A/N: So, here's my first Fanfic, please don't be too critical. I've been meaning to write my own story for a while now and when I saw a fic with a Faunus Weiss and just kinda got inspired there. With that in mind this AU will be credited to Shadow Nightblade, hope you don't mind.

Anyway's details, the rating will be M for language and violence. Not really for or against smut so anyone for or against it PM me since it won't be in here otherwise.

Also, if you can't figure out what kind of Faunus Weiss is, here's a hint. Snow Angel.

Disclaimer: I Don't own RWBY and all that stuff... on with the story.

Fallen Snow - Chapter 1: A Caged Bird

Weiss Schnee was born into what may be the richest and most powerful family Remnant has ever seen. Over the last two decades, the Schnee Dust Company has become the largest producer and transporter of refined dust, much of it's success stemming from questionable business practices and the company's trade agreements with the atlas military. As heiress to this multi-billion lien empire, Weiss has been in the spotlight since childhood, from both paparazzi and…less desirable crowds.

The White Fang, among other groups of violent activists, have set their sights on the Schnee family, claiming their poor treatment of Faunus unfair and unjust. As a result, Weiss grew up with the constant reminder that she might not wake up tomorrow. Over the years, thick walls of ice grew around her heart to protect it from the horrors of her world.

"Miss Schnee, your father would like to speak with you in his office." the voice from outside Weiss' room was void of any emotion, yet those quiet hollow words were all the heiress needed to become overtaken with dread.

Weiss was in the middle of 'grooming' herself, making herself 'presentable' as her father would put it, and she hated leaving the job half finished as she would have to come back to the bitter ordeal. However, her father was not someone you kept waiting, for any reason, and so she quickly fixed her clothes and pulled her hair into an offset ponytail before making her way through the ice cold castle she called home.

Weiss' relationship with her father was...strained, not because of neglect or abuse, simply due to the fact that they rarely agreed on anything. Her father wanted nothing more than for his eldest daughter than for her to take over the family business. Weiss on the other hand, wants anything but that. She fought tooth and nail to attend Beacon this coming fall, and will continue to attend only if her grades remain 'satisfactory.'

After two swift rasps on the mahogany double doors, a clear and commanding tone answered, "Come in." Without delay Weiss pushed open the heavy set of doors, revealing her father's study. Despite the family's immense wealth, the study was quite simple. A small chandelier hung from the center of the room, casting light over a dark mahogany desk, which was covered in various reports and charts, all pertaining in some way to the SDC. A couch sat at the edge of the room, still in pristine condition despite having gathered dust for as long as Weiss could remember. She never understood why the couch was there, no one had the audacity to sit down and relax in front of her father, well other than her mother, but she refused to see father when he was 'busy with work.'

"Weiss." Her father's voice breaking the young heiress out of her thoughts, "In one month you will be attending Beacon Academy, and while I have made my disapproval clear, you have yet to make any room for compromise."

"Father, if I may, Beacon is a highly prestigious school that offers an education on par with some of Atlas' top universities. Additionally I-" before Weiss could continue she was silenced with a small gesture of her father's hand. However, the gesture was not oppressive, just commanding, unwavering, and cold in a way only a Schnee was capable of.

"Please Weiss, I will permit your choice of education. What I am concerned with is what you plan to do with that education, and more importantly how it will reflect on the Schnee family name." Unfazed by the harsh tone, Weiss instead seemed to trip over the unusual honesty coming from her father.

"A-as the Heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, I will be expected to take over the family business after graduation will I not?" Weiss was now confused, her father never once even humored Weiss with the idea she might take some other position in life. Now, after years of crushing Weiss' childhood dreams of being an astronaut, doctor, even prime minister of Atlas, her father was asking what she wanted to do?

"Allow me to be blunt, you are not my first choice as a successor to the company. Your sister, Winter, does not share the same…traits as you, and even possesses a desire to be part of the company that you quite honestly lack." Weiss should have been offended. Here her father was saying her sister, several years her junior, was better fit to run a company than Weiss was, but all the young girl could feel was shock and...relief? "Weiss. I know you have no interest in continuing my work, so I am offering you a way out. That is, if you prove yourself capable that is."

"That option being?" Weiss practically blurted the words out, practically. A Schnee would never let their emotions show so easily.

"Choose one. Take up leading the Schnee Dust Company, or-" Weiss nearly choked at the second option. "-become a Huntress and give up all inheritance of the Schnee family name."

"Father. Are you serious?" Weiss was dumbfounded.

"You have until you leave to decide, however once you make a decision it will be final." Weiss Schnee Heiress to the most powerful, and richest company in the world, was just asked to give up everything she was, her wealth, here position, and her title, and accept the most dangerous occupation remnant has to offer.

"I understand." Her decision came out faster than her thoughts could keep up with. "I wish to become a Huntress."

A/N: Okay...yeah I know it's short but it's only the intro. I'll have the next chapter up within a few days, then probably keep to a weekly schedule. Hope you guys enjoy it and will continue to read.

Aside from that, please review, I feel like my writing is either awful or I'm trying to fix problems that aren't there.