Everyone turned to get a better view of the center of the room where the moon and words were. Ruby slowly backed away trying not to disturb the projection.
By the way, interruptions are allowed. The projection will automatically pause when someone starts talking. You can also ask for a pause in case of breaks. Now pay attention.
The room fades to black again and a new scene is shown.
The scene fades and shows a young girl in a red clock standing below the moon looking down as a guitar starts to strum in the background around them and a mysterious voice sings.
Ruby gasps and many look at her seeing that she is the girl being shown to them at this current moment. Ruby and Yang both know this location very well and they look to each other with sadness.
The voice starts to sing as everyone gets a wide shot of Ruby standing on a cliff looking at a stone on the ground as her cape and rose petals float in the wind.
Red like roses fills my dreams
The screen fades again then shows Ruby turning away from the stone.
And brings me to the place you rest
As she walks the stone becomes visible to the audience to read
"Summer Rose
Thus Kindly I Scatter"
Everyone gasps but Summer being the loudest at what is revealed with that last word.
"I…I'm dead in your future?" She has tears in her eyes as she looks desperately at her future children who are silently crying with her nodding. This only made her cry harder as Tai came up to her and hugged her trying to calm her down.
White is always cold and always yearning
Burdened by the royal test
While the beautiful singing continues everyone gets a shot of Ruby walking through an empty white forest slowly.
Weiss slightly flinches at the lyrics already knowing they would mostly likely allude to her in some way.
Black the beast descends from shadows
The next shot is of Ruby being surrounded by a large pack of Beowolves.
Summer suddenly feels light headed with all that is happening, first she finds out she dies before her children, something that should never happen. Then now her daughter is up against a large pack of monsters and has no help.
Yang suddenly crushes her sister in a hug, ranting about how she shouldn't be wandering off on her own lest something like this happen. To which Ruby admitted to already happening prior to this whole thing.
"So this happened in your past?" Ironwood glanced at the small girl, getting impressed that she could survive such an event.
"Yes this happened a while ago during winter its almost been a year since then thinking about it." The young redhead said thinking about a timeline as to when everything is happening.
Suddenly everything paused again and words once again appeared in a message, I have made it so if anyone wishes to write something down to remember key information all you need to do is think of a notebook and pen and they shall appear. On with the show.
Before it could continue though Ozpin and Oscar both summoned up a notebook and pen. Glancing at each other in slight surprise at how in sync it had all happened.
Yellow beauty burns…..
Suddenly the beowolves move in lunging at the girl.
All of his sudden parenting instincts took over as Tai went up to the current girl and hugged her, making her squeak in surprise, but let her young father hold her to ground himself from these emotions.
And then she vanished leaving behind rose petals and confused beowolves.
"Whoa Red your fast for a kid." Mercury looked her up and down for a challenge.
"Oh well thanks, that's just my semblance. I am super fast when I use it." She said with a shrug like it was nothing.
'Hmm I do not think that's all that there is too it Miss. Rose' Ozpin thought while jotting something in his notebook, noticing Oscar also writing something with a confused look on his face.
Gold
The word echoes around everyone's heads as they watch this young girl gracefully turn in front of the moon, finally revealing her face.
"You have silver eyes…" Salem said with a small smile that promised trouble, and Ozpin truly began to worry.
"I got them from my mom." She said looking to Summer, who smiled with her daughter seeing the bold similarities between the two no one could deny mother and daughter resemblance.
The song evens out as we see the small girl pull out a large rifle from behind her back, and shoots a beowulf before landing.
"Oh my gosh is that a sniper!?" Summer and Qrow shout both being the weapon nerds they are (*)
"Yep, I built it myself." Ruby stated proudly while she thought about her beloved weapon.
"You built that all by yourself!" Qrow exclaimed, making the girl laugh and shake her head. "I had some help from my uncle." She said winking towards him, making him smile largely at being able to help his friend's family.
The young girl continued killing beowolves by dong flips over them and propelling herself with her weapon. Finally seeing a small break in the attacks she takes this chance to fully transform her weapon into its signature form.
"IT'S A SCYTHE!" Qrow screamed, causing many to cover their ears to alleviate the ringing it caused.
"I told you I had help from my uncle…who also happens to be a scythe master himself." Ruby laughed at Qrow watching his eyes go star eyed as he looked at the weapon in awe.
"My baby sis always loved being with Qrow when we were younger, it also helped he was there for a certain incident. So it's no surprise she took after him a lot after what happened to mom." Yang said, smiling softly at the memories of her, her sister and uncle hanging out often.
"Speaking of…Do you know what happened to me? So I know what to avoid?" Summer asked, looking towards her daughters.
"One day you went on a mission and didn't come back, no one knows what happened because dad and uncle were teaching and Raven had split from the team by then. You went alone and never came back." Yang said sadly as she watched her mother breakdown again in such a short span of time.
"Hey now you know not to go on any solo missions for a long while no need to be sad this hasn't happened yet for us there's time to fix this for everyone including our future children." Tai moved from his spot by Ruby to Summer softly rubbing her back trying to get her relaxed once again.
As everyone was calming down again the show continued with the beowolves charging the now scythe wielding girl. When one got close Ruby hooked her scythe around its body which gave the beowulf the false sense of victory as it went for the kill causing Ruby to smirk and pulled the trigger cutting the wolf in half.
"Why are they not disintegrating normally? Don't they normally turn to ash? Why are they disappearing into flower petals?" Weiss questioned the young girl causing her to look uncomfortable with all the questions.
"I don't know." She stammered out trying to avoid contact with the heiress.
The beowolves watched as their comrade turned into petals before charging the girl making her take a more defensive stance. She then started shooting them from a distance with the sniper rather than confront the angry pack.
"Good use of space, retreat and gain ground rather than rush and lose. Excellent tactics Ruby." Ironwood praised the girl causing her to go shy and stuttery as she thanked him.
One wulf was lucky enough to get close enough but the young Rose had a back up plan to use the sniper shot to push her away from the wolves and kill the one too close. She then regained balance by standing on her scythe to assess the situation, only to see move beowolves move in.
"These beowolves have no end to them they just keep coming, are you truly ok Ruby?" Pyrrha asks kindly whilst also flexing her fingers itching to help something that already passed. Ruby nodded to the girl smiling.
Once again using the momentum Ruby let the wolves get close allowing her to once again use the momentum of the sniper round to both kill and gain distance, she was able to stabilize by bouncing off of a wolf that was trying to sneak up on her. This is where she excelled at. Gracefully spinning her scythe and using the sniper shots to effectively kill the surrounding beowolves and so far not a single one has touched the young Rose.
"You are really good!" Jaune who had been quietly watching finally spoke up causing Ruby to blush not used to the attention.
"Oh um thank you Jaune, it is just thanks to all the practice me and uncle Qrow do to help train me that has gotten me this far." She replied modestly.
"Nah kid you're good at what you do and this shows it to everyone here. Have faith in your skills." Her uncle said lightly, punching her shoulder and smiling towards her.
The fighting continues with Ruby once again using her scythe skills to take down wolves who got too close. Even showing off a little by flipping onto one's back and cleanly decapitating it with a shot allowing her to once again reassess the situation. She then notices that once again more wolves have shown up making this a little harder, and was finally pushed back by one of them.
"When is this going to end, they just keep multiplying." Oscar started looking up from his notes to once again see more wolves than when the video started.
"If I remember right I should end it right here, I finally gave up trying to kill them effectively and just used dust to just hack away at them very quickly. This made many sigh in relief that they wouldn't need to watch this little girl fight a seemingly endless battle anymore.
After seeing the wolves finally charge her Ruby calmly reloads her Sniper but does so with Gravity Dust.
"That's gravity dust. What are you going to do with that?" Weiss mocked watching the redhead fail to take down this pack of wolves.
Once she was reloaded and ready the girl fired her weapon with the gravity amplified bullets which launched her into the fray of the pack where she proceeded to start hacking her way through the masses. Limbs and bullet casings were flying everywhere and everyone could hardly keep eyes on the fast moving girl. It finally ended with her posing over in the glow of the moon as bullet casings rain down from the sky showing she was faster than bullets falling. The projection ended with the moon turning red and Ruby turning into a black silhouette.
"That was very excellently done Miss Rose." Ozpin complemented, causing many to agree with the man.
Summer finally hugged the girl saying how proud she was that she was able to do that and at such a young age too. This caused the girl to lightly laugh as she started crying, missing the warmth of her own mother. This ended up with a chain reaction of the whole family getting in on the hug besides Raven who watched from afar.
Ironwood, being the one to take charge and finally control the situation, calmly ordered everyone to take a five minute break for food and bathrooms. While those who weren't hungry or had to go stuck around to chat idly.
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Ozpin Notes: Ruby -Silver Eyes (watch out for Salem), More than a speed semblance?, Very talented with a scythe, good solo fighter
Oscar Notes: Beowulf- Pack animal, fast, stronger than they look
*I read a lot of fanfics like this and honestly this headcanon is now my headcanon. I would love it if Ruby got her love for all things weapons from her mother and uncle.
