AN: Hola guys! This is my first story and is a gamer story. All of you must be thinking "Ugh, another gamer story?", well yes, but there will be many differences, as I have taken a lot of inspiration from other works on the web. So I hope I can have your opinion of what I did right and wrong, and please, if any of you see any error of any kind, point it out, English isn't my first language.
"Hunter" – Talking
'Hunter' – Thinking
"Hunter" – Game Interface
Chapter 1 – A Hunter Awakening
It's funny.
I never thought that my life would end like this.
It was, after all, my 18th birthday. My friends and me were out drinking, and were walking near the river, the sound of the fast moving water relaxing me. We were laughing and stumbling, having drunk maybe a drink or five too many.
And then I tripped.
I heard my friends trying to help me before I fell. They barely missed me.
The shock of cold water sobered me up. I tried swimming up and to my friends, the sound of their voices barely audible over the booming of rushing water in my ears. Unfortunately, I was out of breath from laughing so much and the waves made it more difficult. I was near them, their hands near mine; with burning lungs from the lack of oxygen I tried to take the hand, when something hit me in the side of the head. It made my eyesight blurry and forced my mouth open. The water entered my body, in my stomach, in my lungs; and in that moment, I understood that I was going to die.
I tried again to reach them, with the only thing I could see were the darkening lights of nearby streetlights, and my best friend hand. There was a foot between our hands, when my body was stopping to answer me, to my screaming will to live. Less than half, when the current started to drag my limp body away, when my best friend started screaming at me. The gap widened, my body defeated by the natural element I liked the most. My eyes forced themselves to close, my death imminent.
And then I breathed fresh air.
I sat up, my lungs greedily drinking the sweet, sweet oxygen needed to live. When my breath stabilized, I looked around, and I saw a vast expanse of grey. The only color there was grey, only in two tones, one darker, and one lighter. The darker one I was standing on, the ground, and the lighter one up, the sky.
I turned around myself, and I saw something. No, not something, but someone.
It was a woman, looking around my age, and a beautiful face. black hair, silver eyes, a beautiful nose and smiling lips that looked so soft that by comparison, pillows looks like a dense rock. She wore a cloak that made her more mysterious, and made me think how she looks under it.
And then she talked.
A voice soft, kind, but sad, like she accepted the nearing death of someone but can't be helped to feel sad.
"Hello, Hunter" she said to the only one there other than her, me.
'H-Hunter? That isn't my name.' I thought.
"I know" she replied like she was reading my- "Mind, yes I can. I know that you are confused, so I will answer any question you have." She told me, with a voice so calm and caring, that she felt like a mother answering her child curiosity.
"… W-What happened? Did I survive?" I asked, still confused by the change of place.
She showed a sad smile, and told me "No, you did not survive."
… So I died. I really died. It seems this is the end, and I couldn't help myself. I started crying. Crying for my friends, who watched me die, and will be traumatized. For my family, that will cry my death every day, their hearts broken by losing me. For everyone and everything, I cried, letting all my emotions out.
It could have been hours, days or weeks, but the woman waited for me to stop crying. And then told me "I am sorry Hunter, but I must ask you this. Will you help me save a world on the brink of collapse?"
"…" Is, is she joking, right?
"Unfortunately, I am not joking. I cannot interact there without attracting their attention." She said, putting special emphasis on their, with her smile turning to a slight frown.
"…" Why? Why me? I have hundreds of thing to ask speeding in my mind, but that question burned a hole in me. Like, I just died, I'm still confused.
"I know that I must asking you a lot for right now, but, if you do not accept, the people there will most likely die, before another person like you appear. So please. I am begging you." She said, kneeling on the ground.
"…" I don't know what to do, but another question escaped my mouth before I could reflect the meaning of her words. "What I have that is different from the others?"
Her answer?
"Your will to live."
"M-My will to live?" I repeated, dumbfounded.
"Yes, even if you died early, your will to live burned the brightest in the last centuries. Someone with that will to live, and the right skills, will be a great help to save the world." She answered me.
"… I accept." I told her, wanting to do the right thing, whatever the cost.
"Thank you. From the bottom of my being, thank you." She said, with a smile so beautiful, that it made me blush.
All of a sudden, my eyesight darkened, and I realized something. "Wait! I don't know your name!" I accepted her offer while knowing nothing of the person in front of me, or of my mission, for that matter.
She smiled. "You can call me… Death."
My eyes closed. And when I opened them I find myself standing on a black space, with a grey screen in front of me.
"Welcome, Hunter"
It looked like a game screen display welcoming a new player. And I was that player.
On the right side of the screen there was a line that I pressed immediately.
"You are the Hunter, a being that was given their power by Death.
Please, press the arrow to continue"
Huh, at least she made it… gentle...
'OH MY GOD! That woman was Death!? I talked to Death!?' I was so excited from understanding that I talked to Death, that if someone saw me, they would have called the police from fear of how was I acting.
I was interrupted from my thought by a sound coming from the screen, like a notification from a phone.
It beeped at me, the arrow blinking black light. So, wanting to continue to explore this gift, I pressed it.
New Quest! Complete the tutorial!
- Complete the tutorial by exploring the following pages!
- Status
- Skills
- Relationship
- Quests
- Inventory
Rewards:
- LVL UP!
- A random specialization!
It seemed like many games tutorial, so I started with the 'Status'.
STATUS: It display all of the common information about you, with stats and perks. Perks can be positive or negative, it depends on how you use them.
Name: Maxwell Black
Title: Death's Hunter
Class/Specialization: No/Class
Age: 18
Level: 0
EXP: 0/100
HP: 300/300 - HP: Health Points.
H. Regen: 0.50/s - H. Regen: Health regained per second.
?: ?/?
? Regen: ?/s
STR: 15 - STR: Strength represents your physical might, how hard you hit, how much you can carry.
DEX: 24 - DEX: Dexterity represent your speed, agility, coordination and flexibility.
END: 30 - END: Endurance represent your Health and it's regen, the pain you feel and your stamina.
INT: 22 - INT: Intelligence represents how smart you are and how fast you can learn something.
WIS: 16 - WIS: Wisdom represents how you can use the information you have.
CHA: 14 - CHA: Charisma represents how charismatic you look and your level of beauty.
Points: 000 - Points: It represent how many points you can use to upgrade your status and skills.
Perks:
Death's Gamer: You are Death Chosen, and your mission won't be stopped by an injury, or fear.
- Injuries and emotion won't trouble your fighting capacity.
Inhuman Willpower: Your desire to live greatly strengthen your resistance and survival. Many who witness your willpower would paragon you to a monster.
- Every level, your endurance, strength and dexterity will increase by three.
- High chance to frighten* your enemy when you continue fighting over your physical limit.
- Fear: enemy stats reduced by 5*(Fear LVL) %. [Fear max LVL: 5]
The Hunter: Every time you fight, you can learn skills from your opponents and grow stronger, never forgetting anything you learned in a fight. Fortunately for you, Death will help you when it's possible.
- It let you copy skills used by your opponents and create new one by fighting. (note: skill learned but never used won't appear on the Skills page). Ex.: Catching a sword strike will result in the skill "caught blade", and will start at level 3, instead of one.
- Every time you fight someone, your stats will increase during battle based on the difference on the power level between you and your opponents, their weapons, your action, their numbers and how long the fight lasts. Ex.: if at the start of a fight your abilities can't let you dodge a bullet, after 30 minutes you will be able to start dodging it, after an hour, you will be able to dodge 3 bullets shot in a row, and so on
- Death can bring you to Its dimension for making you fight someone and let you grow. Remember that it's random and you can't choose when to go there and fight someone.
Emotional Doll: Many says that you can't express emotion easily, so you talk to make them understand how you are feeling. Or how you want them to think how you feel.
- It's nearly impossible to discern what you are thinking.
- You can lie, manipulate and exploit someone much easier than normal.
… Wow.
That are really high stats, and these perks. It seems She really needed someone help.
Now, let's pass to the 'Skills'.
SKILLS: It display the skills you have.
Knife handling: LVL 12 EXP: 23.57%
- You know how to handle a knife, and are capable of doing tricks with it.
- 12% increase in damage and strike speed when using a knife.
CQC: LVL 23 EXP: 57.92%
- You know how to fight in close quarters, especially in hand-to-hand combat, thanks to your friends' teachings and your self-training.
- 23% increase in damage and strike speed when fighting hand-to-hand.
Pain Resistance: LVL 57 EXP: 12.36%
- You can handle a lot of pain without flinching, thanks to your willpower.
- You feel 57% less pain from each hit. (Note: This skill reduce pain, not damage.)
Damage Resistance: LVL 43 EXP: 68.74%
- Because of your years of being bullied until high school, and training with your friends, your body has become more resistant to damage.
- You will take 21.5% less damage from a hit.
Ok, the Knife Handling came from my training with the butterfly knife, the CQC came from my friends teaching me how to fight, and Pain and Damage Resistance came from my years of being bullied and from being taught how to fight.
'Relationship.'
Relationship: It show the level of the relationship you have with someone; it's level are:
Positive: Neutral – Acquaintance – Friend – Close Friend – Best Friend – Family/Lover.
Negative: Neutral – Annoyance – Disliked – Greatly Disliked – Contempt – Hated.
Death: Acquaintance 30/100. Gifts: ?/?
Ok, ok, ok…. Are you telling me, that I can receive gift from Death!?
"Yes."
Holy Shit! Like, who can tell that freaking Death gave you a gift!? Nobody, other than ME!
"AHAHAHAHAHAHA!" I laughed, most probably still shocked by my death.
After calming down, I proceeded to read the 'Quests' tab.
Quests: Quests are objectives that you must complete to obtain the rewards. There are three types of quests:
- First-Class Quests: These one are the most important one to follow, they will help and guide you to main cause of conflict and the source of The End.
- Second-Class Quests: This quests are given by people, and could be everything, from challenges, to extermination jobs.
- Challenges: This quests are, like the name imply, challenges to yourself. They could be everything, like do ten reps higher than last time, or kill more beasts in one session.
Current Quests: Selection: All
Complete the tutorial!
- Complete the tutorial by exploring the following pages!
- Status X
- Skills X
- Relationship X
- Quests X
- Inventory
Rewards:
- LVL UP!
- A random specialization!
The last hope…
-You are ? last hope! If you don't win, everyone will die!
Do Your Best Hunter,
This, Is Your Mission…
- Save ?
- Save ?, ?, and ?
- Defeat ?
- Make ? reach equality
- PROTECT THE SILVER.
-KILL THE BROTHERS.
Rewards:
- ? EXP
- ? Money
- ? Title
- ? Points
- ? TITLE
- ? TITLE.
W-W-W-WHAT?! The fuck is this quest?! Kill the Brothers?! Protect the Silver?! The fuck does it mean?! And all these unknown Targets, if you wanted my help at least tell me everything!
Ah, whatever, let's complete the tutorial…. 'Inventory.'
Inventory: The Inventory is an Astral Space, made specifically for you. In it, you can carry everything you need, within limit.
Show: All
- A wallet: A wallet, with inside it 30$, your ID and a condom. Common.
- Phone: your phone. Damaged by the years of use. Common.
- Black Cargo: Your favorite pair of pants. Wore it at the moment of death. Uncommon. Equipped.
+ Resistance to water by 2%.
- Dark blue boxers: Your underwear. Wore it at the moment of death. Uncommon. Equipped.
+ Resistance of water by 1%.
- Dark Grey shirt: Your Shirt. Wore it at the moment of death. Uncommon. Equipped.
+ Resistance of water by 3%.
- Black hoodie: Your favorite hoodie. Wore it at the moment of death. Uncommon. Equipped.
+ Resistance of water by 4%.
… I took out my phone, opened the gallery and watched everything inside it. Photo of me and my friends being idiots at school, videos of us making fun of the teacher by blasting loud music and screaming.
… I miss them.
Quest completed!
Complete the tutorial! XXX
- Complete the tutorial by exploring the following pages!
- Status X
- Skills X
- Relationship X
- Quests X
- Inventory X
Rewards:
- LVL UP! X
- A random specialization! X
Ding! You LVL UP!
LVL: 0 – 1
EXP: 0/100 – 0/200
HP: 300/300 – 330/330
STR: 15 – 18
DEX: 24 – 27
END: 30 – 33
Points: 000 – 005
Immediately after the notice of my level up, I felt a rush of power growing in me. It felt warm, incredibly so, like molten steel is being poured in my veins. But it wasn't painful. The opposite, it felt… Good.
Choosing Specialization…
…
…
Done!
Your specialization is: Martial Artist!
- 25% increased growth of CQC.
-100% increase in reaction times and reflexes.
-20% increase in damage and attack speed when unarmed.
Well, it looks like I have to be the next Bruce Lee.
I barely finished that thought, when I appeared in forest with a black wolf, with armor made of bone with spikes in front of me.
I watched it, and on its head there were words.
Grimm: Beowolf. HP: 2300/2300.
I couldn't help but gulp in fear. This-This thing, had seven times my health, and I don't know any of its stats. So, I tried to run away, only for it to start running behind me. And it was gaining ground, fast.
I needed a plan if I wanted to live. I was thinking, and thinking, when I noticed that it still hadn't pounced at me. With its speed, it would have taken less than two minutes to reach me, but more than three minute have passed, and it still hadn't reached me. I dared to look back, and I saw it a four, maybe five feet behind, still gaining ground, but slower than earlier.
When I watched in front of me again, I saw a tree less than a three feet away. I moved left, trying to dodge it, and I partially succeeded, only hitting my right shoulder on it.
- 8 HP.
I heard the beowolf ran straight to the tree, so I turned back and jumped on its shoulders. I started raining punches on the sides of its muzzle, watching the health drop from 2187/2300 HP remaining. Every one of my hit would take 41 HP out of its health bar, and the damage I was doing was slowly growing.
When it's health started to reach 1600 HP, it started to try to shake me off, however, I hold on, trying to find a better method to kill it, when I noticed a bone spike on its right shoulder. I started punching it, losing some HP out of every hit.
- 2 HP.
- 3 HP.
- 2 HP.
…
Finally, the spike broke off, and I immediately rammed it in the beowolf right eye, making it lose 300 HP.
It howled in rage, and it started to trash me around even more, ramming me into trees trunks and branches. I barely hold on, and continued to stab everything I could hit. I stabbed it in the other eye, in its throat, in the muzzle, I didn't stop. The more I hit it, the more it thrashed, until it managed to shake me off.
I have fallen on cold ground, but I quickly rolled up to my feet. I had lost three quarters of my health, but even my enemy wasn't in perfect condition. Blind, with only 500 HP left and the spike stabbed in the throat, I know I had good chance of winning. Low, but still a good chance.
I rushed at it, dodged a wild swipe of its paw, and started to rain punches on the spike. Two, three, five, ten, a dozen hit, until, finally, it died.
Ding! You got 14 EXP!
I grimaced. Obviously, it would be near impossible to level up.
Then, I was bombarded by a barrage of notification.
Ding! Because you fought an opponent three times stronger than you, The Hunter activated, gifting you 9 STR during the battle!
Ding! Because you fought an opponent four times faster than you, The Hunter activated, gifting you 13 DEX during the battle!
Ding! Because you fought an opponent who damaged you so much The Hunter activated, gifting you 16 END during the battle!
Ding! Because you fought smart, you got 5 INT!
Ding! Because you fought using an opponent weakness, you got 2 WIS!
Ding! Thanks to your Stats gain, your body shape became better, increasing your CHA by 4!
Ding! Your CQC skill has gained two levels!
Ding! Your Pain Resistance skill has gained a level!
Ding! Your Damage resistance has gained 3 levels!
… I became so much stronger, thanks to a single fight!?
No, more importantly, I am in RWBY?!
But I shouldn't think of that, I should go to find a place to rest, after all, I only have 50 HP left…
AN: Aaaand Cut! This is the first chapter, tell me what you thought of it! Was it good, was it bad? Criticize me and my story, but don't flame please! I started this story because I have been lurking here for a long time, and every time I left a review was of compliments, or to tell the author what they did wrong and how to get better at it!
Ah, the second quest objectives were meant to be hidden for the first chapter! From the second onwards some of them will be clear.
And to answer some question that some of you will have, he realized he was in RWBY at the end because he was trying to survive, and some other things...
Bye, and have a great time!
From,
Maxanime.