beingAfter previewing the previous chapter I realized it was kinda short so hopefully this one is a lot longer and more content fulfilling.
So far I believe that combat needs an improvement.
Well either way here is chapter 2
The sounds of thrashing, growling and gagging were heard during the night. The Slayer, slowing opening her eyes to quickly scout the area only to realize the noises weren't nearby but instead right next to her. Surrounding her body were four black beasts, white spikes coming out every corner of their body, its head almost as white as snow eerily looking like a skull. Eyes glowing a piercing red only seen in the blood of demons. Each of them taking a hold on one of the Slayers limbs, thrashing, pulling and biting harder than the last. A shot of argent energy cursed through her body in an instant, causing her to take a hold on herself, now completely enraged.
I'M NOT YOUR FUCKING CHEW TOY! she growled to herself. With her arms currently inside the beast's mouth being chewed upon from behind, the Slayer used her hands to grab hold unto the roof of the beast's mouth digging deeper into the insides of its skull and pulled them both forward while at the same using the thrusters on her foot to take the other two beats chewing on her leg inward bashing the four heads together mashing them into one another. What was once four beasts was now four bodies with a connected center of mangled pieces of white shards and black skin.
The Slayer got up and looked around her surroundings. Deep into the forest in front of her more glowing red eyes seem to keep popping up by the second.
A long night it'll be she thought.
The Slayer clenched her fists as she prepared rip and tear into her enemy.
Land of Darkness (Salem's Stronghold)
"Cinder, I expect your mission to have been completed without fault has it?" Salem. A tall, pale white woman adorn in a black dress, eyes sharing the same color as the black beasts, Grimm. Expressed with smug-like attitude.
Sitting upon her throne at the end of a large hall she looked toward the woman standing beside a long obsidian table that stood a few feet away. Clad in a dark-red oriental dress. Long black hair that covers up her left eye and amber eyes. Cinder.
"Truth be told I've never felt this way before, it's almost addicting. However, there were a few … complications and loose ends that you must forgive me for." said Cinder lightly tilting her head towards the ground.
Salem narrowed her eyes as she looked at her, almost piercing her soul. She lifted her hand in a snapping position.
"It seems a countdown has started. Choose your next worlds wisely".
As composed as Cinder tried to make herself, she could but shake a little as Salem had potential to wipe out her existence should she feel "merciful".
"Some of the maiden's … 'agents' stepped in and had ruined my plans ... but rest assured I've managed to claim half of the Fall Maidens abilities and rendered her 'immobile'. She won't be moving anywhere for the time being and it'll be just a matter of time before her location is discovered and we get to come in for an easy kill." expressed Cinder as she lifted her head to look at Salem with a grin upon her face.
As Salem began to rise from her obsidian throne a sharp pinch took a hold of heart. She fell unto her knees and shook terribly almost writhing in pain. It felt as though a shard of glass had pierced her heart from multiple angles.
"MASTER!" shouted Cinder as she began to run to her aid.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" exclaimed Salem still on her knees clasping tightly where her heart should be.
As Cinder stopped her movements she noticed on Salem's pale face, a smile, almost psychotic. A smile wide enough it went from one cheek to the other.
"Such FEROCITY … such PAIN, such MALICE AND NEGATIVITY! UH such EUPHORIA! It's … it's OVERWHELMING!" exclaimed Salem under her breath breathing heavily. She was shaking tremendously as whatever took a hold of her was both making feel extremely excited and overwhelming FEAR.
"Dear … Cinder … I'll forgive your partial failure for now. It seems … something else has entered the game…"
Atlas Academy (General Ironwood's office)
"Sir… SIR! There's… we've discovered a threat that should be considered immediately" said a man dressed in a white military uniform with a white beret on his head.
"There's been a tremendous spike in grimm activity just beyond Mountain Glenn in Vale sir. Bigger than we've seen in previously recorded in history."
"Is that so? Hand me that over". The soldier handed over a flat transparent screen to the man in dressed in military formal uniform with slick black hair and a squared-out complexion. General Ironwood written on his tag placed on the left side of his chest.
His eyed widened almost immediately as the data pad he was holding showed nothing but a large gathering of red dots seemingly taking half of the screen. General Ironwood opened his mouth but seem to have lost the ability to speak. Grimm of this size can surely take over a city, something General Ironwood was hellbent on preventing.
"TAKE SPECIALIST SHNEE AND A RECON TEAM STAT. I WANT THIS THREAT IMMEDIATELY TAKEN CARE OF AND INVESTIGATED!" shouted General Ironwood as the soldier quickly ran out of his office making all the necessary calls.
"How is this possible?!" he thought to himself breathing heavily as the sight of the screen frightened him. General Ironwood quickly took out a scroll, a device of similar make but smaller.
It rang for a moment before making a slight ding.
"Old friend… "
Forrest
The Slayer looked at the carnage that surrounded her, piles of black carcasses now covered most of the snowy floor in the clearing she made by throwing the beasts through the trees hoping to hit a few more of the black beasts hiding in wait. These beasts weren't that different from the demons she's been fighting for the past unknown amount of time. Demons tend to throw themselves at her in desperate attempts inflict any injury no matter how small or insignificant or flea the moment they laid their eyes on her. These beasts were cleverly more stubborn. While they were certainly adaptable just like demons they still seem to use only one version of offense and that is to charge. The only difference between them is that these beasts seem to keep holding their ground, trying to surround the Slayer at any moment. A few of them figured out how fearsome the Slayer was as they hesitated to do anything. All bark but no bite.
The last group of beasts came out of hiding and surrounded the Slayer, walking around her cautiously, studying her carefully. Five more to go. One of the beast lunged toward her from the side and another charged in the front. The Slayer grabbed the beasts that lunged toward her by its jaws pushing in opposite directions dislocating them and quickly grabbed a grenade from her belt and shoved it right into it's throat. The Slayer proceeded to grab it's head and with almost no effort swung the beast to the one charging at him letting go as they both flew a few feet back. The resulting explosion left nothing but the lower half and scattered limbs of the beasts. Another beast charged and readied it's claws to swing down. As it did the Slayer got hold of its arm with her left hand and her right hand delivered a devastating uppercut shattering the beasts jaws and its teeth. The Slayer started tp turned the beasts arm breaking it and pulled outward as black fleshed began to extended beyond its proportions and quickly revealed its fleshy red insides effectively ripping its arm off and throwing it at a beast behind him knocking it back a few feet.
The beast began to roar and writhe in pain as the Slayer walked up to it and pulled out one of the spikes protruding from its shoulder leaving a gaping red hole and slit its throat. The other beast got back on its feet and began to charge. The Slayer threw the spike in her hand. The spike shattered as it made contact with the beasts skull-like head still charging at her. As the beast got close the Slayer jumped above it and used her thrusters to add an extra boost of air and fell unto the beasts skull-like head crushing it inward with her boots. The sound of bone cracking and shattering as it turned into dust under her weight.
The Slayer had a hard time removing her boots from the beasts bashed in skull as it was well inside of it.
She looked around at her surrounding to realize the pairs of glowing red eyes were no longer present. She now stood alone in the clearing of broken trees and black carcasses. Something seemed to bother her. She looked at the piles of carcasses, not a single drop of blood. She looked downward and extended her arms looking at her arms and armor. Clean. Other than few easily repairable dents and rough looking areas on her armor, there was no blood splatter to be found on herself. The snowy area that she now found herself in was almost perfectly clean. As she looked toward the bodies of the beasts and ash like particles started to emanate from their bodies. With the hundreds of beasts carcasses that were scattered around the clearing all made it look like she standing in a giant cloud of ash. Before she knew it the beasts were gone. Almost evaporated into thin air. All that remained were the shallow pits of where their bodies once stood.
The Slayer tried to pull up her AutoMap however, in her hud it only showed a small circle with a yellow arrow in the middle.
"Just like in the UAC, it won't be able to visualize your surrounding area without proper documentation of our surroundings. So far it's only capable to show the path you've been walking and locations you've previously visited." said VEGA. An A.I rescued from its own destruction back in the UAC.
"However, analyzing your feed there is a 92% chance that based on your surroundings there should a small mountain high enough to allow us to get a much clearer view of where we are located. Head south of your current location." stated VEGA in its most human-like voice.
The Slayer looked back and started walking. Equipping her super shotgun in the event she has kill more of those bloodless beasts. After a much while of walking she came upon a small snow covered hill. Standing at the top the Slayer saw a mountainous region with a small climbable mountain with a nice view a few miles away. Snow turned to rock and gravel as she trekked through the mountainous region finally reaching the base of the mountain. Looking at her surroundings she noticed a few more beasts in the distance, cautiously looking at her, almost keeping their distance.
So they finally learned she thought smiling under her helmet.
As she made her way to the top of the mountain she noticed what seemed to a small city in the distance, blending in with the darkness of the night sky.
"It appears they could have turned off their lights to avoid dealing with these creatures" VEGA predicted.
Deciding to take to the short route towards the city, the Slayer took off and slid down the mountains face.
As the Slayer got closer to the city she noticed that the city didn't have its light off but instead as she got closer she noticed the city was broken down. Partially destroyed buildings, rubble on every corner, large cracks on every face of the buildings and lots of buildings that seemed to have well understruction. Dust seemed to pile up around the city almost giving it the illusion of being surrounded by fog. As the Slayer reached the cities border she finally learned what happened to the city. On the streets, and perched up in the buildings were more of those black beasts. In fact it seemed the beasts have infested the city. There more different kind of beasts now. Some of them looked like birds, others looked like much bigger versions of the ones he fought in the forest.
They all seemed to stop what they were doing as all of them turned to look at Slayer. The Slayer looked down towards one of the cities broken down streets riddle with potholes and noticed a sign hanging from a broken arch.
"Welcome to Mountain Glenn"