A/N: Hello, everyone! Please don't forget about my challenge of others reacting to lore series. More specifically, Class 1-A reacting to the Monster Hunter lore videos. I'll even give you the completed scripts for the videos I've already done, so you literally only have to come up with the reactions. I'm sure someone can make some awesome and hilarious reactions if you try!
"Oh, here. You might need these." Katana told everyone, buckets suddenly appearing in their laps.
"Buckets? Why would we need these?" Ruby asked.
"Let's just say, these next two monsters are somewhat disturbing." Katana explained.
Everyone soon realized in horror exactly what she meant. "So, we're gonna see some gross, creepy monsters..." Nora began.
"And these are buckets for in case we puke." Neo finished.
"Yep. Good catching on, girls." Katana confirmed.
"They can't be any worse than some of the Grimm we've faced in the past." Ironwood said stoically, clearly trying to mentally fortify himself.
"I hope you're right, Jimmy." Qrow said uncertainly.
"Hello, my fellow hunters... today it's time to get creepy..." Rage spoke quietly as the view of a cave was shown, moving back and forth. This was revealed to be from the point of view of a moderately sized, pale and veiny monster with a round body, strange gecko-like feet and both a head and tail with a rather disturbing shape.
"What the hell!?" Just about everyone shouted all at once.
"Ok that's a bit freaky..." Ruby said, shivering a bit.
"I don't see any eyes anywhere! Does it even have any!?" Neo asked, jumping onto Yang's lap in fear, clinging tightly to the blonde.
"That's what I call going in Blind." Yang said with a smirk.
"NOPE! NOPE! NOPE!" Weiss cried frantically.
"I may need to start drinking again." Qrow said.
"I'm not sure what to think about this one..." Blake said awkwardly.
"The Colorations are nice, monster not so much on the looks." Coco noted.
"It's actually cute in a weird way..." Velvet admitted
"No. That thing is just nightmare fuel there." Cinder said, pulling Ruby in close, the young reaper holding tightly to her former enemy.
"huh, it's actually pretty decent at planning ahead a few steps." Jaune admitted.
"What do you mean?" Ren asked.
"It's clearly mapping out its path, making every step count. That's... interesting, at least." Jaune explained.
"It doesn't actually seem that bad." Pyrrha said with a small smile.
"OMG, it's cute!" Winter cried out, everyone looking to her.
"Specialist Schnee, are you alright?" Ironwood asked, worried something was wrong with Winter, as this thing could NOT be described as cute.
"F-forgive me, sir. I just have a bit of a weakness for creatures that seem... Relatively unimposing, that others believe they could defeat with ease." She explained.
"If you were to ask me, I'd say it looks disturbingly... phallic." Glynda said. Blake, Velvet, Coco, Cinder and Yang all blushed as they realized this, but Yang also smirked a bit.
"Glynda! You may not be wrong, but such a thing is hardly something to bring up in front of the students!" Ozpin said. [1]
"Yeah, this one is... quite unforgettable and gets many different reactions from a number of people. That phallic remark is pretty common, though." Katana explained.
"Meet the Khez- Aaah!" Rage began introducing the creature, before crying out in shock and pain as the beast let out an ear-piercing roar that lasted five seconds, but those five seconds felt like nearly an eternity.
Everyone covered their ears at this, especially the Faunus girls. "Never mind. It's far less cute now, sir." Winter declared in irritation.
"It's worse than Ruby's dog whistle!" Velvet cried, pinning her ears down as Coco helped cover her human ears.
"I can't take it!" Blake shrieked, covering her human ears as Katana held her close and pinned down her cat ears, the demon woman's own ears completely frozen to keep the sound out.
"Can you not!?" Rage asked in annoyance as the creature stood high, almost looking innocent as if to fool him that it wouldn't be doing it again [2], before quickly leaning forward as he tried again. "Meet the Khez- AAH!" He cried out again as the creature let out the same piercing roar as before. "Gah! Meet!" Rage snapped, losing his patience and going word by word to test if Khezu was going to try and mess with him again, but it sat there innocently again. "The!" He went on. Still nothing. "Khe!" He broke the name in half, not risking more than a syllable as the creature began to lean forward. "Zu- AAAH!" He cried as the creature let out its roar once more.
"MAKE IT STOP!" Velvet screamed.
"Kill it with fire!" Blake yelled.
"Wow, that actually is it's weakness: fire. Good job, Blake." Katana praised.
"No jokes until that thing shuts up!" The Feline Faunus cried out.
"Daaaaah!" Rage cried out, before a test screen was shown, returning to the hunt to show Aylia standing next to the beast, which was horribly battle damaged, lying dead on the ground beside her. "Meet the Khezu. Meet the FUCKING Khezu!" Rage snapped, before regaining his composure. "And, I guess his cousin, Gigginox, but we'll get to him later." He explained as the image of a strange quadrupedal, gecko-like dragon made its way across the screen.
"Ooh, that Giggi thing looks cool!" Nora pointed out.
"No, those are its kids." Katana stated.
"But yeah, I like it, too! It looks cooler and sleeker than Khezu." Ruby agreed.
"And far more appropriate." Glynda added.
A deer-like creature was then seen walking out of the bright light and into a dark cave, where it began drinking from a source of water in the cave. "For now, it's time to talk the rubbery screamer!" Rage declared, before everything went black for a moment. "Which, incidentally, I'm thinking is also a fantastic villain name." He quickly threw into the conversation.
"Hm... I could see it. A weird name, but it could fit." Jaune admitted.
"Do you... spend a lot of time thinking about villain names?" Ren asked. Jaune simply looked at the screen, refusing to answer.
It then returned to the scene with the deer creature in the cave. "Khezu then, is the shadow in the mountain, the Charging Wyvern. He is... Well, divisive, I would say. Some appreciate him for the ghostly specter creeping along walls, slowly but surely approaching, before..." Rage explained slowly and ominously as a strange mass was shown on the ceiling, flesh and veins moving beneath transparent skin, which was then revealed to be Khezu as it leaned back and hung on the ceiling, its neck slowly elongating at a snails pace as it silently closed in on the Khezu, being only mere feet away, before shooting forward and grabbing it.
"No! Poor little deer creature!" Pyrrha cried out.
"All creatures need to eat. It's a predator. It feeds on other creatures. Although, I will admit. It is disturbing. And a shame an adorable deer had to be the sustenance for... that." Ren stated.
"Come, now students. We've been learning many times not to judge based on appearance. Maybe there's more to this creature than it seems." Ozpin stated, although he was having trouble buying his own words at this point.
"Aaah! Who would've thought drinking creepy cave water would lead to this!?" Rage cried out as the camera zoomed in on the Kelbi, as if the host was speaking the animals thoughts as, through a series of muscle spasms, it was pulled deeper and deeper into the Khezu's throat and to its stomach.
"But then other people kind of see him and have a sort of- 'really? What is-what?!'" Rage laughed as if the people in question were clearly mocking the intimidating creature on screen. "So, I think we should start by getting this out the way. Many people believe that Khezu is, of coursed, related to a-" He began, before a sudden beep was heard as if to censor what he just said. "What? No. No! What? No, I'm saying a-" He tried again, but was beeped once again. "A... Who- what?! No, it's not like that! I'm saying a giant, long-" He attempted once more, only for the same result as before to repeat. "Oh, my god! Who is- stop! Stop doing that!" Rage insisted.
Everyone was shocked and bewildered at the constant bleeping. "How vulgar! How is he allowed to make these videos?!" Winter demanded.
"I don't know, Winter. I feel like he's not actually saying anything inappropriate." Weiss said.
"I wonder what he was saying, then?" Yang wondered.
A man with a pink pompadour and a scar over his left eye was shown laughing, wearing some strange lobster-like armor. "I'll stop! I'll stop!" He laughed.
"Who is that? He seems fun!" Nora giggled.
"That's Cotton Tiberius Maximus Crabbane. He's Aylia's hunting partner and assists Rage with these videos. And him and Aylia have a series where they hunt together called Pro and Noob, where she tries to teach Cotton the ropes on how to survive these monsters. He almost died SEVERAL times the first time he fought a Khezu, mostly because he couldn't stop laughing at it because it looks like... Well, the thing that was getting beeped." Katana explained.
"That seems funny. Maybe we should watch that." Jaune agreed.
"Ooh, I'm not sure about that. The focus is mainly on the two of them more than the hunting so... I don't think so." Katana denied. [3]
"No respect. I- just no respect." Rage complained, then sighed. "A lot of people think that Khezu is a distant relatively of a leech and its a fairly valid comparison. In fact, there is also a school of people that believe it is the evolutionary cousin of a ghost slug." He explained as the image of a long, almost pure white slug was shown as a choir creepily sang its name. "Which is a white- okay, check... blind- okay, check... lives underground- check, is carnivorous- check. But, it has no relation to the slug, so that's a no." He elaborated. "It's more than likely got lamprey roots. I mean, look at the mouth of a lamprey, it suckers onto you with those circular jaws and then just slowly scrapes away at your blood. Ugh!" Rage explained with a shudder as a worm-like creature indeed with a circular mouth filled with numerous curved, spiked teeth and a small hole for a mouth with even a tongue that looked like a cutting tooth.
"Eww! That thing's so gross!" Weiss cried.
"And that's why I never went swimming in a lake or river, because of the chance of that thing taking a bite out of me." Katana said, shivering a bit.
"Why do their have to be creatures that feed exclusively on blood?" Pyrrha groaned, struggling to avoid throwing up.
A Khezu was then shown on the ceiling of a cave, its neck stretching down, mouth wide open and resembling the lamprey as it snatched up an electrocuted Aylia in its jaws, whipping her around violently, although with strangely romantic music playing briefly. It then stopped with a snap and Aylia was being pulled into its mouth like the Kelbi was, only her legs free. "So what makes this haunter of dreams... well, exactly that? They are wholly unique: little, chubby balls of blubber, coated in a thick layer of fat that insulates them in the stark colds of the caverns and underground passageways they call home. Nestled in rock crevices, they spend their days crawling along ever so quietly on softly quietly on ceilings and walls, looking for that next victim." Rage explained as Aylia was following an oblivious Khezu around as it was completely unaware of her, simply sniffing out its surroundings.
Neo shivered at this. "That sniffing is actually really creepy. And anything that can still find you without eyes is terrifying. Like, no eyes, no finding things, that's how it's supposed to work." Neo said fearfully.
"Every creature in nature has their tricks, Miss Politan. We clearly saw the Soulseer Mizutsune could adapt despite the loss of its eyes." Glynda told her.
"Aww, the sniffing reminds me of a bloodhound!" Winter declared happily.
"Weiss, your sister is weird." Blake whispered, Weiss nodding in agreement.
"Completely blind, they see the world through an impeccable combination of smell and hearing. Constantly sniffing to see who might be unfortunate enough to be nearby. If you ever think you're alone and hear..." Rage explained the creatures more complex features, stopping to let them hear the beast's sniffing sound, accompanied by soft, but eerie and dreadful music. "Ever faintly on the breeze... Run." He declared with no room for argument as Aylia was shown diving away from the creature as it planted its tail onto the ground and let out a powerful discharge of electricity in a moderate radius around itself.
Velvet began petting her bunny ears in fear as she heard the sniffing. "So creepy..." She said.
"How can something blind and so big and goofy-looking be so dangerous!?" Ruby asked.
"There are many creatures in nature that appear harmless, or even adorable, but in reality could easily end the life of a human or Faunus without aura easily." Penny stated, making Ruby gulp in fear.
"Salem must NEVER learn about this creature. If she could make a Grimm version of it, she'd be unstoppable..." Cinder said, disturbed, but not horrified like the others.
"When the Khezu is excited, when the kill is near, it salivates. Saliva pouring from its grizzly maw, each drip drop acidic, melting away at very stone, disabling anything unfortunate to be caught in a lethal shower." Rage warned as a Khezu hung by its tail from the roof of the cave, its mouth wide open and saliva dripping from its mouth as he said, indeed melting away at the ground below it, letting out a burning hiss as steam rose up from the spots they hit. The creature then dropped down and let out its signature roar, but fortunately this time was silent. "It's head, more so a neck with a mouth at the end of it, filled with rows upon rows of teeth and one slather-y tongue." He finished noting the physical characteristics of the creature, before they were suddenly shown an image of a girl hugging a Khezu tightly as it practically had its mouth around her head, its tongue licking her cheek, romantic music playing.
"Oh, come on! Acid spit, too! That's gross and terrifying!" Yang shouted.
"Burn them all! they must die!" Nora cried out.
"Don't you dare, you brat!" Winter snapped, before regaining her composure. "Um, I meant, that is entirely too extreme. Yes, they may be scary, but that's no reason to drive them all to extinction. We have the same problem in my world with sharks. People are afraid of them, so they kill them. That and overfishing." Katana explained. [4]
"Yep. Everything has some use in this world, kids. Never forget that. Even the Grimm. They're ultimately what brought humanity together." Qrow reminded all of them.
They then saw the picture of the girl with the Khezu. The puke buckets Katana gave them now saw some extreme usage. Teams RWBY and JNPR, the second year students, the former villains and even Glynda emptied their stomachs into the buckets. "What was that!?" Neo asked, horrified.
"That is disgusting!" Weiss shrieked.
"So gross!" Jaune agreed, vomiting into his bucket again.
"Why would she ever get her face anywhere near that creature's mouth! It's saliva is acidic!" Glynda shouted.
I want to do that..." Winter said in awe. [5]
"What?" Rage asked as if he hadn't shown the group a piece of absolute heresy.
"You know what you did, you sick bastard!" Yang snapped.
"Nothing can ever possibly make that okay." Cinder agreed with her future sister-in-law, I mean- new ally.
"It can whip out, extending and grabbing, in an instant, a would-be passerby and then they are dragged screaming ever so slowly, tortuously down the gullet of this creature, until they are to be digested alive in a fleshy tomb. And if this so far wasn't enough, the Khezu is electrical. Huge thunder sacs producing incredible amounts of voltage, so much so that it crackles through his skin and out into the atmosphere, arcing to nearby aggressors. He can also condense it and fire it in ball lightning form, both along the ground or through the air, from above." Rage declared as the very moves he described where shown as the blind beast attempted to fry Aylia with electricity.
"Really? Like, it didn't have enough already?" Coco questioned.
"Still, that's an impressive level of control over its electrical fields. I've never seen anyone use electricity quite like that before." Blake noted.
Another female hunter was seen digging through the ice, apparently searching for or trying to gather something, as a Khezu could be seen sneaking around her. "In fact, the Khezu is such an expert in cave combat, in silent assassination, that within its dark home, it holds great advantage. Outside, where it can and does roam, looking for easy meals, it is an easy meal itself. Nargacuga or Tigrex would take it down quickly and without issue, yet should they wander into a cavern, it is more than likely they would become the hunted." Rage declared as the girl looked around for what stalked her as the Khezu was on the ceiling behind her. Images of Nargacuga and Tigrex were shown as they were mentioned as well, before everything returned to Aylia battling the beast.
"Terrain can make all the difference. A Grimm that's fast on flat ground and open fields may find itself disadvantaged in a mountain region or in a forest with trees to slow it down." Ozpin said, nodding.
"Or Neptune can totally chicken out if he's put near water." Nora teased, getting chuckles from most of her friends.
"Now, now, Nora. He did come through for his team in the end." Pyrrha defended the blue-haired boy.
"That's why we added all the different terrains Amity Colosseum has. To test you students abilities to perform in abilities you may or may not have advantages in and to see how you can adapt to people with home field advantage." Ironwood explained.
"Man, we've heard about those two monsters a lot. Will we be seeing them soon?" Ruby asked.
"Sooner rather than later, yes." Katana assured them.
"Not a very capable flyer, but capable of flying, he can just about get himself up and in the air for a hasty escape, though he much prefers to stay groundward bound. His tail then, a short, stubby, yet strangely hardened part of his body, the normal stretchy flesh there, rigid towards the tip, but it can expand outwards, acting as a living suction cup, allowing the Khezu to dangle, bat-like from ceilings, or similarly anchor himself to the floor during his most violent outbursts of charge. It also doubles up as a handy dandy grounding tool. The Khezu's feet, then, no claws to be found, but much akin to that of geckos," Rage explained as a gecko's feet were indeed shown, "it's what allows them to grip to any given surface, the tips of their wings featuring the same." He explained as the beast escaped Aylia by crawling along the ceiling through a hole in the cave wall.
"Ooh, creepy feet. I love it!" Nora declared.
"Impressive. The design's simple, yet effective to let a creature as large as that stick to walls and ceilings." Ren analyzed, amazed.
"So cool..." Jaune said in awe.
"The gecko or the dragon?" Qrow asked.
"Yes." Jaune said.
"But, it does not stop their. The Khezu's skin, with its pearly-white luster, is transparent, allowing one to see the throbbing mass within, in some horrific visage." Rage informed as, like shown before, the Khezu's innards could be seen moving underneath its skin, the sound of a heartbeat beating heavily. "He is very prone to scarring, the tissue so easily damaged. The Khezu will keep its skin moistened, the water, acting much akin to a frog, allowing it to both breathe and drink through its very pores. And, you know, prevent it from becoming a dried out husk. In fact, Khezu is very amphibian-like. He has spring, frog-like legs, allowing him to launch himself through the air and come crackling down with force, crushing rock and hunter underneath, or even spring straight skywards and end up attached, upside down, above the would-be aggressor." Their host declared.
"Interesting. They almost seem like they belong in the amphibian class." Ozpin noted.
"That was made after Khezu was discovered." Katana explained.
"And it can't be reclassified?" Penny asked.
"I guess someone at the Guild was too lazy to bother with it. Some monsters have been reclassified, just not Khezu to the amphibians." The ice demon declared.
"But, by far, the most disturbing aspect of a Khezu is its reproductive cycle. There is no male Khezu, there is no female, there is just Khezu. And each one of them is capable of paralyzing a victim, injecting their eggs inside and then leaving. Soon after, they will wake up and..." Rage began to explain, before realizing something. "Oh, my god, they're fucking Alien!" He declared, before the image of a strange, worm-like creature with Khezu's face over it was shown having just burst from a woman's body as she cried out in horror.
"Wow, when he mentions it, they really are like the things from Extraterrestrial." Neo noted.
"Oh, man. I loved the second movie! All the others, though, couldn't really live up to it." Yang said, Neo high-fiving her in agreement.
"Still, I feel bad for the poor spider. Being made into a meal for baby spiders, doomed to die." Pyrrha said sadly.
"Dang, nature. You scary." Jaune said.
"They even have acidic saliva! It really is just an amalgamation creature! Or, a walking penis, if you're gonna be like that. And I know some of you are gonna be like that." Rage said, a bit disappointed. "And as an extra little tidbit, this is the same method the tarantula hawk wasp uses. It finds, well, a tarantula, paralyzes it after one hell of a fight and lays its eggs inside. They will then hatch into larvae and simply eat, burrow their way through the tarantula." He explained as the battle between the spider and the wasp was then show, the spider clearly the loser, the wasp climbing on and injecting her babies.
"I have to agree. That seems like an incredibly inefficient process, having to locate and fight a spider while pregnant to put your eggs inside." Weiss said with a shiver.
"Some creatures need an immediate meal upon birth. Evolution works in strange ways, Miss Schnee." Glynda told her.
"I never wanna be made a meal for baby bugs." Ruby said, shivering in fear.
"I am fortunate to be synthetic, so their is no part of me that can be fed off from." Penny declared.
"Sure, rub it in." Nora grumbled.
"So, that's your basic Khezu. There's also a Red Khezu that's a bit better with electricity, a bit faster and stronger, but that's about it. It's red now." Rage explained, sounding like he was just done with Khezu.
A clip from a movie was shown where a man was buying something at a convenient store. "You got red on you." The cashier declared as a Red Khezu's face was put over the man's face.
The group had nothing really to say about the red version of the creature.
"It is a fairly unique fight, or was at least, until his friend came along." Rage set up the introduction for the next monster.
"So, moving on, then, to the Gigginox. A white... blind... cave-dwelling Wyvern..." Rage explained as a monster that appeared to be a flatter, quadrupedal version of Khezu with a head similar to its tail was shown crawling along a wall, before dropping down.
"Alright, it's the cooler one!" Ruby said.
"Gigginox. Even the name is a bit more pleasant." Weiss noted.
"Perhaps, but we don't know what it's capable of yet. It could be even more terrifying than Khezu." Pyrrha warned them.
"Not possible." They declared together, along with Cinder, Nora and Neo.
"It's, essentially for many people, a better Khezu. It was discovered a few generations after by the Third Fleet and share the same general structure and frame as Tigrex and Nargacuga... and... Barioth, I guess..." Rage elaborated, although sounded a bit hesitant as he had to explain the last monster, while another hunter was seen running into the cave to fight the Gigginox.
"What was with the hesitation when he mentioned Barioth?" Qrow asked.
"He REALLY hates Barioth. His reasonings are REALLY kind of petty and flimsy, but hey, it's his opinion." Katana said.
"I like it from what I've seen so far." Velvet said, Blake nodding as they admired the creature, particularly its impressive orange fangs.
"In the general sense, it is lithe to Khezu's bulk, flat instead of round, no layers of blubber, no see-through skin, no moistened body. It presses itself against any given surface, still blending in, waiting for the right moment to strike. It is agile where Khezu is slow and deliberate, it is fast where Khezu is lumbering, outside of the frog-like jumps which are relatively quick, but Gigginox is gonna be there doing flips and just being a generally bigger nuisance, one moment you're looking at it, the next its behind you. You kind of have a yin-yang situation, but it does, of course, go deeper." He listed the basic differences between the two cave creatures as the creature moved around the hunter quickly and with ease as the hunter struggled to keep facing it.
"Fascinating. So similar, yet so different." Ren noted.
"Many creatures are like that in nature. Some even mimic each other to fool their enemies into believing they're them." Ozpin said.
"Yeah. Like if Yang had Blake hair, I probably would've ran screaming from her because she looked like her mom." Neo admitted.
"Ooh. Well, now I know how to get you back for the train thing. Dye my hair to look like my mom." Yang declared.
"No!" Neo cried.
"Aww, don't worry. I'd never do that. My hair's perfect the way it is." Yang declared, running a hand through it.
"For example, instead of gecko feet, it is more akin to a spider, with thick, bristly hairs that anchor it into surfaces, giving it its full spectrum of movement. Its body, then, deliberately fashioned so that one can tell not whether its head or tail currently faces you, near identical at both ends. This causes monsters to react fearfully. A previously bold attempt on a Gigginox's life ends in fleeing as the would-be attacker thinks there are two instead of one. Defensively, it works quite nicely, too, because if something lunges and grabs you by what it thinks is the head, but is actually your tail, suddenly you have room to, well, try and survive." Rage continued on the creatures physical characteristics as the hunter was indeed struggling to discern which end of the creature was the head or tail.
"Interesting. It's a coin flip, heads or tails, but pick the wrong one and their will be consequences." Ironwood noted.
"With my old Semblance, that's one gamble I'd never take." Qrow declared.
"A fantastic adaptation. If only we could incorporate it into our machines." Winter said.
"You wish to put another head on my backside?" Penny asked, shocked.
"N-no, Penny. I meant like some form of double sided robot." Winter elaborated.
"It has these lovely purple markings that glow eerily in the gloom, a purple light spelling your doom. Its body, then, distinctly two colors: the underside red in stark contrast to the pale white above. Gigginox is a quirky little creature. The tail, then, hides a much deadlier secret. It can lay a little sac of poison, purple and pulsating that will pop with powerful potency, perforating people that potentially pose a problem. And they will melt as the toxin overcomes them. It really is a potent venom, a step above what you'd find in creatures such as a Rathian." Rage explained as the Gigginox indeed left behind a deep purple sac on the ground that released dark purple mist that was clearly harmful to the hunter.
"Uh. Poison. I can only imagine that smells god awful." Nora said.
"I warned you it could be worse than Khezu." Pyrrha stated.
"To be poisoned, or electrocuted and paralyzed. Neither one sounds fun." Yang said.
"If the poison makes you half as sick as a usual night of drinking, I'd definitely take a bit of a shock over that." Qrow declared.
"But there is a second option, for the Gigginox can lay a different type of sac, this one the more traditional egg variety. One this, ugh! Has been completed, you now have a little spawner of death, in that it spawns little bringers of death: The giggis! The juvenile form of the Gigginox and the most adorable little creepy-crawlies that are gonna SUCK OUT YOUR HEART!" He continued as the Gigginox yet again laid another sac, but this one paler and with small pulsing pockets, that opened up to reveal tiny creatures that looked like a mix between worms and the Gigginox itself.
"They're SO CUTE!" Winter cried out.
"They look delicious." Blake said, drooling a bit.
"Don't you dare, Blake!" Ruby and Weiss cried out, also finding the creatures adorable.
The egg is gross, but the giggi's... They're pretty cute, I guess." Jaune admitted.
"They are quite amusing. They flail around, flop, leap at you, attach and suck your blood, filling up like a balloon as you watch." Rage elaborated as it suddenly showed a cartoon with a character repeating "giggidy!" over and over, incredibly fast while doing man random and rather inappropriate things.
"What on Earth!?" Glynda cried out.
"Hey, you're finally getting it. You're not saying 'What on Remnant', anymore!" Katana declared happily.
"Explain, please! At the clip that made me need to wash my eyes!" Cinder declared.
"That's from the show Family Guy, the character is Quagmire. He's one of the biggest sex fiends in all of fictional history and that's his catchphrase, 'giggidy-giggidy-goo'!" Katana explained, before blushing and facepalming at the fact she repeated such a foolish phrased.
Rage laughed at this. "But is that not a brilliant aspect of a monster? It will quite literally spawn a swarm of young to try and suck you dry. It's something that really, you don't ever quite forget. Especially the first time. You're like 'What the fuck is it doing? What the hell is that?! Wait, is that- is something coming out of the- aah!' And it just springs at your face. It's just bloody awful and wonderful at the same time." He declared.
"Yeah, I don't think I wanna fight anything that can just MAKE its own back-up on the spot." Jaune said with a shudder.
"You're not alone there." Ren stated, thinking in horror of what if the Nucklavee could spawn mini horse Grimm to track down survivors as it destroys town after town.
"Okay, it's official. I like the thing's colors, but that's where it stops." Coco declared.
"It's able, then, to shoot out poison in various forms and balls to clouds and look, you spend A LOT of time poisoned, fighting the Gigginox, like A LOT of time, like an irritating amount of times, it ruins hunters. Like, the amount of hunters that have to go to AA meetings, Antidotes Anonymous, it becomes a lifeline to them. Support your local Gigginox-killing foundation today." Rage alerted them to the issue of Gigginox poisoning as, like always, the Gigginox was shown firing out poison in many different forms against the hunter facing it, although he seemed to do a good job of staying out of the poison clouds.
Qrow shivered once again at this as Ruby and Yang came over and hugged him. They tried several times to get him to join an AA program, but he had always refused, even after several close calls where Tai had to take him to get his stomach pumped. He was glad he could do away with that life, but part of it will always haunt him. "You're better now, Uncle Qrow." Ruby told him.
"Yeah. You don't have to drink anymore." Yang agreed.
"I know, girls. Thanks for worrying for me, though." He told them, hugging them close.
"Still, it is a shame. Many other huntsmen and huntresses have turned to drinking to cope with the horrors of what they've faced in battle." Ozpin said sadly.
"We offer them help, but some prefer the drink, instead." Glynda added.
"This, then, is the Creeping Venom Wyvern, its a very apt name. When he enrages, his white turns dark, almost black, giving him this BEAUTIFUL color scheme, changing his entire hit zones. You have to respond on the fly and generally, he's a much higher tempo fight, an intense back and forth, ballet-like dance as opposed to Khezu's slow, deliberate, almost turn-based battle." Rage finished as the fight slowly faded to black.
"So, what did you all think?" Katana asked.
"They were certainly... Something..." Blake said, unsure of what else to say.
"I never want to encounter one of them as long as I live." Weiss said fearfully.
"Khezu was super creepy, but Gigginox was really cool!" Ruby declared.
"Yeah. I definitely like the quicker monster better." Yang agreed.
"I don't know. Something about the Khezu, how slow and deliberate it was with everything, made it seem far more capable. And far more intimidating." Ironwood noted.
"But with Gigginox, you can find yourself outnumbered by the Giggis and poisoned." Cinder reminded them.
"They are both certainly fearsome combatants that bring many dangers to the table." Ozpin noted.
"And both of them are adorable." Winter said with a small blush.
"So, what's next Kat?" Coco asked, looking at Katana.
"No, that's Blake." Katana said, earning a glare from the Feline Faunus. "Well, I think it's time we complete your teams and give you three monsters, so both your teams have all their monsters." She explained, pointing to Yang, Blake and Pyrrha. "So, since we only need one to finish off team JNPR, we'll start with Pyrrha." She decided, before thinking. "Hm... Let's see, they're aren't any magnetic monsters [6], so let's just go with animals you like. Go ahead and list your top 5, please." She requested.
Pyrrha blushed at being put on the spot, but answered. "I would have to say... sharks, spiders, snakes, Mistralian (Komodo) Dragons and ligers." She listed.
"Well, those are certainly interesting choices, Miss Nikos. Particularly your last one." Glynda noted.
"The largest big cat on our planet. Majestic as I'd expect, Pyrrha." Weiss praised.
"But since sharks are already taken, we're going with spider. And I have the perfect one in mind." Katana said, playing the next video.
A/N: Hello, everyone! Thank you for reading as always and I hope you enjoyed. So, yes, next up is Nerscylla, who will be Pyrrha's partner. I don't know why, but I find it funny to imagine Pyrrha likes the scarier animals most girls are scared of. I mean, we never got any indication that WASN'T the case. And with a new Temnoceran apparently being introduced in Rise, it felt like the perfect time.
[1] Thanks to AmaltheaLuchiaAizen for basically coming up with all of that.
[2] Pause it exactly after he says "can you not", the way Khezu's posed, to me at least, looks exactly like what I said it does.
[3[ I would love to show them the Pro and Noob series, but that focuses WAY more on their conversation than the monster, they'd almost never learn anything about the monsters, or at least not nearly as much as in these lores and they address Monster Hunter as a game WAY too often, it would absolutely break their current immersion into the world. That and, while this is probably minor and could be fixed relatively easily, Cotton talks to Rage man-to-man, rather than talking to Aylia as a man to a woman. And even Rage doesn't take any special care to try and sound like or pretend he's acting as his female hunter as they go through these adventures. I'm pretty sure the fact Aylia's even a girl has been brought up less than five times.
[4] This is actually a real problem right now. Mako sharks have been severely overfished in the North Atlantic region, so their population in the North Atlantic is at risk of collapse. Sai made a short video about it on his YouTube channel, along with a link to an article explaining the problem for those that are interested in hearing more. For those that don't, that's a bit messed up, but just go about your day like normal, then.
[5] Picture Nora in Volume 7 Episode 4 at 2:31.
[6] Yes, I know that in Frontier, there's an Elder Dragon that does have magnetism abilities, but there aren't many lore videos on frontier monsters.
But if anyone else is willing to give that a shot, feel free! I'd love to see the reactions you could come up with for some of their shenanigans.