Ok so this is my first story here and thanks to some advice i pretty much remade this chapter. Hope you like it, help is appreciated

Ruby (age 5)

A little girl sat in her room, she have silver eyes, black hair with red tips, and a red hood that was about 3 times to big for her. Her name was Ruby Rose, she was reading a big that her mom read to her before bed time. But her mom was of a hunter mission, and could not read to her tonight. So Ruby snuck into her mom's room and picked a book to read herself.

"Hehe I'm big enough to read the big book" Ruby giggled to herself after all her birthday was two days ago. Five is a big number so she big too.

The big book was what Rudy called the book of myths her mother thought she was too young to hear yet. The first story Ruby stopped at was The Legend of the Regalias. Why did the 5 year stop at this story? It had pictures, of course!

After Ruby stop focusing on the pictures she began to read the legend.

"The Regalias were believed to be objects that let people become their Soul Self. ones Soul Self is the combination of everything that person is from their name to their cloths. Everything that make up how they view themselves."

Ruby stopped reading to admire how awesome that sounded to her.

"I wonder what my Soul Self wound be"

After about five minutes of giggling and imagining what her Soul Self wound be, everything from a giant rose wolf to a ruby armored knight, she began to read again.

"Many scholars have wondered why people wound hold this Regalias and the idea of a Soul Self so high. The main theory is that those who believed that when a person becomes their Soul Self not only does that person become twice as strong as normal but their semblance changs. How its change is varied from scholar to scholar but many say that it because more powerful because of the realization of seeing ones soul in its purest form."

"Ruby!" "Epp"

Tai Yang, Ruby's father looks at his daughter, and asked

"What are you doing up young lady?"

Ruby (Age 15)

It has been ten years since that night but the story has always stayed with her. Why, because the day after the Xiao Long/Rose family got the news that Summer Rose. Ruby's mother was declared Missing in Action (MIA). The main thing that stuck in Ruby's head was the part about becoming stronger.

"If I was stronger would i of went with her, could I of saved her?" Rudy had thought to herself more times than she could of count. The answer never came, logically she knew the even with the power of a legend she still just a five year old. But pain and loss never really followed logic. So with the thought of being stronger so she won't lose more of her family, she poured of hundreds of books on legends, Aura theory, and anything on the Regalias. Trying to make a legend into reality, but the last few months have cute into that time.

Rudy's life for the last few months had been a rollercoaster of ups and downs, though lately mostly downs. The main up she could think of was she got into Beacon two year early. Beacon Huntsman Academy was one of the greatest Hunters school in all of Remnant. Being a Huntress, like her mother was Ruby's dream sense she was a little girl. So it was a big up.

Unfortunately the downside was pretty big too. After Ruby's mom went MIA things went downhill for her family. Her father, who was just getting over his first wife leaving him, fell into a depression and going of long missions. Leaving Yang, Ruby's older half sister to mostly take care of her. Though there uncle Qrow decided to take Ruby under his wing after she started Signal Academy.(Signal being a prep-school for hunters and huntresses)

All and all things started to look up when the sister were about 13(Ruby) and 15(Yang). There father was starting to come back to them, getting a job at Signal Academy. Giving Yang time to be more of a teen, make friends and go out on weekends. Ruby though she was already set on being as strong as she possibly could be. While other girls had sleepovers she was training with her Uncle, when others her age read comics and fantasy book she was reading school books and Aura theory.

As a result Ruby had little to no experience with people outside of her family. Yang shaw this as a problem so she used Ruby coming to Beacon as a way to get Ruby to "break out of her shell" so to speak. The thing is teenagers have very fragile egos, and seeing a 15 year old come twos years ahead bruised those egos. To find out that said 15 year old was better than most of them, well to put it lightly she had a lot of jealous classmates.

So with most of her classmates hating her and trying to use anything to hurt her, and the only family she around her ignoring in hopes of her making friends, she was not having a good time but it did let her focus on the Regalias.

One of the only places that her bullies leave her was the library and class, only because the teachers and librarian were there. (everyone was scared of the librarian). Beacon as one the most advanced hunter schools on the planet the librarian was a reflection of such.

The librarian had help with the Regalia's completion, so much os that with in 4 months Ruby was ready for the first test of it. Now standing in a training room alone, doors locked, her Regalia on her right arm. Her Regalia was a badge made of silver, at its center was a circle, on the circle was a rose etched on it with wings facing down towards her hand, she closed her eyes and took a deep breath, and lift her arm.

"1. . . 2 . . . 3!"

And brought it down on the circle in the middle of the Regalia.

A flash of light blinded her and she looked at one of the mirrors in the training room and gasped at what she saw.

A skeleton . . . her Soul Self was a skeleton made of rubies and the once red cloak she wore was now made of thorn vines. In it's (her?) head were normal, her silver eyes were now wisping silver energy coming out of the eye sockets. But what shocked Ruby the most was the her sweetheart, Crescent Rose had also changed it to was made out of rubies but the blade was odd. It wasn't made of metal or crystal like one would think no, it was made out of silver energy.

As she just looked at her Soul Self more and more just taking in what she was, a feeling of joy and accomplishment weld up inside her. If she had lips at the moment she was sure the smile on her face would threatened to split her face in two.

"I did it"

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