Troubled Past: Chapter one: Where the good times ended

In this AU Blake is the same age as Ruby (Few months older do she still feels responsible for Ruby) and Ruby is a faunus! Hope you enjoy!

It was a cold winters day in Vale, Ruby and her best friend, Blake were out at the library, they had just finished borrowing all the books they would need for a while. As they stepped out Ruby's wolf ears perked up, ''It's freezing, isn't it Blake'' she groaned while rubbing her hands together and breathing warmth into them ''well if you had put your gloves on like I told you maybe you wouldn't be so cold'' Blake said affectionately while wrapping Ruby's neck in the scarf she'd bought for Ruby. They had started the walk home when Blake got a message on her scroll it read 'White Fang under attack, get to safe house, take Ruby, Summer and I will be there soon' Blake's mind went blank as she stared at the message. ''Blake, Blake what's wrong'' Ruby said while tugging at her friends arm to snap her out of her dazed state Blake looked at Ruby worriedly 'what if Summer doesn't make it? What if my mother doesn't make it? No we'll worry about that later right now I have to make sure Ruby and I make it to the safe house, shouldn't be too hard, right?'

''Blaaaaake'' Ruby groaned increasing the strength in each pull of the taller faunus' arm Blake immediately snapped out of her dazed state ''Ruby we have to go'' Blake said Ruby tilted her head to the side ''why?'' she asked cutely, Blake couldn't help but smile before furring her lips and brows into a serious frown ''because home was attacked by humans'' she said coldly she then realised this was the worst way to break this to Ruby as she hadn't really matured as much as Blake yet and she firmly clamped her hands over her mouth to avoid saying anything else harsh. Ruby's head snapped back upright and her eyes widened and welled up with tears, Blake enveloped the smaller girl into a hug ''Why would they attack us B-Blake...Why?'' the smaller girl sobbed while her hands balled up to fists as she realised why ''Ruby it's because we're different than them'' Blake said softly ''humans hate what they can't understand.'' A fresh wave of sobs racked the redheads frame, Blake simply patted her back and whispered reassurances and soon the sobs were reduced to sniffles

''Blake?''

''Yeah Rubes''

''What do we do?''

''We go to the safe house and wait for our mothers'' Blake said before they set off hand in hand for the safe house.

5 hours later...


The atmosphere in the house was tense to say the least the television was on a random station, showing some crappy sitcom but both the girls were curled up on separate chairs, both pretending to read their books they were both wondering why there mothers hadn't arrived yet, Blake was on the verge of tears and Ruby had already been brought back from them several times. Blake had tried phoning her mother several times. Needless to say the practically soared of the seats when Blake's scroll rang ''Hello mom, is that you?'' Blake said worriedly, her eyes widened at the manly laugh coming through the phone ''so your this scum's daughter eh? Well sorry young one but your mom's dead and her friend here's dead too, don't suppose you have her daughter with you do you? What was her name? Ahhhhh, I remember, it was Ruby'' Blake's eyes widened

''How do you know that name?'' Blake screamed into the scroll, demanding an answer

''Young woman's last words were 'Ruby, I love you' or some crap like that'' he said while letting out a thunderous laugh. Ruby's faunus hearing had picked up every single word and Blake turned towards Ruby to see nothing but some rose petals scattered on the hardwood floor...

Ruby zoomed through the town with her weapon strapped to her back, she was going to avenge her mother and Blake's with it. Because if her speed she was at the compound she had previously called home and she saw presumably the man in the call with Blake holding what looked like two sets of ears, one snow whit with red tips and the other black chuckling and talking about how much money he could get for these two ears yet, he was quite a well built man with black hair and a lumberjack beard. Ruby was enraged at the sight of this and unsheathed her weapon and shot herself towards the man, she had intended to slice the man in half but she tripped in her blind rage and shoulder barged the older man into a shipping container and red dust began to leak out of the container and the man looked visibly shaken by what had happened but then his confused glances around him landed on Ruby and his shaken look turned into a murderous grin. In all the commotion Ruby's hood had fallen off and atop her head were two black ears with red tips. ''Ah Ruby, looks like I may get the full set'' he said gesturing to the ears that were strewn out on the floor, he then pulled out a shotgun and took aim and fired, Ruby leapt up to the railings catching them with her tail, that was a skill she had practised and mastered with the help of her friend Sun she hung there for a second before launching off and swung her weapon at the man and missed. She was now falling towards the man with very little chance of dodging the barrage of bullets when she landed, she knew what she could do but she didn't want to set the beast inside her free so she twirls through the air and points the scythe towards the man essentially turning herself into a bullet and flies through the man's chest and the scythe embeds itself into the ground and Ruby still holding it gets swung through the air and hits her back off the storage container widening the hole and increasing the dust pouring out. The other members of the man's group begin advancing towards her while she's down, Ruby's vision blurs and the last thing she could see and hear clearly before passing out was Sun and Adam landing in the humans' way and readying for combat ''You will not hurt her!'' Adam growl while Sun made sure Ruby was okay ''Adam we need to end this quick, she needs to get to a hospital so you take those three and I'll take these three'' Sun said assertively with a hint of worry in his voice Adam charged into his three and sliced and parried until they were nothing but a pile of parts and Sun swung his stuff into one of their heads effectively killing him, he didn't want to kill humans but he felt the need to protect Ruby. He then split his staff in two and smashed the two remaining men's heads into each others he then pocketed the ears because he knew that was why Ruby was here and Adam scooped Ruby up in his arms and that's when they heard the sobbing voice scream ''who's that'' Sun and Adam said in Unison

''Ruby!'' Blake yelled out she saw Ruby unconscious and the only thought in her mind was 'I'm too late, I'm too late,I'm too late, I'm too late and she's dead, oh god no.' Her tears turned from sadness too happiness as she saw the young redhead bob her head up before passing out again and Blake practically teleported to her, she took in her surroundings ''Sun? Adam? What are you doing here and what are you doing with Ruby'' She said curiously. Adam and Sun exchanged looks before Adam sighed and stepped forward ''nice too see you too Blake, oh and 1) We live here and 2) Ruby needs medical attention'' Blake gasped and ran too Ruby and started stroking her hair out of her eyes '' Well what are we waiting for, lets go'' she said quietly trying not to wake the redhead up but it didn't work Ruby stirred and her eyed fluttered open..''B-B..Blake'' she said struggling to speak, she was in agony at the moment. Blake simply put her finger to her lips saying not to speak, vision faded from her eyes again...