Ruby was sitting on the edge of the abandoned building, she was looking off the edge of the building and saw a pack of beowolves roaming around looking for something to munch on. Even though she was in an abandoned building it was getting harder for her to get recourses all by herself. Each day the grim got a bit smarter and they routes change quite frequently. It wouldn't be too long before they tracked her down and ripped her to little bitty pieces. Ruby walked back inside to get some sleep, when she walked past the mirror she walked back and looking into the mirror. Ruby was now a wolf Faunus, she had long white hair and she head red tips at the end hair ears and tail. Ruby had lost her right eye a long time ago and had a make shit eye patch over it, she also had a scare up the left side of her face over her cheek and across her temple. That should have killed her, but fate has other plans. Ruby looked into the mirror for a bit longer to see that the imagine changed and she was now looking at younger version of herself, with brown hair with red tips and she wasn't a Faunus. Then she another version of herself it was a bit older than before, this version had gray hair and was also a Faunus and she was white clothes with blood all over them, Lastly the image changed back to what she looked like now.
"I probably could never go back to civilization ever again, not after what I have done." Ruby didn't intend to say that to anyone but herself, the room fell into silence for a few seconds before a noise that sounded link someone taking a drink of something showed up behind her. Ruby looked around to see a man in a green suit jacket sitting on a chair holding a white mug.
"Why not?" The man in the green jacket said before taking another drink from his mug.
"Why not what?" Ruby asked walking backwards a bit.
"Why can't you go back to civilization?" He then set his mug down and leaned down moving his hand in front of his face like it was interested what Ruby would say.
Ruby tired to run through another door in the room and was blocked by a blond lady with massive tits. Ruby as trapped. "What do you want with me? Are you here to take me back to that nightmare?"
Ozpin shook his head side to side. "No, we are here to take you back to Vale. We were hunting you down ever since you were taken at the age of six. Nothing showed up about you until almost two years ago when people saw you leaving a facility. When people went in everyone was dead and there were no survivors."
Ruby was a bit more scared. "What do you mean you were hunting me down? Who sent you?"
"Well I wouldn't be that really good of a hunter if I didn't help my friends, your mother and father find you." He still didn't move nor did turbo tits.
"Wait they were still looking for me? I thought they gave up on trying to find me a long time ago." Ruby looked down at her hands and then looked back at him. "But it not like they want me back I'm just a monster."
"Well I would disagree, You were put into a spot where if you didn't kill them they surely would have killed you, quite slowly and painfully. I don't see a monster in front of me, I just see a young girl who had her childhood taken away from her. Now wouldn't you agree on that." He slowly pulled out a picture frame out of his pocket and extended his arm so Ruby could take it.
Ruby slowly grabbed it and saw a picture of her mother and father holding her and Yang. "You don't think I'm a monster?"
"Not one bit. Would you like to come back with me?" Ozpin got up from his chair and grabbed his empty mug looking sadly into it wishing he brought more.
Ruby nodded and was looking down at the picture and she cried from one eye.
After that they got Ruby on an airship and started heading back to vale. On the ship Ruby laid down on one of the sets and fell asleep clenching the picture frame for dear life. Ozpin felt a pinch inside his chest whenever he looked at her for too long, this was one person he was too late to save from the evils of the world and would have to live with that for the rest of his life.
When they arrived at beacon they took Ruby to the infirmary to get her looked over for anything fatal to her health. During the check up they found out Ruby had several severe scars around her body, 4 across her back in different angles, and one along the side of her neck, and more. She had severe burns on the right side of her face destroying her eye completely. She also unable to have children herself, from the experimentation on her body. Ruby also had a tattoo of what number test subject she was on the back of her neck. It was S - 107 and she was one of two hundred and sixty five people. When they research the facility they found out that twenty two of them escaped and the rest were all dead. After Ruby was offered a room to stay in until Summer and Taiyang arrived to see her.
"Ozpin did you really find her after all this time?" Summer asked following Ozpin to the room Ruby was staying in.
"Yes, we had her checked up and her blood matches, well be there in a few minutes." Ozpin kept walking to the room Ruby was in with Summer and Tai close behind.
"Should we expect anything that will upset us?" Tai joined into the question of the well being of his daughter.
Ozpin sighed and took a bit to answer. "She had some severe scars around her body, and she also has burn scars on the right side of her face and she lost her eye in the process. Lastly she is no longer human as she has been turned into a faunus." Ozpin looked over his shoulder to see both their expressions were completely shocked. They finally arrived and Ozpin gentle opened the door just in case Ruby was still asleep. They walked into the room and instead of seeing Ruby sleeping in the bed she was on the ground at the foot of the bed asleep covered in blankets.
Summers slowly walked up to the Ruby and looked at her face, she had tears start to run down the side of her face as she knelt down and gentle shook Ruby to wake her.
Ruby slowly woke up and looked up at her mom and slowly sat up and looked around to see her dad standing a few feet behind her, and then finally Ozpin close to the door. Ruby looked back at Summer and Tai before speaking. "M-Mom, D-Dad is that you?"
Summer hugged Ruby and Tai soon after did the same. "Please, please don't live my side anytime soon."
Ruby hugged both of them back, not wanting to let go either. For once in a really long time she felt safe. She did have to deal with all the pain and suffering at this time. "Please don't let me go either."
When Ruby's parents stopped hugging her, she knew that they were going to ask questions about what happened to her. "So what happened to you while you were gone?" Tai sat on one side of Ruby while Summer sat on the other side.
It took Ruby a few to answer. "I was taken to a facility where they experimented on me." Ruby wiggled her wolf ears to show one of the experiments. "You never knew if what they test on you would kill you or put you through so much pain you would go insane. A lot of it dealt with semblances and how they work. One day they tried to extract my speed from me, but whenever they tried it seem like something was blocking it. Then they tried fusing other people semblances with mine…" Ruby went quiet for a bit to collect herself. "They succeeded in doing so, the cost of doing so was t-that the other p-person died in the process. Now answers me this, what happens when you take someone's semblance away from them?" Ruby moved her knees to her chest and wrapped her arms around her knees.
"I have no Idea." Summer said and Tai nodded in agreement.
"Well a semblance is a manifestation of who you are. So you can say your soul and semblance are on in the same. The souls of those semblances I was forced to take live inside me. I can see them walking around and can talk to them with my mind. You can say they are in a state between living and death. They have lost their body that once would consider them alive, but now they are imprisoned in my body as a ghost." Tears threatened to break free after she said that. "I have six people trapped inside me."
Summer looked at Ruby horrified and thought 'How could someone survive that?' Summer rubbed Ruby's back. "Do you know who they are?"
Ruby nodded. "Four of them were my friend and helped me survive. The two others were Faunus both wolf and they were married. They don't talk much but they have been trapped in me the longest. The only good thing about them being trapped was that we all kept each other company." She weakly laughed.
"A-Anything else?" Tai asked weakly in between wanting to know more and wanting this conversation to stop.
"A lot more. They experiment's seemed like they would never end. Day in day out, each of use got around four to six hours of sleep. Each day they tried something new or kept going with the previous experiments…" Ruby stopped talking not wanting to go any further for today. After that the sun was slowly rising and so Summer and Tai took Ruby back to patch. To where her sister Yang was at.
Ok I hope you all like Scattered Rose Petals. I am going to continue the other stories so don't worry, it just I started reading some book and this idea came to mind. In the next Chapter Ruby is going to try getting use to normal life. That chapter is probably going to be pretty lengthy. Also this is one year before Ruby or Yang go to Beacon. Ruby still want's to be a huntress. Also If any of you like send me an idea of what one of the other semblance Ruby can use besides speed pm me.