What's this, a potential fic that doesn't include Jaune Arc or anyone from Team JNPR at all? In fact, this is a story where, for once, I'm trying to avoid including my preferred team (JNPR rather than RWBY) and make a fic revolving around the people that the show is named after?

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

Or at least, just a few of the people that it is based on.

But yeah, let's get this show on the road then, folks.

A Tale of Two Sisters

(Inspired by Arcane: League of Legends)

Years ago, when they were so much younger, Yang dragged Ruby out to the barn in the snow and the wild to try and find their mother. The Grimm attack them, and Qrow is barely able to save them.

Or one of them, at least.

Ruby goes missing. Qrow couldn't find her at all, and in the following years he would be unable to locate her at all.

Ruby Rose would be declared dead soon after, just like Summer Rose before her.

But years later, when Yang would be attending Beacon Academy, she receives news of a new assassin and hitman running about Vale on Roman Torchwick's payroll.

The Red Reaper, who suspiciously looks a lot like Yang Xiao Long's lost sister, Ruby Rose.

It's uncertain as to how, but somehow Ruby Rose survived being attacked by the Grimm at the barn that her sister had taken her to. Even more mysterious is how she somehow ended up in Beacon in Roman and Neo's care. But somehow she did, and now she works for them as a private assassin and one of his most reliable and trusted minions, always fulfilling her objectives and taking out her marks with minimum fuss.

However, Ruby Rose is also the biggest wildcard in the underworld. She has a childish naivety to her worldview that is constantly contradicted by an unnerving maturity, and has a tendency to disappear off on her own for extended periods of time, either long and short, without ever explaining where she had gone to. She was a walking contradiction in existence, somehow seeming so innocent to the criminal underworld around her, yet giving glares and whispering threats that no girl her age should know when covered in the blood of her foes.

No one knows where she goes or what she does when she disappears. Only Ruby Rose knows, and she's not talking to anyone about it at all.

Yang becomes obsessed with this new figure in the criminal underworld. She knows that this is her younger sister; she knows it is! She doesn't know how she's alive, but the fact that she is means that there's still a chance of her repairing her old family bonds. What she really doesn't understand, though, is why she's working for Torchwick of all people, but it doesn't matter to her. As long as she can find her sister, then that's all that matters to her.

The fact that rumours say that Torchwick is now working with the White Fang helps to bring the rest of her team into the fold as well. Weiss Schnee is understandable, but for some reason, Blake and Ilia have a weird fixation on them. Must've had some bad dealings with them in the past.

Meanwhile, the rumours are revealed to be true: Roman Torchwick is revealed to be working for the White Fang, albeit not by his own choice. Cinder Fall is putting the squeeze on him, and is furious at his general inability to keep the Red Reaper on a leash. She has plans for her, and would rather be able to control her when the time comes.

But the Red Reaper can't be controlled. Not that easily, at least.

And now Yang and her team are on the hunt for the Red Reaper, scouring all of Vale in order to find her. But with Cinder's machinations shifting gears in the background, and a new strain of drug known as Pollen being spread out across the city, many obstacles push themselves before them, in obstacle to their paths.

Because, as things begin to spiral out of control for not just Yang, but for Cinder and Roman too, it is revealed that the Red Reaper has plans of her own, not just for Beacon, but for all of Vale...

Pretty sparse and spartan in terms of details, as many of my previous fic ideas are not as bare as this, but I feel like this idea has merit in of itself.

Also it deals in the themes of the animated series Arcane, which is always a plus in my books.