Chapter 1

Sapphire removes his blade from the vanishing Grimm; he looks up into the sky and pushes away his barely blue tipped hair. "It's been five years since I ran away from home". He spins his scimitar and sheathed it on his back next to the matching one. His surroundings are desolate. Only Grimm and ravaged buildings surround him. A glow from a building signals a Death Stalker. Sapphire yawns and pulls out both of his scimitars, they both glow blue as he combines them together to make a rifle. The Grimm lurches out of the building and launches its stinger at Sapphire. Sapphire smirks and shoots the stinger. The stinger falls off with the clean shot; Sapphire finishes off the Death Stalker with two shots. He sheathes his scimitars and looks at a sign that reads "Beacon Academy 10 miles." He puts his hood over his hair and lowers an attached mask onto his face. "I hope you're ready sister, I've been training for five years for this moment. Ever since they day she died and I was cursed, it's time I stopped running." He starts to get emotional. "For your sake I hope you win, Ruby rose my beloved twin."

Five Years Ago

Sapphire Rose, a male twin, wakes up on a foggy morning. He yawns and stretches. He is 10 years old and has two sisters, Yang Xiao Long and Ruby Rose. He walks to his door and puts on his shoes looking at his mirror; he has gold eyes and short black hair like Ruby Rose. He opens his door, going towards his open house is simple and he adores his mother and father very much. The tips of blue hair cover his eyes, he brushes them away and as he does he hears his mother scream from outside. He opens the door to the freezing cold, not caring about being in black and blue shorts. In the fog he sprints towards the sound, violently ripping a stick from a tree, he uses the force to swing up into the tree. After 5 minutes of dashing from tree to tree, he sees two figures, one on the ground and another standing victoriously. Without care for his own safety, he hurtles from the tree towards the figures, only to be thrown painfully backwards into the tree. The dominant figure stands over his limp mother and with a flick of her hand, decapitates her. Sapphire falls to the ground, knowing he failed his mother, as the figure carelessly throws his mother's head into the forest. "Well what do we have here, a witness" the figure joyfully says.

Sapphire struggles to get up, he keeps seeing his mother's body and falling to the ground. The figure chuckles "C'mon now get up, your mother was weak she went unconscious when I threw her. You however survived; you must be a warrior huh? Coming to save your mother with a STICK" The figure attempts to kick him down with a heel of their shoe, Sapphire rolls away from the hit. "Little boy, are you ready to fight me? With that stick, I'm sure you will be able to do something." The figure moves her legs closer together and waves her hand launching sapphire into another tree. "Little boy just give up a stick won't do anything!" Sapphire breaks the stick in half and screams, his eyes glow and minerals from the earth surround the two sticks making dual blades. The figure smiles "I knew you had something else in you, that's not your semblance you are a weapon maker, created by the one who governs this world to be a shield to the warrior of silver eyes. If you can hit me I will leave however if you can't, I will curse you to kill your sister." Sapphire panting from using almost all of his energy already. His eyes shine as he rushes towards her swiping his blades rapidly; she laughs and throws him backwards with a kick. He falls to the ground and she throws him again, sending him through two trees.

"Poor boy, I should have killed you, where is the fun in that, however?" She walks over to him and puts her hand on his body and starts the curse. "Starting in 15 minutes if you stay near Ruby rose you will be compelled to kill her, and if you fail you will become a girl, if you kill her you can remain a man with the knowledge you killed your kind twin sister." The figure gives him a drink which wakes him up. "You have 15 minutes to run away or you will try to kill your sister." The woman walks off into the forest, laughing. Sapphire rushes back into his house, grabbing his black pants and hoodie, he opens the window of his room. With tears streaming down his face he turns into a crow and flies away. His father Taiyang bursts through the door and sees an empty bed and an open window. Taiyang falls to the ground crying however this was just the first bad thing to happen to him today. Yang and Ruby come in the room as well and they also start to cry.

YANG POV

My younger brother is gone, we had just been a happy family one day ago, now my little brother runs away and my mom is nowhere to be found. Dad's out in the cold looking for them both, Ruby and I can't understand why he would run away. Maybe I and Ruby are bad sisters; we probably pushed him too hard. Dad bursts into the house with something big in his hands. Ruby and I both jump up hoping its Sapphire. Dad collapses and the body drops lifeless missing its head, unmistakably our mom. Ruby starts crying and I stand shocked, looking down at my mom. A note is attached to her shirt, it says in perfect handwriting, "Your brother tried to protect her but he failed, and he paid the price." After reading it I collapse to the ground and we all lay there crying, two of our family members killed the same day.

Present day

"Ruby hold up, you are going too fast someone is going to kill you," Yang says laughing along with Weiss and Blake. Sapphire walks by Yang and she notices that he is wearing a mask, but she brushes it thinking he wears it as part of his outfit. She misses the rose emblem on his hoodie marking his ancestry. Sapphire walks into a bank and goes to the atm, he enters in the account information his dad told him when he was younger that would access his allowance. "I'm glad you kept this the same dad, sure has collected a lot of revenue. He walks out with money in his pocket, going towards an electronics store. Yang's phone went off with a text from her dad reading "Emergency Yang, Someone in a hood and mask just took money from Sapphires account." Yang stops in her tracks as she sees what the mask looks like. Her phone goes off again "Get your team back inside beacon, this person might be after you girls next." Yang grabs Ruby who stops walking. "We need to get back to our dorms now ruby, that person who killed sapphire and mom is here." All the girls start running; they stop to catch their breath in a circle with a statue in the center. Sapphire drops from the statue and grabs Blake, throwing her across the circle. He starts walking towards the three grouped together girls, Yang screams and shoots a shell at him "Don't hurt my sister you brother killer!" Sapphire viciously slices the shell in two with his scimitars, using Blake's semblance splits himself into multiple versions of himself. Surrounding the girls. He speaks with a deep voice to them "I've been waiting for this day for 5 years."

Sapphire Pov

I can't believe I'm doing this; I have my sisters surrounded and one of their friends. I must do this however or at least try I don't want to hurt either of my sisters and I am severely outnumbered, four against one. Education, against five years in the wilds. I won't lose, however, I have done the math and I have a 90% chance of winning. The voice in my head that tells me to kill her is getting louder and I'm struggling to resist it. I shake my head in pain and Yang takes that opportunity to break all of my clones. I get hit backwards by the shotgun shell she hit me with, the armor I have protects me from damage but the knockback still affects me. I should talk to them mess with their heads. Jumping backwards I laugh at yang "Sapphire told me all about how predictable you were." As predicted she rushes me, and I grab her arms with my arms. "Nice gauntlets, Girly" My eyes glow as minerals come out of my bag cloning her weapons blue and attaching to my arms. She looks shocked and shoots herself free. "Aw, yang afraid? Sapphire told me you were brave, it's a shame." She screams and her hair turns red and she repeats the same attack, I sidestep and shotgun shells her downwards. I crouch down next to her and whisper in her ear. "Stay down, if you want to…" I scream in pain as the voice in my head tells me to finish her. Blake rushes by and gets Yang back to Ruby and Weiss.

Yang's phone goes off with a call from Ozpin "I cannot help you in any other way then tell you that this man is not evil, he is cursed and ruby has to knock him out for the curse to be broken." The voice subsides as Yang nods and hangs up her phone. The girls group together and they nod and draw their weapons. They all rush me at once and I have to jump into the air, turning my scimitars into pistols I stun Blake and Weiss. As I do the pain returns to my body with the voice and I land next to the statue. Yang shoots the center and I have no time to react as the voice fills my head with pain. The statue hits me and the rubble covers my entire body stunning me. I close my eyes and the voice vanishes. Opening my eyes I see Ruby rushing towards me with the butt of her scythe hitting me in the head. I go black; losing the first since the woman who cursed me, as I fade into blackness I remember the curse. I wake up to the statue no longer on me and the girls standing over me, Yang notices I'm awake and goes towards my mask. I shrink backwards, and she gives me a smile. I quickly change what I look like using an illusion semblance. She takes the mask off and lays next to me. "Who are you? Why were you cursed to kill ruby? What's your name? How did you copy my weapon?" I stand up and Ruby grabs my hand. "Don't leave we won't hurt you." I start to activate her semblance and I speak "But I will "I start to sprint away. Yang tells Ruby to try catch me, and she speeds all the way towards me in seconds. She mouths sorry and hits me backwards with her scythe. Yang punches me when I land, probably in an attempt to prevent me from running. However I was using an illusion and she shattered it. She looks down at me and starts to cry hugging me. Weiss and Blake look at her like she went insane and ruby slows down next to her. Yang moves away for a second to show my face and Ruby cries hugging me saying "brother, it's been five years." I try to get up but Yang and Ruby push me back down hugging me. They both look at my hair and see the lack of blue tips and they start talking about how that needs to be fixed. I escape them by turning into a crow and flying out, landing next to Weiss. Ozpin appears from a building clapping his hands, "good job losing on purpose sapphire, don't let that curse get you down too hard, you are already admitted to the school and all five of you get a week off a school." The girls all cheer loudly and Sapphire starts to walk away, his sisters grab him and start dragging him to their dorm. Ozpin says as they leave "ladies we added a bed for Sapphire, please make sure that he gets a good shower at least"

I'm dragged all the way to their dorm room, each one of them grabbing a limb for fun against my will. They drop me into the room on the bed slowly. And instantly after locking all exits they sit on the bed next to me bombarding me with questions. I struggle to hear all of them, but ruby says one I hear clearly. "Yes, Ruby I missed you both; I did what I had to do for both of us and now I'm going to be affected by this curse." I lay on the bed and yang asks me what the curse will do to me. I immediately tell a lie. "I'm going to lose all of my hair", Yang gives me a doubtful look. I excuse myself to the restroom. Whispering occurs outside and I can tell they are right outside the door. I look into the mirror, and massive pain ruptures through my whole body as the curse changes me instantly, I scream and my body finishes changing looking exactly like ruby's but with gold eyes and barely blue tipped hair. "That was not as bad as I expected" I use an illusion of my male self and exit the room. Yang gives me a smile as I go towards the bed. She gives me a playful punch and I get sent flying into the bed and the illusion shatters, giving off dust. They all look at yang shocked. They then rush to see if I'm okay. I hide underneath the covers, and they keep trying to look at my face, I cover myself with a sheet. I feel the sheet get rolled up trapping me in it and then picked up, dropping me onto the floor. Yang give me a small push to roll me over to my front and gets serious." this is your curse Sapphire? "Weakly I nod. She gives me a supportive hug as they all repeat it. Ruby stops to talk to me, "now we look almost identical, wait a second you need a new outfit, that's not a good outfit for any hunter or huntress!" Blake adds in "she needs a uniform as well" I squirm out of them and rush for my bed; Yang grabbing me makes tutting noises "We have to redo your tips". 3 hours later I crash on top of my bed, I had my hair re dyed, and then they made me get a matching outfit of Ruby's, but blue, a school uniform and books on how to be sociable. I'm tired and I collapse onto my bed the fluff of the skirt proofing out, Yang giggles at my state of affairs. "You act like you're not happy Sapphire; do you want your hair redone?" I growl at her my swords glowing on my back, she waves her hands at me, "I'm sorry little sis, don't get mad at me." As she distracts me ruby grabs the scimitars from my back and looks at them. "What are the names?" She looks at me waiting for a response. "Winters Rose" ooh she says twirling them around, finally putting them in a corner far away from me. "Can I sleep yet?" I beg, Yang smiles "right after you tell us how many Grimm you've killed." I scream and lay defeated on the pillow, having lost count of how many I killed. Yang and Ruby jump onto my bed hugging me again, they say in unison "you are never leaving us again."