"Ahhh!" a scream of fear echoed throughout an alleyway, that scream was none other than the infamous battle strategist of all the 26th century, Ruby Crimson, thrown onto the hard concrete ground.
"Haha, I can't believe we caught a priceless prey," a male voice reverberated in Ruby's ears. "Come on brothers, let's have our fun before we sell her."
"Pl-Please don't," Ruby quivered, she didn't remember how she got here but she knew that she needed to escape. If only she knew where she was.
Ruby picked herself up only to be pushed roughly back down on the floor, she looked up only to see three hooded figures. Each one of them was wearing black and none of them looked like thugs but she knew that they kidnapped her.
"Look at her coward," one of the thugs said, he picked Ruby up by her pitch-black hair that had dyed dark red color at the end of her hair. His smile was as crooked as him. "Not so brave without your bodyguards."
Ruby cried for help but she was quickly silenced by a hand over her mouth, she looked up at the thugs before she noticed a shadow behind the thugs.
'More thugs?!' Ruby started to lose hope in being saved. She already started praying to her god that she would at least have a peaceful afterlife.
"Hey hey! What are you...argh!!!" one of the thug's voices cried in pain.
The mysterious shadow held up one of the thugs by his throat. There wasn't a single sound from the shadow which made the thug in its grasp started to shake and felt fear surrounding him.
"You know, there's a law about raping people," the shadow spoke, its voice was deep to a growl and emitted this dark persona. "But since we're in an alley, I can see where the law doesn't seem to affect you."
"WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" the thug in the shadow's grasp started squirming and trying to escape the shadow.
"Just passing by," the shadow's voice echoed through the canal of the thugs' ears before the thug in the shadow's grasp started to feel his pulse slowly crease.
The other two thugs back away from the shadow but they were too slow as the shadow knocked them out easily. The shadow looked down at Ruby and helped her up but then quickly looked away.
The shadow didn't seem to be an ordinary human, it was wearing dark clothing but there were some noticeable marks, like deep dark stains.
"Um, thanks...stranger," Ruby said shyly, she didn't know what to do but for some reason, she felt like she has seen this situation before, deja vu feeling. "H-Have we met before?"
The shadow looked down at Ruby, but it didn't reply, only a simple shake before it started to scale the alleyway walls and disappeared into the rooftops.
Ruby looked at the way the shadow scaled the wall, an experienced person with a lot of stamina to climb a ten-floor building. She then started to question how she got her, the last thing she remembered was that she was riding in a black SUV when there was a sudden gang of people blocking the way of the SUV. The gang started attacking her and her bodyguards, but then something happened...
It was very fast, almost impossible to see but there was a glimpse of a black figure. Ruby was very perplexed at why there was a black figure, she wonders if it was the same figure that saved her.
"Urgh...my fucking head," one of the thugs groaned.
'Questions later, run!' Ruby said to herself before sprinting at her fullest away from the thugs and safe as she could be. Far away from the alley and into the nearest place to hide.