Note: Welcome to story number three! Credit for the idea and original design of the character Hiraani goes to Spartan N32. I own no original RWBY characters or any music used.
Okay begin!
All is quiet in Vale this night, well except for a certain fifteen year old girl dualing with one of Remnamt's top criminals outside of a small shop. Other then that, all is quiet.
*Crash!*
... Okay, maybe not.
Two teens, a male and a female, in White Fang masks, had just jumped out of a window of a two story shop and each of them had a bag full of stolen goods slung across their torsos. They land on the roof of the building next door and begin to run as two members of security chase them.
The retreating female has long, dark-purple hair that stops three-fourths of the way down her back, a small light-blue bow on the side of her head, and is wearing an unbuttoned grey vest with a white t-shirt underneath, black long length cargo pants, white sneakers, and light-blue arm and shin gaurds. She also has a qaing (a Chinese spear) slung across her torso along with the bag. The leaf-shaped blade on the end is midnight black, the metal pole it's attached to was grey, and it's tassel around where the blade attached is blue.
Her partner has dark-purple hair that goes down to his shoulders and is wearing a grey, sleeveless hoodie that's zipped up to a "v" to show a white t-shirt underneath and has the hood up, he's also wearing black long-lenght cargo pants, and has brown combat boots. Like his partner, his weapon of choice is slung across his torso with his bag. It is a black, pump-action shotgun with purple streaks and an extra barrel above the primary.
The male gives his partner a nod as they ran and she stops in her tracks. As the members of security approach, she pulls her weapon off her back in a quick motion, ducks to the ground, sticks out her leg to trip one of the pursuers, and smacks the other on the chest with the flat side of the spear, knocking him to the ground. The one that tripped on the girl's leg pushes himself up off the ground only to see the male running at him and receive a punch in the nose. He then delivers two punches to the officer's head before sending a roundhouse kick to his chin, immediately rendering him unconscious.
At the same time, the masked female hits the other pursuer in the side with the metal shaft of her weapon before stabbing the blade into his left kneecap, ripping the spear out, spinning it around, and hitting him in the head.
With both members of security taking a nap, the two teen robbers make their way off the rooftops and onto the street. They are starting to walk off like nothing happened when they hear a calm and gruff voice speak up behind them.
"Ya know, that wasn't half bad. But I can't let you kids take off like that."
[Play: From Shadows (Pt.1) - By: Jeff Williams]
The two turn around to look at him, the man is leaning against a wall with his arms crossed. He has greasy black hair, narrow yellow eyes, stubble, a cross necklace, a gray twin-tailed coat with black cuffs, a torn up red cape, black pants and shoes, and a few different rings on his fingers.
The girl once again pulls her weapon off her back and her partner does the same. The male then opens his bag to reveal that the entire thing is filled with stolen dust tubes, he pulls out a red or fire one and loads it into his shotgun. Qrow Branwen then gets off the wall and walks over to stand in front of the teens.
"Alright, let's what you two have got." he says to them.
The male pumps his weapon and fires three shots at the huntsman. While he's dodging the bullets, the teen girl spins her weapon and charges. Qrow dodges each attack she sends at him and he eventually catches her wrist and throws her off the the side. The male aims directly at Signal Academy's headmaster and fires. However, Qrow quickly pulls out his giant mechanical blade and cuts the blast in half. He then turns just in time to block another one of the female's attacks. After a little while, she jumps back and the huntsman hears a roar. He looks back at the girl's partner to see a mass of flames coming right at him. Qrow rolls out of the way and runs to escape the fire that is following him.
'So it's a flamethrower too huh?' he thinks to himself.
Qrow then runs at and backflips over the girl to cause some confusion. What he didn't expect however, is for the girl to put her hands out in front of her and use them to redirect the flames to the side and back at the huntsman. Qrow's arm is slightly hit and he looks back at the teens when the attack stops to see the male jumping on the female's shoulders and back of at him as he begins shooting again. The huntsman swings his blade, hits the teen in the gut, and sends him flying. The girl swings at the man again and gets one hit on his side before he spins around and hits the back of her head.
Her mask falls off as she hits the ground and he gets a good look at her face. She looks about sixteen or seventeen and is blind in one eye. Said eye is white while her undamaged one is a dark brown. Qrow then has to jump out of the way of the male's flamethrower again and he looks back at the boy to see him running at him. The teen ducks under Qrow's swing, puts his shotgun right in front of the huntsman's face, and shoots while the man moves out of the way. Qrow swings his weapon down at the male's head but the teen starts to glitch out like a computer and disappears. The huntsman's weapon makes contact with the ground and he looks up to receive a blow from the female. As the huntsman then stumbles back and receives an aerial kick to the back as the boy materializes behind him in the same way that he had disappeared.
Qrow then fights the teens two on one and finally defeats them when the girl waves her hand and makes a small burst of lightning before launching it at the huntsman. He jumps into the air and it hits her partner, this sets off a chain reaction that make the viles in his bag blow themselves up and send the teen flying into a wall.
"Crap!" the girl yells.
She and Qrow then block a few of eachother's attacks until the latter unleashes several slashes on the former before hitting her over the back of her head and rendering her unconscious.
[Music end]
Qrow then pulls out his flask and takes a swig as he types on his scroll, he then puts it up next to his ear.
"Yo Oz," he says. "I just found a couple of kids robbing a shop. They match the discriptions of the troublemakers who've been sighted all over Remnant, ya know the ones with purple hair and White Fang masks that have been causing trouble for everyone; even those psychopaths. ... Yeah I got 'em right here. ... The thing is, one of them has the same semblence as 'the Queen' and like I said, they had on White Fangs masks. ... No Goodwitch, it's not her; but I can bring them over before we turn 'em in. ... Okay. Okay. See ya Oz. ... Wait. What about my niece?"
The huntsman had dragged the two teens of to an interrogation room and watched over them until an older man with grey hair, brown eyes, small circular glasses, a black suit with a dark-green undershirt and bandana around his neck, black dress shoes, and a coffee mug in one hand while he had a tray of cookies in the other enters.
Following close behind him is a woman with green eyes, a blonde pony tail, and an overall look on her face and in her posture that basically said she was ticked off about something as she has her arms crossed. The teens figure that it's about them. She has on glasses, is wearing a long sleeved, white shirt that is partly covered by a black corset, a black skirt, black leggings, and black heels. She is also holding a black riding crop.
"So... is this going to be like a good cop bad cop routine or what?" the purple haired girl asks as the man and woman walk into the room. "I mean, one of you's got a tray of cookies while the other has something to beat us with."
They grey haired man sits down at the table across from the teens and puts the plate on top before pulling out his scroll.
"So you're the 'Shadows' I've heard so much about. You two have made quite a reputation for yourselves. You completely disappear from your targets without a trace, it's like you weren't even there. You two have earned your title." he says before turning to the girl. "I'm guessing that teleportation is used for vanishing and quick grabs while you're the one who smokes the building with some kind of dust if there's a chance of getting caught."
The man then starts to read off the scroll. "Crimes include robbery, aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and several cases of murder. A total of five police officers, seven criminals, one bystander, and one huntsman."
"Okey. Ta be fair, de cops, humsman, an' bystandure weyre accidents." the male teen replies with a cookie in his mouth.
He is no longer wearing the mask and his hood's pulled down so Qrow has a better veiw of him than before. Like his partner, his eyes are a dark-brown but unlike her, he is a faunus with fox ears.
"How do you accidently murder a huntsman?" the blonde woman asks angrily.
The teen swallows the cookie. "It was raining so he slipped and fell off of the roof he chased us onto after we had been fighting for a time; we weren't the first he fought that day either. He had already taken some damage by the time he got around to us. Guess that was the last of what he could take."
"If you really didn't want him dead then how come ya didn't use your teleportation semblance to save him?" Qrow asks.
"Because I was knocked back into a wall right before then."
"And what about the law enforcement officers and the bystander?" the grew haired man questions.
"None of them had aura so it was either one wrong slash or shot and they were done, in the bystander's case it was a stray shot." the girl responds.
"But the criminals were on purpose?" asks the blonde woman.
"You saw how we were wearing masks of the White Fang?" the fox faunus asks and the huntsmen/huntess nod. "Well I was once a part of it and they were kind of mad about me leaving, so it was a life or death situation."
"But a few of the crooks were just street scumbags, like rapist or child abductors that we happened to see trying to pull off some junk." his partner adds.
"Yeah, they deserved to go."
"And what of the robbing and aggrivated assault?" the man who brought cookies asks. "Qrow tells me that the bag you were carrying was filled with stolen dust viles from that shop, and that they exploded when they collided with her semblence." he says to the male before turning to the female. "And he told me that your's was stocked with jewlery. Now, what are two kids doing stuff like that for?"
The teens remain silent for a minute before the male sighs and speaks up. "As you can probably tell, we're twins. Our mom was a fox faunus while our dad was human. One day... a few faunus haters started to attack our mother. Dad tried to defend her but was killed, my sister went blind in one eye, I was cut, and mom was pretty hurt. We were in a small settlement when this happened so grimm ended up swarming the place like wildfire. Everyone but me and my sister was killed, we only survived because I just so happened to unlock my semblance then. We were just seven years old."
Then his sister talks. "Understandably after that, my brother joined the White Fang and stayed with them for years while they didn't even know that I existed. The only one who knew was our caretaker, but he died in a fight with the Schnees two years ago."
"I even gladly took part in the violence when that started, being as pissed about what happened to us as I was."
"He ended up leaving when they found out about me and tried to attack me, but my brother had taught me what he had learned from them so I was able to hold them off for a short time. After that we just ran and kept on running. Fast foward sixteen months and here we are."
"The dust is for my weapon and her semblance and we always sold the jewlery or whaterver else for food money and to pay rent."
The blonde is shocked while her companions simply nod in understanding.
"I'm sorry that that's happened to you, I truely am. No child should have to go through something like that... that's why, I've decided to offer you another chance at life. You are free to choose if you want to take it or not, although I would say that it's much more preferable than jail." the grey haired man says much to the confusion of the teens and even his bonde partner.
"Uh... What?" asks the fox faunus.
"Do you know who I am?" the man asks and the teens shake their heads. "My name is Ozpin, I am the headmaster of Beacon Acadamy."
"You're in charge of a hunter school?"
"Indeed. The woman behind me is my assistant, Glynda Goodwitch; while the man who brought you here's name is Qrow Branwen. He's a professor at Signal Acadamy."
"What did you mean by 'another chance at life'?" the purple haired girl questions.
"I'm inviting you to join my academy."
The two teens jaws drop after Ozpin says this. After everything they've done, even the faunus admitting that he took part in the White Fang's violence and didn't regret it, this guy is inviting them to join his hunter school instead of going to prison. This guy's insane right?
"Do you mind if we talk this over?" the female asks.
"You may." replies Ozpin.
After a few minutes of whispers about pros, cons, and wether this guy was crazy or not; the teens look back at the profssors.
"Alright, we'll take the school route." the fox faunus tells them.
Ozpin grows a smile. "Splendid, however I will need to know your names."
"... Regem Strike."
"Hiraani." his sister replies.
Ozpin stood an extended his hand, the teens shook it.
"Well then, Regem, Hiraani, I shall see you at the opening ceremony." Ozpin says with a smile. Then his face becomes serious again. "But first, we must lay down some rules. Rule one: You will have to do your best in your studies. Rule number two: Under no circumstances are you allowed to harm another student outside of the arena. Number three: You cannot keep on stealing and causing problems. Four: You will tell me what you can about the White Fang. And five is for Glynda, Qrow, and myself. We cannot reveal your past as the 'Shadows' to anyone, not even the authorities. Nobody knows who you really are, or even that you've been caught. Are these acceptable?"
"Sounds good." Hiraani replies.
"Sure." agrees Regem.
"I shall see you later then. Classes start tomorrow." Ozpin tells them before walking out; Goodwitch follows him while Qrow makes sure the teens go back to wherever they are staying.
Note: And first chapter done! I actually have something different I wanna do with this story. I'm gonna let YOU GUYS choose what happens! For example: a subplot to the main story, character ships (please for the love of everything don't make me write a harem or gay ships), certain characters not dying, Etc... Post any ships that you do want in the reviews or private msg me and I'll do the ones that are the most requested. (again I'm begging you to not make me write a gay one or a harem) However, I will say that one twin will be in Team RWBY and the other will be in Team JNPR to make it five members each, but you can decide who goes where. Hope y'all liked it and I'll see you later.
