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Mercury

Mercury had been in the hospital for the whole time that Ren had finally let Neo and him go. Neo had gone to prison, while Mercury had gone straight to the hospital. Mercury was in an armored truck that was speeding away toward prison, completely unaware that someone was waiting for him within the next mile. Two minutes past, when suddenly there was a loud thud on the trucks roof. Mercury realized what was going on, "You probably want to check that out." Mercury said to the three guards that were with him.

"Shut up." One guard said, as he put his safely off in his assault rifle.

Suddenly the sound of breaking glass followed by a scream could be heard in the drivers side of the truck. The second guard opened the flap between the driver's side and the prisoner's side, blood covered the window shield, and the passenger and the driver had there throats slit. The armored truck slammed into a wall and the second guard slammed his head into the metal barrier. He fell to the ground, knocked out cold. The two other guards aimed there guns toward the door. Suddenly a large bang sounded and the metal doors bent under the pressure. The guards looked at each other, before the doors exploded and a man swung in. The guards began to fire there automatic weapons. Mercury immediately recognized the man to be Tyrian. "oh this isn't good." Mercury thought, since he knew that Tyrian only does assassinations, and clean up. The first guard tried to attack by trying to hit Tyrian with the butt of his assault rifle, Tyrian easily ducked underneath the hit, and slashed the guard's throat with his blade, blood spurted out as he fell down to his knees, and clutching his throat with both hands.

The other guard tried to attack Tyrian from behind, but Tyrian blocked his attack with his tail, then stabbed the guard with the tip of his tail. Tyrian giggled at the pathetic attempt of knocking him out. "Oh, no, no, no, we don't do that." Tyrian said as he saw the guard fall down dead.

"Well, I have had my fun, now it is time for business." Tyrian said as he turned to face Mercury.

"If you are going to kill me, please do it quickly." Mercury said.

"Oh, a fighter to the end, I like that." Tyrian said as he placed his blade on Mercury's neck.

"Just do it." Mercury said. Tyrian slashed his throat and Mercury began to try to raise his hands to his neck but his hands were chained to the floor and they could not reach his neck.

Tyrian reached into his pocket and placed a bomb on Mercury's lap. "Au revoir" Tyrian said as he started a five minute timer. Tyrian walked onto the street and jumped on top of a roof. He disappeared just as the cops began to arrive. BOOM! The boom exploded and Tyrian looked at the explosion, "Wow, I knew that it was supposed to be big, but I didn't know it was that big of an explosion." Tyrian said as he broke into laughter. Tyrian took a look at a nearby clock, 5:30 am.

Vernal

Vernal woke up at 4:30 in the morning to start her morning work out. It was about 5:30 am, when Vernal saw an explosion in the distance followed by police sirens. "Oh, shit, she is tying up loose ends." Vernal thought as she ran into her room and went to her bedside nightstand, and opened the first drawer, where she kept her weapon.

"Looking for this." Tyrian said as he entered the room from the connected bathroom, holding up Vernal's circular blades.

"I do not care what Salem wants, I am trying to put all of that behind me. So why can't you just leave me alone!" Vernal said.

"Oh, there is no, running away from The queen." Tyrian said as he laughed like Vernal had just said the most stupid thing he had ever heard.

"If you are here to kill me. Then you better do it before Ruby arrives." Vernal said, knowing that Ruby had promised that would have a morning coffee together.

"Oh, the silver eyed girl will be here too. This will be more fun then I imagined." Tyrian said a slight murderous glimmer in his eyes. "But, since I am in a good mood, I am going to give you, your weapons back." Tyrian tossed Vernal her weapons and before Vernal could even catch them, Tyrian was already attacking her. Tyrian tried to jump kick Vernal. Vernal reached out for her weapons and caught them, blocking Tyrian's jump kick with her blades, and pushed Tyrian back.

Tyrian back flipped into a splits just as Vernal swung her weapon right over Tyrians head. Tyrian placed his hands on the ground for support and spun his legs around sweeping Vernals legs off the ground and Vernal fell down. Tyrian pushed of his hands, and rounded off onto his feet.

He struck the ground right where Vernal's chest used to be with his tail, but Vernal had rolled away just in time. Vernal then back rolled and stood up, attacked Vernal by trying to slash at her chest, Vernal blocked, then she countered attacked Tyrian when his guard was down she slashed Tyrian's chest and blood started to pour out. "You bitch!" Tyrian said as he stabbed Vernal in the chest with his tail. Tyrian heard footsteps coming from the outer hallway and burst through the window outlooking the city and dissapeared into the roof tops.

Ruby heard the glass breaking and broke through the door with one powerful kick, she looked around the room and saw Vernal laying on the ground gasping for air. "Vernal!" Ruby said as she rushed to Vernal's side.

"H-ey, Ruby." Vernal gasped out.

"Who did this to you.?" Ruby asked.

"I don't know, but you are being hunted." Vernal went into a series of hacking coughs, and when she pulled her hand away from her mouth blood was on her hand. "and trust me this guys good" Vernal said.

"Who hunting me and why?" Ruby asked as she began to apply presure to Vernal's wound.

"Ask Ozpin to tell you about Salem, he'll catch you up." Vernal said as she sharply breathed air in and let it ou slowly, a soft groan escaped her grips and she did not breath again.

"Vernal?" Ruby asked as she shook Vernal's shoulders and began to cry.

After the paramedics had taken Vernal away, Ruby returned home her clothes covered in blood. Ruby opened the door and went inside, "Weiss?" Ruby called out.

"Yes Ruby." Weiss said as she appeared from the door that led to the kitchen. "Oh my god, Ruby are you okay!" Weiss said as she saw Ruby's blood covered clothes. Weiss rushed over and grabbed Ruby shoulders and looked up and down Ruby's body looking for any wounds.

"Yeah, I am okay. The blood is Vernal's" Ruby said. "But, we won't be okay for any time soon, because some one is hunting us."

"When will this ever end, Torchwick, my father, and now this guy." Weiss said. "How is Vernal?"

Ruby's face dropped a little, but quickly recovered. "I'll tell you what hapened later, but we need to get out of here, and find Ozpin" Ruby said, just as Yang burst through there door.

"Guys someone took Blake, and I think it might have been Adam." Yang said.

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