A/N: Hey guys! I know I haven't updated SHOAF but that's because with S3 I had to revise it as well as needing the new season in order to do so, it maybe AU but I feel like I need more information so I could broaden the story more.

But anyways here's a new story! I just made this by impulse to be quite honest and since then I couldn't stop writing it… When I first wrote this I only realized that I was 2 pages in when my gf suddenly replied to me, it broke me up out of my revere.

Though anyways, enjoy but before that please be aware this has S3 information, if you still haven't watched it please be warned there are SPOILERS here. Enjoy!

"So… Miss Belladonna, you say that she had disappeared because of this 'transformation', correct?"

"Yes, Professor Ozpin."

"How did all of this started? And how were you able to retrieve her journal?"

Sometimes the world is cruel, no matter what you do. It is either you give a sacrifice or give yourself instead.

~Yuri-Sensei

28th A.F. of Summer

Journal entry #001

My name is Ruby Rose. I am now 21, team leader of one of the most powerful huntress team there is in all of Beacon. Team RWBY. Or what was left of it after my disappearance.

Why I had disappeared? It's a long story but I have managed to escape them. Them are the ones that have trapped me, experimented on me and used me to their bidding in order to create a much more powerful monster than any human and faunus had ever faced.

Salem, as I had come to know her name, was merciless when she first captured me. Apparently, I had always been her first candidate from the start and when Cinder told of a girl with silver eyes with impeccable prowess to her, it only fuelled her more to rip me away from everything I have come to love. My team, beacon in which had become my home, my family, my friends, everything.

You see, after everything that happened when Beacon fell, we worked from the ground up, rebuilding everything that we had lost. 3 years of hard work, of trying hard to communicate with each other. It wasn't an easy task to build and help Yang cope, to assure Blake and to take back Weiss. But it was worth it. At least we managed to be together again, as a team.

Ozpin's disappearance was a great tipping point but General Ironwood, Glynda and Uncle Qrow did their best. We also made a burial for Pyrrha, right next to mom. Jaune had finally cried that time, to be forced to hold it in because he felt it wasn't right, it didn't felt right to cry over the sky with no remains to cry over because all we turn into after death were ashes.

I guess it's something we have to deal with. Grimm disappear as well when they die and we turn into mere dust and go away as well. Sometimes I wonder if that is how dust are made, the dust of the dead scattered upon nature and built into the dust we use today. But what am I saying, we're getting off topic here. So yeah, after that we started to formulate plans for a lot of reasons, Jaune's team would cover up Mistral, SSSN in Vacuo and us on Atlas. Coco's team was divided. I'll explain why.

Each team had someone with them, JNR and Coco had Uncle Qrow, SSSN had General Ironwood and we had Winter. Glynda was going to stay at Vale to help rebuild the whole place, dad helped out as well, he was worried but he couldn't do anything about it. I think he gave up fighting me over it, I guess he realized that he can't protect us forever and he'd be bound to lose us someday or another… Or the other way around.

In those 3 years, I understood why Uncle Qrow fought Weiss' sister, Winter. It was to find out if he can truly trust her and not betray them for his father or to anyone. I can understand why he would do such a thing, he was still skeptical of the General and Winter is under his command as well. He knew that he could be easily manipulated, as well as being blinded by his own beliefs that could cloud his judgement and be the end of him and many people. So it wouldn't come as a surprise when Uncle Qrow found out that Winter had acted the same way to him. He was testing her and in turn she was too.

I won't lie though, in those 3 years as well, White Fang attacks were still as always violent against the Schnee but they've been also forcing other faunus' to join them and abducting humans for ransom. Either you join or die. They've change into a far more radical group of terrorism and bloodshed. Blake had become furious to say the least… So she made a group of her own to counter attack them with Weiss' family backing her up. Filled with faunus and humans that wanted to stop the White Fang from their cruel deeds.

I guess I could say that they finally realized the cruelty of their own kind against the faunus. By realized I meant when they had the taste of their own medicine in this case. Like the saying goes, pushed too far and I wouldn't be surprised if they bite back. Cruel as it sounds, humans at some point deserve to taste their own medicine but not to the point where the faunus should abuse their power to pointless bloodshed so they could have leverage and show the world they're top of the food chain.

Yang at that time was still trying to find Raven, Uncle Qrow had helped her but it seems we needed her more than we expected. They knew of what Uncle Qrow looked like but not of Raven. So she had to separate from us to track her down better, Coco had sent Velvet and Fox to help Yang as well. Coco helped JNR while Yatsuhashi helped us. Simple enough, Coco was a great huntress and Yatsuhashi was somewhat already a bit like Yang, strength and all that.

Weiss… I'd say Weiss had been having it rough. Her father died from one of the White Fang attacks. Her sister had to work both in defending the dust company and helping us, she'd sometimes take the load off of Winter to ease both of their stress but honestly it was plain as day, you could see that they were scared. Scared of losing each other, both of them only had each other now. So they tried their best to spend their time together as much as possible even on the shortest amount of time…

Crap.

It's 1649 now… I need to move. I'll continue this on the next entry.

Grim Reaper, out. #001 END, 28th A.F of Summer.

"Hmmm…" Ozpin peered upon the first entry skeptically. In all of his years in watching and providing help in team WBY's search for Ruby since the day he had returned. This was far more unusual than he expected.

For one, why has Ruby been the first choice from the very start? Was Salem aware of Ruby before she was in Beacon? Was she monitoring her from the start as she hone her skills and become powerful? Or is it something else entirely? Something he was not aware of…

Ozpin narrowed his eyes at that train of thought but he kept a calm demeanor.

"Well, Miss Belladonna. I'll be asking to have some bit of time to investigate this so I can give your team the necessary information in order to help you track her down. For now, you can do as you wish."

"Understood, professor." With that Blake left, leaving Ozpin in his own devices.

"Things have become more complicated it seems..."

A/N: Hope you enjoyed this installment of this story! Till next time! Just so you know this story will mostly be entries like a diary or journal. There will be inputs of the other characters but it majority of the story will contain entries.