before." Blake said.
"Really? He does this stuff all the time?" Sun asked.
"Yep." Blake just said. Silence enveloped the room for a few minutes before Neptune spoke up.
"Sooooo...where does he go?" He asked.
"We...we really don't know. When he usually comes back it's around dawn and he's always covered in blood." Ruby said making the boys suspicious.
"So he comes back covered in blood and what? Just falls asleep?" Sun asked.
"Pretty much." Yang said. The room went quiet again as everyone began to think about Ares and his nightly hunts.
"You think we should follow him?" Sun asked out of the blue.
"What?" Weiss asked. "Why would we do that?" She asked again.
"I don't know maybe because you all told us that he goes out during nights and always comes back covered in blood. For all we know he could be murdering people." Sun said making the girls think.
"I mean he did almost kill Cardin and his team a few weeks ago." Yang said.
"See? All the more reason." Sun said as he gestured towards the window. "Plus if he is then we can stop him." He added making the girls think about it.
"Should we guys...I mean he's probably just really protective of his siblings so maybe that's why he's mean." Ruby said.
"Ruby, even when they're not around him he's always mean. Plus, I feel like he's hiding something from us." Weiss said.
"Why do you think that?" Neptune asked.
"I remember about a week ago he was in the bathroom vomiting this black stuff and then snarling in the mirror." Weiss answered making everyone raise an eyebrow.
"Black stuff?" Blake asked.
"Yeah, I don't know what it was because he flushed it down the toilet, but when I confronted him about it his eyes changed to slits and he growled at me." Weiss finished.
"All the more reason to follow him!" Sun exclaimed making Neptune face palm. "Who's with me?" He asked.
"I'm in." Yang grinned.
"Me too." Ruby smiled.
"I'd like to know more about him and that black stuff." Weiss said.
"Nah." Blake said as she opened a book.
"W-what why not?" Sun asked.
"Because it's none of my business." She said.
"Blake if you don't come then I'll tell your secret." Yang grinned.
"What secret?" Blake asked. Yang went by Blake's ear and whispered in it making her blush and cover her face with her book.
"Will you come now?" Yang grinned.
"Yes I will." Blake said quickly as she pushed past everyone. "Well come on, we're not going to find him just standing here." She said as she walked out the door.
"What was that about?" Ruby asked.
"Don't worry about it. I just use it as blackmail." Yang smile mischievously.
"Okay...well anyways. Let's go find out what's been up with Ares! Team...I got to think of a team name." Ruby said making everybody roll their eyes.
Ares ran through the forest at top speed making Rei and Ken laugh loudly, it felt so good to finally be out in the wild. Where they belong. Ares saw a river up ahead and put some energy in his legs before leaping over the river making Rei and Ken laugh some more and cheer; he missed this feeling.
"You two having fun?" He asked as he leaped over a rock.
"Yeah!" They both replied happily as they clung onto his back as he ran at his top speed. Ares ran for about an hour before the three came across an open space and stopped to stare at the moon, they lied down on the ground and proceeded to gaze at the moon and its pieces that were broken apart from it. The three lie there in silence for a few minutes before Ares started to cough a little bit; eventually his cough became more violent to where he had to sit up to try and get some oxygen in his lungs. Rei and Ken looked worried at each other before they went up to Ares and started to pat his back some, though this didn't seem to help him any...in fact, it made his coughing worse. His coughing went from dry to wet and he began to retch out a black sludge that pooled around the area in front of him. He tried to stand up but ended up falling on his knees and started to vomit violently on the grass, staining it with a black tar-like substance that seemed to build up the more he vomited.
"Ares!? Ares!? What's wrong!?" Rei shouted worriedly. She looked at Ken and noticed that he had a terrified expression on his face when he looked at her, it actually scared her. She had seen Ken scared before but he never had a terrified expression on his face and it frightened her. She looked back at Ares and screamed when she saw his eyes start to turn black; the sludge became a thick ooze like substance.
"Stay...back!" Ares coughed as he pushed them away. His vomit started to come out more violently and in greater amounts; he suddenly fell backwards and the ooze shot out of his mouth like a geyser. Ken went to Rei and pulled her back when she tried to get close, they suddenly jumped when the ooze started to melt to Ares' skin and encase him in it. The ooze began to harden a little bit and started to pulsate when it fully encased Ares' figure.
"W-what was that?!" Ken shouted as he started to pace back and forth while staring worriedly at the black cocoon as it moved around every so often.
"I-I don't know. Maybe he was just evolving?" Rei tried as she sat down and stared at the cocoon.
"How!? He's already a stage three!" Ken yelled making Rei jump.
"I don't know then!" Rei cried as she let tears well in her eyes. Ken stood there for a few minutes before taking a seat next to her and staring blankly at the black mass in front of them.
One hour later:
An hour... that's how long they sat there before the cocoon started to move around; they began to stare at it curiously as it began to grow in size. It started to jerk around and vibrate intensely, as if something was trying to force its way out of it. A spike suddenly jutted out of it making a small hole and growing in size; eventually more spikes came out of it and began to grow like the first one. The cocoon started to stretch as a tall figure stood up from within in, it then made a loud tearing noise as the figure inside tore its way out of it. A loud bestial groan came from within as the cocoon finally gave away and tore apart, making a wet splat as it hit the ground. Rei and Ken's eyes widened when they saw their older brother in his original form come out of the cocoon.
"Ares?" Rei said as she stood up, he looked at her before reaching up to his head and peeling the rest of the slimy cocoon and throwing it to the side. He crouched down to her level and stared into her eyes; dark silver ones met reddish-orange ones as they stared at each other. His breathing was deep and heavy; he blew out a plume of smoke from his nostrils making Rei's hair sway in it. The two stared at each other for a minute before Rei suddenly hugged his head; he closed his eyes and let her hug him as tight as she could. He opened his eyes when he felt Ken join in on the hug and squeeze as tight as he could, the three stayed like that for about five minutes listening to nothing but the heavy breathing of Ares before letting go. The lied down on the ground and rested his head on his palms before closing his eyes and listening to the chirping of crickets and other nightly wildlife. The sounds of the forest seemed to relax him greatly and made all of his stress from the past few weeks melt away; Rei and Ken looked at each other before going by Ares' snout and leaning against it while looking at the broken moon.
"It's been a while since I've had a peaceful night lounge." Ares said with his eyes still closed.
"You never had one on Shear?" Ken asked.
"Not really, was always trying to keep you two from getting hurt." Ares answered as he shifted a little. Rei and Ken smiled at him before closing their eyes, they basked in the quietness for a minute before all three of them heard a noise coming from the bushes. Ares shifted his head towards the bushes and glared at them, trying to see what was in there. He stared at the bushes for a minute before returning back to his original spot and making his body glow a deep red to provide some heat to his younger siblings as they leaned on his stomach; he heard shushed whispers and acted like he was sleeping to lure the attackers closer. He shifted his hand and whispered to Rei and Ken who were hiding away from the strangers facing Ares' backside.
"You two get in my hand and stay there until I let you out." Ares whispered, Rei and Ken nodded and went into his palm and put there hands over their mouths to prevent any noise coming out. Closing his hand and shielding them away from any harm, Ares gave a deep rumble as he 'snored'. He heard the whispers getting closer and closer until they were right beside his head making him tense up when he heard who it was.
"What the hell is this thing?" He heard Yang.
"I don't know. Maybe it's some new type of grimm." Ruby said.
"Yeah, but what kind of grimm is over sixty feet tall and more importantly how do we kill it?" Sun asked. Ares made a fake sleepy growl when he heard the word kill, he'd be damned if he let a four nosy girls, monkey boy, and a blue haired dumbass kill him. He droned out most of the conversation and was actually beginning to fall asleep until he heard Ruby and Yang argue.
"Yang! What are you doing?!" She whispered.
"I'm getting a picture of this thing. If we take the picture to Ozpin then maybe he can get someone to kill it." Yang answered.
"That seems like the right choice, but if we kill it then we can probably get it dissected for future research in case there's more of these things." Weiss said making Ares internally snarl. Yang slowly got close to Ares and took multiple pictures of him, she got close to his face and snapped the last one as soon as his eyes opened. Yang was still looking at the camera when his eyes opened and waited to see the picture pop up in her gallery, when she opened the gallery and looked at the latest picture her eyes widened. She saw a reddish-orange eye glaring at the camera, making her look up to see the same eye glaring at her. She slowly backed up towards the group as they began drawing their weapons with shaky hands; Ares stood to his full height and glared down on them making them back up more. The moon made his shadow more imposing, making his eyes glow brighter and the light in his mouth light up more. Their eyes widened when Ares opened his hand to reveal Rei and Ken sitting there with hurt expressions.
"Y-you wanted to have him killed?" Rei asked tearfully.
"W-who?" Sun stuttered.
"Ares." Ken said, both teams looked at him confused.
"Kid...I don't see Ares anywhere." Yang said slowly as she stepped forward making them hide behind his fingers.
"This is Ares." Rei said. The teams looked back at the monster glaring at them and looked back at the two siblings, thinking they're hallucinating.
"Okay. We'll just call Ozpin and have him deal with the monster and take you two back to your brother, cool?" Sun asked making Rei and Ken shake their heads.
"No it's not cool! This is Ares!" Ken argued loudly making the girls jump back in surprise. Never had they seen the younger brother yell at anyone.
"Okay, okay. It's Ares if you two come with us then we'll-" Weiss said but was interrupted with a loud screech and the ground rumbling. A Deathstalker came crashing out of a nearby cave and charged at the group; the students aimed their weapons at the advancing grimm and began to fire trying to slow it down. They noticed a large hand advance towards them and jumped back as it set the two younger siblings down. Blake tried to approach them but stopped when they flinched away from her and hid behind a tree, she turned when she heard a loud roar and saw the giant monster roar at the Deathstalker, who screeched in response. Both charged each other and clashed making the ground shake a bit when they did; the Deathstalker screeched as it thrust its stinger at the monster who sidestepped to the side and grabbed it. The monster then twirled the stinger around his arm and spun around, taking the Deathstalker with it before releasing and throwing the grimm. The Deathstalker smacked against a large boulder and flipped on its back, flailing around to try and flip over. The monster jumped high in the air and smashed its fist on the unarmored underbelly of the grimm making it crack; it then began tearing its claws into the Deathstalker's body and tearing flesh out. The grimm screeched loudly before it was cut short when a giant boulder smashed its head to mush; the monster threw its head up and let out a loud roar. The teams watched as the monster began to eat the carcass of the now deceased Deathstalker and began to talk among themselves.
"We should leave while its feeding." Neptune whispered.
"But what about the kids?" Weiss asked as she looked over to the younger siblings.
"They're obviously hallucinating. I mean they're older brother is probably looking for them now, plus if we get these pictures to Ozpin then he can send a team of fully fledged hunters after this thing." Sun said.
"I don't know...I mean they seemed pretty convinced that the thing was Ares. Maybe it is and we're wrong." Ruby said.
"If it was Ares then he was hiding the fact that he can turn into a giant monster but for now I don't believe that he can, so let's get out of here and tell Ozpin." Yang said as she went over to Rei and Ken who hid behind the tree as she approached.
"Hey." Yang said as she knelt down to their level. Rei and Ken didn't say anything and just receded further behind the tree when she got closer.
"Guys, a little help here." Yang said as she turned to the group.
"Kid look, I know you think that's your brother but it isn't. Your brother is probably trying to find you two out here, so if you come with us then we'll probably find him on the way back to Beacon." Neptune tried making Ken give a low growl, shocking the girls.
"It is Ares, this is what he looked like since we hatched." Rei said making the two teams confused.
"I'm pretty sure you were born through live birth, not hatched." Weiss said.
"No we hatched, Ares told us so." Rei retorted making the students scowl. Everybody was getting fed up with their stubbornness and decided to be assertive to convince them.
"Alright, look you two. Whatever you may think about that thing back there is, drop it. It's not Ares or anything else; so come with us now." Neptune said as he grabbed Ken making him struggle, Yang grabbed Rei and held her in a tight grip to avoid her from using her talons to cut her.
"Let me go!" Ken shouted as he flailed around to try and escape Neptune's grip.
"Stop struggling!" Neptune shouted before screaming in pain as Ken sunk his teeth in his arm and ripped up, tearing some of his flesh out. Neptune dropped Ken and held his bleeding wound and sinking on his knees; he tried to stop the bleeding by using his sleeve. Ken ran up to Yang and used his body as a battering ram to throw her off a little bit. Rei used this opportunity to plant both of her feet on Yang's stomach and push off of her; she then used one of her talons to slash Yang's chest, drawing some blood.
"AH!" Yang screamed before looking back at the two with red eyes, "What is wrong with you!?" She shouted while holding her chest to stop the bleeding.
"YOU! WE TRIED TO TELL YOU THAT THAT'S ARES BUT YOU DIDN'T LISTEN!" Rei shouted as she began to levitate making everybody back up a bit. "WE ALSO KNOW THAT YOU'VE BEEN THE ONE TO MAKE THESE PAST FEW WEEKS HARD FOR HIM! HE GOES OUT MORE, LEAVING US ALONE AND SCARED. DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S IT'S LIKE TO HAVE TO CONSTANTLY WORRY ABOUT YOUR FAMILY KNOWING THERE'S A POSSIBILITY THEY MIGHT NOT COME BACK TO YOU, HUH?!" Rei shouted as her body began to glow and she began to breath heavily.
"Okay, just calm down Rei. We didn't know about the stress we've been putting on him...so just calm down a bit okay?" Blake said slowly trying to make the younger girl calm down. It didn't seem to work since she was still floating and began to glow brighter; her hair seemed to come alive since it was all over the place making her small figure imposing. Ken saw what was happening and grabbed Rei's hand making her direct her fury on him, but had no effect on him.
"Rei...calm down. So what if they don't believe us, it's not like it matters in the end...maybe Ares was right years ago...maybe all hunters are just psychopaths wanting to erase us." Ken said as he looked Rei in the eyes making her slowly levitate to the ground and fall on her knees, she began to sob in her hands.
"Why do they want to kill us? All we want to do is survive...I just want things to be the way they were when mom and dad were still here." Rei cried. The six teens looked at the younger two kids and tried to advance towards them but stopped when Ken snarled at them and raised his wings before slamming them down, creating an electrical explosion that made them jump back. Ken gently put Rei on his back and began to walk towards Ares. He stopped when his feet were encased in ice making him look back to see Weiss have her myrtenaster planted in the ground. Ken stared at her blankly before sucking in air and blowing out a vortex mixture of air and electricity, sending all of them flying back and hitting trees.
"Ares!" Ken shouted making the older brother look at him then at the teens.
"What happened to you two?" Ares asked as he quickly made his way over to them and knelt down to their level.
"They tried to take us away from you. They kept saying you weren't our brother since you were in your original form..." Ken answered making Ares snarl and march over to the teens who scrambled to get up but was stopped by Rei.
"...Can we just leave? I... I don't like it here anymore." She said tiredly making Ares clench his fist then sigh, as much as he would love to eviscerate the ones who tried to take his family, he couldn't. He needed to get them out of here first, and knowing the old man in the tower he probably sent people to come get them.
"Yeah, we can...come on." Ares said as he lowered his hand and lifted it when they got on. He started to walk away into the night but felt something hit his back making him whirl around to see everybody aim their weapons at him. Looking at his siblings and seeing a safe crevice in a piece of wood, he gently placed them next to it.
"Get inside and stay there until I'm done. Big brother's got to take care of some pesky hunters." Ares said as he turned around and stared at the hunters-in-training.
"Listen monster. Those kids are coming with us; now I don't know what kind of stuff you put them on to make them think you're their brother but we're taking you down and rescuing those kids." Neptune said as he changed his weapon to a trident making Ares snort in amusement.
"Such brave words coming from a blue haired pussy that's scared of water. To think you actually managed to charm snow bitch is quite the wonder, even though you have no respect for women. I'm still going to enjoy making you scream." Ares said as he jumped at Neptune and smashed the ground making everybody dodge to avoid the debris. Ares smashed his tail at Sun who jumped on it and started to run up his body, smacking any point that seemed like a weak spot. He was suddenly thrown off when Ares grabbed him and smashed him into the ground making a spiderweb of cracks appear in it; before he could smash him into the earth a shard of ice encased his hand before it could impact the teen. Ares turned to see Weiss wave her weapon around before suddenly shooting off and striking Ares' legs, trying to weaken him a bit but had no effect. Ruby was firing sniper rounds at Ares' head making him shield his face to avoid being blinded by any shots and breathed out a stream of fire at her making her use her semblance to avoid being burned. Yang used Blake's ribbon as a swing and built up momentum before smashing her fist into Ares' knee, making him roar in pain and kneel down. They tried to use the same technique but failed when Ares grabbed the middle of the ribbon and pulled on it; causing Yang to fly into Ares' hand and be smashed into the ground hard. Ares raised his fist and swung down but was interrupted when a trident was lodged between his knuckles, causing him to recoil in pain and anger. He grabbed the trident and pulled it out before throwing it over his shoulder to disarm Neptune and rendering him weaponless. Ares spotted Neptune trying to run past him and retrieve his weapon and charged on all fours at him; he caught Neptune in one of his fist and brought him close to his face.
"Neptune!" Weiss shouted and ran forward to try and assist him but stopped when Neptune screamed in pain. She covered her mouth and gasped when she saw one of Neptune's arms being chewed off and ripped from its socket, causing the grass to be stained red. Ares threw Neptune against one of the trees and growled in satisfaction when he heard a loud crack come from his back and saw his figure go limp. Sun used his semblance to send two golden clones after Ares, who swatted them aside, and used his shotgun-nun chucks to fire multiple shells at Ares. Ares picked up a large boulder out of the ground and threw it at the teens; Yang used her semblance to smash the boulder and charge at Ares. She punched Ares in his knees forcing him down and proceeded to repeatedly hit him in the face, making blood fly out of his mouth. Yang delivered a round house kick to Ares face making him spit out blood to the side; Ares mixed some of his blood and his fire breath to create a smoldering sludge before spitting it at Yang, who jumped back as the sludge hit the ground and made it melt. Ares rose to his full height and jumped up in the air before letting gravity do its work and take him back towards the ground; he smashed the ground in front of everyone and sent them flying back and hitting the ground.
"Guys...what do we do?" Sun said as he struggled to get up.
"I-I don't know. Maybe we should try to get out of here." Ruby said as she used her scythe for support.
"And let it get away with harming Neptune? Screw that!" Sun yelled as he charged Ares, who stood yards away with an amused expression on his face.
"Sun! Wait!" Blake shouted and tried to run, but fell on her knees. Sun jumped over one of Ares' fist when he tried to smash him and ran up his arm. He combined his nun-chucks into a staff and leaped up to Ares face before grabbing it and smacking him anywhere that seemed like a weak point; he seemed to be doing some damage since Ares was growling. He stopped smacking when he felt Ares start rumbling and his growling had hitches in it; Sun came to a realization...he was laughing at him. This thing was laughing at him as if he was some sort of joke.
"You think this is funny?! I just lost my best friend and you're laughing?!" Sun shouted making Ares laugh more.
"He's not dead...yet. I gave you all a chance to walk away and you all attacked me, he fucked up. Just like how you did right now." Ares laughed as he grabbed Sun suddenly with both of his hands and gave a tight squeeze.
"Sun!" Blake shouted and ran forward. She saw Ares open his mouth and approach Sun before he stopped suddenly making her confused; she paled when she saw a giant rocked arm wrap around Ares neck and squeeze tightly making him drop Sun. The girls ran over to him and dragged him away to a safe distance, they looked back at Ares and saw him thrash around while a giant arm wrapped around his neck. They took on a fearful expression when they saw an even bigger monster choke Ares until he stopped struggling and fell limp. The monster dropped him gently and waited to see if he was still breathing before turning its attention to the girls.
"W-what is that?" Ruby asked as she stared up at the monster. Its body was covered in rock and it had four limbs, two hind ones and two large front ones. It had multiple white glowing eyes that seemed to stare into their souls the longer they looked at it, it had a forked tongue that would occasionally come out and 'taste' the air. It stalked up to them, making the ground rumble every time it did and knelt down to their level. It looked at the girls and Sun then at Neptune's bleeding figure before it suddenly spoke, startling them.
"You better take care of your friend." It said in a deep baritone voice.
"W-what do you mean?" Ruby asked.
"I mean the one that's bleeding out over by the tree." It said and began to walk away but stopped and turned around to look at them from the corner of its eye. "You six should have left when you had the chance." It added. Weiss, although terrified, marched up to the giant beast before her.
"And why would we do that? For all we know you could be some new type of grimm." She said making the giant beast snort in amusement before it lowered its head down to her level, making her back up.
"Yes, because grimm can grow this large and have rocks for armor. That makes complete sense and it also makes sense that a grimm would eat another grimm." The figure said sarcastically.
"And why shouldn't we take you on or have a professional group of hunters take you on." Yang said as she got in a battle stance.
"One, I saved you from a pissed off older brother. Two, By the time you send a message for help you'd already be in my stomach acids. And last but not least, I'm pretty sure you're headmaster wouldn't believe you since you went outside the boundaries where there are any cameras and you went past curfew." The figure listed off as it looked at the moon. The girls raised an eyebrow at the mention of the older brother.
"The younger two were telling the truth about him being their brother. I watched him transform myself and let me tell you six made the worst mistake of your lives." The monster said in a low tone making the girls shiver.
"Why?" Blake asked.
"Goliaths are known for their savagery in battle. They alone can take down a heavily fortified civilization in a single night and cause hundreds to thousands of lives to be lost." The monster said making the girls pale. "And let me tell you girls something...you messed with one of the worst ones." It warned.
"W-wait so you mean-" Ruby started.
"You picked a fight with the savage skinned Goliath; a Goliath so savage that it sends fear into other species." The monster said making the girls shiver. It looked at the sky and smelled the air for a quick second before growling slowly.
"Hunters." It seethed before picking up Ares and throwing him over its shoulder.
"Where are you going?!" Weiss shouted.
"Somewhere you won't find us. All we want to do is survive and we can't do that with you humans always killing everything...and you better help your blue-haired pussy of a friend before he bleeds out. He has maybe an hour since the wound is slightly cauterized. I won't kill you since it'll draw more suspicion to us but heed my warning, do not try to follow us because if you do then I'll kill you and everyone you care about." The monster said before slamming its free hand into the ground and creating a giant stone wall, blocking the girls. It turned to Rei and Ken who hid in one of the fallen tree stumps and lowered its body close to the ground.
"Come on little ones, we haven't got much time before the hunters arrive." It said as offered its free hand. Ken and rei stared at the hand before looking at the monster's many eyes.
"What did you do to our brother?" Rei asked.
"I merely rendered him unconscious to avoid further conflict with those hunters. I'm taking you three to a... sanctuary as you call it. Trust me when I say this; there's no hunters there to harm any of you, only monsters." It said. Rei and Ken looked at the hand before slowly reaching out and climbing aboard, the monster raised its hand above its head and dropped them off on it. The monster began to make its way deeper into the forest and sunk down to hide its tracks from other hunters; it felt a tap on its head and tilted up a bit.
"Yes?" It said.
"What's your name?" Rei asked.
Brock... Brock the Behemoth." It said as it-no he trudged through the forest while listening to the night music come from the various wildlife.
I don't know how I feel about this chapter. Some part of me says it's fine and another part says to delete it and write again, but that's just me. It feels somewhat rushed in a sense and it makes me feel really weird; originally I was going to have RWBY and Sun and Neptune arrive at the scene when Ares transforms and gape in awe and fear at it but then I decided that's to... boring, like it didn't fit right. The time skips in my opinion were necessary because I didn't want the whole story to take place withing a day, seriously if the whole story takes place in a single day then that's a slow ass day. I decided to introduce the Behemoth in this chapter because for those who have been reading from the start and have been waiting, it's only fair I fulfill the request of those people and input the behemoth in the story. I honestly don't care if you guys write reviews anymore but I just have to say one thing... if you guys write reviews then don't make them asshole ones because it's rude and annoying. I write this shit as a hobby and I can stop just as fast as I started if you guys decide to be rude about the story. I already know I'm not going to impress everyone and that doesn't bother me but seriously, if you don't like the story the politely leave because it's really not that hard. Anyways don't let me keep you guys from doing your other tasks in life so goodbye and have a good one.