Chapter 10 – Weiss Schnee

Esdeath and Weiss continue their exchange of swordplay, further away from the other Jaegers and students. The heiress tries what she has learned from Beacon Academy, from her family, but to no avail. All of her strikes are parried and none of her ice attacks compare to her sadistic opponents. She switches her dust element in her weapon from ice to wind. Weiss creates a mini tornado out of her weapon and sends it towards Esdeath.

The sadistic general holds her ground and endures the attack. Weiss sees that it had little effect and switches her dust element to fire and creates a stream of fire towards her enemy. The wind and fire combine to form a tornado ablaze, surrounding Esdeath. Before being burnt, Esdeath emerges through the fire and rushes Weiss. She strikes the heiress on the right shoulder. Her aura breaks as on impact as her blood coats Esdeath's rapier. Weiss looks at her wound and grits her teeth. She quickly looks around to realizes she was

"I see that your force field as reached its limit. You do not have much time left now." Esdeath says as she swings rapier against the air, removing the blood.

"Just wait till my friends finish off their enemies and come here." Weiss says as she grips her weapon.

"So you realize that you cannot beat me solo." The sadistic general say with a smile.

"No, I just want to beat you in front of them to show them how cool I am." Weiss say as she smiles back. She then waves her hand and points to the ground under her enemy. Esdeath looks in confusions, until she see a yellow glyph form under her feet. Her eyes widen when the glyph glows brighter.

An explosions happens under the feet of Esdeath. She rises in the air from the shock, having shielded her legs with ice. Weiss backflips, summoning and landing on a glyph in midair. She looks up at Esdeath and jumps towards, aiming her weapon at the sadistic woman.

Esdeath sees Weiss incoming attack and parries at the last second. Weiss pushes her weapon against Esdeath. As the two fall back to the ground, the heiress's rapier and scar over her eye glow a bright red. Once they land, the ice Esdeath made shatters. Weiss takes a step back and swipes at the sadistic general. Esdeath dodges and replies with her own swipe.

The heiress blocks the attack. She pushes against the blade and sends it out of Esdeath's hand. A red cloud and long rapier fly overhead the two fighters. Weiss goes for a fatal stab on her enemy, but Esdeath creates a dagger of ice to intercept the hit. The sadistic general smiles as she raises her arm, catching her original weapon. She slashes at the heiress with both weapon. Weiss sweats as she struggles to parry every attack. Esdeath see her opponent struggling and kicks her in the stomach. Weiss coughs up a little blood as she flies a few feet back.

"I admire your skills with a rapier, but they will not save you in this fight." Esdeath says in a componentry tone, pointing both blades at Weiss. "And abilities you displayed are impress."

"Flattery will get you nowhere against me." Weiss says as she tries to hide the fact she is breathing heavily.

"You did not stand a chase against me from the start. I would be a shame to let talent like yours go to waste. How would you like to serve under me and help my team find out more about the area?" Esdeath says as she drops her ice dagger and lowers her rapier.

"After what you did, not in a million years." Weiss says as she looks at Esdeath with unforgiving eyes, "Besides, I have a few more tricks up my sleeve." The heiress focuses as a glyph of golden light and gears appear under her feet. Her body glows the same color and she then rushes to her enemy with a boost of agility. Esdeath readies for the assault but is distracted by numerous white glyphs appearing over her head.

The sadistic general still parries her enemy's first attack. However, Weiss jumps back, useing one of the white glyphs as a jump pad to launch herself back at her enemy. Esdeath parries the next attack, but when Weiss managed to attack fast enough to cut over the sadistic general left eye.

The cut while not deep, still drew blood. Annoyed at the enemy hitting her, Esdeath predicts her enemy's next attack and position her weapon so Weiss would run into it. Weiss redirects her next attack barley to avoid a running to the rapier head on, but is still hit by it on her left shoulder. She scrambles on the ground to recover, now unable to hold her weapon properly. Weiss breaths deeply as she looks at Esdeath, smiling arrogantly at her. The heiress and the sadistic general hear the sound of foot steps behind them. Both turn around to see Neptune and Sun, shrouded in the darkness of the night.

"Good. You guys took out your enemies. I just need some more time for" Weiss says before she refocuses her attention to her enemy. Unbeknownst to her, her two raise their guns to point at back of Weiss. They shot her in the shoulder blades.

Weiss falls forward on the ground, coughing up blood. Both she and Esdeath give a look of confusion, until the sadistic general understands why. She tries to look back at her alleys to ask why, but notices there outfits covered in blood and stab wounds over their hearts.

"What happened to you two?" Weiss says as she tries to pick herself up. Her eyes widen as she hears more footsteps.

"They died to my imperial arm, Yatsufusa. It makes them a puppet that does whatever I see so fit and will protect me no matter what." Kurome says as she comes into Weiss line of sight, "Now you can join them." She raises her weapon to do the same as she did to Neptune and Sun.

However, before Kurome could do killing blow, Esdeath picks up Weiss from the hair on her ponytail. Weiss screams as she drops her rapier. The sadistic general tosses the heiress across the dock. Esdeath then summons a block of ice in the direction of the heiress was flying in. She then throws her own rapier like a javelin at Weiss in midair.

The heiress then slams against the ice block, before her body starts to fall, it is pinned to the ice block by the rapier from her stomach. The sadistic general walks up to her near dead enemy and pulls out the rapier. Weiss falls to the ground, using the last of her strength to look up as blood gushes from her stomach. Esdeath looks her enemy in the eyes and sees the determination she still has.

"You actually drew blood on me. I seem to have underestimated you slightly." Esdeath says as she raises her weapon, pointing direct at Weiss forehead, "However, only the strong survive and the weak die. That law is true even here."

"You…You…Ice queen." Weiss says with the last of her strength looking in the eyes of the sadistic general.

"I am not a queen, I am a general." Esdeath says as she runs her rapier through Weiss head. The heiress body goes motionless as Esdeath removes her weapon from the dead enemy. The sadistic general sheaths her weapon as she walks back to Kurome and Wave.

"Why did you not let me turn her into one of my puppets?" Kurome inquires.

"That was my enemy, not yours. I will be the finish her off and reap the benefits of the outcome." She replies in an angry tone as the sadistic general looks down and picks up Weiss's weapon. She then puts that weapon on her side before continuing to talk. "Now, where are the others?"

"Run and Bols are at the base of our new allies, no idea where Seryu or her dog is." Wave answers. He listens in the distance to hear the sound of sirens, "We need to go there now before the police get here over the noise we made."

"Understood, lead the way." Esdeath says.

The three Jaeger run off in the distance away from the noises. The two lifeless puppets of Sun and Neptune follow. The corpse of Weiss Schnee laid against the block of ice. Out form the shadows, an auburn colored cat moves over to her dead body. It bows its head for a few moment before running off in the direction of the Jaegers.