Author's Note:

Hello guys, no chapter this week due to work needing me for longer than my scheduled hours. At least I'll be able to pay rent, lol. Anyway here are more sketches from what my friends and I came up with while gaming. Enjoy!


Trouble with Grimm Eclipse Skins II:

"Alright guys, we're almost at Merlot's hideout! We just gotta get through even more waves of enemies and we'll be golden!" Justin, also known as Achilles yelled.

Everyone looked at eachother confused.

"What? Is there something on my face?" Justin asked.

"More like what you're wearing. Are you trying to be edgy or something?" Yang asked.

"Huh?" Justin looked down to notice he was no longer wearing his Guess jacket, but instead now has a red coat. And a prosthetic arm. "What the hell happened to my arm?!" He bellowed.

"Quit your bitching." Aaron, also known as Moon, deadpanned.

Everyone stared at the man who was now wearing a black tank top,a green and black plaid skirt, and a wig that made his hair look fluffy.

No one knew how to react to the image in front of them.

"Now how about we just go." Aaron deadpanned again as he gestured forward. He then walked past everyone as if he didn't know what he was wearing.

"Yeah I have no words for that." Keoth said behind the group. He was now wearing a blue sweatshirt and black pants.

"Well at least you're normal…" Justin muttered under his breath.

"Yeah but my balls are gone." Keoth commented.

"Huh?"

Keoth then got up close to Justin and whispered "Where are my balls Justin?"


The Wild Ruby Rose

"Huh… that's interesting." Justin noted out loud as he was messing with stuff on his laptop.

"What's up Achilles?" Ruby asked.

"One of my games appears to be working." Justin told her.

"Ooh! What's the name?" Ruby asked with sparkles in her eyes.

"It's called Sea of Thieves. And it's supposed to be multiplayer. But apparently the servers work here." Justin answered.

She then bumped Justin out of his seat as she took over his laptop "Ooh it's a pirate game?! Now I have to play it."

"Ruby, that's my account. I need to check things on it first." Justin told her as he recovered from Ruby's blinding speed and apparently good hip checking technique.

"Come one, just for a few minutes?" Ruby said as she gave Justin her cute eyes with a pouty expression.

Justin tried his best to resist, but ultimately succumbed to the Rose family charm. "Fine, a few minutes then I need to check something."

"YAY!" Ruby cheered happily.

Justin showed her the basics of how the game works. Between the PvE mechanics, how to care for the ship, and some of the clothing options.

"Why does your character look so ugly?" Ruby asked.

"There's only one, maybe two good-looking models in the entire game. And you'd basically have to win the lottery in order to get it." Justin explained.

Ruby looked back at it confused.

"Besides, do you expect pirates to care about looks?" He asked.

"That's fair I suppose." Ruby sighed as she continued to play the game.

Eventually she managed to get enough gold in game to get the entire Wild Rose set, Which to those that don't know is a ship set you can get in game, named after a Tall Tale quest you can do to reunite the lovers in the afterlife. However it was fitting for a girl with the last name of Rose.

"So what happens now?" Ruby asked.

"Grinding that gold." Justin replied with a smile.

Ruby looked back at the game confused "Wait so that's the entire point of the game?"

Justin nodded "Yep, the long and the short of it."

She then looked back at Justin in confusion "But that sounds boring."

"It'd only be boring if the game wasn't so beautiful." Justin remarked.

"I guess so. Well you go check your thing. I'll be in the training hall with the rest of the team." Ruby said as she got up from the chair. "See you there?" She asked

Justin gave her a nod "yep. See you there in a bit."

And then Ruby walked out.


Battle of the Bands

'Hey dude!" Aaron yelled excitedly as he ran up to his friend Justin.

Justin looked back at him confused. "What's up?"

Aaron then shoved a flyer in Justin's hands. Inspecting it Justin read that some sort of Battle of the Bands was taking place in a few weeks. He looked back at Aaron and stated "I haven't played an instrument since elementary."

Aaron shrugged "That's what practice is for. I already got Fox on board, now we just need Joce to complete the band."

Justin nodded "Fine, but you gotta teach me what instrument you want me to play."

"Don't you have a guitar/axe?" Aaron asked.

Justin sighed in defeat "Yeah, I do. And a little practice."

"Good, we'll meet after class every day until we get our song right." Aaron proclaimed.

"Hang on, since when were you the leader?" Justin asked.

"Since I'm a better captain than you in Sea of Thieves, and better leader in Grimm Eclipse." Aaron retorted.

Justin nodded "Fair I suppose."

And so, every day after class the group practiced. It took a lot of practice to get the rhythm right. Justin kept messing up some of the notes, Jocelyn kept trying to take over parts of the song that weren't hers which led to endless arguing between her and Aaron. And Keoth was just vibing.

Soon the event came. Ozpin announced "Welcome to the Battle of the Bands. I'm Professor Ozpin, alongside me are Professors Port,Oobleck, Winter, and Qrow. We will be presiding over this Battle of the Bands, as proposed by Moon Shadow."

Justin glared at his friend "So this was YOUR idea." he whispered.

Aaron shrugged with a smirk.

"Let me introduce the bands. We have... The Gaming Level? With the lead singer Moon Shadow? Huh, interesting."

Aaron waved to the audience as they were cheering. Justin awkwardly waved which made some of the female members of the audience aw like he was the most adorable thing they saw. With Jocelyn seconds later glaring daggers at them.

"Next we have… ugh. Puns and Roses, unfortunately their normal fifth member, Achilles Vermilion, is with Moon Shadow's band."

Ruby smirked at Justin "We're gonna kick your butt Achilles!"

Justin smirked back "We'll see Ruby! We will see."

"Next, the Neptunez. with Sun, Neptune, Ren, and Jaune."

A good majority of the female audience screamed out loud.

"The Treble Clefs."

"It's Trouble Clefs!" Roman corrected.

Neo then shot a cannon.

"Neo, that wasn't the cue!" Roman said with an aggravated tone.

Neo wasn't paying any attention due to being distracted by Aaron.

"P3N-3" He then muttered "Oh it's Penny, just spelled stupid. That's cute."

Penny transformed into having a dj booth around her as she proudly proclaimed "I'm DJ ready!"

"Alright alright, Let's not waste anyone's time. Because tonight, The Gaming Level will take home the gold!" Aaron proudly proclaimed.

Ozpin nodded "Seems fair. Without further ado. Let the battle begin!"

Justin started up the base giving a slow burn melody that quickly picked up pace with Jocelyn following afterwards.

Keoth got a catchy beat going as Aaron tapped his foot to the rhythm.

And just as Aaron was about to start singing, Ruby interrupted. "Um, what are you guys doing?"

The band looked at Ruby as Aaron explained "About to start our song?"

"What kind of competition do you think this is?" Ruby asked.

"A Battle of the Bands!" Aaron yelled.

"Exactly!" Yang said as she flipped her guitar/axe around.

Soon chaos erupted as everyone started battling.

No one between the friends knew how to respond to the events unfolding in front of them.

Aaron walked off the stage mumbling as the rest joined him to not get caught up in this mess.


Prank War (Gone wrong. I was hospitalized)

"Hey everyone." Justin greeted the camera on his scroll. "I'm Achilles Vermilion and this is Jackass."

He tip-toed over to where Aaron and Velvet were studying with a squirt gun which had… questionable fluids in it. Justin then tried to keep quiet with his obnoxious giggling as he aimed it right at his friend Aaron.

Velvet noticed and Justin put a finger over his lips to tell her to be quiet.

Velvet nodded and kept Aaron distracted. "So… You know this is also coming up on the test, right?"

"God kill me…" Aaron mumbled.

Justin then squeezed the trigger on his squirt gun which Aaron immidiatly yelled "WHAT THE FUCK?!"

Justin couldn't contain his laughter at that point.

"Oh you motherfucker. I will rain hellfire on you if this is what I think it is!" Aaron yelled

Sage then grabbed both their ears, rather annoyed that they were being so loud in her library. "Both of you, behave. You're grown adults. Not children."

"Got it, sorry Sage." Justin said apologetically while also under immense pain.

"Same here." Aaron said.

"Good, now all three of you. Out" Sage ordered.

"What did I do?" Velvet asked.

"You instigated this. Out." Sage ordered. "Don't make me use my semblance."

The trio walked out of the library after that.

"I'm gonna take a shower, and then I'm going to get you back." Aaron declared. "For now you see, you have started a war."

Justin smirked, "Then I'll watch over my shoulder."

They then parted ways with Velvet wondering if she made the right decision in not warning Aaron, or as she knows him: Moon, about his friend aiming a squirt gun at him.

Later on Justin was leaning against the wall taking in the fresh air. Little did he know above him Aaron had made a water balloon filled with red paint.

As tempted as he was to drop it as soon as possible, he wanted to wait until his guard was completely down.

And that's when Weiss showed up. From up high he couldn't tell what they were talking about, but he seemed distracted enough.

Aaron dropped it, and after a few seconds of freefall, it landed on top of Justin's head as soon as he stood up.

Some of the red paint splattered on Weiss' combat outfit.

Both of them looked up to see Aaron waving while yelling "Got'cha!"

Justin smirked as he retorted, "You won this battle, but the war is far from over!"

"We'll see about that little bitch!" Aaron yelled back.

And so, the prank war ensued. Each one more elaborate than the last. Aaron used Justin's limited perception to his advantage in every one of his pranks. From a simple pie to the face, to being chased into a waterfall in which Justin became drenched.

Justin started coming up with complicated contraptions that either had something sticky, gross, or something that Ruby came up with. Oh yeah she became involved in it when she was caught in the crossfire of one of Aaron's pranks.

However by the end of the day that all came to an end with one of Justin's contraptions targeting the wrong individual.

"Alright, one more time Ruby. So Moon will come around that corner, which will set off the tripwire, which will pull this lever, and release the mother of all ruberbands and send this bit of food waste into his face."

Ruby nodded with a smirk. "Now we wait." and as if right on cue, they heard footsteps. "I think that's him down the hall."

Ruby and Justin ducked around a corner. They were soon joined by another voice asking "What are we waiting for?"

Ruby and Justin turned to meet the face of their raven haired friend Aaron.

"Wait if you're here then that means… Oh no!" Justin realized.

He peaked around the corner to see Yang was about to walk up to the tripwire.

And at that moment, everything appeared in slow motion, Justin desperately to catch up to the lever to make sure it didn't release the rubber band.

But it was too late. The balloon full of food waste was already on its way into Yang's face. And it splattered all over.

Yang took a moment before she realized what happened. Aaron and Ruby were still hidden behind the corner.

"Yang, I can explain." Justin pleaded as he kept his hands up.

"You have five seconds to run." Yang warned.

Justin looked to his friends but was met with rose petals. Ruby used her semblance to get out of there with Aaron.

"Fuck… welp I hope the nurse has a spot ready for me." Justin mumbled.

He then ran the opposite direction of Yang as she yelled at him throughout the halls of Beacon Academy.

It caught the attention of Ozpin and Glynda.

"Glynda, check the cameras please." Ozpin politely ordered.

"Already on it sir." Glynda growled as she checked the cameras with such malicious intent. "Ah it seems Mr. Vermilion is being chased by Ms Xiao Long. Should I put a stop to it before that poor boy gets his ribs broken again?"

Ozpin shook his head. "His aura will defend him as much as possible. Besides, you don't want to get involved with an angry Yang. Especially when she's… upset."