Hi everyone, Yavinus here . This is my first RWBY and I hope you enjoy it. Being an ABRN and NDGO central fic, the charachters personalities and interaction are generally headcanon. But don't worry, I will try my best to do it basing in what we saw in the show itself.

As normal, RWBY doesn't belong to me, but to Rooster Teeth.

This is also dedicated to Monty Oum, may his soul find peace.

"Searching answers, it's what's motivates your soul

Fearing abandonment, it's your nightmare

A lioness that protects her pack, it's what you are"

It was a beautiful night, with the moon looking almost complete, people walking through the city's streets. People were laughing and talking about mundane things. However, only a strange woman, who is dressed in robes that didn't pay attention to her surroundings. Her dark skin and platinum (almost to silver) hair that contrasted made her beautiful, but it was eclipse by her hardener expression, like a sculpted statue, making difficult to calcite her age. However, she is still young, very young, a person that lived only a fragment of her life. The girl holds her scroll, talking to someone.

"Look, it's my decision alone. When I went to the Combat Academy I was decided to become a huntress no matter what" her tone seemingly not angry, but clearly upset of something "I love you but I'm not a child anymore and what happened since that day is not going to turn me back".

After a few seconds, the girl awaited her answer, and then a male voice only audible to someone close came from the device. The young girl didn't say anything and pressed a button, finishing the conversation.

Arslan Altan sighed and walked to her destination, a medium sized building that was only three blocks away, the registration to Haven Academy. It had been only two months since she graduated from the Combat Academy with her friend Bolin Hori and she was ready to take the next step. Her partner already did it two weeks ago and she happily could did it with him if it wasn't by her uncles. Bless Dust that they supported her during her early childhood since "that" incident, but they could be stubborn about their will to convince her not to join the Huntsmen. They said it could only bring her painful memories back.

She sighed again and stopped for a moment waiting for traffic light to turn to red. She already killed her first Grimm at the age of fourteen, with her bare hands (although her Semblance helped her to accomplish such feat) and trained her body and mind during many years. Meditation helped her overcome certain memories. She wasn't afraid anymore, she was going to go forward fighting the darkness and looking the answers that was burning inside her. No matter what…

Suddenly, there was a loud noise and the smell of burnt rubber invaded the air, filling her nasal cavities with the foul essence. She only managed to catch a blurry but distinct figure of a car going to trough high velocities and she saw the result of the collision.

It was a miracle that the two vehicles weren't such a bunch of debris and melted metal. Fortunately enough, there wasn't a lot of traffic and the rest of the cars stopped in time. Her reflexes permits her to analyse the situation and act accordingly.

She didn't know much about models but the bigger car, the one that was running at high speeds, definitely wasn't a cheap one. She immediately opens the door and sees the person inside, a young teenager not much older than her. The first thing that invaded her nostrils is the smell of booze and vomit. She held her breath for an instant, pressing the seat belt button (thank Dust that the idiot didn't forgot about putting it) and pulled him outside. Cheeking his pulsing first, she notes that its relativity normal and didn't suffer from an alcoholic coma.

"Good, at least this night isn't going to be sour" she thinks before putting him in a safe spot. She pretends not noticing the people surrounding her and the cars but she leaves a little sigh of relief seeing people marking the emergency number with their own scrolls "Now for the other"

She rapidly returns and tries to repeat the process, but the door is stuck and she can hear weak moans inside of it. They could be in critical state and breaking the crystal could only worsen the situation. Closing her eyes, she focused on her own self, canalizing the power of her soul, her Aura and then, she activates her Semblance. In a powerful, but controlled manner, she rips the door apart from the rest of the vehicle without breaking the window.

It's a young family, a man and a woman on their thirties, semiconscious, groaning. They didn't have any mayor injuries, but the sudden collision surely made a number on them. She pulls first the man and then the woman, only to realize the crying of infant. Some people nearby helps her and carry on the couple while she goes for the child. He is alright though, only really scared, feeling alone, fearing being alone.

It brought her memories.

She shaked her head and, remembering her training and long hours of meditation, and grabbed the child. She noted that he was a Faunus by his two dog-ears, she though with curiosity if he's adopted or a close familiar from either the man or the woman, because the two were clearly humans. She didn't dwell too much on it and she carried the small child in her arms. There is a thunderous applause from the people outside but the future huntress noted that some of them were less enthusiastic of it after seeing that it's an infant Faunus that she is carrying in her arms.

She ignored them and she waited for the ambulance. She didn't know how to take care of children, her uncles didn't have any and her past experience with them weren't very rich, but she tries her best on calming the young child, reciting a song that she didn't remember very well. However, the result is effective, as the child slowly, but surely, begins to lower his cries and the tears are less abundant than before.

She soon heard the ambulance and the medics comes. They take care of the teenager and the couple. Arslan gave the child to the doctor, his face stuck in an expression between surprise and gratitude.

"They were lucky that you were there, you helped a lot," he says while carrying the small boy "Aren't you a huntress? You have the look and the abilities of one"

The young girl moved her head in negation and the doctor's expression is one of surprise.

"I'm only going to Haven Academy this year, so still not an official one"

"Well, at least I can see in you as great member of the people who fights against the darkness," he said. "Your future is bright!"

Arslan gives him a dry glare before parting ways abruptly, leaving a puzzled and perplexed doctor. She didn't likes compliments, they aren't necessary, they only hinder the ones with clouded minds. She only cares about what its forward. The accident was a coincidence in a world full of them.

Arslan Altan simply walked ahead, towards her future, imagining the future battles and challenges ahead.