Hi everyone! This is my first fanfic so please bare with me as my writing isn't really good. (hi there old comers and new comers. i relized that both ch 1 and 2 had many mistakes and been wanting to fix it so here it is. more info at the end of the chapter.)

Also nooquichpil means "my son", ma niyaun tehuatzin means "im leaving now"

RWBY and its characters are credited to rooster teeth and Monty(rest in peace Monty)

Chapter 1: Burning hearts

~91 years ago~

Kronos wakes to the smell of food coming from his family kitchen. As he gets up a knock on his door makes him jump a little. His sister's voice came from the other side. She sounded tired at first but her normal voice returned. He thought that mother probably woke her up to help make breakfast.

"Kronos, mother said for you to get up now breakfast is ready!" she says waiting for a response.

"Okay Salem, let me just get ready first!" he responds listening as her footsteps fade away.

As he yawns he gets up heading to his own restroom. Looking at himself in the mirror he notices his hair is everywhere and seeing how long it goes down. A part of his hair was slanted to his left covering his left eye. He reaches for a brush moving his hair back to fall freely down his back. Moving the strands of hair from his face showing his left blood red eye and midnight dark grimm skin around it with black veins on his cheek going down his neck disappearing in his shirt. He always wondered how his people became like this... half faunus/half grimm. He knew the legends and stories that were told at bed time but it still puzzled him how different they were to the rest of the people in this world. He shakes the thought out his head as he gets back to finishing up before heading down to his family.

He comes down the stairs into the kitchen finding his mother and sister already sitting and eating their food. His food already on the plate waiting for him. He takes his seat eating quietly with his family. They were the only ones in the family left, his aunts and uncles already past due to them taking the life of a warrior or mercenary in the world's eyes. His father having taking this position as well but died when he was two. It didn't really bother him seeing how his people live by being warriors. A saying goes through out his village due to the many lost to this way of life,"don't get to attach to those who fight as warriors for they live a uncertain future and might not come back ever again".

Living on the northwestern continent of Sera of Remnant has its advantages. Free to do what they want and have a continent hostile to all outsiders making a perfect place to help them grow in peace. Choosing to seclude themselves from the four kingdoms not by choice, but for everyone else safety. Our grimm half always thirsty for blood and conflict leading us to the militaristic culture we have.

Looking to his sister he knows that even when she looks normal with her long black hair down her back and dark green eyes shining like their mother. But her back was completely different with dark grimm skin along with bone plates across it. Sometimes when he seen her back exposed the structure of her body reminded him of a armadillo or a queen wasp's back but without the wings. He then turns to his mother where her grimm features are most noticeable like his left eye. Both her arms having the grimm skin tone and her shoulders covered with bone plates down along her arms to stop at her wrist. Her fingers replaced by claws and bones covering from the top of her hand down to the tip of her claws. Beautiful thick black hair reaching down her back stopping at her waist and her natural light coffee skin tone that both her children inherited from her. Her dark green eyes, that her daughter got from her unlike her son that inherited the black color eye from his father, mixing together her skin tone and face features perfectly with an amazing smile that she would always have on. He was jerked away from his thoughts when his sister spoke to him.

"So what are you going to do on your 8th birthday Kronos?" she says happily.

"Don't really know?" kronos replies forgetting today is his birthday. "Aren't I like 35 years old?" looking to his mom for conformation.

"In regular Remnant years yes but we age more slowly my child so its different for us" looking to her daughter to use as an example "like your sister is 115 years of age to everyone outside but to us she is only 16 physically and mentally" looking to her son waiting for his next question.

"So the ten Remnant years to one Nahuatl year thing doesn't start til around five years old then we slowly age older than everyone else?" he asked with confusion due to the complected nature of their aging.

Enyo giggles a little looking at her son's confused face. " Yes, its normal age like everyone else until we reach the age of 5 then our grimm blood cells begin to mature and mix with our regular blood and in doing so slowed our aging" finishing as she sees him understand her explanation. "So what do you have plan for today kronos?" hoping he doesn't have anything for dinner as she wants to make his favorite food.

"Not that I can think of right now" kronos says after thinking on the question for a little.

"Well don't plan anything for dinner okay?" she responds smiling.

"Yes mother" he responds taking his plate to the sink.

Enyo then turns her attention to her daughter. "Same goes for you Salem" satisfied when Salem nods. "Also if you can Salem ask your cousins to come for dinner. They might want to join and not have dinner by themselves again". The brought up her nieces and nephews made her think of her brother and sisters that passed. But she quickly suppressed those memories.

"Okay mother I will when I see them" Salem responds getting up.

"Bye mom be back later" Kronos says as he kisses her forehead and headed to the door.

"Have a good day nooquichpil see you at dinner!" Enyo shouts to him before he leaves.

"Thanks mom! Bye Salem" he shouts back "ma niyauh tehuatzin!"

"Bye kronos!" Salem responds hearing the door close.

The day drags on as usual with informational teachings in the morning then combat training after break in the afternoon. The other children with Kronos all said their happy birthdays to him when they can and those close to him gave him presents. As the sun began to set kronos said bye to his friends and began to walk home. When Kronos passed a couple of adults he hears them talk about a war breaking out between the kingdom of Vale and the two opposing kingdoms of Mantle and Mistral. The last thing he hears from them is if the village should join the war and if yes who should we join.

It was dark by the time he got home finding his mother still cooking and sister sitting at the table reading. Looking around to find that the rest of his family isn't here he goes up to his sister leaning on the chair across from her. "Hey Salem" she looks up surprised by not hearing him come in "you wanna go catch the ball?" he ask.

Salem looks at her mother seeing that the older woman has heard her son and waves her hand for Salem to go with him. "Okay Kronos lets go" she says as both of them ran out the house. With a big smile from watching them leave on Enyo's face she returned to cooking the food.

Kronos and Salem threw the ball between each other. Children ran by playing games or heading home. Adults walk by ending their days to start the next one tomorrow; some wave at both of them knowing them from their mother.

As Kronos threw the ball his head jerked up by a whining sound coming from the dark sky. The ball goes over Salem the look of confusion on her face watching her brother and others with heightened hearing look at the sky looking for something. "Kronos? What is it?" Salem asked with a worried look on her face seeing her brother not respond.

Kronos watched the sky trying to find the source of the growing whine until he hears more coming behind it growing louder as it came closer. He watches until he notices something wrong with the stars as some disappear and reappear while others are gone. He narrows his eyes to see huge bulbs of gray come down slowly over the village and channels his aura into his left eye to enhance his sight to see hundreds of auras packed together in each gray bulb. Without looking away he says "Salem do you know what those are?" pointing to the sky.

With surprise at his question and confusion clouding every part of her mind she looks up to what he is pointing at. Her heart sinks and fear takes hold as she seen these ships before... Mantle's warships of different sizes and shapes lay over head.

"Run!" Salem screams making her brother jump. He looks at her with confusion on his face and fear in his eyes. "Kronos we need to get home now!" she screams again running up to him and grabbing his hand to drag him home. "Lets go now!" she says running dragging him behind her. When they finally make it to the house they find their mother standing at the door with a scared look on her face looking up at the warships.

"Mother!" Enyo looks down to see her children look at her with horror in their eyes. "Mother what are we going to do?" Salem yells.

"I-I don't kn-" Enyo was cut off as they all turn up to the sound of screeching bombs coming down from the ships. They can hear the shouting and screams of fellow villagers as the bombs land and smoke quickly rises to the sky.

"We are going to hide in the forest!" Enyo shouts at her kids above the noise of the chaos around them. "Salem protect you're brother Il be back with food!" she smiles at her kids before running into her home.

Salem and Kronos watch in horror as bombs continue to drop all around the village and the screams become more isolated with more bodies laying in the streets.

Waiting to long for his mom to come out Kronos decides to go after her running towards the house. Salem is caught by surprise but before she can grab him he runs out of her reach. Struggling to catch up and grab him Salem sees one of the warships coming low over them knowing they are going to do a bombing run. Before she can yell at Kronos to stop they were both blasted back by the bomb hitting their home. Hitting the ground hard by the shock wave Salem struggles to get up. Her vision is blurry and she felt pain in the back of her head. Finally able to get up and see, she spots her brother on the ground not moving. Before she can yell his name she sees his foot move and lets out a heavy sigh not knowing shes been holding her breath.

Feeling a warm sensation come down his head kronos gets up shaking his head to get rid of the pain. His mouth drops with shock and fear as he watches his home up in flames. "Mom!" he tries to yell but gets drowned out by the flames. "Mom!" he yells again getting up only to feel pain up his back and the back of his head. Getting on his feet he slowly walks toward the house hoping his mom will walk out unharmed. He was suddenly pulled back by his collar and twisted around to face his sister.

"Kronos stop!" Salem says with tears in her eyes.

"I need to go help mom!" he responds struggling in her grasp.

"Kronos shes gone!" tears roll down her cheeks "everything is gone! We have to go" she says sadly.

Refusing her words he yells "she could be hurt! she might need our help! Salem we can't leave her!"

Salem just watches him as the blood trickling down the right side of his face began and hugs him as tightly as she can looking down to his head to see if his wound isn't big or fatal.

With his head against her chest and looking to the side all he can do is cry to let the pain out. "Shes gone isn't she" he manages to say.

"Yes she is" she responds with a pain in her heart hearing the sad tone in his voice. "Lets go we have to leave this place its not safe here." Satisfied when she sees him nod. "Okay lets go" she began to run holding his hand.

They ran through the village hiding from Mantle patrol soldiers searching for any survivors. Salem is relived that the bombs had stopped but now soldiers march down the streets. Bodies lay on the floor around them younger than her brother to older than their mother.

Passing the bodies kronos looks at each face to see who they are. People he knew that they came across, friends...family. Kronos trips a little loosing focus seeing one of his cousins laying on the ground her eyes open looking up at the sky but lifeless, an arm missing from her left side. He holds his sister's hand tighter forcing the image out his head. Both running through pools of blood and body parts that are no longer connect to the rest of the person they belong to.

Finally making it to the edge of the village and with the forest before them; Salem stops and hides the both of them under a house after hearing footsteps. Salem sees three soldiers covered in Mantle armor walking along the edge of the forest. "We need to get around them" she whispers to Kronos. Looking around but finding no solution she sighs looking down at her brother watching her. "Kronos as soon as you see those men follow me and are out of sight you run in the forest and don't stop okay?" seeing his face in confusion then tears forming in his eyes she held back her urge to comfort him and abandon her plan but she knew this was the only way. He begins to speak but Salem cuts him off with a hug. "Its okay just remember mom and I will always love you".

Kronos watches in shock as his sister lets go and starts running in another direction catching the soldiers attention. The soldiers chase her giving him his chance to run. Hesitantly at first he checks to see if anyone is around. Once he is sure its clear he runs into the forest with all his remaining strength.

Looking over her shoulder to see if the three soldiers are following her Salem lures them as far from her brother as she can. Knowing she needs to lose them and get to her brother she runs as fast as she can. Before turning the corner she sees one of the men turn and her brother running into the forest. She sees that the soldier stopped chasing her and instead yells into his mic in his ear making her heart stop.

"This is 4th patrol squad on the western edge of the village!" waiting for a response he continues "chasing single female but confirmed young boy ran into the forest, unknown how many more fled into it" putting his whole hand over the device in his ear to hear the orders.

"Roger that! Keep clear of the forest and proceed with the chase of the female. Admiral order a fire drop on the western edge of the village so keep clear of anything flammable. Out!"

"Roger!" the soldier replied and started sprinting to catch up.

Running as fast as he can Kronos looks behind him to see if anyone is following. Satisfied that no one is following he starts to slow down and stops to catch his breath. Hearing the sound of ships coming his way he looks up but cant see anything from under the trees. Suddenly there was a flash all around him blinding his sight and the sensation of fire touching him.

Salem screams watching the ships dropped their bombs on the forest erupting it into a fiery hell. Quickly looking away from the fire she runs to another part of the forest not touch yet by the burning inferno. Running through leaves and branches she hears heavy footsteps behind her and a loud gunshot. One of her legs goes numb and she fell on her knees in pain, the three soldiers caught up then encircle her with weapons pointed at her.

"You killed everyone" she mumbles to herself "you killed everyone I know and loved".

Looking at the closes soldier to her "All of you killed my mother and now my brother!" she yells her eyes blood shot red from anger.

The three men took a step back seeing her eyes then notice her skin changing color. Not noticing the grimm creeping behind them answering the call of their new queen.

Salem curls up in a ball screaming at the pain going through her body. She feels her blood go cold as her skin changes to snow white. Black veins pop up all along her arms up to her neck then stop at her eyes. She tries to grasps for air that leaves her lungs as if she feels her life leaving her body.

The soldiers look at each other confused and fear on their faces as they watch the young girl change before them. "Should we shoot her?" one soldier says his voice shaky. "What the hell is going on with her!?" another soldier says fear taking over. "I don-" just before the last soldier could speak three bone claws shoot out his chest killing him instantly. The soldier closes to him turns in horror when the blood of his comrade goes all over him only to see a Alpha Beowolf. The creature threw the body over it to the waiting red eyes behind it. The soldier with blood raises his gun to shoot but his hands are cut off making the man scream in pain. The soldier looks to his side to see a big grimm mantis looking back at him raising its bone razor arms and slicing the soldier in half. The last man dropped his gun shaking with fear consuming him. Turning to run the soldier is dumbstruck as he finds a fully mature Ursa towering over him. Before he could react the Ursa bites down on his neck and shoulder killing him as blood spurts everywhere.

Finally calming down Salem opens her eyes slowly realizing she is lying in a pool of blood. Struggling to get up she notices red eyes all around and body parts on the ground. Standing she looks around to see grimm of all shapes and sizes answering her call for help. She looks to the Alpha with blood still on its claws and tells it to come to her. Surprised that it responded she realizes she unlocked semblance and it allows her to bend grimm to her will. Looking back to her village that is now being engulfed by a wildfire she starts to walk in the opposite direction. Happy that the grimm are following close behind her, she thinks of a new area to call home safe for her and her new family. While also planning to take revenge on humanity for taking everything she loved from her; she quietly disappears into the dark forest.

Hearing the sound of things burning around him and the crack of burning wood, Kronos slowly open his eyes. Slowly getting up he looks around surprised that he is not dead. Looking down to check himself he sees the flames touching his skin but it didn't hurt him. Reaching out to touch a burning tree he notices that a red aura goes across his hand and up his arm with flames bending around his hand. Pulling his hand back the flames stay in his hand and disappear after he shakes it off seeing the aura appear again for a little bit. "Did I just activate my semblance?" amazed that the fire doesn't hurt he starts to walk through the burning forest. Reaching the edge of the burning hell to the dark forest beyond. Kronos stops to look behind to see his burning home with a black cloud high in the sky above the village. Ash falls everywhere as Kronos lets out a sigh and a tear falls from one of his eyes knowing this is the last time he will see it. "Love you mom and love you too Salem" Kronos says silently turning and disappearing into the dark forest.

Chapter 1 is done so please reviews are welcome and i will continue if people like it. So drop your comments and please be nice i know im not that good. its my first time. Hope you all enjoy it. (So how you guys like to update i did all this chapter? the many mistakes bugged me so long and finally happy to fix them now. chapter 2 next then after that il put of chapter 7.)