Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to the TV show Victorious. I only give them a place to live on in my stories. I hope you enjoy. SM

Chapter 2: Fight Night

Their night was done. They had found Jeremy Arthur and redeemed him. Now it was time for them to go home. Just because they went home doesn't mean that they were going to bed. No they worked the nightshift so they would be up until dawn. They would now change out of their working clothes and go workout for an hour and a half.

They lived in this old Victorian house. To the outside world it was an empty lot, waist high with weeds and broken concrete. Inside the house it looked like a very comfortable home too unless you knew where to look. There is a wall that moves to open to another part of the house. That is where the combat gym is located.

The girls used the gym to continually prepare for their occupation. They lifted weights and spared with kick and punch manikins. There are a number of weapons to workout with as well as room to run a circuit. This was one of the most important parts of their night.

When the girls were done their workout they showered and had a meal. Tori did the cooking and Jade did the dishes. They then went to the quiet room. This was a room where they went to meditate. The girls knelt in the room and spent the next hour in peaceful meditation.

They spent the next hour or so reading and watching TV. They were waiting for dawn to arrive like they always did. The first thing the girls did every day was go up on the roof to watch the sunrise. They did not speak there was never a need to. They just sat and watched the most perfect piece of art ever created. No painting could ever capture the real beauty of the sunrise. Once the sun was up in the sky they stood up and went back downstairs.

A few minutes later the lid on the mailbox could be heard closing. That was the cue that they were waiting for. Jade got up and walked to the door and opened the mailbox. It was the same every day. Tori didn't even have to look up from the book. Jade would grab both envelopes and walk back to the couch. She would then toss Tori's envelope on top of the book.

They looked over the assignment for that night and then climbed the stairs to go to bed. Although the girls loved each other beyond anything earth and more than anyone else could they had their own bedrooms and slept alone. Their relationship was one of pure love and not one of sexual need or desire. They were beyond that.

Tori lay down and turned off her light and was asleep almost instantly. Jade always took a moment to reflect on the night in her journal before she chose to go to sleep. This night she would make comment on how the assignments seemed to be coming faster and faster and they were expected to redeem more people each night. She couldn't help but think that something big was coming. They would sleep until about three or four o'clock and then get up to start their next mission. Jade turned off the light and slipped into a very peaceful sleep. The girls had no trouble sleeping after they had redeemed someone. They knew they were doing the right thing.

Jade was the first one awake. She went down stairs to make coffee. Tori came downstairs to the kitchen and took her seat at the counter on a bar stool. She didn't say anything until she had at least half of her first cup of coffee in her. They she started eating the toast that Jade made for her and finally said, "Something is bothering you. What is it?"

Sometimes Jade hated the fact that she could never hide anything from her partner. Not that she had a lot of things to hide from her, but in situations like this when she is questioning something about the job, she wished she could just keep them to herself. They were not to question the job. They were just to do the job, but she had questions.

"I have a question about the job and I am very uncomfortable just having a question about the job."

"Jade we don't question our orders."

"It is not the orders that I am questioning. I am wondering why the numbers are increasing. I am worried that someone is in a hurry like a farmer trying to get the crop in before a storm comes. Have you noticed?"

"I have been keeping my thoughts to myself, but I agree. We are doing more redemptions than ever also a lot more judgements as well. Tonight we have three judgements and no redemptions. I just don't know what is changing." Tori said with a very concerned look on her face. "After my shower I am going to meditate on it."

Meditation over it was time to get dressed for work. Tonight would be much different than the night before. Tonight no one was going to be redeemed. They put on the same outfits that they wore the night before. This was their costume of the night. The darkness they wore covered all the hope and joy that they had in them and shielded them from the world as they did their horrible job.

They were coming down the stairs when the doorbell rang. They looked at each other. No one ever came to their home. Jade went to the door expecting someone who was lost, but there was no one there. She reached for the mail box and found two more brown envelopes. This had never happened before. Never had the mission changed at the last minute. She grabbed them and handed one to Tori.

They opened the envelopes to find that their mission had not changed, but there was an addition. Now they were to pass judgement on three and locate and redeem one. They had a long night ahead of them. They might not be back until dawn.

Once again they found themselves parked on the edge of the Battle Zone. They walked a block or so when they found a couple of men huddled over a burning barrel of garbage trying to keep warm. They turned and looked at the two women and drew back at their site. They somehow could feel the power coming from these two.

They stopped and Jade reached into the empty pocket of her trench and pulled out a handful of coins. She passed them over to one of them men without saying anything. She leaned forward and whispered in his ear. When she walked away from him he had a smile on his face. Then the two continued walking.

Tori didn't have to ask what Jade told him. She could hear what she said. It was the same thing they always told these people. It always left them with a feeling of peace and warmth. It was not just a phrase, it was the truth. Jade told them, "ברוך אתה מי עני, שלך היא מלכות האלוהים."

Tori and Jade walked side by side through the dark street. They passed a couple of women of the night. They looked at them and suddenly became very quiet and just stared. If they had seen any other two people walking these streets they would have harassed them and maybe even tried to rob them, but there was something about these two that held them where they stood.

Tonight they were going to a hangout where a local motorcycle gang would be. They were looking for a man named Alex Swan. His street name was Bird. The streets were many things, but creative was not one of them. They did not go inside. They stood outside and just waited.

Soon a low member called a prospect walked up and tried to intimidate them, he had no idea how far out of his league he was. Jade stood staring straight ahead without even looking at the man. "We are here for Bird! Bring him out!"

The prospect tried to say something, but he had nothing to say. He turned like a man hypnotized and walked back into the building. In a second or two he came flying back out like he was thrown. He fell to the street at their feet. Jade and Tori stood their ground and never moved.

Three men walked out. All of them full members of this club. Then a middle sized guy with straggly blonde hair shouted. "I am Bird. Who wants me?"

Tori said, "We have been sent for you Alex." She always liked to use their real names because it often really angered them. It reminded them of who they were before they made the choices that they made. "You're out of time Alex."

The three men on the step pulled hand guns out of their waist bands. This once was a surprise to the girls, but now it was getting to be a cliché. They still did not move. "We did not come for your friends, but we will take them too if we need to." Jade said in a very flat tone.

That was all that was necessary one of the men pulled the trigger on his automatic. Although the gun fired, the bullets either passed through the girls or never reached them. He could not be sure. The other men including Bird started firing at them too. On any other night they would be dragging the bodies of two women who wandered into the Battle Zone to a hiding spot, but not tonight and not these girls.

When the guns were empty and the smoke cleared they were still there. That is when it got very real for Bird and his men. They tossed their guns down on the step and took out their knives. They charged the girls hoping to overwhelm them. That was when the girls let their own weapons show.

Tori's chain wrapped around the wrist of one of the guys who was carrying a large hunting knife. When the ball at the end hit his wrist his hand opened forcing the knife to fall to the street. She deftly kicked it aside and brought a fist up to the underside of his chin. His eyes rolled to the top of his head before he crumpled to the ground. She then brought the brass coloured ball and chain down on his head splitting it almost in two.

The prospect wanted to impress Bird, so he went straight at Jade. He saw the baton in her hand so he reached for it and tried to grab her hand to take it away. As soon as he touched her hand with his pain shot through his entire body. The skin on his hand began to blister like an acid burn when he touched her skin. The evil in his soul reacted to the purity of Jade's being.

Jade grabbed him by the head and squeezed so hard she drove her thumbs into his temples. He fell like a rag doll at her feet with his eyes popping out of his head. He would never join Bird's gang.

Tori squared off with the next guy that came at her. He thrust his knife in a wild arch trying to slice her open. His blade caught her on the arm, opening up a large gash. To his surprise she never bled from the wound. He lunged again driving the knife to the hilt under her ribs.

When he pulled the knife out there was no blood on the blade although it did weaken Tori a bit. She doubled over in pain but rose up again to fight. That was when he saw that the deep cuts he had inflicted were now healing.

He threw his knife at her but she blocked it and knocked it away. He charged her and caught her in the midsection. The two went to the ground and started to grapple. He tried to break Tori's arm. This guy must have had some training in how to fight. He must have been one of those cage fighters. Tori had to use some skills herself with this one.

Tori welcomed the challenge. She trained for the physical and most of the time there was no reason for the training. This time she actually got a fight and she was enjoying every minute of it. The two rolled on the ground each trying to inflicting blows to each other over and over again.

He tried to strangle Tori to choke her out, but she did not seem to choke. It was like she was not in need of oxygen. She just continued to fight and soon slammed her fists into his face until he let go of her.

Bird watched as the fight continued. Tori shouted through her teeth at the man, "אני שפטתי אותך אשם החטאים על כדור הארץ. הנשמה שלך יכול להירקב בגיהנום." She then swept his legs out from under him and as he hit the ground she finished him with a punch to the chest stopping his heart.

That was when Alex called for more men to come out. The last of the men came out to see what was going on. They arrived just in time to see Tori pass judgement on the guy she was fighting with on the ground. He screamed in pain and that triggered the others to act. That was when a six on two brawl. These were the odds that the girls trained for. Many punches were thrown. Kicks and even head butts were given. This was their style now.

This was going to be a long night, but also a good night. The screams of the men as they were judged one by one filled the streets. One by one the numbers started to even up. Then it got quiet and Alex Swann realized that he was now alone.

When seeing that his entire gang had been eliminated by these two women he fell to his knees and begged them to let him go. There was a growing wet spot on the front of Alex's jeans.

"We can't do that Alex. We were sent here to judge you. These men were guilty as well so they were judged. You will suffer the same fate." Jade stated flatly.

"You will fight and we will beat you. Then we will lay our hands on you and you will feel all the pain every one of your victims ever felt. They we shall pronounce your judgement and you will be removed from this earth." Tori said.

"Who are you?" Bird asked in a cry.

"We are your fate. We are your judgement. We have been sent to remove you." Tori said becoming impatient.

"You might get me, but 'They' will get you." Bird said rather cryptically.

He lunged at Jade and the fight was on. She grabbed him and threw him and she could tell that he had been in the cage too. They fought using punches and kicks. At one point he flipped Jade to the ground and was kicking her in the side. Tori could have jumped in, but that is not how they did things. This was Jade's fight.

Jade managed to put him on the ground and give herself time to stand up. When he stood up he was greeted with a punch to the right side of his jaw that loosed it. Then she blocked his right with her forearm. He was strong, but not nearly enough. She then brought both hands over his ears creating ringing in his head and dizziness. She then punched hard to his right side of his ribcage.

He threw a left that hit her in the side of the head. She stumbled, but did not go down.

That was when she threw a left and dislocated his jaw completely. She then kicked him in the center of his chest breaking the cracked ribs and rupturing his lung.

She didn't want him to suffer so she ran over and knelt beside him. Jade said, "אני שפטתי אותך אשם החטאים על כדור הארץ. הנשמה שלך יכול להירקב בגיהנום." Before she could remove him he shouted, "They are coming for you!"

Jade then leaned over Alex's body and drove his own hunting knife through his chest bringing an end to his life. Their work was finished at this location.

As the two started walking to their next location, the shadow creatures reach out with their arms and grab at the places where the bodies lay. Then receded back into the regular shadows on the street. This time they were going after a woman who lived off the trade of other women. There would be no redemption for her. They passed by the same men by the burning barrel. One of them said loud enough for them to hear. "They know you are here!"

Tori quickly moved to the fire. Almost too fast to be seen. "Which one of you spoke?"

The men backed up pointing at one old man standing next to the barrel. Tori demanded, "Who are 'They'?"

He then said, "They have known your were here for a long time, they have been watching you. Soon you will meet them and a battle not seen on earth for an eternity. I have seen it." He continued to warm his hands.

"I ask again who are 'They'? Tori was getting furious.

The old man turned to her. He wore a priest's collar. Tori almost jumped back when he turned his white clouded eyes to face her. "They are the Fallen! The old ones who fell." He then turned back to the fire.

Tori stood thinking about what he said for a moment before turning and walking away. They walked about a block when Jade finally asked, "Who are the Fallen?"

AN: Thanks for reading my story. Let me know what you think. Reviews even little notes saying great/horrible encourage writers letting them know people are reading. I love to put little things in my stories to make them fun and interesting for the reader. The language the girls speak is a real language. I won't translate, but you might be able to find something that will translate for you. It might give you more hints as to who these girls are. Thanks again. SM