An: This story takes place 2 years before Ruby got into Beacon and Ruby is 16 at the start. Au has multiple changes. The First one is Ruby is a mage but unlike the other one I wrote. There are only 2 her father and herself. This is also an AU where Summer lives. Ruby's father is different too but After Ruby's parents went on a mission. She was left with Taiyang and was abused. Ruby hides her heritage (mage heritage might I add). Ruby is a faunus too.

Ruby was walking in a forest just getting out into Vale. Clutching her left side. Her breathing ragged from what she had to endure for a whole year. She felt broken but that would be an understatement. She was broken. She kept walking with a limp.

Blood was trailing down her leg from all that was done to her since she was six and the more recent things from her 'lovable' Aunt. Ruby could see someone a bit in the distance with her blurred vision from all her beatings and how much pain she was in.

Ruby decided to try communicating to the person but before she could even open her mouth, she felt her legs give out. Her body hit the ground as she called out to the person with a cry of pain.

The person came running over and quickly fell to their knees on the left of Ruby. "Please help me…." Ruby quietly whimpered as pain tore through her. She still cried when she heard another voice.

"Neo? Neo, where are you?" The girl on her knees on Ruby's left was now known as Neo. Ruby tried to talk again but it hurt too much. "Over here Roman!" Neo moved Ruby's cloak out of the way only to be horrified at what she saw. Deep gashes all over her back with blood soaking her clothes and started to bleed through.

Roman came running over as he heard the urgency in Neo's voice. He laid eyes on The Grim Reaper, shocked by her horrible condition. She was beaten pretty badly had gashes on her arms which looked like they were from a whip while her stomach appeared to have vertical gash on it. Roman couldn't fully tell but he had guessed such because of all the blood seeping through the Grim Reaper's cloths. Roman had heard the rumors about her, that she never wanted to be the Grim Reaper but rather was forced no one knows why or how.

With that in mind, Roman joined Neo kneeling. "Neo help me lift her gently." Neo complied instantly. The two slowly and gently picked the Grim Reaper up off the ground. It took Roman and Neo about five to six minutes or so to get back to his apartment due to the fact they needed to be gentle with the poor girl they were carrying.

Roman and Neo placed The Grim Reaper on the couch so roman could Roman take off her cloak and get a better look at her injuries. The bleeding had slowed, but they were still very bad wounds to have. "Neo go upstairs and get the med kit." Neo nods and starts sprinting up the stairs. Now that her cloak is off Roman noticed she's a faunus. Fox to be exact, with two traits, a rarity. A set of fox ears and a fluffy – if blood-soaked – fox tail.

After a few minutes Neo comes back down with the med kit. Roman internally groans at having to pull The Grim Reaper's shirt off but he did it anyway. His eyes grew wide once again at looking her torso. All of the wounds. She had a massive burn on the right her stomach which must have hurt so much. "Neo put something in her mouth." Neo looked confused as hell to say the least. "Why?" Roman pointed to the burn that looked like a car battery did it causing Neo's eyes to go wide. "That's why. When I treat that burn she will scream and could bite her tongue, it looks very painful for her." So Neo compiled after that, putting a stick wrapped with a bit of cloth in her mouth to keep her from biting her tongue. Roman then starting to treat the burn and just like he predicted she started screaming from how painful it was.

After he treated the burn and a lot of screaming from how painful it was for The Grim Reaper, he started to try and treat all the gashes on her legs. This wasn't pleasant for him or Neo. Once Roman finished wrapping her legs in bandages they moved to her arms that were also in a similar condition. Once finished tending to her arms and legs, the duo carefully flipped the damaged girl onto her stomach to get at her back.

'Holy hell, her back is the worst besides that burn from the car battery. Who the fuck would do this to someone.' Roman thinks as he momentarily pauses to process the damage. This would take a while.

After about an hour he finished treating The Grim Reaper. Now all that he and Neo could do was wait till she was awake. Neo still looked very concerned "Do you think she will be okay Roman?" Roman sighed "Well she is breathing but her wounds are very bad. Some may have been left over from another time. We will only find out when she wakes up but I assure you she will live."

1 day later

Ruby woke up slowly and very painfully. She had been tortured a year straight and disciplined for disobeying Raven. More things were done to her by her 'family' prior to that.

Raven finally got to brutally beating Ruby so that she would break. So Ruby did exactly what she wanted to act broken. Raven made her fatal mistake after she took off her hand cuffs. Ruby used her Silver-eyes to paralyze Raven. She then smacked her in the face with her sheathed sword Twisted Fate (An: Twisted Fate looks like Blush and Wilt but the main usage of them is different.) knocking her out instantly. After Ruby got dressed and ran but her wounds made it so painful to use her semblance.

She finally made it to Vale but was in so much pain. That's the last she remembered and it sickened her. Raven her Aunt, tortured her, tried to break Ruby and it worked partly. Raven tore Ruby's innocence out of her so very painfully too.

When Ruby was done catching up with her memories, she noticed she was no longer on the street. She was laying on a couch, her body wrapped in bandages. She tried to sit up but a voice said "I wouldn't do that if I were you. I may have treated your wounds but you are far from healed." The voice sounded familiar to Ruby so she followed where the voice came from to see Roman someone on the Wanted List same as her for no real good reason. He was wearing casual clothes. "Glad your awake. We found you in a really bad way." Ruby looked at Roman "Thanks, I am assuming you're going to want me to repay the favor for saving me?" "More or less. I was hoping you could help get someone off our back. This person threated us so that we had to work with us." "Who did they threaten?"

"The girl that helped me save you, her name is Neo. I'm sure you remember her. She's… special to me." He said solemnly.

Ruby could feel her rage boil to whoever made that threat. Ruby's fist clenched trying to control her anger. "Who are they and where can I find them?"

"Cinder Fall, she said she would do Things to Neo if we didn't comply."

"Take me to her and I'll get her to leave you alone or gut her myself."

Roman was grateful. He really didn't want to work with Cinder but now he saved two people by saving one. He however was worried about The Grim Reaper he knew she was powerful but he didn't know if she could take Cinder in her condition.

"Are you sure? You still look like you're in so much pain." Roman asked sounding rather concerned.

"I will be fine she won't pick me off not after all I have been through." Roman could feel Ruby was hiding something but decided not to pry.

"Go get Neo and we can be off." Ruby said.

"Before I do that can you tell me your name?"

"Ruby, Ruby Rose-Ravens"

Around an hour later Cinder showed up with two unknown people to Ruby.

"What do you want Roman?" Cinder said venomously.

"We are done working with you. You are on your own."

"Oh, so you want me to do indecent things to Neo huh?"

"Over my dead body." Ruby said viscously.

Ruby walked in front of Roman. Ruby wore a black cloak with the hood up shadowing her eyes. She also wore black form fitting pants and her usual midnight purple corset. Ruby also wore black and dark purple combat boots. Her left hip held a sheathed sword known as Twisted Fate and behind her cloak on her lower back was Crescent Rose hidden from the view of her enemies.

Cinder took in the look of the new comer. "You will leave both Roman and Neo alone or I will gut you where you stand." Ruby said malevolently, eyes holding the promise to go through with it.

One of the people that Cinder brought with her. The green haired girl leaned over to her a whisper something that Ruby heard very easily.

"Cinder, that is The Grim Reaper. I strongly recommend we back off on this one."

Cinder looked like she was considering what the green haired girl said.

The guy with silver hair commented next "Yeah, I heard all the rumors about her too but nothing is confirmed. Whoever crosses disappears but from what I gather she attacks criminals and the White Fang."

"Knowing that, do you still want to cross me Cinder Fall?"

Cinder took out her weapon and attacked Ruby but the Grim Reaper anticipated this and drew her sword. She easily deflected her twin blades. She used her semblance and burst into rose petals. Appearing in front of Cinder, she slashed at her relentlessly and Cinder was having trouble dealing with The Grim Reapers attacks, getting pushed back quite easily.

Ruby hadn't even used her scythe yet. The two spectators of Cinders group were about to intervene but two weapons were pointed at them when they made the slightest move. There would be no interference in this battle, for better or for worse.

Cinder knocked Ruby away and changed it to its bow form and shot the arrow at Ruby. It hit its mark right where Ruby's burn was, causing the Reaper to let out an agonized scream and stagger without quite falling. She then slowly pulled the arrow out of her already hurt body. Ruby glared at Cinder and her Silver eyes are finally shown from the shadows of her hood, flickering slightly.

In the shocked silence that followed, Ruby sheathed her sword and took out Crescent Rose transforming it into its glorious scythe form.

Roman smirked he could already see Cinder falling to The Grim Reaper. If Ruby took out her scythe her enemy was doomed.

Cinder felt fear for the first time. The Grim Reaper had Silver Eyes and knew how to use them. The Grim Reaper was terrifying. Her eyes looked cold, her face turned emotionless and uncaring. Before Cinder could move Ruby knocked Cinder off her feet with a two-foot kick. Landing directly on her chest as Cinder fell on the ground, she pointed the scythe at her throat. "Hurt them and I will know. If you do, I will come at you harder, faster and stronger. This is me at my weakest. You will not survive our second meeting." Ruby returns Crescent Rose back to its compressed form and put it on her lower back underneath her cloak. After that she walked over to Neo who held out her arms. Ruby fell into them as she passed out.

Neo picks up Ruby and carries her back to Romans apartment.

2 days later

Ruby was very quiet, she was down and very sad. Roman and Neo didn't know how they could help Ruby. Roman looked at Ruby "Are you okay Ruby?" Ruby looked at Roman her face was void of emotion and enjoyment. "... No," Neo looked disheartened. Roman and Neo were trying to warm up to Ruby but she just seemed so heart broken. "It has nothing to do with you two. I appreciate you trying to open up to me but I have problems with trusting others." Roman didn't blame her. He knew the stories but nothing was concrete. So Roman tried to be nice again. "Eventually would you open up? We just want to help." Neo agreed with a nod. "Yeah I will eventually. I promise."

2 months later

Ruby would go on her own sometimes and attack the White Fang. She had been doing this for a good amount of time. Ruby jumped from the top of a building across to another and looked down on a White Fang base. So she decided to strike it down. She doesn't kill so she normally calls the police. However, someone else was in this base, one Adam Taurus. The two engaged in battle. Adam swung Blush at her, Ruby however expected this and blocked it with Twisted Fate. "Why do you attack your own people? Don't think you can hide what you are." Adam asked. Ruby looked at him "You ask me why I fight the White Fang. You are harming innocent lives. There are people who like our kind but what your doing is only adding hate and anger to the mix by going this way." Ruby argues.

Adam dashed at her and swung his sword at her again. Ruby countered and a clash of steel sounds. Ruby slashed at Adam and shoved him back, almost knocking him off balance but he hit her sword so hard that she lost hers instead. That's when Adam's hair and the markings on his clothes and mask started to glow. Ruby's eyes widened as Moonslice came down on her and slashed across her chest. Blood splattered all over the ground but the attack didn't kill her due to her magic saving her life. She took a few steps back and fell to her knees. Despite blood gushing all over the ground, she didn't drop her sword. Ruby pushed herself off the ground with Twisted Fate and used her Semblance. She was gone.

20 minutes later.

Ruby was in so much pain. Ruby appeared in front of Roman's apartment and let her body hit the door. Neo on the inside heard this and started walking to the door. "Hey Neo, where are you going?" Neo looked back at Roman "I heard something hit the door." Roman nods and goes back to watching Tv while Neo walked up to the door and opened it.

Ruby fell onto Neo getting blood all over Neo's chest. Neo was absolutely mortified and let out a horrified scream. Roman heard it and rushed over to the door, only to find Ruby laying on Neo and a puddle of blood slowly forming on the ground. Roman ran over to her to check her pulse and he felt one. "Thank god. She's alive."

Roman got to work in picking Ruby up and running to the closest bedroom placing her on the bed and shouting to Neo who was currently still in shock. "Neo can you bring me the first aid kit?"

Neo broke out of her shock and went to go get the first aid kit. It didn't take long for Neo to get the first aid kit to Roman. Roman knew he could fix the wound but it was going to be difficult.

After around two hours he managed to close the wound, with Ruby's condition stabilizing shortly after. Roman walked out of the bedroom and grabbed a blanket. He went back into the room and placed the blanket on Ruby. Then let out a sigh. 'If she keeps this up, she may get herself killed.' Roman thinks.

Roman left the bedroom Ruby was sleeping in and looked at Neo, who had curled in on herself due to what just happened. Ruby's blood was still all over Neo's shirt and chest, squelching a little as the short girl moved. Roman could tell she need a shoulder to lean on.

Roman walked over to Neo "I was able to stitch the wound shut. Are you doing alright Neo?" Roman knew he had to be gentle right now or he might put Neo in a worse state. "So much blood. What happened to her Roman?" Roman looked away "I don't know Neo but when I find them. I am going to kill them."

Now all the two could do was wait and hope that Ruby would open up to them.

The next day.

Ruby woke up feeling like total trash. Ruby slowly opened her eyes to see that she has bandages covering most of her torso. She was going to try to sit up but hands pushed back down. "Ruby, what happened?" Came a voice. Roman was very worried. Ruby looked to her right and found Roman and Neo, sitting next to her bed.

Ruby didn't know if she should tell them her alter ego and what she does but when she saw Neo's face. She couldn't stop herself from telling them. Ruby looked down "I have been fighting the White Fang."

That's the end of the chapter. This is a rewrite. See ya next chapter.