Yang awoke to loud banging and screams. She quickly reached over to flick her light on and rub her eyes. "Huh...what?" Another loud crash, the sound of a window breaking and a door slamming.

"DADA, ANG! HEL-" The cry for help was cut short as Yang hopped up. The 6 year old quickly waddled to her door and opened it. Across the hall she say her younger sister's room, door open and her dad standing there with his phone in his hand, quickly telling information to someone that she couldn't quite make out. She stepped closer and was able to see that the door to Ruby's room was busted and the window shattered.

She frantically looked for her younger sister, knowing that she was just hiding under her bed like she usually did. But. But that scream, it sounded so much like.. Yang looked up through the broken window to see a figure across the street closing a van door. On the inside of the van the only thing she could make out was a tiny figure clad in red, with duct tape over her mouth, and tears streaming down from her silver eyes stare back at her as the door was finally closed.


Ruby flipped through another page of her book before marking her place and setting it down on the cold rock floor. It was almost time for food. She glanced around her "room", if one could call it that, as her stomach growled. The tiny window in the back of the small room was the only form of light she got. By her guess, from the way of the light shining and it almost being food time, it must be around six pm. Ruby looked at the tiny broken down bookshelf that thankfully were full of all sorts of books, that's how she kept busy most days, although her reading material was getting low, having read through everything at least five times.

The small girl was wrapped in nothing but an old torn shirt and her worn out blanket. She turned to the door, and moved to get up. Almost as on cue, the small little hatch in the bottom of the door opened up and in slid her food. A single piece of bread. Ruby's eyes lit up as she quickly picked it up and went back to her bed to eat. It must be a miracle! They almost never fed her and when they did it was only one piece! Ruby quickly started to chow down on her food, her rumbling stomach soon being silenced. Ruby opened her mouth as in a sigh of happiness and laid back down. Before she could even close her eyes however she heard a loud bang and jumped up. She looked up to where the noise came from. Soon she heard shouting and footsteps, lots of steps, leading down to her. Could it be? Could someone have come to save me? Ruby thought to herself. No, it couldn't be. Ruby quickly backed up to the corner and slid down the wall. Nononono, no one is coming to save me, they want to hurt me again. Please not again. Ruby pulled her knees up to her chest and put her head down as she started to softly sob. She didn't want them to hurt her again.

Ruby jumped slightly as she heard shouting that was quite close, though she couldn't make out what they were saying. Suddenly two loud bangs echoed into her room and then silence. Ruby quickly reached up to cover her ears in case the loud noises happened again. Soon she heard a noise a little far off to the left of her, it sounded like a door was being forced open. She knew the monster had brought others here but she never saw them, and only heard their cries from when they were being brought in. She heard soft whimpers like that of soft crying. She knew that sound very well. That same door banging sound fell upon her ears once more, however this was much closer. So close she could just make out the words they were saying.

"We got another one!"

"Get him upstairs to the ambulance, and tell them we have more."

Ruby didn't understand half of the words being said, if only she could have seen what they were saying on paper, then she could understand it! She didn't have much time to think on it. She heard more footsteps, right outside her door. Please don't hurt me... Before she could full process what was going on over the loud bang, she was staring up through the dust and dirt. Before her she saw a tall man with a weird hat on and well weird clothing all around. He had a weird bulky thing on with the letters S.W.A.T. across it. Wait. She had seen those letters previously in her books somewhere. They were the good guys right? Had they come to save her?!

"Little girl, are you alright? Can you hear me?" Ruby quickly looked up at him, scared out of her mind. She could only understand maybe every other word? If that. "It's okay, don't be scared, we're here to save you." Saved. She knew what that word meant. It was a word that she thought would evade her forever, yet here it was, right in front of her. Ruby smiled lightly. Had this been the first time she smiled since it happened? Maybe, but the muscles on her face ached as she did. The Swat man smiled back and leaned down to gently pick her up. Soon she was being carried out of her room. The bright light coming from above her made her squint her eyes as she was carried out. She never even looked back.


Ruby slowly spun in the weird object that she assumed was a chair. She now sat in a brightly lit police office. It had been a few hours since she was rescued but she hadn't gone near anyone but her Swat man. She knew he was good! He had saved her, she owed her life to Swat man, but what about these others? They certainly looked the same but were they also good? Ruby couldn't take that chance so Swat man happily let her sit in his room that had big windows so she could see out into the main room. He even left the door open for her! Before he left the room he also got her a new change of clothes, some baggy pants and a grey shirt that were way to big for her. So here she sat and spun in her baggy new clothes that smelled so good. From what she could understand, they were going to find if she had anybody to come get her. She smiled lightly to herself as she spun. Maybe dada will come get me! And yellow too!

Ruby couldn't remember much from her life save for the room and her books. The two things she could distinctly remember however were, in her mind, dada and the yellow girl. She knew who dada was, or rather who he was supposed to be before she was taken. For this, she could only assume yellow girl was her sister? She read about families and how they loved each other. Would they still love her? Could they still love her? These thoughts filled her head as she picked up speed in her spinning. Suddenly Ruby felt a very weird and bad sensation, like her brain was melting. She quickly put her feet down and stopped the chair. She breathed out as this had started to help ease the sensation away. She shook her head quickly as she stared out the windows, watching the people work. Lets not do that again.

As Ruby stared at the desk in front of her, she couldn't help but let her curiosity overtake her. She quickly picked up a weird metal thing that could easily be pressed down. So what did she do? She pressed it down an a loud click noise sounded out through the office. Scared she broke something she quickly put it back and put her hands in her lap. Soon after, her eyes landed on an odd looking...thing. She quickly picked it up and could see it had a clear strip of something in the middle. She grabbed that part and started to pull on it. She smiled lightly as it easily unwravled, making the piece in the middle spin quicker the longer she pulled it out. Before she could fiddle with the sticky little thing, she heard loud talking and quickly looked up to see two double doors open. A girl clad in a bright orange tank top and baggy shorts came bursting in.

"Is it her?! Is it Ruby?!" Ruby? she's heard that name before but only in her dreams. Who was this person? Why does she seem so familiar? That golden hair...those lilac eyes..could it be? Slowly Ruby sat up and started to slowly talk as this...this yellow girl was talking...yellow... "Please, let me see her, i need to know! Chief Gideon said he thought he found her!" The girl started to cry lightly, into her hands. Just like I do.. Soon another person came in, this girl all in black and a weird thing on top of her head also in black. She started to rub yellow girl's back. Ruby finally got to the door and peaked around it. Almost instantly the girl in black with amber eyes just stared at her. Ruby gulped and started to back up slightly as amber eyes tapped yellow girl and pointed to her. "Blake w-what is i-" Yang turned to look at where Blake was pointing and her eyes went wide as she stared right at Ruby, her lip trembling.

Silver eyes. She has silver eyes. "R-Ruby?"