((Hello everyone. Its ME again. Welcome to the Eighth chapter of The Gamer: Jaune Arc Edition. As you all know the Tutorial is over! Which means that the games difficulty has just Increased. Expect the unexpected. There will be Raids, Bosses, Mid bosses, Dungeons, Dragons, Elite's, Mobs, and sooo much more. That however is another time. Todays chapter will be Jaune's first Heroic Quest. So nothing too major. Maybe a Mini-Boss and some Mobs, but nothing serious. Yet at least. Anyways I hope you all enjoy this chapter. Lets get to the story shall we?))
Disclaimer: Since people have complained about it, I HAVE to bring it back. *Ahem* The following is a non canon fan fiction. It is set in an AU in which Jaune Arc has Gamer powers. I do not own RWBY or The Gamer Comic. If I did I would have made Pyrrha live and Both her and Ruby be Jaune's girlfriends with an OC being Yangs boyfriend. Plus I would be rich. Now It's time to get started.
Story Progression: Normal Font
Speaking: "Hello" , "Masked Speaking"
Thoughts: 'Thinking' , "Talking telepathically" , "Masked Talking" ,'Masked Thinking'
Newspaper/News on television: News , "News person talking", "Masked person on the news"
Techniques/Skills: ^Thunderbolt^
Actions: *Explosion*
Stats: /-/-/-/-/-/ Strength= 100 /-/-/-/-/-/-/
The Game= (N!): WIS has leveled up by one!
Observe= (O!): Beowolf HP= 100 MP:0 Aura: 0. A creature of Grimm. Modeled after the animal known as a Wolf.
Tm= (Tm!): By absorbing the Tm into your body you are able to learn 3 skills from it.
Hm= (Hm!): By learning and experiencing how to do a skill you are now forever able to use it.
(Q!)= Quest
+pov (Point of View)+
Location: -Vale-
Titles of a Game for Tms or Hms: 'Injustice'
Transition: ...
Separation lines are the text walls or for those of you who don't know: The grey lines separating my authors note and the key above and the story.
-Sanus, Wilderness-
+Third Person pov+
Jaune Arc smiled as he stood outside the walls of Arcadia. He looking around at the forest of trees surrounding him and taking in a deep breath of the wild and enjoying the smell of the woods. As the boy looked around the world there was an alert from the game that made him face straight to see the blue box appear in front of the road into his village. It reading:
(N!): Congratulations on exiting the tutorial. From here on out the Difficulty of the Game is permanently risen. Due to this being the real world were the first death or 0 Hp equals a GAME OVER, The Difficulty has been set to LEGEND, for you seek to become a Hero and all Heroes must be LEGENDARY in order to rise against the ultimate evil and vanquish it. So as to tell you of your current standing there is a new function in STATS to tell you of your Reputation.
After the blond had read the new notification he paled, but looked determined. He had chosen the Hero option because he wanted to help people. He wouldn't back down just because his ability told him his life would be hard. Jaune already had a feeling that no matter what he picked, that his life would have already been made more difficult. Besides what the text said was true. Heroes needed to be tough, strong, confident, kind, and reliable in order to save the day. The Arc wouldn't feel accomplished if he spent all of his life in Easy Mode.
At the end of the day there was one fact that helped him cope with this information the most. The fact being: Life was not fair. There will always be hardship. Always be challenge. But it is not unkind either. For those strong enough. For those who have great mind, body, soul, and Determination there will always be Rewards.
Jaune Arc figured that this was his abilities way of telling him that. That this game had warned him. That it had cared enough to show him that it would help him still in the times ahead. It also gave him some information. If Hero was an option and Heroes vanquished an ultimate evil, then that means there was something or some one that was even worse then the Grimm. Or if it was like some other video games then maybe this ultimate evil WAS the cause of the Grimm or at least had a way of creating them.
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-Grimmlands-
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In a waste land littered with Grimm, black pools that spawned them, Reddish purple skies, and black clouds on top of a large cliff sat a tall black castle and inside it sitting on a throne there was a woman with pale white hair, glowing blood red eyes, black sclera, with dark purple veins in her chalk white cheeks and skin. On her forehead there was a black diamond shaped mark and the woman was wearing a black dress that went down to her feet. Her name was Salem. She was Queen of the Grimm. As she sat on her throne and waited for Tyrian, Hazel, or Watts to come back with their reports, she mysteriously sneezed.
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-Sanus, Wilderness-
...
Laughing to himself Jaune walked down the dirt road and deeper into the forest. 'Theres no way that there is something like that on remnant right?' as he looked ahead and around him with a small smile on his face. The young boy then heard a loud howl in the distance and smirked, but before he could move towards the sound of what appeared to be a Beowolf and finally kill his first Grimm there was a notification from the Game. It saying:
(N!): The howl of a Beowolf has sounded near! Where there is One there will be Many more. Also + 6 to WIS and INT for discovering the truth about the final boss.
Before the Arc could contemplate the warning the game gave him there was another alert. It was different in the way the box was shaped, but overall it looked the same. Blue coloring and white lettering. It saying:
(Q!):
First Heroic Quest!:
Blight of the Beowolves! First encounter with the Grimm Kind! What it takes to be The Hero!
Objective 1: Find and Slay all Beowolves (0/10)
Objective 2: Kill Alpha Beowolf (0/1)
Objective 3: Find ? and Rescue ? from ?
Objective 4: After defeating ?, encounter ? and Run from ?
Rewards: 10,000 Gamer Exp, 10,000 Hero Exp, Lien, Extra, + Rep with ?, + Rep with Arcs, + Rep with Villagers, - Rep with ?
Penalties/Risks: Death, -Rep with ?, - Rep with Arcs, -Rep with Villagers, - Rep with?
Accept?: (Y/N)
Jaune thought about the quest for a long time. It was his real first Quest and already there was a life and death situation. Some where out there, some one was in trouble if the Third Objective was correct. Also apparently for the ultimate evil in this game it was something or some one that could either create Grimm or was the cause of the deadly creatures. As a Hero the young Arc could not and would not allow some one to get hurt knowingly and he would get stronger to bring down this Grimm creator or whatever it or they were.
He used They because Jaune was not sexist and thought that women were actually stronger than men due to things like for example: Childbirth. So he didn't want to assume what ever the final bosses gender was.
So the heir had chosen Yes in less than a minute of thinking about it. He was confident in his abilities and was determined to save the person in need. The boy using his KI to enhance his limbs and sprinting towards the howling. As he was moving through the sea of Trees, his eyes caught sight of a pack of the beasts he saw described in the text books all in a clearing and heading towards what looked like a cabin in the woods which was further up. So Jaune jumped with his KI enhanced limbs and landed in front of the embodiments of evil creating a small crater in the ground.
The blond boy taking his Martial Art stance and thinking 'Observe' on the first beowolf. It saying:
(O!): Beowolf, Lvl: 3, Title: Scourge of the Canine's. HP= 250 MP: 250 Aura: 0. A creature of Grimm. Modeled after the animal known as a Wolf except bigger. While it has MP it can not use it, Unlike certain other Grimm such as The Sea Dragon.
Jaune looked surprised for a moment, but quickly focused on the challenges ahead. The first beowolf glaring at him and growling. It trying to make him feel fear. To bad for the Grimm that Gamer's mind was a thing. Without the negativity a Human usually would secrete when becoming scared, the Grimm only became angrier and pounced at him, it flying into the air and howling at the Arc. Using his training the blond boy enhanced his body with KI and dodged the demon wolf by going to the side.
While the beast was in the air Jaune focused more KI into his fists and punched at the Grimms leg joints at a fast speed. His arms becoming a blur as he struck at the four points in rapid succession. Once the mob touched the ground it's legs broke off in loud painful snaps.
To explain what happened: The blond boy had enhanced his fists with KI until they became as hard as a diamond. So picture a massive monster truck ramming into a thin wooden wall at over 100 mph. That was what happened to the beowolf's legs and the only reason why they didn't snap off mid air was because there was no weight in Jaune's punches so Gravity handled the rest for his unlucky opponent. That doesn't mean that the beowolf didn't feel the pain when touching the ground. The beast felt the pain in air and could do nothing to stop what happened next.
The Grimm disintegrated into black smoke as its torso and head went limp after the legs were popped off. It leaving behind 100 Lien, 3 teeth, and a claw.
Jaune grinned noticing the loot and looked at the beowolves with Lien signs in his eyes. He rushing to the rest of the pack and using a series of fast paced KI enhanced punches and kicks to wipe them out. They all dropping 100 Lien and only a few dropping teeth or claws. In total he earned 1000 Lien, 14 teeth, and 8 claws.
When Jaune collected the teeth he didn't exactly know where to put them. So he thought about video games for a moment and usually what all characters had. The boy gained an idea and thought 'Inventory' and soon after there was a blue box in front of him and inside the box were white lines dividing it all into a 14x14 space of boxes. He placing the teeth in one white box and the claws into another.
Eager to complete the quest, gain loot, and save someone the young Arc ran forwards to the house.
Closer to the house the boy came across another clearing. Inside this clearing however was a massive version of a Beowolf. The beast having more bone armor and bone spikes. It standing the size of a mini van opposed to the regular punch buggy size. The blond using Observe once more and reading what there box said:
(O!): Alpha Beowolf, Lvl:15, Title: King of the Pack. HP= 10,000 MP: 250 Aura: 0. A creature of Grimm. An Alpha Beowolf is a Beowolf that has grown after many years gaining bigger size, strength, and speed thanks to battling Humans and surviving. Bone spikes and more bone armor having grown to give it more Hp and having some defense against up close and ranged attacks. While it has MP it can not use it, Unlike certain other Grimm such as The Sea Dragon.
Jaune's jaw dropped reading the Alpha Beowolf's stat and observe. He thinking 'No wonder Huntsmen teams are made up of four people. Alpha's must be the biggest cause of deaths in the Hunter workforce. I have to be careful and not hold back anything.' as he then quickly shifted over to Chakra and crossed two fingers into a plus sign he saying ^Shadow Clone Jutsu^ and making three copies of himself. The original saying "Guys this is no time to be holding back anything. Use Rasengan and Chakra Control to take advantage of the clearing and we will all converge to attack the Alpha from all sides while simultaneously also moving away from it. I will be using KI so try not to get dispelled. Switching energies while only taking three seconds is fast isn't good enough in a life or death fight like this." as he looks at them and then switches back to KI. The clones nod and they all look at the Alpha.
The Beowolf growls at them and howls loudly in challenge. It charging to them at a fast pace as the Original Jaune yells "Scatter!" loudly and Jumps up high with KI. He going over the body of the Alpha while Clones; 1, 2, and 3 all go different ways. 1 and 2 being at its right and left sides respectively while 3 was diagonally behind it to the right, but more to the middle.
Original Jaune uses ^Force^ on him self and came crashing down to the Alpha by selecting Weighted. By becoming so much heavier he reaches the armored and spiked back of the beowolf quicker. He casts ^Fly^ and uses it to hover above the beast as he rears a palm up and down towards the creatures back. The effects of hover lasting for five more seconds as he quickly switches to Chakra and uses his only attack. He yelling out "^Rasengan^" as the large blue spiraling orb of energy grinds into it's spikes and armored back.
Once the attack finished Jaune depended down again he positioning his hand to the large spiral dent in the armor of the Beowolf to do a one handed hand stand and push himself up back into the air with his Strength. He casting ^Fly^ once more and hovering above the beast. The Arc then floating over to the diagonal back left position and opposite of Clone 3.
As soon as he touched the ground Clone 1 charged to the Alpha who was momentarily stunned by the originals attack and facing him. It leaving its body open for another loudly yelled "^Rasengan^" to be drilled into its side and making it slide towards both Original Jaune and Clone 3. The two using Chakra Control to make long ethereal energy spears made of Chakra.
The blonds thrusting the weapons forward and impaling the beast in its right underside. They tugging their weapons upwards and together with their strength and using the momentum from Clone 1's attack; they lifted the Beowolf into the air showing its stomach towards the sky where Clone 2 was falling from. He having ran up a tree near by and jumped off to gain the gravity's help in shoving another screamed "^Rasengan^" into the Alphas unprotected chest and tearing a hole into the body.
Unfortunately Clone 2 while having dealt the killing blow, did not have a way to fly or avoid the clawed paw to its face and dispelled. It's memories being transferred to the Original Jaune who with Clone 3 continued the momentum and swung the spears down to the ground, bringing the beast with them slamming it into the cold unforgiving earth as well.
The now group of three panting slightly and the Clones dispelling allowing the original to gain all of the memories as the Alpha disintegrated in front of him and left behind 1500 lien, 23 teeth, 10 claws, and a Beowolf Mask.
Jaune deciding to look at that later put it all into the inventory. Noticing that both 1 and 2 of Objectives were complete it was time to investigate the Cabin In The Woods.
((And that is all for today. Sorry for cutting this chapter sort of short and on a cliff hanger, but I have some stuff to do today. I promise that next Saturday that it will be longer, but for now I hope you all enjoyed. Please leave a review down below and remember that Tomorrow is another chapter in the React series. Anyways I will see you all next time. This is King signing off. Peace out.))