Ruby has been a pirate since her mother died and left the ship to her and her sister... Except her sister had a calling in trading and helping Faunus islands. Yang Xiao Long is the sister... A blonde bombshell and nothing stronger nor sexier walks on this earth (and she pulls it off in cargo). Sorry ladies, she's taken. Weiss Schnee... Well, that's a whole new story... This story.

The undermining of the Huntsmen Academies has taken a different turn this time. Set at the beginning of Volume 2, we'll see how these changes effect the story we know. No spoilers for relationships. Frequent updates.

Recursive Fanfic, for the RWBY Fanfic Null By Coeur-Al-Aran, with small glimpses into how that story might have gone. Both Bad, and Good.

Weiss and Neptune are living their happy lives when their children are born. Three siblings made their own journeys as they grow up for their own goals.

Every apocalypse needs a hero. Every hero needs a gorgeous love interest, a genius little sister, and an unrelenting, unstoppable enemy. The hordes of undead swarming over the remnants of Vale fit the role of enemy perfectly. Then again, so does a certain little sister's snarky girlfriend. When every day is a fight for survival, bullets will be fired, grenades thrown, barbs trade

To many she is a monster, a primeval horror that clung and clawed its way to modernity. Hiding her true nature, Ruby just wants to become a hunter, gain allies and friends, and make a change in the world. However her hidden blood soon begins attracting foes and forces old and new. Can Ruby survive this new and ever more hostile world with fury and steel, or fail like her mother?

Being reborn with abilities in a new world is almost every fanfic reader's dream... However, for Kenji Kutsuki, it is not. Wanting nothing but to go home, he will do whatever it takes to get home, but when the time comes, will he actually want to go back home?

Light and dark. Creation and destruction. Life and death. Man and Grimm. This is the blood-soaked cycle that guides the world of Remnant. But what happens if a wrench was thrown into that cycle? A rose of light adopted and melded with the darkness of the abyss?

The day that she died, Alicia expected to face some kind of judgement. She never anticipated being found by a god and then thrown into another world with her own questionably given consent, let alone one that she knew better than would normally be expected. She only had one question to give the god that sent her there. "Why the hell am I a snake?"

Everyone dies. That's a fact of life. Not everyone respawns, though, especially not in a new world that they don't know much about. Armed with a UI that makes little sense and a new name, one young Faunus emerges from the rubble of the Four Kingdom's greatest failure. Nobody, least of all himself, could have predicted the impact this would have. Gamer!OC-SI.

It's been thirty years since Ruby Rose saved Remnant from Salem and almost a decade since it was saved again. Salem is gone yet the Creatures of Grimm remain and now a new generation of Hunters are ready to begin their story... By enrolling at the Breaktide Academy of Menagerie where they'll be trained by legends including Team CFVY and Ruby Rose herself. Part 5 of the Spiral-Verse

The life of a business owner as fruitful as it could be was not always enjoyable. Thankfully Cinder Fall knew how to surround herself with the right people. SMUT alert Warning: Arkos shipper, this one might not be for you

[In progress] Ozpin, the greatest soothsayer of a generation, adopts recently orphaned Oscar Pine as war looms ever closer to the the city of Haven.

Impatient after thousands of years of stalemates between Ozma and Salem, the Brother Gods decide to intervene. A new contest, Ozma's side against Salem's, to decide Remnant's fate. A contest requires combatants however, and what better or fairer than to pit one man against himself – against alternate versions of himself. Jaune Arc against Jaune Arc, for the fate of all worlds.

A young boy gets picked on by fate. Watch as he struggles to avoid events while trying to adapt to the world of RWBY. [SI] Updates on Weekends GMT.

A young Japanese musician in Tokyo, Japan unlocks her aura and accidently gets her hands on a powerful weapon after Earth and Remnants merging. She then dresses herself up as a superhero and fights crime as the heroine; Sonic String.

The Rose family was by far and away the strongest family in Remnant. Two powerful hunters, a seat at the World Assembly, and unimaginable wealth and riches. Yet, even if they had all of that, Ruby's child Ann wanted something more. She wanted someone to call "father". RWBY canon divergent AU.

Fresh out of military service, Jeremiah Cotton thinks his life will be easy from here on out. Oh how wrong he is. REVAMP OF ORIGINAL

A disgraced and embittered Adam Taurus has the opportunity to exact vengeance on everyone that has wronged him in the best way possible. Will his revenge be as sweet as he had planned or will he find something sweeter along the way? Frostbite-ish

In an alternate universe, Jaune is a famous huntsman-in-training across Remnant. Having won the Vale Tournaments five times in a row, Jaune continues his path as he enters Beacon Academy. However, he will soon realize the truth of being a Huntsman isn't all just about helping others. (Inspired by Masseffect-TxS and noble4259)

Having a literal second chance in life wasn't easy, especially went you try to deal with people with weird soul induce superpowers, Dark demonic creatures, magic, a girl that became his right arm thanks to a bizarre incident, and the Knowledge he had might be useless because everything was different for what he knew. Fantastic. (RWBY S.I and A.U)

Second chances were rare. He knew that. He knew that he didn't deserve one in the slightest. And yet, Fate had blessed him with one. One that not only gave him the chance to achieve his life's ambition, but also to finally atone for his greatest sin. Who was he to say no to that?

Monsters aren't born - they're made. Such it was with Adam Taurus. A full backstory of the notorious villain, exploring what turned an innocent child into the murderous extremist from the show.

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Commission by noobsaleh. Shortly after starting at Beacon, a man finds himself in the company of Team RWBY. After training with their team leader, having his weapon upgraded, and managing to stop a mugging, he accidentally asks one on a date, and things go from there. This is the story of how he went to Beacon and found himself in some odd circumstances. (OC x RWBY Characters)