Chapter 1: Encroaching Evil

A/N: Disclaimer: Monty Oum and Roosterteeth owns this. Need I say more?

First thing to agree on, all of RWBY's characters are hot to look at, even when we see an okay storyline with some discontinuities popping up and down.

But the ending made me a bit disappointed because as an anime guy, it didn't leave me satisfied which is wrong because RWBY is a different beast compared to the usual stuff. Kind of confused why they said it's a kid show when it's hosted by a channel that promotes the usual internet trash (the kind I watch for fun, so I have a right to say it's fun trash, right?)

So while I was moping, my dirty mind decided to finally start a story after getting a handle on the writing thing. And yes, there is smut and lemon, but not the full focus of the story.

Read and review, can't promise to reply like other authors as often. And make sure to voice out anything you want and I mean anything. Even comment on my shitty writing because this is the first time working on something this big.

"C'mon, we're going to miss the sale if we don't hurry!"

Ruby happily ran through the streets of Vale. Behind her were her friends trying to keep up with their leader who still didn't use her Semblance.

"Ruby, slow down," shouted Yang.

"Why are you being such a pest," followed Weiss while Blake ran behind her with eyes carefully watching the people they almost ran into.

"Today is the last day for sales on new weapon parts! There's no way I'm going to miss it when dad finally sent us the lien!"

"There's another one next week, can't you wait till then?!"

"Nope, life's too short to wait another second," yelled the happy Ruby. Yang and Blake couldn't help but smile while Weiss shook her head, obviously annoyed at the little brat who seemed high on sugar. She was also the only one to see that her leader didn't have her eyes forward.

"You dunce, watch where you're going!"

"Move faster?!" At the same time she yelled this, Ruby used the true extend of her Semblance to turn into a blur. She then noticed too late she was about to make a messy collision with a person clad in black.

"Look out!"

Darkness covered her entire vision. Confused, Ruby closed her eyes for one second before she opened them to see the clear blue sky. She found herself lying on the arms of a stranger wearing a black biker's helmet

"Are you okay?" the muffled voice asked.

When the girl nodded, she took the person's gloved hand to stand up. She noticed the entire body was enshrouded in black, including the long trench coat and jeans with edges above boots. She also saw an insignia of two white jagged lines running across each other to form an 'X' in the middle of the collared shirt. It was clear this person was not a resident of this city as his entire attire would earn more suspicion than welcome.

"I'm okay. Are you new here? I've never seen you before." Ruby's cheerful remark made the person rear back in surprise. "Oh, are you not?"

"No, but you don't seem afraid of me."

"Why? You just helped me, didn't you?"

The confident answer befuddled the stranger. This continued until a voice yelled, "Ruby, Ruby are you okay?!"

Turning her head, the girl saw her team approach her from amongst the crowd. Blake's dark gaze at one dark alley made Ruby follow to see a pair of glowing yellow eyes fade away at the last second. This made her wary right as her sister slammed into her to give a huge hug.

"You dork, you have to be more careful!"

After returning the hug, the red hooded girl looked around to find the stranger gone. When she sighed, she heard Yang ask, "What's wrong?"

"Did you see that guy wearing lots of black? You know, the one I almost ran into?"

The blondie pulled away right as Weiss and Blake caught up. "That emo guy? Kind of, but when you did your huge cloak thing, he disappeared."

"Cloak thing? What are you talking about?"

"Don't you know? Sometimes when you're about to go fast, the cape part of your cloak goes wide and up." Yang made a wide motion behind her back with her explanation. "You did it right before running into him…right?"

"No, that…that wasn't me. I don't think." For some reason, this news didn't sit well with the sisters as some stranger apparently used a Semblance that made the runner stop and even teleport a bit far from the original spot.

"Who cares," said Weiss. "Just be glad whatever he did stopped you from making a mess."

"I don't think that's a reasonable judgment. They could have survived and no one would have to deal with any consequences." Blake said this in disbelief while she walked ahead towards the store they were going to.

"What did you say? Hey, get back here. Explain what you said right now!" Weiss chased the Faunus with an angry face. Ruby felt bad as her partner was about to clash with her teammate.

"Ah, ignore them," said Yang. "They'll warm up to each other soon. It's only been a while since we first became a team."

Ruby watched her teammates have a light exchange in the distance. "I hope you're right. Kind of wonder why we're not getting along in the first place. I mean how…wait, is that Pyrrha?"

The older sibling thought so too when she saw familiar golden armor and red hair. However, the person was amongst a crowd of people on the other side of the street, making it hard to clarify.

"I hope not. The way she's going, she's heading towards that new hotel over there."

"Why is that bad, Yang?" Ruby didn't know why the innocent question made her sister look worried.

"I-it's because…uh, she's…she's already got a place to sleep at. If she has a mission tomorrow, she should just go back to the dorm to stay with the others." The blondie hoped she sounded convincing with the weird answer. She didn't want to teach her sister what it means to have a rendezvous at a certain place during a suspicious time.

"That's weird, we all have rides to get to where we need to go," laughed the child. Yang sighed in relief, glad to have dodged educating her adolescent sibling.

"Hey Yang, our team is going to be okay, right? Not just between Weiss and Blake, but…we're always going to come out fine, right?"

Yang eyed her sister to see doubt clouding the silver pupils. Rubbing the head of black hair, she replied, "Of course. We're also going to become the best Hunters and friends. Just make sure you keep doing your best to lead us, okay?"

The youngest teammate nodded before she skipped away while yelling for the others. The older sister made sure she was gone before turning her head to see that all signs of Pyrrha were gone.

"Pyrrha," she whispered. "What the hell are you doing here?"

The boy Ruby almost collided with woke up the next morning. He sat up on the steel box draped with a white blanket while another was on top of his body. Struggling to rise, he managed to hop off and land on the steel floor of the factory located in an unknown part of Vale.

Jet, as most would call him, raised a tan hand to rub it through his black hair while another was used to fix the same clothes he wore yesterday. His research of the city made him stay up too late to care for a clean change. He was about to remedy this issue when his nearby Scroll rang. He was glad it did now or he would have smashed it in half for waking him and force his boss to pay for another one.

"What do you want, Gonorrhea?" he asked after picking up. He heard one sentence involving 'Greyson' before the call hung up.

"Rude bastard," the boy whispered while he used his device to access the cloud storage owned by his group. There, he found a new file that said, 'False Prophets,' in the title bar.

"Shit, in Vale?"

He accessed it to see details that made him sick to the stomach. "He's really going to do it." A list named 'Personal Hits' had him quickly see pictures and names that had him feel dread about this little side-quest. Scrolling up, he eventually found several he recognized from yesterday, including one who shouldn't be on this list at all.

Angry, Jet threw his Scroll at his 'bed' before he had fingers from both hands go through his black hair. He unintentionally made parts of it spike, giving him a hairstyle matching his persona as a warrior. The tips also had gray on them, looking solid as if they were dipped in the paint of the color themselves.

A moment later, Jet calmed down to ponder on his own course of action.

"Fuck it, if he's going to ruin another city, it's not my problem." He picked up a golden triangular shield leaning on the steel box before walking on, steps hard from making contact with concrete.

"It's not like I can stop this corruption…nothing I do really matters in the end."

Ruby looked out at a park full of brown grass and wilted trees. A cold breeze reminded her to pull tighter on the black scarf, a gift.

Winter has arrived, making this a few months since she had the conversation with her sister. Although this would have been a time to spend with her school friends, there was no one left for her to go to. At least, nobody could come because they were spending their free time doing other things.

Hoping today was different, she picked up her Scroll and had four calls go on at the same time. First to her team, then to her friends. Yet, nobody picked up, not a single one.

"Oh well, at least everyone is doing fine," she whispered to no one. Her heart sank to be reminded that there was nobody from Beacon to be with her today.

What Ruby didn't know is that today, Vale is changing from the inside out, evil gaining power over all that is pure and good. Everyone she knew of is also involved, whether it be with or the lack of their free will. In fact, the hooded girl would have been in the same situation, but she had someone looking out for her like a guardian angel.

"Hey Ruby, are you ready to go?"

The girl turned to smile at the approaching boy. "Yeah, you too Jet?"

The black-haired friend sighed at the repeated question. "I had to walk all the way from work, why wouldn't I be?"

"And I had to fly all the way from Beacon after class," giggled a happy Ruby. Her teenage friend rolled his eyes, but smiled to show he took the comment well.

"Whatever, let's go. Gungun Frenzy isn't going to wait for us."

Ruby hopped out of her seat and ran towards the theatre while pulling on her friend's sleeve. She had her other hand make a gun with fingers and shake it like it's shooting wildly. "Sounds good, let's go watch them shoot em up!"

Jet ignored the movie's catch phrase while he tried to keep up with the girl. "Whoa, Ruby! We don't need to run there, it's right around the corner."

"And if we don't hurry, the line for popcorn and the candy bar is going to get too long!"

Jet dug his feet to anchor his body. "You mean one piece or the entire bar? And don't you dare forget how you messed up the last time."

"Don't worry about that. Now. Hurry. Up!" One hard pull made the girl trip on her feet and fall to the ground. Getting up on her knees, she noticed her hands were bloody as she was out of Aura thanks to today's training practice. It was also when her team split up with none of them inviting the other to hang out with each other.

The memory almost made Ruby cry as she didn't think she'd be so alone save for the person now who doesn't go to school. Yet, even his presence couldn't make her forget that her teammates, even her sister, appeared to have become just classmates, not even close friends.

"Hey, you need to be careful. Here, wipe yourself clean with this."

The injured one saw her kneeling friend hand her a black napkin. Expressing her thanks, she took it and wiped all of the blood off. Standing up, she had her sad silver eyes meet ones that were dull gray.

"What's wrong? It's not like you to be this clumsy. Did your eating habit make your brain full of sugar again?"

Ruby smiled at the small joke and shook her head. "No, it's just…you know, I told you how the past while has been weird, right?"

"Yeah?"

"Well, it makes me realize I want to spend time with people as much as I can. At least, the ones who would want to be with me. Most of the people at school doesn't come out with me anymore. My team doesn't even stay awake when I get back into the dorm. I mean, we're still together, but…I don't know. Something is off with everyone nowadays."

Jet's eyes narrowed as he himself was aware of the cause. His boss was the one creating the FUBAR mess along with those the teenage boy had the displeasure of working with save one individual. However, that case wasn't his concern. His role in it was done, so any other problems related to his team and victims were on their own.

Patting Ruby on the shoulder, he said, "I'm sure things can work out better if you wait. Now let's go and get that popcorn. And try to save some for me this time."

The comment made the girl huff with annoyance. "It ran out because you wouldn't order a bigger box!"

"And it's my fault you couldn't pay half of the price like you promised?"

Jet laughed while his friend pouted from the old situation. Soon, she ended up smiling as all thoughts of her previous worries vanished for now and the time spent at the movies.

During that time, the black-clothed outcast hoped that things could always stay this way until it was time for him to take action again.

As a selfish kid, Jet could only mitigate the damage that would later be done by the evil coming from the group known as the False Prophets.

A/N: Okay, after some research, I found out that this story will contain smut and lemon (not sure what the difference is). However, the chapters do lead to an eventual plot, which is why I had to insert this chapter in.

Edit: Smut and lemon are now in sections. You'll see them separate from the plot (or I'll do my damn best).