Massacre Girls (Rated M)

[Amari]

And let go she did.

Scarlets eyes rolled into the back of her head, unseen veins bursting from lack of oxygen in the blacks of her eyes. Her chest gave one last feeble rise before it exhalled, Before Scarlet completely lost her grip on the world of the living she could feel tiny droplets fall onto her searing cheeks, it was oddly cooling. She could hear the pained whimpers in her friend’s throat.

”Please…”

Scarlet reached out and grabbed Madison’s arms, they sizzled and hisssed. The pressure on her trachea eased. This was her chance. This was her revenge. This was her...no… Madison’s reprieve.

“Gaaaa!” Scarlets fingers sank into the vines and tore through Madison’s flesh. Scarlet pushed herself off the ground and tore the disembodied and writhing hands from her neck. She wanted to die that badly? Fine! “YoU’Re a SHITTY FRIEND!” Scarlet spat.

They’d fight to the death, they’d kill each other here and now. No regrets. Nothing left behind. Just a raging fire that’d turn into ashes. Carried away by the wind to be lost to time, forgotten.

Madison opened her mouth to speak no doubt more hurtful, and oh so truthful words. Scarlet didn’t need to hear them anymore. She KNEW what she was, she didn’t need to be fucking reminded of it. Black tendrils erupted from Scarlet’s back, all four in the broken shape of hissing snakes, barely able to maintain their form due to the Ar’Tuels own instability. They lunged in unison at Madison’s throat, tearing it open. With a gurgle the briarheart fell backward. A spray of very dark crimson, almost black blood rained down on Amari then continued, creating a halo around the nearly decapitated briarhearts head as she collapsed to the floor. Her neck hung on by mere threads. Mere writhing threads that attempted to stitch themselves back together.

“No!” Scarlet spat as she jumped onto Madison to pin her body to the floor. “YoU DoN’T GeT thAt LuXuRY!” Scarlet wouldn’t let Madison reform so easily, she wouldn’t allow her throat to reconstruct to spit more vile words her way. No. Fuck that.

Scarlet’s hands dug deep into Madisons chest. She clawed her way around until- SNAP. The assassin ripped apart the Briarhearts ribcage. The vines that surrounded her body and that writhed in her flesh tried to quickly pull themselves back together but Scarlet started ripping handfuls out. Handful after handful of bloodied vines and sinew were thrown over her shoulders. “WhO caRes if I’m a ToOl?” She hissed at the unresponsive woman. “At LeaSt I’m SOmETHinG! I cAn CreaTe! I caN dEsTROY!” Her warbled words were hissed through clenched teeth.
“YOu CanT do THIS?” Scarlet stopped to reach out around her. The area was engulfed in flames, burning hot embers tickled Scarlets skin and singed her wild red hair. “THIS! THIS is what WE WeRE bOrN FoR!” And with those words Scarlet lunged straight back into Madison’s chest cavity and with great force found her heart and ripped it out, vines snapped and rotting away at her touch.

She could feel the heart’s vines twisting around her arm. Threatening to envelop her. The briarbarbs hissing against her cracked skin. Scarlet squeezed tighter, clenching her teeth. “YOU wanted THIS!” She screamed at the unresponsive woman before her. Madison’s heart refused to give in, it’s dark magic practically screamed against Scarlet’s grip, an unheard sound that rang in her ears. The miasma around her continued to violently swirl. It was a parasite, unyielding and doing whatever it possibly could to keep its host alive.

Two irrevocable dark and vile forces trying to suppress each other within a raging inferno. It was hell. This life, this moment was truly hell. Hot tears dotted Scarlets hands as they fell from her scrunched face. “I’lL KiLl YoU. I’lL FuCkinG KiLL YoU!” She screeched, pressing tighter. Scarlet bore her weight down hard on the tiny, thrashing heart in her grip. How dare she! How dare she turn the few moments of joy into this inescapable purgatory.

In a last ditch effort for survival the vines lashed out at Scarlet, piercing her chest, ensnaring her organs, snapping her ribs. Scarlet coughed, a splatter of darkened black blood covered the heart. It’s struggles began to weaken. “JuSt...D-d-DiE!” Scarlet sobbed. “YoU waNted This! You PleaDed for Thi-[i]hurk[/]” A flailing vine had landed its way into Scarlet’s own heart. She could feel it...she could feel it trying to infect her with its own spores in a last ditch effort of survival.

But Scarlet was too far gone.

Her thumbs dug into Madison’s heart and it finally stopped moving, its vines unravel from her shaking form. “F-frEnDs….” Her vision blurred. “TiLl...tHe EnD…”
The briarheart stilled. Then finally...it crumbled to dust in her hand and with it, the vines fell away. Without the thrumming magic of her heart it all just...crumbled. Dried up into ash. Scarlet slumped over and forced her eyes shut. Her tears stung her lunged burned, and she waited for death to take her. She waited for the extravagant explosion that would destroy anything and everything around her.

Kaboom

Just like Madison said. No more Scarlet, no more Amari. No more hell.

…

But it didn’t happen. Scarlet had a parasite of her own, that refused to let the woman die. Refused to let its mother just explode into a raging ball of pure destructive force.

Streaks of gold erupted over her skin, healing her wounds - repairing her broken bones and the tear in her heart.

Scarlet’s eyes shot open.

No… no…. No… No… NO…...NO…. NO

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this! It wasn’t fair. Why did Madison get to die? Why wasn’t Scarlet afforded that same escape? It wasn’t fair! IT wasn’t FAIR!

The broken assassin curled over, hiccuping as she held back sobs. Blackened fists clenched tightly. It was supposed to be friends till the end. Right? So where was Scarlet’s end?

The wind began to pick up the ashes, scattering them to the winds. “Don’t you DARE!” She hissed at the non sentient force of nature. She bought her hands to her chest, desperately clasping at what little remnants of Madison’s heart remained. “She’s MINE! MINE MiNe! ”

Her crazed cries turned into pained mutterings as she repeated the words over and over. “S-she’s mine...mine…mine...my friend….” Her attempts were in vein as the dust slipped through her fingers.

“Please...she’s...a-AlL I hAvE….”

All that was left was a thin handful. The woman didn’t dare let her hands go. She could burn alive for all she cared.

“She’s here.”

“Quick Grab the carts!”

“I am NOT fuckin’ having her die on my fuckin’ watch!” A small voice chimed from the blazing inferno around Scarlet, whose harsh words were not befitting of such a childlike tone.

Scarlet’s eyes fluttered open at the sound of three voices. Voices? Hadn’t they killed everyone? Was there more? Should she….Scarlet pushed herself up off the ground with a growl.

Kill…

KiLl

Her blurry vision focused on a tall figure with wisps of long silver hair and her thoughts stopped. Lye? Her cracked voice called out to him. “LyE?”

The man came into focus and to her disappointment… it was not… it was… Zero. The fallen Ixian Knight formerly known as Taka. He reached out to her but a tendril whipped out and slashed his skin. “NoT lYe!” She hissed! “BrING mE LYE!” Scarlet started screaming at the man as he bore down on her. Grabbing her shoulders. “I’ll FucKINg KiLl You!” She spat as another tendril struck him in the shoulder. He winced and pushed Scarlet to the floor.

“This is for your own good.” He muttered as he took a vial out from beneath his robes, he pried off the cork and tried to pour the contents into Scarlets mouth. She wasn’t having it. She writhed and kicked and screamed from beneath him - another tentacle tore through his skin. The man was resiliant. His skin was tainted black, the onis corruption seething within him. It allowed him to withstand her attacks.

“Scarlet please....” His voice filled with a concerned determination.

“BrinG HiM To ME!” Scarlet screeched. “I’lL FuCKInG KiLL Y-mmmff….”

In a swift motion Zero had thrown the contents of the vial into his own mouth and forced his lips to Scarlets, he pressed the bitter liquid into her mouth and forced her to swallow.

Her world quickly began to spin. THe writhing etheral snake-like tentacles fizzled away and she felt heavy. What the hell had he done. “InSuborDinAte FUcK!” Scarlet spat.

“Well? Ya done making out? Fuckin’ load her onto the cart before we all burn.” Advencia spat as she approached Zero from behind with Caellus in tow. “I ain’t touchin’ her - you and your fucked up healing body can do that.”

Zero nodded as he tried to pick Scarlet up, but she screamed a warbled cry of protest. “N-NO! ILl LooSe HeR!” She still desparately clutched to the pile of ash that was once Madison Freebird.

With a heavy sigh Zero grabbed the vial and with a great deal of effort pried Scarlets fist open, letting the contents fall into it. He corked it back up and shoved it in his robes. “Whatever it is. She wants to keep it…” He mused.

“Fuckin’ lets GO!” Advencia snapped, clicking her dainty fingers.


With a great deal of effort, Scarlet was hauled onto the back of a carriage by Advencia; the buxom succubus, Caellus - Lyes right hand man and Zero. The corrosive smoke her skin leaked already began to warp and rot the wood of the carriage.

They didn’t have much time.

The carriage barely made it. The two horses threatened to break free of the reigns Caellus held as they burst through the forest lined horizon. The back of the carriage was in disarray, parts of it had been falling off, rotted away by Scarlet’s touch. Her screams for Lye had finally died down into whispers as she talked into the pile of dust in her hands.

“WHY would Madison do THIS?” Advencia spat. “Wasn’t she the one who was all ‘you need to look after her!’ Fuckin’ selfish cow.”

Caellus grimaced as he reigned in the horses to a slow trot as they entered the compound. “I’m more worried about what Master will do. It’s not like he can kill Madison. Mistress has done that already.”

“I wouldn’t be surprised if we returned to half the compound dead…” Advencia muttered as she crossed her arms over her buxom chest. She shot a glare toward Scarlet. “Why the fuck he still keeps her around...even when she’s like this…”

Caellus remained silent. He had no answer for her.