Finally, managed to return to this story. Sorry for the long wait. From the time this chapter is updated, I will immediately record the next mission so I could write it down soon. Give me a week or so to deal with the next one.

I checked the reviews, but I won't answer them because... well, they're not really questions for me or RWBY characters. So this section will be empty for now.

Okay, let's head into the mission!


"A game night?" Nora asks curiously, as team RWBY and JNPR are eating dinner in a food stall in Vale.

"Yeah!" Ruby answers, as she throws a cookie into her mouth. "We're playing a fighting game. Really entertained."

"Do you want to join?" Yang offers.

"THAT WOULD BE GREAT!" Nora throws her arms in excitement. "We haven't played a new game for a long time! Ren, can we, can we?"

"We don't have any plans for the weekend, so sure." The boy just chuckles at his girlfriend's antic, knowing that she would push him into that even if he denies.

"YES! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU..."

"That aside..." Pyrrha asks: "That fighting game, is it like the ones..."

"Provided by our buddy Kuro." Yang grins.

"When do you girls start?" Jaune immediately asks, excited at the game already.

"Seven." Blake answers. "Bring some popcorn if you want."

"ROGER THAT!"


"Everyone's ready?" Ruby reopens the game...

"LOCKED!" Nora closes the door and jumps on Ruby's bed and grabs a teddy bear. "AND LOADED!"

"We're ready." Ren simply says, though he's also a bit interested at the game.

"Alright... let's see..." Opening the starting menu, the game starts at the 'level selection' screen, and Ruby starts:

Mission 5: Trisagion

Obtain the Wing Talisman!

And the team sees the main character, Nero, standing on a ceiling lamp, as he's looking at the painting of the Holiness.

"Who's that?" Nora asks, oblivious to the person's status.

"Well... He's like the Father of a Church... except that he's already killed in the first mission." Ruby answers.

"Aw..." Nora lowers her face on the pillow, disappointed.

Ruby then starts re-checking her power-ups... and then decides not to buy anything, to save for the MAX-Act. No items buying either, because the Blue Orb costs more than the current Red Orbs she has. "Guess I'm jumping in the game now..."

The cutscene comes in, with Nero walking into the Soldier's Graveyard...

"Another Divinity Statue?" Blake quirks her eyebrows in suspicion.

"What is that?" Pyrrha asks, not kowing what it does.

"It's a shop, to put it simple." Weiss explains. "But, we only encountered a few of them BEFORE a boss fight, and one just after the first fight when we started the new mission."

"Maybe it's a reminder if you went in the game without buying anything?" Jaune gives out his theory.

"...Maybe." Team RWBY thinks about it, and then temporarily nods in agreement.

Unknown to the Devil Hunter, a smokey demon floats up behind him and up to the air, managing to avoid Nero's gaze when he turns back in suspicion. Not seeing anything, he looks back to the graveyard... then feels something on his body, and he looks down to see the demon floating right through him. The two lock their eyes on each other, before the demon flies back to dodge Nero's grab. Once he has a clearer view, Nero sees two of them floating in the air.

"THEY'RE GHOSTS!" Nora shouts, both terrified and excited about the demons' appearances.

"How are we going to hit that? They just float through everything!" Ruby points out the 'unfairness' in the fight.

"Maybe when they possess something? Remember the Geist?" Weiss gives her suggestion, considering she has some experiences dealing with those Grimm.

"Oh right. So hitting the face..." And it's a lot harder than they thought. Turns out the game doesn't differ the place Nero could hit the demon, so aiming to the face is not a solid strategy. Also: "They're not taking damage!" Ruby whines, as she tries to hit the demon with Red Queen, only to see no changes at all.

Not very happy about it, Ruby changes the strategy, as she tries to pulls the demon to her, but, other than pulling a piece of the 'cloth', it does nothing else. Ruby pouts, but when Pyrrha points out that the cloth seems to be thinner, she starts Snatching again, and after the third pull, the cloth vanishes and one of the demons drops on the floor, leaving its body, which resembles a scorpion, vulnerable. And with quick Exceed combos (Streak, Snatch, Combo A, High Roller, Combo A in the air, Snatch, Buster) the demon is gone. Knowing the way to defeat this kind of demon, Ruby decides to taunt the second one, waiting to see what it does.

Taking the 'invitation', the demon circles Ruby once before preparing its finger to stab Nero. However, the huge delay and the obvious light that indicates the attack gives Ruby plenty of time to roll aside. She then Snatches out the cloth again and kills it with additional hits from Shuffle and Calibur.

"The graphics are so detailed." Pyrrha marvels. "It's like a movie, except it's in a game..."

Jaune nods, and continues: "The fighting looks real, too. Though, his sword looks similar to your uncle's, Ruby."

"Yeah, it does."

After that, the red strings disappear, and a hint about the Rusalka Corpse's usage appears, and it also shows a hidden mission in the current stage as well. But...

"Uh, Ruby? Is that necessary?" Ren deadpans, as Ruby starts destroying the statues and the gravestones.

"Ehehe... I wouldn't do that in real life. But, they contain items in this game!" Ruby tries to defend herself for her actions.

"Fair enough." Even though he's against it, Ren can't really say anything, since it's a game.

"And the real one wouldn't even need that statue to 'buy skills' for sure." Yang comments in the matter.

Ruby also tries to get the Gold Orb, but with her current skill sets, she can't get it for now. So she gives up and runs to the secret mission, as the light in Nero's demon's arm shines up...


Secret Mission 03: Nonviolent Resistance

Raise your stylish ranking without using attacks!

"..." Team RWBY has, for a moment, no comments on that.

"Stylish Ranking? It means the raising bar when you attacked the demons?" Jaune asks.

"Yeah." Ruby answers. "But how?"

"Dodging and taunting. That's the only way." Weiss says, knowing what to do.

"I mean, do you see how fast the rank bar dropped?" Ruby points out the problem.

"...You have a point."

In the room, there are two Scarecrows and one Frost, as they start attacking Ruby on sight. She tries to dodge and taunt, however, the meter seems to not work with pre-dodge, and only counts the 'last second' dodge to raise up the parameter. And it reduces A LOT when Ruby gets hit. Trying to Snatch a few times, the skill only works once. And... after a lot of unsuccessful dodges and getting hits...

"So... Gold Orb or not?" Ruby scratches her head, not wanting to use it for this reason.

"I would say, no." Blake answers. "It's not too far away from the beginning, so we can just repeat it until we get it."

"You have a point."

Though, only at the third try, would Ruby manage to get it done. And then, T.O says that it's okay to hit them after finishing the mission, so Ruby releases everything she has on the demons, as the payback for the involuntary hit on her.

"Ah, that's good." Ruby groans, satisfied at the 'massacre' she just committed. She then gives the controller to Weiss. "Your turn, Weiss. I'm gonna rest my fingers a bit."

"Sure."


After leaving the secret mission, Weiss heads up the stairs and walks through the door that leads into the Master's Chamber. And without warning, the knight armors appear in the room, however, the red strings do not appear. Not intimidated by their appearances, Weiss starts locking on one of them and hits it hard with Combo A, then sends it to the air and Roulette Spin it, which one of the other armors foolishly flies in and gets hit for no reasons. Though Weiss doesn't complain though.

"Hey Jaune, can your shield do that?" Nora asks her leader, when she sees the shields of the armors could be detached into two and turned into wings.

"Even if it could, I don't think I could fly Nora." Jaune immediately knows what she's thinking. "And even if I can, you would just use me as a method of travel."

"Hehe..." Nora scratches her head, having her idea busted.

Pyrrha giggles at the exchange, then notices the devil arm starting to shine. "Hey Weiss, something hidden is nearby."

"I got it." Running around the room for a few seconds, Weiss finds out that the item is behind the mirror. Though, it turns out to be another secret mission. "More Fragments for us."


Secret Mission 10: Puppet Master

Manipulate the Gyro Blades and raze everything!

"Okay, this one seems better than the previous one." Blake comments.

"Although, ten? That's a bit too fast." Yang sees the number of the mission being a bit too high.

Weiss: "Not sure. Maybe we miss something... then again, we just beat number 3, and it fit the numbers of secret missions we past before this point."

It starts with Weiss standing before a stationed Gyro Blade, so she immediately goes to it and activates the blade, then hits it a few times before sending it to the first target: a small pillar that's lightened up with blue lines. At the beginning it seems to be easy, however, given with how unstable the blade is, she has a hard time controlling how far it goes. And in the end, it takes her two times to finish the cause because of the time limit on the first try. At least after that she gets her health bar increased by one.

And when she returns to the Master's Chamber, the armors reappear, and this time Weiss gets hit by a few cheap hits from the shields and a flying thrust from the dead corner of the camera.

"Those knights sure have something on you huh?" Yang jokes at how Weiss gets hit.

"Shut up." Weiss protests.

Ignoring Yang's laugh, Weiss heads to the next door, and it leads to the second floor of the Torture Chamber, with a Gyro Blade and a wheel to hit. She hits the latter first, and the ceiling drops down with the fence lowers down as well, giving Weiss a way to head on. Activating the Gyro Blade, she guides it on the new path...

The Gyro Blade collides with the pillar, shattering it in pieces, and the object falls to the first floor, making the floor collapse with its sheer weight. Nero also jumps in, follows the Blade...

"Why does he have to do that?" Jaune asks in confusion.

"Well, in the previous mission..." Ruby says: "The floor below has a massive crack. I think Nero has suspected that something was wrong with it."

"Though..." Pyrrha is curious. "How does that work? I mean, if they built the place to have such hole, and then covered it up..."

"True." Weiss agrees. "There's no way people would let that happen... unless, this is the game's logic..."

Nero falls down to the bottom of the Spiral Well, where a pillar similar to the one in Cathedral but in red and shorter than the previous one stations before a big root of a tree. The demons in the graveyard start appearing again...

One of them swings its tail towards Weiss, but she sees that coming and jumps up to dodge. After that, just normal wrecking with a few taunts in between. "Still not a challenge."

Blake: "Or maybe because we're skilled in nature. Normal players can't react as fast as we are."

"Yeah."

Once the fight's over, the red strings break again, and Weiss gains the object inside of the pillar, which is the Wing Talisman. Then, the circles, similar to the one in the Grand Hall, start shining up in red except one of the two on the bottom floor, and they seem to make a stair of short. Weiss jumps on the red glyph, and it bounces her up to the level of the next glyph, though during the flight the Devil Buster shines up again. So, Weiss aims to the second glyph, but then she lands on the second floor... and finds nothing inside the empty space, although the arm keeps shining brighter the closer she gets in. And then when she's fully in and stops for a second, some orbs suddenly appear in the air, giving a few more orbs in the process.

"Oh so THAT'S why that one is empty! The red orbs are invisible!" Ruby exclaims, remembering the strange location in the Grand Hall.

"That ability surely comes in handy." Yang says unconsciously, and then chuckles, causing everyone to groan because she just made another pun.

The third floor contains a red crystal, and the floor just before exiting the hole has a Vital Star. After that, Weiss jumps to the Torture Chamber's first floor... and then she gives the controller to Blake. "Here. You do the rest."

"Thanks." Just in time for the Scarecrows and the Scorpion demons appear and block her way to go back to the Main Hall. Though, they're still no match even with larger size of the horde. And since they're many enough... "Oh hey, SSS-Rank. Smoking... Sick... Style."

"And that's with our current skills." Ruby says. "We can be even more stylish in the future!"

Exiting the Chamber and into the Large Hall. 'Warmly' welcomed by the Frosts. "Don't make puns here, Creator. That's my job." Yang immediately comments.

Returning to the Grand Hall, where the glyph is now usable. Though, Blake reaches the second floor and re-checks the previous higher ground... and true enough, hidden Red Orbs.

Then she goes down and wrecks the chairs, before jumping on the glyph, which bounces her to the huge ceiling lamp...

Nero looks at the crack on the lamp, then to the picture of the Holiness. He then smirks, pulls out Red Queen and swings at the crack, disconnecting the lower part of the lamp with the holder, and the lamp slams right into the picture...

"That's... a bit disrespectful from him." Pyrrha nervously says. "Even though we don't know who he is, that old man must be very important to have a portrait like that."

"We agree." Team RWBY and the rest nod, with Yang continues: "Even if he's a rebellious, he should give the dead guy a little mourn before doing so."

"That's... not helping, Yang." Blake scowls.

Although, that crash does one helpful thing: There's a hidden passage behind the portrait. And Nero, after landing down with the broken lamp, just casually walks in...

"Wow, not even batting an eye..." Jaune says, not believing at that.

"He even shot a panel in frustration." Yang recalls. "I would be surprised if he did another thing."

Walking down, Blake takes the Vital Star and walks through the door that leads to the Underground Laboratory. She heads to the hole that leads further below...


In a spacious room, where the Holiness's body is rested on a stone bed with words written on it in the middle of the room, with Credo standing next to the bed.

"Wow, that guy looks cool." Nora comments on Credo's look.

"A royal knight of sort, I take it?" Ren asks Ruby, who nods in response.

"Though, why don't they just... make a ceremony of sort already?" Weiss asks not to anyone particularly.

The camera zooms to the Holiness's face... and then his red eyes open.

That makes both teams nearly jump back in surprise, as they start seeing the body of the Holiness starting to shift violently on the bed, making even Credo drop his stand and look in worry. After a few seconds, the body stops shifting, and the old man closes his eyes slowly...

"Ruby..." The leader of team RWBY turns to the powerhouse of team JNPR. "Didn't you say he's dead?"

"I did! We saw him getting shot!" Ruby says, clearly not expecting this event happens.

"Was he... like Nero?" Jaune asks in fear.

"... But if that's the case, then why faking his death?" Weiss says.

"For some back-up plans." Ren says. "With our previous experiences, I could say that person is NOT a good person, with that eyes of him just now."

"But... he didn't have that eyes before..." Ruby says shakily.

"Maybe he hid it... or he just recently got it..." Blake says, her ears twitching uncomfortably.

The old man's eyes reopen, revealing them to regain their normal state. Credo eases up and regains his composure while saying: "You have awakened." The Holiness looks to the person and says his name, and he continues: "My men are currently in pursuit of Dante. It's only a matter of time before his location is revealed."

A silence moment. Then the Holiness says: "He came to us... It was fortunate I was able to participate...in the 'ascension ceremony'."

During the time he's speaking, a new person walks into the room and towards the bed. The camera then shows his face...

"Not liking him already." Nora immediately says.

"Same sentiments." Everyone else follows. That kind of face is like of a rapist of sort. For real.

The person then looks up from his writing note and sees the Holiness waking up. His mouth widens up to a smile...

That makes everyone cringes.

And says: "His Holiness! You look magnificent!"

"Even his voice... god." Ruby groans, not pleased by the sound the new man is making.

The man plans to walk closer, but Credo blocks his way. He then starts questioning him: "You sent that cocky kid Nero to find Dante?"

Credo, not fazed by the terrorizing tone of the new man, places his right hand on the bed. "You question my command?"

"YES!" The man shouts, displeased at Credo's order. "What shall befall me s-s-s-..." For some reasons, the man stutters on his own words before continuing: "should he stumble upon my research facility?"

"Well, he already did." Weiss deadpans.

Instead of directly answering the question, Credo says: "Our priority is to capture Dante."

"WHY YOU T-T-T-T..." The man is trying to swear...

"Credo." The Holiness speaks up, interrupting the man. Upon hearing Credo's answer, he says: "Gather everyone. I must... ease their minds on this matter."

Credo complies. "Of course." And he walks away, while sending a glare back-and-forth to the other man. That man then writes something on his note again without even looking at it...

And with that, the screen gets shot again and the result appears. Ruby blinks. "This mission is already over?"

"Kind of short. But maybe it will be longer for the next mission." Yang says. She then gets up and checks the windows and sees a crow with red eyes staring at her. "Oh hey Uncle Qrow. Come in."

The bird then comes inside and transforms into the said Huntsman. "Sup, kids? What do you have here?"

Pyrrha answers: "Just a gaming night, sir. You want to join?"

Qrow takes a sip on his wine bottle before saying: "Why not? I don't really have any missions for the recent days."

Ruby: "Yeppy! Now, let's get to the next mission!"


Chapter 5 end!

The mission is too short by itself, so sorry for the length of this chapter.

And yes, I didn't buy anything in this mission to keep Proud Souls for the MAX-Act. So there is nothing changed yet for the skills obtained.

See you all in the next chapters!