Chapter 2 was kind of rushed. And so as this chapter. But I wanna publish at least one story a day so…yeah, I'll try my best. I watched Ten Little Roosters recently and I was hell excited XD

Also, a typo in chapter 2 author note the below part, I wrote 'experiencing' instead of 'experience'. I'm sorry! *Prryha's tone*

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Chapter 3: Yellow

The third day was even more exciting for the heiress. She got out of bed the same time as yesterday eager to meet her new friends and the maid had to remind her three times to eat breakfast.

"Miss Schnee." A maid came into the dining room with a woman in formal clothes, "Miss Goodwitch is here."

Weiss almost smacked her forehead. How could she forget that it was Monday today and her private tutor would be coming over to home-school her?

I want to see them so badly…

Although unwilling but Weiss knew she had to study to one day take over the company and hopefully her parents could spend more time with her. Plus, Ruby, Yang and Blake were probably in school too so she would be alone even if she went to Secret Base.

Her mind used Topaz as an excuse but she had shaken her head and snapped out of it. She had to study – and she shouldn't be distracted by anything at all. Blue orbs glowing in determination as she followed Miss Goodwitch up to the study room, both not saying anything.

The subjects that she had to study today were History of World Economies and Dust Studies. She breathed a sigh of relief as those two were actually her favorite subjects, especially Dust Studies. Schnee Dust Company, as the name said did Dust business, ranging from mining to modifying them into different resources for several purposes, mainly ammo for weapons. Aside from Dust the company also did logistics, fashion design and so on; basically all the large famous companies in Remnant were under SDC.

Yang was correct when she said that Weiss was a princess. Her company owned so many industries that they could basically rule Remnant already – but not that the government would let them do so. What the SDC owned was the world of business, not Remnant and the good residents of it.

"Miss Schnee?" Miss Goodwitch's voice had snapped her out of her chain of thoughts.

"Yes Miss Goodwitch?" Weiss asked. The woman simply eyed at the stack of papers in front of her.

It was the record of how the economy in Remnant evolved in the four kingdoms over the years. One would question why a ten year old child would be learning these, for it was supposed to be a middle school thing – but fear not, the Schnee family provided the best education and it was their motto to start learning difficult things in early ages to help develop higher intelligence.

For Weiss, all these studies were just piece of cake. She could handle them excellently.

"Miss Schnee?"

"Yes?" She looked at the strawberry-blonde haired woman.

"You seemed to be pretty…well, happier than usual." Glynda Goodwitch adjusted her glasses, "It might not be my business to pry, but did something happen? You seemed a lot…unable to concentrate fully on your task. But not that it's a bad thing."

Glynda had been tutoring her since she was five – in short, she watched the heiress grew up and she had never seen her smiled this much. Whatever happened was enough for the heiress to lose concentration during her study and this also had never happened before.

"I…uh…" The heiress squirmed, thinking if it was suitable to tell the woman. In the end she came up with the decision to do so; she probably saw her way more than her parents in her whole life. She didn't tell anyone this but deep down she had already considered the woman as her…well, another parent.

"I made some new friends." Weiss put down her pencil and turned to face Glynda, "When I was playing in the forest during last Saturday."

"I see." The woman smiled, "That certainly is a good thing."

"You think so?" The heiress frowned, "You're not going to question me about…wandering outside and meeting friends who aren't…from the same social status as me?"

"You know I don't care about social status Miss Schnee." Glynda said, "As long as you're happy, then why not? I believe you're capable of taking care of yourself."

"You trust me a lot." Weiss' expression relaxed and she smiled at the woman. "Thank you."

"You're welcome. Just to let you know Miss Schnee, if you feel…like you need to be accompanied, you can just call me. You have my card, right?"

The heiress nodded.

"Alright, let's continue with our study. I look forward to the day you inherit the company."

Weiss knew this was Glynda's own way of encouragement so she took the pencil with her left hand, sapphire orbs once again shone in determination.

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The first thing she felt when she woke up was someone licking her face.

And it was gross.

"Uh…" She groaned, "Topaz, stop!"

"Ruff!"

Slowly opening her eyes she saw a pair of puppy eyes looking at her.

"Okay okay I get it, I need to wake up and go to school now." She shooed the dog away and sat up from the old mattress.

Living in an abandoned house wasn't really comfortable for a ten year old child, but it was way better than cramping in the same room with ten other children of your age. Thus, a year ago she had left the orphanage without permission to look for another shelter. Any place was better than that small room with rude kids throwing insults and smelly socks at each other.

So she packed everything and ran from the orphanage in the middle of the night. She didn't have any destination so she just decided to let the chips fall where they may.

Before she realized she was already in front of the entrance of Dragon Tears Forest.

And she was too tired to think properly from all the walking. Her feet moved on their own and brought her inside the forest. It was lucky for her that the moon shone extra bright during that night, making her path inside the thick forest easy.

It didn't take long before she saw an abandoned house. It looked extremely eerie on first sight but…well, Yang was almost fearless.

"I'm just gonna sleep there for tonight." She mumbled and hoped that there wasn't any spider inside – she was dead afraid of them.

There was a golden ball of fur just outside the door. The house itself was pretty small; it looked like it could fit only two adults living together inside it.

And the ball of fur moved a bit when Yang got near it.

Alerted, she picked a stick to defend herself in case that ball of fur was some sort of aliens. She had the urge to poke it but ultimately decided against it; she didn't want to make it angry if it was indeed an alien.

The clouds then moved and the moonlight shone directly onto it, revealing its identity - it was a dog. Its body was bigger than Yang's and it could even kill her if it wanted to.

However, the dog's expression showed extreme agony – it was half dead already, and the blonde immediately knew the reason. Its dog collar apparently had strangled it, causing it to have difficulties in breathing. The owner must had abandoned it when it was still a puppy and as time went on it grew bigger and it didn't have the ability to take the collar off by itself.

Yang mentally cursed the former owner as she walked over and tried to help loosen the collar.

The dog instantly jumped and growled at her, eyes full of hurt and fear. It was extremely skinny although it was big and there were wounds everywhere on its body. Yang saw the genital and immediately knew that it was a male.

"It's okay boy, I'm here to help you." She whispered, trying to convince the creature that she was harmless.

The dog stopped growling and she took that as a good sign. Slowly she held out her hand towards the dog collar to help taking it off.

"Arf!" The dog barked and jumped towards her and he bit her hand.

"Shit!" Yang cursed but she just bore with the pain without taking any action. Instead, she forced a smile on her face as she used her left hand to touch the dog gently, "It's okay…it's okay buddy…I got'cha…"

The dog instantly realized his mistake as he stopped the biting and whined.

"I understand buddy…it must be hard for you to believe anyone after what you've gone through."

Yang swore she could see the dog crying.

"Okay, c'mere, I'll take that stupid collar off."

The dog obliged and it took Yang quite a while to get that damned collar off. It took all of her strength – and a sharp stone to destroy it.

"It feels pretty good right now isn't it buddy?" The blonde panted and wiped her forehead with her hand, only to make the situation worse.

"Oh man, it's bleeding non-stop." She muttered.

The dog licked the wound that he caused and his ears were flat against his head guiltily.

"Hey hey s'okay buddy, you were probably scared as hell just now. My fault too for scaring you."

It was pretty painful but Yang knew she could bear with it. She was tough – she had to be in order to become a successful huntress.

"Hey buddy, is this your former owner's house?" She asked while looking at the old house in front of her.

"Ruff." The dog barked, his voice broken likely due to not being able to breathe properly.

"Can I come in?" She asked politely.

The dog just walked to the front door slowly while wagging his tail and Yang took that as an approval, so she followed him and opened it, revealing the inside.

She couldn't see properly due to poor lighting but the first thing that she could make out was an old couch.

"Is the couch safe? I'm really sleepy now friend." The blonde asked.

The dog gave her answer by simply walking to it and settled down on the floor in front.

"I'll take that as a yes. There aren't any spiders here…right?"

The dog tilted his head.

"Okay, screw this, I'm just gonna sleep."

When she woke up the next day, her whole body felt like it wasn't hers. Her limbs were sore and there was a dull pain on her right hand.

And she had to use all her strength to just get up and sit on the couch.

Judging from the painful sunlight that was burning her skin now, it was almost noon. The dog yesterday was guarding her while she slept and she whispered a thank you to him in return.

Now that the lighting was better she got a good look at the inside of the old house and if she were to describe it in the shortest sentence possible – a total mess.

The couch was the only thing in perfect shape and there were debris and destroyed furniture everywhere. Lifting her head she could see the roof was kind of torn, likely by strong wind and there was a strong smell of dust and rotten leaves inside the house.

She felt something touching her shoulder and turned around in reflex; it was the dog.

"You hungry buddy?" She asked.

The dog whined and Yang immediately broke into a huge grin.

"Yeah me too. Don't tell anyone but I stole some food from the orphanage before I ran out."

With that, she took one of her bags (the orange one) and unzipped it, revealing several canned salmon and corned beef. The dog's eyes practically shone like a star and he drooled.

"Okay, be patient. Argh, but how do I open it?!" She blamed herself for forgetting to steal the can opener too.

The dog immediately stood up and went to the kitchen area. She followed only to find it having the same condition as the living room. The tables were wrecked and the cabinets were a mess too; there was a huge refrigerator lying on the floor with some suspicious bottles in it, the oven was in one piece but it was probably busted and lastly the stove looked like a giant Grimm had stepped on it.

She sighed and when she was about to head back, a metal clashing sound was heard near one of the wrecked table.

"Buddy?"

The dog then appeared behind the table with a dull knife in his mouth.

"Atta boy!" She shouted, "You're so smart friend!"

The blonde took the knife and began poking holes until she could access inside the can. She looked around for a container and managed to find some partially broken plates. She then poured the corned beef onto it and pushed it to the dog, giving him a wink. She also found a bowl and poured some water from her own bottle to let him drink.

While the dog was happily eating she began to open the canned salmon and devour it herself.

When both were satisfied with a full stomach, Yang had told the dog that she was going to live here and the dog happily wagged his tail as a sign of approval.

"It's an abandoned house anyway, right?" She said, patting the dog's head, "We can clean it up and live here together. We're family starting now, okay?"

"Ruff!" His bark was much more energetic than yesterday.

"Let's both start fresh! Can I name you buddy?"

"Ruff!"

"Alright, let's see…since yellow's my favorite color and you're a golden retriever…what about… 'yellow'?"

The dog whined.

"Yeah I know I suck with naming…can't help it I'm only ten and I don't know much words boy!"

"Arf!"

"Hold on…I know there's a type of beautiful gem that was yellow in color…what is it…" She covered her forehead with her hand and a pain struck her. Realizing it was the wound from yesterday she took a good look at it and man, it was really bad. She probably needed a stitch.

The dog looked at her, brown eyes full of apologies. She just shook her head and stroked him on the head gently, "It's not your fault buddy. You're injured everywhere too, so it's fair isn't it?"

He licked her arm as an act of saying sorry to her.

"I think Imma go see the doctor. And I'm gonna bring you to see a doctor too." She said.

She had some savings from the Vale Social Benefit and although most of it was spent on the orphanage, she did have some amount of lien left just enough to visit a doctor. Now that she had decided to live alone outside she was probably going to need more money, but that could save for later. The important thing now was to get the dog properly treated.

"C'mon buddy, let's go see a vet."

The whole journey walking out of the forest was led by the dog; he was very familiar with this green maze and they took only a few minutes to get out of it.

"Okay, outside here is me leading." The blonde smirked.

She knew there was a vet just nearby the forest and the owner was a kind man. When they reached there it was empty and they were the only ones who needed a treatment so immediately they were brought into the vet's room.

"Hello little dragon." The man, Dr. Torchwick smiled. He knew her as her class visited this place before.

"Good mor- I mean, afternoon ." The blonde smiled, "Umm…do you think you can fix him?"

"Let me see." The man lifted the dog gently onto the table with soft padding, "A golden retriever huh. His wounds are quite bad. I take he was being abandoned since he was little and grew up with the collar restricting his breathing?"

Yang felt a rush of anger recalling the scene yesterday night – of how broken the dog was. She bit her lips and nodded.

"I see. Now…" Dr. Torchwick paused for a while, "May I ask for his name?"

"Oh!" Yang exclaimed, "I've totally forgotten about that!"

The man chuckled.

"Yeah doctor, do you know a kinda precious gem which is yellow in color?"

"Topaz you mean?"

"Yes!" Yang jumped, "Yes that, Topaz! Do you like this name buddy? It should be way better than 'yellow' right?"

"Ruff!"

"Alright!"

"Very well. Topaz, I'm going to fix you up and it's going to hurt a bit. Hang in there okay buddy?"

Topaz gave out a bark of acknowledgement.

After Dr. Torchwick had done with Topaz's treatment he stitched Yang's hand and helped her disinfected it. The girl then paid him but he refused to accept it; instead, she told Yang to keep it.

It turned out he knew about her running away from the orphanage. He said it was on the news and everybody was searching for her now.

"Okay listen here little dragon." The man knelt down so that he was at eye level with the blonde, "I know you don't like to be restricted from doing what you like. So I'm gonna adopt you alright?"

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"Listen, if they found you, you'll be taken back to the orphanage. You can't live by yourself legally until you're at least sixteen so I'm gonna tell them I adopted you and get the paperwork done. You come with me and show them the proof. After we're done with that you're free to do whatever you want. You can come live in my house too but you'll have to manage the stuffs yourself. I'm sorry but I don't have enough earnings to support your education. Business is rather…down lately."

Yang considered his offer a little while before Topaz started making some whimper.

And she knew what the dog just said.

"Dr. Torchwick, I don't care what we have to do to get them to stop searching for me. As long as they stop that's it." A pause, "Why are you helping me?"

"I happened to...well...went through the same situation as you when I was a kid. So I understand you."

"Oh...but, I want to live with Topaz alone. Deal?"

"Okay." The man smiled, "No problem. Come, let's get the procedure done. I'll let my staff to take over the place for a while. It's not like there's any customers here anyway." He joked.

They left Topaz near the entrance of Dragon Tears Forest as they went to several places to get the adoption procedure done.

Evening approached as they were finished with the task and Yang was now officially Dr. Torchwick's adopted daughter. She thanked him and bid him goodbye before going back into the forest with Topaz; she planned to have a good rest tonight and would start cleaning out the house tomorrow.

Dr. Torchwick pulled out a cigar and lit it up while sitting in his car, looking at those blonde pigtails that were gradually disappearing as the girl walked deeper into the forest. He blew a puff of smoke before taking out his scroll, fingers moving rapidly on the screen.

"That's all I can do for you, Taiyang." He mumbled while looking at a blonde man's photo, "Your wife left her after you died. I knew you would want her to be a brave and independent person just like yourself."

A drop of tear rolled down from his eyes.

"She's doing good now. I'll continue to keep an eye on her without letting her know. Rest in peace, buddy."

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Thanks for reading again.

Allow me to answer some of your questions here:

Yes, Dr. Torchwick's full name is Roman Torchwick.

And why does Roman wait until she ran out to adopt her? He didn't want her to know he was secretly looking after her. He knows Taiyang would want her to be independent and she has to learn to do it herself so she has to be left alone to deal with things – with secret support from an adult. And if he makes a move into the orphanage to adopt her Yang would definitely question and it'll be too suspicious. Yeah they were best buddy when Tai was still alive. Weird eh? But I can't find any other suitable male character to be fit into this character so I chose Roman. My initial thought was Dr. Oobleck but he appeared too much in my other stories and Roman's never appeared at all so...Dr. Torchwick is born!

And lastly no Blake again. Don't worry, she'll come out in the next chapter.

I definitely do not own RWBY.