The Burning Shortcake - Rewrite
Prologue
The clicking of heels is heard throughout the room as a younger Cinder Fall walks into the meeting. Once inside, she makes her way to her seat and sits, she does all this while being under the crimson gaze of her boss, Salem.
A moment passes in silence before Dr. Arthur Watts, a middle-aged man in formal attire, broke it.
"Ma'am if I may, " He request before getting a nod from Salem. "I am wondering what this meeting was called for. Was it perhaps to discuss The Spring Maiden?"
"No, this is about what Tyrian " found" while looking for her, " She said putting emphasis on "found."
She then waves her hand, indicating Tyrian, a man with braided black hair going down his back and an unhinged look, to speak.
"Yes, what I " found, " he said before breaking out into a fit of maniacal giggles.
Getting a slight glare from Salem, he raised an object wrapped in what seemed to be a white blanket, covered in spots of blood.
He then moved the blanket enough to show what the object was and to the surprise of everyone, but Salem, it was a baby.
The baby had black hair with red tips, but the thing that surprised them most was the child's silver eyes.
"She has silver eyes, " Watts said in slight surprise.
"Yes, I know, " Salem said coolly.
"Where did you get it?" he asks Tyrian, earning another fit of maniacal giggles from him.
"Well, while I was hunting for the spring maiden I came across a silver-eyed huntress, and after I took her eyes, I took her baby. She was whimpering its name, Ruby, the whole time." Syrian finished his tale, now fully laughing loudly.
"You killed her, right?" Salem demanded, making him go from laughing to quivering.
"W-well she'll die soon, " he said earning a glare from her. "I had to leave because I saw a portal open and I didn't know how many allies of hers were coming, but when I left she was blind, crippled, and bleeding out. There was no way she could have survived, I swear!"
"She better be dead, Tyrian or else I shall be very disappointed, " She said earning a whimper from the quivering man.
"What are we to do with the baby?" Asked Hazel Rainart, a muscular giant of a man with a beard.
"We shall keep her. One of you shall train her, and when she's old enough she'll work for me, " She replied.
"Cinder, you will raise and train her."
"What?!" she exclaimed, her voice full of surprise and slight indignation.
"Do you have a problem, Cinder?" Salem asked, while menacingly glaring at her while her eyes glowed.
"N-no, Salem, " she stuttered out, before looking down at the table.
"Good. This meeting is over, " Salem said before standing and walking out of the room.
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A.N. Well, it's been a long time I know. I've just been procrastinating everything, especially this. I know I also upped the darkness a bit.
So, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Bye.