The teenage fox faunus was crying, his body full of fear and pain. He could hardly bare the abuse his foster mother subjected him to. He and his siblings were beaten constantly, but it wasn't the physical abuse that phased him. It was the psychological abuse he received every time his youngest foster sister was beaten for every tiny little slip up.

His sister was a four year old girl with green hair and a semblance that allowed her to control plants. She would never let their foster mother know, though. Her name was Minthe, though she was called Mint for short.

The boy's name wasn't known to any of the inhabitants of the house, even the foster mother. He was just trouble. Due to his knack for getting into said phenomenon and his talent with music he was granted the name Treble by the other inhabitants of the house to the point where that was what the foster mother had begun calling her. He always wore the same thing, tattered black jeans, a blue t-shirt, and an open black button up. Nobody knew anything about him except that he cared dearly for poor Mint.

He had once been so bold as to attack the foster mother to defend the poor girl, only to be impaled with a kitchen knife. Nobody knew he had survived, as he hadn't been brought to the hospital afterward. He just backed up, pulled the knife from his stomach, and walked back to his room.

The monster appointed as their foster mother, a vile beast named Ms. Patty, constantly abused the children without a second thought. Most of the other children knew that Treble was bad news, however he still had friends. The two who cared for him the most were his foster sister Emily, who was a fox faunus about his age, and his foster brother Zac, also a fox faunus his age.

One girl in the "family," a human named Claudia, vowed to become a police officer and to adopt all of the children once she had Ms. Patty arrested. One day, however, Ms. Patty had brought home a guy from the bar she went to every night. That man found Claudia irresistible and had his way with her, leaving her pregnant. On his way out of the room, however, he had a run in with Treble. Nobody had seen that man since.

Treble was Ms. Patty's favorite child to pick on due to his apparent inability to die. That wasn't at all the case. In reality he was mortal, just like all of the other children. He, however, had a semblance of cryomancy and used it to freeze over his wounds. His wounds were very grave and always left scars; even he was surprised he'd lasted this long. One day, however, the lives of all of the orphans changed forever.

Treble was tending to the back lawn like normal until he heard somebody scream the word "GRIM!" His head shot toward the front of the house as he heard a ferocious growl and a horrified shriek from Ms. Patty. Quickly, he dropped the weed whacker he'd been using and sprinted to the front yard. There Ms. Patty was backed against the wall with a beowolf creeping toward her. It raised a massive set of claws before swinging it down at the evil foster mother, who shut her eyes tight and prepared for her death.

It never came.

Instead, there was clink as though the claws had impacted something solid. Ms. Patty opened her eyes to see Treble in front of her, the beowolf's claws having struck his forearm. To her surprise, however, his arm was completely frozen over making it too hard for the beowolf to slash through. She stared at him in shock as in his right hand, his free hand, a war hammer formed. Quickly and angrily, he swung the hammer in a full circle, bringing it down onto the beowolf and flattening its bone-masked skull.

Treble, once the beowolf was killed, glared to the monster behind him. "W-why... W-why did you save me?" she asked.

"I didn't do it for you," he told her. This was the first time he'd ever spoken directly to her. "If you die, foster services will separate the lot of us. I'm not ready to lose the only people I care about. But know this." The hammer fashioned itself into a sword and he swung it toward her, stopping just before he reached her neck, provoking a scream from Ms. Patty. "If you EVER lay a hand on little Minty or poor Claudia again, I will kill you. You've brought us enough trouble as is; I don't need you to bring any more. Mint is only a little girl and thank to YOUR idiocy Claudia is five months pregnant. If you bring harm to either of them, I will kill you in the most gruesome way I can."

"Y-you're bluffing..." she stuttered. "You'll get yourself arrested... The family will be split either way."

"That's the thing about ice weapons," Treble told her. "The evidence just..." the blade turned to water in his hand and splashed to the ground "...melts away."

"Fortunately, Ms. Patty won't be here to harm the children," a stoic voice said nearby them. Treble glared to the side to see a man with white hair and small, circular glasses approaching them. This was Professor Ozpin, headmaster of Beacon Academy for Huntsman and Huntresses. "Ms. Patty, I regret to inform you that you are under arrest for numerous charges of child cruelty, battery, and attempted murder." Two police officers walked past Ozpin and apprehended Ms. Patty. Ozpin then turned his attention back to Treble. "As for you foster siblings, they will not leave this location. I have a person in mind who will take excellent care of them. You, however, have the opportunity to. I saw how skillfully you handled that beowolf." He looked to the quickly decaying corpse of the beast. "I would like to offer you a position at my academy."

Treble's eyes widened. Ms. Patty had been arrested AND he was being offered a chance to attend Beacon, one of Remnant's most prestigious academies? This was all coming so fast. "I… I accept your offer!" he smiled. "B-but I need time to make sure this replacement is worthy of watching my family. You understand that, don't you?"

Ozpin nodded with acceptance. "You have two weeks until the school year starts; you'll have plenty of time to get to know Mister Rose." He then pulled a scroll from his coat and expanded it. "What is your name, young man?"

The boy looked behind him, seeing Mint staring out at him in the doorway. He then looked back to Ozpin and told him "Just put down Treble, 'cause I'm nothing but."

Fun Facts:

-Treble is indirectly based off of Sub-Zero from the Mortal Kombat series. He was originally a character developed for a supernatural furry rp with most of the characters in this chapter being present in it. His power was based off of my obsession with Cryomancy inspired by Sub-Zero.

-Treble's real name, "Flesk Heiral" (which isn't mentioned in this prologue) is influenced by my own name and the name of a character from my second favorite Final Fantasy game, the game being Tactics and the character being Delita Heiral.

-Mister Rose is not Summer's husband, but her brother Qrow.

-Treble's appearance is based off of my standard public outfit.

-I don't own RWBY or Sub-Zero.