Hey hello guys, what's up ya'll? This here is the first and, in case, oneshot chapter of the "Red Rose of Winterfell", a crossover fanfic story between Game of Thrones and RWBY. That is something that came up in my mind recently and hoped it might be a good story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Game of Thrones or RWBY at all and these two series and franchises respectively belong to George R.R. Martin and HBO, and the late Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth.

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A decade.

It has been a decade ever since a certain person came into the lives of the Stark family in Winterfell, Ned remembered. He remembers that time when the day in which she becomes a part of his family, sort to speak, a young woman with long black and red of hair, pale skin and silver eyes, one covered in a white-rose sigil eye-patch on the left, dressed in a black blouse and a skirt with red trimmings and a belt, complete with a long red cloak, a small metal cross at her waist and a right metal arm.

In the midst of the rebellion against the Mad King Aerys Targaryen as they marched down south to link up with Robert Baratheon and his stormlander army, Eddard and his host of the North, the Vale and the Riverlands ran into her wandering around in the forest not far to Stoney Sept with rose petals flowing behind her robe and seemed to be lost and disorientated as if with no purpose and nowhere else to go before they persuaded her to come with them peacefully in precaution of the possibility of her being a spy sent by the Targaryens.

At first when she was brought to the rebel camp, the men of the rebel army mistook her for some red priestess hailing from the Narrow Sea of Essos who came to Westeros preaching their foreign god of fire due to her red cloak or even a camp follower and some even joked that she's Thoros of Myr with teats when they gazed upon her. Other men tried to have their way through her but quickly backed off when she stared at them with a cold and fierce silver eye glaring threateningly with an intention to kill with no mercy if pushed too far when she pointed a strange collapsible weapon appearing to be a crossbow of sorts except it had no bow and bolt on it before it turned to a large scythe at the men-at-arms, intimidating them before the young lord of Winterfell put a stop to it and led her to the tent where the rebel lords gather a war meeting.

When he, Hoster Tully and Jon Arynn interrogated her after explaining who they are and where she was, the enigmatic woman's name is Ruby Rose, a Huntress and she claimed to be from the Vale that the elderly Arynn patriarch interjected that he had never seen or heard of her existence among his bannermen and their families. She tried other names that the noble men could not understood at all: Beacon, Signal, Patch, Atlas, Mistral, Vacuo, etc.

None of them even matched the poor maesters' maps when they searched such locations by her request at all. And the Rose name sounds more like a Tyrell name which furthered the rebel lords and their bannermen's suspicions due to the fact the Reach is the Targaryens' most powerful ally and staunch supporter to the Iron Throne, not to mention, the rose is the sigil of Highgarden's Great House.

And from the looks of her face, Ruby clearly has no idea where she was and what she had gotten herself into in the first place before some moments later, deciding to tag along with them for now and help their cause to free Westeros from the Mad King's reign until she find a way back home after hearing their explanation of their cause much to the protests and objections from their fellow lords afterward where they marched to Stoney Sept and engaged the Targaryen loyalists in a battle with her jumping into the fray.

During the Battle of the Bells, the red hooded Huntress have literally cut through the ranks of the royal army under the command of Hand of the King, Lord Jon Connington with her large scythe in such a very inhuman speed and skill through the streets and rooftops of the Stoney Sept, even jumping high in the sky to execute devastating spinning attacks and quickly shot down many troops with her crossbowless-type weapon.

On one occasion, she had saved Denys Arynn, the cousin and heir of Jon Arynn from being slain by Connington by pushing him out of the way and fought the glory seeking lord of Griffin Roost in a quick short battle that has left him bloodied and humiliated by her hand as the battered royal army retreated in good order from Stoney Sept in defeat.

Robert Baratheon was impressed of the red hooded woman's bravery and skill in battle at the Stoney Sept when he had noticed her while killing some of the royalist troops with his iron spiked warhammer earlier and made friends with Ruby as expected for his known charm, outgoing and gregarious personality and remarkable ability to turn enemies and strangers into friends in their first meeting in the end of the battle.

Although one time during their interaction, he once tried to flirt and have his way with her like he always did with the whores, that is until she gripped his manhood with her metal arm so hard with a threat of breaking every bone in his body if he do it again that he had painfully complied and then she let go of him to see him writhe in agonizing pain between his legs.

That is something Ned find it amusing of his "brother's" certain misfortune with the red hooded woman that has now kept the mighty Baratheon warrior from meeting and fucking women he meets for over a few months with her around. He even heard her once mentioning that she learned that bold move from her big sister she now missed dearly.

In the meantime, Jon Arynn felt grateful for Denys' survival from the Battle of the Bells and gave thanks and gratitude to the Huntress for saving his life from close to death by Connington's hand that the red hooded woman humbly accepted, no other rewards or favors included that she doesn't even wanted to in the first place.

Most of the men-at-arms and bannermen who saw Ruby in battle at the Stoney Sept in the aftermath called her very unnatural for a woman of her age to be fighting in such inhuman skill beyond comprehension in the battlefield with a scythe/crossbowless-type weapon and thought speculatively that she had literally came out from the Age of Heroes herself.

Some called her the "Red Reaper" in utter fear because of a large deadly scythe she carries and slays numerous foes with it, decapitating off their heads despite the weapon's size including the very same weapon transforms into a crossbowless-type weapon that fires unknown powerful projectiles that can pierce through flesh, armor and shields easily with great force. Others called her the "Red Rose" after they saw how Ruby always leaves a trail of rose petals whenever she goes in inhuman speed as if by magic she uses that is no longer here in this world with some claiming that it was magic that protected her from harm and they also believed that the red hooded woman is one of the children of the forest believed to have gone out from existence and known in stories and legends or even the Stranger's daughter from the Faith of the Seven due to her "Red Reaper" title-sake.

After gaining their trust and respect by those she had just met recently, Ruby Rose had became one of the infamous figures in Robert's Rebellion immortalized in songs and tales where during the Battle of the Trident, the red hooded woman have slashed through a large groups of Targaryen-loyalist forces, cutting them down in just one quick dash of her scythe, with a trail of roses left and also have shot down Ser Barristan the Bold's horse one-time in her line of fire that left the famed knight injured and later tended to by Robert who decided to spare his life and befriend him than kill him outright as Lord Roose Bolton suggested.

When Ned and his northern host hastily arrive to King's Landing, they find the city sacked by the Lannisters under Tywin Lannister as they killed, pillaged and raped as they please and Ser Jaime Lannister killed the Mad King, breaking his vows of the Kingsguard. And worse, Ser Gregor Clegane the Mountain have brutally murdered Elia Martell and her children within the Red Keep. But the worse of all is that what had disgusted him to the point when Robert only sees Rhaegar's children as "dragonspawn" upon claiming the Iron Throne by right of conquest.

The Huntress was not pleased of the Lannister atrocities as well, muttering that the bad people she had fought and killed in the past, if he heard right, even had their standards as she punched Robert hard in the face for condoning the mother and her children's murder by The Mountain in visible anger, leaving him bloodied in the nose and then tried to kill Ser Gregor if had not for Greatjon Umber by his order to forcefully restrain her from committing further action that might offend or agitate the old lion of the Rock.

Her impulsive and reckless actions had nearly gotten herself killed for striking the future Baratheon king had not for him and Jon Arynn to ease the tension and settle the matter to Robert and Lord Tywin Lannister moments before the young Stark lord, still angered of his friend's mad vendetta in their heated argument, requested her to accompany him to further south to rescue his sister Lyanna from the late Rhaegar's captivity after the Silver Prince's violent death at the Trident by the Baratheon's hand.

At the Tower of Joy in Dorne where the young lord of Winterfell and his small company faced the three remaining members of the late Aerys' Kingsguard and battled them in fierce combat, she had fought Ser Arthur Dayne " Sword of the Morning", Lord Commander Gerold Hightower "The White Bull" and Ser Oswell Whent where she find them formidable and skilled opponents and were the few people close to wounding or killing her when they had nearly overwhelmed the Huntress in single combat as they killed Ned's companions. After defeating the famed knights of the Kingsguard and entered the Tower of Joy, that is where he, Howland Reed, Lord William Dustin, and Ruby discovered his sister Lyanna lying in her bed of blood filled with northern blue roses who made him promise to watch over her son and soon died in childbirth

Afterwards, Eddard pulled stones from the tower to make seven cairns for the dead combatants of the skirmish, returned Dawn to the Dayne castle at Starfall, brought his sister's dead body back north to be buried alongside his deceased father and brother at the crypts of Winterfell that made peace with Robert in their shared grief and made Howland, Lord William and Ruby swore to keep this a secret, knowing what Robert would do if he found out about the babe.

In the aftermath of the Rebellion and Robert ascending to the Iron Throne as the new King of Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms by right of conquest and Targaryen blood through his grandmother within the Baratheon line, Ned offered her a place in the North at Winterfell away from the south, an offer she had accepted willingly supported with the cold northern environment that made her feel more at home in remembrance of a certain place where her mother's grave was engraved there from where she came from.

Nine years has passed and Ruby Rose has been with the Stark family where she served as the bodyguard of his children, watching over them while distant but caring and fun although there were times whenever she left for a hunt in the northern lands or a journey to better understand Westeros she could not understand at that time before she returned to Winterfell several months later.

When the Greyjoys rebelled for independence from the Iron Throne, Eddard rallied his banners of the North and marched down south again to quell the ironborn revolt in the Iron Islands with Ruby Rose tagging with him along once more as part of the Winterfell forces where she made the "Red Reaper" title even more fearsome during the Siege of Pyke where she had cut through through the ironmen ranks with her large scythe once again in a fast deadly manner followed by a trail of rose petals with Thoros of Myr wielding his wildfire-coated sword leading the way and Ser Jorah Mormont following not far behind them through the Greyjoy stronghold's large breach.

During the escalation of the siege, one of Pyke's besieged towers began to collapse on the ironborn fighters due to the breach, the red hooded Huntress have unintentionally saved Maron Greyjoy by swinging the blunt end of her scythe at his head in their brief clash of steel and skill, sending him flying a few meters back only to end captured by the Stark-Baratheon bannermen while quickly jumping out of the way of the collapsing structure and then continued cutting and shooting down more ironmen in her way.

As the forces loyal to King Robert Baratheon entered the Pyke stronghold, they have surrounded and captured Balon Greyjoy, a self-proclaimed King of the Iron Islands who was sitting on the Seastone Chair and the Driftwood Crown worn in his head after defeating his guards to be brought before him and Robert in chains at the aftermath of the siege in total victory.

After Ned have executed Balon under the sentence of death for treason of rebellion against the Iron Throne by his own hand personally as followed by the old way of the North, Robert mused that the self-styled ironborn king might have been lucky that it was not Ruby Rose slicing clean his head off with her scythe without even realizing it when Greyjoy have stubbornly refused to bend the knee and admit defeat before appointing the captive Maron as the new head of House Greyjoy and of the Iron Islands and made second son of the late Balon swear allegiance to him with Theon taken in as Stark's hostage in order to keep them in good behavior.

At the end of the Siege of Pyke, the red hooded woman who was cleaning her scythe off the blood of the slain ironborn, have noticed Alannys and Yara Greyjoys were being rough handled by the knights and soldiers of the victorious side after being captured from their hiding place as if they claimed their prize and saved them from a horrifying and traumatizing experience when some of the men attempted to rape them with a threatening eye glance backed by her primary weapon pointed dangerously close at their necks in timing intervention.

Returning back to the North with young Theon under his custody, the Huntress comforted the scared boy who felt very insecure and alienated of the new unfamiliar place he is in now unlike Pyke, ensuring him that no one is going to hurt him at Winterfell and Ned will take good care of him under his roof, and the Greyjoy boy, although saddened of his father's execution for treason, felt grateful that his big brother survived including his mother and sister spared because of her. Just like she did with Ned's children, Ruby watches Theon bonding with little Robb and Jon Snow like brothers despite their differences.

After executing a deserter of the Night's Watch with his youngest son Bran watching it despite his wife's protests, Ned finished his recollection and was sitting underneath the hearth tree with pale branches and red leaves, the carved face staring at his back and the seemingly bottomless pond in the front, cleaning the ancestral weapon of House Stark, Ice, a Valyrian steel greatsword as he always have.

Noticing several rose petals passing by among the fallen leaves of the hearth tree, the Warden of the North noticed Ruby and his youngest son Bran standing and traversing on the rooftop of the great castle, clearly enjoying the view from above of the cold northern air. From the time since their first meeting, he finds the red-and-black haired woman to be socially awkward yet a hardened fighter but a nice and fun person around people once they get to know her especially his children.

That is something will not please his lady wife who greatly distrusts the red hooded Huntress during the passing nine years at Winterfell after she married him in order to secure a marriage alliance between the Starks and the Tullys during Robert's Rebellion especially during their first meeting between two women after Catelyn have moved and settled in the North with her household maids, staff and septa.

Despite trusting Ruby to keep Jon Snow's parentage a secret, the Huntress revealed the truth to his wife after feeling really upset of the Tully woman's cold resentment and treatment on the poor boy when he brought him to Winterfell. This reveal have shamed Catelyn of her actions, apologizing her husband and treated the boy better as if he was her own blood but also swore to keep Jon's origins a secret as well but that does not mean that the distrust towards Ruby Rose hasn't been dissipated however.

While cleaning the ancestral Valyrian steel sword of House Stark carefully off the deserter's blood with a piece of cloth, Ned did not notice his lady wife approaching until she had raised her voice.

"All these years, I still feel strange like an outsider when I come here.", Catelyn said, catching her husband's attention from cleaning Ice as she approaches him in the small weirwood forest.

"You have five northern children and a nephew. You're not an outsider.", Ned responded as the eerie silence of the small forest in Winterfell enveloped them.

The Stark matriarch smiled and mused while looking at the weirwood tree, "I wonder if the old gods agree."

"It's your gods and all their rules.", the Warden of the North mused back of his lady wife's religion of the Faith of the Seven.

Catelyn then spoke in a sad tone after mustering her voice to inform her husband of the sad news, "I am so sorry, my love."

"Tell me.", Ned demanded with his smile disappearing from his face.

"There was a raven from King's Landing... Jon Arynn is dead. A fever took him.", she explained with the letter clutching in her hand.

The middle-aged Stark patriarch's grim face has instantly shifted into that of deep pain upon hearing the news of the elderly Arynn's death.

"I know he was like a father to you.", she spoke sympathetically.

"Your sister and the boy?", Ned asked about their relatives in blood which Catelyn responded that they're still in good health, thanking the gods and also of Denys Arynn who is now the Lord of the Vale and the Mountain after Jon's untimely passing.

Sitting next to her husband's side, the Tully woman continued to relay more of the message. "The raven brought more news. The king rides for Winterfell with the queen, their children, and all the rest of them."

After hearing the news, Eddard already deduced that his old friend didn't come this far north merely just to share their grievances of Jon Arynn's death and may ask of him to be the Hand of the King at the rats of a capital they call King's Landing that his lady wife agrees on as she thought on focusing on something on the more important matter at hand: the royal visit and a certain red hooded scythe-wielding woman that just might cause problems.

"What about Ruby Rose?", Catelyn asked in a sudden sharp tone, bringing that subject up in their discussion.

"What about her?", he asked.

"She can cause problems with the royal party there! You know how southerners are! You know how I am, Ned! She is not natural or even human!", the Tully woman nearly shouted about the red hooded woman and everything about her that she had heard from the tales, gossips and songs by the common smallfolk, servants and staff of Winterfell, and traveling bards.

However, Ned interjected of his wife's sharp opinion about Ruby with an air of finality in his tone before he stood up and left the godswood later. "She is of the North and has been loyal for nine years, Cat. Besides, they always wanted to see the infamous 'Red Rose' for themselves. Southerners... That is enough for me. We will speak no more of this."

His wife tried to argue once again with her lord husband yet decided against it no matter her distrust for the woman, what he said was true about Ruby Rose. She was with them for nine years and was still somewhat part of their household while distant some of the time, as Catelyn truly hoped that the royal visit went without a problem especially the one caused by Ruby Rose, the Huntress due to her reputation.

Author's Note: Well, that's the wrap for this first and oneshot just in case, chapter of "Red Rose of Winterfell" and the next update may come around soon later on. In this story, Ruby Rose serves as the bodyguard and an invaluable fighter in the Winterfell household but is an aloof yet caring person to the Stark children. The setting of Ruby in this crossover story as her future AU self, a hardened person yet still caring personality as depicted in fan arts of RWBY. I was wondering why was she portrayed like that but I still find it awesome and badass.

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