Chapter 24 – Seryu Ubiquitous

"We meet again, Night Raid. This time, you will die by my hands. Then I will have Koro devour your worthless corpse!" Seryu says as she extends her right arm to her pet. "Koro! Number 3!" The monsters dog bites down on Seryu's arm. The psychopath pulls her arm out of her pet's mouth with her right arm now a large blade. She then points the blade at Ruby.

"But first, I will kill your friend. I want you to hear her screams of pain before I make you scream. Until then, Night Raid trash, you can have fun with Koro like before." She say with a sinister smile the monstrosity snarls at Mine. "Koro! Arms!" The dog then grows a pair of, bulked up, human arms. "Now get her!" Seryu's commands Koro to charge at Mine at an alarming speed while she follows.

"Ruby, watch out!" Mine shouts as she and her friend run in opposite directions. The dog isolated the Night Raid member and only follows her. Seryu follows the girl in red with her sword arm ready to cut something. Mine tries to outrun her foe but could not match its speed. She fires a few shoots from her gun to slow the monster down. The pink hair girl see the monster heal after being shoot.

"Where is that core!?" Mine says as Koro closes in on the prey as its mouth opens, revealing all of it vortex of sharp teeth. Mine looks down and shoots the feet of her predator. Koro loses its balance and falls with its forward momentum, rolling into a concrete pillar. Mine tries to catch her breath as she looks at the monster get back up.

Ruby tries her best to parry the slashes of Seryu with her scythe. The psychopath for justice continues her unrelenting barrage while laughing at her foe's struggle to keep up. "Any supporter of Nigh Raid is just as a bad as Night Raid itself. I will eradicate all evil!" Seryu says as she pin Ruby's scythe to the ground with the sword arm. She then punches Ruby in the face with her other arm. The silver eyed girl is stunned for a second and then transforms her weapon from a scythe to its gun form and shoots the sword arm.

With a close range shot, she shattered the blade it pieces. Seryu's expression changed to astonishment as she lost her weapon. Ruby then transforms the weapon back into scythe and swings it towards her enemies other arm. Seryu blocks the attack with her left arm, taking the full force of the impact, but breaking it into pieces. She falls back to the ground a few feet away and tries to pick herself up with no arms.

"You are insane! It is not justice what you are saying. You are murdering people." Ruby says as she changed her weapon to its sniper from. She aims it a Seryu. "Give up now."

"You are the one who does not understand justice! Night Raid took everything that I ever loved!" Seryu screams at Ruby. The huntress in training lowers her weapon in confusion at what she meant by this. "I overheard the monster you have in this world, Grimm. The creature that only cause pain and destruction. That is what Night Raid is in my world and I will hunt every one of them to extinction! That is my justice for what they did to me!"

Ruby fully lowers her weapon and looks over at Mine struggling to evade Koro. She remembers what her pink haired girl said to her last night. Ruby looks back at Seryu, talking in a calm tone, "I wanted to become a huntress to kill Grimm. You do not talk about justice, you want revenge and will kill anyone to satisfy your desires." Seryu grits her teeth, until walks over, looking her in the eyes with understanding, "You let the pain of losing someone important to you cloud your reasoning and made you become this. If you just stop now, nobody has to die and we can move to stop the real evil here and now." The dark red haired girl extended so her arm to Seryu. The girl looks at Ruby in confusion to what she was saying and she then looks down at the ground.

"What do you say?" Ruby says as Seryu starts to giggle.

"You stupid fool." Seryu says as she laughs at Ruby's words. The psychopath then looks back up Ruby and dawns a sadistic smile, showing her sharp teeth. Suddenly, emerging out from a hidden backpack were several swords that seem to float in midair. The swords are held in place by what looks like thread. Ruby takes a step back as she recognized that weapon.

"That is…Penny's weapon…..What are you doing with her weapon?" She says to the armless woman. Seryu smiles as she walks forward, the swords hovering over her. Ruby tries to back up she holds her weapon in a defensive stance.

"I found out that she had been destroyed mission to investigate Grimm activity. When the military brought the body back, I saw this weapon with her. It remained me of the type of weapons Dr. Stylish made for me. I knew I could use it for justice in this world better than she could have." Seryu says as she walks forward at Ruby and has the swords attack the silver eyed girl, "In the end, I was wrong about her. She was not a tool for justice. Just a pawn for my enemies. I only wish I could have been the one to crush her head!" Seryu screams as Ruby has look of horror appear on her face. She realizes another one of her friends is dead and she is fighting an enemy worse than any Grimm she has fought.

Ruby tries to block the attacks but is overwhelmed by mass number of blades. She loses grip of her weapon as the sword fling it across the ground. Ruby tries to pick up her weapon, but before she could, the many sword changed shape to fire lasers at Crescent Rose. The scythe breaks apart and renders Ruby defense less. The silver eyed girl sees the psychopath casts her swords towards Ruby, who moves to evade to assault but she could not escape.

One after another the swords slash against her body. Once her aura breaks, one of the swords slashes the dark red haired girl in the back of her left leg. She fall to the ground in pain, trying to stand but unable. In the distance, Mine hears her friends cries of pain and rushes to her ad. Koro follow the pink haired woman but first has to regenerate its limbs first.

Seryu looks down at Ruby with a sinister smile. She aims one of her swords at Ruby's head. "You said it was my reason was clouded. You were wrong. I know the exact reason for why I want to kill you. For justice!" She screams and send the sword straight for Ruby. As the blade closes in, Mine intersected blade with her own weapon. The sword embeds itself into Pumpkin's motor. Seryu then calls the sword back as she looks at the Night Raid member in anger.

"There is no way I am going to let you kill another of my friends!" Mine says as she aims and charges her weapon for her trump card. "I will kill you now where you stand!"

"If that is what you think, I will kill you both at the same time. This weapon has more destructive power than you imperial arm does." Seryu says as the sword around her from a circle and a green ball of energy builds in the center. Mine looks back at Ruby, "You have to run now, this is going to not end well for either of us."

"I am not leaving you here." Ruby says as she tries to get up. Mine gives her a slight smile.

"We cannot lose to her without completing our mission. Good thing I become a lot stronger in a pinch." She then fires a large beam of yellow energy from Pumpkin. Seryu responds in kind as she released a beam of green energy from the collection of swords. The beams collide and struggle in between the girls. The yellow beams starts to overthrow the green as it inches closer to Seryu. Mine feels her weapon start to overheat but knew she needed it to last a little longer.

The yellow beam was about to fully beat the green beam as Seryu stand her ground. Mine saw victory in her grasp but she soon realized the damage Pumpkin had taken. The dent coursed by the sword had damage the motor of her weapon to badly. Suddenly, the motor overheats and destroys itself from the stress. The green beam then easily overpowered the shrinking in size yellow beam. Both Mine and Ruby look in panic as of the beam of death about to claim them both. Mine does the only think she can think of and tries to shield Ruby from the blast. The green beam of energy now fully enveloped the two, creating an explosion of smoke and dust.

Seryu drops to her knees and recalls her swords to the backpack. She starts smiling and laughing at what she has done. She looks in the sky, "Father, Ogre, Dr. Stylish, I have killed another Night Raid member. I am even making this world a cleaner place." Koro goes to its masters. She looks back to see her pet.

"Koro, we won. Now we can go find the other Jaegers." Seryu says to the monster dog, but it only snarls at the clearing dust.

"Koro?" Seryu says as she looks into the smoke to understand her pet's anger. The two had not been kill, they were not even damaged. Someone had come to save them at last minute. She looks to find that is was a short woman with pink and brown hair. She has an open umbrella pointed at where the green beam would have made contact. The woman then moves the umbrella to rest on her shoulder. She glares down at Seryu with a smirk, glaring with multicolored eyes.