Hello everyone and welcome to, well, not THOR for once.
I'm doing a reading for my friend Phoenix Champion.
As you can obviously see, it's of his story that is a crossover of .hack and RWBY.
It's my first time doing a reading as well, so go easy on me people.
Also, to note, the reading itself is a slight crossover into fire emblem because, well, I'm a Kamui, and I'm bringing everyone in my castle, so it shouldn't be surprised if some people you recognise from Fates appearing here and there.
Now then- *hears a crash in another room* and they're here *turns back to the camera with a fanged grin* well, let's get this show started.
A groan was heard from a young girl as she woke up in a bit of a daze, before looking around tiredly to see her friends, her sister, her uncle, two of her teachers, and a woman she didn't know all lying down in sofas.
This girl was Ruby Rose, leader of team RWBY.
And she wondered why she just woke up with everyone mentionned present.
And in a different room than when she went to sleep as well.
A moment passed before that little piece of information clicked in her head.
"What the heck?!" she shouted in confusion, waking everyone up with a start, especially her uncle, Qrow Branwen, who was sat right next to her.
"Whazzat?" mumbled Ruby's sister Yang Xiao Long in confusion from her place next to her partner Blake Belladonna, said partner waking up a bit more alertly than the blonde brawler, her bow twitching a few times as she looked around, finding that they seemed to be in a rather fancy looking living room/lounge.
"What's going on?" mumbled Jaune Arc, leader of team JNPR, sitting next to his partner Pyrrha Nikos, as he also scanned the room, tugging at his plain t-shirt. (his friends had managed to convince him to get rid of his onesie, even though one of his sisters had made it for him)
"Were we kidnapped?!" shouted Weiss Schnee in shock and slight fear, as she sat next to her older sister Winter Schnee.
"It would seem so Miss Schnee." answered the headmaster of Beacon academy, Ozpin, sitting next to his fellow teacher Glynda Goodwitch.
"Maybe we were kidnapped by a dragon who plans to do evil stuff to us!" said one Nora Valkyrie, with her life long friend Lie Ren rolling his eyes with a smile at her words while pulling her back down.
"Well, you're half right." they heard a young woman's voice say from behind them, making them turn around to see a young woman, obviously, probably somewhere in her early twenties, with long blue hair that turned red at the tips, amber colored eyes and a red gem on her forehead, dressed in a blue maid outfit "I am a dragon, but I didn't bring you here for anything evil."
There was confused silence for a few moments before Qrow snorted and laughed a bit "A dragon? Sure kid, if you're a dragon then I'm the king of Vale."
"Now that would be a scary thought." mumbled Ozpin, Glynda hearing him and barely holding back a laugh.
The young woman smiled sweetly, but it looked more evil than nice, before she snapped her fingers and a portal opened over Qrow's head and dumped a wheel of cheese and a bag of wheat on him.
Yang picked up the wheel of cheese and saw that it was wrapped in paper with the words 'Nohr's finest cheese' written on it, while the bag had 'Hoshidan whole wheats'.
"Sooo, where are we?" she asked the young woman with a raised eyebrow.
"You are in the recently re-established kingdom of Valla, under the rule of Lord Corrin, although he prefers to be called Swift." she then giggled "Although I call him brother, I am his younger sister, Lilith, as well as his handmaid."
"You serve your older brother?" questionned Blake in confusion.
"Yes, it's a complicated story, that we'll explain another time, since it's not why you're here." she said briefly with a tone of finality.
"Why are we here then?" asked Pyrrha in confusion.
"Brother will explain as soon as he arrives." said Lilith simply.
"You seem awfully calm at the moment, aren't you afraid we may attack you?" questionned Winter.
Lilith laughed a bit "You could try, but we aren't the only ones in the room, Kaze would stop you before you could lift a finger."
"You just ruined the element of surprise Lilith." said a man's voice coming from... somewhere in the room.
"And you ruined my bath yesterday, so now we're even." said Lilith sourly as the man coughed in embarassement.
"Where is he?" asked Weiss as she looked around the room.
"Do you honestly think you could spot a ninja so easily?" said Lilith in deadpan, and Blake blushed a bit when she heard the word ninja.
They all heard a door open and saw a man wearing an intricate light silver armor with a blue cape on his back, his feet bare, with brown hair swept back, ruby red eyes and pointed ears walk into the room holding a book in his hands, followed by a few people, a woman with icy blue hair wearing a black maid outfit pushing a cart full of food, a silver haired man wearing a white and purple butler's outfit, although he had had armored gloves on his hands, and he too was pushing a food cart, followed by a woman with pinkish hair in a ponytail carrying a basket filled with clothes... their clothes to be precise, although she was taking small, slow steps, almost like she was trying not to trip.
"Nice job Lilith, if you could go and prepare the showers now, that'll be all." said the man as Lilith nodded with a curtsy and walked out of the room.
"I assume you're this Swift she told us about?" asked Ozpin.
"Indeed I am. Now, I'll immediately answer the main question in everyone's head, I brought you here, to read this." he said as he held up a book.
"You kidnapped us to read a book?" asked Glynda with a bit of irritation in her voice.
"To be fair, it's mostly because the author of this book really wants you people to read it, so I offered to handle that for him. Plus, the book is somewhat special." he said as he held it out to the closest person, Winter.
"The Terror of Death, Huntsman of Remnant." she read aloud.
"So it's about a super scary hunstman or something like that?" questionned Ruby.
"He's a bit more than a simple hunstman, but you'll see that once we start reading. First off though, breakfast, and then you can all take a shower." he then looked dryly at Qrow "Especially you, you reek of alcohol."
Qrow looked indifferent to the statement until he smelled himself and realised a shower wouldn't hurt.
Swift turned to the maid and butler handling the food "Flora, Jakob, if you could."
They nodded as they handed out plates of various different breakfast foods to everyone, from pancakes, to bacon and eggs, to waffles, anything one would normally eat at breakfast, and for some people, coffee.
They also finally saw the one named Kaze when the other maid, who they all learned was called Felicia, tripped and almost scattered their clothing everywhere, until Kaze appeared out of nowhere and grabbed everything out of the air, and they could now finally see the green haired, dark garbed ninja.
Once everyone was done eating, they were guided to the showers, and half an hour later, everyone arrived back in the main room, Weiss and Winter lagging behind so they could talk after not seeing each other for so long, which went nicely.
Once there, they all saw Kaze carefuly placing a very large TV with the help of a man with bluish silver hair dressed in a knight's armor, Swift directing them how to place it.
"I don't think I can hold it much longer best buddy." groaned out the knight as he stuggled to hold the large TV.
Swift looked at the placement before nodding "It's good, you can put it down guys."
The two holding it sighed in relief as they placed down the TV, while Swift went around to hook it up.
"Need any help with that?" asked the knight.
Swift smirked "Do you understand how a TV works yet Silas?"
The now named Silas chuckled sheepishly before shrugging and walking back out.
"What's the TV for?" asked Yang in curiosity.
"It's so you have a visual while reading." Swift said before mumbling something about missing parts, before a ball of light with wings flew in and dropped TV parts next to him "Oh, thanks Relic."
The light died down a bit to show a fairy wearing green clothing and pale blond hair in a bob cut giving Swift a salute before flying off.
"Was that a fairy?" asked Ren.
"Yep." Swift then perked up as he remembered something "By the way, the last thing important that happened to you guys was the breach in downtown Vale right?" a round of nods making him sigh "Good, we got the right time frame then."
A few minutes later, everyone was seated as Swift held the book in his hands.
"So, I'll read the first chapter for everyone, after that, we'll move in order of team RWBY, team JNPR, Ozpin, Glynda, Qrow and then Winter, before rotating back to Ruby." nods from everyone "Alright then," he opens the book, as the TV turns on "Chapter 1: Rebirth..."
And there you have it!
It's a bit weird to do this, but kinda fun nonetheless.
So yeah, all of my retainers were helping organise, and I gave Jakob the specific order of shutting up and not offending anyone.
They still have a few more people that live in the castle to meet though.
I just hope that my family doesn't visit soon *a letter gets dropped on his table by Relic, making him open it and frown* ah crap.
Well, Read, Review, Don't be a dick, and I hope you have a nice day everyone, because it'll definetly be better than mine.
See you all next time!