Ruby could hear muffled voices, her head pounded, though the feeling was oddly muted.
"Ah, it seems our simple soul is coming to."
Ruby opened her eyes to a sea of white, and she immediately shielded them, her headache just got worse.
"We apologize little one, we did not realize that our setting was so bright"
Ruby blinked, the spots clearing from her eyes, and she sat up, taking a look around the white expanse in which she found herself.
"Where am I?"
"I believe you have seen this place once before child, in a vision given to you by one of the relics me and my brother left behind when we departed your world."
For the first time Ruby looked at the speaker, The God of Light, and his brother The God of Darkness.
"You mean we're in between realms right? In between Remnant and the afterlife?"
"That is correct, and like before we have brought you here to give you a choice."
"When we departed from this world, we left behind seven things in total. We left the four Relics embodying the core aspects of mankind, as well as Ozma, and his lover Salem, we also left behind the magic in the crust of the planet, with nowhere to go it crystalized into what you now call Dust."
"Every time the relics are used, we notice. While we departed from Remnant millennia ago, we still are not omniscient, so to see whether or not Ozma has united the relics, every time they are used, they draw from our power."
"But, this most recent time, we have seen an error in our judgement. And we seek to correct out mistake"
"And that brings us to you."
Ruby, who at this point had just been absorbing information, looked up to the Gods and tilted her head to the side,
"Me?" She asked while furrowing her eyebrows
"You are unique in this situation, you are the last in a long string of incredibly rare individuals, and you possess a certain quality like none who have followed Ozma before"
"The chances of you happening to join Ozma, and possessing the qualities you do is astronomical."
Ruby was thoroughly confused now,
"But? What makes me so special? Apart from my silver eyes I'm just an ordinary girl. What make me so unique?"
"You are Ruby Rose, A silver Eyed Warrior, yes. But you also have an aspect to you, something that drives others to go on, an inspirational spark that pushes others forwards even in the darkest of times. An beyond that, your very soul contains an aspect that is rarely seen, even less so in those with silver eyes. You Ruby Rose, are a Simple soul, a soul with no corruption. Even further you have an Honest soul, one that bleeds for others. Truly you are unique because your compassion is at the core of your very being."
"And so Ruby Rose, We offer a choice."
"We realize now that the task given to Ozma is impossible as is. And so, we have decided to give him a hand, so to speak."
"Your choice, is either to retire to the afterlife, or, should you choose, to go back."
"Go back? Like to being alive?"
"In a manner. We mean to say that you could go back to before, to have another go at it, if you would."
"Wait you mean? Like? In Time?"
"Yes, We would send you back to before, a place in time where you could make changes, fix the future."
"I'll Do it. If it means saving lives, ill forgo my chance for rest, and I'll go back to before"
"Very well. We realize that your foe is still cursed with immortality, and that by going back you will lose everything, for a chance at something else."
"Knowing this, we will send you back with a boon."
And Ruby awoke, lying on the ground in the streets of mantle.
