……………..Chapter 11………….
~Arcadia - 5 years ago~
A younger Morgana stands at the feet of two graves in the town's cemetery. The cold winter air sends a chill up the emotionally shut down girl's shoulders. Dark bags under her eyes from dried tears. The grave's headstones read "Dr, Greyson Basilisk" and "Eve Basilisk".
Jaune fresh out of the hospital just in time for the funeral his friend and her father, who died in the same night. He takes off his jacket and puts it on Morgan's shoulders, she doesn't even respond. "This is all my fault! When we walked in on that Qrow guy killing dad I froze up!" She drops to her knees, looking at Eve's name on her headstone with guilt. "Now we lost them both because I'm a fucking coward!"
Enraged at her blaming herself over this tragedy, Jaune slaps her across the face. "If you honestly believe this is all your fault then you are the biggest dumbass I have ever met!" He has tears running down his face, just as upset as she is. "It's not your fault and you're not alone!"
Jaune continued to cry with her before his dad came to pick the two up. As the two leave, a thought to be dead Eve watched them leave. Completely heartbroken by watching her first love and only sister mourn her. "Pp-please d-d-don't hate m-me!" She begins to weep into the tree before a hand is placed on her shoulder. Dr. Watts being uncharacteristically gentle with her whips a tear from her face.
"Young lady, I'm aware this is too much for one girl to be able to understand on her own." A portal opens up behind them, frightening the poor girl."However, it is unhealthy to look back at what could have been. And I strongly recommend you focus on your future instead."
Eve putts on a brave face as she enters the portal to parts unknown. "And don't allow anything or anyone to stop you!"
-The island of Patch-
The town of Patch remains ravaged by The Slayer Six's invasion, the bodies of the local population at their feet. Aqua rests atop a pile of corpses, a bloody trident next to her. Giant ice spikes litter the land around her."What a joke! Madam Basilisk was so thrilled to slaughter this shit hole, got my hopes up for a challenge." She jokes as an annoyed Slayer One destroys a building with a single swing of his battle ax.
BOOM!*
"We have our orders Two, if The Slayer Queen wishes the death of this island then we will if without complaint." The eleven-foot tall monster of a man says to his fellow mass murderers, dipping his weapon into the water to clean off the blood.
Umber pulls his saber out of a mother and her child, wiping the blood off the blade with a cloth."The mistress has been acting erratically lately, it's as though she is not herself." The young tiger faunus thinks to himself, getting a pat on the back from Aqua in return. "Her abduction of..."
"Glad I wasn't the only one who thought so," Aqua comments while remembering her mistress behavior around Jaune. "It all seemed to start when she kidnapped that Jaune guy, what is he to her?"
As Eve enters the town, the dissipating aura from the townspeople's bodies flows into her. A tornado of colors envelops her. Her skin returning to its original color.
"Do you have a complaint about how I run things Aqua?~" Eve playfully asks while pressing her fingers to Aqua's throat. The Slayer Queen's nails alone are sharp enough to slit Aqua's jugular. "Is there a problem with my Jaune?~"
Aqua too terrified to react to Eve's thinly disguised threats. But lucky for the shark faunus, a familiar face drops in on them from the forest. A face that makes Eve's blood boil with raw fury. "YOU!!!" She screams in pure hate, making the cold-blooded Slayer Six uneasy with her openly losing her mask of calm.
The Slayers get into attack mode, surrounding the figure with weapons drawn. Eve in her currently crazed state throws the severed head of Taiyang at the feet of the figure, grinning ear to ear. "I put so much effort into hunting down everyone you ever loved in the goal of finding you.~ hehehe, Yet here you are!" She says in her normal tone, clapping her hands. "After all these years we meet again Qrow!"
The man in the darkness steps out showing he is indeed Qrow Branwen. The veteran huntsman looks down at the head of his brother in law with regret. Then turns his attention to the carnage around them, not even children where safe from her. "I'm sorry Tai!" His blood boils at the massacre of the people of Patch. "You didn't have to do any of this! Wanting me dead is one thing, I deserve it. However, they didn't do anything wrong!"
He looks into her eye to his horror he sees only emptiness, the same kind of emptiness he has seen in the eyes of Grimm. "You're clearly not that little girl anymore!"
"It's your own fault they have to die, regrettable but you already know that!~" Eve sadistic as always twist the emotional knife. Qrow grips the handle of his weapon tighter, more than ready to fight. The Slayer Queen uses Burst Flash to disappear from Qrow's sight, reappearing with his sword Harbinger In her hand. "I'm afraid it is not your time to die just yet."
She pulls a switch of the weapon, causing the blade to extend out. She runs her finger up the sharp end, admiring the craftsmanship. "It's a ludicrously impractical weapon but a well made one." With a single pinch of her fingers, a surge of aura ripped Qrow's weapon apart. Metal slivers of the once imposing blade fly in every direction, like a fragmentation grenade.
Qrow looks down at a warped piece of metal embedded in the tree behind him, a light cut on his neck. "Close call…" A yellow thin beam of aura goes through Qrow's stomach, too fast for him to see. The beam is being projected out of Eve's finger, who is very pleased with herself. "Rest assured that I will not be taking that worthless life of yours today." The beam disappears and without it holding him up, Qrow drops to the ground completely limp.
The Slayer Queen picks him up by the hair, grinning the entire time."Only when everyone you've ever loved is gone will I take pity on you and end your suffering!" Qrow spits blood in her eye as on more fuck you.
"You're nothing more then a scared little girl who is crying over daddy!" This earns him a broken jaw and thrown through a tree.
Eve smoldering with rage walks back to her ship in the center of town. Using her Dark Maiden powers she shoots a ball of black fire at the forest, setting it ablaze. After starting a forest fire she turns to look at her Slayers, her eyes glowing in the darkness. "I want the little black bird with the clipped wings to be the sole survivor of this fun little outing. I want him to look at the death and destruction and despair."
~The Nine Circles Bar~
Morgana stands outside a dive bar outside city limits after following the directions from the Datapad. Team JNPR right behind her, weapons in hand. "You sure this is the right place? This could be a trap you know." A suspicious Rin questions the whole thing with Nora eagerly squeezing the grip of her hammer.
Morgana pulls one of her knives out of her bag alongside a pistol and stuffs them in her jacket. "Most likely dear sis isn't here, considering her sluty high-class outfits and attitude. It's like she dresses to say 'Hey everyone look at my tits! Aren't they so big and jiggly?" She jokes while doing a perfect impression of Eve. "Lucky me I have a identical voice to her. I hate being the fraternal twin to a psychopath!"
Nora bust out laughing at the joke at The Slayer Queens expense before looking at Morgana's chest being boosted up with a corset. "hehe! Try looking down at your feet." She jokes earns a smile from the Rainbow Wreaker. Who has been visibly depressed this entire time perk up at a joke aimed at her.
"ha! True but there's a difference between showing off and putting the girls on full display." Morgana gives Nora a patt on the back for the pick me up. "Now I need you guys to cover the exits. I'll go in and see if it's safe." Her eyes glow red as soon as she gets serious, same with her snake tattoo. "If you see masked assholes running out screaming take them out!"
Pyrrha grows a worried expression when told to kill by Morgana. Worried she might have more in common with her sister then a willingness to show some skin. "Just what do you plan on doing when you're inside?" The champion asks while getting in Morgana's face, outraged by her cold attitude. Her and Morgana glare at the other without blinking, getting Rin and Nora worried.
Suddenly both start laughing like nothing happened at all. "Don't kill anyone if you don't have to. I'm not gonna actively try to start shit, but be prepared if this goes south." Morgana orders before entering the dimly lit bar. Several of the Faunus patrons have there eye's on her as soon as she comes in.
A huge muscular Rino Faunus man looks at her with boiling over rage. He then has a flashback of when Morgana kicked a truck into ocean waters at the harbor, with him inside. "YOU!!" The guy charges right at her, bulldozing over everything in his path.
Morgana see's the guy coming from the other side of the room, sporting a cocky smirk as she grabs a beer bottle off a table. "Wow shit went South and for once it wasn't my fault for a change!"
She jumps over the guy, dropping the bottle with a glowing handprint, which exploded in his face. *BOOM!* Glass shards get stuck in his eyes blinding him and crashes into a wall. *CRASH!!* The guy drops to the ground outside the building with a massive hole in the wall.
"Damnit we're missing out on all the fun!" Nora can be heard shouting from outside. The rest of the bar doesn't seem to give much of a shit. All except a red-headed man in the corner booth who waves for her to come over.
Morgana sets down right across from him seeing her reflection in his crimson sunglasses. "You handle you yourself remarkably well Miss … Basilisk." The stranger drops her original last name, surprising her with sensitive knowledge of her past. Then he offers his hand but she swats it away.
"Start talking Bozo who the fuck are you and how did you know my old name!?" She furiously asks the stranger. The guy puts on a White Fang mask and removed the hood, showing bull horns. "I'm somebody with a common enemy with you. But you may call me Adem, now please let's talk!"