Team SMKK

Chapter 10: Family

Chapter 10: Family

Present. Mistral

With Kole's shoulder healed back to semi-normal, the Fridulfs and their friends and spouses took a much, needed vacation to Mistral where the siblings could visit their family. They all meet up at the train station to take the safest and quickest route to the capital and then walk to their nearby ancestral home. On the train, everyone except Kole and Marcus took the time to catch some sleep. Katherine was asleep in Kole's arms and Grant and Shade were both leaning against each other on the bench opposing them.

"Yo. Watch this." Marcus said to the Kole, who was struggling to stay awake. A sly grim formed when he saw Marcus approached a young red head sitting alone near the front of their train car. "Hey baby. Why don't we head to the back of the train and you show me your caboose?" The red head, struck Marcus with the front of her hand and stormed off.

"Ha!" he yelled slapping his knee and waking everyone nearby. "I gotta say that was your best one yet"

"What's going on?" yawned Katherine as she stretched.

"Nothing, just Marcus being an idiot. We're almost here." Kole said,

The young faunus girl across from him, rubbed the sleep from her eyes. "You nervous?" she said stretching to wake up her muscles

"Not really. Yeah it's been years since I've been home, but well, that's life. Right?"

"Yeah, hopefully. Wonder what mom and dad will think when they see that their runt, turned into a full-fledged Huntsman."

That thought put a grin on his face. "So what's the plan, boss?"

"Well. First, we visit mom and dad. Tomorrow we'll be assistant teachers at Sanctum, so we can talk with Ash's class about becoming a Huntsman and Huntress and teach weapon's forging

"Cool. Ya know I can't believe I'm saying this but, I hope they'll like Kate."

"She'll be fine. She's a nice girl. A little 'quirky', but non-the-less, they'll like her."

Half an hour later they arrived at the train station on the edge of the city of Mistral, where the group headed South along a dirt road to the Fridulf estate. Shade and Grant lead the way, holding hands as they walked; Kole and Katherine followed with Kole's arm draped over her shoulder; and Marcus brought up the rear blasting rap music on his scroll.

"I can't believe that you two grew up here. This place is so gorgeous" Katherine said taking in the sights of the dense forests.

"Yeah. Why did you ever leave and go to Beacon? If I was from hear I would have stayed and gone to Haven." Marcus asked

"Haven is nice, but we've always liked to travel and see the world." Kole explained

"And after living here for years, it gets pretty boring here." Added Shade

All of a sudden the two Fridulfs stopped in the middle of the road and stealthily drew their weapons. "When I say run, you take Marcus and Kate on up the road and out of danger. Stay there and protect them we'll take care of this." Shade said to Grant.

Marcus and Katherine drew their swords and scanned the area. "What is it?"

"The welcoming party!" Kole shouted when Grant knelt down to investigate a tripwire set in the middle of the road.

"Shit!" Grant screamed seeing that the wire was connected to a grenade buried in the dirt.

"Run!"