Yang sat calmly beside her little sister, holding a controller in her hand and keeping her eyes on the top half of their TV. Ruby stared with just as much focus at the bottom half, keeping still and steadying her breathing.
They were facing off in a one-on-one deathmatch in Call Of Duty, and the scores were close. Each sister only needed one more kill in order to win, and each one was trying to hunt the other down.
Ruby sat on her sniper perch, crouching to to avoid detection. She readied her scope onto the battlefield, searching for any sign of Yang. Both girls were heavily following the "no screen peeking" code; this was going to be a fair fight.
Yang finally decided to crawl out from the house she had been hiding in, looking outside of the doorframe for any signs of the younger individual. Luckily enough, she managed to catch the glare off of her sister's sniper scope, pointed away from where she was standing.
The blonde took out her last throwing knife and expertly tossed it across the map, hitting Ruby directly in the head and ending the fight.
Ruby threw her controller down in frustration. "What was that?! I was so close to winning that time!"
Yang simply patted her sister on the head. "Eh, don't worry about it. You'll pull out the victory someday."
Chuckling to herself, Yang set down the controller and plopped down on her bed, satisfied with her performance. She was about to close her eyes and catch a few winks, until she heard the door swing open and saw her partner, Blake Belladonna, marching straight towards her.
Even though she had pulled a rotten prank on her yesterday, the faunus actually smiled when she reached Yang.
"Hey, Yang.", she said in an unusually cheerful voice. "I went looking last night, and I found this one game that I think you'll really enjoy."
Yang gave Blake a trivial gaze. "This isn't revenge for that Catlateral Damage thing, is it?"
Blake simply shrugged. "You're good at all games, aren't you? How can this be revenge?"
The blonde nodded in slight agreement. She had yet to find a game that she didn't have an above average amount of skill in.
Yang sighed and sat up on her bed. "Sure, why not?"
Blake smiled some more and took out her laptop, placing it in front of Yang and opening it. The window that loaded was labeled "Minesweeper", and on it was a huge grey grid. Two red counters labeled "099" and "999" lay atop the grid, with a cute little smiley face stuck in between them.
Yang scratched her head in confusion. "So...what is this?"
Ruby walked over and angled herself to see the screen. "Isn't that Minesweeper?", she asked. "You haven't heard of it, sis?"
"Nope, this is my first time seeing anything like this...", Yang stated.
Blake's smile grew even larger, almost to a creepy extent. "Just clear all of the squares without touching any mines. The numbers on the empty squares tell how many mines are around that space."
Blake looked up at her bunk, making sure her book wasn't attached to any strings, and grabbed it, walking out of the room.
"Good luck.", she called out before closing the door.
Yang moved her gaze back to the screen. "Oooookaaay...let's try this game out."
She decided to test the waters, and clicked a space around the middle. Immediately, multiple spaces opened up, creating a larger space. Around the edges of this space were multiple numbers, ranging from 1 to 3.
Ruby decided to give some information. "So, I guess you should go for the corners first, since there's a '1' there, and there's only one space around that '1'..."
Yang guessed, based on her sister's information, that she was supposed to click the spaces around the numbers. So, of course, the entire game ended when she clicked the space by the '1'.
Ruby put her hand to her forehead. "No...you were supposed to mark that space, not open it!"
Yang gave Ruby an annoyed glance. "Hey, you told me to go for the corner, so that's what I did. I don't even get this 'marking' stuff."
"Just right click instead of left click, it'll mark the spot so you know that there's a mine there."
"Ohh...okay. I get it now."
This time, Yang was prepared. She reset the grid, clicked on an empty space...and immediately set off a mine.
"Okay, what the hell was that?", Yang said, getting frustrated. "How was I supposed to avoid that?!"
Ruby actually giggled a bit at this statement. "Yeah...that'll happen sometimes. It's unavoidable."
"It's bullshit, that's what it is...", Yang mumbled.
On the third game, Yang actually made it pretty far. She had cleared about three quarters of the board before running into a dead end.
"Umm...what do I do now?", she asked.
Ruby studied the screen for a few seconds, before shrugging. "I don't know. Sometimes the answers won't be in plain sight. You have to think outside of the box."
Yang put her hand to her head, trying to clear her mind. "That doesn't help much. I don't see anyway to clear these without clicking randomly."
Ruby was about to speak, before looking up at the clock and gasping. "Aw, crap! I was supposed to see Weiss about Professor Port's class, like, thirty minutes ago! Gotta run, see you, sis!"
And just like that, Ruby had run out of the door, leaving Yang alone to finish the puzzle. "Well, there goes my only help with this game.", she said to herself.
She went back to studying the grid, managing to mark out a few more mines, before officially getting stuck. She tried using different types of logic, seeing if she could single out a space, but failed to come up with anything.
Yang actually began to get anxious at this point. What if she screwed up? Then it would be back to the beginning, all of her progress undone in an instant. It actually began to feel like she was in a minefield, a single wrong move would end it all.
"Damnit...why is this game so confusing?!", Yang asked to no one in particular.
She eventually got tired of sitting there, and decided to open a random space. "Please let this be right...", she pleaded. "Please, please, please...
It was wrong.
"God damnit!", Yang shouted as the rest of the mines exploded. "What the hell is wrong with this game?! All you do is click stupid squares, hoping you get lucky enough to not get stuck! What's the point?!"
She snapped Blake's laptop shut and grabbed it, storming out of the dorm room.
"Where the hell is she...?", she mumbled underneath her breath.
After searching for a few minutes, Yang found the cat faunus in the library, sitting back and reading her book. She smiled when she saw Yang.
"Hey.", Blake called out. "How was the-"
"It was horrible!", Yang yelled, shoving the laptop into Blake's arms. "Take your stupid puzzle crap to someone other than me, because I'm sick of it!
Blake looked both surprised and amused. "It's only been about fifteen minutes..."
"I don't care!", Yang screeched. "Fifteen minutes is more than enough time to endure this piece of-"
"Umm...Yang?", came a voice from behind her.
"What?!", Yang shouted, turning around to find Weiss Schnee looking at her with concern.
"Are you okay? This is a library, you know."
Yang looked around the library to find the majority of people who were there staring directly at her, as if she was insane.
She immediately blushed, embarrassed about her outburst. "Sorry...didn't know I was speaking that loudly."
Blake chuckled. "I wouldn't call that 'speaking loudly', you were screaming your head off."
Weiss straightened herself as the crowd around them went back to what they were doing.
"By the way...have either of you seen Ruby around?", Weiss asked. "She was supposed to be here thirty minutes ago so we could review for Professor Port's upcoming test."
Yang nodded in response. "She was in the dorm not too long ago, helping me play a game. I remember she said something about needing to see you and she ran off."
Weiss raised an eyebrow, obviously not amused. "Well, than where is she?"
Ruby stood in the JNPR dorm, staring at Nora and Ren with a look of curiosity. They were standing next to a computer, on which a static filled screen with white text and a bear's partially covered face was showing.
"Five Nights At...what?", Ruby asked.
Yep...I'm doing it. It's the most requested game so far, and it's also probably the only horror title I'll be doing for a while. Ruby will be playing again, and since Weiss is the only character in Team RWBY that hasn't played yet, I will be getting her to play as well as Ruby. Now that I've satisfied your pleas, shut up (joking, you guys are great :D).
Another popular request I've seen, other than for horror games, is for FPS games. I know a lot of you will be getting angry at the beginning of this chapter for highlighting Minesweeper instead of Call Of Duty, but I promise that I'll tackle this genre in a full chapter, eventually.
I know that these last two chapters have been much shorter than the first, which is why I'm going to put some extra effort into the next two for you all. Of course, some games are easier to talk about than others, so it might take longer. Oh well.
Until next time, thanks for reading.
P.S: I learned how to use line breaks in text :D
