Hello everyone. Thanks for checking out the first chapter of my new story. I'm pretty excited to actually write this as Ive had the idea for a while. Be sure to let me know what you think after reading the chapter by reviewing it. With that said here is chapter one.

"Hey Rubes. Finally snapped huh?" Yang casually asked her sister, who was pointing her old sniper rifle out the window. "Not today Yang. Just people watching" Ruby replied in her normal bubbly tone. How she can keep that tone while cramped up in this place is anyone's guess. She lived in a grimy apartment above a pub in the slums district, barely able to even eat everyday with no friends besides her sister and Jaune yet still she kept up her child like attitude. Sometimes Yang worried that something was wrong with her, like she hadn't raised her right and now Ruby was doomed to live life permanently with the mind of a child. Her fears never lasted long however as Ruby was pretty darn smart if she could say so herself. Ruby had a knack for mechanics and was the one who kept everything running in the apartment. The sniper itself was a testament to that as Ruby had kept it in good shape for near ten years now. For a 15 year old that was pretty impressive she felt. She wasn't half a bad shot with the thing either.

"Uh Yang? You ok?" Ruby was looking up at Yang quizzically. Looks like she spent far too long on that train of thought, again. "Oh I was just thinking" Yang sat down on the bed next to Ruby "So see anyone interesting" Ruby put her hand to her chin "Hm. Well I saw Jaune carrying some bags around with Pyrrha. Probably shopping bags but I couldn't tell from here" Yangs smile faded a bit. Jaune brought back some bad memories for her. Two years of her life spent of him just for it all to come crumbling down. If he wasn't Rubys friend she would probably do her best to keep him out of her life. "-He seemed a bit drunk but the hat was cool. Um...Oh! I saw a girl with white hair and this really clean white dress and coat on. She stood out a lot compared to the others. Looked like she was carrying a really big bag too" Clean clothes? Now that was new. No one in the slums really kept their clothes clean. No real point when everything else was dirty anyway. Even Yang and Ruby didn't bother much with yangs once bright yellow tank top now a much darker shade and her black sweatpants having quite a few marks and stains on them from throughout the years while Rubys black dress and read cloak had quite a few dirt marks on them, the end of the cloak especially being a dark shade of brown at this point. "Hm. Maybe shes new here?" Yang question. Ruby looked over to her with a confused look on her face. "The refugee boats arent due for another 3 months and she wouldn't have clean clothes if she came from there" "Could be from Kireina Machi" Ruby laughed "Don't be stupid. No way anyone would leave Kireina Machi to come here. You don't spend a million credits to enter the greatest city in the world then get bored and leave" Yang let loose a laugh of her own "I know but where else could she have come from? Maybe she just missed the dirt and drugs" They both laughed for a while. The thought that anyone would leave a place like Kireina Machi was ludicrous. What reason would someone have to do something as stupid as that?

Truth. The word ran through Weisses mind as she walked through the dark streets of the slums her bag feeling much heavier than it did when she started this trip. She was really hoping she did the right thing. Its a big risk leaving her home and family but after they took her mother away Weiss could already see where all this was going to go. Her father had barely reacted at all when she was taken. He just sat there by the fire while she screamed that she wasn't crazy. Begged for them to let her go. She can remember it so clearly even after three years. Winter had tried to comfort Weiss as best she could but it didn't stop Weiss from wondering why they took her? Mother had never shown any signs of being crazy in the house. She had always been nice to her and Winter, always giving them the attention and support they needed even after Whitley was born yet the police came and took her away to Osorubeki Metal Asylum. She found out the truth two weeks ago, when Winter told Weiss that father had reported to the police that mother was showing signs of the G virus, a virus that came from the neural implants they all had. The government were so scared of an outbreak that they just took her without any further questions. Winter didn't know why father had done this. Weiss needed to know and she knew who would know. She was going to break her mother out of Osorubeki and finally get the truth. She packed everything she needed into her bag and bribed one of the charity food trucks to give her a lift into the slums.

Now she was looking for any where she could sleep. Use as a makeshift base to devise a plan. Anywhere that didn't look so shady. Her luck was not kicking in unfortunately. There was a pub a few blocks back called "The Ridge" that looked to have an upstairs area she could pay her way into. It was a ways back though and the streets behind her where much darker now. As where the streets in front of her actually. In fact it now dawned on her she had been walking for quite a while without thinking about how dark it was getting. Weiss looked all around her, trying to find anywhere were there was light but to no avail. Footsteps began echoing down the streets and Weiss could make out the figure of a rather large looking man wearing a beat up silver hoodie and jeans. "um excuse me? Do you happen to know anywhere I can go that offers rooms?2 She called out to the figure who had now walked much closer to her. He seemed to have some kind of bird symbol on his hoodie and the hood covered his eyes from view. A small smirk had found its way onto his lips at her words. "You look pretty clean, you from the big city?" he asked as he walked up uncomfortably close to her "I don't see how that's relevant" Weiss replied taking a few steps back. This may have been a mistake. "I just wanted an idea of how much money I could get off ya" The man pulled out a handgun as he spoke and pointed at Weiss. "I want you to transfer every single credit you have to me right now or else ill take them off your corpse" Weiss looked at the gun now pointed at her.

Yep this was definitely a mistake.