Scarlet smirks as she laughed. "Fufu... so you've noticed that I haven't used all my strength, I must say.... you've very smart Queen." She had a creepy grin on her face as she glared at Queen. "But you've messed with the wrong family."
Queen scoffed as she pointed her musket at Scarlet. "You're all bark and no bite. Rumors spread across the entire universe, calling you a legend. Someone that should be feared and not messed with. Clearly the rumors were a bunch of lies." She grinned as she pulled the trigger and shot at Scarlet.
Scarlet dodged out of the way as she grabbed Marigold and protected her from any stray shots. "Tch." She stopped time with her semblance as she then moved over to the gaping hole in the wall and placed Marigold there. She blinks as time resumed, her eyes gazed at her daughter before she turned around and looked at Queen. "Marigold, I want you to go find Kurumi, stay with her. Queen and I have a little dance to settle." She gripped Black Rose tightly as she dashed towards Queen.
"But.." Marigold said as she saw Scarlet dash towards Queen. "...I want to cheer you on..." She looked down as she did as she was told and walked out of Queen's chambers. "I want to help... but I'm useless..."
Queen cackled as she shot and swung her sword at Scarlet. "Saving your own flesh and blood! Pathetic, if you hadn't interfered with my plan she would've been my puppet." She took another swing at Scarlet as she cuts a bit of her hair off.
Scarlet snarled as she spun around while swinging Black Rose around, she had sliced and cut into Queen several times. Which caused her to fall to her knees, she glared at Scarlet with anger in her eyes.
"Give up, you can't beat me." Scarlet spoke as she was about to stab Queen through the head.
Queen was quicker as she stabbed her sword through Scarlet's leg, she got up to her feet as she round house kicked her in the face knocking her back. "I'm way quicker Scarlet, you should've finished me when you had the chance."
Scarlet spun through the air as she crashed into the other wall, small chucks of the wall fell to the floor, Queen approached Scarlet as she snickered. "Poor poor Scarlet, I had high hopes for the battle.. but you proved to me that even legends fail."
Queen drew power from her angel as she grinned widely. "Scorpio bullet. Akrab!" She pointed her musket at Scarlet. "You'll be a pawn in my game of chess now... I'll use you to kill your family." She laughed as she pulled the trigger. "You're mine now Scarlet. You will do whatever I say, now look at me."
Scarlet hid a smirk as she moved her head up slowly. "Yes my mistress, I will obey your every command."
~~~
Mairgold was running around looking for Kurumi, she panted as she was looking everywhere for her. "Mama?' She stopped to catch her breath. "Mama?!"
There was gun fire coming from the school as Marigold spun around and saw Kurumi running down the hallway shooting at Isami, Marigold rushed over to help her but screaming came from Queen's chambers. The child stopped as she almost tripped over her own feet. "Mommy!"
Kurumi came crashing through the window as she rolled and stumbled onto the ground, she got up to her feet as she saw Isami jump through. "Give up already!"
Isami smirked as she wasn't listening to what Kurumi had to say, she noticed Marigold as she titled her head. "Hey, you're the brat who best Doll Master."
Nightmare raises an eyebrow up as she turned her head and saw her daughter. "Marigold? Where's Scarlet?"
Marigold pointed to where she had came from the direction Queen's chambers were at. "Over there, she told me to come to you... but I heard screaming."
"Tch, she's only toying with her." Kurumi scoffed as she knew very well how Queen loved to play with her prey. "Hurry back to her. I'll handle things here."
Marigold blinked as she was wondering why she was told to stay with Kurumi but now have to be told to go back to Scarlet. "But I..."
Screaming could be heard again from the direction of Queen's chambers. "Go now!" Kurumi barked. She didn't want to snap at Marigold but she had a gut feeling something was wrong.
Marigold nodded slowly as she dashed off towards the same direction she just came from, Isami looks at Kurumi as she tilts her head to the side. "I'm sorry, but you said Scarlet right? As in the legend?"
Nightmare glanced at Isami as she smirks. "Oh she's just as real as we are. I don't know what kind of utter nonsense Queen told you and the others. But Scarlet is indeed here."
Isami bit her lip as she charged at Kurumi. "Then let's see how real she is when she's dead!"
~~~
Marigold rushed back to Queen's chambers as she panted again, she made it as she could hear talking. It had to be Queen's voice, she couldn't hear Scarlet. It worried her, she didn't want to believe she was dead. The child slowly pokes her head in to see what was going on.
"You incompetent fool... You tried to strike me down after I've given you a brand new meaning to life." Queen spoke as she held Scarlet's chin in her hand, she squeezed her cheeks tp.her lips preventing Scarlet from speaking. "Not that I was going to need you for much longer anyway."
Scarlet gaze Queen a death glare as she tried to reach for a dust grenade in her pouch. Queen noticed as she took her fist and rammed it into Scarlet's gut causing her to spew up blood. Her inky black blood splattered over Queen's arm and hand, the once white sleeve of Queen's uniform was drenched in Grimm blood.
Marigold covered her mouth with her hands as her eyes grew wide and her pupils shrank in horror. Queen had a sadistic and twisted grin on her face as she lifted Scarlet up by her neck, she started slapping her face hard. She was making The Grimm girl's cheeks red with each slap.
Scarlet couldn't get any opening to bite and rip Queen's hand off, she could smell Marigold as she hadn't glanced over to where she was at. Then she was flung towards the wall as Queen walked over as she snickered. "What happened to showing me all that power? Did we grow soft and weak?"
Marigold watched as she slowly entered the room, she kicked a piece of rubble as it drew Queen's attention. White Queen turned her head as she smirks. "The little runt is back, how perfect... You'll get to witness the death of your mother." Queen aimed her musket at Scarlet's forehead as the cold tip of the barrel touched Scarlet's skin. "Good bye.... I'll make sure Marigold and Kurumi are under my control."
Within a blink of an eye Queen pulled the trigger, sending a bullet through Scarlet's head and right through her brain and out the other end of her head, Queen cackled as she pulled away. Scarlet's eyes rolled into the back of her head as her body collapsed onto the floor, blood spilled out from the wound as it stained the white floor.
"MOMMY!" Marigold cried as she ran over to Scarlet's motionless body. "Mommy?!" She slid across the bloody floor as she grabbed onto Scarlet's shirt to stop herself from smacking into the wall. She put her hands on her mother's body and lightly nudges and shakes her. "....Mommy, come on... this isn't the time to be playing... come on wake up, let's go home and be happy.."
Queen laughed as she shot at the two, missing however as she smirks. "You're a fool like her. Can't you tell? She's dead! Spare me the grief, you're never going to bring her back!"
Mairgold shook her head as tears streamed down her cheeks. "....No, it can't be true.... s-she's not dead." She nudged Scarlet again and again. "Mommy..... please.... wake up..."
Queen kept laughing as she shot another bullet at them. "Give up, no one can stop me!"
Marigold stopped as she kept crying, the floor blow her shook as it was slowly sinking down, a spiritual inversive aura spun around the child slowly as she it shot up through the ceiling. This was seen by everyone in who was there.
"My word..." Yui said as she fell onto her butt. "What is this intense power?"
"Inverse transformation..." Kurumi spoke as she had a feeling Mairgold wouldn't be able to have an Inverse form.
Queen watched as she was baffled at the power coming from Marigold, she scoffed as she watched the aura close around her. It slowly died down as nothing had changed on Marigold, Queen laughed again as she walked over. "A fruitless attempt to make me scared." Shs cocked her arm back as she gut punched Marigold. "Never wake up."
Marigold gagged as she clinched her stomach and fell onto the floor next to Scarlet. Queen turned around with her back turned to the two. "All that's left is Kurumi... and then the entire world." She started to slowly walk away as something nicked the side of her cheek. "What the hell?" She turned her head to see what was thrown or who threw it, her eyes widen as she couldn't believe what she was seeing.