Chapter 4: Ruby Rose & Weiss Schnee vs. Five Nights At Freddy's

Ruby stared at the computer screen with a look of confusion. She was supposed to be seeing Weiss, but Nora and Ren had convinced her to drop by their dorm because of "something important". Ren simply stood there with the same blank expression he always wore, while Nora was simply bouncing with delight. The screen in front of her read "Five Nights at Freddy's", with an ominous static background and the simple "New Game" and "Continue" options.

Ruby raised an eyebrow and stared at the two behind her. "So this is your idea of important?", she said with an annoyed tone.

Nora chuckled. "We just want to see you play it once.", she said. "Then we'll leave you alone."

The younger huntress-in-training gave a closer look to the screen. "So this is a horror game?", she asked.

Ren gave a nod. "We won't lie about that."

Nora chuckled some more. "It would've been funny if he did lie, since his name is Lie-"

"Nora...not now.", he interrupted. "Anyway, it's a rather difficult game. Nora's the only person I know who's managed to complete the entire game, including the Custom Night with all of the AI bots on the highest level."

Ren took one step backwards as a book flew across where he was just standing. "Shut up, Ren!", came Pyrrha's voice from underneath her blanket.

"It's not my fault the game hates you...", he retorted.

Nora looked back at Ruby, a grin on her face. "So, what about it?"

Ruby shrugged. "I don't know. I'm supposed to be seeing Weiss about the upcoming test..."

"There you are!", came a voice from the door.

"Oh, no...", Ruby moaned.

Weiss stormed into the dorm room, slamming the door behind her. "I've been looking for you everywhere!", she scolded. "And when I finally find you, instead of studying, you're playing games!"

The red-haired individual looked down at her feet. "Nora and Ren said they wanted me to play, and that it was important..."

"I did tell you that Nora was over-exaggerating...", Ren said.

Nora simply sat at the foot of her bed, snacking on a pile of cookies she had most likely taken from the cafeteria.

Weiss shook her head. "That's no excuse.", she said. "And...what is this game, anyway?"

Nora looked up from her cookies. "It's a horror game.", she answered. "You should try it!"

The heiress frowned. "I have absolutely no intention to play such a mindless game."

"It actually has a lot of thought put into it.", Ren commented. "It's specifically designed to build up tension and fear."

"We're training to fight monsters; games like this shouldn't scare any of us.", Weiss stated.

Nora grinned. "You know that loud screaming you all heard last night?"

"What, someone got scared of this game?", Weiss chuckled.

"Yep.", Nora said. "That was Re-"

"Quiet, Nora.", Ren interrupted again, looking slightly flustered.

The heiress chuckled some more and pulled out a spare chair, nudging Ruby aside and sitting at the computer. "You're all amateurs. Let me show you how it's done."

Ruby looked both confused and relieved. "Umm...I'll help, I guess..."

Weiss selected the "New Game" option, skimming across the newspaper that had appeared on the screen.

"12 AM to 6 AM...", she read out loud. "That doesn't seem too bad."

"Injury or dismemberment...", Ruby caught before the newspaper faded. "That does seem a bit bad..."

"Ah, quit over dramatizing things.", Weiss said as the screen flickered to show "1st Night". A few seconds longer, and the screen flickered to the view of an ominously lit office.

"So...what do I do?", Weiss asked Nora and Ren.

"Just listen to the phone call.", Ren advised.

Right after Ren had said that, the phone began to ring. However, Weiss was more concerned with the controls than anything the man had to say.

"Wait, how do you move?", Weiss asked, trying all known forms of movement with a keyboard, but producing no results.

Nora giggled. "Oh, you don't move. You just flip through the cameras."

"The cameras...? Oh...", she said as she flicked her mouse to the bottom of the screen. "Those...are some weird looking animals."

Ruby, during Weiss' struggle to grasp the game mechanics, was listening closely to the phone call, catching every detail the caller left for them.

"A missing person report will be filled within 90 days...", Ruby repeated. "This guy is a jerk..."

After a minute or two of Weiss idly flipping through the cameras and Ruby listening for pieces of information, the phone call ended and the two were left in silence.

"It looks like we're not supposed to be caught by those robot animal...things.", Ruby informed. "If we do get caught, it's game over."

Weiss rolled her eyes. "What do you mean? The animals aren't-" Weiss froze mid-sentence as she flipped back to the stage camera, only to find that one of the animals were missing. Specifically, the bunny.

"Where did the bunny go?", Weiss asked cautiously. "It was there a moment ag-oh, God!"

Weiss flinched wildly as she flipped to the backstage camera, only to find the bunny staring directly at her.

Ruby looked away. "Close the camera!"

Weiss obliged, flicking the mouse down again to find the office perfectly intact. In a panicked rush, she closed both of the doors, sighing in relief afterwards.

Ruby shook her head. "No, you can't have the doors closed. It takes up too much power."

The heiress frowned. "Power? Do you mean the little percentage in the corner?"

"Yeah. Running out of it will probably get us killed."

There were currently three lit bars underneath the percentage of power, signalling the general power usage and the power used for each door. Weiss frowned and opened up the doors, lighting them up shortly afterwards to make sure no danger was imminent. She then opened the cameras again, looking for the bunny, before flicking back to the stage camera.

"Okay, now another creature is gone.", she said. "The duck, I think."

"It's a chicken.", Ren mumbled from behind her.

Weiss and Ruby flinched, completely forgetting that there were still two spectators behind them. "Jeez, guys.", Ruby panted. "You're being unusually silent."

Nora nodded. "We're watching. Shut up and go back to playing."

Ruby rolled her eyes. "Fiiiine..."

Weiss was already back at the cameras, frowning at the screen. "I think the du-chicken...is getting close."

Ruby looked at the screen. "Yeah. It's in the East Hall."

Weiss flipped to the opposite hallway and gulped. "Umm...the bunny is coming down the other hall."

Ruby looked nervously at the power level. "That's not good. We only have 20% left."

Weiss shruged. "It's 4 AM. We can make it."

She put the camera down and went for the left door light, jumping when she saw the bunny looking directly at her.

Ruby panicked. "Close the door!"

Weiss quickly switched to the door button and shut it, breathing heavily. She shut the light off and looked at the other door, only to see the chicken staring through the window once the light was turned on.

She yelped and quickly closed the other door, shaking. Ruby looked at the clock, and then at the power. "We have 10% to use for the next hour."

Weiss shook her head again. "I'm not opening those doors!"

"You're going to have to. We need power."

Weiss sighed and opened the left door, quickly turning on the light. "Okay...the bunny is gone."

She switched to the right door, jumping again when she saw that the chicken was still at the window. "Why hasn't it left already?!"

Nora chuckled. "She likes to stay there for a while."

"She?!", Weiss asked with an incredulous look.

"Weiss!", Ruby yelped. "We have 3% left!"

"I don't think we're going to make it...", Weiss moaned.

Surely enough, the power reached 0% rather quickly. All the lights shut off, and the doors opened. An eerie jingle began to play, one that made both Ruby and Weiss shiver.

"Did we lose?", Ruby asked softly.

And then, the screen went black, and a bell began to toll. The clock appeared in the middle of the screen, and flipped from 5 to 6 AM.

Weiss sighed in relief. "I think we did it."

She looked behind her at the stationary duo. "So, are we done?"

Nora shook her head. "Nope. That was only the first night."

Ruby stared incredulously at the two. "Wait, there's more?!"

Ren nodded. "Yep. Five nights."

Weiss rolled her eyes and got up. "I've wasted enough of my time here. Let's go, Ruby."

Nora simply smiled. "Heh, I knew you'd be too chicken to play the full game."

Weiss froze in her spot. She turned around and stared Nora directly in the eyes. "Chicken?"

She walked up, looking at the orange-haired girl with a look of pure hatred. "Nobody...calls me chicken."

The fencer marched back to the computer and placed her hands on the mouse and keyboard, ignoring the smirks of the duo behind her and the frightful look of the scythe-wielder who still hadn't moved from her seat.

This time, Weiss listened to the full phone call. "Pirate Cove...I didn't see anything there before."

Ruby nodded and simply watched as Weiss flipped between the cameras, raising her eyebrows when she noticed that the animatronics were leaving the stage again.

"They're moving much earlier this time.", Ruby noted.

"It's still only the chicken and the bunny.", Weiss said. "The bear isn't moving at all."

"He won't move until the later nights. When the game gets more challenging.", Ren stated.

Weiss ignored Ren and closely observed the movement of the animals. Remembering the advice given, she flicked back to Pirate Cove, slightly shocked at the glowing pair of eyes staring back at her.

"I don't think that's one of the animals from the stage...", Ruby pointed out.

"Yeah.", Weiss agreed. "The man on the phone described it as more of a wild card."

Weiss tried flicking back to the hallways, only to find a black screen. She rapidly switched between cameras for a few seconds before the feed on all of them came back.

"The kitchen camera is still shut off.", Weiss realized.

"That's always been off.", Ruby reminded. "It's apparently broken."

"Umm...okay."

She closed the cameras and tried flicking the left door light on, only to hear a dull clicking noise. Unknowing to Ruby and Weiss, the spectating duo behind them grew wide smiles, as if the moment they were waiting for was finally coming.

"The door buttons aren't working!", Weiss alerted.

"Check the cameras! They might be getting in!", Ruby advised.

Weiss obliged, and flicked to the West Hall Corner, only to find nothing there. "No one is there! What the-"

The two were cut off as the camera was forced down, the blue bunny chattering directly in front of them. It released an ear-splitting scream, and the screen went to static.

The reactions on the two girls' faces were priceless. Ruby yelped loudly and hid behind her arms, cowering in fear. Weiss had jumped straight out of her chair, nearly falling over in the process. The mouse flew out of her hand and landed on the floor.

Nora had literally fallen over laughing, while Ren was trying incredibly hard to suppress laughter of his own. The heiress looked at the two of them, infuriated.

"You two think this is funny?!", she yelled. "What kind of sick joke of a game is this supposed to be?! 'Thought' my ass, this game is absolutely mindless!"

Weiss' rage only fuelled the pair's laughter, to the point where even Pyrrha was laughing back at her bed.

While her partner continued to yell, Ruby looked up at the screen which read "Game Over". It showed the backstage camera, except with a special surprise. The blue bunny was staring directly at the screen, its eyes completely black except for two small white pupils.

"No more horror games...", Ruby said silently to herself.

So, there you go. I'm sorry for the incredibly late release, but if you saw my latest update, you'll know that I've been feeling very unmotivated with my writing recently. After looking more closely at this update, I gave myself a small kick in the pants and cracked down on the chapter. And, well, here it is.

I guess you want my personal opinions on the game. Well...it's not too scary in my honest opinion. I find that, like most horror games these days, it relies too much on jumpscaring you, and thus loses a lot of its fear value for me (I still find Corpse Party to be the scariest horror I've played due to how much of an unsettling atmosphere it creates). I find Bonnie (the bunny) to be the scariest animatronic, which is why I highlighted it above the other animatronics (that special Game Over screen I highlighted at the end is fucking freaky...). I also find the Golden Freddy phenomenon to be rather unsettling, especially because it crashes your game...

I don't know when the next chapter will be released, but hopefully sometime in the near future. I'm think of beginning another fanfic along with this one soon, except not on RWBY (it'll probably be on an anime-styled game). I also might continue work on Codename: ARME; see if I can gather a bit more reception this time around.

Until next time, adios.

(Comment if you caught my reference earlier in the story :D)

Next chapter: Something with guns, and zambies