Drakid Ruby: The rewrite: Prolog Part 1

Hello folks, welcome to the rewrite of Drakid Ruby, something what you probably already figured out from the title. I wrote the first version of that story to better my writing and English skills as this is my first story and I am not an inhabitant of an English speaking country. My abilities as author were simply not good enough to give the frankly good idea and the about one year pre-planning the credit it deserved.

What that idea is, well you have to read the fic for that, but know that this story is rated M for graphic violence, pain, death, blood and sexual content, if you do not want to see that stuff than you should not read this fanfiction. That said this will not be an orgy of darkness, organs, character deaths either, just a fair warning, everyone can die.

So enjoy the story.

RWBY belongs to Rosterteeth not to me. The Drakid well these cruel Bastards belong to me.

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Her feet hurt. Every toe, every muscle, every nerve hurt. Yang did not think in her whole life she ever walked this far, and if someone had told her before this day that the simple act of moving ones legs could cause this much anguish, the eight year old wouldn`t, could not have believed it.

But she could not simply stop walking or go back. The physical pain in her feet was still preferable to what she experienced at home, where her formerly perfect life had fallen apart two months ago.

It had been at the late evening, past the time where she should normally already be in bed and sleeping. Her Daddy had been watching something on television, when her Uncle arrived. Qrow looking not the best was the norm, he was always reeking after that beer stuff which tasted so horrible, with dirty clothing and the worst of all, sturdy hair. But that night, he looked like all that had been multiplied by at least a hundred times.

It was as if Remnant itself had stopped as she heard what had happened. As she heard that Summer Rose, her mother, who had raised her and Ruby, had died. She barely registered how Qrow told Taiyang, that they had found nothing but her bloodied cape and parts of her arm. Or how her ever strong father broke down, howling in pain.

The next few days had been nothing but a blur. The symbolic funeral of her mother, Qrow leaving to hunt the culprit, claiming that no mere Grimm could have ever killed Summer, Taiyang either staring for hours with empty eyes in the air, or drinking huge amounts of alcohol, while lashing out at her and Ruby. Her little baby sister asking her where Summer or why Daddy was doing this.

She had to take care for both, her father and her sister, while she herself wanted nothing more than to wake up from this nightmare. But she did not wake up, as this was not a dream. It was the cold, cruel reality.

She had tried to take her Daddy´s stuff away, but he caught her while she had been emptying it into the bushes. He slapped her really hard. She did know how long she cried after that, but started ultimately in her lonesomeness to search through her mommy’s old stuff. That was when she found out, what would lead her to the decision to leave her home.

Summer Rose, the cookie making, monster slaying, story telling, in the sleep singing supermom, was not her real mother.

She had found a single letter, that showed her father, her mother, Uncle Qrow and a black haired women. The odd thing about the picture was that her Dad was hugging the black haired women and kissing her on the cheek. A black haired women that looked, with exception of her red eyes and black hair, exactly like Yang.

It did not take long for her to realize the truth. The letter also held a description to a cabin, and that it was her real mothers favorite place on earth. She thought a long time what to do, before finally making the decision.

Yang would set out to find her real mother.

She could not allow Ruby to remain back at home, not while her Daddy was acting like he was. So she had lifted her little baby sister out of her bed, wrapped her up in thick clothing to keep her warm, sat her into a cart, and went to find her real mommy. Yang took some food too, including some of Summers last cookies with her.

She knew from the description of the cabin that she should arrive any moment. That was what Yang told herself while pulling the cart with the person she cared for most sleeping in it. Ruby had awoken a couple of times and asked her what was going on. Yang told her that they were making a trip, giving her some of the cookies and one of Rubys favorite comics. Her sister could not read it of course, so Yang had read it loud for her while she gnawed on the cookies.

That was nothing unusual, Yang had taken Ruby on cart trips like this before through Amsel. Always together with her Daddy and Mo- no Summer, who laughed over how the fact, that she always insisted on being the one pulling Ruby around. The memory of these happy times brought tears into her eyes.

Yang blinked them away and swallowed to get that weird sensation out of her throat. She couldn´t let herself become all teary again, she had to look after Ruby! She threw a glance at said girl, who was happily sleeping in the cart.

"Don`t worry Ruby, everything will be alright again. Yang whispered, while she gave in to the smile forcing itself on her face. It helped to make the pain and exhaustion seem to disappear. As she turned her head away from her sleeping sibling, she saw something, that nearly caused her a heart attack.

The cabin, she could see it! It was barely two hundred meters away

New energy flew through her veins and she practically flew to the building. She would have a mother again! If Yang had been less strained by the past weeks and the tour she took, she would have maybe noticed something was wrong with the small building. That it was rotten and generally in a very bad shape. Or that some kind of dark, red liquid had been splashed all over the windows.

But these crucial details were overseen by the young girl as she rushed to the house. Yang gripped the clinks of the door and pushed. A horrible smell splashed against her, reeking of blood, rotten flesh and death. The blonde childs brain had trouble picturing the sight in front of her, needing a few seconds to react. Yang turned around and threw up. She fell on her knees vomiting whatever in her stomach was out.

There were bodies in there.

Of people.

Of woman and man.

Of children.

Yang was not capable of finishing the thought, before vomiting again, the picture of the mutilated and tormented bodies filling her mind. She felt like she spewing her very internals out.

What? Who? How?

"Yang?" sounded the tiny, sleepy voice of her little sister through the air.

The world around Yang seemed to slow down, the blonde girl realizing that her vomiting had awoken her little sister, who was just now rising from the cart blinking. Yangs body moved on its own, with no input from herself.

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Ruby had just awoken after what have been a rather strange dream.

She remembered her big sister taking her on a trip, which has been really strange since it had already been late and it was dark and cold outside. Yang had put her in a cart.

She could only remember parts of the dream. It had changed between just her big sis pulling the cart, where she slept in through a dark and cold forest and parts where her entire family had been with her and everything was bright and happy. It had mostly varied between those two.

However there had been also a third, very short part of the dream right at the end.

The picture of her family happily going through Patch had slowly melted away until only she and her mother remained. Summer had been different how, looking terrified. She had screamed at Ruby to wake up and to run. Ruby had been scared, before hearing some weird gurgling sound. Blackness had crept through her surroundings and swallowed all the light and happiness.

Summer had pushed her behind her, glowing in ever brighter silver light, apparently trying to keep the darkness away. The bright silver rays drove the darkness back and revealed the most terrifying monster the young girl had ever seen.

It looked like a woman, with dark scales covering her whole body. She had two huge wings and a long tail coming out of her back, glowing in the blackness.

The very picture of this being had filled her with immense fear and shock. She could neither move nor breath.

The very next moment exploded the silver light pulsating from her mothers body into a pillar of silver light that reached way up in the sky. Ruby thought that she saw something like wings illuminating from her mother, before Summer threw herself at the monster. The monster also surged forward, glowing in pure darkness. Ruby believed that she heard her mommy yelling to the monster, that she will never have her baby but she wasn`t sure. She woke up the second when the two connected.

Ruby slowly rose up blinking, noting someone was retching nearby.

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Ruby screamed in surprised when Yang collided against her pressing her face against her sisters chest while wrapping her arms around her, rounding her immobile Ruby tried to wiggle herself free, mostly because her sister smelled terrible.

"Yang you stink! Let go!" she squeaked when she wasn´t able to free herself from her Yangs powerful grip.

Her sister did not loosen her grip, but tightened it while looking around. It, it is fine Ruby! Just, just do not look behind me okay? We, we have to leave!"

Ruby tried once again to struggle against her sisters powerful hug, before she realized that Yang was trembling, no shaking with her whole body.

"Yang, why are you shaking so much? If you are cold, you can take my blanket, if you want." offered Ruby.

Suddenly her sister´s hug tightened even more, making it a bit difficult to breath. Ruby tried to complain, but was stopped when she noticed that Yang was slowly backing away from whatever was behind them.

In the next moment several things happened.

Ruby managed to turn her head, saw the Grimm, let out a high pitched scream and the Beowulfs attacked.

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Yang knew that she and her sister were done. They had no chance. Yang saw how the three Beowulfs jumped and tried to dodge.

Keyword being tried.

She slipped and landed on her bottom. "Sorry for pulling you into this, sis." she thought, closing her eyes to await her end.

But the bone breaking and flesh tearing pain did not come.

Instead something akin to water sprayed all over her face and probably about the rest of her body, Ruby`s too. She slowly opened her eyelids half expecting to see a Grimm maw. But instead she saw the back of a woman. A woman with black hair, who was currently busy with killing the Grimm.

That should have relieved her, but strangely it didn`t. Quite the opposite actually.

Every cell, every instinct, every part of her body was filled with intense dread, twisted in terror.

The women turned around and her very soul screamed. She looked human, with two exceptions.

Her eyes were slit, similar to lizard eyes.

And her teeth.

"STAY AWAY!" Yang screamed, grasping a rock beside her with the intent of throwing it at the woman.

She never got that far, since the woman just disappeared.

Yang looked around frightfully, before freezing when she heard a cold cruel voice. It came from behind her, the sound making her very soul recoil in terror.

"You know, trying to throw rocks at someone who just saved your life is not very nice. Why do you not just drop that little stone?"

Yang noticed how the rock she had held fell to the ground, covered in something red. She tried to turn her head but the time seemed to slow down. The child finally managed to look at her arm. Or better what once her arm had been.

It was brutally twisted and broken in one multiple directions, with parts of her bones sticking out every ten to twenty centimeters.

There was an irritating high pitched sound in the air. It took Yang a moment to realize that it was her voice, that she was screaming. The smiling woman took hold of the mess which had belonged to Yang a moment ago, and her screaming intensified. Yang felt how she collided with a tree, hearing something akin to a sharp crack. It sent searing pain throughout her upper body.

It was so surreal. She felt her own screaming grow farther and farther away. How the darkness began to creep through her vision of sight. How even the all dominating sense of pain started to fade away.

Yang could barely recognize how the thing pressed her screaming and crying sister against the ground, to force some kind of blackness into her. "I am so sorry Ruby…. So how is that as a first chapter, good or bad?