CHAPTER 10 THEY'RE HERE NOW

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In the Beacon Academy library, Team RWBY were playing Remnant: The Game. Ruby, was contemplating her next move.

Ruby: Hmmmmm.... All right... All right! Yang Xiao Long, prepare your kingdom for battle!

Yang: Bring it on!

Ruby: I deploy the Atlesian Air Fleet!

She slapped her card down on the table. Yang feigned a look of shock.

Ruby: Looks like I get to fly right over your Ursai and attack your walls directly!

She started making noises like airplanes flying and bombing as she made a bird with her hands.

Yang: You fiend!

Ruby was now ducked at one end of the table. I was looking at the pieces. They actually looked nice.

Ruby: And since Atlas is part of Mantle, my repair time is only one turn.

Ruby peaked her head up. She gave a look of surprise as Yang started laughing arrogantly.

Yang: Pretty sneaky, sis, but you just activated my trap card!

Yang shows us the card. Ruby was visibly disturbed.

Yang: Giant Nevermore!

She slammed the card down on the table.

Yang: If I roll a seven or higher, fatal feathers will slice your fleet in two!

I imagined a Nevermore flying over a field of swords impaled in the ground.

Ruby: But, if you roll a six or lower, the Nevermore will turn on your own forces!

The Nevermore turned back toward Yang.

Yang: That's just a chance I'm willing to take.

The two glared at each other. Yang rolled the dice and shouted triumphantly.

I looked over to team JNPR. As Yang and Ruby bantered on about the game, Ren and Pyrrha were studying, and Nora's snot bubble was inflating and deflating as she slept.

Ruby: Nooooo!!! My fearless soldiers!

Yang: Eh, most of them were probably androids.

Ruby: Goodbye my friends, you will be avenged.

Yang: Not until I draw my rewards! Which are double this round thanks to the Mistral Trade Route!

Ruby: Bah!

Nora snored and talked in her sleep.

Nora: Oh. Have pancakes.

Yang: Oh, and what's this? The Smugglers of Wind Path?

Pyrrha cleared her throat and then confiscated a comic book Jaune was reading, trading it for a textbook. Then she started reading.

Ruby: Bah! Bah, I say!

Yang: I say, it looks like I'm taking two cards in my hand!

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