Remnant Ghoul

Chapter 1:

Prologue

Remnant a rather bountiful world everything about it is beautiful and lush, but as most would know there are always some dark mysteries about hidden in the shadows and corners of the world. First came the humans a strong and primitive race and not long after them the Faunus identical in almost every way, but then came the Grimm, a dark and mysterious creature, many learned to fear them upon a single look, not many could figure out where the Grimm had come from, so one day a group comprised of humans and Faunus left so that they could find a way to fight back against the Grimm.

Not many know what happened to them but when they returned they weren't Human or Faunus anymore they were a new race the Ghoul, this new race was stronger in many ways but they had one problem, they needed to eat the flesh of those they once were and those they has become to survive. It was a small price for such a great gift in their eyes and they took it without a moment's hesitation, within weeks the new race went from five to hundreds and kept growing. Until something happened to prevent them from turning and the Humans Faunus and Ghouls all got something they needed when they first fought with the Grimm.

Somewhere in Vale

"Awe~ come on Weiss please~"

Weiss looked towards her partner and sighed "No Ruby maybe another time but right now we have to get to the lunch" as she turned around Ruby lowered her head and sagged her shoulders,

"But Weiss I am hungry can't I just buy one cookie?"

Weiss then said, "There will be food there, now come on"

Ruby looked to Weiss and sighed "Fine~"

The two continued to run down the path to where they were headed a restaurant, they entered and the receptionist looked up "Oh Ms Schnee this way he arrived a minute ago" Weiss nodded and followed her with Ruby not too far behind.

They approached their table there was a man sitting at the table looking at the menu, he had gray-white hair and a pale complexion a large gray mustache, and his eyes are a cold blue colour. He is wearing a pure white double-breasted jacket with a red handkerchief in the breast pocket, underneath which he wears a blue shirt and vest and a gray-white tie, printed with the same emblem on his shoes.

He looked up from the menu and stated, "Your late" in a rather irritable tone,

Weiss sighed "Sorry father"

Weiss and Ruby both approached the table and sat down, he looked up to Ruby who in turn said "H-hi I am Ruby, Ruby Rose"

He then stated in a harsh tone "I know who you are Ms Rose, now tell me how is it you managed to become the leader to your team and not my daughter?"

Ruby took an audible gulp "Um I am not sure Mr Schnee, um professor Ozpin has an…. odd way of doing things like how we became a team"

He looked intrigued and asked, "And how did he do that?"

Ruby answered nervously "He um launched us into the Emerald forest from the cliffs and then whoever we made eye contact with would be our partner for four years, then we collected chess pieces and another pair of partners that had the matching chess piece would be the other half of the team"

He looked at the both of them for a moment then stated, "That is one of the stupidest ways of pairing teams. In Atlas, we would put two of the best students with two of the worst in order to train them at a higher level, I hope you know how lucky you are young lady even Weiss should understand that"

To say that Ruby was nervous was a huge understatement, she was so close to running out the doors and back to Beacon, 'Screw the cookies what do I even say? Do I even say anything!' Ruby screamed internally,

Weiss saw how Ruby was feeling and decided to try and ease her worries and take the attention away from her, "So father how are things back in Atlas?"

He stopped what he was doing and looked back up to her then said, "Fine, we are about to make a huge business deal and if it works we will be able to set up another mine up in Mistral, the workers there will have a harder time setting up and we may need to fire a few of the animals so we can make some profit but it will be worth the hassle"

Ruby had a look of disbelief at hearing the last sentence leaving his lips she was going to stand up and defend the workers but then she felt a chill in the air,

Weiss looked calm but on the inside, was freaking out 'Oh god oh god what is he thinking? what is Ruby going to do? what do I do!?'

Ruby then asked shyly "Um why are you two talking about this kind of stuff?"

He looked to Ruby he had forgotten she was here but kept a calm expression "Well Weiss is the Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company so she needs to listen and observe if she is to learn how to run it when she takes over, and Ms Rose I would hope you don't say a word of this to anyone" the way he said the last Part sounded normal but Ruby and Weiss both knew it was a threat,

Ruby couldn't speak so she just nodded and once again Weiss tried to make a more peaceful conversation "Anyways how are Mother, Winter and Whitley doing?"

He looked back to Weiss and answered, "Your mother is doing fine as always, Winter has just been sent on a mission with Ironwoods ten finest men to save a settlement from a Ghoul attack and Whitley is doing as he should" he said the last part pointedly at Weiss, he then asked, "So how are studies at Beacon?"

Weiss looked nervously to him "They are great I am at the top of most of my classes and my team is placed second ranking to the whole of the first years"

"What do you mean second? How is it my daughter's team isn't first, are you and your teammate holding her back?"

Weiss quickly spoke over him to try and calm him "The team ahead of ours is team JNPR, the main reason they are ahead is because they have Pyrrah Nikos on their team" this seemed to do as she had hoped when his expression went from disappointment to irritated,

"Oh well that would explain that"

Ruby spoke up "So um what is it like running a big company?"

He looked over to her with amusement and answered, "Very busy you would be surprised with just how much you would have to do if you were to run a business, I am sure someone in my daughters' company would do fine in the terms of it all"

Ruby and Weiss paused for a moment with Weiss asking herself 'does he know, how could he? I set this up so we could tell him, but who would have told him?' Weiss was brought out of her thoughts by her father,

He could see the shock on both their faces and he was finding every moment of it amusing "Weiss I have known for a while now, and I must say I am very disappointed in you, I thought you were better than that, although I was willing to give the idea chance, but after meeting her I must say it isn't an idea I fancy anymore, I mean you did invite me all the way to Vale for a lunch and when I asked why, I remember you said it was for something important, besides here she is, here with you what else could this have been for?"

Weiss's gaze met the ground in an attempt to hide the hint of tears that were threatening to break free, but once Ruby saw that she had forgotten about her anxiety and everything else as she spoke "Mr Schnee you don't even know me yet, how could you make a judgement that quickly just by me being nervous, and why are you talking to Weiss like that I thought a father was meant to support their child no matter what, so what makes her happiness so insignificant compared to your own?" by the time Ruby had finished speaking he was glaring at her.

"I am sure you wouldn't understand a thing about it Ms Rose" he went to continue but before he did his eyes darted from side to side, "You are lucky we are in public or I wouldn't hesitate to teach you what happens when you speak to me like that."

"Oh I get it now you care more on what others think about you more than your own daughters' happiness" Ruby said with a knowing look,

while Ruby and Jacques were talking Weiss began panicking, she knew what would happen if things continued to got they were she knew it had to stop "Ruby I think it would be best if we just leave"

this stopped Ruby and after a moment of silence she nodded and stood up from her seat, but Jacques was far from finished with this as he said, "Weiss you will remain here I could care less on what Ms Rose does, but if you leave through those doors I will pull you out of Beacon"

Weiss stopped only to think of a witty comeback "But Father I'm eighteen, I am an adult now you don't have the right to do that anymore"

He narrowed his eyes before smirking victorious, "Then I will make Whitley heir to the company instead, it's your choice"

Ruby glared at the CEO before turning to look at Weiss and said reassuringly, "It's ok Weiss I don't want to take everything away from you, if you have to stay then you can I'll be at the bakery when you're done here"

Weiss sighed and with a frown said, "Thanks Ruby and I'm sorry it had to be like this"

Ruby just gave another reassuring smile, "It's ok, it's not your fault it's his, if you want I can wait around"

Weiss shook her head and said, "I will meet you at the bakery, ok?" Ruby just nodded and left through the door.

As Ruby walked out of the door to the restaurant and began walking back the she and Weiss had come from, but once she was close to the bakery she realised something was off turning her head slightly she saw that same man from outside the restaurant as she left, she faced forward again and continued walking and instead of continuing to the Bakery turned a right, as she went around the corner she turned her head slightly and saw he was making the same turn. This continued for a while until she concluded he was following her, and so Ruby turned a left then walked into an alleyway to confront him.

Ruby narrowed her eyes at him as she asked, "Why are you following me?" He said nothing and grinned menacingly as a sword slid out of his right sleeve, Ruby drew out Crescent Rose and yelled "Why are you doing this, who sent you!?"

He only said one word as he took a step forward"Hungry," Ruby readied Crescent Rose as he ran at her and began running at him, he thrust his weapon towards her midsection and Ruby could only just avoided it by a mere inch, but what confused her was in mid thrust he dropped the blade, she took her chance and swung her beloved scythe around to hit his back, however as the scythe cut through the clothes and connected with the man's back it shattered, a sudden bulge formed on his back and a Kagune formed impaling her through her midsection and pinning her to the wall.

The man then said with sadistic glee "Oh yes, I haven't eaten in a whole month this is gonna be fun!" he pulled his Kagune out of her midsection, and while Ruby regained her balance on the wall behind her, he jumped onto Ruby, slamming her into the ground as he ripped the flesh from her shoulder,

Ruby screamed in pain trying to claw her way from under him and away from here but once she had broken free he hooked his Kagune around her whole left leg and asked, "Do you really think you can run away pathetic!" He threw her to the side,

Ruby flew into the wall of the alleyway and looked back to him, she begged, "P-please don't do this, p-pl-please" she tried to stand up and run but it was no use with a hole through her midsection a bite mark on her shoulder a dead leg and her body burning in pain after been thrown to the side like that she could barely stand up straight.

He laughed at her attempt of escape knowing she had nowhere to go, he then stated, "You humans are all the same begging for life like it means something!"

He jumped at Ruby again, once her back it the ground he leaned in and took another huge chunk from her shoulder as she screamed for help, he leaned in for another bite, but before he could sink his teeth into her, they both heard someone yell something and looked over to where the sound had come from, but Ruby couldn't see anything she only heard a familiar voice and she was thankful to hear it,

"RUBY!" the next thing Ruby could remember was someone with orange hair running towards her before everything went back.

Hello everyone and welcome to the end of chapter 1, I hope you enjoyed it and first of all I wanted to say that I am excited about this, who is Ruby's saviour what will happen? All these will be answered next chapter.