Authors Note: This is my first actual story, so I'm super excited about it - hope you guys enjoy.

Chapter 1 ~ An Injured Faunus

Weiss Schnee's House

As Weiss awoke, the bright light of morning that she usually woke up to was all but absent. She blinked a few times before pulling her sheets away and walking out to her kitchen. Weiss lived alone in her modest one-story house that had two bedrooms, two bathrooms, one work room, and one kitchen. She looked briefly out of her window, and noticed the torrential downpour that was assaulting her backyard. She walked over to her counter and began to make her breakfast.

After Weiss had eaten her breakfast, she took a shower and dressed for work. Before heading out of the door, she put on her white trench coat matched perfectly with her white umbrella. Opening her door, she walked out into the pouring rain. Weiss preferred to walk to her job at the bakery, which was just a few blocks down. Today, she noticed that not many people were out on the streets, but that was to be expected, since it had been raining all day.

A block before she had gotten to her workplace, she heard a loud whimpering noise, as if someone had scraped their nails against a chalkboard. Weiss winced at the noise, but nonetheless decided to investigate. She turned the corner of an ally and saw the small figure of a girl.

She had a pair of Faunus ears and a tail as well, both were a mix of black and red. Weiss concluded that the noise must have been coming from this faunus girl. Approaching slowly, the heiress knelt down close to the girl.

"Hey, are you okay?" Weiss asked with a gentle voice. There was no response from the girl except for the concurrent whimpering. The girl had her head between her legs and her tail was wrapped around herself defensively. "It's okay, I'm not going to hurt you - I just want to see if you're okay." Weiss said with a concerning tone in her voice.

Finally, the girl lifted her head and revealed her bright silver eyes. They were filled with worry and hurt, which almost broke Weiss' heart just looking at her. The girl had jeans and a red T-shirt on, and she had a large gash across her tail. On closer inspection, Weiss noticed that she also had smaller cuts on her ears as well.

"Are you lost?" asked Weiss, not sure exactly what to say to the now-shivering faunus girl.

"N-No" the crimson girl said, still shivering from the pouring rain.

"Well, you can't stay out here - you'll get a cold," said Weiss, smiling gently. "Follow me, you can stay at my house until we find your home."

Weiss reached out her hand, and the faunus flinched at this movement, but eventually placed her hand in Weiss'. She slowly stood up, but winced slightly out of soreness. They walked down the muggy sidewalk and headed toward her house.

Weiss' House

When they arrived at the house, she opened the door and the faunus slowly walked into her living room.

"Here, sit down on the couch, I'll get my first aid kit." Weiss quickly ran to her closet in her bathroom. She came out and found the faunus looking fondly at her house and belongings. "She has probably never seen a house like this" thought Weiss. She then came to the couch a sat beside the girl.

"Ok, I'm going to help with your wounds, but it's going to hurt." Weiss said in the most relaxed way that she could. The girl simply gave a nod, and she took the rubbing alcohol and poured it on a cloth. Slowly dabbing the cloth on her tail caused it to start batting wildly. Weiss removed the cloth and began to wrap her tail up. Before working on her ears, Weiss heard her scroll start buzzing; as this happened, she noticed that the girl's ears would move to the source of the sound. Weiss got up and went to her scroll, which was laying on the kitchen table.

"Hello?" Weiss answered while putting her scroll to her ear.

"Ah, yes sorry; something has come up, and I can't make it today."

"Thank you for understanding, I promise I'll be there tomorrow… ok bye." and then Weiss put her scroll back on the kitchen table and walked back over to the faunus.

"So, what's your name?" Weiss peered back into the girl's silver orbs.

"Ru-Ruby Rose." was all the girl made out before she put her head back into her knees.

"Well Ruby, I promise that I will find your home and bring you back to whoever is missing you." Weiss couldn't help but notice that when she said this the girls tail started wagging gently; this at least reassured her that she was actually making Ruby feel better.

"Are you hungry?" Weiss gently patted Ruby's head and the girl flinched at first before relaxing to the heiress' cold touch.

"Y-yeah" was all Ruby could make out before she let out a soft whimper. Weiss realized that she had her hand on the girls obviously sore ear.

"Sorry, I forgot, let me go get you something to eat. Is sandwiches ok?" Weiss slowly got up and was standing above Ruby, who had removed her hands that were around her knees. The girl just nodded, and Weiss walked away and came back a few minutes later with turkey and cheese sandwiches.

The girl began to eat her sandwich, in a way that would make someone think that she hadn't eaten in a week. After they had eaten, Ruby was still on the couch, and Weiss had turned on the TV. Ruby had her eyes fixated on the TV and her tail moved in a slow wag behind her. "This girl has probably never seen a TV before either, where did she come from? Why was she on the street?" Weiss had so many questions, but decided that she could ask them later. But for the first time since she had met Ruby, she saw the faunus smile.

Authors Note: Well, that's all for the first chapter of this new story; hope you enjoyed it! I'll try to publish new chapters as soon as possible.

~SilverEyedHorse8567