Day 5: Video Games
A/N: Ok, so this little piece takes place at Beacon Academy. Enjoy!
When Weiss and Yang entered their dorm room, Weiss took a seat at her desk. She had some work to catch up on from missing classes the previous day.
She reached into her bag and pulled out some notes that Blake had kindly written for her and got to work.
She barely got through the first page by the time Yang was looking over her shoulder.
"Whatcha doing?" said Yang.
"Catching up on a few things," said the heiress with nonchalance.
"Do that later," said Yang as she walked over to the gaming console.
"I beg your pardon?" said Weiss turning in her chair.
Yang pulled out her scroll, connected it to the console, and looked at Weiss, "Want to play?"
The heiress chuckled, "I've got more important things to do than play stupid video games, Yang."
"Suit yourself," shrugged Yang.
Yang sat, cross-legged, in front of the screen and began to play a game.
She moved her character—a rather large and hairy man wielding a battle axe—in front of another character who was much smaller and held up a simple katana.
Almost instantly, the small swordsman swung her blade at the large man from every direction. Yang swiftly moved her fingers, using the controls to land a few hits on the swordsman, only for the swordsman to parry and land another long string of slices and stabs on Yang's character.
Yang huffed and pouted as she watched her character's head roll on the floor.
The brawler hit 'retry' and was sent into the same fight.
After landing two more hits than she had the last time, Yang watched her character's head hit the ground, once again.
"Oh, come on!" she growled as she hit 'retry' again.
Weiss was now watching Yang play this game of hers. She was mildly amused by how riled up the brawler got from losing in a stupid video game.
"You've got to be kidding! I totally landed that one!" Yang complained as she stared at the 'retry' button.
Weiss couldn't contain the small giggle that left her lips.
Yang looked at the heiress, "What are you laughing at?" she pouted.
"I'm laughing at you," Weiss giggled.
"Don't you have 'more important things to do' or something?" Yang said as she loaded up the fight again.
"I'm taking a break," said Weiss as she took a seat on her bed.
Weiss watched the small swordsman move in response to Yang's inputs. It seemed like her blade always hit its mark, and she always blocked Yang's attacks and countered them.
The heiress observed as the swordsman attacked from left and right and above. She could sense a pattern and paid closer attention to the small swordsman.
By the time Yang lost the fight, Weiss had a rough idea of what the pattern was. The swordsman always attacked from the right, left, left, above, left, right, above, then above.
As Yang started the fight, again, Weiss watched as the string of attacks began. The swordsman swung her blade from the right, left, left, and then…
"Block from above!" Weiss shouted at Yang got confused and watched the blade slash her character from above, "How did you miss that? I told you it would come from above!"
Yang desperately tried to land a hit on the swordsman, but the large man could not swing his battle axe fast enough.
"Stop trying to hit her. Block the left!" Weiss emphasized.
"She won't die if I don't hit her, Weiss!" Yang complained as her character was slashed from the left.
After a few more strikes, Yang's character was dead again.
"You can't hit her if you're dead, Yang," said Weiss as she stood up and sat down next to Yang, "Give me your scroll."
Yang smirked at the heiress and handed over her scroll, "You really think you can beat her? I've been playing this game for months, and I still can't get past her."
"Which will make it even more embarrassing for you when I beat her," Weiss said as she looked at the blonde, smugly. Weiss clicked 'retry' and immediately realized she didn't know how to play the game and paused it, "Uh… how do I attack?"
Yang laughed as she pointed to the buttons, "These two buttons are your light and heavy attacks, and you use this to change the direction for where you block or attack."
Weiss un-paused the game and walked over to the swordsman and began their fight.
Instead of immediately throwing an attack at her, as Yang did, she waited for the swordsman to begin her string of attacks.
The heiress remembered the pattern and whispered it to herself as she managed to get through the string without letting a single strike hit her.
The swordsman was now low on stamina and relented on her attacks, leaving an opening for Weiss to strike at her.
She landed two hits on the swordsman before she started blocking her attacks.
Yang's smirk was gone as her jaw became ajar, "Wow," was all she could muster.
The swordsman started the string again, but this time it was much faster, and the large man was not fast enough to block her strikes.
The man was cut into pieces and now Weiss stared at the screen, defeated, while Yang's smirk returned.
Weiss furrowed her eyebrows, "Wait! That's not fair! This savage can't move fast enough to block her attacks!" she pouted.
"You can swap him out for someone else if you want," said Yang as she took the scroll from Weiss. She navigated to the character selection screen and showed it to Weiss, "See? You can be any one of these guys," she said, handing the scroll back.
Weiss carefully analyzed each fighter before settling on a knight with a longsword.
She started up the fight and went through the first string of attacks, this time landing three hits on the swordsman. When the second string of attacks started, Weiss was able to block each slash and land three more strikes when the string was over.
Now the third string began, and it was even faster than the last two. Weiss was barely able to get through the flurry of sword strikes unscathed but was successful none the less. She landed the final blow on the swordsman and felt a wave of accomplishment flush over her as the swordsman's head hit the floor this time.
"Holy crap. You did it!" said Yang, looking at Weiss.
"It wasn't that difficult," said Weiss, smugly.
"Well, that was just a bot. You want to really see how good you are and fight a real person?" challenged Yang.
Weiss though for a moment and pulled out her own scroll to connect to the gaming system, "You are so on."
After setting up her scroll, Weiss chose her knight and Yang chose her savage, and they loaded into a fight.
Yang immediately began to throw heavy attacks at Weiss' knight, in what seemed to be a random direction each time.
Weiss blocked everything she could and tried to find any kind of pattern. She ended up finding out Yang simply swung left, right, and above over again.
By the time she learned this, her character had a sliver of health and she couldn't do anything to stop a quick, cheap jab from above from killing her knight.
"No! I demand a rematch!" pouted Weiss.
"Oh? So, you want to lose again?" said Yang with a smirk.
"I assure you, I will not lose this time," Weiss stated, defiantly.
Yang clicked the 'rematch' button and they loaded into another fight.
Just as Weiss predicted, Yang instantly started throwing attacks. Weiss blocked them as she simply waited for Yang's stamina to run out.
As soon as she found her opening, Weiss threw several light attacks at the savage, until he laid, dead, on the ground.
"Ha! Take that, Yang!" Weiss stuck a finger in her face.
Yang moved the finger, "I was going easy on you that time. Let's do best of three."
Weiss agreed, and they began another fight. This time, Yang waited for Weiss to strike first. As soon as she blocked Weiss' first attack, Yang made her savage swing violently at Weiss' knight.
The knight was only hit by the first strike, and Weiss made him block the rest of the savage's predictable attacks.
Soon enough, Weiss saw her opening and slew the savage once again.
"Yes!" shouted Weiss as she shot up from her cross-legged position on the ground, "I win!"
Seeing Weiss this happy brought a smile to Yang's face, "GG Weiss," she said as she stood up and held her hand out for Weiss to shake.
Weiss griped her hand, firmly, "GG?"
"It means 'good game,'" said Yang, still shaking her hand.
"Oh. Well, good game to you too," said Weiss.
As the two girls released the other's hand, they heard the door unlock and turned to see Blake open the door with Ruby in tow.
"Rubes! Fight me on this game!" Yang insisted.
Ruby looked at the screen to find out what game Yang was talking about, "Oh no, Yang. You are not getting me to play that game with you. You are way too good."
Weiss stepped forward, "Good because I want to fight Ruby," she said as she plucked Yang's scroll from her hand and gave it to Ruby.
"Wait. Weiss? You are playing video games? I thought you hated video games," said Ruby, confused.
"Just shut up and fight me, Ruby," said Weiss as she turned and sat in front of the screen again.
Ruby looked at her sister, "Yang… what have you done?"
Yang just smirked, "Your duel awaits, Baby Sis…"
Ruby sat down, next to Weiss, and selected her character. It was a smaller knight with two daggers.
Weiss started up the duel and started off by blocking the new, unfamiliar, pattern as best as she could.
Ruby's fighter was much faster than Yang's savage, and it was difficult trying to keep up with the directions in her mind, but eventually, Weiss had the red girl's attack pattern memorized and began to block everything perfectly.
Weiss landed a few hits on Ruby's fighter but ended up dying because of a poison ability that was available to Ruby's character.
"Rematch!" Weiss shouted as she clicked the 'rematch' button.
Ruby smiled at the heiress, "You're really into this game, huh?"
"Ruby, pay attention," Weiss ordered as her knight squared up with Ruby's.
Ruby's knight lunged at Weiss', stabbing him with her poisoned blade.
Weiss did not see it coming and noticed her health was slowly diminishing. She had to kill Ruby's knight, fast.
Weiss made her knight block all of Ruby's attacks and waited for her to run out of stamina.
When Ruby realized she had run out of stamina, she tried to make her knight run away, but Weiss did not let that happen and landed two heavy attacks on her, killing her.
"What? I was so far away! How did you get me!" Ruby looked at the smirking heiress, "Two out of three!"
"I accept," said Weiss.
After a slightly closer match, Ruby's knight was slain by Weiss' knight, and Ruby could not believe it.
"Three out of five!" Yelled Ruby as she grew hungry for a win against the heiress.
After another hard-fought battle, Weiss won again.
"What the heck! How are you so good at this game, Weiss?" Ruby pouted.
Yang answered for her, "Ruby, you are so predictable it's not even funny."
Weiss started laughing, "Yang, that is so precious coming from you!"
Yang smirked and shook her head.
Ruby looked at Yang, "What is she talking about?"
"Weiss beat me two out of three before you guys showed up," said Yang in reply.
Ruby gasped, "No way! You're lying!"
"It's true," said Yang putting her hands up as Weiss smiled, triumphantly.
Ruby slapped a hand on her knee, "Come on, four out of seven, Weiss!"
Weiss shook her head, "No Ruby, I want to fight Blake, now."
Blake, who had been quietly reading on her bed, looked up, "What? Why me?"
"It'll be fun," said Weiss, simply.
"I think I'll pass," said Blake, looking back at her book.
Ruby got up and presented her scroll to Blake, "Please, Blake. Avenge me?"
Blake looked at Ruby, amused and accepted the scroll, "Ok, Ruby."
Blake took a seat next to Weiss and listened to the heiress explain the controls to her. She picked a ninja with two sickles and they began the fight.
Blake was still learning the controls for the first fight and lost without landing a hit on Weiss.
Eventually, Blake got the hang of the game but lost to Weiss anyway.
"Sorry I can't avenge you, Ruby," said Blake, handing the scroll to Ruby.
"Don't worry, Blake! I will avenge you!" said Ruby.
"You can fight Yang, Ruby. I'm taking a small break from the arena," said Weiss as she handed her scroll to Yang.
"Alrighty, Sis! Get ready to feel the burn!" boasted Yang.
For a couple more hours, the four girls swapped in and out to play. Weiss won almost every game, and Ruby wanted the sweet taste of victory.
"That's it!" said Ruby after losing another battle to Weiss, "I challenge you to a spar, Weiss! Whoever wins gets bragging rights!"
Yang stood up and pointed at her sister, "Oh yeah? Well, I challenge you to a spar, Sis!"
"Why me? I lost to you every time!" said Ruby, throwing her hands up.
Yang had a goofy expression on her face and shrugged.
Weiss stood up from her spot on the ground and adjusted her skirt, "I accept your challenge."
"I don't want to fight two verses one! I'll get my butt kicked!" Ruby whined.
Blake walked over and placed a hand on Ruby's shoulder, "I challenge Yang to a spar," she said.
Yang laughed, "Hey, let's have a duos match. Me and Weiss verses you and Blake."
"That's exactly what I was thinking," said Blake.
Ruby smirked, "Alright team. To the sparring room!"
Weiss and Yang stood across the arena from their other two teammates. Ruby and Blake held Crescent Rose and Gambol Shroud, respectively, as they waited for the match to start.
Yang smirked as she bashed her knuckles together.
"Ready to lose, nerds?" said the brawler, confidently.
"No!" said Ruby, awkwardly.
The buzzer rang, and the fight began.
Yang propelled herself at Blake, who let a shadow take the hit, while she jumped away.
This left Weiss to handle Ruby.
Weiss formed a glyph under herself and dashed towards the younger girl, sliding under a large swing from her scythe, while slashing at Ruby's aura.
Ruby switched her scythe into its sniper form and began to take potshots at Weiss to keep her from getting too close.
Weiss simply formed a glyph directly in front of Ruby's weapon, rendering her strategy useless.
The heiress got up close and slashed at Ruby, but the smaller girl blocked each strike.
She saw that slashing away at Ruby would be pointless, so she backed up slightly and formed a circle of glyphs around Ruby to use to get behind her.
Before Weiss could utilize her glyphs, Weiss was struck from behind and fell to the floor a few feet away.
Yang had launched Blake in her direction, and Weiss had moved in the way and was struck by her.
Weiss wasted no time getting to her feet. Blake also stood up and shot at the heiress with her pistol.
Weiss deflected the bullets with ease while forming a fire glyph in front of her.
Soon, a plume of fire erupted where Blake had been seconds ago.
While Blake was fleeing from the flame, Weiss saw Ruby and Yang fighting in the distance.
Ruby was using her speed to keep Yang in her range, and the blonde was struggling to close the distance.
Weiss had to think fast when she saw Gambol Shroud fling into her field of view and wrap around her.
Blake pulled, and she was swung into the ground.
Weiss used two glyphs to widen the ribbon that was trapping her, so she could slip out, and was just in time to parry a strike from Blake's sword.
Weiss went to parry, but her blade hit another shadow.
In a split second, Blake was behind her and slashed at her back.
The heiress immediately took to the air with a glyph, so she could get her bearings and watched as Blake went straight for Yang.
"Yang! Behind you!" Weiss shouted as she formed a time dilation glyph at Yang's feet.
Yang spun around and blocked Blake's sneak attack, feeling time slow as the glyph did its job.
Blocking the scythe and sword that were attacking her became a whole lot easier and she held her ground long enough for Weiss to land a few strikes on Ruby.
Ruby focused her attention on Weiss and swung her massive weapon at her, the loud swishes and swooshes that could be heard added to the intimidation of the dangerous weapon.
Weiss dodged under and around each swing and, when the time was right, stuck Myrtenaster in the ground and froze Crescent Rose in place.
Ruby tried to pull the scythe out of its icy casing to no avail. She laughed sheepishly as Weiss smirked and walked past her to help Yang with Blake.
She positioned herself so that Yang could see her and formed a circle of glyphs.
Yang saw this and knew exactly what to do. She waited for Blake to appear near her and grabbed her around the shoulders.
"Got you!" said Yang as she flung Blake into Weiss' trap.
Blake landed on her feet in the circle of glyphs and tried to jump out, but her foot was frozen in place.
Weiss formed another time dilation glyph and jumped between the surrounding glyphs, landing a blow each time.
Yang watched Blake's aura dwindle down as she heard a distinctive click from behind. She turned and saw Ruby lining up a shot at Weiss in an attempt to rescue Blake.
Without thinking, Yang jumped in front of the shot which exploded on impact, sending her flying into the glyphs and knocking Blake over.
Weiss looked at the screen and saw that Yang and Blake were in the red. It was just her and Ruby now.
"Get that win for us, Weiss!" shouted Yang as she and Blake walked off the floor.
Blake was quick to speak up after, "I believe in you, Ruby!"
Weiss circled around Ruby. They were both around halfway through their auras, with Ruby being slightly less than Weiss.
Weiss was waiting for Ruby to make the first move, but the younger girl seemed hesitant.
The heiress finally made a move by forming an ice glyph in front of her and firing a volley of icicles at Ruby.
Ruby made her move and used her semblance to dash at Weiss at blinding speeds.
Weiss saw this coming, using a glyph to get above the speedy girl, and watched her skid to a halt on the other side of the arena.
Weiss saw her chance and formed an ice glyph under Ruby, freezing her feet in place, facing the wall.
Ruby literally had to bend over backward so she could shoot explosive rounds at Weiss.
The cloaked girl was struggling with this, however, and couldn't move when Weiss reached her and slashed at her hands.
Crescent Rose loudly clanked on the floor as Weiss pointed her blade at Ruby.
"Yield," she said triumphantly
Ruby pouted for a moment, "Dang it…" she said.
Weiss smirked and slashed at the ice holding Ruby in place and stowed her blade.
Yang and Blake jogged up to their teammates.
"Nice one, Weiss!" cheered Yang as she gave her a high-five.
Yang looked at Ruby who was still pouting, "Hey, you did awesome too, Little Sis. I could barely keep up with you this time. This training at Beacon is definitely not wasted on you."
Ruby blushed as Blake put her hand on Ruby's back while nodding in agreement, "Aw, you always know what to say, Yang," she said as she squeezed her sister in a hug.
Weiss pulled out her scroll and checked the time, "Wow, guys, it's really late. How long did we play that game?"
Yang put her hands on her hips and smirked at the heiress, "It was well over six hours, Weiss. You spent all that time on a 'stupid video game.'"
Weiss crossed her arms, "I only called them stupid because I didn't know they required skill and higher-level thought to be good at them," she said as she and Blake turned and walked towards the exit.
Ruby waited until Weiss was out of earshot before talking to Yang, "You didn't really lose to Weiss, did you? I mean, there's no way."
Yang shrugged, "I had to get her to try out the game somehow."
"Oh my Oum! You did the same thing to me!" realized Ruby.
"Yup. And it worked just as well on Weiss."
A/N: Fun Fact! This piece is actually a little snippet from a much larger story I wrote called "Project Freezerburn"! I just thought it was perfect for this prompt! Feel free to check out the rest of the story on my AO3 or on fanfiction.