A Semblance of the Multiverse
Chapter 1 - A Rose's First Steps: Familiar of Zero
"Hey, Blake," I moaned in boredom, "Could I borrow one of your books?" We were hours away from Atlas and had nothing to do but talk. There was only so much to talk about at the moment, and not nearly enough to last several hours. Or at least, not without getting depressing.
She nodded, still focusing on her book, titled Ninjas of Love, and handed me a book labeled Familiar of Zero.
I started to read the book, and it was fairly interesting, though I disliked how the female characters all seemed to be madly in love with the hero, and how the main female lead abused him. I also dislike the fact that the hero being a slave was mostly glossed over and ignored. Sure, he was being mind controlled by the Familiar Bond, but that only slowly wiped out his memories of home. It wasn't immediate, so he should have had some initial resistance to the idea of being a slave. I was a bit confused about how no one knew about aura when they could use magic, but I decided it was probably to make things more interesting. A civilian boy whose only power was the ability to use any weapon taking on powerful mages? An interesting premise.
I could see some similarities between the treatment of Faunus and the disdain and fear of elves, except the circumstances between the two were entirely different. Faunus were, in some ways, slightly better off compared to humans, and in other ways, worse off. They often had better senses or prehensile tails, but on the other hand, they were hurt by sounds humans couldn't even hear.
Shortly after the hero was summoned by the half-elf as her familiar my hand slipped. Not off the book, no, it slipped into the book!
"Ahhck!" I shrieked, trying to pull my hand out of the book, but it wouldn't get off.
Weiss was the first to respond, using her glyphs to prevent me from entering the book. Yang was the next to respond, while everyone else was still gaping at me being pulled into a book. She hooked her arms under my shoulders and pulled. Blake was next, helping Yang from behind. When Uncle Qrow started to recover from the shock, Weiss's glyph broke and Yang and Blake lost their grip on me as I phased into the book.
I found myself in a black void, a blue hard light screen floating before me.
Ruby Rose, you have the unique luck to have gained a Mythic Ability! A Mythic Ability is an ability that only a mortal can have that puts its wielder on the level of all but the most powerful primordial gods.
Your Mythic Ability is Multiversal Travel Through Fictional Medium and Complete Adaptation to Alternate Universes. The first part of the ability lets you travel to other universes through fictional mediums, such as books, tv shows, and even plays. The second allows you to adapt your body, mind, soul, and powers to other universes so you can use any ability you have in that universe, along with the ability to gain abilities from that universe. It also allows you to change your age and appearance upon entering a universe so that you can join in on the storyline and not seem out of place. You can enter the story at any point mentioned in the storyline. You can also enter into the story through reincarnation at a point you'd be around the same age as one of the main characters.
By dragging your right pointer and middle finger down the cover of a book you can access a screen that allows you to open a screen, like this one, that will allow you to travel to any universe you've traveled to before.
However, this ability doesn't come without restrictions. You must finish any series you enter before you can travel again. This restriction is only active after the first time you've entered the story, so if you enter a story a second time after finishing the series, you may leave again any time you desire. The completion of a story is achieved either by waiting the story out or completing the overarching goals of the story. (For Remnant that would be something along the lines of Killing Salem and Cinder, along with uniting the four relics.)
Another hard light screen popped up below the first one.
? / Remnant [Locked - Have not found a medium for]
Remnant Abilities
(Aura + Semblance) - [+]
(Silver Eyes: Ability to turn demonic, unholy, demonic, and soulless beings into stone) - [+]
(Blessing of Choice: Ability to negate any mind-altering effects. This does not include those done by drugs or effects that are purely sensory. This also does not include effects that only stimulate or impede on emotions, though it does include those that create or remove emotions.) - [+]
(Blessing of Knowledge: Any and all forms of brain damage can be healed with time, aura, or magic) - [+]
(Blessing of Creation: Math and Science are easier to learn, and can be done mentally with training, even on the fly) - [+]
(Blessing of Destruction: Ability to use magic. Locked by Brother Gods, Maiden Status required to unlock) - [-]
Familiar of Zero / Halkeginia & Earth [Unlocked, Current]
I gawked. I wasn't sure what to think. On one hand, I gained the power to, eventually, kill Salem, kill all Grimm on the planet, and fix the moon. On the other hand, I wouldn't see anyone I cared about for years, decades, possibly even centuries or millennia! I might be as old as Ozpin by the time I got back home! And on the third hand that everyone shuddered away from because it was nauseating to look at, this was just plain insane!
There was, however, no doubting that I had been sucked into a book. Therefore I had to go with the flow! Starting with…
… going into a harem comedy. I groaned in disgust. Sure, I'm bisexual, but none of the characters are my type.
A third window popped up to the right of the first.
Familiar of Zero / Halkeginia & Earth
First, would you like to [Reincarnate] or [Insert] yourself into the universe?
Without hesitation, I pressed [Insert]. I wanted to return to Remnant ASAP, and reincarnation would add another decade and a half or so onto the time it'd take to do that. The window changed.
Familiar of Zero / Halkeginia & Earth
[Back]
Next, would you like to Insert yourself as a [Pre-Existing Character], a [A Non-Character Inhabitant of the Universe], or [As you are]?
Thinking for a moment, I pressed [As you are]. I didn't want to deal with having a new family. Taiyang, Yang, Uncle Qrow, and my team were my family, I didn't want to deal with having a new one. Maybe later, when I started to get lonely from being kind-of-Immortal, but for now I would stay as Ruby Rose, Huntress of Remnant and, as of today, a Superhero. I smiled slightly at the thought, thinking of myself going around in silly spandex saving people. I was not that type of superhero.
The window changed again.
Familiar of Zero / Halkeginia & Earth
[Back]
Would you like to be [Summoned as a Familiar] or [Just appear there with no explanation].
If I hadn't known I was immune to the mind-altering abilities of the Familiar bond, I would, without hesitation, choose the second choice, but with that ability, the power to use any weapon was tempting. Crescent Rose might be my preferred weapon, but in worlds of fiction, regardless of whether or not I liked it, special weapons might be needed to defeat my enemies, in which case I'd need to use those weapons, and use them well.
That would, unfortunately, mean I'd replace Saito, the Hero of the story, but if it meant gaining an ability that was, frankly, a slightly more powerful version of Velvet's semblance, it was worth it.
I pressed [Summoned as a Familiar] and the words changed once again.
Familiar of Zero / Halkeginia & Earth
[Back]
Which familiar would you like to be summoned as?
[Gandálfr] - Absolute mastery of any item intended for combat, including scientific applications, while active the rune will glow and the body of the familiar will be reinforced, granting them increased strength, agility, reflexes, and endurance. They also have the ability to share senses with their master.
[Mjöðvitnir] - Allows the user to use any magic artifact and to create nearly any magical feat through the creation of magical artifacts.
[Vindálfr] - The ability to control any animal. An animal is defined as a being without sapience. Powerful magical animals can resist Vindálfr's control.
[Lífþrasir] - The ability to amplify the strength of void magic at the cost of life force.
After reading the descriptions of each of the Familiar's, I chose [Gandálfr] without hesitation. The last of the four was probably useless outside of Halkeginia, and the second and third, while useful, didn't really fit my fighting style. Well, Mjöðvitnir might, seeing as I could probably use it to enchant Crescent Rose to shoot without dust, but Gandálfr was better in the long term. I could probably find some replacement for dust in the fictional multiverse.
The words changed yet again.
Familiar of Zero / Halkeginia & Earth
[Back]
What age would you like to be summoned at?
[-]
[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][0]
Would you like to make any alterations to your appearance?
[Yes] [No]
I typed in my age, 17, into the blank then pressed [No] for alterations to my appearance.
A new window popped up.
Familiar of Zero / Halkeginia & Earth
[Back]
Choose powers you'd like to activate from Familiar of Zero / Halkeginia & Earth
[Gandálfr] - [-]
And it seemed I wouldn't be getting magic. I shrugged, there'd be plenty of time for that later. I clicked the [-] and it changed to a [+].
The box disappeared, along with the other two. A new box appeared in the place of the first one.
? / Remnant - Familiar of Zero / Halkeginia & Earth
Would you like to make any changes to your settings?
[Insert]
[As you are]
[Summoned as a Familiar]
[Gandálfr]
[17] Years old
[Gandálfr] - [+]
[No] Alterations to Appearance
[Complete]
It took me a second to realize that I needed to press [Complete] to finish, but after I did I pressed it.
As I appeared in a brand new world, I vowed to return home, to return to my family and friends, to save Remnant from its immortal enemy, and to never forget home.
Chapter 1 - A Rose's First Steps: Familiar of Zero
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Next: Chapter 2 - How to not kill your mistress without acting like a submissive idiot.
Or: How not to act like a harem comedy protagonist!