well here's a second chapter for you. Just feeling a spark of inspiration for this one. So this chapter introduces four new characters. They're team LAVA that I mentioned, and they're all original. They're based off of Greek gods, being named after them and having their semblances, weapons, and personalities based off the gods theyre named for. Well, that's enough rambling, on with chapter 2. I don't own RWBY, all that stuff.
MAJOR EDIT: there will be serious plots later on. I became extremely unsatisfied with writing only light plots, and ultimately scrapped them. So yeah, there will be conflicts and stuff.
EDIT 3/2/17: Changed the first five chapters from present to past tense. This is because it just works better in most cases. Also I made some minor edits and just basically touched up the story.
First we have some new character bios
Laverna Church
Gender: Female
Height: 5'6"
Weapons: She uses a variety of swords and knives which she collectively calls "the arsenal"
Semblance: invisibility
Appearance: long light brown hair, red eyes, wears tank tops and jeans
Apollo Wolff
Gender: Male
Height: 5'7"
Weapons: Shining Sagittarius, a simple steel bow, as well as a quiver that holds 30 arrows. He also uses a sword his father gave him for close range combat
Semblance: Ability to alter light in an area, so only he can see. Also able to alter the light a person or Grimm can see, but this takes much more aura.
Appearance: Short gray hair, green eyes, usually wears green shirts and jeans.
Vulcan Myers
Gender: Male
Height: 6'1"
Weapons: large variety of swords, axes, hammers, bows and arrrows, scythes, knives, etc. that he makes in his free time. All of them are in a storage space he rents.
Semblance: pyrokinesis
Appearance: red spiky hair, brown eyes, usually wears hoodies and jeans.
Artemis Wolff
Gender: Female
Height: 5'4"
Weapons: The great hunt, an intricate bow that can shift into a bostaff.
Semblance: Ability to form small comstructs, including arrows, out of light.
Appearance: Shoulder length gray hair, green eyes, usually wears t-shirts and skirts.
As I awoke, I remembered the events of last night. I have to say that I didn't appreciate hearing my sister fucking her boyfriend in the bunk under mine. I groaned as I sat up, feeling my death trap of a bed shake a little, scaring the crap out of me. I loved team RWBY to death, but taking after their bunk bed idea when arranging the room was, in my opinion, stupid. I was always scared that the ropes were gonna snap and my bed would crush Vulcan and, if I was unlucky in multiple ways, my sister. I hopped out of the bed as quietly as possible.
"Apollo! Pipe down, I'm trying to sleep!" Yelled my sister from the bed that was now directly behind me. My twin sister and bitter rival Artemis, who created an extravagant bow to outdo me and my standard bow. We were even in skill, but she insisted that her bow, The Great Hunt (reeeeal creative, sis) outdoes my Shining Sagittarius, a simple, but effective, steel bow.
"Hey, I got a headache, quit with the yelling..." I said, rubbing my head for effect.
"No person should be up this early, asshole. Be quieter." She said, rolling back over next to Vulcan. I looked over to the clock, and saw it was after noon.
"Okay Artemis, how about I tell you to pipe down next time you wake me up screaming 'harder, harder!'" A pillow hit my face.
"I don't complain when you have someone over. Oh, wait..." That was it. I grabbed her by the arm and threw her onto the ground. I immediately regretted it.
"Ah! Put some goddamn clothes on!" She rushed back under the covers.
"You're the one who assaulted me, jackass." Vulcan stirred under the blanket.
"Babe, what's going on...? Oh, hi Apollo..." the Faunus said awkwardly. "...Well this is embarrassing." Vulcan was my sister's partner and boyfriend. He specialized in making weapons, so he rented out a storage space in town to store his creations.
"Vulcan its fine that you're dating my sister, we've been over this. I'm just telling her to be a little quieter when people are trying to sleep." I said, progressively turning my gaze to her and sounding more irritated sounding. She flipped me off. I rolled my eyes. Finally, Laverna shifted in her bed. She groaned as she sat up.
"Morning guys." She said stretching. Her normally straight brunette hair was frizzy and all over the place.
"Laverna, tell Arti that she needs to quiet down at night." I said. Laverna was my partner and our team leader.
"Nah, not getting into a sibling argument. By the way, totally separate. Arti, please quiet down whilst in the throes of passion, some people are trying to sleep!" She giggled, and I began laughing so hard it began to hurt. Even Vulcan failed to conceal a chuckle.
"You know what you guys suck." She said, taking the opportunity while I was doubled over laughing to tears, to grab clothes from the dresser and rush into the bathroom.
"I'll be right there, babe!" Vulcan said. "Come on, guys." Vulcan said to us.
"Oh, don't 'come on' me. If she's gonna jump you in the middle of the night and scream while fucking you, thus keeping us up for a while, we're gonna have some fun. We know you guys did." She smirked.
"Okay, I'm done being forced to picture my sister fucking. I'm gonna watch a movie or something." Laverna jumped down from her bed.
"Ooh, what movie? I might join you." She stretched as Vulcan slipped into the bathroom after Artemis. I noticed she was wearing a green tank top and grey sweatpants. I grabbed my scroll from the desk and saw a notification. I opened up my texts and sighed at what I saw. It was a text from Weiss' scroll.
Apollo, we need your help. Meet us at our dorm. Weiss is really drunk.
"Oh, wait. I gotta go help Ruby and Weiss. Seems like they got day drunk." Laverna laughed.
"I'm guessing Yang dragged 'em out."
"Probably. Maybe we'll watch the movie later. I guess all I gotta do is walk...all the way to their dorm...on a Saturday." I sighed. I had hoped to do nothing today. I threw on some jeans and a button down shirt. "Alright, see 'ya." I waved to her as I walked out the door. I began strolling to my best friend's dorm. Ever since we got to Beacon, Weiss and I had been good friends. It was weird because we didn't have much in common. After walking for about five minutes, I finally reached the dorm, where I saw Ruby and Blake dragging Weiss and Yang into the room respectively.
"Hey, Apollo!" Said Ruby. "Could you help me with this."
"Apollo! What's up!" Slurred Weiss. I shook my head.
"Ruby, pick her up. It makes it easier." She widened her eyes a little bit.
"Um..." her face got a little red. I walked over to them.
"Here. I got this." I said. I picked Weiss up bridal style and carried her over to her bed and laid her down.
"Thanks Apollo. We haven't gotten drunk with her yet, so we don't know what to do." Said Ruby
"Okay, so what you wanna do is not leave her alone. She will start crying." I said while noticing Blake pick Yang up and put her on the lower bed.
"Oh. Well I wasn't planning on leaving her anyway. I wouldn't be a good leader if I didn't help her and Yang." She said. "So, are you and Weiss...you know...dating?" I laughed. I laughed really loudly.
"No...no..." I said through my chuckles. Weiss sat up.
"He wants some, but he ain't gettin' any!" Weiss slurred uncharacteristically. I laughed louder, seeing Ruby's helplessly confused face. I pulled her aside, trying to stop laughing.
"If you hadn't figured it out, Weiss is what they call an 'affectionate drunk'" I said with air quotes. "Pretty weird, huh?"
"Yeah, I figured that out on the way here, when she hugged me from behind. Thank god I wasn't driving." She giggled.
"Well if that's all, I gotta go watch a movie with Laverna. Make sure you don't leave Weiss alone."
"Rubyyyyy..." Weiss whined. "Come here..."
"Well I think that's my cue to go." I walked out and I was about to close the door, when suddenly, Laverna appeared. "Gah!" I jumped back. "What did I tell you about using your invisibility?"
"Sorry." She said with a playful grin. "It was too big of an opportunity to pass up." She looked behind me and widens her eyes. "Um, I guess we should let these lovebirds have their alone time," she said pointing behind me. I looked back and see Ruby in bed with Weiss, the latter looking to be asleep and the former being bright red after hearing that. Laverna grabbed me and turned invisible, making me invisible as well. I heard a loud gasp as we began to leave.
"Where did Apollo go!? What happened?" I heard Weiss slur. As I closed the door and Laverna let go and reappeared, she giggled.
"Isn't being invisible awesome?" She laughed. I rolled my eyes.
"It's freaky, that's what it is. I can't see myself." We began to walk back to our dorm.
"Makes for a good entrance. And a good exit. And good pranks." Her laughing continued. After she finally stopped, she asked, "So what movie you wanna watch?" I thought for a second.
"I think I saw the princess bride on Netflix." I offered.
"I've never seen that movie." I stopped in my tracks. "What?" She asked. I grabbed her wrist and began to drag her back to the dorm. "Ah, what the hell?!"
"I will not let you live any longer without watching the princess bride." I said sternly, still pulling her along. She began to walk at my pace.
"Why? Is it that good?" I scoffed.
"Are you kidding? It's got fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles..." I quoted the movie. "Trust me you'll love it."
2 hours later
"Holy shit. That was awesome." She said, calming down from her laughing fit.
"Right? Right?"
"Okay, so what was your favorite part?" She asked.
"I'd have to say the battle of wits with Vizzini." She giggled.
"Oh my god he just wouldn't shut up!"
"'You're stalling...'" I said in my best Wesley impression.
"'You'd like to think that, wouldn't you?!'" She replied in her best impression of the Sicilian. We burst into laughter and she fell off Vulcan's bed, causing us to laugh even harder as Artemis and Vulcan walked in.
"Hey, guys..." Arti said, weirded out. "What were you watching?"
"He showed me the princess bride." Laverna said through the laughs.
"You dick! You didn't tell me you were watching the princess bride!"
"Sorry, sis. You were on a date." I said, calming down.
"I can't believe I hadn't seen that! It was so good!" She said, climbing up onto her bed, suspended by rope, much like mine and their inspiration, Ruby's. I climbed onto my bed, and the couple sat on Arti's bed. After a few minutes, Laverna spoke up. "Holy shit, guys. Pulp fiction is on Netflix."
"Oh, hey I've never seen that." I said. They all gasped, and the next thing I knew, Laverna was dragging me off the bed while Arti set Netflix back up.
Ruby POV
I went over to Weiss, apprehensive of what the drunk girl was gonna say. "What's up Weiss?" I asked.
"Ruby, what took so long?" She asked me, continuing to slur her words.
"It's been like thirty seconds, Weiss."
"Come cuddle with me." She said making space on her bed. I could feel my face light up like a Christmas light.
"Um, who are you and what have you done with Weiss?" I asked, trying to play it off. After a few seconds of silence, she repeated herself,
"Come cuddle with me, Ruby!" She's gonna give me an earful tomorrow, but I feel like she's gonna cry if I don't, if Apollo is right, I think as I slowly crawled into her bed and laid on my back. She rested her head on my chest, making my face even redder. My face got the reddest it has ever gotten when I heard from across the room,
"Um, I guess we should let these lovebirds have their alone time." I looked over and saw Laverna and Apollo disappear with Laverna's semblance. Weiss saw this and freaked out.
"Where did Apollo go!? What happened?" She asked as the door shut, seemingly on its own.
"It's just Laverna's semblance." I said, trying to calm her down so she can just sleep off the alcohol.
"That's so cool! I forgot she could do that." She said laying her head back on my chest. After a little while I heard her snoring.
"Finally," I said under my breath. We laid there for a while. I looked over to the other beds and I saw the places reversed. Yang was passed out on Blake's bed, while Blake was up on Yang's, looking a little uncomfortable. I caught her eye and she lowered her book a little.
"Having fun, Ruby?" She whispered as she she smirked. I took this as a sign that we were speaking lowly so Yang and Weiss didn't hear if they woke up.
"Ha ha, jerk. This is so weird." I whispered uncomfortably. "How long have we been laying helre?" She looked over to the clock.
"Uhh, it's been a few hours."
"What!?" I yelled as quietly as I could. "There's no way I've been laying here for hours." I said, before looking to the window and seeing that it was a lot darker than it was when we got here.
"Well time does fly when you're having fun." She teased.
"Shut up, jerk." I said.
"Why? You getting any ideas?" I tensed up at that. "What? What's wrong?" She asked, seeming to hear my muscles and bones move.
"Okay, Blake, I'm gonna tell you something. Promise you won't tell anyone." I said, lowering my voice a little bit more, to make sure no matter what, only Blake could hear me.
"Okay...I promise. What is it?" I took a breath. Saying it will make me come to terms with it. I won't be denying it anymore, like I have been for two months now.
"I...I have a crush on Weiss." It was silent for a few seconds, before I heard a light giggle. "What?"
"It's just...one of you finally says it!" She whisper yelled.
"Wait...you think she likes me too?" Yes, that was my takeaway from that statement. "That...that can't be. She likes guys, right?"
"Maybe, maybe not. All I know is that she almost definitely likes you. Plus, think about Apollo's reaction to your question. Maybe he laughed because he knows she doesn't swing that way. I don't know. I do know there's only one way to find out. Now, I'm going to sleep." She made a clone who turned off the lights and disappeared.
"Oh cool, I didn't know you could do that!" I whispered.
"Neither did I...I was just experimenting. Well, good night, Ruby."
"Good night." I said. I stayed up for at least another hour. I thought about what to do, what to think, how to proceed, until I finally fell asleep thinking.