久久综合激激的五月天

"May I ask you to guide me to the Dark rune village then?" she asked Ruby. 

"Of course," Ruby agreed immediately, "Put your hand on my head and I will blink us there in a second." 

Not only did she agree, she did so with a smile on her face and Scarlet who had once been tricked by the old deity into becoming who and what she was today stopped her hand halfway. She pulled it back and hesitated for a few seconds. "What's the catch?" she asked Ruby.

"The catch for what?" Ruby asked, appearing to be genuinely confused. 

"Why do you want me to see the Dark rune village?" 

Ruby smiled and replied, "But that was your suggestion, not mine dear. You are being paranoid, I think you have been betrayed one too many times." 

"Yes I have, so, maybe you should first tell me why you came looking for me in the first place. The real reason and not the reproducing conversation because I am not the only female reaper who wants answers to that. " Scarlet scoffed and she folded her arms at her chest, "It's about the Dark rune village isn't it?" 

Ruby's demeanor suddenly changed, her aura was colder and her size increased, she was now bigger and taller, almost Scarlet's height. 

Other grim reapers who saw her walked the opposite way or they blinked and simply vanished from the area. 

"How can she stand to be around the energy of a hell hound for so long?" One grim reaper that was passing by asked. 

"She is the grim reaper that has a hell hound as a soul pet, that's why." the other replied. 

"Oh, is that her?" the first one asked. 

Scarlet could see them looking at her boldly making no attempt to hide or cover up the fact that they were observing and gossiping about her. Grim reapers were often candid and rarely hid their dislikes, sneers, contempt and other emotions. 

"Ignore them and let's talk," Ruby told her. "You are smarter than my son said, he made it sound like you are an idiot who can barely think for herself. You are wise indeed to be cautious in our realm, when you enter a world where deities like to play games, it's always best to always be on guard. You have our hell hound essence in your body." 

"Severus gave me a drop of his blood." She answered truthfully. "It made me stronger." 

"He is thinking like a trainer," Ruby smiled, "For all the resentment he harbors towards his father and his determination not to have offspring of his own, I think he treats you more like a child than anything else. Usually the reaper trains and teaches the soul pet but in your case things are different. It's quite interesting to see things done in reverse." 

Scarlet clapped her hands and raised her hands, happy to find someone that finally understood her quagmire. "Finally, someone sees it too, he shouts at me and berates me as if I am child. The other day, he said to me that even an infant hell hound is smarter than me." 

Ruby laughed, wondering if she should warn Scarlet that it would get worse in future. 

 "Kory is dozing off, I should send her home. Sleep is very important when hell hounds are still young." 

Scarlet hugged the baby hell hound tighter, longing to keep the cute little thing. 

"You can always visit me in the Dark rune village if you wish to spend time with her, she is taken with you as well it seems. I am afraid we will have to continue our conversation another time." Ruby used her powers to extract Kory form Scarlet's hands and they disappeared. 

After they were gone, it crossed her mind that they never got around to talking about the real reason why Ruby wanted her to visit the village. She did not know if this was a tactful move on Ruby's part or simply a coincidence that Kory fell asleep conveniently when she was seeking answers. 

She would get them though, eventually, she figured. She blinked and sent herself to the hall of guardian reapers. The hall had many sections dealing with many different issues but she looked specifically for the area marked registration. 

She passed through a mist and found inside another place like place with many trees, soul pets of different shapes and sizes and a few reapers that were engaged in conversation while they sipped tea or water or maybe just wine_, she guessed.

"What are you looking for?" A young male reaper white very short white hair stepped away from one of the groups and he approached her with this question. "You seem to be lost." 

"I am here to register." she replied. 

"You want to be a guardian." he said unsurely. 

"Yes," she nodded. 

"This way, this way, hurry up." he suddenly eagerly pushed her to a counter where he pricked her finger for her and a drop of her blood dropped on a glistening yellow smooth orb. A gust of wind blew by and her picture which was used on the leaderboard appeared on the wall which now suddenly had pictures of other reapers. 

"You are the hound!!" he laughed and covered his mouth. 

"Yes." she nodded. 

"You are the reaper with the hell hound." he said in a questioning manner. 

"Again, yes." Scarlet responded.

"Guys," he shouted, "Look" he pointed at the wall, "I signed the impossibility. I will be getting the reward, I the king of Frost signed the impossibility!!!"

"No way." she heard someone said. 

"They said she was going to be a warrior reaper." 

"What is she doing here." 

"Haha we finally have an ace, the warrior reapers are going to die of jealousy." 

"Guys, no one should tell them that we have the hound."

So many words were being said and most of them left her with questions more than anything. Who said that she was going to be a warrior reaper? 

"You are Scarlet, right?" The reaper who had signed her and called himself the king of frost asked. "I am Frost, I will be your partner in the duo leaderboard fights. And from now on, we are on the same team, guardian reapers also work in groups, let's become strong together."

Scarlet nodded even though she was still very much confused about the whole situation. 

"I think I should go now, I have some things to deal with and my pet wants me to train." she made up an excuse because they were staring at her as if she was a freak or beast of some kind. 

"Yes, yes, go and train, I am counting on you partner. We will be the duo champions this year." Frost was so happy that it almost appeared as if he would break down and cry at any moment. 

She on the other hand left the underworld with a lot more questions than she had when she went over.