Into the fray I carry on
This blade will be happy, drenched in thine enemy's blood
And now here comes the flood
Hot and heavy like the summer dawn
Unto the breach
Unto the light
Unto the gates of hell I come
Zenshin shi Tsudzukeru
The poem sang out her mind as she spun and twisted about, bullets and dark grimm essence filling the night air, as she hacked her way through the horde of abominable fiends pushing through the trees and bushes, and clawing over one another to get at her.
They needn't have bothered, she felt. She would see to them all personally. She spun on her heel, and squeezed down on the secondary trigger on her scythe, causing a small burst of flame to explode from the back of her scythe, and she spun with the blade, adding her own momentum to that of the small rocket thruster she'd recently added onto her weapon, so that she spun about and effectively became a small tornado of rage and violence.
All around her Grimm fell, though it wasn't enough... not nearly enough to pay them back for what she had lost.
Penny.
The images flashed in her mind's eye yet again. Penny using her awesome strength to pull a bus full of children out of the sinkhole the grimm had dug. Penny's smile as Ruby congratulated her on a job well done... Penny's cold lifeless eyes after the Gryphon, that she had pushed Ruby out of the way of, had made a meal out of her metal innards, and the sound of the children screaming as their hero was ripped apart.
Ruby let loose with a primal cry, waded in amongst the Grimm. Crescent Rose was a constant blur of movement, as she twisted back and forth, sweeping the blade this way and that, never once pausing in her onslought.
Eventually however, fatigue set in and she got sloppy. She failed to notice the Beowolf approaching from behind. Only noticing its shadow at the last possible instant, she twisted about, only to have the scythe knocked from her grasp as the creature dove at her pushing her down into the muddy earth.
The Beowolf snarled, waves of saliva gushing forth as its jaws opened wide in anticipation of the meal about to fill its belly. Slowly it knelt towards her the razor sharp teeth shining brilliantly in the moonlight. Fumbling on her belt her hand desperately fumbling for the combat knife her sister had given her. Instead her fingers closed on the silver cross that had used to belong to her mother.
Pulling it free without hesitation, in a rush of adrenaline she slammed it into the beasts neck. Howling in pain the beast egan to bleed onto it'y prey. blood drenching Ruby's face and falling into her mouth. Bitterness coated her tongue, and she wanted to spit out out with every fiber of her being, but more immediate issues were on her mind... like escape. Flailing spasmodically on ground the monster bellowed in outrage, pawing at itself and seeming more dazed than anything else.
Seizing the advantage, Ruby scrambled up onto all fours, and beat a hasty retreat, ducking down to grab Crescent Rose, and ignoring the shrill howls of the fiend. Intent on making good her escape. She could always come back later to finish the job after all.
The dawn arose with the song of the birds, and scent of blossoms heavy in the air, banishing the darkness from whence it came, and filling the forest inhabitants with summer warmth... all save for one.
That one stood alone in a clearing, her scarlet hood pulled forward to shroud her features in darkness... darkness not unlike that which she felt clawing at her heart now.
She could feel it... feel an alien presence, like a slimy shadow in her core, one that was chilling her down to the marrow in her bones.
She pondered the shadow, even as her eyes tracked the movement of the Ursi roaming across the land.
She had an idea of what that shadow was, and she would have to deal with it... but not yet, no... first had to come vengeance, vengeance for what had befallen her friend, for all her friends, for the children who'd had the innocence taken from them so brutally when they'd witnessed their heroes die like that.
She twirled the scythe in one hand. "Yes," she whispered, "yes, they must pay... they must pay... and so they shall, unto the breach they will go, yes!" she smiled cruelly, madness glinting like jagged diamonds in her silver eyes. "Unto the breach they will go, the breach... the breach."
The Ursi never even saw her coming.
End Prologue.
The Grinning Psychopath: Here I be, hello everyone. Yes this is the same Grinning Psychopath who is helping Fenix Fireblaze write Knightfall, and who is also working on Grimm Awakening with Jin0uga. if you haven't read those stories then please do go on and check them out, once you have given us your thoughts on our own story here. Eh hope you guys enjoyed it, i know I sure liked working on it. toodles.