Chapter 8: Dark Days

Tatsumi and the rest of Night Raid were unaware of Leone and Bulat, Scarlet and 21 however were stalking them. Not letting them know they were there, it would soon be two against eight. Human's against two beings from different worlds.

"I don't like this one bit." Mine said. "What's taking Leone and Bulat so long? Did they get lost?"

Tatsumi would think for a moment as he glanced around. "The throne room is empty...something's up..let's check the ballroom."

"The ballroom is bigger, so maybe their hiding there." Sheele said as she was about to walk towards the door, the door came flying off as it hit Sheele knocking her back. Both her and the door were sent flying towards the wall.

"Sheele!" Lubbock yelled as he glared towards the now opened doorway. "Who's there?!"

"Ara, I think I killed that one." Scarlet said as she grinned. "21, why don't we take them prisoner?"

"I thought you'd never ask." 21 said as she grins as well.

"She's dead." Mine said. "Sheele's dead..." She gritted her teeth as she glared at the two. "I'll kill you!"

"Mine wait!" Chelsea shouted.

Mine used her Teigu, as she fired multiple shots of spirit energy at the two. "Eat this!!!"

Scarlet dashed towards Mine, dodging the energy bullets. While 21 deflected them away from her. Mine was surprised as she stepped back to get away from Scarlet, but Scarlet grabbed her leg before she could.

"Let her go!" Najenda said as she dashed towards Scarlet and grabbed her head slamming it against the floor. "Mine, focus on the other one."

Mine gulps as she wasn't too sure what would've happened to her, but she nods her head as she went to focus on 21. But noticed the Majin was gone, glancing for her carefully Scarlet's face regenerated back to normal as she grinned.

"What?" Najenda asked. "You should be dead, I smashed your head."

Scarlet slithered from under Najenda's grasp as she round house kicks her in the side of her head. "You're the one who's going to be smashed."

Najenda tried to stop herself from going any further towards the others. "Damn you..." The side of her head was bleeding a little as she stood up.

Mine was still looking around for 21, as the Majin flew up from below her, and grabbed her legs. Dragging her down to the lower floors. "I've got you now!"

Scarlet snickered. "Separation, capturing you all is going to be easy.." She glared at the six that were in the throne room with her.

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21 flung Mine around like a rag doll, as she threw her against the wall. Punching her sides with both of her fist, while pinning her to the wall with her tail wrapped around her neck.

Mine yelled as she bit down on 21's tail, and kicked her away from her. "What the hell are you?"

"Me? I'm your tomb." 21 said as she licked her lips. "I have to say Bulat didn't taste well as a apple pie, but...you might be sweeter than he was."

Mine was grossed out as she shivered, she aimed her Teigu at 21 as she growled. "You killed him...let me guess, the other one killed Leone. You two are going to pay for this."

"By all means, try to strike me down." 21 said as she grinned widely. "It won't do you no good, you're just going to be making it worse on you, but fun for me."

"Shut up!" Mine yelled as she started to shoot spirit energy at 21 again. "You can't deflect these!"

21 smirks as she created a barrier around herself, as the spirit energy bullets stuck to the barrier. Mine's eyes widen as 21 pushed them back to her. "You were saying?"

Mine rolled out of the way but got hit on her leg from one of the stray shots. "Ahh, shit...."

"Now where was I?" 21 asked. "Oh yes, that's right." She grabbed Mine by the leg with her tail and lifted her up off the floor. "I was going to tenderize you before deciding what to turn you into~"

Mine tried to get free from 21's tail, but due to the injured leg didn't help. She felt 21's tail squeeze tighter as she yelled out in pain, the Majin smirked as she started to punch Mine's side's again.

Mine's screams could be heard faintly from the throne room, where Scarlet was fighting the other members of Night Raid.

"Stay still!" Tatsumi said as he tried to land a blow on Scarlet, he watched as she back flips over the hole 21 had made. He stopped himself, almost falling into the hole. "You're a slippery one."

Scarlet's tongue slithered out of her mouth as she snickered. "What's the matter? Afraid of the dark?" As if on queue, the whole capital went dark. A black out that had made everything pitch black and made it hard to see. Luckily for Scarlet, she could easily sniff them out.

"Shit, a black out." Chelsea said. "Everyone, we need to be on our guard...we don't know where that killer is."

Silence filled the air, slowly. One by one, Scarlet knocked each member of Night Raid out one by one. Dropping from the ceiling like a Xenomorph, Akame and Tatsumi were still conscious however. It seemed Scarlet wanted to toy with them a little longer.

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21 flew back up to where Scarlet was. "Didn't give them a chance to fight back I see."

"Who cares." Scarlet said as she bashed Akame and Tatsumi's heads together knocking them out. "These two will come in handy though. And speaking of fighting back, Mine is captured or dead?"

"She's dead, I couldn't help myself I was hungry." 21 said. "I turned her into a chocolate cream pie, what do you plan on doing with those two anyway?"

"Turn them into Grimm...my mother had a plan for the dead and turn them into Grimm, but seeing as I have no way of using the Grimm pools...I'll have to wait until I find one." Scarlet said as she held her hand out, 21 tossed her a capsule.

"Use this to seal them in, I don't think Bulma had any plans for a capsule of hers to contain humans...but with my intelligence. I was able to modify it." 21 said as she watched Scarlet toss the capsule at the two.

A puff of smoke happened, as the capsule landed on the floor, Scarlet picked it up and grins a bit with Akame and Tatsumi captured for her own experiments. Esdeath was slowly making her way to the capital with her army each passing day, she couldn't wait to get her hands on Scarlet's head for the bounty.

"Good, now let's take our prisoners to their holding cells...and see who shows up to save them." Scarlet said as she dragged Chelsea and Najenda, while 21 grabbed the others. Taking them down to the cellar.