The First Quest! People Problems!
(A/N - Hiya RWBY fans! I'm so happy for the support for my first chapter! From the view and follows to the reviews and favorites I'm deeply happy and hope this second chapter lives up to your expectations. I must also say that the story won't be like SAO as we will be spending a good amount of time on Earth, this is a story about Ruby's life in both places after all. Anyway, on with the show!)
The first that greeted Ruby as she met her team was a very developed chest being shoved in her face as she was hugged. The reaper turned as red as her cape as her mind was rebooting and slowly understood what was happening.
"Awwwe! You're just the cutest! With that cool red hair and cute cheeks! I'm keeping her!" The hugger in question shouted at Ozpin and the others in the room.
Ozpin simply drank his coffee as another voice cut in. "Yeaaah, Yang if you don't let her breathe than I don't think there will be much for you to keep. Just don't-" Yang listened to the voice and let go, pouting at her. Ruby fell right on a girl who was sitting on the floor reloading her weapon. The fall caused her to drop a dust vial and exploded the room, everyone and thing became covered in soot but Ozpin as he chuckled and left the room.
"Well you all seem to be going along just fine, I will send Glynda in with your first beginner's quest shortly. Try not to destroy my school girls." Ozpin said before he left and Ruby looked up at the girl she fell on.
"Sooo… I'm Ruby" The girl glared and got up, dropping Ruby and began to clean herself off.
"And I'm in need of a shower now you dolt! Watch where you fall next time!" Yang rolled her eyes with a smile and put a arm around the girl, wiping at her cheek.
"Oh relax Weiss, you know how games work this stuff will vanish soon enough. Besides the black brings out your eyes." Weiss glared at the blonde but crossed her arms and turned away with a small blush. Blake was on the bed and put down her blackened book.
"Stop your teasing Yang and let's really introduce ourselves. I'm Blake Belladonna, the Feline Rouge. Sneaky quick attacks are my speciality while I enjoy reading, kittens, and fish. My backstory is-"
"Sheesh don't need to dump your entire character history on her yet Blake, let that stuff come out slowly." Yang said rubbing the girl's shoulders while Blake looked back and seemed a bit down.
"But I put so much work into the history."
"Heh well Ruby, you'll learn quick that the three of us are gaming masters with Blake here being the rpg nut. Ultra Skyrim, D&D, and all that stuff is what she lives for. As for me, I have game and these babies dull out the pain!" Yang said as she showed off her Ember Celica and blew a hole in the wall by accident. "I'm Yang Xiao Long, the Hot Tank! I go in guns ablazing and as a single woman army. I usually play fighting games or shooters."
Weiss frowned as she finished cleaning off before sighing and standing straight to introduce herself. "And I am Weiss Schnee, The Snow Priestess and most civilized person here in my game choice as I prefer puzzles and platformers. I'm proficient at magic use and also written a profound backstory for my character."
Yang smirked and Blake hid a small smile behind her book, knowing what Yang was about to do. "Hey, Ruby don't take Weiss's attitude so personally, her character model didn't come out fully as she wanted." Weiss slowly turned to the girl and pulled out her weapon.
"Don't you dare!"
"She tried to make her chest bigger but the game denied her hahaha!"
"You are so dead Xiao Long! I only wanted to test out the mechanics of the game and this isn't my real body so why can't I be more curvy!? I bet your body is a lie!" Weiss began to chase a laughing Yang around the room as Ruby smiled a bit at their antics and nervously walked over to Blake.
"Well, this is sure gonna be something heh. So how do I get a title and stuff? I'm new to these types of games, I play a bit of everything."
"Well, there is a computer in the corner where we entered our info. Just put in what you can for now and think of your own title." Ruby nodded and went to the computer putting information in until she reached the title. She looked at her scythe and felt the name hit her as she entered it and the title appeared next to her name. She smiled proudly and turned to the girls, proudly declaring who she was.
"I am Ruby Rose, The Grim Ranger! I like cookies and puppies, the color red, and getting up close and personal when I need to. But a handy sniper is pretty sweet!" Weiss shook her head while Blake smiled and nodded and Yang gave two thumbs up. "Okay team, now that we have all that down. Let's go do that quest!" Just as she shouted that, the door opened to Glynda Goodwitch there and a folder in her hand.
"Good you all are accounted now. Here is the quest from professor Ozpin, you have two days to complete it and return to me." As she left Ruby opened the folder and a holograph of the info and the targets an location appeared.
"Two days? Why so much?"
"Because dolt, not all of us can be on twenty-four seven. We do have lives we have to go back to when we wake." Ruby nodded and began to read out the quest.
"So we need to go into the emerald forest and clear out a monster nest that is reported to have taken root in an old ruin, okay not too bad. Everyone ready?" They all nodded and touched the hologram, a circular symbol that was chopped into fours, read RWBY, and were each their unique color appeared on it. The floor glowed with arrows as they began to follow them away from Beacon. Ozpin and Glynda watched them leave from high above in his office.
"Players 4, 5, 7, and 8 are on our side and accounted for. I just hope that Ironwood can get the next four before she does."
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Weiss grumbled as she was hit by a branch that Ruby had moved out of her way. "Okay, this is crazy!? How big can this place really be?! Isn't this game in some kind of demo or something? I mean there are only like ten of us?"
Ruby stopped and tapped her chin. "Well I was player eight and that Roman guy mentioned there not being too many of us."
"Weiss is right, I was player five with her being four. The first three are mysteries but Yang was number seven. I guess that we are just lucky beta testers in a way." Ruby thought about Blake's words, wondering if she should ask how they got their headsets but before she could, the ground under them fell apart and the four girls fell to the ground below. Weiss used her glyphs to calmly walk to the ground, Blake pulled out her weapon and used the grapple to stab into the wall and rappel down, Yang smirked and right before she hit the ground slammed her gauntlets down so they shot her back and she landed safely. Ruby simply fell and landed on her behind, whining a bit and rubbing it as she stood.
"Owie… you have to teach me how to do that stuff."
"Aww don't be like that Ruby, all you have to do is get down in your own unique way. Make a cool landing strategy that is all you." Yang said while patting the girl's head and they began to walk into the cave they fell into, a growling noise drawing their attention.
"Okay okay before you three do anything I think we should think this through and leave this ho- you're already gone…" Weis said as Ruby and Yang were already leaving and Blake shrugged following. Weiss waited for them to get a bit farther and looked around a bit afraid, tiny red eyes looked at her before cursing and running after them, grabbing Blake's hand and hugging her arm to her. Threatening her with Myrtenaster if she ever mentioned this. Blake giggled and caught up to Ruby and Yang as they stared down to see a nest of King Taijitu. "It's the nest…"
Ruby saw the six and sevens above the monster's heads, before looking at her teams and each was at level ten. "Okay team, what's our plan? Do they have a weak point?" Yang pulled up a menu and after a moment, cancelled it.
"Okay, so that thing is a grimm called a King Taijitu which has a head on each end, one white one black."
"Like Catdog?" Ruby asked tilting her head.
"Exactly! Man, I loved those old cartoons. Do you remember-" Yang was about to go on but Weiss growled at them.
"Focus!"
"Okay okay, so they are really big and really strong, but they are only a physical threat and have to get close to you. Also, the heads have different brains so they can be tricked into attacking each other and they have hard scales so we need to be careful. Their eyes are weak points."
The team all nodded and Weiss counted three grimm, deciding that they needed to lower that number if only temporary. She grabbed a rock and threw it into a tunnel that allowed the grimm to leave the nest, one of the snakes heard the rock and slithered out to check the noise. "I'll keep this up as much as I can but you three need to finish off at least one quick!" Weiss said as she started using her ice dust to block the snake from returning but it started to attack to return. The other grimm headed for the ice to help but the rest of Rwby was there to stop them.
"Okay Blake you can be with me, you can handle one on your own Yang?" The blonde smirked and slammed her fists together, blasting off with the shotgun blast and punching one of the head. Ruby smiled and turned to Blake. "Ready?"
"Let's do it! I know you're new to this so follow my lead, let's get these two to get mad at each other. Lead them around for a dance."
"I hate dancing…" Ruby grumbled before taking on the black head, Blake throwing her knife on the ceiling and using it to swing onto the white one's head. Ruby dodged the head's first strike and swiped at its neck, but like Yang said before, the blade bounced off the scales. Ruby cursed and started shooting at the creature's face, trying to hit the eyes. "Why is this thing so hard to… oh." She nearly facepalmed as she saw the gun had a scope. A sniper. She began to use the scope and finally managed to get a shot on it's eye, cheering until it roared and rammed its head at her. She jumped and landed on its head. Blake saw this and noticed the stalactites above their heads.
"Okay, Ruby I got a plan, lead your head to where mine goes!" Ruby nodded as she got right in front of the Snake's good eye and waved, making it attack and try to bite her. Blake used Gambol Shroud and tied it around her head's top jaw and led it where she wanted by pulling at it. The two led the heads to where they saw each other with a human on them. Just as they struck at the humans, they jumped off and Blake told Ruby to shoot and pointed at a huge stalactite they had led the snakes to. The girl nodded and took the shot, taking down the pointed rock and stabbing through both heads.
They high fived before going to help Yang but she was just cleaning herself off, one of her snakes heads was completely exploded. She smiled at them and gave a thumbs up. "Umm, you okay Yang?"
"Oh yeah! It was a bit grimm here and there but I showed them!" Blake groaned loudly as Ruby laughed, Yang, reminding her of her dad's bad puns. A lot of things about her seemed to be like her dad. Before that thought could get any further though, Weiss came flying towards them and slamming into Ruby. Blake and Yang faced the last King Taijitu and rushed at it, drawing both heads attention to each girl. Ruby and Weiss stood and looked at the fight, Weiss getting a plan.
"Ruby, this glyph will send you right into the middle of that thing at a quick speed and I want you to cut it right in half."
"Me? But I'm not sure how to…"
"Come on Dolt you are meant to be our team leader right? Use that brain of yours." Ruby hesitated but steeled her nerves and nodded preparing to run onto the glyph. She ran and accidently activated her semblance again, using the speed and spinning her scythe to slice right through the snake. Bothe heads began to scream in pain before Weiss rushed to Ruby and stabbed both halves of the snake and pumped them with ice dust. Each became frozen solid before breaking apart fully and shattering into shimmering dust. All the girls raised by a level but Ruby by two. They celebrated and headed back to Beacon, proudly turning in the quest to Ozpin.
"Not bad at all you four. I have another job for you soon but it seems our time is over for today." He said pointing at Ruby and Weiss as their names blinked and they were being logged out. Ruby looked at her friends and smiled at them, giving a wave and promising to come back soon. They all vanished as Ruby's sight turned black.
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Ruby jerked upright and removed the headset, Zwei smiling up at her and running off. "It's morning… wow, I was on that thing for a good while. Heh, but I now have friends…"