Eclipse - Act 1 - The Healing

Chapter 21 - Like Sharks To Blood

Ruby

Words cannot even describe the pain that she is going through right now. The pain of feeling a jagged knife puncturing through your stomach like that, feeling that cold blade tearing through organs and draining blood from her body like some kind of slaughterhouse...she is about to cry. Tears trickle from her silver eyes, unable to fight the pain that vibrates through the inside of her body, like she is being branded by a flame constantly from the inside out. The blood covers her leg and now her abdomen, unable to get back up, like she has been paralysed from the pain.

Behind her, the familiar face of Neo grins with pure insanity in her pink and brown eyes, slowly walking towards the young Silver Eyed Warrior desperately trying tom escape the psychopath. Blood slowly creeping down the blade and trailing on the carpeted floor behind her. Every movement brings her extreme discomfort, but she fights the pain, biting her lip hard as she pushes through it. She slowly crawls back up to her feet as Neo walks towards her, then Ruby swings round to punch her.

But Neo ducks under her fist, then catches her arm, pulling her right into the curved blade of her dagger once more. Ruby screams in agony, eyes bursting wide once more with tears pouring down them.

Pink and Brown...one would not combine the two colours and expect it to become such a terrifying image.

But this may possibly be the very last thing that Ruby Rose will ever see.

As that blade punctures deep into her stomach, Neo slowly twisting the blade with a demented smile on her face, forcing it deeper, blood gushing out from two holes in her now. "N-Neo...p-please...I didn't kill him!" She whimpers in pain, finding it hard to even raise her voice anymore as the blood begins to cough up from her mouth. But Neo is having absolutely none of it, as she takes her boot and kicks her right in the stomach again.

It is like a cascade of agony that rushes through her body...but there is something about that blade that is unlike anything has expected. She cannot use her aura to repair the damage, it is like that blade has been coated in some sort of venom like old warriors did to cripple their enemies. As she crawls, she focuses her aura as best as she can on the two stab wounds, her aura flickers but it is not strong enough anymore.

Something from that blade has entered her blood stream and it is blocking her aura from healing her.

Neo walks towards her again, slowly moving one boot in front of the other, before slamming her foot down to Ruby's spine. Ruby lets out another cry of agony, and Neo then presses her knee to her neck. "Please!" She screams. "I don't want to die!" She cries out, fully bawling now, she never expected that when confronted with death that she would beg it not to...she always thought that she would be stronger than that.

But in the moment...

When death was coming...

She could not help but beg for forgiveness.

Neo grabs onto Ruby's black and red hair, yanking her head up and showing her throat, taking the blade and pressing the serrated edge to her jugular to slice it clean open. She grins as she slowly starts to cut, the skin cutting slightly and blood leaking out.

Until suddenly a large man erupts from behind, tackling Neo at full force, and they both tumble off Ruby, saving her from her very near death. The man grabs onto Neo as he rolls over, then throws her body across the hallway, she slams against one of the open doors and breaks it down. She crashes down into the ground, snarling with anger as she stares at the person that just ruined her chance to cut Ruby's throat.

Ruby gasps with disbelief, as it is Cardin who comes to her aid, crouching down and making sure that she is okay. "Ruby...are you..." He stammers and pauses when he sees how much blood has poured onto the floor right now from her two deep stab wounds in her tender belly. He presses his hand to the wounds to stop the bleeding, but turns again when he hears Neo getting back up, drawing her Umbrella and resting it on her shoulder. The rumbling of footsteps running gets the three's attention, they all turn to see Team C.F.V.Y turning the corner.