Belle had watched as Ruby slept, her mind was conflicted even more since the Swamp Troll and the added fact having to think about killing the Big Bad Wolf.

She become a monster hunter to protect people from the same threat Rumple posed.

The terror he brought upon the land was so horrible that was no brave person on earth to even stop him. Except her and that was quite by accident really, she directly face a thing that was once maybe at one time a "man" but the evil she felt had taken what little was left of that "man" .

The Dark One was something that would be burned into her mind for all time and it was something she don't went to face ever again.

Could Ruby had been the same thing?

She hated herself for even thinking that way...

OF COURSE SHE WAS THE SAME THING...

A MONSTER...

And one that Belle had no idea how to handle when it come such things like emotions with these ideas.

Somehow her two smart twin sisters know how to handle it but NOT Belle.

Belle was just good at punching things and reading alot of books but mostly punching things worked out well.

How could she be even second guessing herself now?...

She already had Gaston, the most handsomest man on earth, she would marry him NOT Ruby.

Ruby was everything Belle found very unappealing compared to Gaston.

She had kept making bad decisions and would keep making more of them...

She was a female brute and a bully something Gaston was not...

Belle know deep down Ruby would never change who she was...

A overly brutish hot tempered..."person" whose nature was lash out of everything and everyone within reach...

Ruby as much a "Queen" in the same breath as Belle was a "Princess" meaning NOTHING!.

So what if she found a "cure" for werewolves, she still had taxed the people for it. Her rich "friends" would get the cure and not the common folk, Snow White would still say "GO TO HELL" and she would still end up being a werewolf herself.

Belle couldn't believe it but "Queen" Ruby was never to live up her ideals


RUBY...

"Snow...is that you?" Ruby happily said. she found wearing the white dress she first had on, when met Snow.

Ruby, you look sooooo beautiful, come here

Snow White said to her as she just run to kiss her deeply..."I dreamed of this moment" she said as tears of enjoy were forming in her eyes, she begin to kiss her deeply

What of me then Wolfie?...

Ruby looked to suddenly see Dorothy Gale standing there in a...wedding dress? she don't understand what was going on

Have you already forgotten the love WE shared Wolfie

"NO! i haven't forgotten it's just...i don't want to hurt you"

You're already have hurt me just by being with HER

Dorothy pointed right at Snow White as between making Ruby even more confused as Snow spoke again

You're have to choose between us Ruby, which one of us is your true love

Ruby shake her head to both of them, she don't want to hurt ether of them

"DON'T MAKE ME!...I LOVE BOTH OF YOU...

...can't you understand that, but YOU LEFT ME!...WHAT THE HELL IS SO WRONG WITH YOU, SNOW, GALE WHY!?"

Snow was the one to answer...

WE didn't leave Ruby...

And then Dorothy finished...

YOU LEFT US

Suddenly both of them disappeared as Ruby changed into her monstrous form as the Big Bad Wolf


She wake up suddenly from the floor of the entry hallway. Someone had covered over her with the hood and she had pretty good guess as to who.

Ruby had pulled over the hood around her nude body once again.

Looking into a nearby mirror she still noticed the wolf eyes and the claws at the ends of her hands.

Opening the door to the ball room, she saw Belle at the dinner table...

Belle hadn't left?

"Ohhhhh BY THOR'S HAMMER, i was so worried about you not wakening up, Ru...Big Bad" Belle said as she run from the dinner table to hug Ruby

Ruby don't know why she was smiling at that but she didn't care

"How long was i out?" she growled

"Three days, none of the servants though ever left your side. They seem to really care about you"

"That's funny...

I usually have caused the people i cared about the most to leave me" she answered Belle bitterly

"They prepared a feast in your honor and i'll can..."

"I don't need you to be my maid, Belle, i have ENOUGH of those.

And by all accounts i don't need you to nurse me ether"

Ruby was setting to get angry again but it seemed Belle was ignoring that "By all accounts, Big Bad, I AM your prisoner.

I am trying make best of my time here.

Sooo PLEASE tell me am not wrong in thinking that HIDING A CURE FOR WEREWOLVES from the rest of YOUR people was a good idea!"

"I would have given it freely to my people...in time" Ruby said taking smell bits of her raw fish

"THAT'S SHIT, YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THAT...

You BLOODY horded it for yourself and your friends and THAT was what truly cost you in lose everything" Belle wasn't going to let this go

"You're have no idea what those roses really are or why AM cursed to begin with. But doesn't matter because you're just like ALL rest of them...

You HATE me and am beginning to enjoy people hating me"

"Is that what the Evil Queen wanted from you?, that hatred? is that WHY you were her damned LAPDOG!?"

"She lacked honor"

"SHE LACKED ALOT MORE THEN HONOR!,

I heard some pretty terrible stories from her side of the war and am beginning to wonder if YOU were apart of them!"

"I wasn't trying to be a monster during that time, i was trying to BE A HERO!" Ruby sounded rather proud of her war years and again Belle wasn't paying it

"That's more SHIT, Big Bad...

You see I know for a fact there are or NEVER have been such things as HEROES.

Or else monsters like Regina wouldn't have ever come into power and you wouldn't be a werewolf all the fucking time.

People like me see heroes as another word for distractions,

they just people who wouldn't dare face up to the fact that they CAN'T CHANGE THE WHOLE FUCKED UP WORLD!."

"I wasn't trying to change the world"

"No, Big Bad you're just some apart of a world that personally HATE! and am sorry to that to your face" Belle said trembling as she walked out from Ruby.

They wouldn't married or anything for those past weeks and yet Ruby and Belle were having a fight.

Worse yet just after she had saved her life with the help of the glass rose.

This just confused Ruby more as what the hell this woman wanted from her or why it was confusing her in the first place.

Her time with the Evil Queen was a time in which don't really care as what side she was on in the war. Regina was indeed a woman to be feared and she did treat Ruby as nothing more then a personal lapdog then a fearsome werewolf. Ruby felt like she was never a true "villain" and tried her best not to let too much of her animal side override her own judgement. Regina lacked the honor of the "pack" and she would never fool her again into making those same mistakes.

"The Pack" as if she wanted to become apart of that "world" again

The only time she truly felt alive within the pack was when she overthrow Cruella...


Belle walked into one of more open gardens of the Red Castle when she saw a shape move near one of the statues.

It wasn't a servant's shadow though as soon as she get near it disappeared...

Turning around she saw a very familiar figure standing right next to her...

"PERDITIA!?" Belle said rather surprised as the bar maiden grabbed her by the coat and lifted her in the air

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY SISTER? YOU UNGRATEFUL BITCH!" she screamed at Belle

"LET HER GO, PERDITIA!, besides she did save my life" Ruby growled out to the both of them. She was casually drink a bottle of wine as Perditia dropped Belle down

Running happily toward her sister who was just standing in the doorway with her nude figure around the striking red hood. Hugging her as Belle watched along a wide eyed newer stranger, a handsome 19 year with short blonde hair and much thinner then Perditia. He was wearing winter ragged overcoat right in the middle of a summer day, he too was very familair to Belle as the tavern boy severing the food at the bar.

"PONGO...will you please STOP LOOKING AT MY DEAR SISTER like a piece of meat, she's unclothed!"

"AHAHA, Don't mind her Pongo, she hasn't had her afternoon walk, haven't you sis?" Ruby seductively joked as Perditia pulled her right inside the room

"Oh you...WATCH HER and don't let her do anything stupid!" Perditia angry said as she pointed directly at Belle as Pongo looked even more dumbfound...

Well he did always had a soft spot for Belle at least


Ruby just kept on drinking her wine as Perditia begin to speak again

"Why in the world are still in this castle?, it's dangerous here"

"Perditia, am the Big Bad Wolf, how more dangerous can i get" She proudly proclaimed as walked down one of the many hallways of the Red Castle'

"Do you not realize that there's a bounty on your head?"she questioned to her as she pulled out one of the posters and handed right to Ruby

"Ohhh come on now, am twice more then a few thousand pounds!"

Ruby actually sounded very disappointed by the price on her head to Perditia's sudden annoyance

"THEY WENT TO KILL YOU RED, aren't a least a bit upset that you're very life is in danger!?"

"Please, am been through just having my whole entire body be infected by a Swamp Troll. So yes excuse me if am NOT more scared by the fact that people happen to what me dead!"

"What the hell happen to the sister i grow up?. The one who eventually become the Queen of all the lands of the Red Forest?"

Ruby smashed her bottle into one of the doorways as she come right up to Perditia, both staring with there equal yellow eyes at each other

"THAT WOMAN IS DEAD!, GRAN SAW TO THAT"

Perditia pointed her own long fingers at Ruby, trying in vain to match the same angry look her sister give

"Don't put Grandmother's curse on me again, Red.

Mother and i tried in vain to get her reverse the curse. But she thought she was doing the world a favor by cursing what she thought was a foul cruel woman and NOT her own grand daughter"

"You're STILL siding with her!, tell me how you can still look in this face and NOT see a beast?" Ruby was trying her best to control her emotions around her younger sister and yet the Grandmother's curse was something she can't just get over as easily as the poison did.

"Remember Red, we're both werewolves, we are part of something truly great in this world...The Pack!"

"I'll say to HELL WITH THE PACK!"

"Don't say that, Red please mother feels like you can stop living in this dusty old castle of ours and start out new like OZ"


Ruby growled annoyingly at Perditia as both went down into the huge wine cellar of the castle now.

She begin to randomly grabbing in vain something that felt like the strongest drink she could have. She finally found one and the rather amusing title to it

Angela's Blood Chamber

Not caring for anything else including the guest, she grabbed the crock with her teeth and ripped it out. With a successful pop of the crock she was back happily drinking again.

Closing her eyes she begin to talk to her sister again "Is Dorothy happy?"

Perditia know that was sure a tough question to ask "Yes, she called off her wedding to Alice. Both parted on friendly terms and Gale decided to spent her time with someone am sure you remember, Princess Ozma. There happy together from last i heard Red"

Ruby remained silent to that answer as her sister went on "Dorothy wasn't part of your world but she did understand she couldn't keep up with it or you..."

"My screw ups are what she can't keep up with. What makes you think i needed anyone like that to make me feel alive as ANYTHING other then the Big Bad Wolf, i have what i desired and you still throw me out!"

"Gran isn't to blame for your screw ups and nether is the pack, we're all Children of the Moon"

Ruby was laughing madly now at her sister as if that was the best thing she ever heard

"The moon isn't what kept me thinking i needed the love of...

"someone" anyone to break me out of the fact that am the same hateful creature i always been.

It don't try to make me out to the fact that you and the rest of the pack saw me as a "Amusement" rather then a leader, or that am not sorry for overthrowing Cruella for nothing in return!"

"A lot of members are still seeing you as the leader Red, it was the blind hatred of Cruella that caused them to turn away from you.

I never give up hope in bringing you back to OZ to see how much good you made with them." Perditia needed her sister to understand

"You only want the cure of the glass roses for yourself!" Ruby was never going to give up on those roses but her sister was shaking her head

"Those roses are NOT A CURE at all. They don't stop the process of the moon, they acculturated it.

You need to stop thinking that are your legacy and NOT embracing the wolf as I have done."

"You HATED the wolf as much as me"

Perditia can't deny that as she sit on one of the lower steps "I used too but then i found out that with control i could anything, i could become the wolf to help people see past the monster and the thing is the Big Bad Wolf could do the same. I know the stories about you from the war..."

"Am not a hero and i never was, go back to OZ with Pongo and forget you ever found me"

"You're my sister and i have to protect you from Belle!"

"What about Belle?"


Perditia closely hugged Ruby whose expression was still confusion

"She's one of those terrible monster hunters, Red she wants to kill you for the reward, by the law of the pack am going to..."

"You will do nothing to her, Perditia" Ruby intoned to her shocked sister as they both want back up stairs.

"Am trying to save your life Red and she's going to take it and i will not allow it" Perditia wanted to get her sister as far away from Belle as possible

"You do realize i am a terrible judge of character, so please forgive me if am not the least bit surprised!"

"Belle is the Beast here not YOU, you're still so deep into that self hatred that FORGET there are still people who love you.

My pack is ready to protect you by any means. You need to stop hating one part of yourself or the other, you need to let someone in...somehow Red"

Ruby wasn't looking at her sister at all and nether was looking at each other, having stop in ruined bedroom

"Is this the same princess who after her first "Wolfstime", decided to lock herself in the deep dungeon along with mother?"

"I was scared then, and mother who don't went to HURT ANYONE.

You and Gran were the smart ones, you were running the kingdom smoothly while we don't care for it.

You can't believe that type of nightmares i had when i was first the wolf. But you were...something else and am sorry we get scared again but this time it was you.

The Big Bad Wolf was something the pack's hadn't ever seen before and they hated the idea of my sister being something that powerful. Cruella take that fear and made every werewolf think it was someone who couldn't be controlled ever. That fucked up cure you and Merlin found was also used for fear, and combined with that was what get Cruella into power, we couldn't stop the thinking of my sister being the monster to everyone around her including the wolf themselves."

Perditia was in tears but she know her sister wasn't listing to her "One night is all i ask..."

"GO PERDITIA...please just go and leave me in peace" Ruby don't want anyone here including her own sister, fellow werewolf or not

Perditia wanted to touch her sister but she was backing away from her, completely angry she needed her to listen to reason on last time

"SHE WILL KILL YOU RED!"

Ruby answered more calmly then her sister "Isn't that what i deserved"


"How's my family Pongo?" Belle questioned

"Paige, i think is still trying to get herself a date with Perditia, you know she always a bloody crush on her. Although i guess is a surprise for you that two local tavern keepers are werewolves then?" Pongo innocently asked

Which made Belle smiled widely at the young man "Not really, besides i once thought the man i once dated was really a demon in disguise..."

"A demon seriously?"

"No he turned out just be part of Robin Hood's Merry Men, still handsome though now that thinking about it..."

Perditia walked quickly past Belle and seemingly ignoring her "We are leaving now, Pongo"

"So back to OZ then?"

"Not OZ, the tavern maybe severing up a whole butch of drunks will get my mind off of this place..."

"But the fact that Cruella escaped from Atlantis, we need the help of the Big Bad Wolf!"

Pongo noticed Perditia wasn't listing to that "We DON'T need the Big Bad Wolf, she has decided to rot here the rest of her life and that the pack and all it stands for can GO TO HELL. Please Pongo, how am going to face my mother and Gran now knowing, that the once great Queen of the Red Forest is a fucking wreck, and that no one can get through to her."

Pongo know she was bitter but kept silent as they both walked toward the ice wall and into the other side of it, to see the forest covered in thick ice

"What in the world was that?" Pongo questioned quite surprised as Perditia just smirked it off

"One of the tricks of my Grandmother, as long as Ruby has her curse, her emotions are tied to all of the ice wall and if it ever breaks then everything flood out where. All her hatred and fear, you don't feel the pain of the sister ether Pongo"

"So it's meant to represent her emotionally?"

"And imagine all that come over the town like an angry storm, my grandmother was trying to teach something to my sister..."

"Do you have any idea what that was then?"

"If i did then it clearly wasn't for me to solve or else i would have taken back to OZ by now. I was born naturally to be a werewolf along with my sister but she don't know it at first as i felt i did and her discovery of it was far more scarier. Mother and Gran had also been born naturally and secretly into the pack. Gran is some sort of magical elemental werewolf which explains her magic.

Red though she kept being raised to be the main ruler of this land. I can't begin to think that she take to be spoiled by all of it and then all of us it were hiding wrongly from her that the very idea that she was indeed a werewolf..."

"You're mother and yourself locked yourselves up to keep away from her?"

"Red's wolf form wasn't like ours, Pongo, it's cursed and is not natural even to others of our kind. It was wrong of Grandmother to curse her as she did but the acts both as a werewolf and as a queen must have gotten to her, and i just stupidly did nothing to help..."

"Her magic red hood then..."

"I don't know where the hell that thing come off or why she wears it, i only know it's make her feel "human"..."

"But she is human!"

"Yes but the curse i guess made her ashamed to keep walking as a big black wolf and that it makes feel like doesn't want people horrified of her..."

"Why aren't just going back to the Red Castle then with all these details?"

Perditia stopped in her tracks ahead of Pongo as they get close to the town and speak again more bitterly "My sister thinks she needs to made a example of everything that wrong with the pack. She already knows how her curse works and she feels like she should be punished for it, for what Gran saw a great insult...

She lacks love, as the Queen i remember her having two or three girls with her but she don't love any of them. Then Snow White entered the picture and thinking my sister was the perfect picture...well in the last few days that went to shit and there entire relationship was nothing more then a lie..."

"How could anyone turn down the beautiful Snow White?"

"My sister could and did...then Dorothy Gale take over and again she turned on the charm, once again it back fired equally if not more horribly. You see Pongo, her problem was that she was using these women as toys, her so called "charm" become the thing she hated the most. And my Grandmother saw nothing good coming out as well as the terror that is the Big Bad Wolf. She can't love those women and i think no one can even come close to the same standard she had as Queen.

There isn't a girl alive here who could stand to live with a bitch who would just ripped there own pretty dreams apart..."


"Belle, i am sorry if my sister upset you" Ruby speak softly as she handled Belle a second bottle of green wine

"Its okay am not upset, you seemed have been going through alot of pain though just having your sister here.

She does seem to care about you, why did you turn her away?"

"Perditia thinks am in need of the pack and that she is my only protector, that i need to stop from thinking my loneliness is a mistake..."

"Am i still a prisoner who like to think she is right..."

"Making you my prisoner was a great mistake on my part, starting with your family. You can leave any time you want to and i can get back to not having anyone close to me because i all do is hurt them even other werewolves..."

"No one is meant to be that lonely, not even you Big Bad" Belle said softly as she put her hand over the clocked shoulder of Ruby

Suddenly Ruby get away from her and then spoke with a clear direct tone toward Belle

"Starting this night, am wanting to only met you at dinner at around 6:00 am and that i will be waiting for you till then..."

"Am no longer your prisoner so why should i obey that?" Belle reasonable asked her hostess

"You're be treated as a guest then as i ask you an important question!" Ruby speak and then quickly left the room not getting hearing Belle yelling in frustration

"Wait what's the question?"


Next Chapter: The Red Nights