THE NEXT MORNING, THIRD PERSON'S POV

Deep down, in the bowels of the earth, in the massive cavern known as the Nether World the four girls of team RWBY slept comfortably in the massive bed in the Private Quarters of the Dark Tower, Ruby was laying on the bed with her older sister Yang, the blonde haired girl had her arms around Ruby's body in a sisterly hug and a smile on her face, near the other end of the bed Weiss was snuggling against Blake in her sleep, the black cat faunas purring in her sleep from the warm body she had snuggled against her.

Ruby shifted in her sleep before her silver eyes opened half way before she blinked them open, the first thing she saw was her older sister with a contented smile on her face as she slept, the younger sister sat up allowing Yang's arms to fall off of her as she saw Blake and Weiss cuddled together in her bed.

(Awww... that's so cute!" Ruby said in her head, she leaned over and shook Yang's shoulder making her grunt in her sleep as her eyes opened slightly.

"What is it Rubes?" she asked sleepily as she rubbed her eyes with her hands, Ruby shushed her by placing a finger to her lips before pointing at Weiss and Blake, Yang sat up with her hair falling around her in messy waves before she turned her head towards the sleeping pair, Yang quickly stifled a laugh when she saw her partner and teammate sleeping so closely together, she and Ruby carefully left the bed and grabbed their scrolls and immediately started taking pictures or video's of the cute scene.

"Hmmm, so soft..." Weiss mumbled in her sleep as she moved her head over Blake's chest making the faunas girl blush in her sleep, Yang and Ruby couldn't take it anymore and snorted out a laugh making Weiss's eyes open slightly only to see the two sisters pointing their Scrolls at her.

"What are you two...?" Weiss asked before a sleepy moan made her stop talking, she looked up right into the sleeping face of Blake before her eyes widened and she fell off of the bed, making a loud thump and crash and waking the fanus girl with such a fright she threw the blade of Gambol Shroud towards Yang and Ruby who quickly dodged the blade that got stuck into a wall, Blake took a few breaths to calm down before she looked over and saw Weiss laying on the floor groaning in pain from her fall.

"What just happened?" Blake asked in confusion, her mind still half asleep.

"Ooooh, nothing" Yang said in a teasing voice, making Ruby giggle.

"Yang! Ruby, you two better delete those right now!!" Weiss yelled in embarrassment, her face turning bright red from the fact she and Blake had been sleeping in each other's arms the whole night.

"Oh come on, Weiss, don't be so moody, these are very cute photos" Yang said as she flicked through the photos.

"Hahaha, yeah that is pretty funny, right (Y/N)?" Ruby said, however she didn't get a response making her confused until she remembered last night.

"(Y/N)!!" Ruby yelled before she dashed off to the Throne Room, still in her pyjamas followed by Yang, Weiss and Blake who all seemed worried about the Sorcerer's health.

Ruby was the first in the Throne Room and saw that the Iron Maiden was still shut, she dashed over to it thanking the Browns that guarded it for her and stood in front of the human shaped iron sarcophagus, Yang Weiss and Blake arrived and stood around Ruby also looking at the Iron Maiden and listening to the sounds of snoring echoing from within.

"He seems okay..." Yang said in an unsure voice.

"I don't get how he sleeps in that thing, I mean won't it hurt!?" Weiss exclaimed, her voice was loud enough to cause some shuffling within the Iron Maiden as well as some sleepy grumbling before a slot was opened at the eye holes, a pair of (E/C) eyes gazed out of them looking at the four startled girls.

"Ah, good morning Mistress! Did you and your team sleep well?" (Y/N)'s voice echoed out of the large metal torture device, Ruby quickly climbed up so she could be at eye level with the Sorcerer.

"(Y/N)! Your alive!" she cheered in relief and happiness.

"Of course I'm alive, my lady, this is my bed after all" (Y/N) said in confusion.

"Bed!? That's not a bed, that's a torture device!" Blake exclaimed as she pulled her black kimono tighter around her.

"How are you not dead in there?" Yang asked curiously.

"It just fits my body that well, nice and comfy!" (Y/N) said happily from within the device.

"Could you PLEASE get out of that thing?! It's rather unsettling to have to talk to someone inside one of those things!" Weiss said in a very worried voice, the others agreed that it would probably be best if he came out.

"Yeah, I'd rather talk to you face to face (Y/N)..." Ruby said, although her real goal was to get him out of the torture device.

"Very well mistress, just climb down so I can get to work on the lock" (Y/N) said, Ruby jumped down and the girls backed away as the Iron maiden started to shift around, suddenly the door slowly swung open allowing a swarm of beetles to scuttle out making Weiss shriek as she leaped into Blake's arms bridal style, Blake blushed at this and tried to hide it.

"Ahh... nothing like a good snooze!" (Y/N) exclaimed as he walked out of the Iron Maiden, his Mage's robes fluttering around his arms and body as he stretched his arms above his head to loosen up his muscles, he saw one of the beetles and grabbed it before he popped it into his mouth crunching the outer shell with his teeth, making the soft abdomen under the shell burst with bug juices.

"EEEEEWWWWW!!!" the girls all exclaimed in disgust, Ruby looked mortified at what the Sorcerer had just done, Weiss looked like she was about to hurl, Blake wanted to cover her mouth but couldn't since she was carrying Weiss, and Yang just looked away as (Y/N) chewed on the beetle.

"Mmmm, and a nice little snack" (Y/N) said before he turned his attention back to the four girls.

(Y/N)'S POV

"OH. MY. OUM! That was disgusting!" Weiss exclaimed as she got down from Blake's arms and shivered in disgust while I chewed on the exo-skeleton.

"Really (Y/N), why did you do that?" Blake asked as I swallowed the Beetle down, making them all gag again.

"I was hungry" I said simply, in truth being raised by Minions had made my stomach a bit more tolerable to the stuff most humans though inedible, hence why I could eat things like Poison Pods.

"And you decide to eat a Beetle?!" Ruby said in disgust.

"It's actually quite tasty, hmmm... I wonder if I could find some more?" I asked myself as I started looking over my bed for more of the tasty little bugs, however I was quickly dragged away by the back of my robes and I turned to see Yang glaring at me in disapproval.

"Oh no you don't! Your not eating bugs in front of my little sister buster!" Yang said, I looked to Ruby to see that she was looking a little green around the gills.

"Oh your right, I apologise for my lack of manners my Lady, would you like one?" I asked as I pulled another Beetle from my robes.

"NO!" the four girls yelled together.

"Okay, hey Lumpy, CATCH!" I yelled as I tossed the beetle into the air, making Weiss shriek loudly as it flew past her and right into the mouth of said Minion that had jumped into the air to catch it, who crunched it up messily as some legs fell from his mouth and onto the floor.

"Ugh, that's so gross!" Yang said as she let go of my robes.

"Hey, when you live in the Nether World you eat what you get, beside like I said, they are quite tasty" I said with a smile as I straightened out my robes.

"But that's unsanitary! Your not supposed to eat bugs and stuff like that!" Ruby exclaimed, she sounded like a mother telling her kid not to eat a piece of candy from the ground.

"But Mistress, I've eaten Beetles and the like all my life" I said feeling very confused, the girls looked at me in horror, which confused me even more.

"What do you mean you've eaten those things all your life?!" Blake asked in disgust.

"Well, I've been raised by Minions since I was a baby, and they had me eat the same things they did, which were actually very tasty especially the Poison Pods I got to eat on my birthday before Gnarl died" I responded, feeling a little sad at being reminded of my mentor's death.

"I'm sorry, hold on a minute... you ate things called Poison Pods for your birthday?" Yang asked.

"Yes, they are delicious sauteed with a splash of Demon's Bile!" I said eagerly, the girls seemed a little sick at the mention of bile, but it tasted amazing to me, just like those Cookies Ruby shared with me.

"Well then... shall I go prepare breakfast?" I said with a grin as I turned and walked away to find and prepare some food, but I could swear I saw the girl's faces pale as I left.

"WAIT! We'll handle the breakfast (Y/N)!" Yang said as she ran past me in a yellow blur.

"Y-Yeah, you just woke up so we'll get it ourselves!" Blake said as she followed after Yang.

"I don't wanna eat Beetles for breakfast!" Ruby cried out as she ran off to her private quarters, Weiss huffed and followed after them with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Huh... oh well, more for me!" I said as I walked away to find myself something nice and crunchy to eat.

A LITTLE WHILE LATER, THIRD PERSON'S POV

After their breakfast, which consisted of Ruby's cookies, Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes, and other things the girls had brought with them, after they ate they went into Ruby's bed chamber and got dressed in their usual Huntress gear, Yang, Weiss and Blake were waiting outside for Ruby to finish putting on her clothes.

"Yang! I can't find my cloak!" Ruby exclaimed as she ran out through the curtains, a look of fear on her face.

"Don't worry little sister, I'm sure we'll find it" Yang said before a sharp whistle caught the girl's attention, they looked over and saw two of the Browns with one sitting on the others shoulders with Ruby's cloak over it's head, the Browns cheered loudly as the one on the bottom ran around the doorway to the steps.

"Hey! That's my cloak!" Ruby exclaimed, the Browns froze for a second before the sound of clawed feet came up the steps, a half dozen Browns came into the room followed by the Sorcerer (Y/N).

"Hello Mistress, we've come to assist in putting on your armour" (Y/N) said as he walked closer followed by the Minions each carrying a piece of Ruby's armour in their claws.

"Okay, go ahead" Ruby said happily, the Browns came closer and Ruby raised her bare foot into the air before slipping it into the metal boot, she kept her leg raised as another Minion fastened one of her grieves to her leg, fastening the last part before her foot hit the ground with a metallic thump, the Minion's did the same with her other foot while the Browns gave (Y/N) her cuirass which he carefully fastened around her chest, the armour leaving the body below her ribs exposed he then reached up and locked the armour in place with a medallion with a Minion's head as the buckle, the Browns then climbed up and helped to slip one of her gauntlets onto her hand while (Y/N) worked on the gauntlet with the gemstone set into it.

"Mistress, evilness truly suits you!" (Y/N) said giddily he took her cloak from the Browns and threw it over her shoulders, he knelt down and secured it around her neck with a pin shaped like a Minion's head, their faces inches apart making Ruby blush from how close he was.

"Let us go forth! There are nefarious deeds to be done!" (Y/N) said excitedly, as the Browns placed her shoulder guards onto her small shoulders, her cloak fluttering gently as it hung over her shoulders, a few more pieces of armour were secured to her small body before she clenched her armoured fist, making the gemstone on her gauntlet glow with magical power.

The Minion's backed away from her revealing her armoured form to her team, Yang seemed a little conflicted while the armour would protect her it also looked a little too heavy for her sister to move around in, Weiss huffed in annoyance that Ruby was now having to wear such a set of armour, and Blake seemed not to mind as she looked at the armour blankly.

"I feel the land quaking in fear already" (Y/N) said as he took the helmet and raised it above Ruby's head, he slowly set the helmet down upon her head leaving only her mouth and nose exposed as her silver eyes seemed to glow from within the helmet.

"There we go, all nice and safe" (Y/N) said as he clapped her armoured shoulders.

"Is the armour really necessary? I mean how is she supposed to move in all that?" Yang asked as she walked over and looked her little sister up and down, inspecting the heavy looking armour with a small frown on her face.

"Yeah, I mean she fights with speed and that armour looks a little bulky..." Blake said as she looked at the armour from a short distance away.

"Actually it's not that heavy, I tested it out and I can still move as fast as ever" Ruby said cheerfully.

"That's right mistress, the armour adjusts to her needs, it is light enough that she can still be as fast as she was before, yet strong enough to repel damage to a degree" (Y/N) said, Ruby then walked towards the Throne Room with (Y/N), Yang, Weiss and Blake following after her.

"Now then, let's begin with clearing out those Halflings, and securing the loyalty of those peasants in the village" (Y/N) said as Ruby sat down in the massive throne.

"If you don't mind I'd like to stay here for a bit, maybe try out that Battle Rock (Y/N) talked about" Yang said as she pointed behind her with her thumb.

"Okay, have fun Yang!" Ruby said, Yang smiled and gave a thumbs up as she turned and walked away to the floating rocks, she jumped onto the rock and flew off towards the Battle Rock.

"I guess we'll come with you today Ruby" Blake said as she stepped forward with Weiss standing beside her.

"Just don't do anything stupid okay?" Weiss suggested.

"Alright, let's get to it!" Ruby cheered as she stood up and walked to the center of the room, followed by Blake, Weiss and (Y/N), they stood in the center of the stone circle and were enveloped in bright blue light before they were lifted up through the ceiling, with Weiss holding down her skirt.

ON THE SURFACE WORLD, RUBY'S POV

The flash of light faded away leaving me, (Y/N), Weiss and Blake standing in the Nether World Gate, we walked away from the glowing blue rocks and onto the green grass again, I saw (Y/N) with a look of unease on his face.

"Are you okay (Y/N)?" I asked as I walked over to him.

"Yes Mistress, I'm just not used to the feeling of lush, green grass under my feet, or... birdsong in my ears!" he said.

"Well I guess that's understandable, seeing as you lived in the Nether World all of your life" Blake said as she looked at the verdant fields and the herds of Sheep around them.

"Don't worry (Y/N), you'll get used to it" I said, trying to cheer him up a little bit.

"Can we get started with this? We should defeat these Halflings quickly and efficiently" Weiss said with a huff.

"Yeah, sure, let's just summon our Minions first, going to need a fighting force after all" (Y/N) said as he walked over to the Minion Gate and held his hand out towards the gate, suddenly fifteen Minions sprang from the gate and gathered around him.

"Yeah, let's get them together!" I cheered happily as I summoned my ten Minions.

"Wait a minute, why do you have more Minions than Ruby? Surely if she's their master then she'd have more than you" Weiss said as she looked at the Minions and (Y/N).

"It's because I've lived with them all my life, thus I've gained the power to control more of them, but the Mistress will be able to control more, once we find the Totems" (Y/N) said as he smiled at me.

"Thanks (Y/N), so what to we do next?" I asked.

"I'd say we should to to the Halfling Homes, they should be over there, just over that hill" (Y/N) said as he turned and pointed past the village.

"Okay then, let's go!" I said as I ran ahead, I looked back to see (Y/N), Weiss, Blake and the two groups of Browns running after me, we raced to the gates of the village we had saved and went through the gates towards the hill.

As we walked the villagers cheered and applauded, some called out their thanks and other nice things until we reached the Pumpkin Shack and Nym.

"Ah, hello there young Lady, it's good to see you again, and it seems you've brought new friends along?" he said in a happy voice.

"Uhuh, this is Weiss and Blake, their coming with us to help stop the Halflings, once and for all!" I said, the Browns started cheering and hopping up and down excitedly, I guess they really wanted to fight something.

"Oh, sounds like a real challenge, just to warn you there are two Halflings you've got to watch out for the most, one's a big fat lug named Melvin Underbelly, he's the Halfling King right now, then there's Jinks, he used to be the the jester of the Castle over there, until he turned traitor and went back to the Halflings" Nym said as he waved his hand towards a massive castle that stood a distance away from this village.

"Okay, let's go guys!" I said as I walked to the villages east gate, when we arrived the gate was closed and I saw some of the villagers fighting on the walls.

"Ah! The lady has returned, thank the Gods!" one of the village men said as they all turned and started grovelling before me, I was kind of surprised that they would do that.

"My Lady, the Halflings have returned to try and take the last of our food, we've been holding them off but those rocks they throw really hurt!" as he said this one of the men on the wall was hit in the head with a rock and knocked down, he sat up and shook his head before he grabbed the rock and chucked it back.

"Please, help us drive those vermin off!" the same man said as he crawled closer and kissed my boot.

"Um... okay, yeah... sure" I said as I awkwardly stepped back and looked to (Y/N), he nodded his head and send his Minions to the wheel beside the gate, they took hold of the wheel and started turning it making some of the villagers freak out as the Gate lowered into the ground.

"Attack!" I yelled as my Browns raced forwards, I saw some Halflings dash towards the open gate my Browns crashed into the Halflings stabbing and smashing until the Halflings fell down dead, I then saw more of them come running at us but (Y/N)'s Minions joined the fray and eventually they Halflings were defeated.

"Onwards Minions! Make your Master proud!" (Y/N) said as he and the Minions went ahead, suddenly some rocks flew at us and I saw five Halflings standing on a wooden stand above (Y/N) and the Minions, I pulled out Crescent Rose and slammed the blade into the ground before taking shots at the Halflings hitting all five of them and taking them out.

"Let's go!" I said as Weiss, Blake and I followed after (Y/N), we went up the hill and I noticed something to my right, I walked to a ruined tower and found what looked like a stone carved like a Human Head.

"Huh, I wonder what this is?" I said as I went to look at it, as I examined it I turned and saw (Y/N) walking towards me with a grin on his face.

"Congratulations, my Lady, you have found a new Domination Spell!" he said, I looked at the rock and I remembered that it did look kind of like that stone that gave me the Fireball Spell.

"Oh cool, so what do I do with it?" I asked.

"Just have the Minions pick it up and carry it back to the Nether World Gate, the spell will be unlocked as soon as it's in the Nether World" he said, so I sent some of my Minions to pick it up and carry it, they went down the hill and stopped at a raised bridge which (Y/N) opened with his Minions.

"Hey! Don't just walk off you dunces! What if those Halflings try to attack the Village while your gone!?" Weiss yelled out angrily from on top of the hill.

"Don't worry we aren't going anywhere, just sending the Minions to return some of our lost property, let's get back to the smiting my lady!" (Y/N) said as we walked back up the hill towards the Halfling homes, as we walked some of the Browns ran to me holding Life Force and little bags of gold they gave them to me and I absorbed the Life Force as well as putting away the gold.

"They seem eager to please..." Blake said as she watched the Browns bring me the treasure, or jump around happily with their new weapons and clothes they looted from the Halflings.

"Let's wait for those ones to come back, I don't want them getting lost or anything" I said as I stood there with the others, they all agreed and we waited while keeping an eye out for any Halflings, as we waited I suddenly glowed bright blue, and the images of a spell came to my mind.

"What just happened?" Blake asked, I was a little curious as well and turned to (Y/N).

"Sloooow... this spell will slow down advancing enemies, giving you more time to make them very dead!" (Y/N) said in a funny voice.

"Is THAT the spell you used on us earlier!?" Weiss said in an angry voice.

"Yes, it is, and now the Dark Lady can do it as well, although I'd advise using it on more dangerous enemies, like Trolls, I get the feeling we'll be seeing more of them soon..." (Y/N) said in a grave voice, I remembered the last time we fought Trolls, I lost some of my Minions and I didn't want that to happen again, I nodded my head and we set off for the Halfling village, however (Y/N) sent some Minions around the wooden stand and they came running back with bags of Gold which they all gave to me.

"Always good to have treasure for your hoard my Lady, now let us set forth!" (Y/N) said, we continued on up the hill until we came to the top of the hill where two more Minion Gates rose to the surface, one for the Browns and one for the Reds, then (Y/N) send his Minions into a house where they smashed it up.

"Why did you do that (Y/N)? That was completely unnecessary" Blake said.

"Had to make sure, it'd be bad if they snuck up on us and you got knifed in the back" (Y/N) said as he went down a set of steps, we followed after him and we ended up on a high path that overlooked a small village, all the houses were dug out of the surrounding hills and it looked pretty peaceful, apart from all the Halflings roaming around.

I looked down and saw what looked like a hundred Halflings gathered in a small clearing with a big tree in the middle, the whole area was filled with benches and decorations as well as big plates of food which the Halflings were greedily scoffing down, I also saw some human girls walking around serving the Halflings the food looking very scared.

"Looks like they're preparing a party down there. We should hurry up my Lady, don't want to miss it" (Y/N) said as he turned and dashed off down the path way, as we walked I felt the ground shaking as something heavy walked.

"Seems I was right, we've got a Troll or two, Mistress I recommend you get ready to use that Slow Spell, we're in for a fight" (Y/N) said as we turned a corner, only for a rock to hit (Y/N) right in the head!

"(Y/N)!" I said with worry as I went to him, I looked up and saw some Halflings laughing and throwing more rocks at us, however their laughter went away when (Y/N) growled and threw Fireballs at them roasting them alive.

"Little punks!" (Y/N) growled angrily as he wiped blood away from a big cut above his eye.

"Are you alright (Y/N)?" I asked.

"Yes Mistress, but I think we should deal with them first!" (Y/N) said as I looked up and saw a pack of Halflings running at us with swords and shields, followed by a pair of massive Trolls.

"Okay, Minions handle the Halflings, use Checkmate on the Troll on the left, (Y/N) and I will handle to one on the right!" I called out.

"Right!" Weiss and Blake called out as they dashed after the Troll, I saw the twenty five Browns dash and fight the Halflings while (Y/N) and I focused on the last Troll.

THIRD PERSON'S POV

The Minions crashed into the Halflings slashing and clubbing the little blighters while they tried fighting back, however the Halflings were sorely outmatched when it comes to weaponry and quality, the Minions were stronger and fought in a group and were easily overcoming the Halflings, fighting their way towards the two Halfling homes where the little blighters were coming from, the two Minion groups split off with Ruby's moving to the house on the right while (Y/N)'s went to the fenced off house o the left, the bigger group smashed the fence and fought the Halflings inside in a quick melee, then both packs of Minions broke in the doors and went into the houses destroying the inside of the houses and making smoke come from inside as they looted and ransacked the destroyed homes.

Meanwhile Weiss and Blake worked together to attack the Troll, Weiss using her White Glyphs to jump around the troll slashing and stabbing with her Myrtenaster, while Blake used her Gambol Shroud in it's pistol form to shoot at the lumbering brute, however one of it's massive fists managed to hit Weiss sending her to the ground.

Weiss stood back up brushing the dirt and dust off of her white dress as the Troll stomped towards her, she rotated the Dust chamber of her rapier making the blade glow red, the Troll threw it's fist at her again intending to smush her into the ground however she raised her weapon and used the Dust to deflect the blow, making the creature stumble back in surprise, allowing Blake to throw her Gambol Shroud and wrap the black ribbon around the Troll's short, stubby legs and make it fall onto it's back making the ground shake as it's body hit the earth.

"Weiss now!" Blake said as she retrieved her Gambol Shroud, Weiss nodded her head and cast another Glyph which propelled her into the air and onto another Glyph which she used to launch herself towards the Troll, she landed on the Troll's belly and was bounced right off of it landing close to Blake who knelt down to help her up, the Troll let out a loud roar and stood back on it's feet with Weiss's rapier stuck in it's nose!

"Missed..." Blake said.

"Drat!" Weiss said as she slumped in depression, the Troll barrelled towards the two girls intent on finishing them off when (Y/N)'s group of Browns charged towards it and jumped onto it's body, plunging their weapons into it's back and shoulders, the Troll tried to shake them off but it didn't help so it stretched it's arms above it's head as it got ready to do a belly flop.

"Minion's, come to me!" (Y/N) called out making the Browns quickly jump off of the Troll just as it leapt into the air, the last Brown managed to get away before the Troll's mass hit the ground, making a mini earthquake, the Minions gathered behind the Sorcerer as Ruby cast the Slow Spell on the second Troll, allowing Ruby to slice it a few times with her Crescent Rose, then the ten Minions she had called ran to assist her and they jumped on the beast stabbing and clubbing it, until with a final slice Ruby slit the Troll's throat making it fall to it's knees before a well placed Fireball from (Y/N) set it's body ablaze, the Troll let out a final gurgle as the flames burned it's body and it fell down dead before vapourizing into a cloud of Evil Energy.

"Attack!" (Y/N) commanded then the Minions dashed back to attacking the Troll allowing Blake to throw her Gambol Shroud at a nearby tree and grab Weiss's hand.

"Wh-What are you doing?!" Weiss exclaimed, before she was dragged along after Blake who swung off of the tree she had wrapped the ribbon of her Gambol Shroud around and hurled Weiss towards the Troll, Weiss saw what was happening and used a Glyph to speed up towards the Troll that was being savaged by the Browns, she smashed both of her feet into the Troll's nose, making the blade of her Myrtenaster pierce through it's thick skull and into it's brain, killing it instantly, she stood with her hands on her knees as she tried to catch her breath, the Troll's body crashing to the ground heavily.

"Well, that's one way to kill a Troll, that's for sure. Well done Weiss!" (Y/N) commented with an impressed voice as he walked over and clapped Weiss on the shoulder, what he didn't know was Ruby looking at Weiss with jealousy.

"Thanks... but I'll have to try better if I'm to be the best" Weiss said as she reached down and pulled her rapier out of the Troll's nose, the blade was covered in blood and a thick mucus.

"Ugh! Troll bogeys!" Ruby exclaimed in disgust, Blake looked grossed out as well, Weiss had a shade of green come to her face as she saw the mucus slowly drip off of her blade and plop onto the dirt, she raised the blade and flicked it several times making some of the snot and blood fly off the blade and onto the floor.

"So disgusting..." Weiss said as she looked at her blade hesitantly, she refused to have that blade touching her clothes with snot on it!

Suddenly one of the Browns snatched the rapier and placed the end close to the guard in it's mouth, then it dragged the blade through it's mouth cleaning the snot off with it's tongue before spitting a big glob of blood, snot and spit onto the floor, the girls shrieked in disgust at that while Weiss was retching loudly as she tried to keep her breakfast down, Ruby was trying her best to not be sick and Blake was too grossed out for words, the Brown walked towards her and gave her back her weapon before skipping happily back to it's horde.

"That. Was. DISGUSTING!!" Weiss screeched loudly, however (Y/N) clamped a hand over her lips as he shushed her.

"Be quiet princess, we don't want Melvin and Jinks to know we're-" (Y/N)'s scolding was cut off by the sound of yelling and a heavy crash, we looked over and saw that an army of Halflings running towards us, and the gate to where the party was had been shut.

"Here..., damn you Ice Queen!" (Y/N) yelled before he cast the Berserk Spell on his Minions, making the Browns froth at the mouth and savagely attack the Halflings, the Minions quickly overcome the Halflings and they all started gathering the Life Force and Treasure for Ruby.

"Seems that we won't be joining the party, just yet" (Y/N) said in annoyance as he glared at Weiss, she looked down in shame while Blake stood back watching, and Ruby walked to the Sorcerer.

"Don't worry (Y/N), I'm sure we'll find a way in somehow" Ruby said in a reassuring way, making the Sorcerer smile back at her.

"While they're busy here, perhaps we should figure out where those greedy devils have hidden that village's food" he said as he turned and pointed to the Halfling Homes at the bottom of the hill.

"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea, let's go find that food!" Ruby said as she walked down the path to the doors of the Halfling homes, only to find the doors closed with a Wheel beside the doors.

"It looks like we can go in through there, my Lady" (Y/N) said as he directed ten of his Minions to turn the wheel, after a short wile the doors were fully open and the four humans walked into the Halfling Homes, followed by their small army of Minions.

The group walked into a hallway with a locked door at the end, as Ruby walked ahead a Brown Minion Gate burst from the soil to the group's right, then suddenly a rock with black claws rose up from the earth and opened up as a blue aura hung over the rock.

"What's this thing?" Blake asked as she looked at the Rock with hesitation, she was still a little untrusting when it came to magic and was still having trouble believing that it wasn't some kind of Dust that hadn't been discovered yet, or some kind of technology.

"That's a Waypoint Gate, the Nether World will send those to the places that are too narrow to allow a Nether World Gate, they will allow us to return the things we find such as Gold or our missing Tower Objects to the Nether World" (Y/N) said.

"All right let's get the smiting started!" (Y/N) said excitedly.

On the other side of the door a large group of Halflings were sat at a table scoffing down food and talking, until suddenly the doors to the outside were hit by something, making them go quiet before a series of bangs and crashes came from the door as it began to splinter, the Halflings jumped up and grabbed swords and rocks as they got read at the door, then with a final crash the doors broke and the Minions came flooding in whooping and hollering as they attacked the Halflings.

Soon after the Minions crashed into the room Ruby, Weiss, Blake and (Y/N) came in and joined the battle, Weiss used her Dust to freeze the Halflings allowing the Browns to bash them good, Blake used her Gambol Shroud and her Shadow Clones to fight the Halflings and avoid any attacks back, Ruby slashed at them and took shots at them with her Scythe folded back up, and (Y/N) supported them with his magic, very soon all the Halflings were dead and the Minions were either smashing up random furniture or gathering the Life Force, Gold and equipment that had been dropped.

"There are so many of these guys! It's like a nest!" Weiss said as she cleaned the Halfling blood off of her blade with a cloth, the last of the Halfling bodies turned into Evil Energy and vanished leaving the room empty except for the broken stuff.

"Well, we are in their homes, so it's not that surprising..." Blake said as she examined the book cases in the room, (Y/N) looked to an upstairs room with interest while Ruby noticed what was sitting around the room.

"Look at all this food! It could feed all of Beacon for a year!" she exclaimed as she knelt down next to a big basket full of melons.

"Maybe we could take some of this back with us? That way, we'll have more food available than the stuff we brought from Beacon" Ruby suggested helpfully.

"And we won't have to eat Beetles!" Weiss said as she gave (Y/N) an annoyed glare.

"Hey, don't knock it til' you try it Ice Queen, they are actually quite tasty!" (Y/N) called out as he went into the room upstairs and found a bunch of sleeping Halflings inside.

"Hm, they might be trouble later on, I'll make sure they never wake up!" (Y/N) whispered to himself as he directed his Minions to the beds, they spread out and attacked the Halflings catching them by surprise and killing them easily, he then directed the Browns to gather the Gold from the chests in the room and bring them back to Ruby, as he rejoined them he saw some of Ruby's Browns were carrying away baskets full of food to the Waypoint Gate.

"Hey (Y/N), where did you just go?" Ruby asked as the Sorcerer's Browns handed her the Gold they had looted.

"Just clearing out the rooms, don't want to miss anything after all" (Y/N) said as he strolled to Ruby's side with a grin on his face, he then sent his Minions to break down the door leading deeper into the Halfling Homes, the door shattered after a few good hits and (Y/N)'s Minions attacked the Halflings waiting on the other side, easily defeating the three Halflings and allowing the group to pass, as they walked Ruby saw three crates that seemed to be jumping around a little sitting above a group of Halflings.

"What's inside these?" Ruby asked as she approached the crates and watched them as they jumped, with unusual sounds coming from inside, some of the Browns came forwards and broke open the crates, allowing a small pack of Rats to jump out, startling Ruby.

"Rats!" she shrieked as the little fur balls dashed towards the Halflings snarling and chittering angrily as they attacked the tubby devils.

"Those filthy vermin don't seem to like the Halflings, they smell their own!" (Y/N) said as he watched the Halflings try to fight off the pack of Rats, they managed to kill most of the rats but three of them were killed by the swarming vermin.

"First Beetles and now Rats..." Weiss said with disgust in her voice, the Sorcerer also took note of how Blake was glaring at the little vermin with a predatory gleam in her amber eyes.

The Halflings finished killing the Rats and attacked the Minions but they were wounded from the fight with the Rats and were killed easily, they walked ahead with the Minions smashing barrels and bringing what they find to Ruby while switching out their weapons and armour for better ones they found, however as the group moved on a light suddenly turned on above a tunnel and a Halfling ran out before he took notice of the group and yelled at them angrily.

"That Halflings have got holes everywhere! Seal them up and stop those over-grown weevils!" (Y/N) said as he commanded his Minions to attack, the single Halfling was easily taken down while the others dashed into the hold and smashed it, causing smoke to come from within as the Minions dashed back to the Sorcerers side.

the group moved on, sealing another hole and looting Gold and equipment for the Minions, as they walked they saw a Halfling holding a spear charge towards them, however (Y/N) defeated it by simply throwing a Fireball, one of the Browns in Ruby's group dashed forwards throwing away the knife he had.

"That's mine!" it called out as it grabbed the spear and waved it above his head giddily before rejoining the others, they kept going with (Y/N) killing another spear wielding Halfling before they came to a room that had a very big bag of gold sitting in it.

"Ah, more funding for our Evil Domain... let's get this treasure back to the Tower!" (Y/N) said as seven of his Minions dashed forwards and hoisted up the Gold before carrying it away to the Waypoint Gate, Weiss and Blake didn't like the sound of an Evil Domain but knew that since Ruby was the one in charge it probably would never happen.

As this happened the rest of (Y/N)'s minions looted Gold from the chests that were sat around the room, giving the Gold to Ruby as well as some bottles that has red and blue liquid in them.

"Hey (Y/N), what are these?" Ruby asked as she held up the two bottles to the Sorcerer.

"Those are potions my Lady, the red one is a Health Potion to recover wounds, since you and I have an Aura those are more for when our Aura's break, and the blue one is a Mana Potion to restore Mana, so that you can cast your spells" (Y/N) said, Ruby nodded her head and tucked the two bottles away into her armour.

"I'll go make sure those Minions don't get lost" Blake said as she turned and jumped down the ledge into the room the group had arrived in, leaving Ruby, (Y/N) and Weiss to go back the way they came.

Blake waited for a few minutes until she saw the Minions carrying the large bag of Gold towards the Waypoint Gate, she watched as they went past her and followed after them, they reached the Gate and dropped the Heavy bag onto the rock, the cat faunus watched with interest as the bag faded away in a bright blue light before there was a final flash, signalling that the Gold had been sent to the Nether World Tower.

"I wonder how this works? Is it really magic?" Blake asked herself as she watched the Browns scurry back to their masters, Blake turned to follow after them when she heard yelling behind her, she spun around and saw a group of Halflings running towards her with their weapons raised, she quickly pulled out Gambol Shroud and shot at them as they ran at her, when they closed the distance she switched to her katana and fought them with a mixture of her Shadow Clones and her training in combat, the Halflings managed to get a few hits on her but they weren't too bad since her Aura was protecting her.

Blake finished off the last Halfling before she decided to go back to the others, she ran into the hallway and saw the doors at the end of the hall open before she looked up to her right and saw Ruby looking over the ledge.

"The doors open now, let's go! Oh, hey Blake!" Ruby called out as she waved at her teammate enthusiastically, Blake chuckled and waved back, Ruby then vaulted over the side and landed close to the doors followed by Weiss and (Y/N), Blake yelped as she felt herself being lifted from the ground and looked down to see the Browns carrying her along as they dashed to the side of their masters, the group of Browns dropped Blake off with the others as they jumped onto benches that were put against the wall and smashed the plates over each others heads, as well as eating the food on the plates and guzzling down the beer, hiccuping as they wiped their mouths before pissing on the floor.

"Ugh! So vulgar! Ruby, could you PLEASE teach them to behave!" Weiss said as she looked away in disgust.

"Things such as manners and etiquette are lost on Minions I'm afraid, their brains are far too tiny to comprehend such things..." (Y/N) said as his Minions rejoined him from their little snack, one of the Minion's passing him a chicken leg which he took a big bite out of as he walked on ahead.

"He just doesn't care about manners much, does he?" Blake asked as she went to follow after him.

"The Minions might be a lost cause, but that doesn't mean he can get away with it, as soon as we get back we're teaching him proper manners!" Weiss said as she too walked on ahead, Ruby shrugged as she and her Minions followed after them, they walked until they heard voices from a room to the left.

"Let's go check it out" Ruby said as she walked on ahead, she hugged the wall until she and the others came into the room, they saw a pair of Halflings sleeping in front of a cell with several people trapped inside, one of the men notices Ruby stood on top of the walkway and had a look of hope on his face.

"Please! Oh! Get us out of here! It's the wheel over there" he called out as he pointed at a wheel that was on a ledge above the cell.

"I heard those Halflings say they're going to serve us to Melvin!" a woman in the cell said in a trembling voice.

"Oh! I don't wanna be LUUUUNCH!" the same man yelled waking up the Halflings who banged their weapons on the cell bars to shut him up.

"We should deal with those Halflings before opening the cage" Blake said, Ruby quickly unfurled her Crescent Rose and used it's sniper form to shoot both Halfling Guards dead, (Y/N) noticed the Halfling holes light up meaning that more Halflings would be out soon.

"Mistress, we're about to have company" (Y/N) said as he pointed to the holes from which some Halflings emerged, on the opposite ledge came a trio of Rock Throwers, and from the other one came a bunch of Halfling Warriors.

"Okay, let's do this!" Ruby said as she pulled the blade of her scythe from the wooden floor, Weiss and Blake went to engage the Halfling Warriors with (Y/N)'s Minions as backup, they fought towards the hole with Weiss using her Ice Dust to freeze the Halflings in place while Blake fought the ones that weren't frozen, allowing the Minions to rush into the burrow and seal it off.

"Mistress, look out!" (Y/N) called out, Ruby saw some rocks coming towards her but they were blocked by a barrier that had formed around her and the Sorcerer, (Y/N) has cast the Shield Spell over them both.

"Thanks (Y/N)" Ruby said with a smile before she commanded her own Minions to rush across the scaffold and attacked the Halflings, taking them down quickly and sealing off their hole as well, after they did that they went to the wheel and started turning the wheel to open the cage and free the people inside, the girl that was in the cage rushed towards Ruby and hugged her happily.

"Oh, thank you, thank you!" she cried out as Ruby awkwardly patted her on the back to calm her down.

"I-It's no problem..." Ruby said awkwardly, the girl let go of her and she followed the other villagers out, leaving the group behind to continue their raid.

"Shall we continue, Mistress?" (Y/N) asked.

"Yeah, okay" Ruby said as she turned to leave with the Sorcerer at her side and the two Minion hordes behind them, Weiss and Blake following close behind.

The group reached another door and the Minions started running into the door splintering the wood, however (Y/N) stepped forwards and grabbed one of the Browns by the scruff of the neck and drew back his arm, as he raised a leg into the air.

"(Y/N)/ What are you-" Ruby went to ask, however she was cut off by his yell.

"Kamikazeee!" (Y/N) yelled randomly before he threw the Minion at the door, the Minion yelled excitedly before he smashed into the door breaking them off of the hinges, the Brown rollie-polied until he was sat in the middle of a pile of splintered wood with little stars floating around his head.

"Hmmm, that worked! Hahahaha!" the Sorcerer said before breaking into a laugh, along with the minions, meanwhile Ruby, Blake and Weiss sweatdropped at the action.

"He's insane, he's got to be..." Weiss said as she massaged her temples to relieve the stress.

"We're doomed..." Blake said as she facepalmed, and Ruby just chuckled awkwardly as she rubbed the back of her helmet with her hand.

"Well... at least he isn't boring!" Ruby said helpfully as she smiled under her helmet, she actually liked how he seemed so carefree at acting so randomly, although she could do without the whole 'eating bugs' thing.

The girls walked into the room after the Sorcerer, following him over into what looked like an underground garden, when they arrived they were awed to see a record breaking pumpkin sitting in a beam of sunlight, it was about the size of an Atlesian Paladin!

"What a fine specimen! It must have taken them years to grow" (Y/N) said as he marvelled at the massive Pumpkin, the Minions around his legs oohing and ahhing at the massive squash.

"That's amazing!" Ruby exclaimed as she gazed at the pumpkin.

"Those Halflings must be excellent gardeners" Weiss said as she looked at the giant pumpkin, Blake stood back looking at it silently, (Y/N) leaned down to his lips were close to where Ruby's ear would be under the helmet.

"Don't you just want to... smash it up?" (Y/N) whispered to her before standing back up and cackling madly.

"What?! We can't do that, I mean isn't that a little mean?" Ruby asked in surprise.

"It's just a suggestion Mistress, besides this is something the Halflings made so it won't really affect us" (Y/N) said as he turned to face Ruby fully.

"That may be so, but we shouldn't waste such a big Pumpkin, maybe we could take it and do something with it" Ruby said sternly.

"like what, Mistress?" (Y/N) asked.

"Well, uhm... maybe a very big pumpkin pie?" Ruby said, the Sorcerer stayed quiet as he seemed in thought.

(Oh no! I made myself sound so stupid! Maybe I should have just gone along with his suggestion...) Ruby thought to herself as she blushed in embarrassment.

"Well, it doesn't sound as fun as simply smashing it, but if you really want it then I suppose we could..." (Y/N) said with disappointment lacing his voice, however that ended when they were attacked by Halflings that wanted to defend their prized Pumpkin.

"Watch out you dunces! Halflings incoming!" Weiss shouted as a swarm of Halflings came from the holes in the walls, the humans and the Minions fought the Halflings hard, the Minions tearing through the Halflings and closing up the holes in the walls, the humans also fought hard to keep the Halflings at bay.

The holes were sealed up and the dead Halflings were fading away into clouds of Evil Energy, Ruby looked around and saw with some dismay that the giant pumpkin had been heavily damaged in the fight.

"What a waste..." Blake said as she kicked at the mush that was left of the pumpkin.

"Maybe we could salvage some of it?" (Y/N) said, trying to cheer up his mistress, who looked very downtrodden.

"Hey, there's something inside the pumpkin" Weiss said as she crouched down at the base of the pumpkin and looked inside.

"Really? What is it?" Ruby asked curiously.

"I don't know, the pumpkin guts and seeds are in the way" Weiss said as she stood back up, with a pumpkin seed stuck to her cheek.

"Weiss, you've got something on your face" Ruby said.

"Really? Where?" Weiss asked as she reached up to find the unwanted clinger on, however as her hand went near the offending seed another set of fingers brushed her cheek, removing the seed and removing it from her face, Weiss looked over and saw Blake toss the seed away before she walked away leaving the white clad huntress with a small blush on her cheeks, and an odd tingling feeling in her fingers and stomach.

"What was that just now...?" Weiss asked herself, however she was brought out of it by the sound of squishing, she looked back to see the Minions beating the hell out of the remains of the pumpkin, sending pumpkin guts and seeds all over the place.

A large clump of said seeds and guts splattered against the back of Blake's head before the three girls dashed away to avoid the mess, leaving the Browns and the Sorcerer to find out what was inside the pumpkin, the last pieces of the pumpkin fell away to reveal a statue that looked to be a Minion with it's arms crossed and yellow eyes.

"Ooh an object, I like Objects!" (Y/N) said happily as he clapped his hands together in excitement.

"Woah, what is that?" Ruby asked as she used her Semblance to zip to the Sorcerer's side, she walked around the statue looking it over curiously before standing on top it it and looking down at it.

"It looks like a statue of a Minion" Blake said as she too got close to it.

"It looks a little gaudy to me..." Weiss said in a dismissive voice, making the Sorcerer glare at her angrily.

"This, Mistress, is a Command Upgrade. have your Minions bring it to the Waypoint Gate and see what happens" (Y/N) said with a big grin on his face.

"Okay, Minions let's go!" Ruby cheered as she directed the Browns to pick up the statue, five of the Browns picked up the object and started to carry it to the gate while she was still stood on top of it.

"Careful! Careful, your carrying precious cargo in your claws!" (Y/N) said worriedly as he followed close behind with the other Minions trailing behind him along with Weiss and Blake.

"Don't worry (Y/N), I'm sure I'll be fi-" Ruby's reassurances were cut off when she was caught on the top of a door frame and fell off of the top of the idol, however before she could hit the ground she was caught in a pair of strong arms in a bridal carry, she looked up to see (Y/N) looking into her silvered eyes with concern in his own (E/C) eyes.

"Are you all right my Lady?" (Y/N) asked as he stared into her eyes before his gaze wandered down to her lips which were still visible under her helmet.

"Y-Yeah... thank you (Y/N)" Ruby said as she felt her own cheeks warm up as she gazed into his eyes.

"Ehem!" came a voice startling the two out of their little world, (Y/N) turned to see the Minions looking at the two wiggling the parts where their eyebrows would be, Blake looking emotionless as usual and Weiss looking annoyed.

"If you two are quite finished, I think we should continue on towards that Waypoint Gate" Weiss said in a haughty voice.

"Yeah. Right. Of course! L-Let's go Mistress!" (Y/N) said as he set Ruby down on her feet and speed walked away, followed closely by his horde of Browns.

Ruby followed after him, her heart hammering in her chest as she walked with her last five Minions also following behind her, along with Blake and Weiss, who Ruby was feeling very annoyed with right now, they caught up to the Minions as they set the idol onto the Waypoint Gate, the statue vanished in a flash of bright blue light.

"You can now control fifteen Minions! FIFTEEN! That's double the number of brain cells in the average sheep!" (Y/N) cheered happily, before adding the random bit of information at the end.

"Really? So I can control the same amount of Minions as you do now?" Ruby asked excitedly, the Sorcerer nodded his head and she immediately dashed to the Minion Gate and called out another five Browns, giving her a total of fifteen under her command.

"Is that true (Y/N)?" Blake asked.

"Yes, as you can see she now command fifteen of them, won't be long until we find more and she can command a grand army!" (Y/N) said as he rubbed his hands together in anticipation.

"Actually, I was talking about the thing about sheep's brain cells..." Blake said as she looked at Ruby and her newly expanded Minion horde.

"Oh that, well I believe so, I mean that's what Gnarl said about them" (Y/N) said, after this the group went back to their raid, however (Y/N) stopped walking suddenly.

"Hey, Weiss" (Y/N) called out to the heiress as he sent his Browns along with Ruby's together up the baskets of food that were laying around.

"Yeah?" she answered as she turned around, only to be hit right in the face and hair with a big chunk of pumpkin guts and seeds, making Ruby and Blake go wide eyes at the Sorcerer.

"That's for calling that statue gaudy!" he called out before he dashed off back towards where the smashed up Giant pumpkin was, Weiss wiped away some of the pumpkin guts before setting a cold glare to where the Sorcerer ran off to.

"(Y/N)... your dead!" she yelled as she used her glyphs to dash after him, leaving a stunned Ruby and Blake behind, but they quickly regained their senses and chased after her.

"Weiss, wait! Don't kill him please!" Ruby called out, however when they arrived they saw something completely unexpected, they saw Weiss and (Y/N) having a pumpkin war with them tossing the seeds and guts at each other like snowballs!

"Heads up, Ice Queen!" (Y/N) yelled as he tossed a very wet pile of mush at her, she ducked down and the mush splattered all over Ruby's breastplate.

"Oh it's on now!" Ruby said as she dashed into the game, Blake sighed to herself in annoyance as she went to pull out a book to read, only to get splattered herself with the pumpkin mush.

"Your all going to pay for that..." she said before she too was drawn into the fun, the four humans playing in the messy pumpkin mush and seeds as the Minions got to work in bringing the food back to the Tower.