Chapter 7: The Hunt

The rift soon opened in a different place, one that was unknown to Scarlet, the Grimm girl got spat out of the tear in space and time as she hit several tree branches that were covered in snow. She then hit the ground which was also covered in snow as well.

Scarlet wiggled herself out of the snow as she fell backwards onto her butt, she had snow on her face as she shook her head. "Snow? This can't be any part of Remnant can it?" She glanced around as everything was covered in white. "No.... I don't think it is, I don't see any Grimm around. Which means I'm some place different, but where?"

She sniffed the air for a moment, but wasn't able to pick up any new scents. Due to the moisture in the air from the snow, not to mention it was also pitch black out as well. Scarlet stood up as the snow crunched under her feet, but when she had done that, the sound of more snow crunching could be heard. The Grimm girl stayed very still as the smell of moisture in the air changed to a blood smell, the tree branches around her snapped as small twigs fell to the ground.

"Someone's here." Scarlet murmured as her eyes scanned the darkness of the forest, the smell of blood grew stronger minute by minute. "There's two... No wait, four." She gripped Black Rose tightly as she. "And these four smell strong of murder and blood."

The four that were slowly approaching Scarlet saw her through the darkness, their eyes glowed as they got closer and closer to her. These weren't any humans, but their appearances were humanoid. Just like with Scarlet, she wasn't a full blooded human. She was more than that, but these humanoid beings reeked of murder and blood, not to mention a strong smell of rotten flesh.

Scarlet closed her eyes as she smirked, she started laughing. "Oh how precious, you four think you can gang up on me?" She opened her eyes as they glowed a blood red. "Let me take a guess, you all are blood hungry demons who only want to watch the world burn?"

The four figures stopped as they looked at each other and then towards Scarlet's direction, they noticed she was gone from where she was standing at, there weren't any traces of foot prints left behind.

"Search for her!" One of the bigger demons barked as he glanced around the snowy forest. "Don't let her contact the slayers."

The other demons nodded as they searched the forest for Scarlet, but Scarlet hadn't gone anywhere. She was below them under the snow, of course it was freezing cold. But she didn't seem to care, she was right under the bigger demon's feet too. But before she could get the element of surprise, the demon glanced down and smirked. He reached down and pulled Scarlet from under the snow.

"The hell?" Scarlet asked as she was lifted up from the snow. "How did you?"

The demon smirked as he threw Scarlet towards a tree, he whistled as the other demons returned to his side. "Hiding under the snow, was that supposed to be a sneak attack?"

Scarlet's back hit the tree as she gasped, the tree shook as the snow that covered the tree fell onto her. "D-Dammit... the hell?" She slowly stood up as the snow fell off of her. "Tch, cocky punk."

The other demons charged at her as Scarlet noticed this, she swung Black Rose at them but they had jumped over it and hit Scarlet with some punches and kicks. Even one of them had sharper nails than she did, they tore into her flesh as they went in blindly to feast on her. That is until something happened.

The demon who had tore into Scarlet's flesh, grabbed the piece as it dripped. Her blood coated the piece of flesh as her black inky Grimm blood coated the snow, and since the demon went in blindly and ate that piece. Their mouth and tongue started to feel strange, almost as if they were allergic, it didn't take long for the demon to yell in pain and agony. Falling over onto the snowy ground, their tongue was being eaten away at and the inside of their mouth had become tender and raw. Their teeth rotted, falling out of place and their mouth filled with their own blood. Which was evaporating.

The other demons took notice as they were wanting to help out, but the bigger demon glared at Scarlet with murder in his eyes. "What did you?!"

"Me? I didn't do anything." Scarlet said acting innocently, the wounds she had gotten from the demons had healed up. She noticed the demon on the ground had stopped moving, she grinned widely as she glared at the others, she pushed them aside as she grabbed the two by the side of their heads and bashed them together. Of course this only had hurt them a little, the Grimm girl rushed past them as she held Black Rose, she took a swing at the bigger demon and sliced his arm off.

The bigger demon didn't seem too worried about it, he grabbed her again and slammed her down onto the snowy ground. "You can't harm us, you don't have the right tools or powers to harm us."

Scarlet glared at him for a moment as she stabbed her hand through his chest, she had figured something out that they didn't. She did however slice her own arm off, leaving it stuck in the demon's chest. The Grimm girl's blood dripped from her arm and the stub where her arm was at, however. Her arm arm grew back while the other arm stayed stuck, she grinned as she looked at the demon who was holding her in place. "I know something you and your two lackeys don't."

The demon snarled as he threw Scarlet again, this time. He had ripped her leg off, Scarlet crashed through some boulders and trees as she then hit a mountain side. The bigger demon yanked Scarlet's arm out of his chest.

Inside the mountain, Scarlet groaned as she had a sharp piece of rock sticking out through her leg and stomach. She yanked both out as the wounds healed up, she scoffed as she stood up and dusted herself off. "Tsk, I'll kill them all." She grabbed the rock that had her blood coated on it as she ran out of the mountain and towards the snowy forest. Her feet crunched into the snow, the demons heard her coming as they prepared for battle.

"What a foolish choice." The bigger demon said as he cracked his knuckles and popped his neck. "You should've stayed down like a good dog."

Scarlet snarled as she jumped into the air and swung the rock down onto his head. The blood covered end of the rock smashed against his head as it had split open, Scarlet's blood was still wet and damp on the rock, it dripped down into the demon's head. Which like the other demon, started to feel the effects. Scarlet grinned as she left the rock there as she gripped Black Rose with her other hand and swung at the other two, slicing their heads off.

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The sun had started to come up, the three demons were somewhat dead. Scarlet had pinned them against the trees, she panted as she tore her right arm off as it had gone numb. Her arm grew back but it was once again a Grimm arm, she clinched her fist as she glared over at the rising sun.

"You'll burn with us, the sun is the only way to kill us. You've tried to but you've only tired yourself out." The bigger demon mumbled as he couldn't see Scarlet, he had gone blind from her blood inside his head.

Scarlet held her Grimm nail up against his throat as she was still out of breath. "....I'm.... I'm no demon, like you shit stains...." She then turned to look at the other two who had their jaws broken. "I'm much more..."

"What do you mean you're not a demon?" The bigger demon asked as the sun continued to rise up as him and the other two started to burn up.

Scarlet slowly slit his throat as she laughed. "Exactly that, I'm not a demon. I'm not even human as you could probably tell from my blood and my regeneration. In fact, I might just make this a sport. Hunting down your kind and killing them. But to spare you from dying by the sun, I worked up an appetite." She bit down into his neck and tore his flesh off little by little. Eating what she could get before he was burnt alive. "So just like vampires, you can't stand the sun. How pathetic."

Once the sun was fully up, it showed the rest of the surrounding area of the forest. There was a pathway that led out of the snowy forest, not wanting to stick around any longer in the forest. Scarlet followed the path leading out of the forest. There was so much snow and yet no sign of anything else.

"Screw this shit." Scarlet said as she sprouted her Nevermore wings and flew straight into the sky as she glanced around at the ground below for any other areas that were populated with people.

She flew over several empty dirt roads, some had led to destroyed houses and dead ends, and one had led to a village. Scarlet flew down as her Nevermore wings folded as she tore them off, the wings turned into ash as they evaporated. She entered the village as she glanced around at how many people were living there, some stared at her like she was a demon that had come to kill them all. They weren't wrong on the whole her wanting to kill them, but there was another smell of a demon nearby. She couldn't pin point where it was coming from, but it smelt like it was coming from a mile away from where she was at.

The demon that was in fact miles away from where Scarlet was, was none other than the demon king himself, Muzan. He had noticed Scarlet had arrived in the village, using some decoy demons he made. But he watched her slowly walk through the village, he smirked as some of the people near him were simply turned into demons from his blood going into them.

Scarlet stopped by as she picked up a bento box, she glanced around as she saw someone walking towards her. Once they were in perfect view Scarlet snickered as she looked at them. "Ara ara, if it isn't Michael Jackson."

Muzan raised an eyebrow up as he looked at her confused about who she was talking about, either way he ignored what she said as he kept his gaze on her. "I can tell you killed my people, the scouts I sent into the forest to find candidates to become demons for my army. And I must say, you've managed to handle them without having any demon slayer's helping you." He extended his arm out expecting Scarlet to shake his hand. "How about I make you a offer, you become a demon like the rest o us, and I won't have to kill you where you stand."

Scarlet cackled as she closed her eyes. "Me? Work with you? Oh please stop pulling my leg." She stopped laughing as she gave Muzan a death glare. "I don't need any help from any demon or you." She threw the lid off the bento box as she dumped all the food inside onto the ground, she threw the box to the side as she held the chopsticks in her hand. "If you're going to send your demons after me, then by all means... send them, they won't do you any good."

Muzan growled as he turned around and started to walk away. "If that's what you want... then so be it. I should give credit to these humans for putting some trees around their village. It makes it more shady and dark for my kind to be about." Once he walked off, he disappeared into the crowd.

The air suddenly went still, almost as if it was hard to breathe. Scarlet noticed some of the people in the village stopping and turning around to face her, she scoffed as she figured if she was going to be getting anything done. She'd have to kill everyone, to which she didn't mind doing one bit.

Within a blink of an eye, Scarlet dashed through the village as she stabbed the chopsticks in a innocent bystanders eyes and yanked them out. She grinned as she slid both eye balls off the chopsticks and into her mouth, next came the others. The demons who were created by Muzan's blood were using the villagers as shields to mask their scent, but it only seemed to make things worse. Scarlet killed everyone, showing no mercy to any person.

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The whole village was covered in blood, and Scarlet was also covered in blood as well. She reeked of demon blood, her own blood and human blood. She looked like she had jumped off the screen of a horror movie.

She flung her arms to the side as the blood that coated her arms flew off covering some of the buildings in more blood. The Grimm girl walked over to one person as she knelt down and grabbed them by their neck, they seemed to be breathing still. But it wasn't going to last for long, Scarlet ripped their head off and let out a bellowing growl.

"So much for puppets." Scarlet murmured, she noticed a bathhouse as she walked over to it and went inside to clean herself up. Once inside, she had noticed bottles of sake. She grabbed herself three bottles and went to wash the blood off of herself.

She wrapped a towel around herself as she got into the bathwater and grabbed one of the bottles of sake and popped the lid off. She started to chug it down as the blood on her washed off, though she didn't know that there was someone else coming to the village she had just had a blood bath in. Since Scarlet couldn't get drunk from drinking alcohol, she stayed sober the entire time.

"This feels oddly good." Scarlet mumbled as she stayed in the water for a moment, the smell of blood was no longer on her. She grabbed the second bottle of sake and chugged that down with ease.

Outside of the bathhouse Tanjiro had entered the village as he stopped half way seeing all the bloodshed. He put Nezuko's box down as he felt sick to his stomach. The smell was terrible, he wondered if there was a demon attack without his knowing. If there was, he would've been told. He covered his nose as he saw a pair of chopsticks sticking out of someones eye sockets. Necks were snapped and broken, bodies hung from their intestines like decorations. Tanjiro couldn't take it anymore he rushed over to a building and vomited.

"Ho....Holy shit." Tanjiro said as he cleaned his mouth. "These poor people, this is a massacre. Who or what could've done this?" He had no idea that Scarlet was still in the village, he wasn't paying much mind to the bathhouse as he knew Nezuko was sleeping in her box. He glanced over to the box as he put his hand on it. "I don't know if anyone else is here, but I better send a SOS to the others."