Key:
'Thoughts.'
*Actions*
Meant to be noticed
"Talking."
A long time ago, there lived a girl in red and a girl in yellow.
These two girls were sisters and they loved each other very much.
They loved each other so much that they did everything together - or rather almost everything.
They went to school together, they ate together and they played together.
One day the sisters got into a fight. Not with each other, but with a fellow classmate.
In the end, they were nearly expelled but they weren't. One of them even graduated early!
Together still, they joined the Old Beacon Academy. Even here, they remained together.
They went to class together, they were on the same team and they continued to fight together.
One day the two sisters went into battle, for hopefully the last time, against a monster. A monster who sought to destroy the world, and the sisters with it.
They won, if only just… friends and family were lost. In time, the sisters moved on.
They should have lived happily ever after - but there was still work to be done. And they did it together.
One day they encountered a problem… a problem that had two different solutions.
He was running. Where to? He didn't know, all he knew was he was going far away. Away from the blood, and the black, and the silver eyes; The eyes that he saw around every corner, the eyes he saw when he looked in the mirror, the eyes he saw-
*CLANK*
The screeches to a halt, his shoes sliding on the icy pavement, caring him forwards. Forwards just far enough to see into the alley. His eyes narrowed, his heart slammed in his throat, choking him, asphyxiating him, killing him-
He stumbles back, turning around and running across the street.
'Fuck this,' he thinks, 'Fuck this and that brown haired two-bit-bunny-bitch. No-one would miss her, so why do they care!?'
He turns a corner just in time to see a flash of red streak by. His heart stops, and slowly he backs around the corner he had just come around.
"Found you."
He screams. He yells like the bitch he is. He lifts up his great big forearms and flails them wildly at this little girl in red, this little girl with silver eyes. His eyes slammed shut, and all too soon he feels gravity take hold, forcing him to his knees. He is crying now, he knows that, but he can't stop the tears, or the awful wails erupting from his bloodied mouth.
"You will regret what you have done to her. Velvet didn't deserve that."
He looks up then, his eyes blurry with tears, and his nose running with snot and blood. He begs for mercy, to be taken back to prison, to be taken to jail, the badlands, anywhere but here.
But, the girl… she simply grabs him by the collar and drags him into an alleyway.
There was blood everywhere. The red fluids pooling at her knees soaked into her stockings, and her skirts. But she didn't care. She had gotten justice, finally justice. Perhaps, she had let emotions overtake her- perhaps. But the sight of him, walking free? Walking Alive? When they weren't!? She had lost control.
The alley they sat in now, he deserved worse. Sitting up she watched the blood drip off her clothes, and run onto the street. Someone would find her soon. She would be forced to explain herself. But she doesn't care, she knows, in her heart of hearts, that what she did- What she did was Right.
Beside her, tossed to the wolves in the struggle with the man who now lay dead, her scroll rung, and through the spiderwebbed, bloody screen she could just barely make-out the caller. A sob almost escapes her. What would she say? Could she say anything? Leaning, she just barely picks up the scroll, and stares at its cracked surface, only one way to find out. With the swipe of her thumb, the call was answered. No going back now.
"Ruby!? Ruby, where are you? People heard gunshots in the city, and the police have reported streaks of red everywhere, that- That was you, right? Listen- No- Wait right there, I'm coming to you."
"W- Wait, Yang-"
And with that, she hangs up. Her face falls into her hands, as her scroll lands with a clatter. She would be with her any moment, she knows. Why, of all the people, why her Sister? The tears started then, at the worst time. Why does she cry? She's killed before, she doesn't need to cry! She's a big girl!
She! Drinks! Milk!
She bursts into giggles then, the old joke alleviating some of her stress. And she stands. Well if there were any time to face Yang… Well, it'd be now.
The prattle of a certain familiar yellow-black motorcycle rumbles in the back of her head, and she turns around as it passes by, and screeches to a halt.
"Hey, scrubs! Anything happens to her and I'll have you hung by your asses outside the council building!"
"Yes, Ma'am!"
The shout just outside of her vision makes her laugh, and a smile embraces her face, though only for a second. She couldn't quite forget what she had just done.
Soon enough, the familiar golden shock of hair passes around the corner, and she locks eyes with her sister, Yang, he violet shade of her eyes soothing her soul, even if only for a moment.
"Hey, 'sis! You wanna tell me what's goin' on? The blue-boys are tellin' me that people saw ya' draggin' somebody around? Is there something you wanna tell me?" Yang's eyebrows rise up and down in a suggestive way.
She raises her own eyebrow. Why didn't she notice the blood? Was it the lighting? It couldn't be her clothes, sure she wears red all the time, but that's not all she wears, and she knows for a fact that the ground was covered in bloo-
"Uh... Rubes, what're you standin' in?"
And there it is, she sighs, "Yang-" Her voice comes out in a croak, her throat feels raw, and it closed around the words she had meant to say.
"Ruby? Are ya' okay? Wait, let me turn on my scroll; it's too dark in here."
Shuffling sounds ensue, and though she wishes it not to happen, light floods the alley.
"...Oh my god…"
For a moment, the light blinds her, but soon her eyes open, and she locks onto her sisters horrified face.
"Ruby… what have you done…?"
She sucks in a breath, "I did what felt right."
Yang turns furious then, "Felt, right? That- felt right!? Ruby! Look at what you've done!"
Her eyes slide to the floor, and she trails the blood spray pattern with her eyes, "I couldn't let him get away," She sinks to her knees, mayhaps hoping to be forgiven, and her words come out in choked breaths, "I- I couldn't let the police have him. There's not enough evidence. He would've just walked free. Again. Velvet deserved better than that, better than this."
"Ruby, what are you talking about? That- It doesn't matter, you should've just handed them to the police and been done with it!"
"Did you not listen to anything I just said!?" Her breath is shallow now, her heart would not calm, at some point she had stood up again, "I couldn't just let him walk away again! I've made the streets safer by removing him! Cardin- He- He deserved this!"
"No-one deserves that, Ruby! You're the one who taught me that lesson! The police- They could have handled it."
"H- Handled it? They can't handle anything! They're completely incompetent! All that would've happened was this; He would have escaped, and he would've killed more people! Just like last time! Just like to Velvet…"
"No! Ruby, this isn't right! We are not the law! We can't just- Kill people! It would have been fine!"
"No, no, no! Listen to me! They are complete idiots! They couldn't stop Cinder and they couldn't stop Cardin! Hell, they couldn't even catch Sun! And he wasn't even trying to escape!"
"Ruby, are you fucking Insane? You can't just disregard the law, it's like that for a reason!"
"Shut-it, Yang! I did what I should've done in the first place! No thanks to you!"
"Holy shit, you really are insane. And all this time I thought you were the innocent one. Guess that shows what I know, right? Well- Fine! Clearly I'm wrong, and clearly, I have the wrong Ruby!" Yang turns then, storming out of the alleyway.
"No, wait- Yang!" She lunges forwards, tripping on her own two feet and lands on her face, she looks up and raises an arm, but Yang was already gone, "... I'm sorry."
A rift had opened between them and it would never be closed.
The sisters had separated, though only one was distraught over their choices.
In the future, the sister in red would go on to lead an Academy, so as to ensure no more perceived monsters arose… and the sister in yellow would go on to lead a revolution. A revolution against a monster in red.
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Hello! Welcome to the Prologue!
Thank you Very, very much for reading!
I hope you enjoy this chapter, and I hope you enjoy future chapters!
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P.S. Please tell me how good I did, and what I should improve on, It'll help a lot.
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... Well shit, boot up that woodchipper because this chapter, and probably all of the other chapters, are getting rewritten. And unlike Sins of the Syndicate, I still have the fabulous fire of creativity stirring within me for this story! Not that SotS is canceled, but its been a while. So, If your reading this for the first time, sorry, but chapters one and two are, in fact, being rewritten.
