Hello, Baz'Az'Zul here. Connoisuer of Self Insert and OC RWBY Fanfiction.

First of all, I'd like to thank you for taking a moment to read my first published fanfiction. I'd also like to point out. All Canon characters and the original mechanics belong to Rooster Teeth. All that I own are my OCs and their personalities and backstories, even then, the models used in the cover picture belong to Kings Raid.

I would also like to mention a special set of people. Those who have helped me in improving my writing and established some of the inner mechanics and lore of this AU of Remnant. The Comprehensive Archive of Remnants Additional Mechanics and Extra Lore (or CARAMEL for short). Together the users of this Discord server have come up with universal laws, mechanics and extra lore to flesh out the world of Remnant.

Finally, I will add in a few warnings. The plot of this story will deal with some mature and dark themes. There will be chapters of NSFW material.

I would like to thank you for reading this far. I do sincerely hope you enjoy the story.



Prologue - The Tale of Little Red Riding Hood

A broken moon hung high in the sky. Snow slowly descending upon a small girl in a black corseted dress and red billowing cloak. Her breath could be seen against the cold frigid air of winter. She stood gazing at a small tombstone at the edge of a steep cliff. Engraved upon the white tombstone was a flaming rose, a crest that marked a Huntress' grave.

Ruby Rose glanced upon the engraved letters, wordlessly speaking what was written.

"Summer Rose, Thus Kindly I Scatter".

A small tear budded from her stunning silver eyes. Before she spoke up in a cheer filled voice. "Hey, mom… I've come to see you. Last time we spoke it was my fourteenth birthday, it's now January, a new year! I've got a lot to tell you."

Her voiced caught as she imagined her mother intently watching, nodding in her white hooded cloak. "Schools going great, I'm sure you remember... I mean, I've made so many friends now. Of course… I also finished my partner."

She slowly reached behind her billowing red cloak and caressed her partner upon the small of her back. Before continuing in a soft voice. "Her name is Crescent Rose! And she will be my partner in slaying the Grimm! Uncle Qrow has been teaching me how to use her, he says I've gotten really good."

She paused as she imagined her mother make a small giggle. Before once more continuing on. "Umm… it'll not be long before Yang finishes at Signal. She's thinking of applying to Beacon. Where you also used to go. I'm sure you'd be proud of her."

Ruby smiled to herself. Feeling the warmth in her chest, she was proud of her sister. However, a little darkness also bloomed where she felt that heat.

"I wish I could go with her… I mean, I know I'm only fourteen... but, going to Beacon and becoming a Huntress has always been my dream. She only wants to go cause she's following her whims, it's unfair when I work so hard and yet now she's graduating… she's leaving me behind."

Ruby could feel tears begin to swell in her eyes once more. She then quickly rubbed them as to not make the ghost of her mother upset.

"Sorry I was being selfish... She's worked hard at Signal, she's gotten good grades, top of her class in combat practice... She deserves to go."

She looked upwards from beyond her hood, staring out over the sheer cliff, towards the shattered satellite and stars. She suddenly closed her eyes as she made her vow. "It'll be two more years before I get my chance. You'll see, I'll become the world's greatest Huntress."

She raised her fist to her heart swearing upon this vow in front of her mother's tombstone. When she suddenly opened her beautiful silver eyes a bright white light streamed across the sky.

A shooting star.

She whispered to no one in particular. "Even still, I wish I could go to Beacon this year. Somehow…"

Ruby cast her gaze across her mother's tombstone and smiled to herself.

"Thanks for listening, mom. I have to get back. Dad's probably wondering how long I'll be."

Suddenly her small smile turned to a thin line, quietly she spoke to the ghost of her mother in a lonely voice.

"Bye mom, I miss you."

Ruby Rose turned away from her mother's tombstone and began to gracefully walk upon the settled snow. Petals of red like that of a wilting rose drifted out from behind her red cloak, a single tear fell from her silver eyes beneath the hood. And a single rose petal rested upon the Huntress' grave.

Walking back towards the tree line, she passed through the gnarled snow covered trees. A black crow passed overhead as if watching out for her.

It was when she came to a large opening in the forest that she encountered those monsters. Tall, black as pitch and made of the stuff of nightmares. Taking on the strange form of bipedal wolves. They began to surround her on all sides, watching intently as their toothy maws dripped with a viscous substance that could only be saliva. Ruby stood there watching with beaded tear-filled eyes from beneath her hood.

Beowolves…

Drawn by the sadness and lonely feelings of Ruby, the monsters made of darkness shifted with blinding speed towards her, charging, hoping to fill their maws with the flesh of this young small girl.

A cute smile graced her soft pink lips as the Beowolves leapt at the seemingly vulnerable girl. As soon as they made contact with her small frail body, she burst into a cloud red petals.

The dark beasts confused by this crashed into the frozen ground kicking up a cloud of snow. They began to search for their prey among the flurry of snow and rose petals. When suddenly from above, against the backdrop of the broken moon and descending from up in the sky was that same small girl in the red cloak.

Petals of red filled the sky like stars as she contorted her body up high in the air. Her hood fell away revealing short black hair with red tips, pale youthful skin tinged with pink and piercing, determined silver eyes.

Once again she contorted her body, pulling from behind her cloak the thing she called her partner. Its gleaming red metal mecha-shifted into the form of a gun.

A shot thundered through the crisp, cold air.

One of the Beowolves head's exploded in black gore covering the snow beneath it. It limply fell to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut. The rest of its pack immediately fell into action and charged as Ruby landed gracefully to the ground.

A Beowolf dived at her feet as she somersaulted over it, planting the gun barrel against its head and pulling the trigger.

Black gore followed.

She righted herself in mid-air following another attack with her partner. Another thunderous crack and another Beowolf felled blowing away half its torso. The recoil caused her to flip and roll into the path of another black beast, another shot followed blowing it away.

As the strong recoil pushed her, she rolled on her back away from the fray. At a good distance, she then flipped the switch on her partner and the red gleaming metal once more began to mecha-shift.

Ruby spun the weapon behind her as the stock extended into a long pole with a sharp point, the housing also extended and then swung outwards followed by large silvered blades extending outwards like a scythe. What was once a gun had now turned into an incredibly large and unwieldy red scythe. She slammed Crescent Rose's sharp tip into the frozen ground and jauntily posed with a flourish.

The first of the Beowolves made its move, dashing into close combat. She swung her large, unwieldy scythe in such a fashion it almost looked effortless. The blade swung downwards resting softly on the creatures head, however, the heavy weight of the weapon had caused it to pause and stumble. As the large red scythe rested upon the shoulders of the monster it almost gave a toothy smile towards Ruby. Its jaws began to open wide showing off its sharp and deadly teeth.

She looked on and whispered under her breath with a smile. "My, what big teeth you have." Before her smile stretched into a cheeky grin as if knowing what would happen next.

Suddenly pulling the trigger, a deafening roar sounded, the bullet shot from the barrel and the recoil triggering Ruby's next attack. She pulled with the recoil and the body of the monster was cleanly sheared in half from shoulder to waist. The large, heavy black body was flung high into the air as petals of red danced in its wake.

Ruby down to one knee in a stylish flourish of skill rose up and spun the large red scythe-gun in an arc once, twice and thrice before planting it into the frozen ground once more. She cocked a bullet casing from its chamber and trained her sights upon the rest of the monsters in front of her.

They began their relentless charge as the Ruby fired thunderous shot after shot. Each bullet blowing the monsters away into a cloud of black ichor and red petals. As they began to close in she smiled once more.

The closest Beowolf had managed to get into striking range and it slashed at Ruby's dainty little legs. She jumped upwards dodging the slash as her black skirt with red frills hiked up around her waist not quite revealing what lay beneath. She pulled the trigger once more in mid-air and the recoil pushed her back as another bullet exploded the Beowolf before her.

Flinging her backwards some meters by the force of the recoil she swiftly buried the tip of her scythe-gun into the frozen ground, catching herself from flying back any more. She skidded then deftly landed upon Crescent Rose like that of a veteran acrobat.

She watched as the black wolves called for more of their kin, their guttural howls piercing the cold winter air. A second later, more Beowolves rushed from out of the snow-covered forest and into the clearing.

The pack attacked her once more when she began flipping like an acrobat upon her buried scythe-gun. She kicked the Beowolf closest in its mask and was once more swinging till her feet caught upon the back edge of her Crescent Rose. She pulled the trigger firing into another oncoming monster blowing it away. The recoil dislodged her weapon causing her to flip rapidly through the air.

Her feet connecting with another Beowolf softened her landing while sending the opposing monster crashing towards the snow-covered ground. She then rotated her scythe-gun with impossible speeds like a buzzsaw as one Beowolf came in close and subsequently had its legs sheared off.

Hastily getting to its feet the other Beowolf leapt at Ruby who had kicked it to the ground. However, it was subsequently bisected in half by the rotating blade of Crescent Rose. Each rotation of the huge red scythe-gun was aided by the recoil thus making it spin faster and faster till it became nothing more than a whirlwind of death.

Suddenly another Beowolf came in close. Ruby instantly stopped the rotating heavy blade as if defying physics and slammed the scythe behind the creatures head. She pulled the trigger and with the aid of the recoil she decapitated it in one swift movement.

More Beowolves began to close in on Ruby, she gracefully turned her body to the side as sharp white claws came raining from above. She then spun Crescent Rose to its side trapping it from behind with the sharp blade to its back. Another Beowolf ended up in her line of sight, she smiled confidently as she pulled the trigger.

The recoil caused the scythe-gun to slice the beast in half while the bullet blew one more monster away. The creatures massive frame that was cut in half flew high into the sky and arced into another of its pack mates knocking them over.

Two more Beowolves came towards her. Both slashing at her flanks, she deftly dodged both strikes flipping like an acrobat. Ruby instantly changed momentum forward, slashing at the closest monster. She cut its arms and legs leaving only its head and torso intact.

The next victim came forward and she smashed the reaping blade across its shoulders. It jerked under the massive weight upon its shoulders as the small girl rolled beneath it. She then leapt upwards upon its shoulders swinging the blade to beneath its neck and pulled upwards to throttle the creature. She stood upon its back and again smiled with soft joy as she pulled the trigger decapitating the massive black beast.

The recoil sent her upwards high into the sky as she surveyed the carnage of the battlefield. Her silver eyes spotted the slowly smoking, decaying remains of those she slew. Next, she confirmed the remaining number of Beowolves in the field of snow.

The Beowolves were not idle, they leapt at their prey in the sky. Ruby swung Crescent Rose and rotated like a buzzsaw cutting another Beowolf down. She then fired the gun causing her to fly through the air once more, then slashed at another great black beast.

Perhaps a momentary lapse in judgement as she misjudged her timing, she brought up the guard of Crescent Rose as sharp claws came careening towards her small body. The claws glanced off of her partner in a shower of sparks sending her flying backwards some tens of meters.

The strength of Beowolves was no laughing matter.

As she buried the blade in the snow to slow herself she once more gauged the situation. She counted upwards of two dozen creatures left.

"These Grimm just never give up… no matter how many of you I slay."

She looked on as her silver eyes narrowed, you could see within her youthful face and rose coloured cheeks that she had steeled her resolve.

"Okay… time to get serious."

She unloaded her scythe-gun as the cartridge fell away. She pulled out another cartridge from the small silver pack upon her belt. She swung her partner called Crescent Rose to her side and took up a low crouch.

Suddenly it was as if time slowed down for Ruby, the world bled out of colour, a thrumming sensation was felt as her Aura was consumed to fuel her Semblance.

Ruby pulled the trigger on Crescent Rose and with the aid of the recoil and her Semblance she shot off as fast as the speeding bullet itself. In the eyes of the dark creatures, it was as if she was a blur of red petals herself. She spun her great and heavy weapon as she cleaved through the monsters in front of her.

She ran and jumped as if she was flying at inhuman speeds, cutting her way through the throng of Beowolves. She raised her hungry reaping blade high above her head as she sailed through the air, and once more she flipped a switch and the blade of her scythe-gun mecha-shifted into its war scythe mode. The blade extended becoming longer to give her more reach.

Ruby rotated horizontally cutting four of the creatures down in quick succession. She skidded to halt and then once more began her beautiful dance of death.

A crimson whirlwind followed, she swung her reaping blade left and a flash of black gore. She swung her scythe right then a flash of crimson petals. Swinging her blade vertically she easily bisected the Beowolves in two. One after the other body parts, bullet casings and rose petals filled the air around this whirlwind of death not stopping until finally she was surrounded by the stench of the miasmic substance that made up the Grimm.

She buried the great and reaping blade into the frozen ground, she was hardly even out of breath. She just displayed calmness on her soft petite face at the massacre that just happened.

Bodies upon bodies of the miasma filled soulless creatures called Grimm littered the open snow-filled clearing. She once more swung the crimson gun-scythe named Crescent Rose over her shoulder and posed with a flourish with the broken moon to her back. Petals and bullet casings began to fall from the sky like snow and rain.

The girl's name is Ruby Rose. A Huntress in training. Trained to slay monsters and all abhorrences known as Grimm upon the world known as Remnant.