A/N:

The idea for this crossover has been spiraling around in my head for what seems ages. I mean, melding together a series focused around hot chicks battling it out and a world inspired by hard rock and heavy metal seems like a match made in Heaven, does it not? What held me back, however, was my indecisiveness of which Queen's Blade character I should choose to be the main protagonist. That all changed when I recently watched the Rebellion season of Queen's Blade, and despite its shortcomings (oh the many…MANY shortcomings…) I finally found the one girl I was looking for; Captain Liliana. Needless to say she's become my favorite character in QB, and I was more than a little bummed out when I saw how little screen time she had in the anime. (had to look up her backstory online cuz the anime did such a shitty job fleshing out her character -_-)

…BUT ANYHOO, having recently become a huge fan of the pirate-metal band 'Alestorm', in addition the lack of Liliana fics out there (seriously, her starfish nips need moar luv! :P), I knew I had a solid crossover idea oozing with originality.

For those unfamiliar with Brutal Legend, you might find yourselves scratching your scalp at some of this, but I'll try to keep things fairly straight forward. Still, I highly recommend you play the game simply because of how kick-ass it is.

Prologue

The hull of her ship groaned as the kraken's many tendrils coiled to suction. Bit by bit the wooden framework crumbled around her; the viscous sea flooding the now ruined cabin as it was slowly dragged into the shrouded black abyss.

This was the end for Liliana. Windows and opportunities for escape were ever present throughout the whole ordeal, but the proud captain would not abandon her plunder. Bound by the aesthetics of her esteemed grandmother Artemis, she refused to abandon ship, preferring honor over her own life. Not even the refined aesthetics she was raised to uphold could save this once feared and untouchable pirate captain. Her crew was dead, her arm was broken, scabbard shattered. All that was left were the bloodied feathers of her now devoured parrot and the priceless relics of her latest plunder- ironically the largest and most successful yet. Her priceless bountiful booty, doomed to be lost at sea for the rest of time…

...along with her treasure.

Pirate Aestheitcs: Aesthetic #2: A pirate will keep her honor and her promises, but won't go overboard.

Such a cruel fate…but Liliana would have it no other way. Her grandmother would be proud.

As Captain Liliana lay there, defeated, she angled her head to the towering mound of riches before her. The many sparkling trinkets made her loins moisten. She used her one functional arm to drag herself to her final plunder; her life's work. Clutching at her arm she leaned back into it as more brine solution crept in through the floorboard's many splintering cracks. Her sopping wet bright pink strands cascaded down from her torn pirate headpiece, flowing into the many crinkling gold doubloons and priceless jewels rifled beneath her frame. She sank into the coins with a shivering sigh.

Liliana's ample chest expanded as she took some deep breaths. In spite of the immense pain, her lips pulled back into a soft smile. This would be a good death. She had not been captured, nor was she to be executed by the land lovers she had preyed on. No, she was to meet her end out at sea, and be put to rest out at sea. No pirate could ask for more.

As the deluge opposite the cabin door began to swell inward, she dug her hand into the gold pile and yanked out a bottle of rum. Though she couldn't hold her liquor, no time was more appropriate for a toast. She sank her teeth into the spongy cap and pulled away, spitting it out. Rearing her head back, she took a swig; the door burst in with a loud, whooshing bang. The door rushed inward, soaring at the Pirate Captain's body. Slamming into her head, the door shattered the bottle, sandwiching her body into the riches she lay on. The cabin was instantly submerged.

Her broken arm twitched a few times before the activity finally deadened. The feared Pirate Captain Liliana, was no more.

Red wisps of her vital fluid clouded the salt water, spiraling and expanding outward. Gravity influenced it to seep through the treasure. Inside the many tons of gold, a relic sat. This relic was…strange. It was not made of gold, but metal. A very…heavy metal. Likely iron. It had similarities of a boar and mammoth, but was more savage looking; angry. As the fallen pirate captain's blood swept across its fangs, a fiery glow burned in its eye-sockets…

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A wreath of zephyrs miles above the ship's crunched wreckage began to part, the skies darkened to red. A swirling mass of fiery lightning ripped through the firmament; a roar unmatched even by the most fearsome of beasts exploded out from the stratosphere. It was as if the gates of hell had opened…

Clumps of molten iron rained down from the heavens.

A croaking howl erupted from the kraken, its marshmallowy flesh incinerating and vaporizing from the volcanic hail. The frightened sea-monster loosened its tentacles from the now smoldering shipwreck and retreated from its prey, kicking off back into the shadowy abyss.

With the attack finally over, Liliana's ship sank to its watery grave.

Her limp body, however, began to glow and floated skyward.

A shell of ivory light glistened from her torso's circumference, intensifying in brilliance as she ascended higher and higher. The molten embers which should have reduced her flesh to a muddy pulp simply slid away as water would have.

"OZZZZZZBOOOOOOORN!"

The sky quaked as the word echoed, trembling the very earth which lay beneath it.

It was as if God itself had spoken.

A colossal entity encased in molten iron descended from the ruined sky and a thundering roar once again shook the earth. Like an angry comet, the fiery beast sailed towards the chosen one.

Liliana was but a speck before the immensity of Deistic fire.

The very sea itself split to separate waves upon contact of the two entities. Light which rivaled even the cosmic beams of the sun exploded from the center.

The blinding light cleared, as did the molten embers eating away at the sky.

Liliana and the fire beast had vanished…

A/N:

The end of this opener went through a lot of revisions, but I believe this will suffice for what I have in store later on.

Con-crit is always appreciated, so feel free to leave your thoughts in a review or PM me for some in-depth discussion. I enjoy discussing my works with my readers, so don't be shy.

An update for this fanfic (as well as my others) will be in production once I get my new chromebook in April, so stay tuned.