In a dark void, Ruby is kneeling on top of a black pool. Her dull eyes stare down at her reflection in the black liquid. There's a dark chain around her neck, with a glowing symbol on the front.

Suddenly the chain gets pull from behind, causing her to grit her teeth as he head gets pulled back. She glowing black and red eyes glance up to see Goddess Salem smiling as she stands behind her, holding the chain to her collar in hand.

"You're adjusting to your body well, my sweet~" Salem smiles as she steps in front of Ruby. "Your powers should be coming in once you wake up."

Salem reaches out and caresses Ruby's cheek, Ruby leans into her touch. Salem smirks before moving her hand under Ruby's chin, and lightly pushes her head up. Ruby's dull glowing eyes stare into Salem's glowing eyes, making the goddess' feather and draconic wings flutter.

"Soon you'll become my ultimate weapon~" Salem lightly pulls on Ruby's chain, brining the girl closer. "And you'll create more to follow you, my dear Apostle~"

Salem leans close to Ruby's face, causing a dusting of red to appear on Ruby's pale cheeks. Salem puts a hand on Ruby's cheek, before running it down her face and putting a hand on the collar; running a finger over the symbol.

"Just don't forget my sweet, you are mine."

Ruby's eyes suddenly snap open, as she finds herself staring up the a cave ceiling. Her brows furrow as she sits up and looks around, seeing the cave see feel sleep in, and the half eaten corpse beside her.

She puts a hand on her neck, a lingering feeling of the collar is still there. She then leans back on the corpse behind her, wiggling into the fur. She thinks about the dream she hand, and looks down to her hands.

Her eyes trail up and down her bone arm, before glancing at her organic arm. Her eyes trail down her arm, seeing her black veins pulsing under her arm. The silver gauntlet on her hands shines under the mana light.

She clenches her hands, before opening them. She does this a few times, before lowering hands hands. She then starts to pat herself down, feeling up her whole body. Running her hands over both arms, running them down sides and her thick thighs, and slender legs.

She then feels up her chest, causing her to blush. But then she shakes her head and touches her face over and over. She then lowers her hands, before reaching behind her and pulling out her status plate.

Name: Ruby Rose (Reuben Xiao Long) / Age: 17/ Sex: Female / Level: 40 / Job: G̷̜̕r̷̝͛i̵̙̍m̸̫̈m̶̬̍ ̷̯́Ą̸͘p̶̰̈o̵̳͋s̴̫͆t̵͕͑l̴͔̇e̶̖̓ ̴̳͝

Strength: 825
Vitality: 760
Defense: 950
Agility: 1100
Magic: 1000
Magic Defense: 1000

Skills: Language Comprehension. Petal Burst. Iron Skin. Reap and Sow. Sacrificial Sweep. Burning Hook. Willpower-Draining Aura. Ear-Piercing Scream. Night Vision. Detect Negative Emotions. Fear Resistance. Paralysis Resistance. Poison Resistance. Slight Regeneration.

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Ĝ̸̟̻̻̻̗̬r̯͍̲̆ͨ͌̀ͅĩ̷̫̤̯̺̹m̵͈̝̦̱̝͈̭ͭ͐͐m̧̲̙͚̜̻͖͍͚ͬͣ ̨̜̥̫̙̯̫̓̔͊̐ͅS̷̯̱̈́͆p̧̫̤͇̺͕͍̒͋̋a̭̖̳͍͔̞̞̳̿ͭͭ̊͡w̢̗̞ͪn̗̝̹̼͔ͪͬ͂́͡

Ruby stares down at her status plate. "I've become so much stronger..." She sets her plate away and stares up to the ceiling, mana crystals shining above her. "I bet I'm much stronger then Yang now, which I thought would take years."

Ruby blinks a few times, before turning her head to the side, staring at the decaying Alpha Twin-tailed wolf beside her. "I wonder how she's doing. She's gotta be so worried."

Ruby crosses her arms and huffs. "So doesn't need to worry about me, Reuben... He's just a weaky boy, now turned into me."

Ruby stands up with a smug look, as she turns to the wolf head. "He struggled fighting you, but I didn't! Nope, Ruby isn't a strong girl! So I'm his upgraded and better version!"

Ruby hops over and boops the wolf's nose. "Boop! Hehe!"

Ruby's stomach then growls as she hunches over and groans. She lets out a breath as drool falls from her chin. Her eyes dilate as she looks at the rest of the wolf's body.

"So hungry..." Ruby then shakes her head, regaining her senses. "What's with me?"

She walks over to the body, and rips a large chunk of meat out. She stares down at the piece of flesh, covered in yellow blood, in the palm of her hand.

"This should disgust me, but I feel nothing." Ruby shoves the meat into her mouth, quickly scarfing it down.  She then kneels down to the body, resting her hands against it. "This feels demining."

Ruby sinks her teeth into the body, and starts ripping it apart with her sharp teeth. She lets out several animalistic growls as she tears it apart, eating large chinks at a time.

After a while there's nothing left of the body, but the head and several scraps of fur. Ruby wipes yellow blood from the corner of her mouth as she stands up. She lets out a grunt as she stretches, cracking her back.

She then looks at her right bone hand again. She holds it up, and sticks her a finger through the gaps in her bones. She twists her arm around, washing the bones move. She lets out a breath, before adjusting her cape, running her hands along the fluff collar.

"Now... where's my scythe?" Ruby looks around, before her eyes land on her scythe.

Ruby lets out a happy gasp as her eyes turn to stars. She zips over to her scythe and picks it up, gripping the bone textured handle. The orange diamonds, where the handle meets the blade, glow brightly. The red tips of the blade glow, hungry for blood.

Ruby laughs as she rubs a hand over the weapon. "You're so awesome!"

Ruby starts rubbing her thighs against the weapon as she snuggles against it. Rubbing her cheek against it as she blushes.

"I'm gone do such terrible things with you my love~" Ruby laughs as she continues to rub against her weapon.

After a moment she stops and zips to the side, holding her weapon out. She coughs into her hand and stares down the dark path in front of her. 

"Ok, now... Time to get used to this lovely body." Ruby starts down the dark path, but she sees perfectly fine due to her Night Vision skill.

She calmly walks down the path, slightly stumbling with her new height. She thinks back on her dream with Salem. She then grows a small blush as puts a hand on her cheek.

"She called me hers!"

Suddenly a kickmaster rabbit lunges at her from the side, but it gets sliced in half before it even reaches her. Ruby glares down at the rabbits body.

"Don't interrupt me, you filthy mongrel!" Ruby brings a foot back, and kicks the body as hard as she can.

The Kickmasters' body flies through the air, before smashing into the wall and turning into paste. She lets out a huff and continues walking on. The yellow blood on her scythe gets absorbed into the blade.

Ruby puts a little skip into her step as she hums a tune. Ahead several Kickmaster rabbits are moving about, and they quickly notice her approach. They start growing hostile, but suddenly they start to droop and nearly fall over.

A black aura pours off Ruby as she grows a sadistic smile. She casts Willpower-Draining Aura, and she watches the Kickmaster rabbits fall over one by one, before getting knocked out.

She walks over to the group, and slowly cuts their throats with her scythe one-by-one. She smiles sadistically as she kills one after the other. And after killing the last one, she kneels down and grabs one of the rabbits.

She opens her mouth up wide, showing off all her large teeth. She inserts the rabbits head into her mouth, before biting down, yellow blood flying everywhere. 

The headless body drops to the ground as crunches echo from Ruby's mouth. She kneels down and picks up another rabbit's body. She pokes at the body as she crunches on the other rabbits head. After a moment she swallows and stares at the body in her hand.

"You know, you guys taste terrible."

Ruby tosses the body behind her, and it lands on a mana crystal with a thud. She perks up and looks over where the body landed, and sues petal burst to fly over. Black petals with a slight red glow falls behind her.

She pokes the mana crystal, before sniffing it. "You smell kinda weird... like a good weird."

Ruby zips around the crystal, poking it from all angles. She then grabs the rabbit body off it, and tosses it to the side. She grabs onto a chunk and rips it off with ease. Ruby looks surprised at her own strength. 

She then looks at the chunk of mana crystal in her hand. She tilts her head to the side, her red eyes glowing as she inspects it. She brings the crystal to her nose and sniffs a few times.

"Weird..." Ruby then gives it a slight lick, and smacks her lips a few times. "Weirder..."

Ruby tosses the crystal into her mouth and starts chewing. Glass like crunching comes from her mouth, and after a few moments, she swallows. She crosses her arms as she grows lost in thought.

Then after a moment, she hunches over and pukes out a glowing blue liquid. The blue vomit pools in front of her, with rainbow particles flowing off it. Ruby stops vomiting after a second and lets out a groan.

She steps back and wipes blue glowing vomit from the corner of her mouth. She lets out a huff and puts her hands on her hips, and puffs her cheeks out.

"That was so bad..."

Ruby steps back and starts to think as she taps her chin. She then looks to the side and holds her hand out. Black liquid spews from her hand for a few moments, before stopping. A black puddle lies on the ground a few feet away.

Ruby then snaps her fingers and after a moment, the pool starts to bubble. Then something climbs out of the pool, letting out a high pitched roar.

The rat Grimm lets out a roar, green venom dripping from its jaw. It turns to Ruby and lets out a squeek.

Ruby stares down at the Grimm, and crosses her arm. "Uh... go have fun..."

Ruby waves the Grimm away and it lets out a long high-pitched roar. it then runs off, leaving the other Grimm behind.

"Damn, that thing was ugly." Ruby looks off where the grimm went with a disgusted look.

Suddenly a strange smell fills her nose. She sticks her nose up in the air, sniffing a few times. She then closes her eyes and takes a long sniff.

"Something is angry..." Ruby's nose twitches a few times. "And it's coming this way."

Ruby opens her eyes with a sadistic look, her mouth growing into a wide smile. 

"Good, I'm getting an itch for a fight."

Ruby grabs her scythe and speeds down the cave where the negative smell is coming from. She speeds into a cavernous room and skids to a stop, right behind a large Claw Bear.

The bear drops a small Claw Bear body to the ground, as it looks back at Ruby. Yellow blood drips from the massive Claw Bear's mouth. It lets out a deep growl before turning to her and letting out a loud roar of anger.

Ruby's eyes shine brightly. "Woah, you're so big! I wonder what you taste like!"

The Claw bear swings a paw at Ruby, but she just zips to the side and shakes her head. "Nope sorry Mr. Bear. But I won't let you hit me!"

The Claw Bear swipes at Ruby again, but she just flips into the air above the bear. She does several flips, before swing her scythe right into the bear's eye. The monster lets out a loud roar of pain.

Ruby lands on its shoulders, before kicking her scythe out of its eye and setting it on her back. The Bear tries to swat at her, but she just jumps up, and lands back down on its shoulders.

"Well, I'm getting pretty hungry. So excuse me for ending this quickly." Ruby grabs the bear's neck and twists it to the side.

A loud crack echoes as the bears head is nearly turned all the way around. The bear goes still, before falling onto it's stomach. Ruby hops into the air, before lightly landing on its back. 

Ruby claps to herself and laughs. "Yeah, I win."

Ruby then jumps up and sits onto its back. She smiles brightly as she takes the scythe off her back and props it up against the body. She then hops off and kneels down beside it.

She opens her mouth up and starts to chomp down. Suddenly a quiet boom echoes far away, causing Ruby to stop and look around. She then just shrugs and continues to tear into the Claw Bear with her sharp teeth.

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3-27-2026

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