Candice cradled Giselle's dead body in her arms. She glanced around, fuming with anger. She scanned her surroundings to see if anyone would be stupid enough to appear, not just any one. But the killer who had brutally murdered Giselle. "I swear, whoever did this is going to pay tenfold."
Scarlet who stayed hidden in the shadows, watched as Candice did this with Giselle's dead body. A sly smirk playing at her lips, chuckled darkly with a hint of amusement in her laugh. Her crimson red eyes stared at Candice from the shadows, her eyes twinkling with murder and hunger. She debated whether or not she should step out or keep watching, oh if only she had popcorn right now. This would be a good show to watch, but she shook her head.
The air was full of electricity, the thunder sparked around Candice as it crackled. Slowly, Candice stood up as she set Giselle's body down. Her face, full of sorrow and anger. She clenched both of her fists tightly, her white gloves stained in blood. Then she heard it, a thump. Turning around quickly, she scanned around carefully, putting some distance between her and the empty space ahead of her. "Show yourself coward." She took a slow step forward, her green hair blowing in the wind as the thunder sparked around her. "Come on out, show yourself. Face me!"
Scarlet moved quickly and swiftly through the shadows, each movement she made. Caused Candice to spin around, quickly getting her bow from the heart shaped container on the side of her belt. the arrows she has for her bow, have tips shaped as lightning bolts. She fires a few of them at the shadows. "Stop hiding you coward!"
Scarlet snickered as she stopped. "I'm a coward? Oh on the contrary my delicious treat. I'm not the one who is fueled by anger. Your anger only blinds you, so be careful what you wish for. Because, your wishes...." She paused for a moment as she walked forward. "Your nightmares may be the last thing you bare witness to, before you die."
Candice didn't flinch or even step back, her eyes flashed with anger. "You did this, you killed her."
Scarlet shrugged as she acted innocent . "Mayhaps, but no one can say for sure if I did or didn't. For all we know, a Shinigami could've done that to her."
Candice was fuming with anger, Scarlet could imagine seeing the Quincy's face turning red with anger and smoke coming out of her ears. "There is no fuckin way she would let herself be overpowered by a Shinigami, we are Quincy's and we are stronger than those Soul Reapers." She took one step forward as she raised the bow up. The arrow aimed at Scarlet's forehead. "So you are either lying through your teeth about this. Or you're playing coy."
"Me? Play coy? Why I'd never." Scarlet spoke with a toothy grin on her face. "I may be a lot of things, but I would never be coy." She pressed her forehead against the tip of the arrow. "Go ahead, do it. Shoot me, you know you want to. But your anger is blinding your vision, you don't want it to be a quick death. You want to take things slow."
Candice gritted her teeth, she knew Scarlet was right. She wanted to watch Scarlet die slowly and painfully. She scoffed and lowered her bow, taking a step back. Candice eyed the Grimm girl. "I will get vengeance for Giselle."
Scarlet chuckled as she watched Candice step back. "Aw, how sweet. It makes me want to vomit." She slowly stepped towards the Quincy, spinning her scythe around her. "Let's dance cupcake. You, me. Until death takes one of us. But I should tell you, it won't be me."
~~~
Candice roared with anger as she charged towards Scarlet, blinded by her own rage and anger, like a certain blonde bimbo from Remnant. She was quick on her feet almost as quick as Ruby. Scarlet smirked as she blocked the Quincy's attacks, jumping back a few feet from Candice's flying barrage of punches. The Grimm girl swung her scythe, the the tip of Black Rose sliced opened Candice's uniform.
"Oops, looks like I missed." Scarlet spoke with a toothy grin on her face. "I should've gone for the head."
Candice growled as she quick stepped towards Scarlet, and vanished before her eyes. Scarlet glanced around as she sniffed the air. With a chuckle, Scarlet reached up as her hand came into contact with the Quincy's throat.
"If you're trying to impress me by sneaking up from above....You're sadly mistaken." Scarlet purred as she tightened her grip on her neck. Candice gagged and she kicked and struggled. The Grimm girl snickered as she slammed Candice down onto the ground hard. Scarlet slammed her foot onto Candice's stomach as she twisted her heel into the bare skin. Candice cried out in pain as she winched, she glanced up at Scarlet and grabbed hold of her foot.
"Y-You'll have to do better...better than that." Candice spoke with a small chuckle, her grip on Scarlet's foot tightened as her hands began to glow a neon blue. "Let's see how well you'll do with a good shock!" Right as Candice ignited the lightning from her hands, Scarlet's body began to get a all staticky as she burst into a neon blue of lightning, Candice threw Scarlet back as she rolled out from under her. Quickly getting to her feet, Candice's hands sparked with the neon blue lightning. "Now then, prepare to taste my wrath!" She slashed the lightning at Scarlet as the neon blue light engulfed her, then Candice threw the bolts of lightning down upon Scarlet. Not giving her a chance to realize what was happening. Candice wasn't holding back, she then threw her hand down as she grins widely. A massive bolt of lightning came striking down on top of Scarlet, lighting up the entire area in a neon blue.
The light show faded as smoke and steam came off of Scarlet and around her, she looked burnt to a crisp. her body had opened wounds that looked like third degree burns. Candice laughed seeing her stand there motionless, to her it felt like this was a victory, her vengeance for what Scarlet had done to Giselle.
The air crackled as the stray static of electricity and lightning were still fresh in the air, small sparks hit the ground before vanishing. The now, burnt and charred Grimm girl, stood there motionless, her charred skin smelt of death and decay. Cracks formed on her blackened skin, Candice laughed as she took a step forward, she glanced around as she reached over to a dead Shinigami and yanked their zanpakuto from their cold dead hands. Raising the sword over head, Candice spoke. "This is goodbye, you freak!"
With a quick swing. Candice swung the zanpakuto down Scarlet's body, splitting her in two. Both halves fell separately from each other, Candice triumphant. Laughed loudly as she kicked Scarlet's body, a twisted grin morphed on her face. "Not so tough now huh? I can't see how or why Giselle had trouble with you! You're weak. Just like the rest of these bastard Soul Reapers!" She raised her boot up and stomped her foot down onto Scarlet's head, crushing it under her foot. Scarlet's blood splattered over Candice's white boot and the ground as her other half was pooling out in blood. The Quincy turned away from Scarlet and began to take her leave. "Now to find the others and make them pay dearly."
"Going somewhere?" Scarlet spoke, her voice cold and dark. Candice stopped in her tracks, a cold sweat ran down her face. She slowly turned around seeing Scarlet's body repair itself. "Didn't think so...you act tough, you think you've won. You don't bother to finish the job, these Shinigami were weak yes. Because compared to you, they weren't in the heights rank among the Reapers." Once her body had fixed itself and she was fully healed, the charred skin fell off her like a blanket.
Candice stepped back, watching as Scarlet slowly stood up. "Impossible, you should be dead! There's no way you can..."
"Survive that onslaught? Live through being struck down by lightning?" Scarlet asked. "Be split in two and live?" Yes she may have had her aura shattered from that attack. But it didn't stop her, her aura flickered. She was weak, but she had enough strength to walk, to stand and speak. "Let me tell you something sweet cheeks." She stopped inches away from Candice. "I'm not like the rest of them. I'm not from this world, I'm from another. A world full of monsters, magic, humans and demi-humans. You see, there's a difference between you and I. You can die easily, whereas I....I can live on through a gruesome and brutal beating, and I'm still up to my feet."
"No! I won't accept this as my defeat!" Candice shouted, she rammed the blade of the zanpakuto through Scarlet's body, igniting it with lightning. Sending a shock through the sword and into Scarlet's body once more, sure Scarlet's body spasmed. But the Grimm girl reached outward as her hands grabbed Candice by the arms, her Grimm strength holding the Quincy's arms before tearing them out of their sockets.
Candice cried out in pain, her blood spraying all over the place. "What the hell are you?!" She felt woozy and dizzy. Her blood spraying from her arm sockets. "Just what the hell are you?!"
Scarlet tossed Candice's arms to the side as she pulled the zanpakuto from her torso. "I'm your nightmare." She tossed the sword aside, a evil and dark grin played at her lips. "And I can end your miserable life right here, right now." She rushed forward and slammed her foot into Candice's left kneecap, breaking her knee as her leg snapped. A sickening crunch filled both of their ears. Candice cried, her face getting paler and paler by the minute. Scarlet cupped her chin as she forced her to look at her. "Don't pass out on me yet, the fun is just starting!"
Candice whimpered, her left leg was broken. She watched with wide eyes as Scarlet grabbed one of her arms off the ground. "No please....have mercy! Please..." She begged for her life, but she shook in horror as Scarlet slurped her arm up like it was nothing, swallowing Candice's arm whole. "You're a monster...."
Scarlet chuckled as she grabbed Candice's other arm, slowly walking towards the Quincy. "I promised Giselle I'd kill her with her how body parts, but here I can do it with you." She grinned widely as Candice went to go for a scream, Scarlet stuffed Candice's own arm into her mouth. Shoving it in. Then Scarlet forced Candice to chew, working her jaw to bite through her own arm. "Oh come now, if I can do. So can you." She purred as she kicked Candice down onto her back. Scarlet sat down on Candice, pinning her down to the ground.
Candice gagged and cried, her screaming was muffled as she felt Scarlet sit on her. She felt like puking, the taste of her own blood from her arm in her mouth, it made her sick. Then she heard something popping, she glanced down. Her eyes widened in terror as Scarlet ripped both of her legs off, the broken one and the non-broken one. Blood pooled from where her legs once were, Candice cried as tears filled her eyes.
"Oh hush now, the fun is just getting started." Scarlet purred as she leaned over and licked her lips. "I'm going to watch you suffer, and then when you can't take the pain anymore." She opened her mouth wide, then snapped her jaw shut. "I'm going to devour you."
Candice screamed, her scream still muffled as she cried and struggled to break free, but Scarlet's Grimm strength was too much for her, she couldn't even budge her off. Scarlet took a deep inhale, the smell of Candice's blood and the fear filled her nose, the Grimm girl snickered as she leaned closer to the Quincy, her tongue ran a long her neck.
"Your fear tastes so delicious." Scarlet spoke with a low growl in her voice.
~~~
Elsewhere, which is far from where Bambietta's dead body was. Two more Quincy's appeared within the area. Liltotto and Meninas, both girls stood there looking at the damage and the corpse. Liltotto, poked Bambietta's body as she lightly scoffed under her breath.
"This bitch is dead already? Damn, and here I was hoping she'd survive." Liltotto spoke, she kicked Bambietta's head. she turned her gaze to Meninas. "Whoever or whatever did this to her, likely isn't far."
Meninas walked around the area as she took in the sight before them. "Maybe Giselle hasn't gotten here yet?"
"Nah, she has." Liltotto spoke. "Bambietta's skin isn't its normal color. Which means, either two things." She walked over to where Meninas was at. "One, Giselle only came to revive Bambietta, or two..."
"Or two." Meninas spoke. "Giselle was killed also? I don't know, I'm not seeing much of a struggle anywhere."
Liltotto rubbed the back of her head and groaned. "You may not see anything now, but my gut tells me we should go deeper, we may find out just what did this to the bitch." She walked past Meninas. "Just stay on your toes..."
"Aye aye." Meninas spoke saluting.
As the two Qunicy's continued onward, they both kept their eyes peeled. Then the smell of blood filled their nose, they were getting closer to the source of the smell. Unaware of what was happening, little did they know. Scarlet had already picked up their scent, Scarlet chuckled softly as she looked down at Candice.
"It seems two of your comrades are coming this way." Scarlet spoke with a grin on her face. "I can't wait to see the looks on their faces when they see what I'm going to do to you." She got up off of Candice and laughed darkly. "Shall we give them a show they won't forget?"
Candice cried as she rolled over onto her belly, she puked as her arm came out of her mouth. "You can't do this, we are Quincy's. We are stronger than you!" She screamed as she started to crawl away, despite her losing blood. She still had some fight left in her, but her scream did draw Liltotto and Meninas to her location.
"Strong is such a harsh word." Scarlet spoke walking towards Candice. "You say your kind is strong, but why not be part of something far greater?" She grabbed Candice's leg and dragged her towards her.
Candice yelps as she tries to claw at the ground. "No, no! Let me go you freak!" She cried out as she continued to claw at the ground, but she wasn't able to grab onto anything. "No!"
Scarlet shivered, the fear from Candice sent a shiver through her body. The thrill of being fueled on fear and the negative emotions was what made things more fun. "Shh... hush now my delicious morsel." She yanked her towards her, lifting her from the ground and slamming her back down. "I want to enjoy this."
Candice's hat flew off her head as she cried out in pain and coughed up blood, she felt her rib cage break as she gasped for air. The Grimm girl smirked as her crimson red eyes glowed with murder and hunger, Scarlet knew she'd get caught by the two Quincy's coming their way. But they would be too late. But she then sensed something, she turned around as she saw a long stretched out mouth hovering over her.
"Ara Ara, it seems like the back up has arrived." She spoke more to herself than to Candice, she glanced around as she saw Meninas step out from the shadows. "Ara, it seems I've gotten myself in a tight situation here....of course that's what I would say if I hadn't already prepared myself for this."
"Let go of Candice you bitch." Liltotto's stretched out mouth spoke as she stood off to the side.
Scarlet snickered, she was tempted to do just that but didn't. "Or what? You'll talk my ear off?"
Candice chuckled weakly as she looked at Scarlet. "Worse....you thought....you were the freak who eats people....say hello to....to the gluttony of our group....Liltotto..."
Scarlet's face morphed into a sadistic grin. "You know, I know someone named Gluttony...but he tried to eat me, as you can tell...it didn't work." The Grimm girl watched as Liltotto's stretched out mouth opened, showing razor sharp teeth. "My, what big teeth you have."
"Meninas, get Candice and..." Liltotto spoke as everything came to a stop.
Scarlet used her semblance to stop time, she chuckled as she grabbed Candice and dragged her to a corner away from the two, she held her hostage. Her sharp fingernails were held up against her neck, Scarlet blinked as time resumed. "I'll rip her head off with ease, don't think I won't."
Meninas glanced to where Scarlet was at now. "How in the?"
Scarlet smirked as she watched Liltotto's stretched out mouth return to where her body was standing, the Quincy slowly approached the area. Scarlet's nails digging into Candice's neck, the crimson blood in her neck began to swell and run down her neck.
"Go ahead, kill that bitch. We don't care what happens to our comrades, we don't grief over what we lose in our ranks." Liltotto spoke. "As long as that means me and Meninas get our turn to settle the score with you."
Scarlet laughed loudly as she spoke. "You hear that Candice, I'm given the green light to do as I please. How cruel, your friends don't care." She laughed again as she removed her finger nails from her neck. "Well then."
Candice's face paled in horror, she knew what was going to come next. "No please, wait...Liltotto, you have no idea what you've just done!"
Scarlet's jaw unhinged wide like a snake. She stuffed Candice's head into her mouth as she started to swallow her right in front of Liltotto and Meninas. The Grimm girl continued to gulp and swallow the Quincy as the last bit of her vanished past her lips, Liltotto was both unamused and unpleased, but Meninas was speechless at the sight that was witnessed.
"Now then." Scarlet spoke with a twisted grin on her face. "Let us begin in our little....life or death battle~"