Lights flickered rhythmically around the up-fronts of large buildings that loomed defensively over the crowd streets and sidewalks of the small area's vicinity; offering a chilly breeze that would graze past the various types of citizens carrying out their own separate lives as they trudged intently through the light cover ground of snow. The air itself had been long since became muffled by the resonating sounds of winds abruptly blowing through the occasional leaves of trees that were cordially planted throughout the city, carrying the whispers of the others from the other town as holograms flickered consistently to offer light and direction.

The city itself had been truly everything but busy on a typical day, but as the new years approached, loved ones had been scurrying about the darkest crevices of their small community in searches of gifts for those close. It had been a very loving community, to say the least despite their advancements in their technology from other cities or even countries. It was, all in all. The place to be, so told.

The scent of roses quickly wafted into the air as another violent gust of wind blew through the crowds, causing a few citizens to shudder before bundling up more into their coats as the wind began dwindling out into nothing but silence again as a small figure began to materialize slowly into view, perched up decently high on one of the dust advertisements that hovered up in the air above the crowds. The figure silently began crouching down with their knees until their body was low enough for their nails to be able to deeply dig into the wood of the structure to ensure that there would be no possible incidents of falling; since the last thing they had desired was to end up on the news.

Dull gray eyes attentively began surveying the surrounding area as the once shadow covered streets began to lighten up as the clouds drifted steadily through the sky until they revealed the luminous full moon that grazed over the figure's body until the crimson color of a tattered cape dangled off the edge of the billboard was shown. A visible puff of air dispersed into the cold breeze as an exhausted and ragged sigh forced its way past the cloaked figure's lips upon the realization that the night was terribly crowded. The figure allowed their pale hand to lift up from the billboard hesitantly and grab loosely at the back of their hood until it dropped back off of their head and revealed the long disheveled black and red tresses cascading down the figure's back until it disappeared underneath the cloak.

Small locks of the girl's hair shifted around until a pair of charcoal colored wolf ears lifted out of the long black tresses to perk up high from their previous constricting position. The cold air pushed all warmth out of the thin cartilage which then caused the ears to twitch and flatten back against her hair as the girl grabbed her cloak and nestled herself deeper into the warmth of the fabric so her ears could regain their previous comfort. "I was hoping that the rumors of this place being nice and quiet were true, but from the looks of it, it doesn't even seem that interesting. It's a very sad town for the trouble it gave me getting here in the winter time.." Another tedious sigh quickly forced it's way past the lips of the girl as nothing but silence and the muffled chatters of the citizens passing by beneath her filled the atmosphere as she finished mumbling the last few words of her distaste towards the general area. Only to be shortly after replaced by the momentary look of dejection in her eyes as they followed various people smiling and laughing with those close to them as if it was a typical day when truth be told. It had always been just another winter's season.

"But, I honestly shouldn't even be making any kinds of assumptions about this place when I only recently got here and explored so little. Who knows, maybe you pack more to offer than you look, Vale." An apathetic smile slowly began forming on the corner of her lips as both of her hands strayed away from the hood of her cloak and back to the front of her knees to help her body gradually stand up straight on the Billboard, only stopping to shudder when another gust of wind flew past her body and caused a few strands of hair to flop limply in front of her face. "Haah.. Capes, they do save the heroes from the sidelines time, and they're definitely stylish. I'd like to think of it as a plus, even if it is and old cape. But now, I've uhm, I've just gotta check into this place called Dust replenish to stock up on ammo before exploring and heading back out towards the next AirStation. Although I seriously hope I gathered up enough lien from the town over, and I should also probably hope that they don't mind me carrying around my weapon because I'd hate to leave it out in the snow like last time."

The faunus quickly clapped her hands together in a silent moment to begin praying to the creator of the world she lived in for the mention of her last experience back in Mistral for leaving her weapon outside the shop immediately elicited a strong shudder down her spine as she intently furrowed her eyebrows. It had all brought back the old feelings of the day when she experienced beginning licked in the nose and sniffed my various dogs as she had to tie her weapon to the poles designated for restraining shoppers animals. "Please don't let it happen again dear Monty. I promise not to theft candy anymore." She quietly feigned a couple of sniffles before beginning to shift onto the ball of her left foot as she quickly raised her right foot higher up than the height of her knee so that she could move it over the the edge of the billboard, steadily beginning to shift more weight to her right foot until she had successfully lost her balance on the small flat surface and began to fall forward slowly until her entire body was spiraling down to the ground at a quick speed as the sound of her laughter resonated throughout the air.

It had always been a bliss for the faunus to parkour around higher places of cities that she had made her occasional pit stops to as she grew up, since and no matter how dull the moments could be, the feeling of her aura surging through every cell of her body until it began to encase her entire body in the crimson color of red. It was as if her first memories of unlocking her potential was being replayed all over again as she twisted her torso to stabilize her posture so that as she successfully made it down to the ground, she came to a firm landing on her feet as her cape that had grown twice as large as it once was deteriorated into nothing but roses until it was it's normal size again. A quirky grin her the faunus's lips as she glanced around at her surrounding to check to see if anyone had seen anything

"Heh, and they always say that wolves can't land on their feet either.. I'd like to prove them all wrong someday once I completely master it." A noticeable quirky grin began forming on the faunus's lips as her gray eyes scrutinized her surrounding area to ensure that nobody had witnessed her jumping down from the billboard before she chuckled to herself as both of her hands raised up to the back of her head to grab the tattered fabric of the hood and pull it back over her head as she began trudging along the sidewalk, whistling a quiet tune of folklore.

That with blood on my teeth..

It is far beyond dry..

and I've captured you once..

But I wasn't quite right; so I'm telling you that you'll be safe with me.

As the faunus contentedly hummed the song she had been sung to as a child, her gray eyes that had been attentively surveying the surrounding area for anything interesting, slowly locked onto a group of men dressed in black and red uniforms emerging had almost immediately wafted over towards her direction as she flared her nostrils in distaste for the scent of iron and dust powder, resulting in her slowing down her pace citizens continued to walk past her, completely unaware of the threat that the men posed. "Oh boy, seems like someone's been a bit busy.." She grumbled tensely as her hands strayed down to the side of her pants to push down her hands into the pocket as she watched the group of men enter the shop she intended to go to.

"It doesn't even take a fool to see this might not end well.. But I do need to really restock up on dust, and I swear, people like them are getting more risky and daring every town over." The faunus grimaced in dejection as she approached the shop called Dust replenish where the men enter before pinning down her ears hard to ensure that nobody could see her faunus features as she eventual came to a stand still in front of the single door that had been decorated in lights to welcome costumers. "You can only hope for the best I've been told.. But, I doubt that's the case for this."

An Hour later

The wolf faunus sat in a chair at a table in front of her that had a small lamp in the middle. However, the wolf faunus was nervously looking around the dim lit room that the mysterious bitter woman had led her to and left her in. "Erm.." Suddenly the pair of ears perk up underneath the hood at the sound of the door being opened, and the wolf faunus instantly sits up attentively.

As the door paves the light outside the room shines in and causes the wolf faunus to wince since the lamp only had been providing her a little source of light, so when the brightness of the lights outside the door flooded in the room, the wolf faunus turned her head away. The door is heard shutting again, and the wolf faunus slowly looks back over to the door to see a man with silver hair walking over to the table with the same woman that had blonde hair following behind him.

"Hello there Miss, how are you doing this lovely night?" The silver haired man asks while he walked over to the chair in front of the table and pulled it out before he took a seat and sipped his. She sniffed the air slightly and cringed at the awful stench of coffee.

"O-Oh! Um! I'm doing fine, and tonight has been a pretty n-nice night.. Well, aside from the mugging thing though, it really wasn't part of my plan to be mugged and assaulted in one night." The wolf faunus shifted in the seat uncomfortably since the man's observing eyes were directed at her. The wolf faunus honestly hadn't planned them to pull out guns in the shop; she actually had been hoping she was exaggerating.

"Yes, I can see why you said that. However, sometimes things never seem to go correctly to plan." He chuckles quietly while the other person was glaring at Ruby, but after he said that, the blonde haired woman finally spoke up.

"If it wasn't a part of your plans, why did you continue after that man when you could have just walked away like a normal person? Yet instead you ruined a dust shop and intervened with a huntress, what do you have to say for yourself?" The woman slapped her riding crop on the table to make the wolf faunus listen, but all it made the wolf faunus actually do was recoil and scoot her chair further away from the table.

"I-I'm sorry! I know I should have stayed put and not chased after him, but there was a possibility that I could have caught and stop the man, so I took it! I apologized already for getting in your way! I didn't really know you were a huntress!" The wolf faunus stammers out nervously while she felt her ears lowering in fear of the two people in front of her.

"Now now Glynda! None of that, we aren't here to scare her." The man holds his right arm out and pushes Glynda away from the table and wolf faunus before turning his attention back to the nervous wolf faunus and offered a smile. "I'm sorry about this, Miss..?" He says slowly as if hinting for her to give him her name.

"I-It's Ruby. Ruby Rose." Ruby notices the man's eyes widening at this, and she chuckles slightly at his reaction since he didn't really look like the person who should have been making faces like that.

"Ah.." He coughs a few times before pushing the small glasses up his nose a little more and took another sip of the awful coffee. "Well, Miss Rose, I am Opzin. The headmaster of Beacon Academy, the school for training young people and," Opzin clearly stops at the word before slowly continuing, "and faunus to fight Grimm. Which, might I ask Miss Rose, why are you still keeping a hood on while we are in the building? Hmm?" Suddenly, Ruby freezes and she coughs at the unexpected question.

"I-I just feel like it. Is that wrong?" She questions Opzin.

"No, not at all Miss Rose. It's just your tail has seemed to disagree with you and found its way from underneath your cloak, and it looks quite uncomfortable to have the fabric rubbing against your ears over and over hmm.. I hear after a certain amount of time of having fabric rub against a part of you it can get quite unbearable, yes?" Ruby laughs and waves her hand

"Psh, that's no-" Suddenly she stops and looks over to see the charcoal tail with little strips of red swaying calmly around, half of it dangling off the chair. Ruby stares at her tail, processing that it was in fact out from underneath the cloak. "Eek!" She squeaks as she heard the headmaster coughing a few times before she quickly shoos her tail back under the cloak in embarrassment.

"Miss Rose, there is no need to hide your faunus heritage here." Opzin shakes his head at the blushing wolf faunus who was slowly nodding.

"Sorry.. I just, y'know, some people aren't okay with faunu-. Wait how did you know I had ears though?" Ruby timidly says, but still doesn't take the hood off since she still didn't feel comfortable showing off her faunus features since it wasn't the issue of her being a faunus usually, but instead it was for a different issue completely. Ruby, however, didn't even know why the issue was separate from just being hated for her animal features, or why it was an issue in general.

"Well, if you look long enough, you can clearly see them twitching around, but it's understandable, however, I'd like to discuss a few things with you, Miss Rose. Along with questions if that's alright with you." Opzin watches Ruby meekly nod her head before he continues. "Beacon Academy is a representative to Vale, did you know that Miss Rose?" Ruby shakes her head promptly. "Everyone knows Beacon is Vale's main well, attraction. I'm not saying random people could simply ride an airship over to Beacon. However, most people know Vale for Beacon."

Ruby didn't exactly know where Opzin was going with this, but she listened intently to Opzin's story, even while feeling a bit awkward with the woman apparently named Glynda staring at her still. "So Beacon has some surveillance over Vale since as hunters and huntresses we are here to serve Vale and help them. However, before I sent Glynda over to solve the robbing, I saw how you handled those men." Opzin finally set his mug down and clasped his hands together before he leaned forward on the table.

"Where on Remnant did such a young faunus as yourself learn such moves? Surely you must have learned those in Signal since it is the only training school in the area." Ruby shakes her head again before she finally spoke up.

'A-Actually... I-I've never heard of this school called Signal? And I-I'm actually not in school. I learned those moves from my caretaker and a few from other people along with training myself, my knowledge on combat goes really far actually! I'm good at close range combat too; I once had to use a dagger for protection because I sorta encountered a bull moose and it got really aggressive towards me.." Ruby chuckled nervously while nodding since she always felt extremely proud of her fighting skills.

"I see.." Opzin didn't know how to feel about what Ruby had said but continued anyway. "Well, it was quite admirable, those moves you did; nowadays such skills in youth are not common to our community.. And I was thinking, it would be a shame to just pass such skills and leave it. I'll admit you were a bit reckless, however, with the training my school provides, we could fix that in a month or two."

"Wait. Wouldn't that mean I'd have to be in your school to do the training? Are you um..Are you asking me to go to your school to train?" Ruby asks perturbed.

"I am. " He bluntly says.

"I-I'm flattered mister! I really am, but I wasn't really planning to stay in Vale for too long." Ruby's ears droop under the fabric as she felt slightly bad for having to say this, but she really didn't plan to stay in Vale too long. Ruby was still searching; she couldn't just stop and give up to learn what she already knows in fighting.

"Miss Rose, you have so much potential. I only desire to utilize that, you wouldn't just be learning to fight to be fighting without a purpose! No, the main point of my school is to help people in need. Think about this; you could save lives with the skills you possess." After Opzin says that Glynda speaks up finally.

"I might be upset with what you did back there Miss Rose, but I agree with Opzin, you did fight nicely, and with a little work and training you could become a skilled huntress." Ruby looks at the two before she looked down at her hands that held the hem of her cloak. Ruby didn't know what to do, they did make good points, and Ruby liked to help people the best she could, maybe along the way she could find what she was searching for?

"Tell me more.." She mumbles quietly which makes the headmaster raise a brow before Ruby's head shot up and she shouted nervously. "Tell me more about the school you want to send me to!" Ruby then notices Glynda rubbing her head while the headmaster was quietly chuckling at the wolf faunus. "And.. And.. I guess.. I could.. At least see what your school has to offer for a bit.. Just tell me about it first, and I'll give you my official standing answer after." Ruby said while she looked the headmaster in the eyes earnestly, while the headmaster only offered a kind smile, making Ruby feel less imitated by the man now, but she still felt uneasy about this all to be truthful.

"Of course, Miss Rose, where do I began now," Opzin picked up his coffee mug and took a sip while the wolf faunus watched him, and a smile formed on his lips behind the mug at what he stumbled upon. "So this is the last remaining Rose? She's grown quite a bit, Summer."

Alright, so this is the TRAS rewrite. As you can all tell, I kind of only rewrote the top part and left the bottom part alone since I am far too lazy to rewrite dialogue and I have a bunch of other things needing to be written. But fear not, for the next chapter will be entirely written as you see at the top of my new writing style. I hope you all enjoyed this rewrite of TRAS and if you could. Give this poor Lil Wolf some reviews about anything really; I just love hearing from my reader. Don't forget to favorite, list some quotes you fancy and I'll put them in my profile bio, and share this!

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