*Jenkins is playing 'Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor' while Adam, OOH Ruby, and Melody watch.*
Adam: You ever notice how little we actually do of watching the security cameras?
OOH Ruby: Yeah, but at least this gives the people reading this some form of pre-chapter entertainment.
Jenkins: Yeah, I guess. OH SHIT! CARAGOR!
Melody: Jump on it's head! Jump on it's head!
*Without warning, all of the Kitsune babies starting bouncing in the playpen.*
"Alright mom, I think it's your turn to read." Ruby said, as Weiss positioned herself on Ruby's lap.
"Fair enough." Summer said, as she opened the book to read.
[Ruby's P.O.V.]
"Guess we're seeing things from Ruby's perspective again." Sun said.
"Yang Xiao Long prepare your kingdom for battle!" I shouted pointing my finger at my sister.
"Hey, I remember this day!" Yang said.
"Yeah, it's the day I met all of you." Neptune said, "After being an unintended casualty of your food fight."
"Yeah, sorry dude." Jaune said, Neptune shrugging.
Me, Blake, Yang, and Jaune were sitting at a table in the library playing Remnant the Game. Weiss was currently going around campus challenging people to games of Triple Triad, she really want's those Blue Magic Spells so she needs ds to transform into the proper items to learn those spells.
"Makes sense." Weiss said.
"Good work kiddo." Shiva said, "It's important to gather as much power as possible."
"Which reminds me, where is Cinder?" Raven asked.
"I wiped her memory and sent her back to Remnant." Alicia replied.
"Bring it on!" Yang and by extension Ifrit, shouted in challenge.
"Which reminds me, I need to keep a level head when I fight our Adam." Yang said.
"Yeah, and I need to get some backup." Blake said.
"I could volunteer." Qrow said, earning a smile from the Bumblebee duo.
"I deploy the Atlesian Air Fleet!" I shouted slapping the card down on the table.
Yang gasped in mock horror, "You fiend!" She cried out.
"Melodramatic much?" Blake asked.
"Nope." Yang replied.
"And sue to Atlas being a part of Mantle, preparation time is only one turn." Alexander said.
"Huh, I didn't know that." Raven said.
Yang and Ifrit then began to chuckle sinisterly, "Pretty sneaky sis, but you just activated my trap card!" Yang declared.
"I knew it was only a matter of time until we got to the Yu-Gi-Oh reference." Tronmaster said.
"Yu-Gi-Oh?" Weiss asked.
"A popular franchise that started as a series of Japanese comics called Manga, then it became an insanely popular anime, and it's also a trading card game." Tronmaster answered.
"What?!" I cried out.
"Rats." Alexander said.
"Damn." Ruby breathed.
"Giant Nevermore!" Yang shouted slamming her hand onto the board, "If I roll a seven or higher fatal feathers will slice your fleet in two." Yang said.
"Stupid, cheap-ass card." Ren mumbled.
"That card's effect is a total crapshoot though." Nora said.
"But if you roll a six or lower the Nevermore will turn on your own forces." I said hopefully.
"That's just a chance I'm willing to take." Yang said rolling the ten sided die.
She rolled a seven exactly.
"Jeez, talk about your shit luck." Diablos said.
"Yeah, no kidding." Ruby mumbled, getting a peck on the lips from Weiss.
"Noooooo!" I cried slumping over onto the table hard enough to send pieces flying off the table.
"Wow, that was an asswhooping of epic proportions." Ifrit said.
"Well, Jaune, it's your turn, let's see what you got." Yang said proudly.
"I can't believe it, I'm trapped, wide open..." I cried out.
"Well, it's better to lose at a board game, than to die in a hellish virtual reality game." Tronmaster said.
"Really? What could be so bad about that?" Yang asked.
"In this case, you die in the game, you die in real life." Alicia replied, causing Yang to pale.
"Okay, just give me a moment." Jaune said looking at his hand, then the board, then back to his hand, "Ho boy, I have to think carefully about this... Yang's got one last trap lying in wait..."
I looked up and gulped, if Jaune attacks Atlas it's all over for me.
"Yeah, that gets annoying when your defenses have been blown to smithereens." Tronmaster said.
"Okay, starting off with Creep Swarm-" Jaune said setting the card down.
"Oh shit." Yang said in genuine worry.
"I think I know what combo Jaune is using." Neptune said.
"Same." Yang said.
"If I roll an even number I can disable three of Yang's ground forces and one of her traps." Jaune said rolling the ten sided die, which landed on a ten.
"Talk about your insane luck." Raven said.
"No no no no no." Yang said as Jaune flicked away Two of Yang's Huntsmen figurines, and one of her AK-130 Pieces and took her Trap card off the Table.
"I've used this strategy against my sisters before." Jaune said.
"They must've been using the same strategy as me." Yang said.
"Next I'll use Resourceful Raider to take Ruby's discarded Airfleet, adding it to m own hand." Jaune said.
I groaned as I held out the card to Jaune, who took it.
"Yoink." Tronmaster said, chuckling.
"Next I will play tat Airfleet, of course I still have to wait 2 turns before I can use it seeing as I am Vacuo." Jaune continued, "Continuing on I activate Sandstorm to disable Yang's Ground Forces for this turn and now I will send in four Huntsmen to infiltrate Mistral and attack it's center of power."
"Well, Yang's fucked." Sun said.
"Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence, monkey boy." Yang sarcastically said.
"NO!" Yang cried out as she slumped into her seat, her Kingdom was conquered.
"Yes!" Siren cheered as she stood translucently by Jaune.
"Well, I guess Yang was just, dethroned." Tronmaster said.
"Boo." Nora said
"Good move Jaune." Pyrrha said, as she sat next to Jaune.
"That was an impressive strategy Jaune." Weiss said, "I'm rather impressed."
"Thanks Weiss." Jaune said.
"Thanks." Jaune said, "I have to thank Ruby though, if she hadn't gotten Yang to use one of her traps that move would never have worked... No offense Ruby."
"None taken." I said sitting back up, maybe I can make a comeback with Yang out of the fight, I do have another Airfleet card in my deck somewhere.
"Always make sure you have a backup." Alicia said.
It was then that Weiss returned to the library, a new supply of cards in her hands.
"Welcome back Weiss." I said, "Get anything good?"
"I highly doubt it." Winter said.
"Same." Qrow said.
Weiss chose to sit next to me, "Nothing too good, the only new spell I could possibly get is from the Running Fire that Shiva said could be refined from the SAM08G card. I've also got 3 Malboro cards and 9 Behemoth cards, one more of each and I can get Blue Magic from them."
"Not too bad." Weiss said.
"Fucking Malboro." Tronmaster muttered.
"Well at least you're making progress." I said.
"Your turn Blake." Jaune said setting his hand face down on the table.
"And, we're getting closer to angstier-than normal Blake." Yang joked.
"Huh, oh sorry, what am I doing?" Blake asked.
"You're playing as Vale, trying to conquer the other three kingdoms of Remnant." Diablos said leaning over Blake's shoulder, "Jaune's already disposed of Mistral, and Ruby is wide open..."
"Thanks Diablos, you jerk." Ruby said.
"Hey, I'm just saying." Diablos defended.
"Talking about a little devil on the shoulder..." Sacred sighed.
"Wish there was an angel to balance it out." Minotaur said shaking his head.
I swear it's always jarring when I remember Minotaur is the older brother of those two.
"No kidding." Ren said.
"Sup losers." Said the now arrived monkey Faunus Sun.
"Alright, it's me!" Sun said.
"Kinda hard to miss you monkey king." Tronmaster joked, earning a laugh from Sun.
"Hey Sun." I said, more focused on my recovery strategy more than anything.
"Good thinking Ruby." Alexander said.
"Ruby, Yang, Blake, Ice Queen." Sun said.
"Why does everyone keep calling me that?!" Weiss called out.
"To be honest Weiss, you never give us a reason NOT to call you Ice Queen." Nora said.
"Still pisses me off slightly that Weiss has the same nickname as me." Winter mumbled.
"Hey what about me?" Jaune cried out.
"To be fair Jaune, you were reading." Neptune said.
"She yoinked his X-Ray & Vav comic so he could study." Alicia said.
"Never really got a chance to formally introduce you to my old friend." Sun said looking at a tall blue haired man in a burgundy jacket of some kind.
"Gotta say dude, you look cool." Diablos said.
"You know it." Neptune said.
"Uh aren't libraries for reading?" The blue haired boy said.
"Thank you!" Ren called out waking Nora.
"Pancakes!" She shouted.
"What the fuck is going on in her head?" Qrow asked.
"I haven't the slightest clue. And that frightens me." Raven replied.
"Shut up, don't be a nerd." Sun said.
"Even my other thinks you're a nerd!" Sun said.
"Intellectual, okay?" The blue haired boy insisted, "I'm Neptune."
"So where are you from Neptune" Weiss said, not even looking back at him.
"I never had a chance, did I?" Neptune asked.
"No, sorry Neptune." Weiss said.
"Hey, I ain't complaining." Neptune said, "Plus, I get the distinct impression that Tronmaster would murder me in my sleep." He added, only for Tronmaster to chuckle darkly.
"Boy, if I want you dead, you will be facing me, you will be awake, and you will be armed." Tronmaster said.
"Philander." I heard every GF in the room say at once... I'm going to look that word up on my Scroll later.
"I think the word that Phoenix Champion was looking for was Philanderer." Alicia said, "In short it's another term for a womanizer."
"Yeah, and Neptune sure ain't no Casanova." Tronmaster said.
"Weiss." My partner said, still not caring.
"Seriously Weiss, THAT'S why we call you the Ice Queen." Yang said.
"Still irritated." Winter said, Qrow massaging her shoulders.
"I never took you as the board game playing type." Sun said to Blake.
"Normally I am, but I had, other things on my mind." Blake said.
"Torchwick and the White Fang?" Tai asked, Blake nodding.
"Right, well I think I'm done playing actually, I'll see you guys later." Blake said walking off, Diablos leaving with her.
"So..." Jaune said, "Who's taking over Vale now?"
"Pyrrha, maybe?" Raven asked.
"Nope." Pyrrha said, "I'm TERRIBLE at that game."
"I'm pretty good at this game." Sun said sitting in Blake's seat, "So, what's the board looking like?"
"Jaune is kicking ass." Neptune said.
"Amen." Nora said.
"I still can't believe Jaune beat me..." Yang groaned as we returned to the dorm, "I fell right into his trap..."
"I still can't believe how suddenly he took down Vale, Sun didn't even get a turn." I said patting Yang on the back, "Curse the luck factor for turning my own Giant Nevermore against me..."
If I hadn't played that Nevermore card I probably could have used that stalemate to buy myself enough time to take on Jaune.
"Yeah, that probably wouldn't've worked." Qrow said.
"Stop." Weiss said pointing at Blake, who did stop, "Lately you've been quiet, anti-social, and moody." Weiss said.
This in turn caused the other GF's to appear.
"Weiss, this is Blake you're talking to." Shiva reminded.
'I always wonder what Aunt Blake's preferred type of music is.' Alicia thought, 'Probably Linkin Park, or All-American Rejects.'
Blake suddenly starting humming 'Move Along.'
"Which I get is kinda your thing, but you've been doing it more than usual, which quite frankly is unacceptable. You made a promise to me, to all of us, that you would let us know if something was wrong." Weiss said, "So Blake Belladonna, What is wrong?" she shouted jumping up and landing on a chair front of Blake and jabbed a finger at her, while balanced on the leaning chair, then Weiss suddenly returned the chair to its normal position.
"Not gonna lie, that was impressive little sister." Winter said.
"Thank you Winter." Weiss said, smiling at her older sister's praise.
"That was awesome." Ifrit said, referring to Weiss's balance.
"That was pretty cool." Diablos said.
"I just... I don't understand how everyone can be so calm." Blake said.
"You're still thinking about Torchwick." I said.
"Torchwick, the White Fang all of it, something big is happening and no one is doing anything about it." Blake said.
"Well, I wasn't technically inaccurate." Blake said.
"It just turned out that Torchwick and the White Fang were nothing more than pawns on a much larger chess board." Tai said.
"Ozpin told us not to worry about it, between the Police and the huntsmen I'm sure they can find them." Yang said.
"Well I'm not, you don't know the White Fang like I do." Blake said.
"Considering that your old man led the White Fang originally, you're honestly the expert on how they operate." Jaune said.
"Okay, between blowing up nightclubs, stopping thieves, and joining forces with creatures of incredible might that in turn grant us incredible power I'm sure the three of you are all ready to go out and apprehend these ne'er-do-wells." Weiss said.
"Uh who?" I asked.
"But let me once again be the voice of reason. We're students." Weiss said.
"Students who are able to wield practically godlike power." Alicia said.
"Yeah, but still students." Winter added.
"Well yeah, but-" I said.
"We're not ready." Weiss said.
"And we may never be ready, our enemies aren't just gonna sit around and wait for graduation day, they're out there, somewhere planning their next move, and none of us know what it is, but it's coming whether we're ready or not." Blake shouted.
"Hey, you guys can take on the NEO Galbadians well enough." Tai said.
"Plus, we DID fight the White Fang on a few occasions." Weiss added.
"I'd say you all can do it." Shiva said, causing Weiss to turn around, "I mean you guy's are already at a level of strength similar to Rookie SeeD's, and they were already being sent off to fight military's."
"Wow. That's actually impressive." Winter said.
"Okay, all in favor of becoming the youngest huntsmen to single handedly bring down a corrupt organization conspiring against the kingdom of Vale... say aye." I said.
"Yes! I love it when you're feisty." Yang said.
"Well I suppose it could be fun." Weiss said.
"You know I'm in!" Ifrit shouted.
"Shouldn't be much harder than anything else we've faced." Alexander said.
"No trouble for us indeed." Shiva said.
"Aye captain." Diablos said giving me a salute.
"See? Diablos gave me an 'Aye!'" Ruby said.
"Alright then, we're in this together." Blake said.
"Let's hatch a plan." I said.
"Yeah!" Yang cheered.
"And in 3, 2, 1." Blake said.
I then gasped as I remembered something, "I left my board game in the library." I said.
"Really Ruby?" Said Summer, Tai, and Qrow all at once.
"Heh, whoops." Ruby said bashfully.
"You're so lucky you're cute." Weiss said.
"We're doomed." Weiss said as I ran out the door, and I ended up bumping into someone.
"That someone being Emerald." Ruby said.
"AKA, the bitch that basically killed me." Penny mumbled.
"Oh sorry, are you okay?" I asked looking up at the mint haired girl I bumped into, next to her was a gray haired man.
"And there's Mercury." Weiss said.
"I'm just glad Melody didn't turn out like her parents." Alicia said.
She reached out her hand to help me up, "I'm fine, just watch where you're going." She said.
"Oh right sorry." I said standing up with her help, "Um I'm Ruby, are you new?"
"Visiting from Haven actually." A black haired woman said coming up from behind the other two.
"Bullshit." Yang coughed.
"Beware of her." Alexander said, the three Haven student's not being able to see him, "There is something familiar about her... and not in the good way."
"And he wasn't wrong." Blake growled.
"Yeah, those three are SO dead." Nora said.
"Oh, you're here for the festival." I said, taking heed of Alexander's warning and feigning ignorance, "Oh but exchange students have their own dormitory."
"I guess we got turned around." The grey haired teen said.
I laughed a little, "Don't worry happens all the time, uh your building is juuust east of here." I said, still playing the oblivious child.
"Nice work playing coy kiddo." Tai said.
"Thanks dad." Ruby said.
"Thank's maybe we'll see you around." The raven haired girl said walking past me.
"Yeah maybe, oh and welcome to Beacon!" I called.
"That was some good acting." Alexander said.
"It really was." Neptune said.
[Forever Fall Forest]
[No P.O.V.]
"Wait, why are we in Forever Fall?" Winter asked.
Tronmaster and Alicia proceeded to smirk in response.
Deep in the Forever Fall Forest, the silence of the night was cut by the sound of a sword being swung fiercely.
At the source of the swing a Beowolf didn't even get the chance to howl before a diagonal slash appeared on it's body and the upper half of it fle off into the air, dissolving as it came down.
"Damn." Raven said.
"Remnant once again? Interesting..." A figure said.
"Wait, who is that?" Sun asked.
"You'll find out soon." Alicia said, smirking.
The figure was male and larger than any normal human adult, his body covered by a large, red tattered cloak that covered most of his head, a pair ornamental horns on top of his head, between them was a tuft of white hair jutting out toward the top in a topknot, and with his face partially visible revealing kabuki style make-up on his face that was white with red lines on it.
"Okay..." Neptune said.
The left side of the cloak was opened, due to his arm's holding it open, to reveal feudal samurai armor visible within.
"No fucking way..." All the GF's said at once.
"Um, guys?" Qrow said.
Yes arms, as there were not one, but four arms coming out of his left side, one of them holding Odin's Zantetsuken.
"It's him." Odin growled.
"I wonder what this world's version of them are like." The man said, mostly to himself.
"Them?" Pyrrha asked.
The man then turned to where he assumed civilization is, "Prepare yourselves Team RWBY, for you shall soon face me! GILGAMESH!"
With that, Gilgamesh suddenly appeared in the reading room, shocking everyone.
"HAHAHA! It's about time I showed up!" Gilgamesh said.
"Gilgamesh, calm down man. There's still like, two chapters until you fight." Tronmaster said.
"Oh." Gilgamesh said.
*Adam, OOH Ruby, Jenkins and Melody are all looking shocked.*
Adam: How did we not expect this?
OOH Ruby: We should've expected this!
Jenkins: It's Gilgamesh. If he wants to show up, he shows up.
Melody: He's quite the free spirit.