A/N:

Remember when I said 1 – 2 stories a week, well scratch that. Since I posted my last chapter, my homework load has doubled and I have begun looking way harder for a job. So, now in addition to school kicking my ass, life decided to join and it brought a spikey metal bat laced with salt. So, pardon me if chapters start becoming less and less often. I will always try to post at least once a week but it won't always be the same story from the week before.

Speaking of stories, this is a new one. Someone I knew came up with the idea and I asked them if I could write a fanfic about it and then said sure so her I am. This story, as you can read above this, is called Salem's Little Secret. And no, it's not about Salem having a dick as one of my friends thought. It's about Salem having a secret room in her lair that Ruby discovers. Also in this story, Qrow failed to get to Ruby on time in Oniyuri and she was captured by Tyrian. There will be two plot lines. Ruby's plot line and NJR's plot line of trying to save Ruby. Qrow will be with them as well but let's just say they won't think to favorably of him.

Let's begin.

Started Writing: February 11, 2017 at 12:14 A.M.

Ruby sat in the large white chair that seemed to be made up of entirely Grimm bone. She was seated in front of a large purple table. She looked down towards the floor. The last thing she remembered was lying on the ground in Oniyuri after fighting the scorpion faunus named Tyrian. She remembered looking up at him as his stinger appeared next to him on his shoulder. She looked at him in fear as the rest of her team looked on in horror as they were too weak to fight him. Then, he launched his stinger towards her and her world went black. Now as she sat at the table, her hands bound in her lap, she could only think back to her team and what they were going through right now.

She looked up and was met with seven faces looking at her. She recognized about half of them but the other half were strangers.

To her left was a rather well dressed man. He had a yellow undershirt, a purple over shirt and a large bluish purple coat on and wore a black tie. He wore black fingerless gloves and had green eyes. But the most striking part of him was his large black moustache that seemed to cover his mouth.

Seated next to him about one seat down was a large, bulky man. He had a black undershirt with sleeves that came out to his elbows and a large silver coat on top of that. He had a beard that went around hi entire face and spoke in a low voice.

Seated directly across from him was Tyrian. The psycho scorpion faunus that attacked her and seemed to have poisoned her. He wore a pair of white pants and a white shirt that exposed his chest. He had bandages down his arms and while she couldn't see it now, she knew had a long, extendable scorpions tail.

Seated next to him was her. The one that killed Pyrrha. The one she knew and trusted. Cinder. She now wore a long dress that came all the way down to her mid shin and had the right leg exposed on the side all the way up to her upper thigh. Her hair was blocking the left side of her face where she could see a bandage covering her left eye. Judging by the way Cinder looked at her, she could tell that her eyes was most likely gone. Standing next to her was Emerald and Mercury. She had trusted Emerald, even making small talk at the fairground during the Vytal Festival. Mercury, however, she knew was evil after running into him the day Penny died. She knew he was faking his injury after seeing him walking around but never could have known he was working for Cinder. Emerald too.

And seated at the other end of the table was one of the scariest woman Ruby had ever seen. She was white as snow and had red vine like lines across her arms and she assumed across her entire body. She wore a long black dress and had red eyes. Her hair was white and it had some black, string like structure across the ends.

Ruby looked back down. Her looked towards her left side, right below her rib cage. She could see were Tyrian had struck her and she was beginning to feel a pain in her side. That's when the one of the end spoke up.

"Child," she spoke. Ruby raised her hair to meet her eyes. "I have been informed that your name is Ruby Rose, is that correct?"

Ruby looked up and nodded ever so gently. She was trying to act brave and fearless but she was terrified on the inside.

"Fantastic. Well, now that we know who you are, it would seem appropriate that you learn our names. I'm Salem, that's Watts, that's Hazel, and I believe you already know the rest." Salem said.

Ruby just looked Salem right in the eyes before speaking again. "What do you want from me?"

"Straight and to the point. I admire that. Well child, it's your eyes. They're silver. And we can have that around here." Salem said

"And what do you mean by that?" Ruby asked.

"Well, those known to have silver eyes can do amazing things. But in the wrong hands, or as I see it, the right hands, they can have the power to destroy all of mankind and all his creations. Now, I'm going to assume that you don't want to kill humans and destroy everything, isn't that correct?" Ruby slightly nodded her head. "I guessed as much. Anyways, I want your eyes. I want them ripped out of your skull so that they can never harm any of my wonderful creatures ever again."

Ruby was now showing her fear. She was just told that this person wanted her eyes removed so that she wouldn't do any harm. Ruby stood up in an attempt to show strength but was soon overcome with pain from the stab.

Cinder laughed quietly before speaking again. "Child, don't you understand. Tyrian her poisoned you, right now it only hurts a little from the pain of the puncture alone but soon, the poison will seep through your body, making you weaker and weaker. So, you'll become so weak you won't to be able to move. And that's when your pretty, little eyes are coming out. I want you to suffer for a bit though and make you think about what you've done to my babies, my Grimm. And after I take her eyes out, Cinder, you can do whatever you want with her. Keep her as your little blind slave or torture her until the brink of death but keep her alive. I really don't care, as long as she isn't a problem I have to deal with. Tyrian, show Ms. Rose where she will be staying."

"With pleasure, my queen." Tyrian said before grabbing Ruby by the hair and dragging her off, all while Ruby was kicking and screaming, trying to get free and Tyrian was laughing manically.

Cinder eventually turned her head away from where the screams were coming from and motioned Emerald to come over so she could whisper something to her. After receiving the message, Salem spoke.

"Speak, child."

"Cinder wants to know, how long until she is unable to move?" Emerald asked for Cinder.

"Well, judging how bad she looked, I would give her about 2 weeks. Plenty of time." Salem said.

Cinder once more beckoned Emerald over. Once the message was received, Emerald spoke again.

"Cinder says, not long enough. And that she wants one of her eyes removed a few days before the other one is removed so it can be implanted in her left eye so that she can taunt Ruby before the other eye is removed."

"I like your thinking, Cinder. When she is weak, we will have her left eye removed and implanted where she so negligently took yours. Then, we'll keep her alive and awake so she can see you with it." Salem said with a smile. Cinder smiled back, grinning from ear to ear, giddy with her new plan.

Meanwhile, back at Oniyuri, the remaining members of Team RNJR sat together, trying to recover. Their leader, the one that gave them the strength to fight, was just violently ripped from their hands. All they could do was watch the man that somehow beat all four of them at the same time ran off Ruby Jaune sat, destroyed over losing yet another friend while Ren and Nora comforted each other.

That's when Jaune noticed a bird flying in at an incredible speed. He nudged Ren and Nora and all three of them watch this bird come in and glide right over their heads. It disappeared behind a pillar but it never reemerged. Instead, a man carrying a long sword and wearing a tattered red cape emerged and he seemed angry. He quickly looked left, then right, then at the trio sitting on the ground.

"Where is she?!" He yelled at them.

"Who? Ruby?" Jaune responded.

"Yes! Where is Ruby?" He yelled back.

"Someone…took her. His name was Tyrian. And he mentioned something about his Goddess."

"No…no... Nooo! The man yelled again, this time in anguish.

"Aren't you Qrow? Ruby's uncle?" Ren asked.

Qrow looked at him and said "Yeah. And that man who took my niece works for one of the evilest woman in all of Remnant."

"What does she want with Ruby then?" Nora asked.

"She wants her dead."

Author's Note:

Dark, right?

This story is gonna to be more on the darker side. I guess you can tell from how they treat Ruby and what their plans are for her and her eyes. But the worst is yet to come.

I might update Qrow's Little Secret today but I'm having a large party at my house so it might not happen. But I'll try. Also, I now have five ideas for new stories ranging from single chapter stories to smut so stay tuned.

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Finished Writing: February 11, 2017 at 1:28 P.M.

Words: 1.7k

Pages: 4