Rotten Apples

Chapter 8: Feast of The Dessert Witch

A storm is brewing above. The CCG raises it's lightning conductors.

"This will be a huge storm, right?" A tiny voice asked. Arima nodded.

"I hope to see her soon..." She said.

"Please calm down Celestia. You'll meet your fate too." He replied.

Shu is sitting on top of the CCG with Eto.

"Arima has developed a twin of The Witch of Mercy. Equally powerful, but she is bound to destroy both her twin and herself." He said.

"Is she a ghoul?"

Shu nodded.

"How tragic. Her heart will shatter into pieces by murdering her twin sister."

"The Kakuja quinque they are developing for her requires so much RC that she'll be able to fire two shots at most. They implanted the RC transmitter directly into her Kakouhou. If she uses it she'll be drained of all her RC cells and will die."

"The CCG really has vile methods of bringing my army down. Growing a being to destroy it's own family. It's only family."

Eto looks up at the night sky and smiles.

Kazama is standing on top of a train. He's moving by the town so fast. He sees a shadow, then sees the Mermaid Witch. He raises an eyebrow as it stands vigalently in the loud rain. The water drops down her gleaming armor. She releases her tail. Kazama smirks. The witch lashes at him, cutting the power line of the train and putting it to a halt. The passengers panicked inside. Kazama summoned his kagune. A gold blade with Ukaku shards sitting on top. He brawls the witch flawlessly and manages to cut through the tail. Before he can shoot her down, she released her Kakuja, a short sword that she used to parry the fire. She jumped away and ran. Kazama sighed.

"Another boring battle."

The Dessert Witch is looming above the Harmony building.

"This is it, right?" She asked. Kriemhild nodded and smiled in amusement. Charlotte suddenly released her kagune. A massive worm-like creature with terrifying rows of teeth. She jumped down and enevloped herself in her Kagune's end. She bit through the concrete building and let out a harrowing scream. The Harmony members surged to attack. Pink and Flame both released their centipedes, cutting and hacking away at the witch. It roared in rage, performing a powerful spin and slamming it's body on the ground. Elsa Maria jumped up and pierced through her.

"DIE CHARLOTTE!!!" She screamed and summoned her Kakuja. Before it could pierce her, the mouth of the kagune bit down the kagune along with the kakujas. It used the RC directly to patch her wounds. Elsa Maria fell to the ground and grunted. The witch squirmed and let out an agonizing scream, then gnawed down the entire building to everyone's horror. Pink jumped to her and did multiple barrel rolls in the air, cutting the witch in half. The kagune disintegrated and Charlotte plummeted to the ground.

"That's what you get you dumb fuck." Elsa Maria said and before she could kill her, she lashed at her with her kagune, biting her head off. She smirked as Zyper did the favour for Elsa. Her body fell to the ground. Her neck formed red bubbles, indicating the start of regeneration.

"Somebody fuel her RC cells." Wolfy cried and Attila stepped forward. She cut the RC transmitter of her rinkaku quinque and rigged it to her neck. She then activated it, causing the transmitter to fuel Elsa's growth.

"She'll live." She said as blood flowed from her nose.

At Goat...

Nicoboss is getting frustrated and paranoid.

"HAVE MY ESCORT COME HERE!!" He yelled at his secretary. He made a call and soon the Goat members that saw his face were summoned at once. He drew his black sword and decapitated them with two swift swings. The secretary watched in horror as his comrades fell to the hands of their leader. He slowly walked out the room as his master ate the ones he massacred.

"I'm telling you. He's going insane. He killed the ones who saw his face."

"I heard he has BPD along with anxiety."

"I heard his kakuja ruined his mind." 

"My own army is betraying me.... They're all gonna kill me... I WON'T LET THEM!!!!"

He bursted out in pain and released his massive dragon kakuja, tearing the place apart. His servants littered the floor with bodies. He grunted, panted and snarled in different overlapping voices as he slowly walked over the ruins. Bodies decorated the ground like a bunch of fallen autumn leaves. He dissolved his kakuja and left the scene, never to be seen again. The order of the Black Goat has been killed off. Twice. 

"Recent ghoul activity destroyed a building the size of a smaller apartment complex last night. The Commission of Counter Ghoul issued a warrant for the culprit, suspecting it to be the member of a large scale ghoul organisation. The former group known as Goat has ceased with its leader nowhere to be seen. We managed to get an exclusive interview with the head of the Comission of Counter Ghoul, Arima Kishou." The news reporter said.

"The organisation formerly known as Goat has been brought down. It appears that a single enemy attacked with incredible force. The suspect is supposedly a Rinkaku ghoul, as Rinkaku cells were found that were genetically unidentical to the other victims in the fallen building. The estimated casualty toll is around 32 thousand."

Martras watched the news being broadcasted at the Tokyo Tower. His face was unflinching as he turned towards the bus. He hopped on and soon saw the ruins of Harmony. He jumped out to rush to the scene. He saw a little white haired girl with a severed head and Elsa Maria's lifeless body on the ground. He kneeled down.

"What happened here?" He asked.

"Elsa Maria got decapitated by the Dessert Witch. We think her name's Charlotte. That's how Elsa adressed her." Zyper said.

"Okay first off, her Bikaku slows regen, so your RC will not be enough Attila. But keep it coming. Feed her the Kakouhou of the witch. Get me a sma metal tube to dilate her esophagus."

Pink soon came back with a broken gas pipe. Martras snatched the tube out of her hand and shoved it into Elsa's esophagus.

"Slice her body up and feed it to her in bite sized pieces." He said. Binky drew away from everyone. She headed to a pharmacy.

"Could I have a box of calmants?" She asked and showed the assistant a prescription. She handed her a box of pink pills. She left the store and went for a walk. She looked at the cinematic town. She plugged her ears with Bluetooth earbuds and started playing music. The whole town became a dwelling place full of unobserved aesthetics. She looked up to be nearly blinded by neon lights. Her soul felt at ease. The cars rolling by all seemed so busy and she didn't even have a care in the world. She then heard something.

"Help."

It was Qwitz's voice. Binky gasped. Her hands started shaking and her knees started trembling. She grabbed a bunch of pills, closed her eyes and swallowed them. She then started listening closer.

"Train." She made out those words. She started running towards the train station. She arrived. The voice was much clearer.

"The rails." She heard and she saw the handle of a hatch. A train rolled by. Her hair got thrown into the air. She hesitantly stepped on the rails as a police officer noticed her.

"GET AWAY FROM THERE!!!" He yelled. Binky quickly opened the hatch and climbed down a ladder. The place was damp and dark, but when she got to the bottom, she started hearing music. Faint, blocked out. It sounded like an orchestra. The hall she was supposed to go through was full of posters and tickets to a "concert". She stepped on a switch. The whole hallway started moving faster and faster as a massive door opened.

To be continued...