Ruby Rosethorn

"There's one, but she's so far gone it's stupid."

Andrew describing Ruby in Legacy's Birth

Legacy's Birth
Ruby hadn't made an appearence in the first book nor the other three, but was heard of when Artimus asked Andrew if he ever had any family and he replied by muttering, "One, but she's so far gone it's stupid."

The Visitors
Ruby first made an appearence when Artimus and friends were outside of their hut and were having a special celebration when Artimus looked up and "saw two blood-red eyes that chilled me to the bone." Later in chapter five she offically meets the others on a stormy night by when Artimus heard a knock at the front door. By opening it she saw Ruby holding an unconsicious Lucas in her arms with her Egyptian Mau, Silverstreak, and Phillippe behind her.

At first Andrew was going to attack her, but when she started to sing an old lullaby that she sang to him when he was younger he stopped and fainted on the couch. She laid Lucas on the other couch, stretched, and said that she was going to go to bed, and went to sleep in Artimus' bedroom. The next morning when Artimus woke up she says that she saw Ruby hanging some sheets over a wire-rack in the backyard, and when Artimus questioned her she replied, "Sheets are best for target practice," and burned all of the sheets with Andrew's flamethrower. Later on that day when Artimus was assigned with Ruby to go get some money Ruby decided to play a type of gambling game, and told Artimus her thoughts. The game consisted of three bowls and a pebble, and anyone that guessed the right pebble got to keep their money plus Artimus' prize silvr bracelet, but if anyone lost they had to pay twenty dollars in addition to the money they already laid out.

In the beginning they won up to two hundred dollars, but when one guy claimed that they cheated and made up some proof to prove it Ruby got furious and decided to play a game that she called "Ultimate Chicken". When the guy asked what th game was, Ruby whistled and both Silverstreak and Alexandria leaped down in front of the man, hissing, snarling and swatting their claws inches away from him. Ruby walked up next to Alexandria and said that if the guy was brave enough to set Silverstreak on Alexandria's back and then pet both of them underneath their necks then she would give him all the money they had, plus Alexandria and Silverstreak. But if he lost, then he would have to pay forty dollars extra to the money he already betted. At first the man was going to run away, but then he lunged for Silverstreak, wrapped her up in his jacket and was about to put her on Alexandria's back when she suddenly said, "Cats don't like being gagged."

As the man ran away screaming Ruby counted up all the money and put it into two large sacks. As they walked toward the marketplace Artimus questioned Ruby about her behavior and Ruby replied that she better be glad that she wasn't anywhere like her love-struck brother.

Personality
She has a spunky, almost always sarcastic-type of personallity, but when it comes down to fighting she's fearless to the end. Most of the people in the Amazon series think that she was part Forest Tribe, since she's loyal, brave and couragous, yet bloodthirsty at times when she's in her fit of Rage. She likes to listen to both hard and soft rock but has a hidden love of ballet that's revealed in The Fourth Tribe. Most of her personality is centered around the fact that she was banished from the tribes by her mother when Artimus was still a young baby and she neither forgot it nor forgave Artimus until she almost lost her life in The Tournament.

Appearence
She, like her brother, is dark-skinned and has black hair that she likes to keep in a single braid that she sometimes decorates with a tan feather that she says is a baby griffin's. She likes to stick with dark clothes, but mostly wears a red t-shirt with a dark-brown leather vest and black jeans with white sneakers. When Artimus and everyone first meet her she's five-eleven, with "muscles gallor" and a smirk on her face. Her eyes are why she has Ruby as a name, since they're blood-red and, like everyone in the Brandon family, are flourescent and can see in the dark. No one knows how she got her red eyes, even though everyone in the Brandon family no one has the same eyes as the other (for example, Artimus has forest-green, Sparta has icy-blue, Ruby has blood-red), but in one of Artimus' memories it shows that her father has brightly-golden eyes that they're almost orange. She sometimes wears a red bandana wrapped around her head for unknown reasons, but when Artimus asked her why she replied by saying that "you could never be too prepared", hinting when she fell into a live volcano and almost died of the ash and smoke.

Love Interests
In The Visitors, when everyone first meets her, Artimus thinks that she and Phillippe are together, since they're mostly seen together and talking, but in the end she finds out that Ruby and Phillippe were just talking about battle strategies on how to defeat Jack, an evil fifteen-year-old boy that tried to destroy the world and "make it in his own image". In The Tournament, she had a faint crush on Billy Ruhtra and he liked her in the same way, and even in the near end she tells him that she "would die for real for him", but in the end she has to go back to being a chosaint and he goes back to England with his men, but before he goes she gives him a kiss of goodbye and hurriedly flies away so she wouldn't "look like a fool by crying."