Disclaimer: I in no way own RWBY or its characters. I hope you enjoy the story.
Jack's POV
Life sucked, I did mostly the same nonsense every day: wake up, eat, hygiene, work, socialize, eat, hygiene, and sleep. I worked a dead end job, surrounded by people I hated,and with no communication with friends or family. By now you've probably noticed that I'm using past tense, that's because of a very simple reason. I've died, it's as simple as that and I can't dance around the subject any more.
So, the afterlife was not what I expected, being of a non religious background I thought it was as simple as dead and buried. I was surprised when I woke up in a chair, in an empty office room. A desk with a computer and a couple folders and books on it, a couple of stocked bookshelves and walls bare of any forms of identification. Clearly remembering my death, a tragic fire where I was not at fault, I remained unexpectedly calm. I waited for a good silent thirty minutes before I heard the sound of a door opening, and saw a male enter. He went to the chair behind the desk and sat, no words yet, he stared at me intensely. He was about 5'11 and had short blond hair and mischievous brown eyes, a sharp nose and lips curved into a smirk. "So," he began, in the most condescending tone I have ever heard, "How has your life been?" I took a moment to collect my thoughts, choosing my words, I said "too short for my liking, Jack." He gave chucked, his eyes never leaving me, "Always the smart mouth I see, you can call me Evan, and you are in luck, you see I have a very special offer for you John" I coughed into my hand, deciding to ignore his nickname, I made my inquiry. "What offer could that possibly be?" He continued to looked me straight in the eye and then grin "Why, rebirth of curse of course." I replied with "Please, elaborate" he dropped the smile "You see, it's become very boring lately, so I was thinking why not send the next poor sap into a different world and watch what they do if they have all of their memories of the past life." I gave him a look like he was an idiot "Than I accept, it has to be better than my previous one, or whatever is going on here." The grin came back bigger than ever "Excellent choice, John, until you die again." and with a wave of his hand, I vanished from the office. "well that was a thing" I thought, not being able to form words. I could the the rhythmic beat of a heart as well as yelling and screaming, repeated words of push. Apparently I was being born again, I then I saw a flash of light, and thus began my new life _
4 years old
Suddenly I was 4 years old, apparently childhood amnesia is still a thing even though I have memories of a past life. I woke up in a my bed a little tab that read "welcome to the game." in front of me, I tapped the x to the tab and got up and another tab appeared. "Please enter your name" a box with the name John under that. I thought if there was a way to manage all this with thought that would be great. Quickly changing the name, I hit confirm and a new box appears asking "Would you like to enable automatic controls?" I hit yes as fast as possible. I saw that that I had a hud with a clock stating the time as about three in the morning, I decided to go back to bed _
7 years old
It had been a long three years, I learned a lot about this world, my father taught me about everything. That the world was inhabited by three dominant species: humans, faunus, and grimm. That the grimm were soulless creatures bent on eradicating human and faunus, and that people like him rose up to fight the creatures of grimm were called hunters. So, from all that I had discovered I was in remnant, from RWBY which that show was at volume 4 I think, I had never got into it sadly. Speaking of my father he had dark brown hair and hazel green eyes like I did in my previous life. He didn't have a wife, therefore I have never met my mother. I had ember orange eyes and black hair. My dad fought with a short sword that turns into a whip, I had ask him if he could train me to be a hunter like him, he laughed thinking I was being an idealistic child, and said "Tell you what son. I'll unlock your aura when you turn thirteen, and you can decide what you want to do with your life." little did he know I would hold him to that promise. Seeing as I wouldn't have aura till I was older, would continue my questing with my gamer ability and level up until then. I had already obtained a hand full of abilities, such as: observation, hearing, smelling, lying, running, acrobatics, and physical resistance. I decided to pull up my character sheet.
Name: Jack Rook
Title: -
Level: 10
Health: 160/160
Aura: -
Stats
Str:12
Dex:14
End:16
Int:13
Wis:12
Chr:16
Stat points: 45
I haven't spent any skill points, and my stats have been gone up through hard work. I decided that I would get them up to thirty before investing any stat points. Also I learned that as a baby I was named John so I'm kinda stuck with being called that for now
13 years old
My father had kept his word and un lock my aura, he even asked me if I still wanted to be a hunter, I said "No, not really, I just want to live a good long life, but to do that I'll need to eventually fight, so I just want to learn how to defend myself." He gave me a smile and said "don't worry, John, there's plenty of time to learn. My aura matches my eye color, but instead of just orange it looked like fire rolling over my skin. Turns out I got a perk along with my aura.
Soul smothered in ash - due to your unfortunate death in the previous life you gain bonus affinity to fire.
25 fire affinity
We lived in a big village pretty close to Vale and with little going on, it was mostly made up of young adults so there aren't many kids. there is only a girl close to my age and she was two years older. there were a few kids around four or five.
I had got a job at this small book store in our village, all I did was help out with putting them in order and all that, but I got some lien and a couple free books even now and then. They were skill books, so I would use them at home after dad was asleep. I got some pretty interesting books that gave some amazing skills that's for sure
The basics of handling fire - firebolt
The summer blaze - fire elemental
Bottling up your anger - flame body
Seeing as I already had an affinity for fire I figured fire base skills would be child's play.
I had absorbed the books and obtained the new skills.
Firebolt lvl 1 - shot a small ball of fire
15 fire damage
Flame body lvl 1 - lights your body on fire causing enemies near you to take fire damage at the cost of damaging yourself
5 fire damage per/sec
Fire elemental lvl 1 - summon an elemental of fire to aid you
I decide to sneak out to put these skills to the test gaining a sneak skill in the process.
I decided to look at my character sheet before actually entering combat.
Name: Jack Rook
Title: -
Level: 18
Health: 240/240
Aura: 230/230
Stats
Str:21
Dex:20
End:24
Int:23
Wis:23
Chr:25
Stat points: 85
I'll head for the forest now, and there wasn't much conflict on the way out. I walked straight passing trees, for about twenty minutes of just walking I began to think this was a stupid idea.
I heard the growl of of a wolf, a large black beowolf had appeared before me.
The youthful terror
Beowolf level 10
100/100
a window pop up saying "You have been inflicted with fear." The wolf turned towards me. It charged, as I pushed my hand towards it one thought rang out thrice: Firebolt, Firebolt, Firebolt. Three tiny orange orbs went flying, and the Beowolf took 40 damage for each, I could only assume my fire affinity was increasing the damage. With the now dead wolf I went to its dissolving corpse, I saw about 3 more Beowolfs appear, all level 12, I activated flame cloak, and shot three fire bolts into the first, killing it, while the other two charged. They both lunged, one hitting for 25 aura, and me managing to avoid the other one. I shot two fire bolts at the furthest, and as asi did so the other on raked his claws on me for 13 damage. I sent a fire bolt to the last one, killing him, upon deactivation of flame cloak I got a pop up. "Fire resistance obtained"
Fire bolt lvl up, Flame body lvl up. I heard the biggest growl yet.
The feral beast
Elder beowolf lvl 18
250/250
It didn't see me, as I aimed my hand at it, and mentally shouted fire bolt six times. I heard a ding of my lvl going up. Deciding now was a good time to pull up my character sheet.
Name: Jack Rook
Title: -
Level: 19
Health: 220/240
Aura: 187/230
Stats
Str:21
Dex:20
End:24
Int:23
Wis:23
Chr:25
Stat points: 90
They dropped lien and that's about it, deciding I had enough for today I went home. I would continue this at another time.
16 years old
I achieved my semblance today, it showed up as a title.
Name: Jack Rook
Title: The Phoenix King
Level: 25
Health: 300/300
Aura: 300/300
Stats
Str:30
Dex:30
End:30
Int:30
Wis:30
Chr:30
Stat points: 120
The Phoenix King [once a day upon death be revived from ash, + 50% Fire resistance, + 25 Fire affinity, + 15% fire absorption]
I found this this be an appropriate "fuck you" to that Evan guy, I'll probably die like thirty times before I see him again. Now there was the matter of my main skills.
Fire resistance lvl 20 (+20% fire resistance)
Fireball lvl 25 [originally fire bolt] (65 fire damage)
Flame body lvl 17 (37 fire damage per/sec)
I decided to spend my skill points.
Name: Jack Rook
Title: The Phoenix King
Level: 25
Health: 500/500
Aura: 450/450
Stats
Str:42
Dex:43
End:50
Int:45
Wis:45
Chr:75
Stat points: -
Today I would summon the fire elemental. I had brought the supplies today and my dad would be out of town on some business. I made the circle and lit the candles. "elements of flame, I call for your aid" the candles flame left the wicks and a the air within the circle burst into fire. A creature made entirely of flame appeared, "Hello, my name is Jack Rook" I began, as it flickered I could feel all its anger and rage. "let's burn this world to the ground" I said, it flickered once more, and then disappeared. I cleaned up my mess and check my new skill.
Summon lesser flame elemental lvl 1 (+ 5 fire affinity, you can summon a lesser flame elemental for every 5 points of fire affinity)
My dad entered our house as I was headed out for a walk. "Hey, John, where you headed off too?" I hit him with observe.
The lone grey wolf sprinting through the forest
Thomas Rook lvl 56
Clearing my throat I began with "Just getting some fresh air" he gave his signature chuckle "Just be back before sundown, I want to show you something cool." I replied with "Cool, I'll see you later dad." I headed towards the door.
It was cold, being close to winter and all that, the walk towards the center of town was short, when I got there, the girl that was 2 years older than me was there, "Well" she began "if it isn't the huntsman's son" I look around, deciding to play fool, "Who me?" sadly my sarcasm leaked out, heavily, "You're not very good at talking, are you?" I gave a laugh "well, the thing is I just so happen to find women terrifying" she gave a questioning look then stood up and walked away. I probably had the most confused look ever on on my face, I also probably stood there for an hour in silence. I sighed "Whatever, I never understood them in my past life, so I'll probably never understand them them in this one." turning towards my home I decided to walk back home. Taking note that charisma is useless in certain situations.
Author's notes I guess
So this is my first fanfiction, probably horrible. Please criticism is very welcome in fact why don't you just pm me all of your criticisms because I deem it so important. I'll go over every chapter with a fine tooth comb. Just so you know I typed this on my phone.
Next chapter Jack will get a gift.
On a side note - I tried to make the whole gamer thing side, I simply feel that gamer fics just use it to add more words sometimes. Don't get me wrong I love gamer fics, I mean hell I'm writing one right now, but I will show Jack's character sheet at the end of every chapter.