A/N: Here is my first multichapter RWBY story. Fair warn that it does get pretty dark at times. This will not be OC centric so although it starts with an OC in the first part of this chapter the primary character is going to be Ruby. Hope you enjoy.

Admirer

The day had started out just like any other day. He had gotten out of bed early after lamenting on his past. He gotten cleaned up and gotten something to eat in his small apartment. He went out looking for a job which was difficult for someone his age as it was. As always no one accepted him and he followed his schedule to go to his therapist. After his talk he headed to the bank, the one advantage an orphan like him had was that he was left money by his family. It wasn't much but he had been able to live off it for the last four years. After he entered the bank his scheduled day took an unscheduled change.

The doors burst open and several Faunus wearing white battle armor and metal mask came running in with weapons drawn yelling orders for everyone to get on the ground and not to move. None of the civilians, himself among them, dared to disobey them. Several of them took position around the hostages, while others went over to the tellers. He risked lifting his head up a little to get a better look at the robbers. They were both men and women amongst the group of various builds. Their weapons varied just as much. He noticed the symbol on their backs, a red beowolf head with a red claw mark through it. White Fang. He had heard of the group, seen them on the news but he never seen them in person.

"I said heads down!" One of them yelled and he quickly replied. The Faunus that had gone to the tellers returned to the rest of the group with bags of money. "Is that all of it?"

"It's all going to go back where it belongs." A young girl's voice called out from the bank's entrance. Everyone's attention turned to the would-be hero only to see four young girls. One had blonde hair and had gauntlets around her forearms. Another had black hair and a chain scythe. There was one with white hair and had a rapier. The last one, who stood just a little further in front of the others, had black and red hair wearing a red hood and held a red rifle. He lifted his head to get a better look at them. The girl in the red hood spoke formerly. "And you are all going to jail."

"Don't you kids ever give up?" One of the women Faunus yelled clearly annoyed. "Why can't you stay out of our plans?"

"And let you destroy the city and give Faunus a bad name." The girl with black hair said with a clear hint of anger in her voice.

"You call yourself a Faunus, but you nothing more than a treacherous who-"

"Enough of this." The man from earlier said as he lifted his gun and fired at the girls. The four of them scattered and soon each were taking on a number of robbers. The blonde got in close to her targets and began to punch them rapidly with each contact a dust round went off causing the Faunus to fall back before she delivered knock-out punches to each of them.

The Faunus of the girls ran towards a set of robbers while fling her weapons out like a whip, when she got in close she started hit them with the blades. He could have sworn that there were times that there was two of her. Eventually the criminals she fought were down and out.

The girl with the rapier's approach was to attack from all sides. Every time she moved a glyph would form underneath her and she would slide across the room like she was on ice keeping her sword out to the side cutting the perpetrators. She kept this up until the last robber collapsed.

He watched as the red hooded girl ran towards her set her rifle morphing into a large scythe and spun it around with such elegancy and grace that he was mesmerized by her movements. She would bring the blade of the scythe behind one robber before firing off a round bring the weapon back towards her tripping the criminal before continuing her dance around the others. Eventually her set of robbers downed. The four girls look around admiring their handy work with smiles. Suddenly he was lifted up from the ground and a knife pressed against his throat.

"Enough!" The man holding him yelled drawing the attention of the girls. "Drop your weapons or this kid's blood will be all over the floor." The four seem to hesitate but one by one the put them down. The blonde retracted her gauntlets and pulled them off her arms. The white dressed human and dual wielding Faunus dropped their weapons. But the hooded girl did not put her scythe down.

"Didn't you hear me?" The man asked loudly. "I said put the weapon down."

"Ruby," The blonde spoke up, "I think you should do as he says." The dual-haired girl look back at her and sighed in defeat as she dropped her stand and began to loosen her grip on the scythe. He felt the man's knife press harder against his throat. He realized that the Faunus was going to kill him anyway and probably jump to another hostage.

Just as the hood girl's weapon began to fall, she and the weapon both became blurs as the girl came at them at an astounding speed. The move had surprised the would-be robber as his grip around him loosened and the knife pulled away from his throat. The girl became more focused to his eyes as she neared them her scythe morphing back into a gun and the butt of the rifle slammed into the Faunus' face letting go of him and sending the robber flying into the wall.

"Are you alright?" Ruby asked him. He was to in shock to answer her. She shook him and asked again.

"Ye- Yes, I'm okay." He said looking into her silver eyes that he couldn't help but admire their beauty.

"Ruby!" The girl wearing a white dress yelled as she walked up to them. "What were you thinking? You could have gotten him killed."

"I had to do something, Weiss." Ruby defended herself. "Once he got away there would be no reason for to let his hostage live." Weiss looked like she was about to protest.

"Let it go, Weiss." The Faunus girl said.

"But Blake-" The white haired girl started to say.

"Let's just call the police and get these guys arrested." Blake said nonchalantly.

"Alright everyone you can get up now." The blonde told the former hostages. "No thanks are necessary. But they would be appreciated."

"Yang!" Ruby scolded the taller girl who just smiled back. The rest of what happened was mostly a blur to him the police had come and arrested the White Fang members. They took statements from all the civilians before they started to talk to the girls. He vaguely had been paying attention as he fiddled with something in his hand. It was when the Detective was dismissing the girls that he began focus on them again, one person in particular.

"Yang Xiao Long, Blake Belladonna, Weiss Schnee, Ruby Rose." He nodded to each of them. "Once again I thank you for your… good samaritan work. But next time please call the police first." The girls gave apologetic smile before saying their goodbyes. His eyes followed the red hood girl before she left.

"Ruby Rose." He said to himself as he looked down at the red rose petal in his hand. "Such a beautiful name." He began to think of his destiny.

One month later

"-and I expect your essays to be on my desk next week." Professor Port said as Ruby was a nudged awake. The bell had clearing rang as all the students were getting up and almost rushing to the exit as they normally did for the story telling Professor. She quickly gathered her things and followed her friends out of class.

"What did I miss?" Ruby asked with a yawn once she caught up.

"Not much." Weiss answered her. "Blah blah this blah blah that, three paged essay on Ursa, what there like and how you fight them."

"Sounds fun." She said dully. "So are we planning another night of crime fighting team?" Ruby started flinging her arms around kung fu style practicing against an imaginary opponent.

"Sorry, Ruby." Blake said. "I have plans tonight."

"Whoo! You and Sun going for a night on the town." Yang said playfully which Blake returned with a glare.

"Neptune asked me out tonight so I'm no good." Weiss said. Ruby saw the smile on the heiress face showed that she was looking forward to the tonight. She really didn't want to rain on Weiss and Blake's parade.

"How about you Yang?" Ruby asked her sister hoping that she wouldn't be stuck a night by herself. But her hopes were dashed.

"Sorry, Ruby." The blonde averted her gaze while scratching the back of her head. "There is someone I meeting up with tonight."

"Oh." Blake perked up. Ruby could see the teasing gaze in the Faunus' eyes. "Do you have a secret boyfriend that we don't know about?"

"No." Yang said calmly wiping the smirk of Blake's face. "Just someone that has been helping me out with something." They continued their walk through the campus talking about things happening in their daily life until they got close to their dorm homes. Ruby saw a smile that she didn't like cross Weiss' face.

"Oh, Ruby." Weiss practically sang. "I think someone left something for you."

"What?" She looked at the door to their room and saw, to her dread, a bunch of roses and a letter. "Really? Another one."

"I think it's sweet." Her white haired partner said.

"I think it's adorable." Her sister said as she wrapped her arm around Ruby's head. "My little sister has a secret admirer."

"Guys!" Ruby complained. "This is already embarrassing. You know that I don't want to be in a relationship."

"The guy is putting a lot of effort into it." Blake stated. "This is the twelve time in the last month."

"I know." The hooded girl said. "I really don't want to break the guy's heart. But I'm really not interested."

"Your hopeless, sis." Yang said with a sighed as they reached their room. Ruby picked up the gifts before entering the room and set the flowers on a table.

"So… what does it say?" Weiss asked. Ruby sighed in defeat knowing if she didn't read the letter that they would find out on their own. As always her name was written on the front in shiny red ink. She opened the heart shaped letter to read the little red written poem.

"Oh my fair, Rose." Ruby started almost without reading the first line. "How you continue to blossom as time goes on. Never wilting. Never losing your lovely red color. Your stem always strong against the strongest of winds. Oh how I wish to be close to you. But the time is not right. I will leave a wondrous gift for you soon as a sign of my devotion." She reached the end of the poem to the signature of the letter which was her symbol but instead of being red it was black. She put the letter away with the others; she thought it would be cruel to throw them away.

"Whoo! He's going to give you something more than roses." Weiss said with some excitement. "How romantic." Once again Ruby felt a sigh escape her lips. It was sweet and all but all this lovey dovey stuff just wasn't her.

It was night and her sister and friends had all left on their dates leaving her to her to own devices. She was lying on top of her buck looking over her notes on Ursa while writing her essay for Port. She should have paid more attention in class. She only had half a page down so far. She at least had Zwei to keep her company as he slept on the edge of her bed. She began to wonder how everyone was doing when a knock at the door interrupted her musing. When she answered it she found Professor Goodwitch on the other side.

"Ms. Rose." The older woman addressed the young girl in her formal tone. "Professor Ozpin has requested you team's presences at the helipad." Ruby saw the older woman's eyes wash over the room. "Do your teammates keep their scrolls on them?"

When Ruby nodded the Professor instructed her to contact them and get to the designated location immediately. By the time she made it to the helipad her team was already there and a Bullhead waiting for them. Sun and Neptune her there as well but she saw Ozpin dismiss them. They waved to her as they left as she kindly waved back.

"Sorry I'm late, Mr. Ozpin." Ruby said as she finally reached the group.

"It's alright, Ruby." He reassured her. "This wasn't planned."

"What's this about, Professor?" Weiss asked. Despite her calm tone Ruby could tell that the girl was somewhat annoyed that her date had been cut short.

"I'll explain on the way." The Professor stated as he moved towards their transport. A few minutes after takeoff he started to inform them of the situation. "An hour ago I received a call from the Vale police requesting your team's presence at a crime scene."

"The police have requested 'our' presence." Yang said with a little laugh. Her humor came to a swift end when Ozpin sent her a not to pleasing stare.

"The lead detective is someone you are familiar with. Mr. Pyrrhus who has presided over many of your… run ins with the White Fang." This earned a little snicker from the group which despite Ozpin's earlier seriousness he seemed to let this go with a smile. However Ruby saw the smile quickly return to a serious expression. "He has informed me of a serious crime that may have a connection to your team."

"We've fought the White Fang several times." Blake stated. "What's changed?"

"I was told to tell you very little of the case. Only that your presence was demanded." He then turned his gaze on to the youngest member the team. "Especially yours, Ruby."

"Why my sister?" Yang asked before Ruby could.

"I'm not entirely sure. I must warn you all before we get there. This will not be a pleasant experience." Several minutes later the Bullhead landed opening the doors reveal a heavy amount of police activity in front of a small warehouse. Ruby saw that a number of officers were keeping civilians and reporters from entering the crime scene. Ozpin led them towards the entrance only to stop when two cops came out carrying something. What it was made Ruby's blood run cold. A body bag that clearly had someone in it. She watched as they carried the deceased to a truck that already had several body bags in it.

"Ruby, come on." She nearly jumped at his sister's touch. Ruby looked into Yang's concerned violet eyes. She saw that the others had already entered the warehouse. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah." The hooded girl said shakenly. She tried again with a more confident voice. "Yeah, I'm fine."

As soon as they entered the red hooded girl wished she had just stayed outside. There were blood stains everywhere and bodies of White Fang members were still sprawled across the floor. She couldn't stop herself from vomiting all over the floor. Yang was at her side in an instant rubbing her back and asking if she okay. Once Runy assured her sister that she was fine they continued on to the others. Ruby noticed that as they walked that the investigators had to have just been finishing up as various boxes filled with evidence were being carried out.

The only evidence that seemed left out in the open was large pieces of equipment that couldn't be lifted by people. The odd thing about the heavy equipment was that they appeared be in places far from where they would have originally have been. Once they finally reached their teammates and Headmaster, Ruby saw that she hadn't been the only one to lose their lunch. And by the look on her face it had been Weiss. With them was Detective Pyrrhus, a modestly built man of mild height with green eyes and red hair, with a single box of evidence on a table in front of them.

"Ms. Rose, Ms. Xiao Long." The Detective greeted them. He then turned to the Headmaster. "I don't recall requiring you presence, Professor Ozpin."

"Given this grim matter," he stated as he looked around, "and the age of my students I believe that I should be present as a guardian." The Detective seemed to agree to this with nod.

"Seven hours ago there were reports of gunfire at this warehouse." Pyrrhus started to address Ruby's team. "When officers arrived on the scene they said they came upon 'an aftermath of a warzone'. As you've seen many people were killed and there were no survivors. The floor was littered with various objects as if someone was just grapping everything in sight and throwing them around. We suspect that multiple assailants were involved however the coroners have all said that anyone that wasn't killed by a blunt forced object was killed by a single bladed weapon."

Ruby looked at her friends to see that they were trying to process the information that was being given to him. All of this carnage could have been done by a single person. But how could something like that even be possible. And why would they do all of this.

"Due to your involvement with the White Fang I must ask you all where you were seven hours ago?" The Detective asked.

"They were in class I can assure." Ozpin spoke up. Pyrrhus seemed to accept his answer with a nod. "Surely you didn't call my students to all of this just to ask if they had any involvement in this senseless bloodshed."

"Team RWBY has been involved in many conflicts with the White Fang." He defended himself. "I have to follow any leads I come across even if I have serious doubts about them. But that is not why I called them here." The red haired man pulled out a small set of latex cloves and handed them to Ruby. The hooded girl couldn't help herself but look up at him in confusion. "There is a reason I asked for you in particular, Ms. Rose"

As she put them on Pyrrhus put on his own pair before going to the evidence box at the table. He pulled out a small bag with a single item in it. What she saw shocked her, a heart shaped letter with her name written in red ink. He green eyed man handed it over to her. She hesitantly opened it to read what was inside.

Oh my fair, Rose. She read the first red inked line almost automatically. How I wish to see you blossoming smile. My gift so grand for such a small beautiful flower. To rid you of such traitorous weeds that mean you harm. Oh, how I look forward to your continuing blossoming as I give you further gifts. And how I can wait for us our destined union. As always there was her symbol in black at the bottom. If Ruby handn't vomited earlier she would be now. Her stomach was twisting into knots.

"This was found in the fold of the letter." The Detective interrupted her thoughts. She looked up to see him holding a plastic cylinder container with a black rose in it. Her thoughts went to all the gifts she had been receiving for the past month. They didn't seem so sweet and innocent anymore.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed. Sorry if the fight sequence seemed to quick, I just didn't want to focus on it too much for this chapter. For an example of a RWBY fight from me go read my A Hard Lesson Learned one-shot and tell me if I need improvement for when I get to fights in this story. As I said before this will get dark, I'll give fair warning when I get to the darkest moment of the story. As always constructive feedback is appreciated.