"C'mon Ruby!" Summer called, laughing as the she and the little one ran out into the field. It had been two years since Summer, Taiyang, and Qrow were introduced to the Engle's. The group had gone on several missions together, and had brought down many Grimm forces, protecting and expanding humanity's claim on Remnant. Also, because of missions and other complications, Taiyang and Summer had to postpone their marriage, and when Summer gave birth, she named her Ruby Rose.
Today, all of them, Summer, Taiyang, Yang, Ruby, Qrow, Ozpin, Mark, Susan, and Sam had decided to go out and have a picnic together, celebrating the times they had had together. It was in the afternoon, and they planned to spend the night staring up at the star filled sky. Summer and Susan were playing with Ruby, Yang, and Sam, while Qrow, Taiyang, Ozpin, and Mark were having a drink by the grill they had brought.
"Summer, Sue, dinner is ready!" Mark called out to the two mothers, motioning to the burgers from the grill. They all laughed together as they told stories and watched the children play.
After dinner was over, the sun had already begun to set, and they went out to lie in the fields and look up at the night sky. The stars began appearing slowly, but one by one, they filled they sky in all sorts of patterns and constellations, the shattered moon up there as well. Things were peaceful and perfect.
But things can change in a heartbeat.
The happy group lying in the field was being watched, both by sets of red, hungry eyes and waiting patient human eyes. The red eyes belonged to creatures of Grimm, and soon after they had started stalking their prey in the field, they made their presence known in an attack. A beowolf jumped out and tried to land on Qrow, but Ozpin shot it out of the air with his cane weapon.
After seeing the beowolf, Summer and Susan took the children to find a place to hide, while the Oz, Tai, Qrow, and Mark took on the pack of beowolves. Summer found a ditch that they could hide the children and help fight if need be, and motioned for the others to get down into the ditch. The children watched in awe and horror as they saw the other adults fighting the monsters.
Qrow was slicing through the beowolves with his scythe, Mark ripping through them with his saber, Taiyang shooting them down with his dual machine gun blades, and Ozpin beating them down and shooting them with his cane. At first, it seemed the beowolf pack was never ending, but after a few minutes of fighting, they began to thin. Summer began thanking whatever gods there were above watching them for letting this be only a minor thing, and that no one had gotten hurt.
But this fight had only just begun.
While the women and children were watching the men fighting the Grimm, there was a group of three approaching them. Just as Summer was standing up from the ditch, preparing to step out once the battlefield seemed clear, a flash lit up the area, and someone appeared behind Summer, something black and shiny stabbed through her chest. Two more figures appeared and beat Susan out of the ditch. The two figures proceeded to beat Susan until her body was broken all over, and finished her off with a shot to the head. The children began screaming and crying loudly, and Ozpin could just barely hear them.
Ozpin looked over a felt time slow, almost to a stop. Summer had been impaled on a sword, blow flowing quickly out of her chest, her eyes already glazed and lifeless. The two other figures stood over Susan, smoke coming from the barrel of one of their guns, brain matter and blood surrounding her head. And in the ditch, Ozpin saw the children, faces contorted with anger, sadness, shock, and fear.
The beowolves were dealt with, and the others soon heard the gunshot and looked over to the newcomers as well. Mark and Taiyang saw their loved ones dead, the two leaving Susan's body, and the other drawing her blade from Summer, and throwing her aside. The three figures began walking towards Ozpin and the other adults, and soon came into the light. One was a male, with grey hair and grey and black battle clothing. His weapons were built into his shoes, two guns in the heels. Another was a dark woman with mint green hair, eyes red. Her weapons were two swords, slung behind her on her hips. The last one was an older female, hair dark as the night, and dress a dark red with yellow patterns sewn into it. Her eyes were golden and menacing, staring holes through her opponent's souls.
"Who are you? Answer me before I just kill you anyway!" Taiyang screamed, most likely only seeing red, seeking blood.
The older woman simply laughed and heaved a sigh. "Fool, our names do not matter, you will simply just take them to the grave anyway." Her gaze landed on each of them, and she resumed speaking. "If you must know, I am Cinder Fall. This is Mercury Black, and this is Emerald Sustrai."
"You son of a bitch!" Mark screamed and charged at Cinder.
Mercury and Emerald raised their weapons, but Cinder motioned them off, as if to say leave them to me. They complied, and were content with sitting back and watching the show. Mark raised his saber, and launched an assault of strikes aimed at Cinder's torso, but Cinder made sure to block each strike with her own blade. Eventually, Cinder decided to go from defensive to offensive, and struck her blade forward, finding flesh as her blade cut Mark's cheek. He took a step back, wiping some of the blood off, and became even more enraged. He charged at Cinder again, aiming his saber at her heart.
But Cinder was faster.
She dodged to the side and her own blade went through Mark's back, shattering his spine and ripping through his internal organs.
"NO!" Taiyang screamed, running into the fray. Qrow soon followed, and Ozpin hesitated for a moment, and then charged in as well.
Mercury and Emerald had enough of the sideline though, and raised their weapons again to fight the new intruders. Mercury took on Qrow, Emerald took on Taiyang, leaving Cinder to draw her blade from Mark, dispose of his body, and fight Ozpin. The battle was not going well. Mercury was playing around with Qrow, dodging his attacks with ease as Qrow was blinded by rage. Emerald countered each of Taiyang's blows, and retaliated each one of them. Cinder was taking Ozpin down more slowly, torturing him with her own deep blows. Eventually, Mercury nailed Qrow in the head and knocked him out cold. Emerald followed suit, knocking out Taiyang as well. Now, only Ozpin remained conscious, but he had already suffered deep wounds from Cinder.
"Now, to finish you off," Cinder proclaimed smugly.
What Cinder didn't know was that clouds were forming overhead. Ozpin, however, did and looked up in confusion. The three assaulters were also confused, and looked at the large storm clouds forming over their battlefield. Soon, the ground began to shake, and lightning began to strike.
"THAT'S… ENOUGH!" a deep and overpowering voice filled the air. This confused them even further, for the voice came from the ditch with the children in it. But when Ozpin looked over, he saw no ordinary child.
Sam stood there, his eyes white and electricity began flowing through his body. He began to grow in size, both in height and in muscle. Lightning began striking closer and more often, the ground shaking even more.
"YOU WILL PAY FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE, DEMON," Sam called, blank eyes staring at Cinder. "YOU DIE HERE!"
Sam continued to grow in size, stopping until he was as tall as Ozpin, despite being only four years old, his muscles the size of a professional wrestler. Electricity flowed more obviously through his body, and the lightning strikes came even closer, almost on top of them. He began to be consumed by a blue light field, electricity striking off of it. Finally, a lightning strike found its target, and hit the light field. The field exploded, and revealed the fully grown and developed four year old child Sam Engle.
"THIS BATTLE ENDS HERE! I WILL HAVE YOUR HEADS!" Sam shouted out, his voice distorted and deep. Mercury and Emerald looked on, terrified, and tried to draw up their weapons. Cinder looked dumbfounded, but quickly tried to compose herself and prepare for an attack.
But when the attack came, no one could see it coming.
Within a fraction of a second, Sam disappeared, then reappeared hovering behind the three. "PREPARE TO DINE IN HELL!" Sam called. Mercury and Emerald couldn't even turn around in time, and each of them had one of Sam's feet smashing into the back of their necks. This sent them flying, eventually colliding with nearby trees. By the time Cinder had turned around, Sam was face to face with her, and connected his fist into her gut. The force of the blow itself knocked Cinder back a little, and soon began to cough up a little blood.
When Sam saw the blood, he could only smirk. "HOW EASILY YOU KILLED THE REST, BUT WERE SO EASILY BEATEN BY ME," Sam taunted.
"I am not beaten yet, beast!" Cinder spat back, blood flowing slowly down her chin. She charged at Sam and heard Mercury and Emerald behind her as well. They all screamed out battle cries, but were constantly beaten back down by Sam almost as soon as they got up. They continued to throw themselves at Sam, and he effortlessly kicked them into the mud, over and over. After a short while he began to laugh uncontrollably, his mind lost in pure fury.
Ozpin watched this spectacle from a little ways away, eyes wide in shock and horror. He got up and hobbled over to Qrow and Taiyang to see if they were okay.
Sam continued to beat them, until he was done playing around. He picked up Emerald and Mercury by their necks and slammed their backs into each other. Sam could feel their bones contorting and snapping as the contact was made, their screams rang clear through the night. Emerald and Mercury fell unconscious, and Sam cast them aside, wishing to make his last target suffer.
"THIS PLACE WILL BE YOUR GRAVE, WITCH!" Sam called.
Cinder couldn't respond, her body was heaving with the just the effort of standing. But she wasn't going to let herself get beaten so easily. She conjured up some fire balls and began throwing them at Sam. Sam raised one of his hands and shot each fire ball with lightning, dissipating the fire.
"GOOD TRY, BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH. TIME TO END THIS!" Sam bellowed. Cinder could only watch as Sam surged towards her and pick her up, throwing her where Emerald and Mercury lay. Sam charged up electricity that was flowing through his body and concentrated it into hard light energy, forming an explosive energy ball. He continued to charge it up to grow it in shape, then threw it at the three collapsed warriors. The ball landed in the middle of them, exploding and sending their bodies flying.
After the three assailants were disposed of, Sam's body began losing its supercharge. He began to return to his normal size, and walked over to his parents, each lying cold and dead in the grass. He collapsed by his mother, back at his regular size and went unconscious. Ozpin ran over to him as best he could to see if he was ok, and when he got there he could see tear streaks on his face. He ran over to the ditch to see if Ruby and Yang were ok, and he found Yang holding Ruby, and both of the unconscious. He pulled out his scroll and dialed an emergency number to get them medical assistance immediately.
While Ozpin waited, he went over to try and wake Qrow and Taiyang. As he was trying to do so, a thought came up in his head. What the hell just happened? How did Sam do that? We know what the Engle's were, but even that was unique.
These thoughts continued to plague his mind, and he looked over at the strange boy next to his dead mother.
AN: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?! ... You'll find out later :P Remember, this story is a prequel to a story I'm still coming up with in my head. I'm still piecing it together, and I got the solid idea of where this is going. Thank you guys so much for reading so far, and remember that reviews are very well appreciated, but not required. See you guys and girls in the next chapter!