The next chapter is out! And warning: This mission is very short, and I suspect the next one will be the same as well. Hope that after these missions, the later ones will be a bit longer.

And to the reviews...

To Guest: Cringe, so? Many people like it, so there's nothing wrong. And what's more cringy? You typed 'stoties' instead of 'stories'. *Shudders in disgust*

To lolrus55: Yeah, Dante's moments are mostly the best of the games. And the dance in DMC5 tops nearly all of them XD. Thanks for the compliment.

With that off the way, the real part begins!


'Đúng bọn rảnh hơi...'

"What's wrong, T.O?"

'Rude reviewer. Not showing their name again.'

Weiss grunts in displease: "Really? Just like when we saw our better selves?"

'Pretty much it.'

Blake: "Then we will just ignore it. What else?"

Yang asks another thing: "Is there cutscene now?" I test it by pressing Continue...


Mission 4: Cold Blooded

Use your newly earned powers to gather the four Gyro Blades!

And with the background, we can see one of the 'statues' from before, but with no holders below and it seems to be spinning. And with the description: "So that's why we can't use them in the previous mission!"

Blake: "And it's a puzzle as well. Look at the blue strings." Yep, our objective is pretty much in the description of the mission now.

Weiss: "So far, the game's straight forward at telling us what to do."

Yang: "Complicated puzzles are definitely not my thing, so I'm okay with this."

I see the review paper drop again, and I pick it up and read it... "Aw, the previous guy said his gratitude to us. No problem! And he recommends more for us! Let's see... Double Jump, or... Enemy Step? Like, stepping on the enemy?"

'Pretty much it. But, as a bonus, it will reset all of your skills. Like, if you plan to Split, you use that skill, and you can use Split again without touching the ground.'

"Ah, I see... Let's check another option...*Sheepishly smile* Yeah, we should have upgraded that Snatch ability... but one maybe enough for now. About skills... maybe we will take that now." For that I open the Power Up menu...

After checking the price again, I buy Roulette Spin, Calibur and Shuffle, and a Snatch 2 as well...

"Come to think of it." Blake suddenly comments. "Why does Red Queen's skill names sound like they're from card games?"

All of us turn and stare at her, as Weiss asks: "I didn't know you're into card games?"

Blake: "It's coming from another White Fang members when they're in their free times. I just happened to be nearby."

Yang: "Well, they could be entertaining sometimes."

Temporarily ignoring their next lines, I check on the Item menu, to see nothing change yet, except that I can buy another Blue Orb. "Well... that's it. Let's start the mission."


And right from the start, the game shows me how to use those Gyro Blades. The best part of it is that we can use it to attack our enemies. And it hints the fact that the only thing that could destroy those blue barricades is the Gyro Blade. So, the first thing to do: I walk up to the 'weapon' and activate it with my Buster. The Blade's 'legs' then retrace and it starts floating in the air with a blue fire now appearing on the top. I slash it a few times to make it spin, and then Buster again for the blade to go forward. Though... the start location is not so ideal, so it takes me three times for the blade to finally break the door.

Yang: "So we're returning back?"

Weiss: "Maybe. I mean, we couldn't have explored the whole castle, right?"

"Yeah, we haven't checked the entire first floor... and the second floor if I remember right."

Upon returning the library, the red strings reappear, this time the ice demons join the party. I decide not to attack them, and instead head to the Gyro Blade in the room, activate it with a Buster and a few slices, and send it away... which makes the stylish rank to go immediately to C as it cuts through the horde of Scarecrows and the ice demons. One even gets stuck into the way, and killed in the process, dropping a large amount of small Red Orbs. I do that two more times, and it nearly kills everything, even the ice demons' HP has reduced to very low. I run towards them and Buster one, killing the one next to me while spinning, and throw the demon away, it dies right on the throw.

"Now THAT'S a quick way to kill those demons."

Weiss: "Do you think they're trying to imply something?"

"Uh... I don't think. I mean, we can't find it EVERYWHERE, right?"

Blake: "She does have a point. With a weapon like that, who would need other weapons? Just open the door and move it to the next room."

Weiss: "That's true... But Blake, there's a bigger question: How did that blade fit through the door?"

After the fight ends, the blade's positioned right in front of the exit, and with our perspectives, it's too big, and we don't even know how to move it through the door. "Welp, sounds like a game logic to me." Ignoring that matter, once returning to the Grand Hall, a camera sequence tells us a quote that's basically saying: We can destroy the coffin with the Gyro Blade. Though, not jumping down to the first floor, I go to the left side of the exit and walk a bit, to see a mirror on the wall. Slashing it, and it reveals a hidden place, which holds a Blue Orb Fragment. Sweet.

Jumping down and running to the blade, I activate it and Buster it... only for it to hilariously bounce into every wall before stopping at right where it was placed. Two more times and nothing changes because of the high speed. Fuming, I just normally Buster it and do it three more times, and when it finally gets out of the confined location, I slash it and send it away, destroying the chairs.

Yang snickers while I'm struggling with it: "Now that's kinda funny. It's like when you tried to get cookies from that high cabinets my mother made."

I pout. "Why did she make that high anyway?"

"To prevent you from going sugar-high?" I send Weiss puppy eyes, which makes her turn away to hide her blush. "It's true!"

Once the coffin's broken, there's a circle there, but we can't do anything with it so we leave it there. Also, during the camera spin, we see a red door that we haven't entered, so we head to there instead of the green door like before.

We enter into another part of the Large Hall. From a camera change, we could see another Gyro Blade stationed in a room... that doesn't seem for us to be able to get in directly for now. We take a right turn and see a... fake mirror, considering there's no mirrors at all: it's just a frame on the wall. I head to the opposite direction. and see a brown door on the right.

The door leads me to the Dining Room, and it lives up to the name as a table with full of food and plates are prepared there for us. Though, I don't have the luxury to enjoy them, because two of the armors appear in the room, and I have to beat them to get out of this room.

"This is kinda like a smaller version of our food fight."

All three of my teammates shake their heads, as Yang says: "We use food for that fight. They just crash a party with their weapons."

When the armor uses its shield to bash me, I use Shuffle just in time to barely dodge back before sending an Exceeded blade to its face and turning it into light. With the other which is flying, I jump up and reach to it with Calibur and stun it in the air, then Buster it to send it to the ground before beating it up with all I have. And luckily there's only two of them, so the fight goes down pretty fast.

Also, the table's pretty wrecked during the fight. Oops.

Anyway, I run to the next part of the room and then turn right... and immediately stop as a fireball just gazes right in front of me. "That's a close call."

Weiss: "Let's find another way. There's a section behind you."

I nod and start heading there, and I find a Gyro Blade. "Uh... So..."

Blake: "Maybe it could block the fight? Worth a try."

Since there's nothing else to do, I activate the blade and guide it to the line of fire. And... the fire completely disintegrates once it contacts with the blade. Satisfied that I have a shield now, I repeat what I did before with another blade and Buster it towards to whatever making that fire. Once I get closer, I see a gate-like device with fire gathering in the middle ring and firing fireballs towards me. A last Buster and Gyro Blade turns it into debris, resulting the blue strings on the right break, and the camera also shows a sticker on the wall... which looks exactly like the one on the mini column in mission 2.

Another mini-game? Let's find out.


Secret Mission 02: Alley-Oop

Successfully execute a mid-air Buster 5 times without touching the ground!

"That sounds... easy enough? It can't be worse than the first one."

And how right I am. With the help of Snatch 2, I can stay on the air and follow the objective with no problems, and even after that I can do a few more before the gravity doesn't allow me to stay in the air anymore time.

Weiss: "That's a little disappointing. I have expected something more from this."

Blake: "Unfortunately, that's not this game's good point."


Once I go through the door, I am in the room that has the Gyro Blade... and that puzzle-hitting thing is there as well. BUT, one step away from the door and the red strings appear. Although, this time only Scarecrows appear, so I don't have much troubles...aside from being reckless and taunting a few times then getting hit because of it. What is it again, karma?

Weiss comments: "Your timing still needs some works, Ruby. That High Roller getting interrupted by a delayed slash is not a good sight at all."

I whine: "I thought it's going to be some kind of parries or such. And I thought it could add to the style point!"

Yang: "I have to agree with my sister here, Weiss. Instant paybacks are the best."

Once the Scarecrows are all dead, I start breaking stuffs to get some Red Orbs, and there are Green Orbs as well so my HP gets back to full. Though, I don't have a way out... not until I slash the 'puzzle' that the gate lowers down. Then, I start moving the Gyro Blade, when I hear some Scarecrows' laughs in a distance. Moving it just outside of the room, I aim the Gyro Blade with the camera, and then make it spin with maximum velocity, and then push it away, and watch the result as the Scarecrows who are on the way of the deadly weapon are dead in a second. After a few runs, the Gyro Blade has stopped at where the blue strings from the beginning screen are. And there are two of the blades already in their respective glyphs. There are two empty glyphs, so we guess they're for the one we're using and the one behind the blue wall. And there's a Divinity Statue on the left of the strings.

"Looks like it's going to be boss time..."

Weiss: "First thing first: the puzzle. I think this one is decent enough, so to speak."

Blake: "Still a bit straight forward, though."

Since there's a blue wall to break, I do not move the active Gyro Blade into the glyph, and guide it to the blue wall. The way is not very far, considering the faster the blade spins, the further it travels. And when the wall breaks, the Scarecrows reappear in the hall, and I decide to Buster the other Gyro Blade so I could lead two of them back at the same time... and unfortunately, I can't do so.

Blake: "I think it's game mechanic... but there should be a way to explain why we can move only one at a time."

"One of that artifact, one blade. Maybe?" Ah, the pain of moving back-and-forth. Kind of like when I forgot my game board.

Weiss: "I think Ruby is actually correct at this one. Can't force one soul to operate multiple bodies... unless that's him."

Yang: "The Headmaster... yeah he's the opposite case. Two souls in a body... Hey Blake, who's the one writing that book of yours?"

Blake: "The book is actually real in sir Oum's place. About the author of the book in Remnant... the one writing the book has no idea."

Weiss: "So it's just popped up out of nowhere?"

"Considering we have seen stranger things, that's nothing new, Weiss."

After finally returning both of the Gyro Blades to their places, the blue strings break, and the stone of words which I don't bother to read lowers down, revealing the door behind it. And a free Green Orb, which is converted into Red Orbs since I haven't lost health when I move the blades. And since I can't buy anything, I ignore the 'shop' and get through the door...

The sky starts snowing, as Nero looks around the courtyard and sees a Hell Gate... with two feminine figures floating in the air. Both of them glow with blue light with dark color in the tips of their bodies like hair, forearms and forelegs, and... they're naked. When they're near each other...

All of us instantly blush when we see what they're doing. I immediately call out in the air: "Hey T.O! Was this game rated correctly in your country?"

'Well... since you're adults already, we think it's nothing too problematic.'

Weiss shouts: "Don't tell me you guys feel NOTHING watching this!"

'Considering that's a demon, we don't really feel anything towards it.'

Blake's ears wiggle in discomfort and embarrassment. "I thought we could just play a simple slashing game... why, T.O?"

'You will know the reason.'

"That half answer again, T.O..." Ignoring our blush, I focus back on the screen...

Nero is completely unfazed with the display. "This blizzard must be these demons." And then one of the blue figures moves down to face... then the two raise their hands towards Nero, inviting to 'join' them.

Nero and I now have a similar plan: ending this fight as soon as possible. To Nero, it's so that he could move to the next area; to me, it's to forget that moment. I rush towards them with a Streak, and then Combo A and end the string with Shuffle. One of them turns its hand into a blade and slash up, but I roll to side and avoid in time. I pull out Blue Rose and shoot them, but they just float aside and let the bullets firing cross them. Even Buster doesn't work as well, so I have to rely on Red Queen combos and the Exceed system... And they're more sturdier than Berial a bit...

"Uh, Ruby." Weiss suddenly calls me. "Did T.O just say 'a demon'?"

Yang: "Duh, Weiss. We're playing a 'fighting against demons' game. Why are you surprised by it?"

Weiss: "T.O said 'a demon', not demons."

That reminder causes me to be on a little alarm, just in time for the two figures to float up off the screen... and a huge mouth with sharp teeth appears out of nowhere in the dark and jumps towards me with high speed. Luckily I am still holding Lock-on, so I am able to dodge to the side at the last moment...

Jumping away, Nero points to the revealed demon. "So this is what you really look like..."

The demon is an enormous white frog with red eyes and its back is covered with icicles. The two figures before are its antenna positioned above its head. Then it speaks, each word making its mouth spilling... things: "You're stronger than you look, with a smart ass mouth to match."

Nero retorts: "Cut me some slack, I'm just not big on toads."

That makes the frog to inhale, making its lower mouth to expand with air, then it shouts at Nero, who gets staggered back because of the force of the voice: "FOOL! You think I care what you say!?"

Weiss is a bit annoyed. "At least Berial has a sense of respect. This frog is just like Cardin in general."

Yang: "Except no girls are going to follow him."

Blake: "That's just... bad, Yang."

Nero pats his coat to clear off anything that frog just spitted at him. "If we don't finish this quickly, it's gonna scar me for life."

"All of us, Nero."

Another spit: "I WILL CRUSH YOU!" Nero, at this point, is pissed, and he prepares himself for the fight...

"Weiss..." I raise the controller towards her. "You want to fight him?"

Weiss declines: "Not this one. Not worth it for my pride."

I hold back the controller and start running towards the frog, which starts to breathe in, so I have to change direction and head to the left. And luckily I do so, because once it shouts, two lines of ice come out of its mouth. Once the ice is gone, I Exceed Streak to the frog then hit it with Combo A. It then moves its head slightly, and the antenna moves as well. Considering we have a whip-user in our team, I jump away to avoid getting hit by the thing. I jump up and Calibur towards it and then Roulette Spin to get more Stylish points, finishing the combo with a Split. The demon then jumps away a few feet two times, leaving it vulnerable with all of my Streaks. And then, with two health bars down, he is knocked out. With the experiences in the previous fight with Berial, I see the icicles on its back have been broken. So, time for Buster!

Nero grabs the demon's tongue and pulls himself into its mouth. Then, from the inside, he swings Red Queen around and starts causing damage from the inside, before coming out of its head by opening a hole on it.

All of us cringe at what the Hunter just did. "Eww... I would never think of doing so... But it's effective, I won't lie about it."

Once it's done, I continue slashing the demon while it's recovering with the icicles start glowing back. Then, the frog leaps to the far corner, and starts breathing in. Having stayed in a safe distance, I start air-guitaring in front of its face, making the Style going up to SS Rank. Then, it breathes out all of the air it just inhaled, making all the snow to rise up and cover it away... making the Lock-on useless for a moment before the blue figures appear. Another hack-and-slash combo, but then while I'm attacking, the figure flies up for half a second and the grabs me, freezing me in the place. Panicking, I press all the buttons to try to break away, but I am not fast enough, and the frog reappears and swallows me. It then starts chewing me, but luckily I'm still button-spamming, so it is forced to spit me out in the air, and I manage to give it a Split before it runs away. More cautious this time, I still keep slashing the figures but in slower pace. And then one of them turns into dark red and lays on the ground, not moving. I decide to Buster it and then pulls the frog out of the darkness. Hitting the frog until it reduces to a third of health, it roars up and stops my attacks, as its body turns red. Then, it prepares to leap to me, however, it suddenly freezes up, and my attacks are completely bounced off the body. Taking that as a warning, I go around to the back, and the moment its body turns to normal, the demon leaps towards in an attempt to eat me, but I'm already behind it. Then I go from behind and hitting it, once again staggering it after the icicles break. I Buster, and this time I punch the demon up to the air, grab the tail of the demon and then slam it down to the ground, ending the fight there.

The demon stumbles back, making the snow fly over the place. During it, the frog throws one of the figures towards Nero as an attack, but he grabs the leg and flips the demon to him, making it land on its back. The Hunter swings the demon around his head for a round before throwing it away, and the figure gets detached off the frog due to the force and Nero still grabbing it. The figure then gets absorbed into Nero's arm, much to his own surprise, then the frog speaks: "You think you've beaten me? Never! You piece of..."

"That's exactly what I think." Nero talks to himself, not too bothered by the demon's speech.

The frog tries to flip itself back on its leg while saying: "My brothers...will come! They..."

All of us groan when we hear that. "Don't tell me we're going to fight more of those frogs!?"

Not listening to the demon's rant, Nero summons his spectral arm and punches its face, sending it flying and knocking into wall, then dropping on the floor dead. The disgusting feeling when making the contact with the demon's skin makes Nero cringe and try to wash the feeling away by swaying his arm. "Come on, that's just nasty." Then he registers what the frog just said. "Wait... did he say 'brothers'?"

And right on cue, the ground starts shaking because of the horde of frogs starts moving towards the Hell gate...

"Oh come on! That's just unfair!"

Blake half-agrees: "Unfair, but that's what we get when we sign up as Huntresses, Ruby."

"Fighting hordes of Grimm is fairer than this... frogs!"

Having the same feeling with me, Nero says sarcastically: "Oh that's fair! Now I have got to fight a whole herd of these things!?" Immediately rushing towards the gate, he jumps on the dead frog as a platform and bounces up, then punches the closest one by the face, sending it back and knocking on the others. Taking the chance, he places his hand on the device before the gate to close it. "Sorry pals! We're closed!"

"THANKS OUM WE DON'T HAVE TO FIGHT THEM!" I drop the controller down and shout in the air. Seriously, those things are going to be my nightmares if I have to fight them.

Weiss pinches her nose bridge in annoyance, and agrees with me: "I doubt that any of us want to. Not even battle-crazed ones would."

Yang then says: "Ruby, how about we end this mission and go to bed NOW? I'm not wanting to see any of those things in my dream if we play any longer."

Blake: "Same with Yang."

I nod and start re-controlling. The screen has given description about the figure Nero just absorbed: Rusalka Corpse, a dangling feeler? And the demon's called Bael. Good, to not good, to know. Then, a fence lowers down to reveal another exit to this place. And that's the end of the mission.

"Alright, that's it." Waiting for the result screen to finish, I instantly close Kuro's laptop and disconnect the wires, then puts it on my table. "We continue this by tomorrow. No more of those frogs!"


Chapter 4 end!

Like I have warned, this chapter is short. And there's nothing much memorable of this one to be honest. Next time, maybe I will call team JNPR or so, but low chance of that. Of course, if you want to, then I could add them in.

Skills obtained:

Roulette Spin

Exceed 2 and 3

Streak and Streak 2

Split

Calibur

Shuffle

Snatch 2

That's all for now. See you in the next chapters!

P/S: I hope someone could do a 'RWBY playing DMC5'. That would be awesome!