Spells and Louds
Chapter 106: How to be a monster
(Spellman Estate)
Leon is about to get ready for the biggest thing he's ever done. Monster training, well sort of.
Ever since the battle in Magix and what he did to Acheron, Leon has to try and control his new and dangerous power otherwise it could spiral in horrible ways.
Currently Neil, Luna, Lincoln, Linka, Lisa, Peter, Sergei, Victor, Lucy, Haiku and the rest of the young Morticians club are there.
"Alright brother, we're going to test the first thing about the power of the Aswang, shape shifting" said Sergei.
Leon does a few jump jacks. "Yeah! I'm so ready!" then he looks to the others. "But why are they here?"
They all look towards Lucy and her club. "We want to see how a native monster from another land truly shows its power."
"Indeed" replied Haiku. The rest of the young morticians club also nod. "It's a shame that our former class president is no longer with us" said Boris. The other mortician's club members nodded in agreement.
"Okay, well don't start peeing your pants when things go wrong real fast" replied Leon.
He stood his ground and emptied his thoughts and focused on one thing. An animal transformation.
Leon's eyes shoot open and he falls on his knees and howls in pain.
"I got a bad feeling about this" said Victor.
Leon's eyes turn yellow then red. He starts to grow claws. His teeth sharpen and reveal large canines. He starts to grow fur over his clothes and his nose starts to extend.
They all watch in complete horror as Leon has turned into a large black dog with red eyes. And he starts to growl and grow rabies on his mouth.
"Well, that was unpleasant. Hey Leon! You still in there?!" asked Neil.
The black dog barks at them with a menacing glare. "Oh boy!" said Luna.
But then he stops and looks at his tail and starts chasing it. All the fear they had just vanished.
"Maybe he should've chosen a different form" said Lincoln. "This is ridiculous, even Courage doesn't do that" replied Linka.
Then the black dog stops chasing his tail and transforms back into Leon. "Oh wow! I was stupid!" said Leon.
"Yeah, you kinda were" said Peter.
"Okay your ability to transform seems to work. How about you're tracking skills. Even though you managed to track down Draculaura last time, we wanna see if you can track something else" said Victor.
Neil opens the wall gate that leads to the forest. "Currently we were able to track down animal migrations lately with a hunting camera. Some deer have made their way near this place, well not that near more like fifty blocks."
"So, we're gonna see how good you are at tracking things around you. To observe your skills there are other hunting cameras out there as well" said Sergei.
"You ready Uncle?" asked Lincoln. Leon nods and his predatory instincts kick in.
"Oras upang Manghuli!" (Translation: Time to Hunt!)
Leon takes off into the forest. They all look towards the hunting cameras and spot Leon running on his two legs, then he starts running on all fours, till finally he disappears.
"Umm, where did he go?" asked Haiku. "This is where the horror begins. Just like in every other horror movie" said Lincoln.
They switch to the cameras that are looking at the deer herd. One of the deer's raises its head and looks around, all it spots is a raccoon, a turtle, a wood pecker, a set of red eyes on the bushes, a snake in the grass and – Wait a minute! The deer looks back but the eyes are gone.
"Whoa! This is like a horror movie" said Lucy. "Wicked!" said the Morticians club.
The other deer's also start to look around, they hear footsteps but they don't know where it's coming from. Then the fawn looks up and spots a shadowy figure in the trees. The fawn is the first to run and soon the others follow. But one deer gets pinned by Leon, where he starts to tear it apart and feed on its flesh, he even uses his tongue to drink the blood like a straw.
For some reason the others weren't quite horrified by this. "Kinda reminds me of animal planet" said Sergei.
"It kina does" replied Luna.
When Leon finishes feasting her yanks the head off the body and raises it in the air letting the blood drip all over him and he lets out a vicious and monstrous howl! Well, it's more like a blood curdling scream.
"Okay, now this got scary" said Neil.
Then Leon looks to the camera and disappears. "Umm, where did he go?" asked Victor.
"So, how'd I do?" asked Leon from behind them. They all get startled by his sudden appearance. Even Lucy and her friends were startled.
"What the?! How did?! And why? You know what, never mind. That was pretty impressive and you're hunting and savagery is already looking good too, same with your speed" said Niel.
"Cool" replied Leon as he licks the blood off his fingers.
"You still have blood all over your face" said Sergei.
Leon touches his cheek and sees blood on his hand. "Huh, I guess I do."
"So, what's next?!" asked Leon.
"Next is immunity" said Victor. "What?" asked Leon.
Leon is now standing back in place waiting for them to do something.
"Alright, we're gonna see if you bare the traits of weakness from the regular Aswang. You ready?" said Neil.
"Maybe? I don't really know" replied Leon.
"Good enough" said Lincoln and he throws a garlic ball at him.
It hits his head but didn't do anything to him besides leave a bruise. "Dude! Do you have to throw it so hard?!"
"Huh, I guess he's okay with garlic" said Linka. Then Leon picks up the garlic and bites it. "Yup, he's immune" said Luna.
Next Neil throws a bucket of salt at him. But the bucket slips off his hands and hits Leon in the head making him fall. "Ow."
Leon gets up with the salt on his body, but nothing happens. "Well, that means you're immune to salt" said Linka. Leon takes some salt and sprinkles it on the garlic. "Yeah, it looks like he is" said Haiku.
Next Victor has a hose that leads to a large bucket of Holy water and points it towards Leon.
"Courtesy of the Italian church!" said Victor as he doses Leon in it.
Leon starts to panic, but not because of the holy water. "Cold! Cold! Cold! Cold! Cold!"
Victor stops and Leon gets back up shaking like a leaf. "Wh-Wh-What the hell man!"
"Sorry, I guess I left it out on the roof for too long" said Victor. "Well, I guess you're immune to holy stuff" said Luna.
"Now for the final test, but this could hurt you" said Neil. Leon understands what he means.
"No, no, no, no, no! You are not hitting me with a stingray's tail!" said Leon.
"Why hit you, when I can toss you in one" said Neil. "Huh?" said Leon.
A portal opens beneath him and Leon falls in. They all look to the cameras and spot Leon in a fish tank at FutureTech and the tank is filled with Stingrays! Oh, and martin is there watching him giving him a thumbs up.
They couldn't hear Leon, but some of them could tell what he was mouthing. "You Son of a bitch!"
The stingray's start lashing out at Leon and strike him with their tails. Leon panics and fights them back with kicks punches and bites.
Soon after a grueling ten minutes he comes out of the tank and slowly walks to the camera. "Well, you're immune to Stingray tails and you're also immune to different poisons" said Martin.
Leon looks at him with an annoyed face and approaches him. But martin pushes a button and Leon is teleported back to Spellman Estate, where he lands face first to the ground.
"Looks like you're powers are at their fullest brother" said Sergei. "Whoop-de-doo!" said Leon who was still face first to the ground.
"Still, this is confusing. Why is he immune to all of this?" asked Lucy.
"I have a theory, ever since he became Blitz Faust by the Guardian's magic, maybe mixed with the Aswang DNA he became something more than a native monster" said Lisa.
"That makes sense" said Victor.
"That suggests why he wasn't hankering for blood shed when he saw Lily" said Neil. "And a good thing too" said Luna.
"I guess all evil doers beware! Leon is here and he's got monster powers" said Lincoln.
Leon gets up and pulls a Stingrays tail off his back. "Well, at least the tests are over."
"So, what's your new hero name?" asked Peter.
Leon then had an idea. "Halimaw!"
Some of them were kinda confused by the word. "But that's Filipino for monster" said Neil.
"Yeah, I do have monster powers, so why not? It also sounds kinda cool to me, even though I was born a German" said Leon.
They all agreed. "Then Halimaw it is, welcome to the team again uncle" said Lincoln.
Leon was confused by this. "When did I leave?"
"When you got into a brawl with an Aswang" replied Neil. "Oh yeah" said Leon.
Then they all hear an alarm coming from the house. "Attention, a bank in New Jersey is being attacked" said Harv.
They all look at Leon with smiles. Leon knows what they mean.
"Oras upang makakuha ng Ganid!" (Translation: Time to get Savage!)
(New Jersey)
The people in the bank cower in fear from the five armed gunmen.
Two of them guard the doors and scare off any police who get near. Two other are watching the people and one of them is planting explosives by the safe vault.
But then he hears a Tik-Tik sound coming from above, the man screams and then stays silent.
The other gunmen look around. Then the lights flicker.
As the lights flicker on and off, standing behind the two robbers by the gate is a monster standing two feet higher than them, growling.
They scream and open fire, then there remains silence.
The other two gunmen point their assault rifles everywhere, but then the lights flicker again. They then spot a humanoid figure in the hallway.
As the lights flicker it gets closer and closer and closer, then it's gone.
One of the gunmen shakes in fear and turns to the left, where he sees a monstrous face looking at him in point black range, upside down.
The monster grabs the gun and throws it at the other guys face. He then grabs the man and slams him to the ceiling then towards the other gunman.
Police soon arrive and they see the monster tie up the crooks using a steel bar. It then turns into Leon Spellman. He turns to the cops. "All yours boys."
Leon walks past the cops with the explosive charges in hand. "I'll make sure the guys outside get this somewhere safe."
When Leon exits with the civilians and the police with the robbers. Some news reporters ask Leon what happened. The only thing Leon said was. "Let's just say, when there are no heroes, you need a monster."
Leon then morphs into a large black bird with red eyes and flies off back to Royal Woods.
(Outside of Michigan)
A dark sphere of energy manifests a portal and a figure appears.
The figure seems confused as to where it is. But when it sees the town in the distance it gets angry and scared at the same time.
So it starts up its weapon and let's his chainsaw howl into the night sky! A killer has arrived.
To be continued …
Leon is now a monster class hero, and he is going to strike fear and into the eyes of all villains. But who in the hell just entered their world, think you can guess who? Leave a review and tell me what you all think.