I'm having too much fun to stop writing yet, even if I am exhausted when I finish work. So here's another chapter. I hope you guys like it
A few minutes after Ruby's return, all of the Huntresses were armed and dressed as guards. Most of them were watching the doors, in case someone tried to enter. But Yang, Arslan, Neon and Penny were dealing with Vernal.
Yang spoke to the woman she once considered to be a sister, while the others held her down. "So, it looks like you have a choice to make. You can either keep being Raven's slave and I'll end you, or you can turn on her and join us," she said.
Vernal snarled at her "What the fuck is going on with you Yang, why did you turn your back on us?" she demanded. She was clearly angry with Yang, but she was also confused by how much the blonde had changed.
"Don't you get it Vernal, Raven doesn't give a shit about us. To here we're just weapons, she's just using us to do her dirty work." Yang told her. Ever since Pyrrha help her discover the truth, she grew angry whenever her mother came up.
"Who put that shit in your head, Yang? Raven isn't like that, she cares about us." Vernal responded, immediately jumping to Raven's defence. Her opinion of the woman was the exact opposite of Yang's.
"I'm not the one with the head full of shit, and now I'm free to do my own thing." Yang retorted. Technically she was now under Ruby's command, she had a lot more freedom than when she was blindly following Raven.
"So, you're just going to betray your family. You're going to throw it all away, so you can play around with these freaks." Vernal snapped at her, she was furious at Yang's betrayal. She started trying to break away from the three who were restraining her.
"If you're going to be like that, then I'm going to have to kill you. It's a shame really, you were a great sister while it lasted." Yang said, with a rare glimmer of remorse. As she spoke, she aimed her weapon at her former sister.
"Don't kill me like a bitch, let's make this a fight to the death. You could at least do that for me." Vernal responded. A Branwen would never go down without a fight if they could avoid it, Vernal wasn't going to be the exception.
"Fine, but I'll make you regret it. As soon as this fight starts, your special treatment ends. I will break you, and I won't let up until your heart stops." Yang said. She then removed her body armour and handed her gun to Penny.
"Good, I'm glad these pussies haven't made you soft. Now let's throw down, no more talking." Vernal replied, sounding oddly calm about her impending violent death. The girls released her and backed away, not wanting to get caught up in what was about to happen.
Meanwhile, Pyrrha and the warden were locked in a control room. They were joined by Officers Ren and Valkyrie. They watched the camera feeds, as the whole prison erupted into anarchy. What they saw was utterly horrific and terrifying to be caught in the middle off, yet all they could do was stay in place and allow it to happen.
Guards were trapped fighting for their lives, as inmates launched repeated assaults on them. They were having some success due to their superior protection and weaponry, but they were being overwhelmed by the sheer number of inmates. They were taken out one by one, rapidly reducing the likelihood of them being able to retake control.
Sex offenders were being lynched, by the other inmates. They were being hung with bedsheets and some were used like piñatas, as they slowly asphyxiated. A few particularly unfortunate inmates were even set on fire and left to burn or suffocate. The other inmates were completely without mercy, showing just how much they despised their victims.
Gangs were clashing all over the place, with nothing to stop them from killing each other. They brought improvised and smuggled weapons, using them to butcher each other. Tensions had been building for so long, that the inmates became like animals as they fought each other. They weren't even differentiating between the people around them. Anyone who got too close was quickly set upon from all sides. The sight made the most dangerous areas of Vale, look like safe havens.
Human Supremacist and White Fang members, were busy fighting for control and trying to exterminate each other. They fought brutally, they were hell-bent on proving their superiority. To those two groups, anyone of the opposite race was a target. Wherever they went within the prison, they left a wake of destruction. The corridors and cellblocks were strewn with horrifically maimed corpses.
But worst of all, was what was happening in the asylum section of the prison. In there, the craziest of the inmates were running wild. They were killing themselves and each other, as they took advantage of their newfound freedom. There were even cannibals eating people alive. It was like something out of a horror movie, but so much worse.
Through the middle of all that chaos, walked a lone woman. She was short and had hair reminiscent of ice-cream. She seemed to enjoy the chaos and easily dispatched anyone who attacked her. Neo was out of her cell, which was bad news for everyone. Other than Yang, no inmate was more feared than her.
Back in the canteen, Yang and Vernal were charging at each other. Yang was pretty much guaranteed to win, but Vernal was going to fight to the bitter end. When they reached each other, they both threw punches. Vernal was sent stumbling backwards, while Yang took the hit without batting an eyelid.
For the next few minutes, they went blow for blow. They were both getting hit, dodging and parrying without stopping, until Vernal made a mistake. She threw a slightly weak punch at Yang's head, Yang effortlessly dodged and was able to grab her by the arm. The blonde then threw her over her shoulder, sending her to the ground.
Luckily, Vernal wasn't seriously hurt and easily righted herself. She was back on her feet before Yang could press her advantage. She even managed to catch Yang with a few gut punches when she turned around, as she tried to wind her opponent. Unfortunately, Yang's rock hard abs made in an impossibility to wind her in such a way. The futile attack meant that Yang was able to do a powerful palm strike on Vernal's sternum, knocking her back and almost making her stumble over a body.
Yang didn't give Vernal time to regain her composure, taking full advantage of her unstable opponent. She jumped at her with her fist pulled back, rocketing a punch into her face. It knocked Vernal to the floor and induced a heavy nose bleed.
Yang then moved to pin her opponent down, but Vernal managed to roll away and jump to her feet. She was incredibly resilient, most people didn't recover from Yang's punches. But she was able to recover and go on the offensive. She slammed her fist into the side of Yang's head.
Yang was actually rocked by Vernal's punch, something which almost never happened to her. But Vernal could hit incredibly hard when she needed to, she hadn't been adopted by Raven just for being loyal. Of course, even one of her hardest punches wasn't enough to fell, Yang. The blonde was slightly dazed from having her brain rattled, but she still had plenty of fight in her.
Vernal had to duck out of the way when Yang returned a punch of equal strength. It would have demolished her nose if it had connected, so she was lucky she avoided it. Though a broken nose was the least of her worries, given that it was a fight to the death.
Enraged by her blow not finding its target, Yang kicked Vernal in the chest. It winded the other woman and knocked her a significant distance across the room. Vernal went down hard, her landing only padded by a small pile of corpses. It was likely that she would have been injured by the impact, had the bodies not been there.
Yang chased after her winded opponent, trying to catch her before she could get her breath back. She could have gone for a punch, but that had proven ineffective so far. So she opted for another kick, as her last one had done a great job of taking Vernal down. She jumped slightly before she reached her rival, flying at her feet first.
The kick would have caught Vernal in the head and could have snapped her neck. But she was able to block, throwing her arms up at the last possible second. The full force of the blow went into her forearms, severely damaging the bones in several places. It hurt a lot and made fighting hard, but Vernal gritted her teeth and kept going.
Having her flying kick unexpectedly blocked had resulted in Yang landing on her back. She was lying on the floor in front of Vernal, fighting to pull air back into her lungs. Unfortunately, Vernal pounced on her before she could fully recover. Before she knew it, she had a pair of hands wrapped around her throat. It was surprising, given that she had felt the bones give way.
Vernal was only kept going by adrenaline, as her forearms screamed in agony. Strangling Yang was incredibly painful, but she needed to kill her to save her own life. Against a normal opponent, she could have easily strangled them to death even with her injuries. But Yang wasn't a normal opponent, she had incredibly powerful neck muscles which were fully tensed up.
With Vernal distracted by trying to strangle her, Yang was able to launch a brutal assault on her. She wrapped her arms and legs tightly around her, before rolling over. It was only once Yang was on top of her, that Vernal realized how badly she had messed up. Vernal panicked and let go of her neck, so Yang headbutted her in the face. There was the satisfying sound of cartilage snapping, as Vernal's nose was broken.
Vernal was dazed by the headbutt, rendering her briefly incapable of fighting. Pressing her advantage, Yang sat up and sent at a barrage of punches into her opponent's chest. It took a few hits, but eventually, she felt ribs cracking from the impact. Punching bone would have hurt most people, but Yang's knuckles felt no pain. She'd toughened them, to the point where she felt nothing.
When Vernal finally got her head straight, she realized she was in serious trouble. If she didn't act soon, Yang would beat her to death. So although it made her feel like a coward, she picked up a shank which was lying just within reach. With all the strength she could muster, she plunged the improvised blade into Yang's side. It brought Yang's assault to an end and allowed Vernal to push her off.
Vernal managed to push herself to her feet, ready to launch her final assault and secure victory. She thought she had the upper hand as Yang lay there, looking lifeless. She was going to make the blonde's death quick, by stomping on her head. But as she brought her foot down, a demonic-looking Yang rolled away and grabbed her leg.
Using all her strength, Yang pulled Vernal down. She climbed on top of her former sister and pulled the shank from her side. As Vernal looked up at her in shock and horror, Yang repeatedly stabbed her in the stomach and chest. There was no sign of humanity left in Yang's eyes, as she punctured all of Vernal's internal organs multiple times.
After minutes of relentless stabbing, Yang finally calmed down. Of course, Vernal was long dead by that point. Her body was basically one big stab wound, and all the blood had drained from her body. The fight was over and Yang had won, though she was now bleeding from a deep stab wound on her side. She had to tear one of the sleeves off her jumpsuit and use it to stop the bleeding.
As she stood up and walked away, Yang said her final words to her recently departed foe. "That's what happens to people who stay loyal to Raven, and that's what's going to happen to her when I catch her." Her words were full of malice and hatred, killing Vernal was only the beginning.
Arslan and Ruby ran over to Yang, wanting to make sure she hadn't been too badly injured during the fight. But before they could reach her, the room was plunged into complete darkness. It was daytime, but the prison had very few windows. So now, they not only had to survive a riot. They had to do it in almost complete darkness.
"Well this is just fucking great!" shouted Yang. Blood loss and having to kill someone she once considered to be family, would not stop her from expressing her displeasure at their current predicament. Fighting through a prison riot was fine even if she was injured, but she would have preferred to do it with the lights on. She wasn't blessed with night vision like the Faunus were. So she now had a distinct disadvantage.
After a few seconds, some small emergency lights came on. They emitted a dim red glow, which only made it possible to see the doors. The illumination came at the perfect time, as the doors soon came flying open. A horde of rampaging inmates burst into the room, and the light made it easier for the Huntresses to target them. The room echoed with the sound of gunfire and screaming, as the girls gunned down wave after wave of inmates.
Once Yang had managed to get her armour back on and pick up her weapon. They gang started to move towards the doorway, it was time to begin their fight to the exit. It was going to be a long and difficult fight, and they didn't know what they would have to face. But it was now or never, they had to go before things could get any worse.
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