Ch:20 Massacre

Winter's mind raced as chaos unfolded all around her, she could feel the blood and body parts of the fleeing executives fly by her in the dark, the only visible que as to where the attacker was located was the flashes of electricity flying about.

Suddenly all the sounds of chaos went quiet apart from a deranged giggling coming from in front of her. The giggling stopped as Maru let out a sigh. "Ah that was fun."

Just after she said this the backup generators for the building finally kicked in illuminating the gruesome scene around them.

Maru's once white hair, not dissimilar to Winters own was now splotched a deep red, the same red was plastered around the walls along with the dismembered bodies of a dozen or so executives, in her hand she held the severed head of Sinclair, he held an expression of fear even in death.

Maru's lips grew into a twisted grin as she looked down towards the mass at her feet, Jacques Schnee had never looked more undignified, during all the chaos he had

been trampled and stomped on, his once pristine suit now a tattered mess, his expression showed a mix of horror and disbelief.

Winter could hardly believe the brutality of the attack, and she found herself momentarily frozen in shock. Maru, seemingly unfazed, tossed Sinclair's head aside and looked at Jacques with a wicked glint in her eyes.

"Well, Frosty, what do you think? Quite the masterpiece, isn't it?" Maru's voice carried a hint of madness, sending shivers down the two Schnees spines.

Jacques started backing up, crawling on all fours. "Y-you-you monster!" He yelled, fear lacing every word.

"Aww, but I did all this for you and you don't even appreciate it." Maru said, putting on a mock pout.

Jacques continued to back up but as he was doing so Maru was slowly taking steps forward to close the distance he was making.

Jacques let out an undignified squawk as Maru took an extra step closer. "S-stop right there!" Jacques practically screeched, Maru followed the command with an amused smirk.

Maru's smirk grew as her attention slid from Jacques to Winter. " Ah if it isn't the one and only Winter Schnee."

The way the Faunus said her name sent shivers down her spine, even though this Winter tried to appear dignified and unaffected but the amused smirk on Maru's face told her it didn't work. "What is the meaning of this madness, why bring innocent people into this." Winter gestured to the bodies strewn around them.

Maru's expression turned confused as she looked at the heiress like she had grown a second head, moments later it turned amused as she started laughing. "Wait, wait, wait, you think these fuckers were innocent!" Winter flinched at the volume of Maru's voice.

Maru's amused smirk only grew as she walked over to the body of Craven, she picked up the large man's body as if it was nothing, only showing a slight grimace of disgust as she flicked a bit of flesh that fell onto her hand.

Throwing him down in front of the two Schnees, Maru smirked towards Winter. "So this fat fuck was innocent, is he? Well let me tell you something, there once was a little fox girl no older than twelve she was forced to go work in a mine for the big bad snow man after her mother died because of some stupid fucking illness that appeared out of nowhere, nevertheless not one week into working in said mine she accidentally got some dirt on the directors shoe and you wanna what the punishment for such an abhorrent crime as that." Maru pulled down the collar of her shirt and turned her head to the left showing off the right side of her neck and the scarred skin that was there. "The punishment was to get fucking branded like an animal and why is that, because she has and extra set of ears? Because she was the daughter of a traitor? No it was because this fucker went on a power trip against someone who had no other choice but to take it or be hunt down and slaughtered just because I dared to defend myself!"

Maru was almost screaming by the end of the rant, so she took a few seconds to calm herself. "You know, I wasn't even the worst of it people used to just disappear, it was an almost daily occurrence, of course even back then I knew what that meant but I couldn't do shit, I was too young and may have know how to fight but I needed a way to be able to at least feed myself, so I waited and worked tirelessly to save up some of what little they did pay us and was going to leave by my eighteenth birthday but then I got a chance to be able achieve my goals and use the skills my father ingrained in me and I ended up making frien-." Maru paused for a few seconds then smiled warmly. "Family, I found a family, that I care about and will do anything for and to be honest I don't really care about this shit anymore but the people I care about do, don't get me wrong I thoroughly enjoyed putting a bullet in this fuckers brain and i'll enjoy cutting the snowman's head off but I have more I need to care about and to be frank this is one of the lower things on my long list for revenge."

Winter stood there in silence listening to talk about her reasoning for the violence all around her and she was sick to her stomach, she knew it was bad in those camps but this was worse then she suspected and if her father knew about any of these things and even endorsed it he has a lot to answer to but this is no justification for this slaughter, she had seen some pictures of the scenes that this woman leaves behind the absolute absurd body counts and the ruthlessness of it all, nothing within this situation sat well with her.

The Faunus in front of her cut her thoughts off. "Oh well not like it matters if you're both gonna die right now anyway, feel somewhat sorry for you Winter for having to be related to this bastard but oh well." And with Maru continued her advance towards Jacques snapping out of her stupor and forcing her to use her semblance to block the slice that was dangerously close from taking her fathers head off.

Maru scowled and turned her head towards Winter. "Feeling slightly less sorry now guess your fir-." Very quickly a loud noise cut off the Faunus drawing her eyes to its source, only to see a blazing inferno quickly making its way towards her. She could only get out a quick. "What the fu-?" Before being entirely consumed by the flames.

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A/N I'm alive!! I know it's a miracle, anyway jokes aside im sorry it took so long to get this chapter out I've been kinda busy as of late and it's been hard to write and writers block is a bitch, anyway the new schedule that ima aim for is every second Sunday at the least and as always if you have any questions or suggestions they are always welcome and thanks for sticking this long wait out hopefully you enjoyed thx:)