Kiteria: Hey guys, I started another story. This one is not connected to my previous two One Piece stories Death's Little Songbird and The Captain's Musician. This is a completely separate story all together with a different idea I wanted to try going with. I've tossed this story back and forth between myself and my cousin but I've finally decided to keep this story as my own and just continue to work on it and hope that this isn't left abandoned. Though I am actively seeking a beta for this, so if you're interested feel free to message me.
A loud, repetitive beeping sound filled the room where a woman lay handcuffed to a metal examination table turned into a makeshift bed. The table had been disinfected, but the knowledge of the numerous dissections and experiments that had been performed on it couldn't be wiped away no matter how much it was scrubbed clean.
The woman's dark red eyes clouded over and her vision became hazy as the drugs made their way through her system via the IV drip stuck in the back of her hand. Despite her vision being clouded and her senses being dulled that didn't stop the woman from trying to get a feel for her surroundings. She knew what was coming, she had ever since she'd first been taken from her home by the crazed scientist, he had told her. He wanted to bring forth the greatest weapon to be created by science and she knew he would go to any lengths to do so. Her bulging stomach was proof of his madness.
It had been a couple hours since one of the yellow bio hazard wearing underlings had come into the room with a tray of food for her. It still struck her as ironic how the man who kidnapped her from her home in the East Blue and brought her here to experiment on her- torturing her to the point where she was almost begging for the cold, unrelenting hand of death to take hold of her and drag her into the peaceful darkness of eternal sleep-was feeding her and making sure she was kept alive and well. Though she guessed since he'd spent all those months experimenting on her until he managed to gain the result he was looking for, he was going to make sure she carried his experiment to term. Any time she tried to get rid of the thing that mad man had put inside her, those men in the bio hazard suits would come marching in, wrestle then shackle her to the bed, and take away anything inside the room the red-eyed woman could try to use to harm herself.
She had tried to escape when the choice of her ending her life was taken from her. At first it had been for herself, but later it had been for her baby's sake. The man who was doing all of this to her had far from honorable intentions and even if it was against her will, Ruby wasn't going to let her baby go through what she had while under the care of that mad man.
The consistency of the heart monitor Ruby was hooked up to changed pitch as her heart rate increased with a pain in her stomach. Instinctively her hands flew up to her stomach, only to have the cold metal of the handcuffs bite into her skin and stop them halfway there. Caesar's methods of preventing her from doing harm to herself or the child were effective, but over the top. Sitting up, Ruby couldn't help but cry out as her stomach stretched with the movement of her child shifting positions. It was time.
Sweat started to bead up on her forehead as Ruby gripped the sides of the metal table she was on. The edges cut into her fingers but she didn't even notice as another cry escaped her and the heart monitor continued to sound with the increased rate of her heart. Ruby's golden, honey-blonde hair started to stick to her forehead and she could feel as sweat started to trail down her body. Her dark red eyes were shut tight as she tried to breathe through the pain as another contraction came and went. She was in labor and the man who created the thing inside her was in his lab somewhere else on the God-forsaken island he had brought her to. She didn't know if someone had bothered to go get him, but the blonde woman knew she wouldn't be able to wait any longer. Her body was already screaming in protest of how long she'd already forced herself to wait.
"Subject 779, please hold on. Master Caesar will be here soon."
The voice of one of the many subordinates in the horrid striped yellow suit said from the intercom built into the ceiling of the room she was in. Ruby released her hold of the sides of the table to hold up one of her hands and hold up a single finger towards the glass window she couldn't see at the moment but knew was there with people standing behind it.
"I can't wait any longer!"
Ruby snapped, eyes the color of the gem she'd gotten her name from blazing with anger, pain, and a fire that refused to die no matter what.
"Somebody get down here and deliver my baby!"
Ruby screamed as another contraction gripped hold of her body, forcing her to grip the table once more until her knuckles turned white and blood started dripping onto the floor. When no one moved to do as she said she got ready to throw something at all of them, but felt the baby in her start to move itself out and she couldn't do anything but scream.
"NOW DAMMIT!"
She screamed and that seemed to be all that was needed to have the subordinates in the room above rushing into the room to get things ready. Ruby saw them trying to get some hot water and another bed ready, but knew there wouldn't be enough time for all that and apparently her screaming again was enough to let the others in the room know as well.
Screaming filled what had been a silent room, and the once slow and steady beeping of the heart monitor was now erratic as Ruby grasped at the sides of the table and tried to push her baby into the world. The subordinate that was trying to help her had told her the baby seemed stuck, but none of it made it through to her. Ruby couldn't focus on anything but the ordeal her body was going through. Her mind flashed back to the experiments Caesar had done on her, injecting her again and again with syringes filled with mysterious substances and sitting back to see what it did to her. Her breath came in short gasps as she let her body do what it knew to do, but as the subordinate had said, the baby wasn't moving.
"Get it out!"
Ruby shouted, her voice cracking from the pain of her body trying to push out the life inside of her and the inability of being able to do so felt like it was going to break her.
The subordinate from before moved to try and see what was causing a hold up on Master Caesar's experiment coming to fruition. Their eyes widened when they saw the baby was trying to come out feet first instead of head first and the umbilical cord was wrapped around their leg. It wasn't until they saw the unusual color of the baby's skin that they realized it was wrapped around their chest as well. It was causing a strain on Ruby and the baby.
"The cord is wrapped around it, preventing it from going any further."
If they couldn't get it out and unwrap the umbilical cord from around its legs and chest then it could choke to death before ever having the chance to be born. Something none of them wanted to happen since their master would be furious at losing the experiment he had spent so many months trying to create.
"Try cutting it."
One of the other subordinates in the yellow suit suggested and before Ruby could protest, the subordinate between her legs used a scalpel to try to cut the umbilical cord that had wrapped itself around her child's body. No one expected what came next.
Black smoke so dark it seemed to be solid started to seep out of the cut and slowly fill the room. Within a matter of seconds, the entire floor was covered with it like it was a dense fog. The air had gotten thick and breathing had become severely difficult for all those in the room, but that didn't stop Ruby from screaming or the subordinate from attempting to free her child.
"It's free!"
The subordinate cried in relief after having successfully cut the baby free and pulled it out. They started to hand it off to another subordinate to be cleaned, but Ruby demanded to see her child. The subordinate complied and handed over the still bloody child to Ruby, watching as she cuddled it close before succumbing to a coughing fit caused by the smoke that had filtered into the room from the baby's umbilical cord that had now risen higher and had begun to choke those in the room, including Ruby.
Despite the constricting pain in her chest and the tears that had started to form in her eyes making her vision blurry, Ruby still held her newborn child close to her heart. She had given birth to a little girl and as she opened her eyes to look up at Ruby the young blonde couldn't help but smile down at her little girl.
"Naria…..you were my light in the darkness I've been confined to."
Ruby whispered to her daughter before her head fell back against the pillows of the hospital bed she was on and the breath left her for the last time, the fire in her eyes finally dying.
Silence filled the room broken only by the sound of the heart monitor attached to Ruby sounding from the flat line that was now displayed on its screen. The other subordinates in the room had already having succumbed to the smoke in the room and fallen to the floor in coughing fits, blood covering the floor as the smoke infiltrated their lungs and caused harm to their bodies. Naria started crying when she felt the body holding her start to grow cold and her wails echoed off the metal walls of the room until the door opened and a man walked into the room. His black hair fell past his shoulders and his gold eyes had a dark gleam to them that matched the smirk on his face just perfectly.
"Don't cry."
The man cooed making Naria stop crying as she looked up at the him, her own iridescent violet eyes staring up into the golden eyes that were staring down at her.
"That's right, it's okay. Daddy's here."
The man said as he picked up the bloody child from her dead mother's arms, then turning on his heel and walking out of the room. He ignored the cries of agony and his subordinates begging for him to save them as he walked down the hall, cradling his child in his arms.
"That's right Naria, daddy's here."
He said again as he saw Naria's eyes close as she fell asleep in his arms. The man's smirk grew even wider as he continued walking, it would seem his plan to have his name known worldwide wasn't such a far away dream after all. In just a few years, he would be known as the greatest scientist in the world and his daughter would be his greatest experiment.