Hey guys King Sorrow here, I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in so long, but with the holidays, work, writers block, laziness and some really good anime that I just had to watch. I was having trouble writing, but I'm done with Chapter 8, I worked hard, wrote more then any other chapter and to make up for not updating in so long, I put a twist in on this chapter that is going to knock your socks off. I hope you enjoy and I hope I did well on it. Well enjoy and let me know what you think I do love reading the comments. Ciao.
Blake snapped awake and sat up in bed, her body in a cold sweat. "What a nightmare, I guess I'm not as heartless as I thought I was." She muttered flopping back down on the mattress trying to get her heart rate down. The dream had been so real she could feel the trigger against her finger and the sound of the gun shout sounded over and over in her head. She tried to get back to sleep but it eluded her. Instead her mind was plagued with the events of the previous day. After tossing and turning for nearly an hour she sat up in bed. ' This is pointless, I'm not getting back to sleep.' She thought throwing the thin sheet back and stepped onto the floor.
She rummaged through her dresser and got dressed in a pair of black fitted jeans and a white tank top and pulled her boots on. She grabbed gambol shroud in its sheath and strapped it over her shoulder, before heading out her door. The hallway was empty, the lights had been dimmed. A moth that had found its way inside and was fluttering lazily around one of the lights. Her foot steps echoed around her in the hall as she walked through the dorm wing of their base.
She reached the door at the end and pulled it open entering into the main entrance room, unlike during the day where it was usually full of people and busy at night only four grunts where here acting as guards two of them guarded the door at the far end of the room where only high ranking members where allowed in. she had seen Adam take the Dustologist and the dust crystal in there when they had returned from the mission. The other two guards milled back and forth through out the room.
Blake ignored them as she headed towards the front door. None of the guards would bother her they weren't their to keep people from leaving. She reached the door and walked outside the night air was warmer then the air had been inside the complex.
"Look another one has came out for the night." A grunt standing beside the door on guard duty mumbled. Blake glanced at him but didn't comment, she headed west, the place she was going was her favorite thing about the White Fang base, and she was the only person that knew about it. It was located away from the base's grounds and way off into the forest.
It didn't take her long to leave the base's grounds and enter the forest. The ground of the forest was covered in a carpet of bright yellow leaves. She walked through the forest, the ground inclining steadily as she went, their wasn't an actual path that she followed through the trees but she had come this way so many times she reconized every tree that she passed.
The farther she walked the more the ground sloped upwards. Soon she was leaning forwards to keep herself from falling backwards. A tree had fallen since the last time she had been here. She placed her hands on the smooth trunk and vaulted her lithe body over it effortlessly. Her feet landed on the other side on the loose leaves and she lost her footing. Her heart jumped in her chest as she fell, her butt hit the ground hard and she banged her elbow against the fallen tree. "Ow, damn it, that was super graceful." She grumbled thankful that no one was around to see that. She got to her feet rubbing her elbow, her aura had protected her from scraping or bruising her elbow, which was good, Adam would have made fun of her if a tree had broken her arm.
She continued on up the hill, it was getting so steep that she had to hang onto the trees so she wouldn't fall backwards. A few more minutes of walking or climbing how ever you wanted to look at it and the ground leveled out she stood there catching her breath, the level patch of earth was only about two yards long then it dropped off into a bluff. This was her favorite place. From here she could see a massive lake below outlined in the bright orange and yellow topped trees and over head you could see the could see a breath taking view of millions of stars.
Movement caught her eye and her head snapped to the left, her hand going for Gambol shroud, she wasn't alone up here. Her heart rate, already high from the trek up here beat quicker as she switched into attack mode.
Before she pulled Gambol shroud from it's holster she saw who was up here. A lone figure sat on the edge of the cliff, wrapped in a red cloak. She relaxed recognizing the cloak, 'so this is the other person that guard mentioned.' Blake thought moving her hand from her weapon. She felt a little sad that her place had been found but she shrugged it off.
"I see you found my secret place." she said softly, hoping she didn't startle the girl so bad she fell of the bluff. Ruby's head snapped around to look at her, her black hair edged the hood of the cloak framing a pale round face stained with tears and silver eyes red from crying.
Blake blinked taken back a bit, this was the first time she had seen the girl with her mask off and it surprised her. "I-I'm so sorry." She stammered, "I didn't know this place was taken, I'll go." she started to stand.
"No it's fine you can stay." Blake said walking towards her. Ruby hesitated a bit then sat back down, her feet dangling off the side of the bluff into open air.
"I found this place a few days after I came to this base, I come out here when I need to think." Blake told her sitting on the side of the bluff beside the red cloaked girl. Ruby didn't look at her, she dried her eyes on her hood, but never looked away from the lake below that shown brightly with the reflection of the stars from above.
"I love the view." Ruby mumbled. "Whats the name of this lake?"
Blake looked at her and shrugged, "I don't think it has a known name, at least I haven't found anything on it. But I like to call it Mare sidera." Blake told her
Ruby looked at her. "Why?" she asked. Blake looked back at the lake. "It's Latin for sea of stars." She explained.
"Oh, Mare sidera." Ruby said softly, getting the pronunciation right. "it suits it."
Blake nodded and the girls sat in silence each in their own thoughts, just watching the calm surface of the lake. They stayed like that for a time, neither of them moving.
A strong wind blew across them billowing through Ruby's cloak, and blew her hood off her head, " I can't get that man's face out of my head." Ruby said suddenly. Blake glanced at her but didn't say anything as the girl continued. "He's in my head and my dreams, I keep hearing his voice, seeing the look in his eyes, and feeling myself pull that trigger." as she spoke her voice became more and more unstable. "Why did I pull the trigger!" she yelled out at the open expanse in front of her.
Blake looked away as Ruby started crying. She felt her stomach twist at her words as she realized she felt the same way about it. She shouldn't have fired that gun, she could have ran.
She stiffened as she felt Ruby lean against her, her arms wrapping around her. "I'm sorry." Ruby said as she felt Blake stiffen, " We barely know each other, you probably think that I'm a stupid child who can't control her emotions." she started to pull away. "No that's not it." Blake said quickly making Ruby pause in a weird position between hugging and not hugging her. "I've just never been..." Blake trailed off.
"You've never been hugged before?" Ruby asked incredulously. Blake shook her head, "i didn't know my parents, and I was raised in the White fang..." she stopped talking again, unsure as to why she was talking so much to this girl that she barely knew.
Ruby wrapped her arms around Blake and rested her head against her shoulder. "I know its weird but I latch onto people when I'm upset." Ruby explained. Blake shrugged trying to relax, she felt hot as if her body was on fire and heart beat was going crazy. She'd never felt this way before. They sat in quiet for a time, Blake felt like she was going crazy, part of her wanted to move away and another part of her wanted to get closer and she didn't know what to do. Blake tried to think of something to get her mind off the arms surrounding her, she looked around and spotted the small horns sticking out of Ruby's hair. "That reminds me." Blake said. "i have a question."
"What?" Ruby asked not moving.
"what are you exactly?" Blake asked curious. Ruby jerked away from Blake as if she was on fire. "What do you mean what am I?" she asked her eyes darted around wildly. "I'm a faunus just like you."
Blake arched an eyebrow at her reaction, "i know that, I was wondering what type." Blake explained.
"Oh, well that's kind of embarrassing." She said softly and settled back against Blake wrapping her arms around her again.
"Whats so embarrassing about it?" Blake asked.
"I'm a deer faunus, which is why I keep my horns shaved down." Ruby mumbled clearly uneasy about sharing.
Blake caught on quickly. 'So that's what Adam meant by his comment when I first met her.'
"Ruby, only male deer faunus have horns." Blake said. She felt the arms tighten around her. "I know and I'm not a dude I swear, I'm just weird, and everyone makes fun of me for it.
"I won't make fun of you." Blake told her smiling slightly.
"Thanks." Ruby said and they continued on in silence.
Blake was beginning to get use to the being hugged thing. Ruby broke the silence.
"How are you dealing with killing someone so well?" Ruby asked her. Blake thought for a bit before answering. "I'm not dealing with it well, I'm just good at controlling my emotions." she said coolly. "I feel exactly the same way you do."
"That we shouldn't have killed them?" Ruby asked her softly. Blake nodded. "i do feel that way now, but we didn't have a choice, Adam would have killed us if we didn't show loyalty." Blake said.
"So it was kill or be killed." Ruby asked. She had thought that was what would have happened.
"Yeah." Blake said. Ruby felt her self relax a bit knowing that she really didn't have a choice.
"What have we gotten into?" she asked not expecting an answer. Blake stayed silent but put one arm around the younger girls shoulders. They stayed like that until the sun started to rise of the yellow trees making them look like they where on fire.
"It's morning already." Ruby mumbled watching as the sunlight chased the darkness away. Blake remembered a line from a book she had read some time ago. "Just as the light of the dawn cleanses the world of darkness it to erases the pain, leading us to a new day within the light." Blake quoted.
"Whats that from." Ruby asked, "A book a read once." she explained then continued. "Come on we need to head back."
the two stood and headed back to the base.
Back in her dorm room. Ruby stood in her bathroom in front of the mirror staring at her reflection. She had the shower on full and steam was starting to fill the room.
She felt better thanks to the talk with Blake, but she could see that something had changed in her eyes.
She shook her head and looked once more around the bathroom for cameras or listening devices, even though she knew their were none in the bathroom, she had already scanned it twice. And their was only three listening devices in her room. Thanks to the shower running no one would hear her. She watched herself in the mirror that was beginning to fog as she reached up to her head and pulled off the small antlers that where attached to her head my small but strong magnets that had been placed beneath her scalp.
Right now Ruby Scarlet the Deer Faunas was gone, in her place was Ruby Rose. She pressed her finger against the communication device that had been set into her throat, she heard a buzz in her ear telling her that she was connected.
"This is Agent Red checking in." she spoke