F3: All good things must come to an end, and the end of Sapphire Stars first volume has finally arrived! Roman Torchwick, The Spider, and much more await as we now begin. As usual though I'll go over the disclaimers again. RWBY is property of Rooster Teeth and Monty Oum. Also I only own the OC characters. With that said Let's Rev It Up!


Volume 1-20: In The End.


Meanwhile at the markets Yang and Iona began looking at the market's trying to find Blake and Star but only to find nothing.

"We've searched the entire market from top to bottom and still no sign of either of them." Iona said which made her worry.

"Hey where ever they are I'm sure we'll find them. I mean how far they could've gone." Yang replied.

"I know but I'm just worried that they might be in trouble and they'll need us to help them out." Iona said worryingly.

"Plus I still can't get in contact with Rina to see if she'd seen them." She added which only seemed to increase her worries.

"I know you must be worried but we'll find them. Remember the others are checking the other areas so odds are we might be able to find them." Yang reminded trying to ease her worries.

"Yeah... I guess you're right." Iona smiled a little.

However when they turned the next corner they noticed a group of three people in cloaks that were concealing their identity as they were heading inside a building known as Tuscons Books.

"What in the world is going on here?" Yang questioned.

"They look suspicious... should we check it out." Iona said.

Yang nodded in agreement as the two went toward the book shop but only just outside.

The two peeked in and saw the three talking with the owner of the store.

One of them seemed to be going about the inside of the building which seemed to concern the owner.

"What are they doing?" Yang whispered.

"I'm not sure." Iona whispered back.

"They look like they're just talking to the owner." Yang said.

"Yeah but why hide their faces." Iona wondered.

The third cloaked figure then rejoined them and seemed to whisper something into the one in the middle before they turned around and headed toward the door.

"Here they come." Iona warned as they moved toward the other side of the building as the three came out and proceed to walk away from the building.

Once they were gone Yang and Iona came out from the building and onto the market.

"Now wonder what that was all about?" Yang asked.

"Not sure but they sure do seem suspicious." Iona said then she got an idea.

"Maybe they might know where Blake and Star are." She added.

Yang nodded in agreement "Alright then let's follow them." Yang added.

However as the two began to follow them the inside of the building suddenly exploded into a fireball which seemed to destroy the windows sending glass in all directions.

The shock wave itself launched Yang and Iona into some cars luckily their aura took some of blow but it still hurt for them.

"Ow..." Iona grunted as she got up from the ground after being slammed into a car from the explosion.

"You okay Yang." She grunted looking toward Yang as the blonde got up slowly.

"Okay what was the license plate number on the thing that hit us?" Yang questioned.

"I don't know but..." Iona started but then she noticed the building that was on fire.

"Yang call the fire department! I'll see if they're any survivors!" Iona ordered as she headed toward the burning building.

"Iona what are doing!?" Yang shouted but that didn't stop Iona from charging into the burning building as she slipped into the door.

Once Iona got inside she was immediately met with smoke trying to fill her lungs. She covered her mouth with her left hand trying to block the smoke from getting into her lungs.

"Hello!? Anyone in here!?" She shouted even though her voice was muffled.

She knew she couldn't stay long as she quickly looked around as the fire was starting to spread as the books were burning. She then noticed their was someone...possibly a white fang member from the mask she could make out on the ground and out cold.

She went over to see if the person was okay but then noticed multiple slabs of wood sticking out of his body. Mainly one of the slabs of wood that hit his heart only seemed to kill him instantly.

Iona couldn't do much knowing that he was dead but she couldn't stay long as the building was becoming unstable by the minute. Almost immediately she headed toward the door with smoke and soot on her.

She came out coughing and hacking trying to get all the smoke out of her lungs.

"I've call the fire department and they're on the way." Yang said as she went to her side.

"What were you thinking going in there? You could've gotten killed." Yang said as Iona continue to hack and cough.

"I had to... do something." Iona breathed.

"Yeah but that was stupid too." Yang added as she then heard the sirens coming toward them.

"Stay put that smoke must've gotten into your lungs." Yang ordered as they sat down on the curb.

=RWBY=

Meanwhile with Ruby and Penny the two were currently looking for Ruby's two missing friends as Penny began to ask question.

"So if I may ask dear Ruby? What exactly cause all of this to occur?" Penny asked.

"Well honestly it kinda happened so fast. Weiss and Blake started arguing about the White Fang and what should happen do them. Then somethings were said and Blake just ran off along with Star." Ruby replied.

"Oh...so do Weiss and Blake hate each other now?" Penny asked.

"No I don't think so but...it's complicated. I just hope that we can find them." Ruby said but just then Ruby saw a snowflake coming down on her nose feeling the coldness from it.

"Snow? Where is all of this coming?" Ruby asked as more snowflakes were falling.

"Ruby I believe that's where it's coming from." Penny pointed out seeing a small gray cloud hovering over the docks.

"Let's get moving then." Ruby said as she then took out her scroll and called Yang.

"Yang I think Star is at the docks. Snow suddenly started to fall. Me and Penny are going to check it out. Could you meet us their?" Ruby asked.

"Sorry Ruby but something happened to Iona and I've got to make sure she's going to be okay." Yang said on the other end.

"Why? What happened?" She asked.

"There was a fire and Iona ran into it to see if there was any survivors." Yang said.

"Well was there any?" Ruby asked again.

"No the owner died due to a stab to the heart from a wooden slab that must have hit him when the building exploded. She got some smoke in her lungs. The fire department is here and so are the paramedics to help with Iona." Yang replied.

"Okay you go do that. I'll let you know if we find them or not." Ruby said.

"Thanks." Yang replied as Ruby hung up.

"Let's get going Penny." Ruby replied.

"Right behind you dear Ruby." Penny replied as she followed the young girl.

=RWBY=

Meanwhile Star was still in trying to take care of The Spider as the two continued their fight.

"Okay this Spider is way too good. Just by looking the person is obviously female given her figure and seems experienced enough in a fight." Star thought as the Spider dodged another slash from her staff.

Star thought it was time to switch tactics as she managed to land a kick on the Spider sending her back some feet. That bought Star enough time to switch her weapon into gun mode as she aimed at the spider.

"Let's see you like this." Star said as she pulled the trigger firing a stream of fire at her target.

The Spider tried to avoid it but some of the fire managed to burn her as her aura took the blow.

Under the mask Rina silently cursed at the sudden burn "Great this isn't good. Any more of that and my suit isn't going to last." Rina thought as she glanced over to where Roman was fighting off Blake and some monkey boy faunus as a bullhead had arrived to take the dust.

"And looks like pops is going to need some help." Rina thought as she tried to break away from Star. However Star seemed to got wind of what she was up to as she felt Stars hook claw grab hold of her and tugged her back toward Star.

"Oh no you don't." Star replied.

"You're not going anywhere." She added.

Now Rina was starting to get annoyed as she decided to activate her semblance. Behind Star an abandoned crowbar floated over and just about Stars head as she went to hit her trying to knock her out.

However the ears under Star ribbon twitched as she heard something behind her. Star reacted quickly blocking the crowbar as she managed to bat it away. That was all the time Rina needed she push her mask up to where only her mouth was visible as she managed to get a hold of her.

"Hey get off of me!" Star shouted trying to shake the spider off her.

"Sorry about this." She said as she drove her fangs into her neck.

"Gah!" Star shouted feeling the stabbing pain in her neck.

Rina removed her fangs from Stars neck as Star dropped her knees.

"Why... you little!?" Star shouted back feeling her legs had gone numb.

Rina immediately put her mask back down over her mouth.

"Sorry but I can't have you intervene in this. It'll last at least a few minutes at best. Later." She said as she head toward where Roman was having difficulty with the two.

Star however could barely move thanks to whatever the spider did to her.

"Must be some kind of toxin that can paralyze parts of the body. Great." Star replied.

"Only one chance. Hopefully the others see this." Star said as she closed her eyes and concentrated as she triggered her semblance.

Meanwhile with Blake and Sun they were dealing with Roman and now the Spider that decided to join in as she kick Blake away from him.

"You okay pops?" She asked.

"Yeah but we got a couple of gnats in the way here." Roman said pointing toward the two.

Rina however noticed that Blake had removed her bow revealing her cat ears.

"Well... that makes a lot of sense." Rina thought.

What they failed to noticed was that Star was using her semblance as snow cloud appeared over the docks as it began to snow heavily causing a small blizzard.

"Huh? Where did this snow come from?" Roman asked trying to block it out.

"Don't know but we're going to need to..." The spider started but someone cut her off.

"HEY!" A voice shouted getting all their attention as they saw Ruby on top of a building her scythe fully extended.

"Oh great now she's in on this." Rina thought.

"Take off!" Roman ordered to one of white fang member as the bullhead began to take off.

Ruby for her part fired at the bullhead trying to bring it down before someone else behind her came in to fight.

"Penny! What are you doing?" Ruby called out.

"Don't worry Ruby." Penny began.

"I'm combat ready." She said slightly glaring at the two.

On her back her pack opened up and out of it came eight swords that seem to float next to her.

Rina gulped nervously "Pops I think we over stayed our welcome." She said.

"Yeah I think so." Roman agreed as he headed for one of the bullheads. Penny saw this and with a motion her swords went in to attack.

Rina intercepted them as she blocked them with her swords whip mode.

"I'm ordering you to lower your weapon and stand down." Penny ordered.

"Sorry not going to happen." She said as she whistled. Then a bullhead suddenly appeared above them which cause most of them to back away but Penny.

The bullhead fired at Penny but with a wave of her hand her sword came to defend her whirling around like a shield blocking each attack. Then the swords suddenly straightened out aiming at the bullhead as a green energy sphere charged up and then fired a green laser beam from them splitting the bullhead in half and anything else that was in its path.

Everyone was completely shocked at seeing Penny doing this much damage even destroying most of the dust containers.

However Torchwich had managed to get away escaping in another bullhead over head.

"These kids just keep on getting weirder." Roman said softly as the bullhead flew away from the docks and out of Ruby range.

"Well I love to stay and chat but I've got to run." The Spider said taking out a small sphere object and throwing it on the ground which caused a big flash blinding all of them.

Once the light had died the Spider was gone.

"Dang it! She got away." Blake said obviously not happy about that.

"Hey at least we foiled his little operation." Sun replied.

Blake sighed at this "Yeah I guess so."

The blizzard suddenly let up as Star came down and checked on them.

"Is everybody okay?" She asked.

"Yeah we're cool." Sun confirmed.

Almost immediately Blake was tackled by Ruby followed by a swarm of rose petals as she felt Ruby wrap around her.

"Gah! Ruby!" Blake called out seeing her leader wrap around her.

"I'm glad that your okay. You had me worried." Ruby replied.

"Sorry if I worried you." Blake said back returning the embrace.

"We better get out of here before Vale police get here." Star replied as they all agreed however when Ruby looked around for Penny she wasn't their.

"Hey where's Penny?" Ruby questioned looking around for her friend as a car was leaving outside of the docks.

=RWBY=

Once they group had left the docks Pepper and Weiss had managed to catch up to them.

"You all okay?" Weiss questioned however she did notice that Blake didn't have her bow on her cat ears on full display.

"Um hey Weiss." Blake replied nervously.

Weiss didn't say anything for a minute before she finally replied.

"I... I'm sorry." Weiss finally said.

"Huh?" Blake said surprisingly.

"Look I'm really sorry about what I said about the faunus especially to you..." Weiss then turned to Star.

"And to Star as well." Weiss replied which seemed to surprise her.

"What are you talking about?" Star asked.

"Iona kinda spilled the beans about you being a faunus on accident." Pepper added as her tail swayed a little.

"I guess theirs no hiding it now." Star replied.

"Yeah I have fox ears and a tail." She added.

"Plus theirs... something that me and Pepper have something to tell you." Weiss said nervously.

"Well then we better get back to Beacon." Blake said.

"Yeah but I'll be seeing you girls later." Sun replied.

"Alright... take care." Blake replied as Sun took off as the group took off as well back to Beacon.

Meanwhile in another part of town Rina had managed to hide but she didn't get away unscathed as she felt pain coming from her left shoulder.

"Ow damn I'm certainly going to feel that in the morning." Rina said checking over where Star had managed to hit her at. She felt a bit of liquid as blood came out of her injured shoulder.

Rina then recalled what Roman told her.

"Remember Rina using that body suit may help you be more agile but it comes at a price of not fully using your aura so if you do get hit your going to feel it." Rina remembered as Roman voice chimed in her head.

"Well good thing it's not deep. I'll patch it up and head back to Beacon before anyone becomes the wiser." Rina said as she quickly wrapped up her wounded shoulder with bandages she had on hand before depositing the suit and changing back into her normal attire then proceed to make her way back to Beacon.

=RWBY=

After everyone had returned to Beacon Weiss had asked that Star and Jaune's teams were present as they all met up in team RWBYs room with Yang and Iona joining them with Iona looking a little winded then usual.

Weiss and Pepper sat on Blake bed neither of them speaking a word as they were mentally preparing themselves as Jaune and Ren leaned against the wall near the door. Blake and Ruby were currently on Yangs bed above Weiss's bed where Pyrrha and Nora were waiting as well with Star standing next to Nora. Rina had managed to join them and was sitting near Yang and Iona.

Weiss gave out a calming sigh before she spoke.

"Thank you all for coming." Weiss began.

"Before I begin what I say must stay between the twelve of us. What I'm about to say must never leave this room." Weiss replied.

They all nodded in agreement though with some confusion.

"For the past couple months here at Beacon you all have known me as Weiss Louve right." She started as they all nodded in agreement.

Weiss took a deep breath and let it out slowly her hands shivering as she tried to calm herself. Pepper put a hand on her shoulder which seemed to calm her slightly as she looked over to her.

The gray haired girl nodded as if saying to continue.

"Well that...isn't who I am." Weiss said calmly but inside she was nervous but she knew she couldn't turn back now.

"No more secrets." She thought.

"The name Louve is just a cover up. My true name...is Weiss Schnee. Heiress of the Schnee Dust Company." Weiss said at last which completely was not the others was expecting.

Star was the first to speak "So all this time... you were a Schnee!" Star nearly shouted.

"... Yes." Weiss admitted.

Ruby then spoke up "Then why would you lie to us about who you are?" She asked completely taken aback by this finding.

"Please I know you all want to ask me questions but let me finish. When I'm done it'll all make sense." Weiss said as she took a breath again.

"When I was young about six years old my parents went through a nasty divorce. My mother was able to fight the court to get custody of my brother but... my father claimed me." She said sadly.

"At first nothing happened but when I was seven I wanted my father to come play with me but after his meeting... he..." Weiss voice hitched as her voice suddenly stopped working.

Pepper wrapped her arms around lightly trying to calm Weiss before she had a breakdown.

Weiss finally found her voice again and continued on "He...whipped me and not in the normal way a parent would." Weiss finally said.

"He did what!?" Nora shouted in surprise as Pyrrha gasped at this her hands over her mouth in shock.

Even Ren was taken aback by this.

"He did that to you. What kind of father does that to a child!?" Yang shouted her eyes turned crimson in anger.

"What do you mean not in the normal way?" Iona asked.

Weiss nearly flinched at her question as she glanced toward Pepper who was still wrapped around her.

She lightly nodded "They need to know." She calmly said as she removed her arm from around her.

Weiss got up from her spot and stood up and undid her jacket before turning her back to face the groups as she allowed the jacket to fall showing her backless dress top.

It was complete silence as everybody seemed to look on at Weiss's back. Star who had seen her back before was still appalled by the look.

Yang who's eyes were crimson had suddenly returned to lilac as she stared at the multiple scars on her partners back including the large gash from her right shoulder to her left hip.

"Oh... my... god." Blake replied in complete shock while everyone else was near speechless.

"This... this is what he did to me. A snake sword did this. All of this." Weiss added which made Rina flinch remembering their first day during combat training and Weiss seemed to fear her weapon.

"This was his way of discipline if I ever disobeyed him." Weiss added as she sat back down next to Pepper.

Star began to put together some of puzzle but Weiss telling them that she was a Schnee seemed to not matter anymore but she knew who the father was.

"Your father wouldn't happen to be..." Star began but Pepper managed to beat her to it.

"Jacque Schnee. CEO of the Schnee Dust Company and one of the main founders." Pepper replied.

"How would you know that?" Iona asked.

The wolf faunus sighed before removing her scarf from her neck showing the mark of a ten pointed snowflake.

"Because... I'm his property that escaped." Pepper replied.

"This mark is a symbol of enslavement for faunus." She added.

She was about to continue when Jaune interrupted.

"Whoa hold on a minute. How'd old were you when you this happened?" Jaune asked.

"About seven years old. I had to work in the mines. Luckily they only had me supply water for the other enslaved faunus that were working their." Pepper added but then shook her head.

"Did very little for my parents though." She added as she looked away.

Ruby seemed to noticed her movement "What happened to them?" Ruby asked.

"It was when I was six my dad started to train me in self defense but we had to do it during the night. One night though one of the guards found us and had him executed. In front of everyone." Pepper replied as a tear escaped.

"My mother died a month later due to part of the mine that collapsed. Ten others died that day as well. Luckily I wasn't their at the time." Pepper finally said.

"That's awful." Yang replied.

"So how'd you two meet?" Rina questioned.

Weiss seemed to falter at that "It was when we were ten and I was trying to... off myself." Weiss replied.

"Off yourself. You mean kill yourself." Star says surprised.

Weiss nodded "Yeah...ever since he did this to me I just wanted it all to stop but someone here saw me what I was about to do and stopped me before I tried to drown myself." She said gesturing toward Pepper.

"After that we got to know each other after a while and became good friends despite of her being a faunus. Apparently she had a plan that was originally meant for herself but she decided to help me out to. She was like another sister that I never had before and cared about my believes. Everything else is history." Weiss finished.

"So the reason you left was because of your father." Pyrrha replied.

"Yeah... and I will never go back their ever again." Weiss declared.

"So you see that's why I had to lie to all of you so I wouldn't be found out. I hope all of you can understand that." Weiss replied.

At first nobody said anything until Ren finally spoke.

"I guess it is understandable. Given what they both had to go through." Ren replied.

Yang then spoke up "Yeah. Sure I may not like you lying to us but I can see the reason behind it." She added.

Weiss looked at Star more importantly at how the fox faunus would react as Star took everything in.

Star finally sighed "I... guess I can understand your reasoning I would run away too if anyone did that to me. Even if you are a Schnee if Pepper says your a good person then that's alright with me." Star replied deciding to try and let go off how she felt.

"Besides I doubt there will be anyone to replace you for team RWBY." Blake added.

"Don't worry we'll keep it between us right everyone." Ruby said as everyone else nodded in agreement.

"Even if he does figure out where are you we'll have your back." Yang said punching the air.

Weiss had teared up from all the support she was getting from everyone that every time she tried wiping away a tear another would replace.

"Thank you. Thank you all." Weiss replied knowing that hers and Peppers secret was in safe hands.

Meanwhile in another part of Vale the three figures that had destroyed the book store had just received a message from their employer about something.

"Thank you Roman we'll keep in touch." One of them said sounding like a woman as she was currently holding three transcripts.

"We're in. Let's hope that they can't find us." The woman said.

One of the sighed, and the third nudges the second figure "It's alright. He made it out, and is on his way to safety." The third spoke in a male voice.

"I know, and we'll be safe soon enough to." The second spoke their voice female, and concerned.

The three glanced towards Beacon Academy where they'd be heading next, and could only hope that things would be better once they got their.


F3: And that's it for the first volume. Secrets have been revealed and three others might be coming to Beacon. Things it who are they and what are they hiding from or who? You'll just have to wait for volume 2. If you like this make sure to favorite or follow below and also make sure to leave a comment as well. With that said I'm Fireuser3 and see you next time. Also be on the lookout for the Interludes.