Chapter 3: Gemini
Two days went by after Ruby accidentally blurted out to her parents of Tanya's existence; Tanya and Ruby are within a psychiatric clinic that Tai arranges for them with the local doctor of their psychological appointment. The mental physician begins to discuss with Ruby Rose of her mental health, which both the patient and the doctor sat down on their respected chairs that are opposite to each other. Where Ruby simply dazes of what's around her while her right arm is wrapped with an aura detector machine to see if there's an odd change in her mental health or an anomaly in her aura.
To Tanya, she really wanted to strangle Ruby for blurting out a secret that supposed to be hidden.
"Alright then Ms. Rose, let's talk about your mental condition that your parents are getting worried over. So can you describe of whom this Tanya person is that you keep talking about her and when she first appeared?" When the physician stares at Ruby in curiosity and holding a clipboard in his hands to write down the possibilities, Ruby shyly dwindle her fingers around.
"Well…I met Tanya when I was small and we keep talking to each other as if I have another sister inside of me." When Ruby mention about her; she happily smiled on mentally talking with Tanya, in spite of disagreeing some of her ideas. Thinking they're both like twins.
How are we twins again? Oh, shut it, Tanya! When the two mentally spoke to each other, the aura detector went wild; making the doctor look at the bizarre results.
"Hmmm…it appears you have two souls, Ms. Rose. This is quite the phenomenon that I have never seen before in Aura Studies. Now then, can you describe more about Tanya in general?" Tanya quickly took control of her body and starts to answer questions for Ruby before she becomes a fool out of herself.
"Tanya…well, she's quite intelligent and a smart girl. As I'm quite of fond of her if you want to know." When Tanya took control of Ruby, her silver eyes changes to Tanya's signature golden eyes; making a sly smile towards the physician, making him notice of her sudden changes in her physical appearance and attitude. In a slight chance, this might convince him that they're both separate entities when he discovered their two aura signatures and possibly making her parents see she's another individual than a personality disorder.
"So this is the Tanya I'm talking to…right, Ms. Rose?"
As Tanya gave a long intelligent discussion with their doctor, thirty minutes have passed by and out came Ruby Rose stepping out from the clinic room into the front office, where Ruby's parents are waiting for her return and the mental results about her. Following beside her is the doctor who is holding his clipboard of the mental evaluation results from chatting with the two different personalities.
"So what is the results doc? Is my little girl Ruby going to be fine?" Tai stood from his chair and his blue eyes look down at his little girl nervously; Ruby suddenly changes her silver eyes to gold.
"Yes, Mr. Xiao Long. Your daughter is quite mentally healthy and is in fine condition. Although, she has an odd anomaly in her aura signatures so to speak; in which your daughter contain two souls in her body." When the doctor mention that Ruby has two souls in her, her parents and her sister open their mouth in shock of what they've heard.
"My sweetheart has two souls? How is that possible Doctor? Is it life-threatening?" This time, Summer spoke out and worried if the condition is life-threatening. But there was something else that Summer was hiding that Tanya has a gripping suspicion that their mother knows of this.
"No Ms. Rose, it's not life-threatening. But it's rather odd. To simplify of what I mean, you have another daughter that's stuck inside of Ruby's body. In my own assumption, Ruby doesn't have a split personality disorder. For she has two minds deciding on what should they do and each has their own respected auras. To find out about who's who, your daughter's eyes change color; indicating which is which. Silver is your daughter Ruby Rose and golden is your other daughter. For the girl who calls herself Tanya, she is quite smart and her aura signature is pretty huge. No doubt she will have a huge aura reserve when she unlocks it. On how this is possible, this is the first phenomenon that ever happened in Remnant." As the doctor explain Ruby's condition by sheer observation and educational guesses. Tai, Summer, and Yang were in absolute awe that they found out they have another daughter that's stuck inside of Ruby Rose. A quite intelligent one that is, but there's one question.
"Why do you call yourself Tanya sweetie?" As Tai look down at Ruby with golden eyes than her silver eyes, she calmly smiled at her father and answered his question.
"I found that name when I was reading a book about old Atlesian culture, which the name is a connotation to Fairy Princess in the old Atlesian tongue. If you have another name for me, I don't mine daddy." When Tanya professionally spoke to her dad, Tai happily smiled that she has another daughter. Well, stuck inside of Ruby Rose's body that is.
"Well, seeing you're quite smart and sometimes prickly. I think your name will be…Tige, but Tanya seems more of a fitting name if you ask me." Tanya raised an eyebrow at her dad when he called her a stem in French. In her opinion, Tanya sounded much better than her dad's idea calling her a stem. But something in his eyes, like they planned that name before.
"To be honest, I think I'll go with Tanya than being called as a plant stem dad. So…what now father?" As Tai look down at her other daughter name Tanya, who's waiting for his response; he looks back at the doctor and wants to know more about Ruby's twin souls.
"Doc, I want to know if having two souls affects their semblance. What is your second opinion on this?" When Tai told his question to the doctor, the mental physician simply rubs his chin to think of what it might happen.
"To theorize from my Aura Studies, having two souls might naturally develop their own respected semblance in the future; although, it just an idea that I came up with since this is the first time that ever happened. Depending on who's currently controlling who, their semblance and aura reserves will be present while the other soul is resting. But don't guarantee my word on that Tai, just a second opinion. I think you need to visit someone who specializes in aura than a psychiatrist." After the doctor finishes his assumptions, recommending on visiting an aura expert; Tai nodded to him and shook the doctor's hand on checking Ruby Rose's odd condition.
For Tai, it is going to be a long day for him.
Five days have passed after meeting with the psychiatrist. Tanya and Ruby waited for an aura instructor to check on their aura anomaly, but unfortunately, the instructor is currently busy teaching in Signal Academy. So their checkup will be postponed until the next month.
For now, midnight approaches as Ruby and Tanya are lying on their bed; the two souls begin to mentally argue with each other about what they should do in school. Rather they should stay in their current grade or skip ahead of their classmates to do both souls obtaining their College level intelligence.
Come on Tanya, Kindergarten is going to be fun for us!
No, I don't think befriending toddlers would be beneficial for us in the future Ruby.
Jeez, you're always the prickly one sis! Like come on, we need a friend to watch each other's back. You know…teammates!
Children that don't match our intellectuality would see us as the oddball in the group Ruby. It's best if we skip a grade ahead than stagnating with a bunch of children drool-
Before Tanya can finish her argument with Ruby, the door opens up to reveal Yang; approaching her two sisters who are trapped in a single body.
"Hey, Tanya and Ruby; I want to talk about our mother." The duo look at their older sister Yang who isn't being her usual cheerful self, making Ruby worried about why Yang felt so desperate of all the sudden.
"Yang, why do you look so sad, sis? Did something happen to you?" When Ruby saw Yang tears going across her face, she knows something isn't good.
"Summer Rose isn't my mother Ruby and Tanny. My real mother left me when I was born…" Ruby eyes went wide in shock while Tanya mutely didn't comment on the situation. Decided to leave the talking to Rose since she's more attached to Yang than her.
"Our dad discussed with my real mom and found an old picture of her in an abandoned house that's right across from our home. I want to find her, ask why she left me!" When she said that, Tanya quickly took control of Ruby when she immediately took note that Yang is being irrational about her statement and possibly leading to her death if Tanya didn't act soon.
"Finding her on your own and having no clue of where exactly she is? You fool! You're going to get yourself killed and we have no clue of where she exactly is!" Tanya angrily lashed out at Yang's idiotic statement. The Devil thought she would heed her warning. But instead, she got a dangerous glare from Yang's lilac purple eyes, burning with passion for finding out where Yang's real mom is.
"You're not going to stop me, Tanny! I will find my mother, no matter what! Even if it kills me, I want to find her!" Before Tanya can argue against Yang's crazy idea of finding her mother on her own, Ruby took control and spoke out her opinion.
"Tanya, I think it's best if we help out our big sister Yang. She looks really desperate and I don't want to see her sad forever!" Tanya bit her lip that the two aren't acting rationally. In the end, Tanya decided to give in to Ruby's emotions. Knowing the two wouldn't back down and proceeding to argue with them would further strain their trust in her. So Tanya quietly groans under her breath and glared at Yang's idiocy.
"Fine then, let's find your mother. But I will give you a warning though Yang, don't blame me that I'm the one responsible for our deaths by becoming Grimm food." As Tanya submit herself to Yang's illogical adventure. Yang happily smiled at Tanya and tightly hugged her on accepting the journey of finding her mother. But Tanya knows too well it will be a death sentence for the three of them.
"Thank you, Tanny! You really are like a third sister to me. Let's go get the wagon and off we go!" Again, The Devil of the Rhine predicted this journey will just become a fruitless search and possibly death if her older sister gets too cocky. As Tanya has a pretty good idea to shift the blame onto a certain god that created Yang's sudden predicament. In her rage of what's about to happen, her anger accidentally blurted out a secret of hers and forgetting that she was inside of someone's body.
Damn you Being X.
Who's Being X?
Nothing Ruby.
