I'm back! And I have seen the premiere of RWBY Vol5!
Ruby: Too much focus on her but then again, she is the main character. Still not a fan of the maiden concept or relics or any of the mysticism of RWBY outside of Aura, Dust & Semblance. Still nice to see a new headmaster albeit one who is being manipulated.
Weiss: Too little screen time to say much.
Blake: Nice to see my Waifu once again; I'm afraid that when they- Blake, her parents & Sun- go public with the stuff of Illia's scroll, something is going to happen. And hopefully, it's not a death of an important character.
Yang: Love the reference to what she's based off of. And that bandit looking guy I swear he looks like Shaggy from Scooby Doo.
But enough of canon, on with RWBY: Primeval!
(Play Primeval Theme)
There's a black background and shards of glass floating in a sphere formation.
Shards come together to form two pairs: one an image of Ruby Rose, then of a screeching Velociraptor.
Two more pairs form an image of Weiss Schnee then of a shrieking Troodon.
Two more pairs form an image of Blake Belladonna then of a Dinofelis leaping towards the screen.
Two more pairs form an image of Yang Xiao Long then of an Ankylosaurus flailing its club.
Two more pairs form an image of Darrel Maximus and a T-rex roaring, jaws glowing light blue.
Two more pairs form an image of Isaac Von Reinhbach and Woolly Mammoth trumpeting in a blizzard.
Two more form an image of Matthew Lewis then of an Utahraptor leaping down, the sun behind it.
The last pair forms an image of Dalton Goldenrod then of a Megalania running towards the screen, hissing.
All the shards come together to form RWBY with Primeval below it before all the shards scatter.
April 22, 2017
Noon
Vale Docks
Darrel was doing some maintenance work on his ship-like boat, like tuning up the sonar, refueling it and his robot with proper fuel, etc.
"Permission to come aboard, Cpt.?" He heard the distinct voice of Ethan ask. "Permission granted."He said.
He saw Team CEEL & Blake. "Rest of my team is still studying."Blake stated. "And Imperious is with Coco, practicing his semblance."Cass said.
"So let me guess: Future Underwater Anomaly?"Darrel inquired. CEEL nodded. "Well, let me fire up the anomaly detector and then we can cast off."He said.
Not much later, they set sail and the anomaly was off the coast of Vale, roughly 50 miles away.
They enter the anomaly and it is a vast expanse of sea.
"Only one way to know what's down there." Darrel set the ship on auto-pilot and changed into swimming trunks down below and came up with a camera strap that would be attached onto him once he had transformed.
He activated the retractable platform and laid down on it. "Eye Lizard."He proclaimed.
He convulsed in pain. He grew larger. His head grew bigger and longer and his snout lengthened and thin and hardly any teeth inside. Eyes grew much larger. Neck grew thicker. Limbs shortened and hands & feet morphed into paddle-shaped fins, with back being smaller than the front. He grew a shark-like dorsal fin on his back. He also grew a long tail that came to a shark tailfin.
His body is a composite of mottled dull brown and milk chocolate brown skin with big eyes.
Darrel is now a 30 feet long,3 ton Ophthalmosaurus.
Blake strapped the camera just under his dorsal fin and kissed his snout. "Best of luck to you, dear."She said with a smile. "Thank you, Blake."He squeaked out.
He was lowered down and he took off at lightning speed.
He looked around him with eyes that are the biggest in the vertebrate world and saw a myriad of strange crustaceans: some were filter feeders; others were preying on similar smaller versions that looked like fish. "Those are Silverswimmers, descendants of larval stages of crustaceans that have diversified to take the place of most fish."Cass said over the comm piece on the camera.
Lacking most teeth, Darrel's current form is built for soft-bodied prey like squid so he is unable to prey on them. However, something else is.
He saw a few being snatched out of the water by creatures above the water. Taking a breath, he saw what it was.
Strange fish that can fly! They looked similar to a bird but way more different. "You have seen Forest Flish; these are Oceanic Flish, as big as an albatross and they prey on Silverswimmers."Luis said.
He had an idea and then dove down and thenhe accelerated quickly, leaping out of the water and tried to snatch one but they were too fast for him, and he landed back in the water to witness something else strange.
It was a massive 25 meter squid that was using its array of tentacles to mimic a shoal of Silverswimmers. Why? He saw it catch several Flish that got close enough for it and pulled it towards its beak. "That is a Rainbow Squid, a giant squid that is so advanced with its ability to change colors, it can make itself look like a disco ball when mating occurs."Emily said, the giant colorful squid being her favorite animal in this region.
Suddenly, something in the gloom startles the squid and Darrel is scared as well!
Sharks as in numerous sharks! They look like a Mako Shark or Blue Shark but they were as big as a Great White and had numerous ridges on them and they're sides flashed yellow crescents going down the sides of their bodies. And they appeared to be coordinated, like a pack of wolves. "Sharkopaths, the wolves of the sea. They have taken every aspect of the shark and made it deadlier than ever: all senses from their superb sense of smell to picking up the static electricity discharges they can pick up from prey have been elevated to 11 and they hunt in packs."Ethan stated.
The giant colorful squid tried to camouflage itself as possible, turning blue as possible making it invisible but as the sharks get closer and swarm around it more, it panics and the sharks attack and the giant is soon devoured by one of nature's greatest success stories. But, it's not over yet.
One shark has broken off from the group and spots Darrel. However, since Darrel is larger both in length and weight and the rest of the pack is busy feeding on the squid, it simply tries to scare Darrel away which he does, and swims back to the boat at very fast speeds to make a sailfish jealous.
He got back on the platform, it was raised, he changed back, platform retracted, and he went to the helm and steered them back home quickly.
Blake got behind him and hugged him, her arms wrapping around his broad shoulders. "You ok?"She asks, concerned. "I'm fine but that was too many sharks for me to handle with the form I currently was in. One? Maybe. A dozen? Heck to the no!"He says a little scared.
They safely made it back to the 21st century.
Yeah I know Darrel didn't much besides observing, but honestly the form he was in was essentially a reptilian dolphin and the Sharkopaths are my favorite animal from The Future is Wild. I mean, sharks have been on Earth for nearly as long as plants have been on dry land, a whopping 420 million years! And they have survived everything: the extinction event that wiped out the giant armored fish, the placoderms, the Great Dying, an event where 90% of all life died out, the breakup of Pangaea, the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, the Ice Age; seriously, why are we killing them off?! Thank you Jaws!
But anyway, enough of the science lesson. Next chapter will have my character face off against a hybrid that he will have great trouble trying to kill! Here's a hint: it can….FLY!
Ophthalmosaurus- Eye Lizard
20 feet long, 3tons
Usage: Scout
Melee Attacks: N/A
Abilities: A DNA-enhanced version can emit a bright flash of light from its eyes, temporarily blinding its attacker.
It can also fire a sonic beam for disorienting its attacker from its mouth.
Appearance: WWD
Until then, R&R my friends!