Colors ~ Volume 1

Season 1, Episode 26: Hello, Ruby.

Once I got to the entrance of the A building, likely for the final time evaluating the state of Altandor, I was exhausted since I had run for what seemingly felt like an eternity and had to hide in a bush that had irritating spikes. I tried to avoid them with all of my might, but some still stuck onto my... uh, butt. But (no pun intended), I was still glad I was at the school building. I was curious onto what the glow from the rooftops of one of these buildings had come from.

I opened the door and sneakily went past the A building. And when I say sneakily, I mean I squished my mud-filled socks on the marble ground while I glimpsed around for any type of monster or Redwood after me. Where I had seen the light had assumably been from the B building rooftop and I wanted to run there quick.

But I was curious about something else, something I really shouldn't have been intrigued by. I went through the A building in quick haste and made my way to the B building, but I didn't go in. Instead, I went to the D building. As I went there though, I saw the condition of the C building and what was posted on its wall. I immediately vomited a storm of fluids.

Remember Ms. Svena? That easygoing teacher who had helped us be more honest with ourselves and was incredibly laid back? Well her back was laid on a spike poking out of the ground. She was also impaled through the head and leg right at the entrance of the C building which I saw from all of these miles away.

I wiped my mouth and with tears in my eyes, went into the D building. At the entrance, I proceeded through hallway after hallway until I got to a wide-open door. I spotted three robots were ripped into shreds right at the entrance of the basement. It looked like this happened weeks ago though since the robots were already starting to rust.

I went over one of the robots' legs and entered into the basement stairs. The steel door had been completely ripped off from its hinges and thrown at the electric door. Causing it to be flattened like a pancake. I walked to the door and stepped over it, even though I didn't exactly need to do that because the power was out in the building.

I got up to the door leading into the actual basement room and saw that it was swung wide open. I took a deep breath and entered inside. As soon as I did, the door suddenly closed behind me with a loud—

BANG!

My heart jumped, I went towards the door and tried it, but it was locked tight. I looked behind me leaning against the wall directly adjacent to the door where I saw a figure right next to an empty basement, with only a box.

"If there is one thing that you and my cousin are alike in, it's that both of you are curiously laughable. You go into situations without even knowing the consequences, nor considering them." The girl said, facing towards me. Her hair was dyed a bright red color and she had on a blue sweater with blood-covered jeans. Her eyes were wide with a craze as she held in her hand a box. The same box that I had stolen from this basement all of those months ago.

"You're probably wondering who I am. That's fair. No one has seen my face and lived to tell the tale. Well apart from my family, but that's because they're my family. I'm sure you understand." She stated, dropping the box she outreached her arms onto the sky and placed her hands firmly on her blood-soaked jeans. I knew exactly who she was.

"This is my basement. My little world that you destroyed not once, not twice, but thrice." Ruby stated, she went into her box and pulled out the water gun. Except it wasn't filled with water this time.

"H-How did you know I was here?" I asked her.

"Do you mean how you were here in my basement or how you were here at Altandor?" She asked, aiming the gun at my face.

"B-both." I kept my equanimity for the most part. Yet she was aiming a real pistol at my face and I couldn't just come to be tranquil.

"Simple, cameras. You never took out the cameras on your first or your second expedition. I would've had you two arrested and slain off, you and that little friend of yours. But I thought you wouldn't be stupid enough to enter my basement again. Or so I had thought." She stated, aiming her pistol lower near my feet.