Hello, everybody. My name is Vindex! I am here with my roommate/editor Jessica-

Jessica: Hello!

-And today we bring to you, A Seasonal Gem! A new story, with a concept I asked to write about from FunahoMisaki.

J: You Rock Girl! Keep it up!

All credit for the idea and concept go to her. Now, if you didn't read the summary, then you should of. But regardless if you did or didn't, I'll explain what's going on. To keep it short, plain and very simple, Summer Rose is alive, but not as Summer Rose. Let's just say, Summer is literally walking a mile in Ruby's shoes... And continuing to walking. What happened to Ruby? Well... Let's you can find that out in the story.

J: Let's get to reading!

~Linebreaker~

A young girl sighed as she listened to her music as she made her way through the quiet town. At first glance, she may seem like an 15 year old girl, but she is anything but ordinary. Especially since the girl's soul was not of her own. The soul that currently inhabiting her body was that of her own mother.

The Mother didn't know how it happened. One day she was playing with her two daughters in their backyard when they were attacked by Grimm. She had yelled for the Eldest Daughter to run back to the house with the Youngest Daughter and get their Father while she held them off. The Eldest took off back to the house but her Youngest, who had just recently learned how to walk, only made it a few steps away from the monsters before one of them seemed to slice right through her.

The Mother had screamed in horror, before being consumed by her rage and began obliterating the monsters one by one. She, however, took some major damage to her body. She knew she wouldn't survive the night, but she made it back over to her Youngest and only Biological Daughter's side and saw that she was not bleeding or harmed, save for a strange black claw mark scared tattoo over her heart where the she had been struck. Her daughter was obviously dead but there was no blood, as if her soul had just been sliced by the Grimm instead of her body. The Mother remembered herself laying down beside her daughter's body, holding her close and sobbing as the darkness claimed her.

She woke up two days later, much to her shock. And to add to her ever-growing shock was the fact that she was in her daughters body. She had no clue what had happened, but the most logical reason she could come up with was that since her daughter's soul was gone but her body was still there the Mother's soul went into the body since hers could no longer sustain her.

It was hard for her to not only be in her daughters body, but to also watch as her family grieved her instead of the Youngest Daughter, who was the truly dead one, of course they didn't know that. What was she supposed to say? 'Sorry but I'm still alive and in Ruby's body since her soul died but her body didn't?'. Yeah, that would NOT go over well.

Summer watched sorrowfully from Ruby's perspective as Yang, Qrow, and Tai mourned her passing in their own ways as well. Summer herself was depressed for 4 years. Many just assumed that Ruby was missing and mourning her mother. They couldn't have been more wrong. It was actually Summer mourning her deceased daughter, who never got a chance to truly live, as well as mourning the fact that her husband, old teammate that was like a younger brother to her, and step-daughter didn't even know that Ruby was gone.

It took Yang nearly dying, trying to find her real mother Raven, for Summer to snap out of it and get her act together again. After Yang's near death when Ruby was 6, Summer began acting somewhat childish while trying to mother Yang a bit, as well as re-learning how to fight. Well, it was more like Summer was conditioning her daughters body to fight with a scythe like she had. Only this time around, with he current technology available, she made her new scythe twice as good as her old one was.

Because let's face it, if you mix a deadly Scythe, with a high powered Sniper Rifle, the result was pure awesome weapon.

Many people were amazed at how well the 7 year old 'Ruby' was at using a scythe that she made herself without any help or experience. And that the scythe was three times her size back then! But it did took a couple of years for Ruby's body to be conditioned enough for Summer to use the large and heavy scythe with any of her previous skills, not that Summer really minded. She couldn't help protect her family if her current body wasn't up to par. Besides, it was no real challenge to convenience people to believe that Ruby was a prodigy given how both of her parents were expert huntsmen.

Summer had been considered a prodigy amongst her peers alongside her teammates. She could only hope that she would get on a team that wouldn't be too far below her standards. She didn't want to have to deal with arrogant brats who didn't train as much as they should and have subpar skills. She went through a lifetime of that with that snobbish team of bullies lead by that Winchester kid who tried courting her back when she was at Beacon in years ago. They weren't much of a challenge really, she kicked all of their asses by herself in less than one and a half minutes on a bad day. It was fun watching their faces change colors in their rage and embarrassment, though.

Summer sighed as she kept walking to her destination. Her eyes kept wondering back to the red cape that fluttered behind her. The cape was her way of remembering her daughter... You know, besides the fact that she was currently occupying said daughters body. Still it's the thought that counts. Soon her 'sister' was going to leave for Beacon Academy, leaving her at Signal with Tai and Qrow. While it isn't the end of the world, at least she'll be ready to greet Yang at her 3rd year there. But first, her stop.

She wanted to get the latest magazine of Weapons Weekly. She heard that there was supposedly an article on how to make sniper-based weapons fire their weapons much farther then before and she just HAD to see this for herself... What? Just because she's in a younger body, doesn't mean old habits will just die. And so she entered 'From Dust till Dawn', in search of that magazine, not knowing what is coming her way.

~Linebreaker~

V & J's Box of Author Notes

Hello everyone, and welcome to the box. So, let's get the elephant in the room out of the way first? No, if we do decide at some point to reveal Summer as Ruby to her family, it will not be a Taiyang, Qrow, or any other adults pairing with Summer. Not only has it been a couple of years since 'Summer' died, giving them probably enough to time to move on, she's in a 15 year old body now. I'm pretty sure, even though Summer is older then she looks, it's pedophilia. As for the pairings? I don't really know. It's something me and Misaki will have to discuss.

J: Next, we, or rather Vin, will continue talking to Misaki about plot and the like. It's her concept, so it's only fair that he continues talking to her about this.

And finally, yes we will follow the plot. There will be changes. Now, if you excuse me, I need to stop Jessica from trying to launch a man hunt against Adam... We saw the latest episode... We are not happy with him at all.

See ya around,

Vindex + Jessica