The Last Rose of Summer

The story opens with the sun rising over a medium hut in the woods. When the door opened a small child ran out the door with rose petals following. The mother smiles as she walked out the door and told her child to slow down or she'll get hurt. The girl turns around and smiles at her mother before telling her to hurry up as she doesn't want to miss the sunset over the cliff her mother trained at.

"Hurry up mom! I don't want us to miss the sunset! And you promised to take me to the place you trained at before you leave for your next mission." the mother smiles and picks up her daughter as she continues to walk to their location.

"Calm down ruby or we won't make it in time for me to show you the beauty of it."

"But I can't calm down mom! I'm just so happy that I get to see it!"

They kept talking as they got closer to the cliff's edge for their picnic. Once they got there little ruby couldn't help but let out a joyful gasp as she saw the sun starting to set over the ocean of trees below.

"Woooooooow, this looks amazing mom!!" Ruby smiled happily as she jumped out of her mother's arms and ran towards the edge of the cliff.

"Careful ruby you could fall," the mother said to her child as she set up the picnic area near the edge but at a safe distance. Ruby looked back at her mother and smiled before running to help her set up.

"Let me help you mom"

"Ok, I'll let you set the food but don't eat anything until we finish setting up."

Ruby nodded and took out the plates of food as her mother finished securing the blanket. While they were doing that they didn't hear the sound of Grimm getting closer. That was when Ruby's mother got a call on her scroll from her teammate.

"Summer did you make sure that there were no Grimm when you set you for today," asked her teammate. Summer replied with "of course I did Qrow, I'm not team leader for no reason" Qrow sighed knowing that his teammate was as stubborn as he was.

"I know that your team leader but did you still take your weapon?"

"Yes, I took Celestial Rose with me. You know I don't leave home without my sweetheart." summer spoke into the scroll as she watched Ruby eat a cookie.

"Ok, I just wanted to make sure everything was ok because you know how the forest gets in the night as more Grimm are around."

"Thanks for the concern Qrow but I've got everything under control." Summer smiled softly as she spoke with her teammate. Qrow sighed and looked at his scroll before he told Summer "just call me if you need anything ok. I don't want to interrupt your mother-daughter bonding time any more than what I have."

"Of course I'll call you if I need any help. Also if we don't return by moonrise then think something bad happened." and with that, Summer ended the call as she looked over at Ruby again only to see her resting against summer's leg.

"Oh ruby" Summer smiled down at her child "did you tire yourself out?" Ruby looked up at summer and smiled softly.

"No, I just wanted to be near you. Also was that uncle Qrow?" Summer giggled softly and booped her daughter on the nose.

"Yeah, that was your uncle. He was asking if we were ok."

"Oh" was the only thing that ruby was able to say before remembering that her mom had brought her weapon with her.

"Hey mom, can I have a look at Celestial Rose please!" Ruby looked at summer as she pulled herself into a sitting position in front of her mother. Summer smiled at Ruby before pulling out Celestial Rose in its sword form. Ruby squealed in glee as she saw her mother's sword and couldn't help but reach out for it.