The Skull Crusaders

The Queen of Thorns

Scarlet laughed as Eddy Genkaku and Trevor slid away, not to get in each other's way "come at me then" she said preparing for the brawl. 

Trevor was the first to launch, he was fast but Scarlet was faster, she lifted her leg to block his kick with her shin. Twisting herself in midair she kicked Trevor back launching him with a backwards side kick. Her eyes met his as he came back with a more powerful kick, she dodged and noticed how his kick cracked the concrete. Trevor was strong, She rushed him but pulled back as Eddy came from above with a punch. She dodged him once twice and three times before she pushed herself forward to slam him with her body then launch him with an invisible force. She threw one leg back just as Trevor came rushing again and kneed him in the stomach, before he could recover she slammed him with a kick to the back. "you guys aren't bad" she said holding Trevor down with her foot. 

She was clearly holding back and The guys knew it.

"We're not going to be able to beat her in hand to hand" said Genkaku Staring at Eddy as he stood back up.

"long distance is worse" replied Eddy "The Queen of Thorns is known for overwhelming her opponents from a distance"

"this is a bad" said Genkaku "no matter how I look at it, I don't see us winning this fight" He and Eddy watched as Trevor twisted himself to get free, pull himself away then prepare to keep fighting.

"If you ladies are done bickering, I could really use some backup" he said preparing for another assault.

Eddy sighed placing both hands in front of him "buy some time, I'm gonna need to concentrate"

Genkaku looked at Eddy recognizing that stance, he sighed and turned to see Trevor launch himself at Scarlet once again.

No matter how hard Trevor tried to hit her however, she would block it but wouldn't try to hit back, despite him leaving himself wide open. Genkaku tried to back him up but he was even easier to beat than Trevor because of his size. Scarlet dodged one of Genkaku's punches, turned, grabbed his arm and launched his huge body. Trevor tried to take advantage of her attack to hit her from behind but she quickly twisted around and kicked him in the stomach then swung her other leg creating a strange ripple in the air that followed Trevor until he landed. The force of the strange ripple scraped him like a sharp whip with thorns. Trevor screamed falling down to one knee. 

"there it is!!" shouted Genkaku leaning up to see Scarlet fire another one at him. He jumped out of the way and ran avoiding her barrage of thorn like whips but tripped and was bombarded with them. He screamed in pain as his body was torn from one side.

Scarlet laughed dodging a rock that stopping her barrage of whips. She turned to face Eddy who was standing across from her in the exact same position from earlier. "throwing rocks" she asked as another lifted from behind him and launched itself at her, she smiled slicing it in half with one kick "cheap" she stopped mid sentence as the ground around her began to shake. Before she could react the ground expanded creating two waves of dirt and sand around her. Her smile faded as the wave turned into solid rock and started launching itself at her. 

"Earth manipulation!" shouted Eddy spreading his arms to expands the waves and make them bigger. He had scarlet pinned, she could barely dodge and block, she didn't have any room to fight back.

Genkaku breathed deeply getting back up and walking towards Eddy while holding his bloody arm. "took you long enough" he said watching Scarlet move fast within the wave of earth.

"don't let your guard down" said Eddy moving his fingers to control the earth "she's not one of the leaders of the Tyrants for nothing" As he said this he saw one of her air whips flying at him. He closed his eyes and braced himself for the impact. His chest stung as it bled out but still he maintained the same position, If he lost his concentration his power would go berserk and hurt his friends. Eddy clenched his teeth as Scarlet fired more and more of her whips at him. For not having any room to fight back she did have enough maneuverability to fire off her whips. 

Scarlet smiled as the earth around her began to turn to dust "I can't believe you actually learned to master that power" she said walking down the road of sand. She turned in time to see Trevor come charging in, She caught his foot, flipped him upside down and kicked his back firing another whip at him. 

Genkaku ran to Trevor catching him and pulling him away to dodge the rest of her whips "she's as strong as ever" he said looking at Eddy's bloody body.

"is this really all you can do?" she asked taking a step forward but stopping, something was odd, she felt the air around her shift, like if something was moving around fast. She turned and glared at the spot where Kazuki was suppose to be. He was awake and around "might as well show yourself, your only prolonging" she gasped as he appeared punching her in the face. She twisted and stared at nothing, he was gone. Before she could make any conclusions he appeared again with another punch to the face and then another and another. "enough!!" she shouted creating the air ripples in the air surrounding her, their was no longer an opening for kazuki. She roared as her whips fired off in every direction, eventually knocking Kazuki out of the sky. 

"GO!!" shouted Genkaku tossing Trevor past the whips and at Scarlet. 

Scarlet raised both arms to block his kick and and glared as he didn't go for another one, rather he just used her to push himself higher into the air. She turned hearing Genkaku scream GO again but this time she was caught off guard, she didn't expect Eddy to come at her.Eddy was a lot stronger than Trevor, his hit actually hurt her, she felt her bones bend in the wrong direction as she was slammed into a wall of dirt. 

Eddy didn't hesitate to prepare for his next attack, he used the earth that Scarlet had crashed into, turned it into sand and covered her with it "Sand Coffin!!" he shouted creating a small ball of sand around her, no air could get in and Scarlet couldn't get out. He spread his arm in her direction controlling the sand and tried to close his hand to finish off his attack. This attack was meant to be used as a last resort, to completely crush any opponent and it may have worked had it not been Scarlet. Eddy couldn't close his hand, the sand was trying to crush her but something was preventing it. Eddy screamed as his sand dispersed and Scarlet came back. 

She floated in midair curled up into a ball with thousands of her thorn whips circling around her "Thorn barrier" she said opening up and standing back on the ground, the whips still circling around. "I gotta admit, it was fun" she said spreading her arms making her whips expand and grow.

Eddy quickly sunk his fists into the ground creating a large wall  and solidifying it but it was not enough to hold back her whips as they broke through hitting everything and everyone.

Scarlet smiled walking past all the bloody bodies "don't take this the wrong way Eddy, but you're not ready to take on Sora" She stopped as Kazuki stood at the end of the road with his arms spread out. He was bleeding, but not as bad as the others "what good is standing in my way?" she asked noting at how deep he was breathing, clearly out of breath.

"you're not going anywhere with Guen" he said glaring at her.

Scarlet smiled kneeing Kazuki in the gut to bring him down "do yourself a favor and get stronger, we'll be waiting for you at Russel Town"