"C'mon baby… We won't hurt you." One says and both laugh.

The younger girl was frightened and keeps trying to pull away, "P-please. I'm just here with a friend."

"Well, we'll take her too if you'd like." They laugh again and keep pulling her.

Though one lets out a blood curdling scream as he crumbles to the floor. "The fuck!?" The other shouts before feeling the cool press of a knife to his throat. His eyes go wide as he see Raven with a blade. "O-ohshit. Raven- God no-" He pleads and gets backed away slowly by a very angry woman.

"Shut up." She snarls and the man holds back a whimper. The other man wasn't even moving but she didn't kill him… "I'll let you and your buddy here live… Though I'm really thinking about changing my mind right now. Who the fuck do you think you are to try and force yourself on a fuckin twenty year old you sick fuck!?" She shouts and draws attention.

He tried to plead again and gets kneed between the legs, "NO. You SHUT the FUCK UP!" She could only see red, "I can get away with murder. I run this entire city from the palm of my hands and you disrespect me in my own establishment. I should cut off your nuts right now and shove them down your throat!" She yells right in his face.

"Raven. He's had enough." Someone says calmly and then back peddled when her attention went on them.

"Get him out of here and make sure he never steps foot inside of this city again. If he does… Break his limbs." She threatens and looks down at him, "I gave you a second chance…" She leans down again to the crying man, "Don't make me regret not killing you… Because I will make sure your life is hell."

Raven pushes him away and he scrambles to leave. The other man was dragged out to who knows where but Raven didn't care. Her blood was boiling and she needed someone to hit.

"Aunt Raven… Is that.. Holy cow it's really you!" The voice was sweet and energetic. As if two men weren't about to- Raven didn't want to think about that.

'It's not her… It's not Summer.' That dull ache came back in full force after fifteen years. Very long and cold years of a mess she could never fix now. Fifteen years since the one light of her life died. Raven's blood was heated but a tidal wave of sadness told her of the oncoming storm.

"Ruby Rose…" She turns on her heel to see Summer's only child. Those grey eyes full of life and the optimism of a puppy. "You're a long way from home, little rose."

Ruby beamed and wipes her eyes, "I heard stories that you were somewhere in this state. I had to find you!" The determination, the smile. "T-though… I wasn't expecting the knife… The men… Yang would have killed me if she saw where I was." She rambles on and on. Dead set on making a point she didn't need to.

Raven heard Yang's name and tuned out the rest, "Leave rosebud." She says, a sorrow in her tone, "This place is dangerous and not for someone as sweet as you,"

Ruby blinks, "I-I mean. Aunt Raven, I wanted to catch up!" She beams, "M-Maybe not now but like… In the day time when we're safe in a well supervised area…"

Raven snorts, "I'm not one to be supervised." She looks to clock on the wall, "Wheres this friend?" She asks, "Get them and leave, I'm going to be stepping into a match soon."

Ruby blushes, "Honestly… There was no friend. I did that to try and deter them?" She mumbles, embarrassed.

Raven rubs her head, "It never will. Men like that will rape anything with a pulse." Blunt as it is, it's true. "You're too damn naive and cute for a bar like this." She groans and looks around, "Mercury!" She shouts and sees a man come over with a boot on for a recovering leg injury. Raven grins and pats his shoulder, "So… I know Cinder is still pissed that I broke your leg… But I have a mission for you."

Mercury rolls his eyes, "Great." Sarcasm in every letter of the word.

"I know it's great. Because I want you to make sure this young lady here isn't messed with while I'm in the cage." She gives him a hardened glare, "Or else."

Mercury gulped at the or else, as rebellious as he is, he's not an idiot. "Fine." He says and turns to Ruby, "Come with me. We'll be with my boss in her private booth."

Raven nods and waits for them to disappear into the crowd before taking her leave. Another challenger has called Raven out. Another potential upstart wanting recognition in a smaller group of idiots. She's heard it all. She gets looked down on because she's a woman, she'll prove how wrong it is to judge her like that.

Cinder was looking down on the current fight, a velvet bag in hand as she toyed with it. Bored and waiting for Raven's fight, though she looks to see Mercury. "What is it?"

Mercury grumbles as he lets Ruby in, "Raven wanted me to look after this girl."

Ruby sighs, "Sorry for the intrusion. My aunt Raven didn't want me to be alone I guess."

Cinder's eyes widen. "Aunt Raven? I never knew she had family." She smiles as she leans back in her plush chair. "She never talks about her past." Ruby frowns at that but jumped when Cinder suddenly snaps her fingers, "Get a chair for her."

A large man seemingly appeared from the shadows and set down a nice chair. Ruby gulped at the stranger before carefully sitting down next to Cinder.

Cinder smiles fondly, "So, what's your name cutie?"

Ruby looks to her and blushes, "Ruby. Ruby Rose."

Cinder hums, "Pleasure. You can call me Cinder. I've known your aunt for quite a few years. We're business partners of sorts."

Ruby nods slowly, "I'm afraid to ask why type of business."

Cinder laughs, "Then don't ask." She leans closer and looks into her eyes, "Are you old enough to drink? I have a personalized bar in this room. I can get you anything you want."

Ruby only seemed to get more flustered at Cinder's attention. 'Calm down little gay heart.' She thinks and shakes her head, "I-I'm only twenty miss."

Cinder sighs, "Miss is so formal." She chastises lightly and tenderly moves a lock of hair from Ruby's face, "Fine… If no alcohol, I'll have someone fetch you a virgin drink."

Ruby blushes more as she fidgets in her seat. Only to jump when a nicely dressed man offers her a fancy looking drink on a tray. "What's this?"

"Shirley Temple. It's sweet and I have a feeling you're on the sweeter side of tastes." Cinder was enjoying this, you don't get a cute twenty something in these establishments every night. Ruby was like an angel in a den of demons. Cinder loved that. Even better now that she knows it's Raven's niece.

"So Ruby, tell me about Raven." She asks before her attention was stolen away to the ring. "Wait…. Later. Your aunt is about to fight."

Ruby blinks, "FIGHT!?"

A huge man was standing in the ring. Boisterous and rowdy as he eggs on the crowd to cheer for him. Raven entered the ring shortly after, an entirely different air about her now as she sweeps her opponent of head to toe.

'This will be too quick.' She thinks. Standing a foot below him, hair tied back, blood red sports bra, bruised ribs and toned muscle showing and black Capri tights. Hands bandaged and prewrapped up in case of glass shards or razor blades thrown on the ground. She didn't look at all impressed as the burly man saunters closer.

"Branwen! I'm a long time fan!" He calls out, chipper and flexing miles of muscle under his skin. "I really was hoping to fight you before you got too old! Glad I got the chance!" He has an uproarious laugh.

Raven cocks her head to the side, bored, "I'll never be too old to do this." She sighs. The man was bare chested, hair everywhere and had a mohawk with a bushy mustache to boot. He looked old timey, like he'll say 'Fisticuffs' or something from the roaring twenties. "Good to see you survived the Great Depression to fight me. I didn't know I had time traveling fans."

The man smirks, crossing his arms over his chest, "Cute…. Well then. Have at thee, Raven!" He charges towards her.

'There it is…' she grins and dodged the first punch with ease.

Cinder grins as the fight finally starts, "She'll win."

Ruby was shocked to see this and she looks to Cinder, "He's gigantic though!"

"Size isn't everything, honey." She taps her chin, "Because I could easily throw a man over six foot with the right center of gravity. Anyone can." She eyes Ruby, "Even you, Rose."

Ruby blushes and looks back to the ring. The man was losing badly. Practically punching air as Raven dodges every punch he throws. One dodge and then a mean right hook into his rips. This kept going, only seeing the man getting angrier as the fight went on.

Cinder laughs and Ruby was awestruck. "She's amazing!"

Cinder smiles, "Never seen your aunt fight?"

"N-no. I haven't seen her since I was five." She sighs, "I had no idea she could do any of this stuff."

Cinder nods slowly. "I see. She's certainly lead a secretive life from the both of us." She leans back in her chair and taps her chin in thought.

Ruby tilts her head a bit to the side in confusion. Attention stolen to the ring again as the man lets out a loud grunt. Falling to the ground and he did not get back up, Raven puts one fit in the air in triumph. Panting heavily and sweat dripping down her features, a few new bruises joined her existing ones but she felt good. Really good.

Cinder clasps her hands together, "Come, little rose!" She smiles, getting up and having Ruby get up in a hurry to follow her. "Lets go get Raven a drink."

"What kind of drinks does she like?" Ruby asks, walking next to the older woman.

Cinder thinks, "Hennessy is her favorite. She usually gets it mixed to have a more citrus like flavor." She stops at her bar and Ruby watches like a curious puppy. Cinder was enjoying this, she couldn't put her finger on why though. Maybe it's the innocence, the eagerness to learn, and Ruby was also very cute and still growing into her womanly figure. She liked that a lot.

Raven was bandaged up again and hurried to where she knew Mercury would have taken Ruby. "Cinder!" She calls out and sees the woman and Ruby just chatting quietly. Raven did not like that. "Ruby, are you ready to get out of here?"

Ruby turns to her aunt, "Are we leaving? Where are we gonna go?"

Cinder smiles, a hint of desire in that look, "You can always stay with me~"

Raven didn't like that hint. A strange possessiveness came over to her as she marches over to Ruby, "Sorry, Cinder." She says, looking straight into the other woman's eyes, "She came to visit a long lost relative, not fool around." There was a warning in there.

Cinder's eyes sparked with the challenge. "Who said anything about fooling around?" She laughs, "I only mean the best."

"That's never true." Raven says as she looks to Ruby, "We're going to my home. Then I'm calling-' She stops and looks to Cinder. Bad idea to bring up the ex in front of your rival. "Anyways, lets go."

Ruby nods as she gets up, she turns to Cinder and smiles, bright and happy, "Thank you for keeping me company~" She waves and the older woman was amazed. Raven didn't miss the look on her face. "C'mon Aunt Raven!" She grabs her arm to pull her out, "I wanna catch up. You've been missing for fifteen years!"

Raven sighs inwardly, 'Hiding actually.'

Raven's home made Ruby gasp in astonishment, "Whoa! You live here!?"

Raven grins, "Yes. Gutted, cleaned, inspected and refurbished. It's big enough for my needs and I like the solitude." She Let's Ruby bounce around her home. "Now tell me, how'd you find me?" She sits down in a leather chair in her living room.

Ruby looked at various paintings of naked women before looking at Raven, "Qrow."

Raven grumbles angrily, "Of course it was him."

Ruby smiles, "He says Hi by the way!" She goes back to looking at more of the paintings in awe.

Raven rubs her temples before finally looking at Ruby again. 'She looks so much like Summer.' The thought made her actually take in how much Ruby had grown. Short black hair with red tips that brushed her shoulders, wearing black and red everything. Red sneakers, black pants with tears in the knees, giant red hoodie that looked two sizes too big, and a black tank top with a rose on it. She smiles, 'Be Summer's twin if she had more white.'

"Aunt Raven."

"What?" She asks from her slouched position. The ache of the braw today and yesterday making her not want to move.

"Why haven't you come to visit?" She asks, eyeing neon lights over a huge bar with a man cleaning polished wood.

Raven grips the arms of her chair in a split second a fury. Old battles that never finished flashed in her mind. She relaxed a bit, ignoring the need to leave. Ruby was too much like Summer, "I'm not wanted there." She says, "Not even my twin wants me around so I stay away."

Ruby turns to her, "No way! Then how does Uncle Qrow know where you are? He has to care!"

Raven almost laughed to Ruby's face. She held it back and tried to play it off as a cough, "No. He doesn't. I don't give a shit about him either. We haven't in twenty years." She sighs, "I lost all connection with him, your dad and your mom. Why visit then? To be reminded of the pain I've caused for countless people?" She leans forward, "One of them including you."

Ruby was taken aback by that comment, speechless. Raven smiles, tired and slumping back against her chair again. "Ruby. I've done things that would make the worst men alive cringe. Maybe those deeds will put me at the right hand of the devil. I only regret one one ever…. Abandoning my family wasn't it. Hurting anyone near me was never it. I've made my bed and I sleep like a baby in it, knowing what awaits me at the end of it all. So no, my brother doesn't care and neither does Yang." She rubs her head, feeling a headache starting to bubble up, "Surprised you even do since you barely know me besides what your mother has said."

That snapped Ruby out of her thoughts, "I've always cared! You were the cool aunt that my mom bragged about." She pleaded, "Of course I would. You were practically the little kid rebellious idol!"

Raven laughed that time, "Little kid idol of rebellion huh? One of the nicer things I've been called." She grins.

"W-Well! You were! Especially since my mom talked about your guy's adventures! Traveling cross country on a motorcycle, camping, all of it! What kind of kid wouldn't enjoy that!?"

Raven looked her in the eyes, "Yang."

Oh. That also hit Ruby like a cold slap to the face, "O-oh… Yeah."

Raven sighs heavily, "Ruby. Leave it be. I'm a bad person and you'd be better off returning home to your father and a family that loves you a lot. They can protect you."

Ruby glared a daggers before sitting down. What happened next was surprising as a wave of exhaustion hits her. Her body started to crumble and wanting to go to sleep, "Wow…. I didn't know I was so tired."

Raven shrugs, "Exactly the same after fifteen years." She stands up, ushering Ruby to follow.

Ruby does, yawning as Raven shows the the way. "I am not the same." She whines softly.

Raven felt that pierce to the heart, nostalgia making it close on itself, "I remember you acting like this when you were young too." She opens a door and shows a guest bedroom is sorts. It was practically empty besides a bed and a mirror on the wall. Really, she didn't decorate any of the rooms. Wasn't one for the flare. "Go to bed."

Ruby grumbles but shuffles in, "Fine. But we're talking tomorrow!" She demands, "Cause there was some other stuff I wanted to say…"

Raven rolls her eyes, "Go to sleep." She was about to leave before she was hugged. She feels Ruby leave and she hurried off as well. She didn't like it.

Ruby is too much like Summer.