A man with short white hair wearing faded black jeans, leather boots, and a full-length, dark grey leather duster with straps ending at the waist and a slit between the legs walked towards the bar in Junior's club, the aforementioned owner leaning on it with his two bodyguards; twins called Melanie, who wore a white dress, and Miltia Malachite, who wore red. "Hey, you're that guy Raven right?" Junior asked the man.
"I'm just here for a drink" he said, not bothering to make eye contact with Junior, "nothing else."
Junior stood up in front of Raven and towered nearly a foot above him and looked down at him. He crossed his arms. "I've heard quite a bit about you Raven, and I have a proposition for you."
Raven walked past him and sat down at the bar and ordered an unsung hero. "I take it that 'I'm just here for a drink' has a different meaning in this country?"
Junior started leaning on the bar again. "Very funny. I need a new head of security and, from what I've heard, you'd be perfect for the job." Unfazed, Raven downed his drink, being careful not to shatter the glass, mentally scolding himself for not bothering to take off his gauntlets beforehand. Junior was getting visibly irritated by his lack of response. "Hey," he snapped, "I'm talking to you. Now give me an answer or get the hell out of my club."
Raven sighed and ordered another drink. "That's an interesting business strategy" Raven mused, "I'm shocked that you don't have people lining up at the door." Junior's head looked like it was about to pop off of his shoulders after that comment. "Relax Hei, I have no interest in employment right now, I'm just here to forget about the word for a while."
Junior's face began to lose some of its cherry hue and he went back to talking to Melanie and Militia. Raven released the tension that had been building up in his stomach by closing his eyes and let himself be absorbed by the music, only coming back to his senses when his drink came around. "Thank you." he said to the bartender, who nodded and went back to the other patrons. Out of the corner of his eye he spotted Junior and a dapper redhead, that Raven recognized immediately as Roman Torchwick, talking about 20 feet away. Between the music and their location Raven couldn't hear a thing that they were talking about so he took a drink instead, the song Red Like Roses started to play and the lights started to turn red. Junior returned for a bar slightly flustered. Raven closed his eyes again.
"Strawberry sunrise, no ice. Oh and one of those little umbrellas." a female voice began slyly before getting a little excited.
Her excitement caught Junior's attention. "Aren't you a little young to be in this club, Blondie?"
She giggled, "Aren't you a little old to have a name like Junior?"
Her comeback set off warnings in his head, he knew that he should stop this before it went too far but at the same time his curiosity, and to a small degree everything he'd downed by then, wanted to see what would happen, so he opened his eyes to watch the spectacle. However, his view was somewhat blocked by an ocean of long golden-blonde hair that flowed loosely and curled at every end. It reminded him of an open fire.
Junior scoffed. "So you know who I am." he said, turning around and no leaning away from the bar. "You got a name sweetheart?"
"Yes Junior I've got several," she said flirtatiously, her finger trailing down his chest, "but instead of sweetheart you can just call me sir." she ended forcefully, squeezing his balls with her right hand.
Junior lurched forward involuntarily. He made a noise that reminded Raven of a bird's mating call, for whatever reason. "Raven, help." he cried out, pain evident on his face. His choice of words took the girl by surprise, causing her grip to relax enough for Junior to get away from her but she took little notice.
"Raven Branwen?" she questioned as she turned to face him, giving him his first proper look at her. Her hair framed her face, taking away from her pale complexion and making her soft lilac eyes the first thing you see. She was about 5'7 in height and wore a tan vest over a yellow low-cut crop top, accentuating her sizable bust. She wore black short shorts under a brown belt with brown knee-high leather platform boots with a grey bandana wrapped around her left leg. She wore fingerless black gloves and had a large yellow bracelet on both wrists.
"It's Corvus actually," Raven said, giving her his full attention, "though you were closer than Junior there would have been."
She looked disappointed upon discovering him but took out her scroll and showed him a picture of a woman resembling her but wearing a red jacket with back hair. "Have you seen this woman?" she asked him, a hint of desperation in her eyes.
Raven heard Junior gathering his men to kick the girl out but Raven was intrigued by her. "Yes, but it was a couple of months ago."
The girl's face lit up and she leaned in closer to him and out her hands on his shoulders, their faces only inches apart. "Tell me everything you know.", she ordered.
"It looks like we have an audience." he mused, paying for his drinks and gesturing to the men that Junior rounded up. "I'll make you a deal, we get out of here and I'll tell you whatever you want to know. How's that sound?"
She smiled. "Deal," she said, "and the name's Yang".
"Get the hell out of my club." Junior demanded. Raven got up from his seat and started to walk out with Yang, who decided to have a bit of fun first.
"Oh Junior I was just playing with you." she said innocently, walking up to him with her hands behind her back, "Don't be so sensitive. Come on, let's kiss and make-up, m'kay?"
Raven was sure that this wouldn't work, but to his unending surprise, Junior took the bait. "Huh?" Junior asked to no one in particular, "Okay." Yang leaned in first with her eyes closed and Junior soon followed suit. A slight wave of jealousy went through Raven despite what he guessed would happen next. When their faces were an inch apart Yang punched him in the face, sending him flying through a glass pillar and into the wall on the other side of the club. Everyone else not on Junior's payroll ran out of the club in panic.
Raven face palmed but he was smiling. This blonde will be the death of me, he thought to himself as he stepped into the fray. There was a total of 20 people for them to knock down including Junior and the twins, bad odds...for all of them. Yang's bracelets turned into a pair of gauntlets when she got into her fighting stance and she flipped into the air as Junior's thugs charged her. She was smiling the whole time.
Yang hit the ground with the force of a lightning bolt, sending goons flying from the shockwave alone. Raven drank in the sight as he punched out a few of them with ease, his own gauntlets only making things easier. In a flash he saw her up in the DJ's booth, beating the tar out of him. "Poor bear-headed bastard" he said to himself as he looked around. Junior was nowhere to be seen, and the twins were looking at him with a sour expression. "Well this should be fun." he muttered to himself as they charged him, Miltia wielding a pair of claws and Melanie had bladed heels. They rushed him in flashes of red and white, claws and heels slashing into empty air as Raven evaded them, a frown starting to form on his face. "I'll be honest" he goaded as he caught Melanie's right foot and Miltia's left arm, "I was expecting a bit more from you two." He headbutted Miltia back a few feet and and punched Melanie into a glass pillar and the wall behind it. Miltia was about to resume her attack but she wilted under the glare of Raven's cold, silver eyes and decided that get out with her sister would be the smarter thing to do.
The sound of shotguns and missiles exploding brought his attention to the battle between Junior and Yang, the latter being clubbed back 20 feet through a glass table. Raven was about to intervene but something caught his eye; she was smiling and her hair almost seemed to be on fire. "Now that is interesting" he said to himself, surprised to find that she could keep surprising him. Yang charged forth, moving between the volley of missiles launched by Junior and she unleashed a flurry of blows on Junior ending by punching through his weapon and sending him skidding to the entrance. She was grinning triumphantly until she saw the lock of hair that Junior had in his hand and she snapped. Her aura shattered everything around her and her hair seemed to burn even brighter just as her eyes turned ruby red. She charged at him and all the colour in the room vanished, save Yang herself. She punched Junior square in the jaw and sent him flying out a window while shattering every other one. She quickly jumped out after, ready to finish him off.
"Ah shit." Raven cursed as he ran out after her. He rushed up the stairs and through the front door, sure that he would find the mangled body of Junior if nothing else.
Instead he was greeted by the sight of Yang conversing with a young girl with black hair tipped with red, her clothes following a similar colour scheme, save for her red cloak. She cocked her head when she saw him, their silver eyes locking together, "Yang, who's this?"