Chapter 4: The Guardian of Desire: Part 2

"... Hope Diamond..." Ruby said, still being stoic and emotionless as she look at the Hope Diamond. The short doctor then look and asked her. "Y-you know what this thing is?!"

Ruby then grap him by the neck and lifted him into the air as she question him without her expression changing at all. "Who the hell are you? And where did you get this?"

He quickly answered her as he tried to grasp for some air. "I...it's not mine...! It's from the castle! I stole it from the Count...! I... I swear!"

Ruby silently looked at him as she is still stoic and emotionless before she drop him to the floor with her expression still the same. "Tell me... everything you know."

The short doctor was silent as he looked at her before he spoke. "My name is Clovis. The Count wasn't always like that. He was a cold-hearted man... but at least he was human."

He spoke in the room where his scientific, medical, and historic stuffs is as he gesture to the Hope Diamond. "But 7 years ago, he obtain this... He changed!"

Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, continue to listen to Clovis as he told the story of how the Count changed when he obtain the Hope Diamond and remember of what he has done. "He begun to cut off lives as he pleased. Treating people as if they are not human or faunus, but as dolls. He mutilated, raped, and devoured. He hunt for bandits is just an excuse for him to obtain more bodies."

Ruby was silent, but continue to listen to him as he remember when he try to fled the castle with his family. "I could not endure that. So, with my wife and two sons, i secretly fled from the castle... but we were caught on the way. He then mutilated me... and, right in front of my eyes, my wife and two sons... I still remember every part of the scene very clearly."

Clovis remember his wife and one of his sons mutilated and killed before their body part are then devoured by the Count, whose head suddenly transformed into a more coneish beak-like before his mouth split into two jaws and two mandibles, filled with sharp rear-hooked teeths, like moray eels, as he swallow one of his sons alive as his hands suddenly transformed into 3 hooked claws.

Ruby and the Beast of Darkness, devilishly grinning, look at Clovis as he continue to tell her this and clutch his hands together into fists and put them on the table with evidence in his voice that he was shaken badly by it. "At that time. Instead of anger or sorrow... Instead of concern for my wife and sons..."

Clovis shred two tears that fall on the table where the Hope Diamond was at. "I... i... i was so scared. Like a captive of fear."

Ruby stared at him and listening, still being stoic and emotionless, as he speak before she look at the Hope Diamond. "I used a drug that i had to fake my death then... when i had a chance. I slipped out from the castle, taking this thing with me... it was a miracle."

Clovis then manage to calm himself down before he continue to speak to Ruby about the Hope Diamond, the thing he has with him the passed 7 years. "7 years have passed since then. During that time... i have tirelessly researched religions, gods, and cults of anicents and moderns cultures and civilizations. I've have found that it goes by so many names that nobody knows what even was it own original name it is, but all of them shared the same descriptions... a crimison-color orb with a black-color hexagram in the middle and is about a size of a golf ball. But still... i was unable to uncover the facts about this thing... what is it?"

Ruby then answer his question, while still being stoic and emotionless. "... A key."

Clovis was shocked and the Beast of Darkness was tooken surprised by this answer to Clovis's question before Ruby continue to explain what the Hope Diamond is as she remain stoic and emotionless. "A key that open a door to another dimesion that overlaps this world of ours... a monster and his group he created that have been influencing both mankind's darkest hours... a key to summon the Six Finger Gods."

When Ruby spoke of the name of the group, an powerful ominous aura was soon felt in the room. It was so powerful it was felt outside of door to Clovis' house and someone that was to search where Ruby was hiding felt it.

Meanwhile... at the Count's castle...

There was a scream of both pain and rage coming from the castle and in the medical bay room, where Captain Gregor was screaming and rambling in his bed. He was so enrage that he knock down a bucket of water that was to help lesser the pain. "Captain Gregor!"

The main doctor, a man in his late 50s, attempt to calm him down. "Captain Gregor! Please, you need some rest!"

Captain Gregor then grab his face. "KILL! I'M GOING TO KILL HER!"

Then he killed the main doctor as he get up from his bed. Then someone asked. "What's the matter?"

The medicial staff turn their heads to see The Count has enter the room with mayor Dahl and Samson, he wore white armor like an paladin or a guardian. "My Lord!"

"My excellency!"

Then one of them spoke to the Count, explaining what is going on. "It's Captain Gregor, my lord. He both is in pain and is angry at the person who inflicted the injuries on him from the pieces of his battle axes dut to the necklace disabling his aura."

Captain Gregor then rip off his bandages off of his head, showing signs of barely healing, as scream for revenge for the one who inflicted the injuries on him and wanted to kill her. "Black Huntress... BLACK HUNTRESS! I WILL KILL YOU!"

The Count then smiled at this. "I see."

"Your excellency. It is dangerous. Return to your chamber..." Mayor Dahl suggested. But the Count, on the other hand, has other ideas. The Count then order Mayor Dahl and Sandor. "Dahl and Samson, get everyone out of this room."

Mayar Dahl was confused by this, but Samson didn't make a fuss. "Huh? But..."

The Count turn and glared at Mayor Dahl, with his eyes opened now looking like those of grimms. "I said everyone out."

Mayor Dahl flinch at the Count with Samson a bit shaking by what he seen before Mayor Dahl out of the medicial room. "E... EVERYONE LEAVE THIS ROOM IMMEDIATELY!"

Everyone left the medicial bay room except for the Count and Captain Gregor, then the medicial staff closed the door beheld to keep Captain Gregor from getting out of the room. Samson goes somewhere... thinking about of what he saw in the Count's eyes.

In the medicial bay room... Captain Gregor keep ramming his head against the wall before the Count suddenly grap him in his right arm and hold him there with increible strength, which shock him before the Count ask him, with his eye glowing like the creatures of Grimm with his voice more demonic. "Do you hate her, the Black Huntress?"

Captain Gregor reply to the Count's question. "I hate her...! I would do anything if i could kill her...!"

The Count then smiled and chuckle a bit before he turn Captain Gregor to face him forward and both of his on both side of his head. "Very well then..."

The Count put his face very near to Captain Gregor's face. "I'll grant you your wish..."

The Count's smiled turn into a wicked grin before opening as something start coming out, a creature... a grimm that is coming from the Count's mouth, which terrifield Captain Gregor.

The Grimm in question look like a giant isopod at the front of its body with the rest of its body looking like an Arthropleura, except it was longer. "You'll obtain a bodypart from me... ACCEPT IT!"

The parasite grimm soon enter Captain Gregor's without any struggle.

Meanwhile... outside of the medicial bay room...

A guard got a information of Ruby from someone and immediately went to Mayor Dahl, who was waiting for the Count to come out of the medicial bay room. "MAYOR DAHL!"

"What is it?"

The guard tell him the information giving to him. "It's an informer! They know the Black Huntress's whereabout!"

"What! Good!"

Mayor Dahl turn to face one of the guard to order him. "Take 30 of the best-trained mens you got with you."

The door to the medicial bay room opened and the Count walked out. "Wait!"

Mayor Dahl turn to face the Count. "Your excellency!"

"If you moved a large number of troops against her, she'll notice!" The Count said, knowing it will disasterous of trying to stop her with 30 mens and womens, even if they the best-trained of them all. "And many more mens and womens, both humans and faunus, will be injured... Remember what happened earilier? How many mens and womens did you loose? It is a difficult task. And... because of this..."

Captain Gregor came out of the room, but this time, he changed. His expression... now look like a demon or a grimm, gaining sharp teeths and eyes that look like he's insane, which terrified everyone. The Count then ordered him. "Captain Gregor! ... Go pursue your wish to your heart's content."

Captain Gregor grin at this before letting an insane laughter.

Meanwhile... At Clovis' room or house...

Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, was thinking, with her foots on the table and crossing her arms as she and the Beast of Darkness was looking at the Hope Diamond. "Well made, isn't it. This thing..."

The Beast of Darkness made some random expression with his/her face before he/she patted on the Hope Diamond. "This thing can't move. But, if you look closely, it does have quite a fascinating style on it."

The Hope Diamond then suddenly glowed, which the Beast of Darkness was tooking a kinda bit by surprised before he/she reasume his/her usual devilish grin. Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, said to herself. "That thing... it's not a statue, or anything like that. It's alive. But nevermind about that, it's not so dangerous."

The Beast of Darkness then taunt her of how she gonna summon the Six Finger God with it. "In that case, how does it summon the Six Finger Gods?"

Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, was getting annoyed by the Beast of Darkness. "Idiot, if i knew that. I wouldn't be here thinking about it."

The Beast of Darkness then look at the Hope Diamond as it once again glowed. Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, decide to ask Clovis of something as he put up and get some scrolls in the drawers. "I forgot to ask you something."

Clovis then look at her. "How the Count was able to obtain this thing?"

Clovis was silent for a moment before he give a answer to Ruby's question. "By chance... He just happened to buy it from a caravan of APCs that were used by a group of travelers that unexceptedly paid a visit to the castle. The caravan peoples knows nothing about it... except that they has obtained it from a town marketplace somewhere in the east of the kingdom of Vacuo."

Ruby then pinch her chin, still stoic and emotionless. "By chance... huh?"

Clovis then put a map of the castle that the Count live in. "Have a look at this. It's a map of the castle."

Then he point toward the location where Ruby would able to find the secret passage of the castle. "Very few peoples, other than the Count, know the castle well. Here is the location of a secret passage that i used to escaped. You should able to get in and out without too much trouble."

Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, look at him as he walk toward her. "I want to go along with you. But with this body of mine. I will only hinderance. I beg... you... i have been waiting for this day for 7 long years. For the day... when a hunter like you would appear, and it finally here. I beg you...!"

When Clovis touch her shoulder, Ruby responded to this by kicking him into a table with a few jar knock and cracked on the floor, warning and telling him while still being stoic and emotionless. "Don't touch me. It's his face. Have you ever seen it for yourself? Don't forget... you are also a monster now."

The Beast of Darkness then taunt her. "Why do you have to be cruel all the time?"

Ruby, remained stoic and emotionless, just tried to flick him/her away, but it throught his/her misty form as he/she crackle. "Oooohhhhh~... tried to flick me?"

Clovis then get up from the floor and apologizing to Ruby, who remain stoic and emotionless. "It's alright. Don't worry about me... if you kill that man for me... i'll be just fine."

Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, then thought to herself. 'Spineless Bastard.'

Then she spoke to Clovis. "I'm not doing anything for you... it is because i intend to kill that bastard anyway."

Ruby then sense something and look at the door of the house, making Clovis confused. "What is it?"

Then... Captain Gregor broke through and destoryed the door along with it's frame with his new battle axe. Clovis and Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, look at him as he walked through the destroyed door frame. "Your the guy from this afternoon... So you again? You are pretty tough, huh?"

Captain Gregor did not respond to Ruby's question before he swing his battle axe at Ruby, but she transformed Full-Moon Gin into Sword Mode and block it, but the force was enough to knock Ruby into a table and destorying it.

Captain Gregor growled when Ruby sense it as she get up from the destroyed table and the floor. She ask him while she remain stoic and emotionless. "You are no longer human, huh?"

Captain Gregor then battle cry at her. "YOU! I'LL CUT YOU INTO PIECES...!"
Then he swing his battle axe at her, but Ruby easily cut his right arm, which was holding the battle axe in his hand, off of him with Full-Moon Gin. Which surprise Clovis and Captain Gregor.

When Captain Gregor's right arm along with his battle axe hit the floor, he was silent... before he let out a chuckle and grows several fleshy, demonic, mutanted tentacles. Ruby put Full-Moon Gin facing at him. His tentacles then extend toward his battle axe and grap his weapon as he grin like a insane murder and chat one word. "Kill... KILL!"

Clovis was terrified as he back into a table. Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, put Full-Moon Gin at back of her, waiting for him to strike so she can block it. Captain Gregor just laugh at this. "I'll grind you to pieces...!"

Ruby waiting for him to attack as she remain stoic and emotionless. Gregor then use his tentacles to go around before he tried to strike her below, but she block it with Full-Moon Gin and it knock into a piller. Then he strike her again and she ducked as the tentacles destroyed the pillar, a shelf, and a table at high speed. Captain Gregor attempt several times to strike Ruby at high speed which destroyed few tables, shelves, and the wooden beam frame that support the roof of the house.

Clovis barely dodged one of the falling beams. "What kind of demon is that?! He swings the battle axe if it's a whip... so fast that the human eyes can't follow the movement! We'll be just a piece of meat for sure! but look..."

Clovis look closer at the battle that is going on. "However fast that things seem to be... that woman can block all of the moves! And she actually winning!"

Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, continue to block all of the attacks coming from Captain Gregor's tentacle that was holding the battle axe, then she see her chance to attack him. She dashed at him and turn into a black tornados of petals that cut the left arm of Captain Gregor, causing him to yelled in pain before Ruby spin so fast that Captain Gregor didn't notice before it was too late as the top left of his head was cut by Ruby with Full-Moon Gin in Sword Mode.

But despite that, he attempt to strike her with his battle axe which she block with Full-Moon Gin before he went limp and fell to the floor. Clovis was awe stuck in amazement. 'A... amazing! She's so skillful! I thought she was great... already. Now... she can swing that big weapon of her as if it's was so light. I'm sure her power is not only this... She a first-grade huntress!'

Ruby stared at the body of Captain Gregor as she was still stoic and emotionless. His body suddenly get up and there was drool on the tip of his snakish tongue, which shock Clovis. "What?! Even half of his brain was chopped off! And yet he's still alive?!"

Ruby silently stared at him as something erupted from the chopped side of Captain Gregor's head. It was reveal to be the parasite, one of the Count's bodypart, as he spoke to her as one of her nicknames. "The Black Death. The Black Hunter... you are great for a mere human."

Ruby just silently, still stoic and emotionless, glared at him as Clovis was shocked when he recongize that voice. "That...! The Count...?!"

The Count's parasite then look at him before he politely greeted him. "Clovis... long time no see."

The Count's parasite then noticed the Hope Diamond under one of the broken table, which Clovis quickly grapped before the parasite question him. "Is it really you?"

The Count's parasite then chuckle at this. "After i kill that woman... i'll have fun with you... continuing from 7 years ago."

The parasite then look at Ruby, who was still stoic and emotionless as she look at him, preparing to kill her. "Excellent... i guess no one else has the ability to defeat you. The power and the sword skills is beyond limited. But you're still a human. Because human you are... THAT IS YOUR LIMITATIONS!"

Then he swing the battle axe at Ruby, which she block it, but he accidentally destroyed most of the wooden frame of the house, which is causing to collespe on itself. Then Clovis heard a shout and saw a 6-year old girl, named Marion, who removed one of the tiles above her that lead to a sercet passage way, to help him. "UNCLE! QUICK!"

Most of the wooden beams fell on the parasite and Gregor's body he was controlling. Ruby then heard shouting and look at Clovis, who is entering the secret passage way with his niece. "THIS WAY! THIS WAY! QUICK!"

Ruby wasted no time enter and closed the secret passage with the tiles as the glasses that contains the chemicals fell on the floor and start a fire. The people of the city see the fire as firetruck immediately went to the scene.

Meanwhile... near a waterway...

Ruby walked with Clovis and his niece as they near the iron-made bars before she asked her, while still being stoic and emotionless. "Who are you?"

Marion then look at Ruby. "I'm Marion. I used a passage way to help my uncle because i had a feeling that he need my helps."

Ruby was then silent rest of the way, and she kicked the iron bars and crawl through with Clovis and Marion followed her through before she asked him a question. "Couldn't you find a better escape route?"

Marion wonder about something. "I wonder if that thing's dead."

Ruby reply to her question, as she remain stoic and emotionless. "I don't know."

Clovis then asked Ruby a question. "Was that really the Count?"

She then reply to his question. "Not really... probably just a part of him. That huge guy was completely possessed. The only thing was left of him was his vengeance against me. We're gonna split here, but before we go..."

Ruby then put her hand forward toward Clovis and open in front of him. "Hand over the Hope Daimond to me... it's a small fee for killing the Count. It's useless to you, anyhow."

Clovis then look at the Hope Diamond before he sighed and gave it to Ruby. She then put it in her bag, she said 'goodbye' as she put her hood on, and head toward the stone-made newel stair that lead to the street up above. Marion was in disbelieved. "What was a rude person!"

"That okay, Marion."

Marion then look at her short bandaged uncle with a worried look on her face. "I hope you can escaped from this city, uncle."

Clovis then smiled at his niece. "You be careful small one. And i hoped too for the young lady as well."

Marion then smiled at her uncle. "She a good person, uncle. I thought that she were no good at all."

Marion then realized of what she accidentally said. "Umm... sorry, uncle."

Clovis just look at her and smiled. "That's ok... go on..."

Marion go on the stone-made newel stairs that lead above before stopping on the lower quarter space landing and turn to see her uncle. "Uncle... i think both human and faunus should try to valve life. Well... i... i don't know much about life. But for the future... life is more valuable than revenge."

Marion then rub the back of her head. "I have no idea what i just said."

Her uncle just smiled at her. "You're right."

Marion then waved goodby to her uncle before she walked up the stairs. 'That girl.'

But unknown to them, Ruby was listing to their conversion... and her expression soften to the point that her face was mixed of pain and sadness, painful reminding that she now a monster before she resume her ususal stoic and emotionless expression.

Clovis then look at his now-useless sercet passage way. "Hmm... i can no longer stay here either."

Clovis then turn around to walk away, but unknown to him, a demonic mutant tentacle was swimming under the water through the secret passage way before the tentacles grap his entire body, which shock him. "Could it be?! Sweet Oum no..."

Then... a deep and demonic laughing is heard from the secret passage way and when Clovis look at it, there were glowing eyes looking at him.

Meanwhile... somewhere on the streets...

As Ruby walked on the street, the Beast of Darkness appear, floating by left side of Ruby with his/her usual devilish grin at her as he/she taunt her, not even hiding that he/she is enjoying it. "It isn't it too curel~? Took the Hope Diamond and said goodbye~? Oh, you should have taken him to a not-so safe place..."

The Beast of Darkness then chuckle at this as Ruby remain silent. "He did show us a secret path off of the castle... not only that, he did gave you the Hope Diamond."

Ruby then respond to the Beast of Darkness while still being stoic and emotionless. "I've could have done that all by myself. I got to thank him for this. I'd have beaten him if he's not gonna hand it over."

The Beast of Darkness then continue to taunt Ruby while grinning devilishly. "But... you also want to kill the Count, right~? You are both on the same side."

Ruby then look at him/her with her stoic and emotionless look. "Same side with that guy? Don't make me laugh. I am not with a begging from a low-life insect like him."

The Beast of Darkness then continue to taunt her. "Why do you say these things~? Hmm~?"

Ruby then reply to the Beast of Darkness. "He's just getting in my way and plain useless and he know that as well. He's nothing, only slowing me down."

Ruby then turn to look at the Beast of Darkness. "That include you too, you little shit."

Ruby resume walking with the Beast of Darkness grinning. Ruby notice something and hid behind a arch, she see a few men talking to each other and listing to their conversion. "Execution? Really?"

"Yeah."

"Either today or tomorrow."

"I think the guy's from the same group that caused trouble at the execution place... so they will kill him to show that group a warning."

Ruby remain stoic and emotionless as she went up the alley's stairs.

Later... outside of the city...

Ruby was taking shelter at a building that was abandon long time ago to check on Full-Moon Gin and letting herself rest for tomorrow. Then she touch her eyepatch where her old left eye use to be. She then remember the scars of Clovis and what he said. 'He cut open and eat. My wife and two sons were eating in front of me and i saw it. I was full of fear. Please... take revenge for me...'

Ruby then touch the unicular hexagram embedded on th back of her neck before she punch the wall, which cause a hole in it, as she is still stoic and emotionless.

A day later... at the execution place...

There was an new execution going on at the city square of the city in front of the castle. Two executors holding Clovis by his arms and the Count, who sitting in his chair in the tent, spoke to him. "We make again, Clovis. I should say... we haven't met for 7 years."

Samson look at the execution going on at the wall walk of the castle as Clovis was silent and shot a glare at the Count, which make him chuckle. "Don't look at me like that. Normally, we'd should have take time to investigate some more and need to give you a painstaking interrogation... but i've decided to get it over with and execute you right away. But you be thankful that i'm killing you now."

Then... Mayor Dahl spoke to the Count. "My lord... the object you mentioned is nowhere to be found. In other word, we couldn't find it of what you were saying it was."

"I see." The Count then thought to himself. 'The Hope Diamond is probably with that huntress. So the Black Death has it.'

Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, look at the execution from a dark alley and then the Beast of Darkness appear, looking at Ruby, which she spoke to. "Don't misunderstand me. I'm only here to watch his last moment."

Ruby then look at the castle door. "Behind the castle door. There are hundreds of soldiers with guns and swords really to attack me. I'm not a saint who will go knowing that this is a trap."

Ruby just sighed and look at the execution, while remaining stoic and emotionless. "Clovis is just... a normal human... who can't even swing a sword... yet dare to take revenge on the grimm that killed his wife and sons. Humans and faunus ambitions has rewards. The death reward seems to be very... valuable. The reward for being so greedy... is disaster."

The Beast of Darkness then sense something from Ruby as she look at the execution. 'That heat. It's like black lava because the emotion is so intense and dark is clashing as if it could melt a small grimm. Is this the source of Ruby's power?'

The Beast of Darkness then grin at this. "Interest..."

The executor then place Clovis, who is now is forced to wear the necklace that disable his aura, on the frame to decapitated, as Ruby continue to watch. "Clovis has overestimates himself. A useless man should die like a piece of trash."

The Beast of Darkness look at Ruby before he/she grin and taunt Ruby. "Are you afraid, Ruby~?"

Ruby then glared at the Beast of Darkness. "What did you say?"

The Beast of Darkness continue to taunt Ruby. "You... you are afraid that Clovis is fighting with a unbeatable foe that only you can defeat... is that right~? Actually... you think you are like him... you are fighting with no chance of winning, isn't that right~?"

Ruby glared at the Beast of Darkness before looking aside as he/she continue to taunt Ruby as he/she devilishly grin. "Why then... why are you here then~? If you do truely don't care... you wouldn't be here... you hate Clovis anyhow~."

Ruby glared at the Beast of Darkness with a angry look on her face. "Your so damn talkative. You are just some part of a person's mind. Don't be wordy like some human."

The Beast of Darkness then disappear as he spoke these line to Ruby. "YOU'RE A NUTCASE, RUBY~!"

Ruby, return to her stoic and emotionless expression, focus her attetion on the execution as she thought to herself. 'Pitiful... pitiful, huh? Don't look down on me like that..."

A small nevermore, no bigger than a hand, land on Samson's shoulder, which he noticed it. So he put up a arm and nevermore jump on his arm and look at him before both of them look at the execution going on as the Beast of Darkness then appear above the execution with Ruby watching it. The Beast of Darkness then grin. "Time to scare them."

The Beast of Darkness then turn into a bigger version of himself with black mist surrounding him/her that Ruby only can see and charged at the executor and covered exexcution place. He/she got near the executor's ear and spoke one word. "Boo."

The executor was then startled and turn around to see anyone, he couldn't see anyone, which confuse him. Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, lampshaped this. "Stupid..."

"What are you doing? Carry on." The Count ordered to the executor which he reply with a 'yes'. Clovis then spoke to the Count. "Too bad. I wouldn't be here to see what will happen to you from the inside of you."

The Count was confused by this. "What?"

Clovis continue to speak to the Count. "You'll face. Your doom soon enough. Hundreds of angry souls that you killed will drag you to the pit of hell."

"Unrespectful." The Count then ordered the executor to kill him. "Execute him."

The executor prepare to chop Clovis' head off as he shouted. "BLACK HUNTRESS! PLEASE TAKE CARE FOR ME! AND CUT THAT MONSTER'S HEAD OFF! AND SHOW IT TO EVERYONE!"

The executor then chop Clovis' head off of his body as Ruby look on, while still being stoic and emotionless. The crowds of people were disgusted of what they were doing. The executor then hold Clovis' chopped head to show the crowd.

Ruby turn her back and walked into the dark alleyway before she see the white wolf with blue eyes again. 'You again?'

The white wolf with blue eyes silently look at her before it walk into a alleyway on it's left. Ruby then remember Clovis' final words. 'CUT THAT MONSTER'S HEAD!'

The executors pick up Clovis' headless body as the Count thought to himself. 'The Black Death is still not showing up? Or prehaps...'

Samson then look at one of the castle's window, which he see a young woman with long black hair looking, looking at the execution through her window in her room. Samson then look at the nevermore and he decide he should tell the Count that it would make a good pet for her.

Later that night... outside of the city...

A few guys, just three, one of them is equip with a flamethrower, were putting the decapitated bodies and heads in a pit so that they can drench the bodies in gas fuel and burn them. One of them was complaining. "Why do we have this job, again?"

"Just get going."

"Good thing we have gas fuel to burn the pit with or else we won't have any place to burn the bodies with."

One of them was holding Clovis' decapitated head in his hand and look at it as the other guy burn the bodies with his flamethrower. "This guy is nut. Trying to fight with the Count? That just pure bullshit and insanity."

He was then creep out of how tthe decapitated head was looking at him. "Enough with this. Let's get going."

He was about to throw the head into the fire until they felt a presence and when they look at the back of them, Ruby was looking at them, still stoic and emotionless.

Later...

She killed them and thrown their bodies into the fire as she look at the decapitated head of Clovis. "Whay are you staring me like that? Full of vengeance, huh?"

Ruby was silent as she look at the eye of Clovis. "... I'll beat him... harder..."

Then... the winds suddenly changed and spirit of the dead arose from the pit. They spoke to Ruby in a legion of voices. "Give me back... my head... can't see a thing... bring back... MY HEAD!"

Then they beginning to swarm around Ruby as they spoke to her. "Cut the Count's head! Revenge! Revenge! Come with us! Revenge for us! Come with us! To revenge us!"

Ruby, still stoic and emotionless, still dispense them with a single word. "Begone..."

They then dispensed before Ruby spoke. "Don't mess with me. I'm not like you. You dead... dead like rotten worms. This is my fight. The fight for flesh and blood like me."

Ruby then turn around and head toward the castle as she thought to herself, remaining stoic and emotionless. 'I'll kill him with this flesh body of mine.'

The End of Chapter 4

A/N: Didn't except i'll finish this today? Well... me either. But anyway... you wondering why i'm updating it once in a while? Because the Berserk manga is still not finish yet. Man, i wish it was finish already. Now then... i'll get to typing the 4th chapter of 'Do Werewolves Loves Cookie?' now.