It's been 3 days since the explosion. 3 days since I killed a man, well more like hundreds of men and women, and all I've been doing since then is wander. I didn't know where to go or who to go to. All I knew was that I needed to find a place where I can benefit both humanity and faunus, and help purged the world of extremist. It's not as easy as it sounds, especially when you been traveling through the forest 90% of the time in order not to get spotted.
Feeling as if my legs would snap off if I move another step, I collapsed onto one of the many trees, my face impacting the trunk "oww, fuck" I muttered to myself. Looking down I see how much 3 days of wandering has taken a toil on me. My clothes were all shriveled up from my pants to my coat. A trail of dried blood running down my coat from vomiting blood one of those 3 days. My hands and feet smeared with remnant's of my semblance. To say I looked disgusting would be more than appropriate.
Food, water, money, three things I didn't have. I didn't think this through in the long term did I. (Sigh) I guess I should just wait here for the Grimm to kill me. Sure Vale's 5 miles away but what are the odds of me getting a job? Not only that but there are bound to be Fang sleeper agent's stationed there. They see me, call it in, and next thing you know that fox who checked in that motel the day before never checked out.
"Maybe I should wait here and let a nevermore whisk me away, or have a deathstalker pluck my head off with it's stinger, or maybe-". Before I could come up with another insane way to die by Grimm a rather peculiar sight steals my interest. Rose petals, dozens and dozens or rose petals blowing through the wind. "Is there a giant rose garden near me?" looking behind the tree what I saw was definitely not a rose garden. Instead it was a girl, must've been at least thirteen, wearing a pretty large red cape for her size,and it looked like it was producing rose petals out of nothing. "Well that's a rather strange sight" I said under my breath, who was this girl and why is she out here? Hesitantly I got up and started walking towards her.
"Umm excuse me?" She nearly jumped before turning to face me.
"O-oh sorry you startled me" she responded in a rather shy tone.
"It's fine really, mind if I asked why someone like yourself is doing all the way out here?" She gestures towards a gravestone with a rose emblem on it.
"Oh...who was it?"
"My mother".
"I'm sorry for your loss" she must be not taking it well. "Well I'm just gonna go now, sorry to bother you".
"It's okay if you leave, most people find me socially awkward, I don't even really talk to a lot of people outside of my sister" she said in a much more cheery tone.
"I guess that one thing we have in common" maybe she's taking the death of her mother a bit better than I thought.
"So what's your name mister".
"Sark, Sark Virgo" I figured it was okay to tell her my real name since no one actually caused the explosion, from what I heard all the police knew was the cause, not the causer.
"So why are you out here Sark?"
"Well truth be told I'm out here because all I've doing for the past few days is wander, and hoping to find a place where I can't protect the innocent from the indecent".
"How about Beacon".
"Beacon?".
"You know the academy where men and women train to become valiant hunters, I plan on going there when I'm older".
"Oh, oh I'm not a hunt- wait you plan on going?"
"Yep, I'm currently training at Signal at the moment".
"No offense but you seem a bit, how do put this, a bit physically inept in terms of build". She pouts after I say this.
"Well while I lack in size and muscle, I move than make up it in speed!" In a blink of an eye the girl in front of me disappeared in a scurry of rose petals.
"Wha- where did you-?!"
"Behind you" sure enough I turn around and she's there behind me.
"Woah, how did you-".
"Like I said I'm fast".
"Let me guess, semblance?" She nodded rather enthusiastically.
"Yep, I also got a synthe I'm working on, it's gonna have a huge blade and also function as a 50. cal, It's gonna so cool when I done with it".
"Heh alright".
"So are you going to Beacon?"
"I..don't think so"
"Why not? being a hunter is like the coolest career ever".
"Well simply put I'm not really cut out for the hunter business, you may be younger than me but I can tell you probably have much more combat experience than me".
"Aw but you said you wanted help people, and hunters are the ultimate helpers"
"It's...hard to explain". I'm not sure if I should be vague about who I used to work for or not. She didn't seemed like the type of person to rate me out, so I guess it was okay to be a little less cautious when discussing my past, though just to be safe I won't say any names. "I used to work for a..group of people who said what I'd be doing would help some people greatly, however I found out not too long ago that what I was helping would cause the death of millions, something I refused to be apart of".
"Oh my, what did you do?"
"I'd rather not say anymore than I already have, but let's just say I prevented such a devastating event from happening"
"Wait wouldn't stopping such an event also mean you saved millions"
"I..I guess, but that's not the poin-"
"So in a way you did help people"
"that's not the point"
"then what is?"
"The point is I was tricked into thinking I was going to help and improve people's lives when in reality I was taking the life of others, look I have no doubt that the hunters that came out of Beacon have help and saved countless lives but I've known first hand that even the most charismatic organization, business, or whatever has done some form of shadiness at some point or another". The girl just stood before me in silent, her head laying low. Something tells me I might have struck a nerve. Feeling apologetic I knelt down to her height. "Look I'm not trying to say you shouldn't go far from it, It's just that if I ever decide to attend Beacon I want to know if their hearts are in the right place". She lifts her head up, looking straight into my eyes.
"My mother graduated from Beacon, and she was the nicest, most honest person I've ever known, if any hunter's heart was in the right place it was hers".
"I don't see what you're trying to say".
"What i'm trying to say is my mother was what every hunter strives to be, and with enough effort and spirit you could be that amazing, and you shouldn't judge Beacon just because you've had bad experience with whatever you were with before, give it a chance".
"(Sigh) you've got some charisma kid, that's a pretty useful skill to have; Tell you what I'll give Beacon a shot".
"Really!"
"Yes, thinking about it now Beacon might be the last chance I have to help those in need in a big way, and you're right I shouldn't t hold Beacon back because of the actions of some other organization, so yeah I'll go".
"AWESOME! it's so cool to know that someone with your attire will be going to attend, who doesn't love it when someone brings some irony into a Grimm fight". She pokes at my nevermore mask.
"Uhh...yeah, um I'm actually thinking of getting rid of this thing, I'm kinda worried people might get the wrong idea".
"Aww but it looks so cool".
"I'm sorry but I can't-". Before I could finish she looks up at me with a puppy dog-like expression. "Okay maybe I'll wear it while in the field, but not on campus grounds alright".
"YAAY!" She squeals in delight.
"(Sigh) well I should've probably get going now, Beacons a long walk from here, but before I go I have to ask, what's your name?"
"Ruby, Ruby Rose".
"Well I hoped to someday see you at Beacon as well", and with that I headed off towards the general direction of the school. The saying goes that when one door closes another one opens, however you can never be sure if that door will open to something better, or worse. However one things for sure. That girl Ruby, even with the death of her mother, still had a heart of gold, albeit a bit innocent. Nevertheless seeing a human, hell anyone with that kind of spirit can fill a person with joy, purpose, reassurance, and most importantly hope, the latter being something I haven't felt in a long time.
AN: I hope you enjoyed this improved ending, let me know what you think and what I could improve on.