Prologue
7 years ago
8 year old Ruby skipped happily through the woods with her older sister, Yang. They were out in the woods playing, like they did every Friday after school.
"Woah, Yang look" Ruby said, pointing.
"What is it, what are you pointing at?" Yang caught up to Ruby and spotted what she was looking at, a large metal building, like nothing either of them had ever seen before. It was a wreck, bits of it had fallen off and vines grew on it's rusted walls.
"Let's go inside!" Ruby shouted, Yang was about to argue but Ruby had already ran off, so she just grinned and ran after her sister. When she caught up with Ruby, her sister was pulling on the door attempting to gain access to the large structure. She let go and looked at Yang with sad eyes.
"Okay, I'll open it".
"Yay!" Ruby jumped in the air as her sister quickly pulled the door open, before the door was even fully open Ruby ran in, Yang followed behind her.
The lights were barely working and the majority of the light came from the holes in the roof, the girls made their way down the corridors powered by Ruby's curiosity. They ended up in a large, empty room, and they were face to face with a beast, only a little taller than Yang, the beast had large forearms and strong legs, it's head owned two blue eyes, it's maw was adorned with razor sharp teeth and it's spine ended with a short tail it's body was covered in fuzzy hair like that of a tarantula and under it's hair was a very tough carapace.
The creature looked at them with a curiosity, Ruby stepped towards it but Yang was more cautious, she began to quietly load one of her gauntlets. Ruby put her hand on it's snout and rubbed the beast, it seemed to be enjoying itself.
"Come on Yang, It doesn't bite!" Ruby said.
"Okay fine" Yang attempted to turn off her gauntlet but it misfired, the sound of the shot terrified the beast. Then Ruby noticed something, it's eyes had gone from being blue to a pure crimson, it grinned maliciously and slashed at Ruby multiple times with it's claws, she screamed in pain as blood covered the floor and splattered over the walls.
"RUBY!" Yang screamed as she ran towards the beast, she punched it square in the face causing it to recoil, it didn't charge at Ruby again, it simply looked in her direction and a vine burst from the floor, coiled around her neck and began to tighten, choking her. Ruby passed out due to lack of oxygen and blood. Yang tried to run to Ruby but felt a vine wrap around her leg, it hoisted her off the floor and threw her across the room, she landed on a control panel and accidently pushed a few buttons. The room changed colour, as red lights activated and an automatic voice announced 'GRIMM CLEANSING INITIATED' as this was said a pair of turrets burst into life, the beast leaped on one of them, tearing it to shreds. The other turret opened fire and tore through the beast's carapace. The beast withdrew by climbing the wall and escaping through a hole in the roof, once it retreated the vines it had summoned did the same and went back into the ground. Yang slipped into unconsciousness.
Yang awoke to feel the morning sun on her face it was shining through a hole in the ceiling, a piece of glass embedded in her cheek, she pulled it out then looked around her 'Oh yeah, this place', she thought. She then screamed.
"RUBY!" She ran to the middle of the room where she lay unconscious in a pool of her own blood, claw marks in her skin and clothes alike, and a clear bruise around her neck where the vine was strangling her, Yang shook her "Ruby! Please wake up", she hugged her sister "Please don't die" She was beginning to cry now "I won't be able to go on if you do, you mean everything to me!"
Ruby's eyes slowly fluttered open and met with Yang's, Ruby's eyes widened in shock, she weakly lifted her hand to touch Yang's cheek, she looked at Yang with genuine concern.
"Yang, you're bleeding", she then passed out again. Yang smiled then lifted her up and carried her out of the building, she then ran out of the forest as fast as she could, back to their home.
A few weeks later…
In the night Yang awoke to Ruby's screaming, she ran over to her bed and embraced her.
"It's okay, I'm here, don't worry it can't get you here" Ruby's injuries had just about healed but it was clear that thing had also injured her psychologically, and badly as well. The nightmares were bad enough but they were nothing compared to her fits of screaming and crying, she was getting better though, the nightmare still haunted her but she eventually stopped having her fits of screaming… After six years… but going to Signal helped, giving her a thing to do so she could forget the thing in the old metal building...
