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The four stopped running and they noticed a sign up ahead as they started to read it.
"You are about to enter Sherbet Land. Feel free to look around the various locations like Icicle Mountain, Shiver City, Snowball Park, and various other cold spots in the kingdom! If you're wearing something like battle skirts or anything other revealing your skin… you're gonna have a bad time and your butts are gonna be frozen solid. Warm clothing strongly recommended… unless if you really don't mind the cold, then good for you, I suppose."
"…Great, this is Dry Dry Desert all over again… only its colder." Blake muttered.
"I'm sure the ice queen wouldn't mind the cold." Yang said.
"Who do you think I am, some clichéd cartoon princess that has ice powers and sings about letting stuff go?" Weiss asked. "I'm not one of them, thank you very much!" She said and walked away.
"…What's with her?" Blake asked.
"I have no idea… but you know how she usually is." Ruby said as they walked into Sherbet Land.
World 5-1: Welcome to the Ice World!
BGM: Snowball Park (Super Mario 3D World)
"Agh! It's freezing out here!" Weiss complained.
"It's not so horrible." Ruby said… and then there was that chilly ice cold wind. "OKAY, IT'S HORRIBLE!"
"Where's a Fire Flower when you need one? Surely that'll warm us up, right?" Yang asked.
"I don't know… maybe?" Blake shrugged as they walked around, seeing a few Beowolves freezing to death while one of them is trying to ice pick an already frozen solid Boarbatusk and Ursa.
"Not even the Grimm can handle the cold." Ruby said.
"Wh-why wo-would they?" Weiss shivered, sneezing a little as they saw some Snow Pokeys going about their business. "Seriously?! Pokeys have adapted to this weather?!"
"I thought they were snowmen." Ruby said as they walked around.
"No, THOSE are snowmen." Yang said, pointing over to a few Mr. Blizzards as they proceeded to pelt them with snowballs.
"GAH! YOU'RE NOT HELPING!" Weiss yelled at them. "I swear, if I see a snowman that wishes me a 'happy birthday', I'm going to scream!"
"Well, what about those guys up there that are rolling snowballs toward us?" Ruby asked.
"What?" Weiss asked as they saw some Snow Spikes rolling snowballs toward them… and they were getting bigger by the second. "Oh great…"
They proceeded to dodge the snowy boulders of death approaching them and kept on walking… and then they saw a ? block as Yang ran over and punched it, as three Fire Flowers came out and a very blue Fire Flower hopped out, as Ruby and Yang grabbed the Fire Flowers along with Blake while Weiss looked at the frozen Fire Flower… only it wasn't a Fire Flower at all.
"Huh, so this is what I look like?" Blake wondered, looking at herself after absorbing the Fire Flower and as of now, her leggings start off purple like normal only fade to a dark blue at the top. Her shorts and her top are now a light blue while the vest is a dark blue. Her hair changes to a purple color at the ends and ends in a royal blue color at the top. Her bow is purple and her boots are a dark blue.
"Hey, Blake… what color are your ears?" Yang asked.
"My cat ears?" She asked as she took off her bow, as her kitty ears are now purple. "What do they look like?"
"Purple." Ruby said as Blake put her bow back on.
"That's good to know." She said.
"Uh… does this Fire Flower look a little frozen to you?" Weiss asked.
"Well, maybe it's different." Blake said.
"Let's see…" Weiss picked it up and then absorbed it, but instead of her Fire Flower appearance, she looked completely different.
First off, Her rapier has gained a translucent ice-like appearance while her dress became a little longer with icicles hanging off of it. Her jacket gained a snowflake pattern and the Schnee emblem on the back now looks like it is encased in ice. Her heels also have a snowflake pattern on them. The inside of her jacket (where it is red) it is now a light blue. Her hair changed to a light blue color and turned into a darker blue heading towards the end of her side tail. The hair clip changed to have an icier appearance in the form of icicles pointing up.
"Uh… what the…?" Weiss wondered.
"Hmm…" Ruby rubbed her chin in thought. "Maybe that wasn't a Fire Flower. Perhaps it's a Frozen Flower… no wait, a Snow Flower! Snowflake Flower! No, wait… it's a Blizzard Flower! Flurry Flower!"
"Actually, I was gonna go with Ice Flower." Blake said.
"…That was my next guess!"
"Hmm…" Weiss did a few attacks as there was an icy trail… then she did a few lunges as Myrtenaster launched a few Ice balls at a Cooligan, which ironically froze him solid.
"…Or it could be a Frozen Snowball Flower." Yang said.
"I'll just go with Ice Flower. It has a better ring to it." Weiss said. "Strange… I don't feel as cold as I used to be."
"I guess Ice Flowers give you immunity to the cold?" Blake asked.
"Possibly."
"That's great, but I'm still freezing!" Ruby complained as they kept walking while dealing with the ice enemies, then they noticed a frozen solid Nabbit near them.
"Hey, didn't we see him in the desert?" Blake asked.
"Poor guy…" Weiss said as they walked past him, and then Nabbit managed to break free of his icy prison and sneezed a little, then noticing a cave as he ran in and noticed a coat, as he squealed with joy and put it on and then ran out.
"HEY! THAT'S MY PARKA!" A Koopa ran out… and then was frozen solid by the frozen temperatures as Nabbit proceeded to try and steal their weapons.
"SNOWBALL!" Ruby screamed as they dove for cover… and a snowball boulder ran over Nabbit and it kept rolling.
Behind them…
"Ugh, we should've gotten coats!" Yellow complained.
"Tell me about it… but we'll get our revenge on those girls yet!" Red said.
"Uh… Red? There's a giant snow boulder headed our way!" Black exclaimed.
"What?" Red asked and then saw the boulder dangerously close to them. "OH, FOR THE LOVE OF-"
They were soon covered and kept rolling until they came to a complete stop at a frozen tree, as the boulder disintegrated as Nabbit popped his head out of the snow while the Koopa Bros emerged frozen solid.
Nabbit looked at them all before shrugging it off and proceeded to walk away.
"S-sir… I can't feel my legs…" Green complained.
"We need to build a fire…" Red groaned.
With RWBY…
"Hey, look!" Ruby pointed to a frozen flagpole as RBY thawed it out with their fire attacks and then Weiss took it, and then they proceeded to go to the next area… where they saw a humongous mountain in front of them.
End BGM
"…We have to climb that?" Weiss asked.
"Oh, how bad can it be?" Yang asked.
"It looks pretty bad to me!"
"We can help you!" A voice caught their attention as they saw two people walking over to them, two of them wearing parkas. One blue, one pink!
"Who are you guys?" Blake asked.
"We're the Ice Climbers! I'm Popo and this is Nana!"
"Hello!" She greeted.
"…So, are you two like… lovers or something?" Ruby asked, as this made the two of 'em blush a deep red.
"Oh, no no no no! It isn't like that! We're brother and sister!"
"Oh, never mind…" Ruby said. Way to make it awkward, Ruby… She scolded herself.
"Come on, let's get going." Yang said as the Ice Climbers nodded as they jumped up on various platforms like no one's business, as they jawdropped in shock.
"…Sure, like THAT'S going to help us!" Weiss exclaimed as they proceeded to climb.
World 5-2: Scaling Icicle Mountain
BGM: Icicle Mountain (Super Smash Bros Melee/Brawl/Wii U)
As they were climbing, Yang looked at the Ice Climbers. "So, where are you two from?" She asked.
"Oh, we live far away in Sherbet Land but we came here to scale this mountain." Popo said. "We're doing this for… um… therapy."
"Therapy?"
"Let's just say we weren't invited back to a certain tournament. I'm just hoping it was a glitch that they were trying to fix but couldn't."
"Or maybe Master Hand hated us… that's what I keep thinking…" Nana sighed as they kept climbing.
"A tournament? Didn't K. Rool say something about it?" Ruby asked.
"He did." Weiss nodded as they kept climbing.
"Sorry about that." Yang said.
"Oh no, it's fine." Popo said. "We don't mind at all, we kinda missed ice climbing anyway. When we were kicked out and we were sad, Lucario came up to us and told us 'Don't worry about it, you'll come back when you have the chance. Just keep moving forward'."
"Oh my gosh, this Lucario guy must be related to my uncle! He keeps saying that whenever I feel miserable!" Ruby fangirled. "I miss Uncle Qrow!"
"…Sure, if you can count Lucario as a person…" Nana said as they kept jumping up as Popo jumped up and hit the edge… and slipped.
"Whoa!" He exclaimed but Nana caught her.
"I gotcha bro!"
"Thanks!" Popo grinned as they kept going up, taking down any Cooligan or Ice Bro, as they noticed it was getting quite windy up there, but the Ice Climbers didn't mind… but Team RWBY sure did as they kept going as they nearly slipped and fell, but one of them always had their backs and kept climbing.
Soon, they reached the top of Icicle Mountain.
"Wahoo! We made it up the top!" Popo exclaimed.
"Yep!" Nana exclaimed and did their signature high five as Team RWBY climbed up.
"Alright… let's keep going!" Yang said, and then they heard evil cackling as Kamek made his grand reappearance.
End BGM
"You!" Ruby exclaimed.
BGM: The Blue Wizard (Paper Mario: Sticker Star/Color Splash)
"Well, it seems all of Team RWBY has gathered… Oh, and if it isn't the Ice Losers who didn't make it into the next tournament!" Kamek taunted.
"Hey!" Popo growled.
"What do you want, you ugly freak?" Yang asked.
"Ugly freak? Hmph, says the girl who's wearing one hell of a tacky outfit!"
"What did you say about my outfit?!" Yang growled.
"No matter, I know of a perfect way to get rid of you!" Kamek smirked and then looked somewhere. "Come on out… Blizzaurus!"
Suddenly, there was a roar and then suddenly, an ice dragon landed on the ground and roared. "Whoa, that's a very scary dragon!" Ruby exclaimed.
"And it will be your demise!" Kamek cackled and then launched a spell at it. "There, now you can torture these fools with a blizzard! FAREWELL, TEAM RWBY AND ICE FAILURES!" He yelled and then disappeared.
"…I'm going to freeze him…" Nana said.
"Yeah uh, we got worse things than that freak!" Weiss said as they got ready for battle.
End BGM
BGM: Blizzetta Battle Second Half (The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess)
Blizzaurus roared and then charged forward but they dodged as RBY launched fireballs at the beast and then Blizzaurus turned around and charged again, but Weiss stabbed the ground with her rapier, as a humongous ice wall was formed, as Blizzaurus hit it and then was met with Yang punching it in the eyes as it yelped in agony.
"I got it!" Blake said as she threw Gambol Shroud as they saw that the ribbon was on fire and it hit Blizzaurus, and when she fired, multiple small fireballs hit Blizzaurus.
Blizzaurus roared again and used his ice breath to attempt to freeze them solid, but they quickly avoided that as the Ice Climbers jumped up and hammered Blizzaurus before they both used Squall Hammer before they got into a position.
"EEEEY!" They both yelled, using Blizzard as that… for some bizarre reason… did some damage as Ruby ran over and used her Speed Semblance to pierce through Blizzaurus while fireballs were launched about everywhere.
Blizzaurus jumped up and slammed into the ground, creating a shockwave and then of course icicles formed up to try and pierce them, but they quickly avoided the icicles as it then fired an ice laser but then Yang jumped up and let out a war cry and then used a fiery punch to knock it down for the count as she jumped back as Blizzaurus lit up and then exploded.
"Aw yeah, I still got it!" Yang grinned.
"OW! THAT REALLY HURT!"
End BGM
"Uh… was that any of you?" Yang asked.
"Nope." None of them replied.
"IT WAS ME, BONEHEAD!"
They looked around and saw an ice fairy that replaced the ice dragon. "Uh… who are you?" Ruby asked.
"Who do you think?! I'm Blizzaurus!"
They jawdropped, looking at the small fairy. "WAIT, WHAT?! YOU'RE ACTUALLY A GIRL?!" Ruby yelled.
"Oh great, this is Samus all over again!" Popo exclaimed.
"You actually thought I was a boy?" Blizzaurus's eye twitched. "YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THAT!" She summoned her wand. "I'll make sure I'll destroy you!"
"…Oh great… we're dealing with a little brat now…" Weiss muttered.
"How annoying." Ruby said.
"I'LL FREEZE YOU UP GOOD!"
BGM: Beloved Tomboyish Girl (Touhou 12.3: Unthinkable Natural Law)
Blizzaurus proceeded to launch ice magic around in a reckless manner, but they kept dodging as Blake threw Gambol Shroud, but Blizzaurus dodged the attack, but Blake pulled it back forward, as it pierced her back and brought her to them as Yang used a powerful uppercut and then shot her gauntlets, throwing green fireballs and then the Ice Climbers used Belay and then Popo slammed his hammer down on the ground, knocking her to the ground.
"FREEZE!" Blizzaurus had got back up and launched ice magic, but Weiss formed an ice wall and then made an icy spring as Yang jumped on it and then bounced up and let out a war cry and punched Blizzaurus into the snow. "OOOF!"
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Yang screamed, punching the ground hard enough to form a shockwave… and causing the mountain to rumble and causing a massive avalanche taking Blizzaurus with it.
"AAAAAH!" She screamed.
Down below…
"Boss, look at that!" Green exclaimed as they were climbing up the mountain and they were seeing the avalanche coming down on top of them.
Red's eye twitched. "OH, SON OF A-"
They were soon buried into the avalanche and burying any enemy in its wake until it came to a gentle stop halfway through Sherbet Land.
Blizzaurus popped up out of the snow. "Why I oughta… THEY WON'T SEE THE LAST OF M-MMMMMPH!"
Blizzaurus was suddenly grabbed by Nabbit who was also caught in the avalanche as he put her in its bag and giggled before taking off again to try to climb up the mountain again.
End BGM
The Koopa Bros popped up out of the snow while some of the other enemies struggled to get out of the snowy tomb. "Well… that could've gone better." Red said.
"Yellow, I told you that you should've held in that sneeze!" Black scolded
"I didn't think my sneeze was that loud, okay?!"
"No matter, we'll get Team RWBY… EVENTUALLY! Let's go!" Red ordered as they tried to get out of the pile… and they weren't getting anywhere anytime soon. "…Once we get out of this freaking snow pile, that is!"
At the peak…
"Who knew that Blizzaurus was nothing more than an idiot?" Yang asked.
"I wonder if all ice fairies are complete idiots?" Weiss wondered.
In some other universe…
"And then I told Reimu that-… hold the phone…"
"What is it, Cirno?"
"I don't know… but I have a gut feeling that someone out there called me a freakin' idiot… and I'm not liking it."
Back with the others…
"Alright, let's keep going." Ruby said as they took off with the Ice Climbers looking at each other and nodding, then they proceeded to follow them.
At Beacon…
"Hey, have you seen my weapon?" Sun walked over to Neptune. "I can't seem to find it anywhere."
"Hmm, now that I think about it… my weapon seems to be missing too." Neptune said.
"I too am missing a few of my swords." A voice said as they turned over to see Penny.
"Hmm, I wonder where they could be?" Sun wondered as they then noticed Zwei walking by with holding Yatsuhashi's sword in his mouth while being completely carefree.
"…How is that physically possible?" Neptune asked.
"I wonder if Ruby's dog took my swords?" Penny wondered.
"Let's follow him." Sun said as they followed the adorable Corgi as they soon found him digging Yatsuhashi's sword in a hole and proceeded to take off. "Oh, there's my weapon!"
"Why is he burying them?" Penny asked.
"I guess he thinks they're sticks." Sun said as they picked up their weapons while informing Yatsuhashi as he came by to retrieve his sword.
A few minutes later…
Zwei happily came along while dragging a small Beowolf as it tried to break free of his grasp but it was no use as Zwei threw the Beowolf into the hole and then happily dug it up, completely unaware of the sticks- I mean weapons- being retrieved by their owners while burying alive the Beowolf and walked away happy and content.
Back at the peak of Icicle Mountain…
A ship landed on the ground and then two people walked out. "Ah, it seems Team RWBY was just here." He said and then chuckled. "Alright, Neo! Let's go pay the team a visit, shall we?"
Neo nodded and then noticed a ? block floating there as she curiously hit it and two Fire Flowers came out as she blinked and held them and gave one to Roman.
"Oh? I never seen a flower with eyes before… but I'm not interested." He said, handing them back to Neo as she frowned. "Anyway, onward! Let's go pay RWBY a visit!"
Neo nodded and the two walked away as she put away the Fire Flowers, as they were completely unaware of Neo unintentionally absorbing one of the Fire Flowers.
Hey Roman... you might wanna turn around.