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"Ah. Ah. Mike test. Mike test. Subject 47, type-scorpion, part 7. Experiment success. I repeat experiment success. The experiment proved that two different organic species or two different organisms from a different genus will match as long as they are in the same family. The transplant surgery of Heteropoda Venatoria is safe to go. Surgery date set to ten da—"
Ring—Ring—Ring
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"Che… surgery date set to two days from now. Additional samples of the Huntsman Spider needed to conduct Experiment T. Need to re-check huntsman spider's DNA analysis from Dr. K. More blood test and cell test for tomorrow"
I take off the blood-soaked surgery clothes and dump them into the incinerator. Emergency call. That goddamn emergency call from [From Dust Till Dawn]. That old man, causing me to drag my ass out there and take care of the scum who were stealing his place. At least he pays his protection fees dutifully and isn't a racist prick.
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At least he is the very one person who can show me the start of this whole shitstorm.
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I just hope Roman Torchwick wasn't the one behind this.
Ruby Rose felt like a hero already.
When she entered a random dust shop to read the new edition of her favorite magazine she never expected a robbery to take place! Now here she was defeating the henchmen like a proper hero! Boom! Bang! Pow! Now all the henchmen were down! Now… where did that creepy orange haired villain go?
Ruby turned her head side to side until she heard a small noise coming from her back. She turned and lo and behold, there was that thief climbing up the ladder! Too bad for him, she was much faster.
She then turned to the poor shop owner and gave him a quick cool heroic smile.
"You okay if I go after him?"
"Uh huh" Groaned the old man worried about his loss.
Ruby Rose, without turning her head back quickly lept over to the ladder and proceeded to jump her way to the top. When she catches the villain… oh, she could see the front page with her name as people would praise her with titles and compliments.
"Heroic Signal Student captures the notorious thief!"
"Ruby Rose: 15-year-old girl stops the villain of Vale!"
"The Rising New Hope of Remnant? Ruby Rose!"
Feeling quite giddy with all these emotions Ruby quickly went up to the roof to defeat the creepy mascara t—
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E-eh? Who was that person?
"Choose Roman. This is your last chance. Either you give that man back 80% of what you stole and ditch your employer with Neo or you run and join your new boss"
'Is the thief trembling? Oh! So the man in front of the villain was the good guy, stopping the thief! *Gasp*! Is that man a Huntsman? That is so cool! I wish I could have his… eh?'
Suddenly the girl found herself on the floor clutching her shoulders with her weapon: Crescent Rose, long forgotten by her side. What was she doing?
'C-c-c-c-c-cold!' She shivered so much as if she were in a blizzard as if she fell into an icy lake as if she was locked inside a freezer as if she ate too much ice-cream that made her brain freeze and her stomach ache. She felt anything that could make her colder than before, slowly hitting zero degrees. No… it already went past the freezing point.
Ruby knew it was a bad idea to look up. She instinctively knew that if she looked, what she saw wasn't going to be a pretty thing, but her innocent curiosity got better of her. She ever so slightly tilted her head upwards and saw…
Now she understood this freezing sensation. It wasn't coldness. It was a feeling of terror. It was fear. But that's impossible, right? Heroes don't f-feel fear do they no-now… O-o-oh Oum…
If Ruby wasn't paralyzed she would've screamed in sheer horror at the scary sight of the person's… eyes.
'His eyes! Oum his eyes! Six eyes with n-n-no white parts or black parts! Only red! Red! Oh, Oum! Red!'
Ruby was too young to know the structure of an eye, but at least she could describe. What she meant to say was that… this man had an eye of a spider. A small shiny round bead with only one color: red.
"So… you choose your employer, do you? I know that you're lying Roman. It's no use lying to me"
How… how could a voice sound so sick and haunting? Was it even the voice of a human or faunus? It was a voice, cracked, dried up and run over thousands of nails. It was the voice that would come from the deepest pit of the sea, the voice of Leviathan as she bellows her terrifying voice. The owner of this voice was no Huntsman, this was no person trying to stop the villain and save the day. This was the villain. The true villain who radiates death, evil, and destruction.
"Go. Yes, you heard me right. Go ahead to your so-called 'winning side'. I'll let you go but the next time I see around this area, if I catch sight of your orange hair or your cane, I will kill you. And if I hear anybody who suffered because of you and directly by or indirectly by you… I'll kill you"
Yup. This was a true villain all right.
"... Consider this… repayment of your… hilarious performances. They did entertain me a lot"
The… the thief is getting away but the villain is blocking her from getting to the thief. M-maybe the villain won't mind her going after the thief, would he? Would… he?
Then a miracle happened. A woman, a blonde woman with her hair pulled back into a fancy bun holding a riding crop suddenly appeared. Her purple cape, different from her own flapped as the light from the broken moon shown down on her. A Huntress! A Huntress appeared and is to save her and put the villain into prison!
'...? E-eh? She isn't… doing… anything?!'
"Wh~at?! Ms. Huntress! Ms. Huntress! The thief is getting away! He's getting away! Why aren't you doing anything?! Why aren't… you… eh?"
That was weird. She remembered walking and jumping towards the Huntress with her newly obtained excitement and her short loss of fear, but now she was on the ground. Crawling? Sweating? E-eh?!
"Wh-wh-wh… wha… what is th-this?" Ruby said weakly, shivering all over again with her teeth chattering. Ruby looked up to the Huntress' face for a sign of hope that this magnificent woman would defeat the villain and make her day. But all she could see was her dark look of uncertainty and… fear. Was it possible for a Hero to have fear?
"You're better than I expected" H-he spoke again. This time it wasn't bad as she thought it was. Probably it was because he was so scary looking and she got used to how the man looked like.
"You didn't move, you didn't even give a damn about the ones that got away. All you did was focus your attention on me. That's good. Very gooood. Kekekekeke… Very… Good"
The man licked his lips and Ruby's fear spiked again.
"Because the moment you lose sight of me or even let go of your focus…" He now stretched his neck emitting a loud cracking sound.
C-CRA-CRACK
"It will be your damnation"
Glynda Goodwitch, the blonde Huntress with the purple cape, was sweating immensely. Her instincts were screaming at her to get the fuck out of here but she didn't know if it were a safe move. After all, predators had their own hunting instincts to hunt those who turned their back on them and the weak… No… they play with the weak until they become unusable. Until they cannot provide any more fun for them…
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Glynda hated to admit it, but she was weak compared to… compared to this gruesome mons—
"HEY," The voice wasn't loud. It wasn't menacing. It wasn't something that would drive Glynda into terror; it was just… too close. Glynda Goodwitch gaped as the spider… as the spider was just in front of her. So close, too close. She could see all of his cavity, all of his sharp, white cavity that would bite her face off and chew them into bloody pieces of—
"You thought something bad about me did you?"
"W-wha—"
CRUNCH
A fist dug into the Huntress' abdomen and twisted impaling it deep into the woman's stomach. Aura or not that punch was going to put people into an immense amount of pain and possibly kill a child if the woman was pregnant with one. Thankfully, she wasn't so with pathetic gurgling noises, she fell onto the ground gasping for breath.
'Aura… My… Aura didn't protect me?'
"Extremely sudden attacks have the potential to break through an Aura you know? Your body instinctively sends your Aura to the place where protection is needed he most, but attacks with high speed can make your body not realize that you are under attack. You sure you're a Huntress? Your Aura control is pure bullshit. Kekekeke"
With the thief long gone and a Huntress on her knees, Ruby didn't know what to do anymore. She didn't… she couldn't...
BOOM
She immediately winced and clapped her hands around her ears as a deafening sound erupted from her direction. Then, a small gale of wind blew making Ruby's cape flutter.
"A dust bomb. They're designed to go off when they're at a certain distance away from this" Sighed the man as he showed Ruby one of his buttons on his vest. "Slipped a few into Roman's pocket before he got on the Bullhead. The most famous thief in Vale… gone just like that…"
The faunus lifted his head in the direction of the smoke and destruction. Thankfully, the explosion happened outside of the city but the fire and the smoke were large enough for anybody to see. The spider faunus simply grinned to himself, his face splitting into two then frowning again, then smiling, then frowning. He settled with a frown.
"Beautiful. But sad. Goodbye Roman. Goodbye. At least I'm sure Neo would be enthusiastic enough to follow you up to wherever you went… Now, the question remains. Is she still alive after this…?"
Then with a skin-cracking cackle, the faunus jumped off the building and vanished from Ruby's sight and now Glynda Goodwitch finally recovered from her ordeal. Her blood flowed steadily once again and instead of deep shaky breathes, she could breathe calmly. But the other girl wasn't the same.
With wobbling legs and hiccups, the irresponsible child glomped her waist and cried a river of tears.
"Uwwahhh~!" Sobbed Ruby frightened out of her wits. "That was sooo scary!"
Glynda Goodwitch for a second didn't know what to do. This girl was talented for sure. However, what she just experienced might traumatize her for entire life. Even when she didn't see him in action his murderous aura was large enough to send grown men and women crying back to their homes, searching for their mothers. So, for the first time in her life, she decided to punish the girl's reckless actions to the future and comfort her first, with her Aura fixing up her bruised stomach.
"It's alright child. Everything is going to be—"
"Oh, BTW can I have your autograph?"
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THAWCK
"OWEEEE!"
Traumatized her ass. Punishment first.
I ran. I ran and ran and ran. Even when I didn't have much drama with Roman Torchwick, I still kind of felt bad for killing him like that. But then again, the faster he is removed, the better for me. Although with him being an ally, things would've moved more smoothly… Anyways that's not the important part of this night!
Ruby Rose, she wars red.
Ruby Rose, she has a scythe.
Ruby Rose, she wants to be a hero.
Ruby Rose, she has Silver Eyes.
Ruby Rose, she isn't cuter than my daughter.
"KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE!!!!!" I howled up into the pale moon, which was shattered into hundreds of pieces.
Nobody dared to come out at night and they preferred that way. Staying indoors was the safest option during the night for the night was the time for slaughter and gang wars. But then again, it wasn't that dangerous since the gang wars stopped completely. There was just… this one faunus to be careful of. The faunus who conquered all of the gang members in Vale and who established some of his businesses in the three other kingdoms.
The night was the time for him, and he wished to be silent if possible and for the people who lived with him in the same city, they complied with his wishes.
The faunus' name is Farang with no given last name. He has distinguishing features of blood red spider eyes having no pupil or sclera, just… blood red. He is, with no doubt, a spider faunus and has six of his blood red eyes stuck onto his face.
He has many titles: vigilante, psychopath, the most wanted man in Vale, the Spider of Vale, and sometimes people call him a hero, but I will never accept that. I am the most notorious criminal in Vale who left several victims traumatized, who showed signs of cannibalism and was strong with no doubt. And with the recent confirmation, I believe I can go to the next level of obtaining power.
Far across to the north, the fires burned and the light illuminated the dark city of Vale providing warmth and comfort.
What a wonderful world.
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Did I mention that I was reborn into this fucked up universe?
Tried my best to follow my original first chapter.
Ahh... this is so much better... I can feel it... the improvement of the plots... Now I can mind-fuck my cute little readers at a higher magnitude~! Tee-Hee~!
Just kidding folks. Nothing to worry about. And yes. Roman Torchwick is dead.