"You know, you guys aren't bad." Ruby said as Sabrina loosened her bounds. "Well, you don't seem to be a bad hostage." the older woman quipped.
"Just don't do anything stupid, Giorno's wife or not, you're gonna get disposed of, kid." Gonzaga warned.
"I think that's gonna be hard, my bestfriend always told me that I'm not very bright." Ruby squinted her eyes. She just needs to find the perfect opportunity to escape. Huntresses like her were already far above normal people in Remnant in terms of physical strength, but she still has to remain vigilant. For all she knows, they might possess the same abilities as Giorno...
Giorno. Is he looking for her? He seems to be the kind of guy who would.
But she knows that would be unrealistic. Bowing her head in sadness.
'Think of it logically, Ruby. He only met you yesterday... You didn't do anything to benefit him... Why would he save you?' but he did say something.
"I'll help."
Ruby sighed, once they let their guard down, she is going to escape.
...
It was the Camorre. A small mob that are quite big in loan sharking. But Giorno himself knows better than to take Abramio's word for it.
"That guy earlier, Abramio was it? How did he get ahold of you, Mista?" Giorno asked as they returned inside the HQ. "Well, he suddenly called me, I asked him how did he got ahold of my number but all he said is that he has friends in high places." Mista shrugged.
"What do you think, boss?" Fugo asked.
It seems like it was way too quick for them to actually obtain info about Ruby, it's been 7 hours at best.
Gripping the scroll gently, he sighed. Why did they abduct her? It could be quite a number of reasons. Sell her as a sex slave? The thought made him cringe. They might be waiting for the right time to ask for a ransom. All Giorno knows is that they won't get anything from him other than death.
"It might be farfetched but, it might have something to do with organ trafficking." Fugo suggested. "What, no way. Passione currently are the top of organ dealing in the black market ever since Giorno got ahold of it." Mista argued.
It was true. Organ dealing covered a whopping 38% of Passione's income. But they don't harvest them the way you thought they would...
Others resort in abducting people and collecting their organs. But them? Giorno won't stand for it.
Gold Experience Requiem converts non organic materials in to livers, kidneys, lungs, etc and the mob sells it. It was quite a more noble and cheaper way to replace the old barbaric method of taking lives.
"You two, I want you to investigate Camorre in the mean time. I've got something I have to try out." Giorno ordered. No questions asked, the two agreed and left.
"In the meantime... Breakfast." Giorno opened the fridge.
The doorbell rang, Giorno placed a glass of milk to the table and walked towards the door. It was one of his men.
"Boss, here is what you wanted me to retrieve." the young man politely handed him Ruby's clothes.
...
Ruby ran and ran. She ran until she reached a convinience store.
She had been tied up before, it's not the first time she was taken hostage. Her scuffles with Roman Torchwick led her to discover that her semblance can allow her to phase through the ropes and escape. But this time... Her team won't be meeting her.
She was lost. Literally.
She didn't know where to go, and to make things worse, her scroll was gone.
She slowed down after reaching an empty street. 'Where am I?' she asked.
Ruby wasn't used to being lost. But whenever she did get lost, atleast she was familiar with the place she got lost in. If she was lost in a certain part in Vale, atleast she knows she's in Remnant. But here... On this world, who knows how big it is?
She managed to knock out Gonzaga and steal his wallet.
Ruby entered a small restaurant and decided to take a breather. She sat down and started counting her money. A hundred and twenty five euros. "How long would this last..?" she wondered.
'I need to budget this...' she thought. A tanned boy of her age walked towards her table "Can I help you?" he asked politely.
"Huh... Oh!" Ruby exclaimed as she noticed she hasn't touched the menu at all. "Sorry! I was just about to choose, Mr... Oscar Pine?" she read his nametag out loud.
...
Giorno intensely followed the small toad GER provided. He turned Ruby's scroll in to the reptile and since the organism his stand makes used to track him down, Requiem had the power to command it to return to it's original owner.
It might take awhile, but he is getting there. The frog stopped at the foot of the door, but before Giorno could open it, it was sprung open by Mista, knocking the frog away and in turn, sending him flying 26 ft. from the door.
"Mista!" Giorno yelled in concern.
...
Ruby kept facepalming as she left the restaurant. She spent 18 euros on a plate of pasta and iced coffee. "Darnit, I have to make these last until I find Giorno..." She mumbled to herself. She knows it may take some time, and she doesn't want to steal cash once more.
'A place to stay, I need a place to stay...' she told herself. Deciding to crash on a rather dodgy motel near a park.
It was a breathtaking environment, but she didn't exactly reach a nice neighborhood.
"Room 5, room 5... There!"
Entering the room, it wasn't much but it's gonna get the job done.
It was a far cry from the place Giorno payed for her, or her home at Patch. 'I guess it's where people crash to when they need to... To...' she gulped.
Wondering how hot it would be if Giorno brought her in to one of these places.
Her face was burning red. "No no no! Not the time for that! I have to find him first!"
...
Giorno turned it in to a bird this time, but it started flying way too high for him to see. He turned it in to a rabbit but it almost got hit by a car.
He was running out of ideas.
Until he came up with a simple plan. Giorno will follow the organism he made, no matter how long it takes. He plans to set camps along the way so he can continue pursuing her trail.
...
Ruby frowned as she watched the news. Her particular neighborhood was quite a crime hotspot.
An 18 year old girl of her looks would be mistaken as an easy victim. But she was a huntress.
Although she was kind of glad she didn't fought back against those perverts the other day. Seeing as, she got saved by her hero.
'I swear, I won't take my eyes off him when I find him...' she told herself. Not because she likes him or anything. But because he is the only one who can help her.
Giorno described his bizarre dream as something not to be scoffed at. He met Neo. Although she could have asked him for more details if the kidnappers didn't interrupt.
But in all seriousness, they're quite nice people.
Removing her hoodie and tossing it to the bed, she entered the bathroom.
There was a weird, rubber like thing sitting on the toilet seat.
Ruby washed her face and tried to ignore it. But it stinks so bad.
"Ughh, what the heck is it?!" she crouched down and inspected it. It was quite slimy. Her eyes widened "Thank goodness I didn't touch that!"
It was a used condom. She saw them whenever Yang forced the team to watch porn out of curiosity.
"Ew, ew, ew!" she lifted the toilet seat up as the thing fell inside the toilet. She quickly flushed it down before sighing in relief.
Returning to her bed and lying down, she glanced outside the window and saw alot of sketchy people roaming about.
"Time sure flies quick..." she mumbled, averting her gaze towards the clock which says 3pm.
...
Her eyes opened after taking an afternoon nap. It was already 6:38 pm and she is hungry. "Wait... Does this place hav any clothes? I want to take a shower later..." Opening the cabinet, only to find towels and 3 new untouched red handkerchiefs.
She was not amused but decided to take one of the handkerchiefs anyway.
After finding out that the motel didn't serve food (no wonder it's cheap) she sets out to return to the restaurant. 'I have to buy some clothes soon... I feel bad because those clothes Giorno bought me were just sitting on that hotel bed- ALONG WITH MY ORIGINAL CLOTHES! Oh man...' she sighed sadly.
The streets are starting to get darker, Ruby was careful not to get too lost in her thoughts, or she might end up getting lost literally.
'I wish my scroll was with me atleast.' she huffed but she heard a scream from the other side of the road "MY PURSE! NO! PLEASE! MY MOTHER IS IN THE HOSPITA-"
"LIKE I GIVE A FUCK!" the thief harshly pushed the woman away.
Ruby gulped "Hey-"
A sound of glass breaking as two youngsters broke and enter a pawn shop.
"MY CAR!" an old man yelled as a tall skinny man stole his vehicle.
A sweat dropped from her forehead. This neighborhood was a war zone.
She was lost in her thoughts as chaos happened all around her. Was Giorno even aware of this? Is he letting it happen?
A sound of gunshot was heard from the small restaurant she was heading to, snapping her out of her shock.
Using her semblance to hide on another corner of a nearby building, she surveyed the situation.
3 burly men, holding pistols.
Ruby shrugged "Eh, I've seen worse."
Closing her eyes 'Remember.'
"Sis, remember, you can use your semblance to your advantage. Your rose semblance accelerates you in a linear path quite fast. You can use it as a hit and run tactic. You know, you should atleast consider it, just in case you accidentally let go of Crescent Rose mid fight." -Yang
Opening her burning silver eyes.
"Yes."
...
Oscar's eyes widened as a blur of red suddenly knocked the one wearing a vest towards the tables.
The small, hooded figure turned to face them, but her face was covered with a handkerchief.
"A girl?! T, I told you not to let your guard down!" the one with the tattoo looting the register screamed.
The bearded one holding Oscar hostage didn't take his eyes off the poor boy.
The tattooed one shot Ruby.
It hit her in the clavicle.
"Ow! Hey! Not cool!" she whined as she quickly scrambled to remove the bullet, her aura closing the wound in a high rate.
Oscar's eyes widened. 'She's superhuman!'
The one wearing a vest emptied his magazine on the huntress. "Die!"
But Ruby simply stood up and tanked it.
The sound of the final round hit the ground and echoed around the vicinity as everyone went silent.
"S-She is a monster!" the tattooed one panicked.
"There are things that go bump in the night. And we are the ones who bump back. Huntsmen! Not only we hunt creatures of Grimm! We also hunt creatures of evil!" Ruby yelled out, reciting Beacon Academy's Huntsman's Creed. (Non canon)
"Huntsmen?" One of them muttered. "Is that a new gang?" the bearded one asked.
Ruby puts her feet in a stride, raising her fists close to her face "Come at me, and you'll see... I'm more than meets the eye."