Maintenance review: I remember writing this author note; it always feels good to combat your bully's, especially when you can't normally do it.
Version 2.0 changes:
Grammar fixes.
Spelling fixes.
Hey guys, here's an early chapter! If you want to know why. It has to do with the February 4th freakout that has occured in the story reviews. A total of six reviews with varying views so to speak.
First one calls an OC of mine creepy; if it's Eros than thank you, it's kinda what I'm going for. A character who you probably should avoid meeting in public but your friends with him because he's reliable.
Second comment is a complement and a guess on the semblance; firstly, thanks for the comment; secondly, I'll get to the semblance thing in a bit.
Now I'll skip the third, fourth and fifth comment and to go to the sixth for now. The sixth comment is a lovely recommendation that I thank you for and will research thoroughly.
The fifth commenters comment; this also goes for the guess from the second comment, I will not give any hints or anything until a few more people guess. But don't worry, the reward for the correct answer is written at the end of this chapter and will hopefully make a spark in the comments.
Now for the last two comments, comments three and four. These two comments are a little special; the fourth one explains how the commenter dislikes how much I pointed out the MC's weakness early on. It was constructive but pointless, I won't change those chapters because I feel that most times you have to hit a nail more than once with a hammer to get it through.
Now to get really serious(You can tell because I made this part in a separate paragraph); the third comment, oh boy was it a doozy, you guys should read it yourself, it's for the fourth chapter and was made Feb 4th(like all of these comments). But don't try to console me or anything, in fact you should be thanking that commenter. It's because of them that this chapter came out so early. In a way it's to celebrate my first ever hate comment on !
If any of you could guess from my writing style, you could probably tell I am a weird person. Many have tried to make me upset, but I don't work like that, your hurtful comments add fuel to the fire! I literally told my suicidal friend who told me he was going to kill himself to keep living; not because he had things to live for, but so he could live in spite and act against his bullies wishes to piss them off.
But this one comment is special. Unlike other comments that complain about the story's plot itself(I ignore those), this person berates my story like it was something that they need to take revenge on. Now I am calling you out on a website that is like a sanctuary for me. A place that I welcome people to so they can escape from reality for just a few minutes. So when you come on to and invade my stories comments to call me a loser. Then you should really look in a mirror; you may call me a loser, but I'm not the one who treats a fanfic's comment section like a child on a call of duty lobby. To me, that is a loser. But hell, I've been wrong before, who knows, maybe I am a loser, but if that's the case, what does that make you? I know many people who will agree with me and say what your doing is more pathetic than what I'm doing, so if i'm a loser and your below a loser, what does that make you. There's my rebuttal asshole!
Sorry guys, had to get that off my chest. I promise that the author note for the next chapter will be shorter. Have as much fun as I did with the paragraph above, Spiffy.
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Chapter 8: Hell Weeks Conclusion.
(Home: the kitchen.)
Life is made of many moments, my least favorite would be WTF moments. I have those all the time; when I get a detention notice, a letter from an unknown doctor that reads "it's positive!" and nothing else, when you buy a surplus of burger buns for a party but the hosts are having tacos or my most favorite, my girlfriend who can be read like a book cheating on me with a guy who tells secrets like he has the verbal runs.
Needless to say these moments aren't fun; so when all of these moments are topped when I was attacked by the " " murderer, you know that something is really fucked up. To add to the whole situation; the dark god was quite pissed at us(Me) when we got back.
"Are you two alright!? I was so worried when you two didn't show up! I was worried that you were kidnapped or something. I wouldn't have a gosh, darn, heck in the afterlife of a clue to deal with myself if you died!" Papa says.
"Were sorry papa. We were just playing in the fields we were!" I say with sincerity.
"We're sorry papa! We promise to be good for now on we will!" Compuii says with tears in her eyes.
We are sorry for the interruption but the text above isn't apart of the story. It was heavily edited to be suitable for your virgin ears. But after speaking it over with the council, we decided to add it back. It is an "M" rated story after all. So long as I bleep out the swears as a compromise for putting the actual part in. The rest of the story is untouched though but that's only because the editors didn't get that far in the editing process.
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"You f***ing a*****le! What gives you two mother f*****s the gall to ditch me in a random part of the f***ing forest! You left me there with a r***rded squirrel who just wouldn't stop staring at me! I waited, thinking that you b****es would eventually show up but nooooo! You f***ing a**clowns thought it would be funny to leave me in a forest like the c***s you are!" Abusive dad with twenty dollars says.
'His vocabulary has increased over the last few days.'
"Oh god! I'm having a flashback of my old step father! I'm sorry I wrote faggot on your license plate! " I say in the fetal position.
"If you can't see him, he can't see you." Compuii calmly says while her avatar faced the other way.
Eros appeared out of nowhere with a shocked look on his face. "What the hell happened here!?"
"I thought you left?" The dark god questions.
"Yeah, what about my sister? Is she OK!?" I ask.
"Yeah man. Your sis is safe." Eros waves off my concern. "You were right about those raider people. I made sure to punish them in "my" fungeon."
"You don't need to emphasize that it's "your fungeon". Whenever you say fun I assume you mean it in a sexual way." I tell him. "Now tell me why your back. You should have stayed for a lot longer than you did."
"Firstly; you got me there. Secondly; she can be alone for thirty minutes. I came back to check on you guys. I felt something I haven't felt since my times of playing multiplayer lobbies; hacks." He says seriously.
"Wait, hacks? The gamer system can get hacked?" I ask.
"Yup! But hackers are dealt with quite quickly in the system. It's done in a way that makes sure they don't do it again. They delete skills and other such things related to what they hacked taken away and, if they are too far gone, will be completely removed from existence. When shit like this happens it leaves glitches like you wouldn't believe! Actually you could say that I sensed a glitch instead of hacks. A "glitch" is a term used for the "scabbing" left over from having a hacked object or organism that had their existence wiped. They lose their textures and are less effective than than they were originally made out to be. But they are still dangerous." He explains.
"Wait! Do they look like a picture mashup?"
Eros puts a finger to his chin before nodding his head. "I think so. Never encountered one myself but I know a guy who professionally deals with them. Your descriptions match but I can't say it's the same thing with 100% certainty."
"I almost died to something I couldn't make sense of and that's what you answer with!?" I shout.
"Hey! Cut me some slack man! You don't know how dangerous glitches are! If you aren't connected to the system then glitches are either invisible or subconsciously avoided. But for us system folk, it completely fucks us up! Glitched objects spread glitches to other objects or organisms, that means us!" Eros says, pointing to himself. "Glitched organisms are worse because they are hostile to gamers and are able to nullify our abilities with some sort of field!" We all stare at him for a minute.
He sighs. "This is bad for gamers because we travel to those worlds and use our foreknowledge to survive and make the place a better place. If we are caught unawares then we are dead ya hear me, dead! That's why true system folk get warnings when glitch outbreaks are going to occur." Eros rants.
I processed the information in my head. I completely understand the dangers of these things but something doesn't feel right. I run it through my head a few times; from the abilities to the dangers that were listed to the reasoning's for the dangers.
Eventually it became clear. I look to my scroll and then the dark god as I piece it together. Would these "glitches" be responsible for the anomalies that I was summoned here to deal with. If these things can nullify abilities like and EMP, then would that be the reason why the gods can't use their god vision to see whats occurring if there were a large amount?
It would make sense in a roundabout way if you think about it. Operators are reincarnated people who may be big fans of specific shows; hackers are operators that cheat to get what they want; glitches are the remains of a hackers power after it gets stripped away. All of this, topped with how popular the RWBY series and it's characters is, makes the time-frame of RWBY's anime a perfect breeding ground for hackers to leave glitches everywhere.
I look to my device and dark god to see both of them see the connection as well. With a nod we turn our attention to Eros only to find he had disappeared. Leaving us to our thoughts.
"Do you think these glitches are the reason for the anomaly?" I say to end the silence.
"More than likely." The dark god nods.
"There are too many similarities to our situation and the glitches." Compuii adds.
"My thoughts exactly." I agree.
"They are dangerous. Eros said that the creature needs a professional to deal with it. With how he gloats about an operators power, the creatures must either be powerful or have some oddity that makes them impossible to deal with normally." The dark god theorizes.
"A bit of both. The info I pulled up from the system states that until certain conditions are met, they can't be harmed. After the condition is met, they are treated as any other enemy, albeit, a difficult one. Their invincibility and above average strength makes them a threat for all operators. Sadly, that's all the information I could gather, most of it is classified and inaccessible." She reads.
"I'll need to get prepared for the next encounter then."
"Oh? Not going to run away? Here I thought you would be quaking in your boots." The dark god taunts.
"Don't you worry about that. I made my peace and accepted our contracts conditions. I will do my best to help out with these glitches. I will get stronger and fight with everything I got. Whether I figure out the condition or not won't matter in the long run, I was planning on getting stronger from the beginning; doesn't matter to me if I can kill the glitches, only that I will have the ability to do all I can when the time comes." I say with determination. Clasping my hand as I stare the god down.
The god looked at me with...respect? "Well said mortal."
"Agreed. You have a lot of time before we start progressing through the years. Once your weekly quest is finished, your stats will start gaining momentum in their growth. We will use that time to train. For now, I suggest activating the rest of the fountains on this island to reveal the rest of the islands map. We can use those to travel much faster during or training segment of your stay here." Compuii plans.
"Travel?" I tilt my head slightly.
"Of course. There aren't many open world games that lack fast travel. By using the fountains power, you can travel to any other fountain you've activated so long as your near an activated fountain. Right now, you can travel to the fountain in the forest and the one in the basement of this house. But that's not the only way you can get around, in fact you used a form of it not to long ago. It was known as emergency travel, it allows you to escape from anywhere, fountain or not, and send you to the last place you slept. However it can only be used once a week, so use it sparingly." She warns.
'Go thing this isn't Skyrim, I would hate to suddenly become encumbered because I'm carrying too much crap.
"Thanks for the tip. Any other advice?"
"Of course. Get some sleep. You've had two run-ins with two different major threats. You need rest." She lists off.
"Got it! I'll see you when I wake up. Before I sleep, can you download a few soundtracks for me? I want some music for the trip." I say while pocketing my phone.
"Slaver…" Compuii mumbles.
"What was that?"
"Nothing."
Today started pretty good. Though I thought that there would be a ton more action. As planned, I began my journey to find the fountains, I wanted to kill some things along the way but Compuii calculated that with my current speed, it would take all day to find them all.
So here I am, walking along the paths, avoiding the Grimm and finding fountains, all while listening to "The Best Legend of Zelda Rap Ever!". It was nice, and just as my darling waifu calculated, it practically did take all day, the sun was setting just as I made my way to the last fountain. But there was a problem, it was being guarded by an Ursa.
"Compuii, how strong is that thing?" I stared the massive thing down in disbelief.
"It's a rank four, an Ursa major." She analyzes.
"OK but I was talking stat wise Compuii." I whisper to my phone.
"We wouldn't be able to see the stats so it's pointless." She whispers back.
"How do you know?" I glance at my phone.
"There is a rule of thumb in the ranking system. Every rank is stronger than the last.
So when the Ursas rank one variant is marked as purple, then it's safe to say that it's stronger forms don't need an in depth analysis." She points out.
I can't fight this thing head on, have to think of some other way. My best bet is to activate the fountain, turning on it's warding affect before the sun sets, but how will I get there without getting seen?
Looking around, I eventually found that the fountain was right under a small cliff that had a hidden path that was shrouded in bushes leading up to it. I climbed up the path and found myself staring down at the preoccupied bear. With a single deep breath, I jumped and landed scroll first on the fountain, shattering my precious device and my spine if I weren't a gamer.
[-42HP]
Hearing me shout in pain, the beast lumbered towards me. It growled and prepared to attack but was met with, I assume, pain. The Ursa roared and fell on it's back, scrambling to run off. Eventually it got up, knocking over a few trees during it's retreat. I gladly cheered it on with my two middle fingers.
"What a barbaric way to handle the situation." Compuii says once I summoned my phone.
'You mean "bear"baric? Ahhh, ahhh...never-mind.'
"Sometimes the best ideas are the most reckless." I shrug.
"I find it sad that you actually have evidence to back that up. I mean how could your plan to kill those death plagues been more effective than mine!?" I laugh at her frustration.
Honestly, despite the fear and responsibility, I feel relaxed. It's good to know that my future is full of glory. I always wondered what I could do to leave my mark on history, but to think I would be able to leave my mark like this. If only mom could see me now!
'Actually I don't think she would care but still…'
I sigh with joy, enjoying the cool night breeze. My lovely thoughts were interrupted by a loud ringing sound from my scroll; a timer could be seen on the screen. The pyramid head alarm or PHA.
'The zombies, are coming.'
"Compuii! Now is a great time to show me how to fast travel!" I shout in a hurry.
"First activate the map."
"Got it!"
"Second, tap a icon with a "T"."
"Done!"
"Then press travel."
I press the button and my world shifts around me. In a few seconds I was home.
"Whew, that was close." I laugh.
"Good thing you did it quickly. May I inquire as to why you sent us into our house of all places?"
"Well, the last time we faced that thing I ran here. It couldn't break through our glass sliding door and gave up. I thought it would be impervious or some crap." I say honestly.
"It is nice to know I was partnered up with someone who was observant." She smiles.
It warms my heart to hear such compliments from my partner, no matter how true or sincere they are. I mean, I did program her to be feisty. Hell, that takes me back! It's only been a few days but it's felt like years since I made Compuii. Man, it's even crazier to think that it's almost been a week. These thoughts made me smile.
"Operator. I would like to inform you that your first weekly quest is almost finished." Compuii says with a bow.
"Thanks. Man this is like Christmas! I want to stay up and wait but sitting here and waiting would be agony." I sheepishly smile.
"If you so desire, you could go rest for a bit and i'll wake you before the timer ends so we can celebrate. How does that sound?" She gleefully says.
"Sounds great Compuii. Am I lucky to have you or what?"
"You are." She smirks smugly.
'You smug smart-ass you~.'
"Correct answer Compuii!" I say in a funny tone.
"Thank you. It's a good thing I feel the same isn't it?" But before I could respond; my eyes started to snap shut from fatigue. Damn, she got the last word in. But I couldn't help but smile.
Thanks for reading! I'm sorry for the author note above. It was long! But bear with it for a tad longer; I'm going to go into the little challenge I made for you guys. First comment and guess what the semblance "Reality check" can do. Those of you who guess it correctly will receive a private notification saying you won after the guessing period is over(You will need an account for this).
How long is the guessing period? Around when magic ceases to exist in the story-line, I'll give you a warning ahead of time for when the time comes. What do you win? The ability to add an OC to the story! But it won't just be just a special appearance, you'll also get to add your own story arc to the story! All you need to do is send me an email to my fanfiction inbox after you got the winning email. This email should have what you want from both the OC and part of their story in it.
Once I get it, I'll try to make it work but be warned. If you want your character to be dating another character that's actually in RWBY, I will be doing some inter dimensional shit, because of a few plot based reasons.
Anyways, that's all I have to say, peace!