RWBY: Creature Shifter Chapter 4:
The Emerald Forest & Attack of Utah's thief!
I have returned my friends!
I'm officially on summer vacation, so I may be able to pump out more chapters of this.
In this chapter, we see the Utahraptor in action, as well as Darrel and his new team in action.
Before we begin, here is the Utahraptor's datafile:
Utahraptor-Utah's thief
Theropod-dromaeosaur
Length 23ft
Height 8ft
Weight 1,100lbs
Found Hesperia (now Vytal)
Melee combat: teeth, hand claws, and especially foot claws
Ranged: while an extinct version lacks powers, a DNA-enhanced version can charge and emit fire from its mouth as well as fireballs with temperatures reaching 1,100 degrees.
And now, onto the chapter!
The Beowolves were shocked to see a human change into a new form and then taunt them.
Darrel charged forward to the nearest Beowolf and then leapt into the air and raised his right leg up, the claw raised up to strike.
*SLICE!*
Darrel landed on the other side of the Beowolf, its head now removed from its shoulders.
The other Beowolves looked where there now dead packmate lay and charged toward Darrel.
Darrel leaped into the air and landed on two of the Beowolves, his toe claws slitting their throats. Another two were sliced clean in two by his toe claws as well. Darrel got into a claw fight with one, with both combatants blocking each other's attacks. Darrel ended the fight by plunging his hand claws into its heart, killing it instantly. Darrel finished another off by grabbing it with his teeth by its neck and twisted it until its neck popped.
The remaining five Beowolves surrounded their 'prey' in a five-point formation.
"Now you BURN!" Darrel shrieked.
Suddenly, an orange glow lit up at the back of his mouth. The Beowolves were confused at what was happening. Then, Darrel pointed his mouth at the nearest Beowolf, and a column of FIRE spat from his mouth and burned the Beowolf to a crisp. Darrel vaporized the other three with a volley of fireballs. The remaining Beowolf began to turn tail and run until it was grabbed by its arm and was staring at Darrel in the face. Darrel reared his head back and reared it forward, shooting flames from his mouth into the Beowolf's mouth, incinerating it from the inside out.
All of this done in just 15 minutes.
Darrel shrieked with victory.
After heading to river to drink, he looked around for danger. He then began to convulse in pain, to signify him transforming back into his normal state.
After grabbing Ol'Painless, he crossed the river and then headed to the temple. He was completely unaware that both Blake and Yang were watching him.
Both young ladies had already dealt with 2 Ursas. After dispatching them, they made their way towards the temple. Along the way, they saw Darrel surrounded by a Beowolf pack. Ready to help, they were about to run out… until Darrel stabbed his weapon into the ground and then changed into a Utahraptor and starded to slice 7 of the Beowolves.
Blake was even more surprised when Darrel spat literal fire from his mouth and incinerated the remaining Beowolves. After watching him change back to his old self again and then leave, the huntresses-in-training inspected his handiwork.
"I knew Darrel had this form, but I never knew how powerful it was."Yang commented on his prowess while examining a decapitated Beowolf carcass.
"What form was that?" Blake inquired while looking at the Beowolf carcass that was incinerated from the inside out.
"The form we just saw is called Utahraptor, a dinosaur that is part of the theropod family and the dromaeosaur group. Dromaeosaurs were usually small, fast, pack-hunting predators found in all of Hesperia now Vytal, Capricorn now Atlas, and the lost continent of Gaia, now where Mistal is located. Utahraptor is the first raptor to evolve and also the largest, however, the trend to towards smarter and sleeker is clear. Utahraptor is what Darrel calls, the Ultimate killing machine amongst the Dinosaurs." Yang explained the Utahraptor.
Blake absorbed this information and smiled at what she learned, surprisingly.
"Why are you smiling?" Yang inquired.
"I found another reason to like Darrel." Blake blurted out before blushing.
"You have a crush on Darrel? That's so cuttte!" Yang said with glee.
Blake just rolled her eyes before both girls walked towards the temple.
Meanwhile with Darrel, he was currently walking towards the temple, until he collided with someone. That someone was the person he saw at the cliff.
"Watch were you are going!" the other guy shouted.
"Sorry about it, man. Darrel Maximus is my name, slaying monsters is my name." Darrl apologized and then introduced himself. He then held his hand out.
"Names Matthew Lewis." The individual known as Matthew introduced himself and then shook his hand. "By the way, did you hear any shrieking?" Matthew inquired.
"Nope." Darrel bluntly said. "So I guess we are partners now?" Darrel said.
"Guess so, man." Matthew said.
Not far away, two other individuals were already heading towards the temple as well.
One had silver colored hair and eyes. He has a shark logo on his silver colored trench coat. He wore silver coated jeans and shoes as well. Strapped to his shoulder was an assault rifle that resembled an MP44 clad in silver color as well. His name is Isaac Von Reinbach, the heir to the Atlas Fishing Company.
The other had gold colored eyes, short blonde hair, and a really buff body. He wore a camo vest and shirt as well as camo jeans and boots. On the side of his vest, is a trio of stars. Strapped to his back, is a gold colored medieval style war hammer. He is Dalton Goldenrod, the son of the only man to visit the stars.
"So Dalton," Isaac spoke with a thick German accent. "What do you think awaits us at the temple?" he inquired to his partner.
"Honestly, mate," Dalton said with a thick Australian accent. "Two things: the relics and a challenge. Those Ursas were a cakewalk.
Eventually, the two came across Darrel and Matthew slaying both Beowolves and Ursas. Darrel couldn't shape-shift for his aura wasn't back to full strength.
Darrel was using his spear like a kunai spear, grabbing heads and decapitating or shifting to gun mode to put holes in their chests.
Isaac grabbed his weapon, Bad Medicine, and then began mowing while using his Semblance, Teleport, to move away from attacks while converting his assault rifle to a scimitar and then began slicing their heads off.
Matthew began blowing bears and wolves with his double-barrel shotgun, Dinnerbelle, or slicing them up with its sword mode. He also used his semblance, Clone, to make copies of himself, to discourage and confuse the Grimm.
Dalton used his weapon, OH' Mercy Baby! to crush Grimm with its sledgehammer or blow them up with its grenade machine gun mode. Putting his main weapon away, and put on two black gloves. He pressed a button on the base of the gloves and the gloves morphed into a pair of gauntlets that resembled Deathstalker pincers. The other two buttons were Ursa and Beowolf gauntlets. Darrel next activated his Semblance, Darkness, which made him glow black and his eyes became black holes. He started punching away at the Grimm with each hit causing an explosion on contact.
After 15 minutes of slaying, all the Grimm were dead and the guys were exhausted.
"That was a thing." Darrel said with exhaustion.
After introductions and explaining their weapons, Semblances, the four of them headed for the temple.
At the cliff where the initiation began, both Glynda and Ozpin had surfaces in hand and examined how the future hunters and huntresses were doing.
"Our last pair has been formed. Lie Ren and Nora Valkyrie. Poor boy."Glynda commented while looking at a screen that had said pair. "Still, he probably has better luck than Miss Nikos." She said while looking at screen that had the spartan and the bumbling knight. "I don't care what his transcripts say. That Jaune fellow is not ready for this level of combat." She commented on how poor Jaune was in the ways of combat.
"However, it appears our shifting friend is quite literally taking charge. He's currently leading a group towards the temple." Ozpin commented as he saw Darrel leading Isaac, Matthew and Dalton, with each of their weapons drawn.
"By the way, what did you use for relics this year? Professor Ozpin?" Glynda inquired while also trying to get the Professor's attention.
Ozpin on the other hand had a split screen: one side had Darrel in his Utahraptor form, slaying Beowolves, while the other side had a datafile of said form Darrel had given him on a flash drive when they met.
'This boy has immense power. Power that could help humanity for the greater good.' Ozpin thought about Darrel's future.
Darrel, Isaac, Matthew, and Dalton arrived at the temple.
The temple resembled an average gray colored ruined temple with scattered columns with an arch around the rim. In the center of the temple, were a collection of pedestals that the relics in the form of chess pieces.
"Chess pieces? Interesting choice, Prof. Ozpin." Darrel commented on the Prof's choice for relics.
Darrel and Isaac walked up to the center of the temple and picked up two gold king pieces. He also noticed some pieces were missing.
"Chess pieces, eh?" a voice said.
The guys turned to see Blake and Yang heading towards them. Darrel simply shrugged at what she said. Dalton was staring at the blonde and how beautiful she was: her long flowing golden locks and he was lost in her lilac eyes. Yang could tell he was staring, so she winked at him. Isaac 'Gibb-smacked' him.
"Focus on ze mission, boy." Isaac said with utter 'dominance'.
Yang walked up to a pedestal and selected a gold knight relic.
"Hey Blake, how about a cute little pony?" she asked her partner. Blake nodded.
Suddenly, an Ursa burst through the trees while both an explosion and a "Yeehaww!" rang out. The Ursa face-faulted while Nora Valkyrie was perched on its back.
"Aww, its broken." She said with saracatic glumness at how her 'prey' was dead, making everyone sweatdrop.
Lie Ren approached behind the Ursa, looking winded. "Nora, don't ever do that again." He said while still winded.
Nora bounded over to the pedestals and selected a gold rook piece. "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" she proclaimed childly.
"NORA!"Ren proclaimed to get Nora's attention. She soon bounded back over to her partner. "Coming Ren."She said with usual bubbly attitude.
"Did she ride in on an Ursa?" Blake said rhetorically.
Just then, Pyyrha and Jaune burst out of the woods, with a Deathstalker on their tails. "Did those two run all the way here with a Deathstalker on their tails?" Blake said in a rhetorical manner.
On the verge of exploding, Yang screamed, "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!"While her eyes were red and fired an explosion from her gauntlets. "COULD EVERYONE JUST CHILL OUT BEFORE SOMETHING ELSE CRAZY HAPPENS AGAIN?" she said while still angry.
"Uh, I hate to burst your bubble, but…" Darrel said before tapping her shoulder to look up.
Yang looked up to see both Ruby and Weiss falling from the sky. Yang's eyes went wide while Darrel just smirks.
"HOW CAN YOU ACT LIKE THAT WHEN MY SISTER AND HER PARTNER ARE FALLING?"Yang screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Relax. I have a plan." Darrel said calmly.
Yet another cliffhanger for you!
At least we saw one of Darrel' forms in action.
What could Darrel's plan be?
Next chapter is this: THE KING IS HERE…
You figure out what it means.
Until next time, read and review!