Chapter 25 – Neopolitan
Mine goes to Ruby and help her friend on her feet. She acts as crutch for Ruby as the silver eyed girl looks up at the mysteries woman. She realizes she has seen her before.
"I know you, you are Roman's bodyguard. Neo." Ruby says as the pintsized woman turns back at give a slight wave. Seryu overhear the conversation and calls out to the three.
"Roman! That criminal trash! He was only good for a snack for Koro." Seryu says in a condescending tone as Koro lets out a horrific growl of agreement with its master. Neo then looks back at the psychopath and glares at her, switches the orientation of her eye colors.
Seryu then smiles at Neo, "Did I touch a nerve? Do not worry, soon you will not feel anything every again! Koro! Numbers 2, 7, and 8!" She looks at Koro to see the beast eat its master. The monster then spits her out to have an enormous amount of heavy artillery. The turrets and missile launchers are all pointed at Neo, Ruby, and Mine. Mine tries to carry Ruby to run away from the incoming volley of destruction. The multicolored-hair woman looks back at the two girls and lets out a small sigh. She then walks over and puts one hand on Mine's shoulder and the other on Ruby's shoulder. Seryu looks to them with a sadistic smile..
"Justice fire volley!" Seryu screams as the weapons unleashes a barrage of destruction. The area in front of her is laid to waste at the missiles crash against the pillars supporting the freeway. The overpass collapses as a large cloud of dust covers the area. She then looks over to Koro to see the pet spit out an arm with a radar on in.
"Is there anyone in the area Koro?" Seryu says have her pet show the radar to her to see that no one else is the area. Seryu then grins as she realizes the emeries were gone.
Over a mile away, on a roof to an abandon building, a quick flash of white light appears. After the light vanishes, the three girls appear on the roof. Ruby and Mine in a daze, fall to the ground and try to stop their heads from spinning. Neo stands and looks off in the distance to see a small pillar of smoke, griping her umbrella tightly. Ruby stands on her feet and looks at Neo.
She inquires, "Thank you, but why are you helping us?" Neo looks at Ruby and gives a slight smile. Ruby looks at the pintsized woman more confused now. Mine stands up and looks at Neo, "How did we escape that?" She says as Neo waves to the both of them and jumps backwards. She disappears into a flash of white light. The two girls look in astonishment. Mine and Ruby look at each other to ask a question neither knew the answer to.
"Why did she not say anything?"
On the radar, a third dot appeared to the alarm of Seryu. The radar showed the person was right in front of her. Seryu look in the distance to see only smoke. Suddenly, walking out of the smoke is Neo, twirling her open umbrella. She gives the psychopath a smirk. Seryu grits her teeth and looks back at her dog.
"Koro! Number 6!" She screams as Koro again eats its master. The beast spits back out her master. Only this time, Seryu has a large missile as one of her arms. She then aims at Neo and launches the missile with a sinister smile. The multicolored-hair woman continues to walk forward. As the missile closes in, she jumps straight up to evade the attack. Neo continues to walk to see the Jaeger continues to smirk when she lands.
"You think you can dodge it that easily. Justice always finds and eradicates its enemies." As Seryu says this, the missile angles upward and redirects toward Neo. The pintsized woman continues to walk forward. She still has her smirk as she moved her umbrella as if to protect herself to from rain. The missile hits Neo's umbrella, creating a large explosion. Koro picks up Seryu and rushes her to safe distance away. As the beast sets her down, it looks around to as if to try and find something.
"What is the matter Koro, do you have the Justice City Detector?" Seryu says, but as she finishes the sentence, a metal arm with the radar on it slides across the ground. It lands near her feet and shows a dot slowly approaching from straight ahead. Seryu looks forward to see a person emerge from the smoke. It is the multicolored-hair woman, twirler her umbrella over her head. Still having that same smirk on her face.
Seryu takes a step back as sweat starts to form on her face. She looks at Koro, who had the same sweat forming, "Koro! Number 5!" The beast then bites down on its master arm to leave a large drill. She then aims and fires it a Neo who stops walking to Seryu.
Neo then points her umbrella at the oncoming drill. She then twirls the umbrella in the opposite rotation. Upon making contact with the umbrella, the drill veers off in another direction, making contact with ruble from the overpass. An explosion happens on contact, Neo does not acknowledge it. She simple resumes walking and twirls here umbrella on her side with her smirk still on her face.
Seryu sweats even move than before, "Koro! Number 1 and 4." Her pet eats Seryu again to spit out her out with one arm being a hook-shot and the other was a large spiked ball. She puts on a sinister smile, but loses it as Neo continued to smirk. Seryu launches the spike ball at Neo. The multicolored-hair woman skips around the area dodging the ball every time the psychopath swings it. Seryu predicts where Neo will move next and shots her hook-shot at that location.
Neo's eyes turn white as her right arm was ensnared. Seryu then puts on her sinister smile again as she swings her spiked ball at Neo. The pintsized woman smirks back as she closes her umbrella. Out from the top of the umbrella came a long blade. She then cuts the rope of the hook-shot and avoided the spiked ball. She then looks at the other weapon and cuts the chain on the spiked ball. She then start walking back at Seryu. After she blinks, the multicolored-hair woman's eye returned to one pink and one brown.
Seryu's eyes widen as saw the chain cut from the sword-umbrella. She looks at her pet, "Koro..." but she does not give the order, realizing she ran out of weapons. The beast looks at the scared and confused look on its master's face. Koro then looks at the multicolored-hair woman as the reason for it all. The monster growls and rushes at Neo swinging its arms in all directions. As soon as Koro is right in front of Neo, she jumps up and stabs the beast in the both eyed. The beast fails around in pain as Neo stabs all over Koro's body. Seryu looks at her pet in pain and realizes the foe is looking for the core.
"No! Koro Berserk mode!" Seryu words cause the beast fur to turn from a white to a dark red. Koro grew more muscular and eyes turn red say it looked at Neo. The bulked up monster grabs the pintsized woman, holding the tiny woman in its giant palm. Seryu smiles at the sight of Neo struggling get out.
"Yes Koro, Crush her! Kill her now!" Seryu says as Koro tightens its grip. Neo's eyes turn white as she squirms. Suddenly, the multicolored-hair woman shattered like glass in Koro's hand. Both the monster and Seryu look in confusion at what happened. Seryu then hears a beeping sound coming from the radar. She looks down to see that there were still three dots, but one was moving incredibly fast at another. Koro still looks at its hand wondering where the woman went.
Koro realized a sharp pain in its back. The monsters face turns lax as the beast falls on its face. Koro slowly dissolves until a spherical crystal remained. Seryu looks closely to see a crack in the sphere. As soon as she realizes what happened, out of the smoke came Neo. She walks up the crystal and steps on it, breaking it into pieces. Seryu looks at Neo in horror and tears as the woman gave a slight smirk. The psychopath's fear turned to rage as the blade erupted from her backpack. They form a circle as they did before she fired the green energy beam.
"YOU WILL DIE FOR WHAT YOU DID YOU BIT-" but before Seryu could finisher her sentence, Neo rushes her at an insane speed and cuts the thread holding the swords. They fall to the ground as Neo looks Seryu right in the eyes. She a slight smirk as she holds her umbrella.
Seryu sweats profusely as she backs up. Her prostatic arms fall off at the elbow to have two guns. She aims both at Neo. "Justice Execution!" The psychopath says as she shots the multicolored-hair woman point blank. However, the woman only breaks like glass as the bullets connect with the body. Seryu panics, looking around to see where the woman went. She hears a beep on the radar, but see one dot standing still and another dot appearing all over the radar. The psychopath turns around to see Neo looking her in soul with her two different colored eyes. The pintsized woman then slashes the two guns, cutting them in half. She then runs her sword-umbrella through Seryu's stomach.
She coughs up blood that lands on Neo's umbrella. Seryu starts breathing heavily and coughing as she looks at Neo smirking. The psychopath growls through her teeth. She then opens her mouth to have a barrel of a gun emerge. It points directly at Neo's face and fires. The multicolored-hair woman opens up her umbrella to deflect the bullet. It ricochets and hits Seryu in her right eye. Seryu looks away in pain but then refocuses on Neo for a second shoot.
However, Neo pulls out her sword-umbrella from Seryu's stomach, closes it, and sabs it through the bottom psychopath's jaw to the gun in her mouth. Seryu's second shot still goes through, but the bullet breaks in the barrel, destroying her last gun. Neo removes her weapon and kicks Seryu in her side, sending her enemy painfully rolling across the ground. Neo picks up the radar and walks over to the woman that is too weak now to get up. She twirls the umbrella with blood still dripping off the blade and fabric. Seryu looks up at Neo and starts crying with a sinister smile. She laughs at the pintsized woman.
"Hahahaha. You think your evil can beat my justice. WELL YOU ARE WRONG! I have one last weapon," Seryu scream as she a small clicking sound comes from her mouth, "I just activated a bomb in my head that will destroy everything in half a mile in a matter of seconds. I do not care if I die now, so long as I kill the ultimate evil. YOU! Hahahaha." Seryu laughs as she looks at the multicolored-hair woman who has stopped walking.
Neo just looks at Seryu and gives her another smirk. She then closes her umbrella and waves at the psychopath with the prostatic arm. Seryu stops laughing and looks at Neo in confusion.
"Why are you waving? Why are you not saying anything!? WHY ARE YOU STILL SMIRKING? YOU ARE GOING TO DIE!" She screams at the multicolored-hair woman.
Neo tosses the radar in front of Seryu. She then jumps back and vanishes in a flash of white light. Seryu looks on the radar to only one beeping dot. Her eyes fill up with more tears as she came to a harsh realization.
"Where did she go? I cannot die here. Not when there is so much evil still to eradicate." She cries as she lays down and closes her eyes through the tears. A bright light encompasses her as she cries out in pain. "I do not want to die in this world."
Over a mile away, Mine looks over to where the she and Ruby were fighting Seryu. She jumps back as a destructive flash of blinding light erupts in the distance. Ruby shielded her eyes with her left arm. As the echoing sound of the blast stopped, Mine back out in the distance to see another pillar of smoke.
"What caused that? That was in the same area we fought Seryu." Mine says as Neo appears in front of her. Mine jumps back in surprise. Neo waves at the started girl.
"How did you do that?" Mine says as she picks herself up. Neo only smirks at her. Ruby gets up and tries to walk over to Mine. Mine helps her injured friend to stand.
"Neo, what happened to Seryu and that crazy dog?" Ruby says. The pintsized woman answers by shacking her umbrella to remove the last of the blood on it. Mine replies, "So there both dead now. They were both psychos that I wish I could have killed myself." Neo gives her a smirk as Ruby looks at her friend with worry.
Mine continues "You did not answerer us before. Why did you help us?" Neo does not respond as she waves at the two girls.
"Wait, before you go. Thank you." Mine says in a grateful tone, "You made it so a friend of mine can rest in peace now." Neo gives an understanding smile as she teleports in a flash of white light. Mine looks around to see it the person was anywhere close by but to no avail. She then looks at Ruby.
"She is gone again. Ruby, we need somebody to come and pick us up. We need to get you medical attention for your leg." Mine saw that Ruby was looking down at the ground, "What is wrong?"
"Mine…who were you in your world?" Ruby says to the astonishment of Mine, "Seryu said you were from a group called Night Raid, what was that?" Mine looks down and tares a large piece of fabric off her dress.
Mine looks Ruby in the eyes, speaking in a serious tone as she wraps the cloth around Ruby's injured leg, "Night Raid was an assassination group that worked for a revolution army meant to overthrow a corrupt government. I killed a lot of people but knew it was worth the goal we were fighting for."
"What were you fighting for?" Ruby says as she looks Mine.
"I was fighting in that group so that nobody could go through the harsh discrimination of the Capital did. If there was a way to reach my goal without killing people, I would have done it. But my world never made that an option. It was full of people being murdered by the hands of psychopaths like Seryu." Mine says as she holds Ruby's hand, finishing the quick bandage work. "I made my choice and can never take it back. But if I did not kill my targets, innocent people and my friends would have died. Ruby, I will risk my own life to protect my friends."
"I believe you, Mine. You are a good person." Ruby says as she smiles. "When all this is over, would you consider becoming a student a Beacon to be a Huntresses? If you cannot get back to your old world. I know you can make a difference in this one, saving people."
"That sounds nice." Mine says as she helps Ruby on her feet. "Now, Let us call Ozpin and let him know about what happened and send help."
A few miles away, Neo sits on the edge of a roof of an abandon building. She looks down at a black bowler hat in her hands. Her eyes are white and mournful as she looks at the hat. A sudden gust of wind blows the hat out of Neo's hands. She watches the hat float away as she grips her umbrella handle. The multicolored-hair woman closes her eye. She then opens them, looking off in the distance with one eye pink and one eye brown. She gives a smirk look at the sun in the middle of the sky, only silence fills the area.