CHAPTER 1
"Ruby end of break. We have to get to the airport before five" called Summer as she stood up from a tree stump and hid her semi automatic rifle with a sheathed bayonet back inside her cloak.
"Mom, can I have five more minutes? My legs still hurt from moving the past four hours" replied tired Ruby as she continued to lay on the grass next to the road.
Luckily it was a sunny day with a small amount of clouds and a warm breeze and they didn't encounter a lot of grimm. The ones that tried to pray on them received a fast bullet into the eyehole from the older Rose, which resulted in their fast death.
"No Ruby, time to get up and go. You need to build up yours stamina if you want to be a huntress in the future"
These words always worked on Ruby as her dream is to become the best huntress in remnant. She even has hidden drawings and plans of her future weapon, crescent rose, which was in short a scythe and a high velocity sniper rifle inspired by her mother and uncle Qrow weapons.
"Fine mom... You win" replied Ruby as she finally stood up with a sigh.
"I always win, now let's go" answered Summer with a smirk on her face.
The pair then proceeded traveling by the road to the closest airport while occasionally Summer killed some Grimm that entered her weapon range. After another hour of walking a loud gunshot noise came from their back and on her mother's right arm a wound appeared with blood spilling out of it. With another two gunshots more blood came out of her left knee and left arm as she fell on the ground unable to defend or stand up as she was caught by surprise and did not have an aura activated.
The shock, pain and fear appeared on Summer face as she desperately used her aura to cover the wounds and yelled “Run Ruby”
“MOM!” Ruby did not listen to her mother as she took the bloodied lying weapon on the ground and tried to raise it, but it was too heavy for her to be able to aim at anything. Despite that she tried to shoot back at the direction where the shots came from, but the weapon knockback almost broke her arm and caused the gun to fall on the ground. With a pained arm and raised aura she placed herself between her mother and direction of attack. prepared to fight her enemy.
“Look what we have here… An animal and a dying bitch of the huntress” Spoke the middle person coming out of the bush with two additional bandits flanking him. He was holding a carbine type weapon and a blade sheathed on his belt and was wearing a red beret on top of his head, brown pants and green camo jacket. On his right arm there was a tattoo of a grimm mask crushed by a heavy hammer and his face had a scar from the tip of the nose to between right cheek and eye.
“You are right Jake. At least the kid will get us some credits in Atlas kingdom. Just sell her to the SDC mines, the more healthy they are the better pay they give” Added the person on the right who was smaller from the rest, but had a ponytail at the back of his head and a similar get up. The different part of his wardrobe was the green cap on top of his head. He also had a tattoo of a grimm being cut in half by a lone swordsman. His weapon was a black glaive with the empathise of a long sharp blade.
“We will proceed with your plan Max, but what about her?” The last middle aged person with black sweatpants, grey blouse and a low cut hair with a spear in hand and smg type of weapon hidden inside the holster. He also had the tattoo on his right arm, but it represented a snake type of grimm struck on a pile.
“We will have some fun with her body and then finish her off Adrien” Answered the first person and the leader of the group Jake.
“I will not let you touch mommy!” Yelled Ruby in defiance, though she knew deep down that there was no winning against them. She then used her semblance to get in front of the leader and with fist raised she strook the man into his family jewels, but that failed as his pants had a protective metal plate, which hurt her fingers and depleted part of her aura in order to not break fingers. She then felt a fist hitting her on the side of her head and fell to the ground with shock, senses dulled and low aura.
“Damn she left a dent out here… Good thing I always wear it…” Commented the struck, but unwounded man.
“There is a nevermore heading here! We need to hide!” Yelled Adrien who saw the giant bird incoming from above the trees.
“Take the girl and leave the bitch here as bait. At least that animal will have its use!” Jake yelled back as he took Ruby by the back of her neck and proceeded to run while forcefully ripping part of her cloak on the tree branch.
Still dulled she felt the pain from her captors grip on her neck and saw only fast moving ground in front of her eyes. After fifteen minutes of running through the forest they came into a small open field with a buckhead waiting for them with a person wielding a sniper rifle on top of it.
“Duke, time to go! We have a nevermore in the sky! Set the course to the closest SDC mine so we can sell our catch!” Jake yelled orders as soon as he came out of the forest into the open field and immediately started running with his team to the cargo section with a lowered ramp.
Duke, a middle aged man with a sniper rifle, brown sweatpants and blue t-shirt immediately jumped down from the roof and went into the piloting section of the buckhead. He fastly placed his weapon on the seat next to him and proceeded to launch the engines. As soon as all of the people were inside he pushed the button to close the ramp and put full power into the engines in order to launch the vehicle into the sky, as he knew that they had a short period of time before nevermore could find them. He then set the course to the Atlas kingdom.
Ruby meanwhile was violently shoved into the small cage and lost consciousness.
What they all missed was that nevermore did not search for them, but flew away from the scene with its claws closed that were dripping a little blood from them.
