Chapter 3
Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
"Well... Heh. I don't know how I got in this situation" Kaleb, as you can see (4th wall break, yay) is in a predicament, he was on his way home from shopping for supplies for the new semester, as Ozpin wouldn't provide them for him, since he has a job. You can guess what happened between him and his *perfect* security system, and a bag of tortilla chips. "Heeeeeeeeeeeeeelp, I don't like seeing things reversed."
"What are you doing?" Bartholomew poked his head around the corner, and immediately smirked at the sight, as he is trying not to burst out laughing.
"OH, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST HANGING OUT."
Bartholomew decided to mess with him when he heard this, as Kaleb seems to be *not treating him correctly*"Oh, Ok. I'll just leave you alone then, you seem like your fi-"
"Cut me down you sadistic asshole." Kaleb seemed to give him a death glare, not helping with most of the blood going to his head.
"Fine.. How did you do that to yourself anyhow?" Bartholomew decided to ask, as an act of pure curiosity.. and blackmail. Yea, pretty much just blackmail.
"You mind not being a douche? I'm pretty sure being tied upside and hanging upside down for an hour isn't healthy for your body, especially your crotch. Damn I itch, also, remind me to change some of my security. Freggin eye scanner is glitched and it put me out here."
"You're just lucky that Peter or Ozpin didn't find you instead, pretty sure they would save a picture of it for the upcoming students to see after Initiation."
"Peter? Yea, he probably would do it. Not Dad though, he knows I'll get back at him, very severely, which reminds me. Don't you have to get papers done?" Kaleb was genuinely concerned
for his friend's job, as working as a teacher, you need to get files about your students, for what year there in, what course they are taking, and if they need additional services/help or not. It was all very complex work to be done, which is one of the many reasons it's hard to get into Beacon
"Nah, I just drank more coffee than usual to get it done in a few days. Also, did you know there was 432 cracks in the ceiling of my room? I didn't, gotta love being bored in-between preparing."
"Ok, you know drinking the regular amount of coffee you have is unhealthy, I seriously think you might have a heart attack or something man. You walk as fast as a normal person's sprint."
"Eh, Don't worry about it. Besides, you have a personal request from Peter by the way. He asked you to grab some King Taijitu fangs from the forest, you need them from live Grimm though. According to Peter, they release a poison for bones and bone marrow to when they are slain, so otherwise, it means the fangs dull out and the poison is gone."
"Well, Shit."
Kaleb soon departed for the forest at the edge of Beacon Cliff's bringing Desmond as he decided this could be easy if he didn't get bored too easily, as he had nothing to do until Cinder asked to hang out again, and he didn't expect her to be free anytime soon with her "Job"
They both walked into a pathway made from constant use over the use, saying hello to some of the students that just wanted to hang out or just skip classes that were coming up in a hour or two. Walking past some of the trees, Desmond used his heightened sense of smell to hunt out some of the Grimm that was needed, as Kaleb also needed to hunt some Deathstalkers for some poison that they made with their specialized glands for Ozpin and Glynda, they needed it for research in-case a student gets poisoned with the same stuff, and they want to have a cure ready to go.
They soon stumbled upon a clearing, Kaleb decided to go after the snake first, as it should be easier than ripping open a over sized scorpion and hunting for a specific gland, which was incredibly small for its gigantic size, and grabbing it.
"Desmond, when I go in, I need you to go after one head while I get the other. We need to harm it, not kill it. If we can, try tricking it into tying itself up, so we just having to knock it out while it's standing still, other than making it a Lot harder than it has to." The companion soon nodded its head for agreement with the plan. They both walked into the clearing itself, waiting and listening for the signature slithering the over-sized reptile did.
" Desmond, to our left," The wolf looked from the side of his head to see the beast, thinking it had the advantage of surprise. "Lets try to bait it out more. When it comes out to attack, use your claws to hit the underside of its stomach to try and make it sting whenever it moves." The wolf once nodded of agreement and waited.
(If you wish to listen to music during this, try something like Self vs Self by Pendulum, gotta love action music.)
The King of Snakes soon pounced at the duo, as planned. Kaleb jumped backwards, while Desmond soon brought out his own attack. Swiping at the underside of the reptiles underside, gouging its stomach and insides. Kaleb soon brought out his own weapon, shooting at the eyes of the white side of the snake. The darker half of the snake soon started to bite at Desmond, trying to make this easier for the carnivore. Desmond immediately dodged and jumped onto the body of the snake, trying to make it stretch out so it hurt itself with the wound the wolf gave it.
While Desmond just baited the snake to exhaustion, Kaleb was having a fierce duel with the other half, slicing at its veins near its head, and trying to make the main fangs loose. However, the snake was not blinded by the shots earlier, and it was a bit more agile than its other half, and dodged his attacks quite easily causing it to also hurt itself with the gash as well on its stomach, but it still had plenty of oomph to try to kill its prey. Slithering around the teen, it tried to drip the small body, to strangle him to death.
Kaleb soon jumped out of the circle of slow death, and shot at the reptile's eye again, hitting it with precise aiming. As it was now partially blind, Kaleb took that to his advantage and started sprinting around to the blind side of the snake with his semblance. Sooner or later, he used his fire breath to weaken both sides to make it even harder to move with a huge burn on its side.
Trying their best not to kill the beast, while harming it all together. The duo swapped sides, and worked on trying to fool the snake into tying itself together, Desmond baited the white half by staying stiff as a board, and jumping at the last second towards the other half, which Kaleb baited as well, by cutting himself a small bit to let the black half smell his blood, to make it uncontrollably pounce at him. Both of them went past each other as both snake halfs soon unexpectedly collided with the other, knocking itself out.
(Ok, you can stop for now, short action sequence.)
Both companions were a bit confused, as to think after such a fierce little experience, it ended just like that. Just because a small mistake the King Taijitu made when chasing after both of them.
"Well, just gimme a second Des, gonna use my precious to cut them both their fangs out, bark if they start to wake up will ya?" Kaleb said, as he started to walk up to the white half, sawing the top part of the tooth of the snake, cutting into its jaw, and slicing at its veins that held the fangs in position. Blood started to seep into the tooth, and onto himself. Luckily for them, the venom that would usually be released is deep into the tooth, not just the storage space where the veins are. Done with the first one, he started on each tooth after another, taking one of the smaller fangs as a trophy.
"Well, it's time to head out, lets try to find this scorpion fast, the Grimm here get even more agitated at night, and uh.. some get…frisky." Kaleb said, reminding himself of a situation a few ago, where a student was locked out by bullies, and stuck in the forest, trapped in rope in section where the Grimm were Mostly docile, not bothering anyone. While unlucky for her, it was some Beowolf's lucky night, she immediately lost it as soon as she got back, almost killing the bully, and left Beacon out of shame. It made him sick in his stomach to think what could happen in this world full of horrible creatures, Humanity included.
Both of them headed deeper into the forest near the temple that Ozpin used for Initiation every year, as it was a common spot to uncommon spot for Deathstalkers, and a very unlucky spot for a few more people with very… interesting rape stories. Yea, Kaleb felt bad for everyone that had to deal with that, they should get money for the horrible experience of being molested by a creature that is almost made out of pure darkness, unless you're into that kind of stuff, if you are, good for you.
Both of the companions once again scouted the area, looking for any sudden movements in the area, Desmond sniffing the air for any sort of scents related to the scorpion. Sooner or later, they stumbled onto a cave. Guessing that it was the home of one of the Grimm, puts his weapon away, and ignites his palm with his semblance.
"Well, lets do this my friend. We probably are going to have to blind it, then try to either burn it to death, or just basically impale it. Either way, it's honestly gonna be a bitch, so if you get tired, just let me do the work. I know what to do." Kaleb said, before both of them headed into the cave
When they both walked in, it immediately scared them a little. It was like a gigantic maze, without an atmosphere. The area almost instantly felt small with how condensed it was, and it would make a person with claustrophobia have a panic attack. Kaleb felt how wrong this place was with the dim light he had in his hand, while it was a lot easier for the beowolf at his side with its night vision. After a half hour however, they found their goal, just not how they thought it would be.
"Desmond, I hear you whining a little, what's the matter man? scared?" The wolf nodded and pointed with its snout the direction it was looking at. Kaleb focused his aura into the flame a little more, so it brightened up the cave more. The sight that he was looking at made him want to vomit hard, it was the desicrated remains of what Was a Deathstalkers home, but even the eggs were smashed, and the gigantic scorpion was ripped to pieces, with chunks of it in various places, and fluids leaking out of different holes, like puss would out of a wound. It was disgustingly indescribable other than a quick description that was on a whole other level. This, was just… Wrong.
"Oh god.. Is this what you were afraid of? Because if it was, I don't blame you man, damn that's gross. I mean, I had to shove my hand into one, but seriously. Damn that's nasty." The teen admitted quickly, as he didn't want to be he any longer than he had to. He ran over to the carcass of the giant and started to make a hole to directly get the sac of poison he needed.
When he was done making the entry point, he shoved his hand in, passing by luke-warm organs ripping apart from the lack of support, and the gallons of blood spilling onto his arm and his shoulder, trying to grab the pouch of the liquid he needed. Needless to say, he hated every moment of it, and the stench was almost overwhelming, the sight of the lifeless eyes of the scorpion seeming to look at him didn't help.
"Ok! I got it!" he announced as he grabbed a hold of the oval shaped organ, ripping it out of its vessel and tearing his arm out of the corpse. He immediately placed it on the ground and vomited, as would anyone in the situation. " O-ok, I'm done, fuck this. We're out, Lets go." Kaleb yelled to himself and his companion, feeling the need to take a nice, hot shower once he got back in his room, making his way out of the cave, he went on his merrily journey back to beacon.
Well! Thats another chapter in the bag. I hope I'm doing somewhat of a Good Job to entertain you people. I feel like I do so much wrong, just because I'm new to writing this much for a Audience. *Insert "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED" Meme here* But anyway, Thank you all so much for reading, and thank you especially Johanne Smith, you handsome devil you. Please Review and do whatever your beautiful face feels is needed and I will see you guys later! Ciao!