"I'm not going to be able to fight her..." Roszen said, backing up a bit.
Both Lady and Krex looked at her dumbfounded. "What do you mean, my lady?"
"She's too cute."
"What?!" Lady exclaimed. Krex waved his hand for her to explain more.
"I'm a big fan of tigers, and look at her." She put her hand up towards Shula. "She's a beautiful tiger." Shula's ears and tail dropped, as she kicked the dirt on the ground, clearly liking the compliment. "It would be a crime to hurt her!"
Before Roszen could continue, the Doctor yelled out in frustration. "Stop gushing over a stupid compliment and start killing." At the sound of a device switching on, Shula immediately howled in pain from the shock collar.
Roszen looked at the collar with disdain. "I'm going to find that bastard and kill him myself."
"Good luck with that small fry!"
Roszen looked to one of the VIP boxes, took out her fan, and unleashed a slice of wind that cut the box off the wall. The box fell to the floor with a loud crash and the Doctor fell out not long after. "H-How did you know where I was?!"
She pointed to the other four boxes. "I had a one in five chance." She pulled back her fan, charging an attack. "So I took my chances."
"That fan..." He got a good long look at it. The blue snowflakes glowed brightly against the black paper. "That's Kamaitachi, isn't it?" He staggered up. "Where did you get that! Give it back!"
Roszen was taken aback. "Yes this is Kamaitachi, how do you know that?"
"It was stolen from my brother by some silver haired witch!"
"Silver haired witch..." Roszen's mind flashed a face, the face of her teacher. "You must mean master Jeanne."
"So you're her latest pupil." He got into a fighting stance and pulled out a fan of his own. It was similar to her own but had red rain drops instead. "I'll be taking my brother's fan back, bitch!" He disappeared into mist. Roszen was unimpressed and just casually leaned back, letting the bladed fan pass by. She let loose a gust of wind, knocking him back. "You're only squandering Kamaitachi's power, if you call it that!"
"Never was a fan of how limited it was." She put up her fan and pulled out her knives.
The Doctor's eyes widened as he blocked several blows. He was pushed back quickly. Disappearing into mist, he fell back to get himself some room. "In a head to head fight, she out classes me by miles!" He jumped out of the way as Roszen knew exactly where he was. "She's smart, but clearly not taking this seriously." A grin spread across his face; he reappeared and pulled out a remote. "Oh Shula!" He flipped the switch. "sic her!"
As Roszen faced the Doctor, Lady and Krex were keeping Shula busy. Which wasn't easy. "Careful, Miss Lady, I believe my lady wants this one alive," Krex said as he blocked a hard tail swipe.
"No shit, Sherlock!" Lady unloaded a full mag from her machine pistol, but most of the bullets seemed to do nothing to her. "She's strong!" She rolled out of the way of a flaming paw.
They played this back and forth for a few minutes before Shula howled in pain and was nearly on top of Roszen in seconds. Roszen jumped over the tiger and took a swipe at the collar. She managed to cut into it but it stayed on. She landed in front of the Doctor and stared daggers into him. He was unsettled by the look and tried to put the remote away. Roszen quickly lunged for the remote, but the Doctor knocked her hand away with his fan.
"Shula, stop slacking off!" Shula didn't wait for the collar this time and pounced onto Roszen, bringing her to the ground.
She managed to block the bite to her neck with one of her arms, and with the other, she reached for the collar and yanked it off. "You're free," she said as she crushed the collar.
Shula saw the collar destroyed, at first in disbelief but then relief filled her soul. She and Roszen were soon engulfed in a column of fire. Everyone stepped back from the heat while Lady yelled out for Roszen.
The Doctor started laughing his head off. "I can't believe she thought she co-" He was interrupted and found himself face down on the ground. He saw that his head was being held down by a giant tiger paw, flames of many colors danced across it, but the Doctor's eyes widened to who it was. Roszen held him down. The armor she wore was replaced with tiger limbs with fire occasionally coming off them. Her tail changed to a bladed tiger's tail that was pointed at the Doctor's neck, and to top it all off, she had a pair of tiger's ears on top of her head. "W-Why did Shu-...?"
"Hecate," Roszen interrupted, tightening her grip on his head. "Her name was Hecate, not Shula." A primal growl escaped from her teeth.
"Kill me all you want, I'll just re-"
"You can only regenerate if you have human blood. From what I can smell, you only have two vials left, and Lady is uninjured. So no blood from her." Her eyes drilled into his.
The Doctor tried to get loose, but her grip was too strong. "I won't die like this, not to the whore of that witch!" Roszen felt a sharp pain in her stomach, then the Doctor kicked her off, and got up. "I'll show you... I'll show everyone!" His fan was covered in Roszen' blood. As it glowed red, he pulled it back and Roszen felt an invisible force sending her towards him. She adjusted herself in midair and blocked a blow to her head and countered with a tail lunge.
"So that's what it does, nya..." Roszen landed on all fours. "Yours pulls people towards you, mine pushes away, nya... neat." She pounced into action with blinding speed; she was on top of the Doctor before he knew it. "But you're so slow, you know that?" She skewered him with her tail.
She grabbed the two vials and tossed them to Lady. "Keep those safe for me." She looked down at the Doctor. "Hecate wants to enjoy this." Her claws ignited with bright flames. She started viciously clawing into him. Sparks of fire and specks of blood flew off as she went faster and faster. Roszen's anger clearly showed more with each swipe. She ended it all with both arms smashing done, releasing a torrent of fire reaching the ceiling.
Roszen sat there, breathing heavily, the Tiger Devil Arm disappearing, the Doctor's body completely burned to ash, and the fan he once carried laid on the ground pristine, waiting to be taken. "Is the fan a Devil Arm, my lady?" Krex tentatively walked towards her, Lady not far behind, being just as careful.
"I've never seen anger like that..." Lady's thought went un-spoken. "We need to find Briallan and fast."
Roszen shook her head, grabbing the fan. "More like a magical weapon. This is, apparently, the second half to the fan I use, Kamaitachi." She opened it and flipped the fan around. "If I remember correctly, this one is called Chiyo. My teacher told me she'd failed to get the other half and kept looking for it before she had to train and take care of me."
"What of the tiger, my lady?" Krex stood more relaxed. "I take it the tiger turned itself into your new Devil Arm."
"That she did." She summoned her tiger themed Devil Arm. "Her name's Hecate, and this is the Hell Tiger Queen, nya." Roszen put a paw over her mouth, finally realising what she said.
"You must have a strong affinity for that to happen." Krex informed them.
Lady walked up to the young devil hunter, still with some hesitation. "She was a queen?" She reached her hand out to Roszen's forearm.
"Nya, last of her kind." She nodded as she brought her arm under Lady's hand.
"So soft..." She awed.
"Nya, she says thanks!" Roszen smiled. "Why am I meowing like some kind of furry!?" She shook her thoughts from her head and dismissed her Devil Arm. "Where to next, Krex?"
"Hmm..." Krex put his hand to his chin. "Miss Lady, you didn't see Briallan in the torture chambers?" Lady shook her head no. "And we didn't see her in the prisons, that really only means two possible places: Vurnomon's throne room or his personal chambers."
"How many floors do we have left?"
"My guess is, oh I don't know, five floors?" A new voice came in. "How far off am I, Krexy?" They all looked up to one of the VIP boxes, seeing Dante leaning out of it.
"Damn and here I thought we'd beat the bad guy without you," Lady called out with a smile. "Took you long enough, where were you?"
Dante jumped down and dusted himself off. "I'll tell you later." He looked to Krex. "Well, Krexy?"
"It's six floors, Mister Dante."
"Damn..." he shook his head. "And you can drop the mister, it makes me feel old."
Roszen gave a smile at that; she looked to Krex and he nodded, he wasn't going to drop it.
"Well kiddos, let's not keep them waiting. I'll tell my epic tale on how I got here along the way."
Roszen and Lady both sighed.