It has been about…. 5 months since I got my weapon. Meaning it's been about 8 months that I've been on Remnant. Not gonna lie, I sort of miss earth. Don't get me wrong, a life of adventure and action sounds freaking awesome but back on Earth I didn't have to worry about any responsibilities. I had to worry about me and my family and that's it. Now I am literally the only thing that is in the way of a entire destruction of a kingdom. I don't even know how many things are going to be different now that I exist in this world.
I don't even know if I'm gonna be able to stop Cinder. She is way more powerful than me at my current state. In the 8 months that I have been training with Yang and Ruby, I have leveled up to Level twelve! It was difficult to level up and I am still no where near the level of Yang or Ruby. I can't hide forever, and the day where Ruby and Yang go to beacon is getting closer and closer….. I don't think I am prepared! I haven't even thought of the way I am gonna get into beacon.
I laid on the ground, panting as Yang stood over me. She smirked slightly and stretched out here hand. "You are getting better. But I think you will have to wait a year till you can even try and get into a hunter's academy." I grasped her hand and sprang up, grabbing a towel to wipe off the sweat off my head. I can't wait! I have to get into beacon somehow! Maybe I could sneak in there….. no that wouldn't work. It's the most prestigious school in remnant. I can't just sneak in there.
Ruby was watching the sparring match between Yang and Myself. It was closer than most of our fights. My usual tactic is to avoid any sort of contact with Yang and shoot from afar. This… doesn't work often. Yang usually either gets close to me and pounds the crap out of me or rage modes through my arrows and charges and pounds the crap out of me. There seems to be a common ending to all of these fights. Ruby smiled at me and Yang. "You two are getting really good! I would want to join but I am currently out of dust!"
Then something happened that hasn't happened since I met Qrow. A small box popped up in front of my face, showing a quest.
[Quest Gained: Let the Games Begin!
Description: This is the beginning. This moment is where everything gets put into play. Your decisions will have drastic effects on the story from this point forward.
Objective: Arrive at Dust till Dawn with Ruby to buy more dust.]
….Oh shit. We are starting now!? But I'm barely prepared! I began to panic slightly, but it didn't show it on the outside. Why are we beginning now!? I barely got any sort of warning! I'm only level 12!
I looked to Ruby and grinned my normal happy grin. "Hey! I am kind of running low on dust as well. I still have some money left over. Is there any dust stores nearby?" I asked, already knowing the answer. Ruby's face lit up and nodded. "Yeah! We could go to Vale! There is a store that I usually go too! You wanna come too Yang?" She asked her sister.
"Nah. I'm good. I have a few Beacon prepping things to do. But next time for sure!" She said with a smile as she grabbed a towel and walked to inside the house, which Zwei took this opportunity to zoom out of the house and run around Ruby's legs. Ruby gave a small laugh and picked the doggo up. "Hey Zwei! I can't play now. We are about to go shopping but we will be right back!" She said, the Corgi licking Ruby's face. She giggled and sat him down before beginning to walk off. "Let's go Robin! We have some dust to buy!" She exclaimed. I laughed and followed her, but on the inside I was screaming. This! This is the day where the show begins! I could tell! Everything was lining up. Yang going to Beacon, Ruby going to the dust store and me getting that quest! This…. Is it.
It took about thirty minutes to get to the ferry. Ruby was talking about how cool it was that her older sister was going to Beacon Academy and how she was going to be there in a couple years. I pretended to listen but used this time to look at my stats.
[Name]: Robin Redwood
[Species]: Fox Faunus
[Title]: None
[Level]: 12
[Dependent Stats]
HP: 210/210
STR: 13
END: 20
VIT: 18
DEX: 18
AGI: 24
INT: 10
WIS: 19
LUK: 16
CSM: 24
[Skill Points]: 0
Everything is somewhat balanced. My Agility and Charisma are awesome for my level, but I am still nowhere near the level of Yang and if I can't beat Yang I can't even imagine to beat Cinder one on one. Why is leveling up so difficult!?I was in full panic mode and I had no clue what to do!
Ruby's voice brought me out of my thoughts. She has the strange ability to snap me out whatever I'm thinking. "Isn't that awesome Robin!?" She exclaimed with enthusiasm. I nodded and smiled "Hm? Oh yeah! That's amazing!"
Thank god for good charisma. The timeline is starting soon and I am nowhere near prepared for this academy. I haven't even thought of what kind of impact I have already made on the current world. What I have changed from the original canon. Some people could be dead or just straight up not exist just because I existed in this world.
The world seems the same though. On the news it said something about Weiss Schnee joining Beacon so I do know that I haven't changed anything with Ruby, Weiss, and Yang. I haven't heard anything about Blake yet. The White Fang is playing out just like it did in the canon so I can only assume that Blake is there.
Once more, Ruby's voice broke me out of my thoughts. "Hey! We're at Vale! Come on!" She began to run off. I sighed and grinned, running after the Huntress in training. I put on the hat that I wore 8 months ago, trying to hide my ears.
Ruby noticed this and raised an eyebrow. "Why do you hide your ears?" She asked, slightly confused. I shrugged. "Some people are jerks." Ruby then slowly nodded.
Night began to fall on the city of Vale as we entered the shop. I have never been in Vale so swing a city that reminded me of my home actually made me happy. Ruby waved to the shopkeeper and he waved back. Ruby skipped to the dust section as I pulled up the quest info.
[Quest Gained: Let the Games Begin!
Description: This is the beginning. This moment is where everything gets put into play. Your decisions will have drastic effects on the story from this point forward.
Objective: Arrive at Dust till Dawn with Ruby to buy more dust: Completed
Defeat ? By capturing them or letting them get away.]
Ok…. It seems like Roman is on his way.
The door swung open as a man accompanied by a few other figures walk into the shop.
"Do you know how hard is it to find an open dust store at this hour?" The man with white clothes, orange hair with a black bowl hat, a cigar and a cane. Roman Torchwick… literally my favorite RWBY character! He was talking to the shopkeeper, who had his hand on his air as several black suited men with red glasses and guns pointed at him. Yep, this is the robbery.
Because, why not rob a shop when it is open in the middle of the night where 80% of the world's population is asleep? Who the hell lets a shop open after 11 PM anyways?
"Mmmh! Meh!" The shopkeeper somewhat) says, scared of losing his life at the criminal's hands.
"Oh don't worry, we aren't here for the money." Roman responds, I started to wonder how the hell did he understand that old timer's words. He picks a speck of fire dust before motioning his men. "Collect all of the dust in here!" His orders were responded to quickly.
As some of the goons collect the dust, one of them starts to notice our presence. Oh shit! Here we go! He walks up to me and Ruby. "Hey! Hands up in the air!" The Goon shouted, but Ruby didn't move. Slightly angry that he was ignored, he takes off the hood, making Ruby turn around, also revealing the big headphones on her ears. She looked at the Goon, then at me, then back at the goon, then at me. "Robin. Do you know this guy?"
"…No. No I do not." I wanted to facepalm so badly right then.
The goon aims his gun at us. "Hands in the air you two!"
Ruby raised an eyebrow, "Are you robbing us?" she asked.
"Yes! Now, hands in the air!"
"Ooooooooh…." Me and Ruby looked to each other and smirked.
…..
…..
…..
A bit later, the three of us were sent flying into the window, breaking it. Me and Ruby landed on our feet. As for the other guy? He was out cold. This brought a small smirk to my face as I saw Roman and a few of his other goons. Ruby instantly got ready for battle, taking Crescent Rose out in it's Scythe Form. I took this as a sign to combine the two shortswords that were on my hips to make my bow and began to draw an arrow. Here we go….
Roman just looked at the four goons that were standing beside him. "Okay…. Get them!" The goons followed his orders and charged. I looked to Ruby. "Ready Rubes?" She gave a happy nod and smirked. "Let's do it!"
I quickly ran back behind Ruby and aimed an arrow at one of the goons. I shot the arrow at one of the goons and whispered a small word. "Snipe." The arrow flew through the air and pierced one of the goons in the shoulder. A box popped up above the goons head that displayed a few numbers. [28dmg]. Huh…. that's helpful. I turned to the other Goon, firing a dust arrowhead arrow at the goon. The electricity in the arrow was sent through the goon, acting like some sort of taser, stunning the goon and making him fall to the floor. I smirked slightly and popped my neck. "To easy."
Ruby looked at my with a giant grin. She stabbed her scythe into the ground then lifts her body onto her scythe before spinning around and kicking the first thug approaching her in the face. She then gets her scythe out of the ground and fires it off to hit another goon with the butt of her weapon, sending him flying right into another goon. She quickly aims her scythe forward, and fire a bullet. The bullet hit the side on a good, before using the recoil to dodge a bullet shot to her position, followed by using her semblance, which made her disappear in spot and appeared in front of her target. With an upward slash, she knocks the man into the air. She jumps high in the air, catching the man with her scythe before slashing him hard. Poor guy was knocked out, his body crashing on the streets.
I stared as Ruby fought and went slightly wide eyed. "That's… not fair." I said jokingly. Ruby looked at me and stuck her tongue out at me. She is such a child…. I rolled my eyes and drew two more arrows. Roman looked rather unimpressed at his fallen men, followed by letting a sigh, along with a bit of smoke. "You guys were worth every cent, truly you were." He commented, than began to strut towards us. "Well Red, Foxy, I say this has been an eventful evening. But this-" He pointed his Cane Gun at us as smirked. "Is where we part ways." He fired an explosive dust crystal at us. Ruby and I sprang out of the way, avoiding the explosion. "Damn crook…." I muttered as I looked around for him. There he was, climbing the fire escape ladder of the building.
I sighed as me and Ruby looked to the shopkeeper. "Mind if we go after him?" We asked at the same time. Hey! Points for synchronization!
The old man made a noise that we assumed was a yes and we bolted after the crook. We climbed the ladder and hopped up onto the roof. I pulled back my bow and shouted. "Stahp! In the name of the law!" I exclaimed. I knew we weren't gonna die at this moment so I took it somewhat not seriously. Roman glanced back and sighed. "Persistent….."
A giant bullhead rose from side of the roof, The Pumpkin Haired crook hopping onto the bullhead and turning to us as it began to lift high into the sky. "End of the line Kiddos!" He exclaimed as he tossed an explosive dust crystal down at our feet and aimed his cane down at it. I quickly ran and tackled Ruby down to the ground trying to shield her from the explosion. "Ruby! Get down!" I exclaimed.
Aaaaaaaand Goodwitch.
As if on cue, a figure dropped out of nowhere and a purple colored glyph shielded us from the explosion. When the smoke cleared, a woman with blonde hair and green eyes with glasses was there in front of us. She pushed up her glasses and looked at the bullhead with an expressionless look on her face. With a wave of her riding crop wand thingy, multiple streams of purple energy Missiles came firing out and nailing the ship.
Roman stumbled around for a small bit before running into the cockpit of the ship. Glynda, trying to stop the crooks, shot some sort of shiny purple ball right past the bullhead forming a dark storm cloud over the ship. With a down movement of her weapon, ice crystals began to fall out of the sky, slowing down the movement of the bullhead. Then, out walked the woman of the hour. Her face was covered in shadow but from seeing this scene before and from the dress and glass heels, I could tell who it was. Cinder mother fucking Fall.
She slid her hand down her sleeve and fired a large blast of fire dust straight at us, which Goodwitch easily blocked. Cinder raised her hand up and big blast of fire exploded under her feet, which Goodwitch flipped out of before the explosion could hit her. The debris that was caused by the explosion, Goodwitch used to make a giant missile which was immediately sent towards the ship, which Cinder blasted repeatedly. Roman tilted the bullhead so it hit the side of the side of it. The shards reformed and began to swirl around the bullhead, before Cinder surrounded herself in circle…. Glyph… things and pushed them out, incinerating all of the Missile debris.
I took this time to finally get off of Ruby and we both fired multiple arrows and bullets. "Snipe, Snipe, Snipe, Snipe, Snipe!" Like the game grumps, I fired, then I missed. Then I fired again, then I missed! This went on for a good bit before one arrow went through the door before it could close, and got her right in the shoulder. Then the ship flew off.
I hit her… I hit her….. OH HOLY SHIT I HIT HER! Haha! Take that ya flaming pansy! I feel IMMORTAL! A giant grin spread across my face as I looked around. "That… was…. AWESOME! I can't believe we did that! I feel like I can take on anything!" I exclaimed looking at Ruby with a gigantic smile. This time, she was the one who didn't respond. She looked at the blonde witch that was walking to us.
Oh god…. Happy Feeling gone.
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The giant feeling of complete and utter success was later replaced with disappointment and confusion as both of us were stuck inside a detention room, sitting on chairs, with a table in front of us. I bet both of us were asking why we were there. We just somewhat almost stopped a robbery!
"Why are we arrest for again?" I asked while blinking several times.
"I don't know, I thought we were doing the right thing." Ruby answered with a rather depressed face.
"This is a violation of my rights, I want a lawyer!" I exclaimed as I proceeded to slam my hands on the table. "Yeah, me too!" Ruby, for some reason, followed my actions and slammed her hands on the table as well.
I then realized that nobody was going to answer our outbursts, so we just sat back in our chairs, and release a sigh at the same time… more points for synchronization! And they scratch their hair at the same time… MORE POINTS FOR- Oh forget it.
"So…. Why do you think we are-" Before I could finish, the door to the room flew open, causing an 'eep!' from Ruby, and a small scream from myself.
Stepping inside the room was the blond woman that had put them both here, Glynda Goodwitch. Her heavy steps and scowl were the only necessary information to tell us that she wasn't in a good mood... Then again, when is she ever in a good mood? She looks at the two of us and began to talk. "I hope that the two of you know that your actions will not be taken lightly. You put your life and others in danger."
"Well they started it!" Me and Ruby both exclaimed at the same time. I am not saying it this time.
"That is not the point." Glynda scowled at us. "Not only were you fighting a dangerous criminal in the middle of the night, but you also put yourself in danger, especially you, young man." She looks at the me. I blinked at her and got somewhat scared. She crossed her arms. "We have done a background check on both of you two. You have had no prior training in any sort of Huntsman academy." I tried to look calm but on the inside I was screaming my head off.
"On another note...The point here is that you both almost cause a scene. If I were to decide, you two would be out of here with a pat on the back….. and a slap on the wrist." she slaps her wand/riding crop on the table, scaring Ruby and causing her to yelp and jump back.
"However, there's someone that would like to meet the two of you." The Huntress said as the door to the room once again opened up.
In came a man with grey hair, glasses just like the blonde mature woman, and wearing formal political-like clothes, a mug of coffee and a plate full of cookies on both of his hands. Wow….. so this is Ozpin. He places them down on the table at the same time he took a seat before he began to speak. "Ruby Rose…you have…silver eyes," He then leans a little too close to Ruby's taste. He then turned to me. "Hmm…. Mr. Redwood. You are an interesting young man." I blinked and thought for a moment. "Thank…. You?"
Ozpin sighed and picked up a scroll tablet thing, and a video that was recorded by a camera close to the shop, showing the two of them fighting the goons. "Now, would the two of you explain to me, where did you learn how to fight like this?"
Ruby scratch her back sheepishly, answering first. "Umm…Signal Academy?" I blinked and sighed. "Training with a friend." Ozpin looked at me for a few moments before nodding. He then turned to Ruby again, pushing the plate of cookies to her. Her eyes immediately glow and in mere seconds, the cookies had disappeared. "Miss Rose, may I ask who taught you to use one of the most dangerous weapons in the world? Up to this day, I only know one dusty old crow who fights as you did." Ozpin asked, being unaffected by Ruby's eating manners.
"MHm! Dat mh Jomchle!" The short girl tries to speak, but she had too many cookies in her mouth. She swallowed all of them so that she can speak properly. "S-Sorry. That's my uncle Qrow! I would have been total garbage without him, but now I'm like wahaaaaa wa chan." Ruby said as she imitates karate moves. I had to try so hard to hold back a laugh.
He nods and smiled. "And why such an adorable girl is in a school to train warriors?" asked the man.
"Well…I want to be a Huntress." She answers awkwardly.
"So, you want to slay monsters?" Ozpin asked.
"Yeah! I only have two more years left at Signal and then I'm going to apply for Beacon!" she talked faster and faster with her enthusiasm growing. "You see, my sister's starting there this year, and she's trying to become a Huntress, and I'm trying to become a Huntress 'cause I want to help people. My parents always taught us to help others, so I thought, 'Hey, I might as well make a career out of it!" she giggles as she continues."I mean the police are alright, but Huntsman and Huntress are just so much more romantic, and exciting, and cool, and, Gosh, you know!" Ruby flips out at the last part, staring at the two adults with a wide, crazy smile.
MUST! NOT! LAUGH!
The two adults stared at her for a moment before the man spoke up. "Do you two know who I am?"
An easy question with a quick answer. "Your Professor Ozpin, Headmaster of Beacon Academy." Ruby said, then I turned, looking at the mature woman. "And that's Glynda Goodwitch, one of the Teachers at Beacon."
"Hello."
"Greetings."
"Nice to meet you." Ruby greets him while I just made a peace sign. That was stupid. Why in the world did I do that!?
"So, you want to go to my school?"
"More than anything." Me and Ruby said with a gigantic grin.
Ozpin exchange glances with Glynda, who grunts in disapproval before looking back at the red-cloaked girl and myself. "Then, I'll be seeing you at Beacon." Ruby eyes turn into plates as my already big grin grew three sizes. Did….. did we just get accepted to the best school in all Remnant!? "Now then, I suggest you head home now, it is getting late." He stood up and with a turn, left the room with Goodwitch following in tow.
We waited for a few minutes….. "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!" We both exclaimed, hugging each other. The screen popped up in my face.
[Quest Completed: Let the Games Begin!
Description: This is the beginning. This moment is where everything gets put into play. Your decisions will have drastic effects on the story from this point forward.
Objective: Arrive at Dust till Dawn with Ruby to buy more dust: Completed
Defeat ? By capturing them or letting them get away: Completeled]
[Your level has increased to level 13! Increase your stats with your stat points!]
"Oh hell yeah!" I exclaimed. Not soon after we began to leave the room I looked to Ruby. "Hey. Go ahead without me! I will see you and Yang tomorrow!" I have her a hug. She nodded and smiled. "See you tomorrow!"
Then I began to walk around, sighing and smiling.
Here the games begin.
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I am probably gonna take a break. Maybe not. I don't know. But I am loving the support that this story has gotten! Also, I'll respond to all reviews next chapter. Hope you all enjoy this chapter!
Ciao!
