Light of Hope Chapter 1
A/N: Hey what is going on guys, and welcome to my new story. I had this idea not that long ago, as it came to me as I was playing Warframe with my friends, playing the second dream quest.
Ruby smiled as she pulled the door behind her, closing it. She was determined to find out what caused this disaster and why did they choose during the tournament.
"Ready to go?" A voice said behind her.
She looked back to see a blonde teen wearing a dark hoodie under a small chest plate and blue jeans with shoes, as he was the first to befriend the young huntress, as she didn't know anyone at Beacon, "Hey Jaune."
"Haven's a long way to go."
Jaune simply nodded, "I know, its the only lead we have."
Ruby wanted to make sure he was ready for this task, "You sure you still want to come along."
Ren interrupted as he stated, "The journey will be peerless and whether we will find answers or not is entirely uncertain."
Nora agreed with the green ninja as she was wielding her hammer/grenade launcher, "But we wouldn't be here if we weren't up for it."
The young huntress felt confident and smiled, "Then let's get started."
She walked past the remaining members of Team JNPR and towards the large wooded area. Jaune and the rest followed the young leader as they wanted to know why they had this incident happen.
A person walked up to the ledge as he was watching over the young group traveling towards the kingdom of Mistral, as they were following a lead that could possibly be there.
Qrow was wielding his sword that could transform into a scythe and a cane, as it belonged to the headmaster of Beacon, Ozpin. Knowing that he couldn't stop them from going, he decided to tail behind them.
He jumped off of the ledge and a second later, crow came flying towards the group.
Taiyang came into Ruby's room, bringing in a large basket with unknowing items.
"Hey Ruby-" He stopped as he didn't see her, instead he seen a piece of paper on her bed.
He dropped the basket as he ran out of the room, "Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no," he ran past Yang's door as she was watching a black bird on the branch.
He opened the door to see no one around, fearing the worst, "RUBY!"
Yang snapped out of her thoughts as she got out of bed and ran towards her father, "Dad, what's wrong?"
Tai dropped to his knees as he slammed his fist into the ground, "Your sister, …she's gone."
Yang was shocked that her sister was gone, "What why?"
Tai grunted as he knew why, "They must be after the ones who caused this."
Yang clenched her fist and walked back, "I'll go find her-"
"Wait"
She stopped and spun around, "Why wait, she could get herself hurt. What they did to this kingdom, they turned our soldiers onto each other, released that big Grimm onto the school…" she paused as she thought about the others, "Our friends, they were hurt and some lost their lives because of this, Penny… and Pyrrha."
"I know, but you should stay here if she comes back" Tai said as he ran out and followed the trail.
Yang looked down as she knew Ruby wouldn't come back anytime soon.
Thinking of the possibilities, she walked into a hallway and went into her sister's room.
As she looked around, she already seen the note on the bed, using her good hand, she reached for the note.
Turning it around, she seen what her sister had said, 'I will be going to Mistral to find whoever caused this. Don't try to stop me.'
Grunting, she crumpled the paper and slammed her fist into the wall, "Why did you do this Ruby…"
Ruby looked back as she was talking to Summer's grave stone, thinking she heard something.
"Something wrong?" Ren asked as he was examining the area.
Ruby shook her head, "No, must've imagined it."
The young huntress looked back to the grave as she smiled, "Well I must be on my way, Mistral's long ways away."
"RUBY" A voice called out from behind them.
Right away, team Journey looked back to see Taiyang.
"Dad?" Ruby said as she knew something's wrong.
Taiyang was panting as he was extremely worried, "What are you guys doing… getting yourselves hurt?"
Jaune shook his head, "No sir, we want to know why that woman attacked Beacon."
"That's not why you disobeyed me, by leaving your homes and going into another kingdom, causing all sorts of trouble?" Tai said as he wanted to find a way to convince them.
"But-" Ruby said as someone was behind Tai.
"Now wait just a moment" A voice said from the huntsman.
Tai looked back to see another huntsman behind him, "What do you want Qrow?"
Qrow looked at him as he spun the cane around his hand, "They're with me, we're going to find out who actually caused this," he came closer to Tai as he whispered, "we suspect 'she' might something to do with this."
Tai grunted as he knew he couldn't win this fight, "Fine, just promise me that you guys come home safe, ok?"
Qrow waved him off, "Yeah, yeah, whatever."
Ruby and the other all nodded, "We understand sir."
Tai walked up to ruby as he placed his hand on her shoulder and quickly hugged her, "Good luck Ruby."
"I love you to dad" Ruby said as she hugged back and quickly let go. She ran towards her uncle as the rest of team JNPR were behind.
Tai watched as he seen Qrow walking in front as Ruby and her friends were going on real mission like actual Huntsmen and huntresses.
With tears forming, he quickly brushed them away, watching his youngest daughter acting like an adult already.
Qrow pulled out his Scroll, as he wanted to message someone, typing 'We're moving out, keep an eye on Yang'.
Ruby grabbed onto his arm, getting his attention, "Hey uncle, who you messaging?"
Qrow smiled as he wanted to keep it secret, "An old comrade."
-Thud-
A large Beowulf landed onto the snowy ground, already starting to evaporate. A foot stomped onto the Grimm, crushing the skull.
"Heh" The female said as she put her katana back into the sheath as it moved to another blade. She pulled the blade out as it went from a blue blade and into a red blade, as she was surrounded with a large pack of Beowolves.
-Ring-Ring-
She pulled out her Scroll and found out that it was her brother who sent out the message, "Really Qrow?"
"AROOOOOOOO" One large Beowulf howled as it and the others were charging.
Beneath her mask, she smiled as the wolves were closing in on her, so she kept her blade up as she got into a battle stance and slashed at the group.
Yang looked out of the kitchen window as she heard a wolf howl.
"Must be another person hunting the wolves" She said as she pulled a drawer to pull out an item.
Seeing the item, she wondered if she should do it. As she stared at the scissors, she knew that there's no going back if she does.
Chuckling, she went with the plan.
She raised the scissors towards her hair as she spread the blades apart…
-snip-snip-
Pieces of her long golden hair were being cut off. Normally when enemies even take a strand off of her, she would relentless attack them, killing the Grimm responsible or knock out the person, like Junior.
She was cutting major portions off as she heard the door open and close behind her, she heard the footsteps come closer as she was done cutting most of the long hair out.
"Yang? What are you doing?" Tai said as he never expected this.
Yang closed her eyes as she said, "Can you help me with the rest?"
Tai was about to say something but he didn't want to question it as he grabbed the scissors, "Sure."
Continuing where she left off, he cut most of the hair behind her head short and kept her bangs long on her right side, as the short portions he had planned to stand up.
"…And done" Tai said as he pulled out mirror, "How do you like it."
Yang examined the changes, as most of her hair were short.
She faintly smiled as she hugged her father "I like it."
And this is the Prologue, I didn't want this to be too long, so I might make the chapters up to 2k words and updated weekly.
