A young girl with black hair and bright golden eyes dressed in black, grey, and light-purple stood in a large crowd, shouting as she hoisted a picket-sign on her shoulder, two black cat-ears perched on top of her head.

"Hey!" She looked over her shoulder, looking annoyed. "Belle! You need to shout louder!"

An identical ten year-old girl in black, grey, and light-blue with her hair in a ponytail flinched as she hoisted her sign, her cat-ears flattening.

"S-sorry!"

"We need to show the Schnees that we're not afraid, and that we won't stand for their treatment of Faunus employees in their mines! ... If we don't, you know Adam will get mad at you, again."

"Aw, Blake..!"

"You know I'm just looking out for you, little sister." Blake laughed and ruffled Belle's hair, making her pout. Belle had enough of her sister's teasing.

"I'm only younger by twenty-three seconds!"

"That still makes you my baby sister." The older twin smirked, ruffling Belle's hair again. "You always have been, and you always will be."

Belle rolled her eyes and continued chanting with her sister. A boy with red/brown hair, red eyes, and bull-horns came to check on them a few times as the rally continued.

That's when the Schnee Manor's guards came out and started firing bean-bags and throwing tear-gas canisters to try and suppress/dispel the crowd.

The bull-Faunus ran through the crowd toward the twin cat-Faunus, eyes wide as he made it and grabbed their wrists, ready to get the younger girls away from the chaos and danger.

"Come on!"

Suddenly, Belle yelped in surprise and fear as she was pulled up and away, a glaring human guard holding her in the air by the back of her shirt.

"Blake! Adam!" Belle screamed, trying with all she had to escape her captor. She wasn't strong enough.

Adam didn't know what to do. He had one sister safe and in his custody, and the other had been captured. That human could easily call his fellow guards and take all three children prisoner, or whip out his gun and shoot all three if so inclined. The bull-Faunus saw that he had no other choice...

"We'll come back for you." He promised, then turned and darted through the panicked crowd, taking a crying and screaming Blake with him. Belle watched, eyes filled with tears.

"Don't leave me, please! Adam! Blake!" It was no good. "Please..."

That's when the butt of a gun slammed into her head, and Belle was thrown into darkness.

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When Belle woke up, she was being thrown on the floor in front of a large, white desk in a brightly-lit room. She winced as she pushed herself up onto her hands and knees, raising a hand to the side of her head before looking up with wide eyes.

A man in a white suit came walking around the desk, his white hair combed to perfection and his icy-blue eyes glaring down at the little cat-Faunus. Belle was terrified.

"You're... You're..."

"You will refer to me as Mr. Schnee or sir, you little beast, if I allow you to refer to me at all." The man glared, then crouched and grabbed something from the girl's neck and stood, forcing her to stand to avoid getting choked by the object. A silver chain with a charm, a green leaf. "What is this?"

"I-it's a message, in case I was ever captured by the p-police." The girl answered fearfully. "I'm just a medic! I go to rallies to make sure someone's there to help the injured!" This made Mr. Schnee raise an eyebrow.

"A child for a medic?"

"I-I'm a medic-in-training, a healer. T-the master-healer's a-apprentice." Belle was getting more and more scared by the second. Mr. Schnee released the necklace, and the girl took a few deep breaths.

"So, you're actually important to those mongrels in the White Fang?" The man asked. Belle remained silent for a moment, then...

"In the W-White Fang, we're all equally important." She stated defiantly. "They'll c-come for me, and anyone e-else you've taken."

"You are the only animal in my custody, beast... And will they?" Mr. Schnee asked, holding out a scroll. It depicted a news-anchor, and... "They've moved, they're running all the way to Vale. In fear, they've abandoned you."

"T-they wouldn't!" Belle tried not to believe it. But she saw the evidence, the campsite in the snow that she knew all too well was abandoned.

"They have." Mr. Schnee assured, then walked to the side of his desk. "So, we have a problem: you. Shall we turn you over to the authorities for questioning, question you ourselves, throw you out onto the street like the garbage you are, put an end to your miserable little existence, or actually try to make you useful?"

"U-useful?"

"My youngest daughter is training to become a Huntress like her elder sister, and as you may know, such training can prove difficult and dangerous for one so young. And there are everyday accidents around the manor. So, I'm offering you one chance to prove that you're actually worth something."

Mr. Schnee turned to Belle, and the girl winced as one of the guards standing behind her fastened something around her neck. A collar, silver on the outsides with the middle glowing blue, and the girl cried out in pain as she was zapped, falling to her hands and knees.

"W-what..?!"

"You will serve as a servant, a medic." Mr. Schnee proclaimed. "And you will know your place... Now, tell me your name, beast." Belle looked up, her glaring, teary golden eyes slowly falling into hopeless fear.

"Belle Belladonna."

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"How could we leave her?!" Blake sobbed, hugging Adam as they made camp for the night. The twelve year-old boy looked down at her with pity.

"I thought they'd go back for her, Blake, but they said there was no way to break into Schnee Manor. I made a promise to Belle, and I let her down... It's probably too late."

"W-what do you mean?!"

"... I'm sorry." Adam whispered, gritting his teeth in an effort to stay strong. "I'm so, so sorry."

Blake started sobbing again, burying her face into Adam's chest. After a few minutes, when she was exhausted from crying, Blake looked up. Her teary golden eyes were narrowed.

"No... They'll be sorry."

Well... This story was requested, and it's already off to a rough start. Let's see how "well" this is going to go. I only own my OC. Please read, review, check out my other stories, etc. Thanks!