Rae:Silences within These Woods
There was once a small girl, she lived in the outer reaches of Vacuo, She lived in a small village of Faunus.
She was a full blooded human, and since most of the Faunus has always been treated a lesser creatures.
They treated this human girl with such bitterness, she was just a child, she knew nothing of "humans" outside this village.
But that didn't stop them, they still treated her with much hate, but the leader of the Faunus always kept her safe from them.
Her and the little girl's mother were close friends, and she promised to love the little girl as her own.
But as time went on, and as the little girl grew, the hate became too much to bare any longer.
She let her own hatred grow, she fed it over and over, and still the village wanted her gone for good.
Until one day, a small child from the village went missing, she knew this child well.
So she put her neck on the line, and went out without permission to find this child.
She grabbed her mother's old weapons, a pair of Gauntlets with two sharp blades at the end.
She searched far and wide for the child, running through the woods, cutting down all the grim in her path.
Until she came across this one little light filled spot in the woods, where she found the little Faunus child.
But what she found the child doing left her speechless, she was holding a small baby, protecting its life with his own.
The child had cuts all over, but he wasn't let go of the small baby, he looked up at the girl.
Rae he said softly, you could hear he was out of breath, you came to save me?
He asked with a huge smile on his face, the girl lend down to him.
Getting a closer look at the baby, seeing the baby was a human, just a small human baby.
The boy went on to tell her how he found the baby, how he found the mother being ripped apart by Grim.
But before she died, she handed him the baby and told him to run, so he ran and ran.
She smiled, she picked up the boy, who still held the baby and took them back to the village.
When they returned, the villagers were in shock, not at how the boy survived the woods.
Not at how he found this little baby. Nor how he survived for both of them.
They were in shock at how badly the girl was hurt, the injuries she fought through just to get to him.
The villagers ran to her, grabbing her and rushing her to the village doctor, she was in awe at how they treated her.
She even chuckled, saying if she knew that all it took for them to accept her was something like this.
She would have done it a long time ago, from that day onward, she realized that this world needed a hero.
This world in all of it's darkness, needs heroes like her, someone who will do whatever it takes.
She went to the village leader, she hugged her with all her strength one last time.
She told her she must go, this world needs her, the leader smiled and gave her a parting gift.
She handed the young lady a brown leather jacket, saying just like her mother before her.
She needs to wear this jacket, as a reminder of what she is fighting for.
They both cried one last time together, as she packed her bags and headed for Shade.
As she left to train for her new life, as her mother did before her, as a huntress.