Chapter 1: The Room
A/N: Hey guys and girls of the Internet, it's TheNegaAsian again. You're probably wondering "What are you doing? Shouldn't you be working on Shade of Gray?" Well, I am working on it, but this won't take time away from that. From the summary, you can tell this is based off Hunger Games, and it is. Since I don't have it planned like Shade of Gray, this will have longer updates. So…that's enough of me. Let's head to the story.
Ruby Rose woke up in a dark room. Why was she there? She had not known. Her memory was fuzzy and her head hurt. She got up from the cold floor, noticing it was stark white in the darkness. As she got onto her feet, the lights in the room flashed on. She looked around the white room. It was slightly larger than the Team RWBY dorm with white panel walls and nothing in it. There also seemed to be no apparent doors or windows. She rubbed her cold arms and began to walk around.
"Yaaaannnnnggggg?! Yaaaaannnnggg?!" She called out to her sister, still walking slowly and cautiously around the room. "What is going on?" She asked herself, searching the room for answers. After what seemed like hours to Ruby, the young girl sat in one of the four corners of the room and began to cry into er red hood; her hope of finding her sister, or anyone in fact, gone.
Weiss Schnee was having the same problem. The heiress had woken up in another room exactly like Ruby's, however the lights were on when she awoke. She grunted in annoyance and scanned the room, finding nothing whatsoever. "Hello?" She asked, searching for something to respond, be it Human, Faunus, or Grimm. "Is anyone here? Ruby? Blake? Yang?" She fell to her knees and sat down. "Anybody?" Like her young partner, Weiss had sat against the wall and stared into the stark white emptiness, searching for a sign of any kind. Also wondering if this is was her final fate.
Blake Belladonna had woken up in a room that was the same as Weiss and Ruby's; the same lights, the same emptiness, the same questions. She walked around the room for a while, studying every detail of the room for a sign of a button or a lever hidden within the walls. "Yang? Weiss? Ruby? Can anyone hear me?" Blake vainly asked the emptiness, unaware that no one could hear wanting to stop her perseverance, Blake began to walk around, in search of something or someone to relieve her of her confusion.
Yang Xiao Long, like her other three teammates, had woken up in a white windowless and doorless room. Her first reaction to this: to break through the wall. She walked up to the wall closest to her, knocking on it to test it. She smirked and thought With Ember Celica, this will be a piece of cake. She stepped back from the wall and brought back her fist. She punched and kicked the wall several times, swearing and yelling at its unbreaking. She groaned in frustration and stared at her wrists, wondering why her attack made no change. Here, she finally noticed something. "Where's Ember Celica?" She demanded to know, seeing her usually weapons missing, making her almost powerless even with her fiery Semblance. She spent the rest of her time, unlike her teammates, trying to break through and escape her prison, at whatever cost.
Unaware to the 4 girls, there were 18 other rooms, just like theirs, with 18 other students from Beacon Academy. All of these students were weaponless, some almost powerless, even with their great abilities. They all spent their time trying to piece together, by themselves, why they were in a room with no memory of coming and what happened to their weapons. Also unaware to the teenagers, there was a camera recording each and every move. In another room, completely different than the rest, sat Professor Ozpin. With his cane in one hand and a mug of coffee in the other, he watched the 22 monitors set in front of him in the dark room he sat in, watching the students and waiting for the right moment.
Meanwhile, Ruby had ceased her sobbing and had stood up once again. She rubbed her eyes as she walked around and scanned the room. She studied each panel and space, although it pained her to do such a boring thing. She reached for Crescent Rose behind her, but her usually weapon was not there. She turned in shock and searched for her special "baby."
She turned around miraculously and searched fervently. Then behind her, descending from the bright white ceiling, was a circular elevator. Once the elevator reached the floor, its glass door slid to the side, as if it were gesturing for Ruby to enter.
"What is going on here?" Ruby questioned as she cautiously stepped into the elevator, obviously not thinking of what could happen in the minutes to come. The other 21 students had stepped into the exact same elevator that had came into their respective room in the exact same spot Ruby's had. Each of the rose up from the room, unaware of the living nightmare that was about to come.
A/N: Hey guys. We are gonna leave it at that cliffhanger. You guys probably hate me. However, I will pay up to it with the next chapter when I write it. This story was one of the anticipated stories that I have wanted to showcase to you people out there. Anyways, please rate, follow, favorite if you liked this chapter or flame me in the reviews. I love hearing from you guys, so please tell me what you think of this story so far. I'm heading out now, so…this was TheNegaAsian and I'll see you peeps later.