Leone, Draco and I all stood on the roof of a building in the Red Light District. "Huh. Pretty impressive place. But that just makes it easier to keep the shady stuff under wraps." I said.
"Definitely. It's the last place you'd expect to have said shady stuff." Draco said.
"Well the money ain't gonna make itself, so I say we get cooking!" Leone said right before activating her Imperial Arms.
"Have I ever tell you that cats are my favorites." Draco said with hearts in his eyes.
"That's definitely a fierce look you've got. I approve." I agreed.
Leone grinned. "When I get into beast mode I feel like I can just take on the whole world!" She declared.
"Yeah! That's my girl!" Draco cheered.
"Now let's wreck some scumbag's shit!" I declared as we all rushed across the rooftops together.
"Now you speaking my language!" Leone said.
"I thought you never asked!" Draco added.
We finally arrived at our destination, looking in to see a number of girls clearly drugged out of their minds. "How could someone do this to innocent people?" I wondered angrily.
"These poor women. The bastards that did this will be as good dead!" Draco declared angrily.
Just then two men walked in and one of them looked like discount Majima from Yakuza. "Ooh, they sure are going to town! If you want me to bring you more, better keep bein' good little girls, you understand?" Discount Majima said.
"Okay!" The girls replied.
"Oh, my sword's about to go to town on his throat " I said, pulling out my Ouroboros katana.
Just then, one of the girls was begging for more and the boss's lackey just punched her which angered Leone before the two of them left.
"Glad that client informs us of this. Just say the word, Leone and we'll turn these assholes into bloody chunks!" Draco said as he constructed a pair of blood scimitars.
"That girl he was just hitting...she was a friend of mine from back home." She said before standing up pounding her fist into her palm. "Now I'm pissed! Let's just slaughter these pukes and be done with it!" She declared.
"Say no more!" Draco said as he crossed his scimitars.
"Now is coward killing time!" I said like The Heavy as we broke through the roof.
"Get those punks! Bring back their heads!" The lackey ordered his goons as they charged at us.
Draco ran at the suited goons as quick as a hiccup and slashed them with his scimitar swords, killing them while drenched in their blood and stabbed one them in the chest. "Today is a good day where bitches die!" The blood demon laughed maniacally.
I was quickly surrounded by thugs, who all rushed in to attack me at once, but I spun and slashed all of them with Ouroboros. The wounds weren't deep enough to kill, but they were bleeding quite a bit. "H-he only grazed us! He's got nothing on us!" One of them declared as they all laughed.
I chuckled myself at this. "Oh, it's always fun when they think they have hope... but it's even more fun to see them lose that hope." I said as the skin around their would began to turn black and green from necrosis.
"What's going on..?" One asked weakly as they all succumbed to Ouroboros' poison.
"Akame's not the only one with a poisonous sword. But unlike her..." I said as the snake-like Devil Arm slithered and twisted into a bow. "I can strike from a distance." I declared, pulling back the string to summon a pair of fang-like arrows, firing them into any remaining thugs, hitting them in non-vital areas and letting the poison do it's work, dropping them like flies.
"Every person in this trafficking ring is our target. Which means all of you are about to die." Leone said as the goons surrounded her while armed with weapons. "Get ready for some pain, fellas!" She added.
"Kill her!" One of the jobbers shouted as they came at the blonde with no avail as she took them out flawlessly with her barrage of punches and kicks.
Draco ran at the unfortunate goon and shouted, "Hassan chop!" As he bisected him with his sword.
Leone sent three suited jobbers flying to a wall with her kick.
"I'm not dying! I ain't letting you take me, you freaks!" The guy in the white suit snapped, drawing a pistol and shooting at me while I simply walked forward, the bullets not slowing me down in the slightest as I walked up to the guy, grabbing his gun arm and breaking it in a way that his hand was pointed back at his own head, making him pull the trigger and shoot himself dead.
The only one left now was the leader, who Leone grabbed by the throat. "Please, take whatever you want! You want money? You want drugs? I'll give you three anything! Just let me go, please!" He pleaded.
"Anything I want, huh?" Leone started. "Thanks, but the only thing I want from you is your life." She stated.
"Who the hell are you people anyway?!" He demanded.
"You probably know by now, just your friendly neighborhood assassins!" Draco said happily as he walked by Leone's side. "Now I hope you don't have anything planned tomorrow, 'cause you're about to meet your maker!" He added. "Leone, if you please."
"With pleasure!" As Leone punches him across the room, killing him.
"Nice work, guys. A bunch of scumbags dead and a bunch of girls saved. Mission successful." I told them.
Later the three of us are all outside walking. "I'm happy to help those girls. Hope they get the help that they need." Draco said.
"There's a retired doctor who still lives around here." Leone told him. "I'll let him know what happened."
"That's reassuring." Draco nodded.
"You're one of the good ones, Leone. It's nice you want to help them." I told her.
"Yeah, babe. I knew there's another reason why I fell for such a hottie like you." Draco declared, wrapping his arm around her shoulder.
"Aww, you're so sweet, Draco. That's why I like you so much." She said, licking his ear.
"Hehe, kinky, Draco likes." He grins lecherously beneath his mask.
"Should I give you a few minutes?" I asked awkwardly.
"I wonder how the other group's doing right now?" Asked the blonde.
Meanwhile, the group consisting of Nightshade, Mine, Sheele and Nisha were running down the road after a successful mission, with Nightshade making sure to keep the human girls between himself and Nisha after their altercation earlier that day.
"That Chiburu guy was so obnoxiously careful, I thought we'd never track him down." Mine said.
"Alas for the gobshite, his avoidance wasn't enough to keep him alive. Won't be a vexation anymore." Nisha stated.
"I pride myself on never letting a target escape. He was doomed the moment we took this quest." Nightshade said.
"Least we completed the mission on time." Sheele said.
Just then the four's path was cut off unexpectedly by a familiar figure surrounded by dust where she landed.
"Who is that? Is it an enemy?" Mine asked. "I couldn't sense her at all."
"They way she approached us, it's pretty axiomatic." Nisha answered, while forging a large sword with her blood powers.
"The other guards can't conceal their auras, so she must be on a completely different level!" Sheele informed.
Nightshade scoffed at this. "So she's good at hiding. It takes more than that to be considered a threat." He said.
"I know you, you're the one from the wanted posters." Seryu said as held a wanted poster of Sheele. "Sheele of Night Raid, I presume?" She asked before looking at Mine, Nightshade and Nisha. "And those other three means they're from Night Raid too."
"Someone give her a prize." Nisha joked.
"Finally...how badly I've been wanting to meet you, Night Raid! I'm Imperial Guard member Seryu Ubiquitous! And in the name of absolute justice...I'll banish your evil right here and now!"
"You done? You started to bore us." Nisha said.
"WHAT WAS THAT YOU HAPLESS BITCH!?" She snapped.
"I said we're bored. You're boring us." She replied.
"Oh, lovely. She's bat-shit insane. They're always fun to deal with." Nightshade said.
"You dare mock me!" Seryu shouted with anger and craziness brewing in her eyes. "My father died fighting bandits like you and you killed my captain, Ogre."
"So your Captain Ogre is dead, we're all crying on the inside." Nisha mocked. "He was crooked and corrupted as the Capital and you're either blind or stupid to see it." She added.
She drew a pair of tonfas that also housed guns and fired at Nisha. "How dare you! Captain Ogre was kind and honest! He treated me like his own daughter! And I can never repay his kindness!" She snapped, rushing to attack Nisha.
"Captain Ogre? Wasn't he the one that Sai killed?" Nightshade wondered, not moving to attack at all.
She then looked to Nightshade. "Then take me to this Sai, so he can suffer my full wrath!" She demanded.
During all of this, Nisha was blocking Seryu's onslaught of bullets with her sword before sending the Imperial Guardswoman flying with a kick before she started rolling on the ground. Nisha ran at Seryu and goes for a downward slash before she recovers, Suddenly, at the last second, Koro slid in between them and grew in size taking the proverbial bullet for her, but it regenerated. Now, it just growled in anger.
"Heh. I see...so you wish to play too, Cujo?" Nisha said, pointing her blade at Koro.
Finally, Nightshade seemed interested. "Oh. It looks like we've finally got a challenge on our hands." He said, suddenly flying forward, spinning and delivering a round kick to Koro's head, sending the canine monster flying.
However, everyone was suddenly caught off-guard by the piercing sounds of Seryu's whistle, causing our two demons with enhanced hearing to reel from the sound. "Oh, great. She called for reinforcements!" Mine snapped.
"Now Koro...bulk up and crush him!" Seryu ordered pointing at Nightshade. Her Imperial Arms as it arms grew larger and muscular and started rushing at the demon.
"Impressive. I'd give him first place at a dog show. But let's see if he knows any tricks!" Nightshade said, dodging a punch, deflecting another with his sword, still in it's sheathe, before bashing said sheathe into the monstrosity's head, staggering it back.
Before Nisha was going to land a hit to Seryu the reinforcement she summoned were approaching our group. "You're all done for! Reinforcement has arrived! Justice always wins!" Seryu loudly boasted.
"That's what you think." Nisha said as she leapt in front of the enemy units and surrounded them along with herself with a solid blood wall.
"What the...? What's all this?!" One of them asked as all the guards were looking at the crafted crimson structure.
"It doesn't matter, we have her surrounded!" The other jobber said.
Background Music: "Indestructible" by Disturbed
Nisha laughed. "All I am surrounded by is fear. And dead men." She said as she forged another blade out of blood and started swinging her swords at virtually countless unfortunate fodders. Chunks and limbs were flying all over and the soon-to-be dead men did all they can to fight back against the female blood demon as she held one of them by the throat in one arm and Choke-slammed him hard his body splattered upon impact. She turned her head at the remaining units with a scary grin on her face making them crap in their pants. "Who's next?" She asked with a smirk.
Back with Nightshade, my brother dodged an insane flurry of punches by the Imperial Arms canine, moving to its side and slashing him nearly in half, getting behind him and jumping while delivering several powerful knees all the way up the beast's back, fueled with dark energy that ate away at the area of impact, leaving basketball-sized craters in the beast's back and creating a black mist, all while Mine shot at Seryu. "Come on, you stupid mutt! You're one of these all-powerful Imperial Arms, right? Then show me!" Nightshade demanded as he reached the beast's head, getting several feet above it, before diving down with the intent to cut Koro in half. However, the beast shrugged off the damage done to it, looking at Nightshade and chomping down on him, his left arm and whole torso in Koro's mouth. He coughed up some blood at this, but smirked. "That's more like it." He said, using his free hand to stab Koro where a brain should be if he had one, causing the beast to let him go and stagger back.
As this was happening, Mine was in a gun fight with Seryu, both managing to avoid the other's shots, even with Seryu closing the distance to get into melee range while Sheele had vanished into the mist. "Never underestimate the power of an Imperial Arms!" Seryu declared to Nightshade, before slamming her tonfas down on Pumpkin as Mine used the gun to block, struggling to hold back Seryu's greater strength.
Suddenly, Sheele emerged from the smoke, rushing at Seryu. "Imperial Arms are tools. It will stop if it's user is dead!" She declared, lunging forward with her scissors out in a Stinger-like movement.
"Crap! She was aiming for me!" Seryu cried in alarm.
"Extase!" Sheele declared, the swords suddenly generating a blinding light, causing Seryu to shield her eyes. Mine was able to use this opening to put some bullets into Seryu's arms and thighs. Not enough to kill her, but enough to greatly slow her down. Sheele then unleashed a flurry of stabs at the guard, who managed to block all of them, but the last one broke through her guard, forcing her to jump back as Sheele slashed at her.
Koro noticed Seryu was in danger and attempted to help her, but Nightshade appeared in mid-air in front of the artificial doggo and delivered a right round kick to his face, making him reel back and fall to one knee, before reappearing in front of the beast again, delivering a right inside crescent kick to the creature's face, sending it into another 180 spin and bringing him to all fours, before a left low kick knocked the beast onto his side. "That was for losing focus. You're fighting me. Don't you dare forget it again." Nightshade said.
Seryu was knocked back into a railing of a short fence, backflipping onto it and jumping back as Sheele slashed at her, cutting through the fence. Mine fired a few more shots Seryu managed to block, but this left her open to an attack from Sheele. However, in the last second, she managed to move her arms in the way, causing them to be cleaved off, but allowing her to survive a fatal attack. "She sacrificed her arms!? This chick's crazy!" Mine cried out.
"No. She's dead." Sheele declared, continuing her assault.
"The only ones to die here will be you villains!" Seryu declared, revealing she had guns in the stumps where her arms used to be.
"Modifications!" Mine cried.
A pair of gunshot then rang out, a victorious smirk on Seryu's face... which quickly disappeared when she saw both girls had blocked her shots. "No... It's impossible." She said in shock, before Sheele sliced both the guns out.
End Music
The two assassin girls then walked up to Seryu. "Well, you definitely had some tricks, but your finished now. It's a shame to kill you, you could've been useful for our side, or maybe even in the new kingdom that will be made after the Revolutionary Army wins the war. But you wouldn't come with us and you're way too crazy about this justice thing. You're gonna have to die." Mine told her.
"Forgive me." Sheele said, raising her scissors again.
"I'll never forgive you... Not even after you're dead!" Seryu declared, revealing a third gun hidden in her freaking mouth!
She fired the gun, but the bullet was caught by Nisha. The blood demon smirked as she held the bullet to her. "That's pretty innovative. It's a shame you're fighting for the wrong side." She stated.
"You Night Raid scum are on the wrong side! I am a warrior of justice! I shall eliminate your evil!" Seryu yelled, somewhat difficult to understand due to the gun in her mouth.
Nisha sighed and shook her head. "You deluded girl." She somehow understood her as she flicked the bullet so fast it embedded in Seryu leg, making her scream loudly in pain.
"Ahh! Damn you! I'll make you pay!" Seryu screamed.
"We should just finish her now before she causes any more problems." Mine suggested.
"Koro, use your trump card! Go berserk!" Seryu ordered.
Suddenly, the creature's eyes turned blood red and he began to grow much larger, his muscle mass greatly increasing, becoming so muscular and thick to the point his collar barely contained him any longer, the rest of his fur turning a deadly dark red as well, opening his mouth to reveal three rows of massive, razor-sharp teeth that would absolutely obliterate anything that got close to them.
Nightshade smirked at this. "Well, well. That's quite the form. I'm guessing this is you at your maximum. Well, if you're done holding back, then out of respect, I'll let loose just a bit more. You're not quite worth using my true demon form for, but this should do." He said, his skin turning paper white as black markings similar to tiger stripes appeared on his body, releasing an ominous purple aura that almost looked like flames.
Koro rushed in quickly and delivered a punch to Nightshade's gut, pushing him back a few feet and making his head fall forward, but not much more. Nightshade then grabbed the arm that punched him with both hands, jump and spun in the air, tearing the arm off. The creature roared in pain, but quickly restored its arms and threw another flurry of attacks at Nightshade, who managed to weave in between them, delivering a kick to Koro's chest, sending the beast skidding back. He then rushed in and delivered a relentless assault of knees and kicks all over Koro's body, like a one-man swarm of killer bees. He then delivered a powerful kick that sent Koro four stories into the air, before sending him back down with an overhead smash from both fists locked together, sending him crashing back down to the ground. He then reappeared right above the beast, releasing a massive stream of black fire that roasted the artificial dog, easily burning his arms and legs away and burning away a lot of the extra size he had gained.
He then stopped and stood over the beast as it slowly shrank back to normal. "You were the first decent fight I've had since I've been here. I'm curious to see what else you can do. It was close, but I avoided irreparable damage to your body or core, so you'll survive. Then I may just get to find out what else you're capable of." He said, grabbing the beast by the collar.
Back with the girls, a certain sadistic, psychotic guardswoman was laughing maniacally. "It's over! Soon, Koro will finish your friend and devour all of you like the filth you are!" Seryu declared.
At that moment, Nightshade appeared, back in his original form as he carried the once again tiny and helpless Koro over to the rest of the group. "Impressive toy you've got here. He has great potential. You both do." He said.
"It's never too late to join us. You have a very strong sense of justice, but it's being wasted here with the Capital." Nisha said to Seryu.
Seryu growled at this. "No! The Capital is the embodiment of justice and where I am best served!" She declared.
"Trust me, little one, there is no justice to be found in the Capital." Nightshade told her.
"What you see justice is nothing more than corruption and barbarism towards innocent blood." Nisha added.
"I'll never fall for your lies and meaningless drivel!" Seryu declared, speaking clearly after Nightshade finally removed the gun from her mouth.
"I think you'll see it our way soon enough. She'll be coming with us. I'm sure soon enough, she'll see the light." Nightshade said.
"Never! The only light will be the light of heaven smiling upon me after I slaughter you!" Seryu snapped, kicking and squirming as Nisha picked her up and carried her over her shoulder.
"I think I've heard enough out of you." Nisha said as she sprayed a blood web to shut Seryu's mouth, leaving the cyborg girl muffled angrily.
The group soon returned to the base and presented them with the new arrival. "We found her on our way back from our mission. She's a tough one. She's definitely got potential." Nightshade explained.
"And an Imperial Arms. She gave us a run for our money." Mine said.
"One of us might have even died if not for Nightshade and Nisha... probably Mine." Sheele added.
"Hey!" The pinkette cried indignantly.
"She got heart and a pretty strong sense of justice, but that sense of justice obviously blinds her and I'm certain we can fix that." Nisha said.
Najenda pondered all this. "Very well. If you believe she'll be useful, I'm inclined to agree. However, someone will have to keep a close eye on her and show her the proper path, true right from wrong." She said.
"Very well. Sai, you will be in charge of that." Shizune told me.
"Yes, Mom." I agreed.
Seryu glared at me at this. "Sai? That's who he said killed Captain Ogre! I will make you suffer!" Seryu screamed rushing at me.
I quickly took off after this. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Calm down! Let's talk about this!" I tried to reason with her as I ran.
Nisha wraps Seryu's legs with her blood ropes to make her trip and fell face first. "I always knew this won't be easy." She sighed.
"So since Sai is babysitting Inspector Gadget's long lost daughter, what about Cujo of there?" Draco asked pointing at Koro.
"He shouldn't be a problem as long as he's kept separate from Seryu. Even so, you should keep an eye on it, Draco." Najenda ordered.
"Welcome to dog watching duty, Dray-Dray" Emberlynn smiled.
"Alright. I'll walk him, feed him and make sure he's housebroken." Draco joked.
"Why do I feel like you just got the easy job?" I asked.
"Hey, you don't know if it's a easy job or not. You know I'm a cat person." Draco said before turning his head towards Leone, winking at her.
"Either way, things are about to get more exciting around here." Leone said.
"I will destroy you all!" Seryu screamed.
"Is Sai going to be okay with her?" Luna asked Shizune.
"He'll be fine. He's a tough one." Shizune assured her.
"So with one Imperial Arms obtained along with it's owner, they'll take notice and be attacking with more and more Imperial Arms. Meaning our chances collecting them will vastly increase." Najenda stated.
"And we finally have a real chance of tipping the scales in the war." Katana noted.
"Doesn't matter how many Imperial Arms they'll attack us, we'll knock their candy-asses down like dominoes." Draco said.
"Yeah!" They all cheered...
... Well, except Seryu. Her cheer was slightly different. "Death to Night Raid!" She cried out.