A/N: Welcome, welcome, to another year at Hogwarts-oops. Wrong fandom. This is gonna be one big A/N so be warned.

Full summary:
It was no secret to Weiss Schnee, the heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, that she was going to have her marriage arranged by her father. That she knew ever since she was a little girl. What she never expected was her wedding to be a political decision.

A story about the life of Cinder Fall; a story that will tell of her past, her present, and her future as well. Loosely based on the arranged marriage au. Written collectively by ARoseForRose and The Supreme One

Pairings: Spice* [Melanie/Yang/Miltia], Monochrome, Trinidad* [Ruby/Weiss/Blake]

*Spice because the girls' color schemes are green, yellow and red. These are also the colors of peppers, which are spicy, and girls are made of sugar, and spice, and everything nice. So Spice it is.
*Trinidad because the country's flag is black, white and red, it means "trinity", and it overall sounds better than Newspaper and Blushing Penguin. It totally works. (Parings named by TSO because ARoseForRose sucks at finding ship names)

Okay, so, this little story, is written by both yours truly and the ever so lovely Supreme One (you can call her TSO). It's certainly Cinder centered (that's a mouthful), meaning that several chapters will be devoted to her awesomeness. Pairings are as mentioned above, but don't be confused. This is so much more than a romance story full of fluff. We don't really like too much fluff. Did you notice the genre tags? Yeah, it's angst, and crime, and drama, and adventure, and hurt, and a little humor when things need to lighten up a bit.

We hope you enjoy the journey through mostly Cinder's life.

Disclaimer: We don't own Rooster Teeth, RWBY, the characters, or the au this story is loosely (I repeat, loosely) based on. We do own the rest of the plot though! Tasteless jabs at celebrities constitute fair game.

1.

It was yet another ordinary morning when Ruby Rose, always the first of her team to wake up, decided it was a good time to check the news, just like she did every day as part of her routine. Or at least it seemed like an ordinary morning; until she read the title of one of the articles, which made her jaw drop in shock and disbelief.

She was standing in the hall, shocked, no, dumbfounded by what lay before her. She tried to read it again, and have it make sense, but nothing really came of the effort. Nor the next three attempts.

Her eyes scanned the news report shown on her scroll one more time:

"Weiss Schnee, heiress to the Schnee Dust Company, has had her hand in marriage sold at auction to the highest bidder by her father."

As it was explained further down the article, the price for Weiss' hand was 8,000,000 Lien. Ruby's eyes widened at the fortune whoever won said auction had offered, though the winning party was as of yet unknown. The girl blinked a couple of times, still refusing to believe that something like that was actually happening. 'Who would sell their own daughter?'

Faint sounds of someone crying snapped the girl out of the thoughts, and back to reality. Turning her head slightly to face the door to her room, Ruby realized that the person crying sounded a lot like Weiss. 'Oh no,' she thought, as she took a step closer to the door.'Poor thing must be devastated.'

"Well, there goes my theory that she had her tear ducts surgically removed..." she muttered as she quietly opened the door, and peeked inside.

All three of her teammates were there. Yang was sitting next to Weiss on her bed, one armed wrapped around the blonde's shoulders and the other hand stroking Weiss' hand tenderly. Blake was simply lying in her bed, reading a book, the only sign she was paying attention was the right side of her bow, which was aimed towards the heiress.

Weiss was a complete sobbing mess, and that made Ruby's heart hurt a little.

"I can't... believe... he sold me..." she was at least comprehensible between sobs. Weiss glanced up and noticed the faunus, "And why aren't you paying attention to my strife?!" she screamed, glaring at Blake, her eyes throwing daggers at the black-haired girl's direction.

"I am," Blake said, amber eyes leaving her book for just a moment, before resuming their previous position. "Can't you see I'm listening?" Her bow waggled back and forth a bit, indicating she was indeed doing what she said.

Opening the door fully, Ruby made her presence known, and she spoke as she sat down on Blake's bed, "Weiss... look, I know it must be hard for you to accept this, you know, seeing how love is something that you should find on your own and not have forced upon you, and all that, but I want you to know that we will be there for you throughout this entire marriage. You won't have to go though it alone."

The girl raised her head from Yang's chest and shook it. "No... It's... It's not that... I've always known... I just... can't... I can't believe he sold me... for... eight... million... Lien," she turned to Ruby, looking at her in the eye. "I'm worth at least one hundred million!" she yelled before breaking down, burying her head in her hands, her shoulders shaking from the force of her sobs.

Ruby blinked.

Yang face-palmed.

Blake's bow twitched

Quite short first chapter, just to get things started. Thank you for reading, please review :)