Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.

Chapter 39:

Yang sat on the Oriental rug, the material in which it was made of was handmade. It took several days for the manufactures to make something so beautifully crafted. Although she was too young Yang sill liked the rug. She might not have been old enough to truly appreciate the work that had gone into it, but she still liked sitting on it. On lazy days the young heiress to the Long Dust Company, would spend her time seated on the rug. She would run her hands through it, much like she was doing now.

"I'm baking cookies." A pleasant voice called saturating Yang's peaceful haze. The young blonde girl looked up and saw her mother standing in front of the oven. The stout yet beautiful women had her hands hanging at her side, which were swinging side to side happily. Yang smiled at her mother, but was confused. Why would her mother bake cookies? Yang didn't like cookies so who was she baking them for?

The answer wouldn't come for much later, for now Yang went back to sitting and runner her hands through the wondrous material of the rug. Unknown to Yang, her mother had the rug cleaned regularly. Her mother wouldn't have her daughter sitting on something so dirty.

Heavy footfalls thudded up the stone porch steps. Yang jumped up excitedly, not believing he would be home so early, and ran to the door wanting to open it. Marian laughed. Seeing her daughter being so eager pleased her, however the object of her daughter's eagerness brought a frown to her face. Marian huffed and thought, 'What will I tell Yang if Reginald brings Ruby? I argued against bringing another girl so close to Yang because of her depression.'

Marian walked into the entrance room and found Yang clasping the door knob. The woman stopped suddenly. Angrily she thought, 'How dare he…that son of a bitch, I told him not to.'

Beyond the door voices could be heard. Yang hadn't stopped because of her father's voice, no she hadn't heard his. Currently Yang was in shock, she couldn't comprehend any words; Yang could only hear a voice startlingly clear and beautiful. 'A child's voice.' Yang thought in awe.

Ruby sat in the cardboard box all alone. She sniffed and thought desperately, 'I don't want to be alone, and someone find me please.'

Suddenly the frightened girl heard footsteps. Startled Ruby wanted to stretch out, get up, and run away from the footsteps. I was the steps of a man, and she wanted to run away, but she couldn't move. Ruby was sealed inside of a cardboard box, with no air holes. But her elf nature let her go without oxygen as long as she was near a cursed object.

"No not that one." Said a coarse but strong voice.

"Yeah, I mean you heard the boss. Brother, he said; make sure to open the ones that respond, if they don't leave them alone." Said a second voice, much closer to Ruby than the first.

"Well we only have a few more to check, you take that one and I'll take this one. Once we're done with the two, we'll check the one with his daughter in it." Said the coarse voice.

"Of course brother. Although if you asked me, well I'm sure the only one who would survive would be his daughter." Said the second voice, although it was closer Ruby couldn't tell what gender it belonged to.

"Oh come on Severus, you're a mime. On the side at least. How would you know which one would live?" Asked the coarse voice.

"Well Sebastian, I do my fair share of research. I know that elf babies, and adults, can survive without oxygen. That is if they are near enough to a cursed object, material, or biological being." Replied Severus.

"Ha, I guess you actually do your research. Did you know what object Ruby would be using, if she were to survive that is? I mean these cardboard boxes? Are like 10 feet thick, they're monsters." Sebastian said.

"Mm that's an excellent question. I don't know. But if I had to guess, I'd say something along the lines of what the boss sort of vaguely hinted at; Ruby's half Beowulf. And as we all know a Beowulf is a very cursed creature." Severus said. There was a hiss of metal, and Severus chuckled. Ruby heard slashing, and she was suddenly afraid.

"Be sure to tell the boss you used the double katana to open the box. After all, we both know how picky he is about managing every little detail." Sebastian cautioned.

"Oh that is…wait listen." Everything had gone silent. Both the men had gone silent, and Ruby found she couldn't move. The voice that had just spoken belonged to her father; Reginald Rose to Ruby, but Mr. Long and sir to the people who worked for him.

"There she is. Boys careful on this one. I'm taking her to meet my other daughter, Yang, later on today. I don't want any of her skin to have marks." Reginald spoke in a voice that demanded compliance with absolutely no resistance to his orders. The voice was one he use regularly, he even used it with Ruby despite her being his daughter.

Ruby smelled an invading scent of lavender, and felt her eyes begin to droop. Her usually depressive thoughts turned rose colored. Ruby was too sedated to notice when the box fell apart around her, even when the top hit her on the head and crushed her, pushing her flat.

"Damn it be careful. God, I swear sometimes you two don't…" Reginald started to say

"With all due respect sir, we meant to incapacitate her. She had been screaming a lot lately." Sebastian interrupted.

"Well what has she been screaming? Words, phrases, what?" Reginald asked. He still used his trademarked tone, but in greater volume.

"I don't know, it was all in Elfish. Since I couldn't understand it and because it sounded bad, we merely took precautions to keep her from harming you, sir." Sebastian replied. After those words Ruby fell into unconsciousness.

Ruby woke to the words spoken in her father's voice, "Ruby wake up."

Ruby looked around her and saw she was sitting in the back of a car. Blinking her eyes, because she was so alert she asked a question that had instantly sprung from the depths of her mind. "Where am I going?"

"You my dear are going to…a house. You will encourage Yang, who lives there, to be a boxer, and I don't care what she says; just get it done." Reginald ordered his daughter in the same tone he used with the men serving under him, but with less harshness.

"Of course I'll to it daddy. Who will Yang be for me?" Ruby asked.

"She will be your sister." Reginald had spoken these words to Ruby while Yang had listened on the other side of the door. Marian had heard the words as well and wept. She was so glad to have another daughter that she didn't care where the girl came from.

Yang couldn't believe her ears. She was going to get a sister, and she was excited. "Oh mommy is it true?"

"*sigh* Yes Yang it's true you get a sister. And I get a second daughter." Marian said, secretly hoping she didn't get a daughter with chronic depression.

Yang at her mother's words opened the door. Reginald stood tall and proud next to Ruby. Ruby was shorter that Yang which pleased the blonde. Ruby had black hair with the tips highlighted red. "Pretty hair!" Yang shouted boisterously, trying to impress her new sister with her incredible lung capacity.

"Thanks. You're Yang?" Ruby asked.

"Of course, I...what are you wearing? It looks drab." Yang hadn't meant to be mean, she just had the habit of speaking her mind whenever the occasion permitted.

"Just PJ's. They're black with a red Beowulf on each leg. Oh and the shirt's just red" Ruby said smiling pleasantly. "Do you do boxing?"

"No but I will, only if you let me wear your PJ's." Yang said and laughed at the expression on the face of someone who had just turned her whole world around.

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A/N: I apologize for this one taking so long. I really had to search for inspiration for this one. Thankfully in my search, at least I hope, I managed to find inspiration for the next 20 Chapters including this one. Not much else to say, hope you enjoyed!