I couldn't resist writing another chapter. So, here you go.
A Human Defence League slave ship, made the mistake of entering the Mistral System. Its engines were quickly crippled by the Branwen Tribe, preventing an escape. A troop transport, landed in its hangar. The craft's turrets making quick work of the crew in that section of the ship. Several tribal raiders exited the craft, followed by seven masked figures. Each of them carried red katanas. Other than the fact they were all female, there was very little that could be discerned about them. Other than their hair and a set of cat ears.
The masked an immense mane of black hair, led the other six. As the rest of the raiders cleared the other parts of the ship, the masked group made their way to the bridge. One guard charged the leader, she effortlessly swung her sword and decapitated him. Another guard came running at them a moment later, this time the blonde masked figure stepped forward and drove her blade straight through the man's chest. She twisted it a few times, before pushing the corpse off with her foot.
A short while later, a couple of guards came running at the group. Now the masked Cat Faunus stepped forward. "You're going to die you stupid animal!" one of the guards shouted. The Faunus shook her head and in one swift movement, she disemboweled both men. "I may be an animal, but my intestines are still inside me." she said menacingly before moving past them. The masked figure with white hair moved in front of the group as another guard approached with a knife. She stood there unmoving until he prepared to stab her. The in a single fluid motion, she sliced his hand off. He dropped to his knees holding his stump, so she swung again and relieved him of his head.
A guard tried to ambush the group from the side, but the masked figure with brown hair swung low and took his legs off. He screamed in pain but was silenced by a slash to his throat, that left his head dangling down his back. Another attempted ambush failed when the masked figure with hair reminiscent of ice cream, threw her weapon at the attacker and impaled him through the face. She ran over to him and twisted the blade around a few times before pulling it out.
A guard with a cattle prod and a knife approached the group. The masked figure with brown and red hair ran at him. Before he could react, she had sliced hi torso in half diagonally. He dropped his weapons as his upper half fell to the floor, swiftly followed by his legs and lower body. The masked figure sounded amazed at what she had done "Cool, this thing is sharp." she said as she wiped the blood from her blade.
Once again the masked woman with the mass of black hair, led the group. She was approached by a guard with a shield and a baton. "I'm going to beat you animal loving whores to de…" his words were cut short by a katana blade passing through his shield and skull like butter. "I'm sick of the." the masked figure said as she pulled her sword out of him. Two more shielded guards approached. The blonde masked figure charged straight at them, knocking them back and making them drop their shields. She stabbed one through the neck while stomping the other one to death. "I knew they were weak minded, but I didn't think that applied to their skulls." she joked as she wiped the brains from her boot.
A few moments later, a guard arrived with a whip. He attempted to whip the masked Cat Faunus, but she sliced the end of the whip off. The she ran at him, swinging her blade upwards between his legs. She dragged it up through his body until she his his sternum. The pulled the blade out and let him fall. A guard came around the corned using a semi-naked Rabbit Faunus as a shield. It didn't help him very much, as Faunus kicked him in the shin. He let go for a second, only for the masked figure with white hair to run past the Faunus and impale him through the chest. "Thank you." the Faunus said. "Go to the hangar, we will get you out of her as soon as we have finished with the crew." the white haired woman replied. The Faunus nodded and ran the way the group had come.
The group reached the bridge a moment later, there were five men standing outside the door. They all had shield and a variety of weapons. The seven masked figures approached them, each pointing their katanas at the guards. The masked figure with Brown, White and Pink hair jumped at the men, pointing her blade down and driving it through the skull of her unfortunate victim. The brown haired figure also jumped, but she swung her blade. Vertically decapitating her victim. The figure with brown and red hair ran into the gap created by the two dead guards, before any of them turned to face her she stabbed one of the guards in the side and pulled the blade through his front. Disemboweling him from the inside out. She laughed "I should be disturbed, but this is fun." The blonde figure grabbed the shield and baton from one of the two remaining guards. She pulled them out of his hands and threw them to the sides. Headbutting him in the face as she did so. Thanks to the mask, his nose was broken and the figure was uninjured. So, she did it again. He fell to his knees, so she grabbed his head and viciously snapped his neck. The last guard was the most unfortunate. He was impaled by three different swords. The sword of the leading masked figure was in his stomach, and the blades of the Cat Faunus and white haired figure were on either side. They all dragged their swords up, leaving three large gashed in his abdomen. He survived the initial attack, but he didn't survive having a blade in each eye and one in the mouth.
With the final guards dead, the blonde kicked open the door to the bridge. There was the Captain and a few unarmed officers. The leading masked figure went for the Captain while the other six, butchered the officers. The leader beat the Captain to within an inch off his life, then stopped and removed her mask. The beaten man gasped when he saw that she wasn't just any member of the Branwen Tribe, she was the Chief. "So, I want to introduce my friends here before we kill you. As you seem to know, I'm Raven Branwen, but now you get to meet these six. These are my Birds of Prey, and that's all you need to know." she said before cutting the man in half from head to groin.
I hope you agree that the level of badassery just went up. There will definitely be more from Raven and the Birds of Prey.