Life of a Grimmborn Chapter One: A New Friend

A/N: Welcome everybody to my first ever RWBY fanfic called Life of a Grimmborn. I have been a HUGE fan of this show ever since I watched the first episode and had decided to finally write a fic for it. The first chapter focuses a bit more on the back story of my OC and a bit on another main character of RWBY but after that, the story will focus around mostly everybody important in the RWBY world. I hope you all give this a read and enjoy my hard work. Big shout out for XDANTE1's and Cosmo. Camellia's help in beta reading this story. You guys are awesome friends and you both inspire me to work harder as an author here. Without futher ado, please enjoy!

Life of a Grimmborn Chapter One: A New Friend

Blood dripped from the boy's nose as he sat outside the principals office after his run in with the school bullies. He didn't see why he was in trouble when he was only defending himself. He heard the principle yelling at his mother and father, overhearing the words 'demon' and 'monster' come from his mouth. His mother yelled back at the man in response before his father tried to calm her down. The boy held his head in his hands, trying to block out the screaming in his ears. He hated the yelling, he hated them for yelling, he hated that he caused the yelling.

"Your 'boy', if I can even call him that has done nothing but get into fights his entire time at this school! He has nearly mortally injured seven students in the past two months!" He heard the principle yell again. "I want him out of this school, he is never to return!"

"Please just understand." His father said both calm and pleading at the same time. "He can't control his power. He's just a little boy, he doesn't know what he's doing and-!"

He heard something slam down on the floor and his mother yell. "Oh stop it Xaden! You know as well as I do that he isn't stupid! He is just defending himself from those bullies that attack him! It's your other students that are the real monster and demons, not my son!" She yelled at the principle before she slammed the door open in rage. She picked the boy up into her arms and began walking towards the exit. "Come on Kor, we are leaving." She said gently. The boy named Kor only pressed his face against the crook of his mother's neck and nodded his head. She walked out of the building and turned to the sidewalk to get back home and get Kor away from those horrible kids.

"Wait Alyssa!" Xaden called out as he caught up to her. She turned around and gave her husband a hard look.

"What? Are you going to insult our son more?" She questioned as she poked him accusingly in the chest. "Well save it! He doesn't need to hear that sort of stuff. What he needs are parents who love him no matter who he is!"

"It's not that I don't love him, I love the boy very much but I'm just saying he needs to learn how to control his power. He isn't fully human Alyssa, you need to understand that!"

"I know what he is!" She yelled back as she hugged Kor who was starting to cry from all the yelling. "That doesn't mean he can't feel things like a normal human! Look at him Xaden." She lifted her crying son off her shoulder and faced him to his father. "Look at those bruises, that bloody nose! For Dust sake he's crying! He's in pain and he needs love, not scorn!"

"Please, just let me talk to him Alyssa." He said as he held his arms out. Alyssa was hesitant but handed him their son. Xaden sighed and grabbed his son and looked him in the eyes. "Kor you know that I love you right?"

Kor slowly nodded his head as he silently cried tears.

"And you know I only want you to be happy right?"

Another nod, but this time slower.

'He doesn't trust me…' Xaden thought dejectedly as he looked away from Kor. 'And why should he? I've given him no reason to trust me.' Xaden looked at his son once more. "Kor, I only want what's best for you, so I think we should take you out of the school and focus on trying to control your gift."

"My…gift…?" Kor questioned softly.

Xaden gave him a smile as he lifted his boy up on his shoulders. "Yes your gift Kor. You're different than normal humans that much we can't deny. But you'll soon learn that being different is okay." He began walking down the sidewalk back to their home. "Just wait my son, you'll have your gift mastered in no time and you'll show the whole world that Grimmborn are nothing to fear."

Kor gave a smile at what his father said as his mother walked next to them, smiling as well. He wiped the tears away from his eyes and looked up at the sky, it looked like his life was going to take a turn for the better!

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Kor woke up abruptly from his dream, jolting his body upward as he did. He groaned and slammed his fist into the ground. Why? Why was he plagued with memories of the past when he dreamed? He hated remembering anything from his past, he didn't want to remember those horrible times. He sighed as he got up on to his feet and stretched out. After doing so, he picked up his black Duster jacket from the floor, dusted it off and put it on over his slightly torn white shirt. His black pants, also slightly torn in areas, were already on him. He heard the buzzing of insects and the tweeting of birds and looked to the entrance of the cave.

'Well it looks like its noon now.'

Kor began to walk outside his cave, brushing past all the dead bodies of Grimm who had attacked him the night before. He squinted his eyes from the bright sun as he came outside before they adjusted. He glanced around the perimeter and sensed no immediate danger so he walked more into the open. Kor ran a hand through his stygian black hair. He hair also had a red streak running through the middle of it which was surprisingly natural, one of the many things that made him different from others. His arms had long patches of black fur running across his arms with bone like spikes protruding from it with sharp nails on his fingers. He walked through the Emerald Forest, looking for something to eat as his stomach growled at him. Even with an hour of searching he didn't find anything other than fruits. He growls with anger as he picks up a stone and throws it in a random direction.

He heard the sound of splashing water coming from the direction he threw the stone.

He ran towards the direction of the sound into a clearing. He smiled with delight as he found a river in the clearing, truly a miracle. River meant fish and fish meant food! But before that he walked to the shore of the river and looked at his reflection.

The only thing he saw were his own eyes of Grimm staring back at him.

'Still as black and red as the day I was born.'

His eyes were another thing of him that wasn't normal like humans. The scleras of his eyes were black while his pupils were red, the most obvious sign that he was not normal.

He sighed at his reflection and moved back from the shore, gazing at the water carefully. He stared at the water for a while before he heard another splash. Moving quickly, his arm became elongated as it rushed towards the water and grabbed the fish that jumped to the surface.

He retracted his arm back to his and threw the fish on the grass. He repeated his actions several times before he was satisfied with his small pile of his. This was the gift that he was born with, the gift that his father wanted him to control. He was 'gifted' with the ability to stretch out his arms in long distances. He found this power to be both a gift and a curse because of how it both helped and hurt him. How it made life a bit easier for him and made it hell at the same time.

He sighed as he broke off some branches from the trees around him to start a fire so he could cook his catch. At least this arms of his saved him the trouble of walking through the forest to find fire wood. Once he had gathered enough, he rubbed two sticks together fiercely until it caught fire. Satisfied with his work, he impaled the fish he caught with long sticks and planted them in the ground, tilting slightly in the fire so they could cook. Kor lay down on the shore and looked at the clouds passing by as his food cooked.

"Um hello…?"

Kor's body shot upwards at the sound of a girl's voice. He looked behind him to see a girl looking at him. She wore something he identified as a school uniform with a red cloak on her shoulders; she also had red tinted hair and silver eyes. It also didn't go unnoticed that she had some sort of weapon behind her back and he did not want to know what type of weapon it was. She gazed at him with curiosity and wonder, not the usual gaze that he got when he was seen.

The girl took a small step towards the Grimmborn. "Hey there, you should get out of this area." She said as she motioned all around her. "This whole area is filled with Grimm and they pack a mean bite."

"Then why are you here?" Kor questioned. It was strange to find a girl all by her lonesome wandering the forest, especially one so dangerous.

The girl puffed her chest in confidence as she patted at her weapon. "My sweetheart here can handle any Grimm that comes my way. Plus I was going to train out here when I saw the smoke, I thought someone might have needed some help so here I am!"

Kor turned around and waved her away. "Well no help needed. I'm fine so you can go on your way."

'Well this guy isn't very nice.' The girl thought as she took another step towards him. "So what's your name?"

"Kor, now leave."

"You have a last name?"

"That's not any of your business, leave."

"You're not being very nice y'know." The girl said with a pout.

"Not trying to be nice." Kor said as he pointed away from him. "Now go."

"Not until you tell me what's up with you." She said as she took another step towards him.

Kor looked back and saw her getting closer to him. He knew that look on her face all too well, she wouldn't go until she had answers, answers Kor didn't want to give. He grunted as he made a quick jump over the girl's head and started running away from her.

"Hey!" The girl called out as Kor ran away from her.

He ran through the trees quickly, brushing through bushes and thickets as he ran away from the girl. When he had reached a small clearing, he sat down as caught his breath. Hopefully that girl wouldn't be able to find him.

"Found you!"

Kor turned around in shock to see the same girl from before running up to him, though she was slightly out of breath.

Kor took a step back and gave the girl an incredulous look. "H-How did you catch up to me so quickly?"

The girl gave a silly smile and scratched the back of her head. "Well, I'd like to think I'm pretty fast." She then moved towards him again. "Look I'm not going to hurt you-"

He gave a harsh laugh at her statement. "I've heard that one before."

"I mean it, I only want to help."

"If you want to help than get lost! I don't trust any human, not anymore!"

"What are you-" The girl didn't finish as she saw him extend his claws towards her, a dark look spread across his face. She absentmindedly placed a hand on her weapon as she took a step back. "I'm sorry if I scared you but I really don't want to hurt you. I just want to help."

Kor growled at her words. "Lies."

She stomped her foot in the ground and gave him a determined look. "I'm not lying! I don't care if you're human, faunus or whatever, it wouldn't feel right to leave a person alone in a place like this." She took another step forward and held her hand out. "So can we please not fight, I don't want to hurt you."

The Grimmborn couldn't believe his ears. Her, a human, didn't want to hurt him and wanted only to help him. It sounded too good to be true. He had to test this. "Then drop your weapon."

"Huh?"

"Drop your weapon if you don't want to fight me."

The girl gave a hesitant look to her weapon which was understandable. Dropping your weapon in front of something that was definitely not human was a very risky move. Slowly, the girl reached behind her and unhooked her weapon from its holster. She gently placed it on the ground and moved away from it. "So? Do you trust me now?"

Kor raised an eyebrow at the girl's action. She must be really trustworthy or really dim to trust him so blindly. His money was on both. "Alright... I guess I can trust you." He walked up to the weapon and picked it up.

"H-Hey! Careful with that!" The girl wailed as she saw her precious weapon being handled by a stranger.

He held the weapon in his hands, it was surprisingly light considering how hefty it looked, he tossed it in his hands for a little, much to the horror of the girl before handing it back to her. "Here ya go."

She grabbed the weapon back from the strange teen and patted her weapon before putting it back in her holster. "Thanks for not breaking it. I don't know how I would fight without my Crescent Rose."

"So I told you my name, what's yours?" Kor questioned as he put his hands in his pockets in a casual manner.

The girl smiled and held her hand out to Kor. "The name is Ruby Rose, nice to meetcha!"

Kor shook her hand and managed a small smile. "As you know my name is Kor but I have forgotten my last name so I can't help you there."

"Oh that's sucks." Ruby said as paced around the clearing. "I mean how else are we gonna find your family or friends?"

Kor flinched as she said that but he didn't blame her. After all she didn't know. "Well I'd rather not be near my father right now and I don't know where my mother is and I don't have any friends."

"Oh no! You don't have any friends?"

Kor shook his head.

"Not even one?"

Again, he shook his head.

"Well... How about I be your friend?" Ruby asked as she stopped pacing around in front of him.

Kor looked at Ruby for a few seconds before turning away. "No... You wouldn't want to be friends with a monster like me..."

"Monster? What are you talking about?"

"Look at me! Look at what I am, I'm not normal!" Kor said as he showed his arms to Ruby. She gazed at them for a few seconds, taking the whole arm in before her eyes widened.

"Your arms are like Grimm." She observed. "Now that I look at you, your eyes are black and red too!" But then she frowned at him. "But how does that make you a monster?"

"Come on, I'm a freak. All my life I've been tormented because of how I look, for the powers I have." Kor's shoulders slumped as he muttered the next words. "Maybe I shouldn't have been born…"

"Nope!"

Kor looked at Ruby, confused about what she said. "Nope? What do you mean nope?"

"Nope!" She said again.

"Nope that I shouldn't have been born? Or nope that I should have been born?"

"The second one!" She said as she patted him on the back. "I mean everything deserves a chance at life, human or not you deserve to live just as much as I do." She pouted and crossed her arms. "Plus anyway those people who tormented you are the real monsters, not you. Have you ever hurt someone?

"Only to defend myself." Kor admitted.

Ruby nodded her head. "Then you aren't a monster Kor, they are. You shouldn't feel as though you need to live your life in fear of other people just because they don't like you. Faunus have been fighting for equal rights for a while now, they don't want to be treated any different than anybody else so why should you be?"

"Heh, it's funny. My mother used to say the same thing."

"So come with me back to Beacon, I'll show you to Professor Ozpin and he can help you out."

Kor moved back from Ruby and looked away. "No Ruby..."

"Huh? Why not?"

"It's too soon for me." He said as he looked at her again. "I've been away from humans for so long. I don't want to leave this place."

Ruby placed a hand on his shoulder again to comfort him. "Okay, okay, then how about I just visit you whenever I can? Friends should see each other as often as they can, shouldn't they?"

Kor looked at Ruby with disbelief on his face. This girl, this Ruby, wanted to be friends with him, a Grimmborn. A human who wanted to be friends with a monster. "…Thank you…" Kor pointed down a slightly worn trail in between two large shrubs. "If you follow that way you should be able to get out of the forest."

"Thanks Kor!" Ruby chanted as she began moving to the trail. She quickly turned around and waved him goodbye. "I'll see you soon!"

Kor waved as well with a smile on his face as he saw Ruby run quickly through the trail then disappear from his eyes. He turned around and moved back to the river. As he got back, he saw a sight that made him smile with delight.

'Ah cooked fish.'

He removed one of the sticks that hovered near the fire and blew on it to cool it down before taking a hearty bite of it. A nice cooked meal, making his first friend, yes things seemed to be looking up for Kor.

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Life of a Grimmborn Chapter One: End

A/N: Well that wraps of the first chapter of my newest fic. What did you all think about it? Like it? Don't like it? Give me your honest opinions as long as they aren't flaming for no reason and I will either thank you for your review or work harder to make the next chapter better. Thank you all for reading this!

~Deviljho's Hatred