Chapter 1
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Seven years. Seven years since a White Fang hunting party attacked Ruby and her mother. Seven years since a horde of Grim kill the hunting party. Seven years since her mother possibly died. Seven years since she fell into Death Eater overrun tunnels. Seven years since she accidentally activated her semblance while trying to escape the Death Eaters. Seven years since she escaped to a barrier protected city.
In those years, she discovered a lot about her safe haven. She found a building covered in glyph arrays that had enough perfectly preserved food for a year or two. She also discovered the city wasn't just some underground city but was in fact Old Vale. She found out when she was exploring a building full of old scrolls and books and found a plaque that said, "The Vale Archives." After getting over the shock of finding one of the old cities, she spent the past seven years studying the archives, training with her semblance and her mother's Scimitar, which she had found and grabbed as she fled from the Death Eaters.
During that time, several bullheads had crashed and fallen down into the tunnels. Most of them carrying various supplies, from food to medicine to dust, and helped her a lot. All passengers and staff died in one way or another. The lucky ones died on impact. The not so lucky ones were either eaten immediately or if she was able to safe them, went insane and ran straight into the waiting pincers of the Death Eaters.
Currently, Ruby was sitting in one of the houses right next to the barrier studying a map she found in the Archives. It was a map detailing the tunnels and locations of all the old cities. It was old and had been made before the tunnels had become overrun. She was getting ready to make a run for Old Mistral.
While studying glyphs and glyphs arrays, she found mention of two particular glyph arrays, which the notes for were said to be in the Old Mistral Archives. Just as she folded up the map and grabbed her gear, she hears it. A bullhead crashing in the nearby tunnel hole clearing. Using her semblance, she quickly made her way to the clearing, dodging and killing Death Eaters as she went.
When she arrived, she saw a white haired man dressed in white crawling out of the wreckage before collapsing. Seeing Death Eaters already swarming, she zipped forward, sealing up the supply crates in storage glyphs and grabbing the man. She, then, sped back to Old Vale, crossing the barrier just as the spider Grim lunged toward them.
Once inside her house, she placed the man in the bed in the spare room. After treating his head injury, she examined his wallet and found his I.D. card. Frost Schnee.
Frost Schnee, head of the Schnee Dust Company, was a man known for his hatred of Faunus. She remembered her mother mentioning that before the leadership change of the White Fang, The Schnee Dust Company Head was neutral toward Faunus. Knowing the White Fang, she won't put it past them to have threatened his family.
Sighing, Ruby quickly applied Medic Glyphs on him. Medic Glyphs were designed to keep the patient from moving while they healed and heal them with healing aura. It was not going be easy keeping him alive. Hatred had a strong tendency to cloud ones better judgement.
After checking that the Medic Glyphs were doing their job, she went back out into the dining room and pulled the map out. Unfolding it, she looked at Old Mistral. She knew that it would be guarded. But the glimpse she got as she scavenged the bullhead, the Queen and Elders knew what was hidden within the ancient city and they were not going to make things easy.
That was why Death Eaters were the most dangerous of all the Grim types. Not only were they extremely venomous, they learned. They learned faster than any Grim including the Goliaths. The Queen and Elders were the worse out of all the Death Eaters because they have been around since before the loss of the old cities.
She had to get those Glyphs. She had noticed over the years how rapidly their numbers were growing. It wouldn't be long before they moved to the surface and if that happened...It would be the end of them all. By her estimate, they had five years at most and that was if they were lucky.
Looking toward the spare room, she thought that maybe the Powers-That-Be had decided to lend a hand and not just to her. Perhaps, we can help each other, she thought.
An hour later, she heard a groan from the spare room and headed to check on Frost. When she entered, Frost was awake and trying to get up.
"That won't work," she told him. He snapped his head in her direction and immediately spotted her wolf features. He glared at her.
"What did you do to me, Beast?" he shouted.
"I placed Medic Glyphs on you. You were badly injured after your bullhead crashed," she spoke calmly.
"And why should I believe you? For all I know, you're lying and planning on torturing me!" he replied. She gave him an 'Are you serious?' look.
"Surely, you're not so paranoid and blinded by hatred to believe a ten year old girl to be a monster? My mother use to tell me that, before the White Fang leadership change, you were neutral toward Faunus," she said. She checked the Glyphs.
"The Glyphs seem to be nearly done but you won't be fully healed until tomorrow morning at least. Get some rest in the meantime," she informed him before turning to leave. What she said next as she stopped at the door left him shocked and with plenty to think about.
"By the way, I'm Ruby Rose and I was actually born to two human parents with no Faunus blood."
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