HxH Chapter 6: Timing it just right-part 2
Illumi came walking in while holding both their disguises in one hand, following behind him was his family. Illumi had planned to ask Rui some questions, after Ruby would leave to go to her match; He plopped the cloaks on Ruby's lap, only to have Ruby glance down at the cloth that laid before her eyes.
"I doubt you'll no longer need them since the audience knows of your identities..." He stated, with his usual monotonous voice and black emotionless eyes.
"T-...Thanks...and yeah... I know, we won't be needing them anymore... I just hope none of the SGS-... N-Never mind..." Ruby trailed off in reply, with sorrow barely showing itself in her eyes and voice. Keeping up a tough and stoic front, is hard since she holds so much pain inside her heart.
Milluki narrowed his eyes slightly at the abbreviations 'SGS-', while the others yearned for a proper answer. Illumi was curious about Rui but, had the hunch that she was the type to respond in such a way during combat, also understanding that there are people out there that lose their conscious and become hostile if they get hurt; He knew about SGSF when Rui had slipped it out accidentally.
"She's...like a bee...no- more of a wasp... If someone hurts her bad enough...she'd lose all emotion in her and something inside her takes over; Making her react upon instinct to fight back... Much like a wasp, since wasps sting a person more than just once..." Ruby explained, hoping for their comprehension though surprisingly they did.
"I see... I presume your the same...?" Silva asked, to that Ruby shook her head while peering down at her feet, with deep thought in her eyes.
"No...Rui... She was...beaten a lot... That's all I'm going to say...and that 'that' instinct just so happened to grow in her, over the years..." Ruby replied with grief and regretful memories of seeing Rui being held down and mistreated badly, with cuts, bruises, tears down her face and screams followed by begs from her, asking them to stop hurting her. They were in their white confinement room, Ruby was tied back on a pole so she wouldn't get in the way, of the guards beating her twin down.
Kikyo's face seemed rather mournful in the face, Milluki had a questionable look, Illumi blinked and moved his head slightly, Silva closed his eyes then nodded and Illumi's grandfather just sighed, doing the same as Silva who had sighed.
"I understand... Pain can truly change a person regardless of how innocent, pure or gleeful you are..." Silva said, opening his eyes to her once more. "I will say this now... You've mentioned SGS...F, I'm assuming you're hiding that from us because your cautious and protective over your sister, and trying to stay in hiding from...them... I've heard of that facility... I am unsure though, as to why your so silent about it..." Silva stated; He knows full well why she was silent about SGSF, she didn't trust anyone...
"I tried so hard...for the passed three years, in keeping that facility out of conversations...out of everyone's minds and lives... Seems that I have failed... Please...don't harm us...don't kill us for being out of that horrid hell of a science facility..." Ruby pleaded them, hoping they wouldn't call the facility and tell them about the Twin runaways.
"You needn't worry... We don't kill, unless we made a contract..." Illumi reassured, with his usual blank eyes. To that Ruby's eyes widened, she knew of assassins, mercenaries, rogues, warriors and such in which she had whole heartily avoided up until now. She prayed in her head that the SGSF people, wouldn't make a contract with them.
Ruby nodded, after closing her eyes in thought. "I best head out to the arena... My match is coming around in approximately 5 minutes..." With that Ruby stood up and made her way over to the end of the hall, where you step out into the arena floor.
"Hmmmm...?~" Hisoka hummed to himself in his head after ease dropping into the conversation, he was behind a wall with his head turned toward their direction. "So..They're from the Science Facility, eh...? I knew Ruby seemed familiar...~" The scene switched to show his mouth smirking, not from mischievous thoughts but from thinking back in his head, about the memories he held.
The scene switched over and shown Illumi talking to his family, his family walked away heading back toward the audience's bleachers, with one of the members waving slowly with their back turned. Illumi looked over at the unconscious Rui or as Cocco said..'R2', he sat there waiting for her to wake up.
Five minutes had passed and Ruby was shown leaning against the wall, diagonally with her arms crossed and her head tilted, so it'd rest on the wall just like her shoulder. Her hair was in her face and her eyes were still in deep thought; Cocco's voice had interrupted the path to memory lane in her head, when she had announced the next two fighters who were some other lady and ...R1, which was Ruby.
Knowing she had to leave her sword behind, she had to rely on her talons and her light conjuration. Ruby being a conjurer and an enhancer, much like her sister...she was more unique in her ability. "I may have to check up on Soren, after this match... He's probably hungry... Too bad they don't let pets or animals into the arena, they said it was considered a weapon..." She spoke to herself, in her head.
Ruby smacked her palms on her cheeks and had her eyes closed tightly, she opened them then composed herself to her normal stoic look; She paced towards the floor and faced her opponent who looked like a 16 year old girl, with shoulder length red hair.
"LET THE MATCH- BEGIIIIIINE!" Cocco announced with gusto. The red head came after Ruby with her fists ready, her attire looked like that of a ninja.
Ruby ran after her opponent as well, she rose one hand with her talons ready to strike. Her talons brightened to white then swung at the girl, in which the red head dodged easily with decent speed. The lady appeared behind Ruby, jumped into the air and attempted a drop kick on the back of Ruby's head. With the same speed, Ruby had turned her head to peer at her foe with piercing hawk eyes.
As the kick dropped, Ruby moved her head slightly and caught the girl's foot with one hand. Ruby's ability to enhance, gave her the advantage to strengthen her attacks and personal strength such as grips etc. The red head twirled side ways swiftly, to bring forth her other foot; Simultaneously Ruby gripped tighter on the girl's foot and swung her out to the side, nearly touching the edge of the arena but, during that instant she dashed back at Ruby with haste. Throwing many punches, kicks and attempts of grapples, only to have them all fail in the end due to Ruby jumping back.
"You freaaak!" The red head shouted and ran after her with haste.
"BRING FORTH!-...COATING WHITE ICE!" Ruby shouted, at the same time slamming the palm of her hand down on the surface. White ice quickly covered the flooring of the arena and rushed towards the red brunette.
The girl made multiple swift back flips majestically, with the ice racing towards her. She jumped high into the air to dodge the ice, that just now masked the remaining surface she had jumped off of. "Tch..." Ruby said out of annoyance, then rose her arms up above her head.
"Thine light which held within the sword of spells, blind my enemy with thy light...Yee who peers down upon my soul..." Ruby chanted in her head, then a ball of white light formed above her head and her eyes turned pure beaming white. The ball dispersed gravely, blinding the red head that just landed onto the white ice but, fell on her butt due to how slippery it was. The whole arena lit up and only blinded the girl, not the audience. After using her attack, she launched high into the air, performed a quick twirl vertically, yet gracefully and had her wings wrapped around her body.
She unfolded her wings, with the same speed of her spin. "Thou who peers down upon me within the heavens, coat my feathers that art of razor with thine light!" She chanted vocally and had her arms out stretched to the sides; Her wings gleamed pure white, then flailed her arms in front along with her wings and shot out multiple feathers, that were coated in light. Her wings constantly flapped to shoot out feathers, though they weren't in sync, their speed made up for it.
~Back to Rui~
Rui groaned and slowly opened her eyes; It only took a few seconds after barely opening her ogles, when she instantly jerked herself to sit up on the couch. Her gaze was wide and her mouth were slightly apart. Noticing she was asleep on the couch, in the lobby; Recklessly moving her head about, trying to find her sister when she laid her eyes on Illumi, who sat there staring at her with no expression what so ever.
"I-Illumi..." Rui stuttered, she turned to sit right in the couch and faced the said man; She placed both her hands on her lap and tilted her head a little bit, making her antennas brush to the side with her head.
"Rui, I barely have time left... Do answer my questions..." Illumi warned then stated.
"H-..Ha...I-I mean ok!" Rui replied, then perked up after correcting herself.
"You may speak til your heart's content... I simply wish to know about SGSF...and why you fear that facility, as if it was hell itself..." He stated with his monotonous voice, staring at her blankly while sitting down across from her in a chair.
"Ruby said not to tell anyone..but...I feel like I can trust you." She said, though hesitating for a bit before baring details about the pains and horrors they had gone through, in that hell hole of a facility.
"W-...We were...test subjects..." She said with her eyes narrowing a little, in agonizing thought and moved her head down to face her feet. "When we turned 4 years old...they kept putting weird liquids in us and after they would stick us with the needles that had that in them, they would watch us... Moments later we would start to groan in pain...then the pain would get worse, the longer we had the liquid in us! We used to be human...but now thanks to those...strange liquid things... We're not anymore but, we're human at heart... They would kill the adults that were no longer usable, kidnap children to use as test subjects, kill children if their bodies weren't able to handle the experiments and even beat us, if we disobeyed them... They tied Ruby up so they could beat me up, all because I stood my ground against them and refused to do as they said... We heard screams every day, heard blood splatter in execution rooms, children crying out for their mother or father, children crying in general... Only one kid managed to escape SGSF without being noticed and...I don't remember the boy's name but, I knew that he had red hair. The boy with red hair...he was nine years old and we were five; He's only four years older than us. I've asked Ruby if we could help those people in the facility, help save them...but I didn't get an answer out of her since, the guards opened our room's door too quickly..." Rui inhaled then exhaled after explaining the details to him, only to have him nod in comprehension.
"I knew it...I knew you two looked familiar... Especially, my dear- Arch-Angel~" Hisoka said while coming around the corner he hid behind, gradually making his way to Rui and Illumi with his common smirk.
"Hisoka, you ease dropped on us...?" Illumi asked after turning his gaze to him.
"Yes...and now since my dear birdie had escaped the facility...I can tell her who I am... Long ago, I think she had a crush on me...a child's crush, but I couldn't help to feel the same... It felt like an angel was 'watching me'. Every time I would go near her, she would blush a bit and turn her head from being shy, I found that rather cute... Then one day I confessed to her and her face lit up like a tomato; She tried to hide it as much as she could, she never had the chance to give me an answer though, since I had escaped the day after I confessed.~" Hisoka chuckled at that joke, with his eyes closed and his hand close to his mouth.
"I knew it, your name did sound familiar too, I just couldn't put my finger on it...but I think...Ruby found out who you were... That's probably why I seen mixing emotional auras around her, during the second she seen you for the first time, in that dark alleyway and on that rooftop... You were the only person she had in her eyes, the entire time she was in the facility... Besides me of course...she actually looked up to you, she loved how you would smirk at anything mockingly, every time you would face something life threatening... When she heard you left...she cried herself to sleep... and never was herself again..." Rui replied, with sorrow embedded in her solid pink ogles. "Which also explains why...her aura was like that...she may not have expressed her anger in the fight with you...but, her aura was a bright, angry red..." Soft tears began to fall slowly, thinking about the pain they've went through and about Ruby. "Ruby-chan..." She whispered to herself, with her soft normal voice.
The scene shown Hisoka's smile fading into a frown, hearing that Ruby cried all night that fateful day.
(Listen to 'Gothic music- Eternal forest' with this scene about Ruby please! It suits it In my opinion~) *A flash back occurred and shown a 5 year old little girl with two pairs of small wings and feathered ears, crying on her bed really hard and curled up, with her pillow against her stomach. Many tears drenched her face as well her mattress; Her tears were heavy and her face was red from crying the entire day, when she heard of Hisoka's escape. "H-hisoka-kun..." Hic "Why..I thought you liked me...I thought you'd take us with you, if you were planning on leaving..." Hic "Why...? Whhyyy..?" As she laid there crying her heart out, Rui sat on her mattress with sad eyes, she never seen her sister act like that... Hisoka...was her first crush. The day after her heavy tears, she had changed; Her eyes no..face was as stern as it could possibly be. All the pain and torture pained her but, not as much as her broken heart did. The only piece of love she has now...was towards her sister, which explains her protective side.
"The horrors she had to face...were actually far worse than mine..." Rui peered down at her feet once more, then closed her eyes in thought.
Hisoka stared at her, his frown in plain view and had serious eyes, the scene switched to show one of his hands tightening into a fist, then switched over to his face once more. His frown turned in a passive smirk with closed orbs. Feeling anger for some reason, anger...knowing that had happened to her, he never felt this way before. "Well...If I had known she wanted to come with me, I wouldn't of refused. I guess I should have asked you two, to tag along...~" He said, still having his passive smirk, only to have Ruby butt into their conversation.
Ruby had just got done with their fight and was standing there in the hallway, just a few inches away from the three in the lobby. Her eyes wide and her teeth clamped tightly into view. "R-...Rui...Why...why did you tell them?! WHY DID YOU TELL THEM ABOUT OUR PAST?! THEY MIGHT TAKE US TO THE FACILITY! DO YOU HAVE ANY BRAINS LEFT?! They could kill us...or worse, send us back to that hell hole..." Ruby's body began shaking out of frustration, fear and the will of holding back tears.
"Ruby..." Hisoka turned to her, with his casual smirk and slanted eyes. He paced towards her with his hands stuffed into his pockets.
"Don't you fucking dare come near me, you ass hole!" She had gotten her weapon before coming back out of the hall way, she unsheathed her sword out and pointed it at him threateningly and defensively; Tears began rolling down her face, as her orbs narrowed during the moment when she drew her sword.
Hisoka paused in his pace and glared at her, with his unchanging grin; Illumi stared at her with his blank face, while Rui watched her act in such a manner that she had never seen her in before.
Ruby's sword shook with her body, which made light rattling noises. She turned her head at the same time, closing her eyes with her clenched teeth and falling tears. "No more...I can't take this anymore..." She spoke with her eyes shut and her breath heavy, as if she just got out of water.
Ruby swung her sword in front of her body like a fencer with open, narrowed, wavering peers. "THINE LIGHT WHICH HELD WITHIN THE SWORD OF SPELLS!...DISPERSE!" She yelled and the whole room lit up, blinding all three of them. The skill she used, was to teleport her elsewhere. With that Rui was grabbed by her twin and left the heavens arena. She took the time to teleport to the main lobby and grab Soren as well. The lady at the desk held personal possessions, that aren't allowed until the 200th floor.
Hisoka and Illumi stood there, slightly shocked at the sudden run. Illumi noticed Rui was gone, along with her twin. Hisoka stormed off hurriedly to try and catch up to Ruby with Illumi following behind him. "I can't have my arc-angel be a damsel in emotional distress...now can I...?" Hisoka spoke to himself in his head, while running after her..literally.