Part TWO Y'ALL
When she was around fifteen years old- she had stopped counting after Zane had died- Ruby finally broke. She did not cry. She did not scream. She did not run. She walked. She walked right out of the manor, and any of Melody's guards that tried to stop her ended up in crumbling, shapeless blocks of stone. Split into too many little pieces to put back together.
And as soon as she was outside of the manor's walls, she lit a match and burnt it to the ground."Where was Melody?" you may ask. Well, Melody was off looking for more children to fill her "orphanage."
She didn't notice a thing out of place.
Ruby ran off into the woods surrounding the front of the mansion and lived off of the deer that would, ever so often, be unfortunate enough to cross her path. Killing animals disgusted her and her body was so weak and frail from being in the orphanage, she almost starved for the first year she was on her own.
Ruby soon found herself working as a mercenary, hitman, assassin, whatever you want to call it. People pay her to kill other people. She does it and she doesn't get caught.
About a year later and murder was second nature to her. She was strong again and she was growing at a ridiculous rate. Her neck had fully healed and you couldn't even see the scars behind her fur— what did she have to lose? Killing was different than killing for Melody Alabaster.
Besides, she had tried other work. But she wasn't good at anything. Ruby wasn't good at singing, she wasn't good with people, she wasn't good at keeping calm, wasn't good at writing or reading (no matter how much Melody's gargoyles tried to teach her, she just wasn't good.) or even speaking. The only thing she was good at was pulling the trigger when no one else could.
And killing paid well, too. The amount of matches she could by with one payment—Anyway. She saved up money and got her claws removed and replaced with metal ones. She couldn't bear to have to be attached to the things that aided in her brother's death.
Murder wasn't the only crime Ruby was hired to commit. She was once hired to guard a secret facility of underground scientists that were fired from their original labs for their risky and borderline illegal experiments. Ruby was hired to guard the cell block portion of the facility— she thought it was odd that they had one, but hey— they were gonna pay her a shit ton of money. And she didn't have to do anything but stand there! It wasn't her job to question the people who hired her, it was her job to do what she's payed to do.
That is, at least, what she thought until she saw a young woman in one of the cells in the very same position she was in not three years ago.She blacked out, and the next thing she knew, she was covered in blood and the woman was in her arms. Ruby was back in the forest where she had stayed for the past two years, and the woman was giving her directions.
Directions that led to a house.
Ruby was invited inside by the woman, who apparently lived in that large and pretty cozy house. The woman, who she soon learned was named Serenity, helped clean all the blood out of Ruby's pitch black fur and stitched up a cut on her shoulder. Serenity explained that the people working in the lab wanted to see how powerful a mix between a monster and a human could be, and Serenity was their lab rat.Serenity, Ruby thinks, is the downright purest and nicest person to ever have existed on this planet. Serenity is five tenths human, four tenths (Undertale-type) monster, and one tenth siren. Ten tenths the sweetest entity alive.
In thanks for saving her, Serenity took in Ruby after learning she didn't have a home. There were two spare rooms which no one ever used, so Ruby moved into the biggest and went out and bought a bed and furnishings with all of the spare money she had.
Serenity now has gotten used to Ruby's violence and line of work— although Ruby would never, ever hurt Serenity.
Then about a year and a half after that, Ruby and Serenity met Rocco, Kit, Cruz, and Diablo (Who all belong to _TimeQueen_ ). They currently live in Serenity's house all together, although Rocco, Diablo, And Kit are often out at other places with other friends. Cruz doesn't often leave Serenity's house without her and Ruby for more than a week on end (approximately) and Ruby and Cruz are... a thing. They've been together for four years.
THE. END.
Go ask _TimeQueen_ for more details about her four characters I'm too lazy to write about them (sorry dude).

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