Team SMKK

Chapter 11: The Wolf Pack

Chapter 11: The Wolf Pack

Katherine emerged from the cabin struggling to carry the heavy round shield and presented it to Heather. Skjoldr, was a 28" dia. round shield with: a wooden face, a steel edge and a four-inch long spike in the center of the hand-boss.

"Thank you deary." Heather said taking the shield and gripping it's center handle.

"You want me to go easy on ya? I wouldn't want ya to break a hip or anything." taunted Kole

"Ya gonna talk or are ya gonna fight?"

Kole took off his jacket and cracked his knuckles. He lowered his hand to his side and waited for the signal to begin.

Greyson lit his pipe and began to count down. "Three...Two...One...Begin!"

Kole started by drawing his pistol and firing three shots toward the elder Huntress. Heather then, knelt down behind her shield. Once the shooting stopped, she sprinted forward to start a melee with the boy. When the spectators saw the charge, they feared for Kole's safety, thinking he would be impaled by the spike.

"Be careful, you idiot." shouted Shade

The Huntsman raised his pistol and began to hack and slash at the woman, who blocked the attack with the face of the shield. Again, he fired point-blank at the shield-maiden. Heather angled the shield so the shots would ricochet off the steel edge. The Huntsman then grabbed the edge of the shield and pulled it away, creating an opening to fire a shot at his mother. He couldn't help but smile and taunt the woman "Any last words."

"Yeah. Watch your fingers." She said pressing a button on the grip.

The Huntsman released his grasp as a series of razor sharp spikes sprung forth from the edge, almost cutting off his fingers.

"Damn!"

Heather again charger at Kole, but this time she swung her shield as if to use the spikes as a sword. "Shade! I could use a hand here."

His sister rolled her eyes, and jumped over the railing to go assist her brother. She opened fire at Heather, in an effort to distract her for Kole. Seeing the deception Heather blocked the shotgun barrage and spun around to counter another hack and slash by Kole. Shade stood next to Kole as they planned their next line of attack. In a surprise attack, Heather pulled a trigger hidden under the handle, which fired a lightning Dust round, from a small barrel within the spike. The two jumped out of the way of the bolt as it zipped by and struck a tree behind them. The tree exploded, sending millions of tiny splinters towards the children. Heather rushed forward and threw Shade and Kole behind her shield. Once the danger had passed she looked down to the young Huntress and Huntsman

"Two on one. Doesn't seem very fair."

Shade pumped another round into the chamber and transformed Skeggart to axe mode and continued the fight. Meanwhile Kole jumped back where he could begin to activate his Semblance. His Aura began to manifest around him into a heavy blue smoke, which snaked through the air and took the form of a wolf sitting next to him. He looked down to his familiar and with a cocky smile, he shouted "Make that three on one. Sick 'em, boy!"

The wolf did as it was commanded and rushed towards the woman. As it clenched its spectral jaws into the side of the shield, Shade swung her axe at the matriarch. Heather managed to swing her shield enough to catch the axe's blade into the wooden face of the shield, through Kole's familiar. The wolf let out a painful howl as it evaporated into thin air.

"Not so tough are ya now, huh Shade?" taunted Heather

Shade returned the remark with a menacing smile and pulled the trigger on the weapon's grip. A ice Dust round came out of the end of the barrel and covered the face of the targe in a thick coating of ice. When the light steam of the blast dissipated, Shade could see that she managed to freeze Heathers left arm.

"Way to give her the cold shoulder, Shade." Kole said rushing ahead firing more ice rounds at his mother. He fired at her feet and arms freezing her to the ground. Once she was immobilized, the young Fridulfs holstered their weapons as they looked at their mother and began to savor their victory.

"What did I say ma? You can't beat me and you surely can't beat the two of us. Face it, maybe you should hang-up that shield o f yours for good."

"I gotta give it to him ma. We're younger better suited for today's fighting.i guess that makes us the Alphas now" Said Shade leaning on Kole's shoulder

Heather looked to the hecklers and gave them a menacing smile. "It's not over yet." With that said, her aura began to form into a small wave of white flames. The white fire then burst into an inferno as the ice bindings burst and shattered in the fiery explosion. This was her semblance, and her kids could only watch in fear as the true Alpha appeared.

Heather was filled with an adrenaline rush that allowed her to break her icy bindings and defeat her captors. She leapt forward and struck Kole in the stomach with the edge of her shield, sending the boy flying towards the porch. She then turned her attention to Shade who was ready to return the attack with an axe strike. The elder Huntress pressed another switch that retracted the spike into the metal boss as she used the punch her in the chest, also launching her towards the porch.

The triumphant matriarch stood over her kids with an arrogant smile "Experience is trumps youth ever time. Now go inside and clean yourselves up. You have school in the morning."

"Yes mom" they groaned as they crawled into the house

"Okay that was awesome!" Marcus said clapping his hands "I've never seen those two ever lose a fight. That was very impressive."

"Yes very impressive! What was that move you used at the end? It looked like you were literally on fire." Katherine said taking the hulking shield from her idol.

It's called Berserker." She said panting for breathe "Unlike many people, the Fridulf family has a hereditary Semblance. Auburn has it, Shade has it, and Ash will most likely have it. It's like an adrenaline rush on steroids. It increases the owner's stamina for melee attacks.

"But not Kole?" Asked Grant with trepidation.

"No, Kole was adopted. I think it's kind of ironic that we brought in a human and he could summon a wolf. It's almost poetic a human who lived among 'the beasts' and inside him is 'a beast'." She replied

"Hey Heather, not to be racist or anything, but what's a human doing in a faunus household. Was he like your pet or something?" Said Marcus leaning on the porch railing, watching Kole and Shade spar.

"Believe it or not, but I'm actually a Huntress. I came across a village destroyed by Grimm and found him hiding. He had to of been about five at the time, so I invited him to live with us, and he's been with us ever since."

"Wow. So that doesn't really explain why he's a dick."

"Your guess is as good as mine. As far as I know, he's always been like that".