This is my very first attempt at a fanfic. Please take that into consideration when you read this story. The first chapter is relatively short, but the rest will get steadily longer. Let me know what you think.
Italics are thoughts.
Disclaimer: I do not own Rwby or any of its characters. Those rights belong to Roosterteeth.
"Why, oh why, did I let him talk me and into this?"
My name is Kendrick (Render) Ravenclaw. I am currently in a very frightening situation. I am rock climbing. Now I know that doesn't sound frightening...but it is when your on the side of a cliff.
"Just don't look down Render." Says Jethro (Techron) Islander. My best friend. Who is also the one who talked me into this. And the only one who knew I was afraid of heights. I played the height thing off like it was my asthma acting up.
"I'm fine let's keep going." Why was I doing this... for the same reason anyone does something stupid. For a girl. Well her respect anyways. Sydney Grendloe, she had the toughest paintball team in the area, she was also known as the"Stormy Gale" because her opponents where usually swept away in the storm that was her team and I wanted to join. But to do so, I needed to earn her respect.
We were climbing Star Wall. from it you could see over the sea of pine trees in the mountainous area. There was about ten people on the climb and only one other person that I knew was Craig Zodiac. This guy was a giant of a kid. He had muscle on top of his muscle. He was easily the tallest kid I knew.
A very intimidating guy, but he was pretty chill. Only reason we got to know him was because Techron thought his sister was cute. But that was short lived once he found out who her brother was.
Once we got about half way up I decided to stop on a ledge that seemed sturdy. It gave way in like five seconds.
"Aaagghhhhh!" My fall was stopped ten seconds later by Craig. Who was holding my shirt. "Grab the wall already."
Oh yeah. I reach out and grabbed the wall. I was seriously freaking out. Ok breath in one-two, breath out one-two, breath...
I stayed like that for at least five minutes. Calming my self down.
"Everything alright?" It was a voice that sounded familiar.
"Y-yeah I'm fine."
"Are you sure?...wait aren't you that guy who's afraid of heights?" The voice was definitely female, and sounded very concerned or was that conceited?
"N-no I-I'm n-n-not afraid of h-h-heights." I tried to hide it.
"Uh-huh, sure. Let me guess you just did this to try and ask to join my team? Is that right?"
"Actually I merely wanted to meet you." I stated as I looked up. I've never heard or seen her before, but Sydney didn't sound like the trigger happy paintballer that everyone said she was, instead she sounded like she was the single most caring person in the world.
I decided to look at her. Both of our eyes widened in shock, and my mouth dropped open. There, right in front of my face...was my neighbor. "Gale?" I finally managed to say/ask.
"Well, if it isn't Rendered." She said with a smirk. When we met, I couldn't see anything without my glasses and when I had explained that she for some reason thought of render distance so she called me rendered.
She had never bothered to ask my real name and when I asked for hers, she told me to call her Gale instead. So yeah this is as a shock. I kinda had a crush on her. But it was a feeling that I ignored, not wanting to ruin a perfectly good friendship.
"I didn't know you were THE Sydney Grendloe!" I said still shocked.
"Well I didn't know that the one who everyone making fun of was one of my best friends." She said with a slight teasing tone in her voice.
"Yeah yeah, whatever. They only do it because I'm a nerd."
"About what?"
Never mind, it's stupid." And with that I kept climbing until I reached the ledge where I had fallen. Only to my surprise, the ledge had turned into a hole in the cliff face.
So what did I do, I did the thing every guy does when they see a hole in a wall... I climbed in. Very stupid I know, but what can I say, it looked cool and as a guy I do really stupid things.
After crawling for about five feet I ended up in a small cave. I pulled out my flash light (I always carried three things, my flashlight, mini telescope, and a small first aid kit) and started to look around. The cave had carvings, old artifacts, weapons and skeletons in armor. It looked like some were still in good condition as well. One of the carvings was of a group of four people but only one remained untouched by the hand of time. The person had a black hooded cloak that swirled at the feet, with what looked to be a sword and perhaps a shield. But what held Render's attention was the eyes. They were ominous and threatening, full of hate and malice, glowing a dark purple that seemed to shine through Render's very soul.
"This is so COOL!" I was wrenched back to reality as Techron shouted upon entering the cave.
"Lower your voice it's a small cave and that hurt." I said still rubbing my ears.
"Oops heh heh, got a little excited, sorry."
Taking a last glance at the carving I came upon three letters and a word above the figure in black. This is the order they where carved; G, I, Ravager, and Z. Turning to to another conrer, I found several artifacts that look similar, and like some kind of machine. "Techron, do your thing." I said as I show him the artifacts.
There was a reason he was called Techron, if it was some form of tech, old or new, he could master it in a few minutes. Which is why he had put the device together within two minutes.
In that two minutes Gale and Craig had made there way into the cave, Gale watching Techron work while Craig looked at the same carvings I had with a disconcerting look. Once Techron had finished, he handed it to me and I studied it for about a minute, then it happened.
I started to twist certain sections and push buttons on the weirdly shaped device. Once I had moved the last piece(picture the map from treasure planet), it turned into a sphere that started to glow.
"That doesn't look good!" Observed Gale.
"It looks like some form of radiation and if the radiation keeps growing like that...ITS GOING TO BLOW! GET RID OF IT NOW! Techron shouted.
I panicked and threw it towards the entrance in an attempt to throw it out the hole. As it reached the opening it exploded and every thing went white.
