I Don't Own RWBY
"Ash get back!" Teal had yelled that at me before pulling out what looked like a pair of short swords, not sure why I knew what a sword was but I wasn't going to complain about them having weapons at the moment. So I followed her words and moved back a bit only to blinked in mild surprise as I watched as a beowolf turned and charged at me. I wonder what I should do about this. Glancing my eyes upwards I caught the level, twenty-two. Hmm...Observe?
Beowolf
Level: 22
Hp: 1400/1400
STR:50
VIT:30
DEX:40
INT:2
WIS:2
CHR:0
LUC:0
Exp: 1500
Over one thousand health? That's quite ridiculous in my opinion on the matter, and judging by the stats it has, I won't be fast enough to try and move out of it's way or out run it...Hmm, it's quickly getting closer as well so I should think of something quickly. The only thing I believe I can do in this situation is to go up. Well, here's for hoping this works, as otherwise, well, it's been a fun two and a half days of life.
With that, I blinked to myself just for a token act of comfort before sprinting forwards at the Grimm. Any other time I would have been interested in the act of running but now wasn't the time as I jumped at the last possible moment as the Beowolf lowed itself like it was about to tackle me. I just barely managed to clear most of it when the Grimm straighten it's as it's back slammed into me. Causing me to tumble onto the ground as my leg suddenly became much more acquainted with what pain feels like.
Expect it only last for a moment, I pushed that realization away just like I pushed away all the boxes that had popped up in front of my eyes, not bothering to read them as I listened to the Beowolf growl before thundering steps made it sound like it was heading in my direction. Getting the last box out of my way just in time to see the Grimm about to land on me. I did the only thing I could think of in that small moment I had to react. I rolled to the side.
To bad I wasn't fast enough to clear the gap as the Beowolf landed on my left shoulder, pinning me to the ground as I winced in sudden pain before it disappeared just as fast. Looking at the Grimm for a very short second, I did the only thing I was capable of doing at the moment, I pulled my free hand back and punched the Grimm. It did three damage and my view was blocked by yet another window. getting a bit annoyed at the windows I just pushed it out of my way instead of dismissing it. Hoping it would just stack up over there instead of in my way.
Not that doing it was going to help me any since I'm about to die but it's nice to know that I wouldn't be bugged while it happened. At least that's what I assumed was about to happen, though that was stopped as a blade was stabbed through the Grimm's head, and was close enough to my nose that I think if I leaned my head up I would be touching it.
As the Grimm disintegrated around the weapon, I just looked up at Teal for a moment before standing up. It wasn't exactly all that scary, sure I'm quite pleased that I'm still alive, I find living quite enjoyable after all, but being scared would have been a bit much and a bit of a waste of time. Honestly it was a bit of a shame to, I've been asked about fear quite a bit recently so I wouldn't mind trying it out at some point. I even have a list at this point about emotions I would like to feel.
"Are you ok?" I nodded, to which she let out what I believe to be a sigh of relief. Which was fair, as for her, I appear completely fine, though as I glanced over at my many still opened menus, I knew that not to be the case. Focusing back on them as Teal dashed off to continue to focus on the Grimm around us, I began to read through the message menu that basically summed up everything that had happened.
For quick decision making, INT increased by one point
From using aura in a creative way the User has created skill: Aura Leap
From taking a strong hit, the User has created skill: Physical Endurance
From taking a strong hit, the User has created skill: Aura Shield
For building pain tolerance, VIT increased by three points
For doing a specific action the User has created skill: Strong Hit
For doing a specific action while using Aura the User has created skill: Aura Enhance
A side effect from skill Strong Hit created skill: Critical Hit
That is a lot of new information to go through. Moving to the stat upgrades first as I was most use to them, I mentally updated my own head count on what my stats are while making note that Vitality can be increased by getting damaged, which will more than likely be an unfortunate thing to increase as pain isn't something I found very pleasant to be honest. Thoughts for later, I should look into seeing what these new skills are about. I mean, most of the Grimm are dead now so it's not like there is to much danger.
(Active) Aura Shield [Max]
The User cloaks themself in their own Aura allowing their Ap bar to be used as a secondary Hp bar.
Cost: Ap regeneration is disabled when skill is in use
(Active) Aura Leap [Level 1]
The distance in which the user can span from leaping
Distance in meters equals DEX + 20 aura spent per extra meter
[Max distance: 50]
(Active) Aura Enhance [Level 1]
When active all User's stats besides LUC are increased
Current Increase: 10%
Cost: 40 Ap per minute
(Passive) Physical Endurance [Level 1]
The body's durability increases, allowing for less damage taken.
1% decrease in damage taken by attacks
(Active ) Strong Hit [Level 1]
Strikes the target with a strong force
10% increase in attack damage
5% increase in attack speed
(Passive) Critical Hit [Level 1]
Chance of the User's attack to do bonus damage
20% bonus to damage
LUC/5
Current Chance: 0.2%
Hmm. Note to self, STR is my main stat for damage output, which means my very little amount of damage dealt makes sense. Unfortunate since from memory, most of my points are currently more focused around INT and DEX. I think I would like to continue that focus as well though, since it would appear that the cost of some of my skills are Ap and with Aura Shield, I don't really have to worry about training VIT if I have enough aura to take the damage instead.
As for the other skills, the Aura Leap skill isn't all that interesting on it's own as with enough time I would assume my DEX would be more than enough to use even without the bonus I can give it with Aura points. Physical Endurance as well seems unimportant when I could have a high enough DEX stat to just dodge but it would be nice to have if I do have to take the hit. As for Critical Hit, it isn't exactly a viable thing to count on happening with such low odds of occurring but that's mostly from my very low Luck stat.
Besides that I don't have anything else to add on to my already established thoughts on the matter on these skills. So with that I closed out all the windows just in time to watch as the last Grimm disappeared into black smoke. Well this was nice. It gives me perspective on just what I have to expect, and that is death if I don't do anything with my Semblance to get stronger. Just one of those Grimm could have killed me, it nearly almost did after all.
"Are you sure you're ok? Getting pinned by one of those things isn't exactly pleasant for anyone" I just blinked and looked back over towards Teal as she put away her weapons, storing them in the inside of her cloak. After a moment of trying to figure out why such a thing was really that big of a deal, I finally settled on what to say as from her face I think she was a bit tense at the moment.
"You were there so I didn't see a need to worry" It was true, the quest said as much that they would be the ones to protect me, not to mention that they're levels were much higher than those Grimm, so realistically I had nothing to fear as long as I stayed out of the way. Sure that didn't turn out the best in the end but I'm alive so I don't see a reason to complain about it in anyway. Though from the suddenly new emotion on her face, I'm not sure if I managed to calm her or not.
"Right" She turned around for a moment, looking away from me for some reason before after a few seconds moved to go over by her team. I don't really understand but after a moment Slate walked up to me with something in his hand. He looked a bit reserved about it but still handed over the item to me. I just looked down at it for a long second before my mind connected it with a word.
"A gun" I stated it as fact because that's what it is. It's a gun. Slate grimaced, something they all seem to do to much in my opinion, but then again I don't do anything with my own face really so maybe I can't say much about it when everything they do seems like a bit much. Anyway, it was just an average handgun, nothing fancy, at least on the surface...Observe.
Slate's Backup-
Rank: C
A compact basic handgun designed and used by Slate in case of a weapon misfire from his semblance.
Base Damage: 50 + DEX
Magazine size: 12 bullets/3 Dust rounds
Current Ammo: 12/12 bullets
I wasn't sure exactly what a dust round was, but I could make a guess it's a separate type of ammunition from a stranded bullet, that much was a bit obvious. And not something I'll have to worry about at the moment as normal rounds are currently loaded into the gun. Though that doesn't change the fact that I wasn't really sure why I was holding the thing in the first place
"Why am I holding this?" I was confused as to why he felt the need for me to have it. Slate just grinned, though it was a bit forced, before giving me a pat on the head, something he seems to like to do for some reason, I didn't really understand it but he seems to enjoy it so I haven't bothered to say anything about it.
"Well, you need something to defend yourself in some way. Sorry to say kid but that punch you landed didn't exactly do much. At least this way you might stun the Grimm for a moment to buy yourself some more time... I don't think I have to tell you that you shouldn't be playing around with it" I just nodded at his words as I looked the item in my hand over for a few more moments. Inspecting it for a few moments, mostly to note where the certain placement of things like the safety and the ejection functions were located, when a box popped up.
[Skill Created]
Through close examination of a handgun classified fire arm, the User has created the skill: Handgun Maintenance
(Passive) Handgun Maintenance [Level 1]
The level at which the User can maintain the functions of Handgun based weaponry.
1% bonus to damage when giving maintenance to a handgun classed weapon
Lasts for 1 hour
Oh...This is quite strange. It isn't the first time this has happened by far but having a whole section of information being unlocked in your head is quite the weird feelings, as I now know most of the inter-workings of the gun in my hand when I didn't not any of that even a few seconds ago. It wasn't like it was jarring since I've experience that feeling on a whole other level before but it was still noticeable nonetheless.
"Thank you" I didn't forget about Slate, and I felt it was only appropriate to thank him for giving me something like this as it was something he made and clearly had put effort into from the description that he had designed this weapon... I wonder how hard it would be for me to make my own version of this item. I mean I know enough about the gun to reassemble it more than likely, plus it would probably give me another level in Handgun Maintenance for learning more about the inter-workings...Well, just in case I shouldn't try it at the moment, not until I'm in Vale where I won't have to have something to defend myself with.
"No problem kid, now come on, let's get back to walking" I nodded again, as I've found the action, after getting use to it, to be much more efficient than saying the same message. With that we both turned and made our way back to the other three while I looked down at my hand and decided to try and use that Aura Enhance skill I just unlocked. It would only last for about two minutes but it seems to be a good and easy skill to level up and I have to start some where.
As it activated, I noted a very faint red shimmer to cover my hand for a brief moment before disappearing, showing it's activation I guess. Well that's neat. I can only guess this means my aura is red colored which is neat, though not my favorite color... Do I have a favorite color? No, no I do not. I should do something about that but I'm unsure what color I should pick... I guess I could go for red for right now until I get to experience a wider range of the color spectrum with my own eyes instead of what I believe they look like.
"Are you ok?" I looked over at Grey, who was looking at me with a weird mix of interest and concern, at least that's what my skill was telling me it was, honestly it just looked like his face was just covered in weird wrinkle lines. It was night at the moment, about another two days that Grimm ambush, and so far nothing as happened on the way back, though I have been told we still have another two and a half days at least before we'll get to the kingdom. It's still in my time limit so I don't mind any.
"I'm fine" He nodded at that but didn't look away. I wasn't sure why he felt the need to ask about my state of being though. Still, he didn't say anything for a long moment afterwards, letting the silence fill the darkening night air for almost a full minute before saying.
"You're broken aren't you" I blinked at that and turned to look at the man again, he wasn't looking at me though, more over he was looking up at the night sky. His head turned up enough that I couldn't see his face, but that didn't make his statement any less confusing for me to understand. From what I know about the word Broken, it doesn't seem to be able to be applied to me.
"I don't understand" He laughed a bit at that, it didn't sound like the pleasant ones that he shared with his team when they talked and joked around with each other. This one was a bit more harsh and I wasn't sure why it was different.
"You don't feel things like the rest of us. You're emotions don't work, they're broken...It's easy to see, your face never changes and you speak in monotone. You almost remind me of my little sister...Well at least before she learned how to act normal, if only so she would stopped being bugged by our parents, who always spent to much time if she was fine or testing her to see what was wrong" He stopped talking, drifting off into silence as I looked away, up at the night sky he was looking at, wondering what to say to that.
He was right after all, though not in the way he thinks. I have emotions, I know because I've felt them. It's just that they're buried under this all encompassing calm feeling I always have. Making all the other feelings so muted that it's hard to really understand and recognize them. So he's right in a way, in terms of 'normal people' my emotions are broken and dysfunctional.
"Is that considered a bad thing?" I didn't think so, it was just a part of who I am, one of the first parts of myself that I've learned about as well. But it's becoming a bit clear that this isn't something that other people will be able to understand. I could tell from what Grey said his parents did to his sister. I wasn't really expecting the sudden laugh that came from the man besides me.
"Nah. At least I don't think so. You can't exactly give off any negative emotions, so Grimm won't be attracted to you near as much. So if anything in this world you might be a lucky one. Though, it does depend on who you ask...I've had a bit more of a personal first hand experience on someone like you, so I know a bit more. But if you asked someone like Teal, well, I'm sure she would give you a rant about how emotions are what fuel people to do stuff, be it selfishness or some other motivator it all stems from emotions"
Teal wasn't wrong. Me wanting to learn more about the kind of person I am, and what I want to do with my sudden life is something that is uniquely selfish to me and me alone. It's what is driving me to use my Semblance to become strong enough to live without having to worry as much about something as unfortunate as dying while I learn more about this world and myself. Though, he makes a good point as well, I can't say it isn't handy that I'm not as much of a magnet to these monsters like most people are.
"I see" He just chuckled at that and shook his head, my skill told me that he didn't think I did but I don't see a reason to convince him otherwise, so I just continued to look away for a moment before bringing up my Skill menu. It had been a few days and in that time I managed a few things, nothing crazy and nothing that I even had to go out of my way for. Most of it was just using one skill over and over again when I go enough Ap available.
(Active) Aura Enhance [Level 3]
When active all User's stats besides LUC are increased
Current Increase: 20%
Cost: 28 Ap per minute
(Passive) Handgun Maintenance [Level 3]
The level at which the User can maintain the functions of Handgun based weaponry.
3% bonus to damage when giving maintenance to a handgun classed weapon
Lasts for 3 hours
(Passive) Body Language [Level 15]
(Active) Observe [Level 13]
It wasn't much because most of my days have only been walking until nightfall but it's something. While all the walking has come with it's own uses as well, though I haven't gotten any more VIT points, I have gotten a point in DEX and even two in STR for some reason, not that I was one to complain about it. Still, I can't say I'm all that happy at the moment. To be fair I don't think I've felt the emotion yet but that just proves my point.
All I'm doing at the moment is walking and having conversations with a Team that I'm only half sure even likes me. Teal and Slate seem to while Garnet just avoids me, and really this is the first talk I've had with Grey since my first night with them and it wasn't on a topic that most would consider light and friendly. I'm not sure, it just feels like I'm not learning anything more about myself, even if I know I've actually learned a lot. Like I'm a quiet type, not seeing much use in overly drawn out sentences.
And that I'm not fully scared of death, just hesitant to leave behind a life that I don't know much about. Along with now knowing that my emotional availability is not exactly grand in comparison to the average person. Really, I've learned a number of things, which I'm glad about as this is what I was hoping for though, I must admit I was hoping for more answers quicker but that was unrealistic from the start to expect and I knew it, it doesn't mean I haven't thought about it.
Level: 12
Small Nevermore
Small Nevermore
Level: 12
Hp: 700/700
STR:15
VIT:10
DEX:25
INT:1
WIS:3
CHR:0
LUC:0
Exp: 175
It was a small bird, that's all there was to say about it if you ignored the fact that it was also a Grimm and was circling over head of me at the moment. Looking upward at the creature for a moment, I slowly pulled out my gun from my inventory before clicking the safety off. Looking over at the other four for a moment, I noted Teal seemed to frown a bit before nodding to me. It was nice of her to let me have a chance to actually get use to this weapon. SO with that I raised my hand up towards the bird, waited a moment to make sure it was lined up and then pulled the trigger.
640/700
A window popped up as the Nevermore screeched as the bullet slammed into it's side. It was a new skill, from the glance I gave it before moving it out of my line of sight, it was about weapon handling. But that wasn't important as I watched as the Nevermore circled around once more before diving towards me, really only making it an easier target as it got closer. With that I aimed the gun again and pulled the trigger three more times. Adjusting my aim every time a bullet pushed the Grimm back a bit.
576/700
512/700
448/700
Hmm. I'm doing more damage now, must be the skill, at least this bird thing is getting pushed back from the force of this gun, though it is stinging my palm a small bit. Well it's only lasting for a few seconds but it's still noticeable. I should just keep shooting until it dies. After all, this Grimm is to stupid to realize that it dive bombing me is only making hitting it easier.
381/700
314/700
247/700
180/700
113/700
46/700
0/700
One bullet to spare and the damage increased at some point even more as well, so my new skill probably leveled up a bit more as well which is pretty neat. Still, the thing was dead and a another window opened up by my already opened windows off to the side, letting me know that I had leveled up twice which was nice. I still dismissed the window so I could look at it a bit later while pulling forwards to look at the newest addition to my skill list.
(Passive) Handgun Mastery [Level 2]
The User's ability to freely use Handgun based firearm weaponry
15% more damage with Handgun based weaponry
7% Faster reloading and firing speed
Not bad at all for such a low leveled skill, the bonus to damage is quite nice all things considered. Though for the last bonus, I will have to ask Slate to let me have some more rounds to load the gun with, as I do only have one bullet in the chamber at the moment. Thinking about it, I lifted the gun up and pulled back the slide, ejecting said bullet out of it before snatching the item as it fell out of the air. No reason to keep one in the chamber to let is get stuck and jam. Oh hey, my Maintenance skill leveled up from that.
"Here, give me the mag, I'll reload it for you" I turned to look at Slate before nodding as I ejected the mag and handed it over while he pulled out a clip and began to feed rounds into the item. I kept the gun in hand while I waited, though in that time while he was doing that, Teal walked up to me and was looking both a bit pleased and a bit worried. I wasn't sure why.
"You're aim is impressive. Though that Grimm was probably easier to hit than a still target but it was small enough to make up for it and you still landed all your shots fired. Sure your aim wasn't prefect and most of your bullets only did minor damage but still. Are you sure this is the first time you've used a fire arm?" I just turned a looked at her for that comment. After a moment she let out a weird sounding laugh and looked away, saying.
"Oh yeah. Right, you wouldn't know" She trailed off, looking uncomfortable for some reason. I didn't understand it so I just ignored it in favor of taking the loaded magazine from Slate and loaded it into the pistol while clicking the safety back on. After a moment, I noted I still had that bullet from the chamber in my hand. I looked down at it for a moment before tossing it into in my inventory, along with the weapon.
"I still think your Semblance is really weird kid. I mean seriously what gives you people's names and gives you a storage space" That was Slate, trying to lighten the apparently damped mood after Teal's sudden refrain from talking. I just shrugged at his question as I didn't really know how to answer it. I mean, I don't know about any other people's semblances so I can't really say anything about mine on a strangeness factor without being woefully uninformed, though I have figured a thing or two out about them, as they just seem like a unique superpower everyone has but only few can use.
"I guess" I just kind of had to take his word for it which I didn't mind doing but I would rather know enough myself to be informed enough to make my own decision on the matter. I guess that's another thing about myself, I like to make up my own mind, not have it decided for me. Which is just another retelling of me preferring free will over being told what to do I guess.
"And I say! Come on, I mean seriously, all mine allows me to do is add a spinning momentum to things I'm in contact with" Oh? That's a lot less complex than my own, so I guess I can see where he's coming from, though Grey made a snorting sound at that and said.
"You complain about it now but when it comes to those fancy drilling bullet shots you pride yourself on you brag all day long. Without mentioning of course how many guns you've destroyed from doing that" Slate's face turned a bit red but otherwise he ignored what Grey had said all together. And yet, Grey seemed to expect this and didn't say anything more, though he did have a grin on his face as the two of them began to make there way back to the path with the rest of us following as well. People are quite confusing.
Still, even if I don't really understand them, I have to think that they are quite...Fun? Yes I believe that's the word, I believe it's fun to stay around and listen to them interact. So with that, we all continued our way towards Vale.
To be honest I don't have a concrete plan for this story, or to be fair, any story really. So for right now I'm just testing the water with this character's personality while also getting back to being use to using the Gamer power, as while I've done two stories, technically one, on this power it wasn't exactly a good story, and I didn't put much thought at all in keeping things a bit balanced, so I'm trying to put a bit more focus on that in this story. While also using a bit of what I've learned about from my experience writing Cliche on a different game based system. Though I have changed some things up from the original cannon of rwby as well as Aura should technically be higher than Hp by a lot, but that would unbalance Ash by a massive amount so I've choosing to look at it like Aura is more of booster and a way to not show damage than a force field like the show calls it to be. I mean to be fair my wya makes about as much sense as the shows so there's that as well. Anyway, See ya.