The Hunt
The mountain forests of Vale were covered with snowy peaks and the howls of wolfs and beowolves alike were howling. To the normal human mind, it would be a scene right out of a horror movie. The clouds obscured the full moon from view, but not for long. Deep in the forest was in unusual sight. A little girl was sitting next to a small unfrozen pond. Now if you saw this girl, you would've asked her if she was freezing. She had a black tank top on with red long pants. Her hair was black with red highlights and her eyes were pools of sliver. She would've have told you to run as fast as you could, because only she knew what horrors were in store for any human she came across. Slowly she watched s the clouds parted from the moon above, slowly exposing the light from the orb in the sky. The girl felt nervous as the light slowly approached her. She had been through nearly six times now. She knew what had to happen. She braced herself as the moons beams hit her skin.
At first, nothing seemed to happen, her skin suddenly felt warm and she leaned into the pond to see her sliver eyes replaced by two red orbs.
'Right on time' she thought to herself.
Suddenly, the warmth that had spread through her body was now replaced by a searing pain. She hunched over as though as shed been punched by an unknown assailant. She felt her muscles burn and her body and limbs begin to ache. She felt sensations she never knew existed. She smelled odors that were unfamiliar to her, and the sound would become deafening. She looked down at her arm and saw her arm starting to elongate. She noticed her hand twist and her fingers bend forward. She felt a bulge in her tailbone as it became a literal tail. Her chest began to grow fur as well as her arms and legs. She felt her ears stiffen into points and her nose and jaw moving forward into a snout. She had tears running down her face. She thought she would've gotten used to the pain by now, but nothing would prepare her. She yelled out in agony as her screams mutated into something…not human.
She felt the fur spread through her body as her metamorphosis reached its peak. Fur finally grew over her body and newly grown bones settled into place. At this point her clothes were gone and instead a massive bipedal wolf like creature took its place of the girl. She now stood about seven feet tall, was jet black and had red eyes and white claws. What set her apart from the beowolves was that she lacked the black claws and the white boney plates adorning her body. She also had a long bushy tails that seemed to adapt to the cold night air. Her head bowed down as the last of her human mind was pushed out in favor of that of a beast mind. She lifted her head to the sky and let out an ear-piercing howl. But she did know one thing.
Her name was Ruby Rose.
And her hunt was only beginning.
RWBY: The Monsters Within.
Coming Soon.