I'm back! And let me say that this chapter will have something…interesting to say the least.
Without further ado, let's begin!
August 17, 2016
Noon
Beacon
RWBY, JNPR, and DIMD were having lunch as usual. Blake was eating tuna salad while lacing her hand with her engagement ring with Darrel's.
"You know, I heard that we're supposed to be getting a new team today."Darrel stated.
"That's odd: us getting more attendees not that long into the school year."Weiss said, confused.
"Would Ms. Belladonna and Mr. Maximus please report to Ozpin's office?"Glynda's voice said over the intercom.
Blake and Darrel arrived at Ozpin's office. "You wanted to see us, sir?"Darrel asked. He noticed that Ironwood as well as Oobleck was here. "Yes; send them in."
The elevator doors opened and there were 5 figures.
The first was female with tan skin and grayish blue eyes with two blue gossamer markings. Her hair is auburn with highlighted streaks of blue gossamer, tied into a ponytail. She's wearing a blue jumpsuit.
The second was male and taller than all of them and is slightly muscular and husky. He has blue eyes and spiked up blond hair. On his left arm, was a yellow armor covering. He wears a yellowish shirt and with a yellow stripe, beige pants and shoes.
The third was the shortest female. She had red hair that is tied up into pigtails. Her eyes are greenish blue. She wears a light green shirt and yellowish green pants and shoes.
The third was male and lanky. He has black hair and brown eyes. He is dressed in a black short-sleeved shirt with a skull design, blue jeans, and gray shoes.
The last individual was someone Darrel knew. "Imperious?!" (For an idea of what Imperious look like, go read The Amnesiac Huntsman by a good friend of mine, Hareta Kuso.)
"Darrel, is that you?"Imperious said, shocked. They bro-hugged. "So, care to introduce me to your friends?"
"Cassiopeia Ironwood reporting for duty, sir!"The auburn haired female said.
"The name's Ethan Bolato, dude."The blonde said.
"I'm Emily Lorarte and this is Luis Calabasas. "The ginger introduced her and the black haired individual.
"How come they're here, sir?"Blake asked.
Ironwood sighed. "I didn't want to tell you this, but… this isn't the first time these anomalies have appeared."
"WHAT?!"Blake and Darrel shouted.
"Back when Team CEELI were first years, they dealt with them, especially ones from the future."
"With help from your anomaly detector, we want you and Ms. Belladonna to accompany team CEELI and Dr. Oobleck to any future anomalies and study the creatures that live there, due to the Dr.'s request."Ozpin explained.
"Understood sir."Darrel stated.
August 17, 2016
1:30 p.m
Forever Fall Forest
Team CEELI, Darrel, Blake and Oobleck were marching through the forest, with Darrel leading.
Emily took notice of Blake's ring. "Nice ring, where'd you get it?" "Darrel gave it to me, it's my engagement ring."
"Lucky!"
Right in front of them was the anomaly. "Ladies first."Darrel stated.
They all entered and were hit with a heat wave. They looked around to see they were in a vast savanna with tall grass."
"This is the Vytalian Grasslands!"Cass stated. "Wait, what?"
"Ok, you know that there is a large rainforest preserve in the middle of Vytal?" They nodded. "Well, in 5 million years, another Ice Age has happened, and as the climate became colder and drier, the rainforest died out and is replaced with this."Luis explained.
Darrel groaned. "I can't see over this tall grass." He smirked. "At least not yet."
"You guys are going to be mind blown."Blake stated.
"Winged Deity."Darrel proclaimed.
He convulsed in pain. He grew larger. His head became larger and longer. His mouth morphed into a nearly 2 foot long beak. His neck grew longer. His arms became smaller and only one short claw remained. His legs became longer and he had 3 thick toe claws with a dew claw.
He was covered in dull yellow feathers and yellow eyes. Darrel was now a 10 feet tall, 9 ft long, 400lbs Kelenken.
CEELI was taken by surprised and jaw dropped. "Flabbergasted?"Darrel said in a throaty voice.
"How…in...the what?!"Imperious said, shocked.
"Long story short, White Fang experiment gone bad…on their end."
"So, Mr. Maximus, what will you do with your height advantage?"Oobleck asked.
"I will use my height to scan for a waterhole." "Why a waterhole?"Ethan asked. "Because animals congregate there, both predator and prey, and there we will study the local populace with ease."He explained.
He scanned the area and although he had virtually no sense of smell, his hearing and sight was superb. "There's definitely water, roughly 3 miles from here."
They trekked to where the water is and came across a large lake with a river and on the fringes of the lake were numerous stands of trees.
"Man, its hot!"Blake pulled out a water bottle and sipped from it. She noticed that as Darrel drank from the lake, she saw something approaching him from the water.
"Darrel, look out!"
Suddenly, something erupted from water and nearly grabbed his neck. It vaguely resembled a caiman, but was nearly 20 feet long and its scales were a dark brown. Eyes were a dull yellow.
Darrel shrieked and screeched loudly, creating a sonic shriek loud enough to force the scaly beast back into the water.
"What was that?!" "That was a Charman, a descendant of the Yacare Caiman that has become a top predator, now that Anacondas are extinct."Cass explained.
"Darrel are you okay?"Blake asked, worried. "I'm fine, just a little startled is all." Despite the dangers of the future caiman, he continued to drink.
A few hours later, they noticed that more animals had arrived. The first was a giant sloth with tan yellow fur, about 15 feet tall. It was browsing on a tree. "That is a Megasloth, descended from Tree sloths and behaves like its extinct ancestors, the ground sloths."Luis explained.
The other were 5 pig-like animals about the size of a wild boar and had dark yellow fur. One had a bright red tuft of fur on their head and larger tusks. "Those are Pecodons, descended from Peccaries and behave like Wild Boar. That one with tuft of fur and bigger tusks is a male."Ethan explained.
Darrel heard his stomach growling. He then looked at the animals on the other side of the lake, hungrily. "Don't you dare, Darrel!"Blake scolded. "But I'm hungry!"
"Then you can eat that." Imperious pointed to a carcass not far from them.
It vaguely resembled an otter, but its tail and feet were more like that of a seal. Its skin was dark brown. "That is an Otto, descended from the Giant Otter and feeds on fish and giant piranhas."Emily explained.
Darrel walked up to it and eyed it before he placed his foot on its pelvic region, and plunged his beak into its chest and stomach area, tearing at skin and muscle and pulling out chunks of flesh and swallowed them whole.
Once he had his fill, another animal came in and feasted on the remains. "That is a Rattleback, descended from an Agouti which armor is used for defense against predators."Cass explained.
"What kind of predators, Ms. Ironwood?"Oobleck asked.
Just then, a troop of 8 Babookaris were being pursued by a pack of 5 of the top predators of the Vytalian Grasslands.
They had a similar build to Darrel's Kelenken, but were stockier, their beak was shorter and thicker and they had a functional claw on their arms.
They're scales were dull yellow with bright yellow around their black beaks. The crests on the back of their heads were red with black and white tips. The feathers were red.
"Those are Carakillers, giant birds that hunt in packs; descended from Caracaras."Cass explained.
Although the Carakillers lost their primary prey, they were able to bring down a Pecodon.
When they noticed Darrel, still as a Kelenken, they walked up to him and circled him.
"What are they doing?"He whispered. "I don't' know."Emily said, now all of Team CEELI, Blake, and Oobleck hiding in the tall grass.
'What are you?'One of them asked.
'Uh…excuse me?'He said in their tongue. 'Well, you look like us, but you're beak is longer, you're wings are small, legs are longer, and you don't have a crest.' Another said.
'Well, I'm a close relative from far south of here.' He said. 'Then what are you doing here?' Another asked this one female. 'I came here to find an area to settle down.' He said.
'But this is area is our territory.' The alpha said, slightly threatening. 'A mistake on my part, I shall leave.' He said. 'Thank you.' The alpha said.
They all left, with one female nuzzling him. 'I hate to upset you, but I already have a mate; she's gathering nest material.' She had a saddened look. 'However, an ally of mine said, there's someone for everyone.' He then left and returned to the rest.
"Well, that was a thing."Ethan said.
They walked back to the anomaly, exited it back into the Forever Fall Forest, and then the anomaly closed. Darrel also changed back.
August 17, 2016
6:30 p.m
DIMD's Dorm
"So, what did that one giant falcon that nuzzled you want?"Blake asked Darrel, slightly mad. "I think that one wanted to settle down with me, but I told her that I already had a mate: You."
Blake blushed fiercely. "I love you, Darrel." "I love you too, Blake."
Now the only canon creatures to TFIW are the Babookari, Carakiller, and the Rattleback; all the other future creatures in here were made up, and with the Carakiller, Megasloth, and the Rattleback, I made it resemble South America before The Great American Interchange during the Ice Age.
Speaking of which, the next anomaly is from the Ice Age of North America.
Now before I get to the file, let me tell you something: the reason why it takes me so long is A: I have a life and school, and B: my writing process is long; first I brainstorm what I want to be in my story, then I research it as best I can, then I write, type, revise, and post. All in all, that's roughly a week or so long time to write one chapter, just one!
Kelenken-Winged Deity
10 feet tall, 9 feet long, 400lbs
Usage: Sprinter
Melee Attacks: Beak and foot claws
Abilities: A DNA-enhanced version can emit a sonic shriek from its mouth. Think like Banshee from Superman and Supergirl in how the sonic shriek would look.
Appearance: Prehistoric Predators
Until then, R&R my friends!