Hey all and welcome back to the rebooted RWBY: Remnant Games!
Now Here's the initiation and I gotta say it took longer than I thought it would when remaking it, but regardless I managed to get it done. I don't have much to say in all honesty, but I do hope you guys enjoy the story!
Be sure to let me know, feedback is always helpfull.
Enjoy!
7-Level 6: Test your mettle
Well this is it, Beacon's Initiation. I woke up and went in for a shower so I was fully awake and ready to go, I then decided to craft some ammo for the future team RWBY and JNPR for the extra edge in the initiation. I found out that I had a crafting menu on me, I can create small things like ammo and small items. But I need a forge or something like that to make weapons and armour. I created the following ammo types for these people.
Ruby-Explosive rounds, 3 magazines
Yang-Buckshot, 4 belts
Blake-Shotshells (9mm Buckshot…look it up), 3 magazines
Pyrrah & Ren-FMJ (Full Metal Jacket) rounds, 4 Magazines each
Nora-Cluster Grenades, 2 magazines (I don't know who I feel sorrier for, the Grimm or Ren)
With all the ammo in my inventory I went out to the lockers and came to see the girls chatting away.
"Hey, ladies, got enough beauty sleep?" I asked.
"You bet Rubes is awful chipper this morning". Yang replied with a smile.
"Is that so?" I said as I looked over to Ruby and see her holding recent Rose in her hands.
"Yep, no more getting to know you stuff, today I let my sweat-heart do the talking". Ruby said as she cradled her weapon in her hands making me smile with an eye roll.
"Is your sister like this?" Blake asked the blond brawler.
"Trust me, you get used to it". Yang replied by putting a hand on her shoulder. I looked behind me and tuning out what the girls were say to see Pyrrah chatting up with Weiss as expected and also…I'm actually seeing the storm cloud behind her.
'Ok like that's not creepy or anything'. I thought to myself feeling…well creeped out.
"You know what else is great me Jaune Arc. Nice to meet you" Oh no, Jauney boy.
"You again?" Weiss huffed in annoyance.
"Hello Jaune!" Pyrrah greeted.
"Yea, yea". He said pushing her out of the way.
'Jaune you complete twat she was clearly into you!' I internally screamed. I bet you were doing the exact same thing as I am when you saw this, huh guys?
"Well Weiss I couldn't help but overhear your fondness of me the other day".
"Oh you've got to be kidding me". Weiss said as she pinched the bridge of her nose.
"No need to be embarrassed. So I've been hearing rumours of teams~ I was thinking maybe you and me would make a good one, what do you say?" He said to her. If I could, I'd smack the bitch outta you Jaune for being denser than a fucking tonne of bricks.
"Actually, I think the teams are comprised of four students each, so-,"
"You don't say". He said, oh now you go back to Pyrrah. Jeeze.
"Well hot stuff, maybe if you play your cards right, you may join the winning team!" He said.
I then decided to zone out and turn to the girls I was with because this is just getting a little sad right now.
"Oh girls before I forget, I got some special ammunition for you all. It's pretty limited but it should help you out in the long run". I said before taking out the ammo and handing it to them.
"So what's the occasion?" Yang asked inspecting the shotgun belts.
"Well I thought by making these it'll help out when we're in the initiation". I stated.
"Is that even allowed before the initiation? Blake asked which made me shrug. But cloud clearly see that I had good intentions of doing this. "Well regardless, so special about this ammo anyway?"
"Well I'm glad you asked. Blake you have 3 clips of shotshell ammo. Essentially, 9mm buckshot. Yang, you have buckshot ammo that will fire small ball bearings that will hurt eve more than standard shotgun ammo. And Ruby you have Explosive Sniper Ammo, but I'd recommend using them on more armoured targets, they also have quite the kick as well so, be aware of that as well". I summarised.
"When did you make these exactly?" Blake asked stowing the mags on her person.
"I made them not to long ago, like an hour ago to be precise". I answered as we then turned our attention to the sound of a spear being impaled into a wall.
And Jaune was the target.
I walked over to him to help him up. Because I plan on making the Arkos ship established early. I'm sure you'd agree there my friends.
"Having trouble there lady killer?" Yang asked with a smile.
"My Dad says that all girls look for is confidence, what did I do wrong?" He groaned in defeat.
"The moment you hit on her mate". I chuckled.
"I think 'Snow Angel' wasn't a good choice". Yang pointed out.
"That's pretty bad advice to give to your son". Blake added on.
"Even I know that's bad advice myself". I said putting my two scents in. As Ruby and I then got him on his feet and started to head over towards the cliff for initiation.
I was standing on the Launchpad ready to be launched in the air. Even though the Gamers mind helped me out of not freaking out, I was still nervous about being launched. I swear that's a breach in health and safety right there.
"Now due to there being an odd number of students here. There has been a little change this year. Connor Camerone, will not be a partner for you to team up with".
"Sup scrubs". I said with a smug grin, putting my hand to let people know who I am. Ozpin then turned to me.
"Connor you will be tasked to collect one of many slabs that will be placed where the relics are. Take one and return back here with it".
"I'll be back before you know it sir". I said to him. 'I'll let you think you know me so well during my stay here'. I thought to myself.
New quest added
[Beacon's Initiation]
Well…it's time to test your Mettle. Let's do this thing!
Main Objective
Collect your slab and return to the cliff
Rewards-15000 EXP
Bonus Objective 1-Accompany any future member of team RWBY
Bonus Objective 2-?
Bonus Objective 3-?
'Well, at least I know what I'm doing first. But who to go to though?' I thought to myself.
"That doesn't mean he won't be able to join you during the initiation, and vice versa. Now are there any questions? Good, now take your positions". He said.
While everyone was being launched and Jaune being ignored it was time for me to launch. I was ready. But nothing happened. Glynda and Ozpin were confused as for why I wasn't launched.
"Uh, Ozpin, you fixed these things right?" I said pointing to the pad.
"Of course". He said with a smile I didn't like.
Then it clicked.
"Oh, you son of a-,"
Then I was launched into the air before I could even finish.
"-BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH!"
When I landed on the ground, it wasn't as graceful as the other students. I tried doing what Ruby did and use Thorn's Assault rifle mode to slow myself down and see if I could wedge myself in a tree with the blade, but I only got stuck in the tree and ended up falling due to the sword slipping out of the tree and falling on the ground.
'Well, that could've gone better'. I thought to myself while brushing some dirt of me.
[Warning beginner stats are now disabled, defeated enemies will drop different EXP amounts and more EXP is required to level up from here on now]
'Translation: Easy mode is turned off. And to be honest I was wondering if it was gonna get harder'. I thought as another notification came up.
This is a major plot point. Major plot points give extra rewards from EXP, loot, and even Stat points!
Select a reward upon completion.
Stat points
EXP
Random loot drop
"Well, EXP is not really an issue, loot I can just get later. May as well go with Stat points, because I can use the extra bonuses". I said aloud.
Your thought out planning has increased your WIS by 1
"Huh, we're have you been?" I said mentioning the stat increase. I then remembered something about the Familiar Cores I got earlier. One of them was pretty easy to do and just off a couple of Grimm. Now I just need to find them and put em down. I walked towards where the temple might be and I then heard the bushes rustle around me. "Not even a minute here and the party's come to me. Good". I smirked as I Unsheathed Thorn.
Out of the bushes came a Pack of actual Beowulfs and counted them up to 7. Damn 3 short.
'Observe'. I thought as I saw the statistics.
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Beowulf X7
Level: 19
HP: 600/600
Status: Hunting
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'Cute'. I smirked at the status of the Grimm. "Who's first?" I taunted.
[Now Playing-Cinderella Man-Eminem-Recovery]
One of them rushed at me but I merely hopped out of the way and swung my sword at the creature's back doing a good 297 DMG due to it being an attack from behind, I then changed to Rifle mode and spewed a third of the mag into it before it fell over dead. Two tried their luck but I sheathed my sword and used my Cestus and tossed a Fireball in front of them making the explosion push them back giving me some breathing room.
I then went on the offensive and threw a flurry of punches into another before finishing it off with a haymaker knocking it down letting the burn damage finish it off. I pulled out my USAS 12 and cocked it before unloading several 12 gauge shells into one who was about to attack but the shotgun blasts halted it and is now being forced back each shot doing 45 DMG, it tried to cover its face to protect itself but was no use. As the clip ran dry I pulled out ANZAC and killed it with a headshot making it drop dead. I stowed my shotgun and switched my pistol to burst fire and melee mode.
Another tried its luck and went for a swipe which made me move just in time triggering Focus.
"Too slow asshole!" I smirked as I slit the beast's throat, as time sped back up the Beowulf was choking, making it fall over a few seconds later. I pulled out my shotgun again and slapped a fresh magazine in and cocked it and face the two Beowulfs that were struck by my fireball. "Come and get me". I taunted again.
New Skill developed-Taunt
'I'll get back to that in a sec'. I then looked closely and saw a tick mark above the Grimm's heads. "That ain't good". I muttered as they both charged at me but I unloaded my USAS 12 in their direction making one stumble and the other got close for a swipe, however I rolled to evade it but was struck. Good thing I upgraded my Focus skill otherwise that might've been messy'. I thought as time slowed down and struck the Beowulf with the stock of my gun making it stagger back, I shot it in the leg making it kneel, I then kicked it in the chest and pressed my foot against its neck and aimed directly at its head before pulling the trigger making its head explode, getting a chuckle of satisfaction out of me.
The other one saw what I did to its friend and the other Beowulf I hadn't fought yet. Behind the two of them 4 Creeps came out from the bushes possibly being the backup.
"Well this just got more interesting". I smirked. 'Observe'.
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Creep X4
Level: 19
HP: 400/400
Status: Enraged
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'Like they're not always enraged'. I mentally scoffed as I tossed a fireball at the two Beowulfs and followed up a barrage of Shotgun shells as I dropped one of them and let the burn damage finish off the other. I then swapped weapons to my sword and performed a BLADE CRUSH on the group of Creeps doing a whopping 334 DMG to all targets. I walked up to one of them and brought the blade down on its head considering it an execution. I then walked up to another and pulled out my Jackal while putting my blade away, I stepped on its neck and fired 3 bursts into its eye making another execution. I walked to a third and simply stabbed it with the Gurkha mode through the top jaw and in its brain adding a third execution, the last one managed to get to its feet and stand.
"Well I'm up three so". I said to myself as I put my gun away and taunted the Creep to come at me and it did. It ran towards me but as it got close it was met with a kick to the side of the head doing 25 DMG making it even weaker and fall over. I ignited my Cestus and began punching it repeatedly and even though it was out of health it kept going before delivering a final, strong flaming punch to the head with enough force its neck broke.
[End Track]
"And that's that". I said aloud as the flames on my cestus went out. I then remembered the familiar core I had and took it out of inventory and saw the core was livelier than before and it was now floating out of my hand and it began to materialise itself and speak
"Oh man, finally I get to stretch my wings!" Wait a second. "So you're the one who found little ol me huh? Honestly you're a lot younger than the last guy I tell ya, not that it's a bad thing or anything". GRIFFON!? He was the familiar core?!
I shook my head to recompose myself before speaking to him.
"Ok but first, anyone told you got quite the blabber mouth on ya?" I asked as he sat himself on a tree branch.
"Trust me kid I've heard that song and dance all too many times like you wouldn't believe". He said as if it didn't affect him. Pretty sure he's used to it. "Sheesh quite armed to the teeth aren't ya? Not like V was, I mean he did do his part in a fight but he lacked the physical strength and possibly the mental one as well". He said about my weapons. "But hey at least I won't be doing all the work, but make sure to call when the situation calls for it ok Connor?" Wait a tic…
"How-," "When you woke me up I got a good portion of the knowledge I needed to know who you are. And I gotta say quite the predicament being able to have abilities from a gaming standpoint". He said as he now knows about my Gamer ability.
"So…you mean you even saw-," "The ones about Devil May Cry? Yea, wasn't hard to find". He answered cutting me off again.
"Well…shit. I mean I dunno what to say". I said trailing off.
"If you think I'm gonna be mad at ya seeing as you know me through a game, give me some credit". He said saying it was fine…in his own way.
"Ok word of advice, stay outta my head otherwise there's gonna be problems, got it?" I warned him as he held his wings up in surrender.
"Sheesh, no need to get violent kid. You woke me up, only fair I help ya. Besides I think we can really shake things up here in this new world, huh?" He stated as he confirmed he was very much on my side. "Oh and also be sure to wake the others up when you can ok? Always need someone else to talk to that's a familiar as well".
"More like run your mouth but, yea I get what you saying". I replied back with sarcasm.
"Whatever you say. Anyway where do we need to go?" He said looking around.
"Take to the skies and see if you can find a temple, it should be north of here. With all the fighting from before, I got turned around". I stated to him.
"Alright wait here and I'll see where it is". Griffon then took off and flew high up above the trees as I looked around to see if there was any good loot the Grimm dropped. But it turns out it was just some Lien, nothing special but not unwelcome. I remembered that I had a new skill that was developed.
Taunt-A way to irritate your enemies making their attacks more predictable, but it will increase their damage once effected. Bosses will need to be taunted multiple times for the skill to activate.
'So a risk and reward ability, just don't get hit'. I thought to myself as I then got another notification.
Griffon has been contracted as your familiar, calling him will aid you in battle. If a familiar takes too much damage they will need to be revived, stay near the core to accelerate the process.
Griffon's abilities.
Bullet-Shoots balls of lighting at a high rate of fire.
Blockade-Launches Pillars of lightening towards foes.
Flank attack-Griffon charges at enemies launching them into the air.
Double Check-Griffon's power fires an electric shock that slams into enemies.
Round Robin-Griffon unleashes electrical shocks in a large radius.
Note: These attacks will not harm you if come into contact.
'Well good to know and a reminder of what Griffon's attacks are'. I thought to myself as I then looked up to see the winged demon return. "What've you got?" I asked him.
"Temple is that way". Griffon said pointing a wing to the right. "Also I found two chicks heading in that direction as well, one of them had a lot of yellow on em".
"That's Yang, which must mean Blake is with her. Alright Griffon, your job's done for now I'll call when I need ya so be ready". I stated.
"Sure, also…" He said as something materialise in his mouth before chucking it to me and caught it with one hand, it looked like the mark that was on V's HUD when I played as him in the game. "That little trinket there show's our contract kid. Keep it on ya and both Shadow and Nightmare will know that I'm with ya. But before I do go. What do ya need to wake em up?" He explained.
"I need to kill 20 large Grimm to wake Shadow up. Nightmare however…I don't have his core, I was lucky to get you and Shadow while grinding my levels". I answered.
"Oh boy, that's not gonna work". He sighed before explaining. "All three of us have to be contracted to you in order to have our full power at our disposal, right now you gotta find said Grimm to wake up the big kitty cat ok?" He said in which I nodded.
"That just leave Nightmare's core unattended. Also I did get this when I found your cores". I said showing him the Red Orb.
"Oh shit careful with that red orbs might give the usual Devil Hunter a boost in power but to you who knows what it'll do". He said.
"An even will trigger once it activates, I don't plan on using it now trust me once I know what I'm getting into I'll use it. Plus it might help find Nightmare's core". I added putting it away.
"Alright then, catch ya in a while Kid". He said before materialising out of existence but felt an extra presence with me but wasn't a threatening one, which must've been Griffon's.
"Well, what I wouldn't give for a Map right now". I sighed.
Mini-map activated
"Are you fucking serious?" I muttered to myself as I opened the Map and saw the people on my friends list appear on the left side of the map showing that they were nearby, but I couldn't find them anywhere on the map. Social status mustn't be high enough. I then saw a Purple marker with a wing on it pointing me to my right and if I were to guess it was Griffon's waypoint. "Thanks Griffon". I smiled as I began to follow the marker.
I was closing in on the waypoint Griffon had marked for me and along the way I never had an encounter with any Grimm so far. Not one, not even a scout from a bigger pack or group which was good as much as I wanted bigger Grimm to show up so I can awaken Shadow. I didn't need to bite off more than I can chew. I cut through the bushes with ANZAC due to them getting a bit thicker for my liking until I heard weapons being cocked a few meters in front of me.
I walked out of the bushes and found Yang and Blake with their weapons now lowered now that I was in plain view.
"Sup gals?" I said with arms out.
"Sup?' Yang responded with a smile.
"Hey Connor". Blake said simply
"Now that we're together, let's find us a temple shall we? I stated as I gestured them to follow me.
"Do you know where you're going? Connor?" Blake asked me.
"Yea, I checked every direction as to where we are as soon as I touched down. North is this way". I explained as she nodded in confirmation as her and Yang followed me and heading off to the location of the Relics marked by the Waypoint and on the map.
It took us a grand total of 25 minutes and saw the temple down below as we were on a hill looking at said temple from a the distance.
"Think this is it?" Yang asked aloud and Blake just gave her a look before sliding down with the rest of us in tow.
"Chess pieces?" Blake asked.
"We aren't the first ones here. Some of them are missing". Yang stated as some of the pedestals were empty.
"Well you girls pick one. I'm gonna see if I can find those slabs Oz talked about". I stated. I looked behind the entire temple to see if there was anything, but found squat. I then thought about if they were placed near the pieces themselves. I went back to the pedestal and saw the two partners talking to each other. I then looked behind the pedestals and found a slab each. I walked over to the white knight that Yang had picked up and held the slab in my hand.
'Observe'. I thought out of curiosity.
White Knight slab (Objective)-Bring this back to the cliff to be added to the following team with a matching relic.
Satisfied with the description I stowed it in my inventory and walked back to the girls. Then we heard a scream the echoed through the woods.
"Some girl's in trouble!" She called.
"Close but no". I said simply which Yang looked at me funny.
"Enlighten me". Oh I will actually.
"Would you believe that was none other than Jaune?" I asked aloud which made Yang lost her shit and started laughing her head off and quite possibly laughing so hard she found it hard to breathe.
Then I forgot about what's going on around me.
"HEEEAAAAADS UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!" I looked up and saw Ruby falling down towards us, only to collide with Jaune in mid-air and into a tree.
'Well, I can tell this is gonna be interesting when everyone shows up'. I thought to myself. While I waited for everyone to arrive while ignoring the commotion going on at the same time. My attention was then brought back to reality (Or whatever you call reality in here) and saw Pyrrah launched at our feet.
"Great, the gang's all here. Now we can die together!" Yang said in sarcasm.
"Not if I can help it!" Ruby stated before charging at that Death stalker.
Yang/Me: RUBY!
We shouted before bolting after her.
Ruby went in for a strike at the giant scorpion, only to be smacked back by its pincers.
"I'm ok. Totally fine!" She said as the Nevermore overhead came into view and launched spear-like feathers causing Ruby to be pinned by her cape. They came at me but I dodge out of the way in which Focus activated causing me to get closer to Ruby but Yang was cut off to avoid being impaled.
"Ruby get out of there!" Yang called to her sister.
"I'm trying!" I kept running towards Ruby but, I knew I wouldn't be able to kill it but I can slow it down.
"Ruby Get down!" I called at her as she complied. "Griffon! DOUBLE CHECK!"
"You Called?" I heard V's Familiar say as he dropped a small orb of energy in front of Ruby, a second later two beams of electricity burst out of it missing the Death Stalker, but closed in on each other as it then made it stagger and lose speed. I then noticed a white blur race past me knowing it was Weiss as she froze the giant Scorpion in place before it could impale the little red reaper.
I let out a sigh of relief as Griffon flew over to me.
"So much for staying outta sight huh?" He said to me as the rest of the gang raced over all who were extremely curios as to what Griffon was.
"I bet you all got questions huh?" I asked them as I let Griffon rest on my arm.
"Connor, what is that thing?" Yang asked pointing at Griffon.
"That thing has a name blondie". Griffon said as it shocked everyone.
"Yea, everyone this is Griffon. My familiar". I introduced. "And Griffon, Yang is the last girl you wanna piss off". I said to him.
"Pft, why is that?" He said not getting the full picture.
"Because she crushed a guy's nuts with her bare hands". I explained made him snap his head back to me. "Yea didn't think I'd say that did ya? Plus who knows what she could do to ya". I smirked at him knowing he didn't have much of a response to that.
"Fair point". Griffon Shuddered.
"Is this part of your semblance? Because I thought my family line could summon foes they have defeated in battle". Weiss asked with her arms crossed.
"Well yes and no. My Semblance is mimicry, I can do anything I desire with it but I'm merely scratching the surface of what I can do with it so don't ask anything I can't answer". I said a half-truth about my power, it isn't a lie at all so I can't be called out on that.
"Well we can all agree that Grif here has a foul mouth and is lucky he's with you Connor". Yang said as she is a little peeved at Griffon's attitude.
"Trust me ya get used to it. Well I do anyway, plus he may be a wise cracking, foul mouthed chicken-," "Like I haven't heard the chicken comments before kid". "-he means well and very much on my side". I said despite Griffon interrupting me. We heard the Nevermore screech in the distance making all of us look up.
"Guys, that thing is circling back. What are we gonna do?" He asked fearfully.
"You sure you're cut out for this?" Griffon asked rhetorically to the Arc but went on deaf ears.
"There's no point in dilly dallying. Our objective is right in front of us". Weiss stated to us.
"She's right, our mission is to grab an artefact and bring it back to the cliffs. There's no point in fighting these things". Ruby said in agreement.
"That we can all agree with. We should get moving, the electricity may have weakened bug boy over there, but ice is starting to break and won't hold him for much longer". I stated.
"Run away and live, that's an idea I can get behind". Jaune stating his agreement.
"I'm gonna say no". Griffon said finishing his own thoughts as I looked at him with a raised brow but I shrugged it off. Ruby and the others went to grab a relic, Jaune grabbed the white rook and Ruby the white Knight and re-joined the group. Now is a good time as any.
"Guys before we leave, here take these". I said taking out the ammunition I crafted earlier and giving it to Pyrrah, Ren and Nora.
"Extra ammo?" Pyrrah asked me.
"Better, you and Ren have FMJ rounds, better and has more punch than regular ammo. Nora you have cluster grenades, they'll detonate and release 6 extra grenades causing a bigger explosion. They're limited so be sure to use them when you absolutely need to". I explained, I then looked at the Ice as it was starting to crack. "We should get moving". I said as I looked at Griffon. "Griffon show us a clear way to the Cliffs".
"Got it C". He said a she took off my arm and flew to the sky.
"Follow Griffon he'll lead the way, c'mon!" I called as we started bolting for the cliffs while staying close to the dark familiar.
We kept running until we reached the area where the big fight will take place. With the Nevermore in the air and the Death stalker quickly gaining ground, I had to find a way to take them both down without being in the way and not dying of course. I was behind everyone else so nothing would get any bright ideas from attacking from behind, but the ground collapsed and I fell into a cavern and crashed on the ground as it took out nearly all my AP
"Augh that hurt". I groaned as I held my sides.
"Connor Are you alright?!" I heard Ruby call from the top.
"I'm alright the ground collapsed and fell down a cavern. Don't worry about me". I responded as my Aura recharged back to full.
"Yo Connor you good?!" Griffon called as I looked up to see everyone there.
"Been better mate". I said as I then heard a very audible growl from the other end of the cavern.
"What was that?" Blake asked me as they can hear that as well. The area then collapsed some more and I saw several corpses both animal and human, which have been rendered to nothing but skeletons and scattered bones. Giving off the sign that something here has had a feed and left the remains scattered around the place.
And whatever it was, it was still down here.
I looked into the darkness and saw two red-orange eyes staring right back at me. The creature came out and revealed itself, and to be honest I was very surprised.
"Observe". I muttered to be sure what I'm seeing was real.
Anjanath
HP: 2000/2000
Armour: 1500/1500
Level: 25 [Warning!]
"Oh. Shit." I said.
"What is it?" Ruby asked me.
"You guys get outta here, I'll handle this. Griffon get them to the cliffs and race back over here as fast as you can". I said to them as they were going to protest.
"We're not leaving you down there!" Yang called.
"This isn't up for discussion Yang! Go!" I barked at them as they eventually complied.
"Just hold em off C, I'll be right back!" Griffon said as the group then followed him.
Boss battles are not an easy fight. They will test your combat skills greatly. They will have several levels higher than you.
When a [Warning!] appears near an enemy or Boss's level it will mean that they will be stronger than anything you've faced yet. If it has a [Danger!] near its level…well you'll be biting off more than you can chew.
'Please don't say chew at the moment'. I mentally cringed.
[Now playing-My Demons-Fight the Fury]
"Oh yea, I can work with this". I smirked. I pulled Thorn off my back and shifted it to Rifle mode then the Anjanath roared at me before charging. I went to fighting it at a range to try and avoid it, long enough for Griffon to get back. I cocked the rifle and took aim. "Let's see how well you go against 7.62 rounds ya Pink T-Rex!" I taunted as I unloaded into the monster but Anjanath didn't stop despite getting his with high calibre rounds, I then used the Glide ability which did resemble the glide in Destiny and kept on shooting, but the Glide only lasted so long before needing to drop me down. Anjanath flared its nose-bone and fire began coming from its mouth in little embers.
Meaning it was pissed off.
Anjanath then reared its head back before letting out a huge torrent of fire as I barely managed to get out of the way. It was that bad I had to pat out some of the fire that was caught on my clothes. It then had its sails exposed on its back and leapt in my direction, however I moved out of the way again and the result of the monster's attack was slamming into a wall and falling over.
This gave me a window I was looking for as I switched Thorn back to blade mode and started slashing away his armour doing 432 DMG all up before it got back on its feet. I swapped modes again and gliding to get some air time while firing Thorn's assault rifle mode into him firing roughly 30 rounds dealing 30 DMG each (900 in total).
Anjanath then was hit in the head with projectiles, I looked up and saw that Griffon had arrived. The monster changed Targets as it tried to trap the familiar in its jaws. However as Anjanath got close Griffon performed a ROUND ROBIN and the electricity made it flinch. Wait a sec…
"Griffon, its secondary weakness is electricity! Strike the head, I'll soften up the legs!" I called to him.
"You nuts!? I almost got munched back there!" He called back to me.
"Just trust me ok?! And just don't get hit!" I barked back as I raced towards the monster with my sword in melee form and as I got close I struck the monster's legs taking its attention away from Griffon for just a moment. "Griffon, BLOCKADE!" I called to Griffon.
"Burn baby Burn!" He called out as he charged himself up and sent forth several pillars of electricity towards the monster and judging by the damage it did…it hurt and broke the head.
'Observe'.
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Anjanath
HP: 1550/2000
Armour: 0/1500
Level: 25 [Warning!]
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"Griffon, the armour down, he's bleeding now!" I called to him before switching to my USAS-12. Anjanath then got itself together and was now enraged for a second time, its attention was turned to me and used was going to charge with its jaw open this time. I waited for the right moment before dodging.
'Wait…'
He came closer.
'Not yet…'
Closer.
'Nearly…'
Close enough!
'Now!'
I then leaped out of the way and Anjanath slammed his head into a wall stunning him and doing 450 damage due to him having a busted head. I only lost 60 HP in the process, if it were any longer I would've been nearly dead, and then I would've been in trouble. I fired a full clip into the monster with 12 shots dealing 30 DMG each (360 total).
Ultimate activated
'Hello there!' I thought when the notification came up.
"Griffon keep him busy for a sec!"
"Don't be too long!" He replied using his Bullet ability to stay at a safe distance so he wouldn't get struck with any melee attacks.
Ultimate attacks are the most powerful in the Gamer's Arsenal and will do massive damage to any enemies in range or directly on Bosses. Note however that this will use up all MP before needing to recharge between uses.
Cyber Slam-(Melee) Discharge a wave of digital energy to any nearby enemies.
Cyber Strike-(Bosses only) Coat your weapon in digital energy dealing massive damage.
Cyber Shot-(Ranged) Charge up your guns and fire a beam of digital energy dealing massive damage to any enemy struck by the beam.
'HOLY SHIT!' I thought to myself. "Might as well give it a test drive". And not a moment too soon as the Anjanath turned its attention back to me and charged. Then I had an idea on how to finish this fight.
"Griffon DOUBLE CHECK!" I called.
"Coming at ya baby!" He called again as the ball of electricity was dropped in front of him and stopped the monster in its track before getting struck with the electricity, I had one shot at this. I ran up and equipped Thorn and coated the blade in digital energy and leapt into the air.
"Take this!" I called before bringing it down dealing a massive 1500 CRT DMG in total, leaving Anjanath on only 50 HP and incredibly weakened. It looked up and saw me with the USAS-12 in hands and cocking the bolt back. It closed its eyes and let its head looked down. This surprised me even more, it knows it has lost. So I decided to make it quick and pull the trigger killing it.
[End BGM]
I then looked at Anjanath's body and it suddenly faded like a ghost leaving its loot behind. I walked over and inspected each piece it left.
'5000 Lien and 4 of its teeth, along with…what the?' I thought as I saw it was a book which looked and felt like the skin of the monster I just defeated. 'Observe'.
Monster's Notes-(Anjanath)
Have the ability to call the Brute Wyvern Anjanath
This is a skill book
'HOLY SHITBALLS! Being able to have a friendly monster like that on my side will tip the odds in my favour'. I thought to myself with a smirk on my face. That's just too fucking awesome!
"Next time we fight something like that again. I'd like to have a little more help other than just be a flying sack for the next monster we come across!" Griffon squawked at me making me raise a brow at the familiar.
"Hey we made it out alive didn't we?" I asked him.
"Yea, but just for future reference if you kick the bucket kid I'm finished as well. And dying is whack and I'd hate to be that one guy who died twice". He stated making me look down a little.
"Yea…yea I get what you mean". I muttered aloud, thinking of that heart attack really did kill me or not. "Well regardless, we should get back to the others".
"Yea hate to burst your bubble but I can't carry you all the way up there. I struggled carrying V around, and that was high maintenance in itself". Griffon stated a she was very much opposed of doing it.
"Connor? You still down there?!" We both looked up to see both soon to be teams RWBY and JNPR at the top of the hole.
"You're in luck Griffon. Take 5, you earned it". I exhaled in exhaustion as Griffon disappeared. I then looked up at the group. "Mind helping a guy out?" I asked. In response Weiss conjured a glyph below me which lifted me up back to surface level. Everyone rushed to me to see if I was alright.
"Are you ok?" Blake asked in worry.
"Yea I'm good, took a few hits but I'll recover". I grunted a little. I then got a notification. Multiple actually, but they'll have to wait for the time being.
Quest Complete [Beacon's Initiation]
Well…it's time to test your Mettle. Let's do this thing!
Main Objective
Collect your slab and return to the cliff
Rewards-15000 EXP
[Complete] Bonus Objective 1-Accompany any future member of team RWBY
[Complete] Bonus Objective 2- Defeat Anjanath +5 DEX, Double Barrel shotgun blueprint (Blue)
[Complete] Bonus Objective 3-Complete the quest without dropping below 50% of health +5 LUCK
I'll get to the rest when I get to the dorms. Right now…I'm fucking Knackered.
"Jaune Arc, Lie Ren, Pyrrah Nikos, Nora Valkyrie, the four of you retrieved the White Rook pieces, from this day forth you will be known as team JNPR, led by…"
'Wait for it'. I thought.
"…Jaune Arc".
"Led by?" Jaune said in surprise.
"Congratulations young man". Ozpin said to him
As the newly formed team JNPR was stepping off the stage for the Future team RWBY to be formed at any moment.
"And finally, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long, the four of you retrieved the white Knight chess pieces, from this day forth you will be known as Team RWBY, led by…Ruby Rose". As the team and leader were announced I watched everyone's reaction to Ozpin's final announcement. "And last but not least Connor Camerone". He called as I walked up to the stage and stood before him. "Your mission was to bring back a slab that corresponded with what chess piece each of the students retrieved. You retrieved the White Knight Slab. From this day forth you will be placed in team RWBY". He announced in which everyone applauded the new 1st years.
"This is going to be an, interesting year". He stated.
'Oh Ozpin you have no idea'. I mentally snickered.
After the Initiation ceremony team RWBY and I agreed that due to the big day we had we'd decided that we didn't bother arguing as to who got which bed as we were all exhausted. While the girls were getting ready for bed I checked the notifications that I got.
LEVEL UP! X5
New titles unlocked for viewing
New Tile has been Unlocked!
You Reached Level 20 allowing you to use Stat points. Stat points allow you to level up your skills faster and are gained every 20 levels. Due to completing the Major plot point you are rewarded with 20 extra stat points.
Stat points available-40 (20+20)
'I'll put the stat points in tomorrow'. I then checked the Titles.
One man army 1/10 [Sign a contract with 10 different Creatures or Familiars] (Familiars gain Doubled Health)
Monster Hunter 1/1 [Defeat a Monster from the Monster Hunter series] (Extra 50% Damage to all Non-human/Faunus enemies)
Brutally Simple 1/5 [Sign a contract with 5 different Brute Wyverns] (Effect Locked)
'Now that looks pretty nifty, since the second one will come in handy with the effect it has it will be better than having a title with no effect whatsoever'. I thought before looking at the loot that was given to me.
Double Barrel shotgun Blueprint (Blue)
A shotgun that's simple, compact and is devastating at close range. Can't beat the classics.
Monster's Notes-(Anjanath)
Have the ability to call the Brute Wyvern Anjanath.
30-WIS required
'If there's one for Anjanath there has to be one for all the other monsters. Meaning I'll have a plethora of monster to call to my aid, then I'll show Salem who's at the top of the food chain'. I thought while hiding a smirk.
I put the 10 skill points into WIS and LUCK each, that way I can get better loot down the road, and decided to save the rest just in case something popped up, that ay I can increased the necessary stat, I then drifted off to sleep for the first day of Beacon tomorrow.
Connor Camerone
Title: Monster Hunter (Extra 50% Damage to Non-human/Faunus enemies)
Level: 23
HP: 302/420
MP: 129/385
AP: 400/400
STR: 14 (10+4)
END: 12 (5+3+4)
DEX: 21
INT: 10
WIS: 21
CHR: 16
LUCK: 21
Stat points: 40
EXP: 922/2300
Relationships: Ruby Rose (Best Friend), Yang Xiao Long (Friend), Blake Belladonna (Friend), Jaune Arc (Friend)
Condition: Recovering
Another chapter outta the way and yes, all of V's familiars will be part of the ever growing arsenal along with summoning monsters from the Monster Hunter Series.
Speaking of which, My monster Hunter story will be getting an update after a long while, now bear in mind that I need to delete an old message in there that I have forgotten about so there will be three chapters all up. Just check the latest one.
Anyway I hope you enjoyed the chapter an be sure to leave me your thoughts in the review section, a bit of feedback can go a long way. So until then, I'll see ya Next time!
Cronus Prime Out!