"Ah!" Jaune exclaimed while jolting from laying down and into a sitting position. The reason of his rude awakening? It was the sudden cold that surrounded him, someone had thrown a metal bucket of cold water on him. How did he knew it was a metal bucket? They had thrown the bucket as well. "Nora!"
But before he could chastite the Valkyrie for this he noticed something strange, he was no longer in the dorm room. He was now in… A wrestling arena, at first one would think that It was empty for the darkness that surrounded the entire place but the presence of a pair of legs in his right proved otherwise.
"You're finally awake!" A masculine voice said in enthusiasm. Right in front of Jaune was a man dressed up in an outfit that could easily belong to circus director. The only notable traits of the man were his red sunglasses and his hair that could easily rival Yang's in length. "There are some notes in your pocket please read them in order to get the show started." He said before turning around and putting a finger over once of his ears.
"What?" Jaune said while unconsciously taking a hand to his pocket just like the circus leader had said there was a small piece of paper, pulling it out he read 'I'm Jaune Arc and I'm ready to participate.' "W-What is this?" He asked confused.
"And go." The man said, in that moment the entire place illuminated.
Around both of them was an excited audience of… Jaune really couldn't tell what they were but just looking at them caused his head to hurt. Every single of them was shouting in excitement ready for whatever spectacle was about to happen.
"Welcome everyone to our new show!" The man shouted, somehow projecting his voice all around the place without the need of a microphone. "It is I, your host: Asmodeus" The audience began to cheer even louder. "And today I bring you all a new, first and last participant to our show! Please my dear sir introduce yourself!"
Some lights shone over Jaune, indicating him to smile, wave or at least introduce himself. "What? No." He said, causing the entire audience to fall in silence. "Where are we? Who are you? What are we doing here? How did you bring me here? I have a lot of questions and you're only confusing me even more!"
"Uh sorry bud." Asmodeus said while pulling out a controller with a big red button. "But those are not the lines written on the card." He pushed the button.
In that moment, eight different yet familiar voices shouted in pain over Jaune. He looked up and noticed that even when there were lights all around him there were eight spots in the walls that were covered in darkness.
A red light illuminated one of the spots and he saw Ruby Rose looking around in confusion and fear she was in some sort of giant picnic basket made out of vines. Even if it was difficult to notice it he managed to see a small collar on her neck.
Another light this time a white one, just like with Ruby there was Weiss. She looked equally as confused as Ruby but instead of fear there was anger. She was trapped in a completely different prison as well, an apple made completely of ice, and he could see a collar around her neck.
A black toned light and he saw none other than Blake Belladona who was struggling to get the collar off of her. Her prison was incredibly curious because she was trapped in a rose made completely of shadows, the petals were constantly falling and growing at an incredible pace.
Next was a golden light and the reveal of Yang Xiao Long trapped inside of… A bear made out of flames? She was completely different than the other girls though because right now there wasn't a hint of fear in her eyes but pure anger at being trapped.
A scarlet light illuminated the next cage, it made completely out of bronze and had various inscriptions that he couldn't read, he managed to identify half of an o that had been opened at the bottom. Much to the horror of Jaune he could see that his partner Pyrrha Nikos was trapped inside of it.
The next pair of cages were similar to the one Pyrrha was trapped in but one was made out of rock with inscriptions different to the ones Pyrrha had and the other was mad out of wood with yet again different inscriptions. Both his teammates Nora and Ren were trapped in those. Their respective cages being illuminated by a pink and green light respectively.
He was shocked to see the next person, it was Sun a faunus that had helped Blake in something and that Jaune had started to the befriend. He was trapped in what looked to be a jar with a large rock on the top, there were some inscriptions similar to the ones of Ren's cage on the jar as well.
"Wh- How- Whe-" Jaune was in complete disbelief as he saw his friends and the friends of his friends dandling from a cage. He looked at Asmodeus, he then looked at the controller in his hand, then to the collars and finally he remembered the shouts. "Why you!" Jaune charged at Asmodeus without even thinking about it.
Sadly his valiant effort accomplished nothing, as he prepared to deliver the best hit he could land he clashed against an invisible wall, something that would make a mime proud.
"Tsk, I don't really remember my notes saying anything about you saying that." Asmodeus said with a despective look in his eyes. "Oh well." He pressed the button.
The shouts of his friends once again flooded Jaune's ears as he tried to approach the man.
"Those cages are sound proof by the way." Asmodeus said with amusement. "Of course I made them so that shouts of pain could be heard but I still think I made a good job with them." He noticed Jaune still struggling with the barrier. "My notes had nothing about silence so~-"
Jaune responded immediately, he pulled the notes out once again and went the first one.
"I-I'm Jaune A-Ar-" Shouts were heard once again, he looked at Asmodeus in shock, but he kept waitintg for the line. "I-I-I'm Ja-" Shouts were heard once again.
"Do not stutter." Asmodeus warned the boy while smiling at him, he then lowered the sunglasses to reveal, nothing he had no eyes. "Or do you perhaps like to hear the people you care about shout?"
Jaune stared at him in horror, he then took a deep breath and calmed himself. "I'm Jaune Arc and I'm ready to participate in…"
"BREAK! A! HEART!" Both Asmodeus and the audience shouted, ready to start whatever sick show they had planned.
"So tell me Jaune what bring you here?" Asmodeus said with a "kind" tone in his voice.
"I wanted to participate in order to win one of the amazing eight prizes." Jaune involuntarily looked at his friends in the cages, glaring at Asmodeus in anger. "And if I'm lucky enough I just might win them all."
"Not exactly a good motivation don't you think?" Asmodeus said before laughing with joy. "But hey, we don't judge here. So Jaune do you know how the is played?"
"No." Jaune answered before changing to the next card.
"Oh well. I guess I will have to explain then." Asmodeus said before snapping his fingers and making a the image of a girl and a boy conversing appear on the screen. "Like the name indicates you have to break a heart." The image of the girl suddenly had her heart snapped in two.
"Really?" Jaune recited the line.
"Yep but it has to be a true hear break." Asmodeus said before making motions towards Blake. "Take Blake Belladona for example, if you were to play the game with her then you would need to the make her fall head over heels for you, make her be completely in love. But. When she least expects her you will have to hand her over to the White Fang, breaking her heart into millions of pieces and making her hate you forever."
"Oh Gee." Jaune read, while wondering what kind of sadistic asshole would watch this show in their own volition. "And once the heart is broken what do I do?"
"Well, breaking the heart isn't the only thing you have to do." Asmodeus said while chuckling. "You will also have to help the girl indirectly. Keeping on with the Blake scenario, you would need to inform the rest of team RWBY about her situation without making it clear that it was you who told them, making it so that she keeps hating you."
"Oh, and can I tell them later?" Jaune read the next line.
"Of course not silly, the jist of the game is for them to hate you." Asmodeus said with a grin. "In fact if you were to tell them we would put a strike on you, and let me tell you something just like in baseball you only have three strikes."
"And what happens if I get three strikes." Jaune read with fear in his voice.
"You lose one of the prizes... Forever." Asmodeus said with a cruel grin that made the people in the cages shudder in fear at the implications.
"Oh I see." Jaune said before reading the next line. "But why did you choose me to play the game?"
"Because this is our retribution." Asmodeus said, his attitude changing to a serious one all of the sudden. "An alternate version of yourself destroyed our main source of food, destroyed our transportation to get food in safe manner, because of him millions of us have died because of hunger and many more had died in search for food."
Jaune stared at Asmodeus in pure disbelief was this the reason? He really couldn't fault him or the audience seeing this, but at the same time he wanted to shout that this wasn't his fault and that he did not deserve this, he however refused to say anything because the next line in the card was a simple word. 'Silence'
"Well ladies and gentlemen." Asmodeus said while looking at the audience. "Tell me which girl should be the one Jaune here has to woo and in which way he will betray her?"
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And new story is out! This may be a mistake but whatever who cares.
What do you guys think of the concept? What do you guys think of Asmodeus? And more importantly...
Which girls from within and outside the RWBYverse do you want to see their hearts broken?
Thanks for reading. Bye Bye!