RWBY at Animecon: Winter Edition, Part 2!

A/N: Welcome, one and all, to Weiss Reacts! Sorry for the weirdness of updates, but I find myself incredibly pressed for time, what with these final weeks of school being the most insane, so I find myself trying to make updates happen when I can. Don't worry, the insanity should be over until about early April-June, so my schedule should be fine. Unless I decide to procrastinate- having acquired Fire Emblem: Awakening, Pokémon Alpha Sapphire and SSB4, I'll be pretty damn busy procrastinating~

oh right by the way all these games are to be reacted to. let's do this.

DISCLAIMER: RWBY belongs to Rooster Teeth, otherwise there would be a RWBY MOBA (Ruby is best ADC).

All mentioned franchises and characters belong to their respective owners.

Ruby looked around the store, adding cases of video games to a slowly-increasing bundle of same in her hands. She looked as if she was struggling, but the reaper seems oblivious to the weight of the items and merely piled more games on.

"They've got everything! EVERYTHING!" The reaper squeed happily, giggling to herself. "Looks like I can take a load off my wishlist..."

"If you don't bankrupt yourself trying to buy all those games, I'll be surprised." Weiss peered around, calmly gripping a basket. "Speaking of games, what games shall I buy myself...hm..."

Behind them, the cashier screamed as an impossibly tall, chalky white humanoid in a fine suit passed over a copy of Persona Q over the counter, fishing out a credit card belonging to 'Slen. D. Mann' and calmly passing it to the cashier with a shadowy tentacle, his impossibly long arms unable to lift too far in the small store.

Ruby and Weiss, of course, completely ignored it. They assumed it came from somewhere else in the convention, completely oblivious of the tall humanoid in the same room as them, casually horrifying people as he walked out.

"This is a pretty awesome store." The reaper squeed at her games, giggling.

The heiress examined some of the cameras and equipment. "...obviously." She smiled smugly. "This is a Schnee-run store."

"Your family runs everything." The reaper noted, chuckling. "For a man with an obsession with manliness and somewhat irritating obsession with manliness, I can't deny Father has good business sense." Weiss mused. "Alright. You have all the games you want now, right?"

"Mhm!" Ruby nodded happily, as Weiss took two games from the shelf.

"Right. Let's get these out of the way." She strolled over to the cashier, who looked shaken, staring towards the door, his eyes unfocused in terror.

"Sir? Are you alright?"

"...S-Slender..." The man managed to mutter out, before shaking his head and looking at Weiss, his eyes focusing. "Oh. Miss Schnee! Hello! How may I be of service?" "You look like you've seen a ghost." Weiss commented.

"You have no idea..." The cashier shuddered, before clearing his throat. "Now...hm. Are you paying for your friend?"

"I'm paying for myself!" Ruby waved happily.

The cashier chuckled at Ruby's demeanour. "Alright, hand over the games. I'll type them up for you."

The reaper frowned. "Hm...I wonder what the man saw that scared him so much?" "I wouldn't know. Probably Blake." Weiss shrugged as she passed over the games. "How much will it be anyway?"

"Luckily, it's a discount! One hundred twenty Lien!"

"Good Oum, Ruby..." Weiss sighed in exasperation. "Do you have the money for this?"

"Of course!"

"Thank Dust." Weiss sighed. "Are Yang and Blake done doing their shopping?"

Ruby checked her scroll briefly, before nodding. "Sis just sent me a message to meet in the Puella Magi store in fifteen minutes. They said they'd be waiting by the door."

"We should be there in ten anyway." Weiss nodded. "Perfect, everything's going to plan."

Meanwhile...elsewhere in the convention...

"Hm. So this is what they call a 'convention'." A tall woman, clad in a suit of lacquered black red-tinted armor and a small combat skirt, with a helmet resembling the head of a Nevermore, lowered a small Totoro mask down on a tabletop, removing her helmet and tucking it under her armpit.

Raven Branwen nodded in slight confusion. "I see. This...obsession with animated idols...amuses me." Sighing, the wandering Huntress looked up from her work and looked across from the stall she was at, patting her weapon proudly.

She wasn't here to enjoy the festivities, unlike most of the goers. No, that wasn't part of the reason she came at all.

For years, the woman had travelled the world for a worthy enemy of her blade. Thus far, only several had proven worthy of being called her opponent; the master of martial arts and Spiral Energy, referred to as Tukson, the headmaster of Beacon, Ozpin, the enigmatic alchemist Gretchen Faust, and the dreaded former patriarch of the Schnee family, Siegmund Schnee. No other opponent had ever successfully weathered Raven's blade, Caladbolg, for longer than minutes against her.

And yet here was one who claimed to be able to fight Raven. She was amused by the prospect, and yet more than a little enthused. It was a long time, indeed, since she had found a challenge in battle. Perhaps this one would actually fight- or indeed, have the courage to show up.

Raven searched the area for anyone standing out, anyone seeking a duel. Of course, being that it was an anime convention, various cosplayers, dressed as swordsmen ranging from Sephiroth to Guts to Dante, it was difficult to tell the ones with fake swords to the ones who didn't, but she finally found the one she sought.

The man had windswept brown hair with red streaks and small horns identifying him as a Faunus, almost like blood, contrasting with his white skin, itself tinted slightly redder than the average. He was clad in a black trenchcoat, a small rifle containing a sword- presumably the sword's scabbard was a rifle- painted black and red. His most striking feature, however, was the white, Grimm-like mask he wore, etched with red markings and four slits for vision, obscuring the top half of his face.

Raven calmly approached him, quietly moving the crowds out of her way and looking the man up and down. Judging by his sleek physique, very well trained. Judging from his mask, ex-White Fang. Judging by his weapon, possibly Hunter-trained or self-trained.

A threat to be reckoned with, but nothing Raven hadn't seen before. She scoffed.

"So, you're the person who contacted me for a duel?" Raven inquired, lifting an eyebrow. No response from the masked man apart from a curt nod.

The silent type. Raven was starting to like this guy.

"Mind at least gracing me with a name to remember?"

"Adam."

"Adam...I'm not quite sure if I've heard that name before." The wandering Huntress quietly muttered to herself. "Regardless, shall we take it outside?"

"No. We fight in here." Adam said quickly.

"...there are other people in here. What makes you think that's a good idea?"

"Then they should get out of the way. A real fighter fights where he pleases." The Faunus scoffed.

'Arrogant.' Raven mused mentally. 'Easy enemy.'

"You challenge me. I pick the venue. That's how it works."

Adam sneered, placing his hand on the hilt of his weapon. "Hmph. More of a coward than I thought, Raven."

Raven looked around at the still unaware passersby. She wanted a duel, not a bloodbath- she needed to move this fight, and quick.

"Very well." Raven calmly put her hands on her own hilt. "If you insist-"

Before she could finish, Adam pulled the trigger on his rifle-scabbard, launching his blade out. He grabbed it and slashed it at Raven with blinding speed within seconds.

"And so I-"

CLANG!

Wilt had met its match with Caladbolg. Adam's chokuto clashed with Raven's katana, deftly wielded to block it's opponent. Raven looked unperturbed- indeed, she was almost amused.

"And so you end this? Hardly." Raven smirked, before pushing Wilt away and opening a portal with a rippling slash. Within seconds she grabbed Adam and hurled him into it, before jumping in and closing it behind her.

Meanwhile...

"Huh." Jaune examined a Ritsu plushie, turning it over in his hand and placed it back down on the table. "Interesting, they actually sell these now. Pretty cool."

Pyrrha nodded slowly. "Mhm." She looked shiftily around, hoping nothing would interrupt her plan being put into place. No incoming antics, thankfully.

Perfect.

"Listen, Jaune." The spearmaiden cleared her throat to grab his attention. Jaune fixed his bracer carefully and looked back at her.

"Yes?"

"There's...something...I've wanted to say, for a while." Pyrrha said, shyly twiddling her fingers. "I-I don't know if you'll want to hear it or-"

"Go right ahead." The knight smiled. "Always happy to hear it, even if you do weird stuff sometimes."

"Well,actually, the whole purpose of this was to not do the weird stuff anymore."

"Huh?" Jaune tilted his head. "What do you mean?"

"What I'm trying to say, Jaune..." Pyrrha uttered, blushing heavily and twiddling her fingers even more. "What I'm TRYING to say...is..." She looked away, shaking her head. "I-I can't do this..."

"No, no, wait, what is it?" Jaune gave her a concerned look and pulled her face lightly towards him. "What's wrong?"

She blushed even more, looking down in shame. "J-Jaune-kun..."

"Well?"

"I-I...I-I want..."

"Huh?"

Pyrrha swallowed, breathing in deeply to muster her courage. This was it. This was her moment.

'This is it, Nikos...we can do this. We can do this!'

She closed her eyes, clenching her fists tightly. "J-Jaune-kun...I want t-to-"

"WATCH OUT!" Minako could be heard crying from nearby. Pyrrha opened her eyes to look in the direction it came from, along with Jaune, to see Velvet rushing towards them on a Dust-propelled shopping cart, clutching Weiss doujinshi.

"SEEEEEEMPAAAAAI!"

"GAAAAH!" Jaune tried to leap out of the way, but it was too late. Velvet slammed into him, sending him flying and knocking him unconscious as he landed in a nearby stall selling hotdogs. The bunnygirl sped past, shouting apologies as she clove a line through the crowds.

Pyrrha sighed, shaking her head. "And just when I was going to put my plan into action, too..."

Minako caught up to them, frowning. "Man...I knew I should've kept an eye on her! What happened?!"

"She knocked out Jaune by hitting him with a cart."

"You were about to ask Jaune out, weren't you?"

Pyrrha glared at her, blushing profusely. "D-don't say it so loud!" She then looked away, sighing.

"But yes...yes I was."

"That's a shame..." The girl patted Pyrrha on the back. "Maybe next time. You can do it."

"Hm...thanks..."

Suddenly, several metallic clangs- like the sounds of clashing swords- rang out throughout the convention center. Minako and Pyrrha looked up.

"What do you think that was?" The brunette adjusted her glasses.

The spearmaiden shook her head. "Not a clue. We had better check." Minako ran ahead, leaving Pyrrha frowning at the unconscious body of Jaune. She sighed.

"One day, Jaune-kun..."

In the Puella Magi shop...

Ruby and Weiss casually looked around the shop, examining the various props and clothes based off of the ones from the show; Kyoko's chain spear, Sayaka's favoured sword and Mami's elegant musket hanging prominently on the walls- and various plushies of the main characters.

Weiss blinked. "For such a dark show- from what I know about it-, you'd assume they'd have less...cutesy merchandise." She picked up a Kyubey plushie, blinking at it." Much less cutesy."

"Part of the irony." Ruby mused. "Also..." She picked up a Charlotte scarf, wrapping it around her neck. "What do you think?"

"Inappropriate." Weiss shook her head. "I mean, come on. The Dessert Witch?"

"Hm..." The reaper frowned. "It's a hilarious idea...wrapping the thing that made Mogu Mogu a meme around your head..."

"What?"

"Series in-joke. You wouldn't get it." Putting the scarf back, Ruby looked around. "Where ARE Yang and Blake anyway?"

"They said they'd be here soon." The heiress responded, checking her phone. "No sign of 'em."

"Oh! There they are!" Ruby pointed to a pair of girls dressed as Mami and Homura over by the entrance, standing around and looking at the goods on the walls. "Hey! Yang! Blake!"

Weiss looked over at the girls, looking them over briefly before grabbing Ruby's shoulder.

"Wah!" The reaper cried out. "What gives?"

"They're not Yang and Blake." The heiress stated. "That Mami cosplayer's too short for Yang. And her arms are too thin. And that Homura cosplayer's hair is too smooth. Also, she's also too short to be Blake."

"Awww..." Ruby frowned. "But maybe Yang and Blake were here and they took off!"

"I hardly trust your sister to be early..." Weiss scoffed, but sighed. "Fine, we'll ask them." Strolling over to the cosplayers, Weiss cleared her throat.

"Excuse me."

"Yes?" The Mami cosplayer turned to her. Ruby blinked, before staring at her in awe.

"Whoa...she really does look like Mami..."

"Excuse my girlfriend." Weiss waved off Ruby. The cosplayer chuckled.

"No problem. What were you going to say?"

"Have you seen a pair of girls dressed like you two, only a little taller, and one of them has lilac eyes and weird yellow gauntlets, and the other one has a weird green drill around her neck?" Weiss inquired. The cosplayer shook her head.

"No, not at all."

"Huh. Okay then." The heiress sighed, turning to the drooling Ruby as she began to stroll out of the store. "Come on, we're going..."

"Just a moment..." Ruby uttered dreamily. "So...what's your name?"

"Erm...Mami." The cosplayer shrugged. "Why?"

"Wow! You're really in-character, too!" The reaper squeed. "You're an awesome-"

"RUBY!"

"Alright!" The reaper frowned, turning to the girl who called herself Mami. "I hope we see each other sometime! You're pretty awesome!" With that, she followed her teammate out of the store.

Mami sighed when she looked over at the girl called Ruby leaving the store, looking at her dress and frowning. "Why do they keep mistaking me for someone else?"

Homura barely reacted, focusing on a Madoka plushie. "We are in an anime convention where there's at least ten girls dressed exactly like you. You don't exactly stand out." The girl sighed, examining her Soul Gem quietly before hiding it. "And of course, displaying our powers here would be inadvisable."

"Point taken, Akemi." The magical girl sighed. "Perhaps I need to do something to my clothes to make me stand out...or maybe dress like a normal schoolgirl...hm..."

"Do whatever, Tomoe. I'm going to buy myself some plushies. F-for a gift for everyone, o-of course." With that, Homura slunk off, grabbing several Madoka plushies for herself, towards the cashier.

Shortly, Ruby and Weiss ran into Yang and Blake just outside the food court. Weiss sighed.

"There you idiots are!" Weiss grumbled. "I was wondering where you went!"

"We were wandering around trying to find a map." Blake sighed, before slipping off the headband and letting her cat ears free. She sighed in relief as she did so, her ears twitching.

"Ah...that feels good."

Yang shrugged. "You guys just come from the store?"

Ruby nodded gleefully. "Mhm! We even met a REALLY good Mami cosplayer! She looked exactly like her! She even said her name was Mami, too!"

"Sounds...suspicious." Yang noted, nodding slowly. "So, what should we-"

"Guys." Minako and Pyrrha approached them. "You hear about what's going on?"

"Uh, no, we were busy looking for these too." The heiress responded, gesturing to Yang and Blake. "Go right ahead."

"Apparently there is a full-blown, real swordfight happening in the main convention room onstage." Pyrrha stated. "We heard the sounds from a floor below and people are gathering towards it. I believe we may have to stop it."

"Seriously?" Weiss stared at them in disbelief. "Between who?"

Meanwhile...

Adam dodged another swing of Caladbolg and aimed for another quick thrust with Wilt, which itself was parried quickly by Raven's quick movements. The two warriors were locked into a deadly dance of blades, attempting to take down the other in one swift move, such was their style of battle.

"Impressive..." Raven shifted back from the battle, waiting for her blade to be able to tear open another rift. She could take this out of a more populated area and into a deserted one, and indeed she wanted to. She held her blade carefully to parry another quick shot from Blush and a thrust from Wilt, before retaliating herself with her scything blade, set aflame with Dust. The Faunus, however, was fast enough to block it with an elegant sweep of Wilt, with a scoff.

"So, the fabled Raven Branwen can't even beat me?"

"Neither can you, Adam Taurus beat me." Raven quickly retorted before swinging her sword around, switching the weapon's state to 'blue' with a flick of her finger. She deftly parried Adam's strike and stabbed her sword into the ground, causing a column of ice to appear and trap Wilt mid-draw. Adam seemingly struggled to get out of it to no avail...until he moved forwards to reseat the blade. Clicking the trigger, he launched the rest out of the scabbard, shattering the ice block with ease. He scoffed.

"Anything else?" He smirked. Raven nodded.

"Of course." With a yell, she sliced open a multitude of portals around Adam, before vanishing herself into one. Adam steeled himself for an inevitable attack, placing his hand on Wilt's hilt again.

And then it came. From all directions, the whooshing of a metal blade could be heard faintly- enough that Adam's Faunus senses struggled to pick up on it. However, they did, and early enough to take action.

With a swift movement, the swordsman deflected all of Raven's strikes with a single quick draw from his weapon, parrying each and every single hit with his own outstretched Wilt. Drawing Blush, he then fired quick shots into each portal, after which each shut closed.

Raven reappeared, flying out of one with sword held to deflect blasts, a multitude of steaming bullets falling around her. She breathed heavily, surprised at the swiftness of her opponent.

"Hm. I see." She nodded slowly. "I'll have to go all out." Flicking her blade to an iridescent setting, she raised Caladbolg, ready to fight, but preparing to move the battle elsewhere with a rift: or to flee herself.

Adam merely glanced at her, hefting his sword, his mask's red markings and Wilt's blade glowing with energy. She smirked. He knew it was over.

"This ends here, Branwen." Adam declared calmly. Readying himself, he charged at the samurai, preparing to hit-

"Not on my watch."

"Huh?" Adam felt himself being hurled to the side by something hard, his charge interrupted. He looked to see it was a spear that had stopped him, slowly being drawn back by a red-headed girl dressed as a man.

Even with her shortened hair and weird clothes, her face was still familiar to anyone in Vale. He sneered. "Pyrrha Nikos, intervening in MY duel? How annoying." Suddenly, he leapt at her, preparing to engage her in a fight.

The girl was unprepared, her spear still in mid-flight and her shield not on her person. She prepared for the worst, closing her eyes, when-

"PERSONA!" A yell, the sound of breaking glass and a golden harp met Wilt's blade. Adam looked over to see a girl with red glasses, a pistol in her own hands pointed at her head and in front of him, a mechanical humanoid with a blue aura, red and gold, it's head wrapped in a gold scarf and remaining the only organic part of it's body, holding it's harp to protect Pyrrha. It pushed the Faunus back, and he landed with deftness, still looking for an entrance.

Pyrrha regained her spear that moment, just as her ally jumped in, drawing a strange, divine-looking blade Adam had never seen before. He looked around to see that more Huntresses were arriving- the hated Weiss Schnee, clearly with her weapon, and a strange-looking schoolgirl, her weapon disguised clumsily as a fake scythe. They ran alongside a blonde girl in a ridiculously frilly dress, slipping on golden shotgun gauntlets, and-

He blinked. "Blake." It was true- despite her costume, there was no mistaking her for anyone else. Blake was running with those Huntresses.

Pyrrha and the girl looked to each other. "How does he know...wait...

Hang on...that's...Adam..."

Blake and Adam's eyes met. He sensed a powerful will behind them, and he chuckled, as he saw her stop, look in surprise and then sudden rage, as she drew Gambol Shroud.

"So...she's still using that Spiral Power she always talked about." He sighed. "Very well." Her suddenly turned about-face and fled through the crowd, sheathing Wilt.

He knew that whatever strange manner of Semblance- if it was a Semblance- that the girl with red glasses had held, he couldn't fight it. He knew that even if he could take one team of Beacon Huntresses, two was suicide. And he knew that he had to save his battle with Blake for when it was most satisfying.

When he could take her alone.

"Later, Blake." He muttered, before ducking down a dark corner, vanishing from sight entirely.

Raven, meanwhile, took advantage of the distraction from the others to vanish into a rift, shutting it quickly behind her.

"So...this Adam person..." She mused as she fled. "Somehow...he countered my techniques with ease...

It seems...I have found a worthy opponent I must beat."

Minako dismissed her Persona, Orpheus Telos, and holstered her Evoker and her sword, Deus Xiphos. She looked over to Pyrrha, concerned. She ignored the applause from the crowds around her, looking only to her friend.

"You alright?"

"Y-Yes...t-thank you, Minako." The spearmaiden nodded to her, putting Milo away. She smiled just a little, grateful for the save.

Team RWBY arrived, looking worried. Yang rushed over to Pyrrha, grabbing her shoulders.

"OH MY DUST ARE YOU ALRIGHT PYRRHA DID HE HURT YOU OH DUST IF HE DID I'M GOING TO BE SO MAD-"

Pyrrha chuckled. "Yang, I'm fine. Really."

The brawler sighed in relief and hugged her tightly. "Good."

Ruby and Weiss looked to each other.

"...what just happened?" The heiress inquired. "Was that...Adam we just saw?"

"Blake's old White Fang...err...colleague?" Ruby said, taking a moment to search for an appropriate word.

"Not my colleague." Blake muttered, sheathing Gambol Shroud. "...but when did he get that strong..."

"Y-Yang...y-you're crushing me..." Pyrrha squeaked out, causing the brawler to relinquish her.

"I-I was just so...worried..."

Suddenly, Ren and Nora appeared from the crowds. Nora was wearing various pieces of Pancake Land merchandise- a drink hat, a large pancake brooch and even a shirt with Pancake Land's logo, a large cartoon pancake waving his hand. She was busy adorably eating her pancakes, while Ren was content with a hot chocolate.

"So," Ren looked around at the bemused expressions of his companions. "What did we miss?"

"..." Pyrrha was about to speak when-

"SEEEEEEMPAAAAI!" Velvet on a shopping cart rushed past, grabbing Weiss from behind and shoving her on it.

"G-GET OFF OF ME! PERVERT!"

"N-NOW YOU'LL HUG ME! WAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Ren sighed.

"Dust dammit Velvet. Now we have to stop you...

Well, come on, guys. A crazy bunny lady isn't going to stop herself."

Needless to say, that was an exceedingly eventful convention.

END

A/N: Woo! That was...a thing! Yes, yes it was. So, that's not the last you'll see of Adam or Raven. Also, yay Pyrrha!

Also, list of cosplay for the confused:

Ruby: Maka Albarn (Soul Eater)

Weiss: Fiora (League of Legends)

Yang and Blake: Mami Tomoe / Homura Akemi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)

Minako: Nodoka Manabe (K-On!)

Jaune and Pyrrha: Saber / Shirou Emiya (Fate stay/night)

Ren and Nora: No cosplay

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