Author's Note: First off welcome to my new story Remnants! Or more accurately just a trailer for it. Just a little five part something to test the waters with some new ideas. So Read, Review, and Favorite. Beta'd by Quick Quantum Quasar.

"Sorrow is a part of life, it hurts, it blinds, it binds, but by moving past it we become stronger then before we were sad."

"I couldn't take it, couldn't stand another minute;"

A young girl, barely a teenager, knelt in front of an altar. She was wearing a red cloak that seemed to take up every inch of her silhouette when viewed from behind. The Altar she was kneeling in front of was located in front of a large tomb, decorated with the symbol of a rose. The girl left a singular item at the altar, a card reading 'Happy Birthday mom, love Ruby.' The girl named Ruby snuffed sadly and wiped away a tear. Taking the liberty to make a cross with her hands Ruby made a brief prayer to the card's intended recipient. Satisfied, Ruby got up to leave and take on the dauntless task of walking to her pick up point.

"Couldn't bear another day without you in it."

Though it was a forest, it was a dead one. The trees and other plants glowed unnaturally and were various shades of black and white with decay and mold respectively. If anything did grow there, it wasn't good. And something was growing there, moving just within the corner of Ruby's eye, making it's way to the clearing just ahead of her.

"All of the joy that I had known for all my life"

The Giant Wolf joined the rest of it's pack and each of them reeked of undead stench. The flesh had long since peeled away from their flesh rending snouts and claws. Their stomachs had burst and their entrails were gone from where their undigested meals long since exploded outwards.

"Was stripped away from me the minute that you died."

Then one member of the pack made the biggest mistake of its after life. It went first, leaping at Ruby, rotting claws thirsting for blood. Before they could reach their target, she vanished in a flurry of rose petals. In a split second Ruby leaped into the air giving any hidden onlookers a good look at her for the first time.

"To have you in my life was all I ever wanted,"

She wore black clothing with red lacing underneath her cloak, including a corset with a prominent red rose embroidery, knee length boots, a skirt that looked like it was made of munitions packs and a black belt with a rose buckle. Ruby had silvery eyes, as if the moon itself had been chopped in half and put into her eye sockets. Her dark black hair served the perfect backdrop for several red highlights, all fitting into a look of apathy that only a porcelain doll should be able to pull off.

"But now without you I'm a soul forever haunted."

Suddenly, Ruby whipped out a mechanical rectangle block of metal, the back end popping out of it to reveal a stock and grip for a gun. Fired it into the crowd of wolves. One wolf exploded one into a pile of gore that drifted away on the wind as rose petals. The knocked more out of Ruby's way, as they hit the ground, though they didn't stay down.

"Can't help but feel that I had taken you for granted;"

Ruby fired more shots as she descended, keeping her in the air just a tad longer with each shot. It was only after one of the wolves nearly nipped her heals that Ruby decided to put a end to the fall. Pointing the gun upwards Ruby fired a single shot and the recoil turned her slow descent into a meteoric drop.

"No way in Hell that I can ever comprehend this."

The gun unfolded completely to reveal the form of a mechanical scythe. Ruby slammed down on top of a wolf that had rushed forward to 'greet her,' pinning the beast to the ground with her blade. She looked over the beasts and smiled, her features briefly flashed to that of a long dead zombie before settling back into the unnatural look of a porcelain doll.

"I wasn't dreaming when they told me you were gone,"

That's when the slaughter started. First Ruby fired the weapon, obliterating the beasts in front of her. The recoil from the weapon bisected the one already pinned by the blade and flipped the weapon around in the process. Now both the anti-undead gun barrel and pointed counter weight were pointing to Ruby's sides.

"I was wide awake and feeling that they had to be wrong."

A second blast of the gun obliterated wolf on the right and the recoil sent the spear tip through the one on the left. A third shot sent the girl flying backwards into the forest, stopping only because her blade was rooted deep into a tree.

"How could you leave me when you swore that you would stay?"

Fortunately though, the path leading into the forest made for the perfect choke point. Ruby just wailed away on the pack of beasts with rounds fired from her gun as they chased after her. With each shot fired the scythe dug deeper and deeper into the tree until it snapped in half and came down on the beasts.

"Now I'm trapped inside a nightmare every single f'ing day."

Ruby pressed the barrel of her weapon to where the tree broke in two and fired once more, sending the tree flying back into the clearing. Observing the somewhat-still-active wolves flattened underneath where the tree was, Ruby removed a bottle from her pocket and dumped its contents all over the mangled mass of undead flesh, turning them into smoke as well.

"It's like a movie, but there's not a happy ending;"

Walking back into the clearing Ruby saw that she had pretty effectively cleared them out, but the last ones were pretty big. The cloaked girl took a moment to swap out the cartridge in her weapon for a fresh one from her skirt.

"Every scene fades black, and there's no pretending."

Ruby pointed the business end of her weapon behind her and began unloading the clip. The recoil of the weapon propelled her as she flew back into the fray, using the weight of her weapon to spin and hacking away at the wolves as they tried to flank her.

"This little fairy tale doesn't seem to end well,"

Now behind one of the extra large wolves Ruby used her scythe to hack both of its back legs off, shooting another in his thigh in the process. Ruby caught another of the giant wolves trying to sneak up behind her and with expert precision, shoved her scythe into the beast's mouth as it tried to bite down on her.

"There's no knight in shining armor who will wake me from the spell."

For the Wolf's trouble, it now had a giant blade sticking out of the roof of his mouth. Ruby fired her weapon again, blowing the beast's rotting brains out the back of it's skull and ripping the top part of its mouth in two. Not done yet, Ruby planted the blade into the head of the one that she'd shot in the leg as it turned around to eat her and fired once more, ripping the head in two.

"I know you didn't plan this; You tried to do what's right."

Finally, using the momentum of a couple more shots Ruby hooked onto the head of the final wolf with her scythe, swung around on it until she was on top of the beast's head, and fired a final decapitating shot into the ground flinging her into the air. Upon landing, Ruby assessed her handiwork. An entire pack of undead wolves slaughtered like lambs and dissolving back into the ground thanks to her purifier magic.

"But in the middle of this madness, I'm the one you left to win this fight."

Not a bad night's work in her opinion. Ruby was yanked from her assessment by a sudden beeping noise, and she pulled and opened an object resembling a white card, revealing a text message from an individual named Prism with a diamond symbol for a profile pic.

"Red like roses Fills my head with dreams and finds me Always closer To the emptiness and sadness That has come to take the place of you."

"Are you done yet? Yang has been whining at me for hours now."

Ruby let out an amused giggle, she always could count on Prism to crack a joke at someone's expense. With speed that the device only barely registered, Ruby punched a in a response with her nimble fingers.

"Yep said Happy Birthday to Mom and killed a bunch of Necro-wolves! I'm all set!"

Ruby waited a moment for Prism to respond with something no doubt witty.

"Understood, got a fresh pan of cookies waiting for you. Try not to choke on them again. Stand by."

With that message received Ruby nervously closed her eyes and grit her teeth. Suddenly, a bright bluish light enveloped the young girl and she disappeared into thin air.