Haven academy it was safe she and her friends had managed to save it and now they had a relic the relic of wisdom but most importantly team RWBY was back together she had Blake back, this was more than she could have asked for now that she and her friends were alive and healthy.
She only wished that Pyrrah could be here to seen Jauen unlock his semblance and that her mom could be here to meet her friends and she the person shes grown to be and all that she has accomplished. She basked in the early morning sun she had been up all night catching up with the girls unable to sleep after the previous nights events, as the sun rose over the hills of Haven she felt a sense of purpose they had a relic and their friends they had repelled Salem's henchmen maybe just maybe they might be able to beat Salem!

She heard someone walk out of the house behind her and looked to see her uncle Qrow striding out hunched with his hands in his pockets like always, she gave a wide smile to him and he returned it in kind which surprised her he wasn't one to usually smile. "Ruby I wanted to say you girls did something great last night." She felt a sense of pride well up from the compliment 'But that fight that is nothing compared to what you will face from now." The pride and satisfaction slowly faded away "Uncle Qrow what do you mean?" Qrow sat down next to her and stared at the rising sun. "Salem is far more powerful than her henchmen and you have done nothing but piss her off she'll be sending everything she has after us now that we have a relic and stopped he plans to destroy Haven."

Ruby nodded "Yeah I figured that but hey!" She said bringing back her usual cheerful demeanor "We're all together again and I still have that thing with my eyes right? We stand a chance at taking her down I'm sure of it! Besides if we never try we'll never know" Qrow smirked "How are you always so cheerful kiddo?" Ruby laughed "Well I spent a lot of time around my gloomy Uncle so I had to learn how to be cheerful if I didn't want a permanent scowl like him!" she said smiling throwing her to the side looking at him. Qrow took a deep breath and leaned back as his face started to dawn more of a serious face "Ruby there's something I need to tell you about Tai he's-" Something interrupted Qrows thoughts Ruby looked forward to see what he was starring at.
In front of her she saw a man in a black and gold lined tunic starring back at them his face was almost white as snow and his eyes a piercing dark blue his hair accented his tunic short and black Qrow and Ruby both jumped to their feet and drew their Scythes "Who the hell are you?" Qrow shouted. The man smiled "Who am I? Good question though I assume you want the simple answer correct?" Qrow tightened his grip on his weapon "That would be the preferred way." The man took a step towards them putting his right foot in front of his left "I am Watcher I have been assigned the task of recruiting players for my masters' game and you Ruby Rose have been selected as a player." Ruby took a step back wards as Qrow put his arm out in front of her "Wh-What game?" She stammered Qrow stepped in front of her "It dosen't matter she isn't participating in any game she's staying here." Watcher laughed for a second "That's adorable you think she has a choice? Or that you could stop me?" Watcher threw his hand downwards creating some type of light blade it shone a strange dark blue the same colour as his eyes. "Now Ms. Rose it's time to leave your fellow players await for you." Qrow launched forward to attack Watcher hauling his blade above his left side going for a downwards slice but Watcher quickly dodged to to his left spinning around the back of Qrow knocking him in the back with the hilt of his sword. Qrow toppled but got back to his feet changing his weapon to it's scythe mode and launched forward for an attack Watcher drew to pierce straight at Qrow but Qrow deflected it with his Scythe by using it's blade knocking watchers blade to the right and spun his scythe for an attack as watcher quickly let go of his sword making it somehow disappeared. He repositioned his hand above his head towards Qrows descending scythe and his sword reappeared in his hand deflecting Qrows strike staggering him. Watcher dropper and lunged forward elbow Qrow in the diaphragm tripping Qrow with his left foot "I would kill you but I have orders not to." Behind watcher Ruby readied her Rifle and fired at the moment she did Watcher disappeared and the reappeared right behind her putting her in a choke hold he turned with Ruby in hand towards the house as everyone else ran out hearing the commotion. Ruby stared at her friends faces in fear as a blue light overcame her and they vanished no she had vanished.

Everything had went black the last thing Ruby remembered was he friends looking at her in faces of shock and fear, she awoke with a jump at brisk cold air she looked around at her surroundings she was seated in chair in some type meeting room a single 360 degree screen in the middle of the room the entire room was a dark blue with a high ceiling. Around her there were 10 other seats all filled with someone who looked equally as frightened and as curious as her, the room was extremely cold for some reason it made her shiver as she wrapped her cloak around herself tightly trying to stay warm. She looked around at the other people she thought to herself "So these must be the other "Players" that man was talking about" On her left there was a man in a green hood with a bow and arrow quiver attached to his back on his left there was a young man in all black his coat was lined with white his hair was kinda girly and he had two swords on his back one matching his coat the other a stark contrast to his dark colours being a bright blue. On Ruby's right there was a young woman in a most yellow suit that a black and red X on the belt buckle to her right was a young man with purple hair in white and purple baggy clothes he looked like someone straight out of an old pirates tale, he had a scimitar on his hip. Following to his right was a man dressed all in purple with strange purple skin and then a man dressed in gold armour and blonde hair had the most smug look she had ever seen on his face Ruby instantly did not like him. Almost directly across the table from Ruby was a man with short brown hair in a white and gray t-shirt had light facial hair growing and on his back was some type of large tuning fork. Next to him was some strange what she could only assume was a man in blue attire with a gold skeleton mask or at least she hope it was a mask his eyes looked void or they would if it looked like he had any. Following to the skeletons right was a young boy not much older than Ruby in a red suite with strange orange buttons 6 of them to be exact on his chest and a scarf matching the same colour as the buttons with messy brown hair. Lastly in between the young boy in the red suit and the young boy in black was a man Ruby couldn't determine his age his eyes looked so old and tired but his body looked fairly young he had long silver hair and a furry white scarf of some form or what she thought was a scarf he had a single sword on his hip and a long pointy ears under the white furry thing was a white kimono dressed with light armour there was one more than she hadm't noticed until now they were all restrained the chairs by hand and feet restraints.

The screen finally flashed on in front of them and a cloaked figure appeared his face wasn't visible all Ruby could she was black, He spoke deep and grumbly "Welcome players this is the beginning of my game!" The skeleton like manish-thing rattled around in his chair and spoke in a surprisingly high voice for something meant to be male "Skeletor does not play games release me now you boob!" If it wasn't for the seriousness of what was going on Ruby would have laughed uncontrollably she heard a few others stifle their laughter as well. The skeleton went off again "WHAT ARE ALL OF YOU LAUGHING AT DON'T YOU DARE MOCK THE GREAT SKELETOR!" The purple man spoke up "No one is mocking you your doing all the work for us you buffoon" The man on the screen started to speak again and everyone silenced "I am the dungeon master and you are now in my world you can not escape from this world until you finish the game in order to do that you must be the last team standing, teams will be selected at random. Team killing is allowed dirty fighting is allowed, treaties with other teams are allowed and you may sign yourself over to another team mid game. Teams may find artifacts out in the world that will aid them exponentially the first person to pick up the object owns it and may choose not to share it with their team and lastly do not try to escape you have all met Watcher correct?" Everyone shifted uncomfortably "He will find you and end you, so I wish you all a happy time playing my game have fun players." Everyone froze he hadn't said it but they all knew what he meant that in order to win you had to kill the other teams. The room fell silent everyone shocked by what was going on, Skeletor tried to escape from his restraints only to be electrocuted at the same time the girl next to Ruby was electrocute though Ruby hadn't seen her move at all. Everyone stopped moving as an A.I. voice came onto the screen "Teams are now being selected, Team number one Gilgamesh, Joe Shimimura and Green Arrow." The pictures came up above the names in order The man in gold he was Gilgamesh, the boy in red he was Joe Shimimura and the man next her in green he was the Green Arrow. "Team number two Skeletor, Kitty Pryde and Sesshomaru" The pictures again followed up in order she already knew Skeletor but the girl to her right was now named Kitty Pryde and following that it was the guy with the long ears and silver hair he was called Seeshomaru. It suddenly dawned on Ruby there was an uneven number of people one of the teams would only have two players she feared that she would be on the two person team. "Team number three Ruby Rose, Zedekiah Killgrave and Kazuto Kirigaya" The screen showed her followed by the purple man Named Zedekiah Killgrave and then the last member of her team would be the boy in black Kazuto Kirigaya. "Team number four Sinbad and Cole Macgrath" The boy with the purple hair was Sinbad and the man with the huge tuning fork was Cole Macgrath, Ruby tried her best to remember all these names for some reason she knew it would be important. The screen rose in to the ceiling as watcher rose from the floor "Players you and your team will be randomly thrown in to different part of the game and assigned quest to complete upon completing these quest you will be given rewards such as food and water, warm shelter or artifacts. Players will have to battle monsters as well as each other in order to complete certain quest, when a boss monster appears there will be a temporary ceasefire in place until it is defeated if a player attempts to break this ceasefire before the boss if defeated they will be punished severely. Lastly have fun!" He said in a sarcastic sadistic voice.

Their chairs all started to glow with that strange blue light again Ruby was really beginning to hate that colour, and all of the sudden she was standing in a shelter built slightly under the forest floor under the thick of the tall pine trees next to her team mates. Zedekiah Killgrave the purple man and Kazuto Kirigaya the man in black, She held her hands behind her back clutching her crescent rose tightly and started to sway back and forth looking at her her teammates. Kazuto was equally as nervous however Killgrave looked very content with his situation this unsettled Ruby "So, I guess it's us then, do either of you have any more of a clue than I do on what is going on here?" Ruby said in an innocent quiet voice. Killgrave spoke up "Not one clue red but I intend to find out I don't appreciate being taking hostage from my apartment and being forced into a death game. Kazuto looked around and knelt down facing the wall farthest from the entrance using the light shining through a hap hazard built window on the same wall. "There's a book here titled game guide, Why another game?" Ruby leaned over Kazuto's right shoulder and Killgrave his left Ruby look over at Kazuto "Well open it?" Kazuto Grabbed the book and opened it reading what it said aloud "Welcome to my game team number three you are in your starting base in here you will find food and water along with basic supplies used to get around this world, this book also contains vital information about your team and other teams but remember the other teams have this information as well. Killgrave tightened his stare as Kazuto turned the page "Kazuto Kirigaya age 16 a Japanese born citizen of the year 2024 quite skilled with a sword due to two years pent inside a virtual reality game where he was forced to fight for his life his skill is only there because of muscle memory due to the bleeding effect his name in the game and preferred title is Kirito." Kirito stopped reading and looked at his teammates and they both nodded. "Zedekiah Killgrave the purple man prefers the name Killgrave rather than Zedekiah, a U.S. born citizen he posses the innate ability to control anybody by giving orders though there are limits to his power a command can only last 13 hours, he has a distance limit and can not control people through the phone or other communication devices." Ruby and Kirito both looked over at Killgrave as he stood up "Listen I wont use my powers on the two of you we are all on the same team I have no reason to understand the last thing I need is my teammates not trusting me and trying to kill me." Ruby and Kirito both nodded semi-satisfied with the answer. Kirito flipped the page one more time "Ruby Rose 16 a Beacon born citizen trained as a huntress by her supposed Uncle Qrow to fight against creatures of Grimm a vile race of monsters she has faced many obstacles that should seem impossible for her and have overcome them her eyes are silver. They all stand up as Kirito puts the book in his coat and begins to speak "So it's clear to everyone here we aren't even from the same universes correct?" Killgrave nodded and Ruby look around at them "What do you mean Kirito?" Killgrave spoke up "What the boy is saying is that we aren't from the same dimensions or worlds we come from vastly different realities and I assume so must our rivals so we should prepare for anything I our rivals may have abilities that seem to strange or bizarre to us but normal to them and visa versa some of them may even be immune to my commands." Kirito started gathering all the supplies up in a bag he found on the ground "Come on we need to get moving and find some quests we only have so much food and water and very little first aid material" Ruby nodded and found the second out of three bags on the ground. They took inventory of what they had as they packed it up A 25ft long piece of rope, a single half empty first aid kit, four days of non perishable food and the same amount of water along with a map and compass and lastly some fire starter. They headed out the door of the shelter and into the woods unsure of what they might find as they began to walk they saw a screen appear in the sky with an A.I. voice saying "First blood Skeletor killed by Sesshomaru." They froze the first kill had been between two teammates Ruby knew this "game" was gonna take all she had in her not to kill and to survive she had to stay cheerful and get back to Qrow and the others As she looked ahead of her she saw a brilliant white rose just blooming.

Chapter 1 End: Flowers Blooming
Chapter 2 Coming Soon: Fleeting Fear.