I have returned, my friends!
I was able to write this chapter the same week I did chapter 5! How crazy is that?
Before we begin here is the T-Rex file
Tyrannosaurus Rex – Tyrant Lizard King
Dinosaur-Tyrannosaur
Carnivore
43 feet long
16 feet tall
8tons
Hesperia (Vytal)
Role in Darrel's army: PURE MURDERIZER!
Attacks: steel-crushing teeth& tail
Superpowers: A DNA-enhanced version can fire a blue heat ray from its mouth. Think Godzilla's heat ray, but not atomic.
When low on energy, a DNA-enhanced version can achieve a powered-up state that is pure red with small maple-leafed dorsal plates on his back. The Heat Ray is also pure red, and twice as powerful.
Appearance: Rexy but with the colors that were mentioned in the previous chapter.
And now, onto the chapter: The First Day!
Darrel wakes up to the sound of his alarm clock at 7:00 a.m.
*Alarm clock plays rooster crow*
"I'm up! I'm up!" Darrel says, groggily. Darrel notices his team is still asleep and decides to wake them up.
First, he wakes Isaac up via smacking him upside the head. "Rise and shine, Silver Surfer!" Darrel shouted in his ear.
"I'm up, boss! I'm up!" Isaac says, half-awake.
Darrel notices his other teammates already up. "It seems you too get the gist of things." Darrel said calmly.
Afterwards, he started putting his stuff away and then decorating.
"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I got a shower too take." Darrel informed his teammates what he was going to do.
He grabbed his uniform and saw it needed some improvements. "I'm so adding green to this." Darrel said in a deep tone. Reaching, for his duffel bag, he pulled out a green spray-paint bottle and spray painted the stripes and center green.
After grabbing his improved uniform, he stepped into the bathroom and removed all articles of clothing, and stepped into the shower. While Darrel was in the shower, he began to sing Radioactive by Imagine Dragons.
*humming starting tune* "I'm waking up to ash and dust; I wipe my brow and sweat in my rust. I'm breathing in the chemicals * Inhale, then exhale* I'm breaking in; shaping up then check out on the prison bus. This is it: the Apocalypse. Oh whoa oh."
Meanwhile, in the main section of the dorm… the rest of the guys were decorating their room.
Isaac placed a poster of four guys in black tie attire walking in a city with the caption The Arthropods in the upper left corner.
Matthew placed a poster of an eagle soaring in the sky with the caption Fly like an Eagle on the bottom of the poster.
And Dalton placed a poster of a man holding a RPG, aiming said ballistic weapon at the stars with the caption Shoot for the Stars on the lower right below the stars.
Once the guys were done decorating, and had also changed into their uniforms, there was a knock at the door.
"I'll get it!" Matthew said. When he opened the door, he was greeted by team RWBY, also in their uniforms.
"Hi, Matt. May we come in?" Ruby greeted him and then asked if they could come in. Matthew made a gesture for them to come in. They entered the room.
They noticed that one bed was unoccupied and above it, there was a poster of a boy with his arms crossed with a T-rex behind him with the captions I have a T-REX above the T-rex below it. They also see multiple books and other knick-knacks on a dresser, night-stand, and book shelves.
"Where's Darrel?" Blake inquired about her boyfriend's location.
"He is…" Dalton began.
Just then, Darrel emerged from the bathroom, in his uniform singing "And victory is in a simple soul!" he eventually noticed that team RWBY was in the dorm.
"Morning, ladies." Darrel greeted them. "What brings you to my team's dorm" he inquired.
"We need you, Matt, and Dalton, for something." Yang said.
"What for?" the three mentioned inquired.
"Making bunk-beds!" Ruby said cheerfully.
"Well, you came the right place. I've got just the thing for bunk-bed construction." Darrel said. Heading for his bed, he pulled out a suitcase and opened it up. Afterwards, he pulled out a toolbox. "In this toolbox, is the key to bunk-bed building." Darrel said bubbly.
Team RWBY led the three to their dorm next door. They saw that the girls had done decorating as well, but it wasn't overly done. The beds on the other hand, were worse for wear.
"Eeh!" Darrel grimaced. "This may take a while." He said with minor disgust.
Darrel, Matthew, Dalton, and Yang lifted one bed and rested it on top of each other. Darrel placed some double-pointed nails on the feet on the top bunk and placed them so the nails were embedded in the top of the bottom bunk. This was done in 20 minutes.
"So, class starts at 9:00, right?" Darrel inquired.
"Wait? Did you say 9:00?" Weiss said worryingly.
"Yeah, why?" Darrel asked.
"Its 8:35, you shape-shifting dunce!" she proclaimed before speeding out of the dorm. Not far behind, was the rest of her team, team DIMD, and team JNPR.
The 12 raced across a courtyard, with Ozpin and Glynda watching them.
"First class: Grimm Studies with Prof. Port." Darrel said.
All 12 made to his class with 5 minutes to spare. The class room was large: in the top section, were rows of tables with individual seats, like and auditorium. At the bottom section, were various diagrams of multiple species of Grimm.
Professor Port is a portly man (no pun attended) with a pale complexion. His eyes were squinted. His hair was grey in a toupee style and his moustache was also grey and bushy. His clothing is a red dress shirt with bronze strapping on the top, shoulders, and down the arms.
Teams RWBY and DIMD sat together on the right side, while team JNPR sat on the left side.
"Monster, Demons, Prowlers of the night!" Port began on a lecture. "Yes the Creatures of Grimm have many names." He continued.
Ruby was having trouble staying awake, Weiss was taking notes as was Darrel and Isaac, Blake & Yang were paying attention, and Matthew & Dalton were playing paper football.
"But I merely refer to them as prey! Ha-ha!" Port said to try and liven things up. Ruby woke up.
"Uh, and you shall too upon graduating from this prestigious academy! Now as I was saying," he said before strolling the front of the class. "Vale, as well as the other 5 kingdoms, are safe havens in an otherwise treacherous world. Our planet is absolutely teeming with creatures that would love nothing more to tear you to pieces. And that's where we come in. Huntsmen! Huntresses!" he said and then winking & clicking at Yang, who made a disgusted look.
"Cough-get a life, Port!- cough" Darrel coughed out.
"Alright, who said that?!" Port said demandingly. No one made an attempt to say anything.
Teams DIMD & RWBY looked at Darrel, currently whistling and drawing something in a notebook of his.
"Individuals who've been sworn to protect those who can't protect themselves. From what you ask? Why, the very World!" Port finished. "That is what you are training to become. But first, a story. A tale of a young, handsome man: ME!" he began before going off on a tale about him from his youth.
Weiss rolled her eyes before facing Ruby, who was currently drawing as well, giggling at what she was drawing.
She lifted her drawing: a picture of Prof. Port with the caption Professor Poop at the bottom. Weiss was unamused while Yang was laughing.
Just then, a piece of folded paper slid it way to team RWBY. The four girls looked to their right to see Darrel mouthing 'open it'. Weiss opened it, revealing a highly detailed picture of Port, a Chaos Rex pursing him with the sentence Too much for me to handle above Port's head. The girls laughed at the drawing, even Weiss was laughing.
Eventually, Port concluded his story and grunted to get their attention.
"In the end, the Beowolf was no match for my sheer tenacity! And I returned to my village, the beast in captivity, and my head held high, celebrated as a hero!" he finished then bowed. "The moral of the story: true Huntsmen," he began.
Weiss looked irritated at Ruby's antics. Ruby was trying to balance an apple, a piece of paper, and a pencil on the same finger. "must be honorable! A true huntsmen be dependable! A true huntsmen must be strategic, well educated, and wise!" Port concluded.
Weiss looked like she was about to blow a gasket at her partners' latest antic: nose-picking.
"So, who among you believe themselves to be the embodiment of these traits?" Port asked his students.
"I do, sir!" Weiss proclaimed raising her hand, still furious.
"Well then, let's find out." Port says as an assistant brought a cage with a Grimm inside. "Step forward and face your opponent." He said with an arm pointed at the cage.
Weiss reached for her bag, and grabbed her combat attire and her weapon, Myrtenastar, and left her seat, and headed for a changing room at the back of the classroom.
Afterwards, she stepped out in her combat attire, with Myrtenastar sheathed to her right.
Port grabbed his blunderbuss/ax from its stand and walked to the right side of the cage.
Weiss raised Myrtenastar in front of her, awaiting her opponent. The cage rattled as the Grimm tried to escape.
"Go Weiss!" Yang cheered.
"Fight well!" Blake cheered while waving a custom RWBY flag, courtesy of Darrel.
"Yeah! Represent team RWBY!" Ruby cheered.
"Ruby, I'm trying to focus!" Weiss proclaimed.
"Oh, uh, sorry." Ruby said.
"Alright, let the match…Begin!" Port proclaimed.
Port sliced off the hinges of the cage, allowing the door to fall and the Grimm, a Boarbatusk, to charge while making pig-like grunts, its hooves made a clopping sound as it charged. Weiss made a stab at the beast's side, but its armor prevented it from penetrating. While stabbing, she made a leap into the air and the Grimm missed its chance. Wheeling around, the Grimm faced her yet again.
"Hah-hah! Wasn't expecting that, were you?" Port exclaimed.
"Hang in there, Weiss!" Ruby said.
The two combatants charged forward, Myrtenastar in front of her. At the last second, the Boarbatusk latched its tusk around her weapon, causing her to flip into the air and then loop around, before landing in front of the Grimm and began trying to free her weapon from its grasp.
"Oh, bold new approach! I like it!" Port 'admired'.
"Come on, Weiss! Show it whose boss!" Ruby cheered on her partner.
Weiss glared at her. Unfortunately, this gave the Grimm the opportunity to toss Myrtenastar away from them both, the rapier clattering on the ground. The Grimm used its tusk to head-butt her in the stomach, knocking her off her feet and onto her stomach.
"Ho-ho! Now what will you do without your weapon?" Port 'inquired'.
Weiss was slowly getting up, when her eyes went wide as the Boarbatusk charged again.
Thinking fast, she barrel-rolled out of harm's way, the Grimm colliding with a table and tipping over.
Weiss ran for her weapon and promptly grabbed it.
"Weiss, go for its belly! There's no armor underneath!" Ruby alerted her armor.
"Stop telling me what to do!" Weiss exclaimed in an angry matter.
Ruby had a dejected look on her face at her partner's statement.
The Boarbatusk grunted before leaping into the air and then spinning in a ball toward Weiss.
Thinking fast, she made a glyph appear in front of her, which stopped the Grimm in its tracks and knocked it off it feet.
Weiss leapt onto the glyph and used it as a launching pad and stabbed it in the belly, killing it.
"Bravo, bravo! It appears we are indeed in the presence of a true huntress-in-training!" Port congratulated.
Weiss then made her way back to the changing room. She emerged in her uniform, holding her combat attire and Myrtenastar. She made her way to her seat, glaring at Ruby along the way. She then placed her stuff in her bag.
"We have time for one more demonstration. So, any volunteers?" Port asked. Darrel raised his hand. "I do, sir!" Darrel proclaimed.
"Ah, the shape-shifter! Let us see what you have in store!" Port said.
"How did you..." Darrel inquired how Port knew his secret. "Ozpin told me, as he did to the rest of the staff here." Port exclaimed.
Darrel made his way to the front of the class, not even changing clothes.
The Boarbatusk's carcass was taken out of the room, as was its cage and the door. In their place, was another cage: larger, taller, and shorter, length wise.
Darrel positioned himself in front of the cage.
"Horned lizard." He proclaimed.
He began to convulse in pain. His body grew larger. His head grew larger, longer, and slightly narrower. Emerging from above his nose, was a white blade-like appendage known as a horn. Two smaller 'hornlets' emerged from his eye brow ridge. Emerging from his jaws, were two kinds of teeth: In his upper jaw, were teeth that were long and blade-like. In his lower jaw, were teeth that were shorter and slightly shorter. His neck became a gentle S-shaped curve. His arms grew larger and more muscular. One of his finger vanished, and the other four grew sharp claws, with the middle finger claw being the longest. His legs became larger & more muscular. One of his toes vanished, one became a hallux, and the three that remained grew sharp claws. Emerging from his posterior, was a tail that came to s stiffened end. Emerging from the back of his head to the tip of his tail, were a series of small bony scutes. Top things off, his eyes were gold with black slits. His body had yellowish-brownish colored scaled, both on top and on the bottom. On the sides of his body, were brown-colored circular spots that began from the back of his to the tip of his tail. Darrel was now a 22 feet long, 7 feet tall, 2160 pound Ceratosaurus. He let out a loud guttural roar. (Think When Dinosaurs Roamed America Ceratosaurus.)
Port was slightly stunned at his transformation. The rest of the class, minus the ones who knew, were also the same: stunned.
"Alright! Let the match…Begin." Port exclaimed.
Port sliced off the hinges and the door fell down, and a new Grimm, a Beowolf, emerged from the cage. The Beowolf and Darrel were eye-level with one other. The two issued a challenge via roaring. The Beowolf charged first, but Darrel flex his tail before swinging it in its chest, knocking it off its feet. The Beowolf stood up and made a lunge with its left paw. Unfortunately, Darrel side-stepped and grabbed its shoulder first by its lower jaw, the anchor, and then brings down his upper jaw, the meat-slicer and rips a chunk of flesh from its shoulder, which he promptly spit out. The Beowolf cries out in pain, its left arm now hanging limply. Darrel reared his head back and an orange glow lit up the back of his mouth. Darrel reared his head forward and fires an orange heat ray from his mouth and it lands a direct hit to its chest. The Beowolf, cries out in pain before it exploded, some of its body parts not vaporized exploding outwards. Darrel roars victoriously.
He notices a few body parts on team RWBY. "Allow me to clean up my mess." He says in a deep guttural voice.
He walks over a gently removes the body parts from either their hair or shoulders. Thankfully, one body part landed on Yang's shoulder instead of her hair. Darrel, now holding the pieces of its deceased opponent, located a trashcan and deposited them. Afterwards, he convulsed in pain. Darrel was now back to his old self again.
"Bravo, Bravo! Not only are we in the presence of a hunter-in-training, but also a gentleman, not to mention a shape-shifter." Port congratulated him.
"Glad I could impress, teach," Darrel said with swag. Afterwards, he returns to his seat, noticing the strange looks his friends were giving him.
"What? You guys look like I grew a second head." Darrel said questioningly.
"Actually, the horns and hornlets are still there." Blake noticed. Darrel felt the areas and then grabbed a facial mirror, and when he looked in it, he saw that Blake was right.
"I was afraid of this." Darrel said with despair & a sigh while clutching his head.
"What do you?" Blake inquired. "Sometimes, when I change back, some noticeable features like these horns will remain for an hour or two. I've grown accustomed to it, though." Darrel explained.
"I'm afraid that is all the time we have for today. Be sure to cover assigned reading and stay vigilant. Class dismissed." Port concluded the class.
Weiss walked out of the room, still looking miffed. "Sheesh, vhat vith her?" Isaac inquired. His partner did a 'beats me' shrug.
Ruby rushed out of the classroom after her partner.
"Weiss!" She says to get her attention, which it does.
"What?" Weiss says, still miffed.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you being…" Ruby inquired.
"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you?" You're supposed to be a leader and all you've been is a nuisance!" Weiss insulted her partner. Ruby was shocked at what she heard and inquired, "What did I do?"
"That's just it! You've done nothing to earn your position! Back in the forest, you acted like a child, and you've only continued to do so!" Weiss said, infuriated.
"Weiss, where is this coming from? What happened to all the talk about working together? I thought you believed in acting as a team." Ruby inquired.
"Not a team led by you. I studied, and trained. And quite frankly, I deserve better." Weiss said turning around, closing her eyes, and crossing her arms.
Ruby reached out a hand to say something, but was interrupted. "Ozpin made a mistake." Weiss said.
Weiss stomped off, leaving a dejected and saddened Ruby, who was on the brink of tears.
Unaware, someone was watching. That someone was Darrel Maximus.
Darrel heard everything, and was peed'off beyond comprehension. He followed Weiss.
Weiss was walking to Port, when she felt a hand firmly grasp her wrist and drag her to a wall. That person was Darrel. She noticed his horns were gone.
"Darrel, what do you want? I got somewhere to be." She said, annoyed.
"Well it can wait. I need to chat with you." Darrel said, spitting venom and anger her way.
"What is your problem." She retorted.
"You are the problem! I'm sick of your attitude toward your partner! It is downright ridiculous and RUDE! If you keep acting like this, you will lose her trust! So apologize to Ruby and while you're at it, find a way to make it up to her! Also, if find you doing that again, I will give you another scar. Do. I. Make. Myself. CLEAR?!" Darrel explained and lectured to her his problem while seething with anger.
Weiss nodded her head in fear before the two went their separate ways.
The day progressed, and eventually, it was time to retire. Darrel was in his dorm, reading a book called Ideas for a First Date.
"Let's see here are my options: A Greek-café for lunch on Saturday, a movie, or walk in the park." Darrel thought out what date plan to do for Blake. All night, he was thinking. So far, he had it narrowed it down to these three.
Just then, there was knock at the door. Since Darrel was the only one still up, he answered it. At the door was Weiss Schnee, in her PJs.
Darrel was ready to tell her to leave. "Before you say anything, I want to say I'm sorry for my behavior. That, and I've apologized to Ruby." Weiss explained her success.
"Good. Now, Goodnight." Darrel said.
"Night." She said.
Weiss returned to her dorm and saw Ruby in her PJs still studying. "Hey Weiss, where did you go?" Ruby inquired.
"Turns out, Darrel heard me yelling out you and he gave me a verbal slap in the behind. I went over to his dorm to confirm that I apologized to you." Weiss said.
What was he doing up this late at night." Ruby inquired. Weiss gave a 'beats me' shrug.
This was so far the longest chapter for me to right: over 3,000 words.
I added that bit about Darrel and Weiss because I always thought she deserved that.
Next chapter: MY OWN! The chapter that has the first date between Blake Belladonna & Darrel Maximus. What kind of date, you ask?
Well you will have to find out next chapter!
Read & Review, my friends.