STRAY GIRL

SOMEWHERE NEAR THE SOUTH POLE... THE ANTARCTIC ICELANDS

Amidst a great storm in the icy wastelands of the south pole, a man and his child were seen hauling a barrow filled with fish towards a large tenth. The two were dressed in thick pullovers and wore head warmers which shielded them from the chilling snow. They were a few metres close to the tenth when a bright red light flashed through the stormy skies followed by a loud bang and a boom which ricocheted through the entire heavens sending shivers down the spines of the two.

The red lightning flashed again and a gigantic red circle opened up in the skies, it was a portal. The man and his child were terrified but they stood there and watched as a glowing red object was shot out of the portal at great speed. The object landed on the tenth crushing it to pieces, the portal closed and the father and son ran towards the tenth remains. They spotted a big glowing red stone which emitted powerful mysterious vapours and strange screech sounds. The two of them stared at the stone for some seconds before it suddenly exploded into tiny fragments right before them. The father and son ducked to protect themselves from the explosion .

Some of those pieces bored into the ice while some flew into the ocean. By the time the two people would look up, nothing was left. All the stones were gone, just like that.

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[DARK RUBY]

Story by XoXo

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May 22 - 2024 - Penguin City Street - morning

"Ruby!" Alice screamed from the kitchen as she brought down a pot of steamy egg stew from the gas stove. She reached for two plates on the rack above her and bended to pick up spoons from below. The kitchen looked rough and dirty but she didn't care because she was in a hurry to serve the two plates. She was a tall, slim black haired woman with standards, no lateness.

"Ruby get the hell up now.....you hear me!"She screamed again this time more ferociously. She served the two plates and grabbed a loaf of bread before leaving the clumsy kitchen with the plates of egg and bread. She walked to the dining room, placed the food tray on the table and opened all the curtains to allow fresh air and sunlight. The sun rays touched her perfect skin and irritated her eyes for a second before she blocked it away with her palm.

"Ruby! god damn it.....this is why I don't let you hangout on Sundays" she waltzed away from the living room towards a certain room. On the door of the room, a paper which read "KNOCK or FUCK OFF" was plastered and it was big and bold.

She stopped at the door and knocked three times."Ruby" she muttered and knocked again, she was getting impatient until the door opened slowly with a long screeching sound and all of a sudden, a highschool girl busts out of the room with a backpack. Ruby.

Ruby ran into Alice by mistake and they both fell to the ground. They both gave a dissatisfied yelp. Ruby's backpack emptied and all it's content got scattered all over the place.

"Hey.....I'm sorry about that" Alice said and helped Ruby up.

"That really hurt" Ruby replied as she packed up her backpack and zoomed over to the living room.

"Is that all....no good morning.....no I'm sorry for coming late and getting drunk last night when I know it's gonna be Monday next morning....uh" Alice asked angrily.

"Why do I need to say sorry..... you're not my mom" Ruby sat on the chair, grabbed a plate of egg stew on the table and was about to dig in when Alice stops her by holding her wrist.

"Not your mom.....I thought we talked about this. Each time you do something bad, you make up an excuse with this mom thing." Alice said blatantly.

"Well yeah...it's the truth..." Ruby replied as she slapped off Alice's hands and began to eat the egg stew.

"Well your mom wouldn't fix you up egg stew early in the morning or clean up your laundry.....she would rather beat you up!" Alice yelled.

"Still doesn't change the fact that you're an angry old woman who loves to grunt around pretending like she's my mom" Ruby yelled back.

"You will learn to respect me and obey me Ruby and for the record, i'm not yet thirty." Alice yelled again.

"You wanna beat me up.....like my mom....used to....is that it? Ruby asked furiously.

"Why am I even arguing with a sixteen year old degenerate when I should be punishing her for her crimes..... You're grounded. No TV, or PlayStation, or phone or hanging out with your other degenerate friends....you finish in school and get your sorry ass back home. You hear me" Alice said as she walked out of sight furiously.

"Fuck you !" Ruby yelled as she grabbed her bag and busted out of the house angrily.

"And that's two months degenerate! Two months for you" Alice yelled through the window before staring at the plate of food on the table. Ruby didn't finish her food. She walked to the table, sat and grabbed a spoon and a table mirror. She viewed herself in the mirror.

ALICE'S POV

Am I that old.....this isn't the first time Ruby is saying that, I think I need to find love .... Ruby thinks I'm old because I don't have boyfriend. I'll show her. That girl is so so hard to work on.....am I not nice enough? What am I doing wrong? I can't watch her waste her life getting drunk while she has a future ahead of her....well.....I'm her mom for the time being. I won't be discouraged.

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Book Worms Highschool - Morning

The school for book worms, the school was popular and was perhaps the most crowded school in the whole of penguin city, it was a hub for all forms of nuisances. Since the population of the school was too high and hard to manage, students no longer focused on their academic books. Hundreds of students walked around aimlessly on the school field since it wasn't time for class yet. Ruby, a tenth grade high schooler walked into the hallway through the large field.

She walked over to her locker and opened it, grabbed her books and was about to head to class when she got caught up by her appearance in the mirror of her locker. She stared at herself in the mirror and touched her head.....she definitely had very short hair and looked basically like a boy but she was way pretty. She touched the short hair and wished it could grow.

"Why am I wasting my time it won't ever grow will it?" She asked herself.

"It will....give it time" someone replied from behind startling Ruby out of her thoughts. She turned around to see Sabrina and Moses.

"Hey guys .....I had no idea I was thinking way too loud" Ruby smiled.

"So where are we going today?" Moses, the tall guy asked curiously.

"I don't know Moses.....I might not be able to go with you guys today" Ruby replied slamming her locker doors and she approached class.

"What's up?....you know you can't miss today. Rowan will be signing us up as official partners in his bar....you know what that means, free money and free...." Sabrina was interrupted.

"Free beer....I know but I'm grounded. My fake mom won't let me hangout for a month."Ruby replied.

"Well you know what they say..... sometimes you gotta break the rules to get the cash. Remember the goal....you wanted to build your fake mom a restaurant and buy yourself a new guitar. Well she'll understand right?" Moses stated blatantly

"Yeah....when I get the money.... she'll probably forgive me."

"Why do you call her fake mom anyways.... she's your aunt right?"

"Shut up Moses"

"Or she's your mom?"

"Shut up Moses"

"Fake mom just sounded so cringe y'know..."

"Moses!"

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Penguin City Street - The Rowans - Night

It was night, Ruby and her friends came out of the Rowan's bar, it was their regular drinking spot. They came out chatting and giggling, they were definitely drunk. Ruby was holding a bottle of beer on her right hand and a bail of money on the left. They were walking in irregular manners till they reached a dark alley.

"I think we left too late....this alley feels weird." Ruby said as she stumbled on a stray cat.

"What're you saywhing...we pass thish pwace evwy dawy" Sabrina replied extra drunk.

"You drank too much today Sabrina" Moses said.

They were halfway through the alley when a bright red glowing stone appeared from no where illuminating the entire alley. It was beautiful but weird and scary.

"What the hell is that?" Moses yelled.

"How should I know?" Ruby replied.

"I know what it ish....itish a shtar....a bright red shtar" Sabrina yelled.

"Shut up" Moses and Ruby yelled back.

Ruby walked closer to the floating stone. She touched it and it floated away towards a dark silhouette of a humanoid standing a few metres away from them. The dark silhouette caught the red stone and held it tight.

"Hello Ruby" the dark silhouette said in a cold dark tone.

"Uhhh...hello dark man.....do I know you?" Ruby replied

More dark shadow like silhouettes dropped down from the roofs above them. About twenty of them, they faced Ruby and her friends and began to move closer.

"Uh.....are we supposed to run?" Moses whispered curiously into

"Run!!".

TO BE CONTINUED...

A terra world is a wonderful place...

There, you'll find food.....water....air.....even soil.

Anywhere we can find these three things... life can be found.

Life is our food.....we prey on life....we eat life to grow stronger.

Terra world 008 contains life and we will consume it,

We will consume it all !

The Jobi....