Sadness. Grief. Those were all that Rae felt as his "mother" lay dead on the ground. Her white cloak was tattered from years of torture and her body lay bloodied. That night she just couldn't take it any longer and she passed on. "Liar…" he sobbed, his tears falling onto her body. "You told me you'd be with me forever… I… I trusted you… loved you…" He sobbed more before gasping and staring at her body. Slowly, he reached for her chest, which would have seemed odd if not for the result. His hand phased through her body, reaching into it. When he pulled it out he was holding a white flame in his hand; in his hand was Summer Rose's spirit. Tears still flowing from his face, he pushed the flame into his own chest over his heart, merging his spirit with hers. He then stood up and wiped his face before grabbing the white cloak off of her body and placing it on himself.
"Hey, boss, the lady's dead," a White Fang guard said behind him.
"Get her body out of there; we can't go leaving it to rot," another guard responded. As the door opened, Rae quickly pivoted around and dashed at ungodly speeds into the guard, slamming him hard into the wall and leaving a trail of white petals behind him. Startled, the other guard aimed a gun at him, only for Rae to dart up to him and knock the gun from his hand. He then grabbed the guard's throat and pinned him to the wall. "Where are the confiscated weapons kept?" he growled. "Tell me and I might spare you."
The guard pointed toward a door at the end of the hallway. Without hesitation he slammed the guard's head against the wall, knocking him out cold, before pulling the keys off of him and going to the door. After about three minutes of searching for the right key he got the door unlocked and immediately picked up the massive white scyther rifle from within it.
In only a matter of minutes he was out of the horrid underground prison he'd been hidden in. He, however, was weak from years of torture and passed out soon afterward, both his cloak and scythe covered in the blood of the people who tried to stop him from escaping.
Days later he awoke in a hospital, aching and exhausted. After a little bit of looking around he watched a man with white hair and glasses, once again being Professor Ozpin, enter the room. "I'm glad to see that you're awake," he stated, sitting in a chair by the bed. "I know all about your escape from the secret White Fang prison." Rae quickly tried to back away from Ozpin but he winced in excruciating pain as he tried to move. "Calm down; I'm not sending you back," he stated. "I wanted to invite you to enroll in my academy."
"A...Academy?" he questioned. "What's an academy?" He'd been born in the prison and never knew too much about the outside world; just the few things he'd heard from Summer. He hadn't even been able to speak until he'd met her since his mother died giving birth.
"It's a large, private school that only very special students can get into," Ozpin explained, baffled by Rae's obliviousness. "How… How long were you in that prison?"
Rae looked to the ground, grief shadowing his eyes. "As… As long as I can remember… I guess fifteen years…"
"The White Fang hasn't been around that long," Ozpin stated. "How could you have…"
"I've been there since before the faunus people showed up," Rae interrupted. "Back when it still belonged to the man with the hat and white coat…"
"A man with a white coat and a hat, you say?" Ozpin questioned. "Did he have ginger hair and a cane?"
Rae nodded. "The cane wasn't a cane, though… it was a gun."
Ozpin sighed and nodded. "It's as I feared. The man who imprisoned you was an infamous criminal named Roman Torchwick. He's been wanted for years and was recently apprehended, however he broke out of prison a few weeks ago." He then shook his head to clear his mind. "On the topic of enrolling in my academy, I found the body of Summer Rose in your cell. No doubt you two were close." Rae whimpered and nodded slightly, tearing up. "Somebody of interest happens to attend Beacon Academy. Did Summer ever mention a daughter to you?"
"Ruby?" Rae questioned, looking up at Ozpin with hopeful eyes. "Ruby is at your academy!? I'll enroll! I'll enroll straight away."
Ozpin nodded with a smirk. "Excellent. This year's roster just gets more and more exciting. Now, one more thing. What is your name?"
Rae hesitated. "Summer Rae," he told Ozpin.
"Well, Summer…" Ozpin began.
"Summer Rae," he corrected. "Not Summer. Like Billy Jack. You say them together, not separate."
Fun Facts:
-Summer Rae is my first RWBY exclusive OC that hadn't been used in other stories or any roleplays.
-Summer Rae adopted his "mother's" name out of respect for her. Their relationship will be delved deeper into in a later chapter.
-Summer Rae is my first OC without an outside influence.
-I do not own RWBY.