NOTE:

The following takes place after the end of Volume 2 and to the events of Volume 3. I do not own RWBY, or any of the characters. The only thing I own is my OCs.

Three weeks, they were just three weeks away from the start of the Vytal Festival; They're just three weeks away from what they were preparing all semester. At first they didn't feel like they were prepared to fight against other teams from different academy's. Although now they were ready for whatever came their way. A month came and went since they stopped a Grimm invasion with the help of team, JNPR, CFVY, their new friends, Sun Wukong, Neptune Vasilias, Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black, and they had finally put Roman Torchwick in his place.

After what they've been through, they felt prepared for anything that came their way. They felt like they could take on the whole world if they could.

Here they were walking through the city of Vale, going through the various shops. They thought that a walk in the city would do them so good.

They were currently in a cafe, having a couple of muffins and coffee.

Ruby had just finished her cup and sighed with relief, "Aaahhh… There's nothing like a good cup of coffee to keep you awake in the day." She said wiping away some of the coffee on her mouth.

"Can you maybe take it easy on that coffee?" Weiss asked her, "You've already had six cups."

"What are you talking about I feel just fine." Ruby said to her with a smile.

"Now you see where she get's her energy from?" Yang said to Weiss, when she saw Weiss directing a questioningly look over to her.

"That explains why she sometimes pulls all nighters." Blake said, taking a bite from her blueberry muffin.

Ruby stood up from her seat, "Alright then, now that we've had our breakfast, we can officially get this day started!"

"Pray tell, exactly what do you have in mind?" Weiss asked her curiously.

"I heard from Velvet that they had some new stores opening since the Vytal Festival coming up." Ruby said, "Plus they have a new arcade that opened recently, and they have the new best games! I even heard that they have one based on Spruce Willis."

Yang said with a smile, "Ooo, Spruce Willis! That sounds like a fun!"

"An arcade? Really?" Blake said a bit unsure about it, "I don't know, maybe I should sit this one out."

"They also have a new bookstore!"

Blake seemed to have perked up at that. "I'm in!" Blake said with sudden enthusiasm.

"You recovered quick." Yang said with an amused smile.

"Well what are we waiting for?" Ruby said, "Let's go!" She suddenly sprinted away leaving rose petals in her wake.

"RUBY GET BACK HERE! YOU NEED TO PAY FOR THESE MUFFINS AND COFFEE!" Weiss yelled as she ran in the direction Ruby ran in. Yang and Blake soon followed behind her.

They lost track of time when they had started to play in the arcade, and when Blake was off to read her favorite books in a bookstore nearby. By the time that they were ready to go home, it was already evening, and they were all tired and in need of a long day's rest.

"Oh man, I can't believe we were in there for hours." Yang said stretching her arms and cracking her knuckles.

Ruby let out a yawn, "Man, I'm sooo tired. Who knew playing that dance video game can really take it out of you."

"You're one that decided to play it for three hours straight." Weiss said.

"Says the girl that beat her in 10 games?" Blake said to Weiss.

Weiss turned red and immediately said while stammering, "That doesn't really mean anything!"

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm seriously craving a burger right now." Yang said rubbing her stomach.

"I guess we can grab something to eat before we head back." Blake said.

"I agree." Weiss said, ultimately giving up the conversation that was made earlier.

They walked down the block and as they turned the corner, someone ran right into Yang but fell to the ground. The four girls looked and saw in front of them was a young twelve year old girl, wearing a dirty raggy dress and was covered in dirt herself. She had on a brown buckle bag and there appeared to be a I.V tube connected to her chest; it lead to the inside of her bag.

Her messy hair was of a magenta color and only two parts of her bangs were of orange. They saw she had a green eye and an eyepatch over the other eye. She had a look of fear on her face as the four looked at the child, wondering what she was running from. They soon got their answer when they heard someone in the distance yell, "OVER HERE! SHE WENT THIS WAY!"

The girl panicked and did the only thing she could think of; she got up and and ran behind the four girls. Three men most likely common bandits came on the same path that the little girl had taken, the men were holding onto weapons, and they looked angry.

They saw the little girl who was cowering behind the four girls.

"Can we help you with something?" Ruby asked them with an eyebrow raised.

"Yes, how's about you hand over that girl behind you?" One of the men asked, "If you do we won't hurt you."

"Why?" Blake said with a glare, "What did she do?"

The little girl stuffed her face into Blake's back, and held onto her as if her very life depended on it.

"That kid stole food and money from us." Another said, "She needs to pay for it."

"Pay for it?" Weiss said, "But she's just a little girl."

They seemed to have ignored Weiss's statement.

"I won't ask again!" The man said, "Hand her over and no one get's hurt!"

The four girls looked at one another. "Should we?" Blake asked.

"Nah, just let me handle these guys." Yang said, putting her fists together, and cracking her knuckles.

The men couldn't help but laugh with amusement, "You seriously think you can take us on?" The third man said.

"Don't know." Yang said getting into her fighting stance, "Think one of you guys can hit a girl?"

The men took only but a glance at one another before charging Yang head on; all she did was smirk. The men swung there weapons, and Yang dodged with ease, all the while she was throwing punches without the use of her gauntlets. They seemed to have fallen onto their faces constantly but kept on coming back to see if they could land a hit on her.

Yang continued to repeat the same patterns of dodging and punching, till at a point she did a backflip from one of the men's attacks. She laughed, "Haha! Man you guys don't know anything about fighting do you? At least make this a-"

She had cut herself when she saw that a single strand of her hair had been cut off. The other three team members on team RWBY widened in shock.

"Oh boy." Ruby said burying her head in her hands

"Oh Yang." Weiss said putting her hand on her forehead.

"Oh no…" Blake said rubbing the bridge of her nose.

The three men as well as the little girl were confused by this. That was until…

"You… YOU MONSTERS!"

Yang had suddenly went all out; She armed her gauntlets on her hands and charged at full speed catching the men by surprise. She punched them rapidly with her eyes crimson red and her hair lit up like the sun. All the while shots were fired from her gauntlets, luckily the men had their aura to protect them from the bullets, although it still hurt a lot. Finally Yang had did an uppercut, sending all of them flying through the air; a crashing sound was heard in the distance.

Yang caught her breath and her eyes changed back to the familiar color of purple. "Hey Yang, don't you think that was a bit overdone?" Weiss asked.

"Yeah, are they gonna be okay?" Ruby asked.

"Meh, they'll be fine." Yang said cracking her shoulder.

They then turned to the little girl, who was now even more scared than before after seeing Yang go all out the way she did. Realizing this Ruby immediately said, "It's okay, I know my sister can be very scary at times, but trust me she's really nice, and she'd never hurt you."

The little girl looked to Ruby than to Yang; She seemed to relax but was still a bit nervous. "Are you okay?" Blake asked her.

All she did in reply was nod her head.

"They didn't try to hurt you?" Weiss asked.

She shook her head in reply.

Ruby tilted her head slightly to the left, "What's wrong? Can't you talk at all?"

The girl nodded her head in reply, and the four of them couldn't help but sigh with relief when she had given them that answer.

Just than they heard a loud growling sound, which had startled them. They turned each other and realized that it wasn't from either of them. They looked back at the little girl and saw that her face was red with embarrassment and she was covering her stomach.

"Huh, I guess you must be hungry." Blake said to the little girl. She couldn't help but nod.

Ruby then said with a smile, " We were just about to go and get dinner! You wanna tag along?"

The rest of her teammates seem to have a confused look on their faces; on the other hand the little girl's expression seemed to have brightened at that. She eagerly nodded her head.

The next thing that everyone knew, they found themselves sitting at a table of a fast food restaurant, with the little girl with them. She had her bag to the side but the tube was still connected to her chest. She was gobbling up everything that was in front of her like a wild animal; team RWBY could tell that she hadn't eaten in days. They had finished their own burger and fries and watched as the little girl before them had basically sucked everything almost as if she was a vacuum cleaner. Finally she was full; she laid back in her chair and heaved out a sigh.

"So, are you all good now?" Yang asked the girl awkwardly.

Finally the girl had spoke, "Yeah. That really hit the spot. Thank you."

Ruby twiddled her thumbs and asked, "So… What's your name?"

She drank from her small soda and replied, "Destiny. My name is Destiny."

"Nice to meet you Destiny." Ruby said before introducing herself and her teammates, "My name is Ruby, this is Weiss, Blake and my older sister Yang."

Destiny seemed to have chuckled at that. "What? What's so funny?" Weiss asked her curiously.

"Nothing." The little girl named Destiny replied, "It's just that, her name is Ruby and your initials are RWBY. It's kind of funny how confusing that is."

"Well yeah, it does get confusing doesn't it?" Ruby said rubbing her head.

Blake asked her, "Did you really steal some food and money from those men earlier?"

Destiny nodded her head, "I did have them but I dropped them while I was running."

"Well, you're lucky that you ran into us." Weiss said, "I can't imagine what they would do to you if they caught you."

Destiny finished her cup and let out a very loud and unexpected burp, which surprised all of them even her. She turned red from embarrassment again. "What are you doing out in the streets alone?" Yang asked, "Don't get me wrong, but it's really dangerous for a little girl like you."

Destiny replied with a bit of hesitation, "I'm… I'm trying to find my father."

Team RWBY seemed to a bit taken back by this. "Did you get separated from him?" Ruby asked her.

Destiny shook her head, "I was… I was taken from him."

They all gasped at that. "You mean, you were kidnapped?" Ruby said.

All Destiny did was nod her head. "How long were held captive?" Weiss asked her.

"I… Don't know." Destiny replied, "When they took me, they locked me in a room without windows and I lost track of time. All I know is when the Grimm invaded the city, I used the confusion to escape. After that I've been hiding in the streets ever since."

The Grimm Invasion that happened a month ago? She's been out there in the streets for that long the whole team couldn't help but think equally. Who knows how long that she's been held captive. But who would be responsible for kidnapping a little girl like her? It isn't the people who they think it was? Wasn't it? The whole team seemed to have the same thought. Finally Blake had asked her, "If you don't mind me asking, who are the ones that kidnapped you?"

Destiny replied with hesitation once again, "It… It was the… White Fang."

This was definitely unheard of; First the White Fang turned to violence, then started working with a human, and now they kidnapped a child? They couldn't believe that they would just sink to a new low; Blake especially couldn't believe that she had heard this from the little girl before her.

"The White Fang?" Blake asked her with disbelief, "Are you sure it was them?"

Destiny nodded her head.

Blake sat back in her seat and looked away from the group. Weiss then asked her, "Why would they take you? What did they want with you, or your father for that matter?"

Destiny's hands started to shake at thought of the White Fang. "I'm… I'm sorry." She said as she felt her eyes get a bit watery, "It's just too painful to talk about it."

Yang who sat next to her, giving her a comforting pat on the shoulder, "It's okay, no one's forcing you to talk about it."

"Did you try going to the police about this?" Ruby asked, "I mean, they could help you."

Destiny rubbed her eyes, preventing from any tears coming from her eyes. "I already tried; but when I told them, they didn't believe me. They said I didn't have any proof."

"Well if the White Fang are the ones that kidnapped you then do you have someplace safe to stay, like any other family?" Yang asked her.

Destiny shook her head, "My dad is the only family I have left. But I'm not sure where he is exactly."

Team RWBY looked at each other.

"Could you excuse us?" Ruby asked her, "Don't worry we won't go far."

Destiny nodded and the four of them went to away from the table but they weren't too far from the girl's sight.

"I can't believe this." Blake said, "The White Fang are pushing it too far now."

"To think they would go as far to kidnap a little girl." Weiss said, "This is just unbelievable."

"We can't exactly send her on her way." Yang said, "If the White Fang is really looking for her than she'll end up getting caught again."

"We have to do something." Ruby said, "If the police couldn't help her, and she doesn't really have no other family to go to. I mean like Yang said, even if we do send her on her way it'll be a matter of time before the White Fang manages to find her."

"Well what are we supposed to do?" Weiss asked, "Sneak her back to Beacon and hide her there until we can find her dad?"

The whole team stood their in silence when that was said. They all looked to Ruby and they saw a smile plastered on her face. Weiss immediately knew what she was thinking, "Oh no."

Ruby threw her hands up in the air and shouted, "WEISS YOU'RE A GENIUS!"

"I'm liking that idea!" Yang said with enthusiasm.

"It does seem efficient." Blake said crossing her arms over her chest.

"You guys, we can't do that!" Weiss whispered, "The academy won't allow it!"

"Not if we sneak her back." Ruby said with confidence.

"Um, what happens if we're caught?"

"Don't sweat it Weiss, she can stay in our room till we can find her dad." Yang said, "Besides no one will even know she's there."

Weiss asked her, "Where is she supposed to sleep than? We only have four beds!"

Ruby replied, "We can always share beds. Come on Weiss, we can't just turn her away, like you said, she's just a little girl. And if the White Fang really wants her than we need to know why."

Weiss was about to start yet another argument but stopped herself when she realized that Ruby was right. Weiss sighed and said, "Fine, but as long as she's staying with us, I'll buy her some new clothes since she is not wearing that dirty dress."

"Deal." The three girls said.

With that they told Destiny the good news, and after cleaning up their table they headed back to Beacon Academy for the night.

(Opening Theme: When it Falls Ft. Casey Lee Williams)

Hey guys! Tenshi here! So this is one of the only stories where it does not feature a crossover! IKR? It's unbelievable, for those of you that have read my previous stories you know for a fact that I've only down nothing but crossovers, to be honest this is actually the first story that does not have any of the characters from another series.

So let me give you the run down on how this story works. This is a little "What if" idea I had in my mind from when I watched RWBY Volume 2, so I guess you can call this a head-canon (Maybe IDK :P).

Most of the story is gonna be like how I Feel Like a Monster was, and that the story is mostly told through flashback. It does connect to what's happening in RWBY Volume 3, but fair warning for some of you that don't like this idea, something different, might happen, you'll when you get further into the chapters.

I can't give you any spoilers but if you have any questions just type in the reviews, if u don't have any questions than let me know what u think.

Also another another fair warning to those of u that hav already watched RWBY Volume 3, let me just say this... If you thought the third season was dark before; it'll get even darker when you read this fanfic!

Thank u for taking the time of reading this, I can't promise that the chapters will be up right away, and honestly I don't know how u guys will react to the idea I have in mind, so I hope I'll do good, and I hope you'll like it.

Once again thank you 4 taking the time of reading this, this is Tenshi signing off :D!