Chapter 22: The devastating truth.
"Also sir... I've come to warn you about something. The janitor with the blonde hair, I feel there's something off about him... Rui and I both sensed evil in him, not only that but Rui also read his aura... It wasn't pretty..." Ruby explained with that mournful stoic look to her. Rui... You're not the only one with a secret... She mentally whispered before seeing Netero nod.
"Alright, I'll look into it," The chairman replied promptly, stood up, walked to the door, and passed her. He gestured for her to follow with his index finger, which she did.
"So... Black Shifter and Neon both, didn't have any luck in getting information out of Sikiyona?" She asked as she paced behind the chairman. Walking down a long hallway, she kept her gaze upon the old man.
"No she didn't even peep once, she's quite robotic if you ask me. If you ask her a question based on the rebellion or about her, all she'd say is That information is strictly classified, knowledge of the Rebellion or even I, shall not be given to those who are not apart of us. I need your wits to help me get information on where their base is located." He answered as he walked in front with his arms crossed behind his back.
"Alright," That's all she said in return, her sense of care was faintly dimming. Apparently her hawk had decided to come with her cause he was on her shoulder. The bird squawked out, making Netero smile and look over his shoulder only to watch her pet her hawk's head with a troubled gaze.
He looked ahead once more, then cut a corner. Right at that turn, he faced a wide-open door that was coated in thick ice. Ruby's eyes widened, she nudged the old man out of the way gently and the sight before her made her gasp a bit. "All this ice... Don't tell me..." Ruby looked over to the chairman with a very dangerous expression, piercing eyes and a frown. "You didn't take her weapons away, did you..?" She gravely asked through gritted teeth and irritation.
"What weapons? All she had was a blue and white cooler with a Popsicle.~" He laughed at the thought of those being weapons. Though his chuckles gradually died down once he saw how serious she was being.
"You didn't even consider them a threat?! Her weapons are exactly that cooler and that frosty dessert! Now she's off somewhere else, most likely trying to get out or has gotten out!" Exclaiming from rage, she was a bit infuriated with the old man's carelessness.
"It seems I'll have to sound the alarm, now won't I? Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho! I'll need you to go outside and look for her, just in case she's already made it out." He laughed out loud with his arms folded behind him. Sensing Ruby sprint off angrily, he got out a device and held it close to his mouth. "Sound the alarm, Sikiyona Fiijiyui has escaped! Do not let her leave and if she has, then Ruby Kowaza is already outside searching for her!" He announced then heard someone on the other end of the line and a few clicks in the background, resembling that they had sounded the alarm.
A red light flashed on and off with an ear aching sound. Ruby ran into a room, opened a window, and jumped out of it in a hurry, not wanting to waste time running through the halls and leaving out of the front door. I will find you... Sikiyona! Mentally raging, the image of her twin in her head reminded her of her lie and how Sikiyona attacked her.
~~~Later~~~
"Nee-chan...." Rui sat on her bed with Poku in her arms and held it close like a stuffed animal. Poku knew not to move, it was worried about Rui and wanted to comfort her; that was until a knock on her door echoed through her room and caught her attention. She stood up, held Poku protectively, and made her way over. Opening the door, she came face to face with her lover and read the colors that represented concern. "Illumi-kun..." She rushed forward and nuzzled her face in his chest, feeling warmth wrap around her form and looked up, seeing how close his head was. Her face lit up brightly at noticing his black gaze being half-lidded and incredibly close to her pink bug ones.
"I've had a family meeting earlier..." He spoke his usual tone with their foreheads touching. He gradually moved his lips to where they were mere inches from contact, making Rui's heart race. "I-... Illumi-ku-" Trying to speak but she got cut off when he kissed her, his were eyes halfway open and her bug ones slowly closed. "I've been out for.... A reason and I do not wish to tell you until the time is right..." He explained after breaking their kiss. Watching her nod, he stood back up and turned around.
"Follow me, I will assist in locating your twin..." The assassin spoke up, making her beam in glee. Though deep down she felt painful guilt, she still wanted to see her twin and check if she was alright. Poku squeaked while being held in its midsection, much like a teddy bear.
~~~ With Ruby~~~
Ruby was soaring through the sky brushing past clouds and scanning her hawk eyes upon the land below. Her pupils were smaller to show that her vision was zoomed in. "It seems I'll have to search on the ground, she could be hiding in crevices that cannot be seen from above..." Calculated, she decided to swoop down and landed on the surface. The area looked like an abandoned civilian neighborhood, the dwellings and structures looked as if they'd crumble at any given moment. Now... Where are you...? Asking in her mind with her gaze moving left to right, she could sense danger very near but couldn't comprehend where it came from.
https://youtu.be/guCdd9yVIx0
One of Sikiyona's themes!~)
The scene changed to show Sikiyona standing on the edge of a tall building, keeping her emotionless gaze on the hawk. She purposefully made herself slip off the ledge with a straight posture. As she fell she turned to where her back faced the ground, pulled a Popsicle out of her cooler, stuck it in her mouth then pulled it out. Slowly turning around, she tossed her stick away and blew harshly out, causing a gust of frost to emit from her breath. It was slowing her down from her fall, the strength of the wind brushed her white and long fluffy coat as she descended.
Once she landed, she noticed how Ruby moved out of the way and gawked at her from afar. Siki gradually stood up and turned her head to view the woman. Holding out her, what appears to be, purple Popsicle, she turned it into an iced saber then charged at her with haste.
Ruby took out her rapier just in time for her to block a strike from Siki. The glacial woman rapidly swung her formed blade, though kept getting obstructed by Ruby's sword. She swung her cooler around and hit Ruby directly in the side of her head, making her stumble to the side.
Ruby jumped back, as so did Siki and both performed the same attack. Ruby spun once and swiped her sword sideways, shooting out a long vertical stream of light across the ground. Sikiyona had jumped backward as well in the form of a diagonal spin and an underhand swipe, making a large vertical ice stream scrape across the surface. Both the attacks collided, causing an explosion in the middle of them.
They both rushed after each other once more, with their weapons at hand, and collided with each other harshly. Ruby's face looked fierce with a stern but pressured expression while the glacial woman's face appeared unchanged, as usual. "Allow the permafrost to seal you, into an eternal slumber... My wrath for you will forever linger, as long as you are alive..." Her soft yet robotic tone spoke, angering Ruby even more.
"Why do you hate me so much, I haven't done anything to you!" Ruby asked from furry, not understanding Siki's hatred for her.
"Because... You killed my father..." That was all she said before jumping back again, then lowered her blade. Ruby was shocked to hear those words, she had never killed anyone innocent.
"What are you talking about, I never kill anyone unless they're a huge threat to other people's lives or my sister!" She replied loudly, so her voice could be heard from the distance and pure anger continued to build; not only anger but confusion as well...
"You have killed my father... Do not hide it," Miss Frosty replied, she rushed after her and repetitively struck her saber only to be evaded and blocked by Ruby. Though Ruby was backing up to avoid her, Siki had reverted her saber back to its icy treat as she ran after Ruby. She jumped a bit and did a front flip; doing so she did it with one hand and that one hand had the frosty dessert in it. In mid of her flip, the purple treat got crushed. Ruby had jumped back, though, jumped high into the air and caught herself with her wings; she had dodged an attack that would have frozen her solid. As soon as it got crushed, it dispersed a large amount of frost all over the ground, vastly masking the surface below with purple ice.
Ruby moved her rapier in front of her face like a fencer and shut her eyes. "Yee who slumbers within the heavens, LEND ME STRENGTH SO THY ENEMY SHALL FALL!" She roared out and shot open her eyes. Bright light dispersed from her blade, engulfing her in the form of a large dome. After a moment passing with Siki just gazing up at her, appearing unfazed by the light, the bright light dispersed and had on that armor that she had worn before. Her sword's gray markings now brightly lit, silver armor with glowing yellow lines, bright yellow shorts, and metallic armored boots that went up to her knee caps which flared out on both sides; while gray leather covered her shins underneath the boots. A long pallid dress that was slit down from under bust flailed out beautifully and could be seen from under her armor top, which had a northern star shape in the middle.
Sikiyona swiftly took out another treat, this time it was white. She stuck it in her mouth, pulled out its stem, and blew, making a con shaped blast in the form of a snowstorm to burst out.
Ruby gritted her teeth as her glowing yellow hawk eyes, pierced through her, now, white hair. She rose her rapier like a fencer once more, put her other hand on the blade, and made a force shield out of pure light. The shield covered the whole entire front of her vessel and blocked all the frost from touching her. Wincing, she moved her pupils to one side and noticed her wings were beginning to freeze over. "Sikiyona! Who was your father?!" She asked, after moving her gaze back at the glacial enemy. Seeing as the snowstorm died down, she noticed Siki wasn't there anymore. Using her hawk senses, she felt a presence and heard a voice behind her.
"Saurus Kane..." Siki whispered, who was just behind Ruby. She had another saber and was preparing to strike. Once she thrust her blade, Ruby had turned around making it collide with her rapier and emit a metallic clang.
Ruby's eyes were wide from surprise, she had no idea Mr. Kane had a daughter. They both fell and landed on the ground, keeping a distance between each other. "Saurus Kane was an evil man, he had to be taken down!" She roared out to her and tried her best to convince her.
"No... He was not evil, he was a man that believed in evolution and wanted to help the human race, become better..." She explained as she stood there on the purple glacial-covered ground.
"Sikiyona, Mr. Kane doesn't even look related to you how is he your father?!" She asked from afar, with strict features and clamped teeth.
"Because he adopted me, he took me in and had me experimented on. Though, I too, understood his theories and wanted to evolve as he did, all because I looked up to him as a father. I simply wanted to please him, for him to praise me and treat me like his own... However, he never did. He was so fixated on finding the most powerful mutant. Once you came into the picture, you took all his attention... You and your sister...but mostly you... I craved my father's attention, his love, his praise, and care...but got none... He was amazed by your power and progression that he lost sight of me completely... So, now I will kill you for killing my father and stealing his attention from me..." She looked down and noticed her saber was cracked. Realizing it was useless now, she dropped her blade and reached in for another treat. There was only one left in her cooler and it was another purple one. She took it out, looked up to the hawk woman, and carelessly tossed the cooler aside.
"You don't understand Sikiyona, he was EVIL! He demanded others to kidnap children by his command, used them as test subjects, killed the useless ones, murdered the old ones that were too old in age, and forced all his subjects to reside in pure white cells for the next time they would get tested on! You'd never understand that kind of pain, cause you never felt it!" She argued back and saw Siki with just the desert in her hand and gave a questioning stare. She rose her treat out to her side, brought her other hand up, and at the same time a giant purple iced scythe formed.
(Here's another picture I made of her xD!)
The glacial woman sprinted forward to Ruby, with no change in expression. Ruby got taken aback by the large weapon and rose her sword above her head, once Siki lunged at her with the scythe's blade aiming for her skull. They both tried to overwhelm the other with dominance, pushing each other back. "I am Sikiyona Kane, known as the glacial reaper... Also knows as... Cold Chill..." She admitted as she revealed her true last name, whispering the part when she said, Cold Chill. She jumped back, twirled sideways, and shot out multiple waves of iced streams vertically at the hawk woman.
Ruby rose a fist in front of her and formed the giant yellow, crystal shield she had worked on for about a week, it was in large size; she braced herself for the impact as it nearly pushed her back. The ice streams were freezing her shield over but protected her none the less. She had one eye open and one eye closed, with gritted teeth in view.
Raising her rapier above her hip line a bit, she waited for the right moment. She just doesn't see it! I need to make her open her eyes to the truth, she's too blinded with jealousy and vengeance! Speaking mentally, she tried her darnedest to push forward. Unexpectedly, Sikiyona had lunged forward and pierced the ground with the tip of her scythe's blade. A massive amount of sharp ice rose up from the ground in the form of a cone, much like her frosted blow. Everything in front of her was caught in a large purple glace, including Ruby. Though with her shield up, it protected her from the thick ice.
Damn, that was close, I almost got frozen solid! Ok... I'm going to have to try, I can't get out and this is a life or death situation! I have to try it! She mentally spoke with urgency and gritted teeth. From Sikiyona's view, it appeared as if the ice blanketed her and froze her over. She turned around and walked away with her scythe still in her hands, moved the pole of her scythe onto her shoulder, and continued pacing herself.
Out of nowhere, the glace that Ruby blocked began to crack. Yellow and white light beamed from the cracks, as the sound of crackling echoed through Siki's ears. The Glacial Reaper turned her head slightly, only to be met with a largely white, electrical blast that broke through the ice and shot out at her. Thinking quickly, Siki rammed the end of the pole of her scythe on the ground and engulf herself in a large violet ice prison. The blast hit the ice, which she was in the middle of, and it barely even cracked the outside.
Ruby stopped her attack, stood up in mid of the purple frost, and was breathing heavily. Damn.. I've used too much nen! She said in her head once she saw Cold Chill, she gasped at the sight. In the gigantic chunk of crystallized ice, sat the reaper herself in the center high into the air. She was curled up in a ball, her head tucked into her arms and her scythe over one shoulder, within her arms. A moment passed and Sikiyona's head jerked up three times in a stiff manner, towards Ruby. Each jerk made her ice crack and as soon as she moved her arms, the glace that engulfed her...shattered to bits.
Ruby noticed an opening and charged at her with her rapier, upset that her new attack didn't even graze her. Catching Siki off guard, she instinctively brought her scythe up and had it collide with the hawk woman's blade, but... It cut her scythe's pole in half, in the process.
The glacial woman's eyes widened and stood there, stunned. Right at that moment, Ruby had stopped her rapier from hitting her, having the tip directly point-blank at Siki's face.
Knowing her defeat, she fell to her knees and kept her frosted gaze wide. Features showing shock, mouth open, and slightly shaking. "Just kill me... Kill me and get this over with, already..." She whispered as she held her glacial gaze to the frosted ground.
Ruby's hawk eyes grew sorrow once more, then closed. She shifted in her stance, sheathed her blade, and formed back into her original outfit. The view of Ruby's back was in view and she fell on her knees, wrapping her arms around Sikiyona much to her surprise. Her head was over Ruby's shoulder and barely in her hair. "No... Killing you isn't right... You have been misled all your life, made to believe the illusion that your...father had shown you, was right. Mr. Kane was a cruel and heartless man, he killed many people and deceived them in order to get what he wanted. He tore families apart, slaughtered others and mind washed people...just so he could achieve what he wanted. You... Were made to believe that evolution was to enhance humans for the better good when in all reality, it would only ruin them... You were only a pawn to him and a study subject, that he could play with..... I. Will. not. kill. You..." Her voice met Ski's ears and a long pause ensued. "I just wanted you to see the real truth, to open your eyes back to what is really going on. I'm not your enemy, I'm someone who wants to save you from yourself... You don't deserve this kind of torture..." Ruby's voice was low but sounded motherly, she refused to take the life of an innocent person. She even believed, that Sikiyona was a good person deep down and was merely mislead her whole life.
For the first time in her entire life, she broke down into tears. Siki cried in Ruby's shoulder and hugged her arms around the hawk woman, finally realizing what she was saying. The painful truth struck her hard and broke the ice that was around her heart. Feeling Ruby's hand softly rub her scalp to comfort her, she also felt her wings wrap around her form.
Upon a nearby building stood Rui, Illumi, and surprisingly Hisoka. Where that joker came from was beyond even them but would ask later, as they are moved by the scene before them. Rui smiled sweetly, Illumi just stood there with his monotonous self and Hisoka was smirking with a squinted gaze. Believe it or not, Ruby gem... You are an Archangel... Hisoka mused in his mind, then smiled even more with his hands in his pockets.
A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter!~ Don't forget to leave a comment, I'm always happy to hear from my readers! \o
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