Ruby looked around herself trying to get a bearing on where she was, but all she could see was a thick heavy fog that completely obscured her sight. Slowly she started to wade and stumble through the mist as if she were a blind woman without aid. She wondered for what seemed like an eternity until she came upon a horrifying scene. To her left she saw two people the first one was her friend Pyrrha, clad in some weird greek-esc armour, who seemed to be kneeling in front of someone else with a very horrified and crestfallen expression on her face. Ruby carefully edged closer to the limp form only to see it was Penny, another of her friends cut into four pieces, with a look of pure shock eternally etched onto her face. Looking back to Pyrrha, she the green tear filled eyes staring back.
"Ruby, I am so sorry." she said once she saw the younger red tipped brunette. Instead of replying however, Ruby ran in the opposite direction no longer caring about the fog or her lack of vision. Soon afterwards she came upon another site, one of many of her friends lying on the ground with varying injuries. The worst of which being her sister who was missing an arm. After staring at the scene for what seemed like hours looking over the many faces of her friends until she came to a black haired girl with a bow on her head that she didn't recognize from anywhere. Unable to cope with the scene in front of her she turned and began to run yet again. As she ran she was now being assaulted by the voices of her friends. Trying to lessen the noise, she clamped her hands over her ears but the sound didn't waver and the fog began to lift to show her the dead and mutilated faces of her friends all calling out to her asking the same question.
"WHY DID YOU LEAVE US RUBY, WHY DID YOU LET US SUFFER?" The voices repeated their question without stopping causing Ruby to overload with despair. She tumbled to the ground bringing her knees to her chest trying to make herself as small a target as possible. However before Ruby could sink into insanity the voices stopped causing her to look up from her position with tear filled eyes. The disembodied faces of her friends were all looking towards a figure that, as it grew closer and closer, she realised it was the smiling face of her mother Summer Rose. Summer kneeled down and looked her daughter in the eyes all the while still smiling. That smile soon turned to a scowl as her eyes turned into black bloodied sockets to which Ruby tried to crawl away from, but still Summer advanced.
"Oh little rose don't worry no matter what, you will never be able to run fast enough to escape me." she said with a hallowed voice. Summer was finally upon Ruby and closed her hands around her daughter's throat, squeezing hard. The air left Ruby's lungs and it was denied Ruby closed her eyes and waited for death….. But death never came and she opened her eyes to see the ceiling of her room with the ceiling fan rotating slowly.
Turning to her left, she looked at the alarm clock perched on her nightstand and she saw that it read 3:00 am in bright green digital numbers . Seeing this, she groaned in frustration and rolled to rest on her chest and simultaneously buried her head into her pillows as to try to go back to sleep. After what seemed like hours of trying and failing to gain some form of rest, she sat up and gave another frustrated groan before she quickly padded over to the adjacent bathroom. She looked in the mirror and sighed as she saw her reflection in the mirror. Ruby, at the current age of nineteen, looked rather different from what she looked like when she was a sixteen year old kid. Gone was her short cropped hair replaced with long hair reached the small of her back that changed from black to a dark crimson about half way down. She had also gotten rid her strange gothic like clothing now she wore simple black jeans and a t-shirt or blouse with a zip up red hoodie or she would if she wasn't currently wearing some sleep pants and an oversized sleep shirt. Giving a small smile to her reflection she stripped her clothes and took a quick shower. After finishing her shower she stepped into her room and dressed in a red blouse, black jeans, and a pair of black converse with a red stylized rose, before going out into the kitchen to make herself some breakfast. As she was cooking she heard the distant ringing of her scroll emanating from somewhere in her apartment, and immediately Ruby began to run around the whole of her moderate sized home as if she were a headless chicken. After running around the whole of the apartment three times, tripping over her couch twice, and smashing a vase, Ruby found the phone on her nightstand no less and answered the call reading 'Mom'.
"Hi mom what's up?" She asked as she tried to ignore the nightmare that fought to resurface.
"Hey Little Rose, I was just wondering if you would like to go out breakfast with me and Yang?" Summer asked with a chipper tone. Ruby checked her alarm clock to see what it read.
"Well I was actually in the middle of- OH CRAP…." Ruby was about to inform her mother of the breakfast she was making when she turned to look at her dish in creation to instead gaze upon a pot filled with fire. Dropping her phone she rushed over to grab a fire extinguisher and put out the flames with a stream. After she successfully put the fire out she calmly walked back over to where she dropped her scroll and continued the call.
"Mom I would love to have breakfast with you and Yang." Ruby spoke with a collected calm as if she had not nearly set her home on fire.
"Whatever you were cooking caught on fire didn't it?" She asked with a smirk so strong Ruby could feel it over the phone.
"So where are we going to eat?" Ruby asked trying to avoid the question.
"At the new cafe on the corner of Patch street and Haven drive." Summer replied before saying good bye and hanging up. Once the call ended Ruby let out a sigh of relief before cleaning up her mess and grabbing her favorite red hoodie and heading down the stairs into her bakery. Looking around she smiled at small four people tables, large shelves waiting for fresh pastries, and the large ovens that could turn out sweets and breads of all kind for as long as Ruby could stand. After she finished her train of thought she walked out of the building and started to make her way towards the new cafe, a smile still plastered on her face.
Chapter 1 for my newest story enjoy.