A/N: Welcome to my first fan-fiction that I have written. Just a warning, if you require great grammar and well edited works, look elsewhere. I will be trying my best, but it may not be enough for some people. I will try to update as soon as I can, and will probably be able to keep it up to once a week at minimum, hopefully more.

Anyways, on to more story related stuff. This is an AU, where the main difference is in the life each of the characters had growing up. Weiss had parents that loved her and accepted her, Blake never joined he white fang and stuck to peaceful means of protest(but still has combat skills because of her parents) and then their is Yang and Ruby. In this AU, they are the blood children of Summer Rose and Taiyang Xiao Long, and when Summer was killed by the white fang, Yang ran away at the tender age of 8 and lived on the street fostering her hatred of the faunus while Ruby was left with her father. Because of this, they will all be at least a little OOC, but I promise to do my best to keep them close to their characters.

This story will be ladybug with eventual freezerburn. Emphasis on the eventual, in this story Yang has a lot of issues to work out, but it will be their eventually, I promise.

Also, while I may mention some OC's I promise that other than parents and maybe a couple of bit parts for some other family members, their will be no OC's making an actual appearance into the story.

This chapter has very little dislodge in some parts, this will change in the other chapters, but this lets me delve further into the characters mind and leave the relationships for later in the story.

This first chapter will be a prologue that will spend some time with each character to give a look into their lives, in the next chapter, they will all arrive at Beacon.

Really sorry for this long A/N, it shouldn't happen again.

Disclaimer: Strangely, I do not own RWBY, that honour goes to Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum, if this changes, I will let you guys know immediately.

Weiss Schnee (age 15)

Weiss was done. This was the third "date" she had been set up on in the past week, and none of them had ended with her being at least partially happy. Not that the dates were bad, but none of them had excited her or made her wonder if they might be the future. She was starting to wonder if maybe the problem was with herself, instead of with the boys. She finally decided that maybe she should go talk to her father. He had always been their for her and always knew what to say to help her through her tough times. With that in mind, she stood up and started the trek down to her fathers study. While staying on the fifth floor allowed for all the privacy one could want, it also meant it was difficult to actually interact with other people, even family members.

As she walked down the stairs, she tried to think of why her dates never seemed to work out. The boys always seemed to be on their best behaviour and behaved like true gentlemen. She even had fun on a couple of the dates, but she never accepted a second date with any of them because she never felt anything with them. She thought back to the last time she had been truly happy.

It was 2 years ago and Weiss was out on the town with her best friend. They were both heiresses and both looking for an escape from their life for just one night. Somehow, they ended up in a bar. It is amazing what money can do for a couple of 13 year old's looking for a fun night out. Anyways, as it was both of their first times drinking, they had very low alcohol tolerance and after only a couple of drinks, hey were both wasted. Weiss will swear that she remembers nothing of that night, but in reality she remembers it all to well. Right before they both passed out, Weiss did something she had never even thought of before, she kissed her best friend. Even now, looking back at it, she feels sick but at the same time, it sets her heart racing more than any date she had been on. Fortunately, her friend truly did not remember the night and Weiss was more than happy to leave it that way. After all this thought, she realized that she had arrived. She knocked on the giant doors to her dads study and after being told to come in, she spoke.

"Daddy, I think I'm gay" slipped out of her mouth, where had that come from? All she wanted was to talk to her dad and now everything was ruined.

Blake Belladonna (age 14)

"Come on Blake" he whined "the White Fang are the only group that will make any change. The humans want to exterminate us and we have to meet them on the field of battle"!

"No, peace and equality won through bloodshed will never hold. We need to start small and show humans not to fear us, not to fear us." responded the lithe cat faunus "just because I know how to fight doesn't mean I want to attack humans".

"Fine! When we finally get change, I'll try to convince the rest of them to cut you some slack, but I can't guarantee anything. If you walk away now, you are throwing away your race and becoming as soft as those blasted humans" He shot back as he walked away.

Blake just stood there before slumping to the ground as he walked away. Never did she imagine being this alone in the world with no friends left by her side. Even with all this, she felt secure in her choice to stay away from the White Fang and to keep her protests peaceful. However, if she was going to work real change she needed to be able to work real change in the world, and he was right about at least one thing, that was never going to happen as long as she was a faunus. Because of this, she tied the ribbon around her head and with her head held high, walked out of the alley and got on the airship to Vale. Thanks to her parents, she could fight, and that could be used to get her into a position of power. All she had to do was somehow gain entrance into Beacon Academy and become a huntress, then she could work real change and prove him wrong.

With that in mind, she set off on her journey secure in knowing that she was doing the right thing in leaving her friends and him behind. She was ready to face whatever came her way and ready to conquer all the challenges she would face.

So why did tears start streaming down her face when the airship started to leave the dock?

Yang Xiao Long (age 10)

The little girl curled up in a box whimpered. Even with the overhang over the alley, the rain still found a way to find her. Nothing good had happened to her since she had left home. She had been homeless and to young to get a job, all that was left was thievery. Sure, she could have stayed at home with her family, but she refused to spend another second with that father of hers who refused to blame the faunus for his wife's, and her mothers, death. They both knew it was a faunus scum, they had seen him bragging about bagging the great huntress, Summer Rose, in town one day. Still, he refused to blame them, always saying "the crimes of the one do not damn an entire race". After a month of this refusal to take action, Yang had had enough and left the house with nothing but the shirt on her back and couple of bucks that she spent on food her first night in town. After that, she was limited to what she could steal. Of course, she was a good guy, she only stole from the dirty faunus that inhabited the city.

"Clink, clink" some money fell into her hat that she had left out.

For the first time that week, she smiled. Maybe she would be able to eat tonight. She looked up about to thank the kind person for giving her a bit of money, that is, until she saw the ears sticking out of the top of his head.

She immediately threw the money back at him screaming "I don't need your charity, I'm doing quite fine on my own" her face twisting into a sneer as she finished talking.

The guy looked surprised but shook his head and continued on walking. With a second thought, Yang stood up, walked behind the man and stole his wallet. By the time he had noticed, she was long gone and had already bought dinner from a cart. With the proper budget Yang could make this money last her at least a year.

Later that night, her last thought as she drifted of to sleep was that someday she would be strong enough to take matters into her own hands and rid the world of the faunus menace once and for all.

Ruby Rose (age 12)

"Daddy" started a little girl wrapped up in a red cloak which dwarfed her "why did Yang leave us?"

Taiyang sucked in a deep breath, this was a conversation he had been avoiding since she left, he did not want his second daughter to follow in the first's footsteps and leave him alone, she was all that was left of his dear sweet Summer.

Realizing that Ruby was still looking at him, he tried to decide on what to say. Eventually he decided to try the truth, surely she was mature enough to accept it?

"Well kiddo, when your mother died, Yang had trouble separating the individual from the race and kept blaming the entire race instead of trying to move on past her death" he began "When I tried to help her understand the distinction she believed that I was being to soft and letting her mother down, so she decided to leave and try and make her own way in the world" He hoped that this would be enough to keep Ruby happy.

Ruby heard this and tried to make sense of it. To her it seemed silly to blame the entire race of faunus for the actions of one, after all humans murdered each other all the time and nobody suggested wiping all of humanity out for it, so why would it happen to the faunus? With this in mind she assumed her dad was lying to her, but she was willing to leave it there for the moment.

As she turned to go up the stairs, Taiyang heaved a huge sigh of relief. The conversation was over, and Ruby did not seem like she was trying to run away, so he counted that as a win.

As Ruby reached her room, she ran through all the reasons why her dad could of lied to her. At first she thought that maybe he was trying to make himself look better by painting Yang in such a negative light, but she dismissed this almost immediately, her daddy was to perfect for that, there must be a different reason.

"No, no, no it could not be that" she whispered to herself. But no matter how many ways she approached it, the only reason she could think of why her dad would lie to her was to protect her.

She must be the reason that Yang left. Yang left because Ruby did not love her enough, that was the only reason she could think of.

She silently cried herself to sleep that night.

A/N: There! First chapter done! The next one should be up tomorrow or Thursday, as I am trying to power through the beginning of this story to give a better representation of the story.

Please give me feedback on how to improve both the story and my writing style, and I hope you got some enjoyment out of this first chapters

Next time: Beacon ahoy!