I did have something here... I forgot what is was... an error occurred... now it disappeared... I didn't even copy it before it happened... So, it kind of sucks right now...
I have realised that I had started writing 27 or so fan fictions and I have only posted up 6... this also includes rewritten stories I believe... Oh well!
Hope you enjoy the story!
Chapter 12
Ruby watched carefully. A figure came out from behind the tree, still hidden in the dark shadow of the trees.
"Who are you? I don't recognise your scent…" Ruby stated. The figure walked out of the shadows. It was a woman. She had bright silver eyes. Her hair was long, black with red tips. Her hair was tied back and had short hair layering over her long hair. She had wolf ears and a wolf tail that matched her hair colour. She wore a black t-shirt with a white demonic skull that had bright red eyes. She had black and grey camouflage pants. She wore black and white combat boots. She also wore black fingerless gloves that were armoured on the back hand. She smiled showing her red fang.
"Now you see who I am!" the woman grinned more. Ruby was confused.
"You… look like… well… me… except with long hair… and taller than me… maybe even older…" Ruby stated. The woman giggled a bit.
"From my view, you're a younger version of me!" Ruby was very confused.
"Okay… but who are you?" The woman laughed.
"I… am Megan Rose! I'm basically you're really, really, great aunt!"
"Aunt?"
"Yes! I was an only sister among three brothers… I was also the youngest… I watched as they had families while I hid in the shadows… of course… that was after my father died… of course, that was also when he stopped studying me as well…"
"You mean… Your Hunter Rose's daughter? The rare wolf Grimm?"
"Correct! Though I am older than I look… I believe about… 110 years old I believe… Though I look about 23!" Megan smiled.
"Really? You're my very, very great aunt?"
"Yes… why is that so hard to believe? You read my book after all…"
"You mean… you wrote that book about the cursed?"
"That's right!" Megan wrapped on arm around Ruby's neck. "Now, how is it that someone from my bloodline after… about… 95 years ago… was born cursed?"
"I don't know… luck?"
"Maybe… But… who knows… All I know is… I finally got out of that place…"
"What do you mean?"
"Well… not sure if the documents said it but… Me, along with some other cursed, were locked away inside the castle for The Knights of the Reaper… man… the things they did to us… it was kind of fun…"
"What do you mean?"
"Well… Keeper takes care of her own kind!"
"Keeper is cursed?"
"Yup! I bet you didn't see that coming did you!"
"Not at all…" Megan removed her arm from around Ruby's neck. She looked at Ruby in the eyes.
"You haven't hunted yet… have you?"
"What do you mean?"
"You know… an animal… you haven't eaten an animal yet… have you?"
"I… don't think so… I can only remember some things… not everything…" Megan rubbed Ruby's head.
"Don't worry about it! Cursed don't hunt people! So you don't have to worry about that!"
"I wasn't worrying about that… I just think it's kind of sudden… that's all…"
"Don't worry! Us cursed are a family to each other! We take care of our own!"
"A… family?"
"That's right! Because we're cursed… we are family! We help each other out!" Megan turned her back to Ruby. "Though… we have a pretty small family considering what the Knights of the Reaper have done to other cursed…"
"Killing them…" Megan quickly turned to Ruby and pointed at her.
"Correct… us cursed need to stay together! Live in harmony! Live among the Grimm! Not bothering anyone! What do you say?" Megan smiled.
"But… I want to become a huntress…" Megan sighed.
"I see… so you want to hunt your own kind then?"
"No! I never met anyone else that was also cursed…" Ruby replied. She was torn. Either join Megan and live with the other cursed or become a huntress like her mother and her sister. She didn't know which path she was meant to take anymore.
"I was joking…"
"What?"
"I was joking about living amongst the Grimm…" Megan sat down on a rock and laid down to look up to the sky, she smiled. "Some Grimm are monsters… others are like Carnage… not all prey on humans… as time went by, people started to notice that there are some Grimm that have attacked people and other Grimm that ignored humans and Faunus… do you know why that is?"
"It's because of the cursed…"
"Wrong… not all Grimm are mindless… well… not all Grimm are still mindless… they have learned… they have become powerful… stronger than any Grimm you have fought… The cursed are among those… since we are considered Grimm… Carnage was proof of that… he decided to protect… not kill… there has yet to be a reason why the cursed were created…"
"That doesn't make sense though… there has to be a reason why the cursed were created… it wasn't for something as pointless as that…" Megan got up and smiled.
"Exactly! The king back then wanted the land Carnage was living in… yet, he also wanted an army… he sealed Carnage in his own home… the king told Carnage that if he put a spell in the kingdom to make a powerful army of human Grimm, he would set Carnage free… when Carnage did that, the king betrayed his promise and left Carnage sealed in his home…"
"He double crossed Carnage…" Megan nodded.
"What the king didn't know was that Carnage made sure they could hear his voice… and so… prevented the king from using them in an army… which led to the reason why the cursed are feared…"
"That's horrible…" Michelle nodded. She looked up at the sky.
"I think I should head out now… I'll be out in the wild… roar for me if you want to talk!" Megan disappeared into the forest. Ruby turned and started to walk towards the bullhead that had landed in the clearing. As she was walking there, she saw someone sitting in a tree. He had red tattoos as well.
He had dark skin. He wore a black t-shirt. His shorts were black with a white stripe on the sides. He had black converse shoes. He also wore white fingerless gloves. He had a leopard's tail and a leopard's ears. His hair colour was black with green stripes on the sides. His eyes were closed and his tail was swinging side to side a bit.
"What are you doing up there?" Ruby yelled up to the man. He opened his eyes. His left eye was blue and his right eye was green.
"Hmm? I'm just taking a nap…" he jumped down. He stood taller than Ruby.
"What's your name?" Ruby asked.
"Zero, you?"
"Ruby…"
"That's a nice name…"
"Thank you…" they stood there silent for a couple of minutes.
"So… what are you doing here? You know you're really close to the Knights of the Reaper's castle… right?"
"I know… but I think I can handle them…"
"I'm starting to think that I'm the only cursed out there that doesn't want to fight the Knights…"
"Maybe… but you never know… I bet you're strong enough to take on the Knights…" Ruby smiled.
"Maybe!" Ruby walked passed Zero. "Maybe something in the future will happen that would give me a reason to fight the Knights of the Reaper… but right now… I don't have an actual reason… Hope to see you around… Zero…" Zero watched as Ruby walked away.
Ruby got on the bullhead. Sapphire was already on it. She lied down and took a deep breath.
"Is there anywhere else you want to go?" Ruby thought for a bit.
"No… I'm done now… take us back to Beacon…" Ruby closed her eyes.
"Alright! Beacon it is!" the door closed and the bullhead started to take off. Ruby started to fall asleep. After a while, she had finally fallen asleep.
Ruby's Dream
Ruby looked around. She seemed to be standing somewhere. Buildings were destroyed and people she didn't know were lying dead. She then saw Cardin's team unconscious. She started walking through the destruction. She saw Yang pinned under rumble trying to stay awake, Weiss was lying on top of a pillar unconscious, Jaune was unconscious on the ground, and Ren was lying on his side next to a familiar tower that was toppled over.
Ruby saw something that looked like a thrown on a large platform high above the ground. As she walked towards it, she saw Blake, Pyrrha, and Nora fighting someone wearing heavy metal plated armour. Ruby watched carefully. The person threw Pyrrha into a pillar and caused it to fall. Blake was kicked off the platform and hit the ground. Nora had the spike of her hammer stab her in the stomach. Ruby ran towards the platform. She jumped up onto it.
"It seems you are the last of your kind… cursed… not even your friends could stop me! I killed every single one of your kind… I even took out the sealed Grimm! Your powers will disappear! You cannot defeat me!" it was a man. Ruby clenched her fists. She felt her rage surging through her. Dark energy was flowing around her. She then turned into a small version of Carnage and attacked the man.
"You are weak! Nothing you can do to stop me!" he pushed her away, thrusted his hand into her chest and ripped out her heart.
"You cannot stop me… stop your struggle… and accept your fate… I'm going to take over Vale in five years… you better be ready… to follow my rule… or die like a dog… I hope you give up… I want you to stand by my side! HAHAHA!" Ruby fell to her hands and knees.
"I… am… Conquer! Remember your choices… join me… or die!" he kicked Ruby off of the platform. She was then impaled by a large spike that had suddenly came up from the ground. She felt her blood draining from her body. She felt agonizing pain.
Ruby woke up screaming in a deep sweat and was shaking
"What… kind of dream was that?!" Ruby looked around. She looked at her chest and her stomach. There didn't seem to be any injuries. She could feel the pain from it though. She relaxed and rubbed her eyes. The door was about to open. Ruby put on her mask and her cloak quickly. She stood up. The door was now open. Ruby grabbed all the bags and put them in her team's dorm room. She kept thinking back to the dream.
"Is that really going to happen?" Ruby said allowed. She put all her stuff away. She hid the document in the same place as before. Ruby jumped onto her bed and looked up. Sapphire laid down in the centre of the room. Ruby kept thinking about the dream she had.
I felt everything in that dream… I felt my heart get torn out… I felt getting impaled… do you think it will happen?
I don't know… but… that was a calling card… he wants you to join him… he 'wants' you…
Ruby shivered.
No… just… no…
Then I guess we have to prepare… All cursed must get stronger… and I must be free… everyone at Beacon must be stronger… it is our only hope to prevent whoever that is from destroying everything…
Yeah…
Ruby closed her eyes and fell asleep again. The same nightmare kept plaguing her dreams.
Three months later
Ruby woke up from the same nightmare. It had been like this for three months ever since she had it the first time. It was close to the end of the semester. Ruby went to the bathroom and looked at herself in the mirror. She looked tired. She sighed and left the bathroom after washing her face. Yang was leaning against the wall.
"How you feeling? You seem tired lately…" Yang asked. Ruby sighed.
"I'm just… having some strange nightmares… that's all…"
"Are the nightmares the same as you used to have or are they different?"
"Different… as if I'm seeing into the future… so many people are dead… or unconscious… I really don't understand it at all…" Ruby replied. Yang gave Ruby a hug.
"I'm sure we'll get through whatever the future has to offer…" Ruby hugged back.
"I hope so as well… we only have five years to prevent it…" the broke off the hug and gave each other some space.
"Well… your birthday is coming up! Not only that, we are going into our second year soon! It's going to push us to the test! We're going to get through this… together… Alright?" Ruby smiled.
"Yeah! I'm sure everything will turn out fine!" the two got ready for class.
Hour had passed, Ruby was standing in the middle of the Emerald Forest. She was surrounded by Beowolves. She wasn't wearing her cloak or her mask. She was training. She allowed her rage to take control. Red and Black rose petals surrounded her like a tornado.
The rose petals launched towards the Grimm around. Some died having a rose petal go throw it head. Ruby was standing there in her Grimm form. She tackled one Grimm, her blade arms cut it in half. Ruby disappeared. As soon as she reappeared on all fours, the Grimm around her fell to pieces. She looked around. Megan was clapping for Ruby. Ruby looked at Megan and stood on her hind legs.
"As tall as a young Beowolf… taking the form as a younger version of Carnage… yet able to take out a large pack of Grimm… impressive!"
"Your point is what? I need to get stronger…"
"Why is that?"
"Something is coming… along with someone very powerful…"
"Should I inform the other cursed?"
"Yes… we might also need to free Carnage…"
"It might be about time for that… he has been locked up long enough… especially when one of the cursed has had a premonition from the future as will… But we need to find out how… You still have the document?"
"Yeah… I still haven't told people about their ancestors yet though…"
"Tell them soon… They should know… I'll ask Keeper if she knows anything…" Megan disappeared. Ruby returned to normal.
Somewhere unknown, inside a dark void
Conquer was sitting on a thrown with large crystals surrounding him. One of the crystals moved in front of him and showed him an image. The image was of Ruby.
"She is… interesting… she has so much power… yet… she either doesn't use it… or… she doesn't know it… her power is more connected to Carnage than any other cursed on their planet…" someone walks up to Conquer.
It was a woman. She was standing on a floating white platform. She wore a dark red and long qipao. Her hair colour was black with a blonde streak on the right. Her hair was tied back. She had a red black under shirt. Her pants were white. Her shoes were red, white, and black. She wore a black mask with white lines going over the eyes and a red skull on the forehead. She had red wristbands. She kneeled before Conquer.
"I have returned to you… Master Conquer…" the crystal moved out of the way so he could see the woman.
"Excellent! I have new orders for you…"
"What do you ask of me?"
"I need to gather the others… tell them… the time for my rule is approaching…"
"As you wish…" the woman got up and turned to walk away.
"Before you leave, Kitten… I must inform you on something…" she turned to look at him.
"What is it?"
"There is someone that cannot be harmed during my take over… her name…" a crystal goes in front of Kitten. The image of Ruby is shown in it. "Ruby Rose… I want her to join me… and become my queen… you are not to interact with her or engage her in a fight… remember… I am always watching… do not… disappoint me… Kitten…"
"Of course… Master Conquer…" Kitten leaves. The crystals go in front of Conquer again. They are showing what Ruby is doing right now.
Back at Beacon
Ruby was walking through the halls of Beacon wearing her mask and her hood over her head. She stopped walking. She started to see shadows moving around. She heard maniacal laughter. She couldn't tell who was laughing. She looked around. There was no one else in hall. She walked forwards. The shadows were caused the hall way to get dark.
Ruby opened the door to her team's dorm room. The lights weren't on. It was dark. The shadows were moving. She looked around. She took off her mask and her cloak. No one was even in the dorm room. Ruby walked to the centre of the room. She felt a presence standing behind her. She turned and saw a large shadow with red eyes staring at her. It looked like a Beowolf. It loamed over her.
"You… are weak…"
"I am not weak…"
"YOU ARE WEAK!" the shadow lounged at Ruby. Other shadows attacked her as well. Ruby was being pulled into the shadows. She felt pain. She felt claws digging into her back. She tried to get free. Ruby blacked out.
Ruby woke up in the infirmary. Ruby sat up and rubbed her eyes. She looked around. There was no laughing. There was no darkness. Ruby took a deep breath. She got out the bed she was lying in. Yang walked in.
"Ruby! You're okay!" Ruby smiled.
"Yeah! But… what happened?" Ruby couldn't remember what happened at all.
"I don't exactly know myself… I just found you lying on the dorm room floor laughing like some evil maniac… I shook you and even called your name… you didn't reply… so I got you to the infirmary… they think you had a psychotic break…"
"But… I'm not crazy…"
"I know…" Yang hugged Ruby.
"Yang… I need to get stronger… and wiser…" Yang pulled away from the hug.
"What brought this up all of a sudden?"
"I don't know… I just… need to get stronger… but not just me… everyone… everyone at Beacon needs to be stronger… I know something is coming… I can feel it…"
"Do you think it has something to do with Torchwick and whoever he is working for? Along with Emerald?"
"No… its worse… it's going to be much worse… I think… this involves everyone working together… just like after the Faunus war… we came together to fight a common enemy…"
"I'm sure everything will be alright… Nothing bad will happen Rubes… We'll be handle it when the time comes… I'm sure of it…"
Back with Conquer
He was watching Ruby through the crystals on his thrown. . Kitten walked up and kneeled before him.
"How did it go? Did you locate them?"
"Yes… I have located them and informed them of what you had told me…"
"Excellent! I hope everything goes as planned… They won't be ready enough to fight us off…" five other people walked up and kneeled before Conquer.
The first was male. He wore black combat boots. He had black pants. He wore a black t-shirt with a brown bandolier across his chest. He had black spiked wrist guards. He wore a twisted looking black and purple mask. He had a purple bandana tied to his neck. His hair was short and blue. His left eye was green and his right eye is amber.
"You wanted to see us?" he asked.
"I did… Daemon…"
The second was female. She wore a white plain t-shirt. She had plain black shorts. She had black fingerless gloves. She wore a white and black mask. She had black and white running shoes. Her hair was blonde, long, and tied back. Her eyes were blue.
"Nice to see you're still as plain as always Vicky…"
"I don't care…"
"Of course you don't…"
The third was male. His eyes were violet. He wore black steel-toed boots. He wore a black and green mask. He wore a green t-shirt. He wore black pants. His hair was orange and pink.
"Garrus is here as well…"
The fourth was female. Her eyes were orange. She wore red steel-toed boots. She wore red and orange MMA gloves. She wore a red and yellow mask. She wore a red t-shirt. She wore orange pants. Her hair is long, blonde, and tied back.
"Shaundai…"
The fifth was male. His eyes were brown. He wore grey steel-toed boots. He wore a black tailcoat. He wore a grey and black mask. He wore a grey scarf, it was wrapped around his neck on one end while the other went down along his back. He wore a black t-shirt. He wore grey pants. His hair was short and black.
"And finally… Boris… I'm glad all of you could return… I have a plan for us to take care of!" Conquer laughed maniacally.
End
Time: 5:01pm EST
Date: 2015-07-13
Dark Dragon Queen of Darkness
I would like to thank two people for the other cursed characters that appeared! Thank you to knight7572 and Rwbyfan54! I thought about the cursed life span. This is why Megan Rose is there, thanks to knight7572 for mentioning it since I didn't think about it. Thanks to Rwbyfan54 for your OC!
I am thinking about making a Q&A type of thing for this! You can basically ask me or any of the characters in Crimson Wolf a question.
PM Questions about Crimson wolf or about the Q&A Crimson Wolf, whether its asking the characters or myself. Anything goes for it.
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I would also like to let you all know that I might be updating this sporadically...
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