Slightly Dark Theme

Game setting inspired by Ruby Rose: Life Is A Game by Raisuke The Lightning Herald

Bold = Game

Italic = Inner thoughts

Little Ruby sprinted through the forest dark misty forest, her red cloak flying behind her.. The ground blurred below her as she darted past endless twisted trees. Her calves burned like it was on fire. Sharp cold air pierced her lungs. She could feel exhaustion hanging over her mind. The only thing keeping her going are the adrenaline coursing through her veins. She knows she won't last for any longer. She knows she is at her limit. But, she can't stop. She needs to get far away. Away from her nightmare. Away from those Monsters.

Tears flowed down hear face as her sight turned murky. Her heart ached. She cannot keep it out of her mind. Her dad laying still on the cold ground. A gaping wound across his chest, surrounding him in his own blood. Her mother's desperate screams for her and Yang to flee. And their faces. Faces of hunters and huntress. Nothing, but masks to disguise the monster beneath. Nothing, but to hide the similarity to the monsters they hunted. She still can hear their laughter as they killed her father and swarmed her mother. It was that moment her perfect little world shattered.

Her foot slipped from beneath. She fell hard onto the ground. Immense pain swarmed her leg as bruise formed around her knees. But, she didn't care. She clutched hard onto her shining ruby rose shape necklace and buried herself into her cloak. The only two thing she had left of her mother. her tears turned into storm as she wept. She cried for her father that took her on his shoulders to see the beautiful forest and beaches around Patch. She cried for her mother that baked her delicious cookies and tell her story of adventures. She cried for her sister that would read her fairy tales before bed and play video games with her. All those moments gone and never come back. They never should of went on this holiday. They never should have left Patch.

A feeling little Ruby has never felt before filled her bleeding heart. Hate. Hate for those Monster that destroyed her little world for just Lien. Hate for the system that allow those Monsters to roam free without restriction. Hate for the world that would glorify and praise those Monsters. Her loathing heart screamed at her to run back and help her mother. To rip those Monsters apart like what they did to her family. But, she was weak. Weak and powerless to do anything. Never before, have Ruby had a such dominate desire. A desire for power that could change the world.

Red light glowed in Ruby's hand as if responding to her distress. Hordes of red eyes surrounded her as She cried out her pain and hate. The little girl didn't care, she already lost everything she loved. Suddenly, the red light in hand turned into a blind light that engulfed Ruby's conscious. Her world turned red.

The red eyes lured here by the pain and hate charged forward, ready to feast on the negative emotion and human flesh. However, a red black lightning zipped through the horde of Grimm. When lightning past Grimm, it was cut into half in an instant leaving only dissolving. It was mere seconds before the lightning slaughtered the Grimm around the suffering girl. The lightning stopped next to the girl, revealing a woman wearing Grimm mask in red and black. She had black raven hair with large sword hanging on her hip. The woman stared at Ruby and sighed in sorrow before picking up the unconscious girl and vanished into to the dark forest.

Endless red surrounded Ruby. The red was dark, reminding her of blood. It was like she was drowning in an ocean of blood. Then, abruptly the red sea around her released blinding white light, force her to close her eyes. When she opened her eyes again, her heart stopped. She couldn't breathe. In front of her was her family. They smiled at her brightly. It was like they were back on Patch before their vacation to Mistral. Her mother opens her arms for her and Yang waved joyfully. She wanted to rush to her family and embrace her mother.

But another red blinding light forced her to stop and close her eyes. When she opened her eyes, she gasped in horror. Her family was covered blood. They stared at her with dead lifeless eyes. "No…. No." She fell to her knees and sobbed.

Soon all around her was replaced with calming white light. Soon the light seems to calm her emotion and drain her sorrow. What would you do for unlimited power? a robotic voice asked in her mind. The image of her dead family staring at her flashed through her mind. Anything, Ruby replied without a doubt. What would you do with that power. Ruby thought about her family. About how many innocent people could have suffered the same fate. About how Hunters and Huntress could act monsters with restriction, and be glorified and portrayed as heroes. She was filled with disgust. I will end the world of Hunters and Huntress. And replace it with a new order to protect the people. She answered confidently without a doubt. And end those fake heroes' world like what they did to her, she added silently. The voice was silent for a second. Welcome to the game. What the voice said confused her. What game?

Suddenly, a screen interface appeared in from of her in mid-air. 10 windows appeared on the screen. Stats, Abilities, Inventory, Relationship & Loyalty, Renown & Reputations, logs, Shop, Missions, Followers, Your Faction. The Screen looked like it's from a game she played with Yang. Heart ached at the thought of Yang, However the white light around her seems to immediately calm down her emotion.

Ruby tried to touch the screen. but, her hand just passed through the window like its imaginary. Just then the voice returned, telling her to speak the window she wanted to go into with her mind.

"[Status]" Ruby said it silently in her mind.

Suddenly, a window popped up containing an image of Ruby standing still wearing her cloth and red clock. Along with her name and a title stating who she is.

Ruby Rose

Age: 9

Level 1

[Lost Child]

On the right of her image, she saw a list of stats. It looked very like the cool 'adult' game, 'adventure on Sanus' Yang secretly allowed her to play.

XP – 0/20 [ XP is your experience points which affect when you level up. It could be gained from killing enemies, completing missions, participating in events, successfully passing checks etc. Due to you choosing a 'Evil' main mission, you will also gain more XP from evil deeds such as stealing and killing human. ]

HP – 33/40 [ HP is your health points and determines how close you are to be knocked out or death. Be warned, being damaged in vital point such heart and brain could sometime instantly kill you ignoring your HP. ]

HP Reg – 0.68/m [ The speed you regain your HP per minute ]

Speed – 4.25 [ Speed is the how fast your movement and attack is ]

Damage – 4 [ Damage is your base physical damage ]

AP – Not Unlocked [ AP is your aura point which affects your Aura based Abilities ]

AP Reg – Not Unlocked [ The Speed you regain your AP per minute ]

AP Damage – Not Unlocked [ AP Damage is your base Aura Damage ]

SP – 1/22 [ SP is your Stamina points, which is gradually drained throughout the day at the rate of 10 SP per hour. Action such as training or attacks will increase SP drain. SP can be recovered by eating, napping and other restful activities. When SP is below 30%, you will the status of 'tired'. When SP is below 10%, you will enter the status of 'exhaustion' ]

Lien: 0 [Lien is the standard currency on Remnant. It could be used to buy items from the 'Shop']

Attribute Points: 3 [Earned though levelling up and very rarely in events + missions]

Attributes

Str – 2 [ Strength is your raw physical power. It affects your physical damage, blocking action, strength checks and strength based abilities. It also slightly increases stamina and HP ]

Edu – 2 [ Endurance is the size of your Stamina pool. It determines the size of your inventory. It greatly increases SP and the rate it recovers while at rest. It also increase a bit of HP and HP Reg ]

Vit – 3 [ Vitality is the overall wellbeing of your body. It greatly increase HP and HP Reg ]

Agi – 8 [ Agility is your overall speed. It affects agility based abilities, agility checks and dodging actions. It greatly increase your speed ]

Per – 5 [ Perception is your six sense. It affects how well you smell, feel, taste, hear, see and sense. It also affects your range weapon accuracy, range weapon abilities, stealth abilities, perception based abilities and perception checks. It also slight increase your speed.

Int – 6 [ Intelligent is the depth of your knowledge, the enlightenment of your soul. It affects your aura pool, knowledge, aura abilities, intelligent based abilities and intelligent checks. It greatly increase your AP and slightly increase your AP Reg + AP Damage ]

Wis – 10 [ Wisdom is your critical thinking. It is how efficient your soul and mind are at using your knowledge. It affects aura based abilities, wisdom based abilities, wisdom checks and Aura Regain. It greatly increase your AP Reg and increases your AP Damage + increase your AP slightly ]

Wpo – 9 [ Willpower is the strength and endurance of your mind and soul, it is the stability of your mind and the strength of your person determination. It affects your abilities to resist mind abilities such as mind control and intimidation. It also affects your ability to resist pain and non-combat abilities such as torture. It slightly increases your AP and increases your AP Damage.

Luck - ? [ Luck is a hidden stat that can usually not be increase except with rare status, abilities, items and titles. It affects everything around you, from picking up free Liens on the ground to stepping on dog poo. It also affects events, mission, critical hit and loot drops. ]

Charm - ? [ Charm is a hidden stat that can usually not be increase except with rare status, abilities, items and titles. It can also grow or decrease due age growth or bad status. It affects your social abilities, social checks and attractiveness to others ]

Description: You are a small ant in a world of giants. Work hard, maybe one day you can become a giant too.

All attributes can be increased naturally though training, activities and practice which becomes more difficult as your attributes increase. It can also be gained from attribute points that could be assigned when levelling up. Some rare status, abilities, items and titles can give you growth points which give extra points that cannot be assigned. Both attribute points and growth points does not increase the difficulty of obtaining attribute naturally.

Ruby read though the massive pile of information thoroughly with unseen attention, wanting to understand this 'game' more. She had no idea what the 'Evil' mission. It's great that she doesn't have to hold on to her attribute points to not increase the difficulty of earning attribute point naturally.

Her eye twitched slightly at her description, no one like being a ant. Though it does give her hope that one day, she too can be at the top of the world.

It seems she is fast and have good critical thinking. She doesn't know why her willpower is so high considering she cried a lot like when she tripped her mothers cloak. Her mother had to bribe her with many cookies too ease her sobs. She sighed sadly at that of another lifetime. It also seems that her physical attributes are low. She looked at her thin body and skinny limbs. No wonder.

She continues down to look down the window which had more information.

Titles:

[Titles are honorary names that could be earned though events, actions and both good and evil accomplishments]

Lost child: You are an orphaned child. You have lost both of your parents which hardened you and made you more prepared for the streets.

. Agi: +1

. Wpo: +1

Status:

[Status are temporary affects that could give you bonus or debuffs

Exhausted: You are exhausted

. All stats minus 50% (doesn't affect attributes, HP pool, SP pool and AP pool.

Oum's will: To ensure your calm and cooperation, the game have granted you this status that would calm you down and make you immune to exhaustion.

. Immune to Exhaustion

Ruby pouted at the thought of seeing a reminder of what happened to her family as her title. But, it also a constant reminder that made her more determined to archive vengeance and create a new better world. 'Oum's will' explains why she could be so calm and doesn't feel exhausted from running. With no more information to see in the 'stats' window, Ruby quickly decided to open another window. Remembering how she opened 'stats'.

"[Abilities]"

A new window popped up, this time displaying her abilities. She only had a few abilities on display on the window.

Semblance: this is your semblance, it is have not been unlocked.

. Locked

. Locked

. Agi growth: +1

Chosen by Oum: You are chosen to be the main character of the world, bring good fortune to you like plot armour

. Luck: +3

Innocent look: You looked like an innocent cute child

. Charm: +1

Hatred heart: You heart and soul are hardened by tragedy and hatred

. Wpo: +5

. Wpo growth: +1

Observe level 1: Observe something including people, animal and object for information. Could level up.

. 0/100

. Cost 0 AP, SP, HP

Cookie addict: You are addicted to cookies

. Cookie kind food give 20% more SP than normal

. You are more likely to accept cookie bribe

Strawberry addict: You are addicted to Strawberries

. Strawberry kind food giver 20% more SP than normal

. You are more likely to accept strawberry bribe

?: Your blood line is special. Yet you have completed no idea of your linage.

. ?

. Damage to Grimm +50%

. Wisdom growth: +1

Advice: Abilities could be categorised into categories for easier management though mental command.

Ruby can now see why her Wpo is so high, but she would give it up in a heart beat if it meant the safety of her family.

Ruby thought about the many games she played and decide for now to create 5 categories for now, passive + non-combat + support + unknown +Semblance. Semblance obviously goes to the Semblance category. She moved 'Chosen by Oum, 'innocent look' and 'hatred heart' to the passive category. She moved 'Strawberry addict' and 'cookie addict' (she doesn't want to admit, but…. Who can resist cookies and strawberries?) to the non-combat category while putting the final ability 'observe' to the support category. She should use observe as much as possible, she decided since it doesn't cost anything. She had no idea what '?' are. Her mother never talked about their linage and ancestors so she just assumed they were of no importance. For now, she moved '?' to the unknown category.

With nothing else on the Abilities window, Ruby quickly check out the other windows other except 'Mission'.

she had 10 slots in her inventory, she figures that every Edu point gives her 5 slots. She had nothing in her inventory which is not surprising

The three windows, Relationship & Loyalty + Renown & Reputations + logs are completely empty. Relationship &Loyalty are for single individuals. Relationship is how well a person liked her or hated her. While loyalty was how loyal a person is to her. Renown & Reputations are targeted at area and groups. Renown is how well known she is in an area which could be a city, island or kingdom. It could also be the whole world. Reputation is how much a faction like or dislike her.

When she tried to summon the Shop, followers and Your Faction window nothing happened. It was only than the game voice told her the 3 windows are locked until she fulfilled the requirement to unlock it. For the Shop, she needs to have 100 Lien which is easy enough. Followers needed her to have a follower. While Your Faction required her to have at least 10 followers or be the head of a faction. She could puff her moth up in annoyance at being locked off from part of the game. But, with no way around the locks, she summoned the last window she hasn't seen yet (except for those locked).

["Missions"]

When the Mission window popped up like the other unlocked windows, she was immediately drawn to the first mission at the top written in red.

Main Missions

Empire of Tyranny (Evil)

Object:

. Conquer and rule all of Remnant. Create a totalitarian Empire and place yourself as it's absolute Empress. Bring your new world order to all of Remnant. Whether they like it or not.

Reward:

. Title: Empress of Tyranny

. Upgrade Ability 'Chosen by Oum' to Champion of Oum

. 1 Million XP

. 500 attribute points

. ?

Become a leader

Object:

. As the saying goes, Atlas was not build in a day. Become the leader of a faction

. Be at least level 30 (A leader cannot just be a figure head; A leader needs strength)

Reward:

. ?

Due to you have already chosen a main mission, you cannot choose any of the other 5 main missions which are 'Destroyer of the World' (Evil), 'The Hand of Darkness' (Evil), 'Legendary Huntress' (Good), 'Guardian of the World' (Good), 'The Sword of Justice' (Good).

Ruby didn't choose the main mission, at least she didn't knowingly choose it. But, after reading the mission's objective, she knows it is perfect for her. She hated the current world order and the hunters with Venom. However, she still cared for the people, the innocents that did nothing wrong, the innocents her mother protected in her stories. She will bring down the Hunters' world order and bring a forth a new age of order. She can create an empire that put protecting the people forth unlike the selfish Hunters that put themselves first. Even through the mission name is called 'Empire of Tyranny' but, none of the objective required her to be 'Tyrant'. She can rule with peace and order. She can rule for people.

For the first time since that fateful moment, Ruby smiled as if already seeing the end of the Hunters' world and the innocents protected by her mighty empire. However, her smile instantly disappeared as she read onto the secondary missions.

Secondary Missions

Find Your Enemies

Objective:

. Find out the names of the hunters and huntresses that destroyed your family

. Go back to the crime scene (optional)

Reward:

. Known your enemies

. ?

Find out Your Linage

Objective:

. Your are from a power linage with a powerful blood line. Yet you have no idea of your Linage.

. find out about your linage.

Reward:

. Fully discover the power of your bloodline

.?

Ruby bit her teeth down hard. Her eyes spilling venom as their faces flashed though her mind. One day! She promised silently in her mind. I will find them and end them with the most brutally way possible. The thought of ripping her family's murderer apart brought a little innocent grin onto her face. With the 'Game', she is no longer a powerless kid, she only need time to grow into a dragon.

She doesn't know where to start on her linage mission. She suppose she will just have to look around and hope for the best.

There were few other type of missions such as side missions, follower missions and faction missions. However, they are all empty. As Ruby close the Mission window, the game voice once again spoke.

Tutorial ended. Status 'Oum's will' ends

Before Ruby can protest, everything flooded back to her. She screamed in agony as her pain and sorrow flashed back into mind, before waves of exhaustion flooded everything. Soon, her conscious fell into dreamland.

Raven waved the tribe's doctor away as she finished Ruby's check-up. She only had scratches and small bruises that would heal naturally. As the doctor left her leader tent, she looked onto the child's troubled sleeping face. So much like Summer. She thought in sorrow. She might have left the team but…. She still cared for them. Care her fearless but also cutely shy leader Summer, her old gruff lover Tai, and even her traitor brother, Qrow. When she received Summer's distress signal, she went immediately. But, she was still too late. Their body were already cold when she arrived. All their belongings taken tells her their killers' motive. It was by mere luck she spotted a small track leading into the forest on the side. She followed it immediately. It took her dozens of minutes before she caught up to the exhausted girl. By then, she had already fallen unconscious. After slaughtering the dozens of Grimm attracted by her negative emotion. As She picked up the girl so like her friend and leader from the ground, she realized something.

There was no place for her to go. She had no other family, and Qrow….. was not an option or a suitable parent. So, there were only one option, take her back to the tribe and raise her as her own. She will do it for Summer. For Tai. Beside she couldn't say she was not a little impressed by the girl's willpower to ran to her absolute limit. She is strong, unlike her daughter Yang.

Raven's heart ached at the thought of her daughter. Even though she didn't find her body, Raven was sure her daughter didn't survive. She was weak. But, it still hurt. She left Yang and Tai to protect her. Knowing she won't survive with her in her life. Deep down she loved her daughter, even though she didn't show it.

As Raven watched Ruby's breathing, she promised Summer, Tai and Yang to look after their last living family.

Author Notes

What do you guys think? Please tell me. All feedback + criticism +suggestion is appropriated.

feel free to pm me to ask questions or want me to fix any grammar/spelling. i tried hard to find all the mistakes but English is not my first language, i might have missed some along the way.

I have read a few RWBY gamer fanfic, but none had a evil/Grey gamer. This story sound interesting and unique in my head, i hope you guys found it like that as well.

Even though the main mission is 'Evil', but like Ruby in the story said she didn't' have be a 'evil'. It's only the 'game' that states the mission is 'Evil'.

I know the theme is kind of Grim, I need Ruby to have a strong motivate to hate the Hunters.

I hope you all like the game setting, it took me from 10 pm - 6 am to make it. And than another 2 hours the next day. I have planned how all the stats would affect each other and how much xp is need to level up. I didn't just pull the stats from my ass.

I also hope Ruby or Raven wasn't OOC. I kind of wanted them to stay in character but be affected by the event that transpired.

And yes Summer didn't go on a mission and never come back in my story.

If all goes to plan, this story would be long and slow.

However, update would be slow due to school and Video Game (yeah... Im kind of a video game addict). i'm also working on my other story RWBY: Silver Dragon which would also take up my spare time.

edit: changed 1 weirdly worded sentence and added 'description'+ reaction to it for humours.

edit 2: changed requirement for unlock your faction window from 5 followers to 10. Also added Semblance(locked) in the abilities window. Added missing description for 'Strawberry Addict'.

edit 3: changed some words like level up to upgrade and some grammar fixed. Add some stuff to willpower description. also changed the last inner thought from she to I. deleted extra .? for unknown rewards. When there is 1 .? it dosn't mean there is only 1 extra unknown reward. It means there is unknown reward.

edit 4: fixed spelling and also added missing words

edit 5: added missing words