Shingeki no RWBY Chapter 1: A Grimm Day, an Attack on Titan/進撃の巨人 + RWBY Crossover fanfic

I had this idea and I just had to put it in words. It's pretty much a Attack on Titan and RWBY crossover. This story will be an AU of RWBY where the people of Remnant are in the Shingeki no Kyojin. The Schnee Dust Company still discovered Dust and developed advanced technology fairly recently. The Faunus Rights Revolution still occurred, Faunus are still prejudiced but the White Fang isn't the main concern for obvious reasons. Instead, Remnant is invaded by Grimm, which not all of them are giant sized but still dangerous notheless. The world is protected by Huntsmen/Huntresses who use Remnent weapons to fight the Grimm on equal ground. I enjoy RWBY and Attack on Titan and I thought 'why not combined the two of them?' I love plots about human civilization using ridiculously-cool weapons to fight against monstrous man-eating creatures who want to friggin' kill them all.

Before continuing: I will use elements from both shows, but most the characters will be from RWBY. Also, tons and tons of OC's, as I will need to feed the Grimm and a few to survive to show the main characters don't carry all the weight of the plot. I will include shipping, mostly between teams. I'm still not sure who I should pair up with members of Team RWBY (No Yuri). JNPR is easy, however romance isn't the main theme of the story.

I don't own RWBY or Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan). The cover page was created by Jipooki on deviantart and not by me. Please don't sue or remove.

The Fall of Vale Arc

Chapter 1: A Grimm Day - Prologue.

Legends. Stories scattered through time. Mankind has grown quite fond of recounting the exploits of heroes and villains, forgetting so easily that we are remnants, by-products, of a forgotten past. Man, born from dust, was strong, wise and resourceful but unfortunately he was born into an unforgiving world.

100 years ago, mankind suddenly discovered previously unknown creatures. An inevitable darkness – the phantoms of destruction; the creatures of Grimm - set their sights on man and all of his creations. Demons with animal features; they came in a variety of different shapes and size. With their speed, strength and most importantly, regenerative powers were too much for man´s feeble attempts to destroy them, most of the world's civilizations were quickly annihilated by these dreadful beasts. The two forces clashed and it seemed the darkness was intent on returning man's brief existence to the void. They drove man to the brink of extinction, he had never fought these mysterious monsters before and it seemed hopeless.

But however, the last remnants of the mankind built 3-layered, highly advanced walls that surround the capital and its territories on the continent of Vytal. They stood up to 50 meters tall and were 10 meters below ground as protection from the fearful creatures. These walls were named: Sina, Rosa and Maria. Appropriately, the nation was named Remnant. The great walls held peace for a century but now, peace is beginning to fade away as a new imminent danger arises.

So you may prepare your alleged 'guardians', worship your supposed 'deities', build your monuments to your so-called 'safe world' but take heed... there will be no victory in prayers.

It truly is such a Grimm situation.

(Year 845: Outside the walls…)

A cold, night fell over the eerie forest of redwoods. In the shadows of the night, a large, dark figure crawled out from a dark, unfamiliar world and quietly disappeared in the darkness. Whatever it was … it wasn't human.

Elsewhere, several more figures galloped silently in the twilight. The force was a lead by a blonde-haired man in his late 30s. Like his men, he rode forward on a horse and was dressed in an army uniform draped with a green cloak. His emerald coloured eyes felt like they were piercing into your soul if you looked into them.

Under the giant, full moon that shone down over the forest, they found the creature they were looking for. A Grimm. He watched over his combatants, making sure they were prepared for the assault. His eyes narrowed slightly as he turned his head to the left.

Closing in, they break into five groups and start using their 3D Maneuver Gear. They were part of a group of specialised soldiers that were of being hunted and desired to fight back their mortal enemies. To give them a taste of mankind's power.

The leader ordered everyone to get ready to fight, having a single target. They noticed the target approaching: it was a big one, 14 meters tall, but what sent chills down their spines was the low sinister, giggling it made. Like a hyena. The formation split into groups of decoys and attackers. Using their high-tech equipment, a brave soul reached the monster in an attempt to slay it.

"Moses! Look out!"

ooooo

"But perhaps victory is in the simpler things that you've all long forgotten. Things that require a more smaller, more honest soul."

ooooo

She was so cold. She feel...lonely. Her surroundings were dark and cold. Slowly, it started to get brighter. What she saw was inconceivable.

She saw what was left of her friends and family. A white-haired girl and black-haired girl lay dead on the cold snow. She tried to call them but she couldn't. She can't even speak nor move. She stood there, unable to do anything. Not far from her she saw blonde-haired girl fighting for her life. She's fighting a monster. A creature of darkness.

Her sister badly wounded, not realizing that the demon was actually the one she loved the most. She tried to reach her but she was slowly growing distant away from them. The more she tried to reach, the further it seemed she was away from them. But it was too late. The creature clawed her sister in the gut. Blood spatter on the floor. Her teen fell like a lifeless rag doll… on top of a mountain-sized pile of bloody victims. The creature was about to devour her and she scream at the top of her lungs.

"SSSSTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPP!"

xxxx

"Ruby! Ruby!'"called out a voice. "Ruby, wake up!"

"Huh!? Big sis?" the dark-haired girl's eyes franticly opened and revealed a face right in front of her, with big purple eyes staring down at her. It was her adoptive sister, Yang. "What's going on?"

The older girl wore a long pink one piece dress with a white jacket, black shoes and an orange scarf around her neck. On her left wrist was a silver bracelet. She had long, flowing blonde hair.

"Hey lazybones, get up! It's about time to head back home. It's getting dark now, you know how your mom worries" she chirped, as she skipped over the field of flowers, the petals brushing against her pink dress. "Hurry or we'll miss dinner. ~"

"O-okay..." Ruby stood as she rubbed her eyes and brushed the dirt off of her dress. "I must've had a really long dream…" she noted. "A really long, weird dream."

Ruby had a fairly long, yet rounded child-like face and sizeable, silver eyes. She has short dark black hair with red streaks and her bangs falling naturally into a middle-parted curtain-type style. She wore a red blouse with string tassels at the collar, a black skirt, a maroon coat and simple brown shoes.

"What was it about, Rube?"

"I… I don't remember… But I feel like I've had it before…"

This caused the blonde girl to raise an eyebrow but decided to leave it, as she picked up her stick rack, which Ruby was supposed to be helping with. When Yang looked on her sister's face, she noticed that tears were flowing down her cheeks, like she was crying.

"Why are you crying?" the older sibling asked.

"Huh, crying? Wh-What? I'm not… crying." Ruby wiped out her tears. "I guess I was having a nightmare."

Yang hugged her tightly, as her sister embraced her back and was shushed by her. "Shhh, it's okay. It's just a dream. I'm here."

xxxx

(Later on, in the town of the Vale District…)

ooooo

"Hear me! The walls were created with God's wisdom! The walls are the work of God! Not one soul shall dare desecrate these sacred walls!"

ooooo

Ruby and Yang walked together through the streets of the Vale District, ignoring the stupid wall preachers, just after running another errand from gathering firewood when they happened to reach the gate. The nation of Remnant had three walls protecting them; the spaces between them are roughly in area. Maria and Rose are 100km apart. Rose and Sina are 130km apart. Sina is 250km from the centre, where the Royal Family lives. They were made of a special type of rock that uses the Aura the inhabitants leek out subconciously as an invisible dome both over and under. This way nothing without a soul could fly in or dig in.

"Well, while you were napping I got most of the sticks like we were meant to" the older sibling smiled.

"Great, now you're making feel guilty" the red girl pouted.

"Does that mean you'll stop snoozing everytime we do our chores?"

"Nope!" As they were on their way home the younger sister turned to the older one, as the girls walked through the inner town of Wall Maria. "Hey, don't tell anybody that I was crying" the redhead insisted.

"Don't worry I won't ~" the older sibling sang. "But if you should let your dad take a look at ya, if you had tears in your eyes for no reason" she remarked.

"No way!"

"What's the matter Ruby?" said a voice behind them. "What are you crying about? Did you and Yang have another scuffle, again?"

Suddenly, a flushed-faced soldier appeared before them. He was fairly tall, 6'2 ft., and like all military soldiers, he wore the typical short light brown jacket, a light-coloured shirt and a dark brown sash around the waist covering his hips. He wore white pants and dark brown knee-high leather boots. Strapped around his waist was his 3D Maneuver gear. On both of his shoulders and the front left pocket was a symbol of two roses which indicated that he was part of the Signal Guards. He had spiky, dark grey hair; aqua-green eyes, a faded goatee and face that looked middle-aged, with a large black scythe tied to his back.

"Hey Uncle Qrow, still going drunk today?" Ruby gave a concerned look to the old Signal Guard private, as she sniffed the air. "You reek of booze!"

"It's our business, dere's nothin' *hic* wrong with dat" called a brown-haired boy from the other side of the gate that was enjoying a drink with his fellow soldiers, laughing. "You two wanna join us?"

"We're underage!" shouted Goldilocks.

"Hah Ruby, what are ya' little girls *hic* doing here?" asked Qrow Rose. Their Uncle leaned against a wall with his arms folded across his chest. He was considered a prodigy and that people believed that he had the same potential as Captain Levi.

"...Nah, just nothing" she grinned, before turning to a neutral face. "By the way, I don't you think it's dangerous to be drunk on the job."

"Don't fret *hic* I'm just watching the gates" he shrugged, easily. "We've been here all day and didn't have any trouble. It's rather *hic* boring. Hehhehheh."

"So standing around and doing nothing is work..." smiled the blonde dully to no one in particular. "That's our Uncle Qrow, folks."

"Uncle, when are you gonna teach me to use a scythe again?"

"Girl, I ain't ever gonna do that again!" he yelled, with pure fear in his eyes. "Your mother said if I ever taught you how to fight again, she'd hit me with one of her 'infamous, exploding nutsack techniques'!" he shuddered. However, she failed to notice her little sister frowning.

"But Uncle Qrow, if I can't fight and you're drunk how are we going to protect ourselves, when they break the wall and come in?!" Ruby pointed out in annoyance. "How are we going to be ready to protect everyone from the Grimm from down here?!"

A moment of since followed.

"Ouch" Qrow muttered, holding his head. "Ruby, don't say things like that out loud. You're really gonna make my ears bleed ."

The youngest of Qrow's companions stood up and walked over to them. He was a lean built, 15-year old and wore the standard uniform. He stood 5'5 ft. and had dark brown hair and sharp features. However, his most distinguished features were his long, pointed light brown ears and a black-and-white ringed-tail, indicating his status as a raccoon Faunus. His name was Craig Takuni.

"Well, *hic* if it ain't Dr. Thorne's kid" he slurred. "Ya got spirit kid. If they do end up breakin' the wall, we'll do our jobs ta handle something like *hic* dat" he continued. "But ya know what? Not once in the past *hic* 100 years have they broken the wall. That ain't gonna change."

"Still! The only thing separating us from being eaten alive by monsters is… One. Damn. Wall!" Ruby, interjected. "Daddy said its times like these when were in most danger!"

"Dr. Thorne said that?" Qrow asked, almost absentmindedly. "Well, he's usually right about these things. He saved our town from a plague before. We can't thank him enough. But the Grimm are a different story." He turned and looked at the town behind him. "I see Grimm walking around all the time when I mend the walls. But speaking as a Huntsman, I don't think they can do anything about this 50 meter wall. I mean, the biggest Grimm ever recorded was only 15 meters."

"S-so…" Ruby asked hesitantly, hoping that they would prove her wrong . "You aren't prepared to fight them?"

"Hmmmmmmmm… Nope."

"What?!" Ruby exclaimed. "How about you stop calling yourselves the 'The Town Guards' and call yourselves 'The Wall Menders'?!"

"Has a nice ring to it" Qrow laughed, infuriating Ruby even more. The old man knew she gets her temper from her mother. "But Rube, when people see Hunters fighting, they know something bad has happened. Everyone's really much happier when we're doing nothing and getting called useless freeloaders."

"But it's always better when we know what's happening all around us and not be ignorant of everything" Yang cut in as she stepped into the soldier's view. "We all become aware of everything and not go into a panic and cause chaos when the time comes. We can never know what the Grimm has in store for us but its best to be ready."

Her sister soaked up her words like an addict. "Yang…"

"I think Ruby is trying to say is we're living like caged livestock, bred to die at the right place at the right time" the blonde continued. "We're trapped within the safety of these walls but for how long?" Qrow, who understood her words, sported a look of pain and guilt.

The young Signal Guard chuckled. "Snap, these lil' lassies sure know how ta *hic* talk smart. Ain't she the girl the Roses adopted?"

"Yeah, not like you can do anything about it, *hic* right Qrow?" another companion of Qrow's mocked. "Being told off by a pair of *hic* schoolgirls, you must be losing your touch, old man."

"Ah shut it, you lazy drunk…" the old man murmured.

"That's right kettle, listen to the pot" the older sister said cheekily, walking away from the drunkards. "We have to go home, now. Bye Uncle Qrow!"

"See ya!" chirped her little sister. After speaking their mind on the situation, the two sisters continue on their way.

"Those two are silly! Ahahahaha! What buzzkills!" they laughed. "Cynical little snots…"

"Yeah! We were just having some fun."

"Who's that girl, again *hic*?" asked the other Signal Guard nearby Qrow.

"Oh her? She's my niece, Ruby. She's the daughter of my best friend, Thorne Rose, who saved 800 lives from a plague. He's married to my younger sister, Summer."

"Ohh… who's that brat, again?" This caused the raccoon Faunus to sweatdrop.

"Oh well, c'mon guys our shift's finished, lets drink up" he smirked, baring his fangs. "No point lettin' the booze go ta waste, right? The Grimm ain't gonna drink fer us."

"Ruby… do you plan on joining Beacon?" he wondered, as his friends mucked around.

xxxx

(Later on the main road of Vale District…)

Once they were a good distance away, the redhead spoke up. "Thanks for supporting me back there, sis."

"I'm just glad I'm not the only one who thinks the way I do" she answered, before frowning. "Though, I don't think you should join the Beacon Corps" she discouraged.

"Why not? You don't think they're stupid, too?" Ruby pouted, cutting her off.

"Ruby, I'm not saying they're dumb or anything" Yang continued, in a more serious tone. "It's just that…"

Suddenly, the bells rang, cutting her off and signalling the return of the Beacon Corps.

"Hey look Yang! It's the Beacon Corps! They're back from their mission! The front gates are opening" Ruby exclaimed, promptly. She looked at her sister expectantly and dragged her by her wrist uncomfortably to where the bells were. "Let's go, sis! The heroes have returned!" she declared.

The Beacon Corps. They were only branch of Hunters that venture outside the walls. Crowds have gathered on the road, cheering for the squad that came from their last mission.

Ruby cheered, as she barged through the dense crowd. "Oh boy, let's see 'em."

At the front of the squad was the Commander of Beacon himself. The blonde-haired man noticed the two little girls praising him and gave them a small smile of appreciation, before looking away in shame to the girls' confusion. As the full parade came through town, Yang couldn't help but comment on how so few have returned as she looked at the survivors, with the remaining ones being injured as well.

They arrived at the main street and could only watch as the terrorized expressions of the Beacon Corps passed them. Soon after, the cheers faded as they saw the faces of among the Hunters, shocked from horrors of the frontline, they never even flinched. They looked like they saw some serious shit. Then, an old woman came by to approach Keith, a Captain of the Beacon Corps, to find her son, Moses. They could only sympathize as the poor woman came looking for her child, only to be given a severed arm, that was all that was recovered.

"That was the only part of him we could salvage" the man said, solemnly. "I'm sorry, ma'am, I really am."

Seconds later, the mother knelt down as she clutched the arm close to her and wept in despair hearing about her son's death. The man she had spoken to knelt down to the broken mother but before he could utter a word, the woman spoke.

"But... my son... he was useful, right?" she choked out, as if trying to rationalize this. "He might not have been of direct greatness but he at least died helping mankind fight back, didn't he? His death contributed to humanity, even if in a small way, right?"

The man's face showed his surprise, shocked by the woman's question. It was like she was begging him to tell her if this sacrifice was worth it.

"Of course!" the captain said, in a desperate attempt to drown his own feelings of horror, grief and guilt. He hesitated. "No…" he whispered. "During this mission, we... No, even after all of our missions, we still haven't made any progress, whatsoever!" the man cried out. "I am a failure! I've just gotten my men killed left and right by my incompetence! We haven't learned anything useful about the Grimm at all!" he wailed, hysterically. "OUR EXPEDITIONS HAVE ACHIEVED NOTHING SINCE WE STARTED!"

"Well… that was heavy…" noted Yang. Her sister was unusually silent, as she looked across the crowd.

"Talk about gruesome." Some of the soldiers were giving out petitions about joining their military branch to see the world outside and help fight the Grimm, it seemed they were desperate to take anyone at this point. It was completely irrelevant to say what the civilians' response was. You couldn't really blame them.

"You can say that again."

"Seriously man, what a waste of tax money…" complained a fellow townsman, as the soldiers left. "Bringing out Huntsmen to the outside area to make their foothold but they died for nothing."

"So all we've been doing is offering our so-called 'Hunters' as free lunch?"

"No wonder they're called the Beacon Corpse…" another citizen spoke.

"Indeed" agreed another bystander. "Anyways, I blame the military for thi-*Bonk* Ow!"

The annoyed onlooker turned around franticly to a 10-year old girl holding a pebble in one hand, with an angry expression on her face.

"Hey kid, what's your problem?!" he retorted, preparing for retaliation.

"I will-gah!" But then, she was interrupted as she was pulled away by her adoptive sister from the angry man.

Afterwards, Yang quickly dragged her impulsive sibling into the alleyway away from the crowd and dropped her onto the ground, causing the firewood that had been bundled on the redhead's back to scatter across the floor.

"Yang! What gives?!" she exclaimed. The girl grabbed a stick from the nearby woodpile intending to go back to the crowd that insulted the Beacon Corps, to get them to at least shut up, when the blonde caught her and held her hand in place.

"Ruby, don't" the older sister chided. "It's not worth it. Some people just don't understand no matter what you do. Just drop it."

Slowly giving in, Ruby dropped the stick and Yang released her grip on her hand. "I hate it when you make sense…"

"Ruby, you could've got us into trouble!" Yang retorted. "What if your mom heard about us getting into a fight with a grown up?!"

"S-sorry…" After a brief pause, Ruby and Yang picked up the scattered wood. "Let's just go home, sis."

xxxx

(1 hour later, Vale District: The Rose residence…)

"Mom, Dad, we're home!" Ruby called out. They finally arrive to their house, after getting lost a few times on Yang's useless directions.

"We brought sticks ~" her sister cheeped.

"Ah, Ruby, Yang, Perfect timing for dinner" Ruby's mother said. "And I thought that you two were coming late."

Ruby's mom was beautiful, her was face was more like of her daughter, even she had long, flowing reddish dark and glowing silver eyes. She wore a beige dress and an apron. Her name was Summer Rose.

"Well, looks like the girls are home, welcome" their father added, taking a sip of tea and continue to read the newspaper. Like his daughter, he had combed, black hair but also lime-green eyes, he also had a faded black beard and square-lensed glasses. His name was Dr. Thorne Rose and he was one of the best doctors on the outer walls.

After a hug and a kiss each from their parents, the two girls put their firewood away.

"Wow, Ruby! You actually worked hard today!" Summer smirked knowingly, making her daughter feel uncomfortable. "That's a lot of sticks you've you got there. You're quite adept at seeking and collecting wood."

"Yeah, I guess…"she was really uncomfortable. "What do you mean?"

"I'm just so proud my daughter can take so much wood on her back" she whispered slyly, to the little liar.

"Ewww! Mom, you're not supposed to make those kinds of jokes!"

"Says who? The 'Mom Police'?"

"Yes!" Suddenly, she felt a tug on her ear. "Ow!"

"Well, the 'Daughter Police' says you can't lie to your mother, young lady" she popped a vein. "Yang helped you, didn't she?"

"Only 80%" the blonde chimed.

xxxx

(Half an hour after dinner…)

"Seriously, dear. You have leave town again for 6 days" Summer exclaimed while doing the washing up, obviously not happy by the news. "But you just got back from the last work in the interior!"

"I'm afraid so, darling" the doctor announced. "Those patients aren't going to examine themselves, are they?" he chuckled, as his wife got up to wash the dishes.

"Mom… can I ask you a question?" Ruby asked, wanting to reveal something important.

"Hm? What is it dear?"

"Well, when I grow up, can I join... the Beacon Corps?" she told her, timidly.

At this moment, silent filled on the air, her mother couldn't reply but beads of sweat flowed on her forehead, shocked, hearing her daughter's words, moments later, the silence breaks along with the dish being washed.

"...No…" Summer replied, calmly.

"Huh? Why?"

"Ruby, I said no, I forbid you" her mother crossed her arms. "Even I will not apply you into the military for the rest of your life."

"What?!"

"Where did you even get such an idea from?" Summer was clearly getting more enraged by the second. That was one of the few things in this world that could scare the other three occupants of the house.

"But mom I-!" the little redhead objected.

"Do you have any idea how many Hunters get killed out there?!"

"Yeah, I know!" the little girl answered, sharply.

"Then why, Ruby?" The sound of Thorne's calm voice had a soothing effect the women. "Why do you want to go outside the walls?" he questioned, politely.

"I want to see the world beyond through my own eyes, daddy" she stated, her tone bubblier now that her father was listening to her. "I don't want to stay locked up inside the walls for the rest of my entire life without knowing what's going on out there!" she told, gaining everyone attention, much to the discontent of her mother. "Plus, I want to pick up where the Hunters before me left off so their sacrifice won't be for nothing. I mean, if I don't take their place then who else will? Otherwise, it would all be in vain if we just give up!"

After a brief moment of digesting this information along with their dinner, the raven-haired doctor rose up from the table. "I see. Well, my boat's about to leave" he said, as he got his crimson red hat and scarlet coat. "I better get going, now."

"Hold on, dear!" his wife followed suit. "Talk some sense into our daughter!"

Thorne simply planted a kiss on her lips, causing the younger girls to gag. "Summer, a child's curiosity isn't something one can restrain with just a lecture" he replied. "When somebody's on a quest, there's no such thing as talking them down. Besides, I haven't personally seen what's beyond the walls so even if I did try talking her out of it, my words wouldn't hold much weight to it."

His wife looked away in defeat, only Goldilocks noticed. As the husband got ready to leave, he then shifted his loving gaze to his daughter.

"Ruby, when I get back, I'll show you what's in the basement" Thorne told her. "It's a Rose family secret and I think you're finally old enough to know, now." He stated with a smile, as he showed her a golden key.

"R-Really!"

"Can I see, too?" Yang asked, nicely.

"Sure, I can't see why not. Take care, girls."

With a wave and a goodbye, Dr. Rose left for work… not knowing when he would return.

Ruby frowned, her father wasn't against her but she wasn't sure if he was supporting her, either. Her father always left without really explaining anything, like when both her parents were explainning the 'birds and the bees' to her.

"Just forget it, Ruby" her mother insisted. "Joining the Beacon Corps is a foolish idea."

"Huh? Do you really think it's stupid!?"

"Do you want to die?!"

"I wanna make a difference!"

"You'll just get eaten by the Grimm!" her mother shouted, angrily. "Why can't you just be grateful with what you've got, girl?!"

"Oh, how supportive of you (!)" the redhead daughter shouted back. "Well, aren't you just mom of the year (!)"

"Well excuse me for worrying about your safety!" she seethed. "Listen, young lady! I will never let you to join the military because-"

"It doesn't matter! I'm joining in, anyway!" the redhead argued, irately. "People who don't mind buying their safety at the cost of living like cattle are the dumb ones! I thought you, a Huntress of Beacon, would get that!"

Sick of quarrelling, Ruby stormed off from her house leaving her mother and adopted sister alone in astonishment by her words. The red-haired woman cursed the fact her daughter inherited her bad habit of getting into trouble.

"Yang…" Summer spoke, to her 10-year old adoptive daughter. "Get Ruby back i, I need to tell her something important, about why I left Beacon. Please, if anything happens, watch out for her" she pleaded, to which the older girl nodded.

xxxx

(Later, somewhere in Vale District that evening…)

It had been a long and gruelling day for Ruby Rose. First, she had a nightmare that couldn't remember that made her cry. After the meeting with her uncle, she discovered he and his friends spent most of their time getting sloshed than worrying about the Grimm. One even had the nerve to call her a buzzkill! Well, she'd be less likely to kill their buzz if they were less buzzed while creatures out there were trying to kill them all. If it wasn't a problem, they might as well keep the gates open forever. It was times like these she detested the Signal Guards, they were almost as bad as the Sanctum Police...

Next, she saw that her childhood heroes weren't the brave hunters she imagined them to be. Then, she got in a big fight with her mom who was deadest against her. She couldn't understand it she was her mother and a renowned Huntress at that, she expected her to be the most supportive for her.

The little girl signed tiredly as he walked up a hill away from her house, kicking a pebble. It wasn't as if life here was bad, she just yearned for some kind of adventure. Maybe she could talk to her only other friend without getting into any more trouble?

Ruby looked up to find three familiar idiots harassing a boy with a round face, framed by his blonde hair and he has round baby-blue eyes. He was about the same height as Ruby and wore a long-sleeved suit-like jacket with a collared shirt, black dress-pants and brown shoes. Now, three bullies began to beat up the helpless 12-year old in the alleyway.

"Hey blondie" the fat thug asked him musely. "Tell me something about your so-called story on the 'Outside world'?"

"Wh-why? Why do you have to pick on someone?" the blonde boy asked the group. "Just for some... no, nothing? It's just because I think differently from you."

"What's matter heretic?" taunted the big, spiky-haired leader, as he slammed the scrawny boy against the wall. "Too scared to fight back?"

"As if I'd go down to your level!" he countered, getting on their nerves. "You know I'm right! That's why you're trying to beating me up. Even though I have a different opinnion you can't prove I'm wrong!" he stated, with newfound confidence.

Unfortunately, the more he used reason, the angrier the boys got. "Shut your damn mouth, you smartass!"

Just as he is about to get hit… "Hey, stop it!" an innocent voice interrupted. "Leave him alone!"

As the three boys turned around and saw the girl known as Ruby show up and ran towards them to save her close friend. She scowled at the sight of her friend being held up against the alley wall by the leader of the three cowards. But she was further incensed when the boy raised his fist to punch the smaller kid.

This successfully drew their attention off of their victim and set their sights on the redhead but in hindsight she didn't make a good decision. She didn't have the strength to fight off all 3 of them but her his friend being harassed brought out her instinct to protect.

"Oh look who it is here! It's that little red riding hood" the bully commented, while he began to crack his knuckles.

"Have you come for an ass kicking too, Rose?!" the smallest one taunted, as he spun in joy. "What an idiot!"

Ruby scoffed. "You three have never beaten me in a fight. What makes you think that you can beat me up now?"

The leader smirked. "You may have won against us one-on-one but there's way you can beat the lot of us together by yourself!"

The cocky look on Ruby's face faltered for a moment and a gleam of triumph appeared on each of the bullies faces.

"We get to smash Rose and Arc in the one day!" the leader laughed.

"We'll tear you a new one!" the ugly one nodded, trying to be brave. "You don't scare us!"

"Huh? Uh, guys" spoke the other one, nervously.

At this moment, they caught sight of a very angry, lilac-eyed Yang who appeared behind her. Their excitement turned to horror however when they suddenly noticed the girl had a dark look on her otherwise pretty face. "Hey, enough! Let him go, you cowards!" the blonde girl shouted out.

"Aw crap!"

"She's got Yang with her!" they realized they had no hope of winning, now.

"Screw this! I'd better get outta here!" that caused the cowards to go in a full retreat.

As the cowards ran away, the little boy watched in amusement when suddenly the three bullies ran past him in fear from the look on Yang's expression. He couldn't blame them. Nobody would want to deal with a pissed off Yang, especially when she was protecting one of her friends.

Ruby came to a stop just in front of him and she was panting heavily from the abrupt sprinting. "Ha! They ran away the second they saw me" she grinned, victoriously.

Yang rolled her eyes and the boy piped up after he got back onto his feet. "No, they ran away when they catch sight of Yang."

Just as the young blonde boy took a step, he fell to his knee in pain causing the redhead to hold her hand out towards him in concern. "Hey, are you okay, Jaune?" she asked. "Do you need help?"

Jaune looked at the hand and he shrugged it off stubbornly. "No, it's good. I can stand on my own, Ruby" he retorted. Jaune looked up to give her a small smile. "But thanks girls, I was doomed from the start."

"You're welcome, Jaune" Ruby grinned to her friend. "As if we'd ever forget about you!"

xxxx

(Later, in the Vale District: Riverside…)

The trio decided to head down to the river so they could enjoy the scenery while they talked. Jaune sat at the top of the staircase and she was telling Ruby, who sat on the ledge with her feet hanging over the edge, about what's been going on in his life.

"So, your parents haven't returned from the outside world, didn't they?" Ruby asked.

"I don't know what happened to them" Jaune Arc sighed, solemnly. "It's been 4 months; they probably ended up devoured by the Grimm."

"I see" Yang placed her hand on Jaune's right shoulder with a warm smile. "But you still have you're grandpa with you and you've got ol' adorable us."

"...That's nice both of you..." he smiled, feeling a little better.

As the three children hung by the stream, Jaune Arc began to explain the source of his assailants' anger, shedding some light on his assault.

"I said mankind needs to go outside sooner or later. So after telling them that they hit me and called me a heretic" Jaune finished his story.

"Damn it…" Ruby muttered, as she threw a pebble into the canal. Jaune was one of the few who believed people eventually needed to explore beyond the wall and had the guts to even mention leaving the walls, rendering him as one her only friends to her silver eyes. It really bugged her, the fact that others looked down on him and called him crazy because of that. "We just want to go outside, why does everybody hate us solely for that?"

"Well, it has been peaceful living inside these walls for the past hundred years" Jaune responded. "They're afraid the Grimm might get inside when people carelessly leave the walls, so the King's government effectively made it a taboo for the public to show any interest in the outside world."

"It does make sense" Yang murmured, understanding their reason.

"We're risking our own lives. We can do what we want with 'em" Ruby stated, still a bit annoyed. "So it's our business!"

"I won't let you do that" the two looked at Yang. She sat at the bottom of the stairs leaning against the wall underneath Ruby. The older sister continued with a serious tone. "No way, hoese" she argued bluntly, from her position.

"Yang! C'mon!" Ruby cried out turning her head to her sister, believing she wasn't on her side. "Why didn't you stick for me when I told my parents?!" she questioned her, irritably.

"I don't remember you telling me beforehand" she shrugged calmly, causing her sis to pout. "Anyways, isn't there another way to go outside without joining Beacon? I'm surprised you haven't changed your mind after what you saw today." Ruby gave no answer.

"You told your mom and dad?" the blonde boy asked, curiously. "So how did it go?"

"Well, mom wasn't happy about it at all" Ruby uttered simply. "And dad didn't really give me a clear answer. I should've known how they'd react…"

"I figured" Jaune sighed and smiled tiredly at her. He understood Summer's intentions. It was a mother's job after all to do whatever it took to look after her kids no matter how much they hated her for it. The woman had made a decision that Ruby didn't like and she had to cope with her frustration.

"Stupid mom… She can't tell me what to do…" the redhead sulked. She always missed out on the cool stuff because her, she just wanted to see something exciting happen…

"You're 10-years old and she's your mommy, I'm pretty sure she can" Yang's only response was a raspberry.

After a moment of silence, Jaune continued, "People are just fooling themselves if they believe that these walls will protect us forever. I mean, are we truly safe here?" he wondered. "Even though the walls have been intact for the past 100 years, there's no guarantee they won't be broken down right here, right now..."

The two sisters soaked in the boy's words like a pair of heroin addicts, in an eerie silence. After a while, they played and mucked playing gladiators with sticks as makeshift swords, like what normal little kids do. Half an hour later Ruby began to doze off as her body succumbed to its weariness.

"Wake up, brat! You don't have any more time left! You need to get a move on! If you want the power to protect your loved ones, then you need to accept my aid! Now shout it out... my name is-"

Ruby gasped and her eyes shot open when she felt somebody shake her shoulder fiercely. Her eyes looked into the beautiful eyes of Yang. She was having another weird dream, again. That brash voice she heard was a woman's but wasn't Yang's or her mom's or anyone else she knew… yet why was it so familiar?

The olden-haired girl got up. "Alright Jaune, it's been nice playing with twigs, contemplating mortality and discussing about the social stigma of Remnant but we need to be leaving, now" Yang began. "Ruby... c'mon let's go home."

"Okay sis, hope mom would-"

*BOOM!*

As soon as the words left her mouth, a sudden earthquake threw them off their feet and heard a thunderous bang! The ground continued to shake for a few seconds before it abruptly stopped, leaving everyone worried about what just happened.

"Wh-what was that!?" cried Jaune. "Was that a bomb!"

The three friends noticed that a lot of people seemed to be rushing off somewhere, possibly the source.

"What's going on?" Ruby asked Yang, in a daze.

"It looks like something crashed into the ground outside of the wall and caused an earthquake" Yang deduced, causing the other two to raise an eyebrow. "I'm amazed that you slept through it."

"Yeah..." the redhead muttered and she quickly rubbed her eyes. There was something different about the dream this time. This time she felt a power well up within her along with a familiar name at the tip of her tongue but with the sudden awakening she lost it.

She shook her head and got to her feet. "Let's go see what's going on."

xxxx

(Vale District: Town Central…)

It only took them a couple of minutes to reach the courtyard where a group of people were looking towards the front gate. Confused citizens started talking all at once.

"What the hell was that?" a woman shouted, fearfully.

"Was it an explosion?"

"It's came from over there!"

"Did something fell?

"I'm not sure."

Running out of an alley and into the open streets, Jaune led the girls to what was happening. He noticed some people looking at something up their direction and ran to find out what had caused the commotion first.

"Jaune!" Yang exclaimed and rushed after him, with Ruby on her tail.

They followed his lead until he stopped in tracks with a look of fright plastered on his face.

"Jaune tell me, what's going on!?" the redhead asked, anxiously. "What do you see?"

At this moment, there's no reply, as the kids decided to look what their friend was looking at. The instant the sisters saw what he was looking at, they were stunned like everybody else.

They saw part of the wall covered by a large amount of black smoke rising outside the wall, as a giant, dark-scaled claw emerged from the smog, piercing and cracking the transparent Aura Barrier until it made a significant hole in it. The clawed hand grasped the top of the wall, digging its talons into it. Even from so far back from the wall, both could hear the crunch of concrete under the massive hand. Ruby's eyes went wide and slowly, a huge face lifted up from outside Wall Maria as the townspeople of Vale City began to shake in terror, a crocodile-like head of a monster was shown and able to look over Wall Maria and gaze into the barrier, it just seemingly watching the entirety of the town with its piercing red eyes.

"What the hell is that?" a man's voice brought everyone from their stupor as they turned and saw with wide eyes staring up at the beast standing behind the wall.

"Are you kidding me...?" Jaune mumbled, with shock written on his face. "That wall is 50 meters high!"

"It can't be! I've gotta be dreaming" Yang gasped in a mixture of horror, fear and awe. "How can something be THAT big?!"

"It's one of them..." Ruby trembled, dreadfully. "…A Grimm!"

The whole creature resembled a scaled-up black Spinosaurus. It had a whip-like tail and short protrusions on its arms and thigs. Instead of a fleshy sails like their dinosaur counterparts, it had boney spikes on its back in an ascending and descending fashion, with the middle spike being the biggest. They were made of the same substance that made up its trademark white mask that covered the top half of its face, which had red markings under its eyes and 4 small horns on top of its snout. This Grimm most probably caused the earthquake but what set it apart from its brethren was its sheer size. 60 meters tall.

In years time, this giant will be known throughout Remnent's history by one name: The Leviathan.

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It was at this point; when mankind looked up horrified and saw what was before them they realised their lives would be changed forever… but they had no idea just how much...

...it was the beginning of the end.

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Until that time a wretched soul and parted. ~

From God was I, wholly avaricious ~

Now, as thou seest, I am punished for it. ~

What avarice doth is made manifest. ~

In the purgation of these souls converted, ~

And no more bitter pain the Mountain hath. ~

What more, O Avarice, canst thou do to us, ~

Since thou my blood so to thyself hast drawn, ~

It careth not for its own proper flesh? ~

What more, O Avarice- ~

"Even the most brilliant lights eventually flicker and die. And when they are gone... darkness shall return."

Hope you guys liked it. I know it's similar to the first episode in AoT but I just thought it would be the best way to introduce the main characters. As for the Spinosaur Grimm, it takes the spot of the Colossus because its believed Spinosaurus is the largest land carnivore ever to exist and most Grimm resemble predators, so it seemed fitting. Next chapter will have a Grimm tragedy, pun intended. If you have any questions or suggestions for me, the wonderful Monstrel, dont forget to review.

I thought it was fitting having Qrow taking the role of that lovable drunk Hannes since the main charcters grew up with him. The story will be close to cannon but not completely the same, it'lll probably deviate from after Ruby's trial. But don't worry it won't be just a copied version of Attack on Titan, it'll still have some cutesy and funny RWBY moments.

Also, to those who have bothered to read this, have a look at my other stories while your waiting. Btw could you guys give me some ideas on Dust Weapons and their names in future e.g. for Qrow, Erwin, Levi, Craig, Hanji, Petra, Oluo etc. And yes, they will be using them in conjuction with the 3D Manuver Gear.

Anyways, hope you all enjoyed it. Peace out! XD