A/N: First day of Beacon. Note that most, if not all, the things Natalie does is similar to Oliver Queen as the Arrow. No, it is not plagiarism, not if I added a little something else to her character or what she does. One more thing, at the end of the chapter, it gets quite dark. I know, too early. Don't judge me. I do not own RWBY. If I did, PYRRHA WOULD'VE LIVED GODDAMMIT! Oh, and my real name is not Natalie Palmer.

It was the afternoon in Vale. Many teens were in a large airship to Beacon Academy. Most of them were psyched for their next four years in the school. Some, on the other hand, weren't as excited. Natalie Palmer was one of the small handful.

'Why do I have to go to school?' she thought.

*FLASHBACK, LAST NIGHT*

"Excuse me!?" Natalie was on her scroll, conversing with the headmaster of Beacon, who was also her godfather.

"You don't sound happy," he simply stated.

"Of course I don't sound happy! You said you'd help me find the White Fang; not enroll me in your school!"

"Even if I did find out where their hideout is, what will you do? There are many of them and only one of you."

"I am well aware of that. Why do you think I took it upon myself to train solo in Emerald Forest and take down many gangsters and organization of faunus-haters?!"

"But if you have allies to help you, your chance of changing the White Fang back to its original state will increase."

Natalie sighed. "I had great respect for you, Ozpin. But what you don't seem to understand is that the White Fang will not change that easily. I, myself, saw how they think! Especially him. The one person who ruined my life!" She looked at an old photo of herself as a child, holding a baby with a male teen wolf faunus, most likely her brother. "He ordered the kill! He made us, a village where humans and faunus live in peace, his first target! My brother trusted him, like a brother. And what did he do? He betrayed that trust!" She slammed her picture frame face-down.

Ozpin frowned and sighed. "At least give this a chance. One semester. That's all I ask. Your brother would've wanted you to. He always told me how much you wanted to come here."

Natalie stayed silent. As much as she wants to work solo, she did want to go to Beacon. "All right, fine. One semester. Then, I'm out!" She hung up on him. She looked back to the picture frame and took the photo out of it. Natalie looked at the picture softly, remembering her life before the tragedy occurred. She folded the picture and placed it in her pouch. "Nathan, Nadia. I promise, I will end this before it's too late for our world."

*END OF FLASHBACK*

'I will keep my promise,' she thought.

"The robbery was led by nefarious criminal Roman Torchwick, who continues to evade authorities." Natalie looked to the newscast. "If you have any information on his whereabouts, please contact the Vale Police Department. Back to you, Lisa."

The scene changes to a news reporter with a photo of faunus protesters holding up signs saying 'WE ARE NOT ANIMALS!"

"Thank you, Cyril. In other news, this Saturday's Faunus Civil Rights protest turned dark when members of the White Fang disrupted the ceremony," Lisa said as the scene changed into a logo of a wolf's head and three scratch marks on it. Natalie clenched her hand in anger at the sight of the logo. "The once peaceful organization has now disrupted..."

The news were cut off as a hologram of Glynda appeared. "Hello. And welcome to Beacon. My name is Glynda Goodwitch. You are among a privileged few who have received the honor of being selected to attend this prestigious academy! Our world is experiencing an incredible time of peace, and as future Huntsmen and Huntresses, it is your duty to uphold it. You have demonstrated the courage needed for such a task, and now it is our turn to provide you with the knowledge and the training to protect our world."

Natalie took the words to her heart and placed her hand on her weapon.

Not long later, the airship landed and everyone walked off. As she watched everyone get off, Natalie quickly analyzed each student. Her eyes stopped on one girl with a red hood, who seemed a bit young to be in Beacon, two years at most.

'Must be skilled,' she thought. Natalie then saw her silver eyes and raised a brow. 'Silver eyes? No. It couldn't be.' The swordswoman/archer noticed she was the last on the ship and walked off.

She knew her first destination was the amphitheater and made her way there. During her walk, she saw red Dust particles flying around. She turned and saw a white-haired girl waving a bottle of red Dust around while lecturing the silver-eyed girl, who looked like she was about to-

"AH-CHOO!" -sneeze. Natalie was fortune enough to not be in the line of fire as the bottle flew out of the clouds.

"Unbelievable! This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about!" the white-haired girl said.

"I'm really, really sorry!" the red-hooded girl apologized.

"Ugh, you complete dolt! What are you even doing here? Aren't you a little young to be attending Beacon?" The younger girl stuttered, trying to answer the question. "This isn't your ordinary combat school. It's not just sparring and practice, you know! We're here to fight monsters, so... Watch where-!" Before the white-haired girl could say anymore, an arrow was shot between her and the red-hooded girl's head, done by Natalie. The arrow hit the tree near them.

"W-who shot that?!" The white-haired saw Natalie putting away her weapon and instantly approached her. "You! Do you have any idea-?!" Before she could complete her question, Natalie grabbed her neck and singlehandedly lifted her.

"Let me tell you something, Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company," Natalie spoke with her voice changer. "As you said, this isn't your ordinary combat school. Make one careless mistake, or a big deal out of something so little, and it will cost. Your. Life." As she said those last three words, she tightened her hold on Weiss's neck, choking her.

"Wait! Stop! Let her go!" the hooded girl shouted.

At her request, Natalie dropped Weiss, who was gasping for air. "Also, if someone like her is in Beacon, then it should be obvious enough Ozpin saw lots of potential in her." With that, Natalie left the two girls.

While she walked away, the two stared at Natalie's retreating figure, Weiss glaring at her.

"Who does he think he is?!" she demanded.

"He's Vale's vigilante," answered a voice behind them. They looked and saw a girl with black hair and a bow on her head approaching them. "There's only one Hunter who uses a bow as his weapon. And wear that blue cloak."

"Wait... That's him!? No way!" Ruby squealed. She was a huge fan of Hunters and Huntresses. Vale's vigilante was no exception.

"I don't care who he is! If he knows who I am, he shouldn't have choked me!" Weiss said.

"But he was making a point, maybe."

"No excuse!" Weiss took the vile of red dust from the ravenette's hand and walked to the direction of the amphitheater, some butlers following her with her luggage.

"Well, at least I'm not the only one with a rough first day..." Ruby sighed. "So what's...?" She saw the ravenette walk away. Sad about how her first day went, Ruby collapsed on the ground. "Welcome to Beacon..." She felt someone's shadow over her and opened her eyes to see a blonde boy holding his hand out to her.

"Hey. I'm Jaune," he introduced.

"Ruby." She accepted his hand. "Aren't you the guy that threw up on the ship?"

Natalie arrived at the amphitheater, waiting for Ozpin to make his speech so she could walk to her private training room in Beacon. Yes, Ozpin prepared such a room upon her request. It will also be where she will be sleeping during her time in Beacon, since she planned to stay for only a semester. So technically, it would be her room.

'Why am I even here?' she mentally asked. 'I heard his speech times before.' That thought, she made her leave. Or attempted to.

"You!" she heard.

"Oh god, it's happening again!" Natalie turned to the source and scowled at the sight before her.

As Ruby and Weiss conversed, rather the latter lectured the former, she walked over to the two. She saw Weiss holding up a pamphlet and knew she was making a big deal out of her company, again. In fact, due to her faunus hearing, she can hear her saying something about how the Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for the damages caused by their product, which made her furious that the heiress assumed the younger girl knew nothing about Dust and that she blamed her for what happened in the courtyard.

In the middle of Weiss's lecture, Natalie snatched the pamphlet out of her hands and ripped it in half.

"You again!? What's wrong with you?!" she demanded. Seeing Natalie lift an arm, the same one she choked her with, Weiss instantly stepped back.

"I believe that question should be directed to you, Weiss Schnee," Natalie corrected, still in her voice changer. "Only fools wouldn't know what Dust are. Besides, last I remember, that explosion was your doing."

"How is that my fault?!"

"If I remember correctly, you were the one waving that bottle of red Dust around and were ignorant enough to not notice Ruby about to sneeze because of it! What was it you said? 'The Schnee Dust Company is not responsible for any injuries or damages sustained while operating a Schnee Dust Company product'? Not having a fully sealed bottle seems like a Schnee Dust Company fault to me." Weiss became speechless and stuttered, trying to find the right words to save herself the embarrassment.

To her demise, Ruby saved her. "Hey! So... Thanks, but you really didn't need to point that out. I mean, I tripped over her luggage and then she took the bottle out."

"And who would be foolish enough to leave their stuff in the middle of the courtyard? And she didn't need to shake the bottle while lecturing you." And the save was backfired. "This is what I don't like about people like her. Prideful, full of themselves, inhuman."

"Hey! That is so not true!" Weiss shouted.

"Do you want to bet?" Natalie stepped closer to Weiss. With her being taller than the heiress, her hood up and her voice changer on, she was extremely scary, as Weiss stepped away from her.

A blonde girl intervened. "Look, you guys obviously just got off on the wrong foot. How about you start over and be friends?"

"Good idea, Yang!" Ruby agreed. She held a hand out to Weiss and Natalie. "Hello, Weiss, Mystery Person! I'm Ruby! Wanna hang out? We could go shopping for school supplies."

" Yeah! And we can paint our nails and try on clothes and talk about cute boys, like tall, blond, and scraggly over there!" Weiss said sarcastically. Said boy she described perked up at the mention.

"Don't believe her, kid. She's lying. As is everyone else of her kind," Natalie said.

"What do you mean 'my kind'?"

Before the archer could answer that question, they heard Ozpin by the microphone as he began his speech.

"I'll keep this brief," he began. "You have traveled here today in search of knowledge, to hone your craft and acquire new skills. And when you have finished, you plan to dedicate your life to the protection of the people. But I look amongst you, and all I see is wasted energy, in need of purpose, direction. You assume knowledge will free you of this, but your time at this school will prove that knowledge can only carry you so far. It is up to you to take the first step."

'Maybe these guys need a purpose and have wasted energy, but not me,' Natalie thought, as she and Ozpin took their leave.

"You will gather in the ballroom tonight," she heard Glynda announce. "Tomorrow, your initiation begins. Be ready. You are dismissed."

" He seemed kind of... off," Yang stated.

"It's almost like he wasn't even there," Ruby added. "What do you think?" She turned and saw that Natalie was gone. "Huh? Hey, where did he go?" Yang and Weiss looked and noticed Natalie was nowhere in the amphitheater.

"Why that no good Hunter-in-training! Where'd he go?!" the heiress demanded.

The boy she sarcastically pointed out earlier approached her. "I'm a natural blond, you know." Weiss face-palmed at her luck.

Back with Natalie, she was in her room, setting up targets and training exercises. The targets would be still, move or just pop out of nowhere, all with bullets to shoot at her as she try to hit them with her arrows. As for the training exercises, they're normal exercises with a little extra. For example, as she does the pull-ups on the bars, she would have to push the bar one level higher until she reached the peak and hit a button. Otherwise, if she was too late, the box above her would open and knives would fall down, thus killing her. After she hits the button, she had to bar jump back down to the beginning and hit the button down there before the time is up then, or the floor below her would open up and shoot out circular saw blades, also instantly killing her. Same thing would happen if she jumps down. She even made room to make her Dust-infused arrows.

"Whew... That should do it," she muttered, done with the set up. She looked at the time and saw how late it was. "I could go without dinner. And I can test these training exercises tomorrow." With that said, she went to her hammock and slept for the night. Before she slept, she lit some candles around her bed and soaked a towel in ice cold water and placed it over her eyes.

*DREAMWORLD*

"What are you doing?"

"Setting an example!"

"By doing this!? This isn't what our kind wants!"

Natalie opened her eyes and saw her reflection in a puddle. Or rather, the reflection of her younger self.

It was a dark, cold and stormy night. Screams were heard everywhere, as humans and faunus alike were running away from creatures of Grimm.

"Big sister!" Natalie looked and saw her little sister, Nadia, trying to help her up.

"Nadia..." Natalie used every ounce of strength she had in her to stand and walked over to her. "Where's Nathan?" Nadia pointed in one of the houses, their house. Natalie looked inside and saw her brother arguing with someone. That someone was his best friend, someone who was like a brother to them, someone... Who caused this destruction.

"We wanted equality! This village was an example to that! What are you thinking?!" Nathan shouted.

"I'm thinking... What you want is impossible. There is no way humans will truly accept our kind! The humans here are nothing but liars! They don't want equality; not with us!" his friend argued.

"It's been this way for decades! This isn't a lie! You're just delusional! You've been living with the wrong group of humans. The ones here are nothing like them! Besides, the Grimms are attacking everyone! Not just the humans!"

"I don't care! The kindness the humans show you, Nathan, that's what they want you to think, brother. If you are against me, I'll have to kill you too."

Nathan looked hurt in Natalie's eyes. "You just made it clear you don't care if our kind were caught in this crossfire. The White Fang is one thing, but what about the innocents?! There are kids and elders here!"

"Their sacrifices will only help us move toward our goal. Become more motivated to fight for what's ours!"

Natalie saw her brother clenching his fists. "Is that why you made our home the first target? For some messed up goal?!"

"Say what you want. But as for me..." Nathan's friend turned, facing Natalie and her sister. His face was blocked by what was left of the wall. They saw him take out his sword and activate his semblance. Nathan quickly rushed in Adam's line of range and took the full force of the attack, getting cut in half himself. "At least I keep what I treasure hidden away from battle. Until they're ready to be in war." He walked away from the group.

As soon as he's gone, Natalie and Nadia rushed to Nathan's top half.

"Nathan! Nathan!" the older sister cried out.

"Big brother! Wake up! Please wake up!" the younger followed. Nathan didn't move an inch. Not even his wolf ears twitched at their cries or the cries of those around them.

Just when things got worse...

"AAAAHHH!" Natalie turned and saw Nadia taken by a big lizard Grimm.

"Na-!" Before she could saw her name, the Grimm ate her whole.

Natalie just kneeled in shock. Not even a minute passed and she lost her siblings, what was left of her family. As she was processing this, the Grimm shot its tongue at her, grabbing her left arm. The moment it grabbed her, Natalie too her brother's sword and cut it and her arm off.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" She roared to the sky above as she went and attacked the Grimm, ignoring the pain in her left arm and the pain it was inflicting on to her.

After she somehow managed to kill it, she cut its stomach open and got Nadia out, only to see she was too late; half of her sister was already digested.

"No..." In the background, the Grimm were making their way to her. "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Lightning struck her. She ignored the shock and turned to the rest of the Grimm. With eyes similar to an enraged wolf, she attacked and killed them all, losing her right leg in the process.

*END OF DREAM*

Natalie woke up. It was early in the morning as the sun just rise. Despite what the definition of nightmare was, to Natalie, that nightmare was what kept her motivated to her goal, which was ending the White Fang. Especially the life of one person in particular.

Changing into her black sports bra and black tights, it was shown that her left arm and right leg were both prosthetics.

She glared at the White Fang logo on her door. 'I will find and kill you, Adam Taurus,' she thought, as she took a practice arrow and her quiver and shot right at the eye.