AN: Well howdy ho everyone! Hope you all had a good and eventful Halloween because I sure as hell didn't. I gave this little kid a jumbo size snicker's bar and the little bastard fucking stuck his tongue out at me and didn't even bother saying thank you, after that I decided to give the next kid more candy and kept the rest for myself. Anyways I didn't come to discuss a holiday that's what... a week or two ago? I came to discuss reviews with you all, so let's get into it.
STRIKER ENERGY: Glad I could make her character awesome towards you and thanks for reviewing.
GrimmKingOfAtlas: There'll be plenty more about their past and thanks for reviewing. On the plus note keep up the good work on your story, because that Omake made me spit my water out laughing.
XCOMHEAVY12: When are you going to publish it, because that sounds like a story worth reading. Holy shit man, you never cease to amaze me with those long ass reviews; I actually check my reviews just to read those and thoroughly enjoy them while doing so, but anyways thanks for sticking with the story so far and keep up those badass reviews while I try to keep your attention.
Q: Thanks man, I appreciate the feedback.
StelarToe6133: I'll consider it if my mind is made up and I'll let you know through the story but I didn't even consider her as part of the story until you said something, so thanks for proposing an idea and reviewing.
Now that those are out of the way, I do believe it's time. So without further adieu... Let's roll on with the fucking story!
"Move!" Brock shouted as he pushed Yang out of the way and let Ares smash into him. She collided with the wall and slid down, later looking up to see Ares slam into Brock and tackle him to the ground. Her eyes flashed a brighter red and she leapt through the air, having a fist raised high and brought it down on the back of his head, dazing him long enough for Brock to plant his feet on his chest and push. He went soaring though the air and collided with the ground before rolling a few times and eventually skidding across, using his claws to slow himself down. Yang quickly went over to Brock and helped him up while keeping a close eye on Ares, who was crouched down and swaying his tail back and forth, and getting in a combat stance; she felt Brock slightly push her to the side.
"Ares. Calm down man, I'll admit I was in the wrong. Look the rain stopped so we can go home now." Brock said. Ares looked behind him and saw that the rain wasn't even done, while it appeared that way, it wasn't. He turned his head back to Brock and Yang standing next to each other with the former having a slightly pleading expression and the latter having a pissed off one.
"That's where you're wrong Brock. The rain hasn't stopped and I'm not going to calm down. You chose to side with a hunter so you can die like one also, it's fitting because you two will look so lovely in a body bag." Ares snarled and charged at them again. Brock charged at him with a slower but heavier speed and Yang did also but she took up the sides, looking for a weak spot. Both monsters finally collided and started throwing jabs at each other, ranging from clawing, punching, kicking, and even biting in Ares' case. Brock threw an double axe handle strike at Ares, who dodged and followed up with an uppercut, before gasping in pain when he was hit in the stomach. His eyes widened when Ares grabbed his face and headbutted him. He was then sent flying when a maced tail smashed against his stomach and slightly embedded its spikes in him. Yang screamed in anger and quickly sprinted up to him, ducking underneath a swipe before sidestepping an downward swing from the tail. She caught another swipe and held his arm while glaring up at him; she then punched him two times in the armpit then followed up with an uppercut that sent him in the air. Brock quickly recovered and gave thunderous footsteps as he charged at Ares while he was still airborne and tackled him down to the ground, pinning him there for a minute. He grabbed the back of Ares' head and slammed it into the floor, cracking it slightly before repeating this process a few more times. Ares then used his tail to smash the back of Brock's head which stunned him for a minute before using this small window to flip around and kick Brock in the stomach, sending him flying back before rolling backwards as Yang smashed the ground in front of him. She threw a series of fast and short jabs at his stomach and face before giving a low leg sweep making him jump back and blow a stream of fire at her. The ground in front of her suddenly turned charred black as the flame made contact before it was ripped up and thrown at her. She vaulted over the rock and was on Ares in an instant, throwing more jabs and kicks at him while redirecting his attacks towards her forearms and shoulders to minimize the damage. Her right fist suddenly made contact with his nose and a loud crack was heard, making him recoil in pain and stumble back.
"Fuuuuck!" He roared in pain, kneeling down. He heard the sound of multiple feet and turned around to see Brock behind him and Yang in front of him, both charging at full speed. He rolled to the side just in time to see a colossal rock fist smash the ground and another fist soar past his head, he grabbed Yang by the arm and spun her around before tossing her into Brock, who caught her and set her down. Both stopped to catch their breaths while he glared at them before grabbing his nose and fixing it, snarling in pain while doing so. Black sludge started to spill from his nose and drip onto the ground in a thick manner, almost like goo. Brock looked at the black substance then stepped forward to try and talk to Ares again.
"Ares, dammit this isn't you. Now stop because you're going to overwork yourself." Brock tried to reason.
"You suddenly know me so well now, huh Brock?" Ares asked, tilting his head. "You behemoths are always so dimwitted, to the point of even a fucking colonist child can fool you." He insulted making Brock growl lowly.
"This is your last chance Ares, I don't want to bring my brother home unconscious." Brock practically pleaded making Ares snarl at the word 'brother'.
"I only have one brother Brock... AND HE'S CERTAINLY SAFER AWAY FROM YOU!" Ares snarled charged at them. Brock crouched a bit and held out his arms waiting for Ares to collide with him, when he did he tightly squeezed. Hold on Ares was close to bone crushing because if he didn't then the other monster would escape, he then looked at Ares' eyes and widened his when he looked. In place of Ares' normal deep orange magma-like eyes was replaced with a deep blood red that matched a Grimm's with his sclera was pitch black and his irises were blood red. His eyes overall showed a wild, unhinged, rabid beast that was finally free from being imprisoned for years.
"Ares! You need to calm down now! You're going-" Brock was cut off when he felt a stabbing sensation in his stomach and shakily looked down to see Ares' obsidian knife embedded in his stomach, he looked back up at Ares who smiled in return and then grabbed his face, pushing him off the knife and onto the ground. The girls gasped as they saw Brock's body fall to the ground with a loud thump and Ares standing over him with a bloody stone knife in hand. He knelt down towards Brock and used his hood to wipe the blood off before slowly standing up and looking at them. Ruby jumped and clung to Weiss when she saw his eyes stare into their souls, just like a Grimm's. Blake tensed immensely; her faunus instincts kicking in and telling her that she was dealing with an apex predator and that there was no escape from it. Yang looked at Brock's body for a while then shakily looked at Ares, who just swayed his tail back and forth, before charging at him and throwing a left hook. He caught it and then caught her other hand when she threw another one at him. She struggled a bit before he reared his head back and opened his mouth wide showing the razor sharp canines that made themselves home within his mouth before thrusting his head down at her. She reared her head back and thrust it forward just as his was a few inches away and headbutted him in the forehead, stunning him long enough for her to deliver a swift kick to his crotch. His eyes widened immensely and he gave a low groan before kneeling down and holding his private area, he barely registered the swift punch to the back of the head before he was rendered unconscious.
Ares woke with blurry vision and groaned in pain when he tried to sit up. It took a few minutes but eventually he did and he found himself in a cell with concrete walls and a single door made out of metal that didn't have any windows, just a food slot. He stood up and tried to walk forward but found his hands chained to the wall and it looked to be a heavy chain at that. He pulled his arms a few times while growling before snarling when he knelt down on the ground and began to pull at the chain in a desperate manner.
"The chains won't break you know..." He heard Ozpin's voice echo from the other side of the door. He didn't say anything and resumed to pull at the chains for a minute, even resorting to heating up a portion to see if it would break but to no avail, the chains still held strong and didn't even give signs of wear and tear. Ozpin chuckled a bit as he watched the boy in front of him try to break the chains then later sighed when he saw him continue to try and break them. He heard the sound of footsteps behind him and turned to see Brock and Glynda walking side by side with the latter having an agitated look on her face. She barely said anything and stormed into the cell and glared at the boy in front of her while Brock did the same except in a slower manner, having a similar expression on his face.
"Do you know how much damage you caused to the school? How much you hurt one of my students?! My students!" She reprimanded at him. He slumped his head down and continued to pull at the chains at a slower pace but still pulled, he mostly droned her out and continued to focus on breaking out of these FUCKING CHAINS!
"The others are mad at you." Brock said while staring at Ares with a neutral expression. He looked up at the older monster and gave him his full attention.
"The fuck? Why?" Ares asked.
"Gee, I don't know. You attacked and stabbed me and attacked a few hunters, caused damage to the school and sent the young ones to a doctor that you 'know'." Brock replied sarcastically making Ares growl at him.
"Fuck you Brock! The only reason I'm here is because you wouldn't go back to your fatass form and take us all back home once we got out of camera range. But nooooooo, you decided to make a goddamn orgy with the hunter sluts." Ares said making Brock walk over to him and kneel in front of him.
"You're here because of your own negligence and decided to attack Yang, to which the cameras saw, and attack me also." Brock explained.
"Well you decided to be wrapped around her little finger and go along with her doings. You get pissed off at the smallest things and decide to act like a goddamn boss around some fucking children who don't care about rules, not to mention you talked about my parents when you had no right so tell me Brock. WHO'S IN THE FUCKING WRONG NOW?!" Ares roared in his face. Brock just stared at Ares with an impassive look before standing up and turning to Glynda.
"I'm ready to leave now." He nodded towards her while she gave a curt one and walked out. Brock stopped and looked back at Ares' form that was quivering in rage as he stared at the floor with a gaze so intense it threatened to burn a hole in it.
"I'll see you in a week brother." Brock said.
"Fuck you." Ares growled at him but kept his gaze on the floor. Brock sighed and closed the door quietly before Walking away with Glynda and Ozpin, stepping in the elevator and staring down the hall at the lone cell that occupied Ares. He swore he could see his gaze burn a hole with the amount of hate that was building up on him.
"He'll forgive me one day." Brock whispered to himself hopefully.
The week was going by slowly, much to the dismay of Ares. His little solitary confinement was beginning to take a toll on him and have unwanted side effects to the point where security had to come in the cell and 'contain' him. Without his hunter outfit on his person the nights began to get cold and uncomfortable, even his natural body heat couldn't keep him warm on the stone cold ground. But over the course of the week he began to bask in the quietness of the cell, the isolation began to consider him a friend and the darkness considered him an ally, comforting him when he had no one else here right now. The coldness soothed him when he heard the hunters above laughing and prancing around behind their bastion, oblivious as to how the wild is.
"It's so calm... like the blue ocean on Shear." He whispered silently and closed his eyes. The quiet cell had lasted in its dark cold comforting glory for a few hours before light had shined through and a figure stepped inside, making him give a new hissing noise he picked up.
"Whoa big man... didn't know you could do that." He heard the one woman's voice he hated with every fiber of his being. He glanced at her then snorted in anger and turned away to block out some of the annoying thing he called light.
"Oh come on, me and the team are supposed to take you back home." She said, kneeling down. He didn't say anything and gestured for her scroll, to which she supplied before seeing him type something and hand it back to her.
"This is my home." He wrote and turned to stare at the wall, the same one where he carved a insignia on it.
"No, Brock brought me to your guys' home a few days ago. Everyone's nice and all... a little hostile at first but nice overall." Yang smiled before dropping it when Ares started to chuckle, then give a mirthless laugh, then eventually give a full blown laugh that didn't sound to stable.
"Heh, heh, heh... yeeeaaah. That's a funny joke Ares. Mind telling me?" She asked while looking back at the numerous people that had catch poles and held nervous expressions, she jumped back when one of the people holding the poles was yanked in by a broken chain and held by the throat. She immediately got in a battle stance and aimed Ember Celica at him while he held a faunus girl hostage while laughing, her nerves were put on edge when she looked at his eyes and immediately noticed they didn't have their calm scowling look anymore. They seemed broken and held anger with some pain but also held a vast amount of insanity.
"Big man, just calm down okay? We won't try anything but you have to let her go." Yang said slowly while gesturing to the girl in his hands who was quivering in fear. Ares' eyes widened when he saw the rest of Yang's team walk behind her and then get into a combat stance when they saw the situation. He gave a low bone chilling laugh before opening his mouth to the horror of the girls and the hostage and sank his teeth into her shoulder. She screamed in agony when he began to thrash his head around causing blood to fly all over the place and tear out a chunk of flesh before swallowing it with a wet slurp. Ruby turned and puked, Weiss covered her eyes and rubbed them to get the image out, Blake's grip on her weapon tightened as she watched in horror as he continued to feed on the poor girl in his arms, and Yang's eyes turned to red as she watched him continued to feed. Brock was wrong about Ares, he's nothing but a monster in disguise and that's all he'll ever be.
"You monster!" She screamed and aimed Ember Celica at him. He quickly snapped the faunus girl's neck with a loud crack and threw her bloody body on the floor before stretching his arms out wide and giving a feral smile.
"In the flesh." He chuckled as a shell soared through the air and found itself planted in his skull, sending pieces everywhere and painting the walls and floor red.
*GASP*
That was the first thing he did when he woke up from the dream. He looked around to see that he was still in the cold yet comforting confines of the cell, while his dream was far fetched at the aspect of him getting killed that easily the side effects of the isolation wasn't. He did begin to enjoy the isolation and all its quiet glory, something he was going to miss when they hunters decided to release him back into the wild. His legs were bent and his arms rested on them while his head was slumped down just staring at the floor. Although the dream was faker than Brock, the thought of killing that girl excited him immensely. The thought of her scream as flesh was removed and the blood caking his face and the surrounding area brought a savage grin to his face, giving him the look of a deranged killer... wasn't entirely wrong. There were times he enjoyed killing and basking in its sick feeling but quickly pushed them down when he saw his sibling's faces. His time in isolation pushed his feelings for them down to the point where he didn't think he wanted to see them again, the thought of finally being free to roam the forest and kill whatever he wanted made him excited. Who needs them? They're in good hands with Michelle, Arachne, Mathias, and... Brock.
"I'd rather kiss the devil than leave them with him. That backstabbing two timing piece of shit fucker!" He roared suddenly then winced when the sound bounced off and echoed in his ears. This little encounter with Brock and his hunter sluts brought a whole new perspective on him; he was just like that blue haired pussy that he should have eaten all those months ago. He began to ponder what he would do if he ever saw that little shit again, he was so caught up in his thoughts he didn't notice the cell door open until something was thrown in front of him.
"Hurry up and put it on animal." A voice grumbled making him crack a small smile before standing up and putting his hunter clothes on with some difficulty due to the chains. The person unlocked his chains but then later put handcuffs on him while having a weapon pointed at him for good measure and gestured for him to exit the cell, making him shield his eyes from the sudden assault of light and made his way down the hall. The person and him stepped into the elevator in an uncomfortable silence as he listened to the tune and slowly pulled on his hood, leaving nothing but his mouth showing. Both walked through the school and eventually made it to the bullhead docks to see RWBY standing there with their gear on; they moved out of the way and saw he had an armed escort with him and handcuffs on. The armed escort walked to Blake and handed her a set of keys before glancing at Ares.
"He's all yours." The escort said and walked away, leaving the girls to see Ares sit down in a seat and lay his arms across his lap while staring at the floor blankly. Ruby and Weiss took a seat away from him while Yang sat closer and kept a close distrustful eye on him, Blake just shook her head and opened a book. The ride to the destination was quiet for the most part with the exception of the bullhead creating a dull hum as it soared through the sky. While the girls kept to themselves and had conversations with each other Ares was mulling in his own thoughts. What was he going to do when he got back to the keep? Accept his punishment and go about like nothing happened in the first place, because if it was anybody's fault then it was Mathias'. He knew Ares didn't want to go back to that school yet he sent him anyways, he could have just sent Brock and everything would have been fine since the fucker got along with all the hunter scum there. And what about Michelle and Arachne? No doubt they'll rip into him like a new one for attacking people there
"Probably will, seeing as to how they react." He sighed to himself and fell asleep, trying to conjure up the same dream but with a different ending. The bullhead lasted another hour before it set down in a nearby clearing and slowly opened the doors to let the occupants out. Yang roughly woke Ares up and hauled him out while keeping a close eye on him along with the rest of the team, who were slightly ahead of the two. Ruby remained ever so cheerful despite the tense air while Weiss kept harping on her to calm down and would eventually glance at Ares from the corner of her eye. Blake would sigh in annoyance and keep a vigilant eye on the forest, which was the more dangerous part of and Yang stuck close to him, giving the occasional push to make him speed up. While most would consider this a peaceful stroll through the woods it didn't feel like that for the girls. They felt as if they didn't belong here and needed to leave immediately but to Ares it felt like home, or as close to it as he could describe at the moment. Their trek lasted for another fifteen minutes until they came across a large figure wearing a Ursa pelt and had the hood up while staring quietly at them, sitting in a tree and swinging a leg. Yang immediately recognized who it was and gave a small wave while Ares just glared at him from beneath his hood and snorted when he waved at them.
"Thanks girls." Brock said hopping down and walking towards them.
"No problem." Ruby smiled making Brock walk up to Ares and place a hand on his shoulder. It was shrugged off and he was bumped into when the male Goliath didn't even wait for Brock to grab the keys to the cuffs before walking away. He didn't have a sense of direction of where to go but didn't care and just kept walking away from the five. Brock's voice barely registered to him until it was right in front of him and a hand was placed on his chest to stop his advance.
"Ares, stop. At least let me get the cuffs off of you first." Brock said then sighed in relief when Ares stuck out his hands and waited for the cuffs to come off. Once they did he wasn't even thanked and was pushed past. He vision caught sight of Ares' form disappear into the brush and quickly followed him to try and talk to him.
"Okay I know you're mad at me for what happened a week ago but at least say something." Brock said but frowned when he was met with silence. He sighed and looked forward to see the keep a about a mile away from their position and gave a light smile, not because of Ares' punishment but because of the sight of his home again.
Mathias, Michelle, and Arachne stood outside the keep while the children slept and waited for the boys to return. All three of them had a bone to pick with Ares, while they had already dealt with Brock and gave him his punishment Ares had a more severe one. Out of the three of them Michelle was the one that was the most pissed off; he not only attacked a hunter and/or possibly made the leader send more after them but also didn't take into consideration of the four girls that followed them. They heard branches break and turned to see Brock give them a small wave while Ares merely looked at them with an impassive look. Before Mathias could even utter a word Michelle was already charging and tackled Ares to the ground before throwing punches to his face. She continued to throw more and more punches for a minute before noticing that Ares wasn't even fighting back or even trying to defend himself in any way, he just lied on the ground taking her punches to the fullest.
"Do you realize how much shit you put us in?! You're lucky that we even considered bringing you back here! If I were the fucking leader I'd cast your ass out and have you hunted down and killed!" She shouted and began to hit him again. Arachne saw him start to lose consciousness and placed a hand on her shoulder and pulled her off. She looked to see Ares sit up and wipe blood off his face before spitting some out and stand up with a dead look on his face, if anything pissed her off more it was his attitude towards the whole situation.
"Do you even care about what you did?" She asked him.
"What does it matter? You four are just going to give me shit from now on so I just stopped caring before I could even start." He shrugged. Arachne sighed in annoyance and shook her head before leading a fuming Michelle inside but not before shooting Ares a glance. Mathias walked up to Ares and shook his head before leading him inside and towards the dining hall, taking a seat on his pillow seat and Ares did the same but his was ripped to shreds and rendered useless. Brock stood near a cave wall and leaned on it while having an impassive expression as he looked at the two.
"Ares, you put us in a tough spot after that little stunt." Mathias sighed.
"..." He didn't give any reply and just stared at the stone table while scowling and started scraping it lightly. The whole room just reeked with tension as Mathias scowled and quickly brought his stick up to the table and stopped the scrapping.
"As I was saying before, we've been getting more and more hunters finding us and trying to get us to 'join' them. We had to use force to remove the last ones." Mathias said making Ares snort.
"They knew about us before so why are you fretting? Plus you could have just killed and eaten them." Ares chuckled making Mathias' eyes narrow.
"No because that would have lead to more experienced hunters after us and possibly kill us, so we let them go." Mathias countered.
"You let them go because you're afraid to get your hands dirty." Ares shot making Brock give a small growl and Mathias narrow his eyes dangerously.
"They came looking for you and we didn't give them your location." Mathias said out of the blue.
"Well I'm grateful then, so grateful that the leader of our little group does something to protect me from the big bad hunters. News flash Mathias they knew where I was the whole time!" Ares replied sarcastically.
"...I'll just skip right to the punishment since you want to get smart with me." Mathias said heatedly.
"Oh what is my punishment all knowing father Mathias?" Ares replied with a fake bow.
"For the next few weeks you can either have somebody watch you since you're not adult enough to do it yourself. Or you can choose isolation without any aid from us." Mathias said firmly making Ares clench his fist.
"So let me get this straight. Brock can get away with being put under a fucking hunter slut's finger, siding with her to fight me instead of helping a fellow monster fight a hunter, and you just let it slide? But I have to have a babysitter?!" Ares shouted heatedly making everyone wake up and slowly peek down from the edge to see them argue. Michelle and Arachne looked at each other then at Ares' angered form in annoyance.
"He's already been punished. Compared to you he's not the one at fault. Give me your mask, knife, and shards." Mathias ordered.
"Why?" Ares asked.
"Because I know this'll serve as part of your punishment... you'll get them back in a few weeks." Mathias assured.
"You want to have my gear so bad? fine... but expect the isolation to be a lot longer than a few weeks." Ares growled and began to take off his gear before throwing it on the table, making the contents scatter. He stomped out of the keep with steam coming off his form and leave indents in the ground from his angered footsteps. Brock was about to follow him but Mathias stopped him with a few words.
"Leave him Brock." Mathias said.
"I get punishing him severely but isn't this a little much?" He asked.
"No. He needs to learn that actions like these require severe punishment." Mathias said, sipping from his tea. Arachne and Michelle looked at the children then tilted their heads to imply it was time for them to leave, Ken and Rei already left when they heard their brother was leaving followed by Frost, who also looked at him as an older brother. Once they were all gone both of them jumped down and sat down in their collective spots while looking at Mathias.
"So what's the plan?" Arachne asked.
"You three keep an eye on him. If he does do something then you'll be there to stop him." Mathias informed.
"Mathias. We shouldn't have done this, I mean did you see the look in his eyes?" She asked.
"I'm pretty sure no one was paying attention to that." Michelle said.
"That's because you were busy beating him to a pulp before even trying to talk to him Michelle." Arachne commented dryly.
"He deserved it." She huffed making Arachne roll her eyes.
"I'm saying that he had a tired look in his eyes, I saw it when I asked him if he cared about it. He was stressed-" She said.
"What does this have to do with anything-" Brock asked.
"Well if you would let me finish then I'd get to it Brock. So shut the fuck up and let me finish." She hissed sharply, making him clamp his mouth shut.
"s-sorry." He gulped as she continued to glare at him with a shrunken pupil while her white eye seemed to glow brightly.
"As I was saying before big, brawn, and stupid over here decided to interrupt, is that Ares was stressed over being isolated from us an entire week." She began to explain.
"Arachne, I'm not seeing the point." Michelle said making Arachne pinch the bridge of her nose tightly.
"FOR FUCK'S SAKE! HE FEELS BETRAYED BY US!" She shrieked loudly, making them cover their ears.
"Arachne stop screaming-" Michelle tried to say but was interrupted when she felt a slap across her cheek.
"Then start trying to comprehend to you fucks! Brock, he feels betrayed by you because you sided with a hunter instead of your fellow monster and left him at a hunter school, A hunter school Brock, for an entire week! Mathias, he feels betrayed and angered by you because you sent him to a place he had no desire to go back to but you didn't even care about that did you? You could have sent any of us but you decided to pick him for whatever reason and gave him a more severe punishment for defending Frost from a hunter. So if anybody is at fault it's you! And finally you..." Arachne pointed to Michelle who glared at her then flinched at the serious look she was given. Like an angered mother to a daughter. "You didn't even bother trying to listen to him when he came back and just attacked him. Did any part of your brain probably think that maybe, I don't know, it stressed him out?" She asked.
"...No..." Michelle said after a moments pause.
"He didn't even bother trying to fight back when you almost broke his nose, I only stopped you because you were about to render him unconscious because you had a little tantrum. So tell me Michelle how would you feel if I started beating you up without trying to listen in the first place?!" Arachne practically screamed again.
"Not good..." She mumbled.
"He doesn't like me because I intentionally annoy the shit out of him for fun but you go out of your way to be a bitch to him for no reason, over what? First impressions? Sure these last few months you've grown on him but do you think he's grown on you?" Arachne asked sarcastically. Michelle eventually started to shrink under the truth that Arachne was saying, while the spider monster was known to have a hyperactive jovial personality she had an extremely serious side when provoked and wasn't afraid to say what was on her mind when time came. Brock looked to the side and was about to leave the room but stopped dead in his tracks when a puddle of acid was shot in front of him, he then turned to see Arachne slowly close her mouth and wipe it to get rid of any residue acid. Mathias breathed out of his nostrils slowly and rubbed his temples to rid of a migraine that was beginning to form from the truth Arachne said. It was true in the fullest though. He didn't even care about what Ares thought and just sent him and Brock there without even discussing anything.
"Then what do you suppose we do then?" Michelle asked after a few minutes of silence.
"I don't know about you two but I'm going to give him time to calm down and keep an eye on him. I suggest you two don't come since you'll probably make your presence known and piss him off even more." Arachne huffed and began to walk out the door.
"Wait, how do you know he won't notice you?" Brock asked.
"I used to watch him from a distance when he stayed at that shitty hunter school." Arachne said making Michelle raise an eyebrow.
"That's a little creepy Arachne." She said.
"Oh and you watching him bathe while you-" Arachne was cut off when Michelle quickly shot up and covered her mouth while having a red face. Arachne looked at Michelle's red face and began to wiggle her eyebrows coyly making her face heat up even more. She then licked Michelle's hand making her quickly let go and whip her hand back and forth to rid it of saliva while muttering a sting of curses. She laughed at the other girl's pissed off form before sighing and walking out of the keep while humming a tune.
"Always the one that has to take charge when shit hits the fan." She muttered to herself and quickly leaped in the trees.
"Few weeks of isolation he said. You wanted a few weeks, I'll give you a few months you fucking old senile asswipe." Ares growled as he marched through the forest. His punishment was isolation without any tools or aid from anybody was bad enough but what made it worse was that Mathias didn't even punish Brock that bad, a simple slap on the wrist was all his punishment was. It was complete bullshit and both knew it and Michelle attacking him made the whole situation worse.
"I save her sister from being eaten by a Grimm and this is how she repays me? Bitch." He muttered and just walked in a random direction, far away from the keep. The sky began to darken and the air around began to get cooler, much to his pleasure. Over the course of the week in that cell he had gained a new love for the dark; while he was a apex predator during the day, the night was his kingdom and he was the king. Nothing was safe from his watchful eye, no wildlife, hunter, or even inanimate object was. He was so caught up in his thoughts that he didn't notice a cave come up until he stepped into it and noticed how the darkness seemed to swallow him whole, surrounding him like a security blanket.
"This'll do nicely. I think I've found my new home." He observed. The cave was dark and dry while keeping a relatively cool temperature. It had a wide pillar in the middle with dead sticks that seemed to be scattered with rocks everywhere, there was even a little puddle in the back that seemed to be used for something. He found a spot in the back of the cave that seemed perfect for a bed if he made one. While he enjoyed the darkness and all its comforting glory, he needed light and what better way than to make torches from animal fat, sticks, and a few other flammable materials. He exited the cave and finally took in the surrounding area's features. The cave entrance was wide and had the top of the cliff acting as a cover from the sun up above. The surrounding area was a hill that had a path that lead into the cave while a stream ran along the path and into a nearby waterfall, creating a gentle distant crashing noise. He knew the isolation would probably last a few weeks like Mathias had said but he was considering making it last a few months with how nice this place looked, it brought a new sense of home to him. Rei and Ken would like it out here. Plenty of space to run around, a creek to play in, wildlife that was near, and a good location just in case an attack happened. Just because it was a different world didn't mean that there wouldn't be an attack at anytime, you were never safe wherever you went. His thoughts were interrupted when his stomach started growling violently making him sigh and stretch a bit, he didn't even eat before he was temporarily exiled for something as trivial as attacking a hunter for trying to harm someone he was close to.
"Haven't hunted in a week... I need this." He said, tilting his head up in the air and taking a deep breath, catching the scent of an animal and rushing into the brush. A few minutes after he left Arachne dropped from the tree she was hanging on and looked around the new place he discovered with interest.
"Huh, never thought a little exile would lead you to discover this place. It's nice and open for all of us if the keep ever fell... better keep a mental note of this place." She mused and hopped back into a tree and just sat there. It was about an hour away from the keep at a jog or a very fast walk but an two hours at a nice steady walk. She wanted to stay here and sleep in the tree but decided against it because the others would probably worry about her and blame Ares, putting even more stress on his back. The bushes next to her started rustling and shifting before Ares was revealed, carrying a large buck on his shoulders with some rocks in a pouch that was made from a few vines and sticks; the deer was already half eaten due to its lower half being gone. Damn, how long had she been sitting in this tree? Must have been a couple of hours since the sky was completely dark right now and the stars were out with the moon shining up above. She looked to see Ares almost at the cave with the bisected dear being dragged across the ground and leave a trail of blood with some pieces of gore. She sighed and spared one last glance at Ares enter the dark cave before jumping branch to branch at a fast pace to go back home.
Her departure didn't go unnoticed though. While she thought she was sneaky most of the time she wasn't since Ares knew where she was the whole time. She didn't notice but her scent was all over the tree and ground, clouding it like a blanket.
"She doesn't know that she leaves a trail everywhere she goes." He said, shaking his head and turning back to the dead deer in the middle of the cave that stared with a dead look in one eye, due to the other one being eaten already. The carcass was pulled up before being ripped in half and then again and again until it was nothing but a pile of flesh, bones, organs, fat, and fur. The flesh and organs was already eaten at a fast pace while the fat and fur was put thrown outside until the morning, the bones were then broken and carefully carved at until it was a makeshift knife. While he enjoyed tearing into prey like how he was in his original form he couldn't do that since his stomach wasn't as large and he didn't know when he'd find food again so he had to use the tools necessary to make it last when some more was found. He found a nearby rock with a small patch of grass near it and used it as a temporary bed, the cave floor wasn't exactly the most comfortable right now. The night sounds was a natural lullaby to him, he wishes he could live like this for the rest of his life. Pushing those thoughts aside he closed his eyes and fell asleep for the busy day tomorrow.
Morning came faster than he'd like but it didn't matter since today was going to be a busy one. The grass bed tickled his skin a bit and made him laugh at the sensation before pouting when he got up and stretched out his muscles. He stepped out of the cave and shielded his eyes at the sudden assault of light; judging by the position the sun was at it was about eleven in the morning give or take. The first thing on his list of things to do was find a source of food and clean water, without those two he won't last long. Second thing was to find different materials for tools and weapons, he couldn't always rely on close quarters to save him and sometimes he wasn't at his best with sneaking. The final thing was to survive the months ahead, prove to Mathias that exiling him was a mistake.
"Now that I have a plan, it's time to execute it." He said and began to search around, but not before leaving claw marks on every few trees to help remember where this location was. He began to wander around in a certain direction for a minute before eventually finding a large open area that had a large pond and seemed to house a large variety of various wildlife that ranged from elk, moose, deer, a herd of bison, and numerous small critters that ate various plants and what not. The sight of all these animals was almost breathtaking and appetizing at the same time, it seemed all of them had a specific spot to reside at to avoid any territory trespassing. The food source was out of the way and it seemed there was plenty for a minute, now it was time to look for the components to make weapons and tools for later use. He began to walk back into the forest while making a large slash mark on a large tree to mark it as hunting grounds. The search for the materials necessary to make tools and weapons was a lot harder than it was supposed to be, on numerous occasions the materials were either located near a large group of Grimm or entering the camera zone of the forest, coming at night would serve better but that meant being more careful since Grimm seem to be more ferocious at that time. He had enough to make a simple hunting bow, makeshift stone knife, a few arrows, and a couple of traps; he couldn't be everywhere at once and sometimes he felt as if it were too easy to overpower his prey with brute force. Not to mention some of the prey were stronger than they let on to be, like the Bison he observed earlier. Charging an animal of that size and trying to overpower it would be suicide to most but not him, it wasn't the size that concerned him, it was the teamwork that did. An observation earlier demonstrated that they traveled in a singular line and protected the young and seemed to be very good at detecting danger. The other animals were good at that too which made it hard to get close and personal without being detected and throwing a rock could possibly miss its target and fire breath would scare the animals away rather than kill them. This wasn't Shear and he wasn't in his original form so he needed to be patient, use his head, and learn from his mistakes if he makes one.
The sky was beginning to turn a mixture of orange, pink, and some hints of yellow which indicated that it was late afternoon, early evening before turning a dark blue and eventually a solid black with billions of stars littering the sky. His stomach rumbled in fury as he began to get closer to the cave and remembered that all the deer from yesterday was gone. He shook his head and entered the cave while dropping the materials right at the entrance before stretching a bit and getting on all fours, charging into the forest at a fast pace. The hunt for food began to carry on from minutes, to tens of minutes, to eventually an hour before he picked up a scent of something. He finally caught arrived at a scene that perplexed him, another figure chewing on a dead elk. They were a bit smaller than him and had light skin that seemed to make the moon reflect, a spiked tail with light brown spikes, silver hair and olive eyes; after a minute of feeding they finally noticed him and stared while he did the same. The staring contest lasted for another minute before they suddenly perked up and bounced off the dead elk and ran into the brush while leaving a trail of blood on leaves and the ground, he slowly walked over to one of the leaves and knelt down while looking at the blood. Swiping some of it off and bringing it to his nose, he took a sniff and tilted his head when he felt like he knew that scent but couldn't quite place his finger on it. Deducing it as fatigue he looked back at the half eaten elk and shrugged before throwing it over his shoulder and walking back to the cave at a slightly fast pace; his stomach was beginning to kill him and he didn't want eat out in the open. Although the night was calm and relaxing, he couldn't help but feel as if something was watching him and it wasn't Arachne since there was no hint of poison in the air. After a short walk to the cave he found something at the entrance. It was a little knapsack made out of various furs of different animals and had numerous materials inside ranging from rope, meat with leaves wrapped around, a very sharp set of shards that had an orange sludge on them, and a few dust crystals. He raised an eyebrow at the shape of the crystals then later widened his eyes when he realized the shape they were in, arrowheads for his makeshift bow; he then looked around and shot a smile at the wild before walking in the cave for the night. Now that he had everything he needed, he could start surviving out here... oh how wrong Mathias was to exile him for the time being.
Months later:
Isolation had been unforgiving and cruel towards him but in the end he prevailed. Over the course of a few months he had some key differences to both his appearance and mentality. He had more scars on his torso and arms with a few on his back from a lucky Ursa attack and a bite from a Beowolf. The spikes on his back were sharper and more jagged, his claws were also sharper to the point where they could cleave through rock if he tried hard enough and finally his canines were razor sharp after going through a massive change a week in. He still kept his hunter outfit on but started adding bones and skulls to it. The shoulders had the top part of wolf skulls and his forearms were covered in arm and leg bones from smaller animals but where sharpened, the knuckles had bones on them also but were sharpened with rocks and acted as sharpened bone knuckles. His hip was surrounded by skulls from various animals that posed an actual threat and made themselves stand out, thus him collecting them as trophies. He ground multiple bones into dust and mixed it with some other components to create a paint which he rubbed on his face in the style of a skull, giving him the look of a skeleton that came from hell. The paint lasted as long as wanted until washed off which was fortunate because sleeping with it on was a bitch and uncomfortable. Although his attire consisted of animal bones mostly he had a few human and faunus skulls too, which resided on his outer thighs. A couple of weeks ago a group of White Fang decided to use this part of the forest for a scouting mission for new recruits, none of them made it back since all of them were slaughtered the first night of the four night stay. Their screams of terror filled him with glee, the look on their faces when they began to see their numbers thin and their friends disappear made killing them all the more enjoyable. The last one actually pleaded for his life while trying to get the radio working but didn't get far before his head was ripped from his shoulders with his spine still attached; although it wasn't a worthy kill he still decided to keep the skull since the spine was still attached. They planned to send more into the forest and did but had to withdrawal when they realized the Grimm were beginning to increase in numbers and overwhelm them, thus securing his position since he killed them right near the hunting grounds and the cave wasn't far away. The human skulls were from a couple of thugs running from the authorities after committing a large crime to his knowledge, if killing a couple of people is considered a large crime. They had found his cave and decided to make their residence there until nightfall and were going to leave first thing in the morning but found themselves in a lock for survival when he came back to discover them there. The first three died when he skinned them alive and hung them upside down by their feet in a tree and the last one fought to the death and gave him a scar but ended up having his torso crushed underneath a boulder when he tried to flee. Their skulls were collected and decorated with different paint before being put near his bedside.
His mentality changed also, he was more patient when waiting for something to happen and pouncing on it the moment it did. Fighting was still his favorite thing to do when bored but after his fight with Yang he began to think more clearly. That fight proved that he wasn't the Alpha anymore, not even close because if she was still learning and he lost then how would he fare against a veteran hunter that's been on the field more times times than he can count? Granted he would still train on his own and continue as to what he did best, survive, then he'd be fine. While he was more patient he was also more calm when something didn't go his way or an unseen circumstance popped up out of nowhere made him adapt quickly to it or suffer. Arrogance had clouded his mind before when it came to handling a situation but now that it was dead and gone he had so much more possibilities that could be achieved. Now all that was left was to head back to the keep and collect his things, Rei, Frost, and Ken before heading back to the cave. The rest of the children still held a place in his heart like his siblings but certain three were the key to keeping him from going savage and butchering anything that was in a mile radius from him, his only purpose now was to help them grow and survive for years to come. That place wasn't his home anymore after that little argument with everyone, especially Mathias, who didn't even care what he thought about going back and sent him regardless. The thought of Brock just brought a sour taste to his mouth, his respect for Michelle hit rock bottom the moment she said he was lucky they all even considered bringing him back, he doesn't see her getting off her ass and hunting for everyone. Arachne actually seemed the calmest out of all of them, which was a surprise to him. She's always been the one to annoy the shit out of him for fun and games but when he last saw her she seemed more annoyed than anything, plus it somewhat believed she cared since every couple of days she would check up on him then leave after an hour. The children didn't deserve any scorn since they didn't do anything wrong and were probably confused as to why he's gone right now.
"Time to head back I guess..." He whispered to himself and began to walk back, enjoying the flora and fauna around. The trip back was rather peaceful with the exceptional Beowolf trying to attack him and failing in the end, the only real threat was a sleeping Deathstalker that was basking in the sun and taking in all its bright glory. The Grimm seemed rather docile today for some odd reason, not that any of it bothered him which just meant getting to the destination was faster. After two hours of walking through the forest he came across the keep, which looked the same. Not a lot had changed but the exception of the deer skull at the entrance.
"Huh, when did they add that?" He asked looking at the deer skull with a swirl design in the middle of the head. He entered the keep and immediately noticed that there was talking in the main hall and crouched down low, sneaking quietly while slowly getting closer. He then lied on his stomach and began to crawl while generating little to no noise once so ever, beating Arachne in stealth at this point. Once near the edge he was about to roar to scare everybody but clamped his mouth shut when he saw four certain individuals that caused him stress for the past year. There they were having a conversation with everybody and laughing while doing so, with the exception of Rei, Frost, and Ken who sat next to Arachne and kept quiet for the most part. His older self wouldn't have thought about the chaos that would be caused and charge right in but the new him had second thoughts, all four of them were exceptionally skilled and would mop the floor with him if provoked. He remained silent and just watched from the shadows above as they all had a conversation.
"Hey Mathias, when did you all get here?" Ruby asked curiously.
"Hmm, that's a good question. Brock when did we get here?" Mathias asked to Brock who was making little sculptures before crushing them.
"About ten years ago, memory's kind of foggy though." He shrugged then made a stone flower before handing it to Yang, who smiled in return.
"That's cool. What kind of weapons do you all use?" Ruby asked a bit excitedly making Brock shoot a small smile.
"Mostly spears, rocks, and our abilities." He said making Ruby beam a bit.
"What kind of abilities?" Weiss asked, now interested in the topic. She had been observing the art that the children did and she had to admit, most of it was enough to pass in an art show and probably win a few bucks but didn't try to swipe any since the children seemed really attached to it.
"Ah bah bah bah, that would be telling. Maybe another time sorry." He apologized, making Ruby and Weiss deflate a bit. Blake watched all of them talk and smiled a bit when she was addressed but her main focus was on Arachne, Frost, Rei, and Ken. The older one seemed to pay more attention to the conversation while the younger three kept to themselves mostly, only giving responses when asked about themselves but even then they were short answers that held no joy. Earlier they had talked about Ares and how they exiled him for a few weeks but he decided that a few months would be better; while she didn't like the fact that he was exiled she understood why he was though. He was beginning to become more unhinged as time progressed and was starting to become a danger to everyone, going out at night and taking out cameras, hunting when it wasn't needed, fighting more with Michelle and Brock, and even threatening to kill Arachne if she didn't leave him alone. This last time though made it clear that he needed to stay away for a minute to let everything blow over but it seemed to do more damage than good since Rei, Frost, and Ken weren't doing what they usually do. They were more antisocial, moody, and even violent when Ares was talked about making it clear they relied on him for any type of support. Ken's obsession for weapon making began to get dangerous to the point where any type of component was confiscated from him until he either stopped or Ares came back, Rei started making blankets and covering everyone's doors so much they had to dig to get out but ran into a trap every time, and Frost started lighting everything on fire and getting in fights with Andy, which resulted in her breaking the poor boy's arm biting off a part of his ear, making him fear her. He still has nightmares and Arachne has to get up in the middle of the night to calm him down while he sobbed in her chest, it was clear Ares being gone was beginning to break their family apart. Blake was brought out of her thoughts when Rei spoke up for the first time without being addressed first.
"Hey Mathias?" She asked quietly.
"Yes?" He asked. Everyone in the room looked at her while she just kept her gave down.
"Can we go?" She asked. He saw her expression and took a deep breath before nodding and watching as she exited the room followed by Ken and Frost, who shot Yang a glare. She blinked a bit before rubbing the back of her neck sheepishly.
"They're uh... still mad at me huh?" She asked.
"Yeah... they'll be like that for a while. Rei and Ken got that bad from Ares bad, Frost probably got it from him too." Arachne sighed and began to stand up but stopped when Mathias held out his stick and shook his head.
"They need time." He said.
"They need their brother back Mathias, it's obvious him being gone is affecting them. God I told you exiling him was a bad idea." She muttered and left the room, leaving it quiet for a minute.
"Yikes... she always like this?" Yang asked.
"No she's not. She's usually the happiest one out of all of us actually, she only became like this after Ares left. There are times when she doesn't want anything to do with us and just comforts those three." Brock said with a hand on his head. The girls looked at him and placed a hand on his shoulders making him look around and smile a bit. Michelle looked around the room and sighed before looking to her right when she saw Mimi sit next to her and lean on her arm while fiddling with the bracelet Rei made everyone, it was beginning to fall apart without care and frankly the small Goliath was afraid to ask Rei in fear of her having a meltdown. Michelle shuddered when she thought back to her first sight of Rei's meltdown, never in her life would she have thought that someone of that size could tear down an entire tree in thirty seconds and slice a rock in two while continuing to slaughter any Grimm that stood in her way. The only person who calmed her down was Arachne, who in one of her serious moments, was able to calm the young girl down enough before she fainted from exhaustion and fury.
"H-hey M-Michelle?" Mimi stuttered. Without Ares her stuttering came back full force and turning her back into the timid Goliath once again.
"Yeah?" She asked.
"I-is Ares m-mad at us?" Mimi asked.
"At me but not you." Michelle said.
"For those mean things you said to him?" Mimi asked innocently.
"Yeah..." Michelle nodded and went silent for a minute.
"D-did you mean them?" Mimi asked.
"No... I was mad at him but I didn't mean to push him away if this was the result." Michelle said and went quiet for the rest of the time, making Mimi nod and doze off. The team listened in on their conversation, the parts they could understand, and eventually felt guilty since they felt they were part of the reason he left. They never realized how much backbone he represented until Brock began to describe how Ares brought everybody closer together and made them family, after that each one of them felt an immense amount of guilt on their shoulders. Yang especially since she was the one who gave him the most shit, maybe if she left him alone then he'd still be here and not out in the wild. According to Ozpin, these parts of the woods were the most dangerous seeing as to how older more experienced Grimm live here.
"Girls before you try and make amends with Ares I suggest you give him time after he comes back. He's still mad at us so it'll be a while before he even considers sitting in the same room with you." Brock said. Ruby visibly deflated, Weiss huffed and said something along the lines of 'see if I care' but deep down inside she felt guilty also, Blake's ears flattened, and Yang just gave a heavy sigh before nodding.
"Shouldn't be too hard right?" Yang asked hopefully.
"Wrong." Ares deadpanned and began to silently slink away while keeping a close eye on them. All of them were feeling guilty? Good, they deserve it for exiling him. There was a door closing and he walked towards his room and hid behind a corner when he saw Arachne trying to get in but seemed to be failing. He chuckled lowly and decided to mess with them by silently moving behind her and walking towards the door.
"Dammit Brock I told you to-" She suddenly stopped when she saw Ares looking at her with an amused expression. She stepped back and looked at him up and down while gaping in awe at how much he changed, in place of his always scowling pissed off expression was a calm collected individual who looked like they had lived out in the forest their entire life, his hunting outfit seemed to have bone armor on it and on his legs were human and faunus skulls, indicating he was hunting them also. On his back was a strange shaped double bow with a quiver of arrows with different style dust as the ammo and a little pouch on a crudely made belt. He had white chalky war paint that resembled a skull and had multiple shards in a pouch near his back and there was a crudely made grappling hook wrapped around his shoulder. Body and arms were littered with scars and the tattoos seemed to glow now instead of always remaining dim, glowing every once in a while. He licked his teeth a bit and showed his canines were sharper than ever and were a pearly white also as opposed to the always stained red.
"What the fu-" She was interrupted when his hand clamped on her mouth and he used his other one to make a shushing gesture before turning to the room. He let go of her mouth and she rubbed her cheeks when she realized how sharp his claws had become and the spikes as well. Knocking on the door a couple of times he was met with a rather heated answer.
"Go away!" Rei shrieked and huff loudly. He gently set his head on the door and spoke quietly for no one else to hear but the four around.
"Not even for your big brother?" He quipped. It was silent for a minute before the door slowly opened and Rei peeked out before slowly looking up to see her brother's face with a raise eyebrow. The door was opened and she covered her mouth while tears welled in her eyes before she crashed into him as he knelt down and engulfed her in a hug.
"Rei? What's going on?" Ken asked as he went over to Rei then later dropped his jaw when he saw his older brother hugging her before he looked up and opened his arms, inviting the young Kraken in the hug. Ken wasted no time and bolted over to join in while crying tears of joy, hugging tightly. Frost scratched her head before her eyes widened when she saw Ares at the door hugging his two siblings and shifted in place uncomfortably as they hugged.
"Get over here ya little shit." He said and looked at her. Tears welled in her eyes as she stood there a second longer before she started crying also and bolted over to join in on the group hug. All three of them cried while hugging him tightly as if he'd disappear any moment while reprimanding him for staying away so long, he just nodded and pulled them over to the bed and sat down. Arachne just looked down the hall and saw that no one was coming before entering the room and closing the door, using her body to block it and keep it in place. The most depressed kids out of the group were brought out of the darkness and into the light once more as they were with the brother figure once again. Despite the fact that she loved reunions she needed to put him in his place.
"You're a dumbass you know." She sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose.
"I'm aware of that. Any reason for calling me that though?" He asked calmly. She was taken aback at how calm he actually sounded but composed herself quickly.
"You staying away a lot longer than needed, putting these three in a depressed state, and making me lose my shit with the adults." She listed.
"Not to mention you watching over me this entire time." He added making her turn her head.
"Don't know what you're talking about." She denied.
"Arachne, you're not as sneaky as you think. Every time you come to watch for an hour you leave a scent that covers almost an entire area. Plus I've been able to sneak up on you at least like three times." He said making her face turn red.
"That's bullshit and you know it." She hissed.
"Oh really now? So like that time you fell out of the tree and hid in a bush while I hunted doesn't ring any bells? Or that time your shirt got wet and you took it off to let it dry before deciding to bask in the sun and-" He was interrupted when she shot a web at his mouth and turned with an even redder face that was flushed with embarrassment. Ken took his claw and sliced open the webbing and pulled it free from his face.
"Thanks." Ares said making Ken nod and take one of the arrows and observe it with Rei and Frost who observed the rest of his gear. "As I was saying before you're not as sneaky as you think." He finished.
"Okay, fine! You've been able to tell I was there the whole time fucking sue me." She huffed.
"I'd rather do the fucking." He said making her eyes widen.
"D-did you just?" She sputtered.
"Make a joke? Yes. After being alone for a few months the sight of a woman is actually pleasing." He shrugged. Arachne's embarrassed dissipated and was replaced with a playful smirk.
"Oh yeah? So you have been looking at me that way, you pervert." She said and smashed her chest against his and spun around playfully making him sputter and struggle a bit.
"Oh course not! Get away!" He exclaimed. "Don't shove your breasts against me!" He said embarrassed, shoving her off.
"You're no fun." She smirked at him while he breathed heavily. The three children smiled at Arachne's original attitude starting to resurface and laughed at the scene in front of them. Arachne flashed another playful smirk at Ares' face before sighing and walking towards the door.
"Don't try and stay mad at them too long dumbass-" She was interrupted when someone opened the door and knocked her over. "What the fuck?" She asked and looked up to see a Goliath that was around her height, maybe a tad bit taller with light skin, no spikes on her back, a barbed tail with very light brown color, silver hair, and olive colored eyes. She caught sight and Arachne and blushed in embarrassment before scrambling to help her up.
"Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to do that." She said frantically, helping her up.
"Whoa there sputterfest calm down, and who the hell are you?" Arachne asked with a raised eyebrow.
"O-oh I'm Sistine..." She said timidly that made Arachne gush internally.
"Okay Sistine... why are you here?" She asked.
"I'm looking for Ares." She said.
AN: Well goddamn everyone I'm so sorry for not having this out sooner but I've been trying to keep up with school and work since both have been kicking my ass around the world. Anyways, I've added another character in memory of one of my very good childhood friends from when I was a kid. Now I know what you're thinking, oh she died right? No, which is very fortunate in her case and somewhat of mine. She actually lost some of her memories when her parents and her got in a car crash back in 2010. I've known this girl since I was four years old so that meant six years of memories were wiped clean and she didn't even recognize who I was before I moved away, it's really heartbreaking to have someone you've grown close to and come to love as a best friend and maybe more forget who you are in a single incident. Anyways remember to cherish the ones you love and stay safe everyone, remember the golden rule about reviews and have a good one, take it easy.