In honor (not in spite) of the first episode of Volume 3 of RWBY being released to the public, I have decided to release this little bit of obsidian to those it may concern. It is my first attempt at writing anything like horror, and the first time I've tried writing team RWBY in any major respect, so you'll have to forgive my bad writing here. Also, never played a FNAF game, but I have done considerable research and seen a Let's Play of 3, so let's see how this'll turn out. And if I just caused half my audience to click out of this, I regret that, but I wanted you to know this.
The sign read "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" in a font designed to be creepy. Ruby stopped being afraid of stuff like that a while ago.
It was supposed to be a horror attraction based on a pizzeria that went out of business a long time ago. She may have been just a baby when it happened, but she wasn't sure, as she couldn't remember the year it closed down. But it didn't matter.
Yang, Blake, Weiss, and she had come here to investigate some odd occurrences. Beacon had gotten an anonymous call about this place that the one of animatronics in the place was malfunctioning, causing it to try to kill whoever was in the building. The owners denied this, yet when Beacon said they were sending a team of students to investigate it, they didn't try stopping them. That was a little worrying, but it wouldn't matter—there was no such thing as a possessed robot.
"Are you scared, sis?" Yang asked playfully.
She jumped slightly. "Don't do that, Yang!"
"You didn't answer me," Yang persisted, trying to tickle Ruby.
"Don't do that to me in public, Yang!"
"Oh, sourpuss."
"Yang, please, you embarrass the whole team when you act like this," Weiss said.
"Okay, okay, I'll stop."
Something had occurred to Ruby: Blake was being very quiet. "Blake, are you okay?" she asked.
"Yeah, it's just…" Blake said. "I've heard rumors about Freddy Fazbear's. The animatronics of that place were notorious for… breaking. In the head. One animatronic even bit a patron."
"Bit a patron?" Weiss echoed. "Shouldn't they have fixed it then?"
"They should have, but when they didn't they went out of business."
"So, stuff like that is why they made a horror attraction out of it?" Yang said.
"Perhaps."
They walked up to the entrance, and went in just as the sun was setting. Inside there was a man waiting for them. In every possible way, he seemed unremarkable, except his aura was different. It felt like he had seen horrible things, and while he came out without any physical scars, his psyche was damaged beyond all reckoning. When he spoke, he spoke like a man that had none of it. "I'm the night guard of this place."
"So, got any advice for us?" Ruby asked.
"Yeah." He handed them a scroll. "Inside is the information I've gathered on what you're up against."
"Just one bad animatronic, right?"
He shook his head. "That's what they want you to think. There's some bad wiring too, so the camera and the ventilation systems don't work half the time. And then there's the phantoms."
"Phantoms?"
"Yeah, that's just what I call them. They're actually fear induced hallucinations. I don't know what exactly causes them, but I contacted a previous guard, and I know I'm not just crazy because he saw the same things."
She opened the scroll. There seemed to be a list of animatronics on it. "Send it to you and your friend's scrolls, because that's mine."
"Right." Instead of looking through the list, she just sent a message to herself and her teammates containing the files. She handed it back to the man. "Here you go."
"Thanks." He moved past her and the others to the door, only turning back to say "Good luck." And he walked out.
"So, Ruby, ready for some scary times?" Yang said playfully, and wrapped her arm around her.
"Please stop. You're embarrassing me."
"Oh, please," Weiss said. "We already know you. How much more embarrassed can you get?"
She pulled away from Yang, trying to gain back some dignity. "You don't know everything about me."
"Really, we do," Blake said.
"What's the name of the first dog my family had?"
"Einz," Weiss and Blake said in unison.
"You don't know that!"
"I know that your current dog is named Zwei, so it's only logical that your first would be Einz," Weiss explained.
"Shows what you know!" Ruby replied. "His name was Strawberry!"
"Whatever," Blake said. "Let's just kill the animatronic and go home."
"I concur," Weiss replied. And they two of them walked forward into building.
After they were safely out of earshot, Yang leaned in and whispered in Ruby's ear "His name really was Einz, Ruby."
Weiss turned around, and said "I knew it!"
"How did you hear me from that far away?" Yang asked.
"Doesn't matter. But you're a liar, Ruby."
"I'm also your leader, so you'll do what I say. Blake, you take point. Yang, you watch the rear."
"Okay."
"Whatever you say, little sis."
And they marched forward into the darkness.
It wasn't long before she was searching through the data that the man at the entrance—she forgot to ask him his name!—had given them. It was… disturbing. The "phantoms", as he called them, were all of old animatronics from the pizzeria. They weren't real, but her main concern was the actual animatronic called Springtrap.
Springtrap was evidentially an animatronic that could double as a costumed suit for humans. But Springtrap was unsafe as a suit due to various reasons. If they got any pressure or moisture on the mechanisms, they'd tighten, injuring or possibly killing the person inside. "What a horrible way to die," she thought to herself.
She then read stories about the pizzeria days. As it read, the animatronics malfunctioned during the night, believing that any human left were the endoskeletons from which the animatronics were built around. Since their protocols said that no endoskeleton should be outside their suit, they would stuff any human they found into a suit for the restaurant's mascot, Freddy Fazbear. It made her wish it wasn't so dark in the room, because she was creeped out!
The report also stated that there were two other animatronics in the place, and they had been acting up as well. It didn't include their names, but there were a couple of pictures of them. There was a squirrel and a raccoon, both made in a cartoonish manor, and both in disrepair. Evidentially, the two hadn't been bothering them exactly, but Springtrap bullied them a lot, causing both to be heavily damaged.
She was nearing the end of the documents—just as she got to a file marked "the Purple Man"—when something sprang out of the ceiling! Blake jumped back, almost smashing into Ruby. The creature was the squirrel robot!
Blake drew her sword, and sliced the squirrel in two. One half clattered to the floor, while the other half clutched the edges of hole it jumped out of. "Squirrels," Ruby said, "I hate squirrels."
"I thought you like squirrels, sis," Yang said.
"Yeah, I just wanted to say that."
She then heard a mechanical whirring behind her, and she turned to see a blur of white and black flying at her head. Then, she felt a hard hit on the head, and all she saw was black.