Well guys, here's the first chapter of a story I'm actually really excited to do, my RWBY and Cuphead crossover! Cuphead is one of my favorite games, even if it's FRUSTRATING BEYOND BELIEF! (ahem) So, lets get this show on the road!

RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth.

Cuphead is owned by Studio MDHR

Twas a slow, dog dangling day at Beacon Academy, being that it was Spring Break, there wasn't much to do. Students were either off on missions, or spending time with their teams. This was especially true for team RWBY, who were doing their own things. Ruby was on her bed, looking at her scroll, with her knees in the air. Weiss was doing her studies for Ooblek, Blake was reading, and Yang was playing a videogame. It didn't take long for the team's leader to break the silence.

"UGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH, I'M SO FREAKIN' BORRRREEEEEDDDDD!" Ruby groaned, placing her scroll on the bed, and leaping off.

"Ruby, can you not be a dolt for five minutes!" the heiress scolded. Blake decided to try and help her leader find something to do.

"Hey Rubes, why don't you read something?" she suggested, "Trust me, it passes the time." Ruby put her hand to her chin, considering her partners decision, until an idea sparked in her brain.

"Hey Yang, remember the box filled with our childhood books? Could you get that for me?" the redhead asked her sister.

"Of course, anything for you sis!" Yang happily said, as she turned off her game, and went over to the dorm's closet. She opened it up, and pulled out a dusty, tarnished, cardboard box. The two other members of the team looked over in interest.

"What's in that box?" Weiss queried.

"Oh, just some books that me and Ruby read when we were kids." the blonde responded. The lid of the box was removed by Yang, and many different books were shown. "Which one do you want to read?" she asked Ruby.

"Oh, how about this one?" Ruby squeaked, pointing to an old, scratched up book.

"Oh, this one?" Yang asked her younger sister, as she pulled out a yellow covered book. The cover also had two cartoonish figures on it, one wearing red pants and boots, the other, wearing blue pants and boots. But one thing about the brothers was similar, they both had mugs for heads. Blake and Weiss both confusingly stared at the cover, along with the title on it.

"Cuphead, Don't Deal with the Devil." the Faunus read.

"What kind of story is this?!" Weiss shakenly asked.

"This was one of Ruby's favorite childhood stories," Yang explained, "I can't tell you how many times I had to read it to her before bed."

"And look, it has its own theme song!" Ruby exclaimed, as she pressed a small button on the book. Then, a recorded message of what appeared to be a barbershop quartet singing began to play.

"Well Cuphead and his pal Mugman, they like to roll the dice. By chance they came upon devil's game, and gosh they paid the price. PAID THE PRICE! And now their fighting for their lives, on a mission fought with dread. And if the proceed but don't succeed. Well, the Devil will have their heads!"

There were mixed feelings about the song, while Ruby and Yang smiled, Blake and Weiss could've sworn that a chill went down their spines. Before they could ask what the living hell they just heard, Ruby grabbed the book, opened it up, and began to read.

"Once upon a time, in a magical place called Inkwell Isle, there were two brothers named Cuphead and Mugman. They lived without a care under the watchful eye of the wise Elder Kettle."

The picture on the page showed the two cup brothers playing, with the Elder Kettle dozing on a rocking chair. Yang laughed as her sister read in a goofy voice, Blake just watched, interested to say the least, and Weiss, well, she was confused about a lot of things. Ruby giggled, and continued.

"One day the two boys wandered far from home, and – despite the Elder Kettle's many warnings – ended up on the wrong side of the tracks and entered the Devil's Casino."

The casino looked menacing, with a statue depicting the Devil on top of it, and a bunch of cards and chess pieces in front of it.

"Inside, Cuphead and Mugman soon found themselves on a winning streak at the Craps table. "Hot Dawg!" exclaimed King Dice, the casino's sleazy manager. "These fellas can't lose!""

King Dice himself was a tall humanoid with a dice head, and he wore white gloves, purple shoes, and a purple tuxedo with a purple bowtie.

"I guess he has a purple fetish." Yang joked, causing Blake to shush her, as she was interested in the story.

""Nice run, boys" laughed a newcomer. The brothers gasped. It was the Casino's owner – the Devil himself! "Now, how about we raise the stakes?" he suggested with a toothy grin."

"Ok, I'm done." Weiss fumed, she had seen enough ridiculous things from the story, first it was the cartoonish setting, then it was the King Dice, and now the Devil was a casino owner.

"Aw c'mon Weiss, it's fun!" her leader pouted, with puppy eyes. Weiss tried to resist her friend's stare, but eventually gave in, and sat back down, as Ruby continued to read.

""Win one more roll, and all the loot in my casino is yours!" the Devil boomed. "But if you lose, I'll have your souls! Deal?""

The page provided the team with a good look of the Devil, a black fuzzy skinned demon, with yellow eyes with red pupils, clawed grey hands and feet, large pointy ears, and two horns on his head.

"If that was me, I would've left." Blake said, with her fellow team mates nodding in agreement. But, secretly, Yang knew that she wouldn't, she lived for this type of thing.

"Cuphead, blinded by easy riches, nodded and grabbed the dice for a throw. "Good gosh, Cuphead, no!" cried Mugman, for he understood the danger. But it was too late!"

"Let me guess, he ends up losing the bet, and therefore, his soul." Weiss interpreted.

""Snake eyes!" laughed the Devil while slamming the floor. "You lose!" The brothers trembled in fear as he loomed over them. "Now, about those souls…""

"Saw that coming a mile away." the Ice Queen deadpanned.

"The brothers pleading for their very lives. "Th-there must be another w-way to repay you." Mugman stammered. "Yes, p-please mister!" Cuphead added."

""Hmm, perhaps there is." the Devil snickered, pulling out a parchment. "I have here a list of my runaway debtors. Collect their souls for me, and I just might pardon you two mugs.""

The theme song from the beginning was starting to make sense now, the brothers have made a deal with the Devil, and where now on a quest to collect souls from previous debtors, or else they would lose their own souls.

""Now get going!" the Devil roared, kicking the boys out most rudely. "You have 'til midnight tomorrow to collect every one of those souls! Otherwise I'll be the one collecting yours!""

"Cuphead and Mugman were terribly frightened and ran away as fast as they could. "C'mon Mug!" panted Cuphead. "We have to find the Elder Kettle. He'll know what to do!"

As Ruby turned the page to continue the story, she and the others instantly spotted something wrong. The page was blank, no words, no pictures, no anything. It was just a blank, white, featureless piece of paper. In fact, every single page after that one was blank as well.

"What?" Ruby said, confused out of her mind, "Why are they blank, I remember there being more pictures and stuff." The teen began to frantically flip the pages, searching for an answer. She kept on going until she reached the last page, which had something on it. It was a strange, red symbol, that resembled a pentagram, with words inscribed above it.

"You can return to the time and place when the brothers bet their lives. Take a closer look to join the adventure in this book."

"Ok, this is getting out of hand." Weiss snapped, as she snatched the book out of her leader's hands. She could handle the ridiculous characters, and cryptic story, but she drew the line at strange and demonic symbols. Blake and Yang were concerned to, but Ruby didn't care, she just wanted to finish the story.

"No Weiss, give me it!" she demanded, grabbing the book.

"No, this thing has to be disposed properly!" the heiress declared. In the two's struggle to try and grab the book from each other, they accidently knocked over one of the dust capsules that Weiss was studying. They both dropped the book, and engaged in a slap fight. It landed on the floor, and conveniently opened to the page with the pentagram, as the dust capsule fell onto it, and broke open upon impact. The dust inside it spilled onto the pentagram, which seem to absorb it, and glow a bright red. Before any of the girls could say anything, the circle began to spin, faster and faster. Soon enough, all of team RWBY began to feel some type of force that was dragging them towards the spiral which was now growing in size.

"What the hell is going on?!" Yang screamed, as she lost her footing, and was literally sucked into the book. Blake gasped and grabbed Yang's foot, trying to pull her out. Suddenly, all of the team's weapons began to be sucked towards the vortex, as Crescent Rose clocked the Faunus on the knee, making her trip, and fall into the novel. As the rest of the weapon were sucked into the portal, Ruby and Weiss were both holding onto the floor, desperately trying to not let go. But alas, they both knew they couldn't hold on for much longer. They closed their eyes, and let go, screaming as they fell into the book, as it slammed shut.

Then, as if by magic, the book opened up to the first page of the story, or rather, the NEW story, which was about to begin.