"Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that is the allure of vampirism." Sherrilyn Kenyon

Bold: Important note to the story

Italic: Important message to a specific character or event

"Message" Inhuman Speech

"Message" Speech

'Message' Thought's

|Boom!| Noise/sound effect

Once again, there's a warning for mature themes.

There's many reasons this took so long to make, one of them being the sheer number of iterations of the story.

Ruby's vampiric abilities being the one with the most reiterations, along with her entire character itself.

Ruby's now kinda heavily based on a certain clan in Vampire The Masquerade.

I think I'll leave it up to yall to figure out quite which one she is now based on.

It has been three days since Ruby was forced to become a vampire. In that frame of time, she had rarely been seen by anyone. Ruby only ever seemed to be active at night and disappeared into her now dimly lit room during the day.

No one had seen her face either, just glimpses of her silver eyes that had a...different feel to them than before. Ruby refused to show her face anymore, instead hiding it behind the hood of her still blood-soaked cloak.

A cloak she refused to take off even more than she did before, which concerned her family since it was still covered in vast amounts of blood. Ruby refused to explain why she was covered in blood when she reunited with her father and sister, and it had been a bad experience overall.

Flashback:

"RUBY!" A loud panicked yell blasted across the quiet park as Ruby could hear and smell Yang coming running up to her.

Ruby had barely moved an inch when Yang slammed into her right after Ozpin left. Yang was crying slightly as Ruby just patted her sisters back while her father came running up to them. Her father gave her a scared/concerned look as his eyes flashed over the blood, falling to the ground from her still blood-soaked cloak.

"Rosebud...why are you covered in blood?" He asked with extreme worry while Yang quickly unlatched herself from Ruby, looking down to see her own outfit now covered in blood that was all over Ruby.

"I don't want to talk about it." Ruby spoke with a tone that was equal bits exhausted and angry, like she wanted to forget everything that had happened tonight.

Chills ran down Yang's spine when she heard Ruby speak that way. It was just so out of character for the normally hyperactive and cheery girl she always had been...until now it seems. Her father and Yang couldn't see Ruby's face behind the shadows that enveloped her face from her capes hood.

The soft silver moonlight of the shattered moon only briefly lifted the shadows that cloaked Ruby's face, lighting up her own silver colored eyes for a fleeting second While Yang didn't notice the changes in them, her father, Taiyang, certainly did as he recoiled in shock.

Where Ruby's eyes used to be so bright and happy, her eyes had dimmed and had a slightly more ominous look to them, very much akin to how she seemed to be changing rapidly. Tai was getting more and more anxious for what had happened to his daughter since these changes seemed to have only started happening tonight.

Yang could tell something was wrong with Ruby, something had happened, and Ruby had changed somehow from it. The question was, what had happened to her? Only something really bad could change a person in such a short time.

"Ruby? What happened?" Yang asked softly while putting a hand on Ruby's shoulder, who then snarled loudly and threw Yang's hand off of her shoulder.

"Don't touch me!" Ruby hissed angrily as Yang looked hurt at Ruby's action, slight tears coming from her lilac eyes as she held her hands to chest.

It made Ruby feel slightly guilty, but she just wanted to be left alone. If Yang ever learned Ruby had killed two people her age by drinking every last drop of blood in their bodies, she would surely leave Ruby's life forever.

So it was better for Ruby to learn how to be alone, and she wanted to be alone anyway. Even now, she was struggling to reign in her vampiric instinct of attacking Yang and her father, those inhuman whispers in her mind commanding her to succumb and feed off of her family.

That self-hate she felt for herself bubbled like a pool of molten magma inside her, the liquid fire of loathing trying to burn her alive. Ruby hoped she would eventually die for the sins she's already committed and will have to continue to commit and that she would burn in hell.

She went against everything she ever believed in and killed innocent people, so she was convinced that she deserved hell after she had her final death. Of course, she could NEVER tell her family of anything, or else she would have to make them forget somehow.

Ruby would hate to do it, but she would have to find a way to wipe their memories of her eventually. She was an undead and wouldn't age anymore, meaning that there would come a time where she would have to forever separate herself from her family, it would be easier to deal with them dying long before her that way.

The only thing she could tell them was about her being invited to Beacon, but she couldn't tell them about what her new job was or what her classes at Beacon were to be.

"I got invited to Beacon because of what happened tonight, and I won't tell you what happened because I don't want to. Now, let's go home, I don't want to be awake during the coming day." Ruby explained in a tired tone that held no room for arguments or responses, as she slowly walked away to where she could smell the fumes coming off their family vehicle.

Yang watched Ruby walk away with a quivering lip before looking at her father with a scared expression. Her father just shook his head slightly at Yang, who gave a soft but short sob at whatever had caused her baby sister to become so different in a single night.

Ruby could hear the sob Yang had made but chose to ignore it to not have herself finally shattered like glass.

Flashback End:

Tonight, Ruby was leaving her home once again to find someone to drink from. Waking up from the slumbering she did during the daytime, Ruby threw the covers off of her cold, dead body and went into her bedrooms shower.

Since her body was dead, she could easily smell like that as well if she didn't take time to care for it. Walking into the bathroom with a fresh pair of clothes and the cowl of her cloak still darkening her face, she walked up to the sink and undressed herself.

After she had been turned by that vampire, she no longer had a reflection of any kind, whether it be on a reflective surface or with technology. Over the last few nights when her family was still awake, Ruby had to quickly vanish if her family was near anything that could show her missing reflection.

First her cloak fell off her body to reveal to the chilly air the face she hated thinking of anymore, those silver eyes that reflected just what she had been forced to become, and those veined fangs that sat in her mouth awaiting their next victim.

Tonight, she would have to attack and feed off of someone else to make sure she doesn't become feral again. The eyes of that couple she had murdered burned in her mind again, staring at her with no small amount of disgust and resentment.

She would never fully get rid of the taste of their blood on her tongue, the taste of the two innocent people she had so brutally killed. Ruby lifted two fingers to where the fangs of that vampire had marred her for eternity, feeling just how deep the wound was buried into her flesh of her neck.

The bastard had chosen the most painful way he could to turn her by ripping his teeth straight through one of her arteries and let her bleed out to death. She could still remember that soul-enveloping chill and the frightening darkness that engulfed her vision before her first death.

Shivering slightly as she finished undressing herself and her body laid bare before that accursed blank mirror, the glassy black surface was not even capable of showing her the monster in human skin that she was now. That soul-burning hate she had for herself came bubbling like poison through her mind.

Ruby had betrayed everyone she loved by being an inhuman devil, and most importantly, she had betrayed herself. She had betrayed herself by taking innocent lives, something that she had vowed to never do as long as she lived.

Now that vow had been broken and would continue to be broken every time she became feral...

'It would be better to just end it all, wouldn't it?" A soft feminine voice whispered suggestively in a voice much similar to her own into Ruby's ear.

Ruby's eyes widened upon hearing the voice, her breath hitching by habit when she got surprised. Glancing around quickly, Ruby saw no one around her and began to chuckle darkly.

'To think that my life would become something like this! To become a fucking vampire that has to drink blood every night to keep myself from becoming feral! Now I have voices in my fucking head telling me to off myself!' Ruby's dark chuckling became a loud, roaring, and borderline insane laugh as she felt her mind begin to crack from everything that had happened since three days ago.

That laugh suddenly became a short scream of rage and frustration, and Ruby punched the mirror, shattering it into shards that were sent flying everywhere and were coated with her blood. Ignoring the pain that laced through her hand, which would heal by the time she looked at it again, Ruby went into the shower and ran the water cold.

There was no point in enjoying a hot shower anymore when it would just make her smell like a heated dead body. Letting the cold water run over her naked body, Ruby leaned her back against the shower wall and slowly slid down onto the floor.

Her life had become something like a horror story, except she was the one having to live through the horrors of the world. Clutching her knees to her chest, which would never grow ever again now that she was an undead.

Ruby felt so damn furious at herself for thinking she should help a woman who had been dead by the time she arrived at that vampires hideout. If only she hadn't been so damn stupid! Now all that was left of her once innocent soul was the pure hatred she had for so many things.

Hatred of the supernatural, hatred of fate and chance that led her to this, and so much damn hatred of herself. It was like she was drowning in it all, but it oddly felt natural and refreshing, no doubt it was because she was a vampire.

Vampires in stories were creatures of darkness and prevalent sin, so now that meant she was a creature of darkness as well. She already had her dark baptism enforced by the blood of a young couple, not that she had ever wanted such a thing.

She was even lying to her family about what she was, but Ruby guessed her Uncle Qrow would know by now, he was always taking missions from the same man that had practically blackmailed her into becoming his agent like her uncle.

An offer you can't refuse, a deal with the devil, a contract with a demon, all the same damn thing and she was stuck in one herself.

'I fucking wish I could get back at that old man for blackmailing me like that...' Ruby spat in her head while twirling her hair with her fingers absentmindedly.

That infernal burning was starting to come back into her throat, so she would have to finish this shower and slip out again to feed.

Ruby sighed as she stood up from the floor while grabbing a set of soap and shampoo from the shower rack in the corner. Her hand that she had destroyed the mirror with, had already healed long before then.

One of the benefits of her new undeath was hyper-regeneration, though, using it too much made her need to drink blood quicker it seemed. Running the bar soap along her body, Ruby stared at her body with dark and twisted silver eyes filled with heavy bitterness.

She would never grow again after becoming a vampire, she would forever be stuck at nearly sixteen years old. Stuck in a very hormonal teenage body for eternity seemed like a fate she deserved after what she had done.

Even if Ruby hadn't been in control of her actions, it didn't fucking matter in the end! Two people lost their lives because of her, lives that couldn't come back like she did. Growling loudly while finishing cleaning her hair, Ruby let the water wash the shampoo off her scalp.

Eventually Ruby would find that bastard of a vampire that turned her, and she was going to enjoy making him suffer even a fraction of what she has endured and what she will have to endure in the future.

Her sharpened veined canine fangs curled over her lips in a smile that spoke of bloody revenge, her eyes were glinting with a vicious light that had never been there before. Ruby knew she had changed from what had happened a mere three nights ago, she was planning to kill something in revenge after all.

Yet, she no longer cared as long as her loved ones didn't become like her and she could hunt other monsters that hurt humans. A monster that hunts other monsters...it was like she had become a story book character.

It had cost her FAR too much in the end, and she was just beginning her life as a monster. Turning off the cold water, Ruby wrapped a towel around her naked body and walked out of the bathroom and into her conjoined room.

Drying off took her a few minutes that caused the burning thirst in her throat to grow more. Getting dressed in clothes that were mainly black in color, black jeans with tears in the knees, a black tank top with a wilted rose design, a red skull bandana to cover her mouth, her signature red cloak, and a nice pair of leather combat boots.

All in all, she looked like a teenage delinquent. It suited her more now than the clothes she used to wear, clothes that had tried to reinforce the idea she was a heroic huntress. Now she was so far from that idea it was morbidly funny, after all, who in their right mind would call a blood sucking vampire heroic?

Ruby tilted her head as she could hear and smell Yang standing outside her bedroom door, waiting for Ruby to eventually open it and also no doubt wanting to know what had happened to Ruby. That wasn't something she ever needed to know, and it was still something that Ruby wasn't ready to even speak about at that.

Even now she could still feel that chill of death.

Silently opening the window to her bedroom, Ruby jumped through and landed on the ground with nary a stirring of the grass. The shattered moon sat high above in the heavens, illuminating the area around her with silvery moonlight.

Thousands of smells and sounds came rushing into Ruby's senses. The smell of wet dew on the grass, the sound of a owl crying loudly into the frigid air of the night. This was now the realm she was trapped in for eternity, for she would never again see the light of day unless she wanted to kill herself.

She had learned that after a small sliver of daylight had snuck past her window curtains and scorched a patch of her leg, the skin becoming black and charred in mere seconds of contact while she had slept.

The pain had woke her up with a short and muffled scream. Thankfully neither her father or sister had heard her scream. Staring at the shattered moon while walking through the woods that extended past her home, Ruby felt the burning in her throat grow worse with every passing second.

Past the forest and into the center of the island was the local town, the place Ruby was heading to to drink some blood from poor human. Every day anymore, Ruby wondered if she was stuck in a dream somehow, a nasty and horrible dream, but a dream nonetheless.

Finding out the world was bigger and more vicious than she ever felt possible seemed like what would happen in a dream. Here she was, dressed in a outfit so unlike who she used to be, walking into a town to actually harm someone because she can't even help it anymore.

Ruby's teeth curled over her lips in dark amusement and disgust at that thought.

'Can't help it? I'm robbing people of their blood to keep living in a cursed undeath, when I can just simply watch the sunrise to just kill myself...but that won't satisfy me anymore, not when I can hunt those who would do what was done to me unto others.' Ruby spat with venom in her mind as her mind flashed back to the face of the one who had murdered her in cold blood.

Those veined teeth that loomed over her neck as her emotions and mind was controlled against her, the panic and fear she felt while helpless before a thing most would never know exists in the world, and the feeling of her flesh being ripped open by veined teeth and her blood being drained.

That pain that came with it was unforgettable, then the cold started to drench her very soul as her body went into shock from blood loss. Then the void that came after she had actually died.

Heaven seemed to be a lie from what Ruby had experienced, all that she had experienced was vast, empty, desolate nothingness.

That meant her mother Summer Rose was not frolicking in the vast fields of endless wildflowers that she deserved to be in. That thought alone made Ruby's mind flare from the sheer rage that enveloped it, if anyone had ever deserved to be at peace in the afterlife, Ruby believed it would be her mother.

Or maybe Heaven did exist and Ruby simply would have never been able to achieve it, especially now given what she is, and what she has already done.

The rage and hatred engulfing her blackening soul from remembering and thinking those terrible things made Ruby clench her fist so tight, that her nails dug into her palm and created circular cuts that bled slightly, a single crimson droplet hit the grass under her feet before the wound healed.

Ruby let out an angry guttural growl akin to a beast as she picked up the pace to the nearby town, the terrible thirst getting worse with the more time she wasted thinking. Stomping with her left foot forward, Ruby broke off into a sprint that made wind whip viciously around her body.

After becoming a vampire, every one of Ruby's physical aspects had skyrocketed to a level even beyond what Yang could achieve without considerable buildup from her semblance [Burn]. The sprint she was doing made her as fast as a automobile by simply running.

55mph, 75mph, 80mph and still climbing as she vented her frustration and rage through the physical labor, a feral snarl leaving her lips as she reached over 120mph. Tree's and plants blurred around Ruby as she kept sprinting as fast as she could, dirt and dust flew as a brown cloud behind her while she traveled like a bullet through the forest.

She dodged through the trees and objects dotting her path, her maelstrom of negative emotions growing more fierce every time her feet slammed into the ground. The ground cracked under the soles of her feet, sending small shockwaves through the damp dew-covered soil.

Animals fled from the air of viciousness and abyssal darkness that clouded over Ruby as she sped through the forest, their cries of alarm echoing for considerable distances out into the forest of shaded green.

'Right now I must be a Beacon for the Grimm...I don't care though, let them try to fight me and die!' Ruby spat in her mind as she ran around a large oak tree, using her arms to steer her body to avoid colliding with the tree.

A loud cacophony of dark howls split the air as the Grimm sensed the lit beacon of negativity that was Ruby's soul. The air seemed to shudder under the sheer of number of Grimm screaming bloody murder.

Ruby's face seemed to twist into an even more inhuman state as she heard the cries of an army of mankind's mortal enemies, her silver eyes were glinting with barely restrained madness and untold amounts of blood lust, her mouth set in a snarl fierce enough to make a demon pause.

The thirst in her throat grew near unbearable from having waited too long to feed, but there was no way she would get to the town before the Grimm found her. She would have to fight for the first time since her fall.

Ruby slowed her sprint by flipping around and gripping the ground to come to a full stop, her body was howling in protest at not having the blood it needed to continue functioning, her mind was a roaring hurricane of vile emotions that were engulfing her conscious thoughts.

It was a pure Black Rage that had swallowed Ruby whole. Throwing her head back, Ruby released a roar that matched the Grimm in sheer ferocity, the air around her seemed to boil with the heat of her wrath.

The first wave of Grimm breached the area Ruby stood in, a swarm of Beowulves nearly forty strong, a number that even a veteran Hunter would hesitate before fighting. Unfortunately, Ruby was no longer in a sane enough state to recognize the danger of the situation.

Bursting forward in a bolt of red and black, Ruby slammed into the first Beowulf in front of her and gripped its skull within her left hand, she then slammed its bony skull into the dirt and used her vampiric strength to rip the Grimm's skull clean off its shoulders with her other hand.

She then threw the skull at another lunging Beowulf, knocking it sideways through the air and it crashed into one of its brethren. Ducking under another lunge by a slightly smaller Beowulf than the last one, Ruby grabbed its back leg when it flew past her and swung it into two charging Grimm.

A loud cracking sound filled the air when the three Grimm slammed together, while Ruby held firmly onto the Beowulves leg, she then tore it off a burst of black blood and an abyssal mist. The beast howled in agony as Ruby threw away the severed leg and caught the snapping and slavering jaws of Beowulf with both hands.

Her merciless silver eyes stared into the bloody crimson orbs of the struggling Grimm, before with an echoing and near deafening howl, she split the entire skull of the ravenous beast in half with black blood painting her face in a steaming spray.

Rolling to avoid a set of swiping bone claws, Ruby came back up and lunged at the Grimm's throat. Using her hands empowered with her vampiric strength, a gruesome and loud ripping sound rang out across the forest as Ruby tore open the throat of the black wolf.

Gurgling gasps escaped the bloodied throat of the beast while Ruby moved onto her next victim, her body already caked in black blood that was slowly evaporating into thick ash. Sliding underneath another Grimm wolf, Ruby stabbed her hands into the beast gut and ripped it open with a shower of ichor covering her body even more.

Kicking upwards and sending the lifeless Grimm flying, she twisted into the air and axe kicked another Grimm's spine, shattering it from the sheer strength of her Black Rage and vampiric strength.

Ruby's lengthened veined canines flashed in a blood hungry grin, her eyes no longer showing the innocence or gentleness they had just days before, instead showing the beast she had become in the fight she was in.

A beast that seeks to kill everything in sight to appease the rage and bloodthirst it had enveloping its mind like a thick haze. Her moves were sloppy and unrefined, but it didn't matter with the sheer speed and power behind each strike she landed.

The sound of air being displaced rang out from behind Ruby as she felt pain lace through her back, the spray of her blood falling in a curtain of crimson. She hadn't brought up her aura in her primal rage, and she had now been hurt because of it.

Her vision grew tinted with every hue of the color of her own ichor, her Black Rage growing in strength from the agony in her back and the unbearable thirst in her throat. Ruby's flesh healed with the sound of her vampiric blood sealing the wound shut.

An unholy howl of wrath bubbled past Ruby's lips as she turned around to the beast that had struck her, her face no longer looked human at all. Thick bulging veins stuck out from under her skin, her veined teeth were barred with the moonlight glinting off their serrated edge, her sclera was bloodshot and her silver eyes had lost all traces of her humanity.

Those silver orbs were merely the eyes of a predator who had been corned, a dangerous beast who would rip apart anything in their path to reach safety. Ruby grabbed the throat of the Grimm with one hand and then chucked the large beast over her, it sailed through the air while Ruby burst after it.

Jumping off the ground, Ruby flew through the air and landed on the beast while it was flailing around helplessly, she kicked off it before she started spinning in the air. The wind whipped around her form as she gained speed, her foot then extended and slammed into the Grimm wolf in a devastating Axe kick that shot it down to the ground like a heaven-sent cannonball.

The ground shuddered when the beast hit it, dust and grass flying away in waves from the strength of the collision. Ruby landed on her feet encircled by the rest of the Grimm mega pack, her eyes darting all over the place looking at every single Grimm around her.

There was still so many of them to fight, and Ruby liked that fact. With an echoing blast of roars that shook the night air, the Grimm charged Ruby en-masse. Blows rained upon Ruby from all angles, with her dodging the ones she could and letting her regeneration tank the ones she couldn't.

For every blow that hit her, Ruby repaid the Grimm with two or even three intense blows in kind. Black and red blood coated the ground, with the former being far more abundant than the scant few scarlet droplets here and there.

Many inhuman howls and growls echoed through the moonlit forest, some sounding human while others were merely the cries of bloodthirsty beasts. Thick ash floated on the wind with every Grimm Ruby brutally killed, their number gradually dwindling with every blow exchanged.

Soon the last of the Grimm wolves had been felled, and Ruby breathed a small sigh of relief when the inhuman part of her mind released her after the threats were gone. The craving for blood was damn near all-consuming in its pangs, so Ruby shook her body to rid it of the still disappearing Grimm blood to look presentable enough to enter the town.

After making sure there were no more Grimm in the vicinity, Ruby made her way to the local town at a swift and brisk pace. Unknown to her, her shadow seemed to shudder slightly with small vine-like tendril's snaking out from its incorporeal form to stretch out behind Ruby.

Since all of the nearby Grimm had been killed by her hand, Ruby wanted to vent out some of the emotions that had been storming inside of her that day less than a week ago, and maybe even some of the feelings she had never come to term with since she was young.

Reaching into her pocket, Ruby pulled out her scroll and started playing a soft and sad series of music. Taking a deep breathe in even though there was no need to, Ruby breathed out a gust of air that produced a mist that tumbled through the chilly night air.

A/N: I know I said I wouldn't include music or videos (that are not my own) in my books anymore, but this single song fits far too much for the current state of this Ruby.

Play The Edge from the RWBY Vol 9 soundtrack

"I arrive at the edge of the world,." Ruby softly sung out as the events of the last few days surface all over again in her mind.

The end of Ruby's previous world had ended, shattered even, into a million illusionary glass shards. Would it even be worth trying to recover those pieces? To recover any resemblance of what she had lost?

"And I wonder, should I sit or should I stand? Should I kneel?" Ruby would have to choose how she went forward in this new immortal undeath she had been forcefully given.

Should she keep moving forward even if she is no longer who she used to be? Or should she just kneel to her own despair and finally break after the life she has lived and the one she's now forced to live?

"What should I feel? Will I fall apart? Maybe that's all I want." Ruby's life was definitely not like a good one by any means.

Her mother had disappeared on a mission when she was barely old enough to remember her, leading to a house filled with sadness and misery. Her father had turned to drinking to manage his grief, while Yang, Ruby's nearly indomitable sister, had cried nonstop for days.

When her father started to neglect them due to constantly being passed out drunk and Yang had lost all the tears she had, Yang stepped up to take care of both Ruby and herself. Yang chose to become the mother figure that Ruby had been missing with her mother having been gone.

Both Ruby and Yang knew that Yang could never fully replace the mother they had lost, but Yang was the only one who could even try to pick up those pieces. Then that faithful trip to the shack in the woods that had reinforced to Yang what she should do.

"I pretend that I'm queen of a castle that's tumbling around my feet, and in my hearts its there." Her castle, her life, had crumbled days ago...maybe it had even long before that.

No matter how much Ruby smiled and laughed before that day, she always had had a bit of darkness inside of her heart. Darkness that raged at how she had lost so much, raged at her mother for leaving her alone, held resentment at Yang for being everything she had wanted to be, felt disappointment and hatred at her father for neglecting her when she needed him the most.

"Standing tall enough to fix it all. It's just a new beginning, it's just a different ending." Can she fix anything about herself at this point? Will giving into her new sinister vampiric nature be a new beginning, or just an end to all she was?

"It's just, It's just beginning. It's just, It's just ending. It's just, It's just beginning. It's just, It's just ending. It's just, It's just, It's just, It's just." What should Ruby do? What should her decision be?

"Just you see, watch as I go alone! All alone!" Ruby's song hit its crescendo as tears of blood ran quietly down her cheeks while she felt every bit of repressed emotion she had ever held back hit her like a tsunami.

It was ironic that becoming a being of darkness was what would make her come to terms with who she had been, and the catalyst that would soon decide who she would become.

"Rising like a wave, its clear that I'm everything and nothing all at once!" Leaves and twigs crunched under Ruby's feet while the droplets of her tears of crimson fell onto the wet soil.

"I'll meet you at the horizon where we first met. Where I died, I'll be born again!" Ruby finished her song while wiping away her tears, staring hard at the ichor now coating her hands.

She would have to make a choice soon, one that would decide who she would be. Ruby would have to either choose to retain as much as her humanity as she could, or choose to embrace her new vampiric nature and bath in her own darkness.

Regardless of which she choose in the end, no one else must know about what she choose, especially Ozpin. That man would for sure kill her if she choose to embrace her corruption and new unlife.

Hatred flared in her mind at the thought of the headmaster of Beacon killing her for being what she was now, sure she could understand it since she was a major threat to normal humans, but that did not mean she couldn't loathe him for blackmailing her with her own final death.

Her thoughts were halted when Ruby noticed that she had reached the edge of the forest near the town, the silver moonlight shimmering like a wave in the gap between wilderness and civilization, almost like it was beckoning her to revel in the life of the night.

The sounds of the few people awake at this hour reached her ears, their breath twisting through the air past their lips, their enticing heartbeats thundering loud in her ears. Subconsciously Ruby ran her tongue over her lengthy fangs hidden by the bandana covering her mouth, her body begging for the dark sustenance it needed oh so badly.

Walking forward towards the walls of the town with almost no sound, Ruby seemed nearly ethereal, her entire presence like a tantalizing drug of indulgence. Striding up to the nearly ten foot tall outer wall, Ruby jumped up and over the wall in a single leap.

This had been her routine for the last three nights now. Sneaking out of her home in the dead of the night to travel here to feed, the poor bastards she fed on never remembering what had happened to them afterward.

It was also extremely pleasurable to Ruby, feeling the blood of her victim entering her body forcefully, it felt even better than what Ruby thought sex would feel. Landing softly behind a large building, the shadows cast by the building seemed to welcome Ruby with grasping arms.

Using her enhanced hearing, Ruby targeted the sound of a strong heartbeat towards the more poor side of the town, her teeth already bared in a slight predatory smile. Sticking to the shadows and alleyways that carved a path between each building, Ruby approached her quarry unnoticed by any human presence, but several animals notice her and ran away yowling loudly.

'So close...so thirsty...' Ruby thought while her throat burned more than ever, her body nearly on the edge of another frenzy that would end with her killing another person. Something she didn't want to do at all costs.

That self hate she had for becoming a vampire was still there, but it was dwindling slowly grain by grain into a dark hourglass, dissipating quietly into the growing abyss within her soul.

"They are just mere mortals, nothing like the powerful being you are now, so why do you care about them still?" That soft feminine voice from earlier whispered seductively into Ruby's ear, the message stopping Ruby dead in her tracks.

'I can't think like that! If I do, then everything I was would be gone and all that would be left would be...' Ruby's thoughts trailed off as she felt a cold and pleasant chill lace up her undead spine.

The heartbeat of her prey still thrummed in her ears, the sound akin to a heavenly choir promising salvation, tempting in its sheer enticement. Here she was in the town she had spent a majority of her life visiting, a now dark wolf among helpless sheep, hunting down said sheep to gorge herself upon their lifeblood.

"Your not who you used to be anymore, so why do you still deny your new self? Why deny yourself release from the burden of who you were?" The voice purred into Ruby's ear, its suggestions tempting and alluring to Ruby.

"Your immortal, un-aging, undying! You can spend your unlife achieving any goal you want, you have the time to do it after all...you could even find a way to bring back your mother eventually...if you would only let go..." With those final words, the voice fell silent and Ruby thought on the voices ideas.

Another cold chill ran down Ruby's spine, her eyes glinting harshly with a growing coldness and shaping ambition.

'Their right...I'll live forever with my transformation...being able to do whatever I want...even those who would stop me would eventually die unless their a supernatural like me." A soft chuckle bubbled past Ruby's lips, her voice gaining a faint echo that was almost non-existent, but still there.

Unknown to Ruby, a single strand of her red hair tips hanging off her bangs slowly bled to a pitch black color. Ruby continued walking to where her victim had stopped inside a small nature park that the town had, Ruby peered around a pillar to see a young man a little older than her sitting on a park bench tapping away on his scroll.

Most towns and cities in Remnant had nature parks within them to let the citizens enjoy the nature that usually was denied to them by the Grimm. His heartbeat echoed in Ruby's ears, the strong thumping sound of blood rushing through his veins making her thirst for blood grow.

The flapping of wings sounded over Ruby, with a large crow and raven landing on a nearby lamppost, their large beady red eyes staring at Ruby with tilted heads opposite to each other. Ruby felt their stares, but dismissed them as she strode up to her victim with grace that felt both natural and unnatural to her.

Graceful was a term that she had never applied to herself before, but now her movements were simply beautiful and fluid. Her steps were light and airy, the motion of her well built legs seductive without even meaning to be, yet there was an ethereal beauty she had gained that was alluring and so very wrong.

Stopping in front of the young man, Ruby's silver eyes flashed dangerously when he looked up to meet her gaze. She had never felt so at ease with commanding someone's attention in such a way.

'It must be one of the new gifts of my unlife...' Ruby mused in her mind, the older teen's attention now fully on her.

"Can I help you miss?" He asked with a hint of curiosity and trepidation that laced his voice, her clothing must have been off putting to him.

"Oh, I just noticed how you were alone and I thought you might want some company. Not many people are awake at this hour, and I was surprised to see someone around my age out and about." Ruby explained with a small smile while sitting down next to him, most of her attention however, was on how she thought his blood would taste.

'Hmmmm, maybe it would be a bit sweet? Or would it be a bit bitter?' Ruby thought as she absentmindedly licked her lips in anticipation.

The crow sitting atop the light post she passed cried harshly into the night as Ruby leaned closer to the boy, her mouth set in a predatory grin behind the bandana that covered it.

"Yeah, I learned to be a night owl to avoid my family." The boy said with a nervous laugh, seemingly to relax ever so slightly, which would prove to be a mistake in the end.

Ruby giggled slightly along with him, thinking on how since three day's ago, Yang had proved to be a pest. Yang had been trying to figure out what had happened to Ruby, albeit she had totally failed so far since Ruby had avoided her family extensively.

"I can relate to that so much, my older sister has been so overbearing lately! She was okay before, but its now a thousand times worse than before!" Ruby sighed as she slumped a bit into the bench, wanting the older boy to relax just a tad bit more before she strikes.

"Dang, that must suck. I got to deal with my mom being such a prick..." He snarled the last word as Ruby sent him a (fake) sympathetic look in her eyes.

"Yikes, well at least you have a mom...mine died as a huntress when I was barely young enough to remember her..." Ruby made a soft sniffling sound accented with a (fake) sob.

"There, there..." The boy said while leaning over to Ruby and rubbing her back in circles.

This was her chance, and Ruby instantly took it. Ruby grabbed his left shoulder with one hand and used her other to hold his head in place. The boy screamed shrilly from the sheer pressure of Ruby's grip, it felt like his bones were creaking and close to shattering.

"Sorry about this...well I'm really not actually. I realize now that if I must do what I need to do to live, maybe I should really just enjoy it as much as I can." Ruby flicked her head to lower the bandana covering her mouth, revealing her long veined canine teeth that glinted terribly in the light of the shattered moon.

The boy started to scream again, begging someone to come save him, but Ruby moved her hand from the top of his head to wrap around his neck to cover his mouth.

"Ah-ah, none of that now! I had to kill a lot of Grimm to get my chance to feed today, and now I sure as hell won't be denied my food." Ruby raised her mouth to hover over the boy's neck, while being mindful of where to bite without killing him like how she had died.

Ruby slammed her teeth down in his neck as his muffled screams were muted by her hand over his mouth, her vampiric fangs ripped into his flesh like a hot knife through butter. Blood rushed into her mouth with the taste of almost pure sugar, the life essence bringing her ecstasy beyond anything she could feel besides when doing this dark feeding.

The cries of the crow blasted through the night again while feathers fell from its ebony body as it took flight, flying right over Ruby and further into the star filled sky. The raven gave a single loud scream before following the crow, its larger body swimming through the air.

Moaning slightly as she continued drinking more and more of the older boy's blood, Ruby had flashes of hot lightning bolt sensations course through her body that made her shiver in pleasure.

'To feel this every night...becoming a...vampire...might've been a good thing...a really good thing." Ruby moaned again as her lifted her mouth from the boy's now anemic body, he was shaking slightly from a small case of bloodloss.

Tossing him aside, the boy hit his head on the bench and was knocked out cold. Ruby continued to moan while still riding the high of vampiric feeding.

"Ahhhh~" Blood dripped from her fang's and lips, both coated and colored a bright scarlet that pooled onto the ground underneath her.

Behind Ruby, her shadow twisted and writhed with it seeming to gain more shape and solidness, the small tendrils from before becoming more defined, the tendrils exploding into thick thorny vines covered with abyssal roses.

Putting her hand under her still ichor dribbling mouth, Ruby let some of the scarlet liquid pool into her palm and saw the sight of her reflection being non-existent, where her body would've been was just a clear sight to the stars sitting in high heavens above.

Giggling slightly as the high of her dark deed finally finished, Ruby let a content sigh after her bout of depraved giggles had ended. The scent of iron filled the air, the harsh metallic nature of it still exciting Ruby.

She had made sure to not kill the boy, but she did drink enough to make him need several days of rest to replenish the blood he had lost. Thankfully none of her clothes had been drenched in his blood, and there was still a few hours of moonlight left to burn.

Ruby wiped her mouth and hands off on the boy's non-blood soaked clothes, then started to skip her way over to one of the two bar's in the town. If she could use her new vampiric nature to fool people like she had that boy, she was going to take full advantage of it.

After all, who could stop her anymore?

Walking inside of the more rustic style bar, the few souls still inside of it turned to look at Ruby, and then their entire attention was snared only on her. Sitting up at the bar, Ruby smiled at the elderly bartender.

"Get me a whiskey please, won't you?" Ruby asked with a small purr in her throat as the older man smiled and tossed a bottle of whiskey over to her.

Ruby caught it and downed it in one go, the taste was nowhere near as good as blood and the drunkenness had no effect on her corpse of a body. Ruby laughed after draining the entire bottle, feeling the full weight of the innocent girl she had been before slowly start to fade.

She had never felt so carefree.

Scene break: Qrow

Wind fluttered through his ebony black feathers while he soared on an updraft, the scene he had seen just moments before burned into his memory with merciless abandon.

He had watched Ruby, his adorable and innocent niece, attack a boy a little older than her and drink his blood. Ozpin had told him that things had happened to Ruby and now she HAD to attend Beacon...but this?

Ruby was a fucking vampire! One of the things he hunted regularly for Ozpin, and his niece was one of them! Those inhuman abominations that hunted humans as food, and Ruby had just done the same thing as them!

She even looked like she had enjoyed it, the boy had even been screaming for help before she started to drain him! This was supposed to be Ruby, the hyperactive and ever cheerful girl who loved to help others!

Tears blinded Qrow as he flew in his avian form, his sadness and rage at whatever had happened to his niece to become like this flooding through him. His destination loomed in the distance, a large cabin surrounded by dense woodland.

Diving down, he returned to his human form once he had neared the ground, seeing that the light on in the kitchen was still on. Unlocking the door with his set of keys, Qrow stumbled into the kitchen where he knew Tai was making food for himself as a late night snack.

"Tai." Qrow rasped out as his brother in law turned around from making his sandwich in surprise.

"Qrow! What are you doing here? I thought you had been on a mission?" Tai asked with curiosity and a small amount of worry seeing the state he was in.

"Do you remember what creature Summer hated the most?" Qrow said while putting his head in his hands while shaking slightly.

"What? Why are you asking?" Tai questioned with his worry growing more and more for his teammate.

"Just answer the question." Qrow told Tai in a tired voice, sounding like a weary old man for once.

"It was...a vampire, right?" Qrow nodded at Tai's answer before lifting his head from his hands.

"Ruby...Ruby's a vampire now Tai." With that statement, Tai grew pale and started to hyperventilate.

"What?" He croaked out quietly.

Annnnnnnnnnd that's it! Cliffhanger again!

Man, it took forever to finish this. Most of the time I spent writing on this book until last week was a SHIT TON of planning.

I'm on rendition 5 or six by now when it comes to the entire storyline. Ruby's powers alone is at rendition 3 and this is the one that will stay.

The next chapter will be the Beacon initiation, but with a twist that has NEVER been done before from what I have seen.

The initiation is on the same night as the day they arrive, and don't expect the teams to be anywhere near the same as canon.

Nothing is really like canon at all now that I think of it.

Anyways I hope yall liked the chapter, tell me what you thought in the reviews!