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Chapter 50: Sadism of the Rose
(Que Story OP – Hello Sleepwalkers "Hyakkiyakou")
From Yang's question, Yoruichi gave the short backstory of the Bount, or to be more accurate vampires as people through history have called them. That proved to be a slightly creepy and awkward analogy considering vampires were also told in Remnant. Kind of puts in perspective if such parallel myths can be true for one world or both.
The Bounts are or rather were a race of spiritually-powerful people whose souls went through a mutation in the reincarnation process that made them immortal. However, like almost every critical decision that effects the Physical Realm, the higher-ups in all their nonexistent wisdom decided to eliminate the entire population. A truly lousy choice that was. The Bounts could have been used as an allied force to the Soul Society that kept tabs on the happenings of the Physical Realm that could fall in interest with the Soul Society.
Central 46 made sure to fix the reincarnation process so no more Bounts can ever be born into the world again. Which meant the Bount that Yoruichi and RWBY had been tracking down is one of survivors of the massacre, possibly part of a group. That is what Ruby at least assumed. It sort of reminded her of the time with trying to catch Torchwick from stealing Dust, only to discover too late he was part of a much larger and horrific scheme that costed many innocent lives. A seemingly city-class thug teamed up with a dangerous terrorist organization as the White Fang under the thumb of Cinder who was also under the thumb of Salem.
Cinder. Ruby doesn't always think up on that name, and before she came to Earth as a dead soul that has been a passing thought since she was believed to be killed by Raven. Now as she thought of the ash-haired pyromaniac, Ruby could not quell the boiling anger that made her fist clench tightly to pierce her skin if it weren't for her dense Aura and Hierro. She had caused so much suffering and saw the smile she had in tormenting others. For what purpose? For power? For enjoyment? Servant of Salem or not, Cinder was the one who brought Beacon, one of the pillars of strength in Remnant, to the ground and filling the once grand halls of the school with Grimm.
'And I had such a chance to stop all of that.' Ruby thought bitterly.
The worst of it all was that there was a time where Ruby could have stopped Cinder, right when she first bumped into her at the halls. She should've have been more suspicious, maybe asking others from Haven if they were actually from their school. Reported to the staff. Asked Ozpin. Anything but no Ruby did nothing, and because of that people got hurt. Because of her Penny died-
Ruby violently shook her head once she realized where her thoughts were becoming less rational. Ever since becoming an Arrancar, her line of thought has been much more prone to go wild with emotion than usual. She should not brood over the past like that. That was then and this was now where Ruby can still do good for the better. No use in going on a rampage while howling towards the moon.
Isn't this quite the joke she was in? By all accounts, her Hollow basically makes her a werewolf, and now vampires have joined in the crazy of it all. If this isn't a bad Halloween joke, then Ruby didn't know what this was.
"So... we're basically vampire hunters now." Yang spoke up in the long silence.
"Ooh, do we get to stab some bad guys with wooden stakes?!" Nora cried ecstatically, and somehow holding up a wooden stake.
"Calm down, Nora." Ren reined the hyper orange-head in.
The Mod Souls, RWBY, JNP(R), Senna, Kisuke, Tessai, Yoruichi, and the super-powered kids were currently seated in Kisuke's candy shop around the small table where Yoruichi was giving her explanation on the tribe known as the Bounts.
"You know," Jaune said, "I came to Beacon just to make my parents proud. When and why did our lives become this crazy?"
Weiss sighed in defeat. "I think none of us were ever going to have a normal life."
"Preach to the choir." Ruby snarked playfully.
In comparison to Ruby, their lives were more or less normal since they weren't a walking freak of nature. Not that she was complaining, but all those hopes of a 'happy-ever-after' or whatever peaceful end like in those stories she used to read is out the window. Only Ichigo shares the same fate.
"Normally, Bounts only eat souls during a Konso." Yoruichi explained. "However as I and RWBY found out, the Bount that we are after is eating live souls."
"Not to sound pessimistic, but she may not be alone in this." Ruby added. "Nothing is ever that simple."
The Remnanties nodded in agreement. Their own past experiences ever since the fall of Beacon to the near-apocalyptic incident in Argus taught them that. Whatever situation they were in, it was bound to get worse. As paranoid as that sounded, it was a sure way of thinking of living through all of this without their guard down.
"Too true, Pup-chan." Yoruichi agreed, making Ruby's wolf appendages hidden by her gigai twitch in annoyance at the nickname. "For all we know, the Bount could be a member of some sort of variant that split off from the tribe."
"And we're still sitting here doing nothing!" Snapped Ichigo. "There could be more victims right now."
"That's I and my team have been doing for these last couple of days." Ruby interjected. "Since we can't trace their spiritual pressure normally we have to settle with more traditional ways of tracking them, and Team RWBY is by far the more hunting oriented group here. It's what we've been trained to do."
"And you really can't do anything if you can't track them... until now that is!" Kisuke said with a dramatic flair, pointing his fan at Ririn, Noba, and Kurodo. "See, these Mod Souls have been fitted with a reishi detector to, of course, detect beings who have heightened levels of spiritual pressure. Even Bounts can't escape it.
"Also, I believe that Chad and Orihime could use the extra support." Kisuke continued, pointing his fan at the two humans. "Since our enemy is attacking living humans, it makes sense that they will go after those with higher levels of spiritual pressure. So we must do what we can to find them, and that leaves having these three stay with you."
"What about me?" Uryu asked.
Kisuke looked strained in answering. "Well, you see, Uryu, as I was trying to explain-"
"You don't have any powers anymore." Ririn interrupted rather violently.
The effect was devastating on Uryu. The air around him darkened in misery, and the former Quincy hung his head in shame. The others around the table flinched at the true, yet heartless reply from Ririn. Ichigo at least rested a hand on his shoulder to provide some comfort.
"Yeesh, you are one cold brat." Ruby said.
"She's even colder than Ice Queen." Yang quipped, though the usual humor in her tone was lost.
"For once, I am inclined to agree with you, Yang." Weiss said.
"Well... it is the truth." Ririn said, shrinking back as everyone more or less were ganging up on her for the blame.
"Now then," Kisuke said as he got back onto the topic, "Kurodo, I think you should go to Orihime's place."
"Well, if I must." Kurodo replied with a blush.
"You better not let anything happen on the sweet cheeks." Yang said in a threatening tone as she cracked her knuckles to signify her threat and making the Mod Soul gulp.
"Noba, you go with Chad to his place." Kisuke ordered, getting a silent nod from the Mod Soul.
"Fine, since I don't get a choice I'll stay with the strawberry." Ririn said. "But once the trouble starts, you better stay out of my way."
"Kisuke," Ichigo said, ignoring the Mod Soul, "why am I stuck with the brat? Do I really need a radar?"
"HEY!" Cried Ririn in anger.
"It's not that I am not confident in your abilities to fight off the enemy, far from it actually." Kisuke explained. "In fact, I'd say you could take on most of the Gotei 13 by yourself at the level you are now."
"Why don't give her to Ruby or Ren?" Ichigo suggested.
"Oh please do." Ruby added, her sadist smile forming. "I would like to test some new... methods for disciplining bratty children when they don't behave."
Ruby's silver eyes locked onto Ririn, and the Mod Soul froze. Instead of the silver eyes, the Mod Soul saw Ruby standing there with pupils of burning crimson and a smile so wide it revealed sharp canine teeth. All the while Ru- the demon - was holding onto a length of chain and a black whip ready to crack on her flesh. Overwhelming fear spread through Ririn like an assassin's poison, and she wanted to hide herself in the deepest, darkest hole to escape the nightmare that was sitting only a few feet away.
"Please no." Whimpered Ririn. "I'll be good, I'll be good, I promise."
"There'd be no point in sending Ririn to Ruby." Kisuke said, making Ririn relax and Ruby to pout in disappointment. "Ruby is a special case among us. As an Arrancar, and in that more attune to a Hollow, Ruby has a natural sense for reishi of any kind."
"Basically, I can sniff them out." Ruby simplified. "And from what I've learned, Bounts smell like a buffet while Hollows are like a trash bag. The dog puns would not stop."
"Are you sure you're not thinking from your stomach?" Yang said.
"Bite me." Ruby replied hotly.
"Wow, girl's got a good bark to her." Yang joked, making everyone in the room groan.
"Dammit Yang, that one's been used too many times." Blake said.
"But it's still comedy gold." Yang cried fiercely.
"And Ren here is the reserve and can fortify his home with Kido." Kisuke continued with his explanation. "The problem with you, Ichigo, is that you are severely lacking in sensory skills. Ririn is here to make sure that you are on top of the situation and not with your guard down when we need you."
"That's right." Huffed Ririn. "So you should be grateful that I am going with you so you don't get killed in your sleep."
Ichigo's last response to that was an eye twitch and then his usual scowl. And according to Ruby, it was the scowl for irritation if how far his lips curled down and the way his shoulders shook like a rumbling volcano. Still pretty funny though.
"Before I forget," Kisuke added on last piece, "I believe it's for the best to hide you in stuffed animals to avoid suspicion."
Noba made no reaction from the news and Kurodo was more calm if only for a single bead of cold sweat. Ririn's displeasure was fully disclosed to everyone as her face contorted into an expression of misery and horror at the fact she was going to change bodies into a toy of all things.
Seeing Ririn's displeasure to Kisuke's orders turned Ichigo's scowl into a smug grin. As for Ruby, her sadistic grin returned with greater force. Not only was it sharp enough to reveal the canine teeth in the back of her mouth, but the white of her right eye turned pitch black with a crimson iris to replace her silver pupil. She was going to have so much fun picking out Ririn's new body.
"Oh, don't worry, Ririn-chan." Ruby spoke so sweetly it could be considered poisonous. "I promise that I will pick the body that is just... per~fect for you. Fu-fu-fu."
Ririn didn't want to go in a dark hold anymore. That would not work at all. No, she needed to go into Hueco Mundo and find the most vile pit full of the worst of Hollows because that is safer than anywhere near Ruby. As she saw a dark aura of the abyss surrounding Ruby that was a glimpse to her darkest desires, Ririn had her back to the wall cowering in fear. She wasn't the only one as Blake and Weiss, being the ones closest to Ruby, decided to use Yang as a lifeline as she was the most tolerant of Ruby in her sadist mode. Not that any of them were completely immune to the terror that is the sadism of the Rose.
(Remnant)
With the favorite drunk uncle, or rather father, Qrow who was currently in his past time drinking whiskey, he suddenly froze up as long forgotten memories forced themselves to the surface. Memories that consisted of his late lover Summer and their rather explicit 'exploits'. He loves Summer to death, but it gave credit to Qrow's insanity how he put up with her in their relatioship. Or more accurately why he did not run away to the farthest reaches of Remnant for his safety.
When it came to 'fun' as consenting adults do (and Qrow was using the term 'consenting' loosely), Summer's interpretation was not sunshine and rainbows or that lovey crap. No, for the sweet and kind person that Summer was to the public, in private the woman, no devil, was a BDSM fanatic. The stuff that she did that could make the hardened villains of Salem squirm in fear was a real turn on for her. And Qrow had to be the 'lucky' guy to be her personal pet during their nightly sessions.
He still had phantom pains of the whip lashings on his ass and back, and his muscles would twitch in memory in how painfully stretched they were from the chains. And that sickly sweet voice that could make angels cry in envy, but Qrow knew perfectly well that Summer was no angel.
Now reminded of that fact that was Summer, Qrow realized their very spawn was with a man herself. Ichigo by the name if he remembered correctly. That boy... Qrow was going to pray to the Brother Gods that he's still sane if Ruby is anything like her mother. He was a good kid too with enough balls to literally snap sense into him. It'd be a shame if he broke.
(Back with the gang)
"So tell me, Ririn-chan," Ruby said sweetly as she looked over her handiwork, "how do you like your new body?"
Ruby decided to go along to Ichigo's house for tonight seeing how she was eager to give Ririn's new plushy body. Not that Ichigo could stop him since the moment his father saw the couple together walking towards the house he all but forced Ichigo to allow Ruby to stay. As he would have said that his house will always be a home for his 'third' daughter. That little tidbit from the former shinigami captain earned a kick to the face from Ichigo in annoyance. Just the usual as always.
"All... of... my... hate." Growled Ririn, but all she could really do in her state was glare.
"And your hate brings me joy!" Ruby cooed, but with a rather predatory gleam in her eyes.
"..." Ichigo had literally no words with only the cackles of Zangetsu Y in his head to keep him company, and Ruby at the end of the day was the strangest thing in his life despite Hollows and shinigami in his life.
Because right before his eyes could possibly be the most scandalous yet oddly cute little doll crafted by Ruby personally. Where and when Ruby had the opportunity to make it he didn't dare ask, or else he may lose his sanity. When he got home and offered whatever dolls he had from the time of Yuzu and Karin's time as babies as a new body for Ririn, the Mod Soul went on temper tantrum like a spoiled brat. That was when Ruby made her move popping out Ririn's soul candy and thus forcing it into a new vessel.
The vessel in question was a doll made to look like a miniature version of an ash-haired woman with a buttoned eyes painted black and orange. Now that wouldn't be a problem if the choice of clothing wasn't so... Well, off putting are words to describe it. In terms of actual clothing on the doll, it was more or less quite revealing with straps of black wrapped tightly around the figure of the doll with just a lot more modesty around the groin area in the form of black pants. The limbs of the doll on the other hand were tied back by string that looked oddly like chains that bound them to the doll's back seemingly painfully. And possibly the most disturbing about the doll was on the exposed stomach on the doll it read, "Ruby's Slave", complete with a black heart at the end.
So in short, Ruby made a BDSM doll for the sole purpose of humiliating Mod Souls by trapping them in this body. According to Ririn, it was going to permanent unless someone else ejected her soul candy. Ichigo was sure at this point that his sanity was lost at this point because he couldn't muster up any emotion to care at this point. That is what Ruby has done to him, and it won't be the end of it.
"So Ichigo," Ruby perked up, turning from sadist to sweet in an instant, "what do you think?"
"Just... why?" Ichigo managed to force out.
"Because I enjoy it." Ruby answered.
"This is-" Snarled Ririn. "This is just - awful! I'm a Mod Soul! I deserve better than this!"
"Oh no, no, no." Ruby said, wagging her finger in front of the doll. "You can only earn your privileges. Just be lucky I didn't decide to add a ball gag because we need you to talk to give Ichigo directions towards the Bount."
"But - But I hate this body!" Ririn whined.
"Well, unless you behave you will stay in that body." Ruby admonished. "So suck it up."
Ririn was about to exclaim more rebellious words until she suddenly went stiff. Ruby raised a confused brow until she started sniffing the air for reishi and her eyes widened when she caught the scent of a Bount. To her, a Bount's scent was similar to a Hollow's, which was a bunch of souls mixed together into one entity. Only the Bounts had a much more refined reishi to them while Hollows simply smelled disgusting.
"It's a Bount, isn't it?" Ichigo asked seriously picking up the situation.
Ruby nodded. "I'll go get my team."
Ruby's body fell limp as she ejected herself out, revealing her in her Arrancar form with the pair of wolf ears. The body turned into a soul candy that Ruby pocketed away and she opened the window to disappear in a buzz of sonido. Ichigo followed soon after ejecting his soul out of his body and picking up Ririn to give direction and then disappearing in a burst of shunpo. The hunt for killer vampires has begun.
In some part of Karakura, one Nora Valkyrie was already sharpening wooden stakes in preparation despite Ren trying to dissuade her from doing so. She was determined to be a vampire hunter the right way, and that's by stabbing someone with a wooden stake. If it weren't for their already estranged lives in the supernatural, they would've thought Nora had some psycho serial killer tendencies.
Okay, got this chapter done and we're halfway there to 100 chapters. I could've made this chapter longer, but I felt that it was necessary to put the rest of it into the next chapter. Besides, I am busy keeping up the quota for Rose Dragon Empress, The Sins' Return, and The Witch Princess of Chaos which have become huge hits. And that's not to mention the more stories that are being cooked up for the future.
Up next is Chapter 51.
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