Final Chapter:
The door to the basement opens up gently, as both Miss Scarlet and Sakuya enter... They both look around a bit. "Cirno...? Flandre...?"
"S...Sis..." Miss Scarlet gasps a bit, and rushes to her sister's side, holding her up a bit. "You alright, Flandre?"
"I'm fine, I'm fine. She just got scared and hit me in the head on accident. Um..." She points to the grate. "She went down there!"
"She's going to go get the law." Sakuya growls some... "...Miss Scarlet, let's go."
"Right."
With a bit of work, the two end up in the sewers... and they start calling for the baka. "Ciiiiirno~! Where aaaaaare youuuuuuuu~?"
But no matter how much they've called for her, she doesn't show...
The door to Sakuya's shop opens up suddenly, and two figures enter the room. "Miss Izayoi! We're he-" Marisa looks around the room... and sighs. Then, she brings in a disguised Patchouli, with a brown coat and a black cap. "Patchouli, wait for Sakuya here. I'll get my permission to fly out of here in a half hour. You're safe now, no one will recognize you like that."
"...Safe..." Patchouli looks sleepish, her eyes half open as she looks to the witch. "...So we run away, and then we live a happy life... Like a dream..."
"I hope so..." Marisa smiles gently, reaching out to hug Patchouli tight against her.
"...I've never had good dreams... … Only nightmares..." Patchouli closes her eyes some... Only for Marisa to let up, and pat her shoulders. "Half an hour and we'll be free. I'll be /right/ back."
The witch quickly leaves the shop, leaving the door open as she runs off down the stairs and to the harbor. Patchouli... starts to explore a little, heading right for Sakuya's little stand, and looking at... those knives. She grips one gently, lifting it up... and looking at it from different angles, holding it in the light some...
"Koomaaachi... Komaaachi~...don't try to hide, I sawwww youuuuu."
Patchouli's eyes go wide softly as she looks around. Someone was coming. She sees the trunk... and quickly opens it, jumping inside and closing it.
An old woman in a large brown robe of sorts slips in, and loooks around. "...Komaaaachi... I know you're heeeeeeere~... Where aaaaare you...."
The old woman moves inside, and moves right behind the modified throne, looking around quite a bit. Then, the silhouette of the owner of that shop is in the doorway. Staring the woman down. "...Who are you. What are you doing here..."
"Y...You... This place is evil, ma'am! She's the Scarlet Devil herself!!" … "Wait... I... I know you......!!"
"MISS IZAYOI!!!"
Sakuya quickly looks behind her. "The judge...." She then looks quickly to her guest. And then back behind her. Then to her guest. She only had mere seconds to make a move... "ZA WARUDO!!"
Just as she shouts those words, everything stops. The woman is left wide eyed, and the Judge is left to sit on the steps, walking up, unmoving. The spell card could only last for so long, though... So, she quickly slices the old woman's neck open with the knife, letting time resume only around herself as she hits the switch on that chair to let the trap door open, sending the now dying body down to bleed to death. Then, she lets time resume softly as the chair repositions itself, just in time to see Judge Yamaxanadu enter her shop. "Where is she? Where's Patchouli?!"
"...Downstairs. With my neighbor. Thank heavens the Witch didn't molest her... And … She has seen the error of her ways, Judge."
"...Ex...cuse me...?"
"She seeks your forgiveness, don't you know... She only speaks of you, wanting your forgiveness."
"...Then... she'll have it... Now... She'll be up here
soon?"
"Yes. She will."
"...Excellent, my friend~! I was wrong about you, Miss Izayoi!"
Sakuya just grins some... "...You look a little stressed again, Judge. How about... I make you more presentable for your soon to be fiance~?"
"..." The judge smirks a little. "...I suppose we can continue where we left." The judge takes a seat on that throne, and Sakuya just smiles, moving to grab that cover to drape over the Judge, and tie around her neck once more. Then, she slips that hat off once more, taking it and putting it on that little desk to the side. "It's rare that I meet someone like you, Miss Izayoi."
"It's rare that we have the same tastes in women, too."
"...What's that...?"
Sakuya grins, pulling out her knife, slipping up beside the judge. "You've changed me, you know... But I suppose the face of a barber... A stylist... A prisoner, a dog... isn't really anything to remember... Is it... 'Judge Yamaxanadu'."
… The Judge narrows her eyes softly... and her eyes softly grit as she sees Sakuya hold that knife up high... and a spell card appearing in between her pinky and ring finger.
"....Dikou..Belmont..."
"DIOKU BELMONT!!!" Sakuya shouts it loud and clear as she STABS that knife right into the Judge's neck. Then she takes it out, and repeatedly stabs it back in, over, and over, and over, stepping back to activate that spell card to create several hundred knives around the Judge, and just STAB her from all directions! But even after the large Danmaku assault, the bloodied up Judge is still breathing, barely alive, staring at Sakuya. The now blood covered barber grits her teeth a bit, flicking her hand to call up that very special knife of hers... and just SLASHING it right across the Judge's neck, spurting blood all over herself.
….She observes her work... and moves to the side of that throne, hitting the foot pedal switch to let the body fall down the trap hole. There's... a few... silent... evil giggles....
"...You did... so well..." She murmurs, raising her knife to her eyes, smiling at her bloodied friend. "...Rest.... Rest now, forever... Revenge has been served..."
The chest then gives a small creeeeeeek as it opens, Patchouli peeking out and staring at the now bloody mess. Sakuya blinks her eyes gently... and looks up... then over her shoulder to the chest. It quickly closes.
Oh no you don't...
Sakuya walks right over to the chest, and opens it right up to see the 'male' inside, giving him a grave look. Patchouli just looks on in horror at the bloodied barber.
"...Come for a shave, have you, lad?"
"N-No ma'am...I.." Without warning, Sakuya reaches right down in the chest, gripping the girl by the arm and practically throwing her into the throne. "Nonsense! EVERYONE needs a good shave!" She steps right forwards, and reels that friend of hers back, just about to stab it straight into Patchouli's skull, before...
GHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Sakuya freezes up... and looks to the doorway. Then back at the still alive patchouli, the tip of that knife just mere centimeters from her head. She pulls it away, and puts it to the girl's neck... "...Forget my face...." She slips away, and moves quickly down the steps, right downstairs to the basement.
"DIE!!! DIE DAMN IT!!!" Miss Scarlet is curb-stomping the still alive Judge with her high heel shoes, panting a bit as the body stops moving. Then, she just pants a little, looking to Flandre. Then back at the bodies. "Flandre, start to oven, quickly!" "Yes, sis!"
In no time, the LARGE oven door is opened, and Flandre goes to work at sparking a HUGE fire, standing right by it to maintain it for a while before it can burn on it's own. Miss Scarlet looks over the bodies, and spots... someone familiar. Not Komachi. Not The Judge... But... The old woman... "..You...!"
Sakuya then bursts through the basement door. "Why'd you scream."
"She was still alive, grabbed onto my dress, but she's dead now!" Miss Scarlet quickly grabs onto the old woman's body, and starts to drag it. "Nnmn, c'mon!!" She flaps her wings, and Sakuya moves to Miss Scarlet, gripping her arm. "Grab her arms, I'll grab her legs"
With a bit of maneuvering, they manage to pick the old woman up. Flandre moves just enough aside to make room as they start to bring the body up. But Miss Scarlet's hand slips, and the old woman's robe comes right off... to show her face. A green beret hat... with a yellow star right on the cap. And Sakuya just stops dead in her tracks... and just plain drops the body right on the ground. "....'I know you', she said... That's... what she said before she died..." The still bloody barber kneels down... and moves her hand through the dead woman's hair, gently feeling along her cheek... then glancing right up at Miss Scarlet. "...You knew she lived...?"
"I...I was only thinking of you, Sakuya...."
Sakuya then gives a hard sniffle, a small tear slipping down to trail along her face. "...You lied to me."
"N...No-I...I didn't Lie..I said she took the poison, but she didn't die! She was better off dead, though, the poison went straight to her head and messed her up. She just spend months laying in bed... She should have gone to the hospital, but she ended up in that Asylum instead."
"...Hong... Meiling... I..." Sakuya stammers a bit, swallowing a bit. "...I...I'm home... … Did you miss me...?" She sniffles again... then /glares/ up at Miss Scarlet... and starts to stand up.
"I'll... I'll be twice the wife she was, I promise. I
"...You're one hell of a woman, you know that, Miss Scarlet? But just like always, appropriate as always! As you've said, there's little point in thinking of the past!" She grins a bit, and holds out her hands. "Now come HERE, my love! Nothing to fear, honest!"
"...D...Do you mean it?!" Miss Scarlet smiles a bit, and steps forwards, taking those hands. And before you know it... the two are dancing.
"Learn forgiveness and try to forget, Miss Scarlet."
There comes a giggle form the vampire as she flaps her wings. "...Just as planned~."
"Oh, it was you plan all along? You are indeed the Scarlet Devil."
Flandre just starts giggling and clapping her hands in some kind of beat as the two dance.
"Life is for the alive, after all, so we'll keep living it up. Maybe we will get that mansion, right, Sa~Ku~Ya~?"
"Yes! Of course! Life is for the alive! And that's why you're not WELCOME TO IT!" With a great shove, Sakuya pushes Miss Scarlet right against Flandre, and is quick to shove them both into the still burning oven. Both bodies burst into flames as the basement fills with the burning screams of vampires, and the bloody barber shuts the large oven's door, locking it. With the eyes of the devil himself, Sakuya looks through the small window to see the two sisters bashing on the oven, door, until it just fades to nothingness. … Then Sakuya closes closes the small visor.
Then, her attention turns to her dead wife... moving to just drop to her knees, tossing her knife to the side as she moves to hold her up in her arms. "...Meiling... I'm … So sorry..."
She sniffles once... then the tears start to flow. All the while, a small grating is moved.. and a shadow lurks in the room, the hand of a child picking up the very knife that was thrown to the side.
"...Meiling... I love you... I always have... I...I was so..." She sniffles once more, looking up at the ceiling. "....She was so beautiful... and the barber... was so..."
That's when a hand slinks about Sakuya's neck, the knife just barely touching her flesh... and with a quick SWIPE, Sakuya's neck is cut right open, blood free to slip down along her chest and drip onto Meiling's face. Sakuya gently closes her eyes as life fades from her body, as she quietly goes into the blackness of death without a fuss. Her body slumps over softly onto the floor as she finally dies, and the knife is gently dropped into the ground. Wings flap in the darkness as the blue haired ice fairy just smiles, and gives a big grin.
"I'm the strongest."
…...
