The Schnee Black Sheep

A/N

So, this chapter will be mostly cannon with a few alterations. Thank you so much to those who have favourited, followed and reviewed this fic. I love you all! I have been a bit ill this last week and all the kindness you guys have shown this fic is what gave me the strength to actually finish this chapter on time.

Pay close attention to Weiss this chapter. It is not just Coal who is still suffering from what happened as this chapter will explain. She also knows more that she is letting on.

While this chapter is a major cannon I do not want to rewrite things scene for scene… this is going to be a rare exception but I liked this part of the amine a lot and it holds a lot of relevance to how I want this fic to go.

Also, we get introduced to Sun who, at this point in the anime I know that cause I watched the damn thing over and over and over again whilst I write the fic, has dark grey eyes in the first few seasons of the anime and now his eyes are bright blue… can someone please explain why the changed was made cause I don't get it. but ill stick to whatever RT have done at that point.

Don't own RWBY.


Chapter 17: Together, We Are Still Alone.

It had been ten days since Coal left. In that time Weiss had returned to her old self… Much to the annoyance of her teammates. Everyday they had gone down to the docks to see if her twin had returned to only find out what everyone would already have known. He hadn't come back.

Today was no exception.

Weiss lead her team through the streets of Vale while the townsfolk set up the decorations for the welcome party the city was to throw for its new arrivals. Beacon academy was to host a tournament between the four schools across the world of remnant, as well as a festival as a source of entertainment throughout the kingdoms. Arrivals from the other schools were expected any day now.

"The Vytal Festival!" Weiss proclaimed as she stopped to examine some of the street decor. "Oh this is absolutely wonderful!"

I Don't think I've ever seen you smile this much Weiss." Ruby stated. Which was true in fact as the Schnee girl hadn't been quite herself recently with the absence of her twin. "It's kind of weirding me out."

"How could you not smile?" Wiess asked her partner. "A festival dedicated to the cultures of the world! There will be dances! Parades! A tournament! Oh, the amount of planning and organization that goes into this event is simply breath taking!" She eagerly cheered, starting walk once more leading her team to the docks.

You really know how to take a good thing and make it sound boring." Yang huffed from behind the girl.

"Quiet you!"

"Remind me again why we're spending our Friday afternoon visiting the stupid docks… Again?" Yang questioned rhetorically. It was pretty obvious why they were here yet again.

"Ugh. They smell like fish!" Ruby said as she covered her nose.

"I've heard that students visiting form Vacuo will be arriving by ship today. And as a representative of Beacon, I feel as though it is my solemn duty to welcome them to this fine Kingdom." Weiss stated proudly. Yet this didn't convince her teammates.

"Weiss he isn't here." Ruby announced having scanned the passengers of the boat that had docked a few moments before they all arrived.

"Who said I was here to see for that!" Wiess tried to argue though it did nothing to convince her friends. "Maybe I'm here to spy on the competition!"

"It's plausible… But not true." Blake Joked.

Ruby turned away from the rest of her team and began walking down a different street. The sight of a busted up dust shop had caught her eye. Her sister beckoned for the rest of them to follow.

When Ruby approached the scene, she asked one of the detectives who was writing down something on his scroll. "What happened?"

"Robbery." The detective answered looking up from his notes. "Second dust shop to be hit this week. This place is turning into a jungle."

"Ah, that's terrible." Yang sighed. the string of criminal acts in the city was once again on the up rise. But attention soon turned back to the detectives when one of them spoke up rather loudly.

"They left all the money again."

"Yeah, just doesn't make a lick of sense. Who needs that much dust?"

"I dunno. An army?"

"You thinking the uh, White Fang?"

"Yeah I'm thinking we don't get paid enough."

"Fucking filthy Faunus bastards." Everyone turned their head to look at the person who just uttered the words of pure hate and disgust. The words that Weiss had said. "What?" she questioned shrugging at her teammates confused at the stares.

"What's your problem?" Blake questioned somewhat annoyed at the racism.

"My problem?" Wiess countered turning Blake with an angry look on her face. "I simply don't care for the criminally insane."

"Then what does that make Coal?" Yang questioned quietly to her sister so that Weiss couldn't hear. Despite the amount of time he had been gone, there were still too many questions that he had left unanswered for Yang to be happy about.

"The White Fang is hardly a bunch of psychopaths." Blake defended. "They are a collection of misguided Faunus."

"Misguided?" Weiss questioned with doubt. "They want to wipe humanity of the face of the planet!"

"So, then they're very misguided! Either way it doesn't explain why they would rob a dust shop in the middle of downtown Vale."

"Blake's got a point Weiss." Ruby stated placing a hand on the angered girls shoulder. "Besides, the police never caught that Torchwick guy I ran into a few months ago. Maybe it was him?"

Weiss shrugged her partner off quickly. "That still doesn't change the fact that the White Fang are a bunch of scum. Those Faunus only know how to lie, cheat, steal and murder!"

"That's not necessarily true." Yang tried.

"HEY STOP THAT FAUNUS!" a voice shouted from behind them as if on cue. The girls all ran back down to the docks to find a blond monkey Faunus running from two humans on one of the ships.

"Thanks for the ride guys! He said as he hopped over the railings of the boat and landed on the pier where he continued to run and jump away.

"You no good stowaway!" one of the humans shouted after him.

Hanging from a lamppost by his tail, the Faunus boy produced a banana seemingly from nowhere and began to peel it while countering. "Hey! a no good stowaway would have been caught! I'm a great stowaway!" he proclaimed dodging a rock that was thrown at him from below him.

"Hey!" One of the police officers from earlier said as they arrived at the scene. "Get down from there this instant!" he demanded only to get a banana peel in the face as a response.

The monkey Faunus then jumped away from the humans, laughing evilly as he went, and raced up towards the city in hopes of a quick escape. Running past team RWBY as he went, sending Blake a sly wink. Leaving the Faunus girl stunned. His eyes were a dull charcoal grey, almost the same shade as her favourite human's.

"Well Weiss, if you did want to spy on the competition, then there it goes." Yang joked as she looked at where the Faunus had ran followed by the officers.

"Quick we have to capture, I mean observe him!" Wiess shouted chasing after the Faunus, followed quickly at her heals was the rest of her team. Though Blake did hang back slightly having been reminded of someone.

As Weiss chased the trio around a corner she slammed straight into another person causing them both to fall and hit the ground. Looking up, Weiss watched the monkey Faunus leap away out of sight.

"NO! He got away!" She yelled frustrated.

"Uh… Weiss…" Yang stuttered pointing to the creepily grinning person that Weiss was still sitting on top of, causing the Schnee to become startled and quickly jump back to her feet trying to get away.

"SAL U TATION!" the ginger haired girl loudly said with the still creepy grin of her face.

"Uh… Hello." Ruby replied.

"Are you ok?" Yang asked politely, yet she was also slightly creeped out at the still prone girl.

"I'm wonderful!" she replied. "Thank you for asking."

All the members of Team RWBY looked to one another before Yang once again asked the most obvious thing. "Do you want to get up?"

After a brief moment to ponder the question, the prone girl nodded and simply said. "Yes!" And with that she sprang to her feet with ease. Everyone else immediately took a long step backwards away from the weird girl. "My name is Penny! It's a pleasure to meet you!" the now name penny informed.

"Hi Penny. I'm Ruby."

"I'm Weiss."

"Blake."

"Are you sure you didn't hit your head?" Blake elbowed her partner in the gut, hard. "Oh, I'm Yang."

"So your Weiss!" Penny said pointing to the white themed girl. "Your boyfriend Coal's baby sis!"

"Boyfriend?" Blake questioned.

"Coal?" Yang questioned.

"Baby sis?" Ruby questioned, she just wanted to continue the sentence along.

"Since when does my brother have a girlfriend?" Weiss questioned rather loudly.

"Well he is a boy and he is my friend. Thus boy-friend." Penny simply stated. Getting mixed reactions from the group.

Ruby just simply shrugged at the girls logic thinking it was sound.

Yang just looked even more confused and was now thinking that she had hit her head at some point for this to seem real.

Weiss let out a heavy sigh relived that her brother wasn't dating such a weirdo.

Blake seemed rather passive, about the situation having hid her own sigh of relief rather well, though she didn't understand why she was relived at the explanation.

"Well…" Weiss started. "Do you know where he is?"

"Nope."

"Oh… I'm sorry for running into you." Weiss said casting her eyes downward and turned to walk away. Yet another lead down the drain.

The rest of the girls followed suit as Ruby waved to Penny and bid her goodbyes. "Take care friend."

"She was weird." Yang stated as they all walked further down the street.

"Now where did that Faunus riffraff run off to?" Weiss questioned out loud. She had to know for sure that he brother wasn't taken by the White Fang and that Faunus was the closest thing to them… besides Blake of course. Weiss stopped walking as she caught sight of Penny standing directly in front of her. how the girl got there was beyond confusing.

"What did you call me?" Penny asked. Weiss pointed to the spot where Penny had just been, her eyes darting back and forward between the two locations as Yang tried to explain herself.

"I'm really sorry! I definitely didn't think you heard me."

"No. Not you." Penny said as she walked up to Ruby. "You…"

"Me?" Ruby questioned.

"Yeah you."

"Uh, I don't know I – "

"You called me friend. Am I really your friend?" Penny asked hopefully. Ruby pondered the question and looked towards her friends for help, who were shaking their heads silently whilst also indicating several different ways of saying no.

"Yeah sure. Why not."

Weiss, Blake and Yang all fell backwards in sync.

Penny grew a wide childish grin as she threw her arms in the air in celebration having increased her friend count.

"Sensational!" she cheered. "We can paint our nails, try on clothes and talk about cute boys!"

Ruby groaned as her partner stood back up, dusting herself off. "Is this what it was like when you met me?"

Weiss simply said. "No, she seems far more coordinated." Though her weirdness did seem like something her brother would find funny. Suddenly it seemed like Penny didn't seem so weird after all if she was linked to her twin.

"So," Yang said trying to move things along. "What are you doing in Vale?"

"I'm here to fight in the tournament!" Penny announced proudly. Weiss sounded disbelieving.

"Wait you're fighting in the tournament?"

Penny gave a salute "I'm combat ready!"

"Forgive me but you hardly look the part."

Blake deadpanned. "Says the girl wearing a dress."

"It's a combat skirt!" Weiss proudly argued, getting back up from her partner with a shout in agreement and a low five. "Wait a minute… if you're here for the tournament does that mean you know that monkey-tailed rapscallion?" she asked shaking Penny by the shoulders.

The who?"

Weiss held up a poorly drawn picture of the Faunus boy she had seen earlier for the girl. "The filthy Faunus from the boat!"

"Why do you keep saying that!" Blake yelled showing a slight bit of anger. "Stop calling him a rapscallion. Stop calling him a degenerate! He's a person!"

Weiss looked towards the hidden Faunus girl on the team, having finally gotten a reaction from her. 'About damn time Blake… I know Coal trusts you be let's see who you really are.' Weiss inwardly plotted before she spoke. "Oh, I'm sorry… Would you like me to stop referring to the trash can as a trash can? Or this lamp post as a lamp post?"

Blake grew even more angry. "STOP IT!" she yelled furiously. Only getting a smirk of victory from the Schnee girl, having finally pushed her buttons enough that Blake was now voicing her opinions. Something that everyone knew she normally kept to herself.

"Stop what?" Weiss shrugged. "He broke the law. Give him time and he'll probably join up with the rest of those White Fang psychos."

"Ugh you ignorant little brat!" Blake shouted again. So, it was true, Weiss wouldn't accept her like her twin had. Blake realised that the twins who were that close couldn't be more different in many different ways.

"How dare you talk to me like that!" Weiss retorted.

And thus, a very long argument began.


(Later that evening.)

Weiss was beyond annoyed and had even started arguing with Blake about Faunus and the White Fang. Blake accused the Schnee of being discriminatory and single minded about the Faunus population while Weiss accused all Faunus of being criminals and psychopaths. Needless to say this argument had been going on for a while. And it had yet to settle. Exactly what Weiss wanted.

"I don't understand why this is causing such a problem."

"That is the problem."

"You realise you are defending an organisation that hates humanity don't you. The Faunus of the white fang are pure evil."

"There's no such thing as pure evil. Why do you think they hate humanity so much. Because of people like Cardin… People like you, that force the white fang to take drastic measures!"

"Measures like kidnapping and torturing children!"

This shut Blake up.

Weiss took a deep breath and walked over to her bedside draw under the window, opening it and pulling out a bag of makeup wipes.

"You want to know why I hate the Faunus so much?" she asked rhetorically as she rubbed at her left eye with the wet cloth. "Coal already said that we had a run in with them five years ago. he neglected to share why because it still haunts him... still haunts us. On our way back from the audition, our car was run off the road and we were both knocked unconscious. When we woke up we were both strapped to chairs while some members of the white fang talked to father about arranging payment for my release, which father agreed to almost immediately. Thing is, then never mentioned anything about my brother…"

Weiss turned to look Blake dead in the eyes, revealing her scarred eye to her team.

"They spent the next few hours dragging their claws across his chest and back. Slowly and painfully. They made me watch, made me watch as they sliced my twin brother to pieces letting him bleed out almost to death right in front of my eyes. I listened to him scream for hours at the pain and no matter how much I closed my eyes to try and escape that nightmare, I still see him covered in blood limp and lifeless… I don't even know how long they tortured him for as I eventually got knocked out by one of the Faunus because my screaming was irritating them. That's how I got this." She finished pointing to her own scar. "Next thing I know I'm waking up at home in my own bed being told that Coal was recovering in an intensive care unit and I would be told when he was ready to come home. Which I now know is all a lie as he was locked away in some sort of psychiatric prison and tortured some more. All because of the Faunus."

"You want to know what I think of the Faunus Blake? You really want to know? I want to see them all burn in my brother's graveyard a thousand times over before I even get my hands on them. So Blake, can you really argue the fact, that the White Fang are all murderous psychopaths!"

"Maybe we were tired of being pushed around!" Blake yelled furiously. A repressed anger and hate finally showing. Blake immediately stood and ran out of the room, she wanted to get away from the scene before she made things any worse.

"Blake!" Yang shouted after her.

"Let her go." Weiss said as she turned and looked out the window once more.

Ruby looked at the ground, still coming to grips with what her partner had said. "Those scars… They are from back then?" She questioned timidly, referring to the scared skin of the boy.

"Yeah… every single one." Weiss said emotionlessly as she reapplied her makeup. She had found out exactly what she wanted to know. 'Damn it Coal… Why do you trust her so much?' she thought.


Blake stopped running when she reached the statue in Beacons courtyard. She couldn't believe that she had just said that. She sided with the White Fang at the end despite now knowing just how much they had put the siblings through. It was the White Fangs fault that they were so traumatised. Weiss had done a great job in hiding her pain and while Coal had been able to hide it somewhat, the rage had finally shown itself against Cardin. The rage that the White Fang, an organisation that at one point Blake would have died to protect, had created.

Blake looked at the statue in front of her and saw the two hunters standing atop a monster. An image she compared to herself. Humans would always stand above the Faunus no matter how hard they tried to bring about peace. And now her teammates would probably act the same way with her. she was a monster herself after all. The way Adam had played her had left her with enough rage to want to kill herself given the right target.

Blake thought back to the day she had seen Coal kill that man in Frostpoint. How she had held her own gun at the back of his head with intent to pull the trigger. He had even stood there with his arms held wide as if ready to accept death if she were to give it to him. And she wanted to give it to him then. She really wanted to kill him then.

She reached for the bow on her head and ripped it off, pulling some of her hair with it. she didn't care anymore. If people would see her as a monster then she may as well look like one.

"I knew you would look better without the bow." Blake rounded at the new voice to see a monkey Faunus, the one who Weiss had seen and initiated the argument about. Blake growled angrily before leaping away, vanishing in the shadows cast by the moonlight.

The monkey Faunus made to go after her before being stopped by a hand that had appeared on his shoulder. "It's okay. I'll go after her." a soft voice said.

"And who the hell are you?" the Faunus demanded. Only to gasp at the person he saw. "Oh shit…"

"I'm a friend of hers."


Blake kept running with no purpose or direction. She just needed to get away from it all. Away from Beacon, away from the anger and especially away from Weiss. Her anger had been redirected towards herself for having blurted out something which she never wanted to be known to anyone. The only person who had known about her past was Coal and he was not here. Lost on his own path.

Blake came to a stop at what was once her favourite place in all of Vale. The pier that she and Coal would sit at and escape reality. She hadn't been back here since he left, so why was she here now? She just stood and looked out towards the moonlit waters, cursing herself for being so foolish about ever thinking that her past would be kept a secret from anyone at Beacon. She was part of a terrorist organisation after all and that wouldn't have gone down too well with anyone… anyone but Coal. why had he so easily accepted her after her organisation, which she had been a part of since a small child, had tortured him almost to death. She felt responsible for all the pain and suffering the twins had gone through because of it. she hated everything about herself right now. How could she not have known about that, it happened while she was part of the Fang so she should have known about it. and if she never knew about that, then what else had the White Fang done under her nose.

She stood at the end of the pier looking out at the moonlit water wishing for only one thing… to go back to the times she sat with the human, reading while he fished, and just be herself.

She missed it. just being herself for the first time around anyone other than her own family had brought back a feeling of longing that she had not felt since she first met Adam. Coal had accepted not only her Faunus side but also her history with the White Fang. But why? After everything that he had been through, he had accepted her so quickly. It confused her, yet also made her happy at the same time. He had been able to pull her out of her dark hole that Adam had dug and gave her a new reason to open up again. But now, he was gone. His sister hated her. Ruby and Yang probably hated her. all Blake wanted was to sit against his back one last time, listening to the waves as he patiently waited for their meal to bite on the hook while she read one of her books.

Blake started to shiver. It was a cold night. She hugged herself for a sense of presence and also heat. She was so angry at herself and felt like she deserved the cold atmosphere. The place she had once loved to be had now been replaced by a reminder that it was just a memory. That she could never go back to what she had when he was here. That she had made friends at Beacon in both her team, team JNPR and team VOID. Blake questioned if she really deserved to call any of them friends. She had lied to them after all. She questioned if she truly deserved friends.

Then a familiar weight fell on her shoulders. A familiar white coat.

"You look cold."


(Flashback – 5 Years Ago)

"Mr Schnee, thank you for your co-operation." Adam smirked at the screen of his scroll.

"Just don't hurt my daughter." The elder gentleman pleaded from across the line.

"You have my word Mr. Schnee. Your daughter will remain unharmed." Adam said as he ended the call. Turning back to his captive prisoners. Two young children. Coal and Weiss Schnee, twelve years old twins of one of the most famous men across the world of Remnant. Both children were strapped to chairs just a few meters apart from each other. "I can't believe that bastard paid. The amount we were charging he could have bought them both back."

"He paid now let us go!" A young boy with white hair shouted. Thrashing around unable to break the bonds that were keeping his arms and legs fixed to the chair.

"Yeah. You said you would let us go when he paid." A young Weiss said somewhat fearfully. She was sat across from her brother in a similar situation.

Adam smirked at the two as he summoned two of his own men. "Look after them while I make preparations to return the girl to her father. He did pay after all and I am a man of my word."

"What about the boy?" one of the men asked, his voice muffled by his mask.

"I never promised his safety, and he was never paid for… dispose of him." Adam said darkly sending a hidden glance to the boy though his mask.

"But you said you wouldn't hurt us!" Weiss shouted.

"Actually princess…" Adam said as he pulled out his sword and held it to her throat. "I said I only wouldn't hurt you. Your brother however, was not part of that deal." Adam returned his sword to his sheath and left the dark room. Leaving the two Faunus males with the two Schnee siblings.

"What should we do with him?"

"Well we may as well use one of those graves we dug out back."

"But it seems such a waste. We never got to have any fun."

"I think I know how we can still have some."

One of the men walked over to the boy and ripped off his shirt. Taking his claws the man proceeded to dig his sharp claws into the boy's chest around his shoulder and drag them slowly down his front, ending at just above his waist. Letting the blood flow out the cuts.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Coal cried out in pain. Holding back the tears that were forming at the edges of his eyes.

"STOP IT!" Weiss shouted. "YOUR HURTING HIM!"

"oooo… let me have a go!" the second man giggled and took his own claws over the boy's back, causing another shriek of painful cries. More blood dropped to the floor.

"PLEASE STOP IT!" Weiss cried.

But no matter how loud she shouted, no matter how much she pleaded, they wouldn't stop clawing at her twin's flesh.

A few more slashes later, Coal looked up at the masked man in front of him, still forcing back the tears of pain and spat in the man's face.

"Fuck you!" he said smirking as if he was still in control of the situation. 'Keep their attention on me. Don't let them hurt Weiss', he told himself despite the pain.

"COAL STOP IT! PLEASE DON'T HURT HIM!" she continued to plead, to no avail.

Then man wiped the spit from his face and snarled angrily at the child. Nodding to his companion the two continued with their source of entertainment and created more deep wounds in the boy, getting more painful cries which filled them with glee.

Seconds became minutes. The minutes became hours as Weiss watched the pool of blood grow and grow. Her brother's blood. It never seemed to end as more and more red liquid filled her vision. She cried and screamed for the men to stop all she could but they didn't listen. They just continued to claw at her twin and send more pain through his body.

She couldn't see him too well due to the man standing in front of him, cutting off her direct vision to her twin. But she just about managed to see Coal's head fall forwards. Limp and lifeless.

"COAL!" she screamed one final time before she was smacked in the face, knocking her clean out. The last thing she saw that day, was her twins lifeless form strapped to a chair, cloaked in deep lacerations spurting out his own blood which dripped from his pale body into a red puddle at his feet.