...Small chapter... all I really need to say honestly.
Last time on The RPG Hunter
Weiss wanted to investigate the competition for the Vytal festival and it had a few sore spots for Blake, Aaron had left to keep an eye on her and had met the mischievous Sun Wu Kong.
After spying on a dust shipment, Aaron had transformed again into his Dark Dragoon form but after gaining the power of hope itself, it had transformed into its new variation.
The White Dragoon form.
He had won the battle but the war still rages on as he waits for his target to come to fruition in order to prevent the fates of the people he cares about to occur.
What will happen in this chapter? Find out now!
|Play Opening One|
After what happened a little bit ago, both Teams knew they needed a break... except Blake whom is still trying to fight a one-man war against the White Fang... which Aaron doesn't know about meaning that he's more concerned about other things.
Mainly, the equipment that he has on him right now... because well, he's still got a lot going for him right now honestly.
[Current Equipment]
|Head: Steel Helm (+15 DEF)|
|Head (Vanity): Familiar Wig|
|Overcoat: Bulletproof cape (Green)|
|Overcoat (Vanity): Green zip-up hoodie|
|Body (Vanity): White t-shirt|
|Legs (Vanity): Blue jeans|
|Feet (Vanity): Blackstrap tennis shoes|
|Left Arm: Hackers Gauntlet|
|Right Arm: None|
|Primary Weapon: Vita's Pax|
|Secondary Weapon: Mega Buster|
|Belt: Infinite Sack|
Aaron looked at the menu, he needs something for his Right Arm. Possibly a shield or something defensive, would be cool to have a quest or something.
"Really need something for that Right Arm." Aaron said to himself
That's when a new menu popped up in front of him, Aaron read it and smiled.
|New Side Quest: Defend thyself|
{You need a defensive item and your too lazy to make one since you're doing well without that Blacksmithing Skill. But in the Emerald Forest. There's the answer to your problem, it's said that there is a legendary item in that forest. Well, what are you waiting for? Go get it!}
|Success: New item, 60 EXP, new skill.|
|Failure: None, you just get nothing|
"Looks like I have a side quest, cool." Aaron said to himself looking at the menu
|Yep.|
'Where have you been?'
|Exploring your mind.|
'Oookkkaayyy. Not gonna ask about that.'
Aaron got up and walked out the door of his dorm in his Hunter clothing. A few moments later he was on a cliff near the Emerald Forest. He smirked slightly as he drew his weapon, he had a mission today.
And that was to get a new item... whatever it was... he had a feeling it would be a shield.
"Time to quest." Aaron said
He then jumped off the cliff and used his magic to fly over the forest, using the mini-map that he had. He was able to follow a general direction where he was supposed to go.
Aaron then saw the location he was going to in the distance, he smiled and landed in front of an ancient temple with a light thud.
"Cool... I guess I'm gonna Indiana Jones this one." He said to himself
Aaron walked into the temple, he noticed a puzzle in front of him. He saw a wall with words on it, he could not understand it. He moved his hand over it brushing off the dust and hummed as the language was still unrecognizable.
Aaron snapped his fingers as he then had an idea, he put his palm over the words as it began to glow slightly with ancient words and symbols building up in the center.
"Libra." He said
The wall glowed a light blue and the words flew off from the wall and manifested into a language he could understand, he hummed as he looked at the translated and light blue words in front of him.
{To past the test of ancients time, one find the calmness in their mind}
{If its power you seek, then you must not be weak}
{Both mind and body go hand in hand, coordinate your plan}
Aaron looked at the message confused, he had no idea what that meant. Then again, he's never been a fan of riddles. They were either too easy or vague to the point of frustration.
That's why he's not a fan of the Professor Laton series... those damn puzzles always frustrated him... especially the clock one... he will curse it as long as he will live.
"I'm gonna guess that I have to be smart about this... like with most ancient spooky temples." Aaron said to himself
He then walked into the room and saw four totems, each on a different part of the room. A red totem was in front of a snowflake, and a blue totem was in front of a red leaf. It was the same for two other totems but instead of red and blue, it's green and yellow.
Aaron looked at the symbols, he noticed that the totems colors were coordinated with each symbol. That's when he snapped his fingers as he figured it out, he needs to move the totems to the right places... seemed awfully simple honestly
He picked up the totems and put them in the place in their correct spots. The door had opened to which he smirked, now he understood what the weird riddle had meant.
"In order to solve the puzzles, you need both brain and brawn... and I have both in spades... thank the Brothers that I leveled up those stats or else that would have probably not ended well." Aaron said
He then continued to the next room, he noticed a mirror in the center of the room. Which was... odd to say the least, a mirror in the center of a room that looks pristine inside and ancient temple usually meant trouble of some kind.
Aaron walked over and looked at it, inside was a reflection that a darker looking version of him. It copied every movement Aaron made which seemed like any standard mirror. He hummed and then he touched the mirror.
The darker version grabbed his hand, Aaron freaked out and teleported away from it as it tried to drag him in. The version of him in the mirror had climbed out, he summoned a sword that looked like his.
Aaron drew his sword and pointed it at the dark version, he had a feeling that this wasn't gonna be an easy fight.
"You must be my darkness, well Shadow me. Time to be defeated!" Aaron said
The fight had started, every attack Aaron made was blocked by the Dark version. It really was a mirror fight... he never was a fan of those... but if it was like most mirror fights.
It can be cheesed, he then had a plan in mind. It didn't seem to use Magic to counter him... if it did, then it would obviously be using offensive spells against him
Aaron had skidded back after blocking a powerful hit, he then smirked at it as he readied a spell.
"Well, I bet you can't do this?" He asked
Aaron then pointed his finger at the ground below the Dark version, he smiled a little as a small purple and green ball appeared at the tip of his finger.
"Undead!" Aaron yelled
The Dark version then had small purple particles on him as its body gave off a green aura soon afterward, Aaron then focused his magic as light green energy appeared in his palms.
"Cure." Aaron simply said
The Dark version was then in pain as it seemed to screech, Aaron looked at it with a grin.
"You figured it out right?" He asked
Aaron walked up to it, it glared at him as it could not move due to the pain it was currently in from the healing spell doing damage to it.
"You're weak to White magic which means that healing spells damage you due to being Undead, so I would go ahead cut your losses." Aaron said
Aaron then put out his hand with a smile, the Dark version looked up to him confused soon afterward.
"But that doesn't mean we can't co-exist." Aaron said
The Dark version looked at his hand, he grabbed it. Aaron helped it up, the Dark version smiled at him.
"You're not a bad other." The Dark version said
"Yep... good match." Aaron said
The Dark version then bowed and walked into the mirror. The mirror cracked and broke apart, Aaron looked at it in remorse as he felt a sort of bond with that Shadow version of himself for a moment.
Plus that mirror looked really nice and he could have hung it up in his house... when he had one built in the future.
"Wished that didn't happen." He muttered
Aaron then walked out of the room, he walked into the next area which was a long corridor with images on it. It had shown battles and war, the last one had shown a giant pillar of light and dark.
Aaron looked at in confusion, what did it mean? Then he notices that a figure in the dark pillar looked very similar to Salem... and the figure of light had a giant sword in its hand.
"Could this a battle later that I cause? Or could it be an event that happened in the past?" Aaron asked himself
He then shrugged and moved on. He wasn't gonna think about this too much, he had treasure to look for right now... and at the end of the day, that's what really mattered.
Aaron was now in the next room, it had the forest behind small windows.
In it was a single stand, Aaron looked around confsued.
"So where's that item?" He asked himself
He then saw a small ancient looking totem on a stand. He blinked for a few moments and gave a small 'huh' as he stood there.
"Wondered how I didn't notice that." He said to himself
He walked over to it, he stared at it. It had a giant shield carved onto it, he wondered what he was supposed to do. He then felt compelled to touch it for some strange reason.
"I have to touch this?" He asked himself
Aaron then touched it and started to feel an energy coursing through his veins, it didn't feel bad but it felt... powerful to say the very least.
"Whoa!" Aaron said
His eyes glowed white, after a few moments, they turned back to normal. He then felt something in his Right Arm, he put his Right Arm out and let that energy flow into it.
A flash appeared on his arm, it had created a green shield with gold trim on it. The symbol on it was a blue crystal with golden wings, Aaron looked at it and felt that it was... useful to say the least.
"So that's the item huh? Well... this oughta be useful." He mumbled to himself
The shield then disappeared in motes of light, Aaron noticed the totem was old and fallen apart. As if it was there for years and the power inside had kept it in pristine condition.
"Looks like the power within it transferred to me, nice." Aaron said to himself
Aaron was about to leave when suddenly, he had an idea as he thought about one of his Phantoms... his starting one to be specific.
He summoned a card and broke it summoning Lionheart who had a shield with just a pair of golden wings.
"Cool, so I guess the power transfers to Lionheart... wonder if anything else would affect that?" Aaron said
He then left the ruins, never to be visited by anyone again... I mean... who would visit it? After all, there was nothing of value left besides those murals... and maybe a few ancient texts.
He doesn't really know, he didn't explore the area much... he might return there after all... research Remnant's history a bit more.
Later soon afterward
He got back to the dorms a little bit later. He noticed Haruko was sitting on the couch, he sneaked across the room. She looked behind her to see Aaron, who stopped sneaking and looked at her a bit sheepish.
He forgot to leave a note... and well... considering everything that's happened recently... she might get a bit pissed with him about it.
"Heeeyyyyy Haruko." Aaron said nervously
Haruko got up, and she pounded her fist against her hand with an angry look.
"Where were you?" She asked
"Exploring an ancient temple and gained a shield." Aaron said truthfully
Haruko then ran at Aaron, the latter looking at her in fear. Aaron stuck out his Right Arm and the shield appeared again, Haruko had hit it and the attack was deflected.
"What!" She asked confused
Aaron kept his Right Arm up, he then looked at it soon afterward. He didn't expect to be able to call on it so easily... he thought it'd take some real effort to summon it.
Boy was he wrong about that. A name then echoed in his mind.
'Tempus's Fortitudo'
'So that's the name.' Aaron thought
He then looked up to see Haruko staring at him with her eyes darting to the shield everyone once in a while, he stared back to her with a somewhat blank expression.
"It's the shield isn't it?" Aaron asked
"Yes." Haruko said
"I found it in the temple like I said." Aaron said
"What's it called?" Haruko asked
"Its name is Tempus's Fortitudo." Aaron replied
"Alright." Haruko said
Aaron then walked away and went to his bed, he was a bit tired from his recent exploration. Plus that fight with his Shadow Self did take a bit out of him, the Undead Spell did have a pretty high cost after all.
Even if it didn't last too long usually.
|Play Ending One|
Next time on The RPG Hunter
"So what's the plan Ruby? Go to space and find new life? Go fight a giant Grimm? GO ON A CRUSADE FOR THE HOLY LAND?!" Aaron asked with a fire determination behind him
"Oh damn, a food fight!" Aaron yelled
Aaron noticed Glynda walked in, she had a pissed off look on her face.
"Looks like we're in trouble." He said with a sheepish expression
Alright, that's another chapter. I decided to give Aaron a shield because he'll need it later, let me explain how it works.
Aaron's shield works like this, it's connected by his soul. Meaning he manifests it from within like his powers, but unlike his powers it has no downside except that it can break after taking too much damage. Depending on Aaron's level of Aura and magic divided by 12 and times that by 2 is how much damage the shield can take.
Basically, with those combinations of stats... we get the durability of it.
Also, EXP is earned through a variety of ways that you might already expect considering that his powers are based on RPG's... which means there's a lot of ways he can gain that sort of thing.
I'll see you guys in the Fandom.