Prologue
All she could feel was pain and cold. The rain pouring into her bruised face. Her dark red hair all wet and soaked while her ripped clothes couldn't cover her bruises from arms and legs.
The only thing she could do to warm herself was curling her legs while resting her head on them.
Her day have been the worst especially since it was the day that her parents have passed away.
Her mom, Scarlet, was the most beautiful and talented huntress. Her vibrant red hair and warming expression with those blue sapphire eyes.
Her dad, Ebon, who was a great huntsman. His sword combined with his strength made him a very brave and humble man and those light brown eyes told that.
She also remembered what happened earlier. She and her parents were walking on a very beautiful flower field when out of nowhere showed up a Grimm.
That one was different from any that she knew. It was a horse-like creature with an equine main body and a skinless humanoid creature that was fused with it. Its forelegs are shaped likes claws and it had hooved hindlegs.
The humanoid body had long curved horns on its head, a mouth that looks almost sewn shut, and two long elastic arms each with two clawed fingers.
On the back of the human torso were boney spikes along its spine and a variety of weapons from previous battles stuck in it.
It just stared at them when all of a sudden let out a very horrid scream and started attacking by tretching arms and in the process grabbing the girl.
All she could hear was her mother's screams and attempts to slay the monster with her spear while her father was trying to cut its arm with his sword which resulted on the Grimm screaming again. As a result of pain, the monster just threw the girl on the ground.
A line of blood was coming out her head, passing by her right eye leaving a warm sensation on her face while her ears were ringing from the impact. She couldn't get up because of the large wounds on legs and arms.
The monster screamed once again and tried to grab her but something happened. She looked up only to see her father with his shield up, holding the Grimm's hand while her mother grabbed the girl and ran to the forest. She tried to call her father but she was too weak to do it.
When they entered the forest, her mother seated her against a tree and kneeled, tears were escaping her eyes. This was the first time that the child had seen her mother crying and decided to ask but soon got interrupted "Don't dear, I...want you to stay here.".
The girl replied with a scared voice "I-I don't want too, I just want to go home mom..."
She was engulfed in a big warming hug by her mother. She passed her hand on her daughter's face and said "My dear daughter, just remember that I and your father will be always in your heart no matter what.."
She placed a kiss on girl's forehead and ran to the field, leaving a child behind with no reaction.
She just wanted to go home, to eat her mother's meals, to snuggle on bed where her parents told her a story.
Despite the injuries, she got up with all might and started to walk slowly to the field.
After a while she got there and horribly watched her mother getting crushed into a tree and falling on the ground, dead. She soon heard a high war scream from her father who ran towards the Grimm with tears in his eyes but he soon was grabbed by the monster and was smacked on the ground with a tremendous force.
She just stayed there, paralyzed with fear and in the verge of tears, while her heart fell.
Then the monster just turned and started running towards her. The scared girl just started to run as fast as she could through the forest but then she trips on a loose root. The Grimm approaches her and tries to grab her fragile body but it stops and looks into the distance. It sniffed something and runs away leaving the girl crying on the dirt.
One hour later
The girl was wondering the forest. Her eyes were red and her body was all covered in dirt which was making her wounds sting and was getting tired.
But then...light. A light coming through the trees. She then saw a city with people on the street, but those people were different because they had animal parts like horns, ears and tails.
Finally...she was save.
However, city didn't really live up to her hopes. People of this city, Faunus, didn't care much for a human. They didn't help her, they didn't save her.
And there she was now. Hiding in the middle of dark alley, hugging her knees to stay at least a little warm. Rain was pouring down her skin, washing down the dirt. Her cuts, wounds hurt. 'Why this just happened to me? I miss them' she thought while tears were leaving her eyes.
"Excuse me little one, are you okay?" said a low tone voice.
The hurt girl looked up only to see a very tall, muscular man with black hair, a beard and yellow eyes. For his top, he was wearing an open dark violet coat with white fur trim, exposing his hairy his beige pants was a matching sash that wraps around his waist and is secured with a large, silver metal buckle. On the shoulder of his coat there was a silver metal spaulder, which through a pair of curved strips across the chest attaches as a clasp on the opposite front panel of the coat. The white toes of his black leather boots had a shape reminiscent of paws with claws at the tips. His physique was in general quite hairy, as what little can be seen of his bare arms and the backs of his wrists are shown to be covered in thick, black fur. His face showed that he was worried about her.
"My name is Ghira Belladona, what's yours child?" he asked while extending his hand as a signal to help her getting up.
She took his hand and got up while saying „My name is...S-Sapphire Nova"
He smiled but soon turned worried again as her legs suddenly gave up and she fell into his arms. Ghira seemed very worried for the child girl. She was hurt, weak, obviously hungry and thirsty. He carefully sit her back down and taking his own coat, he enveloped it around the girl, shielding her from cold and rain "Don't worry, you will be fine."
Very carefully, he picked her up again and carrying her, he walked away "We'll take a good care of you, I promise."