A/N: Hello again! -Pyrrha Nikos, 2013

Sorry, there's something I failed to make clear in the A/N for Chapter 1. This isn't going to be a very plotty fic, in general. I will try to keep speling and gramer up too skrach, so please tell me if I missed anything. But no, the most dramatic this will get will be moderately dramatic during the Moon Lord fight- what, you didn't know how far I wanted to write? Meeeh.

I'm also defecting to Google Drive. Hopefully, this will mean a faster update rate. No, I'm not counting on it either.

By the way, this chapter too (no pun intended) will also get a rewrite. Probably around the save time as chapter 4, but I'll be waiting till about Chapter 5 to rewrite Chapter 1. This deserves more of my attention, to be honest. The last section is kinda rushed (all the shit, Watson. You're so elementary.)

So, consider yourselves (plural!) warned.

Reviews:

KuletXCore: Thanks! (And as any physicist can tell you, the more potential, the further it can fall.)

That said, here's Chapter 2.

I sat down on my bunk. I, Weiss and Yang were already in the dorm. I picked up my scroll and messaged Blake, who had gone to the library to read... whatever it was Blake read. She liked sitting in the corner to read quite a lot of it.

-Blaaake, come to the dooorm-

*Fine. On my way.*

A minute later, she arrived, depositing a pile of books on the nearest surface. I stood up.

"Alright Team RWBY, I wanted to talk about Terraria. What did you guys think?"

Yang was the first to speak up. "Well, I got to blow evil monsters to bits, and I have grenades. So I love it."

I smiled at her support, looking to Blake next as she crossed the room to sit on her bunk. "It's a good way to spend time, as long as we don't neglect schoolwork."

That was... irritatingly true. But still, she found it agreeable. Two out of three so far.

"Weiss?"

The heiress' voice came from the bunk below. "Well, it's not problematic. It definitely helps with team building - no matter what the original intention - and for a computer game, it's..."

I waited.

"...enjoyable." Okay, everyone liked it.

"Well guys, we're eating in an hour, so I thought maybe we could... play some more afterwards?"

Weiss turned her head to the side. "Well, I don't think any of us have much homework, and I've already done my history test... I don't see why not. Although, I can only play for about half an hour, I still want to revise a little on today's work."

Blake provided a simple "uhuh" in response, Yang's fist pump confirming her support.

"Okay guys, it's done. Meet here at seven, and we'll play till 7:30."

When seven o'clock rolled around, I ran into the dorm, seizing up my Dusttop and almost decking Weiss.

Blake was already on her computer, Yang was lying down with hers on, next to her. I guessed Weiss was about to get hers.

I climbed up to my own bunk, turning on the Dusttop and opening Terraria.

Re-Logic... Multiplayer... Host and Play... Ruby Rose... Strawberry Cookie Land...

Invite friends... Done!

I found myself back at the house Weiss had made yesterday, with Team WBY materialising afterward.

"Alright guys, day two. What should we do?

Blake immediately began analysing the situation. "The house is a bit cramped. Could use some expansion."

I agreed. "Me and Weiss haven't explored the surface much, so could you and Yang with on the house?"

Yang groaned. "But, sis~"

Blake shushed her. "It's only fair, Yang."

She looked dejected, but nonetheless I left the house with a "C'mon Weiss, let's go."

Weiss and I left the house and walked west. The house was built at the foot of a hill, so we climbed over that, but I paused at the top.

"Weiss, what's this?" She looked to where I was standing, before automatically replying.

"How should I know? Just a strange plant."

I immediately took out my pick and tried cutting it out of the ground. I was surprised when it did work.

"Weiss, clearly you did know."

I could feel the glare she gave the underside of my mattress. "It's called a Strange Plant, isn't it?"

"Yyyup."

We went down the other side of the hill in silence, before Weiss cooed. I immediately looked for a puppy, but only saw snow- oh.

"It's beautiful!" Oh no. Remnant to Weiss, I'm losing you.

She immediately ran into the snow biome, with me following behind.

"Look, there's a sinkhole." She started down it, heedless of my complaint:

"Weiss, it's probably cold down there."

"It's not real, it's only your character that's there."

"But Weiiiiiss, my character IS me."

"Stop being a baby. Cone on."

Reluctantly, I began hoping from left to ledge as I dropped into the pit. I luckily had a few torches, so I placed them down as we went.

"Hey, look!" It was Yang.

In the corner of the screen, I saw a small message, reading "Batnoam the Dye Trader has arrived!"

Blake chucked. "Why do you think he's here?"

I shrugged. "No idea. Don't really care."

We continued to go down into the hole.

Then, I saw something.

"Weiss, there's a fluffball. It's walking down there." I was taking about a drop where the tunnel doubled back on itself.

"Hmm. Maybe it's friendly. Try going down there."

"Okay." I jumped. "It's coming towards me... h-hello fri-WEISS!"

I hopelessly poked at the fluffball that had just tried to kill me, before running into a wall as it charged again. My brain was screaming at me: NOT READY FOR THIS.

I realised I had a few dirt blocks in my hotbar. Thinking at the speed of my Semblance, I placed seven down so that I was completely blocked of from it. Weiss simply wandered past, the thing not even seeing her.

"Weiss, come back!"

She didn't. However, a moment or two later, the thing left, and I saw it fall down a crevice in the snow. At the save time, Weiss yelled excitedly.

"Ruby, I found a cabin!"

I jumped, smashing through the wall of my temporary shelter with my pick and running forwards.

Then, without warning, my character exploded into chunks. Wait, what?!

I yelped. "What the hell just happened?"

Yang laughed. "According to this, you were torn in half by a poison dart."

Weiss, silent until now, spoke with an audible frown. "That doesn't seem physically possible."

I growled. "Tell that to my body."

"Which part?"

Suddenly, Weiss squealed in delight. "There's a chest in the cabin! And there's an Ice Blade in it! And it FIRES A BOLT OF ICE!"

Weiss Schnee was fangirling. I took a moment to think on that.

I respawned, walking the short distance to the house, finding two new things: a cellar, and someone wearing a weird cloak and turban.

"Who's she?"

Weiss groaned. "It's probably the Dye Trader. And..."

Blake finished her sentence. "Batnoam is a man's name. It's a he."

I hadn't expected that, but said nothing. Instead, I walked over to said he, and right-clicked to talk.

"Wait, there's a button for strange plants... maybe that's why he's here." I pressed the button, and got some Shadow Dye for it. Trying again, I got nothing, and figured out that I had handed in the Strange Plant.

"Hey Blake, I got done Shadow Dye here. You wannit?"

She rolled her eyes. "Sure."

I threw the the bottles over, and she picked them up.

"Weiss, I'm coming back. Can you go back to the surface?"

"Fine."

I cleared the hill in ten seconds flat, finding her already at the top of the cave. "Let's go."

We ran across the snow biome quickly, while Blake and Yang finished the house. (made obvious by Yang's "It's awesome!")

Soon, we found another cave. But, this one was made of red stone, and went sideways into a hill of snow.

Weiss wandered up to the entrance, calling me after her.

"But Weiiiiiss..."

"Oh grow up. You're not really afraid of a funny-coloured cave, are you? I thought you loved red."

"Yeah, but that's... fine."

I whimpered, following her into the cave, holding the torches. As we went deeper, we passed a number of glowing lumps in the floor. I really didn't like this.

Swinging an axe, I smashed a well-camouflaged pot, and picked up some Recall Potions.

"Weiss, I found some-"

Whoosh.

"-Recall Potions..."

She exhaled, annoyed. "Ruby, some backup would have been nice..."

I poked my forefingers together. "Sorry."

Nevertheless, she kept going.

"Oh, I found some bombs. Yay. Aaand, there's a big red spider."

I grimaced. Spiders.

"Can you kill it?"

She waited a moment. "Just did."

I stopped grimacing, walking back into the house.

She clearly kept going, remarking a few times the sudden appearance of another spider, before:

"Wait, there are hearts in the walls down here."

"What, like the one I found?" Asked Yang.

"No, they're glowing. I can't mine through this stone to get to them."

I had a flash of inspiration. "Why don't you try using some bombs?"

I heard her breathe in to refuse, pause, hold the breath, and release it with, "Actually, that's not a bad idea."

I waited a moment, hearing a few explosions from Weiss' computer.

Two really creepy messages appeared in the chat, while Weiss exclaimed. "I got a spear and an accessory!

"You might want to stop... look at those messages."

She saw them, then inhaled. "Yeah, okay."

A moment later, I heard a string of quiet swear words from Weiss, succeeded by a death message, something about a Blood Crawler.

I walked out to the spawn point, meeting Weiss when she appeared.

"Can I see the spear?"

She grumbled. "Why are you so obsessed with weapons?" She threw me the spear, and I almost exploded with excitement.

"OhmygoditlooksjustlikeCrescentRosepleasepleasepleasecanIk-"

"If you shut up, yes."

I was quiet for a second, before I breathed in a really high-pitched voice, "Thaaaank youuuuuu..."

I ran back to the house, Yang and Blake looking on with barely-contained laughter as I jumped around, poking anything and everything I could.

"So... awesome..."

Weiss cut in. "Hey Ruby, why don't you sell the old spear to the Dye Trader?"

I shrugged. "Sure." I cashed in the weapon without a second thought.

Yang looked down to the bunk below. "Hey, Blake?"

"Yeah?"

"You know how the trees in that red place to the east were all weird and grey?"

"Uhuh?"

"What do you think happens if you cut them down?"

"...dunno. Why don't you go try?"

While she left, I turned to Blake.

"Wanna go caving?"

"Okay."

She and I climbed down the rope, and started digging.

Yang spoke. "I got there. The trees, uh... they drop Shadewood. Huh. Think you can make armour out of that?"

Blake gave her a Patented Blake Look. The sounds of chopping ensued.

A minute later, Yang returned home. Blake respawned shortly after.

"Well, I guess that confirms there are flying enemies in that place." Oh, yay. Flying nasties.

"Yeah, anyway. What can we make with this?" I giggled at my sister's characteristic not-caring.

Blake went over to the workbench. "Uh... shadewood armour, there you go. Based on these stats, it looks to be slightly better than what we've got at the moment.

There was a moment of silence, punctuated only by clicks from Blake's computer, before her character turned and started throwing armour at Yang, who quickly exchanged it with what she was already wearing. Then changed back.

"No way. That's ugly as hell."

Weiss groaned. "Yang, it's really a question of practicality. I hope you realise that."

"Nu-uh. Look, if you shut up, I'll give it to you."

The heiress merely rolled her eyes in response, donning the armour as Yang passed it to her.

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I have something important to do."

Weiss looked Weiss-y. "What-"

"A QUEST IS AT HAND! THE FEARLESS ADVENTURER YANG XIAO LONG IS TASKED WITH LOCATING AND WEARING A SET OF HOLY, YELLOW ARMOUR! LET NONE STAND IN MY WAY!"

I think it was then that I started noticing pain in my ribs.

With Yang gone and Blake killing slimes, Weiss took the moment to speak.

"I really need to do some proper research into the game. There's got to be more to work on."

That made perfect sense. Nevertheless, I felt like continuing to play.

Blake looked sidelong at me. "Ruby?"

I smiled back. "Yes Blake?"

"I was thinking it might be a good idea to go exploring underground again."

"Okay! Let's do it!"

We dropped down the mineshaft.

It could only have been a minute or two before Blake suddenly jumped.

"Ruby! There's a cabin!"

I followed her jump with enthusiasm. "Anything in it?"

"Uh..."

Weiss interjected. "There's a chest."

"I..." Oooh. She was doing research.

Blake found the chest almost immediately. "Hermes boots? It... allows you to run super fast?"

Oh.

My.

GOD.

Breathe. Breathe Ruby.

"Blake..."

She smiled at me. "Yyyyes, Ruby?"

Don't lose control.

Don't lose control.

"Please, can I have the boots, I want to runinTerrariaLIKEMYSEMBLANCEINREALLIFEPLEASEBLAKEPLEEEEASEOHMYGODPLEASE!"

Blake smirked. "Sure"

Squeal. Squeal Time.

I outran Blake all the way back up to the surface. This was awesome! SO AWESOME! I could run almost add fast as in real life, and all I needed was a pair of boots! I was like red lightning!

Yang was back at the house just after, a victorious smile on her face.

"Guess who just found a BUNCH of Yellow Marigolds!"

Weiss just grinned. "Blake?"

Yang was fuming now. "No, I d-oh. Wait, what?"

"What is it?"

"That."

Oh.

That's not good.

"Weiss?"

"Huh?"

"What's a Blood Moon?"