Chapter One: Roses are Red like Blood Part One

They say roses define ones actions in more ways than one depending on its color. Perhaps they are right about such things but not in this case. For my only true friend, my beloved Ruby Summer Rose, I write this story as a tribute to her being. To her strong Personal sense of conviction. This is her tale and how she died to end a useless war and set me free from the bondage I apparently was under since I was a small child.

It all started in the year 3241 when the Faunus, a genetically modified species created by humanity to assist in repopulating the Remnants of Terra Firma as we now know it, decided to attack the city of Vale on the eve of December 31. New Years Eve. I guess the leader at the time, Vladimir Scarlatina, sought to oppress humanity with something no one would ever expect. From the air, Bombs fell upon homes erupting them into large flames. It was these bombs that shook young Ruby Rose from her slumber.

At the time she was only five years of age born to this remnant of a world. As her slipped from the covers, her tiny toddler feet touching upon the cold floor Ruby made her way to the window seal to observe what was going on. Loud gunfire filled the air with nothing but death and eventual decay. Even in her house there was loud gunfire to the point she would run and hide under her bed scared for her life as the door would open. The only sight Ruby had was a blurry vision of someone's shoes as a pair of hands came soon after the figure entered her room.

With arms around her, Ruby was withdrawn from the hiding place and into the arms of her loving older half-sister Yang Xiao Long. Yang stood an even six feet tall and weighed only two hundred and ten pounds. Her body was in peak physical condition as her long blonde hair was tied back into a pony tail that hung from the back of her skull. Her lavender eyes searching Ruby's small body for injuries before embracing her tightly. "Thank the gods I got here in time." She said quickly standing to her feet with Ruby in her arms.

In a fast pace Yang, while carrying her baby sister, took three steps at a time in an attempt to save her baby sister from this horror that came upon their family. Upon leaving her home, Ruby's Silver eyes went wide at the sight within the kitchen. On the floor laid her parents covered in blood and on her mother was a clearish white fluid across her naked form. A single slit across her neck as if she was harmed for a time before her death. Beside them were a horde of Faunus dressed in white and black Animaian clothing and bore the mark of the White Fang Radical terrorist group. In each of their head was a single hole between the eyes from what she could assume is from Yang's dual pistols Ember and Celica.

Yang's weapons were quite different from the normal. Her ember pistol was a customized .45 Magnum with special groves down the inside barrel that put more spin upon each bullet as she fired it which increased its acceleration to incomparable speeds. Her other .09mm Pistol, Celica, was built with a higher rate of fire within it. This alone enabled her to fire two bullets in higher succession. Ruby knew this all too well despite her late mother's wishes of keeping Ruby away from the world of weapons and death.

As they ran down Patch Street, Ruby could only think of her parents whom lied in pools of their own blood next to the beasts that killed them. She was at a loss of words on what she saw. She was fleeing her home with her big sister while her family lie dead in the kitchen two miles back. Finally, she got the nerve to speak as they arrived at the Forever Falls Forest. "W-wh-what about Mommy and Daddy Yang?"

Yang bit her lip in sorrow for she knew her sister must have seen what happened on their way out. 'How can I explain to her that our parents are dead, Yang thought placing Ruby on a bench near the entrance to the forest. She knew she had to say something to comfort the small child before her. However, Destiny had something else planned.

In a matter of seconds after the sound of a pistol firing, Ruby felt something wet hit her face. Her eyes glued to the golden blonde hair now being stained red by the wound that split through Yang's skull. With her breath faint, her eyes wide as the moon, Ruby watched Yang falls to the ground. Behind her stood a five foot eleven inches Faunus holding a .09mm pistol. As the sound of a bullet left the barrel, Ruby was enveloped in darkness and absolute silence that would tear a normal man or woman's consciousness asunder.

Ruby awoke in a cold sweat, the vividness of her dream still lingering in her mind as she stares at the white ceiling covered by the blackness of night. Gently she touched her neck to feel the scar from when she was shot by the Faunus who killed Yang. Looking to her left she noted her eyes adjusting to the red light beside her. 2:38:42 AM, December 31 ,3261 RE. It was clear she was dreaming this whole time, reliving the memory of her family's death. Upon closing her eyes again, she could see Yang's beautiful blonde hair being stained red however this time Ruby was in her actual body. Her 25-year-old body that the god of light had given her in Yang's mirror image.

Like Yang's body when she was still alive, Ruby was almost six foot tall. A gene quite common on her father's side since most of the Xiao Long Females experienced Giantism during their lives. Having the Xiao Long blood within her despite being a Rose meant she was taller than any of her remaining family, well she would be if they were still alive that is. With her body toned in hard muscle, no man or woman bothered approaching Ruby even if she was a beautiful long auburn-haired woman with an impressive rack that made her few friend's jealous of her sex appeal. Although in actuality Ruby's body has been littered with scars on her body. Her legs held Blade or claw marks where any lucky enough Faunus tried to cripple her before she could counter them. Her arms were covered in Bullet would where now her nerves were nothing but a numb pain she'd have to ease before every mission. And her back was covered in electrocution and whip scars from her hardcore training with her Uncle Qrow Bronwen and his wife Winter Bronwen. They were her family now that her parents and sister were killed by the hated Faunus Who still needed to die by her hands if she found them again.

Rolling over Ruby attempted to rock herself back to sleep and away from the unending nightmare.