She looked different- black hair, different clothes. She was hanging from a chain attached to her ankles. She looked asleep, or dead. Either way she was very pale. Sam looked around cautiously. There seemed to be no one here.
"Ruby?" he asked. "Well, I don't know if that's still your name or not, but hell...it's not like you care," he mumbled.
She opened her eyes, which were black. But they instantly flickered back to the human form. "Hey, Sam," she said in the same sarcastic, sweet voice that she always greeted him with. "I'd love to hang here and talk, but this really isn't the best place."
Sam rolled his eyes. "Okay. Um..." he found the piece of metal that the chain was connected to. He guessed that if he got that undone, the chain would loosen and Ruby would be able to get down. Sam glanced around the room. No one seemed to be there.
A table was littered with empty syringes. He was pretty sure he knew what they had been used for. Ruby made an impatient noise. Sam was brought back to his present situation- getting Ruby out of here.
He began to let the chain down. Ruby dropped closer to the floor. "Oh, Sam," said a voice behind him. Sam turned around, letting Ruby drop with a thump to the floor.
"Oww!" Ruby said.
"Looks like this is our lucky day," another voice said. Now there were two of them, a man and a woman. Both of them were demons.
"All of them in two days. Let's see. First Dean. Now we get Ruby and Sammy boy," the woman leered.
Sam looked around. Sam had a flask of holy water in his jacket pocket, but five more demons had entered the room through several doors leading to the back of the house. Sam didn't think he would be able to get both himself and Ruby out. And Ruby didn't look as though she could help him fight their way out. She hadn't moved from her position on the wooden floor.
"I can only imagine how you must feel, Sam. I'll bet that you are wishing that you had listened to everything Ruby told you. I'll bet that you wish you would have taken her advice, wondering why you didn't," someone else said. There were ten of them now. Sam was trying very hard not to show how scared he was getting, and how angry.
"It must be hard to know that you're up here, about to die. And knowing that at this moment your dear brother is down in hell. His flesh is probably sizzling off his bones, making a nice barbecue," the demon who said it smiled a twisted smile.
"Shut up," Sam said between clenched teeth.
"You're right. Jake, get them back up there," a woman pointed to the rafters and the chains. "I think it's time to show our true colors."
The man started to lift Ruby up again. But he was instantly engulfed in an orange light. He fell to the floor, blood spilling everywhere. Ruby was standing, though she looked weak. "Anyone else want to try?" asked Ruby. "I'm ready."
Sam found it hard to believe that she wasn't human. It was even harder to believe that she was a demon, because she looked frail. It was actually sad to see her standing there, acting so tough, and trying to hold off twenty demons with only one knife, when Sam doubted that she would live much longer. "Hehem. Sam, I could really use the help," Ruby said.
"Oh, yeah," Sam said.
"I really don't think that you're going to be doing anything." And they closed in on Sam and Ruby, circling them with their evil grins.
Well, I'm going to try to update quicker for anyone out there who still wants to read. Please review and tell me what you think!