SKLT: Skarlet
We all make promises in our lives. Whether we fulfill them or not is a different story.
"Hey, Mom?"
Huntress Ruby Rose looked down at her ten-year-old, a spitting image of her at a young age except with piercing red eyes as opposed to silver as they stood in front of the gravemarker of her own mother and her daughter's grandmother Summer Rose.
"Yes, Skarlet?"
"What was Grandma Summer like?"
The black/red haired beauty chuckled. "What wasn't she like? Best cookie chef in Remnant, grade-A mom and Huntress you name it."
"Was she a better Huntress than you?"
Ruby gave Skarlet a mock glare, "What kind of question is that to ask of your mom? But yes, she was a great Huntress. Brave, noble, self-sacrificing, dedicated."
"You think I could be a great Huntress?"
Ruby looked at her only daughter, the one thing left to her after the passing of her husband as a vision took root.
A young woman stands a top a frozen peak, her red cape flapping in the wind and long red and black-tipped hair blowing freely. Her booted feet are planted on the snow-covered ground. At her side is a boxy-looking weapon attached to a magnet just above her belt. From her view, the woman scans the horizon with piercing red eyes. Unfortunately, she is not watching behind her as growls and the gnashing of teeth fill her ears. The woman turns around and sees a pack of fifty Shadow Raptors, Velociraptor-like Creatures of Grimm. The Grimm appear to be newborns as evidenced by the lack of extra bone-like spikes on their jet-black bodies but still twice the woman's size. Pairs of burning red eyes embedded in white skull-like masks narrow as they zero in on their prey and sharp claws on their hands and feet twitch in apparent anticipation of sinking into the woman's flesh.
The woman fully turns around to face them and stands, as though waiting for them to make the first move. She doesn't need to wait long for a soon as she locks eyes with the beasts, the Grimm charge with a shriek, their jaws open, revealing rows of dagger-like teeth. They are just inches away from the woman as they lunge... only to hit the ground where she once stood, rose petals in her place. The Shadow Raptors hiss in confusion as they look around for their disappearing prey. Suddenly, the woman reappears to their left, seemingly materializing in a torrent of rose petals. Two of the Grimm split off and flank her, one from her left, the other to her right. The Grimm charge again, only for the woman to seemingly explode into red flower petals.
The woman rematerializes in mid-air, her cape fluttering in the air like blood-red wings. She reaches to her side and pulls out the weapon from hits holster. The weapon shifts and morphs into a scythe with a glowing red blade. She teleports again next to one of the Grimm and swings her weapon, cleaving its head from its shoulders. Another Shadow Raptor sees this and runs at her. The woman disappears into rose petals again and reappear behind and bisect the Grimm. It is at that moment, the Grimm charge and surround her, thinking their numbers will overwhelm her. They couldn't be more wrong.
The woman twirls her scythe around... and a second blade appears at the bottom of the pommel in a reverse of the blade on top. Within moments, the woman is spinning her weapon at a speed causing the blades to blur. Then she attacks.
She cleaves through the Grimm with ease; decapitating them, slicing them in half, even spinning her dual-bladed scythe and slicing any Grimm like a human blender, stirring up snow in the process. Suddenly, the woman sees movement to the corner of her eye. This was just half of a full pack. The rest of them, bordering in the hundreds, come flooding out of the forest. The woman teleports just as the Grimm start to close in on her and rematerializes just outside of their circle. She twirls the scythe again only this time it changes once again, into a rifle with a barrel that looks like two parallel lines with an empty space. The woman digs herself firmly into the ground...
"I think, in time, you'll be a Huntress worth remembering." Ruby answered with a smile.
The woman takes aim with her gun and as the Grimm close in on her once again, she smirks and winks before pulling the trigger. With an explosive amount of force and enough recoil to make her shudder even as she's firmly rooted into the ground, the projectile speeds out to its targets, slamming into a chunk of the gathered Grimm and blowing them into chunks. The pieces of the Shadow Raptors within the projectile's path dissolve into black mist before they even hit the ground. The woman fires again. Just as before, the Grimm caught in the fire are blown apart. The woman changes her gun into its dual-bladed scythe form and charges at the Grimm. She then teleports and slices a few of the Shadow Raptors only to disappear and reappear again to the point of repeating it. Slice. Teleport. Repeat. Slice. Teleport. Repeat. In a matter of minutes, the Grimm no longer live as bits and pieces of them litter the snowy ground, evaporating into nothing.
Skarlet smiled as she looked at her grandmother's gravemarker. "Then I promise Grandma Summer, wherever she is right now, I'll be the greatest Huntress in Remnant!" she announced.
Ruby, still baring a warm smile, ruffled her daughter's hair. "I think it's time we went home. Unless 'Remnant's greatest Huntress' isn't hungry."
Skarlet then took note of the growling in her belly and nodded to her mother. With that, mother and daughter walked hand and hand from the grave.
The woman stands strong and proud as she plants the pommel of her scythe into the snow, her red eyes focused on the sky as if remembering a promise long ago.