Hello readers of the world and hopefully some of my friends and others. I did a RWBY one shot back in march a dedication to my niece who I'm happy to say is healthy and growing like a weed. Now its time that I start my full RWBY story. This on is entitled Truest Form and its meant to be a representation of the truest form of love. Its going to feature both Bumblebee and White Rose parings as well as several others. I'm planning this story to be my most intricate story to date. I will have several OCs. This prologue is to show one of them and how he's connected to everything. It also shows how the weapons you know came to be. A short summery will follow. So please R&R thanks.
Short summery : Life is funny. Before we realize it we are connected to the ones we are meant to be with. Year Two has started at Beacon Academy. For team RWBY its a new year fresh with new students and new teams. The teams who have made the academy home for their training have returned. Now with the second year under way they must now bide for the top spot of the class. However with the White Fang making moves searching for a lost weapon. The teams must prepare for a war. However when they find out that the weapon is a fellow student they must choose. Kill the fellow student so the White Fang can't have their weapon or help the person and bring the White Fang down.
Rated M for strong graphic violence, strong language, and strong sexual content.
Disclaimer : I own nothing to do with the RWBY universe. This is a work of fiction meant to entertain and not gain prophet from. I just own this plot and I'm doing it for fun.
Truest Form
Prologue
Screams could be heard echoing throughout the maternity ward of a hospital. It was a hospital meant for faunus. Faunus doctors walked around working on fellow faunus. One walked into a room where some screaming came from. He looked to see a brown haired female faunus moving around. Her hands were on her extended belly. On her head was a pair of wolf ears, she was a wolf faunus.
"Mrs. Thrope, you've been fighting it to long. If you keep this up you'll risk harming the child" the doctor said as his clawed fingers pushed his glasses up.
"Did my husband make it here yet?" she questioned her green eyes looking back to him.
"No ma'am, but I'm sure your husband will be understanding of the situation. Now, what type of faunus is your husband? There must have been a mistake somewhere because it doesn't show what type he is" the doctor said flipping through the charts.
"That's because he's human" she replied making the doctor look up at her. He had a bewildered look on his face and she just smirked. "You're not the first to have that reaction" she chuckled before letting out a wolf like growl in pain.
"Well, you need to deliver your child now, it can't wait any longer" he said pointing a finger at her.
She looked at him before turning her attention to her stomach. She ran her hands softly over her stomach. Her thoughts were consumed with how the child would turn out. Her husband wouldn't be upset if she went in and she knew it. Looking back to the doctor and giving him a slight nod she smiled. Her first child was about to be born. He motioned her to lay on the bed as to which she did as ordered.
Elsewhere in the hospital a man in his mid twenties came running into the hospital. He was human, surrounded by hundreds of faunus. His eyes looked around to see he was getting awkward glances from them all. He ignored them as he focused on the receptionist ahead of him. He moved quickly towards the woman who appeared to have feathers growing from her.
"Where's the maternity ward? My wife is having our first" he said looking at her.
"Well congratulations, but this is a faunus hospital. A human wouldn't be here" she said stating a fact.
"My wife is faunus, a wolf faunus" he said looking at her.
He watched her eyes shoot wide before turning to a computer. She typed on it, finding what he was asking for. She announced it to him and he smiled before running towards an elevator. He pressed the button to go up. The doors instantly opened and he looked to see three faunus in it. He looked at them before walking in and pressing the button for the third level.
"You're in the wrong hospital ain't you human" one said making the man look back to him.
He looked to see he had a pair of antlers on his head. They looked at one another before he chuckled a bit. "Maybe if I had married a human" the man replied before turning his attention back to the door.
"You married a faunus?" Another asked, his dog like ears perking up a bit.
"Yes, and we're about to have our first child" he replied with a nod.
Behind the two men was a girl, just about twelve years old. Her amber eyes peaked out from around the two men who were in front of her. She was a young girl listening and hanging onto every word the men said. A human faunus hybrid, she knew they were rare not many ever existed. She smiled a bit, knowing that in the future this might be something she could use. Use to her advantage for when she took the White Fang over.
The elevator dinged and the human was out the door quickly. He ran down the hall to his left heading towards the maternity ward. He pushed the doors open and looked to see his wife on a bed. "Helena" he called jogging towards her.
"Alex" she said reaching her hands towards him.
He shot over to her and her arms wrapped around his neck and she kissed him. He kissed her back and smiled before looking to her stomach. He kissed it softly before looking back up to the doctor. He smiled and nodded as he went to get cleaned up. Once he was done he was taken to the delivery room. Walking in he moved over next to his wife who was panting heavily.
He took her hand in his and used his free hand to stroke her forehead. She smiled weakly up at him and then screamed out in pain. She pushed harder and all at once the pain and pressure disappeared. Her head slammed back onto the pillow. She sighed a bit and smiled over to him. They then heard the wailing of their new born. Both smiled, tears forming in their eyes.
"It's a boy" the doctor announced.
They looked as their child was passed to them. Alex smiled looking from the child to his wife. They smiled at one another before looking back to their son.
"He's perfect" she said looking at their child. His ears were slightly pointed not as noticeable as his mother's. His eyes opened a bit and to their surprise his eyes were dark in color. His pupils were slit and they shined in the light. They smiled looking at one another as she passed their baby back to the doctors.
"I bet he has his mother's determination" Alex said smiling at her.
"And his father's tenacity" she said smiling back at him.
They smiled, their child was born healthy and both of them were just fine. A human and a faunus, both truly happy and in love. They kissed one another and smiled looking back as the doctors cleaned their child up. They went back to their room where they were going to have time to relax. Their lives as parents were about to start.
XX
One year later
Screaming was heard coming out of a maternity ward. A woman laid out on a delivery table, blood soaking the white sheet. She breathed deeply and let out a content sigh as she heard her baby crying. She was loosing life quickly, bleeding out on the table.
"Let me hold my baby" she said weakly as her hand went out towards the screaming child.
"Ma'am, we don't have time for that if we are going to save you" the doctor protested looking to her.
"I don't have long for this world, I know it. Just let me hold my baby" she said looking at her child.
Slowly the doctor walked over and placed the child into her hands. The crying baby instantly stopped crying as she felt the touch of her mother. She smiled a bit as she looked at her child. Her black hair had streaks of bright red through it. She gasped a bit as the child opened her eyes and looked at her.
"Hey Ruby, Ruby Rose I'm your mommy. I'm sorry I won't be able to watch you grow up or to teach you anything you'll need to know in life. I just want you to know, I love you, and I'll always be looking out for you" she said softly as her finger brushed some of the child's hair back.
Her aura charged and white rose petals appeared in her hand. She looked at them before moving her hand over the chest of the baby. They rolled from her hand and gently fell onto the child's body. Slowly they were absorbed into her body. She smiled a bit, some stray tears dropped off her cheeks.
"I love you Ruby" she said softly kissing the child's forehead.
Her head tipped back from the child and rested on the pillow once more. She smiled slightly as slowly the light from her eyes faded. Monitors started going off alerting the doctors she was dying. They removed the child from her hands and instantly the baby started crying. They started working to save her life but after a few minutes it was apparent that it was no good.
"Time of death?" A doctor asked.
"Ten thirty PM" a nurse replied as they covered the woman up with a sheet.
XX
Two days later
A husband and wife walked into their house. In their arms they cradled a baby wrapped up in a small blanket. A girl in her mid teens came up to them. Right behind her was a girl about a year and a half old. They looked at her and smiled as her yellow hair bounced around her head. They paid the baby sitter before looking to their child.
"Hey Yang" her mother said sitting down on the couch. She smiled as she watched her daughter climb up onto the couch with her. Curiosity got the better of the small child and so she climbed up her mother's arm and looked at the sleeping baby.
"Yang, this is your baby sister now. Her name is Ruby Rose" her father said sitting next to the child. He picked her up and placed her on his lap and smiled at her. "I want you to promise that you will always look out for her" he said looking to his daughter.
She looked at him and then back to the baby in her mother's arms. Both were smiling at her and so she just nodded. She smiled herself both of her parents looking at her. Little did she know what kind of life they were destined for.
XX
Five years later
Faunus protested out in front of the Schnee dust company. They were protesting the the working conditions of their fellow faunus. Many of them were members of the White Fang. In front of them were two people. One was a young girl about the age of six. Her hair was a dark ebony color. Atop her head were two cat ears which twitched at every sound. Her amber eyes were full of rage as she protested with the other members of the White Fang.
Next to her was a woman in her late twenties she had a extended belly telling all those around her she was pregnant. Her wolf ears twitched a bit as her green eyes looked everything over. She continued to chant with the others. Helena was part of the White Fang. She had joined them because of the conditions her father had worked in when she was young. He had been killed on the job and his human employer did nothing except replace him.
The demonstration lasted all day until the factory was closed. Helena looked down to the cat faunus who had been by her side all day. She smiled at the six year old who smiled back up at her.
"Can I touch your belly?" She asked looking at the wolf faunus.
"Sure, just be gentle" Helena said smiling at the child. She smiled more as the child gently ran her hands over her stomach. She then felt the baby kick and the girl's eyes brightened.
"I felt her kick" she said with a bright smile.
"Yup, she's going to be strong. So what's your name?" She asked looking to the child.
"Blake" the girl replied smiling up at her.
Helena prepared to say something before she noticed something. A woman motioning her to come to her. She looked back down to Blake and gave her a gentle pat on the head. Walking in the direction she found herself behind a small building. She looked around to see that the woman who beckoned her over was gone.
"Helena Thrope" a voice said from behind her.
Turning slowly she looked to see a woman standing there. "Cinder, what do you want?" She asked looking at the woman.
"Needed to talk to you, unlike all the other members of the White Fang I know the truth about you" she stated leaning up against a car.
"And what is that?" Helena asked folding her arms across her chest.
"That the child growing in you right now isn't a purebred faunus. That you already have a son who's also a mutt" Cinder said looking at her.
A snarl escaped Helena's lips. Her aura began to charge a blue color. It swirled around her and her eyes seemed to glow. "Don't you ever fucking call my son a mutt again, or I'll rip your tongue out" she growled getting into Cinder's face.
"Imagine if all the other faunus found out about this. Human/faunus hybrid children tend to get killed..." Cinder started to explain when suddenly she was cut off.
"Shut your fucking mouth" Helena growled pressing a knife up to her throat. "Are you making a threat on my children and husband?"
"No, an offer, an offer of protection from both sides" the young woman said smirking up to the older faunus who glared daggers at her.
Helena let out a deep wolf like growl as she pressed the knife harder into Cinder's throat. A trickle of blood dripped from the knife tip. Slowly her anger went away and her eyes softened a bit. She had to think about it for a few seconds. Human/faunus hybrids didn't last long in the world. They and their families tended to get murdered. Slowly she removed her knife from the woman's throat.
"What's your offer?" Helena asked looking at her.
"I want to run test on your son he'll be able to do things that neither human or faunus can do. I want to make use of what his abilities will be able to do" Cinder said as she straitened herself out.
"So the offer is experiment on my son or get exposed and my whole family dies?" She questioned looking at Cinder.
"I wouldn't call it experimentation just harnessing his abilities" Cinder said with a shrug.
"Do you promise to protect my family, and not to harm my child?" Helena asked looking down to her stomach. She needed to protect them all and this was the only way she could see her doing that. "I agree" she said with a nod making Cinder smile at her.
XX
Four years later
Helena came quickly through the door to hers and Alex's house. She closed the door and locked it quickly. She peaked out the window to see nothing in the dark. Turning around she looked to see Alex and their son sitting at a table. They were looking over the newest prototype weapon Alex had designed. He looked up to his wife who came over to him. She grabbed his arm and tugged at him pulling him to another room.
"Helena, what's going on?" He questioned softly as they came into the living room.
Helena looked to their son who was watching them. His ears had gotten more pointed towards the top giving his human ears pointed tips. His eyes still had the slit pupils and were now an amber color. She smiled at him before looking back to Alex. "I found out what Cinder is doing to our son, we have to run away. Far away so that our two daughters will be safe as well" she stated looking at her husband.
"What is she doing?" He asked adopting a serious gaze.
"Alex, she's trying to turn him into a weapon. She wants to use him for major attacks on governments" she replied looking at him.
Alex looked at her before glancing back to their son. He was watching them, his ears twitching a bit. He smiled at his father and he returned it with a slight smile. Slowly he looked back to his wife who was looking at him. "Gather clothes and the girls, my father has a place near Beacon academy. We can hide there. I'll protect you all" he said quickly turning back to his son.
"What's going on dad?" His son asked looking up at him.
"We're going away for a bit, get your clothes packed" he said patting his son on the head. He watched as his son smiled and climbed off his chair. Alex watched as he disappeared into another room to start packing. His attention turned to the prototype weapon on the table. Reaching down he picked the whip up and placed it into a box. He was going to protect his family at all cost.
XX
Two years later
"Son, your twelve years old now. In my family you are old enough to have a weapon and to start training with it. Someday you might become a hunter like your grandfather. I couldn't because my aura never developed" Alex said looking at his son who was sitting on a chair.
"What weapon did you pick out for me?" His son asked with a smile making his father chuckle.
"Well, you get to pick your weapon" Alex replied pressing a button.
A wall behind him slid up making him turn to look at it. He was a weapon designer, he built weapons for whoever ordered them. He looked at the plans for a prototype defence knight one ordered by the Schnee dust company. Next to those plans were plans for defense droids, also ordered by Schnee family. He looked back to his son who walked up to the wall. He stood there looking at the wall. He stopped in front of a pair of shotgun gauntlets. He ran his fingers over them but just shook his head.
His attention turned to a rapier that seemed to have a dial in the handle. Once again he ignored it and moved down the wall of weapons. He stopped at an odd looking katana that had a pistol built into its handle. Next to it was a shotgun katana. However something down the wall caught his attention. Walking over to it he picked it up to see it was a whip. In fact it was the very same whip he and his father had worked on a few years ago.
"I see the prototype has caught your attention" he said watching as his son took it off the wall. "It has three stages, the whip you're looking at now. Then it becomes a sword and finally an assault rifle. That katana has four weapons on it but it's not as tricky as that one" he explained looking on as his son twirled it a bit.
He watched as he began to crack the whip with ease. Looking on he watched in astonishment as his son transformed the whip into a sword. He spun around and in a flash he transformed the sword into the gun. He smiled at seeing this, his son had a natural talent. "I love this one" his son said looking back to him.
"Name it, it's your weapon now" Alex stated motioning his hand towards the weapon.
His son looked at him before looking to the black and grey colored weapon. He turned and looked to his father who was smiling at him. "Shroud of Darkness" his son said with a smile as he looked at him.
"That's a fine name son, now time to start your training" Alex said smiling as he picked up a staff from the wall.
"When does that start?" His son asked still looking at his whip.
"Now" Alex said slamming the staff into his son making him fall to the ground. He smiled watching his son get up and into a defensive posture. His son had a bright future ahead of him even after what Cinder did to him.
XX
Four years later
The boy stood in a gym at his school. Some days he hated being a sixteen year old hybrid. This was one of those days. The bullies had been targeting him again and his face bore the marks of their attacks. His lip was swollen a bit and a little bit of blood trickled from the wound. Letting out a growl he changed Shroud of Darkness into a sword.
He attacked a dummy in front of him. He stabbed and slashed it as he danced around it. Spinning around he kicked the dummy to the ground. His weapon became an assault rifle. He jumped up into the air. His aura charged, green energy glowing around him. He fired at the dummy, the bullets ripping into it. Smirking his gun became the whip. Cracking it, the weapon curled around the dummy. He pulled it up to him in the air. His semblance charged as his whip became the sword once more.
His hand shot down and his semblance sent the dummy crashing to the ground. Moving his hand back he gave himself a speed boost. It sent him crashing back towards the ground. The blade was driven through the dummy. Breathing deeply he rested there, his shaggy silver hair dangling around his face.
"Mr. Thrope?" A man questioned from behind him.
"Yeah, that's me" he said looking back. He saw a white haired man with sunglasses rested on the bridge of his nose. He pulled the sword from the dummy. With a flick of his wrist it became the whip once more. He started to wrap it up as he turned to walk towards the man. "Who are you?" He questioned placing the whip back onto his hip.
"I am Professor Ozpin, the headmaster of Beacon Academy. I have heard about you and your abilities. A hybrid between faunus and human. Powerful aura, and semblance. Your mother is a wolf faunus, your father one of the top weapons designers. I am here because I would like to tell you that you've been accepted into Beacon Academy" the man explained walking over to him.
"Say again?" The boy asked a confused look on his face.
Ozpin just reached into his coat and pulled out an envelope. He looked at it before handing it to him. The boy looked at it before looking at him. He had a dumbfounded look on his face as he looked at the man. "I expect to see great things out of you, Mr. Thrope" the professor said walking away leaving him there alone.
Smiling the boy turned and ran out of the gym. He ran through the halls and outside to find his truck parked away from the rest of the student's vehicles. He ran to it quickly and jumped in it. Firing it up he sped out of the parking lot and back home. He looked to see his house coming up quickly he jumped out of his truck and quickly ran into the house.
"Mom, Dad, I got into Beacon. I got into Beacon Academy" he called coming into the house. He stood there, the house was quiet and still. He stood there for a minute without a reply. "Mom, Dad?" He questioned as he started walking through the house. He came into the living room and stopped dead in his tracks.
The furniture was overturned. Blood was bathed across the hardwood floor. He moved slowly taking care to not step in the blood. He came around the corner of a room and looked down. Laying there on the ground were to bodies. He stood there gasping slightly as he looked down at the two people. He fell to his knees gasping slightly as he looked at them.
"Mo... mom, da... dad" he choked out as he looked at them.
His father had his throat slit meaning someone got the jump on him. His mother looked far worse. She had been beaten without mercy. Stabbed several times, and finally executed with a single gunshot through her head. Slowly he started to pull them to himself. He cradled their heads in his hands, tears dripping from his eyes. Suddenly his head snapped up and he let out a scream of pain and heartbroken sadness. With a second scream his semblance naturally charged. Once it did the loose objects around him began to swirl around and charged sending the objects flying into the wall.
He cradled them as he continued to rock back and forth. His head tipped down to theirs and the tears flowed from his eyes. A scream was heard making him look back. He looked to see his sisters were standing there looking at him and their slain parents. He then realized that he had to grow up right there. His sisters needed him.
XX
Two months later
He sat in a night club, the death of his parents still ripe in his head. He had found, found papers that his mother had since he was young. He had found out who murdered his parents. He just now needed to find those responsible. He was going to make them pay, pay with their lives.
He looked down at his drink in his glass. He swirled the ice around a bit and looked at it. Taking a sip of it he looked out to the dance floor to see people dancing around. The DJ wore a teddy bear head as he continued to mix music. These people had no clue what kind of people ran this place. He flicked the ash off of his cigarette and sighed a bit. He had picked up smoking a few days after his parents died. He chose to, now he had to raise three sisters and work on his school work at Beacon. It was going to be tough for him.
He kept his attention on a man at the bar. He was talking with a man wearing a bowler hat. It was one of the people he was after. Roman Torchwick, the man who financed everything that happened to him. His father had taught him that if one really wants to hurt his enemy he has to attack what keeps him afloat. The man named Junior was his target. He patted Shroud of Darkness and watched as Roman walked away.
He prepared to get up to go after Junior but stopped as a beautiful yellow haired girl about his age was walking towards Junior. He looked closely at her wrist to see a pair of gauntlets, shotgun gauntlets. He knew them, his mind flashing back to the day he got his weapon. They were the ones that his father had designed.
"This should be good" he said as he sat back in his chair. He watched as the twins walked away leaving Junior and the blonde talking. He watched as suddenly she grabbed his groin and he snickered a bit at that. "Ouch" he said chuckling as he took a sip of his drink.
Looking on he watched as she let him go, both of them still talking. They stopped, both looking at one another. Slowly they started leaning in like they were going to kiss. His eyebrow arched when suddenly she punched him sending him flying across the club. He started laughing as people started running out of the club in fear.
Looking on they started fighting. He studied the girl closely, watching how she used the gauntlets. He smiled a bit, knowing his father would be proud that his weapons were being wielded by a excellent brawler. She punched men back and a few came flying at him. Kicking his chair back he gripped his drink as the men crashed through his table. One looked at him and he just smiled as he raised his glass to him. He kicked him in the face knocking him out.
He turned and looked as the DJ opened fire on her with a machine gun. She jumped up and beat him around before tossing him back to the dance floor. He looked to see the twins came walking onto the dance floor. He looked up to the blonde as she reloaded the gauntlets. "Impressive" he said chuckling.
Taking a generous gulp of his drink he watched as they started fighting. The goons were nothing compared to these twins. They showed a killer instinct that the goons didn't possess. They were a step up from the others. Looking on he watched as they kept fighting. He cringed as the girl kicked the twin dressed in white across her face. Slowly the blonde looked at him and their eyed locked. He just nodded past her and the girl spun around to see Junior walking up gripping onto a rocket launcher.
He fired it and she dodged the rounds. He fired again and so she started firing the gauntlets. The rounds exploded and Junior came flying through the smoke. His rocket launcher had become a bat. He swung it at her sending her flying back. He was faster than the others and more violent. However the girl got the upper hand and started to lay into him. She kept punching him until she hit him hard enough. The blow shattered his weapon and sent him flying back.
He looked at his weapon that was broken. Looking to his left hand he gripped onto a few locks of her golden hair. She seemed to explode, her aura charging making massive flames blow out windows and displays. She charged him, quickly attacking him. With a powerful blow she sent him crashing through a window. Smiling he finished his drink off and tossed his glass to the ground.
"Well, time for me to work" he said uncoiling his whip. He walked outside to see the blonde walking away with a girl wearing a red cape. Laying on the ground at his feet was a groaning Junior. He kicked his foot making him groan. "Wake up shit stain" he said kicking his boot again.
"Great, another kid" Junior grumbled looking up to him.
"Well, I'm not going to kick your ass, I'm just going to kill you" he replied as Shroud of Darkness changed into the rifle. He leveled it on Junior's head making the man sit up quickly.
"Right, like I need to fear a sixteen year old" he challenged looking at the teen.
"Didn't a sixteen year old just kick your ass?" the hybrid questioned with a smirk. "You will die tonight" he growled flipping the safety forward.
"Look kid, if its about money I can pay you" Junior pleaded.
"I'm just trying to get to your boss, Roman. He had something to do with what I became. He knows how to find Cinder and the White Fang. I'm going to destroy them all" he growled. Suddenly he fired the gun, the bullet catching Junior above his eye. He lowered the gun, smiling a bit, his plan for revenge was in motion. He was going to end the White Fang.