I don't own RWBY or For Honor or any other work, just the story and the OCs.
I added a little something at the end of the chapter to add more to the story later on.
The Snowstorm Viking Part One
(Chicago, Nighttime, Barbara's house)
Barbara was in her room playing her PS4, while having a drink of her soda. She was currently looking into the customization options for her classes in For Honor.
"Ok… Valkyrie is looking good, so is the Berserker, Raider is armed and ready to go, and Warlord is ready for action."
During her time playing For Honor, Barbara had managed to obtain the best gear for her classes in the Viking faction of the game.
Barbara doesn't know why, but she has always favored the Vikings, they were always her favorite for some reason. But unlike her, most people in the community prefer to choose the Knights or the Samurai faction, but hardly anyone chooses the Vikings.
For the Berserker, she had managed to get the Hengels gear set for it, for the Valkyrie she manage to get it the Asger weapon set and the Nebula armor set, for the Raider she had manage to get it the Zenam weapon set and the Kanon armor set, but for the Warlord… Barbara doesn't know how she got it, but she had somehow manage to get the legendary Rikr armor set along with the Agear weapon set.
Barbara manage to get some common and rare sets of armor and gear on a daily basis, but getting epic and legendary was something that she needed to get on pure luck, but getting such sets were not easy even if she is one of the most top ranked players in the community.
After getting her classes set up, Barbara went to multiplayer and looked through the options of game modes.
After looking for a bit, Barbara chose the Dominion mode, the screen then took her to choose her warrior class for the match.
'What to choose, what to choose?' Barbara thought as she looked through all of her Viking classes. "I think I'll go with…the Warlord." She said as she chose the Warlord, seeing as her Warlord was currently the best equip character she has.
But before she did that, she looked back at all the other warriors of the other two factions, more specifically the recent additions to the Knights and the Samurai.
'It's really unfair on how the Knights and the Samurai get new people, but the Vikings didn't.' Barbara thought as she looked at the Centurion and the Shinobi.
Barbara had seen the season two trailer, revealing the two new warriors into the game. Barbara had to admit, that the Centurion looked be a real challenge, but for the Shinobi…when she saw that evading smoke move it did Barbara knew that players would be spamming the move all the time to avoid getting hit and that really pissed her off when she fought against them in the game.
When season two came out for 'For Honor' she has had to deal with players who chose the Shinobi and all the hardship it was to actually land a hit on them. The players that chose the Shinobi as the character kept on spamming that shadow dodge move on her all the time. She even died a couple of times in 'Dominion' due to her opponents choosing the Shinobi, but lately she was able to develop her gaming skills to have faster reflexes on the controller, so now she was able to last longer against a Shinobi and was now able to kill them in the game.
Thinking about how the Knights and the Samurai got new warriors for their factions, Barbara remembered something that was coming for her faction.
"Wait a minute…that's right…season three of For Honor is coming out later." Barbara said as she remembered that For Honor season three was coming out later.
"Oh man…I can't wait for season three." She said as she started to remember watching the season three trailer. "It's about time for the Vikings to shine." Barbara said as she remembered the debut trailer of the Vikings newest addition to their faction, the Highlander.
Barbara remembered seeing the trailer of the Highlander. She saw how the Highlander held himself as a warrior of pure strength with a huge amount of brute force in its attacks against other warriors in the trailer.
When Barbara saw the Highlander, she felt as though there was some sort resemblance to her and the Highlander. Barbara is of Icelandic origin and comes from Iceland. In the past she had to endure the cold in her homeland even during the winter, which made the cold there even worse.
But over time Barbara had develop a bit of a tolerance to the cold in her many years of living in Iceland. But just because she has a tolerance of it doesn't mean she still didn't like it. Barbara had trained her body to endure the harsh weather of her land, so it could no longer bother her.
So when she saw the Highlander, she thought that it was just like her. A person who grew in the harshest of weather in their entire life and in surviving those harsh weathers, they became strong from it. The strength both Barbara and the Highlander have gained while living in such environments have made them develop bones of steel that could never be rusted or broken by anything that nature could throw at them.
The game was down loading and the screen now showed the map of the match.
"Okay this was pretty much expected." Barbara said she saw the map. The map the Barbara saw was one that was easily recognizable. The entire map took place in what appears to be an area in the Knights territory, what with the castle walls off on one side and stone brick walkways and bridges.
The map that Barbara was currently looking at was known as 'Forge'.
In the loading screen, Barbara saw her teammates for the match. Barbara saw a Lawbringer, a Valkyrie, and Shugoki.
"Alright two hybrids and a heavy…okay looks like we can do if they use their avatars well." Barbara commented.
Barbara looked to the left side of the screen to see her opponents. What she saw was Conqueror, a Berserker, a Warden, and a Shinobi.
'Okay so it's two assassins, a heavy, and a Vanguard…seems fair enough…well fair for me, but for them… not so much.' Barbara thought as she remember going up against the various hero types of the game in any multiplayer match. Barbara at first had a bit of a hard time facing the variety of different class warriors with their own unique skill set, but she mange to read their movements over time.
The game was done loading as it showed warriors on both side of the screen about to attack each other with the famous 'For Honor' shout coming into play.
The screen went to showing the layout of the map like it always does, showing various passages and areas.
The screen then showed Barbara's Warlord out in the open at her team's side of the map.
"Begin" the announcer said and with that the match began.
The first thing Barbara did was that she went straight to point B, as the other players can easily take point A since it was the one closes to their side of the map.
When Barbara got there, she waited for point B to fully be claimed by her team. Barbara waited there until she saw an enemy player come towards her.
The enemy player that was coming was a Conqueror.
As the conqueror got close, Barbara immediately locked on onto the Conqueror and got into her battle stance with her weapon prepared to block a downward attack.
When the Conqueror came, he actually did a downward attack on Barbara, but Barbara countered it and heavy attacked the Conqueror, taking a moderate amount of his health away.
Barbara tried to attack again with her own downward swing, but the Conqueror blocked it and tried attacking her from the left. Barbara dodge away from the attack, then did two light attacks from the right on the Conqueror.
The attacks landed and took away some of the Conqueror's health, Barbara tried to attack again, but something took her by surprise.
Barbara was attacked from behind. When her Warlord turned around to see who it was, Barbara saw that it was the Warden from the opposing team.
"Teaming up against me huh." Barbara said as she saw that now she had to face two enemy opponents at once. "Well bring it on then."
After she said that, the Warden came at her first with a leftward swing, so Barbara dodge to the left to avoid it, and she retaliated with her own light attack on the Warden.
Her attack landed on the Warden, but then the Conqueror came in and tried to hit her with a rightward swing. Barbara quickly did a lock on switch to the Conqueror and blocked the attack, but then the Warden came back and tried to attack her as well.
Currently right now is that Barbara had opponents on either sides of her. Both attackers came at Barbara with a barrage of light and heavy attacks. This made Barbara repeatedly move her right control stick left to right continuously to effectively block the attacks.
Barbara kept blocking as she saw how her enemy's stamina began to decrease rapidly. It was when the Conqueror swung a heavy side attack at her did she parried it and that was when the Conqueror was out of stamina and began to back away from her.
Barbara would've went for the Conqueror, but couldn't as the Warden was in her way, so Barbara changed her focus to the Warden and dealt with him first before the dealing with the Conqueror.
Now both her and the Warden faced each other. The Warden swung a sideward swing from the left, but Barbara moved her Warlord to the side to avoid it and then counter attacked him. The hit landed, and then before the Warden could turn towards her, Barbara came in with a 'Hack and Slash' attack taking away some of the Warden's health.
The Warden came at her again with a heavy downward swing of his long sword, but quickly moved her Warlord back and took up that around defensive move of the Warlord that blocked attacks from all side.
When the Warden's attack came, it was immediately repelled by the move. He tried to attack again, but the same thing happens like before. The Warden tried attacking a third time, but like before his attack was repelled, but this time Barbara decided to attack.
Barbara went first with a heavy attack from the right, then a light attack from the left. She then tried to do a heavy attack from the left, but the Warden manages to counter it and swung his sword right at Barbara.
The hit landed on her and manage to take away some of her health, but fortunately the attack was only a light attack, so Barbara still had plenty of her Warlord's health in the health bar.
When she locked back onto the Warden, Barbara saw that the Warden's health was almost to the danger zone, so Barbara knew that if she was careful, then she'll be able to end this quickly, but that was when the Conqueror came back into play.
The Conqueror rushed right at Barbara and tried to perform a downward swing at her, but Barbara immediately dashed to the side to avoid it and she quickly switched lock on to the Conqueror.
When the Conqueror turned to face her, Barbara immediately came in with a block break attack, stunning the Conqueror. Barbara then rushed towards the Conqueror and shoved him right towards the wall.
Barbara then switch the lock on towards the Warden that came in with a right swing, but Barbara dodge that by moving to the side and then performing a heavy attack on him. Then she performed three light attacks that mange to kill the Warden in the end.
Once the Warden was done, Barbara then turned her sights to the Conqueror. The Conqueror faced her and after moment of looking at each other, Barbara charged at him.
When Barbara got close, she performed a rightward swing at the Conqueror. The attack met its mark on the Conqueror, taking a portion of its life away. The Conqueror was now nearing the danger zone on its health bar, Barbara had to end this quick so she can get back into the match.
The Conqueror tried to retaliate by swinging its weapon at her, but Barbara moved out of the way and did a light attack on him.
The Conqueror's health was seriously close to the danger zone, so the next thing the Conqueror did was that it started to back away from Barbara while it kept on swinging its flail around in a circular motion. Seeing that the Conqueror was backing away from her, Barbara started advancing towards him.
Barbara was at first confused by the action of the Conqueror until she suddenly realized what he was about to do.
The Conqueror suddenly unleashed its famed 'Shield Bash Mix Up' on her. But unfortunately for the Conqueror, Barbara manages to roll way from the attack, avoiding any major damage that the Conqueror could've inflicted upon her.
When Barbara got back up, she then rushed towards the Conqueror and did a heavy downward swing on him.
When the attack landed, the sword was stuck deep inside the Conqueror as the option buttons for the execution appeared.
Barbara quickly pressed the square button and then her Warlord performed its famed 'Shield Bash Uppercut'.
Barbara watched as her Warlord pulled out his sword, then head-butted the Conqueror, then finally uppercut him with his shield, killing the Conqueror.
When that was finished, Barbara stayed at her spot until point B was claimed. After that, she then went on to Point A where the enemy's soldiers were taking over.
After a while in the match, Barbara's team was basically winning as the manage to control two of the three points in the match, this happen when Barbara came in to push back the enemy soldier, for she immediately mowed them down.
But of course every now and then, Barbara would face one of the enemy players, but they were handle easily…except for the Shinobi as the player kept on spamming that shadow dodge move which really annoyed her, but she manage to kill him in the end.
When the match was over and Barbara's team had won, the game immediately took her to the scoreboard screen, where Barbara saw the score her team had earned to win the game, but at the same time a message appear on Barbara's screen.
Barbara went to her messages and opened the new message she got.
When she opened it, she saw the message inside.
"Strength is power in both body and mind of a warrior. Fueled only by resolve, conviction, and determination, the power a warrior will gain will make them unstoppable." The message said as Barbara read it. But when she got to the end of it, she saw message the confused her.
"Will you uphold its mantle?" The message said at the end.
"Will I uphold its mantle…what is that suppose to mean?"
Barbara saw the option on the screen the said decline or accept.
Deciding not to deal with this, Barbara chose to decline it. But when did that, another message pop up in her messages.
When Barbara read the new one, she saw that the new message the same one from before.
Barbara decided to decline again, but when she did that, the same message appeared again.
'What is going on?' Barbara thought.
Barbara kept on declining the same message over an over again, but they just kept on coming like there was no end to them.
"Okay seriously…who ever this 'Unknown' is, is really starting to get on my nerves." She said as she kept on declining all the messages that kept coming.
Barbara kept declining the messages, but every time she did it was the same thing over and over again.
"Uuugghh… that's it I can't take it anymore, I'm turning off the Playstation." Barbara said as she got up from her bed and walk over to her PS4 to turn it off.
But when Barbara got to it, a new message appeared on the screen.
When Barbara saw the message, she saw that this time the message actually came from someone. But when she saw the name of the sender, her eyes widen.
"FlowErsh0t." Barbara read as she recognized the online name of one of her rivals in For Honor other than her other rival SilverBlade1!.
Barbara grabbed her controller and opened the message. The message was a join game message with the following message at the end.
'I challenge you to a duel IcelicStorm.' The message said.
When Barbara was finished reading it, she saw accept and decline option at the bottom but also saw that the annoying messages from the 'Unknown' sender have stop coming.
At first Barbara was a bit skeptical at the sudden message of a challenge from her rival, due to the constant repeat messages of the 'Unknown' sender.
Barbara decided to wait a couple of minutes to see if the 'Unknown' sender would send another message or not, but when nothing happen, Barbara went back to the message by FlowErsh0t .
'I challenge you to a duel IcelicStorm.' It said.
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Barbara thought about it for a moment before finally deciding to accept her rival's challenge. So Barbara scrolled down to the 'accept' or 'decline' options and hit accept.
But instead of taking her to the game match directly, something else happened as new message appeared on the screen.
"You have accepted to uphold the mantle of Strength. Congratulations." The message said.
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"What?" Was all that Barbara said before her TV started to glow brightly with every passing second until she was completely engulfed in light.
(Unknown Location, Nighttime)
Somewhere deep within a forest, a bright light suddenly appeared, shining greatly in a small clearing of the forest. When the light ended, what it revealed in the middle was Barbara Stormur.
Barbara stood in the small clearing in the currently dark forest as the only source of light was from the shattered moon above. She stood there doing absolutely nothing as the night wind blew against her face that was unmoving for the moment after the bright light.
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She stood there in the clearing, still not moving a muscle as if she was a brick wall.
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She stood there as if she couldn't move at all for some reason.
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She stoo-
"WHAT!?" Barbara yelled out after finally coming out of her little freeze show.
Never mind.
Barbara blinked a couple of time before she fully composed herself. Once she was fully composed, Barbara looked at her surroundings.
Barbara saw that she was in some sort of forest, but she also saw that it was nighttime too.
Barbara began to shiver at the cold breeze of the night.
"Damn… what the hell just happen to me?" She questioned as she started walking in a random direction.
(A few hours later)
As Barbara walked, she took the time to get her thought in order of what happen.
'Okay, so I was just playing 'For Honor', beat the crap out of all the opposing players, won by the way, get a message about Strength and then I'm ask to uphold its mantle for whatever bullshit reason that is, and then I get a message from my Samurai rival to a duel, and the moment I hit accept a bright light appears and I'm currently stuck in a forest in the middle of god knows where…yeah…that about sums up my situation.' Barbara thought as she continued to walk through the dark forest barefooted.
As she walked, Barbara began to rub her shoulders a bit to keep her warm. Now she was use to the cold back in Iceland, but that was also due to her having to wear winter clothing for it, but now for some reason the cold of the forest was just like the one back home and she was wearing nothing more than her sleeping shorts and a sleeveless muscle shirt. Barbara was able to stand it for the time being, but she knew that she needed to find something to keep her warm eventually.
'Wait'
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'My phone, how could I forget?' Barbara thought as she reached into her shorts pocket…only to find nothing.
"Ugh, where the hell is it?" Barbara asked, but then she remembered something.
"Aahh sshiitt. I left it on my bed." She said finally realizing that she left her phone on her bed back at her exchange home in Chicago.
"Great, I have no way of communication, I'm in my night clothes, and I still don't know where the hell I am."
Barbara continued to walk through the forest until she came upon a cave.
"Oh good…shelter." She said as she walked inside the dark cave carelessly as she didn't know nor care for what was inside it, as she just wanted a place to sleep for the night.
Barbara carefully walked into the cave since it was very dark inside and the only thing for a light source was from the caves entrance.
When Barbara was deep inside enough as to where she can still see the caves entrance that was just a couple of feet away, she decided to rest herself up against the caves wall.
Barbara sat herself down and started to rub her arms faster as to keep herself warm, but it was still pretty difficult since she was wearing little clothing on her.
"I guess…its time I got myself some sleep." Barbara said as she began to close her eyes.
But before she could, she heard a loud growl.
"GROWL!"
Barbara then turned to the source of the growl and saw something deep inside the cave. Barbara couldn't exactly see the source of the growl because it was very dark inside the cave that the light from the shattered moon didn't reach that far deep in it.
The best that Barbara could do was look at the silhouette of what looked to be a large creature, and by that I mean a very large creature.
'What the hell is that?' She questioned in her head.
Not wanting to take any chances, Barbara slowly stood up and began to walk out of the cave, for she didn't want to wake up the beast that lived inside the dark cave.
But unfortunately fate wouldn't allow that to happen as one of the most cliché things happen. When Barbara was finally out of the cave, she turned and-
"SNAP"
She stepped and broke a twig.
Barbara froze on the spot when she heard something from the cave.
"GROWL!"
Barbara turned around and saw the creature of the cave come out. When the creature came out of the cave and into the moonlight, Barbara mange to finally identify it.
What she saw was an ape like creature with black skin all around it, white bone-like armor that covered its chest, arms, legs, and face giving it a menacing look.
"Impossible." Barbara said in a whisper as she instantly recognizes this monster.
"A Benrigel." Was all that Barbara said before the now identified Benrigel began to beat on its chest and then roared out into the night.
"ROOOAARRRR!"
Barbara only had one thing on her mind when the Benrigel did that…and that was to RUN.
Barbara immediately turned around and ran for her life, as the creature that she now recognized as a Benrigel began to chase her down through the dark forest.
Barbara ran with everything she had, but the Benrigel was catching up to her fast and was getting very close to her.
But during her run, Barbara tripped over the root of a nearby tree causing her to fall towards the ground. Barbara pushed herself back up, but when she did, she felt something grab her from behind.
The Benrigel had finally caught up to Barbara and grabbed her when she was getting up. The moment the Benrigel grabbed her; it immediately threw her to another tree.
Barbara crashed into the tree as the Benrigel roared out into the night. Barbara struggled to get up, but the crash left her in some serious pain as she thought that the crash broke one of her ribs or more than one rib.
Barbara began to cough up blood from her mouth as the Benrigel started coming towards her. When the Benrigel got to her, it raised its arms, ready to bring them down on her and then tear her to pieces.
Barbara looked to towards the monster of darkness with both its arms raised. Barbara knew what was about to come from the monster, and she was afraid, no not afraid, Barbara was terrified.
'Is this how it ends?' She thought, as she manages to get herself on all fours. 'I die here, by a monster of fiction.'
By this point, Barbara started to shed tears from her eyes as they fell towards the ground. The Benrigel had its arms raised high into the sky, ready to crush Barbara right here and now, but something unexpected happen.
"Rrrrwwwaahhhhh!"
The Benrigel stopped its attack as it heard a cry, but not any ordinary cry… a battle cry.
But before the Benrigel could do anything, it felt something pierce its back. Barbara looked up towards the beast that was about to kill her, as she was expecting it to end her life, but it never came when she heard the battle cry.
When Barbara looked at the Benrigel, she saw that it wasn't moving, but then it suddenly jerk forward a bit, then the next thing that happen was that a sword tip came bursting out from its chest. The Benrigel cried in pain as the sword tip came out from its chest, killing the Benrigel in the process.
Then the sword came straight up from the Benrigel's chest, cutting its chest along with its head in half.
As the body of the Benrigel moved to the side and started to evaporate into nothingness, Barbara looked back at the sword that had killed the monster and followed it back towards its owner.
What she saw surprise her as what was standing in front of her. What was standing in front of Barbara was a man standing at least 7ft 5in tall and what he was wearing was something Barbara saw only in an online trailer.
The man was wearing a metal headband, a grey kilt, armor that Barbara knew that was there but was covered in a lot of cloth, leather pauldraons and greaves, and a fur cape on his back.
The man himself looked very intimidating even with out his outfit. The man had a big bushy grey beard, grey color eye, wrinkles all around his face, and what looked to be war paint on his face along with a small Mohawk.
All in all, Barbara was looking right at a 'Highlander'.
But through all the awe that was starting to come out from her, there was one thing that caught her interest from the man in front of her.
'Wait...are those...bear ears?'
A/N
So this is the third installment of the story 'For Honor: We Stand United'
Barbara lands in an unknown part of Remnant and is saved by a Highlander.
So yeah I made the Highlander a Bear Faunus, so tell me what you think on that or not.
But this is only part one of Barbara's time with the Highlander, the next chapter will go more into her time with the giant sword wielder himself.
But after that, the last person to come to Remnant is Miki.
So either PM me or leave review on what warrior from the Samurai faction do you want Miki to meet later.
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