A/N: Sorry this took longer to get out than the others, but it was longer and harder to write. Not to mention the fact that my hand kept doing the annoying thin where you go to type the 'n' key and your finger presses the 'm' key instead, makes writing so much longer and annoying... Also Badger Brandon is sleeping at the moment, so this one hasn't been Beta'd, so all mistakes are mine. But anyways, here is the next chapter! Its longer, and quite chaotic. Hope you enjoy it, and please don't hurt me afterwards. ;)

Disclaimer: I don't own RWBY or its characters, they belong to RoosterTeeth and Monty Oum.

A snarl left her lips as the coward ducked out of the way of her metal Bō staff, causing it to collide with the blonde man foolishly standing behind the coward. He went down instantly, and Summer would not be surprised if he did not get up again for the rest of the fight.

Her eyes narrowed even further when her ears twitched, the sound of her pup falling on her side from exhaustion. She locked her eyes on the coward who stood with a red haired man by his side, the red head holding a large metal bat with spikes pointing out from it. An angry grimace twisted her face, and a roar left her lips. She wasn't even aware of charging forwards, nor how the coward yet again dodged her path, causing her to collide with the red head. The baseball bat just scraping her arm as she dodged it was also unnoticed, as well as the sensation of her Bō staff slapping the skin on his neck, which caused him to stagger to the side, to be met with her solid fist, sending his body flying the opposite direction to the way that it was falling.

She did not notice any of this, her gaze covered by red hot anger, running completely on instinct and rage.

They hurt her. Her wolf growled in her head.

You didn't protect her. They caused her pain. An echo of her daughter's agonised scream filled her head, and outwardly she matched it with her own yell of anger, not knowing that she was atop the red head, fists flinging repeatedly onto his upper body, the staff lying on the floor near.

Kill them. Right fist, his left cheek. Make them pay for even looking at her. Left handed claws, right cheek. Rip them apart!

She snarled, slashing her claws across the man's neck. He choked in his unconscious haze, he would be dead soon. As if she cared.

Her instincts flared and she dived forwards in a roll, snatching the staff from the floor and turning to snarl at Ivan who, had snuck up behind her, sword raised. He huffed and pulled the metal from his team member's limp form, having missed his intended target.

Summer stood from her crouch, a quieter growl constantly flowing from her lips. She eyed up the man she had dubbed coward, her lips peeling back so her teeth bared at him. Ivan glared right back at her, passing his sword from his right hand to his left, and tossing it back again. He spun it in his hand, stopping it when it was pointed in her direction and falling into a battle stance, his black and silver broadsword glistening in the moonlight. He had to squint to make out Summer's form, to which Summer smirked, as she could see him just as clearly as she would in the day light. She started a slow walk, walking in a circle. Her lips curved up into a horrifying smile, eyes glistening with glee at what she would do to the coward before her, twirling her staff in her right hand.

A sound disrupted her thoughts however, a small whimper. Her head snapped to her pub, watching as she twitched with a pain filled expression in her unconscious sleep. She felt the rage growing once again at a faster rate in her chest, and she turned to the cowards, eyes slit and teeth bared.

But it seemed that Ivan didn't quite know when to shut up.

"You know," he husked, spinning his sword again in his hand, "I've killed so many of your kind, so don't think you're actually going to get away from this alive."

Summer had a low growl in her throat, but pushed it down so she could talk.

"You obviously don't know who I am, nor what a mother would do to protect their pup." There was a biting tone to the end of her words, growl coming back yet again when the coward laughed manically.

"And what a good job you've done then! Even if you do somehow live to see another day, how do you expect your child to live?! She has a shattered shin bone you fool! It is difficult to find a healer for normal people who can heal such a wound, but you? A beast freak who lives and shits in the woods? Who would want to help you?!" he yelled, Summer crouched, teeth grinding together, her fists so tight that her knuckles were white on the Bō staff, she deduced that this coward obviously had some mental incapability, possibly the reason he was so sociopathic.

"I would be doing her a favour to kill her now!"

Summer roared and lunged for the coward in human skin, sliding to the floor and between his spread legs to avoid the metal sword. She span and used her staff to sweep out his feet, Ivan jumped and while in mid air turned to strike her with the sword. The Bō staff came up and blocked his attack, pushing him away long enough to do a backwards roll and once again avoid the swords blow.

Ivan yelled in anger and started to slash the space before him wildly, Summer dodged all the swings and strikes, blocking with her staff and managing to strike a few blows back herself. Ivan felt his anger boiling over, and after receiving a jab to his ribs, he jumped back a few feet. He was breathing deeply with his eyes looking in the darkness. For a moment he was confused as to how the Faunus had avoided and attacked him in such darkness, then it clicked.

Stupid fucking Faunus! He yelled in his mind. He brought up with sword and pushed one of the many crystals in his sword hilt, grin once again going maniacal, as did his insane laughter. As soon as he touched the red Dust crystal his sword began to glow an orange-red colour.

"Now you're done for, you stupid bitch." He growled. He heard some movement from the left of him and he turned, a yell leaving his lips as a stream of burning fire blasted from his sword.

Summer jumped back in shock, a hiss leaving her lips as the fire stream caught her hand. She looked on with wild eyes as a tree caught fire. She snapped her gaze to Ruby, and realised she needed to finish the fight right now. With the fire now burning, Ruby was in serious danger.

"You fool! What sane person would light a fire in a forest?!" Summer yelled, Ivan smirked and poised his blade at her.

"What's wrong wolf? Scared you'll loose now that the odds are even?"

Summer snapped her jaws at him, and they both lunged for each other at the same time. Their weapons and arms were a blur, thuds echoing from the contact of sword and staff. Summer ducked under a swing, punching him in the kidney and bringing up her other arm to block the elbow coming towards her. Ivan growled in frustration, and fired another blast of fire. Summer dodged it again, looking around with wide panicked eyes.

The trees were on fire, blazing in fury against each other as they flickered and swayed aggressively. One tree finally gave way to the heat and burning, letting out a loud creaking as it snapped and began to fall, slamming to the ground with a thunderous crash. Thankfully Ruby's area was somewhat safe, the flames having not yet spread that far, but the blood leaking from her body was not to be ignored, she needed to be healed.

Summer snarled again, determination fuelling her rage and the need to protect her pup. Once again she lunged for the dark haired man, using her semblance of speed along with her Bō staff to strike the coward's sword with precise direction and strength. The coward, caught off guard by the speed of the attack, could do nothing but watch as the sword was flung from his grasp and into the inferno besides them. He shifted his socked expression to one of arrogant annoyance.

"You do know that the sword cannot be burned, it is fireproof."

Summer smirked, and pulled something she had hidden behind her on her belt, into the man's view. He started and looked to his belt, one of his dust crystal containers was empty. Moving his eyes to the white haired woman, her narrowed his gaze and glared at her smirk, a fire-red crystal held between her fingers.

"I am aware that the sword is fire proof, but the real question is, are you?"

Once again using her semblance, Summer shot forward in a flurry of white rose petals, and with a rage filled look in her eyes, slammed the crystal across the man's left cheek with all her strength, enough to shatter the crystal.

The reaction was instant. Ivan yelled out in pain as a wave of fire erupted from the crystal, washing over the entire of the left side of his face. His flesh was instantly burnt and blackened, and his hair immediately singed off. He fell to his knees and clutched at the space around his face, having the thought to rub the fire out on the ground, putting it out quickly.

He lay motionless, eyes wide, mouth agape in a silent scream.

And the entire left side of his face was completely black and red with burns.

Summer stood over him, and after a moment turned to leave. Her eyes landed on Ruby, and her anger came back again. He hadn't suffered enough. No where near enough.

A growl worked its way into her throat and she span back around to the coward, taking two steps towards him and bringing her right foot up. His eyes flickered up to meet her's, and she gave him an evil smirk, before slamming her foot down as hard as she could on the side of his right knee.

A sickening cracking snap sound resonated around the area, followed my Ivan's scream of unfiltered agony as his leg was snapped in half. It brought a smile to Summer's face. She leant down to him and grabbed his head by his hair, forcing him to look at her.

Her voice was lowered to a quiet deadly growl as she spoke to him.

"If you ever come near me or my daughter again, I will kill you." she bared her teeth and threw him back to the floor, leaving after sending a second kick to his rib cage, feeling another grin form as the sound of his ribs breaking came to her ears, followed by another scream.

The look of happiness fell from her face when she saw Ruby, and she used her semblance to run to the small brunette girl, scooping her up in her arms and running back in a flurry of white petals as fast as she could.

Ivan watched them leave, and as soon as they were out of sight, a grin spread across his burnt face.

~Ax~

Summer sprinted through the 'door' to their home, rushing to Ruby's room and placing the small girl on her red quilted bed. Ruby mumbled in her sleep, and flinched a little, Summer let out a small whine at seeing her pup in pain, but quickly re focused her mind. She looked to her daughter's wound in her leg, feeling her teeth sharpen in anger. She huffed and forced down the anger from her wolf, and rushing to get some medical supplies from her room. She got back in record time and carefully inspected the wound. She winced when she saw it, there was bone fragments from the shin and it seemed that the muscle from the calf had been shoved through to the other side of her leg, some coming out of the hole. Summer was thankful that Ruby was unconscious for this.

She took out some scissors and carefully cut away the tights around her daughter's wound, grimacing when some seemed to be stuck in the blood and bone. She rushed away again and returned seconds later with a bucket of warm water and some small sponges. She propped Ruby's leg up by her foot, and poured the warm water on the hole in her leg. A small whimper left Ruby's lips, but Summer kept on pouring the warm water. It came out of the other side of her leg, blood tainting the clear water along with some small stones and twig fragments. With the dried blood now removed from Ruby's leg, Summer was able to remove the rest of the tight.

Now for the tricky bit. Summer thought with a sigh, she brought her hands up and placed them above the wound in Ruby's leg, taking a deep breath and closing her eyes. She could feel a warmth begin at her heart, spread down her arms and to the palms of her hands, she took another deep breath and imagined herself pushing this feeling down.

She knew, if her eyes were open, that a pale pink aura would be gently floating down from her hands, encasing the wound in its glow and increasing in brightness the harder she focused.

A grunt escaped her lips as the strain on her aura began to weaken her, but she shook her head and pushed even harder. Fatigue wouldn't stop her from helping her pup, from saving her child.

A small hiss left her mouth, and the pinkish glow could now be seen through her eyelids. The sounds from the leg were sickening, the sound of flesh slapping together as the skin healed again, the bone creaking and eventually snapping back into place, a the small grunts from her daughter as her leg was healed. Summer knew that the healing process brought no pain to the injured, but it was uncomfortable.

With a final push, Summer opened her eyes with a small concealed gasp of exhaustion. She looked to Ruby's leg and had a tired smile grace her face. She shook her head, and the fatigue, and breathed in through her nose. With how close her inner wolf was to the surface, her normally powerful senses were amplified. She could smell the blood clots and ruptures under Ruby's skin.

She got to work on what she could, healing the broken ribs on Ruby's side, her twisted wrist, and managing to run her thumb across Ruby's head, healing the shallow cut quickly. After that, Summer fell to her knees, mind foggy as her brain slowed. Normally a person could only manage to heal a single broken bone before passing out from exhaustion, Summer was lucky that she was strong enough to do much more.

She moved her head up and watched as a single blood drop fell from Ruby's cut ear to her cheek, and tears welled up in her eyes. She lifted her shaking arm, trying to reach the cut before it could scar.

But with a grunt, she fell forwards onto the bed, arm falling limply over her daughter as she finally passed out.

~Ax~

Weiss stared down at the plate before her, fork held limply in her hand as she pushed the food around, feeling no desire to consume the meal. The table was quiet, her mother was silently shooting her daughter apologetic and sympathetic looks. Her father was making over the top sounds of delight at the meal, obviously trying distract the other two, or pretend that what had happened only a few hours ago, had not occurred.

"This is divine dear, simply astounding!" Julian announced loudly, causing Weiss to flinch and Amelia to glare at her husband.

"Don't you dare try to ignore what you did today." She told him in a deep tone, Julian hummed and put his cutlery down, wiped his mouth and put the napkin on the table top before turning to his wife.

"And what's that, Amelia?" he asked, threat evident in his tone. The servants around the table all tensed and glanced nervously to each other.

"You bloody well know what!" Amelia yelled, slamming her hands on the table top and jumping to her feet, Julian soon followed suit and slammed his own hands on the table also.

"Pray tell dear!"

"I leave to go on a business trip for two days. Two days Julian! And what do I find when I come back, that you deliberately went against my wishes for the benefit of our child!"

"Oh enough with this bull! For all I know, she isn't even my daughter!"

"Julian how dare you!"

"Yet again, sweetie I dare! Let's face it, she's nothing like Winter! At least her sister had my brain and not simply your looks!"

Weiss sighed and moved her fork so it was tilted a little towards her. She caught her reflection, her pale skin, her blue eyes, the platinum white hair…

And now, a scar through her left eye.

She could imagine Ruby and Summer's reaction to the new addition to her face… they got upset when she simply tripped and cut her knee. But now there was a scar…

"You bastard! And don't change the subject! I didn't want her to fight that- that Knight! She's ten Julian, fucking ten you sick bastard!"

"I'm preparing her!"

"You're torturing her!"

Suddenly the dining room doors slammed open and a form came through the wooden arches. Hagged and soaked with red, limping and leaning heavily on a familiar sword, their face cast in shadow.

"I-Ivan?" Julian asked, rushing forward to the aid of his brother, followed by several servants as he fell to the floor heavily.

"M-m-monsters brother! Monsters!"

"What? Calm down brother, you're making little sense-!"

Ivan reached up and grabbed his brother's collar, everyone gasped at the sight of the beaten, bloody, and burnt man.

"In the forest! T-they killed my team!"

"Who did? Who brother?!"

Ivan looked up with hate in his dark eyes.

"Fucking Faunus'! They snuck up on us, attacked in the dark like cowards! They broke my knee brother! L-look what they did to my face!"

Julian's expression darkened, and he took Ivan's shoulders gently.

"What did they look like Ivan? Tell me!"

"T-they were… Wolf Faunus! Two of them! I killed one, but the other got me…"

With all the attention on the beaten man, none in the room caught the gasp of shock from the young Heiress, nor the fearful tears stinging at her eyes as dread punched her chest.

"They killed all of them! Charles, Bronon, S-Samuel… they're all dead!"

"Don't worry brother! We'll have them hunted down and killed for harming you." Julian told him standing up and pointing at one of the servants.

"You, bring me the houses Head of Security, now!" he barked, the boy quickly nodded and ran off. Everyone then returned their attention to the man on the floor, muttering about monsters and wolves.

"Weiss, you don't need to see this. Go to your room." Her mother said tightly.

"B-but mom-"

"Now Weiss." She told her in a commanding tone, she knew there was no way to convince her otherwise.

So, Weiss sighed and allowed the guard to lead her to her room, annoying staying inside the room with her the whole time.

She fell onto her bed and hugged her pillow, breathing in the scent of forest trees and

~Ax~

"Ruby… come on Ruby you have to get up. We've got to go… Ruby… Ruby!"

Ruby gasped and shot up in her bed, eyes wide. She looked to the source of the sound and saw Summer staring intently at her.

"You okay?" she asked, Ruby shakily nodded her head, "Good, come on we're going to Uncle Qrow's."

Ruby slowly nodded and sat up, holding her head as the room shook.

"Alright moma… just let me go say bye to Weiss and I'm all set."

A hand came on her shoulder and stopped all movement; she looked up and saw Summer's blank expression.

"You're not going to Weiss' house, it's not safe anymore Ruby."

"W-what do you mean not safe? I've been there tones of times, it's perfectly fine!"

"One, not when you're still recovering, and two, I said it isn't safe anymore."

"W-why?"

"Ruby, do you remember what happened two days ago?"

Ruby frowned and thought back, eyes widening as it all came rushing back to her.

Jumping through trees. Falling.

Weiss' Uncle. Laughter. Pain.

Leg. More pain.

Ear. Cut.

Pain.

She gasped and touched her left ear, running her hand along the soft fur which Weiss loved so much. A whimper left her lips when her finger tips ran over a line of scabbed flesh across the back of her ear.

"M-momma, what happened?" she asked, tears leaking from her eyes. Summer ducked down again and made eye contact.

"They found us, they found us and they hurt you, you've been unconscious for the whole time since, I waited as long as I could for your body to heal more than it has, but we cant wait any longer. We have to go, they'll be back."

"B-but we're gonna see Weiss again, right?" Summer did not answer, "Right?" Ruby asked, her voice going higher in desperation.

"I don't know sweetie, come on, we have to go."

Ruby nodded, slowly standing up with tears now falling down her cheeks, despite how much she rubbed them away.

"Here, have this." Summer said, holding out a photo she had taken from a frame in the house.

It was of Weiss and Ruby, they were younger, Weiss was nine and Ruby was still five. Ruby was jumping after a bubble floating above her, eyes wide with excitement, Weiss was sat behind her with a laugh frozen in the photo, the bubble mix held in her hands, it was taken outside the big tree by Summer, the grass long and blowing in gentle breeze.

Ruby took it with muttered thanks, looking at it again before folding it up and putting it in her shirt pocket.

"Now, let's go."

Then, with minimal items, the two wolves left their home, leaving their happiness and whole life behind them.

~Ax~

Running seemed a lot harder for them with the weight of their actions pressing down on their backs. Summer tried to keep a blank expression, but Ruby's was flooded with tears, sobs coming from her mouth with every breath.

Summer glanced back to her daughter, heart strings pulling when she saw the young look of depression, but she knew they couldn't stop, they had to keep moving.

They were reaching the borders of Vale, soon they would be in Vacuo and then it would be a continued sprint through the night until they got to Qrow's home in Atlas. Then, they could finally relax.

"M-mom… I- I can't… run anymore… I- I need…"

Summer skidded to a stop and caught Ruby in her arms, falling to the floor with her child who hugged her face to her shoulder, taking deep labouring breaths. She knew her daughter, she could run to Qrow's house and back without needing a break, thanks to her semblance, so she wasn't tired, physically at least.

"Ruby, what's really bothering you?" she asked, holding her closer.

"I-I-I miss W-Weiss mom!"

Summer shushed her pup and gently rubbed her hair, combing her fingers through her short red and dark brown locks.

"Honey, I'm sorry but we can't go back."

"E-ever?" Ruby hiccupped, pulling back to look at her mother through tear filled eyes, ears flat on her hair. Summer sighed.

"Maybe, I don't know. We'll figure it all out at Uncle Qrow's home, okay?"

Ruby nodded, and Summer wrapped her arms around her and stood up, figuring that she could carry the distraught girl. She was surprised that the young pup hadn't had a panic attack over what had occurred.

She only managed to go forward about ten feet before a net fell from above them, entrapping them as its weights locked the net to the forest ground. Summer had instinctively rolled over to cover Ruby with her body, so when the metal net fell on them, her back was the only thing to get hurt.

She let out a growl, feeling her claws and teeth grow. She snapped her left arm up and cut through the metal net with her claws just as men in black uniforms came from the bushes and tree tops, guns pointing at them from all angles and voices yelling out commands to the two Faunus.

"Summer looked around them and hushed to her daughter.

"Ruby… this looks bad. If I tell you to run, I want you to run, okay? Promise me you'll run no matter what happens, don't even look back."

"B-but-"

"Sweetie promise me."

"O-okay moma." Ruby nodded with her statement. Summer nodded to herself with a relieved sigh.

"Good girl, I love you so, so much."

Summer threw the net off of them and held Ruby in her arms, crouched with her eyes shooting everywhere as the yelling increased in volume.

"What is the meaning of this?!" she bellowed, the men stopped shouting, but they did not lower their guns. A man at the front spoke.

"Faunus scum. For the crimes committed two nights ago, you shall be punished as seen fit." He announced, hatred leaking in his voice.

"And what crimes are they?" she asked, ears twitching as they moved around.

"For attacking Mr Ivan Schnee, brother of Julian Schnee, head of the Schnee Dust Company, unprovoked and without reason."

"That's nonsense!" she yelled, the men raised their guns higher and called for her to be silent.

"That does not matter! A crime against the Schnee Dust Company is very high, but against a close member of the family? Punishable by death."

Summer felt a growl on her lips and squeezed Ruby's shoulder to get her attention.

"Ruby… Ruby listen to me. You're going to have to run. Run as fast as you can and don't stop."

"W-where will I go?" she asked, a hiccup in her voice.

"To your Uncle Qrow, he'll keep you safe."

"I wouldn't do that young lady!" a recognisable voice called, Summer looked up with a held in snarl on her lips, and glared at the man.

"Coward! What are you doing here?!" she demanded in a deep raspy voice. Ruby whimpered when she noticed the man and huddled closer to her mother.

Ivan smirked, as much as his burnt face would allow, and walked a little awkwardly closer to the wolf duo.

"Its amazing how fast doctors will work to get you healed when your brother owns the biggest company in the world, isn't it? Not to mention brother of mine is an inventor, and the inventions are… helpful."

He pulled up his trouser leg, for the leg she had snapped at the knee, to reveal a metal replacement.

"W-what? How?" Summer asked; slightly confused at the metallic leg the man now bore.

"It was faster than getting it healed." Ivan supplied easily, as if having a robotic leg was something akin to a normal occurrence.

"Now, enough… chit chat. You must suffer for your crimes…" his eyes drifted towards Ruby's shivering form, a sadistic gleam flashing in them followed by a smirk, "… both of you."

Summer snarled, eyes now shifted so they were black instead of white, her eyes standing out stark again the new colour. She charged at the coward with her incredible speeds, who had not been able to react to the speed, and clawed him across the neck. He fell as she turned to the man neck to him and did the same thing, cutting deeper and killing him instantly.

"Run Ruby!" she yelled, Ruby quickly stood and shot to her feet, not resisting looking as her mother took down two guys at once with her staff, before turning and sprinting in the opposite direction, away from Vaccuo, away from Atlas. She just ran.

Not even when she was miles away, and the sound of a single gun shot cracked across the terrain, did she stop running.

She ignored the tears, ignored the pain, her mother's words on a loop through her mind.

Run, I want you to run, okay?

She jumped over a log, not even realising that where she was running was the direction of her home… her old home.

Promise me you'll run no matter what happens.

She sobbed, tripping on a log just in front of the house, the log she sat on with Weiss as they played, with Summer watching from the door of their house. She heard a rip as she tumbled, and she landed on her back heavily. She stayed where she was for a few moments, sobs wracking her frame. She wasn't stupid. She knew what that gun shot meant. Why there would only be a single one, and not many.

Her mother… her mother… was…

She pushed herself up so she was leaning on her hands, and she ran a hand through her hair, holding it out of her face as she cried. Her claws dug into the ground and her teeth cut her lip with the force of her bite. But she did not care.

She couldn't go to her uncle, couldn't go to Yang…. Couldn't go to Weiss…

She felt a spark of anger, one which quickly ignited in her veins, pulsing through her body and burning her chest.

She was angry. No, she was furious.

Not at Weiss. at her family. At- at Ivan. That coward had done this to her! The pitiful excuse of a human had hurt her! Had killed her mother!

The growl building up in her chest begged to be let out, she dropped her hand from her hair and slammed it to the ground, clawing at the dirt as she threw her head back, and roared.

She had never roared before. Never.

Her claws lost their grip on the ground and her arms went flying to the side, held out like a bird as she roared.

Slowly it died away, but Ruby wanted more. She wanted to do more.

She wanted to get revenge on Ivan.

Ruby shot to her feet and disappeared in the house, coming out seconds later with a photo in a frame. She took the frame apart and took out the photo, it was one of herself and her mother, Summer with her arms wrapped around her smaller shoulders, Ruby holding them in her small hands and snuggling her mom's cheek with her face, smiling at something behind the camera, at Weiss, who had taken the photo.

She folded it up and put that photo in her shirt pocket. She took one last look at her home, which she would be leaving for the second time that night, this time for good.

Then, she turned, and she ran. Her mother's words returned to her, causing tears to streak down her face.

Don't even look back.

She kept running, a sob breaking her mouth.

I love you so, so much.

"I love you too mom…" she whispered to the wind, shaking her head, and sprinting for the rest of the night, destination: anywhere.

~Ax~

Weiss sat up in her bed, hearing a commotion downstairs. The guard had left her room as the night fell over the mansion, so she did not delay in shooting out of bed and padding down the many staircases to the living room, where her parents were.

She could make out their voices clearer, and stopped on the staircase, looking through the crack in the door to see what was going on.

"This is too far Ivan!"

"You said I could get revenge! I did!"

"Yes, but this is too much! Now I have to hide this from the VPD as well as pay off the security with you tonight, witnesses Ivan! All of them!"

"They hurt me brother!"

"There was no need for this punishment! Do you even realise what this could do to our family's reputation? To your reputation?!"

"I don't care! She deserved it!"

There was a sigh, and her father spoke in a calmer tone.

"Di you get both of them Ivan?"

There was a pause, and Weiss waited with batted breath and wide tearful eyes, then her hated Uncle spoke.

"…Yes."

Weiss cupped her mouth with her hands to hold in the cry of fear, and tears fell from her eyes.

They have Summer and Ruby! She thought. They'll lock them up! Hurt them! T-they can't!

Then she mentally gasped.

What if they kill them?

No, she told herself, not even Ivan is masochistic enough to kill a child. And her father would never allow it… right?

"Good, no witnesses then. Now, take those ghastly things away and do whatever you'll do with them. You're excused."

Weiss ran up the stairs silently, and looked from around the corner as Ivan left the room, a noticeable glee in his step.

At first, she didn't notice them. The two things that would forever scar her more than the knight ever could. Something that would change her perspective of the world entirely, and in turn bring her entire world crashing down around her.

In Ivan's hands, was a piece of red fabric. The fabric from a cloak. And… in his other hand…

Two snowy white wolf ears, stained red with blood.

A/N: Damn, we all hate uncle Ivan, huh? Don't worry, he'll get what's coming to him. Now, should I even ask if you liked it? What with what happened and all... Meh, its instinct by now anyways. So... like? Please tell me what you think in a review or a PM! The feedback is amazing you guys, and it really gets me ready to write more for this story! So thank you! :)

For the next chapter (or the one after), unless my muse takes a sharp turn, we should be at Beacon, so we get some cannon fun, eh? :) I already have some ideas on how to change the show to fit my version, so hopefully you'll enjoy that when we come to it. So, thanks again for reading, and I hope you all liked it :)