A/N: I AM SO SO SO SORRY! This had been ready for upload for weeks, but I had forgotten to do it after I had emailed it to myself. (Fun fact, all of my fanfics are typed on my 5 year old phone and then emailed to myself for uploading.) I am already working on the next chapter, as well as several other fics at once while prancing around insane hours of work and Guild Wars 2. I hope you all like it, and I am once again so sorry for this being so late.

WARNING: CHILD DEATH. BE AWARE.

With love.
Korrupted.

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Skylar Datenshi: I'm glad you are enjoying this so far! I hope you keep enjoying this, and that you are having an awesome day wherever you are!

Disclaimer: I do not own RWBY. Never have, and never will. I do own the OC's, but other than that, it belongs to rooster Teeth and Monty Oum. Always keep going forwards.


Ruby watched nervously as Cardin and Pyrrha dueled in Glynda's class, hearing Weiss cheering on the ginger loudly beside her. As much as he could be a jerk, no one could deny that he was strong and dangerous with his mace. As the head of the weapon shattered part of the floor beside his agile foe, even Blake and Yang were getting antsy in their seats.

However, Pyrrha was cool, calm, and collected as she rolled to the side, hitting Cardin against the side of his head with her shield as she righted herself. All at once, she was utterly on the offensive, hitting him over and over again until at long last, Cardin dropped to his knee in defeat.

"Pyrrha Nikos wins again." Glynda stated in a bland voice. "Now, Mr. Winchester, if you are quite done, you should see the nurse."

Cardin ground his teeth before standing, smashing his mace into floor in his anger. However, Dove, Lark, and Russel dashed over with grins on their faces.

"There's a were in town! They cornered the animal, Cardin!" Lark sneered.

Cardin smirked, nodding. "Let's kill us a were!"

Quickly, the four raced out, only making it down one hall before running into Professor Ozpin.

"If you are thinking about joining that mob, think again." Ozpin coolly informed them, taking a sip of his coffee.

"Aww, c'mon." Dove groaned.

Ozpin's eyes narrowed. "If any of my students ever join such a foolish act such as a lynch mob, the entire team will be expelled."

Cardin snarled openly at the headmaster. "You can't do that!"

"Are you really willing to bet that?"

As quickly as he had come, Ozpin walked away, leaving the four boys behind. "We can still go." Lark hissed. "He'll never know."

"No." Cardin grunted. He wasn't throwing his future away on a filthy beast. "We're not going."

Dove whipped around to look at him. "Are you serious?! He can't do that. Let's go."

Cardin grabbed Dove by his shirt, yanking him close. "I said, we are not going." He growled in a dangerous tone.

Grumbling but afraid enough to relent, the other three made their way back to their class. It was angering that they couldn't kill that monster, but they had a future to prepare for.


Coco watched Yatsuhashi shove through the knot of a crowd, Velvet remaining with Fox behind her. They had been called in to break up the mob and save the exposed were, a task that was generally left to the staff of Beacon; Glynda was aware of team CFVY being accepting of weres, and had advocated for them to be a first response team. However, it had taken many previous minutes to shove their way this close, and those were minutes that could be the difference between life and death for the endangered person.

Finally, Yatsuhashi stood, kicking some of the lynchers ruthlessly away as he headed back to his team leader, his head shaking sadly. They had been too late again.

Coco felt her heart break slightly as the blood thirsty mob scurried away in satisfaction, hitting one in the face with her combat tote to knock him out. Not only did it help her vent, but they could interrogate him later. She could hear Velvet crying, Fox trying to console her delicately as their friend knelt down to show who they had tried to save.

A young girl, possibly as old as ten was laying bloody and limp in his arms, bullet holes and bruises marring her body. However, it was the tiny patches of soft brown fur and the mouse tail that truly caught their eye. How could she be partially changed in the middle of the day? And the next full moon wasn't for another eight days!

"Let's take her to Ozpin. He needs to see this." Yatsuhashi stated, trying to wipe away some of the blood from the dead child.

Coco nodded, though was deeply troubled by the half-changed were. What in Remnant had caused her to partially change in broad daylight? And how could they keep Velvet safe from this ever growing trend of were lynchings?


Velvet walked down the hall, seeing Cardin and his team of bullies heading towards her quickly. She swiftly turned back and tried to avoid them, ultimately being cornered by the quartet. "M-may I help you?" She stammered, still emotionally frazzled from the were incident a mere two hours ago.

"Heard you went to break up the lynching." Dove drawled. "What did that monster do? What did it look like?"

Velvet felt her heart hammering wildly, trying to figure out what direction to bolt in. "P-people were everywhere. Hashi and Coco tried to break up the mob."

Lark rolled his eyes, knocking on the side of her head sharply. "The monster was killed, right? We want to know what it looked like, not if you could get there fast."

Tears slid down Velvet's cheeks as she nodded, the boys chuckling in sadistic glee. "W-we tried to help, b-but we got th-th-there too late..."

"I highly suggest you all get away from her." A firm female voice demanded.

All eyes turned towards a visibly seething Coco, Russel sneering openly. "Four against one is hardly a fair match."

Coco lowered her glasses smirking back coldly. "I know, so I'll be sure to take it easy on you."

Dove rushed over only to have the combat tote knock him clear across the hall as the older huntress stalked closer, both Lark and Russel bolting.

Velvet dashed towards her girlfriend, receiving a quick kiss on her cheek before continuing towards their dorm.

Cardin looked at her indignantly. "We just were asking about that creature you saw."

Coco halted three steps away. "So you cornered her, and bullied her into the wall? Such a big, strong man you must be."

"So what? One less of those damn were beasts anyways."

"We don't go into those lynches for your amusement. We are trying to save lives."

"Those things are animals!" He shouted at her.

In the blink of an eye, Coco grabbed hold of his armor, slammed Cardin into the floor, and punched him in the face. "They are forced to change under a full moon. They can't stop the change! Every damn full moon they turn into animals because of their DNA. Every full moon, they become these 'monsters', as you call them." She stepped back, glaring down at him as she shook in rage. "So what's your excuse for being an animal?"

Coco left him to hold his sore jaw as she took a few more steps back, shaking her head. "And it was a little girl. She was barely nine. The mob murdered a nine year old girl, because she turns into a brown field mouse under a full moon."

Cardin watched the second year walk away in silence, his hand still holding his jaw. As he stood, he looked back down the hall she had left through, his brow furrowed in thought as he roughly hauled his teammate up to half drag him to the dorm. Weres were supposed to be adults who turned into terrible monsters. They were supposed to be cruel wolf packs that hunted humans. They were supposed to deserve the mobs. They weren't suppose to be children who changed into mice. They weren't supposed to be little girls, who had been hunted down for no reason.

Were creatures weren't supposed to remind him of normal humans.


Cinder watched Emerald sleep in her arms, the dark skinned youth peaceful in the wake of their activities. It was almost laughable how easily she was placated with the illusion of love, how the absurd notion that the older woman cared for her made her more pliable. At least Roman knew that the sex was part of their business partnership; Emerald was fool enough to fall for the lie.

Mercury carefully walked in, looking between the two women before settling on Cinder. "The Vital Festival would be too risky to attack during. Roman says after would do best."

Cinder smiled coyly, nodding as she stroked Emerald's back with her nails gently. "Then so be it. You've been a very busy bee, Mercury. Why don't you go ahead and rest?"

Mercury nodded and left, letting Cinder mull over the news silently. This could prove to be easier than she had anticipated. As long as Emerald was a good pawn, and Mercury proved to be as loyal as he seemed, Remnant would be theirs.