Chapter One: N. & G.- Nevermore….Grimoire….

Natasha stood within the center of the forest, eye closed. She listened to the wind as it blew the fallen leaves away. The sun was high in the sky, shining down on the tree tops and plants that occupied the forest floor.

Slowly, Natasha let out a breath, clearing her mind. This was her last chance to learn and master her "beast" before the start of school. She needed to master it before then, less things could be disastrous. Not only for her but for her fellow classmates as well. How hard was it to control something relatively new anyway? Very hard.

The most information that Natasha found out on her own was that to activate her "beast", she needed to be very close to going berserk with almost any emotion, mainly sadness and anger. But the length of time that it took for her to get out of her "beast" mode varied from a mere hour to a full day. This part troubled her the most since she retained no memories from that specific time frame, none at all.

She let out another deep breath to calm her nerves down. She was getting nervous and worried about not mastering it. She knew it would be near impossible to complete the task, but she wasn't the type to listen to the odds very well. If she decided to do this, she was going to work to the bone to till either she yielded to the "beast" or the "beast" yielded to her.

Slowly, she opened her sapphire blue and red eyes and brought a hand to her face. Her fingers lightly traced the Grimm like marking over her left eye. She let out another breath, closing her eyes again and letting her hand fall to her side.

"Concentrate…" she mumbled. "Focus...you are the master….not the monster….you can do this."

She let out a final breath before recalling a memory. It was a memory of her family being attacked, her father and elder brother killed in front of her eyes, seeing the one person she trust most in the world, turn on her. As she remembered this event, she grew angry. She clenched her fists tight as she let her anger flow. She was about to open her eyes but ended up blacking out. Just like all those other times….

"...Do you think we should wake her?" a voice asked as Natasha slowly regained consciousness.

"Well, if she's going to Beacon then we have to!" a higher pitched voice said.

Natasha was about to open her eyes when she felt a hand on her shoulder and gently shook her.

"Wake up sleepy head! Time to head to Beacon!" the first voice said.

Natasha let out a slight groan before opening her eyes. It took her a full minute for her eyes to adjust before seeing that a long, blonde haired girl was the one shaking her awake. Beside her was a girl in a red hood, looking at her with slight concern and a bit apprehensiveness to seeing her.

"Good morning sunshine!" the blonde said, pulling her hand away and placing it on her hip.

Natasha slowly stood to her feet, stumbling a bit. The girl in red held out her hands as if to catch her incase she fell over.

"What day is it?" Natasha asked, putting a hand over her left eye.

"First day of school." The blonde said. "You must have been sleeping really good to forget what day it is."

"Yeah...must've." Natasha mumbled, looking at the ground.

"A whole day." she thought.

The girl in the red hood looked between Natasha and the floor in nervousness before holding a hand out to her. Natasha saw this and looked toward her. She quickly noticed the red hooded girl looked younger than she was.

"I'm...Ruby Rose. Nice to meet you." Ruby said, smiling at Natasha.

Natasha stared at her for a moment before taking her hand and shaking it, returning the smile.

"Natasha Grimoire, nice to meet you too Ruby." she said.

Ruby smiled more before pointing to the blonde next to her.

"This is my older sister, Yang." Ruby said.

"Yo," Yang said, giving Natasha a slight nod of her head.

Natasha returned the nod before looking back at Ruby.

"How old are you?" she asked.

"I'm fifteen." Ruby replied. "I was supposed to train at Signal for another two years and well….long story short I was allowed to skip those two years."

"I see," Natasha said, her smile growing a little, "Then I guess us youngsters should stick together, huh?"

"Huh?" Ruby said, blinking.

"Wait, you skipped some years as well?" Yang asked.

"Yeah, I'm sixteen," Natasha said. "Though, technically I'm also skipping some years of training."

"That is so cool," Ruby said, looking at Natasha with admiration.

"Well, if that's the case, looks like Ruby made her first new friend!" Yang said with a cheery smile.

"Wait, what?" Ruby asked, looking towards Yang with surprised. "I did."

"This girl said that you two should stick together, why not?" Yang said.

"But-But-" Ruby said.

She was trying to put an argument together but Yang wouldn't let her form one. Instead, she pushed the two "youngsters" together and took a step back.

"See, you two make a great pair!" Yang said.

"Yang~!" Ruby whined.

Natasha just watched from the side as Ruby went over to her elder sister and whined. Yang, on the other hand, just put an arm around her younger sister's shoulders and pulled her into a hug, commenting that she is being cute and shy about this.

Sorry if the characters from RWBY are a bit OOC. It's been a while since I last wrote fanfiction...as some of you can tell. Enjoy.