Hey everyone, welcome to the rewritten version of RWBY: A Second Chance at Life, now before I begin, the chapters of this FanFic are complete rewrites from the original, which means that many things will be changed and some will stay the same, so I'm proud of you all for putting up with my bullshit for this long. Now, I decided to post this early considering that tomorrow is Christmas, Merry Christmas everyone, but I celebrate Christmas with both sides of my family, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. So think of this as a really early Christmas present. Also keep in mind that this is an AU but still in the world of Remnant, meaning that the white fang are still evil, Roman Torchwick is still alive, Adam Taurus has NOT cut off Yang's arm and The Fall of Beacon has not and PROBABLY will not happen, I hope you all catch where I'm going with this, and there will be a huge plot development in this, as well as turning a certain character to the light side, The person who can name the said character first gets a shout out in a chapter. However, you must have a username to be able to enter the shout out, I apologize for those who are guests and want to play along, but I'm doing this to make it easier for everyone. So let's get back into this thing. ONWARD!

Disclaimer: RWBY and its characters are the sole property of Rooster Teeth, the OC's are mine. And my inspiration comes from Locke62, go check out his FanFics; they're awesome and really well done. Anyway, let's get to it. ONWARD!

Chapter 1: New Life in a New World

It was a warm spring morning, the air was crisp and clean, there was a gentle breeze blowing, the flowers were in bloom, and everything was at peace.

All of this was ruined by the blaring sound of an alarm clock. The loud and obnoxious noise continued as it disturbed a young man's sleep. The alarm had continued on for several moments, eventually being smashed to pieces by our young hero's fist.

He throws the blankets off of him and attempts to sit up straight so he can wake his lazy ass up.

Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, he picks up his glasses and puts them on his face. Looking down at the now demolished alarm clock, he thinks to himself, "I really need to learn how to control my strength."

Looking around his room, he noticed the amount of trophies and medals he got from various competitions. Just to name a few; most instruments mastered, county singing competitions, swordsmanship, most animals killed and tagged in an open season hunt, MMA, Football, Soccer, Baseball, and multiple trophies in gun competitions, and many more. In short, he has done many things during his youth, not one does he regret.

Continuing to look around, he sees that his entire room is cluttered with musical instruments, books, and video games. He has a wall that has two weapon racks and a gun safe that is 50 inches tall, 30 inches long, and 25 inches wide sitting against said wall. One of the racks has a 12 gauge shotgun, and a Mosin Nagant (Yes they actually make those still, my Grandfather purchased one recently at an army surplus store and it's in amazing condition). The other rack had two melee weapons resting on it: a steel long sword, the blade is roughly around 36 inches, the other weapon was a katana, and the blade was around 30 to 31 inches. And finally what was in the gun safe was actually housing a steel tomahawk, an AR-15, a colt M1911, and a SW500.

Getting out of bed, he walks to his dresser, opening it up and pulling out a pair of boxer briefs, socks, a t-shirt with the logo of Demolition Ranch (Great YouTube channel that is about nothing but guns), and a pair of blue jeans.

Continuing to get ready for the day, he walks towards the bathroom at a slow place. Considering that he is still waking up, walking slowly is to be expected.

He finally makes it to the bathroom, opening the door, then slowly walking through, finally closing the door behind him. He walked towards the shower, pulled back the shower curtain, and turned on the water. Deciding to let the shower heat up, he begins to strip down to nothing but his birthday suit.

He turns his head to the left, looking directly at the mirror, but more accurately, his reflection in the mirror. Looking at himself, he feels a sense of depression washing over him. All the sports he played, the competitions he won, and the exercise, all were let go, all because he couldn't control himself when it came to food. To elaborate, he had slightly let himself go. He had a rounded stomach, he wasn't overweight, he just gained a few pounds...and by a few, we mean 20 pounds. He had gone from 220 pounds to 240 pounds. It was embarrassing to say the least, but he was proud of his strength, he still has quite a bit of muscle to show, especially on his arms, shoulders, and legs, so to say the least, he was built...except he has no abs. He has short brown hair a decent amount of body hair for a young man his age. He's 17 year old, 5 feet 10 inches, weighs about 240 pounds and has brown eyes.

"I should have changed my weight a long time ago," he's states while looking at his reflection. "At least I'm doing something about it," stating to himself, attempting to boost his confidence. This is actually true, what he's doing is dropping soda completely, because of all the calories, sugar, sodium and caffeine that is put into sodas and energy drinks. Problem is though he can't seem to get rid of caffeine addiction, so instead of coffee, he drinks caffeinated unsweetened ice tea. This has helped quite a lot for his mental and physical health, considering that tea comes from tea leaves; but of course you already knew that.

His attention is immediately shifted towards the shower, feeling the heat and steam hit his body is what caused his attention to shift. Moving towards the shower, reaching his hand out to check the water, he immediately retracted it; the feeling of the scalding water was more than enough evidence to let him know that the water was hot enough.

After his shower, our hero walks out in full attire, except for his shoes of course.

Walking to the kitchen to make himself some breakfast, he notices a note on the table. Picking it up and reading it...

"Wanted to let you know that your Mother and I will not be home until later tonight; so you will be by yourself when you return from school. Also your brother will be out with his girlfriend for the entire day, it's his day off. One last thing, be careful on your way to school, drive safe, and have a good day at school.

-Love Dad

P.S. I made biscuits and sausage for breakfast this morning, so just heat it up in the microwave and you'll be fine."

Finished reading the note, he looked around the kitchen, and found the biscuits and sausage wrapped in plastic bags, so they'd stay fresh.

Grabbing two biscuits and sausage patties, putting them on a plate, then put them in the microwave for thirty seconds.

A few moments later, the microwave beeped, letting our hero know that the food was ready to be eaten. After pulling the hot plate out of the microwave, he proceeded towards the living room. Once there, he sat his fat ass in the recliner. Looking for the remote, he found it between the arm rest and the cushion.

After finding the controls for the smart TV, he pressed the arrows on the remote looking for the Netflix app. Once found he looked for the desired volume of his favorite show, RWBY, an American anime, created by Rooster Teeth. It was filled with action, adventure, romance, comedy, and beautiful women. His favorite character is Blake Belladonna, a Faunus, a half human/half animal hybrid They looked mostly like humans, but what made a Faunus stand out was mainly their animalistic features, usually ears, tails, horns, claws, etc. They were considered to be outcasts among the human race; however most of the world of Remnant accepts the Faunus as one of their own.

Blake Belladonna is a cat Faunus, she does not have a tail, but she has cat ears that she hides with a black bow atop her head. She is the third member of team RWBY, you will usually finder her wearing something black, and is considered to be a ninja because of her skills.

Our hero was about 20 minutes into the show, when he looked up at the clock, a look of shock was across his face, realizing that he couldn't finish his favorite show, he turned off the TV and rushed around the house, brushing his teeth, putting on his shoes, and grabbing his bag. Finally getting everything together, he looks back up at the clock and notices that he has 15 minutes before class starts. This puts him into a panic. Grabbing his keys, and bolting it out the door towards his car.

Getting into his car and tossing the bag into the back seat. Starting up the ignition, he pulls out of his driveway and takes off down the road.

He's doing 70-75 mph on the highway; he is making incredible time...until he gets to a stop light. Beginning to get impatient, he honked his horn. Eventually the light turned green, he got going, but before he could get halfway across, a big ass truck came barreling down the road from the right side, not even slowing down and T-boned our hero's car, causing it to go right into the stop light pole doing more damage.

Meanwhile, inside the car our hero was getting thrashed around like a rag doll, hitting his head on the steering wheel, and on the window next to him breaking the glass from the impact. The car had stopped when it made impact with the pole on the left side. His car was now wedged in between the truck that struck and the pole that stopped the crash. However, while the car was in terrible shape, our hero was in MUCH worse shape than the car.

"Where did that truck come from?" He asked himself as he was beginning to slip out of consciousness. "Is this how it ends? I-I'm not ready, not yet. Oh lord, please forgive me for my sins..." Before he could finish, he began to start coughing, soon followed by blood going with it...a lot of blood. Noticing this, he began to panic "No, not like this...there's so much that I...wanted to do...with...my...life." Our now dying hero coughs again, along with a line of blood coming from his head and mouth. "At least...I'll be with...my loved...ones. I...only ask...that when I die...I get a...choice..." He finished with his vision going black. "Goodbye, Mom, Dad, Alex, Michaela, Michael, Cameron; I wish I could have said it in person." He finished as his life flashed before him, one of joy, sadness, saint and sin. But he regretted none of it, and then...nothing.

Our hero awakens with a gasp of air, attempting to fill his lungs. He grunts in pain as he holds his head with his left hand. "Wait, if I'm dead, why do I still feel pain?" Asking himself, confused at what is going on.

Removing his hand from his head, our hero gazes at his surroundings, it's nothing but white. The only thing that stood out among the rest was a giant golden table in the middle of the room that he was in.

"Where in God's good graces am I?" He asked aloud.

"You're in heaven, my child." A calming voice resonated around the room.

"Who's there?" Our hero asked as he looked behind him.

"How could you not know who I am?" The voice said as it appeared behind our hero.

The hero turns around and is met face to face with a man dressed in a white robe with a rope tied around his waist and a red sash wrapped around him. The man had long flowing brown hair, a goatee, and wearing sandals on his feet. Our hero had multiple emotions running through his head; Joy, nervousness, anxiety, and fear.

All these feelings were caused by coming face to face with his lord and savior... Jesus Christ.

Bowing in front of him, our hero states: "My lord, it is an honor to meet you. I am at your service." He said as he continued to bow his head.

"Arise my son, and please have a seat." Jesus said, gesturing towards one end of the table. "And please don't be so formal, I'm human, just as you." Jesus added. Taking a seat at one end of the table.

Our hero raises his head and looks toward his savior. Confused as to why his lord and savior doesn't want him to be so formal. However he did have a point, he was just as human as the next person.

He then proceeded to stand up, once raised, he looked at Jesus, while he just gestured our hero to have a seat. Our hero took the seat across from Jesus and just looked around, appalled at the surrounding setup for this particular meeting.

"Um...so where exactly are we?" He asked

"We are in God's dining area we also use this for negotiations, board meetings, and sometimes small parties." Jesus chuckled as he looked around.

"Okay...but why am I here? I mean why am I here specifically, what's so important about me that I would be put in such an important area, and speaking to you directly?" He asked as Jesus just had a smile on his face.

"Do you remember what you said before you died?" He asked as our hero just shook his head no. "I guess that's to be expected, it did happen so fast. Allow me to repeat what you had said: 'I only ask that when I die I get a choice.'" He finished. The memory flashed in our hero's head, giving him a slight headache, while a small tear strolled down his cheek.

"Now I remember, but I never specifically said what I wanted to choose." Our hero stated as Jesus continued to look at him with a smile.

"You're right, you didn't. So I decided to take the choices into my own hands."

"Okay, so what are my choices?" Our hero asked, a little curious.

"You have two choices: One: You can stay here in heaven where you can live out for the rest of eternity. Or Two: You get the choice of going to a different universe, with only two weapons, an attire of your choice, and one power of your choosing. The only catch is, once you die, you can never go back, once you're dead, you come back here and stay here."

Our hero took some time to think about his, but it wasn't long before he made a decision. "I choose..."

"Ms. Goodwitch, could you come here for a moment?" A man with white hair called out.

A woman with shoulder length blond hair walks into the room a little annoyed. "Jeez Ozpin, I'm not your coffee wench, so get your own coffee for once." Goodwitch said sternly.

"That's not what I needed you for, Glynda," Ozpin calmly explained.

Glynda quickly grew embarrassed at this. "Oh, then I'm sorry. Anyway, what is it that you needed me for, then?" The blond teacher asked her boss.

"I would like you to take a look at something for me, if you would." Ozpin asked, gesturing towards the computer screen on his desk.

Glynda looked at Ozpin, confused at what he wanted. She moved towards the other side of his desk and looked at the computer screen. "Okay what am I supposed to be looking at?" She asked, continuing her search.

Ozpin took a sip from his coffee mug. "Look at student number twenty-two and tell me what is wrong with him." Ozpin instructed to his friend.

Glynda turned her head towards Ozpin with a raised eyebrow. Her attention returned back to the lit screen, searching for student number twenty-two

After a few moments of looking up and down the screen, Glynda finally found the student she was looking for. Clicking on the student, she noticed that there was no picture, no birthday, no bio, no anything; the only info that was on the screen was a name.

"Zachary C. Gowen...who is this person? There's no information on this person whatsoever, where he's from, his age, his birthday, height, weight, appearance, nothing." Glynda stated, astounded at the lack of information provided for this student.

"What are we going to do about this, Ozpin?" Glynda asked, as she looked away from the screen and towards her friend.

Ozpin set his mug down and crossed his arms, thinking on this for a second. Finally coming to a conclusion, Ozpin speaks up. "We wait, because right now, all we can do is wait. We wait until someone comes around with that name; he's bound to show up eventually." Finishing his statement, Ozpin reaches for his coffee and takes a sip of it.

Goodwitch just looked at him like he was crazy, but she realizes that Ozpin is one of the wisest men she has ever known. It would be wrong to question his judgment at this point. She just sighed and said, "You're right, that's probably our best option, but what are we going to do, when this Zachary character shows up?" Ms. Goodwitch asked; curiosity was an obvious emotion in her tone of voice.

Ozpin just took another sip of his coffee and looked at his friend. "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."

Glynda just looked at him, worried at his answer. However she has known Ozpin for a long time, and he has never been wrong... Not yet, anyway.

"I hope you're right." Ms. Goodwitch stated as she looked concerned for her friend.

"I hope I'm right too." Ozpin agreed, taking yet another sip of his coffee. "You're dismissed, Ms. Goodwitch." Ozpin told his friend.

"Yes sir." Goodwitch said as she made her way out the door, and closing it behind her.

Ozpin was left at his desk, staring at nearly blank student info. "Just who are you Mr. Gowen?" He finished as he closed the computer, and was left with his thoughts.

The soothing sound of leaves rustling from the trees being blown from the wind, the sweet song of birds chirping, and the loud roar from an Ursa could be heard throughout the entire forest.

All this was happening, while our hero just lay in a patch of grass, underneath a large shady tree.

A bird had flown down from a nearby tree branch and landed on our hero's chest. Hopping around on his chest; chirping, and lightly pecking at him, inspecting the sleeping human.

Eventually our hero's eyes had fluttered open, revealing chocolate brown eyes. He began to sit up, the bird flying off from his chest and towards a nearby tree branch.

Finally sitting upright, our hero grabbed his head in pain. "Ouch, that really hurts...wait a minute..." our hero stops for a moment. Waving a hand in front of his face, he notices that his vision is as clear as day.

"I...I can see," stating to himself, astonished at the miracle. "I CAN SEE!" Shouting at the top of his lungs, our hero was excited to finally have 20/20 vision.

After getting excited, even more happiness had welled up inside him when he looked down. His stomach had shrunk down to a full six pack, he couldn't be happier.

Getting a better look at his body he noticed the change in apparel as well as two weapons strapped to his sides.

He was wearing a pair of blue jeans, black socks, black combat boots, and a white t-shirt with a button up red and black plaid flannel shirt over it. The two weapons that were strapped to his sides were a classic Colt M1911 and the clip holds .45 caliber rounds on his right, and a steel tomahawk with at leather grip attached to his left. (He doesn't get armor, so those who keep asking about armor, please stop, I appreciate your ideas but this is one I'd like to keep, I hope you all understand)

"Sick!" Our hero says as he continues to look over his entire body once more. Eventually deciding to stop the looking and now taking action. "Okay, that's enough; I really need to get moving, now judging from my surroundings, I would assume that I'm in the Emerald Forest. This means that I should be able to see Beacon academy from high up. I guess this is as good a time as any to try out my semblance." He stated.

Thinking of an image in his head, he focused his aura into the image. Our hero's body began to morph into a large bird, preferably a bald eagle (AMERICA! Also, I'm not very good at writing a transformation scene, sorry).

"Sweet my shape-shifting worked, I'll experiment with it more later, but right now, I have an objective." He thought.

Flapping his wings, he began to ascend into the sky getting higher and higher with each flap of the wings.

"Hey, this isn't so bad, I could get used to thi-" our hero didn't get to finish his thought; the reason for this was that...he had looked down. "AAAAAAAHH, OH SHIT, OH SHIT, OH SHIT!" He screamed internally. As it turns out that our hero is absolutely terrified of heights.

"SHIT, I DIDN'T THINK THIS FUCKING THROUGH!" Again, screaming internally. All of this fear and excitement was causing him to lose control, making our hero plummet towards the ground. "FUUUUUUUUUUUCCCKKK!" He screamed. Attempting to regain control, our hero straightened out his wings and began to pull his body upwards to try and try and glide. This actually worked, however it caused him to lose focus as to what was in front of him. Because of this, it ended up with him flying face first into a tree.

"OOF!" Our hero grunted in pain, as his bird body was wrapped around the trunk of a tree. Eventually his body began to fall from the tree and hitting the ground hard onto his back. His eyes all goofy, putting him to be in a daze, with what appeared to be tiny cartoon canaries flying around his head. All this caused a chain reaction making our hero change back to his normal form.

A few minutes later, he shook his head, attempting to get out of his daze and sitting straight up; trying to regain his composure. "Jeez; that really hurt. Note to self, if I'm going to fly, I need to learn how to fly low.

After a few minutes of thought, our hero figured that the best course of action was to climb up into one of the trees and scout for the academy, as much as he hated heights. He figured that this was a better option than flying, considering that he is terrified of heights, and he also need to particularly learn how to get over said fear of heights.

So our hero decided to walk around for a little bit trying to find the biggest tree that he could. After 5 minutes of looking around, he found an old oak tree that seemed to be as wide as a minivan and as tall as three school buses.

Looking up, he did a quick whistle out of wonder. He was scared and also yet appalled at the sheer size of this giant oak tree.

Finally deciding to grow a pair, our hero jumped up to a branch that was over his head, and grabbed onto it. Pulling himself up onto the large limb, he was surprised that it was able to hold his weight. He then continued to climb higher and higher, stopping at three quarters of the way up, he decided to look out at the horizon. Seeing as he was just barely over one hundred feet above the ground, he realized that this was a great vantage point, a quite terrifying one at that.

Viewing his surroundings he noticed a large tower in the distance. He had assumed it was beacon academy. Making up his mind he decided to head in that general direction. But before he did that, he had to figure out a way to get down without shitting himself.

After about a half hour of climbing down from a tree that was around one hundred thirty-five feet, our hero had done it without shitting himself. What had sucked for him though, is that if he went through the Emerald Forest on foot, he was sure to be attacked by grimm, now that wouldn't be a problem if he had bullets...and if the tomahawk was sharp. "I have to give you credit, even though you gave me a gun with no ammunition, and a weapon that isn't sharp, at least you gave me what I asked, but I guess I had to be specific on what I wanted." He stated out loud, it had appeared that he was trying to talk to Jesus.

Then a thought popped into his head, "What if I were to shape-shift into a grimm; however the only downside is that I can't produce negative emotions, or else they'll detect me." After saying this, he pondered on the thought for a little bit, eventually he had seen that there wasn't much of an option at that moment.

Soon a white glow had enveloped him and he soon turned into a beowolf, he felt disgusted at the form, to transform into something so evil, so aggressive, and so demonic. He just told himself to deal with it and move on.

He began running on all fours to try and make it to Beacon as soon as possible because he knew he had a long way to go. It would probably take him at least 3 hours.

About two hours later, our hero decided to take a break, resting up against a tree, while still in his beowolf form. He couldn't help but listen to the soothing sounds of the forest; the birds were chirping the wind was blowing through the trees causing the leaves to rustle, and the sound of heavy footsteps coming closer and closer towards. "Wait what?" He asked himself. (Okay, for those who may not have noticed this already, when he's in the form of an animal, he can't speak, he can only think. If he were to speak, it wouldn't come out as English, usually the sounds of the animal or creatures he's turned into, however when he's a human, he can mimic the sound of said human's voice. So if he were to take the form of country superstar, Blake Shelton, he would talk and sing exactly like him. Anyway, let's continue)

He began to panic, looking around, trying to find a place to hide. Alas it was too late; soon a pack of beowolf had somehow surrounded him. Our hero was so scared that he lost concentration on his beowolf form, turning him back into a human. "Oh shit." He said in a high pitch voice.

He then did the only brave thing he could think of..."HHHHEEEEEELLLLLPPPP!" He yelled at the top of his lungs. There was no response. He just looked around him, there was a total of ten beowolf, and what did he have to defend himself with? A gun with no bullets, and a tomahawk that wasn't sharp enough to even cut through butter. The only thing he could do was either fight with his fists, or continue yelling for help and eventually get slaughtered. "Yeah, I'm not that big of a pussy. Let's fight!" He yelled while charging at the beowolf that was right in front of him.

Getting up close with the grimm, he threw two punches, one going to the creature's stomach, the other going for its side. The attacks seemed to have done nothing to the large creature. "How come that didn't do anything?!" He questioned himself. However he wasn't paying attention to a beowolf that was sneaking up behind him.

The Grimm slashed at his back, making five long gashes across his back, ripping his shirts to shreds. With the amount of blood that was escaping from his wound, it was easy to assume that he will not make it out of this fight alive; he had to retreat and find help.

Again, our hero was caught off guard by another slash from the beowolf he was previously facing; this one had decided to attack his front leave five long gashes in his chest. This slash had turned his shirt to shreds, along with blood seeping from the wound. "Oh come on!"

Deciding that now was the best time to run; he bolted it toward Beacon Academy, along with grimm hot on his tail. Concentrating on his shape-shifting, a white glow surrounded his body; as it dissipated, he has now taken the form of a cheetah, the fastest land mammal. However his wounds had slowed him down significantly. So instead of running at speeds of 60 mph, he was only running 30 mph. Which meant that the grimm wouldn't be able to catch up but also wouldn't be able to lose him either.

"This was a really bad idea. Hopefully I can find someone to help me, or else I won't be able to make it. Right now let's just focus on ma- AAH!" He winced in pain as he felt a sharp sting go throughout his body.

"I really hope I can find help." He thought as he ran through the emerald forest.

Somewhere else in the emerald forest, team RWBY and JNPR were training in the vast forest, sadly they couldn't seem to find any grimm to fight, it's like they all disappeared.

"Seriously where could they be? I made some new ammo and I wanted to try it out." Ruby stated, her face showing one with minor disappointment.

"Hey don't worry about it sis, we'll find some, we just need to keep looking." Yang was trying to make her sister feel better; it seemed to have worked, because Ruby's face had turned into one of pure joy.

"Okay Yang!" Ruby said gleefully.

"If you wanted to try out your new rounds, then why did you bring us out here?" Weiss asked as she crossed her arms in annoyance.

"Isn't it obvious? I wanted an audience to see my new ammo…and if things go south, then I'll need some backup." Ruby stated. A smile was plastered across her lips as they continued walking.

"You're such a dolt. You know that Ruby?" Weiss retorted. Her tolerance for Ruby was thin, but they somehow got along.

"What?" Ruby asked as she was not paying attention…this was one of the reasons.

"I think it'll be fun, and I could use the training." Jaune stated as he brought out his sword and twirled it around in his hand.

"Not just you Jaune, we all could use it. With all the studying we've been doing, we've all been slacking a bit on training." Pyrrah stated as she stared at Jaune.

"Agreed, if we are to be great huntsmen and huntresses, we need to be at our peak physical condition." Ren stated as he put his arms behind his back.

"Ren's right and I just want to smash some stuff!" Nora stated, hyper and destructive as always. She brought out her hammer and held it like a baseball bat; setting it against her shoulder.

"Jeez Nora, you never change do you?" Ren asked he snickered slightly at her childish antics.

"Nope, and I intend to keep it that way." She stated, getting in front of Ren and booping his nose.

"What about you Blake, you've been quiet ever since we left the Academy; are you alright?" Ruby asked, concerned for her teammate.

"Yeah, I just thought I heard something earlier, I've been trying to see if I can hear it again." Blake stated as this seemed to have caused everyone to look at her in quite the curious manner.

"Do you remember what you heard?" Pyrrah asked.

"I don't know, but it came from the emerald forest, and it seemed as though it was a voice." Blake said, her hand resting on her chin.

"How can you hear from that far away?" Ruby asked with a curious smile.

"I'm a Faunus; our senses are more enhanced than humans. Since I'm a cat Faunus, I can see in the dark, my agility is increased, and I have enhanced hearing." She explained.

"Ah, I see." Ruby said as she was amazed at how Faunus are so different compared to humans, yet so similar.

About a half an hour later, they all continued their walk through the forest, with Ruby taking the lead and the rest following close behind.

Suddenly, Blake's ears twitched causing her to stop in her tracks. The other's to notice this and look towards their comrade. "Is everything alright Blake?" Yang asked as she tilted her head in confusion.

"I hear something, and whatever it is, it's moving fast. There's more than one of them too." Everyone looked at her and surprise, they all stopped and looked towards her, waiting for more information.

Blake finally spoke up; "They're coming this way…from the left!" She yelled readying her weapon for a fight. The others soon followed suit.

Soon the sound of rapid footsteps can be heard coming from the woods. Everyone tightened their grip on their weapons, ready for whatever it may be.

The sound kept getting louder and louder, closer and closer. Everyone was sweating with anticipation.

All of a sudden, a large cat like figure jumped over one of the bushes and fell right in the middle of the group sliding on its side. They all looked at the creature, curious as to what it is. "It looks like a big cat, but I've never seen something like that before." Jaune stated as he put his sword away.

"The more important question is, what is it doing here, and is it friendly?" Weiss stated as she knelt down next to it.

Just as she was about to touch it, a white glow emanated from the body, this caused everyone to jump back and be put into a defensive stance. The light kept getting bigger and bigger, but soon it began shrinking, getting smaller and smaller. Eventually the light had dissipated, revealing a body of an 18 year old boy, with clothing.

"I-it's a boy." Blake stated as she put her weapon away.

"A cute boy at that." Yang said with a smirk on her face.

"I'll say, he's quite handsome…wait a minute why are his clothes all tattered up?" Ruby stated as she knelt down and turned his body over. They all gasped in shock and horror at what they saw. His entire shirt was slashed to pieces and he had five long gashes on his chest, which were oozing blood from his wound.

"What happened to him?!" Pyrrah asked. All of a sudden the boy groaned in pain, and he coughed up a large amount of blood. He then slowly raised his hand up towards the direction of where he had come from and said, "T-they happened t-t-to me." Trying very hard to get those words out, his entire body had gone limp.

Blake had reached down and applied two fingers to his neck, her eyes go wide and she gasps. "He's pulse is very weak, we need to get him back to beacon quickly." She panicked.

Blake felt a tap on her shoulder, "Uh…Blake, I think we should run." Yang stated in a panicked voice. "Why?" Blake asked as she turned her head and noticed an entire horde of grimm, 30 beowolfs, 20 borbatusks, and 10 ursa. "Meep." They all said simultaneously. All of the grimm roar out in anger, causing the entire group to jump.

"Quick, grab the boy and let's get moving!" Weiss stated as her friends nodded. Yang picked up the unconscious boy and hauled ass. Now when I say hauled ass, I mean HAULED ASS.

"WHERE THE HELL DID THEY COME FROM?!" Yang yelled while running her ass off.

"I don't know but that would explain where all the grimm had gone." Nora stated with a smile.

"BUT WHY WERE THEY CHASING HIM?!" Weiss asked while absolutely terrified.

"We can worry about that later. As for right now, JUST RUN!" Ren stated.

"I agree with Ren on this one." Jaune agree.

Both teams were gaining distance between the grimm, as they were getting closer and closer to Beacon Academy.

"Did we lose them?" Ruby asked trying not to look back. Blake looked behind her and noticed nothing but trees. It had seemed as though that the chase was over with.

"Looks like it, but just keep running; we need to get him some help." Blake stated. They kept up their pace to help the young man.

"Agreed." Jaune stated as he tried to keep up with his team.

"Please be okay." Yang muttered to herself. The young man groaned in pain followed shortly by coughing up blood leaving a large patch of red in the grass behind him.

*Beep, beep, beep* the sound of slow and steady beeping can be heard from a heart monitor. Recognizing the sound the, young man's eyes fluttered open; his vision completely blurry.

He groaned in pain as his chest and back felt like they were on fire. Clutching his chest, in hopes the pain would go away. "Argh, what the hell happened?!" He questioned, trying to remember as to what had caused this agony. Soon a few images flashed through his mind, he was attacked by a pack of Beowolves. Having remembered this, he felt an extremely sharp pain shoot through his head. It seemed that the memory was painful in both mentally and physically.

He looked down and saw that bandages were wrapped tightly around his entire upper body and back. He began to chuckle, laughing at the irony. "To think that on the first day of my arrival, I'd get my ass handed to me. Who would've thought that his would've happened?" He chuckled again.

He soon heard the door open, bringing his head from his hands and looked up to reveal a nurse, she was carrying a tray with an IV and more bandages. But the tray dropped when she saw him sitting up. The nurse ran out the door, screaming "He's Awake." The boy looked on, confusion on his face.

Five minutes had seemed to pass by quickly, because soon a doctor in a white lab coat walked into the room with a clipboard in hand. He smiled at the young man and walked towards his bed.

"You're awake, good. You've been asleep for quite a while. I know, I know. You'd like to know for how long." The doctor stated.

"That'd be a start." The young man stated as he crossed his arms.

"You've been asleep for 3 week." He finished.

"WHAT!?" Our young hero yelled.

"Please lower your voice." The doctor insisted.

"Whoops, sorry about that." The guy apologized.

"Anyway, you've been in a coma for three weeks. You were brought here after you were attacked by grimm. You had ten large gashes on your body; five on your back, five on your chest. You had lost an extremely large amount of blood. Now here is the surprising part. You were dead for five minutes while on the operating table. We brought you back to life, but you died again due to the amount of blood loss. Again we jump started your heart once again, and gave you 4 pints of blood. You should be dead, but you're not, thanks to us." The doctor finished.

"So you're saying that I died, twice. The first being my heart just stopped, and the second due to blood loss?" Our hero stated.

"That is exactly correct. Actually you surprised the nurse so much, that when she came running down the hall she tripped over her own feet. It was quite funny." The doctor said while chuckling out.

The young man chuckled a little bit as well, even though he was slightly concerned for the nurse's health.

The young hero looked at the doctor and asked, "Anything else doc, anything I should tell you, or vice versa?"

The doc was looking at his clip board mumbling something to himself. "Oh right, I need to know your name, and your date of birth. It's standard procedure for patients." The doctor stated, readying a pen to write on his clip board.

"Of course; my name is Zachary Gowen, please call me Zach, and my date of birth is May 22, I'm 18 years old." Zach finished.

The doctor had begun writing all of this down, he stopped for a second and asked, "Is it Z-a-c-k or Z-a-c-h?"

"Z-a-c-h and my last name is spelled G-o-w-e-n." Zach finished once again.

"Thank you Mr. Gowen. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to tell your friends that you're awake." The doctor announced. He was about to turn for the door before Zach caught his attention. "Uh Doc…what friends?" He asked

The doctor looked at Zach slightly confused. "Your friends, the ones who brought you here three weeks ago. They've come and gone, but one visits more often than the others." Doc finished as he made his way to the door, with Zach again stopping him in his place. "Hey Doc, one last thing?" Zach asked.

"Yes Mr. Gowen, what is it?" The doctor stated with a smile.

"Where are my clothes?" Zach asked looking at his nude body. It was odd that they didn't give him a hospital gown, or even underwear for that matter.

"Oh that. Your clothes are over there," The Doc said pointing to one of the couches. "However your shirts were torn to pieces. Sorry for the inconvenience. They've all been washed and your boots have been polished." Doc finished.

"Am I aloud to change into my clothes? I don't like sitting here in the nude if my 'friends' are going to see me." He asked, smiling sheepishly

"Yes you may, but leave your boots off until you have been discharged. And if you'd like, you can remove your bandages, although I must warn you, due to how deep the wounds were and how long they are, there will be a large amount of scar tissue." Doc finished. He made his way out the door, and closed it behind him.

Zach had looked down at his bandages; he couldn't help but wonder if the scars looked cool, or to others, looked down right terrifying. There was only one way to find out.

Zach brought his legs over the side of the bed, so as though they were hanging down the side. He looked down in embarrassment as he saw that his groin was slightly longer than he remembered. The embarrassment was showing very well on his face, as it was a beet red. "I really need to put on some pants." Zach stated aloud.

Zach had gotten out of bed, his legs felt like jelly; collapsing to the floor, Zach was on his hands and knees trying to steady himself.

Putting his hand on the bed for support, Zach tried raising himself up, but alas, it was futile as his hand slipped of the bed; his face hitting the tile floor with a loud slap. "This is becoming a pain in my ass. Get yourself up Zach, don't be a wimp." He stated to himself. This may have seemed odd from other's point of view, but to him, it was a form of self-encouragement.

Feeling as though he had no choice, he began crawling towards his clothes using only his arms, considering that his legs were pretty much jelly right now.

Reaching for his clothes, he pulls down his underwear and begins to put it on. He still couldn't put them on due to his legs not being able to bend; he had to use his hands to bend his knees.

As Zach was putting them on, he had decided that enough was enough. He began punching and slapping his legs to try and put some feeling back into them. After about 30 seconds of constant impacts he suddenly felt a mass amount of pain in his legs all at once. Holding in his scream, he grunted in pain, while breathing heavily.

"Damn it! Well at least it worked, now I have feeling in my legs, but now my leg is all red." He made clear as he let out a sheepish chuckle.

Finally pulling up his underwear completely, he was able to bend his knees properly, it hurt like hell, but he decided to tough it out. "I guess being stuck in the same position for three weeks, plus the constant hitting to wake them up, will do that to your legs." He chuckled sheepishly once more.

Putting his hands on the couch cushions he pushed himself up off the ground and attempted to stand. Finally on his two feet, he was a bit wobbly, but he got used to it very quickly. He grabbed his pants and proceeded to put them on, suddenly, the door to his room burst open and shouted a girl in a long red hood: "Mr. Whoeveryouare, you're awake, how're you fee-" She stopped herself as she looked at what was before her. Zach was just standing there with one pant leg pulled up while he was about to pull up the other. He was just standing there; blushing like mad as Ruby was standing there looking at the half naked man in complete embarrassment. She just backed out of the room slowly, slamming the door in front of her.

(Meanwhile in the hallway)

Her face was as red as her hood and a nose bleed forming under her nose. She covered it up quickly with a nearby tissue. "Sugar honey iced tea; that was…something." Her face becoming redder at the thought.

Having never seen a male like that before was truly a sight to see for some who is so pure of heart. She tried pushing the thought aside yet it seemed that it just bounced right back. She did the only thing she could think of and slapped herself across the face. "No, bad Ruby, you're pure, stop having these thoughts." Shaking her head furiously, she heard the elevator ding as it came up to the designated floor.

"I don't know why she was in a hurry. It's just some guy we found in the woods." Weiss made clear.

"Yeah, but he was kind of cute, so we couldn't leave him there. And I think Ruby just wanted to make a new friend." Yang persuaded, giving yang a thumbs up.

They began walking down the hall towards Zach's room with team JNPR following suit.

"I don't trust him. What was he doing in the forest, and how did he turn into that animal? I have questions and he has answers, I'm going to find out what he's hiding." Blake stated as she had a serious expression on her face.

"I want to see his scars, those wounds he had taken surely gave him some serious scars, and I bet they look awesome." Nora made clear as she had stars in her eyes.

"All I want to know is…Hey look there's Ruby." Jaune stated as they moved closer to the girl in the red hood.

"Oh hey guys." Ruby stated with tissues shoved up her nose.

"Sis, are you okay? Who hit you?" Yang asked running up to her sister, checking her face for any injury.

"Yang, I'm fine. I just had a bloody nose." Ruby reassured her concerned sister.

"How did you get a bloody nose; did you pick your nose and scratch the inside again?" She teased her sister.

"No, just open the door and you'll see." Ruby stated stepping aside.

Yang raised an eyebrow at this, but she did as Ruby had told her and opened the door to Zach's hospital room.

(Back in Zach's hospital room)

Zach was slipping his combat boots on, when he heard his door open again. He began to turn around, "Doesn't anybody knock anymo-" Zach couldn't finish his sentence, as he was fully turned around, he noticed that the members of team RWBY and JNPR were in his room. The girls were looking at him; all of their faces were a beat red, as well as each one spotting a nose bleed.

"Uh…can I help you?" Zach asked nonchalantly. He knew who they were, but they didn't need to know that.

The women said nothing as they continued to stare at the half-naked eighteen year old. Jaune and Ren waved hands in front of their faces…nothing, not even a blink. Jaune decided he had enough and spoke up.

"Um…Hey, my name is Jaune Arc. These are my friends: Nora Valkyrie, Lie Ren, Pyrrha Nikos, Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long. We are Teams JNPR and RWBY. We were the ones who rescued you from the grimm." Jaune finished as Ren began to speak up. "You were being chased by a horde of grimm, and you were…" Ren was cut off by Zach raising his hand.

"I know what happened, I know what I did, and I know why I'm here. I mean no disrespect when I say this, but I don't need a rerun of a painful memory." Ren's expression changed to one of slight sadness.

"Again I don't mean to be mean or anything, I just want to leave what's in the past, in the past." Ren and Jaune nodded their heads as the girls were still in their trance. Yang's mouth was wide open, drool dripping down the side of her lip. Zach seemed slightly disgusted by this. He looks around and notices that his weapons are missing.

"Hey, quick question?" Zach asked; Ren and Jaune raised an eyebrow in confusion.

"Where are my weapons? I had them when I arrived; they're a tomahawk and a .45 caliber pistol." Zach stated as he started flipping the couch cushions.

Ruby was brought out of her trance as she remembered something. "Oh I have them." She expressed. Pulling out Zach's weapons from a bag that was on her back, she tossed them to him.

Zach caught them with ease. He noticed that the pistol was heavier and the tomahawk a little lighter. He checked both weapons and noticed that the tomahawk was extremely sharp, and his pistol was filled with ammo. "Who did this?" He asked the group. No one spoke up, Ruby however raised her hand.

"You did this?" He asked, this caused Ruby to nod her head in confirmation.

"Thank you very much…Ruby right?" He questioned. Again he already knew who she was, but they didn't need to know it. So he just played this card for as long as he could.

Ruby once again nodded her head. Zach walked up to her, and patted her head. "Again thank you, and thank you all for bringing me here. But I must be going. I need to make some lien; I'm flat broke right now." Zach stated as he exited the room with his weapons in their respective holster.

Walking down the hallway, he stopped by the front desk. "Excuse me; I'd like to check out of my room. I know I'm supposed to wait for the doctor to discharge me, but I just want out of here." Zach made clear as he stared at the young nurse.

"Of course sir; may I have your name?" She stated as she was ready to type on her computer.

"Zachary Gowen, I was the one that was in the coma for three weeks." He stated nonchalantly.

She began typing in her computer and a smile appeared on her face. "It seems as though your bill has been paid off, and the doctor stated that you are free to go when you're ready." She announced as she looked up at him.

"My bill was paid off? Who paid off my bill?" Zach asked raising an eyebrow.

"I did." A voice said from behind him. He turned around to see team RWBY and JNPR, all the girls having their noses plugged with tissues. Weiss was the one who stepped forward when she said that.

"You? How could you have paid off a bill like that?" Zach knew the real answer, but he wanted to hear it from her.

"My family is very wealthy, and a thank you would be nice." Weiss said as she crossed her arms.

Zach had felt bad at this and put his head down in shame. "I apologize, Miss Schnee. You have my gratitude for doing such a generous deed. How can I repay you?" Zach stated as he brought his head back up.

Weiss blushed at how kind this young man was to her, and how he was willing to cooperate with anything she might ask of him. She cleared her throat and began to speak. "For starters you can put on a shirt…" Zach looked down and smiled sheepishly. "I might need a little bit of Lien for that." He stated while laughing nervously. "Secondly: your payment isn't necessary. But what you can do is answer a few questions for our friend Blake here. She's been here more than all of us; she visits every day to make sure you woke up." Weiss stated as she pointed to her Faunus friend behind her.

This caused Blake to blush like a tomato, making her stutter as she tried to speak up. "T-Tha-That's only b-because I-I wanted to q-question him." She announced while turning her face away from him.

"Ha-Ha, that's alright. I have nothing to hide."

"Um…excuse me, but could you please leave, you're kind of in the way of doctors and patients moving through." The nurse stated as she gestured towards the elevator.

"Oh right, our bad." Zach stated as he made his way towards the elevator. "Follow me, let's walk and talk." Zach said towards both teams of huntresses.

They all looked at each other and looked back to Zach. He was already in the elevator and he gestured for them to hurry. They all rushed to the elevator, but sadly the door had already closed. They all then made their way to the stairs, rushing down many flights to reach the bottom.

Meanwhile in the elevator, Zach had changed into the form of a German Shepard. He was just going to toy with them a little bit. Once the door opened he saw that Ruby had made it down the stairs first and had been waiting for him.

"*Bark Bark*" ("You're fast") Zach stated as he walked out of the elevator nonchalantly.

Ruby had raised an eyebrow; confused as to where Zach had gone. She then remembered what happened in the woods. Finally putting two and two together… "Hey wait a minute!" She yelled towards Zach. He stopped in tracks in shock. He then turned his head back to the girl in the red hood and saw that she was sprinting after him and her friends following close behind. "Oh shit!" He screamed internally.

He quickly changed back into his cheetah form, and ran out the door in a yellow blur.

"He's fast…like really fast." Nora stated as they kept on running. Even though Ruby's semblance was speed, even she couldn't catch up to something that runs 75 mph. (or 120.701 kilometers per hour for those who use metric)

Zach had a huge lead ahead of them and made his way towards the air docks. Trying to grab a ship to beacon was his first priority; he needed to start a new life in a new world after all. However to do that, he needs to speak to professor Ozpin.

Finally making it to the air docks, he quickly changed back into his human form and boarded one of the nearest ships. "Quick, take me to Beacon Academy. I'm being chased by muggers, help me man?!" Zach yelled to the pilot.

"Yes sir. Hang on tight." He said as he turned on the engine.

Zach quickly rushed to the back where he saw both teams sprinting as fast as they could with ruby 40 feet ahead of them and quickly gaining ground. Zach snickered as he was standing on the loading ramp holding onto a handle above him. The ship rose quickly into the air. This made Zach look down at them, waving to them with a smirk on his face.

The door was closing from underneath him, turning around he walks back to the cockpit and says to the pilot, "Thanks buddy; you saved my ass there."

"Don't mention it; so you a student at Beacon?" He asked as he flew the small aircraft.

"Yep. Actually, it's my first day; I transferred here from Mistral about 3 weeks ago." Zach told the pilot.

"Really? Well glad to have you here in Vale. You'll love Beacon Academy, good people, good teachers, and a great environment overall. However there is this one team that nobody likes, Team CRDL, they're the bullies of Beacon. I wish someone would teach them a lesson. They keep bullying Faunus, thinking of them as things instead of people. I'm on the side of the Faunus, but I'm not on the side of the White Fang." The pilot finished.

Zach clenched his fists in anger, Team CRDL were scum. "I'll be the one to put them in their place." He thought while gritting teeth.

(Back with Ruby and the gang)

"Damn he's fast, even faster than you sis." Yang stated; standing next to Ruby.

"Yeah I'll say. But why'd did he run; is he hiding something or is he just scared?" Ruby replied.

"I'm pretty sure he's hiding something. He seemed to want to get away from us as soon as possible." Jaune added in.

"I think he doesn't trust us. He seems scared. To be honest would you trust somebody you first met?" Ren asked the group.

They looked at him and said nothing. Weiss soon broke the ice; "But we saved his life, wouldn't that be enough?"

"You'd be right, but no, we haven't earned his trust and he hasn't earned ours." Ren finished. They all bowed their heads in shame. Ren was right, just no one wanted to point it out.

"Let's head back to beacon. We can think it over then." Pyrrah chimed in. They all nodded in response. They looked around and saw that none of the air ships were left and that Zach had taken the last one.

Ruby looked like she was about to explode in irritation. "SON OF A-"

About 10 minutes later the pilot had called back to the passenger/cargo hold.

"Hey, we're approaching Beacon Academy, get ready for landing." He said as he started flipping switches.

"Thanks man, you have no idea how much this means to me." Zach stated. He walked up to the cockpit and gave him a fist bump.

"No problem brother. I'm usually the mode of transportation for small groups of students, so no need to pay." The pilot made clear.

"Much appreciated." Zach thanked. (Not sure if that's the right word to use)

Zach could feel the air craft hit the landing pad, slightly throwing him off balance.

"Thanks again for the lift, I don't know what I would have done of those muggers had gotten ahold of me. I'm not a huntsman yet, my tomahawk is dull to where it won't cut anything, and I have no ammo in my pistol." Zach lied.

"I here ya, you don't need to worry though. I'll see ya later…What's your name again?" The pilot asked.

"Zachary Gowen, but please call me Zach. What about you, what's your name?" Zach asked, a smile appearing on his face.

"My name is Jeff; don't need to know my last name." Jeff stated while opening the cargo hold.

"Well Jeff, I'll see you around." Zach stated walking off the air ship.

"See ya!" Jeff yelled from the cockpit as he began to take off.

Zach began leaving the air dock, and made his way to Beacon Academy. The school in itself was spectacular, tall buildings, towers, columns, and a massive clock tower, which was where he needed to go because that was Professor Ozpin's office.

Making his way towards the main building, Zach had stopped in his tracks when he saw a man with silver hair glasses and a cane walking towards him. Ozpin looked at the young lad with a smile on his face and took a sip of coffee from his mug.

"Good afternoon young man, might I presume that you're Mr. Zachary C Gowen?" Ozpin asked with a slight smirk. This made Zach flinch in surprise as he was just called out by Professor Ozpin.

Stepping forward, Zach announced himself. "Y-Yes sir, but how do you know my name?"

"Because I've never seen you here before. Classes started two weeks ago, and all of the new students were present, except you. And also Miss Rose informed me that you were on your way, so I came to meet you for myself." When Ozpin said this, Zach's head drooped a little bit.

"I apologize for running sir," Zach raised his head. "However I could not trust them as they were going to question me. I wished to speak to you first before I said anything to anyone. Considering that you are the headmaster of Beacon Academy, I felt as though I could answer any questions as to who I am, or more specifically, WHAT I am. I know that whatever is shared between teacher and student that is private, stays private unless given special permission to speak about it."

Ozpin looked at the young man and studied his expression. It was serious, yet gentle and kind. It was as though he was telling the truth but not the whole truth.

"Very well Mr. Gowen, I would appreciate it if you were to follow me to my office so we can discuss more about you." Ozpin began walking away, while Zach followed close behind.

Ozpin had suddenly stopped for a few seconds and said, "Oh that reminds me: welcome to Beacon, Mr. Gowen. May your life start here."

Whew, that took for fucking ever, I never thought I'd get this shit done, but it was well worth it. So yeah, this is the first chapter of the rewrite of "RWBY: A Second Chance at Life." I think it's good, but the more important thing is do you think it's good?

I wanted to thank you all for sticking around for this long, it's been fun. And for those people who like old memes or just memes in general, I left one in there for you guys, see if you can find it.

Anyway, that is it my friends, be sure to Favorite, Fallow and Review, and I will see you all next time. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. ONWARD!