RWBY: A TALE OF TWO SCYTHES

Written by Christopher Rangel

CHAPTER 10: THE SON OF CTHULHU

"The thing to remember is what it means to be human," said the old man with the long hair and gray beard. "Or whatever type of sentient, free thinking, free willed being you happen to be, and what it means to be alive. There are three types of people in this world: The dead, the living, and those who are merely alive. If death is to be asleep and life is to be awake, people in this third type are stuck in a sort of waking sleep. They breathe, they eat, they go to work. They have a beating heart. Their body works just fine, but if you look closely, you can see something missing." He looked around the circle of people, sitting around a white rug with an image of a lotus on it. "Can anyone here give me a definition for the word 'Humanity'?"

A Hollow raised a fleshy pink hand. The bearded man gestured for him to speak.

"It's that dark, vaguely vagina shaped thing that you crush to increase your luck and grow your skin back, right?"

"That is Humanity in its solid form, and the effect it has when in contact with someone in a Hollowed state, yes. But can you tell me what it is?" The Hollow shook his head and slouched back in his seat. The man gave a laugh. "Well, it's what makes you… You! Any reanimated corpse can walk around and have some sort of semblance of being something alive, but most of them are not. Not really. No, your Humanity carries your hopes, dreams, thoughts, feelings, all that jazz. And for you all, the fact that you're all here for this meeting, it doesn't mean that your Humanity is gone. It just means that it's been hidden away, by some traumatic experience, by some… mental imbalance, by a sudden burst of sorrow, whatever it might be. And what I hope to do is help you find it again."

"Mr. Watts," said a brown haired young man with a faraway look in his eyes. "Can Reek… can I really find… that… Humanity again, do you think?"

"Yes, Theon," said Alan Watts. "If I didn't whole-heartedly believe that was possible, none of us would be together in this very room today." Reek nodded, satisfied with the answer. Makoto Yuki, the blue haired protagonist of Persona 3, just shrugged, unimpressed. His dog, Koromaru, barked at him.

"Now, I…" Alan began, but was cut off by the opening of a door. "Oh, it appears we have a new friend." He turned around to the open door. "Welcome! And what might your name be…"

"It's…"

ONE DAY EARLIER

"Ruby…" came a voice in the darkness. "Ruby…"

"Jaune?" Ruby said into the darkness of sleep. "Is that you again?"

"You seem to be in a bit of a pickle," came Jaune's voice. "Reminds me of that thing where that guy turns himself into a pickle. Funniest shit I've ever seen."

"But this isn't funny," said Ruby.

"No," came Jaune's voice, "I suppose it isn't. This is pretty bad for the both of us."

"The both of us?" said Ruby.

"Well, yeah," said Jaune's voice. "You're in peril, and I'm a figment of your imagination, so that means I'm in peril as well. Jeez, I never thought my death would come as the result of awful tentacle porn."

"Tentacle-Hentai," corrected Ruby.

"Touche," said Jaune. "But anyway, we gotta get out of this shit."

"I know," said Ruby. "But he's got the upper hand… er, tentacle. He has us trapped. I'm not sure we can beat him!"

"Well, you'd better figure your way out of this piece of fetishistic erotica now, because it's showtime!"

Slowly, Ruby's eyes began to blink open, taking in information from the world around her. They were in the middle of a pond surrounded by trees now, bound to crooked crosses rising from the water with rope. At the center of it rose a stone pedestal, where Squidward Tentacle-Hentai lounged beneath the light of the full moon.

"Good," said Squidward Tentacle-Hentai. "Now all of you are awake."

"What are you going to do with us?!" Yang demanded. She was across the pond on the left side of Ruby's vision, while Weiss was on the right.

"I'm sitting here," said Squidward, "The moon is full above me. You guys are arranged in a triangle around me. It should be obvious." He smirked. "I'm about to have my tentacles wear your vaginas like puppets and perform an occult ritual."

"Wat?" said Weiss.

Squidward did his nose-honk laugh, then sat back on his chair with a sigh. "Where has my poor blind kitten gone off to?"

Ruby blinked at what she saw next. Blake came out from behind the pedestal, stark naked and crawling on all fours. She hopped up into Squidward's lap and curled up on it. She purred as Squidward scratched the top of her head, right between her cat ears.

"What…" began Ruby, struggling through sudden tears. "What did you… WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER EYES?!"

A COUPLE WEEKS EARLIER

"Let me out!" Blake screamed, banging on the door. "LET ME OUT! Somebody… Anyone, HELP ME!"

"It's no use," came Squidward's voice from the other side of the door. "The neighborhood's empty. Just a couple of houses that are still for sale."

"Open the door and let me out of here, you bastard!"

"Only after you've calmed down, my kitten."

"I'm not your goddamn KITTEN!" Blake punched the door.

"Shh, sh sh sh," said Squidward. "I don't want you to hurt your paw on this hard, hard, Valyrian Steel door, my kitten." Blake screamed and punched the door as hard as she could. The door didn't budge, but her knuckle cracked open, blood splattering across the wall as it collided with the cold Valyrian Steel.

"Shit!" she yelled, clutching holding her knuckle with her other, good hand.

"Poor kitten," said Squidward. "That sounded like it hurt." Blake didn't say anything, but gripped her hand harder, grit her teeth, and cried through squinting eyes.

And so time passed. She assumed that day was turning to night and night back to day, but there were no windows in this place. No way to tell.

Every so often she would find that the two bowls in the room were filled with food and water, but she was never certain how or when it happened. So she decided she would watch the door, not taking her eyes off of it, not falling asleep.

She stayed like that for what felt like hours. It didn't take long for her eyelids to start to fall, but she fought to keep them open. Her head pounded from the strain, but she knew this was the only way out. This was the Achilles' Heel of her captivity.

So she waited and she watched.

She waited and she watched…

She waited…

…and she watched.

…waited…

…and watched…

…waited…

…watched…

…eyelids…

…slowly…

…closing…

…just a crack…

…her eyes…

…the door…

…open a crack…

She inhaled suddenly, but kept her eyes open just a crack, so that her captor wouldn't know she saw. There was one eye gleaming from the other side, looking over her without a sound. Silently, he opened the door further, then stepped in and slithered over to the bowls. As he was picking them up, Blake pounced for the door.

"Hey!" Squidward yelled, a tentacle lashing out and wrapping around her arm. Blake hissed, then sank her teeth right into the tentacle.

"Ow!" Squidward yelled. "Bitch!" That tentacle retracted, but another came and wrapped around her head. There was a sucker over each eye.

"This is the thanks I get for the food I'm giving you, huh?!" She felt the tentacle squeeze around her head, then screamed as she felt the most intense pain she'd ever felt on her eyes. The tentacle was gone now, but she still couldn't see.

"Wh… what?" she said. Her eyelids were open, but try as she might she couldn't see anything.

"You fucking cunt," said Squidward. She felt a kick to the side and fell to the floor. "I'll teach you how to be a good fucking cat." He kicked her again. "Meow for me." He kicked her again, harder this time. "I said fucking meow for me!"

"M… meow…" Blake said. Squidward kicked her again.

"I SAID MEOW!" he yelled with another kick. "I didn't say 'say the word meow', I said fucking MEOW!" He kicked her again.

"R… r…" Blake choked back tears, "Rrreow," she managed to meow.

"Thanks a good girl," Squidward said. There was a gentle rubbing under her chin. "That's a good little kitten. Oh, my poor, poor, blind little cat. Let me get you some food and water, okay?"

Ruby looked into the empty, dark holes where Blake's eyes used to be.

"Rrreow," Blake meowed.

"That's my good little kitten," Squidward said, scratching between her ears.

"Ruby…" Yang said, looking at her, "What… what's wrong? What do you see?" Ruby only shook her head and looked away. Yang struggled to say anything through a choking wall of tears.

"You monster!" Weiss yelled, straining against her bonds.

"Struggle all you wish," Squidward said, continuing to pet Blake. "You shall never escape my reach!" He raised his right tentacle in a right angle and "Burn my Dread – Last Battle" from Persona 3 started playing in the background as the moon started to glow with a golden light stronger than the Sun, though the sky still remained starless and bible black. "This is the power… OF THE LAST SON OF CTHULHU." He started laughing his trademark "Haw! Haw! Haw!" laugh.

Two of Squidward's lower tentacles shot out and wrapped around Yang and Weiss, crushing their crosses and lifting them, helplessly constricted, into the air.

"I had wanted to live my life as a mortal squid," said Squidward, "But you girls have left my no choice but to ascend, to take on the spirit of my father!"

"No!" Ruby cried. She saw that the tips of his tentacles were already fiddling at their clitorises; before long, the tentacles would be wearing their vaginas as puppets, as the Squidman had promised, and who knew what would happen after that.

"And don't think I've forgotten about you," said Squidward. "You're about to play a very vital role in this. THE FIRST SACRIFICE!"

Squidward pointed his right tentacle tentacle forward, and it shot right towards Ruby's crotch. Ruby grit her teeth, squinted her eyes, and prepared for impact. But then she remembered something…

TWO WEEKS AGO

"Wh… what happened?" Ruby asked upon waking up. She looked down and saw that her pussy was out, as the kids say, "For Grandad", but that there was a bandage covering it entirely, stitched right to her skin. She felt the bandage. It was… metal?

"Good, you're awake", said the Doctor. "Yeah, you won't be playing with yourself anytime soon."

"What?!" said Ruby.

"That bandage is made of flexible Valyrian steel; there's no getting through it and no getting it off until two weeks have passed, at which point the timer will run out and it will detach from your body. For now, you're on nofap."

"Not nofap!" said Ruby.

"What?!" Squidward said as his tentacle collided with Ruby's cooter bandage.

"Valyrian Steel…" Ruby said, quietly, with a smirk, "Motherfucker."

Cracks began to form across Squidward's trembling tentacle, which then exploded in a blast of light, causing "Before my Body is Dry (Don't Lose your Way)" to start playing in the background. The explosion vaporized the cross Ruby was bound to, and she landed on her feet as the force pushed her backwards. Now was the time to fight, but she had no scythe. Then she looked up and saw a river of airborne blood illuminated by the moonlight, the source of which was… her coochie?

"Two weeks…" the Doctor had said.

"Of course…" Ruby said. "It's gone now." Standing on the shore now, looking across the pond to the Squidman.

"Don't fuck with a bitch," she said, "When she's on her PERIOD!"

"DON'T LOSE YOUR WAAAAAYYYY!" went the background music as she held her hand forward. Her period blood formed into a scythe in her hand, and she used her Petal Burst Semblance to speed over the water's surface beneath the moonlight. She severed the tentacles that bound Yang and Weiss.

Weiss used Dust to freeze the lake, and the three of them stood face to face with one Squiddy boi.

"Whores," Squidward said under his breath. The moon returned to it's normal brilliance above him. "No matter," he said, regaining his composure, "I have absorbed enough of my father's energy to destroy you without breaking a sweat." Blake hopped off of Squidward's lap and started to lick herself as the big man stood up, blood pouring out of the stumps where three of his tentacles had been.

"Now we're going to destroy you," said Ruby. "For what you did to Blake."

"Oh, really?" said Squidward. "Starless" by King Crimson started to play in the background as he started to laugh, maniacally. His body started to emanate a golden light. Ruby, Weiss, and Yang blinked, not believing what they were seeing as Squidward seemed to grow in size. A beard of tentacles appeared on his face beneath his honk-nose, and the tentacles he had lost grew back, although they were smaller and malformed. Batlike wings grew out of his back, and his left tentacle reshaped into the form of a trident. Also he was fucking shredded now.

"How did I ever get surrounded by such loser weaklings?" Squidward asked. Ruby, Weiss, and Yang stood their ground.

"Alright, gang," said Ruby, hands gripping her blood-scythe. "Let's craft some love!"

TO BE CONTINUED