This was a silly Halloween idea between me and my friends that escalated, it will be Ladybug and Freezerburn (as you shall soon see) and will be a somewhat modern AU, allowing for Faunus and semblances however. It will be quite dark, and I hope to update it as soon as College allows, so this is for two friends of mine, you know who you are, and I hope the rest of you enjoy!

Also it's gonna get kinda dark? And triggers for general racism I think, spelling mistakes are mine as its unbeated, its M rated for swearing only, 'cuz I'm not all about that censored life.

Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY or any of its characters, they belong to Monty Oum and RoosterTeeth.


Every morning was the same for Blake, she'd wake up; get dressed, have breakfast, do her teeth, go to work at the local book and comic store, go through the same abusive behaviour from low life Faunus haters, go back home and go to bed. It was a drag, and was wearing down on her.

So while she stared at her tired reflection, brushing her teeth in the mirror to rid herself of the cornflakes between her teeth, she couldn't help but wish for something exciting to happen. For something to make the days' worth getting through.

Her ears drooped and the Faunus sighed, dropping her toothbrush in the holder, cupping some water in her hands to swirl in her mouth and spit in the sink. She looked at her reflection again and huffed before pushing off the sink and leaving the small bathroom to head to her cramped room.

Her job was good, the pay could be better, but she was working Faunus wages, meaning while the average human would be paid around 15 lien an hour, the Faunus were paid 10 if they were lucky. Blake's boss was a kind human however, and he paid her around 13 lien an hour for her work, which she was grateful for.

She pushed the door to her cramped room open, taking half a second to scan her furniture (a single bed, a wobbly desk, creaky wooden chair and a self-indulgent poster of her favourite band on the wall) before coming before her mirror to check her attire. While her boss was kind hearted and allowed her to work, also being quite relaxed about work attire, he still wanted her looked presentable in store.

Basically, no torn or dirty clothing.

Currently she had a plain white V-neck shirt, a black leather jacket with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows, some black jeans with black combat boots on her feet. Her hair was loose so she scooped up her brush from the desk to put it up in a ponytail, holding the bobble in her teeth as she did. Her hair was long, reaching halfway down her back, and was dyed dark purple with lighter highlights of violet and black mixed in. Her ears were also this colour, having gone to a professional Faunus stylist for her permanent dye job, and was dark purple on the bottom fading to a lighter purple at the tip.

Now that her hair was up, Blake started to style the front, giving herself sideways fringe that brushed just over her golden eyes. This also revealed the piercings she had on both her human and cat ears. She had a standard lobe on both human ears, and industrial bar on her right human ear, two helix rings on her human right ear and one on her human left, with two helix rings on her right cat ear.

Surprisingly her boss had been okay with both the piercings and her Faunus heritage.

Quickly applying her normal eye makeup, the Faunus grabbed her wallet, phone, name badge and keys before leaving her small apartment, steeling herself up for the day.

She arrived at work with ten minutes to spare, greeting her boss Dylan with a tired smile, accidently flashing a fang, which he laughed at for a good while.

Quickly leaving her items in the locker, as well as her jacket, Blake clipped on her name badge and stood at the till two minutes before the book shop was open, tapping her fingers nervously as she waited the customers.

After all, while Dylan may be cool with her kitty cat heritage, not everyone was.

Sure enough fifteen minutes after customers started to come in one of them made a harsh comment about her heritage, and by the time it was lunch so had twenty-eight other humans.

As soon as Dylan gave her the go ahead, Blake left the till to their new worker, Janie, who was still a little awkward around the Faunus girl. She went straight to her locker and grabbed her jacket, phone and wallet, intending to go out for lunch at a café down the road that had opened up a few weeks ago.

She exited out through the back door and into the biting cold of autumn. It was September, meaning shorts were out and warm hoodies were in. Blake huffed and zipped up her jacket some more, thanking mentally her Faunus blood for at least being warmer than a human.

Walking down the street she got a few dirty looks, even a shove from one randomer, but remained mostly unharmed. After eight minutes she had found the new café.

She didn't go in right away, instead looking at the outside of the small establishment. It really looked quite nice, soft colours of pastel blue and cream, with undertones of brown and black inside. She couldn't quite see the name, so took a step backwards to read it.

"Peaceful Serenity, well that almost seems too good to be tru-"

Blake grunted as someone suddenly slammed into her side, causing her to crash to the floor with a groan.

"Out of the way freak!" the person yelled, scrambling to get to their feet as they too had fallen, accidently kicking some dust into Blake's eye and causing her vision to suddenly blur.

Blake yelped and covered her sensitive eyes, curling into herself as the pain burned in her head. The person had finally managed to get up and run, and through her pain Blake couldn't help but note that the woman's heart rate was incredibly fast, and she stunk of fear.

"What the fuck dude?!"

A second set of footsteps reached her ears, this person running at an equally fast rate, and from their heart rate Blake could tell they were angry. She readied herself for this person to attack her and grit her teeth against the pain of her eyes. The human slowed down and was leaning over her.

"Shit, are you okay?"

What?

"What?" she voiced her inner thoughts and tried to open her eyes, only to flinch and shut them immediately.

"That asshole hurt your eyes didn't she?" this person then fell next to Blake, kneeling down and touching her shoulder, "What did she do to you?"

Blake didn't answer, confused about why this human was being nice to a stranger.

This human sighed when Blake didn't answer, and gently pushed her shoulder so she rolled to the side lightly.

Blake's breath damn near caught in her throat when a warm hand touched her cheek, tilting her head a little.

"They got something in your eye… stupid motherfucker… can I help you up? I know someone who works in this café and you should probably wash your eyes."

"Who are you?" Blake asked, wanting desperately to open her eyes to this human, who smelt like a strange mix of cookies, strawberries and disinfectant.

"Oh! Sorry how rude of me, don't let Weiss know I didn't introduce myself first or she'll kill me… Argh! I got distracted! Sorry!"

Suddenly this warm little hand was in her own, sending tingles down her arm as she shook it.

"I'm Ruby, Ruby Rose! Now can you come with me please? I don't want you getting infected or anything."

"I'm Blake, and sure."

Blake smiled, although it may have been a grimace, and started to get to her feet, being aided by those small warm hands of the girl she hadn't even seen yet.

"Oka c'mon, Velvet is just through here."

"Velvet?"

"She's the owner of this café, she's an old friend of mine."

Ruby lead the temporary blind girl through the café doors, lacing their hands together and unintentionally causing Blake's heart to speed up a little at the tingles tickling her skin. The grit in her eyes was staring to lessen in pain, but she still could not open her eyes without frantically blinking and getting an odd itch in her nose.

"Hey V! Can I use your back room?" Ruby asked the café owner, pausing in her step. Curiously Blake scented the air, and was almost flawed when she recognised the smell.

A rabbit Faunus.

"Sure Rubes, is she okay?"

"She will be when I sort her eye, thanks V!"

The other British woman laughed lightly and Ruby stated moving again.

"Almost there Blake, little longer, 'kay?"

Blake nodded, and soon a door was opened and Blake found herself being pushed backwards onto a chair.

"Okay, so I'm going to go get some water on some tissue so you can hold it to your eyes, and when they stop spazzing out you can wash them in the sink!"

A tap ran and wet tissue was on her eye, but Blake couldn't stop herself from asking this stranger, as the cool tissue was held on her eyes.

"Why're you helping me?" she asked, the stranger made a questioning sound.

"Why wouldn't I?"

"B-because your human! I'm a cat Faunus, we don't mix-"

"Cat! I thought so, I was thinking along the lines of panther or cougar Faunus, and cat is so close!"

Blake's eyes opened in shock, making her gasp and close them again while Ruby yelped.

"Wowwowwow, don't open them yet!"

A second wet tissue was put on her eyes and Blake accepted her fate.

"And to answer your question, I am not a Faunus hater or any of that bull, why should people be treated different just 'cuz they're part animal? It's all nonsense to me."

Blake bit the inside of her cheek to stop the blush from working up her face, knowing by the warmth on her face that she was very unsuccessful.

"Oooookay, I think it's been on long enough now, wanna wash your eyes in the sink?"

The Faunus nodded and stood up, feeling those small warm hands capture her elbow and guided her to the sink. She muttered a thank you and cupped some water to her eyes, splashing to rid herself of the grit.

Ruby was quiet while she did this, however Blake could feel the younger girl's eyes on her back, which both calmed and unnerved her. After a few attempts, Blake could finally keep her eyes open.

"I… I think I'm good now, thank you- urf!"

White fluff filled her vision as she turned around to face the other girl, but her instincts remained calm as she realized it was just a towel.

"There you go, you'd want a dry face out there!"

Blake smiled into the towel, small as it was, and quickly dried off her face. She moved the cloth from herself and finally looked to see the girl who had helped her.

Gold eyes widened, her jaw went slack and the towel slid from her grip as she saw this girl.

She was medium height, almost as tall as Blake, with short black hair which had red highlights dashing through it and a fringe sweeping over her left eye. Her skin was lightly tanned, darker thank Blake's pale self, with shining silver eyes and a cheeky grin. She had two loop lip piercings on the right side of her mouth, a small red stud on her left nostril and an eyebrow piercing on her right eyebrow.

She had a black beanie covering her head, a white tank top with a band logo on it, a plain black over shirt with the sleeves rolled up to her elbows, ripped black jeans and black combat boots. Her wrists were covered in bracelets from TV shows, films, bands, and some company logos, and her fingernails were all painted black, except for her left ring finger, which was red.

If Blake felt she had failed not to blush earlier, she had completely bombed it now.

Ruby grinned and tilted her head.

"Are you okay there Blake? Did you hit your head hard too?"

"Urh… I- I- I don't."

The grin turned into a slight smirk and the raven haired girl moved her hands to her back pockets.

"Do you wanna go get a coffee? I mean we're in a café, and I'm guessing you came here for a reason...?"

Blake ducked her head and nodded, mentally chastising herself for acting so foolish.

"Urm, yes, I would like to go get a coffee."

"Great! C'mon, let's go see V."

The shorter girl quickly grabbed Blake's hand and pulled her behind as they left the small bathroom.

There was no que when they got outside, but the café was quite full, with both Faunus and humans alike. Ruby, still holding Blake's hand, walked right up to the counter and started to talk with, who Blake presumed was, Velvet.

The woman was quite pretty, older than Ruby by a few years, with long brown hair tied back in a ponytail, coffee brown eyes and large bunny ears atop her head. She had a yellow shirt with a white apron on, and was smiling with Ruby as she made her order.

"Soooo I'll have a hot chocolate, what do you want Blake? Its on me!"

Blake shook her head.

"I couldn't ask for-"

"Who said you're asking?"

Ruby winked and Blake, again, flushed red on her cheeks.

She mumbled her order which Velvet, by no surprise, heard and wrote it down on her note pad.

"Okay guys, go find a table and your order will be right up!"

Ruby thanked her and moved away before Blake could too, pulling her along by her hand which she still held. The table she picked was by the window, and Ruby pulled out the older girl's seat for her with a charming smile, before sitting in her own.

"So Blake, now all that drama is out of the way, how's about we chat?"

Blake blinked and folded her hands on the table.

"Erm, sure! About what?"

"Wellll, what do you do for a living?"

"Well…"

The next twenty minutes were the most serene Blake had had in a long time. She spoke to Ruby, basically a complete stranger, about so much it was almost dizzying. The other girl, she found out, was 19 four months ago. She lived with her older sister Yang, who was the same age as Blake at22 and her sister's girlfriend, who was called Weiss, also 22. Her sister worked in a popular bar that Blake had heard a lot about, but was never ballsy enough to go to, and Ruby glossed over Weiss' job, not going into any other detail than she was a designer, so Blake guessed fashion or architecture for this other girl.

Ruby herself had a job at a garage down town, which she has worked at since she was 14. She did maintenance with cars and other vehicles, and was also known for designing stuff at home in her spare time. Blake embarrassed herself by snorting with laughter while drinking her coffee as Ruby told her a story about how she had made a robot dog which had escaped, biting some of her sister's hair and causing the older girl to destroy it with her semblance in a very hazardous battle.

After all that dog was made out of good durable metal.

"Do you have a semblance?" Ruby asked, silver eyes alight with curiosity as she sipped her hot drink, after all not everybody had a semblance, only two in five did.

Blake swallowed some coffee and nodded.

"Yeah, I do. I can create shadow clones of myself, which has come in handy in the past."

Ruby nearly choked on her chocolate.

"Shadow clones?! That's so cool!"

Blake smiled and ducked her head a little.

"Yeah… if I use dust then they aren't shadows but of the element of dust used, such as fire clones, or lightning, you know what I mean."

"Blake that's such a cool ability-" Ruby froze and leaned back a little in her seat, her eyes darkening and she moved her gaze to the wooden table top "wait, what do you mean it helped you in the past?"

Blake tightened her hand and bit her lip nervously.

"Well… the thing with shadow clones is they can take the hit for me. Which has been useful when I've had to escape radicals on the streets, like the AFF's and AAH 's."

A shiver went down Blake's spine at the damn right murderous look in Ruby's eyes.

"I hate them. Stupid, ignorant assholes. Who the hell do they think they are? Anti-Faunus Federation, Animals Aren't Human, the whole lot are dirt. Dirt on the ground beneath us all, casting a horrid reflection of the rest of humanity, causing more trouble than they are worth!"

Blake glanced around and saw some of the other Faunus in the café glancing at their table, seemingly in agreement with the angry nineteen-year-old.

"I mean so what if a Faunus has different eyes, ears, horns or a tail, they're people! Real people and just 'cuz they're scared about the fact that Faunus are stronger than them doesn't mean they can treat them this way! They are scared because they know that-"

"Ruby."

The brunette stopped and looked at the end of their table, glancing at the hand on her shoulder and following it up the arm to the steady brown eyes of the café owner.

"Sorry Velvet… I got too into it again…"

The other Faunus smiled and shook her head.

"It's okay, I was just making sure you weren't being… rash."

There was a look shared between the two, and Blake felt the volumes it held. Unfortunately, she didn't understand, and a strange spark of jealousy burned through her.

"I-I'm good V, just fine. I'll be better next time."

Velvet smiled and ruffled her hair, earning an adorable look which turned damn near adoring when she pulled a cookie out of her apron.

"Here, this is for behaving."

She winked and laughed at the scathing look Ruby shot her, but the younger girl quickly dropped it and thanked her, taking the chocolate chip cookie and eating it at an alarming rate. When done she shot Blake a sheepish look.

"Sorry for… going off on one… I just-"

"It's fine, I agree with all your points, I may even have some more to add later on about those bumbling idiots."

The two girls shared a laugh, unfortunately none the wiser of the older woman in the corner of the room, with dark eyes and a deep frown, who was staring at them in fury. She pulled out her phone and sent off a text, glaring at the human and the Faunus she was talking to.

Talking to a Faunus, the thought disgusted her.

'She'll get what's coming to her' she thought, scowling at the rabbit Faunus who walked passed her, quickly leaving the shop which was filled with the creatures.

'Disgusting.'

The door slammed behind her.

~Ax~

After their coffee Blake had realised the time, and she was due back at work. She was saddened, having enjoyed Ruby's company too much to have shared so little of it. The red haired girl seemed to pick up on this, and when Blake stood to leave, stood also.

"Hey, if you ever need anything, just call me."

"How would I call you? I don't have your number."

"Oh, I put that in your phone ages ago, don't worry about it."

Figuring out how Ruby had managed that was high on Blake's list of What the Fuckery.

She opened her locker, getting all her things out ready to head home. She was tired, while she had felt more energetic than before in Ruby's presence, the effect lasting, the day long hustle had also had its effects.

"I'll see you later Dylan!" she called, hearing his deep voice make a sound resembling goodbye, and she left out the back door and into the alley behind the store.

Blake wanted to get home as fast as she could, and knew that the alleys were the fastest way to do so. So, with that in mind the Faunus dug her hands into her pocket and started to walk down the dreary alley, her cat ears alert for any sound which could be an unfriendly.

After six minutes she was starting to relax a bit, having moved from one alley to another, taking the back rout to her flat, and pulled her phone from her pocket. She opened up the contacts and scrolled through the short list which was made of relatives, old friends and the pizza place. Pretty soon she found Ruby's number.

Hey, its Blake.

Hey Blake! How was work?

Blake grinned and got her other hand out of the pocket, meaning she could type faster.

Not bad, had a few dodgy customers here and there, nothing Dylan couldn't handle.

Dylan?

He's my boss, huge guy, muscles on muscles kinda thing. If customers are too harsh they meet the floor outside on their asses.

Hahahaha! I like this guy already! :D

Are you home yet?

Haha, I'll be sure to tell him he has your approval ;) not yet, I'm walking through 3rd street alley.

Alley? Why?

Is Dylan with you?

Are you alone?

I wanted to get home faster.

Why, what's wrong with the ally?

Blake's eyes went wide for a second when the phone in her hand started to vibrate, an iconless number came up with Coffee Girl Rose accompanying it. She quickly answered it and brought it up to her human ear.

"Hey Ruby, what's-"

The girl's tired breathing made her frown a little, confused, before her voice was cut off.

"No time! I got off the phone not long ago with a Faunus friend of mine who is a member of the White Fang, and-"

"The White Fang?!"

"I'll explain later Blake! But he told me that there's a high number of AFF's tonight, and they look like they're, well, hunting."

Blake froze, one foot in the air. She knew what the AFF were like on their hunts, they captured Faunus and hung them from the trees by their necks, sometimes hacking off their Faunus limbs before doing so and burning them under the corpse for all to see.

They were the more brutal of activists.

"I-I…"

"Blake you need to get out of those alleys, climb up a building if you have to or they'll-"

The rest was white noise to Blake as she saw two figures at the end of the alley. One was taller than the other, but they both had something very distinct about them. They both had the zip leather jackets of the AFF, with a full balaclava to match.

Her breathing increased and she looked behind her, three more figures.

"They're here."

On the other end of the phone it sounded like Ruby dropped something heavy and it fell with a dense thud, she hushed someone urgently as a whine filled the air, and suddenly there was wind blowing past the phone at an alarming rate.

"I'm coming for you."

"Ruby-"

The phone disconnected, the sound of the line going dead ringing in Blake's ears.

"Look at what we have here my friends," a deep voice spoke, she looked to the three behind her and focused on the short figure in the middle, "an alley cat in the street."

"Maybe its homeless?" a second smug voice said, this one female and was to the left of the middle figure, "It wouldn't be fair for it to be kept alive. We would be doing it a kindness to put it down."

The sound of metal screeching against metal made her ears flatten on her head, and she looked at one of the two at the end, all of them moving closer to her at a slow but steady pace.

They had drawn a sword.

"Well what's say we put 'er down then?"

Her heart was in her throat but she remained calm, she had dealt with this sort before.

"There is a disadvantage here, it seems." She told them, voice clear and almost perfectly steady, almost.

"Yeah, five against one it seems." A fourth, chuckling voice told her, she couldn't distinguish the gender of it however.

"No," Blake stalled, glancing to the two and planning her route, "Its five humans, against one Faunus."

Just as she had suspected this enraged the racists, and they charged at her. The two at the end of the alley thankfully took the same idea, and she ran full pelt towards them. The one who hadn't spoken had a horrid stance, leaving their legs wide open. Blake dropped and skidded between their legs, stopping near the other and spinning with her leg out to trip them over. She used the momentum to turn herself and stand, running with a burst of speed and leaving behind a shadow clone, hearing it burst seconds later when the other three smashed into it.

Normally Blake was very good with directions, but having the five behind her chase her with such ferocity made her feel a little off. Meaning, when it came to turning left or right, she made the decision she regretted seconds after making it.

She turned right.

Immediately the girl was met with a dead end and she skidded to a halt. The walls were too wet the climb, and there was no way up. She grit her teeth and turned, the five had scrambled after her, brandishing their weapons in anger as they stalked her.

"We're gonna gut ya, kitty."

Her heart beat faster than ever, breathing quickly as she scanned for any possible way out of this situation, whining in the back of her throat when she came up empty.

"Feed you to our dogs."

"Yeah, like a bit of pussy cat they do."

"Oh, how interesting!"

The five gawped and looked above Blake to the roof of the building behind her, the Faunus looking up and catching a flash of red before the figure landed before her. The purple haired girl sagged slightly in relief.

Ruby was here.

The girl laughed falsely, and one of the figures made a harsh gesture.

"What's so funny little girl?"

"Well, your dogs like to kill pussy cats, and mine like to kill pussies!" she declared in a singsong voice, arms out to her sides seemingly cheerful, but Blake heard the deadly edge to her voice, and apparently so did everyone else.

The group shared an odd look, until twin rumbling snarls from behind them made the whole group freeze in terror. They turned slowly, and Blake even shuffled back from long lost instinct at the sight of the creatures at the end of the alley.

They were tall, insanely so, at 35 inches tall at the most. They looked like wolves, standing with a slight hunch as their hackles rose, a continuous growl searing from their lips. They had an odd pattern, black fur mostly, with a dark white on their backs and top of their heads. There were strange designs of red and white surrounding their face and back, with two pairs of menacing garnet eyes glowering at them. Most disturbing however, was the red stain down both of their muzzles which glinted in the light.

Grimmhounds, Ruby had Grimmhounds. Blake could barely believe it, being in such close proximity to those creatures were making her want to both pass out and run away. They were the deadliest breed of dog, dog being a stretch, known to man. Incredibly hard to train, damn near impossible in fact, but if training was managed they would do anything for their owner. If not, they often killed their owners.

Hence the whole deadliest breed thing.

"N-now girlie. No need to be hasty. We just want to rid the earth of this… this scum is all!" the deep voiced small male pleaded, glancing between Ruby and the Grimmhounds with sweat on his brow. Ruby tilted her head to the side, a creepy grin working its way onto her otherwise blank expression.

"How funny, so do I."

She clicked her fingers, one loud solid click, and the two dogs leapt into action. The first tackled the largest figure to the ground, standing on their chest and probably breaking a rib, the other clawed one across the chest and bit another's shoulder. With three of them down so quickly, one of the remaining two tried to jump on the back of the one standing on another's chest, accidently breaking another rib, and getting thrown off and slammed into a wall.

The last reached for their belt and pulled out a gun. They aimed it at the second Grimmhounds head, only for a human hand to slam their arm to the side, making the bullet miss, and then the hand was joined by the second and easily twisted, cracking and breaking their arm as they yelled in agony.

Ruby picked up the gun with her now gloved hand, threw it up and caught it by the barrel end. She knelt by the downed AFF member and ripped off their balaclava, revealing the face of a woman she vaguely remembered scorning in Velvet's café. She leaned towards her ear, covering her mouth to muffle her screams.

"Never. Try to shoot. My dogs." The girl growled, eyes sharp as she glared at the woman.

She leant away and smacked her on the temple, knocking her out completely. The younger girl looked at her dogs and whistled. They ran over, acting more like puppies to her than the snarling beasts Blake knew them to be.

Ruby grinned and hugged them both around the neck, fishing in her pockets.

"You're my good doggies aren't you? Yes, you are! You good doggies!"

She pulled two meat strips and their tails wagged excitably.

"You good boy Grimm, and good girl Dust!"

Blake watching with fading vision as she fed them the strips, her head lulling and her ears not hearing properly as Ruby turned to look at her, grinning and talking avidly while pointing to the monsters behind her.

"-re you okay?"

"G-G-Grimmhounds…"

"Yeah they're- oh shit, cat Faunus, wait!"

Her vision fell sideways and she saw black.


Like? Shall I continue or nah? I mean Brandon will still make me write it but you know, its polite to ask.

So yeah, that's the first chapter (which was by no means mean to be around 5k words) but its here, its meant to be halloween-ish but that all comes with the gore and shizzle later... lets hope Brandon can keep me writing this time :D

Thank you for reading, until next time~