Chapter 1: Summer Has Ended

AN: Hi. How are you guys doing? I'm exhausted. I was just on a REALLY, REALLY boring vacation. I got this idea at like 1 A.M. So, this is just a new story I thought I'd try. Also, I'm sorry about the title. If anyone gets the reference, you're awesome. Sorry if it's a bad joke. I'm not done with my other story; I just have no idea what to do for a new chapter. Please help me out. Thanks. Hope you enjoy. And if you don't, please don't hurt me.

Raven was wandering through the forest, heading silently towards the shack her brother called a house. He made her check in with him every couple months so he wouldn't have to go murder someone to avenge his sister. She sighed as sat down for a few minutes after walking around for hours. Raven noticed that after stopping her trek through the woods she had forgotten which way she had to go.

Raven groaned as she climbed a nearby pine tree and looked around. She quickly saw her brother's ramshackle "house", but before she came down from tree she noticed a small white shape moving through the forest.

"That can't be..." Raven said as she jumped down from the tree and began walking in that direction. "Why would she be here?" Raven was wondered out loud. There was no feasible reason for the woman in white to be here. 'She wouldn't be going to see Qrow, would she? I thought they weren't very good terms with each other. And she married Tai, right?'

As she neared the area of the forest where she saw the white woman, she heard the sound of a baby's laughter and someone singing. Raven would recognize Summer's voice anywhere.

'But whose baby is that? She married Taiyang like six months ago and Summer didn't even like Tai.' Raven heard the infant go silent.

Raven stopped just outside of Summer's earshot and simply watched her former teammate. Summer was holding a little red bundle and was looking at it with the utmost affection. Raven turned and began to walk away, so as not to be seen by Summer, but stopped when she heard a loud "CCCCCAAAAAAWWWWW!"

Raven looked up to see a medium sized Nevermore circling the area. Raven wondered for a moment why Qrow lived in such a Grimm infested area. She turned to look at Summer and saw that Summer had run over to Qrow's shack and was carefully laying the infant that she had inside the window. Summer was about to draw her weapon, but the Nevermore rained hundreds of feathers down on the huntress. These projectiles were not very large, around the size of a pen. However, Summer was hit by quite a few of them. She fell to the ground.

The Nevermore began descending for the kill. Raven opened a gateway above the large bird and fell through it. As she fell, she sliced the beast's head off before opening a second portal and exiting through that, landing on the ground. Above, the Nevermore had already dissolved. Raven looked around for Summer and soon located her. Raven ran over to the injured woman.

Raven looked at her fallen friend to see that she was now resting against Qrow's "home" and cradling her baby as she pulled the quills from herself. Raven walked over to Summer and knelt down beside her. Summer looked up at her and smiled painfully.

"Hi Raven" Summer said, wincing as she pulled another feather from her side. "Sorry to be like this."

Raven, despite her regular cold heartedness held her friend as she was dying. "I'm so sorry Summer. I could've helped, but I didn't" Raven said as Summer leaned against her.

Summer reached up and placed a hand on Raven's cheek. "It's ok. At last something good came out of this" she said.

"What do you mean?" Raven asked, tears running down her cheeks. "How can this be good?"

"At least little Ruby here got to meet her aunt at least once" Summer said, laughing and wincing as she did.

Raven raised an eyebrow. "I thought you married Taiyang?" Raven said.

"Yeah, but stuff happened beforehand..." Summer said. "It's complicated."

Summer coughed and blood ran down her face. Raven realized that Summer was going to die, and she couldn't save her.

Summer handed the baby to Raven. "Ok. Raven, I'm just about done now. Can you take care of Ruby for me? I would leave her with Qrow, but he can't take care of her and he knows that. At least with you she will still be with family. I'm sorry for forcing this on you, but I need you to do this. As far as everyone else needs to know, Ruby died with me and she scattered just the same. (I know this is a little OOC, but I need it for the story. Sorry about this.) Not even Qrow can know."

Raven nodded and took the infant. Summer smiled and closed her eyes. Raven watched as she stopped breathing. Raven got up and began walking away from Qrow's shack. Summer told her not to tell Qrow, and Raven wouldn't betray Summer. She looked at the sleeping infant in her arms.

"Ruby Rose, huh. I think I might change that. After all, she's mine now" Raven said as she formed a portal and walked through.

AN: So... What do you think? I was really tired when I thought of and wrote this, so I'm sorry if it's bad. I just thought that Raven is an underused character. I mean I know that we don't know a lot about her, but I thought that this would be fun. Just a thought. Sorry if no one likes the Qrow being Ruby's dad thing, but I think that he is. She looks nothing like Taiyang, and Qrow seems super attached to her. Anyway, if you have any issues, ideas, or suggestions, just say something. I'm all ears. Thanks for reading, even if no one did. Peace out and goodnight.