The Knights of Grimm - Act 3 - Shattered Memory

Chapter 49 - The Big Bad Wolf

Ruby

The Black Knight stands tall with those piercing glowing red eyes glaring straight at the Giant Black Wolf that charges straight towards him, salivating at the mouth ferociously and growling as it approaches. The ground shakes from every single step it takes, her Spirit Animal is unlike anything that anyone has ever seen, some people have taken the forms of giant animals, but nothing like this. The giants usually are naturally the size they are, this thing is abnormal, just like everything else about the Silver Eyed Wonder that is Ruby Rose of Patch.

Death slowly walks towards the titan with his sword held tight in his grasp, and he immediately slashes across the nose of the huge Wolf, making her recoil back. He charges red lightning through the huge blade to deflect her attacks, but the Big Bad Wolf clamps her huge muscular jaws down onto the black blade, scraping her teeth across the serrated edges of her weapon. Sparks burst from the contact of the metallic teeth inside of her mouth as she fights for the weapon, like a dog fighting for a toy from its owner. She shakes her head around viciously, growling savagely as she manages to pull Ferrum Arctus from Death's grasp, throwing it across the road, far from his reach.

Death turns and is met by the swung tail of Ruby's Wolf Form that smashes straight into his armoured chest, launching him into the dense layer of sand that blows around the two of them. Death roars as he sails through the air, until he slams both boots into the ground and spreading his huge Nevermore Wings outwards to slow his landing, turning the ground up from under him.

The Knight slowly lifts his head up towards the storm, spotting the massive shadow that bounds for him, jumping with her jaws wide open and with a bellowing roar. Death jumps and rolls out of the way, narrowly missing her, and Ruby slides across the ground, digging her claws into the cobblestone beneath her paws. The huge Wolf stands there, pacing back and forth with the grains of sand abrasing against her thick pelt of black fur. Her upper lip flicks up revealing her bright white gnashers inside covered with frothing saliva drooling from them as she paces back and forth, head held low to the ground.

Death stares straight into the Silver Eye of the Big Bad Wolf, clenching his hands into fists, and extending the Nevermore Wings from his black cape. "You would do well to remember, Ruby – I hone my skills from the Pits of Arkhonex!" Death warns, clearly speaking of the man he used to be, holding his arms out to her. But Ruby does not even seem intimidated in the slightest, the Wolf just roars with pure rage, sprinting towards him, leaping as she brings the massive jaws down towards him.

Death steps back and lifts both Isomacium Armoured arms, and with the metal gauntlets he catches her open jaws, holding her by her jaws as she pushes him across the ground. Death suddenly slams her head into the ground with a powerful punch, before he swings round and launches some Fatal Feathers into the body of the Wolf, the huge black feathers lodge into the flesh.

Ruby yelps as she staggers, whining as she looks at the wounds, but that only seems to anger her more and more. Death cannot hear her words, but inside of the Wolf she is still inside, like in some form of stasis. Her body and clothes are perfectly in good condition, literally like she was absorbed into the Wolf from the power of her aura. Her Silver Eye is closed but streams with tears. "Why? Why wasn't I good enough? Why couldn't I save them?" Ruby whimpers tearfully, flashes of the faces of Gray, Vos and Serena's corpses in her memory.

The anguish and the torment of her failure to save them is like a stabbing feeling that hits her in the heart over and over again. Bringing tears to her eye and forcing her to tears of rage. "I made the wrong choice...why did I trust you, Kragen? Why did I think that you were worth following? You left them to die! They meant nothing to you!" Ruby roars with rage, and the Wolf roars as soon as she screams from within it, with tears streaming from its only eye. The Wolf charges straight for Death and the Knight sprints right for her, not even turning to retrieve his weapon.