Snowfall chapter 1

It was a quiet night in Vale, and all throughout the city snow covered every inch of the ground like a blanket. It was the kind of night where family and friends would sit around a fire and tell stories or watch a movie. That is if you have friends, or family, or a home, Blake however didn't have any of those things all she had was an ally, a cardboard box and the clothes on her back and even those weren't hers they were either stolen or she had to fight for them, but that was her life she had to fight every second of every day just to survive, and this second of this day was no different. She was currently fighting the cold trying to desperately stay warm but with her starved frame and the thin, tattered rags she had for clothes working against her it was a fight she was losing horribly.

"Come on Blake, it's not even that cold out" Blake said to herself trying with all her might to keep what little warmth she had. However an extremely cold gust of air came and took all her warmth that she worked so hard to keep away. With that gust of wind a new feeling came, the feeling of her body going numb the feeling started at her toes and slowly, like a virus it made its way up her legs. The numbness the continued up to her arms and body, and before to long her entire body went numb.

'This is it isn't it, after 10 years of living like this I'm finally going to die, IN THE GOD DAMNED SNOW IN SOME ALLEY' she yelled to herself trying, in vain, to regain some of her lost warmth by curling up into her. Despite all her effort however she failed and her vision started to go dark. She was dying and she couldn't do anything but accept it, so knowing what her fate was she closed her eyes and waited.

"Weiss slow down would you?" The sudden intrusion of sound in the usually desolate alley caused Blake to jump slightly using her faunus ears she tried to find the source of the voice.

"No Ruby I will not slow down it's because of you and your sister that we're going to miss curfew." came a second voice.

"Well if you're so worried then let's take a shortcut." said a third voice.

"Fine whatever let's just go" came the second voice as the sound of snow crunching under heavy winter boots came closer. As the footsteps got closer Black started to get hopeful then just as she heard the footsteps reach her they kept walking and the sound started to disappear causing Blake to recede into herself and weep. As she weeped she feld the cold start to take her body yet again and not long after the world went black. Before it all went black however, blake could hear the sound of hurried footfalls coming towards her.

9 minutes before

Weiss Schnee was not having the best of days. First Ruby, her best friend of three years, and her sister Yang were late waking up for class so they had to rush. Then Cardin Winchester kept trying to show off to her by picking on some poor faunus girl, Yang put a stop to that very quickly. Finally, because of Yang forgetting her textbooks, they were going to be late getting home. Definitely not one of her good days, the worst part of them now having to walk home was the snow, It had only started about an hour or two ago but it had already blanketed the ground. As Weiss exited the school's main building she heard the telltale sounds of her friends trying to catch up with her.

"Hey princess wait up!" Yang yelled causing weiss to turn around and shoot her a glare.

"You know I hate when you call me that." She replied to the grinning blond before she reopened the door and walked out.

"Hey are you mad about this morning?" Ruby asked in a slightly timid tone which stopped Weiss dead in her tracks. She mentally thought it over before sighing and giving an answer

"No Ruby I'm not mad it's just been a very long, tiring, and all around bad day today and right now I want to get home before curfew." she said before looking down to the young brunette. Seeing that Ruby was no longer worried she turned back around and started to speed walk home. After thirty minutes of walking she heard Ruby call out for her again

"Weiss slow down would you." she yelled, Weiss rolled her eyes before yelling back.

"No Ruby I will not slow down. It's because of you and your sister that we're going to miss curfew." she shot back to her friends reminding them of why they were going to be late, and despite what she said she did slow down slightly allowing for them to catch up.

"Well if you're so worried then let's take a shortcut." Yang said as she pointed down an alley that cut clear across to the next street.

"Fine whatever let's just go" Weiss replied as she turned down the alley. As they walked nothing was said between the friends leaving an unusual quiet. Once they had exited the alley however the quiet was broken by a soft, almost unhearable, sob.

"Wait do you guys hear that?" Weiss asked causing the two sisters to stop dead trying to find whatever it was that Weiss heard. Yang was about to break the silence when she to heard the sobbing. Turning back to the alley they had just left Weiss ran full sprint to the source of the crying only to find something that nearly broke her heart. Sitting in a cardboard box in dirty, torn jeans and a stained, thin, white tee-shirt sat a faunus girl about their age.

"Quick call an ambulance." Weiss said as she took off her heavy winter jacket and used it to cover the girl. Looking back she saw the Ruby was on her phone and Yang was taking off her large winter jacket as well and handed it to Weiss who promptly used it to try desperately to keep the girl warm. It only took about ten minutes for an ambulance to arrive and pick all four girls up and take them to Vale general hospital, and once they arrived two sets of very worried parents were already waiting. When the teens entered the lobby they were set upon by their respective parents before a flurry of questions began.

Weiss however wasn't paying attention to her parents or to anything, she had been distracted almost completely by the black haired cat faunus that was being rushed away for frostbite and hypothermia. Weis was busy going over every detail of the strange girl in her head. From her matted black hair to the dirt and grime that covered seemingly every inch of her body, then to her clothes, they looked like they were barely able to protect someone from the occasional cold wind of a spring day let alone the icy hell that vale was experiencing. However Weiss was soon taken out of her thought by a hand clamping onto her shoulder. Turning to the source of the disruption she saw her father, Verdrict Schnee, was looking down at his daughter with a slight concerned look on his face.

"Weiss are you okay, you seem to be off?" he asked looking from his daughter to the room they had taken the homeless girl.

"Hmm I'm fine it's just the state that girl was in, she had to be our age yet the condition she was in... " Weiss trailed off as her thoughts returned to the homeless girl.

Well this is the first chapter of my newest story Snowfall, before the question is asked however yes it's an modern day AU. Read, review, other shameless plugs. Also me and a bunch of other writers are working on a large collab called Cell 502 which is a rwby prison au thank you and Ta-ta.

-Dantai