Well, I have to admit to being surprised at the positive response to the previous sample chapter. And given that that story was based on a (relatively) obscure film series, at least outside of Germany, I have to wonder how this sample chapter would do, given that it's based on one of the most famous animated series of recent years...RWBY.

Yes, that's right. This is my first attempt at a RWBY crossover. It's hardly the first to feature Harry as a Faunus, or a wolf Faunus for that matter, but AFAIK, it's one of the few to try and pair Harry with Blake Belladonna, if not the only fic. That being said, it is something of an AU. And sorry, Weiss fans, but she won't be part of Team RWBY. That being said, she may yet appear in the story.

While this story has a WBWL story as background, that's where it stays, for the time being: as background. Harry is the bastard child of Lily and Remus (as in a couple of my other WBWL stories), and was chucked through the Veil along with his biological father by James out of malice. But that's not important to the storyline.

EDIT (OCT 24, 2017): So, I've done some thinking, and have decided to start again from scratch with Under the Light of the Shattered Moon...which, if you've read my preamble before the chapters of Neopolitan and the Goblet of Fire, you already know about. Keep an eye out for the new chapters!

UNDER THE LIGHT OF THE SHATTERED MOON (ORIGINAL)

CHAPTER 1:

HARRY AND BLAKE

High in the sky, the silvery light of a partly-shattered moon shone down on the city of Vale. And down one of those moonlit streets strode an unusual pair of teenagers, trying to ignore the stares their appearance drew to them. Instead, they spoke in quiet tones.

"It's bad enough that White Fang has lost its way, but now the rumours of them working with Torchwick?" asked the boy. "I didn't think Bully-Boy had it in him to work with a human."

The girl next to him scoffed. "He sacrificed his principles long ago, as did the rest of White Fang," she said softly.

"And in other news, the ocean is wet," the boy snarked. He had a messy thatch of dark hair, green eyes with flecks of gold in them framed by glasses, and a pair of wolf ears protruding from his head. "Though he'd probably stab Torchwick in the back when he got what he wanted…though I'm sure Torchwick would do the same."

The girl didn't reply. Black hair framed beautiful, if somewhat lugubrious features, with a pair of cat-like ears protruding from the top of her head. Her eyes were golden, and her expression was solemn.

There was a sudden chirp, and the pair of them pulled out what looked like smartphones. "What's up, Rainbow?" the boy asked, answering the call.

"We've got a concrete sighting of Torchwick," came the voice of a girl. "He was spotted by one of our informants heading into the Dust to Dawn shop. It's one of the few Dust shops open so late, and he may be attempting a robbery. He's certainly brought a lot of goons for just a moonlit stroll."

The boy looked at the girl, who asked, "Rainbow, we're close to the shop. We'll head there right now."

"Got it, Nero. You and Vert take care, okay?"

"We will, don't worry," the boy said, hanging up, before getting his weapon ready from his back, as did his companion. His was a trident. Hers looked like a cleaver in a sheathe. "Ready to go, Blake?" he asked.

"As always, Harry," Blake replied, a faint smile touching her features as they began running for their destination…

They arrived just in time to witness the last stages of a fight, where a bunch of goons in black suits were ganging up on a girl in her mid-teens, wearing a black dress and a red hooded cloak. Is it me, or does she look like Little Red Riding Hood? Harry thought to himself as they dashed up. Though I have to pity the Big Bad Wolf. Oh, Red, what a HUGE scythe you have there…

And indeed, the fight was one-sided…for the goons. The girl expertly used a massive red scythe to dance around the goons, and then knock them senseless. And watching the spectacle from just outside the door was the man they had come to find. He was dressed in some natty white suit, with a black bowler hat, the fringe of his orange hair hanging over down one eye, while the other was decorated in make-up. He also had a cane. Had Harry ever watched A Clockwork Orange back in his old world (though he was too young to do so), he would have made the comparison to the thuggish Alex, dressed up in a parody of sophistication.

This, then, was Roman Torchwick, and he watched in irritation as the last of his thugs were knocked out. He muttered, albeit loudly enough for Harry and Blake to catch the words, "…Worth every cent, you were. No, really." Louder, he said, grinding his cigar under his cane as sirens approached, "Well, Red, it's been fun, but it's past time to say 'Au revoir'!" With that, he aimed his cane at the girl, with the bottom popping off to reveal a gun barrel.

"EXPELLIARMUS!" Harry yelled, pointing his palm in a halting gesture. But Torchwick had fired by that time, though the girl he was aiming at dodged, using the recoil of the gun built into her scythe to fly into the air. In the explosion that ensued from the projectile fired, Torchwick managed to flee when Harry and Blake shielded their eyes from the blast.

Harry and Blake, along with the girl, saw Roman hurrying up a fire escape onto a rooftop. "Blake, are you fine with staying with the shopkeeper?"

Blake, after a moment, nodded. "Don't take foolish risks. Like you normally do," she added dryly.

Harry dashed over, and leapt onto the roof, using his abilities to boost it, only to be irritated when the girl in the Red Riding Hood getup followed. However, Torchwick was running towards the edge of the building, and to Harry's irritation, still had his cane, though he now noted a strap keeping it on his wrist. "Oi!" Harry yelled.

"Persistent little bastard," Torchwick said, before turning, and frowning. "You…well, you couldn't take my Melodic Cudgel this time. And should you be babysitting Red there?"

"She followed me," Harry retorted. "Now, you'll come with me quietly, or I'll make sure you have a few bruises and broken bones. Your choice."

"Really?" the girl asked.

Torchwick sneered, only for a VTOL aircraft, a Bullhead, to rise up from behind the building. He hopped in, and threw a Dust crystal at them. "End of the line, bitches!"

As he aimed his cane at them again, Harry cast a Summoning Charm on the crystal, bringing it out of the line of fire and preventing an explosion, though he and the girl had to dodge back. But there suddenly someone in front of them, what looked like a wand at the ready. And Harry was pretty sure he recognised the woman.

"Goodwitch," Harry muttered.

The blonde woman, dressed in a rather severe dress with a cape over it, wearing spectacles over her light green eyes, glanced back at him, before she began firing what looked like spells at the Bullhead. Roman Torchwick retreated into the cockpit of the aircraft, only for a figure, half-hidden in shadow, to appear. It was definitely a woman, with a red dress, black hair, and glowing golden eyes, narrowed in malevolence, but other details were hard to pick out.

"Girl," Harry said, bringing himself between the Bullhead and the Red Riding Hood wannabe, "fall back. Goodwitch has this."

And so it seemed, as Goodwitch, with a gesture, made a storm cloud appear above the aircraft, and what looked like spears of ice beginning to impale the aircraft. But the girl didn't seem to want to, her silver eyes blazing with annoyance. "Hey, she could use our help. And I'm not 'girl', I'm Ruby!"

Before Harry could retort, the woman in the shadows of the Bullhead's bay fired off a blast of energy, with Harry pulling Ruby away from the blast. Goodwitch, after dodging the explosion herself, summoned the debris and turned it into a spear, before firing it at the Bullhead. The golden-eyed woman tried to destroy the spear and managed to mitigate the damage, only to form energy blasts under Goodwitch, Harry and Ruby.

Harry, thinking fast, grabbed Ruby and leapt straight up into the air, avoiding the explosion, before he aimed his trident at them. The prongs sparked electricity, and then sent a blast of lightning at the Bullhead…only for the aircraft to pull away in time. Ruby began shooting at it with her scythe as they reached the zenith of Harry's jump, and then ended up coming down to the roof.

As he let Ruby down, he snarled. "Son of a bitch!"

"Language," Goodwitch observed.

"English," Harry retorted. But before he could get into a blazing row with the Deputy Headmistress of Beacon, Ruby interposed herself between them.

"You're a Huntress? Oh, that is so cool! Can I have your autograph?!" she babbled.

"…Which is why we're here," Harry said to Blake, as they sat in a room, waiting to be talked to. They had been brought here by Goodwitch, and then left in what seemed to be an interrogation room in one of the Vale Police Stations. "You'd think they'd not arrest us out of gratitude."

"I don't think we've been arrested, Harry. Even the Vale police would make sure that suspects weren't kept together. And you kept that girl safe, didn't you?"

"Yeah, though she doesn't know when to keep her mouth shut. Even more than me, and that's saying something," Harry muttered. "She went all fangirl on Goodwitch."

Blake snorted. "So what are we doing here?"

"Well, it's one of the great mysteries, isn't it? Are we the product of a vast cosmic coincidence, or is there a god with a plan for us? Well, that keeps me awake at night."

After a moment, Blake said, "…You and Grif have got to stop talking(1)."

It was then that the door opened, and Goodwitch came in, though she was preceded by a tall, handsome man, apparently in his thirties, though his age was hard to tell. He had short grey hair and brown eyes, with small spectacles. Harry and Blake recognised him immediately: Professor Ozpin, the headmaster of Beacon Academy.

"Harry Evans-Lupin, and Blake Belladonna," he said. "Founding members of the White Fang splinter group Talon, formerly known as 'Blake's Seven'(2), which split away from the White Fang due to a disagreement about methods. Noted for minor acts of sabotage, major acts of theft, as well as embarrassing the executives of the Schnee Dust Company. Jacques Schnee certainly wasn't happy when you managed to persuade his youngest daughter to follow in her older sister's footsteps and join the Atlas Academy."

"Weiss wasn't exactly happy when we showed her the difference between corporate propaganda and reality," Harry said. "The Schnee Dust Company may once have been more of a paragon of a company, but not now with that moustached moron running it." He smirked inwardly at the thought that Talon had done more damage to Jacques Schnee and the company he married into with some hacked video and files than White Fang had ever done with any theft or bombings. Not that Adam Taurus or Sienna Khan would give a crap.

"That being said, you've embarrassed more than a few people, and the only reason why certain people high up haven't focused on you more is that your efforts work to their advantage. Your actions in assisting trying to bring Roman Torchwick into custody will only help matters," Ozpin said. "Actually, I have been trying to track you two down for some time. Rumours reached my ears of your skill in combat, and I was wondering whether you two would be interested in joining Beacon. Training as Hunters will work to elevate Talon's reputation."

"And what's the catch?" Harry asked.

"There's no stick in this situation. My colleague here," he indicated Glynda Goodwitch, "believes that your actions were only marginally less reckless than those of Miss Rose, although she was gratified to find that one of you stayed to guard the owner of the shop robbed. In addition, you, Harry, worked to keep Miss Rose safe."

"Well, she's pretty good at combat, but she didn't quite have a good danger sense," Harry said. "She needs more experience, I reckon. So, if we don't want to go to Beacon, we're free to leave?"

"Of course. In fact, I will put in a good word for you and your actions to the authorities."

Harry looked over at Blake. While he was their spokesperson per se, given that Blake wasn't the most talkative of people, Blake was, as far as he was concerned, the leader of Talon, even if their leadership was shared with a few other founding members, including 'Rainbow', aka Ilia, a chameleon Faunus.

Blake eventually said, "We'd like to talk to our comrades first."

"I understand," Ozpin said. "Regardless of whether you accept or not, here's my contact details." He handed over a card. "Ruby has accepted my offer of joining Beacon."

Harry frowned. "Isn't she a bit young? Blake and I are 17, so we'd be able to join, transcripts aside, but Ruby's probably still going to Signal."

"Yes, she is, but I see great potential in her, as I do in you," Ozpin said. "I look forward to your answer, regardless of what you choose…"

It took some considerable discussion between Harry, Blake, and their comrades in the higher echelons of Talon, but it was eventually agreed that, in the interest of improving their skills and the standing of Talon (in Vale, at least), Harry and Blake would accept Ozpin's proposal. However, they were to stay in contact, and keep an eye out for White Fang activity in Vale when they could. In addition, Ilia had contacted Ozpin herself, and they had decided that she would act as Talon's liaison with Beacon. Ozpin accepted, partly because such a decision would irritate his ally, General Ironwood, head of the Atlesian Military. Ironwood and Ozpin didn't always see eye to eye, and Ilia was former Atlesian Military, deserting after attacking students mocking the death of her parents in a Schnee Dust mine (and then mocking her depression when they realised she was a Faunus in disguise: she could keep her skin at human-like colours, after all).

So there they were on an airship heading to Beacon a couple of days later. They soon encountered the girl from the other day, Ruby Rose, who wanted to see their weapons. And thankfully, she didn't seem to be an anti-Faunus bigot. "So, you guys are from Talon?" she asked, curiously.

Ilia nodded. "I'm Ilia Amitola. I'm acting as an official liaison between Talon and Beacon. You've met Blake and Harry."

Blake nodded, and Harry smiled at Ruby. Once she wasn't acting like a hyperactive child, she was actually pleasant to be around. "You're lucky, Ruby," Harry said. "Roman Torchwick is, well, he's a nasty sort. And lately, he's been working with the White Fang."

Ruby grimaced. "So…was he stealing stuff for White Fang?"

"Or for himself," Blake said. "But Dust in large quantities is dangerous. In any case, we'll have to be careful if he shows up again."

It was at that point that a blonde, rather buxom girl with violet eyes appeared, glomping onto Ruby. After greeting Ruby as her sister and talking to her, the blonde girl noticed she had interrupted, and said, "Sorry, I was just so glad to see my sister coming to Beacon. I'm Yang Xiao Long."

Ilia introduced herself, and then Blake and Harry again. "Would you two like a moment?" Harry asked.

Ruby and Yang nodded, before moving away. "They were sisters?" Ilia asked. "They don't look much alike."

"Maybe one of them was adopted," Harry remarked.

"Maybe," Blake conceded.

Ilia sighed, walking over to the wall, glancing briefly at a blonde-haired boy who looked nauseous, before looking out the window. "At least they have a family," she said. "My parents were killed thanks to Jacques Schnee and his business practises, and your father, Harry…"

"Yeah, I know," Harry said, looking down, clenching a fist as he thought of Adam Taurus standing over the body of Remus Lupin, his biological father. Not the man who abandoned him. Not James Potter, who had both him and his father thrown through the Veil in secret, thanks to friends in the Department of Mysteries. All so he could raise the Boy Who Lived without any fear of a bastard overshadowing him. A bastard, as well as his true father, the one who sired him with his mother, Lily.

In a way, he was grateful that it happened. Remnant may not have been a holiday resort, what with the Grimm, and the discrimination against Faunus (Harry still wasn't sure how the trip through the Veil turned him into one, though he wasn't complaining), but he had been loved. Hell, he was loved even now, by Blake.

His thoughts were disturbed when he saw the news projection showing that Roman Torchwick was still on the run. The news then changed to coverage of a Faunus civil rights rally that White Fang disrupted, though it was interrupted by Glynda appearing, and giving some speech welcoming them to Beacon.

Ilia, Harry and Blake all looked out the view windows at their destination, at Beacon. Harry had to admit, he was looking forward to this. He was excited for what was going to happen.

Though the moment was spoiled when the queasy blonde barfed on his shoes…

CHAPTER 1 ANNOTATIONS:

So, Harry (from a WBWL situation, it seems) is in Remnant, is a Faunus, and is now Blake's lover. But what next? And how did Harry actually end up becoming a Faunus? How did he earn Blake's love and Adam Taurus' ire? And will he be part of Team RWBY? Only, without Weiss, it may yet become RHBY…

Now, I have to admit, I don't like Weiss. When I wanted to avoid doing a five-person team, Weiss was my first thought in eliminating from Team RWBY. But how? My first thought was to have her kidnapped by White Fang and held to ransom, only for Jacques to refuse to pay the ransom. And so, a la Patty Hearst, or Elektra King from the James Bond film The World is Not Enough (it's clearer in the novel of the film), Weiss would ally herself with White Fang in revenge. Thankfully for you Weiss fans, I discussed the idea with whitetigerwolf, who is a fan of RWBY, and shot down the idea, and made the suggestion of her following her sister and joining Atlas Academy instead. This suggestion I have taken. And yes, Weiss may yet come to Beacon, albeit in a different capacity to the series.

Harry has both magic and Aura. We'll discuss how that works, but Harry used magic to enhance his ability to jump earlier.

I brought in Ilia as a member of Talon as opposed to White Fang after seeing her in the Blake trailer for Season 5, and hearing her story. Here, she is older (albeit by a year or two) than Harry and Blake, but they're the same in terms of authority. They're amongst the senior members of Talon.

Incidentally, having Harry become a wolf Faunus is nothing new. The stories RWBY, JNPR and HAIL, and Nothing Left both have Harry becoming a wolf Faunus. However, I don't think either of those stories have an actual explanation, whereas here, it's due to him being Remus Lupin's bastard son. We'll get to the details later…

1. Yes, this is a reference to Red vs Blue, and to its very first episode. There is a Grif in Talon, and while he's still a lazy smartarse, he's also better than his Blood Gulch counterpart. Expect more cameos from Red vs Blue characters in Remnant.

2. This is a cheeky reference to the BBC TV series Blake's 7, which (appropriately, given Talon being a resistance group against both the Schnee Dust Company and White Fang) is about a group of freedom fighters in the future.