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With slightly shaky fingers Ruby picked up the letter and looked at the writing on the back. 'Hmm? This looks like a one sided conversation. I can clearly tell who wrote this, but who was she talking to?' With a look under the covers of the bed and the bed itself to see if anyone was there, and after finding no one Ruby tucked the letter in her slave apron.
A knock sounded, and Ruby froze. Afraid that she had been caught stealing from an occupied room, Ruby hid her hands behind her back, even though she had nothing to hide. The door opened down the hall, and a screech followed by an explosion rocked the fortress itself.
The tremors were so intense Ruby was almost flung out the window; she managed to save herself by using her power. She armor locked her self to the floor, becoming part of the fortress itself.
The perks when it came to being the Disciple of Darkness weren't limited in any sense, although Ruby limited herself because she had learned the power would drive her insane.
Ruby had learned the dangers of using too much of her power, mainly the effect it had on her mind not on her body, fairly early on. 'Experts' said that trials make you grow stronger, but the trial Ruby endured shortly after transforming into the Disciple wasn't what she had wanted, and she didn't really feel stronger after it.
The first thought Ruby had when the Voice had began talking, and inadvertently began to fill her head with thoughts about power, was to take things slow. To build up, trying simple things at first and then moving on to the heavy stuff.
Ruby would have liked to start out with giving herself the power to unlock any lock, and invisibility. It would have been an interesting experiment to see how it would feel to shamelessly rob people, but that didn't exactly work out.
If the few first seconds Ruby had her new power, she was almost obliterated. Ruby had been chased by what she liked to call her kryptonite. Ruby had to perform a body shadow transformation, an almost seamless merging of her body with Darkness itself. Ruby also had to pull off borderline molecular alteration and transportation.
Using her powers wasn't that simple, it was almost all in the mind. If Ruby wanted herself to fly she had to mentally alter her molecular structure and manipulate it to make it move. If Ruby wanted to turn invisible and almost weightless, she would have to mentally pull Darkness and merge it with her body.
Ruby canceled the armor lock and stood up, in order to activate the armor lock she had to go to one knee and slam both fists into the ground. "Speaking of fists, something's banging on the door." Ruby muttered, and in a slave voice, which was loud enough to be heard but soft enough not to be an annoyance, "Who is it?"
The knob twisted and Ruby slammed both her palms into the door. A screech was heard and the explosion ruptured right behind the door. Ruby felt a cold and powerful energy wash over hands, she would have absorbed it if not for the fact that it felt wrong, and it was cold.
Ruby's powers gave her a heady rush, a warm rush that Ruby couldn't compare anything to. She didn't mind the cold, but Ruby felt as if this stuff was serious bad news. So she collected her power in her palms and slammed to door forward at an incredible rate.
The door slammed to halt mere feet away from the wall, and then was forced back with and equally strong force. Ruby in panic armor locked, but at the wrong moment; she felt a blade separate her entire left arm from her shoulder, right before the stone door pulverized it against the back wall.
The door spun and faced Ruby; she backed into the corner so the door couldn't reach her. It worked, but then she couldn't move, the door's position didn't allow Ruby to maneuver. In retaliation of feeling trapped Ruby pushed against it with her hands, after testing the consistency of the door she faded into the wall behind her.
Ruby knew that some force had attached itself to the door, if she wanted to catch a break, Ruby would have do destroy it. But phasing through the wall into the hallway was a hard enough strain on Ruby. In order to have perfect and seamless control over her power, she needed to have a perfectly healthy body.
Obviously with the fact that her arm had been sawed off at the shoulder, Ruby wasn't doing to well. Granted she was still using a lot of her power, but that was mainly being used to keep the blood she had left inside her body.
Even then it wasn't as much as she could use. Usually when Ruby used her powers, if before she activated them her body was in near perfect condition, she could use them to her hearts and minds content. All the while her body would be suspended in the perfect state it had been in when Ruby activated her powers therefore making her invincible. Almost invincible when you factored in the 'kryptonite'.
Ruby heard a screech and she started jogging, she couldn't force herself into a run, down the hall. When Ruby saw an intersection in the maze like fortress, she went down. The layout of the fortress was massive beyond all compression.
This time however the pathway didn't shift it's gravity like it normally did. When you came to an intersection you had the choice of either going back, forward, left, right, down, or up. If you decided to go down or up gravity would shift so you could still walk without falling to your death.
It didn't work for some reason, and Ruby ended up freefalling down for about 12 minutes. Ruby passed countless intersections. The actual measurements of the Fortress couldn't be understood by mortal minds. After all Hell didn't exactly follow natural laws.
Ruby stood there halfway between intersections, wondering what the hell happened, when she felt gravity shift. Ruby's feet slipped and she fell.
Just thought I'd make a quick note here. The fact that both Weiss and Ruby are in hell may be confusing, but just bare with me. I'm defiantly positive I'll explain it, just keep reading the chapters as they come out. :D