Ruby was scared. She was scared of the man who had kicked the door of her mother's house in and who was now holding a knife to her Mother's throat. The blonde man's lilac eyes staring with a cold fury into pleading silver ones. Summer Rose tried to speak but the blade pressed to her neck was making it difficult to do so and the droplets of blood slowly running down her neck only served to prove this point.
"You took her away you whore." The man seethed through gritted teeth," you left just like Raven but you didn't leave the little bastard with me like she did, did you? You had to take her fucking with you!" He punctuated this with a punch to her jaw, after throwing the knife to the floor.
Coughing after the punch Summer stare back at the man," you know damn well why I left, Tai. I won't let you hurt her too."
Seething in anger now Taiyang assaulted Summer again," you bitch! Because of you Raven left me, because of you they took Yang away and because of you I haven't seen my daughter since she was two!"
Recovering from the blow Summer retorted," we drove Raven away Tai. You because you cheated on her and me because I betrayed her trust! The sooner you accept th-" she was cut off by a fist to the face.
"How dare you! I loved Raven you stupid whore!" Taiyang screamed at her as his fists came down on her from above as a shaking and sobbing Ruby watched.
After ten minutes Taiyang finally got off of the now bloody Summer and turned to get something he could smash her head in with. Ruby scurrying over to her mother she could only stutter a single word," m-mommy."
Opening her eyes as best she could Summer looked up at Ruby," hey little rose." She coughed out. "Go hide somewhere, okay. Mommy'll come get ya later alright." She said with a bloody smile on her face.
"But m-mommy! You're hurt!" A teary eyed Ruby stuttered. A pale hand cupped her cheek.
"Ruby I want you to promise me something, okay?" Summer had a protective look in her eye, Ruby nodded slowly still crying," you're a big girl now okay. So I want you to run as fast as you can towards the town, okay?" Another nod, but slower this time.
Walking back over with a heavy looking bronze statue Taiyang kicked Ruby away from her Mother. "Stupid bastard." He grumbled under his breath, turning to Summer he looked down on her with contempt and raised the murder weapon above his head," you fucking ruined my life you whore."
"No you did that yourself, you pile of dog shit." And with that the statue was brought down on her head.
To Ruby the world seemed to slow down as she saw the chunk of metal come down upon her mother's head. She saw as it made contact, how it shattered the bone beneath it's massive weight. How her mother's face was slowly lost under the base of the bronze statue and the skin slowly broke open and blood spewed out of the wound along with bloody chunks of flesh and bone. She watched as the now bloody base of the bronze statue came to rest where her mother's head had once been. Ruby sat there for what felt like minutes to her but to everything else it happened in a single second.
She was finally brought away from the gruesome sight of the mother's headless corpse by the sight of red rose petals swirling around her body in slow motion. Ruby not knowing what was going gone finally looked back at the man who had just killed her mother.
He hadn't moved an inch, it didn't even look like he had taken a single breath either. What was going on? Why was everything so slow now? Ruby was distracted from her internal musing by a glint in the corner of her eye.
It was the knife.
The knife this murderer had threatened her mother with. And the sight of it brought another question to Rugby's mind 'why do I want to hurt him?'
Ruby had always been taught that she shouldn't hold grudges but this man had just taken the life of the person who taught her that, mommy would forgive her if she did the same to him, right? She would, wouldn't she? She wouldn't want for her killer to walk free would she? No, she wouldn't want that.
Walking over to the blade, with the world still frozen for her, she looked down at it. It looked like any normal kitchen knife any one would have in their house, apart from the droplets of a familiar red liquid on the blade. Picking it up and turning to the man behind her, Ruby walked towards the still man with a cold look in her eye. No amount of aura or armour could stop a blade going at that speed, as the flesh blistered and the blood boiled as the knife cut deeper the world began to speed back up again. As the final droplets of red from her mother hit the floor the man felt a pain that consumed his whole body. Looking down he saw his intestines wetly smack against the floor around a little girl starring up at him with a blank look in her eye, as he fell to his knees coughing up blood as he sank to the floor, and as his vision faded the last thing he saw was a little girl in a red cloak with a bloody knife in her hand.
Realising what she had just done Ruby began to shake violently, her breaths coming in short and rapid bursts. Dropping the knife with a clatter, she buried her face in her knees and cried.
Watching from some place elswhere a pale man with black hair and even darker eyes watched the child with interest. A mere nine year old girl obtaining such a amazing power was surely a very interesting person made even more so for her new killer instinct. That man, Taiyang he believes was his name, was the abusive father of Yang Xiao Long and more importantly Ruby Rose, the girl who had just seen her mother brutally murdered five feet from her and then proceeded to kill her father, who had done the deed. It was certainly enough to catch the attention of the Outsider.
Right now he was watching as the girl cried her eyes out whilst rocking back and forth in the pool of blood and other bodily matter. Walking through the portal the Outsider was using to look upon the scene, he silently walked over to the small girl. Whilst on the outside his walk would have looked confident and natural it really felt uncomfortable for the Outsider who usually floated to get around, he still couldn't understand how some people did this to relax or to think.
Reaching a hand out he placed it on the shoulder of the small girl in front of him, he had seem mortals do this as a sign of comfort. At first flinching away from the touch, the small girl looked up to the entity above her and silver eyes met black orbs, she froze in what the Outsider could only guess to be fear.
"Hello little one," his voice came out caring and without his normal uncaring attitude, unknown to most the Outsider cared a lot for children, but the girl just kept staring at him with a scared look in her eyes," I'm not here to hurt you, so don't worry. Actually I came her to give you my gift."
She seemed to calm down a little at this, but was still apprehensive of the stranger," w-what kind of g-gift?" She asked meekly.
Smiling down at her, he said," one that will help you in what comes next." He answered her," hold out your hand please."
Slowly and shakily her small hand was given to the Outsider, holding it in his own," this is going to hurt, okay." He warned, and then with a pulse of the cosmic energies within him, a burning sensation irrupted from the back of her right hand, but she didn't scream or cry she just clenched her fist. Taking away his hand he let the girl look down at his mark," that is my mark. It will allow you to use abilities most people think only exist in fairy tales, use my gift however you wish. In time you will learn how to use this power, but for now I recommend following your late mother's advice and running from here." And with that he was gone in a swirling of shadows.
After the strange man had left Ruby lay there for a couple more minutes just staring blankly into the space he once occupied. Being shuck from her state by a loud bang from behind her Ruby saw the front door swinging in the late night air, so getting to her feet and walking towards the fresh hold she took a moment to look behind her at the two now cold corpses before she went off into the wilderness surrounding the small cabin.