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Victoria : "Are you finished playing around?"
Exhausted, no energy left in his body, Qrow wiped away the sweat that was dripping from his forehead.
He looked at the thing which stood in front of him, a beautiful, yet terrifying girl. Her beauty could be compared with a goddess.
Her voice contained both a lovely charm, and a roar of arrogance and irritation.
Qrow : "Victoria, stop this. You know I won't return to Vincent."
Vincent, that was a name which has been mentioned quite a lot, but who was this individual?
Victoria : "Stop wasting your—"
Qrow : "Why don't you realize what you're doing? You're following Vincent's orders, you're not helping Jens in any kind of way. The only one right here who is helping Jens is me, not you."
Victoria : "Vincent gave us a place in this world. He gave us a duty, and I will not disobey. I am the one leading the Junior Wards, and I'll show them discipline. They got to know what we're up against Qrow."
Qrow : "There is no 'we'. We do not work together, not anymore. You're signing children up for a war which isn't even worse, and the worst… It's unwinnable."
Victoria : "You can't manipulate me like Tattletale, Raven or Weiss—"
Qrow : "I am not manipulating you, I'm confronting you with facts. Even though I would love to have my niece back, staying away from Jens is the safest we can do."
Victoria : "But then the–"
Qrow : "There is no beating the Washuu King! Fucking listen to me!"
The tone of his voice changed. It didn't even sound convincing at all to Victoria, it felt more like the voice was filled with Sorrow and Despair.
Victoria : "You're wrong. We've protected our Kingdom against Medusa and against the Leviathan for three times now. Of course, we lost those we kept dear, but that doesn't mean that Victory against someone like the Washuu King is impossible, you're a fool that you don't understand that."
Qrow : "No… I'm not the Fool. I chose the right path, you could've chosen the path which Jens desired you to choose, but instead, you chose to be a Fool."
Victoria bit her teeth.
Victoria : "I'm not convinced. If you want me to believe something foolish like that, you should come with better—"
Qrow : "Then what about Leo… Do you think his death was something like Justice?"
Victoria narrowed her eyes.
Qrow : "His own son killed him. He turned into a monster, just for power."
Victoria : "Look who's talking."
Hearing this, Qrow dashes with his last bit of energy forward towards Victoria. He grabs his great sword and aims for her head. Victoria aimed the palm of her right hand towards Qrow and released a barrage of Icicle arrows.
Dashing to the side, Qrow dodged the Water Magic and ducked. He was fast, really fast, even with only having a fatal amount of Aura. Victoria could barely react to his movements, and before she knew, Qrow swung his sword and aimed for her legs but—
"CLINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG"
The sound of metal and metal colliding each other flowed trough both of their ears. He had a solid hit on her, but it was protected by some kind of…
Forcefield.
Victoria swung her hand and made it rain icicle arrows, but Qrow jumped back, dodging every single arrow.
He was at the very least a few meters away from her, and that's when he realized her power.
Qrow : "Semblance of Force Manipulation. I see, you use natural forces, electricity, gravity, magnetic power, am I right?
Victoria grinned.
Victoria : "You sure look dumber than you are. Perhaps, yes, you're right."
Qrow : "I see. So you got a Force Field, continuously around your skin, that's problematic–"
Victoria swings her hand, trying to create and fire an icicle barrage towards Qrow, but right when she released the attack, Qrow ducked and aimed for her legs. Nothing left to protect her, as Victoria wasn't that fast with her reaction time, Qrow swung his swords trying to cut her legs off. But again, it had no effect and dashed back.
Victoria : "I'm Invincible Qrow. You can't beat me."
Invincibility, something similar to Regulus Corneas' authority. A mysterious power, which is able to be ignored if you know the key to the truth. However, there wasn't any kind of clue of what her power was. No story behind it, tale, legend or myth. It was her Semblance which allowed her to neglect such a power attack.
Qrow : "Invincibility heh? Sounds interesting to me. Every power has a weakness, and so has yours, I'm sure."
Victoria : "There's still a choice for you, return to us, and obey."
Qrow : "Fuck no, I'm on my own, Glory Hole."
Victoria bit her own teeth as hard as she could, possibly that strong that her teeth could break, but thanks to her powers, that was impossible.
Qrow dashed forward again. He transformed his great sword into a shotgun and started shooting at her. Into her face, heart, limbs, nothing made her move an inch. She didn't even blink.
Now that he was close enough to hit her, Qrow transformed his shotgun into a scythe, and tried to cut her head off, however he got pushed back by some incredibly powerful force. An invisible, powerful force pushed Qrow at least ten meters back.
The force was so powerful that Qrow started to cough blood, and wiped it away with his hands.
Victoria : "You aren't learning. Don't you see what is going on in this world? The Washuu King has awoken, and is in action. If we don't stop him together, there won't be any, beautiful yet cruel world for us to live in! Why don't you understand that?! You, psychotic maniac!"
Qrow grinned. It wasn't a smile, but Victoria recognized that expression.
Victoria : "What's so funny?"
Qrow : "Beautiful yet Cruel… That's a nice description. Whatever the fuck you think, I won't be brainwashed by Vincent anymore."
Victoria : "It's not about Vincent, we're The Wardens! We exist to protect Jens! That's why we were born, raised, and created! All to protect him!"
Qrow : "Then why don't you understand that all that you're doing, isn't making Jens feel safer? You're supporting Vincent, not Jens."
Victoria : "Shut… The fuck… Up!"
Qrow : "I won't obey his sick, cruel designs. Don't you understand? He's ordering children, to fight in this impossible war. You all will die in vain. There is no beating Washuu."
Victoria : "You're a liar. Vincent gave us so much. He gave us a place in this world–"
Qrow : "Shut up. Listen, you're the Head Warden, right?"
Victoria nodded, she was too pissed off to actually say something.
Qrow : "Have you no shame? Signing them up for Vincent's war? Train them, become friends them, teaching them to fight what they can't beat. This isn't just Vincent, but also your sins will be what they'll pay for. You sacrifice people, children, all just for Vincent?"
Victoria : "I had enough to be honest. It's time for you to be taken back to where you belong."
Qrow : "NEVER!"
Qrow grabbed his sword and transformed it into a shotgun. He aimed for the ground under legs so the ground would make her lose balance, which is what happened exactly.
Qrow shot the ground, Victoria lost balance, and that's when he dashed towards her, he transformed his weapon into the scythe form and tried to break trough her forcefield, but right before he could hit it, Victoria created a forcefield at her left, and protected herself entirely.
Then, she pointed her hand towards him, and released a growing, sphere, force field around her. It pushed Qrow back a few meters.
Victoria : "Prepare for Redemption."
Unexpected. This wasn't able to be predicted.
Victoria used the force field which surrounded her skin to fly. She suddenly floated in the air, few meters in the sky and flied right towards Qrow.
Qrow knew that the impact of her fist would break his jaw, or even kill him, and decided to disengage.
He jumped into a valley and landed perfectly on his feet. He kept running and running until he was at a bridge.
He looked behind him quickly, and saw Victoria flying towards him with very fast speed. So, he decided to jump off the bridge into the water.
Just before Qrow would hit the water, he grabbed his weapon and released Water Mana out of his weapon, and so, the Water became solid, ice.
He landed perfectly, and started running again. However, ice wasn't the best kind of surface to run on, it slowed him down a bit.
Victoria started casting Fire magic and released it, aiming for Qrow. Qrow used the shotgun to launch himself into the air, and dodged the fireball. He then dived into the water and tried to find some kind of sewer to hide in, because he knew, he stood no chance against her.
The water was clear, but it was dark, dark outside. It was very hard to see anything, and so, he grabbed a Yang Mana Stone, shattered it with his hand, and created light.
He noticed a sewer tube to his left, and entered it. He knew that he couldn't keep his breath for too long, so he swum as fast as he could.
He kept swimming, swimming, and swimming, until he saw the moon reflected on the surface of the water, he found a way out of the sewer and jumped out of it.
He realized that he wasn't too far away from his original location where the fight started, but this was far enough.
He looked around him, in the water pit, and there was no trace of Victoria, until he felt a breeze of wind behind him. There was bearly any wind, so he knew, something was approaching him, and he dashed to the left.
How lucky he was, was indescribable. He actually dodged a powerful punch of Glory Girl, who was still chasing him. He grabbed her leg and threw her right through a stone wall of a building and ran away, again.
But then, another woman appeared.
Qrow : "For… fuck sake."
Victoria was in the ruins of a building, but a new opponent stood in front of him.
She wears a cute costume, and has pink, brown, and white hair. Her eyes differ from each other, she was unique. But he knew that he saw her before.
Qrow : "Neo."
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She didn't say anything. But she nodded.
She ran towards Qrow. The first thing he did, was trying to punch her, however she grabbed his muscular arm and used it to send herself flying into the air and kicked him right at the chin.
This woman, girl, whatever, was acrobatic.
Her kick was powerful, Qrow almost lost balance and fell, but as he fell, he used his shotgun to launch himself back on his feet.
He used the shotgun and aimed at her. But she grabbed her umbrella, and swung with it, and actually changed the course of the bullet. This woman was extraordinarily.
Qrow : "Why is the Blood Cloud working with the Wardens?! This is wrong! No!"
Qrow ran towards Neo and kicked her into the air, but she used the umbrella to fall to the ground slowly, and as she fell, she landed on his shoulders and tried to break his arm by spinning it, which didn't work, as Qrow grabbed her arms and threw her towards the same ruin where Glory Girl was lying.
As she was sent flying, she used the umbrella to not break her back by landing on something hard, and landed on her feet successfully. Right then, she stepped aside, trying to show something.
Qrow looked, and he realized, that Victoria was gone.
Qro : "What the—-"
Suddenly, Qrow feels something piercing trough his shoulder, it was a lightning bolt.
It wasn't even raining, stormy, there was barely a breeze outside. But thanks to the energy that the two of them released in the battle, Victoria was able to manifest electricity and pierced right trough his shoulder. She appeared behind him. Her power was able to manipulate space too, it seems.
Qrow lost consciousness and started bleeding even more. Out of his mouth came a fuck ton of blood, and his shoulder back a red river of blood.
Victoria : "I'm sorry, former associate Warrior, Qrow Brawen, but there is no redemption left for you. Good work Neo."
Neo smiled and winked.
Victoria walked towards the nearly dead Qrow to bring him back to 'Vincent'. Until she received a telepathic call.
??? : "Glory Girl, what sector are you at?"
Victoria : "Dragon Kingdom, West, Water Gate City Priestella, who is this?"
As telepathic calls were only accessible through the Wardens, she wasn't afraid to tell her current location.
It was the voice of a woman, it was a powerful, and steady voice.
Alexandria : "Alexandria here. How is the target?"
Victoria : "I just dealt with him. Pathetic. He's nearly dead, I'll bring him back to the headquarters of the Wardens. Why the call, if I may ask?"
Alexandria : "Legend is down. He isn't dead, but he's nearly dead. He's very, very close to Jens, and he possibly fought against the Washuu King."
Victoria : "Legend?!"
Legend, that was the name of the Leader of The Wardens.
Victoria : "Is the Washuu King still in the area?"
Alexandria : "We do not have that information. Legend is safe, for now. You've to bring Qrow to us and meet Jens as soon as possible."
Victoria : "Miss, I don't understand. What is going on?"
Alexandria : "The Barrier of The Sanctuary is collapsing. Jens will be doing the Trials, I'm confident about that. But if the Washuu King takes them too, the Barrier might disappear permanently."
Victoria : "Understood. I'll head as fast as possible back to the Head Quarters and will meet you—"
Suddenly, a dark, red kind of light appears in front of Victoria.
Victoria : "I'm sorry, it has to be delayed. It seems Qrow has company."
The dark, red light forms a portal and out of the portal, appears a woman. Black hair, red uniform. Huge blade. It was unable to be mistaken, this was Raven Branwen.
Raven : "Glory Girl."
Victoria : "Raven."
Hearing this, Alexandria responds.
Alexandria : "ABORT ABORT! DISENGAGE VICTORIA, I'M TELLING YOU, DISENGAGE. THAT WOMAN IS DANGEROUS!"
Victoria ignores this, and keeps staring at Raven Branwen, who stood only a few meters away from her.
Alexandria : "DO NOT DISOBEY, LISTEN TO MY ORDERS–"
Raven : "It seems you put my younger brother in a very, very sorry state. Are you happy with this?"
Victoria : "It seems you've been scheming, Raven. Co-operating with the Washuu King?"
Raven : "That was a mistake. I did not know that. You know that I'm the last person that would want to hurt Jens. In contrast to my brother, I actually care about him."
Victoria : "In contrast to your brother, you don't care about your family. So why are you here?"
Raven : "Oh please, can't a sister just help out her younger brother?"
No response.
Raven sighs and claps her hands, suddenly another individual comes out of the portal.
Neo looks at the two of them, with anger in her eyes.
She is a young woman with tan-colored skin, short brown hair and icy blue eyes. She has a tattoo of a bird rising from flowers on her left arm. She wears a brown vest over a torn white shirt, with a collar that appears to spike up behind her neck. Vernal wears maroon-colored pants with the right side rolled up to her thigh. She also wears dark brown knee guards that go down to her brown boots.
Victoria : "Oh… Look who we have here… The long… Long lost… Spring Maiden."
Raven : "Vernal… Deal with them. I'll bring my brother back to safety."