I do not own RWBY or any of its characters except my OCs, all credit for the original story goes to Monty Oum Dead of Rooster Teeth. I watched the series and hate them for killing Pyrrha, but it's otherwise one of the best shows I've ever seen.

Prologue

I was five years old.

My mom and dad were on the opposite side of the campfire as me, holding hands and singing a simple hymn; my dad, with the beautiful bass of a wolf, and my mom, with the lovely soprano of a monkey. Their names were Randall and Cygnus.

We were lucky for a faunus family: We lived in a human's neighborhood on patch island due to a kind landlord by the name of Thaddeus Thatch, who always wore jungle fatigues and loved to regale me with wonderful stories of lost cities and great battles with the helped my parents keep their secret from the authorities and made sure that nobody pried too much about it.

I usually stayed at home with just my mother, and dad worked at the local museum as a security guard, but one day, a family moved in next door. I looked out the front window and saw a girl about my age with black-and-red hair and an older girl with yellow hair. A few days later, the black haired girl came over to my house and asked to play with me. I didn't know what else to do except invite her in. We played around the living room for a while until we got tired, and then we plopped down on the couch, laughing at the fun that we'd just had. My wolf ears then popped up from my hair and the girl, who introduced herself as Ruby, squealed, "Ooo! Doggy ears!" and proceeded to rubbing them.

It felt good to have my ears rubbed the way she was rubbing them. I slowly laid my head in her lap and let her keep rubbing them, breathing a contented sigh. We were like that for the rest of the afternoon, when my mom came down from a nap and saw us.

I heard her giggle softly before asking, "So who's your new friend, Christen?"

Ruby looked and saw my mom descending the stairs, "Hi, I'm Ruby. I'm from next door."

She'd smiled so brightly that I couldn't help the warm feeling in my chest.

My reminiscence was interrupted by a shout from off in the bushes. My dad got up and said, "Christen, get inside the tent and don't come out until I say so."

I got scared, "Why, daddy?"

"Please, just do as I say."

"Okay," I went into the tent and sat down when I heard some footsteps outside and a deep, gruff voice speak, "Well, well. Look what we have here; two faunus who look ready to hand over all their money and dust."

I heard my dad say, "Look we don't want any trouble. We don't have any money or dust. We're just here to have a nice, quiet evening." My dad was afraid of the man, but he wasn't letting it show. I peeked out and saw the man take a step forward, "Well, if you don't have any dust, I'll just take the girl."

He reached to grab my wasn't a fighter, and my father wasn't strong enough to take down a guy twice his size, but he fought anyways, my mom hiding behind the log they'd been sitting on. He fought the man hand-to-hand, holding him at least until we heard a grimm roar and come charging out of the bushes toward my parents.

The big man turned and fled while my dad did his best to protect my mom, but he was losing ground fast, exhausted from the effort of fighting off the big man. When he was finally out of energy, he wrapped his arms around my mom and put himself in front of her. The bear took a final swipe and put them both into the eternal sleep, sending me running to their lifeless bodies. I shook them, cried out to them, pleaded for them to wake up, but they just laid there, not breathing. I'd lost them forever, and it was all because humans and faunus just wouldn't get along.

The grimm raised its paw to strike me down, and I lost it. My blood boiled; because of some stupid inequality, my parents were dead. I roared for the destruction of the bear.

And then it all went white.

I don't know how long I was out, but when I opened my eyes, I was in a pink bed. Sitting next to me was Ruby and a tall man in a tattered red cape that I didn't know. Ruby told me how her Uncle Qrow had found me unconscious in the woods and carried me here, I'd been asleep for three days. She said she was sorry about my parents and gave me a hug while she stroked my ears, slowly sending me back to unconsciousness.

I liked the idea of this character growing up with Ruby since it goes better with the story line better