Edit: I've gone back through my old chapters to rewrite them to flow better as well as grammer. Plot remains unchanged however.
Author's Note: Hey, so this is my first fanfiction, Torchwick's Little Rose, which despite the name, is not a Roman X Ruby story but rather Torchwick adopted Ruby as his own daughter. As such, Ruby will be mostly the same as she is in the actual show, except for a few facts and quirks, such as why she wants to go to Beacon, how she gets in early etc.
This story also won't be changing anything in the way of teams; RWBY is the team that is formed and other teams like JNPR will still be the same but there will be reason to explain some things. Helpful advice and Criticism is appreciated, and hate will be used for marshmallows. I'd also like to point out that this is my original idea and so if it happens to be similar to another person's story, I didn't know about it and thus was an accident.
Be warned, This story does contain violence, offensive language, death and other mature themes. DO NOT READ IF YOUR SENSITIVE TO THESE THEMES. You have been warned now on with the show.
Summer Rose didn't know what she was thinking at the time.
Why did she think it would be a good idea to bring her youngest daughter with her this time, she was only 3 years old! These were the thoughts going through Summer's head as she desperately ran down the narrow alleyways of Vale late at night, chased by two men. One was a large, almost brutish looking man with dark hair and a very muscular body, the other a faunus with a scorpion tail and long black hair.
She didn't know why they were chasing her as they followed her down an alley next to a small appliance store. As Summer turned around a corner, she continued to run as fast as she could in her tired and injured state.
Summer had just arrived back in Vale after tracking down some Grimm south of Vale for some money so that she and Tai could afford to get some clothes and toys for her youngest, Ruby. She had taken Ruby and some money that they had so she could kill two birds with one stone and get anything they needed in Vale after she'd killed the Grimm. Everything had gone fine and Summer tracked them down and killed them easily enough before returning to Vale to collect the bounty for the Beowolf pack.
After arriving via Bullhead later that night, a tall, muscular man had asked Summer to follow him, claiming he was sent by Ozpin. Ozpin was a dear friend to her and Tai, with him being their headmaster at Beacon, so it wasn't uncommon for him to occasionally ask to meet with them.
The man led Summer to the small bookstore that she and Oz liked to meet at, however when they got there, no one had been there and when she turned to ask where Ozpin was, she was backhanded across the room by the man. Crashing into the counter, she had barely managed to draw her weapon, a long sword with a gun made into the hilt, before a faunus appeared with bladed gauntlets.
Blocking the blades, she swiped at him, trying to make room so that she could assess the situation...when she realised that the small, handheld basket she used to carry Ruby was missing. She gasped suddenly when she saw it across the room being held by the large man, looking down at the child inside it.
"Hmm, is this your child silver eyes?" the man said in a deep, low voice. Summer could only nod at his question, her voice failing her as she prayed to Oum that he wouldn't try and hurt her little Ruby.
The faunus, standing left of her suddenly let out a crazed laugh before saying, "Well well isn't this unexpected! The goddess sends us to kill the woman with silver eyes and we find her with her kiddie too!"
It seems that the brutish man didn't seem too pleased about his compatriot's obvious pleasure in the situation.
"Please, just don't hurt my daughter!" Summer said to the man desperately. Before he could reply, the mad faunus leapt at her, swinging his weapons at her so suddenly she just doesn't have time to fully brace her Aura against it and screamed as the blades bite into her upper right thigh. Summer quickly swung her sword at the his arms, which moved back just in time for him to block her swipe with his gauntlets.
Summer engaged him in combat, swiping her sword at him with the speed of a leopard in a series of complex sword techniques as she tried to get closer to her daughter, which the man had taking out of the basket and left sitting on a bench as he too moved forward to engage her. Turning to face this new threat, she kicked at the faunus and swung her sword diagonally at the brutish man, who somehow managed to block her with his bare arms. Summer started swing her sword around in such a way that she could fire her gun at them as well as use its momentum to land harder hits and move her sword-arm faster, while also using her legs and heavy boots as weapons too.
The man started to punch at the silver eyed warrior in a boxing stance while the faunus continued with that mad and seemingly random method of swinging his weapons, almost in a dancing way. Summer puts up quite the challenge as she manages to keep both of them at bay without taking much in the way of a hit, but it was obvious that she was tiring as her sword strokes slowed and her kicks had less power behind them. It was clear she had already been tired when she arrived and having to fight two Huntsmen level opponents simultaneously didn't help her case. Soon the tide turned against her, which allowed to the two servants of darkness to land more hits on her, weakening her Aura quickly.
Summer knew that she was low on Aura, dangerously low, and realised that she had no chance of besting the two of them in her current condition. With no other choice, she managed to make a grab for Ruby and swiped her sword wildly, so she can make some distance between her and her assailants. They moved back as to avoid her random swings and the second they stopped directly attacking her, she grabbed Ruby and used her semblance, which allows her to throw objects which explode in blinding light. With the only things she has at her disposal being her sword and her daughter, Summer throws her sword at the men who, not expecting her to give up her weapon, tried to move out of its way when it explodes, blinding them momentarily.
Using this opportunity, Summer sprinted past them and out the door as fast as she could.
Summer continued to run as long and far as she could, passing an appliance store, trying escape her attackers and keep Ruby safe. She jumped a fence and ran into a small, out of the way alley behind a newer looking nightclub. As soon as she turned into this alley however, she saw something come out of the darkness and stab her in the shoulder and break through what remains of her Aura. She screamed and collapsed in pain.
When she looked up, all she can see is the crazed grin of the scorpion faunus looking down at her.
"Hahahahaahha you have put on quite the chase dearie now, do us a favour and die please." She realised quickly that without medical attention, all the wounds she had suffered will cause her to bleed to death in this forsaken alleyway. The faunus looked down at the dying woman before grabbing Ruby from her arms, unable to stop him. "Now what should I do with YOU? Hmm... what do you think mummy dearest? Kill the little tyke in front of your very eyes? Or maybe I should poison it and let it die from that with you, hahahahahaa."
The faunus cackled like a mad hatter as he contemplated on how to kill the child. Summer cried quietly as she watched the mad man put his gauntlet to the infant's throat and whispered quietly to the too crying child
"Nighty Night."
Summer looked away when she heard a deep voice say, "Tyrian..."
She looked and faintly saw that the large man arrived and had grabbed the faunus, 'Tyrian', by the shoulder.
"She told us only to kill the woman, leave the child alone."
"Aw but the little kiddie has silver eyes too, the Goddess would want her dead too, you know that Hazel."
Hazel sighed. "Leave the child here, it will either die to the cold or hunger before anyone finds it."
Tyrian groaned before putting Ruby back in Summer's arms and said, "Fine then, but if you ever keep me from killing someone again I'..." Summer failed to hear the rest of what is said as the two men walk away. She manages to hold barely Ruby in an embrace as the light started to leave her eyes and her heart beat its last.
20 year old Vale citizen Roman Torchwick walked out the back of this new nightclub, newly owned by a guy called 'Junior', who just had around 5000-7000 lien stolen by the upcoming criminal, when he came across a scene straight out of a horror movie.
A woman, dressed in a dark top and skirt, with stockings and, oddly enough, a white cloak laying motionless against a wall and covered in blood. Walking up to the still women, Roman couldn't tell if she was unconscious or dead, and when he took the hood of the woman's cloak off check if she was alright, he noticed that she has red hair that's almost black at the roots.
Roman checked to see if the woman was alright by pulling out his scroll to see if she has any injuries hidden since it's so dark that night. Roman clicked his scroll on and swore loudly.
"Holy shit!" Roman muttered as he saw that the woman was covered in cuts and injuries.
He fell backwards, feeling a little dizzy at the sight of the dead woman's body, when he heard a baby crying. Looking around the woman, he noticed that she was holding a small bundle of red cloth. Roman picked up the red cloth to see what was inside it. What he saw changed his life forever. Taking the dead woman's scroll, Roman grabbed a young Ruby Rose and left the alley with her in a decision that will change everything.