289. Foo Fighters ~Just Foo Fighters~

A deer is seen eating leaves from shrubs in the woods. Suddenly, some sort of blue-green sludge begins to engulf it. Then, the deer is digested as pieces of bones, blood, and muscles are left.

An eye appears from the blue-green sludge as it crawls away with suspicious motives.

*clack clack...*

Gabrielle and Narcos are playing checkers. Gabrielle is black, Narcos is red.

Nick silently listens to Foo Fighters' song The Pretender.

"Are you two still mad at each other?" Mercuria asked with an annoyed tone while preparing the steering wheel.

"If he admits that he ate my last yogurt, it will be a pleasure to no longer be mad at him," Gabrielle squinted her eyes.

"Likewise IF SHE BELIEVES ME THAT I DIDN'T DO IT!!!" cried Narcos.

The pair stare at each other rather furiously.

Nick simply continues to read through Gabrielle's Grimm Diaries.

"Unbelievable," said Nick.

"Yeah? What's wrong?" asked Monroe.

"There are so many terms that I couldn't find on our Earth that we can find perfectly preserved in this Universe. Erstewoge (Erstuh-Voh-Guh)? Wahrewoge (Vah-Reh-Voh-Guh)? Wesen (Vesen) are called Cryptidos?"

"Cryptidos is actually the long-lost Spanish term for Wesen," said Monroe. "Since there are no Filipino Grimms back on our Earth, it makes sense that that term was preserved in this Universe's Philippine Grimms."

"There's a tribe of Grimms in the northern mountains in Luzon!?" asked Nick. "A temple of Grimms!? Hamon!? Spin!? Why can't we use Hamon or Spin?"

"On our Earth, Grimms weren't able to contain many cultures because they were a bit more... let's say... divisive and solitary. The Grimms on this Earth has some sort of pack mentality and lived in tribes," said Monroe.

"Just goes to show that teamwork makes the dream work!" smiled Narcos.

"Oh! Like eating my yogurt!?" asked Gabrielle.

"I didn't eat your yogurt!"

"Huh... something's burning!"

"Wait, seriously!?" asked Monroe.

"Yeah!" yelled Gabrielle. "This man's crotch!"

"She's Miguel's daughter, alright," sighed Nick.

"Narcos. If you don't admit it right now, I will-..."

"You'll what!?" asked Gabrielle. "Huh!?"

"I'll be forced to hurt you!"

*GASP!!!*

Mercuria gasped.

"Verbally!" yelled Narcos. "I... I...!"

Everyone leaned closer to the pair.

"I hate your guts," said Narcos.

"Wow," said Gabrielle. "That was so... so painful," she sighed.

"Gee... I feel awful, now," said Narcos.

Mercuria starts the engine.

Nothing.

"No fuel?" asked Nick.

"Just filled it up five minutes ago," said Mercuria.

"A leak?" asked Monroe.

Mercuria sighs.

The group checks the gasoline outside, and it's open.

"What!?" asked Nick, as he flashes a light into the hole with his phone. "It's-..." Nick uses his finger to wipe the tank. "It's squeaky clean.This runs in electric as well, right?"

"Yeah," said Gabrielle. "It's solar-charged. We could switch to electric mode, but we might run out of battery way quicker."

*slush... slush...*

Gabrielle woges into an Aswang and takes out Stone Free, a blue humanoid feminine Stand with green sunglasses for eyes. It is robotic with stones on each shoulder. It has a larger bust than its User.

Narcos woges into a Rock Human and takes out Coldplay, a light blue humanoid masculine Stand with white angry semi-circle eyes. It is robotic with white round spheres on each shoulder. It has white boots and white gloves with white cloth for underwear. It has no mouth or a nose.

Mercuria takes out Kiss and woges into a Blutbad. A yellow-headed Stand with robotic eyes and a mouth. It has a large bust with an effeminate masculine body. It has yellow arms and red legs. It has long yellow hair.

Nick takes out his axes.

Monroe woges into a Blutbad.

A blue-green sludge covered with strange flaps of skin with body parts such as several hearts, stomachs, rib cages, limb bones, horns, carnivorous and herbivorous teeth, hooves, claws, hair and fur, tails, leaves, roots, fungi, and different organism's arms and legs. All of which are wriggling.

It develops human eyes, ears, tongues, and noses that allow it to "sense" its surroundings.

"What the fucking shit is that!?" asked Mercuria.

The five back away.

"STONE FREE!!!"

Nick uses his enchanted axes to cut into the blue-green sludge, which segments themself into two to dodge and hops behind Nick.

The sludge begins to approach Nick but Stone Free punches the sludge away.

"What... am... I?" it whispered softly.

"What are you? I don't know. We assumed that that's something you already knew," said Monroe.

Gabrielle takes out the Stand Arrow from the soil and tosses it at Monroe.

"Use that!" yelled Gabrielle.

"How!?" asked Monroe.

"By having some resolve and some balls!" yelled Gabrielle.

The creature keeps on attacking the trio, who all attack with their Stands. Narcos freezes the creature with an ice wall that slowly appears toward it, but it merely grows larger and leaves its other body parts to death. Mercuria duplicates 

"We gotta do something!" yelled Monroe.

*splat*

Monroe slowly looks at his wrist and gasps in horror.

The arrow slowly enters Monroe's wrist and seeps into his arm, swimming upward and toward his shoulder. Monroe howls in agony.

Then it flies toward Nick's wrist and enters his arm. He grunts in pain as it swims out of his shoulder.

The wounds immediately heal as they drop to the ground.

"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!!"

"OSHYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

"FUREEEEEEEEEEEEZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!"

Slowly two Stands emerge from Nick and Monroe.

For Nick, a white humanoid Stand with blue angry eyes. It has no mouth, ears, or nose and is muscular and masculine. It has wings on its back.

For Monroe, a black humanoid Stand with red angry eyes. Its lower half torso has a v-cut half all the way to the legs. Its legs and lower torso are red in color. It has no ears, mouth, or nose.

The lights in the bus begin to flicker and its engine even starts.

Electricity surrounds Nick's body.

"Nick!" yelled Monroe. "What is happening!?"

"I don't know... Just... calm down and be quiet."

"I'm 44 and I can feel the blood in my body wriggling! How can I be quiet!?"

Stone Free begins thwipping out strings and tries to disassemble the creature cell by cell.

"It's made of algae!" cried Gabrielle.

The sludge then creates spikes and stabs Gabrielle in the upper body over and over again.

"RAUGH!!!" cried Gabrielle as she drops to the ground, shaking in pain.

She crawls on the ground and tries to get away from the creature.

*HISS!!!*

Narcos tries to freeze the creature once more, but small parts from its body hop away and onto the ground, dodging the trailing ice as it grows into an even more massive sludge.

The sludge transforms into a giant carabao and stabs Narcos in the torso.

"RAUGH!!!" cried Narcos.

Gabrielle heals him with her strings.

Mercuria blasts Kiss' fists at the carabao. The carabao transforms into a giant tiger and bites into Mercuria's shoulder. She cries in pain and bites the giant animal's neck, which howls in pain.

The creature tries to back away and approaches the water.

Gabrielle heals Mercuria as the water in the pond begins to evaporate.

The creature shrieks and backs away from the boiling water.

"I think I did that," said Nick, trying to stand up.

The Stand appears behind Nick as the Stand shoots electricity at the creature but the creature transforms into a pack of wolves and runs away.

Nick's eyes burn black with lightning reflecting in them.

The pack of wolves approaches Monroe, all marching in unison, and Monroe and Mercuria sense something wrong...

Monroe's Stand then freezes the pack of wolves somehow.

Nick prepares lightning in his hands and prepares to shoot it at the frozen pack of wolves.

"WAIT!!!" cried Monroe, Gabrielle, and Mercuria, as the lightning strike freezes a few inches away from the pack of wolves.

Monroe approaches the wolves who all whimper.

"You okay?" asked Monroe, who pets one of the wolves.

The wolves whimper out of fear, all looking at each of them.

"Sorry for attacking. You scared us," said Monroe.

"What is that!?" asked Nick.

"I don't know," said Monroe.

"We're..." the wolf spoke softly. "I... am... algae..."

The group is shocked by the wolf, speaking creepily. Yet, its voice was the voice of a high-pitched woman.

"Eep," whispered the creature.

"What's your name?" asked Monroe.

"Foo Fighters..." whispered the creature.

"After the band that I was listening to?" asked Nick.

"Sounds like a normal name," said Mercuria.

"Yep," said Gabrielle and Narcos.

"I can... hear... your... thoughts..." whispered the wolf.

The wolves each die and turn into nothingness.

"Ky... kye..." whispered the creature. "Scared... of... you..."

"We're sorry for attacking you, Foo Fighters," said Monroe.

"Okay... We're going with that name," sighed Nick.

"Can you turn into a person?" asked Monroe.

"I'll... try..." the algae colony slowly transforms into a beautiful young woman with short green hair, bright blue eyes, light brown skin, wearing a blue crop top, and a short blue skirt. She is barefoot. "I saw... this... in... poster... of... bus..."

"Why'd you eat our fuel?" asked Nick.

"Tasted... good... thought... it... was... meat..."

"Have you eaten people before?"

"No... people... feel... sad... and... scared... if... hurt... them..."

"Aw!" smiled everyone except Nick.

"Sorry... for... eating... yogurt..."

"It's okay, sweetie!" smiled Gabrielle.

"Hey!" yelled Narcos.

"Well, you had it coming."

"Would you like to go inside, Foo Fighters?" smiled Narcos.

"Yes," Foo Fighters blushed.

The group went inside the bus... Nick powered it with his lightning as the bus drove away.

Meanwhile...

Victoria Polnareff stood a few meters behind the bus, hiding behind the trees, tracking them down.