This is an AU RWBY story, based on what would happen if Ruby grew up an orphan, unaware that she was actually related to Yang and that Tiayang Xiao Long was her father since her mom, Summer Rose, never told anyone who her father was. All characters and settings belong to Rooster Teeth™ and their affiliates and I do not, nor claim to own anything in this story. I am just playing around in their pool. At no time do I plan, nor wish to, profit from this story, I just hope that you the audience and Rooster Teeth™ (if they ever stumble upon my work) enjoy this story for its entertainment value.

Ruby's adventures in Remnant

Kingdom of Vale

Beacon Academy

Although, it had been a snow storm that passed over the island of Patch the night before, here in Vale, it had been nothing more than a decent rain storm. Leaving the roads slick looking for the early morning rush but still passable for most traffic. Not that the red with white trim, custom build, hover-bike was concern with something so mundane as roads as it hovers a foot above the surface of the parkway.

Weaving in and around the slower traffic, the almost 15-year-old owner of said bike, was more concern with making it to Beacon on time then the honking horns of the cars she passed. That and the cops, as long as no cops spotted her, she was fine.

Because even though the custom bike was street legal, having passed every test the Kingdom of Vale threw at it, and it was registered to her and she was wearing the approved full face helmet that all riders under the age of eighteen was required to wear; being a year too young to actually drive the bike would make it a problem.

And if the Headmistress at Vale's Heart Preparatory School for Hunters finds out that she removed her bike, again, from storage, this time she might make good on her threat to leave it in impound until she was seventeen. Considering she won't turn 15 for a couple more days, that was a bit longer then she cares to think about.

So not getting spotted was on the huge 'must do' list because if they spotted her, she was done. It wasn't as if she couldn't out run the cops, she could, easily, since her bike did close to 150 mph, it was more of the fact that her hover-bike was literally one of a kind. Being a ward of the state, growing up attending and living on campus at the prep school since she was three, with few friends and no family meant that she had a lot of free time to kill.

So not only was she the best in her class in combat, using her custom built .357 calibers gauntlets/pistols, each one had a barrel slung under her hand, as well as the 12-inch long, reverse angle, single edge blade, that was attached to the top of the gauntlets. Ruby was also really talented with a wrench as well. Not only could one tell by the bike and her gauntlets but also by her custom built duel chakram that she could remote control after tossing them. They allowed her to have free reign in the metal shop, hoping that if she was engaged in a hobby, she would be too occupied with building and creating to get into fights with the other students.

Usually.

Most of the time.

That was the hope, anyways.

So when she was eleven, at a time when most girls her age began to find fashion and boys, she began designing and building her dream bike. The two seated bike look a lot like a 'crotch rocket' but with four hover pads, two in the front that could be manipulated for turns, jumps and braking and two in rear that were fixed, that stuck about a foot out from the main body. The bike also had two thrusters in the rear for acceleration.

Braking had been the biggest problem to overcome. Her solutions had been two small hover pads that pop out of the front when she wants to slow down; using the main front pads, her deceleration pads and killing the thrust, would stop the bike but it was challenge to learn. Coming to an emergency stop took all previous steps and giving it a hard turn, that was the only sure way to kill the inertia quickly.

It went without saying the main way to avoid doing any emergency stops was not to need to make them in the first place. Just like a regular motorcycle, it took concentration and discipline above what is needed to operate regular car. When she sold the patent earlier this year, after she got the bike certified street legal, she insisted that the company who will mass produce the bike, to only market to experience riders. Only because of her semblance, her super speed, gave her advantage over other novices' riders.

"Newton's apple." She mumbled as she slid under a large truck to hid from a police car heading down the highway from the opposite direction. Being only a foot off the ground and being only five-foot-tall herself, even with her backpack on, she had plenty clearance. After traveling about a mile, she figured it must be safe and she darted back out into traffic again. She only had a couple miles to her exist anyways, so she was too close to worry about anything else now.

Ruby was on her way to take the entry exam into Beacon Academy. Normally someone like her, who had attended one of the preparatory academies found all round Remnant, would skip this part. After all, they had already proven whether or not they had the skills to advance to this level.

However, she was attempting the nearly impossible, she was trying to enter two years early. She had been studying to be a Huntress since she could walk, taking martial arts classes since before her family died fighting the Grimm, she had spent almost ten years of her life living and breathing to kill Grimm. She was the best in her age group, regardless of being only five feet tall and 80 lbs. of muscle and anger, she had the skills to survive Beacon and the real world; what she didn't have the patience to deal with the other goobers at Heart.

She was tired of dealing with the whinny girls who were more interested in boys then fighting, how their make-up looks then learning the best way to kill Grimm. Ruby was really annoyed how they would cry and whine to their instructors when she used their longer hair to her advantage during sparing matches. If they haven't figure out by now that long hair makes it really easy way to get leverage on them by grabbing it during combat, then they were terminally stupid. It was the main reason why she has been wearing her hair short for a few years now. She wasn't about to let anyone get an obvious advantage over her if she could help it.

That would also include their choice of combat clothing, they like frilly dresses and or complicated outfits the only emphases that they are in fact girls. It was like they, for some reason, they need to remind people that they are women. The young wanna be Huntress didn't get it, you can be a woman without being so … girly. But then again, as far as Ruby was concern, they were stupid anyways so whatever floated their boats.

She was different, unsurprisingly, in her dress as well. Ruby wore a black, one-piece body socks, with a lacy strip going down both sides, which covered everything but her hands, neck and head. She wore a bright, blood red choker around her neck, matching gloves on her hands. The only thing on her that someone could get a good grip on was her red leather belt but that took some real mad skills to grab that during fights. Even the instructors had trouble grabbing on to it at times.

She didn't even wear shoes, her body socks had thick souls with treads so she didn't slide around, much. Her aura helped protect her feet in combat, although the instructors at Heart never really seemed completely happy with her choice about the lack of shoes, still, they haven't pushed her very hard about making any changes to her wardroom.

Plus, her very unauthorized field trips in to the woods to hunt Grimm, has proven her fighting style, clothing and weapons were more than sufficient at keeping her alive. Although she did have a pair of black, ankle high, hiking boots for winter weather. Ruby's gear may not be 'sexy' but she wasn't interested in being 'sexy', she was only interested in protecting the innocent and slaughtering Grimm.

And Ruby was really, really sick of the catty attitude from the girls because the boys tended to pay more attention to her, which she didn't mind; most of the time. When it came to playing video games, sparing or just joking around, she was cool with it. It took years for the boys to take her serious and not treat her like a wussy little girl. So she enjoyed being just as crude and rude as any boy and laughing about it.

Boys only get annoying to her when one or more of them decide they wanted to practices … those other activities … with her. It has been years since they were taught about the birds and bees; it's been a while now since she had entered 'that wonderful time in every young girl life' and those annoying lumps grew on her chest.

Ruby has been very thankful that they never grew very big because boys really seem to like them big and she didn't need to deal with the problems huge breast can cause. Some of the girls had problems, once they reach that age, as their boobs got in the way and suddenly they needed to re-work their fighting style to compensate for their new statues. Plus, they seem to get dumber as their boobies got bigger and most of the boys paid way too much attention to those globs of fat.

And even though she never has, never plans on ever doing anything like … that … with the dorks she grew up with, for some damn reason the other girls were convince she did … quite often … and with as many dorks as possible.

Those rumors weren't nearly as amusing or as stupid, as the one where she was secretly gay. She fell over laughing when she looked up what it meant to be gay. How she could be the only girl in the school who wasn't trying to sleep with the boys, but supposedly did according to rumor, can also be gay when there weren't any girls at the school who wanted to sleep with other girls? If there were any at Heart, Ruby didn't know them, nor did she really had any desire to seek them out either.

Fucking Idiots.

Idiots was her favorite response whenever she had to deal with either one of those rumors. After all, there more important things to do, like saving people and massacring Grimm.

She didn't need these kind of hassles, she really didn't need to date any boys or prove anything to anyone about her outside the battlefield. And, again, her trips out to the woods around Vale or that small island Patch, if she could get past the ferry crew before anyone spotted her, prove she didn't need anyone to help her hunt.

So if she got into Beacon two years early, she could get away from all that immature nonsense, all that unfocused stupidly. More importantly, it would mean she could become a full-fledged huntress in four years instead of six. It means she would be one step closer to fulling filling her quest, her purpose in life.

She didn't need friends who wasted time with meaningless nonsense. Those people were idiots. She didn't need to find the 'One' and get married someday and have children, to live 'happily ever after'; she wasn't going to waste her time trying to live a lie. Her family prove that in spades, families just get killed, stupidly.

Ruby never knew her dad, at least her mom never bothered to let anyone know who she had been fucking around with when Ruby was born. And she will never know now.

Her mom got kill by those mindless, soulless pieces of shit but it happened because she lost focus, she got stupid! She had taken the three-year-old Ruby out to visit a friend at a village on the main land, while they were there Grimm attacked the village.

Ruby still could see it if she closed her eyes, how her mother's white cape flapping in the wind holding off the Grimm as someone tried to drag Ruby into the shelter. Ruby remember kicking and screaming at the person who was trying to pick her up and calling out for her mother. She could still see clearly how her mom looked back, her silver eyes shining, her expression sad, as she blew her a kiss and then …

Ruby pulled off to the side of the road, then shut her eyes tight while taking deep breathes until she calmed down enough to resume her trip.

Suck it up, Ruby Rose, you don't need anyone! She reminds herself as she pulled back out on the roadway.

She just need to get out there and save those who need help, to save the idiots of the world from themselves.

And kill every single Grimm she could find.

Once she pulled into a guest parking spot, Ruby took a moment to remove her helmet and her backpack. She had to put on her belt before she heads into the main building, which, along with her weapons, she had left in her backpack.

After removing the helmet, she ran her hand through her short naturally dark, reddish brown hair, which was more red then brown especially at the tips. Sometimes, she ran a brush through her hair after the morning shower but most of the time she let it fall naturally. She also wore no make-up or jewelry; make up was too girly for her taste and a waste of time in the morning that she could spend sleeping or training. While Ruby felt jewelry was just something else for someone to grab and rip off.

The belt was a simple red piece of leather that held six specially made belt magazines, each holding 20 rounds of .357 calibers, hollow point rounds. Ruby had couple strip rattling around in the backpack that she would load into her gauntlets before she enters the school.

There was also a couple small pack that carried her id, money and her … other … stuff. Her scroll she had built into her left gauntlet, her spare one would stay in the backpack. Before she put on the belt, she opens the pouch and remove a couple items, some of her … other … stuff, and lite up her first cigarette in days.

It was a habit she picked up when she was twelve, even after all these years, a pack of twenty would last her couple to three weeks. She only smoke when she was super stress, like today. After all, if she failed this entry exam, she would be force to return to Heart for another year. If she passed …

"Think positively, Ruby," she mumbled to herself as she took a drag and wrapped her belt around her small waist. There were no belt loops on her body sock, so the belt had to be tight and ride low on her hips but it worked.

Then she slipped on her chrome plated gauntlets, which came up about half way between her fingertips and her elbow. The barrel was actually on her wrist allowing the bullet to fly under her hand. The trigger was in the palm of her hand, it took all four fingers to squeeze the trigger and the thumb had to be extended outwards to allow the trigger to work. This prevented accidental discharge by her just making a fist or by anything hitting her palm. The dull, black, belt magazine slip around the gauntlet from underneath. A quick click and sliding the action back and then letting it slide forward, now she was ready to kick butt!

Although, she was good at hand to hand combat, it wasn't her strong suit since she always ends up hitting like a girl, and these gauntlets were not design to hit anything, just to shoot out projectiles. She could hit someone with an open palm, then shot them at the same time or use the force of the projectile leaving the barrels for a small boost to her speed but to use it directly on someone would damage the barrel, making it unusable.

Also built into each gauntlet was a foot-long blade that sat on the outside of the gauntlet. Those blades were designed to slice and cut not stab, since force of hitting a solid body was a lot more than just shooting out projectiles.

Leaning back against her bike, she let out a small cloud of smoke, enjoying a couple moments of peace before entering the building.

It was shaping up to be a really lovely day, Ruby though with a small smile, then froze with the cigarette dangling on her lips as the mistakenly sound of heels striking the cement walk way behind her reached her ears.

The stride sounded strong and confidant as it got closer, even without turning around, Ruby knew it had to be a professor. And there was only one lady who had that kind of stride here at Beacon.

"Miss Rose," Ruby turned her head and gave the lady behind her a wary smile.

"Professor Goodwitch, good morning," Ruby didn't bother trying to hid the cigarette, Professor Goodwitch was close enough to see it and probably smelled the hickory flavor smoke long before she saw it. "It is a pleasure to see you again, ma'am. How are you today?"

"I am well, thank you for asking. And yourself?"

"Just peachy actually." Ruby said grinding out the cigarette and depositing the remains in a small plastic bag for disposal later. "I'm excited about the test."

"Yes, I see." Then she looked over her glasses at the bike. "So, this is the Screaming Rose, I have heard so much about?"

"Yep! This is my baby," Ruby said, grinning as she patted the seat.

"I understand congratulations are in order as well. Your headmistress had sent word along with your application that you had been able to sell several of your patents and the design for mass production of your creation."

"Yep! It's not much and it all went into a bank account but it should be enough for me not to be a charity case here at Beacon. I will be able to pay my own way."

"You have never been nor do I foresee a time in which you will be a 'charity case', Miss Rose." Professor Goodwitch's tone went quite frosty as she looked over her glasses at Ruby. "Your time at Heart and your time here, whether it be this year, two years from now or even twenty years hence, is tuition free to honor your mother's sacrifice for not only the people of Vale but to her fellow Hunters. We do provide for our own."

"Yes, I know and I don't mean to sound ungrateful. I know how lucky I am, if I had gone to a regular orphanage, I would never had made it even this far as a Huntress. So I am really blessed but still, knowing that I have that cash in the bank, to have as a backup, for an independent person as I am, as I try to be, it really does help ease my mind. Knowing no matter what, money will not keep me from attaining my dreams."

"Yes, I do believe I understand your reasoning." Goodwitch said slowly. "It is your independent streak that gives me concern. It is good to be self-sufficient, almost required in our line of work, but you must also know how to depend on others as situations dictate."

"Oh … yeah … I am like … you know … totally good with that … um … to do that … working with others … thing. Yeah. Totally."

"Yes, I see." Goodwitch's tone was natural but Ruby was really sure Goodwitch wasn't completely fooled by her less than stellar attempt at stretching the truth. With a tilt of her head, Goodwitch directed Ruby to follow her to the buildings. Slipping on her backpack, Ruby walked quickly to keep up with the taller woman. "Your academic scores and combat skills are on par, if not above, the standard for entry into Beacon. As you have been told, if you should pass the exam today; you will receive the necessary credits to graduate from your former school and receive your diploma. If you fail to pass your exam, then you are free to return with in two years, after you have either graduated from Heart Academy or any other educational institute or in the unlikely case of failing to graduate, you will be free to re-take this particular exam. This attempt will not count against your five attempt limit in any way. Do you understand, Miss Rose?"

"Yes I do," Ruby said as she skipped ahead to hold open the door for the older lady.

"Thank you. The test today is the same test all applicants who live outside the kingdom and or have not attended one of the many affiliated preparatory Hunter school found in all four Kingdoms." Goodwitch suddenly stop and spun around to look at Ruby. "However, due to your unique circumstance, you will be judge harsher than the other applicants. We expect more from you, do you understand, Miss Rose?"

"I can handle it."

"Walk down the hallway to your left, at the first turn to your right follow that hallway till you reach the first door on your left. That is where the first written exam, which last two hours, will be held. The test begins in half hour. There will be a one hour break then on to combat assessments. After combat assessments, you will receive a 20-minute question and answer interview with a 3-member panel of Professors from Beacon which could include, but not limited to, the Headmaster himself. Lunch and dinner, if require, will be provided free of charge. And if you feel the need to engage in your … particular habit … please do so outside and away from the others. Do you have any questions, Miss Rose?"

"I have no questions, Professor Goodwitch."

"Very well then," Goodwitch gave her a sharp nod and began walking away. "If you will excuse me, I have other duties to attend to, including an apology letter to your headmistress, she was quite sure you would arrive on your bike and I had assured her a future Huntress would never knowingly break the law in such manner." Ruby let her jaw drop, knowing she was screwed now. But Goodwitch went about four steps before stopping and saying over her shoulder. "Ruby. I know Summer would be very proud of you, no matter how this day ends."

"Thank you, Gyldia. I hope so." Ruby said quietly as Goodwitch walked away.

"The next phase of the test will be combat assessment."

Ruby listen to Professor Port with a half an ear as she tightens the straps on her gauntlets. Unlike that grueling written assessment, which consisted 500 true/false, multiple choices, and essay questions that she had only finished about 376 questions before time ran out, this one should be easier.

I better do better, she thought as she looked around the indoor arena. This will be combat, something she lives for, this is what she spends the most of her time doing. And she won't be humiliated by being the last person to leave the exam room, either, the only one not to finish the stupid test. Something that several other applicants had notice, that during their break those couple morons went out of their way to point it out to her. Asking her if she was ready to run home to her mommy yet?

Only the fact that she was doing her best to prove she was mature enough to attended Beacon kept them from eating her fist.

"You will have fifteen minutes, unless you leave the ring or until your aura has drop below the acceptable limit of 15%. After you have completed your assessment, we encourage you to remain in the area until all applicants have complete their assessments. It will be a learning experience, believe me. Now, are there any questions? No? Then let's began then, first applicant will be Rose, Ruby."

Letting out a silent sigh, she left her backpack by the door before entering the arena. Her steps made no noise as she walked across the floor to her opponent.

"Wow, you are a big guy, aren't you?" She said quietly as she looked up and up and up. He had to be at least a foot and half taller than herself. Maybe two feet, even! Ruby's head barely reached above his belly button area! He had a large, very sharp looking, gold plated, two handed, single blade sword that was slightly curved at the tip.

"I am Yatsuhashi Daichi," he said in a deep voice as he bowed to her. As Ruby return the courtesy, the giant went on. "There is no dishonor, child, if you decide to wait for another two years to return. Do not let your desires, your anger, to rule your heart. Simple walk out now and know that we will all be here in two years to welcome you home with open arms."

"There is no dishonor in kicking your ass either," Ruby said backing up slowly and raising her fists. She glances over at the fat professor with the bushy, white mustache who stood under a hologram of a score board with a picture of Yatsuhashi and …

"Fracking fruitcake," Ruby swore quietly as the hopefuls in the arena let out a laugh.

Her picture was a goofball picture she took last year for her school of her sticking her tongue out to the side of her mouth and her eyes cross. When they had made her re-take the photo, she had assumed they deleted that one but it appears the headmistress had other plans.

"Ready," Professor Port said over the laughter. "Fight!"

Ruby shot off two bullets, before bouncing off to the left as he used his sword to block her shots. Using her speed, she dashed in to throw a couple punches with her left blade at his side, which probably hurt her more than it hurt him. She did a kick to the back of his knee as before rolling away to avoid his sword.

Ruby let loose another four shots from her right wrist, two high and the others low, which he was able to deflect one double tap but the low shots had one deflected but the other one hit him in the leg. Letting out a grunt, Ruby ran towards him, she let loose three bullets at random before sliding under him, kicking up but he had moved before she could connect.

Moving way faster than she though a man who was that big, he reached down between his legs and grabbed her ankle and pulled her up in the air. Tossing her up in the air, then slamming her back into the ground. Before she could react, he picked her back up and tossed her away as if she was a piece of paper. She slid to a stop only inches away from the ring out line, she brought her left wrist, and the blade up, to deflect his blade as she rolled up on him again.

This time, instead of bouncing out of his range, she jumped on his back. While holding on to his collar with her left hand, she pumped several rounds into his back. She knew his aura would offer him some protection for such close range shots but it will also bring him down to the ground for a bit. If she was lucky, his aura would drop below the safety level and this fight would be done. When he drops to his knees, she leapt off, barely avoiding his large hand reaching for her, and did a backwards flip.

Ruby click opens one of her pouches, grabbing another belt of ammo while she glances up at the scoreboard.

Wait! Who is Fox? She thought as someone kicked her right hand, it exploded in pain as she rolled away and glance up to see a black skin man, with white, milky eyes, that a pair of fighting knives welded on to his gauntlets. While hers were design more for a passive defense, his appeared to be built with attack in mind.

"Wat the fuck!" Ruby screamed out as both men charged her. She didn't have time to change out the magazines, and she wasn't sure how many rounds she still had in the gauntlets. Ruby just had to get them down long enough to make more room for her to grab another magazine from her belt.

Pouring a bit more aura into her bruised right wrist, she put on a burst of speed and rejoined the fray.

After a few lifetimes of dodging, kicking and running out of ammo, Ruby was able to get enough distance from the cutlery boys to get one gauntlet reloaded when she notices they were both hanging back, a wide space between them. They were both standing at an angle … Almost as if they … Ruby didn't finish the thought as she flung herself to the left, spinning in the air to see another fighter, who had been directly behind her.

The ridiculously dressed girl with, sunglasses even, had a very large Gatling gun in her hands.

"You have got to be kidding me!" Ruby yelled out as she grabbed both of her chakrams and flung them at the woman as she opened fire.

The first one missed while the second one made the sunglass fashion freak duck. By moving her arms in a tight circle, Ruby remotely guided the chakrams back to the woman, only to have both of them deflected by the boys. The giant hit one of them so hard it lodged its self into the wall while Fox boy sent the other spinning away.

Getting worn out but still determined to win, Ruby pulled out another goody from her pouches as she ran towards the fallen chakram. Fox was hot on her heals and sunglass girl was trying to hem her in when she threw the special bomb at the giant, where it latched on to his leg. Snatching the fallen chakram from the ground while doing a forward summersault, she touches a button on her right gauntlet, sending a painful but relatively harmless shock to the giant, possibly, hopefully, taking him out of the picture long enough to eliminate one or both of his teammates.

She actually wasn't sure how long he would be down; the stun bomb has never been tested on anyone that big before. It was hard enough to get 'test subjects' as it was and her field test proved that they really didn't work well on most Grimm.

Ruby heard him scream as she deflected a low blow from the Fox guy. She traded blows with him, trying to guiding him towards gun girl as her scroll beeped out a warning, her aura was dropping below 25%.

Touching the button again, not out of spite or a sadistic reason, but just to make sure he was still down, she heard him scream again. Ruby was about to execute a right side spin when something hit her from behind, hard enough to send her flying.

Her lower back scream in pain as she rolled up to her feet and saw …

"Awe, fuck you all!" Ruby yelled at the fourth warrior, a bunny fauna dressed not to dissimilar from herself, who was wielding a light staff and an evil glare. Lowering her body but keeping her eyes lock on the new comer, Ruby let out a haggard laugh, "You want to dance too? Fine, let's fucking dance!"

Using her last two rounds as a boost, and using what any energy she had left, Ruby rocketed over to the bunny girl. The girl's staff was only good if there was any distance between them, much like gun girl; so if Ruby had any hope of defeating these pricks she had to get in close.

The advantage of all Ruby's training was her ability to actually see where she is going when she was in super speed mode. Bunny girl made it really easy by standing in one place, although, Ruby could see her eyes go wide as the blur got closer. Lashing out with her legs, Ruby knocked the girl on her back as she spun around to face the others coming at her.

Ruby had enough time to load her last two magazines before the bunny girl came to her senses. Tossing her last chakram, Ruby dodged to the right as the bunny girl swung her long staff at her. As Ruby had guessed, the staff was far too long for as close as Ruby was to the other girl. Ruby gave her a kick, using the girl as a improve barrier to keep gun girl from shooting her. Then the bunny girl did something that totally blew Ruby away, she did something that Ruby didn't understand, bunny girl spun around and lost her light staff and swung … two light short swords!

Suddenly, Ruby was on the defensive once again. Using her gauntlets, Ruby was desperately trying to dodge, kick or do something to get away from the now overly aggressive bunny. Bullets kissing the ground behind her, Ruby risk a glance to the left of the bunny's head … that one moment of inattention cost Ruby the match.

The Bunny kicked her in the gut, zapping almost all of Ruby's remaining aura. Landing hard on her back, her scroll beeped loudly as the bunny girl, her face set in a hard, neutral stare, pin Rudy to the ground, her twin blades crossed only inches from her neck. For a long moment, both girls engaged in a stare off before the bunny girl tip her a wink and backed off from the battle.

Ruby sat up as the other girl hurried over to her teammates while the fat professor called the match. Ruby had been eliminated by the 15% rule. Ruby looked up at the score board, just in time to see it wink out but she though she saw that she had made it to less than a minute left before she would have won.