A/N: Thanks to qazse for help with reaction ideas.
"Diablos? I like it. It has kind of a devilish ring to it." Cinder said appreciatively.
"It sounds pretty cool, yeah." Ruby agreed.
"But you said demons of the desert. As in plural. So I'm guessing we'll be hearing about another two monsters, then?" Glynda questioned.
"Good listening, Glynda. That is true, more or less, there won't be too much on the second monster, but it is still worth mentioning." Katana explained.
"Well, let's see it, then." Qrow said.
"Indeed. If these creatures are common in deserts, Theodore will have to be warned immediately." Ozpin said.
"My parents in Menagerie, too." Blake added.
"Well, let's not take any more time and get to the monsters, then!" Tekko declared, playing the video.
The next video started with a man and a woman on a bed with the heads of two creatures with a pair of horns on their head, the head of the creature on the woman was black while the head of the one on the man was a sand color. "Let me ask you a question. And be honest..." The man said, before hitting a button, at which point sexy music played and the bed began to move in circles. "Do I make you horny? Randy? Do I make you horny, baby? Yeah, do I?" He asked obnoxiously with several cuts. A loud roar was then heard as the woman was shown again.
Just about everyone was lost from the reaction, unsure of what to do or say. The more mature of the audience were disgusted and offended, the more innocent of the audience were trying to pretend they didn't see or hear and of this and the immature amongst them with trying to hide their laughter from the more mature. And there were also a handful that were just confused and trying to process what the hell they'd just seen.
Of course, there were two that knew exactly what to do. "From the looks of things, I'd say they're both pretty horny." Yang said with a smirk.
"If he's got big horns like that on his head, imagine what he's got a little lower." Coco added, equally smug.
"I bet whatever either of them have would be great for... penetration." Yang worked off Coco's joke.
"Yang/Coco!" Ruby and Velvet both cried out at the same time.
Summer gave her eldest child a small glare. "I think someone can go a few days without my special cookies for that kind of dirty joke." She declared sternly, causing Yang to deflate sadly.
"I think that's one stabbing nobody would mind." Neo said.
"Neo!" Cinder and Emerald scolded while Roman burst out laughing.
"All three of you will be getting detention when we return." Glynda said, a massive blush on her face and her glasses fogged up.
Aylia was then shown in the desert in an underground cavern with a massive twin-horned Wyvern a short distance away from her. "Hello and welcome then, fellow hunters, as today we talk Diablos~" Rage spoke in a sensual voice with equally sensual guitar music playing as he spoke the creature's name, similar to when he spoke of Tetsucabra. "The demon of the desert, or as many new hunters know him..." He paused, cutting away to a clip of Aylia running away in slow-motion, screaming as the beast charged at her, the screen cutting to black as a squishing sound was heard.
They finally got a good look at Diablos, especially with the scene of the beast charging Aylia to give them a good idea of what they were in for. "Wow! Now that's one big bruiser..." Roman said, tugging at his collar a little, quite intimidated by the beast.
"Indeed. And Gravios may have been the armor Wyvern, but that shell looks nigh impenetrable." Ironwood noted, impressed by the beast's defenses.
"And they're not as thick as Nergigante's, but those horns look like they could run through three Ursa Majors!" Jaune said fearfully.
"Nergigante's horns were big, but the tips were much further out to the side, so it'd be difficult to impale anything smaller than itself. With this beast, the horns are directly out front, ready to shishkabob anything in front of them." Adam said, half-impressed, half envious as he looked up at the horns on top of his own head.
"If you had horns like those, I doubt you'd be able to hold your head up, much less see anything." Hazel told him.
It then returned to the cavern as Aylia attempted to sneak away from the beast as it looked around the area. "While a stern test he may be, a sterner monster still, he is. Let's be honest: Diablos is simply cool. From one of the most impressive pairs of horns, full stop to one of the most recognizable, yet irritating... long-lasting lores of any monster." Rage spoke fondly of the beast at first, before sounding increasingly irritated as the roar was heard over a shot of the Wildspire Waste's swampier landscape, which was sped up significantly as the roar was played on loop, exaggerating the actual length of the roar, but still getting the point across.
Just about everyone covered their ears at that. "Oh, gods! It's like Jaune's singing!" Weiss cried out, causing Jaune's jaw to drop from the insult.
"Having it last multiple days has to be an exaggeration, but I definitely don't want to find out." Blake groaned.
"Salem has a banshee-like scream when she's infuriated... I'd rather listen to that than that roar any day." Ozpin said.
"I might actually prefer to hear Mercury talking over that." Emerald admitted.
"And a raw physical strength that honestly puts him in the upper echelons of all creatures. He is hardy, he is direct, filled with a single-minded fury to reduce you and everything you've EVER loved to a red paste strewn across the dunes. There is nothing fancy going on here: element-less, plain and straight-forward. Ferocious, yet simple. There is an undeniable, almost eloquent beauty to just how Diablos goes about his business. No fuss, just corpses littered behind him: battered, broken and bloody." Rage declared as Aylia closely followed the beast, undetected thanks to her Ghillie Mantle that completely clashed with the background.
Upon getting a closer look at the beast's face, more specifically, its mouth filled with dagger-like teeth, Ruby and Velvet were shivering fearfully. "Th-those teeth are really big and mean-looking." Ruby said fearfully.
"They look like they take your arm off just by touching them!" Velvet squealed, hiding her face in Coco's chest.
"It's a herbivore, girls. It only eats cacti." Katana assures them.
"It could still bite." Ruby said nervously. Thankfully, her mother held her close.
"Well, you'd have to get past the horns first before you ever had to worry about its mouth." Ilia pointed out.
"Their eyes, then are heavy set under their horns." Rage explained as a close-up showed small purple eyes, barely visible past the horns. "This restricts their peripheral vision, more and more as the horns grow, but this matters little to the Diablos, as it's only really interested in what's straight ahead of it. Able to charge at unreal, terrifying speeds, speeds that shouldn't be reachable for a creature with such bulk, for a creature with such heavy set scale akin to granite, a creature whose tail, acting as a sweeping club, would crush a boulder if it simply dropped upon it, a creature whom is so densely packed with muscle, whom is so heavy that their own wings cannot support anything approaching sustained flight, able to at best wobble through the air in short bursts. Primarily, the wings are used to help pull itself free if it should find itself stuck within the Earth." Rage explained the beast's devastating speed, natural defenses and dangerous offenses.
"That tail looks so awesome! I bet that could be an awesome hammer, too!" Nora cried out.
"Jeez, are you gonna make a hammer out of every monster?" Qrow asked.
"Why not? I have." Razara said, projecting mental pictures of her with no less than 30 different greatswords, made out of familiar-looking materials from past monsters.
"Very impressive, Razara. Many of those weapons seem to have the power of different elements, so while the weapon is always the same type, you have an endless amount of diversity with the various swords." Penny noted.
"But back on the subject of the tail, it may be able to do as much damage as a Duramboros. It wouldn't surprise me if that tail could smash a paladin." Winter stated.
"And if it can't, it's horns could certainly do the job. Especially if it pierces the pilot." Ironwood noted.
"But despite all this, the onslaught remains: one of the most deadly charges of any monster, the horns able to penetrate deep into stone at the force of impact. The horns, denser by far and sharpened to a razor point, capable of puncturing even the most well-fashioned armor. Facing down this mighty creature's relentless advance is one of the hardest tests a hunter can face and one, if they should pass, results in them being granted a wheelbarrow, the function of which is to help carry their massive balls." Rage warned of the beast's most infamous above-ground ability as it charged and swung its head and horns at Aylia all over the map, even back in the underground cave they started in.
"That hardly seems practical. If someone had testicles that large, they would be in dire need of a doctor. And I do not believe the organs in question could be saved." Ren said, a bit disturbed.
"I believe it's a metaphor, Ren. A poorly thought out one. Still, for Diablos to be treated as such an important task for a hunter to dispatch, that must truly speak levels of its capabilities." Pyrrha said.
"Speed, power, horns that can pierce through just about anything and a shell that almost can't be pierced? I can definitely see why. It sounds like you'd need an Elder Dragon to take it down." Cinder added.
"Nope, just determination, a good plan, remember its moves, figure out when to counter and strike when you have an opening!" Tekko declared.
Diablos had charged past Aylia and swung its tail back and forth at nothing, before turning back to the Huntress. "Diablos, not great at turning, slow when a straight line is not involved, but these are traits that seldom work against it. Very few creatures rival it. Elder Dragons, of course, things like Deviljho and Rajang, but they are an apex for a reason, though predator, they are not, for they are the most powerful herbivore to be found-" Rage declared as a Diablos charged Aylia, only to be stuck in a stalagmite, before it was then seen fighting a Deviljho, who bit into its horn and slammed it into the ground, breaking the horn.
Many found this intimidating, but many more found it to be epic. "That was so awesome!" Jaune cried out.
"Totally badass!" Neo agreed.
"Ah, you can always count on Deviljho to put on a show." Roman said.
"And just another example of how terrifying Deviljho is." Weiss said with a shudder.
"He broke one of its horns completely off!" Ilia said in shock.
"Poor Diablos." Summer said sadly.
"But, hey! You gotta give him props for trying to take on the angry pickle over there." Qrow praised.
Upon Aylia mentioning that Diablos was the strongest herbivore, an image of Duramboros appeared on the right side of the screen. "What the fuck!?" A voice demanded as if it was supposed to be the Duramboros.
"Well- Okay, ARGUABLY, the most powerful herbivore to be found." Rage corrected himself as the image slowly slid off screen.
Adam smirked when Duramboros popped out like that. "Exactly. Diablos is impressive, but it's nothing compared to a Duramboros. It would have dominated that Deviljho where the Diablos failed to do so." He said confidently, reaching behind him and stroking Alexandrus' head.
"Every creature has its advantages and disadvantages, Mr. Taurus. Simply because one might fair better against an opponent like Deviljho does not prove their outright superiority." Ozpin explained.
"It may come down to just one strike in the right place. No matter what the creature is, it has a weak spot, or it has its limits." Hazel added.
Aylia was once again outside of the cave, wearing her ghillie mantle, standing in front of a large cluster of cacti as the Diablos approached. "Feeding primarily on cacti, it is able to sustain itself on relatively very little matter. His ridged jaw a tusks designed to-" Rage explained as the Diablos began eating the cacti, the video briefly interrupting Rage to zoom in on the beast eating as someone making a "Nom nom nom" noise could be heard. "Scrape away would-be spines, lest they get lodged in his throat and mouth, before devouring the sweet cactus flesh, now defenseless." Rage finished as the beast continued to eat.
Many were surprised and amazed at its diet. Yes, Katana had told them, but seeing it was still a completely different experience. "Fascinating. They really do only eat cacti." Winter said, amazed.
"And cacti are rich in water as well, so in addition to eating its fill, its also hydrating itself as well. A convenient and efficient way to deal with dehydration and hunger all in one." Ren added.
Many chuckled or laughed at the "nom nom nom" part. "Well, nice to see it's really enjoying its meal." Blake said with a smile.
"Yeah. It's almost like you with a fish!" Ruby teased.
"Ruby!" Blake cried out.
"Blake, of your many secrets, your love for fish, especially tuna, was never one of them." Emerald told her.
The fight then resumed in the underground cave. "Diablos is at home with sand and loose dirt underfoot, enabling him to exploit his most impressive trait: he can sink underground all too easily, via combination of his powerful legs and shovel-like, triceratops-esque horn and frill combination. And once beneath the cool Earth, the most potent weapon in his arsenal is unlocked, a weapon I think we all know all too well." Rage explained as ballroom dance music played while Aylia was running in circles, Diablos unseen until it suddenly burst from the sand beneath her, sending her flying to the note changes in the song, accompanied by a pained and terrified scream as Aylia crashed to the ground.
"Oh, wonderful. As if Sentinels and Creeps weren't enough to deal with." Winter said in annoyance, dreading the thought of more creatures with the ability to dig and attack from underground.
"I do like that music that played, though. It sounds like something I could sing to." Weiss noted.
"Awesome! So it's coming for a giant underground uppercut from the look of it!" Yang said.
"A high speed thrust from below with those massive horns, most likely hitting other similarly sized monsters in the stomach. That's almost a guaranteed death sentence." Glynda said in shock.
"Too bad he didn't do that to the Deviljho, then." Neo said, many people agreeing.
"It is a steep challenge to fight against an attack that you can't see coming. Steeper still, then, an attack that not only can you not see coming, it strikes from underneath. The belly of most animals, its weakest point and the Diablos knows this all too well, BURSTING from below with enough force to penetrate, horns leading, the toughest armor and hides. In the blink of an eye... Well- blood... Drip... Drip..." Rage explained ominously, accompanied by the sound of a slow dripping noise. "Slowly falls to the floor after a brief journey down the horns and a lifeless form goes limp atop the head of this mighty beast as light escapes from its eyes." Rage finished darkly with a foreboding echo to his voice as the Diablos continued to abuse its underground advantage against Aylia.
Ruby shivered at that, clinging closely to both her mother and Cinder once again. "I don't want to get impaled in my belly. That's for cookies only!" She said fearfully.
"Your team would be with you, Ruby. They'd keep you safe. And so will I." Cinder promised.
"Besides, if regular people can hunt them, then you'd be fine. You could just use your semblance to get away." Summer assured her daughter.
"Yeah. Especially since you learned to freaking fly with it. Just go up in the air, land on one of those big rocks in the ground and old horn-head wouldn't even know where to find you." Qrow added.
"Still, an attack from underground like that... How can you possibly prepare for something like that?" Pyrrha asked.
"That's coming up, don't you worry about it." Katana said.
Suddenly, an open stretch of desert was shown. "But more than this savagery, the Diablos underground can move from place to place with incredible precision and speed, enabling it to claim and defend violently, a vast wasteland kingdom. They are incredibly sensitive to both sound and vibrations, able to detect the slightest hint of an intruder from nothing more than the steps they are taking. The Diablos then, will leave the epicenter of its home, likely an underground cavern and head directly to the poor, poor, unfortunate soul. It will then, with every ounce of violence it can muster, go about dismantling and destroying this daring invader.
"Of course. Because it wasn't already dangerous enough, it has to be able to cross its entire turf before you even realize you've entered it." Ren complained.
"Bring it on! I'll take it down, take its kingdom and be queen of the castle!" Nora declared.
"Yeah, good luck with that." Ilia told her.
"I would highly advise against that, Miss Valkyrie." Ozpin agreed.
Back to the underground cave, Aylia was hacking at the Diablos' legs, before rolling away from a tail swipe. "For a Diablos is proud if nothing else, both of its boiling empire and the weapons featured so prominently upon his head. See, for a Diablos, the larger both land and horn under its control get, the more likely it is to attract a mate. A Diablos would quite simply rather die than lose either. It is perhaps the greatest insult one can deal to this majestic Wyvern is to remove its horns, yet leave it alive." Rage explained as Aylia put down a shock trap to leave the Diablos stunned and electrocuted, unable to move as she delivered a devastatingly powerful combo to its horns, breaking both of them off in quick succession, before throwing down a smoke bomb and having a Wingdrake fly her to safety while making Zoidberg's escape noise, later seen to be holding one of the severed horns with each arm. "Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, guys, it's kind of fucked up whenever you go on a horn run." Rage admitted.
A soldier was then shown speaking to one of his allies. "Are we the baddies?" He asked.
Ruby, Nora, Velvet, Pyrrha, Penny, Glynda and Emerald were all horrified and furious at the same time over Aylia's actions, while sorry for Diablos when people go after just it horns. "They need those horns! Don't break them off!" Ruby cried out.
"Or at least finish the job and bring the monster down! Isn't that what hunters are paid for?" Pyrrha demanded, to which the three demon women nodded.
"Now that's just a dick move!" Emerald snapped.
"Though crudely put, I agree. It's no different to poachers hunting elephants for their ivory. Just absolutely despicable." Glynda agreed, glaring harshly at the screen.
"That practice should be illegal. It's not fair to anyone, including the Diablos." Penny said angrily.
"How could somebody do that?!" Velvet asked, horrified.
"Some people are just cruel like that, Vel." Coco said, holding her close.
"It if makes you feel any better, those types of hunters are very frowned upon. I guarantee we only return from a hunt after successfully taking down a monster." Razara said.
A pair of Diablos were then shown fighting, before one smacked the other in the face with his tail and chased him away. "Now, technically, a Diablos can grow their horns back, it just takes a bloody long time and in that time... Well, the likelihood is they will starve or be killed by the Diablos that immediately comes in to take everything they hold dear, mate included. And, of course, the sensitivity to sound, vibrations and the like, while incredibly key in its survival, can be used against it, something hunters have been doing since time immemorial." Rage explained as another fight between two Diablos was shown, in which case the two charging directly into each other resulted in one's horn snapping off, accompanied by people wildly cheering. "A sudden, violent shock of sound... Well, overloads its senses and causes a Diablos to, let's say... FREAK THE FUCK OUT!" Rage explained as the Huntress in the scene tried to escape, but was still sent flying by a careless tail swipe from the dominant Diablos... not that it would care if it did hit her.
"Good. At least they have some weakness." Ironwood said in relief.
"The only problem being that loud noises would also effect any Faunus on a team sent to exterminate Diablos." Adam said.
"I think we've made it pretty clear at this point, there are some monsters Faunus should just never get ANYWHERE near." Roman told the mask-wearing Faunus.
"We'll get to work on making some earplug charms later." Tekko assured the group.
"But, this can also happen naturally, when the likes of the Noios let out their curdling cry. This can trick a Diablos into surfacing, ready for a good scrap, only to find nothing there at all." Rage said as a number of rather unattractive wingdrakes let out several high-pitched shrieks while flying around the area they were in as Aylia faced off against a Barroth, before a Diablos suddenly burst from under the ground, the Barroth caught under its horns, before the Diablos fell back and crashed beneath the waves of sand, taking the Barroth with it while also creating a massive fissure that began to drag Aylia in.
"And now wingdrakes make noise, too?!" Velvet cried out sadly.
"Noisy and ugly. Really bad combo. They better not taste good, or else they'd be taking the place of turkey on Non-descript Winter Holiday." Coco agreed.
"We've always done ham for that. Turkey's more for Thanksgiving." Ruby said.
"If they can mess with Diablos, they have a use. That makes them worth keeping around." Hazel told them.
The Huntress struggled against the loose sand pulling her towards the massive hole in the ground, but ultimately, she too, was engulfed by it. "So, ultimately, Diablos is just raw, focused power and he pulls it off exceptionally. From an appearance that has made it one of the most popular Wyverns since its discovery and a fight that is admittedly BRUTAL, but undeniably fair, a phenomenal learning point for any new hunter is their first Diablos wall. What starts out as seemingly unstoppable, turns into a beautiful dance of timing, dodge and retaliation that is oh, so satisfying the first time you nail it. He is, for all intents and purposes, a bull fight and that is something I can really get behind." Rage finished as Aylia rose up and looked around as sand poured down like a waterfall, from which Diablos slowly and menacingly emerged, stalking towards Aylia like any predator would, despite it being a herbivore.
Yang smirked at this, looking at Adam. "So, fighting a Diablos is basically like taking on Taurus over there?" She teased.
Blake was shocked that Yang actually made a Faunus joke against one of the people that turned the White Fang into a hostile organization, but before she could berate her, Adam actually chuckled at this. "They may not be as impressive as Diablos, but you'll still get the horns if you mess with this bull, Xiao Long." He challenged.
Blake's jaw dropped at this and several tick marks appeared on her forehead. "Are you kidding me, Adam!? Didn't you fight against the White Fang to fight against inequality like that?!" She demanded.
"I joined the Fang to get back at the people making Faunus' lives miserable and full of torment, not people making joke, Blake. You've always been way too sensitive about that." He told her.
Aylia was then seen in the underground cavern again, wearing her ghillie mantle and standing next to a Diablos whose shell was completely black. "So, the Black Diablos then, one of the more interesting subspecies, I feel, because unlike the others, it is essentially still just a normal Diablos, it is not a permanent change, it's not brought about by living in a different environment as usually is the case, it is simply a Diablos female that is in heat." Rage explained, before his tone sounded slightly tired and annoyed. "And- look, it is at this point I need to talk directly to a very few morons currently typing a comment." He warned, before going hardcore on the audience. "DIABLOS CAN BE BOTH MALE AND FEMALE! THEY ARE A NORMAL SPECIES AND NO, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MONOBLOS, YOU FUCKING DING-DONGS!" He roared with an echo as Aylia finally attacked the monster. "Thank you." He added quickly.
"Wait, that's it? They're just in heat. That's kind of a lame reason for them to change color." Jaune said.
"Certainly a bit underwhelming." Pyrrha agreed.
"It happens sometimes in nature, some reptiles change color." Emerald stated.
"What's being in heat mean? They live in the desert, surely it must be hot all day." Ruby said.
"Oh, Ruby, no..." Summer groaned, not wanting to have her daughter know about this.
However, some laughed at Rage's outburst. "Wow, he must HATE whenever people say that." Neo giggled.
"I'm the same way whenever people confuse our Atlesian knight models. They look completely different, yet no one can tell them apart. They're clearly not the same thing." Ironwood said.
"I always remember Port getting up in arms if someone mixed up two kinds of Grimm, like the Goliaths and Megaliaths." Qrow added.
"They're both similar, but they're far from the same thing. Distinction is always important." Glynda said.
"Really, this is aimed at a tiny minority. Most of you are lovely people and I could not ask for a better set of viewers. Now this is a concept I'm particularly fond of. Outside of it being wholly unique, it simply reminds me of my lovely little Bearded Dragon every time I fight one." Rage explained as the scene of Aylia fighting the Diablos was replaced with a Bearded Dragon lounging on a couch. "So, a Bearded Dragon then, when its upset or stressed or angry, its beard, its belly, its scales will darken and eventually turn black to show how its feeling. So I always just get that imagery when I see a Black Diablos and because of that, completely buy this drastic change." Rage admitted as the Bearded Dragon simply looked around for a bit, before the fight with the Black Diablos was shown again.
"It's wise to use something you know to get a better understanding of what you don't." Winter stated.
"You're just happy he showed his cute little lizards again, aren't you?" Qrow asked teasingly.
"N-no! Maybe... Yes..." The Specialist denied at first, but soon gave in.
"I do not blame you, Winter. His reptilian pets are adorable!" Penny said.
"I still love the turtle." Ruby giggled.
"And because they are... Well, in heat, they are A LITTLE BIT agitated, they are... They fight essentially everything that moves and really, one of the hardest challenges for a male Diablos is taming a female in heat so that they may propagate. This usually results in one titanic clash where should he win, he proves himself worthy and the female accepts him [1], or should he lose... Well, she FUCKING KILLS HIM! So, you gotta ask yourself as a Diablos..." Rage explained the complications of the Diablos dating scene before cutting to a movie clip.
This clip showed a Diablos' head superimposed over a man's head. "Do I feel lucky?" He asked.
It then showed a person with a Black Diablos' head over theirs. "Well, do ya, punk?" He questioned "his potential partner".
The intellectuals understood this part. "That would make sense. Due to being in heat, she has many more hormones which would make her far more aggressive." Winter noted.
"And that particular... DRIVE would likely wear down her patience, which Diablos seemed to have little of in the first place, making her incredibly impulsive and driven on pure instinct more than anything else." Weiss added.
"But yikes! Killing their mates if they lose? That's a bit harsh!" Jaune said.
"It's called survival of the fittest for a reason, kid. You have to be strong to survive in nature." Hazel told him.
"That doesn't make it any less disturbing." Nora groaned.
"Thank goodness Faunus don't go crazy like that." Velvet said in relief.
Back to the fight in the cavern. "So, translated into your actual hunt, then... She's a lot faster, she's a lot stronger, she has a little bit more of an edge to her attack patterns, able to readjust charges, able to combo much more effectively, her burrow strike is much further reaching and has all sorts of lovely, delicious alterations on timing. She really is just Diablos turned up to eleven and that's something I can actually appreciate. Her as a subspecies doesn't drastically alter the fight, it's not like a fire to ice element swap." Rage further explained why he enjoyed the subspecies as the image of an icy leviathan quickly flew across the screen. "She is simply a better Diablos and I believe it may really be one of the best pairs, full stop." He finished his explanation of the darkened Diablos.
"Yeah! She bring a whole new meaning to girl power!" Yang cheered.
"So, how often does the female win compared to the males?" Ren asked.
"In my experience, about every four out of five times." Katana told them.
"Dang. I'm amazed those guys aren't extinct." Coco said.
"So then, of course, there is one more Diablos to talk about: the Deviant. The Bloodbath Diablos." Rage introduced the final form of Diablos, which had a much darker shell, much of which was coated in a strange blue color. "And this is a Diablos, very simply that when it was young, it kinda got its horns decimated by a hunter and lost a fight quite handily and as we know now, that is not a good time for a Diablos, but this one, rather than give up, decided it needed to get even and not just even with the hunter that dealt it this hurtful blow... No, even with essentially existence itself, becoming the most violent creature... Well, arguably, full stop." Rage explained as the Diablos charged Aylia and attacked her with similar, but far more wild and reckless moves than the Diablos they'd seen so far, even ripping boulders out of the ground with its horns.
Cinder shivered at this. "I used to think almost the exact same way, after I killed the madam and my step-sisters, I thought the whole world had to pay for my suffering, because no one put a stop to it. Rhodes helped, sure, but he didn't make it stop, so I thought the world should suffer because I had to." She said.
"I used to think everyone else should go hungry because I had to." Emerald agreed, Neo nodding as well.
"Yeah, we all thought everyone should have it as bad as us." Roman confirmed.
"But you've all learned and changed your ways now. Because you've learned what you were doing was wrong and you want to make amends, if not for yourselves, for the people you care about. It's a beautiful thing." Blake told them, making them all smile and nod. Emerald then hugged Blake while the Rose family embraced Cinder and Neo.
"But for a Diablos to have that mindset, I can't think of many things more disturbing." Summer said worriedly.
"And to achieve its new goal of, really, killing everything that moves, it decided to go on a little bit of a training montage: it did 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and ran 10 kilometers a day and thus, it was ready." Rage declared, listing an intense-sounding regimen as the battle between Huntress and monster continued.
"Is that... a good exercise? It sounds kind of basic." Jaune said.
"It offers some benefits, but it's pretty standard and the high reps limit your ability to gain muscle mass. Also, while I can't speak for Diablos, humans require rest days for our torn, damaged or tired muscles to repair themselves." Winter explained.
"Also, new studies have shown have shown sit-ups are very hard and even damaging on your spine, so certainly one hundred every day would lead to eventual injury. Also, the exercise does not include pull-ups, which would be ideal for developing the back and bicep muscles." Penny added.
"It's a reference to the anime One Punch Man, where an ordinary dude in a world full of crazy monsters trained like that for three years and in that time, he lost his hair after one and a half years." Katana explained.
"I'm never doing that workout!" All the girls screamed.
"And by the time it was ready, its horns had grown back in, but... not as they should, one grotesquely large, the other split into three, a reminder permanently of what was once done to it. And what I mostly love about this Deviant is it's not the result of mutation or something random or environmental or, you know, the usual freak kind of results, it's essentially a Diablos that has reached its potential via working VERY FUCKING hard and practicing fighting and killing and learning and going above and beyond. He's essentially a prodigy Diablos who got kick-started by a traumatic fight while it was but young. So now, it is coated in the blood of its enemies. Remembering its trauma, it can get so angry that its internal temperature rises high enough to cause the life force coating it to evaporate explosively in great gouts of scalding steam! It is really terrifying and is the most powerful Deviant by far and more powerful even still than many Elder Dragons. Bloodbath Diablos is BAD NEWS." Rage finally finished on the two-horned desert beast as Aylia was defeated.
"We'll have to carefully instruct our huntsmen and huntresses to NEVER destroy a Diablos' horns." Ozpin said.
"Or at the very least, finish it off it they do." Ironwood added.
"Relax, guys. Not every Diablos that gets its horns cut off will become a Bloodbath Diablos. Super rare." Razara assured them.
"Still, if one of them were to show up in Vacuo or Menagerie, I don't even want to think of how back that could get." Blake said.
"We'd have to double, maybe even triple their defenses to protect against Diablos." Winter declared.
"Hey, if there's one thing the people of Vacuo are good at, it's surviving. I wouldn't count them out." Qrow said confidently.
Night time was then shown in the desert, before a trail of ground could be seen moving before a beast very similar to Diablos burst out, but with only one horn. "So, Monoblos then... This one is kind of curious because Monoblos is kind of redundant: a single spiral horn and a beak and a spiked crest... The tail's a bit spikier and- look, it's essentially different-shaped Diablos." Rage explained as the beast looked around, before spotting something and charging.
"Ooh, I like that one's tail more!" Ruby said excitedly.
"And the way the horn spirals is pretty cool, too." Coco praised.
"Not to mention the beak is a lot easier on the eyes than that mass of teeth." Emerald added.
"Plus, that frill looks like it would work a lot better for digging than Diablos." Ren pointed out.
It was later shown in the desert during the day, where the beast was sleeping, before getting up and looking around. "And I'm gonna say as I begin this little bit here: I... kind of do prefer the single horn set up. I prefer the beak look, I do kind of, for the most part, prefer how it looks. However, it is essentially a Diablos clone. It even has a subspecies, White Monoblos, which is a female Monoblos in heat and it digs, it charges, it tail sweeps... It's just Diablos, right? There are subtle differences, of course there are, but there's nothing so noteworthy it's worth me really even talking about, so... I don't want this section to be so tiny, but I cannot stress enough for, how all intents and purposes, they are the same. They really are, it comes down to where you are in the desert that may change which one you run into [2]. A neat change is that its frill lights up red as the blood vessels within get pumped full when it's a little bit angry." Rage finished with the single-horned monster and ended the video.
"I actually quite like the Monoblos. It's tail looks quite a bit more effective and that frill works much better as a shield than Diablos' head crest." Pyrrha noted.
"And assuming the creatures are of similar size-" Penny began, looking to the hosts.
Tekko was the first to notice. "Oh, right! Diablos gets from 60-85 feet. Monoblos gets from 55-95 feet, so... roughly the same ballpark." She explained.
Penny brightened up at this. "In that case, it should be even more powerful, as due to the nature of pressure, a similar, or even larger force over a smaller area, the one horn instead of two, the pressure should allow for the single horn to do much greater damage by striking with much more pressure." Penny explained.
"Yeah, but Diablos tail is way cooler. It's not as spiky, but its way bigger and can smash stuff way easier." Nora declared.
"And even if it is a Vegetarian, if it decided to take a bite out of a person with those teeth, you're done for!" Yang added.
"All excellent points. I guess in the end, they're so similar, it would be impossible to find a winner, so it does come down to which you like better." Ironwood stated.
"Well, that was certainly impressive. Both creatures could certainly be steadfast allies of formidable enemies." Ozpin stated.
"Indeed. Although this makes four Flying Wyverns we've seen now that cannot actually fly." Glynda noted.
"It's really more of a classification than anything else. I wouldn't personally call Glavenus or Brachydios brutes, yet they fall into the Brute Wyvern category." Katana explained.
"Either way, with them both around, Vacuo and maybe Menagerie are about to get a lot more hectic." Blake said, worried about her parents and home.
"Still, it would be nice to see a Flying Wyvern that can, you know, FLY." Nora stated.
"Well, I guess it is about time you learned about... HIM." Razara said.
"Him?" Jaune repeated, both interested and intimidated.
"Him. The King of the Skies himself. Rathalos." Tekko declared.
"King of the skies?! That sounds so awesome!" Ruby cheered.
"Right, but didn't Sai say in the Legiana video that at least three other Flying Wyverns can contend with it for that title? And two monsters can beat it that can't even fly?" Cinder questioned.
"Yeah, that doesn't sound too kingly to me." Emerald agreed.
"Well, just because they CAN beat someone doesn't mean they will. Jaune COULD beat Cinder, but he'd have to fight smarter and get in some lucky hits." Katana explained, before deadpanning. "Luckier than her being injured and stunned from pain, literally on her knees and wide open, but you still somehow screwed that up." She said, referencing Volume 5.
"W-well... hopefully that won't have to happen now." Jaune stated.
"Either way, come on! I wanna see what this guy can do!" Yang cheered and played the next episode.
[1] I could not, for the life of me find out what that word Rage said was. And it's not the first time I've had this problem. Sometimes I really think he just straight-up makes up words he thinks sounds right, but aren't. No judging, just saying.
[2] I know that's not what he said, but the original part sounded too much like describing a game enemy, so I hoped changing it just a bit still made things a bit better.