ShroudedOne

Ruby Veronica Cristallo stirred, coming into consciousness. The first thing her senses picked up was the smell. It smelled faintly of curry and cinnamon, two of Ruby’s favorite ingredients. Her mind began to go through what her mom might have been cooking, and then it stopped. Her stomach began to ache, and tears started to run anew down her face. Mom…Her parents…murdered for no reason… Then, the REAL smell hit her HARD. She began to choke and sob in an insane manner as the stench of her parents, her dead parents, overwhelmed her. She could feel the bile rising in her throat, but she did not vomit. She lay stomach down o

Vengeance. Ever since that day, that was the occupant of Ruby's mind... An eleven year old Ruby Cristallo skipped joyously down the dirt road that led to her house. As she got closer, her surroundings appeared to get greener and lusher. She had concluded long ago that there was a 'something' about her house, her family, which kept it and the trees around it fresh and healthy, something besides the fact that her mom usually tended to them. She stopped to take a second and inhale the fresh, summer air. "Ahh..." She sighed, content, and looked at a tree to her right. "There you are!" She walked up to a towering apple tree and climbed up, took

The katana came down just as Ruby groaned. “Stop making a fuss please, and let’s just leave……,” Ruby sighed lightly. She rose from her chair with a graceful posture, and put 50 notes on the table. “Please, keep whatever leftovers are retained,” Ruby said to Jodi. She then proceeded to drag Sapphire out of the restaurant by hand. The old men sighed, but, at least Jodi was still there. The moment Ruby had marched Sapphire over into an alley on the side of the restaurant, Sapphire shrugged out of Ruby’s grasp and glared viciously at her. “She threw that banana like she wanted to kill you; you do rea

A long-haired girl sat at a table. She had dark coal-black eyes and long blue hair held in a ponytail. As of right now, she stared intently at the document before her, knowing that her decision would be everlasting, and could shape her life forever more. Furthermore, she knew failure was not an option. “This is NOT rocket science; just ORDER ALREADY!” the waiter cried impatiently. The blue-haired girl, Sapphire Lucille Creek lifted her head up from the menu and glared at the waiter who had cried out. The waiter’s name tag read Jodi. “Well, Jodi, we seem to be on our period today, aren’t we? I’ll just orde