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Honestly it's thanks to the great feedback that i got on last chapter that I Decided to write again today, plus i was in a good mood. (a bit of a warning, the fourth wall breaking is strong with this one xP)

And I am sorry in advance if there is some punctuation mistakes in the chapter. I hope that if there is that it won't bother you too much.

Anyway i hope you enjoy the new chapter from Little Grimm Riding Hood!

Little Grimm Riding Hood

Chapter 7: A Nightmare For The Grimm Queen


"Please don't hurt me! I'll do anything!"

It was another one of those pathetic excuses all humans come up with for keeping their pitiful lives. Salem wouldn't dare show the slightest bit of mercy to this lowly being. She slowly walked towards the coward in front of her, making sure to show him her bloody hand to terrify him even further. "Please! show mercy, I beg you!" the coward begged for his life as Salem drew closer with each passing second. The only thing Salem could think about is the amount of hypocrisy coming from this filthy maggot. where was her mercy when she was a child? Where was the mercy that was supposed to be showed to her family? Did humans show them any mercy? No they did not.

"You deserve no mercy." She said as she stood right in front of the man, he was on his knees, just like how a pathetic being like him should be. "PLEASE!" he screamed as he took a hold of Salem's dress, he started kissing the dress thinking that it might make the woman in front of him a bit more merciful with him than the rest of his village. What he didn't know is that it would annoy her even further for someone like him to even dare touch her. "I'll do anything i swear!" he said with tears in his eyes as he looked up at the terrifying woman.

Salem did not bother uttering a word as she slowly lowered her hand, grabbing the man by the neck and lifting him high up in the air. "No matter what you do, you'll never be worth of mercy." She told the man. He could hardly breath as she tightened her grip around his neck. "P-Please!" Was what he said before suddenly hearing a crack followed by a split second of unimaginable pain in his neck. Then everything went dark.

Salem threw the lifeless body on the ground, the thrill of the rushed blood on her arm making her body pump with adrenaline. The smile on her face was clear as the sun as she looked at the burning village that surrounds her. Remembering the the screams of the humans that once lived here kept her ears ringing with pleasure.

One thing Salem did notice however was that the blood on her hand seemed weird, she was sure no blood ever felt like this, it wasn't supposed to be this light, and why is it spreading to the rest of her body? Why does it smell so weird?

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Salem slowly opened her eyes and yawned, whatever had just interrupted her from her pleasant dream would surely not go unpunished, the only problem was that she had no idea what ruined the dream all of a sudden.

She slowly got up to a sitting position and looked out of the window of her room, It looked like it was still late at night since there was no sign of any light outside.

Ignoring that however, what was this sticky annoying substance that awoke Salem from her pleasant sleep?

Salem was about to get off the bed until her knees hit something while she was moving. "What the?" she questioned as she looked at what appeared to be something under the cover. She then started lifting the covers only to be immediately met with a small kid under it.

A very wet and smelly kid.

"Ruby?! what are you doing he-!?" Salem shouting has awoken Ruby in a split-second. "Agh!" Ruby screamed as she quickly disappeared into a pile of rose petals. Salem thought to herself that she might have been just a tiny bit too loud.

"Ruby?" She called out, She forgot that even though she hadn't even attempted to scare her, Ruby was still only a Kid, a kid that was easily scared of anything, especially if it's something she didn't know.

"Ruby, what are you doing here? Come out child." she called out again as she got up from bed, only now noticing how her whole lower body was covered in water. Very very sticky water.

"What is this?" she said as she lifted up her dress, smelling the substance. "Ugh! what's this horrible smell!" She said as she nearly gagged. Then the horrific idea struck her head, she knew what this was. "Oh dear dust." She said before quickly running out of the room to the direction of the bathroom.

Meanwhile Ruby was sitting terrified under the bed, she had no idea what just happened or why Salem was so mad at her all of a sudden. She only had a nightmare and was too afraid to sleep alone, and since Cinder wasn't home she couldn't go to anyone except for Salem. Just the thought of Salem being mad at her brought a tear to the young girl's eye.

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By now Ruby must have been sitting under the bed for the minimum of ten minutes, all she knew is that she was having a dream about playing with Cinder until being suddenly awoken by Shouting.

*Click* The sound of the door opening and closing scared Ruby, no doubt that she will be facing Salem any moment now.

Ruby could now barely see Salem's feet, she was standing right in front of the bed. "Come out Ruby, I know you're under the bed." Ruby's heart skipped a beat, how did Salem know her hiding place? It was the most perfectest hiding place ever!

Oh right,her eye was connected to her...No fair.

Ruby gulped before slowly crawling out of bed and standing up in front of Salem, She immediately noticed how Salem changed her entire outfit to a purple robe instead of her normal nightgown. "Ruby-" - what the hell are doing here!?. Is what Salem wanted to shout, but after luckily noticing the tears and ashamed look that Ruby gave her, she just couldn't bring herself to say it, So she just settled for a more calm approach. "ugh, Ruby what are you doing here?" Salem said softly as she crossed her arms.

"B-bad dream" Ruby said softly, Salem did not actually expect and answer since the girl has barely started speaking a few hours ago. "I see, you had a nightmare."

"Nitemere?" Ruby questioned. Salem forgot that Ruby's vocabulary isn't exactly huge. "I mean you had a bad dream, is that what happened?" Salem asked. Ruby then replied with a nod.

"Well why didn't you go to Cinder then?" Ruby was quick to point at the window in the room. "I see, so she's not in the castle?" Salem asked. Ruby then nodded again.

Salem was annoyed beyond words, not only did this absolutely disgusting event just happen, but also she couldn't bring herself to Punish who is responsible for it. This child was truly making Salem destroy her own morals more and more every day.

"Well come on, we can't just leave you like this, you need a bath." Salem said as she started walking towards the door, she then grabbed the door handle and opened the door, waiting for Ruby to exit.

"Ruby?" Salem said as she looked behind her, she saw that Ruby was still standing in the same spot, only now she was stretching her hand towards Salem.

This was too much, Salem wouldn't ever hold her hand down the hall... right?

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After a rather embarrassing walk down the hallway and a nightmare of a shower, Salem finally found one thing left to do before sleeping.

The worst thing of them all.

"Ruby please just stop moving!" Salem requested. "Mhhhhm!" Ruby moaned as she kept struggling. "Ruby just let me put the diaper on! What kind of manners is this?!" Salem said while trying t hold the toddler in place without hurting it. It would have been easy if Salem could just restrain the kid, but only a small push from Salem is strong enough to make the girl cry. "Uh uh!" Ruby said as she shaked her head with all her might.

Salem gave up and backed away from Ruby, throwing the white colored diaper on the ground from her frustration. "What do you want Ruby?" Salem asked as she fell down on the chair from exhaustion.

Ruby quickly used her semblance to jump off the changing table and make her way to the bag full of diapers. luckily for her the kind of diaper bags that Cinder buys her are always full of differently colored diapers. She grabbed another diaper and then stood in front of Salem with a pink diaper in her hand and an adorable smile on her face.

*facepalm* "Is that really all you want, child? A pink diaper?" Salem wondered, she would basically do whatever Ruby wanted by this point, she had only one thing on her mind. Sleep.

Salem used her remaining strength to get up from the chair and grab the diaper from Ruby's hand. "Come on" Salem said as she walked towards Ruby's diaper changing table.

She first grabbed the baby powder.

*Clang* "Ouch!" Salem was suddenly kicked to the face by Ruby. "Sowwy!" Ruby apologized quickly. *Boom* Salem was surprised to the point where she applied so much pressure to the bottle in her hand, it popped.

"It's...fine" Salem said as she wiped the powder off of her face, she did not even care by this point.

She wasted no time as she started changing Ruby's diaper. the toddler did not stop squirming which annoyed Salem, but she did not know that she was actually tickling the child in the process of changing the diaper.

Salem finally finished putting on the diaper on the girl, and she wasted no time as she walked towards the door to Ruby's room, ready to exit and go to her own room and finally get the rest of the night as sleep. "Now go sleep Ruby." she said as she was nearing the door.

*Pooch!* Salem suddenly found Ruby between her and the door to the room, she also had her hands behind her back and a smug smile on her face. "What is it now?" Salem asked as she prepared for the worst.

Ruby Showed what was behind her back, revealing that it was another pink diaper, she extended her arm as if she was giving the diaper to Salem. "You too Sayem!"

This girl...This girl is worse than anything i ever fought!

"No way in hell." Salem said as she pushed the kid aside and left the room.

Salem started to walk down the hallway as fast as she can, she wanted no more interruptions.

*pooch!* Ruby was standing in front of Salem again, with the same smug smile and her arms extended and a diaper in her hand.

Salem kept walking by as if she saw nothing, this girl was truly a living nightmare.

And just with the blink of an eye Salem found Ruby in front of her again, leaving a small trail of rose petals indicating that she had used her semblance once more. "Sayem pwease!" The child begged. "No Ruby, go sleep." Salem said as she walked by the little child.

The same cycle continued once more as Ruby stood in Salem's way this time instead of next to her. "Pweaaaase!" The child moaned in despair.

Salem was about to walk past the girl again but this time she stopped instead. "Fine give me the stupid Diaper and go to your room!" Salem said as she snatched the diaper out of Ruby's hand. "Yayyy!" The toddler screamed in joy as she used her semblance one more time to make her way to her own bedroom.

Salem simply continued her way to the bedroom, and when she reached it she locked the door behind her and threw the diaper out of the window. She then collapsed on her bed from her tiredness.

Only to be met with a smell and the feeling of the same disgusting substance she felt earlier this night.

She forgot to change the wet bed sheets.

"God damnit!"

This night was only starting.

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*Knock Knock*

"ugghh" Salem moaned while still half asleep. *Knock Knock* "Ruby Stop!" she yelled, her words sadly did not reach whoever was knocking on the door since she was yelling while her face was basically glued to her own pillow. *knock knock*

"Stop! I'm coming" she said, this time lifting her head a bit so Ruby would stop knocking, she slowly lifted herself into a sitting position, she was also barely able to keep her eyes open, there was no way that she would have possibly slept enough time.

She slowly unlocked the door before opening it and instantly looking down, expecting to see Ruby. She was only greeted by a pair of legs, she quickly lifted her head only to reveal that cinder was the one standing in front of her. "Cinder!" Salem said as she quickly snapped her eyes open, acting as if she wasn't tired.

"W-what is it Cinder?" She asked as she rubbed her eyes. "Well, you said you wanted to take Ruby to the forest in the morning remember? it's now ten in the morni-"

*SLAM* Cinder nearly jumped from the sudden slam of the door right in front of her.

"You take her! Salem yelled from behind the door. "But I have an assignment today!" Cinder yelled back from the other side of the door. "Then give her to Hazel!" Salem shouted again. "Salem, both Watts and Hazel aren't here for at least a week, and I don't think we should be giving her to Tyrian." Said Cinder.

Salem hated everything about life at this very moment, She was never treated with such cruelty in all her life. "Fine! Just leave her outside and I'll come out in a minute" Salem told Cinder before walking to her wardrobe and looking through her favorite selection of nightgowns. "I'll prepare Ruby and be right back." Cinder said as she started walking away, not knowing that Salem had dressed up as fast as she can and already collapsed on her bed trying to get as much sleep as she possibly can.

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Cinder entered Ruby's room, only to see the little Ruby she had already finished preparing minutes earlier. "Well Ruby you weren't lying, she is tired." Cinder told Ruby before after closing the door behind her. Ruby quickly replied as best she could. "Yeth! Sayem tiyed!" Ruby said as if she was mocking Cinder, it looks like somehow Ruby had expected Cinder to already know that. "Well whatever, you're going with her now so let's go." She said before opening the door again, soon she found Ruby already outside the room, a small trail of Rose petals was behind her indicating that she had used her semblance. Cinder never knew how Ruby had enough aura to use her semblance like that all day long, she had a ton of aura, especially for a toddler that wasn't even supposed to have aura in the first place. Let alone a semblance.

Closing the door behind her, Cinder started walking while holding Ruby's hand, she had no idea why Ruby never accepted walking in the hallway without holding someone's hand, but she wasn't about to fight Ruby's logic.

Soon both her and little Rose were in front of Salem's bedroom door. "Alright Ruby, I'm late so I'm off to my assignment, knock on the door and Salem will open. If she doesn't then keep knocking." Cinder said before leaving with haste. Sadly not knowing how much her words will torture her leader Salem.

*Knock knock knock knock knock knock* Ruby just wouldn't stop knocking no matter what. "Stop!" Salem yelled before getting out of bed, eager to stop the annoying knocking.

"Cinder what are yo- oh, ruby" Salem was met by Ruby smiling cheerfully on her doorstep. Soon Ruby extended her hand towards Salem. "Let's just go." Salem ordered as she grabbed the toddler and started walking, Not realizing that she is basically dragging the poor child behind her.

...

"So Ruby, did you have fun last night?" Salem asked while she was walking in the woods with Ruby, Trying her best to enjoy the air even with the presence of the toddler next to her. "Uhuh" Ruby replied as she walked next to Salem.

"Well good, you're going to start to have the most fun out of your free time from now on Ruby." "Why?" The little girl asked Salem, still barely able to speak proper words out of her mouth. "Well Ruby, do you know why we are out here?" Salem asked the girl. Ruby took a moment to think before suddenly looking as if a brilliant idea struck her head. "Sayem btch!" Ruby shouted, clearly assuming that it was the right answer.

"No Ruby! We are going to start to train you." Salem corrected Ruby.

"Tain you?" Ruby questioned. "No Ruby, train you." Salem clarified. Ruby then nodded happily before speaking again. "Tain you!" Ruby was sure that she was right this time. "No ruby! We are going to train You! We are going to train Ruby." Salem Corrected her once more. "Tain Wuby?" The girl wondered. "Yes!" Salem was relieved that she finally got it through the girl's head.

"Now, Ruby will yo- Wait what are you looking at?" Salem said as she spotted Ruby looking straight up in the air above them. All what Salem saw was Tree branches and one red apple that was barely visible between the thick leaves of the tree. She then looked down at Ruby only to notice how Ruby was pointing straight at the apple. "You want that apple don't you?" Salem asked the little girl. Ruby nodded vigorously upon hearing the question.

Salem Sighed before speaking. "Fine." She said as she raised her hand, ready to summon a tiny nevermore to snatch that apple from the tree.

*Pchow!* Was the sound Salem heard before being blinded for a split-second by a red light flashing around her. "Ruby?!" Salem yelled as she looked around trying to find Ruby.

She then heard the sound of a crack coming from above her.

oh no...

She slowly raised her head to see what is above her, prepared for the worst. She soon found little Ruby somehow dangling from a tree branch with one hand and the other hand was busy holding a red apple.

"Ruby! hold on and do not look down!" Salem shouted as she focused her energy to quickly summon a nevermore large enough to save Ruby.

*Crack* followed by the sound of leaves rustling and feeling her own heart skip a beat was the last thing that happened to Ruby before the tree branch she was holding onto for dear life snapped.

Ruby started to fall down, too terrified to even scream. She knew that this wouldn't kill her because watts has explained to her before that aura is the magical angel guarding Ruby. But she knew that it was going to hurt. So she braced herself for impact while prepared for the worst.

She felt herself touching the ground now, the soft and curved ground, holding her in place as soon as she could even touch it.

'Wait isn't ground supposed to be hard?' Ruby thought to herself as she opened her eyes, revealing that she was actually caught by Salem instead of the ground.

Ruby quickly wrapped her arms around Salem's neck as tight as she could, terrified of what had just happened.

"easy child, it's okay, You're okay."


Woo! What a chapter, i had fun writing this! Anyway this chapter was 3.3K words long (Excluding both the A/N) I hope you enjoyed this! Please review because it really helps!

I hope you enjoyed the chapter! Next update should be in the weekend. Probably saturday.

Much Love! Stay Positive! MG Out!