This story starts in volume 2. Fore the background story of my OC Ice Silver I made some things up. You will find a place named 'Tenebra'. This is the name I gave the dragon-shaped continent in Remnant. (Am I the only one who things the kingdom of Mistral looks like a women?) For the name I translated the word 'darkness' in latin. If its wrong its the translators fault.
Update: I'm redoing the chapters of this fic with the help of my very nice beta reader NightLocker. Thank you for putting up with me.
I don't own RWBY.
Team RWBY was on their way to class, when Ruby nearly ran into a person after sprinting ahead, rounding a corner. She hastily apologized and continued her way, zipping down the hall.
"Something wrong?" asked Yang her partner.
"No." Blake answered. "Just thought I noticed something familiar."
RWBY sat with JNPR during lunch. Weiss looked up and saw a stranger approach, their hands tucked in the pockets of their blue pants. They stood at around five-foot-nine and wore boots with metal plates, the blue pants, a belt, a white hoodie, a brown leather strap around their torso with a spaulder on their right shoulder and bracers over the sleeves. With the hood up and their head bowed, their face remained mostly hidden, looking quite suspicious.
"Still always wearing the bow?" They asked, standing behind Blake. She turned. Her brows furred before realization showed on her face.
"Still didn't ditch the hood?" She gave back.
The person smiled. "Some habits are hard to break." They returned.
Jaune leaned to Ruby, who sat next to him, and whispered. "Who is this guy?"
"Don't know. But he looks suspicious."
"Yeah. Nearly scary."
Noticing the hushed conversation the stranger spoke to all of them. "Sorry. Where are my manners? I'm Ice Silver. But people usually call me Silver." Everyone except Blake at the table introduced themselves.
"What are you doing here, Ice?" Blake asked.
"You could say I got transferred here." Silver explained.
"In the middle of the year?" This time it was Ruby's voice.
"Yes, there were some troubles at my old school that made it difficult for me to stay."
"What troubles?" Jaune wanted to know.
"Some things having to do with me being a faunus."
"So this is how you know Blake!" Nora stated.
Silver glanced at Blake. She didn't saw it because of the hood but know Ice was looking at her. She answered the silent question. "They know." Ice nodded at her before turning her gaze to Nora.
"It has something to do with it. Now if you would excuse me. I still have things to do." she gave the group a toothy smile. From the shadow of her hood it looked quite scary. Especially with her sharp canine like teeth. Ruby shuddered.
"Scary." She commented after Ice left. Everyone nodded in agreement. Jaune looked terrified, his face was white as a sheet.
Weiss spoke up. "So who exactly was this?"
Blake sighed. "You could say we were childhood friends."
The next day team RWBY met Ice again. They were sitting in the classroom when she walked by their seats. "Looks like some things still haven't changed one bit." Blake commented on Silver's appearance.
Ice wore the boy's school uniform. From one of the layers under the jacket came a hood and hide her face. "Surprised?"
"No. Not really." To which Ice hummed in acknowledgment.
Shortly after, Professor Port came into the classroom. "Good Morning, class. As you might have noticed we have a new student since today. If you would like to introduce yourself." He motioned towards Ice with his hand before stepping back.
Ice stood up. "My name is Ice Silver. I will attend Beacon Academy from today on." She sat back down after her short introduction, leaving no time for questions and all the time for stares.
Professor Port began to start his lessen but stopped shortly after. Clearing his throat he spoke; "Miss Silver, would you please take your hood off?" Nearly everyone in class locked slightly confused at their teacher.
"Sorry. I tend to forget about it." She said and took the hood of. The class started mumbling. The absent of the hood revealed silver hair tied back in a bun, yellow eyes and clearly feminine features with two scars. One split her right brow. The other scar was on the left side of her lips. On top of her head a pair of silver wolf ears. A slit in the side of the left one.
"Wait! Silver is a girl?!" Yang asked surprised. Blake just rolled her eyes at her team mates.
"Obviously." Weiss commented. "But I thought faunus' have just one animal trait. Why does she have two?"
"Faunus' do usually have just the one trait. Ice is the only one with two that I know of. But I never heard of a silver wolf faunus either before I meet her." Blake told.
Professor Port asked for silence and continued his class. Which turned out to just be him telling stories of his glory days, of course.
On their way to the next lesson Jaune asked Ice. "Why the boy's uniform?"
"I don't like skirts." She responded back.
"But you looked cute in one." Blake commented, giggled. The wolf faunus shot her a glare but the pink hue on her cheeks made it less intimidating.
"They were all looking funny at me back then." She mumbled a little embarrassed.
"That was because this was the first and only time they saw you dressed as a girl." The black haired girl explained.
"And nearly every boy tried to flip that damn skirt." Ice complained.
Blake sighed. "You got a point there."
"Skirt or not, you look much less scary without the hood." Nora chimed in.
At that comment Silver flashed a toothy grin. "What do you think is the point of it?" The sight of the canines and the tone of her voice let Jaune, Ruby and Nora shudder. Silver's grin turned into a smile with less sharp-looking teeth. "It is a useful addition. It keeps people away."
"Why would you want that?" Yang asked. The silver wolfs smile faded and she showed a hard expression.
"Many reasons." Her tone of voice declared the end of this conversation.
The others looked at each others but decide not to probe.
At lunch they all sat together. This time with Sun and Neptune. They were first surprised by the hooded stranger. Ice had the habit of putting the hood back on without even noticing. The members of RWBY and JNPR had to remind her of it before she got into trouble with the teacher. Sometimes the wolf faunus caught herself when unintentionally reaching for the hood.
"You said you were transferred here, Ice. Which Academy did you attend before?" Pyrrha asked.
"Onyx Academy." Came the short answer.
The others blinked at that. Jaune was the first to speak. "Never heard of it."
"Me neither." Yang told. The rest of the group shook their heads.
"Would've surprised me. It was the same for me before I got there." Ice told them.
"That makes no sense. Why would you go to an Academy you never heard of?" The suspicion was clear in Weiss` voice.
"Because the headmaster took me under his wing after I found myself in Tenebra."
"Tenebra?! Every attempt colonization failed. No one lives there." Weiss claimed.
"Oh there is. Most part of the continent has a high Grimm population but there is a secure area with a few cities and villages. Nothing too big. They live pretty isolated there. Only a handful of people know of them." The wolf faunus disagreed.
"You have to be kidding." Sun said. "That can't be true."
"It is. It wasn't planned but I somehow found my way to Tenebra. And then Bark found me." She gave a very short retelling.
"Bark?" Pyrrha asked.
"The headmaster of Onyx Academy."
"How is life in Tenebra?" Ren wanted to know.
"They keep contact with the kingdoms at a minimum. Never more than needed. Their culture is different to ours but similar enough to adapt easily, despite not having a proper government. The largest city there isn't really big. But all in all live isn't that different. If you aren't a faunus, that is." The last sentence was mumbled under her breath. Which was why only Blake with her faunus hearing caught it. She asked about it. "Why is that?"
"Like I said…" Silver began but was cut of by Blake.
"Why is it different for faunus?"
Ice sighted. She had hoped nobody would hear. "Because people from Tenebra have a… different view on faunus'."
"Do they treat faunus badly?" Ruby asked.
The wolf girl laughed dryly at that. The hood hiding her bitter expression. "Don't humans treat faunus' bad everywhere? ...But it's not that easy. It's not like they hate faunus' or see them a lesser being. It's…it's more like the opposite. You could almost say they… worship the faunus'… in some way."
"Than why not stay there?" Neptune inquired.
"I would rather work for Schnee Dust Company than go back to Tenebra." Ice looked at Weiss. "Sorry."
"Now I'm confused." Ruby stated before Weiss could say something. "Why don't you want to be there when they worship faunus'?"
"They have a sick way of doing it." Disgust and anger clear in the silver wolf faunus voice.
"How's that?" Sun asked.
"This isn't something to talk about while eating. Or at all." The anger didn't hide the sadness in her voice.
The other people on the table just looked at Ice for a moment.
"Oookaaayy. Soooooo what is with your team?" Ruby changed the theme.
"I don't have one." Silver answered.
"You can't be serious! Everyone has a team!" Weiss` disbelieve was obvious.
The silver haired girl just shrugged. "That's the problem. Everyone already has a team. I'm the odd one out."
"She did come to Beacon in the middle of the year. So there is no team partner left." Pyrrha noted.
"My point." The silver wolf said.
"Wait!" Sun got their attention. "Did you just say 'she'?"
"Yes." Pyrrha answered.
"Silver is a girl?!" Neptune and Sun asked in disbelieve. "But…?"
Nora and Ruby were snickering at the two boy's dumbfounded expressions.
"The uniform? I prefer pants." Ice stated.
A twitch under the hood could be noticed before she stood up. "Would you excuse me for a moment?" The wolf faunus took off in direction of team CRDL.
Yang nudged Ruby, who sat next to her. "This ought to be good."
CRDL were bullying Velvet again. Cardin was pulling on her bunny ears. The other three were laughing and making fun of her. Sky noticed Ice approaching first. He nudged Cardin and pointed at her.
"And who are you?" The leader of CRDL asked, still holding onto Velvet.
She ignored his question. "Looks like you are having fun. Let me join in."
"Isn't this the new one?" Sky recognized her. "And isn't she a faunus?"
The last sentence was a little late. Ice had already reached Cardin, who still held the bunny faunus' ear. The wolf girl grabbed the team leader's ear. Hard. "You've stopped laughing. Why?" She pulled his ear. "Isn't this such fun?" She grinned a little, a twinkle in her eye.
"Why, you bitch!" Cardin hissed through gritted teeth.
"It looks like it hurts. Does it?" She was still slightly grinning.
He glared at her. His team mates not sure what to do.
"I think it does. And I'm sure the girl whose ear you're pulling thinks so too. So why don't you let her go?" Ice now showed a hard expression.
"Fuck you!" He growled and gripped Velvet's ear harder. She whimpered.
"That wasn't nice." Silver pulled stronger, nearly ripping his ear of. Cardin let go of the bunny faunus and screamed from pain. The silver-headed girl stopped pulling.
"That wasn't so hard, was it? Now how about an apology?" She taunted him.
The boy slapped Ice's hand away. "You stupid bitch!" With that he charged at her. The wolf faunus just sidestepped and tripped him. Cardin fell face first into a table. His team members rushed to his side. The onlookers laughed at his expenses.
The redheaded boy refused the help from his team and stood up. "You will pay for this!" He spat pointing at Ice before leaving with his team.
"What an asshole." She mumbled before turning to Velvet. "You okay?"
Velvet nodded but couldn't say anything because of a blonde brawler.
Yang grinned and put an arm around Ice's shoulder. "This was awesome, Silver! This scumbag deserved this. But next time let me join in, yeah?"
"I can't see where I stopped you from doing so." Silver pointed out.
"True." The blond admitted.
"Eh, thank you for your help. Silver, right?" Velvet said.
The hooded girl smiled at her. "You're welcome. I can't let a fellow faunus down, can I?"
"Sadly not everyone thinks so." The brunette smiled back. "I'm Velvet. Nice to meet you."
"Nice meeting you too. Say, does this happened often?"
The bunny faunus looked to the ground. That was answer enough.
The silver head looked thoughtful. "I see. So I just got on the bad side of the school bullies. That could get fun."
"Don't worry. You have us on your side." Yang cheered her up. Or would have, if it were necessary.
"It's no problem. I've gotten myself in worse situations. We should head back though. Classes start soon."
The group had combat classes by professor Goodwitch after lunch break.
"Now Miss Silver, why don't you demonstrate us your fighting skills today." It wasn't a question.
Ice sighed. "Against who?"
Goodwitch scanned her class, looking for a volunteer.
"I want to fight her." A familiar voice said.
"Very well, Mister Winchester."
This is my first fanfiction and English is not my first language. I hope you still enjoyed it. Feel free to point out mistakes. I can't learn from them if I don't know where I made them.