Chapter Text
Once upon a time, a small, barely barely teenaged girl, walked through the forest.
The young girl, all dressed up in black and red, and she was quite messy to boot. Her black top sported sloppy stitches and red patches. Her skirt was torn and ripped up in places. Her legs were exposed, covered in dirt, scrapes, and bandages. Her black shoes seemed a bit too small and were very well-worn, while her gloves seemed a tad too big and seemed even older.
Her adorable face had faint traces of oil and dirt all over it, as did her short, messy black hair. Her eyes were obscured by a pair of big, heavy-looking goggles that were just as dirty as everything she wore.
In contrast to her, the rest of her disheveled and dirty appearance, covering her was a perfectly pristine, bright red cloak. That bore not a tear, patch, or speck of dirt.
"Hmmm, hmmm, hmm." The girl walked through the forest with a pep in her step and a wicker picnic basket in her hand, humming to herself as she went.
Nearly all was quiet. The only sounds are small and subtle. Wind pushing against the branches and making leaves fall. The occasional crunch from little red stepping on a leaf.
Little red traveled deeper and deeper into the woods. The trees grew more numerous as she went, making everything darker.
Until eventually, she reached a clearing.
Little red continued walking until she reached the middle of the clearing. Then, she stopped.
In front of her, shining out from the shadows, were a pair of ferocious, yellow eyes.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR."
Slowly, the eyes moved forward. And the creature they bellowed stepped into the light.
A massive, monstrous wolf. Double the size of the girl, her body was pitch black muscle, which gave off a menacing, dark, almost gas-like aura. White, bone-like armor covered its body, and made up its razor sharp claws and teeth. As well as a haunting skull mask that covered its entire head.
"GRRRRRRR! RAGHHHHHHH!" After stepping out of the shadows, the wolf monster charged at the girl, running halfway toward her, before lunging right at her, jaws wide open, ready to bite the girl's head clean off.
And in response, little red just smiled and raised a hand up toward the monster.
Then, as the monster's maw got closer, the girl's body became shrouded in a radiant red aura. Rose petals flew out of the aura, amassing in her hand, and forming a red and black, high-powered sniper rifle. With the barrel aimed dead-center in the beast's maw.
BANG!
With one well-placed shot, the wolf's head exploded. Little red stepped aside, and the wolf's body fell limp, right where she'd been standing.
The dead beast didn't bleed. Instead, its whole body simply dissipated until it was nothing but black smoke.
"Heh heh! Nice, it didn't explode!" Little red cheered as she looked down at her weapon with a manic grin.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
Suddenly, more eyes peered out of the darkness. First one pair, then four, then twelve, then two dozen.
"Ohhh, that's a pretty Beowolf pack." Little red grinned, as the Beowolves crawled out of the shadows, surrounding her completely. Making sure to close in on any escape routes, before running toward her.
"Alright then, time to try out the max output mode." Little red flipped a switch on Crescent Rose, and as the Beowolves closed in on her, she aimed it, right at the ground.
BOOM!
Crescent Rose fired with far more power than before, the recoil sending Little red flying into the air, above the tree line.
Then with a gleeful smile, she took aim at the Beowolves below.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Bullets slammed into the monsters, blowing off entire parts of their bodies, killing them instantly. And each shot little red fired, stalled her fall.
By the time the magazine was empty, only five Beowolves remained.
As little red fell to the ground, she took the time to reload and switched off max output mode. Another Beowolf tried to lunge at her as she was near the ground, but little red had finished reloading, and aimed her gun at its head.
BANG!
One shot. Four Beowolves remained.
Little red looked around and saw the monsters circling her, looking at her cautiously. Slowly getting closer. Not daring to charge at her again. "Oh, are the big bad wolves scared? You should be."
Then, Crescent Rose started to transform. Changing and shifting, until it turned into a giant scythe, with the barrel of the rifle acting as the shaft.
With that, the beowolves all charged her at once, coming at her from all sides.
Then little red spun around, swinging her scythe, destroying their heads. Finishing them all off, their bodies dissipating in seconds.
"Heck yeah!" Little Red jumped in the air, and did a little fist pump in glee. "Finally! I managed to maximize the shot output and keep the recoil from messing up the transformation mechanism! The new Crescent Rose has been PERFECTED!"
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
"Huh?" Little red turned around, and saw yet another Beowolf crawling out from the shadows. But this one was diffrent. Bigger, spiker, angryier. "Oh yeah, I guess a pack this big would have an alpha. Little late to the party don't you think? I kinda already killed all your friends."
"RAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The Alpha Beowulf let out a powerful roar. So strong shook the branches and leaves around them. But little red was unphased.
"Yeah it probably took you a while to build that pack huh? I get why you're so mad. I HATE when a project I put a lot of work into goes wrong and I have to start over, it's the WORST! But, good news for you! You don't have to worry about that." Little red said, as she spun her scythe around, before planting the blade in the ground, aiming the barrel at the Alpha and turning on max output mode. "Because I'm gonna kill ya!"
BANG!
Little Red fired a shot at the Alpha, using the fact that the scythe was planted in the ground to keep the recoil from sending her flying. But the Alpha leapt to the side, dodging the bullet, before charging toward her.
As soon as it got close, little red swung her scythe, aiming for the side of its head. But the Alpha leapt over her, landing behind her, turning around, and swinging its claw at her. But little red managed to turn around and raise her scythe, using the shaft to block the attack, although it still made her slide back a few meters. "Oh, you weren't late. You were watching. Guess that's why you lived long enough to become an alpha."
Little red turned off max output and transformed the scythe back into a gun, and started firing rounds at the alpha. The alpha rushed toward her, running zig-zag to try and evade little red's shots, dodging a couple, but about three hit its body. Cracking its bony armor and piercing its flesh, but not doing much damage overall, nor doing anything to stop it from getting close to its target.
With the alpha nearly at point-blank range, little red switched to to max output, and fired, but the alpha jumpped, and the recoil sent little red flying, until her back hit a tree.
The aplha lunged at her, fangs beared, ready to tear into her, but little red rolled to the side, and the aplha wrapped it's maw around the tree tunk instead.
Little red aimed her weapon at the monster's head, but just as she fired, the alpha ripped out the tree trunk, and used it to try and block the shot.
BANG!
The shot tore the wood apart, and destoyed half of the creature's mask, as well as leaving a deep cut on the side of it's face.
"GRRRRR! RAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" The alpha roared again in absoute rage, as it charged at little red again.
Little red, having been sent sliding back from her last shot, watched as the enraged grimm charged right at her, and moved her gun behind her.
Then, it transformed back into a scythe, and she pulled the trigger.
BOOM!
Shooting behind her allowed the recoil to send her flying forward toward the alpha. She started spinning with her scythe, creating a circle of death around her, but just before she could bisect the alpha it leapt to the side at the last minute.
Little red stopped her spinning scythe attack, landded on her feet, and slide back a couple more feet.
"Hey! I appreacte getting to test out Crecent Rose some more, but these bullets aren't cheap you know!" Little Red complained as she reloaded once again. "And I make ALL of these bullets, by hand. Do you have any idea how long that takes!"
Little red moved her scythe behind her, and fired again, sending her flying toward the alpha. As soon as she got close, she raised her scythe up, then swung it down on it, but it jumpped to the side again avoiding it.
The scythe tilted down, and little red fired again, sending her back up into the air.
Little red turned the scythe back into a gun, and took aim bellow her once again.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Three shots came down, the alpha dodged the first two, but the last one slammed into one of the alpha's hind legs, making it stumble.
Little red grinned, aimed her gun behind her, and fired.
BANG!
The recoil sent her flying down toward the alpha, she transformed her weapon back into scythe, and started spinning in a cricle once again.
She reached the alpha, and landed on it's back, and hooked her scythe around it's neck.
BANG!
With one final shot, little red, and her scythe were sent flying back into the air. The blade going right through the neck of the alpha, beheading the beast cleanly.
Little red flipped through the air, before landing back on the ground. The grimm's body already turned to smoke. Her hood had went down from all the flying around, revealing a pair of wolf ears on her head.
She swung her scythe around victoriously, before folding it back into a compact, more easily storable form. Then, it glowed red, and burst into rose petals. The petals fluttered around her, as her red aura returned, before the petals flew into it.
"Alright! Crecent Rose's first feild test was a complete sucess! Now I just need to-" Little red's celebration was cut off, by another roar, coming out from the forrest.
"RUBY! ROSE!"
Little Red, or rather, Ruby Rose, froze. As a a shaggy looking blonde haired man, walking out of the shadows, with his arms crossed an a rather unhappy experssion.
"Aw crap baskests." Ruby sighed, before turning around and greeting the man with a sitff, nervous smile and an awkaward wave. "Hey dad. Crazy I bumpped into you all the way out here, when I was taking my competely normal walk."
Her father, did not look amused. "Ruby, what have I told you about poaching my hunts? You know it's illigal to do huntress work without a license. Do you know how much trouble you could get into if someone reported you?"
"But dad, no one comes around here!" Ruby objected. "And even if they did no one's gonna report me! This is patch! The most relaxed place on remnant! And I needed to test out my new Crecent Rose!"
"If you need to test your weapons, you can always just spar with me." Her father sighed
"Ugh! Dad, that's not gonna work! What if I wanna test put one of my Anti-Juggernaught Class rifles? Do you wanna take a bullet holding enough kinetic energy to obliterate four boulders, dad?" Ruby huffed.
"...fair point. But still, stop breaking the law." Her father said, as he went over, and grabbed his daughter, hauling her over his shoulder.
"But Yang breaks the law all the time!" Ruby protested as her father took her away.
"And what makes you think I'm happy about that?" Her dad sighed. "Kids."