Author's notes: Welcome to the fourth chapter of "Defection Week" I hope all of you can join us as we count down to Christmas and if you can't or wasn't here when I posted it, I hope you all have a good day.

Christmas Countdown: 3 more days!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOUmYK3BH4Q

The song of the day today is Final Fantasy VI "Ascension of a Madman" by Steffan Andrews of OCRemix, this song is basically a remix of Kefka's theme, but is accented by a choir and soft tones until a cavalcade of beats escalates it to the so called "Ascension" which is virtually putting his ascent to godhood into a musical score virtually creating musical gold.
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Ruby now stood 21 ft from her enemy, who with a crazed stare sat with blade drawn, a large pink lock slowly feel over one of her eyes, before Ruby's eyes could wander off of the gem, the large gem yelled"En guarde!" as she began sprinting at her prey, Ruby's eyes were wide with terror, rooted to the spot as fear gripped her form, time slowed for Ruby allowing her to dodge a downward strike aimed for her head, which she followed up with a punch to her enemy's gut

                         Rose POV
"She just sat there, after all the problems she caused for us, she still feared us." Rose thought angering her to no end and with that anger she would cut the intruder to ribbons as she prepared a downward strike on the intruders head, swinging her sword caused Rose's hair to blind her as it flew over her eyes, when Rose's sword didn't make contact with her opponent, she reflexively brought her shield up in time to block a strike to her gem, the force of this attack sent Rose back into the wall of a nearby building, Rose managed to put a bubble around herself just in time to protect herself from the wall and the debris that rained down upon her

                        Ruby POV
A large dust cloud formed as the large gem was pushed across the ground, kicking up dust in the process of trying to retain her footing "I am tired of being afraid, I am tired of being weak, I am tired of it all!" Ruby yelled at her opponent as anger coursed through her small form making her sore muscles ache and burn, as they tensed up under her skin, suddenly the large gem came running out of the dust cloud at Ruby, a murderous smile crossed her face at the thought of her prey fighting back "Stay away from me!" Ruby yelled slamming her gauntlets into the ground causing a large crack to form in the street which then branched out into 3 slightly smaller cracks, which must have been at least 40 ft long, the large gem continued her approach running directly above the cracks, heat ebbed from these cracks before unleashing a wall of fire, that the large gem barely avoided, the fire proceeded to singe the edges of her uniform.