Chapter 5

The girls woke up to the sound of knocking on their door. They looked at each other, puzzled but alert, and got dressed. A moment later they opened their door to two girls.

The one who obviously knocked, who was now staring with wide eyes, had bright pink hair, equally bright pink eyes, and a big smile on her face. The other seemed a little more introverted, with aqua hair and matching eyes that shone with intelligence. They introduced themselves as Wisteria and Leilah, and said that they were part of a team of adventurers from Hyr. On their travels, they heard about the famous team RWBY, and wanted to pay a visit to them.

"Well, the hallway certainly doesn't seem like a good place to talk, so why don't we head down to a coffee shop, and then we can chat." Weiss was a little annoyed at the girls for taking up the hallway and potentially waking others up.

"Sounds good, Weiss. How about that coffee shop across the street?" Ruby asked.

"Uh, which one?" Yang obviously didn't pay attention to the street after the fight.

"You know, the one named Junior's Coffee Shop." Weiss said.

"Ooh, our friend's also there." Wisteria piped in.

"Your friend?" Ruby asked.

"Yeah, he's a little, ah, awkward around people." Wisteria replied.

So, the girls went down the stairs, out the doors of the inn, across the street, and into the little coffee shop. As they walked in, a man in a bartender's uniform, with a red tie and black gloves, stood behind a bar that (obviously) sold alcohol. A person sat there already, with a coffee mug (that obviously wasn't filled with coffee) in front of him. Two girls sat in one of the tables, one dressed in white, the other in red.

"Is that… Junior?" Yang asked.

"Wait, you know him?" Weiss was puzzled.

"Yeah, but I thought he had a bar, not a coffee shop." Yang replied.

"Blondie." Was Junior's greeting to Yang.

"Junior, whatcha doin' here, old buddy." Yang walked towards the bar with a big smile on her face.

"Well, when you girls beat the dragon, the world kind of, you know, changed. Everyone appeared here with their in-game avatars and now we're living as players. Good thing this game is pretty damn realistic, or else I'd have no place to go."

"… What?" Yang's eyes widened in shock.

"No way." Ruby's answer dragged out. "That means we're in a video game world?"

"Well, more like the real world but with a video game interface built in, if you know what I mean." Junior explained.

"So, what exactly happened?" Blake asked.

"Well, everyone got a message that server was restarting to start a so-called new phase in the game, and naturally everyone logged off to… this." Junior replied.

"Well, at least some people were in their in-game avatars. What's worse is that most people weren't logged on and were transported here as normal human beings with no weapons and no way to defend themselves." The other person at the bar suddenly spoke.

"Well, wasn't that useful, mister." Junior glanced at him.

"Oh hey look it's Ahria." Wisteria piped in.

"That's your friend? I'd expected someone a little, you know, on the sunny side." Yang commented.

"Yeah, he's a little weird and emo, but he's pretty nice generally speaking." Raven said.

"So, what happened to those people that weren't in their in-game avatars?" Weiss asked.

"Well, some of them found shelter, most were lucky enough to have 'spawned' in a city, but there was one I found who was in the mountains, pretty high up. I had to teleport him out of there." Ahria said nonchalantly.

"Teleport?" Junior asked.

"It's a teleport scroll, I think he's somewhere in a big city now. Hopefully I got the right one and he's in the same city as his friends." Ahria replied.

At that moment, someone else walked into the bar (or coffee shop? idek at this point). He had red hair, an elaborate mask covering his eyes and nose, and two horns that protrudes from his forehead, just above the mask. He wore a grey jacket, with grey pants and black shoes. Two belts cross on his waist, and a sword hangs from one, while flares hang from his other belt.

"Hello, Blake. Did you miss me, kitty?"

Everyone turns around. Blake's eyes widen, and her ears twitch nervously.

To be continued…

A/N: And that's Adam's entrance. Also, since my friends requested a role, I decided that I'll be in the story with them.

I think I'm going to post some more stats soon, for the three of us, Junior, and maybe Adam.