Chapter 10: Immortal by night, death by daylight

Scarlet snapped from insanity. She was hearing Salem's ghostly voice in the wind as her mothers voice was an echo and a whisper, she wasn't the only one who had heard her voice. The ginger cat Hero, who was Scarlet's furry companion had also heard Salem's voice. Unfortunately by the time Akaza had shown up to where Scarlet currently was at, the upper class demon had noticed Scarlet was pointing her scythe at him while laughing.

"So... you've finally decided to show yourself?" Scarlet asked with a wide grin on her face. "I'll kill you nice and slowly!" Her crimson red eyes glowed in the night as the village went silent and dark.

Akaza laughed as he looked at Scarlet. "You? You kill me? Please, if anyone is going to kill anyone... it's me, I'm going to be the one who kills you!"

Hero poked his head up from the ramen shop as he saw Akaza but hid as he didn't want to be seen by the demon. "Does she really think she can take Akaza down all by herself?"

The two stood out in the open for a moment as they waited for something to signal for the fight to start. A green leaf flew off from a tree as it slowly came down towards the ground, Scarlet clinched tightly onto Black Rose as she looked at Akaza who didn't have a weapon, of course he didn't need one since he was pretty much good at hand to hand combat.

"You might as well give up, you won't beat me. No one can, Rengoku never stood a chance against me and my mastery of hand to hand combat. Look where that left him? Six feet under!" Akaza said as he watched the leaf fall to the ground. He smirked as he quickly dashed forward towards Scarlet and threw his fist back and punched Scarlet square in the jaw. "Not so tough now are we?"

Scarlet's lower jaw snapped, she stumbled backwards as she glared at Akaza. She used Black Rose to sweep him off his feet, knocking him onto the ground. She then snapped her jaw back into place as she leaped up off the ground and swung her scythe down onto Akaza. She went for a stab directly into his heart.

Akaza blocked the attack with his left hand, even though the tip of Black Rose stabbed through his arm. Akaza managed to knock Scarlet off of him with his other hand and punched her in the gut hard, causing her to spew up blood. Her inky black blood splattered onto Akaza's face and arms as she was sent flying upward, Akaza stood up as he yanked the scythe out of his arm and tossed it aside. "I told you... you'll be dead by my hands."

Scarlet landed on the ground hard as she gasped and gagged, she slowly stood up and cracked her neck and body. She scoffed as she ran at Akaza head on, both her and Akaza bumped heads as they bashed their foreheads against each other. They repeated this action until both of their foreheads started to bleed, blood trickled down their faces. Scarlet and Akaza had their hands locked together tightly, the Grimm girl clinched onto the demons hands so tight, her nails dug into his skin.

Akaza bashed his head against Scarlet's harder this time as he felt her nails digging into his hand, he winched a little as he kneed her in the gut several times trying to get her to loosen up her grip on his hands. Scarlet didn't let go, even though she was getting kneed in the gut repeatedly she kept a firm grip on him. She did however start to knee him back but much more harder than what he was doing, this went on for several hours. Which eventually only gave them both bruises and sores, Scarlet grabbed Black Rose as she sliced Akaza's arms clean off. But that didn't last long as he grew his arms back.

Scarlet hissed and growled as she noticed this, she smirked however as she needed to stall for time and wait for the sun to rise up. She did reach into her jacket pocket and pulled out some ice dust, she tossed it down as the dust exploded near Akaza's feet. Freezing his feet in place, Scarlet had jumped over him as she stabbed her arm through his back which was now sticking out through his front. She knew if she tried to do this when in front of him, Akaza would slice her arms off with his hands. But too was also an immortal being, so she did the next best thing.

Akaza heard ripping and tearing of flesh, Scarlet had tore and ripped her arm off she had stabbed into Akaza's body with. The demon assumed Scarlet was being a fool and wanted to end what time she had left to live, but he was wrong. Scarlet came around to face him as she looked him in the eyes for a moment.

"You're not the only one who can regenerate." Scarlet said as her arm grew back, she stuck her middle finger up in his face as she then noticed the ice was cracking. "Go on, break free. I can do this all day."

Akaza gritted his teeth as he broke the ice from around his feet and kicked Scarlet in her rib cage, her bones shattered and cracked as she was once again sent flying.

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It was still night time, but it also seemed like the sun was taking its sweet time coming up. Akaza noticed as he smirked, he planned on feeling thinking he killed Scarlet after breaking her rib cage. There was no way she could've survived that, he was putting his pride in front of him as it blinded him from the truth.

"It was fun and all, but.. in the end, you're nothing but dead meat." Akaza said as he turned around with his back facing Scarlet, she had crashed into a building as the rubble and debris from it collapsed onto her.

The Grimm girl let out a low bellowing growl, she moved the rubble off of her as she stood up. Her ribs may have been broken, but it didn't stop her from finishing the fight. Her body was covered in scratches and bruises, her right arm was numb and purple. All feeling she had in her arm was gone, something wasn't sitting right with her. What could it be? She didn't want to make any assumptions yet . "Who said you could walk away?" She glared at Akaza as she noticed the sun was slowly coming up. She howled and snarled as she dashed towards the demon.

Akaza quickly turned around and stabbed his hand through Scarlet's chest and raised her up into the air. "It's pointless."

Scarlet coughed up blood as she smirked. "O-Oh yeah?" She grabbed his arm with her free hand as she pulled herself down his arm and got closer to his neck. "We'll just see about that.."

Akaza was puzzled by what she was doing, he didn't know if she wanted a quick death or something else. But by the time Scarlet had pulled herself all the way towards Akaza's neck, she looked at the nape of his neck and leaned her head over. She opened her mouth and it down hard on the nape of his neck and tore the flesh off, she bit her lip causing it to form blood as it trickled out of her mouth and into Akaza's opened wound.

"Merry Christmas you ugly freak..." Scarlet murmured as she pulled herself down Akaza's arm and then bit his ear off and scratched at his face before she slid off his arm. She fell onto the ground as she glanced up at the sky watching the night turn into a fiery blaze, the sun was starting to come up more now.

Akaza glanced down at Scarlet, he raised his foot up and was about to stomp on her face. But once the sun was half way up, the light started to burn at his body. "No, I took too long killing you!"

Scarlet chuckled as she looked at him, she noticed he was trying to find a place to run to. She flipped herself over onto her belly and grabbed Akaza's ankle, causing him to trip and face plant onto the ground. Despite having a gaping hole in her chest, Scarlet had tightened her grip on Akaza's ankle so he wouldn't go anywhere. She dug her feet into the ground to prevent any dragging.

"Get off me!" Akaza barked as he kicked Scarlet in the face with his other foot. "You little shit, let go. We'll both die if you don't!" He needed to return to report his victory to Muzan, but Scarlet wouldn't let that happen. The Grimm girl tightened her grip on his ankle, the sun continued to rise up as it felt like someone was applying not only acid to his body, but it also felt like hydrofluoric acid was being added as well. "It burns!"

Scarlet smirked as she watched his body sizzle and melt, the combination of her blood flowing in Akaza's body and the sun rays shining down on him made it worth a watch. She also knew if she had let go of his ankle, he'd make a run for it and hide. But this was one show that she wanted to watch. "What's wrong? I thought you were this scary demon that killed a Harshira? Or did you just dream all of that?" She was clearly mocking him now, taunting her prey to pass time.

Akaza growled as he kicked Scarlet in the face over and over again trying to make her let go, but it wasn't working. He kept trying, but he ended up getting his foot caught in Scarlet's mouth. The Grimm girl bit down hard on his foot and tore it off, she spat his foot out after. The sun was rising still as Scarlet could feel the heat and warmth of the sun on her body, and not to mention the screaming from Akaza. She glared over at him as she watched his body slowly turn to ash and dust, killing him by daylight.

Hero jumped out of the ramen shop window as he trots over to where Scarlet was laying at. "I must say, that was going longer than I had imagined. But what will you do now?" He looked down at Scarlet as he sat next to her. "You can't do much laying here."

Scarlet slowly stood up as she looked at her numb arm. She then looked down at Hero as she had an idea of what she could do. "Only thing I can do. Have a feast, until I'm back to full health." She glanced at some of the houses in the village. "Wait here. I'll only be a minute." She slowly walked over to one of the houses as she simply walked in, the door was no longer blocked or locked. Inside was a family of five.

Hero was curious on why Scarlet wanted him to wait for her, but once he heard the screaming he knew why. Inside the house, Scarlet was having her feast. She ate and ate, slowly eating the family, she tore their limbs off and slurped them down. She even had a cup of freshly squeezed blood, she chugged it down. Her body was slowly but surely healing after a five course meal, but she still needed more.

Hero watched as Scarlet went from house to house killing and eating every person in the village, leaving it empty. Eventually Scarlet was fully healed and it seemed her regeneration was working again, but at a slow rate. "Are we done here?"

Scarlet glanced ahead as she wondered where exactly Muzan was at, that and she needed to find out where Queen was hiding as well. Queen was somewhere in this world, but tracking her was going to be hard. But she also knew that the Slayer Corps was eventually going to be getting in her way. "Come, we need to get moving... there's someone I need to find before Muzan sends anymore demons after me."

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Hero followed Scarlet as they left the village, the ginger cat was curious as to who Scarlet was looking for and who that voice belonged too. He looked up at her as he figured he'd ask. "Who exactly are you looking for? And that voice we heard who was it?"

Scarlet didn't look at Hero, but instead decided to answer his question while they were leaving the village and moving to another location. "Who I'm looking for, her name is Queen. She's why I'm here, I need to find her and kill her at all costs."

"Queen huh? Must be a really bad person then, and that voice we heard?" Hero asked.

"My mother." Scarlet said as she finally looked down at Hero. "I killed my mother. But I can't seem to get away from her no matter what I do, her voice haunts me. Even if I do lose track of her, it won't help." She didn't hear Salem's voice at the moment, but she knew she'd be hearing from her mother again.

Hero was silent as he didn't say anything right away. "So, I guess you don't have any family members left?"

Scarlet stopped as she looked at Hero again. "My mother was a pest, she needed to die. She wasn't the only family I had, I have a daughter and a wife back home waiting for me for when I return after I kill Queen. And I have two half sisters who are elsewhere, of course they both hate me. Which I don't mind one bit."

Hero stopped as he turned his head to look at Scarlet he tilted his head to the side as he didn't expect Scarlet to say all that. "A kid and a wife? How.... you know what, never mind. I'm not even going to ask how you were able to have a child with another woman." He sat down as he wondered what Scarlet was going to do now.

"Good, I'd rather not answer that question anyway." Scarlet said as she closed her eyes for a moment. "I can smell someone tailing us. Someone that smells very sweet, I'm going to guess it's a Harshira member. Who though? I don't know."

Fae away from Scarlet was Shinobu who was indeed tailing her as she had kept her distance from her, she watched everything she had done. Question was why was she tailing Scarlet?