Hey so this isn't another chapter, I've just edited a couple of things that I only just noticed one of my friends changed a few things without my knowledge and may have given a small spoiler for later chapters in the story, for those of you who noticed it (To be honest probably everyone noticed) I'm sorry and will try to monitor my content much more closely the next chapter will be up at some point soon, and I thank you all for your penitence.
And for those of you who have started reading this, I wanted to add this in just to say a few things before we start, the first thing I wanted to address is that things will get much better really soon so hold out, the next thing I wanted to bring up is that this chapter is more than likely going to be the worst chapter in this story and probably all my other Fanfic, not because it's poorly written but the content is just dark and well just something I wouldn't enjoy writing and finally for those of you who are wondering how long this will last I made five chapters that briefly go over what happens in the story and now I am grabbing small sections of each of those chapters and making full chapters out of them, so from here I have another five to eight chapters planned out and I should have more than that when this is posted so yeah it'll last a while and hopefully there will be much more to come, but let's get on with it.
Chapter 3
Another four weeks had passed and Ruby's arm had indeed returned, but each time it grew back they would cut it off again, not to demean or hurt her but to see how much further they could take it, and each time they cut it off it would grow back faster, it was a rather pleasant surprise to Ruby most of all. And eventually the experiments would grow more drastic as things went on, many of the experiments now no longer inflicted agonising pain and began to feel rather relaxing and even Ruby knew that was not good.
Once time began to fly by it didn't seem long but soon Ruby turned fourteen, that was when things went terribly wrong, at first nothing seemed wrong but it was the day after her birthday she came back to her cell crying, it surprised Raven to hear this, the last time she had heard Ruby cry was back when she had first arrived, she didn't even cry during the pain she endured after returning from the operations or experiments, Raven began to wonder what could have made her cry if any of that couldn't, it was then that the girl had walked into the room and approached the cells, she was also surprised to hear Ruby crying, she asked with a soft soothing voice, "Ruby what's wrong?"
Looking up to her friend she said, "I-I do-don't want t-to talk abo-abou-about it"
She inched closer to the cell bars and said, "if something happened I could go and report it, no one's allowed to do anything to you or anyone else in here without permission" Ruby just shook her head and shuddered, "Ruby can you come over here please?" The girl asked,
Ruby turned her head to the girl questioningly and asked, "Wh-why?"
She held up her book and said, "To give you your book for the week and you look like you could use a hug" she stated bluntly, she had given the young girl hugs before although they were very awkward as the girl had to reach through the cell bars and she had only given them to Ruby when she was in a very deep sate depressed,
Ruby shook her head and said, "I-I can't"
She asked Ruby "Why can't you Ruby?"
Ruby shook her head as tears began running faster and she said loud enough for both she and Raven to hear, "B-because i-it hurts t-to- to stand, i-it hurts to w-walk"
The girl raised her hood slightly to reveal two deep blue eyes and narrowed them as she asked softly "Ruby why does it hurt to walk, you can tell me, you can trust me"
Slowly Ruby began to calm down and nodded her head, "Y-your right, b-but please don't tell anyone else" she begged desperately,
This really surprised the girl rather than the confident and unnerving girl she knew Ruby had become, right now she seemed insecure, ashamed, embarrassed and scared, the girl said, "That depends on what happened, but if it's what I think it is then even I won't have a choice"
Ruby nodded again as she said, "O-ok, ok… I-it was ju-just after m-my exercise period an-and the guard he- he told me it w-was time for me to get back in my cell, I-I followed him a-and at le-least half way back to he-here, wh-when- h-he grabbed my arm an-and dragged me into an empty room" she paused as she tried to regain control over herself again before continuing and the girl was looking even more concerned than before, "H-he grabbed me b-by the collar o-of my- my shirt and ri-ripped it open and threw me to the ground, h-he ripped m-my clothes off and- and-" Ruby began to shrink in on herself and her left hand began to move from the stump where her right arm was supposed to be and unconsciously began to reach downwards protectively,
The girl quickly interrupted her before she could continue "You don't have to continue" she looked to Ruby with a saddened expression as she said, "Ruby I'm sorry but I can't keep quiet about this, if you can point him out we can catch him but you need to be brave enough to do this, can you do that?"
Slowly Ruby nodded and said, "I-I can but, I d-don't think I could- could be near him"
Nodding she said, "I'll be back with someone, I'll need you to tell him what happened, is that ok?" When she saw Ruby nod, she walked out of the room to find help.
Raven asked, "Are you going to be ok?"
Ruby shook her head and knowing that Raven couldn't see her said, "Y-yeah I'll be fine"
Even if Raven couldn't see her she could tell Ruby was lying, "Ruby please don't lie to me, I know that it's going to be hard but you've gotta get past this"
This time Ruby said, "B-but I can't, h-he did things t-to me an-and I-I-"
Raven interrupted her "Ruby don't think about it, that'll just make it worse, but remember you are stronger than this, you've been through much worse, remember when your powers first manifested, you went through a great deal of pain then, and I know that hurt more, I know it isn't the physical side that's making you like this, it's your fear, and I know your only fourteen but you aren't like any girl your age are you? Besides we can't have you like this when and if we are escaping anytime soon because I'm not leaving you"
Slowly gaining her confidence and taking in Raven's words Ruby said, "Y-your right, thanks Raven."
It wasn't long after the small talk she and Raven had that the girl came back with Dr Stein and a few guards, the girl said, "One of the men that you assigned to care for your test subject rapped her! That is inexcusable and-"
She didn't get to finished as Dr Stein yelled, "Silence!" She glared at the girl and continued, "He did as I asked of him to further our research and I will not have you, one of our hired mercenaries talking about how we should treat this specimen!"
The girl growled as she said, "She is only a fourteen-year-old girl! How could you do that to anyone!"
Dr Stein was about to retort but the door opened, and a young woman walked in her presence alone was enough to silence everyone. She wore her red hair in a waist-length ponytail, curled slightly into a loose ringlet, and had vivid green eyes. She also wore light-green eyeshadow around the far upper corners of her eyes, the uniform she wore was formed of garbs fit for battle and elegant attire, she walked over to the two who had turned quiet, she asked, "What is going on here?"
Before the girl could speak Dr, Stein said, "One of the humans you hired is telling me how to do my work and won't leave me to it"
The young woman turned to the girl with a raised eyebrow, "Now why would you be disturbing the work of my organisation when I have hired you to follow the orders that either myself or my people give you?"
The girl spoke the venom clear in her voice, "Because I won't just stand by while your men rape a fourteen-year-old girl to further your research!"
The young woman's gaze turned to Dr Stein, in her eyes held the look of a killer, the look of someone who had seen and dealt with death on a regular basis, she narrowed her eyes at Dr Stein as she asked, "Where is this man now?"
Dr Stein turned from angry and annoyed to mildly nervous as she answered, "He is right here, may I ask why?"
The young woman held her hand out and the man was pulled towards her only stopping when he floated right in front of her, she said, "I will not tolerate such monstrous acts! We are mutants not savages, we are better than the humans, and rapping one of our own, a young girl no less is no way to show it!"
Dr Stein spoke up hesitantly, "But she is a human experiment, we turned her into a mutant, she may be a mutant now, but it is because of us she is a mutate"
The young woman shouted, "That is no excuse, human or not rapping a child is not how we achieve our goals!" She reached towards the man and wrapped her fingers around his neck while he flailed then with the sound of a sickening crack his limbs went limp and his head slumped, "If I hear of this happening again next time it won't just be the culprit am I understood Stein!"
Dr Stein nodded fear etched on to her face, "As you wish" she walked off with her men following her after picking up the body to the mutant the young woman had just killed,
The young woman turned to the young girl, "Thank you for bringing this to my attention, you may return to your duties"
The girl nodded and said, "Of course" she went to take her leave before stopping and turned around to look over at Ruby,
The young woman noticed this and asked, "Is there a problem?"
Shaking her head, the girl answered, "No" and continued to walk out of the room.
The young woman approached Ruby's cell and asked, "Are you the subject they…" she stopped not knowing what to say but Ruby knew what she was asking and nodded, the fear in her eyes were evident to the young woman, "What is your name?" She asked,
Ruby slowly parted her lips and she struggled as she tried to keep a calm tone to her voice, "S-su-subject 3-9-5"
Shaking her head, the young woman said, "I asked you for your name, do you still remember it?"
Ruby nodded as she said slowly, "M-my name i-is Ruby Ro-rose"
Smiling the young woman said, "What a beautiful name, my name is Pyrrha Nikos" her smile faded as she asked, "Are you going to be ok?" Ruby nodded obviously too scared to do much else, as she glanced at Ruby's arm she noticed it was regrowing, it wasn't fast enough to be considered fast but only just enough to be noticed, she looked into her eyes and saw the fear they held, she sighed, "Ok then, I will see if I can convince them to stop cutting off your arm"
Finding herself able to speak now Ruby asked, "Y-you'd do that for m-me?"
Pyrrah's smile grew as she said, "But of course, I'm sure that they're just doing it to make everything harder on you, and if you ask me that just isn't fair"
As Pyrrah left the room Raven spoke up "I'd be careful if I were you"
Slightly confused by what her friend had just said Ruby asked, "But why? She seems nice"
Raven answered back, "That is Pyrrah Nikos, or as she's more commonly known as magneto, she formed the group keeping us captive, just because she's nice doesn't mean she's a good guy, no one ever sees themselves as the villain, and she is no exception. She is doing what she thinks is right but it's not the best option there is"
Raising an eyebrow Ruby asked, "Really? Then who're the good guys?"
Raven sighed as she said, "I don't even know if there are any, I've been in here for far too long to tell you if there ever was or will be any."
As I said before not a chapter I'm happy to have written but it was necessary for the story, I do hope you guys enjoyed nonetheless. On other news I have decided to try and work on some of the other stories I'm writing, but with that being said I will also be taking a break from writing this and Remnant Ghoul to do that, you don't need to worry too much about that though because I do have a few chapters for both FanFic's piled up and waiting to be looked over and edited by the friend whose helping me, so there will still be a bit to read from, I will also being posting another chapter for Remnant Ghoul later today, but with all that being said and done I guess all that's left to say if you haven't already please follow, favourite and reveiw, all constructive feedback is welcome.
