Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY, it belongs to Monty Oum (May God rest his soul) and Rooster Teeth. Also there are some references from other media and I do not own them also.

Chapter 1

He was walking through the dense forest in the night what seems like hours. He never took a single rest for the whole day, he just keeps to walking until he wants to. Water began to fall above him, it started to rain. Not wanting to catch himself a cold, he rushes to find a shelter from the rain. After a few minutes, he sees a ruined city not far from here, he could take shelter within the ruins 'till the rain stops or rest for the whole night.

As the traveller arrives to the ruins, he scans to find a suitable place to make camp. The ruins here looked old but not that old, they might be twenty or thirty years old but his not here for a historical tour, also he doesn't care of what happened here. He finally finds a place to make camp, a building with its roof still intact, not much but it should do. There was nothing to make a fire, but the trench coat he is wearing is enough to keep his body warm for the whole night. He covers his whole head by pulling his hood over it and pulls up a wool mask to cover half his face. He closes his eyes letting his dreams take him away, not until he hears the sound of growling.

He sleeps what felt like minutes. He turns to the direction of the growling in front of him. A creature of Grimm, Beowulf type. It is prowling slowly towards him, him as in prey. They're not much, but they are deadly in packs and can shred a man in pieces. He isn't surprised that a Grimm has came here to kill him, for he knows this might happen. The traveler is very pissed of the Grimm, he was trying to get some shut eye during the whole night.

The Grimm could sense the traveller's anger and starts to attack the man. It lunges itself towards him to attack, but was stopped when it was grabbed by the neck. The traveller was able to get up in time and grabbed it with one hand before it could kill him. With the same hand holding the Grimm's neck, he squeezes it tightly, breaking the neck area of the spine, and finally killing the Grimm.

After dropping the Grimm's body on the ground, he could hear howling as more of them are coming this way. He cracked his knuckles, knowing it's going to be a very long night. The situation right now has reminded him of something.

"Damn, I forgot to get myself a weapon at the last town." his voice sounds very young. He lets out a sigh before the Grimm began to enter the room he is in. "Probably later."

The sun has risen from the horizon, Ruby wakes up from her sleep as the sun's light hit her eyes. She picks up her Crescent Rose which was laid beside her during her sleep and exits the ruined building she took shelter in. She takes her scroll off her pocket and tries to call for the others. No signal.

"Oh man." The young girl sigh of disbelief before putting her scroll back to her pocket. "Still no signal."

Her problem right now began yesterday. It was a simple search and destroy mission for her and her teammates with the guidance of Prof. Ooblek. However they were ambushed by a large number of Grimm, which led her to become separated from the other. She hopes that they're okay from the ambush, Yang must be very worried.

She heads to higher ground to a tall building to scan the ruins to find any sign of the others, but no luck. She was planning to shout so they could hear her voice and follow it, but that could also attract the Grimm making herself bait, same goes for using the flare gun. She tries not to have a negative feeling of loneliness, as Grimms are suckers for negative feelings.

She started to feel hungry after she has come down from the tall building. She finds a good place to eat breakfast, a small abandoned playground. She looks through her backpack to see what kind of food Prof. Oobleck has stored for them for his responsible for the supplies. He said that there is enough food and water to last for three days. She finally caught something within her, she takes it out with saliva flowing out of her mouth but only to fell into disappointment that the food the professor brought are field rations. Yes, food rations, plain food kept within a box specially made for soldiers in the front lines and Ruby is not a fan for plain food.

"Yuck, I'm not going to eat this! I would rather die from starvation!" she raises the ration to the air to throw it on the ground, but stops when she hears a loud growling sound emitted from her stomach.

He was glad that he was alive, but feels very weak. He feels pain all over his body after receiving many injuries while fighting the Grimm with his own bare hands. He feels more pain within his chest, could be that some of his ribs might be broken. His tired, so tired of fighting them for the whole entire night. He collapses on the road as his consciousness is almost fading away. He tries to get up, but he doesn't have enough energy to do so. The traveller believes this is it for him, this ruined city will be his grave. Knowing that there is no hope of being saved, not even his accelerated healing as he has sustain too much damage on his body, he accepts his fate.

However, hope was never lost.

Just as he was about to close his eyes and enters to Oblivion, he hears crying at the distance not far from here. He moves his head to face where the sound of crying is located. His eyes widen when he sees a girl somewhere in his age is sitting on a swing set while eating something. It's not his hallucination or a mirage made by the light, its a real person, his saved! He tries to shout, but couldn't as he does not have enough energy to shout, but has enough to drag his own body. He drags himself to the girl and hoping that she would notice him.

"Boohoo, I can't believe I eat the ration." she tries to stop crying but her tears still flows over her face after she eat the ration. She couldn't believe that she eat the ration that her grumbling stomach forced her to devour. Although she does't like, it needs to keep her alive from starvation. After a finally stop sobbing, she gets off from the swing she was sitting and picks up both her weapon and her backpack from the ground, now its time to continue finding the others. But she stops when she hears a weak call not far from here.

"Please...help me..." she hears a weak voice that almost made her jump out of her socks, those words she heard sounds what a ghost would say. It sounded like a male, it couldn't be the professor as this voice sounds a little high pitch for his age. She unsheathes her Crescent Rose from her back just in case something happens. The voice continues to speak. "I'm...over...here." She finds out where the voice is coming from, from behind. She turns her back and readies to attack, only to gasp when she sees a heavily injured man dragging his body towards her. Half of his clothes are torn apart, revealing his skin that shows claw and bite marks on it. Before he could reach to Ruby, he stops as if he has just died.

"Oh my god!" she sheathes her weapon and rushes to the man lying lifelessly on the ground. She checks his pulse by putting two fingers on his neck and after a few seconds, she felt a pulse, he's still alive alright, but heavily unconscious probably due to blood loss. There is still little time to save him, she hopes that Prof. Ooblek puts a first aid kit in her backpack. But she can't proceed outside for its not safe here, a Grimm or a pack of them might appear. So she decides to drag the unconscious man into a nearby building for its a lot safer in there.

While dragging the man, she starts to wonder what happened to him and why's his doing here, but nows not the time to be thinking, she needs to fix him up, ASAP.

"This is going to be a long day."

End of Chapter 1

A/N: Sup guys, Necroceph here. Took so long to get an idea for this story. Luckily after getting inspirations from video games I play most likely The Witcher and Dark Souls, I got an idea of making this story. There may be spelling and grammar errors in here but I can assure that I will improve. Also it'll take a long time to make another chapter, cause I'll sometimes get lazy or have some stuff to do. Finally you guys are free to criticize. Thank you for reading and leave a review.