Hello everyone, this will be my very first RWBY fanfic but with a different twist. This won't be your typical AU fanfic because while canon characters will appear, dozens of OCs will also be another element, as well as my own twist in Aura and Semblances including the Grimm. Most of all, there will be some very huge changes to the canon characters we all know and love, especially Ruby.

I hope for some great constructive criticism once I publish the first chapter :)

It was a relatively normal day in the world of Remnant. The four kingdoms governing their people, the citizens of said kingdoms enjoying their days, and huntsmen and huntresses defending them from the creatures of Grimm.

One girl in particular was about to have one that would change her life for the better.

It was morning in Patch and the island itself was tranquil like it usually is.

Her silver eyes were opening as she wakes up in the morning to start her day.

Ruby Rose was a fifteen year old girl, as she has black neck-length choppy hair with dark red tips, silver eyes and a pale white complexion. She has a petite build with soft feminine features, but has perky C-cup breasts and is completely fit, especially her arms and legs.

"It's just like any other day as usual." Ruby thought to herself simply, as she rose from her bed, but as she did pecking sounds were heard at her windows.

Curious, she turns to the source of the sounds and opens both windows, only to discover a crow as it stared at her intently.

The girl stares at it for moment before it flies away.

The crimsonette lets out a measured sigh as she began her day, she leaves her room and walks into the bathroom as she takes off her pajamas and steps into the shower.

Ruby stared at the floor as all the water coming from the shower went down the drain, before staring at her own hand.

"What am I even thinking about?" She closes her hand as it curled into a fist "It's not like today's going to be any different."

She turns off the shower and wraps a towel around her body before heading back to her room.

In her room, Ruby wears the Signal Academy school uniform which consisted of a light brown blazer over a white dress shirt with a red ribbon, the same colored skirt with black stockings that reached her knees and basic brown school shoes. She also opted to wear a red overcoat due to the prediction of a cold windy day.

Ruby goes downstairs and into the kitchen where she finds a note on the refrigerator.

"Ruby, I left for Signal early this morning along with Yang due to an urgent call from one of her teachers, be sure to lock the house as soon as you leave and don't forget the eat the breakfast I left for you at the table. Love, Dad" She reads the note before taking notice at the plate of food at the table.

"I might as well do the chores myself later after school" She mused as she took a seat and began to eat her breakfast

After finishing her meal, she washes the plate at the kitchen sink, made some toast for an extra meal, and leaves the house after locking it's doors.

She looks up at the sky as she makes her way to the school.

Ruby

Hello everyone, my name is Ruby Rose and I'm not exactly what you call a 'normal' girl.

Granted that the world I'm living in had a lot of crazy things to offer, but that's not what I'm focusing on at the moment.

I walk into class and I could feel everyone staring at me for a while before they went back to talking, like I was never there in the first place.

"Hello Ms. Rose, I hope your late presence doesn't affect your work" A teacher asked me

"No sir, I was just preparing by myself due to my father and sister's early absence" Was my simple answer

"I see, now head to your seat, classes are about to begin any minute now" He told me as I responded by heading to my seat which is at the back right corner of the classroom.

As soon as the teacher began his topic, I simply stared out the window and thought "Just another day at Signal Academy"

I know what you're thinking, 'Doesn't Signal have dorms for it's students?'.

The answer to that, I don't really bother to live in the dormitories with the other students because I'm a bit reclusive.

Well, maybe not a little bit, but I don't really socialize with the other students.

Why?

You'll find out later as I go on about my life.

Multiple classes had passed by, but I felt like time only passed by thirty minutes straight.

"Alright class, hand in your essays" A female voice said, snapping me back into reality.

I notice all the other students search their bags for their homework with some to no avail.

Sighing, I pull out my book bag where I pull out sheets of paper as I stood up and headed towards the teacher's desk.

"Here are my essays, ma'am" I bowed politely as I handed them over..

"Well done, Ms. Rose" She praised as she handed me some papers "With that, here are your test results from yesterday's long quiz"

I read that my grade was an 'A+'.

"As expected from a top student such as yourself" She laced her hands together "After all, you are always at the top of your peers with your overall grades"

Her comment made me feel some sympathy towards the other students, since I know some of them must've worked hard to get their grades up, while I get the highest amount of grades in every subject, without any difficulty.

I can feel some of their envy pointed directly at me.

Shaking my head, I went back to my seat and remained there until classes were dismissed.

I head into the cafeteria where I sit in a table that's far away from all the other students.

I ignore what's happening around me as I pulled out a bag that contained my own lunch. Unlike the others, I pack and prepare my own lunch and snacks.

Besides, it's not like I didn't want to interact with them, it's because ...

I overhear some of their thoughts on me as I sat all by myself.

"Looks like Rose is all by herself again"

"Probably doesn't think she's one of us since she's on top"

"I think she has some issues there"

"You think?"

... it was because they look at me like I have some sort of mental problem.

I clenched my hands into fists as some of their words were highly condescending and were purposefully doing that so they could get on my nerves.

This was why I stayed on my own for most of the time.

Ever since I was a child, people praised my ability to learn things extremely quick, which is one of reasons why I was at the top of my class, and I gained that ability through reading lots of books, starting at the age of five.

At the age were-

I shake my head before morbid thoughts would enter them.

It was all in the past, I plan on studying hard so I could get into Beacon which is what my sister is doing since she is two years older.

So I can keep the promise I made to him.

A promise I made for both of us.

Just before my mind would drift even further, a voice called out to me and said "Hey Ruby, you there?"

I was snapped out of my thoughts as I saw the person that called out to me.

He had sandy blonde hair, green eyes, fair skin and was wearing the Signal Academy's male school uniform.

His name is Luke Knight.

Believe it or not, besides the teachers and the staff. He's pretty much the only friend I have in the entire academy.

The problem with him though, is that he flirts too much with the majority of the female students.

When I started my early years at Signal, we met by coincidence which led to him flirting with me as well and then asking me out.

But unlike the other girls that shot him down, I accepted his offer just to cut the poor guy some slack.

Throughout this hang out, he has done lots of things to try and give me a good time. Such as doing lots of things to convince my dad into letting him go out with me, to which I come to his rescue by reassuring him that I would be fine and that he wouldn't do anything to me.

Since it came from his own daughter, he reluctantly accepted but not without letting him leave without a warning, to which he responded by nervously nodding his head.

He had a method of getting me to change my opinion of him by telling me all about himself and what he did in his personal life, and to my surprise, it worked.

It turns out that underneath his flirty nature, he was a hardworking boy doing his best to help out his family since they were struggling financially and he thought training to be huntsman would help him to give his family all the lien they needed.

Obviously, his weapons and equipment were akin to a knight's sword and armor.

When he asked me on what my personal life was, I only left him answers that were vague at best, as well as his questions regarding why I never smiled throughout our hang out.

Although, the more I got to know him, the more I realize that how humble and kindhearted he truly is.

Eventually, as he was about to walk me back to my home, I decided to tell him all about my personal life since I believed that he was trustworthy enough to know what he needed to know about me.

I told him that certain incidents in my childhood changed how I viewed Remnant by itself and how said incidents affected me, what I had to go through as a child, and how it never stopped me from fulfilling my promise to him.

He was shocked on what I had revealed to him and apologized repeatedly for asking those kinds of questions earlier.

I assured him that he simply didn't know and that he had nothing to apologize for.

At that point, we agreed to be friends but he would still flirt with me, just not to the degree of the other girls.

After thinking back on past events, I responded with a simple "Yes?"

"Look, remember how your sister is about to sign up for Beacon Academy" Luke informed me, and I couldn't help but notice his grim expression as he said it.

"Yes, what about her?" I had to know the reason behind his current expression.

"Look" He passed me his scroll as I picked it up, my eyes went wide with shock as soon as I read it's contents.

"S-She's at the hospital!?" I mentally questioned "B-But how?"

"Yang?" Was the only thing that came out of my mouth "I-It can't be, is she-"

"She's fine, but she's not becoming a huntress anytime soon" I can tell he feels the same, knowing the condition of his family.

Suddenly, I stood up and started to pack my empty lunch box and snack bag as I prepared to leave the cafeteria, but Luke stops me before I could leave.

"What!?" I snapped at him

"Your dad is there so don't anything to worry about, plus you have your uncle in this school as a teacher, right?" He tried to reassure me "Besides, leaving now would get you into trouble if you're on your own"

I gritted my teeth but complied.

I spent the rest of my day, worrying over Yang's safety and at the same time increasing my grades at each subject.

After school ended, I quickly made my way to the house where I would prepare myself and head to Vale since that was where the accident took place.

Ruby was in an airship, making it's way to Vale.

She was wearing a black sweater over a white dress shirt, black and white plaid skirt with thigh high black stockings and regular brown shoes. She was carrying some bags that contained things Yang needed since her father contacted her scroll while she was purchasing tickets for an airship.

"Yang, please be okay" The girl thought worriedly

The ride didn't take long, much to her relief. She quickly makes her way to the hospital where her father was waiting.

"Dad!" Ruby called out, running towards him

"Ruby!" Taiyang called out in response, before catching her and pulling her into a hug

"Is she going to be okay?" She asked quietly

"She's fine" Her father was quick to reassure her "Thanks to her aura, the injuries aren't anything serious but the doctors are still running a few tests with her"

The crimsonette merely nodded in response

"Ruby, I need you to do something for me, okay?" The blond asked

"What is it?" Ruby waited for what he said next

"I need you to go into town and pick up a few things for Yang" Taiyang requested "Okay?"

"Okay" She took the paper in her hands and quickly left

One of the items on her list was medicinal dust, so she went to dust shop named Dust 4 Dawn.

Unfortunately, this was where a robbery would take place.

"Alright boys, grab the dust" An orange haired man with a bowler hat commanded his henchmen.

This happened while Ruby was checking for the said item on her list.

"A robbery" She narrowed her eyes, observing the men stealing the dust "I can't let them steal the dust"

She was hiding behind one of the shelves where henchmen weren't looking.

"I might as well as use my aura to disarm them" Her body is suddenly covered with a white glow before walking casually out of the shelf "Here goes nothing"

Ruby walks up to one of them from behind before she swiftly knocks him out by applying tons of aura on her hand as she used it to apply pressure on his neck.

She sneaks around each men and knocks them out with every chop.

The orange haired man from earlier noticed that his henchmen were all on the ground, knocked out.

"What the?" He stares in disbelief, never noticing that Ruby is secretly observing his every move.

"As long as I have my aura active, he'll never notice my presence" She had used her aura to conceal herself, therefore allowing her to sneak around the shop unnoticed "I just need to-"

"Roman, come in" A female voice called in one of his pockets "Are you handling this job, like a good thief?"

"Tch" The now named Roman spat as he picked up his scroll "It's fine, I was just leaving"

He picked up the cases of dust the henchmen had already filled, and quickly fled the store.

"Sir, I'll handle things from here" Ruby called out to the Shoekeeper before exiting the store as well.

Knowing her aura was not useful in this situation, she quickly disables it and made her move.

She spots him climbing up a ladder in a near building where he would be picked up in a helicopter at the building's rooftop

"I expect you to do next job without any problems" The woman from the man's scroll earlier said from the helicopter

"Don't tell me how to do my job" Roman muttered as he stepped inside, still not noticing the girl from behind

"Now!" She converts her aura as it took the form of the standard bow and arrow, with the arrow colored red.

Ruby fires the aura formed arrow at the helicopter causing some damage.

"What the!?" Roman notices a teenage girl doing a standard arching stance as she fired another aura arrow, now color orange, at the helicopter again causing more damage.

"So she's the brat that took out those useless thugs" He thought to himself as Ruby prepares to fire another aura arrow, colored red again.

"Take the wheels" The woman from earlier takes Roman's place as the latter takes the wheels "Keep it steady"

Ruby fires the arrow again, but the mysterious woman intercepts it with her flames.

Noticing that the arrow had been deflected, she jumps to the side to avoid getting scorched by the woman's flames.

Before she would form another aura arrow, the sound of a storms and flames colliding causes her focus to shift onto a woman with a riding crop.

The woman was middle aged as she has light-blonde hair tied back in a bun with a curl hanging down the right side of her face, bright green eyes and a pale white complexion. She had quite the physique as she was well-endowed and clearly fit.

She was wearing a white long-sleeved, pleated top that has a wide keyhole neckline and gauntlet cuffs that flare in pleats at the wrist, a black high-waisted pencil skirt with bronze buttons and black-brown stockings and wears black boots with bronze heels. She also wears a cape that is purple inside and black on the outside. The woman seemed to carry a riding crop with her.

She watches the spectacle of dust manipulation against a powerful semblance, at least she considers the woman's flames one, with an awed expression.

Suddenly, the sound of thunder quickly snaps her out of her awe, as she tried to assist the woman that helped by forming three aura arrows at once, all of them colored red, as she fired them causing even more damage to the helicopter.

"Damn it!" Roman cursed trying to keep the aircraft under control "We're moving out!"

The woman heard this, and slowly retreated back into the helicopter as it flew away

Ruby could only watch with a disappointed expression, as the thief as well as the woman had escaped.

"Ruby Rose" She turns around to notice the blonde woman looking at her with an unreadable expression "There is someone that would like to speak with you, in private"

The girl could only give a tired sigh in response.

Ruby was sitting in a chair near a table, as the woman stared at her in complete silence with a stern gaze, until a man walked into the room with a scroll in his hand.

The man was a middle-aged as he has tousled silver hair, thin brown eyes and a pale white complexion. He has a normal physique that fitted his age.

His attire consisted of of an unzipped black suit over a dark green, buttoned vest and green shirt, long dark-green pants and black trouser shoes. He was wearing shaded glass spectacles and a small, purple, cross-shaped pin on the cowl around his neck.

"Ruby Rose" Those were the first words the man said scrutinizing her intently "You ... have silver eyes"

The girl shifted in her seat, clearly uncomfortable with the man observing her closely.

"I apologize for your discomfort" The man said noticing the girl's mannerisms "But I cannot help but notice that your actions in the dust store is quite the remarkable feat"

"What do you mean?" She finally spoke up

In response, the man took out his scroll and showed her the footage of what she did with her aura inside the dust shop before switching to the footage where she fired her aura arrows at the aircraft.

"Oh?" She wan tensing on what the man has to say

"I assure you Miss Rose, I am not here to punish you for your actions, but rather commend you for taking down a group of criminals, completely undetected" The man scrutinized the crimsonette even more.

"Oh that" Ruby said as she looked at the man closely for a few seconds before her eyes widen in surprise.

"Do you know who I am?" The man asked, clearly amused by the girl's reaction

"Y-You're Professor Ozpin ..." She trailed off for a few seconds "... The Headmaster of Beacon"

"Indeed I am" The man, Ozpin smiled slightly "Tell me, where did you learn such control over your aura?"

"M-my aura?" The girl stammered slightly

"It is quite the rare occurrence for someone so young to have such an advanced control over their aura" Ozpin stated

"Well, I've read a lot of books about aura since I was little" Ruby explained her stammering disappearing gradually "Oh, and I've even studied old information and mixed it with the ones today."

"Interesting." The silver haired man mused as he took a sip from his coffee "I've heard from a dusty old crow that you attend Signal Academy, now what is an adorable girl such as yourself doing studying in such a profession."

"I ... I want to be huntress." Ruby gathered some confidence "I want to protect people, but not just that, I want to protect the ones that can't protect themselves from the Grimm."

"Most of all, I want to protect them so they won't die from not just the Grimm, but from the dangers this world has to offer." She finished resolutely "And to keep a promise."

Ozpin and the woman were silent for a minute before the former spoke up "You have the goal, Miss Rose"

"A friend has shown me your records at Signal Academy, and they are quite remarkable as well." He revealed "With that, I would like to make an offer for you."

Ruby gulped but nodded.

"Would you like to come to my school?" Ozpin offered

"Wait what!?" The girl's mind paused "Now?!"

She looked at the headmaster's expression and saw that it was completely serious, but at the same time he was giving her time to make her decision

"At least, he's giving me a choice." Ruby breathed

Her mouth opened to speak.

To be continued ...

Well, this is where I'm going to stop for now. Please be gentle in your reviews because this is my first RWBY fanfic, I need all the motivation and support to keep this story going for a bit. Before you start reviewing right away, I'll remind you that this an AU fanfic so things will be different and that also includes the canon characters' personalities due to events that I will explain later on.

If you want an explanation to how I altered the first events in the first chapter in the first volume of RWBY, then I suggest you find out for yourselves by reading the scenes very closely. Thank you so much!

Once again, I need some reviews or some criticism to keep this story going!

I'll see you all next time ;)

Next Chapter: The Invitation (Part 1)