Rwby belongs to Rooster teeth and Monty Oum
The OC's are mine
ENJOY! [Remade first chapter and second into one!]
Shadows cloaked the city of Vale as a young up and coming huntress walked towards the airship port to catch a ride back to Beacon from her recent excursion to purchase ammunition for her precious Crescent Rose. However, she was unaware of the presence in the shadows not far from where she stood. The girl, with her red tinted hair glinting in the light of the passing street lamp, was passing the alley in which the presence hid. Out from his place of concealment he thrust his claws, wrapping around her shoulders and with an unnatural strength, tossed the squirming silver eyed youth deeper into the alleyway, causing her to land face first into the ground, eliciting a slight crunch as the girl tumbled before recovering.
Ruby quickly scrambled to her feet reaching out for Crescent Rose while scanning for the figure who had struck her. She spotted her attacker out of the corner of her eye before feeling the air leave her lungs, and the cold embrace of unconsciousness trying to wash over her, as she was thrown against the wall. Now the man stood over her. "Do not struggle if you wish this to not be any more painful for you." Ruby stood for a moment, then spun in place quickly, attempting to catch the man off guard, swinging her scythe in an arc that should have decapitated the stranger, but instead her scythe passed through air and as she spun she saw the figure above her before the sole of a boot met her face knocking her over. "Now now little one, children shouldn't play with big scary scythes." The man drawled as he took a firm grip of the scythe and tossed it to the side, looming above Ruby, pinning her with his boot as Cresant Rose clattered against the ground. "I do have to inject you with a bit of 'medicine'!" As he leaned down he drew out a needle filled with a black liquid that churned like a raging storm. The man leaned down stabbing the needle into her neck and injecting the concoction into the unconscious girl before standing and discarding the needle off to the side before once again coalescing slowly back into the shadows that lined the rooftops.
Time passed and then from around the corner footsteps could be heard before two men, one of average build with grey hair and a green themed suit while the other was wearing a black cloak and hood. Ozpin the headmaster of Beacon spotted the red hood first walking quickly over he leaned over the unconscious form. " ? Are you feeling alri-" he saw the small amount of blood leaking from the corner of her mouth and kneeling down he checked her fading pulse before looking around quickly. His companion stood up from their crouched position holding a needle. "Oz, This is nightengale poison… whoever did this did it quick and left." The hooded man hurried over to his ally investigating the state the young huntress was in.
"Nightengale? I thought your troops destroyed the last of that cursed poison?" Ozpin was angry to say the least a possible betrayal and a possible murder on his hands he had to think quickly. Nightengale was a poison from the days of war that came before the academies and had been renowned for being capable of killing people through the most gory of means over varying lengths of time from the inside out. "The hospitals aren't equipped to handle Nightingale do you think it would save if we…" Ozpin was cut off as his ally flipped the girl onto her back gently, careful to not harm her any more than she already was. " I know what you're thinking if she becomes like me she has a chance at survival….It's worth a shot." He leaned down opening his maw the creature not faunus nor human sunk his fangs into the girl's throat before retracting and opening her mouth slightly. "May the cursed souls bind the living and dead, may the Damned gods forgive our countless sins, May All whom live on this world live another day, I Grimoire Lord in Vale butcher of men and Faunus alike beg leave to create a new Vampiric soul tonight." Ozpin watched the small event it would be a speck in time but in the young huntresses life it was a huge leap into the darkness of a new order that he himself feared.
"So what should I tell her team?" Ozpin asked, knowing how Long will react he needed to do something. "Give me a day with her she'll be disoriented with her new senses and such." Grimoire explained as the two stood the vampyre holding the girl as if she weighed nothing. "You know where we'll be Ozpin and if they get impatient bring 'em down and let them see my hold that sits under Beacon." The vampire vanished in a cloud of darkness which seemed to pass unnoticed until the two figures were gone. "I just hope we made the right decision here." Ozpin stated remembering times of old when wars were truly filled with monsters and demons, and how the rulers of Remnant had created them in the first place.
Ruby opened her eyes to a dim light and shadows moving around her. "Where am I?" The young huntress attempted to sit up only for pain to flash through her side. She dropped back down groaning in pain. She then noticed she was wearing a red nightgown with a black teardrop stitched into it.
"I see the Young Lady has awoken from her slumber hmmm?" Ruby looked to her left to see a man tall and thin yet with a sense of foreboding about him, he had long black hair tied into a ponytail behind his head, his eyes were a steely grey almost silver with a tint of red. He wore a simple black tunic with a shoulder cape that went to the elbow which led to his arm and hand that had a black ring wrapped about it. "Who are you and where am I?" Ruby was warry, she last remembered being attacked by someone in an ally and that was all she could recall, nothing else after it.
"I am unimportant right now but first my own question, do you know of the legend of the Vampyres?" Ruby remembered the legends of the vampiric creatures that had supposedly died out fighting during the great war against the grimm and kingdoms. "Ya but aren't they extinct?" They had to be, it had been hundreds of years and fairy tails were just that tails right?
The man nodded, "That is the official statement but we did not die we simply decided to fade to the shadows and not bother the kingdoms until the next great war erupts where we will be called to halt the bloodshed, again." The vampire looked down at the frightened girl now looking for a weapon. "Do you remember what happened to you last night?" At this Ruby stopped and nodded, eyeing him questioningly.
"I remember being attacked by some guy in an alley while I was coming back with upgrades for Crescent Rose, He caught me by surprise and , well, knocked me out." The man nodded. "Ozpin and I found you, you had been injected with the poison called Nightingale it's supposed to kill over a few days and would have turned your insides to mush by now if Ozpin had not allowed my intervention." As he stated this Ruby began to frantically check herself for any injuries which she could not find until the man coughed.
Ruby watched him confused as he stood and walked around the small chamber to move some various items around such as a mirror, a small bag ruby recognized as the new parts she had purchased and her beloved weapon crescent rose moving the weapon from leaning by the door to her side table. "Sooo why am I not feeling pain and bleeding like a faucet?"
The Vampire smiled at this unnerving the girl, "We had to take precautions so in short I made you a vampire." a moment of complete silence heavy as a mountain in the room. "YOU WHAT?!"
"You heard me Ozpin and I had two options so we chose the one that would allow you to continue living." Ruby was now shocked now looking at the hand mirror she saw that her eyes now had a blood red tint to them along with two fangs long and sharp. "So this means I have to drink the blood of normal people now doesn't it?" She seemed afraid probably of what her friends and family would think of her now. "No we do not drink human nor faunus blood, not anymore."
"Than what do we eat to survive?" The Young Vampiric huntress asked confusion evident in her eyes. The older vampire raised an eyebrow. "Take a guess there are no cases of humans and faunus being found drained of blood and murdered around the city so what do you think we drink?"
"Animal blood?" Grimoire chuckled. "No young one something dark enough to force the creation of the huntsmen." Ruby's eyes widened. "Grimm?" The vampire nodded."Bingo was his name-o." He stated
"But how? Grimm standardly become smoke and ash when they die right?" The girl was speaking quickly but to the old vampire it was as if she was simply speaking normally.
"We made weapons to drain the grimm of blood then preserve it within the weapons storage area to be accessed later. Which reminds me your weapon doesn't have that function correct?" The vampire asked.
"Ya I guess you're right there.. But you still haven't answered my question who are you where are we?!" The Rose exploded into her questions without mercy. "I am Lord Grimoire leader of the vampires in the kingdom of vale, You are in the ancient catacomb city of Chains-gate the stronghold of the Vampires within vale." Grimoire explained.
"So I guess we're not near beacon are we?" She stated more than asked. "Actually this city was made underneath beacon so technically you're just a few hundred floors under your team." Ruby seemed to perk up at that."Does that mean I can go back home?" She asked her expression hopeful. "Nien not yet little one you must first learn completely what you are and how to manage the new power you wield in your new soul."
"Awwww… Wait what powers?" She was curious now with a small spark in her eye. "Well first we have to show you around Chain Gate and get your new equipment you will need on the surface." Grimoire explained.
The girl whooped jumping out of the bed and rushing the door only to realise one thing. "Where are my clothes? I kinda need those to go into a public ish setting." Grimoire smiled for a moment, "Well your clothes needed to be stitched up so you can wear them, wear this in the meantime." Held out a bundle of folded clothes gesturing for her to take them.
"I'll be outside waiting just call If you have trouble with the ties." The grinning vampire walked out of the room leaving a confused Ruby to change into her clothes. She looked at the clothes thankful that her cloak was among the mass of red.
A short time later Ruby strode out of the room wearing a red tunic black pants and a pair of leather boots along with her usual cloak. As she exited her room she looked either way down the hall at all of the other doors that lined the hall, she spotted Grimoire standing at the end of the hall and as she walked up next to him what she saw next was truly an interesting sight.
To call this place large was an understatement grande arches and bridges criss crossed the hole that the city was built into, Vampires could be seen walking along the walkways, talking in front of small shops worked into the wall, and occasionally she saw one climb up or down the wall to get to the other floors or locations. "Welcome to chains-gate home of the vampires within vale." Grimoire stated a smile upon his lips as he did so. "I didn't know beacon was on top of a huge cave…" Ruby whispered still trying to collect her now wild thoughts. "Well we're far enough down that the people upstairs don't have to worry about cave ins I saw to that myself."
As they walked around the city going from floor to floor via the massive stair system someone shouted out to them. "Hey Grimoire wait up boss!" The two turned to see a massive cat faunus towering over everyone bound up to them, His hair was black, pale skin, 6' 2" at most and one cat ear was torn slightly. He wore a black and white checkered tunic and black pants. "Who's the new kid?" He asked
"She is one of Ozpin's students the leader of the team called RWBY I believe." Grimoire explained. "Oh, well hello Ruby I'm Ashford, Ashford Belladonna." A few beats of silence as Ruby looked back eyes wide. "Do I have something on my face?" He asked while raising an eyebrow.
"No but do you know a cat faunus by the name of Blake Belladonna?" This time Ashford looked back eyes wide. "You know Blake?, Where is she how's she been?, Is she OK?" The rapid fire questions were put to an end with Grimoire raising his hand. "Calm down Ash you're scaring her enough already just let her gather her thoughts before you continue interrogating her." Ashford nodded. "Blake joined beacon and is a proud member of team RWBY and we have been trying to find out what the white fang has been up to. Also she is well the last time I saw her she and my sister yang were having a conversation on puns and if they can go too far." Ashford raised an eyebrow to this. "Well it's good to hear she's well and with friends."
"So how did she become one of us?" Grimoire shook his head with a heavy sigh. "Remember Brutus? I think he betrayed us since he left for the white fang and refused to return, I thought it just a stage but no he has Nightingale poison and Ruby here was his first target." The Faunus growled. "Never got a good vibe from him anyways." Grimoire nodded. "So this mean we gonna have to come out of hiding to wage war?" Grimoire nodded again this time a sad look on his face mixed with something akin to anger. "Unfortunately yes we will, standard protocol will be in effect." He explained. "OK I gotta run tell me when they come to get her or we go to bring them down here I want in!" Ash shouted as he ran across another bridge towards a group of vampires training with staffs.
"We're here." Ruby looked up at the massive double doors with the word 'Armory' over a line of strange cryptic symbols. "Come on I'm going to give you one of my hollow blades." She raised an eyebrow "Hollow blade? what's that?" Grimoire smiled at her. "A hollow blade is like a needle the inside of the blade is hollow meant to store the grimm blood so we can store it for later." Ruby nodded as they walked through the hallway of the armory towards the back. As they came to a halt in front of a smaller door Grimoire opened it showing hundreds of swords, spears, knives, and other bladed weapons which Ruby drooled at. "Hey catch." Ruby lifted her hands fast enough to catch a short sword. "That was my brothers sword before he died he used it as a secondary weapon."
"What's its name?" Grimoire smiled, "Repentance." His voice was filled with pride as if he was happy about the blade having a new master. Ruby drew the blade observing its blade which had a hooked cross guard with the blade becoming wider by the guard and thinner by the tip at the hilt was a skull engraved into the steel smiling almost kindly at its new wielder. "Forged of Cursed steel harder than any other that blade can kill a Deathstalker easily in the hands of any hunter." Ruby nodded "Sooo now what." Grimoire smiled. "We train you to become a proper vampiric huntress." With that they walked out of the armory the sword strapped to Ruby's hip. On the way out she noticed he had grabbed a rather large blade. "Is that your sword?" He nodded. "Ragnarok this blades seen battles that would make normal huntsman scream like little cowards." He smiled as they walked further up and into a large office with a large desk dominating the middle of the room a high backed chair set behind it. Around the room there were numerous tables with vampires working at them on everything from paperwork to rune-work on weapons. "Alright you see Ashford over there?" Ruby nodded at where Grimoire pointed. "He will be giving you assignments for your training see him I'll be at my desk if you need anything."
As Ruby strolled over to Ashford she noticed a few Vampires looking at her with curious glances until she was at the massive Faunus's desk. "Hello Ruby I assume you're here to begin your basic training?" She nodded. "Yessir, I was just wondering what is with all the flashes I assumed they were semblances but they can't be too many people using the same type of power." He chuckled "That my friend is magic we use it for all sorts of business from forging weapons like repentance there to casting attack spells, in other words it's a second set of powers not related to aura." She nodded somewhat catching on to what he was saying. "So where do I start?" She asked the giant as he stood up. "You start with your basic spellcasting with me I will teach you the basics but you first may need something to eat I assume The Boss forgot to mention we can have human food?" She nodded. "Alright we may as well go in a minute I need to grab a few things." With that he left Ruby to wonder why these Vampires didn't behave like the fierce myth that was based on them though she also thought that now that she was one of them it would take awhile to adjust.
A/N: So yeah I am re writing the first few chapters since I feel they do not flow as well as they could and since I feel that It may take longer for the recent chapters to be updated. Also Reviewing helps… alot
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