Okay I'm back and I apologise in advance for the choppiness of the chapter, I just started an eeveelution run of X. But for the foreseeable future this will have my undivided attention, sort of. Fear Sylveon. And my editor I think I've heard him say he eats babies souls. It was either him or a talking platypus. (*Must have been the platypus, I eat fish souls, not baby souls-A*)
Chapter 21: The Cat and The Devil part 3
As soon as they entered the house a smell hit Blake. It was the smell of what she feared more than any sort of pain she faced of segregation. It was what Ruby was so happy about seeing again. It was a foul quadrupedal animal. A true terror. Something that was keeping Blake on the furniture, away from the beast that must have crawled out of abyss known as ifreann itself. It's beady eyes staring into Blake's very soul. It was the stuff of nightmares...
It was a dog.
Out of all the things that Ruby could have. 'Why oh why did it have to be a dog?' Was Blake's thought as Weiss started to roll around with the beast forgetting about everything decent. Meanwhile Yang was laughing, Ruby was yelling at Yang for laughing at her. Their dad and uncle had to go get something so once they dropped the quartet off they left.
"YANG STOP IT! So she is terrified of dogs. At least it's not seagulls like you!" Ruby shouted back at her sister hitting her. "Ahhhh! But he is soo cute! How could he do anything bad?" Weiss said as Zwei began to lick her face.
"Wait... you're scared of a bird?" Blake managed to get out as Yang's laughter died down and a glare was directed at her. "It is more so I fear anything that can take a shit in my hair. But Zwei is a corgi. Worst he can do is gnaw your ankles." Yang said in a monotone voice that could rival Blake's. "Can we just drop the topic of fears, can we also move into a different room where I won't have a heart attack?" Blake pleaded to Ruby.
Ruby nodded and grabbed her hand and dragged Blake up stairs. They both ignored Yang yelling "Keep your door open!" Blake only cared to be away from the fiend that was tormenting her. Ruby opened her door and Blake noticed the lack of floor in the room. The floor was cluttered with with clothes, books and even weapon schematics for what Blake could only assume was for Crescent Rose. "Ruby... I hope you do know I need a floor to walk on." Blake joked.
"There is one... I think... but it is still cleaner then Yang's. The only reason she ever finds old food in there is because I yell at her for hurting my nose here." Ruby said oddly serious, making Blake dread seeing Yang's room, just the thought of the room made Blake feel sick. "Remind me never to look into her room." Blake said quietly.
"Yeah I think if Weiss saw her room she may kill someone. Mainly Yang... and I may argue with her but I still love her and I don't want her dead. Plus she owes me some strawberries still from when we were younger." Ruby said quickly starting to clean up her room slightly. Blake gracefully jumped over the mess that adorned Ruby's floor and landed on deft feet on Ruby's bed. The bed sagged slightly under Blake's weight but quickly accommodated to her. "Well keep the idea in your back pocket." Blake spoke getting Ruby's attention.
"Again, she owes me strawberries. Only after she pays up." Ruby said crawling into her bed with Blake. "So have you read all of these books?" Blake asked trying to make conversation. She was going to have to stay here for days after all. "I haven't read all of them. But I do know all of them. Most have been read to me." Ruby said cuddling into Blake.
"Well if you give me a book, I'll read one to you, then according to our tradition says we fall asleep." Blake blushed slightly at the memory of how every time they do fall asleep, they get caught by a group of people. But she did always enjoy how comfortable Ruby made her feel.
"How about this one?" Ruby handed Blake the first book she grabbed. They both readjusted themselves. Blake rested her back against Ruby's headboard. Ruby placed her head on Blake's lap. Blake scratched Ruby's ears. Ruby closed her eyes and gave into the comfortable feeling. She didn't notice that her tail came free and started to wag hitting Blake's face. Causing, to Ruby's dismay, Blake to stop her scratching.
"Aww Blake. Why did you stop? That was so good." Ruby said and Blake didn't need to see her face to know there was a pout plastered across her face. "Maybe it is because my face getting hit by a tail. I personally enjoy my face tail free." Blake joked as Ruby's expression fell a bit not noticing the joke. "Ruby, relax. It was a joke."
Blake opened the book to a random story and sighed. 'Apparently whatever deity decided to look at me today is evil for some reason.' Blake thought as she cleared her throat. "This is a more resent story called 'The Cat and The Devil'" Blake said resuming the previous scratching Ruby's ears.
"Along the coast of some kingdom, there was a small fishing village. And atop a hill sat a family that always produced the greatest fishermen. The women's job was to clean and preserve the fish, but one woman noticed that some of the finest fish vanished. Shocked the woman asked one of her friends over to help with cleaning and preserving a recent catch so she could also catch whatever was stealing the fish.
After long the fish was almost done, the door blew open. Shocked the women walked over and noticed a large. Black. Cat. Sauntered in and sat down at the table and began to eat the fish. The women ran over and tried to chase the cat away to no avail.
The one who owned the house noticed the cat's eyes. They were red. As red as the fires of hell. They then noticed something else. The cat spoke to them. 'It is rude to hit guests. Traditionally you are meant to give me the best of the food. If you hit me again, I will retaliate.' His voice was deep and calm but terrifying.
The women not believing him struck him again. The cat retaliated by scratching the woman. He didn't cut them deep but enough to harm them. Hearing the women's screams a passer-by ran through the door carrying an axe. He saw the cat injuring the women and ran to bring the axe down. The cat lashed out as the axe connected to it's head and cut the man deeper along the throat.
The man ran out and the cat pulled the axe from its head. He turned to the women and spoke again. 'I was going to be polite and leave you most of the fish but you both have proved you do not deserve that grace. So sit there and let me enjoy my fish.' He returned and began to eat again.
The women shocked began to hit the cat again. He simply paid them no mind and continued to eat. The women continued to hit him and he maintained his pace eating. One of them went and grabbed the holy water from the shelf and poured it on the cat.
The cat disappeared in a cloud of black smoke. The only thing they could see in the cloud was the cat's burning red eyes.
After what felt like an eternity one of the women walked over and noticed during the cloud the cat stole all the fish in the house.
The cat was never seen again in the village or in any surrounding village. But the women would never forget those. Red. Burning. Eyes." Blake spoke and enjoyed the therapeutic sound of Ruby snoring. She put the book down without disturbing Ruby and slid down wrapping her arms around Ruby and let sleep over take her.
Meanwhile downstairs Weiss sat gently petting Zwei and Yang snickered. "I hope you do know as soon as they fall into a deep sleep I'm going to swipe Zwei and lock him in Ruby's room with them." earning a glare from Weiss that could stop armies.
"You Brute. You will not put this adorable creature anywhere near harm. And he will be. Then Blake would kill you after Ruby saves him." Weiss crashed the train of thought that would put the corgi in her lap into harm's way. "Ruby wouldn't let Zwei get hurt. Blake would kill me though, but I'm banking on the fact she is still trying to win Ruby's favour and killing me would cause some great loss in said favour." Yang said picking up the small dog.
Weiss followed Yang shouting profanities Yang never thought she would hear Weiss say. As they approached Ruby's room they heard the steady breathing. Yang put Zwei down and nudged him into the room and closed the door carefully as to not wake the sleeping Faunus up. She grabbed a length of Rope Weiss had no idea where from but began to tie a series of knots to prevent anyone from opening the door.
"Oh Blake will, without a doubt kill me. But let the record show it was worth it." Yang joked as Weiss began to rub her temples. "And the record will show that, but so help me Xiao Long if anything befalls that adorable dog you must hope Blake gets you first." Weiss said walking away so she couldn't hear anything that would ensue.
Author's Note:
Okay so this chapter took a lot longer than normal but again I blame Pokémon but I love the franchise soooooooooo much.