The sun rose high over the skies of vale as a young girl with short black hair was currently swinging on a swingset out in the backyard of a house out in a clearing in the middle of a forest, absentmindedly unaware of the trouble brewing nearby. She began to notice bushes rustling, she turned towards the forest nearby just in time to see a large Grimm charging at her. Gasping she covered her eyes expecting to feel the kind of pain a Grimm could inflict, instead she felt nothing, she opened her eyes and a wide smile came to her face as she witnessed a black haired woman wearing a red hooded cape slicing through Grimm after Grimm, her eyes widened and as the final Grimm faded from existence she bounced off the swingset and rushed towards her "Mommy that was so awesome!" She exclaimed as the woman turned back and smiled brightly.
"My little Rose, how are you?" she asked as she swept the girl off her feet, Ruby had just returned from a special mission eliminating a new breed of Grimm that was causing problems in the forest to the south of vale and decided to give her daughter a visit in the yard when she caught her in need of help.
"I'm good momma, will I ever get to be that strong? You defeated an entire army of Grimm!" Young Amber called out as her mind continued playing the event over and over again increasing the awesomeness of her mother's actions.
She smiled as she gave the girl a peck on top of the head "Are you kidding? I was counting on you being stronger and protecting me some day." She commented with a laugh at the sparkle in her daughter's eyes as she carried her back inside to the kitchen "Were you good for auntie Blake while I was gone?" She asked curiously as the girl returned her eye and smiled.
"Yes! I was so good! I did everything she asked! We colored pictures and read books and and… wait! I'll be right back wait here!" With that the little girl ran off into the humble home and returned with a picture she had colored, she handed it over to her mother proudly.
The picture was a nice drawing of the two rose girls, Ruby and Amber holding hands with Ruby's left hand holding her scythe, Amber's right hand had a beautiful rainbow scythe making her mother fawn over the picture "Oh baby, it's amazing I love it, how about we go and put it on the fridge, shall we?" She asked curiously as she took the girls hand and they entered the home together.
Fasting forward the next few years were spent with Ruby spending a fair amount of time away on missions, with this being the case young Amber became acquainted with many different babysitters often spending her visits discussing her mother and her missions, she wanted nothing more than to spend her life helping people as a huntress.
Next we fast forward to amber's first day at Signal academy, new girl in a new school with a famous mother made for aa tough situation. She was consistently picked on but made no attempt to tell anyone, not even her mother, the young Rose saw this as her battle she had to learn to fight on her own.
After a particularly bad day Amber found herself sitting alone in her history class "What? Miss Schnee where is everyone?" She asked curiously as the white haired woman Amber knew as 'auntie Weiss' took a seat at the desk beside her.
"Well, dear, I sent out a message cancelling this class." She replied simply and before the girl could question why she was not notified Weiss spoke again "I let you come in so we could talk, listen Amber I'm not blind, why haven't you come forward about Johnathon bullying you?" She added simply maintaining eye contact.
She sighed "Because it isn't that big of a deal, besides if I got mom involved it would cause more trouble with the other students." She replied honestly as Weiss sighed.
She maintained eye contact her eyes showed a wisdom beyond her years "Why aren't you sticking up for yourself?" she asked curiously as she could see the conflict in the girl's eyes.
"Because I'm not strong enough, I can't fight back right now I just can't" she replied honestly as her frustration was clearly visible in her face "I want to ask my mother to come home and begin training me but I don't know how to go about that." She added as Weiss looked a little surprised.
"Listen to me Amber, next time he picks on you, you need to stand up for yourself, if you don't then nobody will." She replied as Amber rose back to her feet and went to exit the room Weiss stood with her and followed her out deciding to stop at her desk, she saw amber exiting the room she bumped into another student "Hey watch where you're going!" The student exclaimed before Amber lifted a knee into his abdomen "that's for pulling my hair yesterday." She replied as he fell.
Later that day Amber returned to the field for her training with the combat instructor, she decided to take a break and get a sip of her water and gasped seeing her mother she ran across the field to go meet her "Mom?! Why didn't you let me know you were coming into town?" she asked curiously.
Ruby smiled "I wanted to surprise you, so, how is my girl holding up at Signal?" she asked curiously "Oh hey guess what, I'm deciding to take a step back from my mission, I was offered a job here at this school and I'm taking it." She replied with a soft smile as her daughter's face lit up at the idea of having her mother around like that.
"Oh really? What job are you taking?" She asked curiously as she remembered all the stories she had heard about her mother and her abilities at signal.
"You're looking at your newest combat instructor." She said happily "Weiss told me about your talk, honey I'm here to begin taking over your training, starting tomorrow so you're done for the day go rest up and get some sleep tonight because we kick it off tomorrow at 6 am." She said firmly as Amber smiled brightly and nodded running back towards the school towards her car.
Ruby could not help the smile she felt in being reminded of herself in her daughter, this would prove to be an eventful year protecting and training her naïve little girl.