AN: This is my first story, so please some constructive criticism would be much appreciated. I do not own RWBY as it is owned by Roosterteeth, I only own the OC. Okay now that that's over with let's start, shall we?

Chapter 1

Team RWBY was walking back to their dorm after lunch, with an awkward silence created by anticipation, because they heard packages were coming in from their families.

"Sooo," Ruby began, "Is anyone excited?"

"Hmmph," went Weiss knowing that her father didn't send anything.

The team reached their dorm, opened the door, and noticed that there was only only one package labeled Ruby, and one can of tuna with a note that said From Sun. Blake seeing this darted towards the can and immediately started eating it.

Ruby picked up her package and opened it up. She found three pictures in picture frames, she analyzed each one as she pulled them out. First she pulled out an old picture of herself on her first day at Signal Academy. Next she pulled out a picture of her and her sister standing in front of a statue. Lastly she pulled out a picture of her (at 13 years old) and a guy (at 16 years old), both in hoods, one in red one in turquoise and white. Seeing this picture made Ruby started to cry.

After Blake finished her tuna (wasn't over half a minute) she noticed, her team leader, Ruby quietly crying to herself while holding the picture. She walked over to Ruby, trying to comfort her, and noticed the second figure in the photo.

"Who's that?" Blake inquired.

After taking a second to try not to cry Ruby spoke up, "That was my….brother, Nathan."

She paused before speaking again, "He died three years ago. his first year at Beacon, when he was sixteen."

"How?" Blake asked, hesitant to whether or not her leader would lash out at her.

Ruby sat and began to tell Blake how Nathan died.

Three Years Ago

"Hey Ruby!" Nathan called out.

"What!" Ruby yelled back.

"Me and my team found a natural cave with pure dust inside of it. Wanna come with me to see it?"

"Sure! But let me get my clothes on first! I'm still in my pj's!"

After about two minutes, "Ok, ready." Ruby stated

"Let's go then." Nathan replied.

After a two mile hike outside of the city they finally reached the cliff with the cave. But something felt 'off' to Nathan, seeing that he noticed some broken branches.

"Fina-hmph," Ruby almost stated, but her mouth was quickly covered by Nathans hand.

"Shhhh," He said pulling her behind a tree. Then releasing his sister and pointing towards the cave and pointing out people. He took a closer look and noticed the white Grimm mask they were wearing, The White Fang. 'Why are there this many?' he thought looking at the about fifty members.

"Dammit," Nathan whispered, "Alright you stay here, I have to take care of this."

Before Ruby could reply, her brother checked his two pistols (which were mainly turquoise) and his staff, transforming it into a scythe (white with a turquoise rose on the blade), making sure they worked and disappeared (his semblance).

Using this to his advantage, he would reappear and cut through four at a time with his behemoth scythe (blade five and half feet long) and flipped it in the air. Then whipping out his two pistols (which use blue, electric, dust), he shot three of them and holstered his guns just in time to catch his spinning scythe and kill five more while still spinning. Then he stopped, Noticing that they were fleeing. But all good things must come to an end.

Just as Nathan lowered his guard and turned his scythe into a staff, a head popped up from the cave. The White Fang member aimed his rifle.

BANG!

Nathan looked down at his white now turning red tee-shirt. Then he looked back up.

BANG! BANG!

He looked down again to notice three holes in his chest. Not being able to support himself anymore Nathan fell to his knees, and coughed up some blood.

Knowing that his opponent was beaten, the White Fang member walked up to Nathan and dragged him to the cliff adjacent to the cave, and sat the teen up on the edge of the cliff.

"I hope the little one is watching." The member said, as he got ready to kick Nathan off the cliff.

Nathan hearing this knowing that he was going down, but he used all the strength he could muster and lifted his hands to grab the foot before it hit him

He looked over to his little sister Ruby and said, "Goodbye." These were the last words Ruby heard him say before he was kicked off the cliff, and took the member with him.

During his descent Nathan saw everything around him in slow motion. This gave the hunter in training time to reflect on his life. He remembered wanting to be a hunter at a young age and his sister following closely in his footsteps, as well as being accepted into Beacon at a young age, for being top of his class. He also remembered when his mother died and when Yang came into the 'picture'. With that he hoped that she would take care of Ruby. As he thought he turned to see his killer, flailing his arms. Then he thought to himself 'I guess this is the end'.

THUD

The unearthly sound echoed itself to Ruby, Who in turn sat there horrified, to what happened, then she saw his scythe ant grabbed it and held it for a long time.

Two days after, the rest of Nathans team went back to the cave, in search for their leader, but instead found a young girl holding his weapon and crying to herself.

"Hey are you alright?" One of them said.

In pure fury and rage she darted towards the one who talked with her brother's scythe, and pinned the 18 year old with the weapon. Then after realizing that this was one of her brother's team mates she fell on him and held him in a hug. Then she fainted, from lack of…. everything, because she just sat there for two days.

Present

"And that's as much as I remember. I….I'm going out." Ruby said starting to cry again, while walking outside the dorm.

Blake started crying halfway through, Weiss stood listening and felt broken, in a way, wanting to cry but she couldn't. Yang however, after hearing the name Nathan, left and sat in the library and cried.

Ruby left for the cliff, that her brother died on, to sit next to his gravestone, without the body, because it was never found.

As Ruby left the tree line she noticed a hooded figure, in black with a staff, standing over the gravestone.

Ruby felt angered by this, "Hey!" The figure not moving in response. "This area is private, so leave, now!"

"I'm sorry." The hooded man spoke, he had a very masculine voice but it sounded like he hasn't had anything to drink for a few days, " I'm just reminiscing in memory." As he said this he knelt over the stone placed a faded turquoise hood on it.

"Where did you get that!?" Ruby darted, noticing the hooded cloak.

The man stood and turned to find an angered sixteen year old in a battle stance with an unproportional scythe. But all she could see was black under the hood.

"Before I kill the man who probably killed my brother, show me your face!" Ruby yelled.

He complied and took off his hood, only to show a horrific grey and black skull mask, "If you're going to fight me go ahead and try." he stated in a taunting voice.

Ruby's eyes burned with hatred as she darted, faster than the blink of an eye, and cut through the figure only to reveal that when she cut, it left black rose petals to blow in the wind. She immediately felt something was wrong. She lifted her scythe and pointed it around. Then a whisper came from behind

"Before you try and counter, can we talk first?" The man asked.

As Ruby heard the whisper she looked down to a slowly decloaking, into sight, scythe around her. Ruby sighed in defeat

"Fine." She said.

As he released his scythe, Ruby noticed that his scythe was sleeker than hers and had a much larger blade, but his scythe wasn't ranged like hers. when he fully released she noticed that it folded into the staff he was holding earlier.

Ruby walked over to a tree and sat against it while the guy sat across the other, "Is there anything you would like to ask?" The man inquired.

"Where did you get the hood over there?" She asked.

"It was an old friend of mine's"

"What's your name?"

"I won, so what's yours?"

"Ruby Rose," she stated annoyed at the last comment.

"Nathaniel, But people who know me call me The Withered Rose" Nathaniel Stated.

"Huh, my brother's name was Nathan."

"Was?"

Ruby nodded and looked over towards the gravestone

"Oh," Nathaniel got the hint, paused and started again, "For what it's worth, I have a few things to say to you. One, I'm sorry for your loss. Two, it's kinda cool that we have similar weapons." earning a slight smile from Ruby, "Three, I could teach you to fight better since I'm only three years older than you and more experienced." Ruby gave a puzzled look as to why he knew her age. "And four, it takes a lot more than three bullet wounds and a hundred foot drop to kill me." Ruby became angered at this because she took it as an offence to her brother's death.

Seeing this he decided to start over, he stood and held out his hand as if to shake it, "Okay, let's start over. Hello, my name is Nathaniel, or Nathan Rose."

END CHAPTER 1