Author Note : Hello to all had who just came here by now. Before we could start, I would like to say I'm sorry for making you all wait almost a month. The third trimester has begun as school is going to be more vexing and fussing again. But nonetheless, thank you all for your support and for patiently waiting for this chapter, hope it was worth the wait for a 6,6K word chapter.
In the previous month February, the views of this story has hit up to 2,24K views and 614 visitors, which is pretty good for me, but I'm not sure if it is a low or decent amount of views. But since I want to be optimistic about it, I'll just think of 1,9K views is already enough. Anyway, the last month has been going well and I hope this month will do good as well.
With all that said, let us begin, shall we?
Chapter 36 : The Burned Village
While two days has passed from traveling on the same dirt path road as always. But the mission was more difficult then I thought as the freakin sun at noon is shining its hot rays down on us all. We've all checked our ration like a couple of hours ago and estimated that we have enough food that may sustain us all for another two days. All of us decide to endure the hunger until we've finished investigating the burned village and then we'll eat the rest of the remaining food we had.
Now moving on with water, an extremely important element and essence of both life and survival that plays an enormous role of how long we all can last. Since fate was pleasantly nice with us at today's morning, we were amazing lucky that we've found a large lake with crystal clean water. Not wasting any time, everyone of us had made a quick stop there. Refilling our water supply with our two super large-sized water capped clay jar and the rest of our water canteen.
If I ever try drinking or taking a shower in a lake back in my world and time, I would certainly get sick as for the cost of it, since the water in my world and time was been heavily polluted by varies ways, such as factories, which ruins the clouds, making the water droplets forming inside it bad and filthy as it would later rains down on us. The black fumes from the land vehicles, which has also works as same like how the factory since they both releases black fumes to the air. Oil leaking out from the boat as it'll sunk into deep the water and etc, I don't know, that's all I can know and remember for now.
As the heat from the sun is starting to become unbearable for me, I signed impatiently as I walked closer to Yun and tapped him on his armor plated shoulder.
"Yeah?" He responded.
"When will we arrive, the sun and my legs are killing me here." I inquired with a complaining voice while taking in breaths.
"I'm not sure how precise I am, but according to the map, we've only have at least six more miles left until we've arrived to the burned village by today." Yun had his paw on the map while one of his claws are pointed at the burned village's location.
"From what I've learned, most people would walk one mile in about twenty minutes in average. Which means it'll take us around two hours to get there, right?" I calculated the time and distance.
"I believe so as well." Yun slightly nodded. I looked around, cracking my knuckles as satisfying pops and crack has been felt on my hands before turning my gaze to Yun.
"Anyway, about this burned village. What exactly happened there?" I asked curiously.
"I wish I knew." Yun took on a thinking position as he start stroking his whiskers. "Some local travelers has reported seeing a smoking burned village which the frames of it that are still standing barely during their travel. Most of us think it might be some sort of mass fire outbreak that may have caused the whole village to burn down, but I'm positive we might find the source of it or something else during the investigation, while you," the cheetah he poked my sternum with his finger. "are going to watch over us like a 'guardian' like how I wanted in the assignment scroll." I snickered quietly.
"Maybe a guardian angel like me could also lend you a hand on your investigation as I will always gonna be here and watching over your furry ass along with the rest of theirs." I quipped while lifting my arm and pointed at the rhinos without them noticing.
About two hours of walking on the same dirt path, I could smell something that is burned as we eventually came across with a tall traditional Chinese gateway. I took a quick look at what's at front us. From afar, I could see a large village, completely blacked and smoking buildings as it's has been burned down for a considerable amount of time. Yun approached beside me as he took some few sniffs before pinching his nose and start coughing uncomfortably.
"Definitely the *coughing* smell of burned wood." Yun spoke with a funny voice as his nose is pinched. I suppressed a chuckle coming out of my mouth, which causing Yun to roll his eyes when he noticed.
We continued on the dirt path into the village. As we dwell deeper, there were some grass, trees and other kind of vegetation has also been caught by the fire and must've burned as well. When we finally arrived at the village's road, the rhino guards has set the transportation cart near a tree which it is quite lucky enough to not get touched by the fire. We all approached one of the burned houses. The rhinos has split up and began checking the other houses. I then approached Yun who's searching through the burned structures of a burned house he's at.
"Need a hand...or a paw?" I punned. Yun sarcastically laughed softly.
"I never knew you could make some shitty puns." I shrugged and went by his side as I began searching through the burned piles of wood. After a while of lifting and throwing burned piles, there was one moment were I lifted a huge chunk of burned wood and threw it at the burned ground, causing ashes to spread in the area I'm at. I cover half of my face with the neck collar of my white vest while hiding my nose along with my both eyes shut right and ran out of the area, much to Yun's laughter. Almost more than an hour of searching, one of the rhino shouted from a far distance.
"Captain!" One of the rhino shouted. "You might wanna take a look at what I've found here!" Yun and I ceased at our searching and quickly rushed toward the rhino along with the others joining as well.
As we've arrived at a bigger burned house. The rhino that called Yun has approached the cheetah. At his hoof, held a nearly burned arrow as the feather part has burned off. Me and the rest of the others were curious as Yun took the nearly burned arrow from the rhino's hoove and examining it closely.
"Damn, it's a fire arrow." The cheetah muttered, clenching the arrow tighter on his paw. Soon, the other rhino has found even more burned arrows on the other burned houses. I soon took a look at the whole burned village and analyze this before making the most logical conclusion I could think of.
"Maybe... this is an aftermath of a raid." I spoke collectively. Yun began stroking his whiskers before his ears flared up after hearing my hypothesis.
"That actually might be true." Yun agreed on my hypothesis before giving the back of my shoulder a friendly pat. "Finally, your taking your assignment seriously instead of making some lame-ass shitty puns." I signed annoyingly at his comment as I rolled my eyes before focusing back on my assignment.
"Does the arrow looks different or anything?" I inquired. Still having my both eyes on the burned arrow on his paw.
"No, they all look like the same old standard-issue arrows that's must have paper wraps around the near end of its shaft while been dipped into oil as they light it on fire." Yun explained thoughtfully before turning his gaze at his men. "How many of these arrows have you all have found?" Yun inquired with a raised voice. All of the rhinos regrouped at us while having a handful of burned arrows on their hooves. Yun gestured for them to place it down on the burned solid ground as the cheetah began counting.
"That'll be... two hundred and eighty-six flaming arrows has been shot at this village?!" Yun counted carefully at first before nearly shrieked at the end. Then another of the rhino has shouted from afar about something he has founded there.
"Sir! Over here!" Me and Yun then made our way to the rhino who called us. Once we both made it here, there was a large barrel which it's outer part are to burned, but we soon noticed their was a green lit fuse on the top of the head of the barrel which is very short. Not risking anything, Yun immediately barked out an order as two rhinos sprung into action as one of them removed the head of the barrel and the other rhino chopped off the green lit fuse that's connected to the... DYNAMITES?! All of us nearly gasped in sudden shock as we found a large quantity of red dynamites that has filled the large barrel that has rolled out. Yun signed in relief before regaining his composure.
"What in the world is a fucking barrel filled with a mass load of dynamites is doing out here?" Yun shouted.
"Maybe its was been hurled by some sort of catapult from a long and unseeable distance, the fuse must have stopped burning at some circumstances." I spoke thinkingly. Yun then turned towards to the other rhinos before making another order.
"You three." Yun pointed his paw at the three rhinos from afar at another burned house. "I want you three to secure and seize this barrel of dynamites, and be very careful, do not make those dynamites to reignite themselves or anything at all!"
"Yes, captain!" The three rhinos made a quick salute before making their way here. After a brief moment, me and Yun decided to leave this area and continued searching through the other burned houses.
Suddenly, I felt an unknown, yet incredible sharp whizzing sound as a my eyes was fast enough to at least see a thin brown blur along with a fiery part at the near end of the blur and it was flying straight towards to the...
OH SHIT! It's a flaming arrow and it's flying straight towards one of the red dynamites that has rolled out of the large barrel... !
Not even thinking of any thoughts, I immediately tackle Yun down as we both took cover on the ground before an intense explosion has occurred while I felt the first shockwave as it felt like the explosion gave my entire back of my body which felt like a windy, yet forceful punch packed with some high temperature heat.
When I stood up, I felt my ears are ringing, vision are blurry and my mind is slightly at daze. I looked down and saw Yun, who is apparently got knocked out by the intense shockwave as he's lying headfirst on the ground. I looked around before my eyes are shot open in current scene I'm witnessing as bits and parts of bodies is falling from the air along with their bloods. The remaining rhinos were severely injured as they were clutching hard on their wounds and some has their limbs been torn off by the intense explosion. Before I could go assist them. I grabbed Yun by his both armpit while putting him on my back as I began carrying him since he's light (even with his armor and gears) and I can move around pretty well. Soon, my ears has picked up a some very fainting sounds... more like the sound of some fainting footsteps from a far distance as I was able to see a group of figures entering the gateway towards here. The amount of figures in the group to my eyes were at least more then ten of them. I quickly placed the unconscious cheetah on the burned ground by his back while I decided to play dead by laying down headfirst on the burned ground and closed my both eyes.
As fainting footsteps were now clear to my ears, I began slowing down my breathing rate to make seemed like I'm not breathing at all. Tigress taught me how to perform this life-saving technique last week ago as it will make the enemies mistook me as a lifeless corpses. This technique of hers had saved her life few times. Man, I better find a souvenir for her as an apology for that 'terrible incident" has occurred, but let's focus on that topic later after me, Yun and the rest of the other rhinos must get out of this situation right now. Not before long, there were many screams filled with intense fear as they were later on cut off by sounds which sounded like bloody and fleshy clobbering and cold stabbing.
I creaked my eyes opened a bit and nearly gasped on what was at front of me. There were three boars, two bull, five crocodiles and four coyotes as their all armed and they've all began to... no... those fuckers! They've all began killing the severely wounded, defenseless rhinos... one by one.
Oh Jesus Christ, t... t-they've didn't deserve to die or any of this! I was in utter shock. I tried closing my eyes, but I was too shocked to close them as the only thing I can do now is to watch and endure the sound of the fearful screams coming from those poor rhinos from a distance. Their screams was cut off as I saw and heard a more cold stabbing along with gory heavy clubbing and bashing sound. Some of the rhinos tried crawling and one of them had their both arms blown off by the explosion and is still trying crawl away with their head and legs moving despite in such a physical state. But despite such desperatation to live and survive, it was futile as the enemies already had noticed them and began laughing at them. They've start calling the crawling rhinos cowards and other hurtful names before killing them all in a very painful manner. After they've executed all of the severely and critically injured rhinos and the ones who tried crawling away, they began heading towards the position that me and Yun are currently at. I eventually snapped out of my shocked state and laid my head headfirst on the burned ground as I kept playing dead for a few more moments. When they're close in my range, I shot my both eyes open and I got up immediately and charged a concentrated one-hand Hadoken before throwing on the ground, creating a large gust of dust. I took the opportunity as I picked up Yun and sling on him my back and began bolting my way out of the burned village.
The sounds of the arrows are producing as sharp whizzing sound has passing through my ears. I took a quick glance and as expected, all of them are now chasing after me with their weapons being raised in air while the archers who are apparently those four coyotes which they run very fast indeed as they're quite hot on my tail while constantly shooting arrows at me from behind. I made a few maneuvering steps as I dodged from by the right, left, right, right and left and left again before making a big turn to the other direction of the blackened dirt path of this burned village. After a while of running and making more maneuvering steps and it soon finally came to an end as I successfully managed to reached at the outside and end up at a random forest. I glanced back at the burned village from a pretty far distance and saw that those bastards did not only killed the remaining rhinos, but has stole our water and food supply by capturing our transportation cart. I squinted my eyes for a better view, their was a familiar figure who's wearing black armor with golden trims and... wait... is that Qin-Ju?! And he's back?!
Soon the black armored figure which somehow illogically was able to look and stare straight to my eyes in such a far distances as his both eyes glows wildly golden at me while I felt intimidated by that look of his. I shook my head and start running like hell again with the unconscious Yun now starting to wearing me down on my back.
Pushing along with shoving thick and bushy branches aside, I can still felt my adrenaline going high as ever. Since fighting Qin-Ju again is not gonna be a normal fighter, that bastard has did quite more than a number on my body before. This situation here might push me to risk myself by tapping into the power of the Satsui No Hado again to defeat Qin-Ju or at least buy enough time for me and Yun to escape.
Actually, I think this mission is already being completed as we have found out the real cause of what made the village got burned down. Just gotta find a local village and soon get a ride back to the Valley Of Peace.
I start hearing some multiple fainting footsteps at really fast pace as my ears can barely hear it clearly. Soon, a low groan with slight pain attached to it has been heard as it revealed that Yun has finally wake from his unconsciousness.
"Nngghh... Wha-Wha... What happened?" The cheetah uttered while massaging the back of his head.
"Long story short ; an unexpected flaming arrow has suddenly been shot out of nowhere and unfortunately, it was able to hit one of those red dynamites in the barrel and cause a big-ass explosion which it knocked you out cold." I explained in while kept running without slowing down.
"So that's why my dreams were so sweet, no wonder why I felt so comfortable." He quipped groggily. I somehow managed to chuckled at such a situation like this before replying.
"I've been carrying your lazy stupid ass all this time!" I exclaimed, before taking some few fast and heavy breaths. "So tell me, what was that dream of yours while you were unconscious." I inquired while shoving more branches asides that's blocking my way.
"Hmmm... if I remember, the dream started when I was marrying a-" Soon, arrows are start whizzing pass us as I avoided them by doing a maneuvering step to the left.
"Okay, tell me what you've dreamed off once we completely lose these fuckers behind us." I began start doing maneuvering tricks such as stepping aside or dashing as more arrows whizzing at us.
"Wait! Where are my men?!" Yun shouted loudly as he almost forgotten about his men. I release a sign filled with lose before telling Yun what just happens back there.
"Some of them where blown to bits and parts by the explosion, and the rest who survived got executed by the our pursuers." Yun released a short sharp yell.
"FUCK!" He yelled start holding back his sadness back from his lose men as he start weeping and tearing up from the tragic news I gave him.
"Yun, it's not your fault that they were killed, none of us couldn't see that coming." Yun growled further in sudden anger.
"And what about you!" He began as I felt his unsheathed claws are barely puncturing through the skin of my back, but it couldn't as it was covered by my vest. "You could've done something to save them, minimize the deaths or at least TRY SAVE ONE OF THEM!" He shouted. I lowered my head in guild and shame.
"I-I'm sorry, there was clearly no other option for me left than watching them all die." Suddenly, I felt a rather unexpected sharp punch that has landed on my upper right forehead as it made me tumbled down to the ground while dropping Yun down as well. "What the fuck was that, Yun?!" I exclaimed with my both arms raised up as I questioned at his action for punching me while I was clearly saving his ass.
"NO OTHER OPTION?!" He shrieked in rage. "Your nothing but a fucking coward." He muttered contemptuously.
"What did you say?" I sharpened the looks of my eyebrows as I stared at the cheetah with a disbelief expression.
"Your nothing..." he uttered and paused. "...but a FUCKING COWARD WHO DOESN'T TAKE ANY RISK TO SAVE HIS COMRADES!" He repeated his previous sentence with an angered tone this time.
"BULLSHIT! I've done that many times!" I shouted back. I soon heard the fainting footsteps of our chasers who are getting closer to us. I refocused back into the situation and extended my hand towards him. "We can talk and argue about this later! We gotta lose'em!" Yun merely looked on the ground while sulking heavily and sharply. "YUN! Come on man, this isn't a joke!" I called for him. He then turned his head around from me.
"I would rather die or if I'm lucky enough... being tortured to death by them than letting a scum bag coward like you to save me." He muttered hatefully. I took a deep breath before approaching the cheetah from behind with my hand reaching out to his shoulder. "If you ever lay any of those filthy fingers on me, I'll bite them off!" He screamed while producing a sharp hiss. His both pupils from his eyes being very constricted and both ears are flattened to the sides and has displayed some sharp teeth as well.
"Well, I hope you forgive me for this." I reluctantly spoke while cracking the knuckles of my left hand which he heard the cracks and turned his head to me.
"Wha-"
I instantly threw an instantaneous jab on the cheetah's forehead as he exhale out a few portion of air before falling on the grassy ground and went on an unconscious state again. I picked him up, placed and sling the unconscious cheetah on my back. Before I could finished putting the unconscious Yun on my back, a speeding arrow had managed to struck me as it penetrated into my right shoulder that's very close to hitting Yun's back and the back of my neck while it could've instantly kill me at the spot I'm standing.
I release a sharp painful cry as I grabbed the arrow by its handle and carefully pulls it out the right side of the back of my shoulder which it made some fleshy sound of the arrow been pulled out. After slowly adapting to the pain of the back of my right shoulder and when the pain numbs down at least a bit, I managed to put Yun on my back while repositioning his unconscious arms and legs for him not feel uncomfortable after he wakes up. I started carrying him around again. With the same feeling of being weighted down by a cheetah which he's beginnin to wearing me down faster than before as I'm enduring the swelling pain on the back of my right shoulder's wound. The pain is indeed swelling and unbearable while it continues to leak out deep red fluid, but luckily the arrow didn't penetrate deep enough into my flesh to cause anything serious, but I'm already expecting an infection if I don't get it clean. In the mean time, I'll just keep focusing on losing our chasers from behind as me and an unconscious Yun on my back as I dwell deeper into this forest.
After almost more than half an hour has passed, I'm still lost and where in the hell should I go? My walking is now more easier since I've found some very thick and durable vines after I carefully yanked some few out of the tall, large tree. After yanking out the right amount of these vines, I wrapped them on me along with Yun as it's like I'm carrying a backpack painted with the pattern of a cheetah... alright, enough with that crap, I gotta focused on what to do next!
Suddenly, two bulls ran in between me and swung their halberds down at me. I ducked and dashed backward before delivering two roundhouse kicks on them as it successfully hit both, knocking them both out. I quickly bent down and grabbed one of their halberd, removing the parts that has the lethal blade and spearhead on it, and it's now just a replica of a mere improvised staff for me to defend myself and Yun better. Soon the rest of them decided to ambush me as the three boars and the five crocodiles jumps out of the darkness of the forest.
A boar charged at with a spear and did a stabbing attack, I blocked it horizontally with my staff and shove it his weapon away as I did a spinning punch on his snout, staggering him back heavily. Soon the two boars came charging at me with their spear and does two stabbing strike at the same time with a far more advanced movements and stance. I parried their attacks with my staff vertically and dropped my staff on the ground while immediately I caught their spears by the shaft with my both hands. I pulled and yanks their spears out, grabbing both of their heads and slammed them on one another, knocking them out cold while checking the unconscious Yun on my back, which he's still okay and breathing well.
Instinctively, I picked up with my staff and ducked completely as I evaded a spinning horizontal slash of a battle axe from the five crocs that one of them tries to pull a sneak attack on me. I gripped my staff harder and I yelled out a battlecry as I charged towards them. One croc came charging at me as well while he tries to do a left uppercut with his battle axe. I sidestepped and countered back with a heavy bash from my staff as it hit the right side of his long snout as he immediately drops down to ground out cold. Soon all the four remaining crocodiles surrounds me in a square-like formation.
Shit... they might overpower me... gotta do this...
I snapped my improvised staff in half with my left knee hitting it the middle part of my improvised staff, resulting me creating two improvised 'batons' as I held both of them in a dual-like manner. The soldiers all start sprinting as their closing in to me. Once their in my range, I did singular Tatsumaki Senpukyaku which hit them by their upper torso as it stunned them all. I went for the first one and did upper strike with my batons as I struck him under his chin. I gave the second croc is a combo of attacks as I start by hitting the crocodile on his abdomen, left side of his body, a downward swung on his right shoulder's joint before a rightward swung on his face. The third was about to recover from his stunned states but I prevented that by leaping in the air and does a double downward swung on his head, knocking out the third croc instantly. The fourth recovered and dashed before sending out a series of slashing and chopping, I was able to read those moves easily and avoided them before I struck him with my both batons struck him on the both sides of the croc's head in between before he slowly limps down and lost his consciousness. The black armored figure soon has finally showed himself from the shadows of the night as his glowing golden eyes had stared into mine. I gripped my batons harder as sweat begins to form.
"I know what your thinking, you can't fight me without holding back since your so busy protecting your unconscious friend that you're carrying on your back." He pointed his paw at Yun who I carried behind my back.
"Tsk! I'll kill you if ever touch him." I raised my weapon along with applying more defense in my fighting stance to protect the unconscious Yun. Qin-Ju then guffawed shortly.
"Put that friend of yours away from this area, I'm still quite itching for a rematch after you've been saved by your panda friend." He shifted one of his leg out a bit with his both arm raised as he puts on his fighting stance. "Go on, put him somewhere else and then we'll get this started." I cautiously walked to a very far distance and I unwrapped the thick vines I've used to for carrying Yun and I set him resting on a soft grassy ground.
I returned back to the open area of this forest as me and Qin-Ju began looking a one another. After a long period of staring at each other with our fighting stances on. He made the first by running on all four as he lunges forwards and swiped his both paws left and right, while I was able to dodge them this time and struck him on his sternum with one of my batons on the midsection of his armored torso.
"You've suddenly gotten a little bit more faster than before, that's good to know." He noticed. He send speeding back kick, followed up with multiple high kicks at a time and then a forward kick. After blocking all those powerful kicks, it soon broke my two improvised batons into hundred of piece of wood and splinters.
While he's still in midair and was about to do his final attack which looks like an aerial axe kick, I narrowly tuned it right as I managed to catch his feet with my hands. I quickly moved my hands and arms in a reverse motion that made his whole body twisting, making him being suspended in midair for less than a second spinning before I delivered a strong singular Tatsumaki Senpukyaku that struck him with rapid speed, sending him crashing on a tree. He got up and turned around and wrapped both of his arm on the tree before... oh crap! He literally pulled a whole tree out along with its roots with ease as he hurled the tree at me. With the speed and velocity the tree is flying towards me, I can't dodge or avoid it. I quickly gathered and infused Ki energy in my right fist. With my fist being charged with Ki energy, I punched the by the middle area of the tree as it snapped the tree in half by putting a big hole in the middle part of the trunk.
When the dust cleared off, Qin-Ju lashes at me without giving me a second to recover my focus as he began his brutal assault on me. He was indeed fast as his hits were still able to hit me well, but I was able to blocked and dodged more of his attacks this time. I broke through his assault by sending a forceful side punch to his right cheek of his helmeted face. He released a loud and short battlecry as he charged his fist with blue fiery flames from his both wrists to his both paws. Suddenly, his speed increased like it has been doubled as my eyes couldn't keep track of him as I felt my entire body has received an overwhelming quantity of hits on everywhere of my whole body. After that overwhelming rush of attacks left me being dropped on the ground, I tried getting back up from the ground, but soon felt under of my chin has been kicked upwardly, sending me flying a couple meters. After I've finally got my chance to stood up, I regained my composure.
This bastard here is too fast for me, gotta predict where he's gonna strike. I started by predicting his moves with my most focus that my mind could mustered out which was a fail as he was able to see the forms of my moments that was made from my body. During one lucky moment, I was able to land a clean hit to his armored stomach, and a flying straight kick to his left shoulder. He shrugged from the pain and began his assault again as we both kept launching attack at each other continuously before I got hit by a side punch with a jab and grabbed by my leg as he threw me at an unknown location of the forest. After a while of struggling, my body was already reached and was passing its maximum limit as my muscle are fucking sore and felt like its on fire right now. But still, I gotta keep fighting if me and Yun want to live on.
"You've disappointed me yet again... 'The Great Lukas'." He mocked. "You've only increased yours speed and reaction, so what?" He began. "But what about your raw power and strength, attacks like those nearly felt like nothing to me!" I gritted my teeth as I'm closed my eyes to ponder for any ideas to fight back. An idea has came to me. I started by closing my eyes and let go off these troubling emotions that I'm currently having such as nervousness, anxiety and even fear. I felt my whole body has been introduced to absolute tranquility and calmness again, just like the same feeling when I've fought Tigress for the first time in the Training Courtyard.
The Power Of Nothingness...
Everything around me literally moved in slow-motion in an actual action movies or video games, like one scene in an iconic movies with those well-made slow-down-time effects, lets say the Matrix for example... *ahem*.
Anyway, while tapping into this power, the leaves were going at a slow and smooth speed, as well as the trees and grasses. Once I've turned around, Qin-Ju was coming at my face very, VERY SLOWLY. I tried to push his fist away but the force from his first is generating were considered to be pretty devastating, mostly if I ever got hit by it. When I felt like I'm losing grip of the Power Of Nothingness as things are becoming faster and returning back to normal. I stood at front of Qin-Ju as I quickly cupped my both palms on each other while I gather a massive amount of Ki and kept concentrating them continuously. The rest of the remaining "slow-motion" effects from the Power Of Nothingness were now ceased as I felt the grip of that power has slipped and faded off.
"TENSHI... HADO... KEN!" I screamed at the name of my ultimate attack while firing it point blank at Qin-Ju as his whole body has been covered by the mass concentrated energy of the energy blast as he's been send maybe like more than six kilometers away. I release a sign of relief that I was able to defeat him with the Power Of Nothingness. Speaking of that, once I managed to fulfill my destiny in this world and go back to the real world, I better visit back to master Gouken's grave and pay my outmost respect to him for teaching me the Power Of Nothingness. I shrug off that thought away for now and went to the spot where I placed the unconscious cheetah at before picking him up as I grabbed those thick vines, wrapped them around unconscious cheetah along with my back again and eventually start walking and searching for local nearby village or any refuges.
After A Period Of Time Later
It has been more than three hours of walking as the wound on my shoulder is still bleeding along with the pain is getting worse as I've enduring it for quite a period of time. Luckily, I was able found a way out of the thick forest while carrying Yun as I'm currently walking on another dirt path which I'm hoping it might lead us both to another village. But since life is a bitch in the ass. My body is slowly succumbing to the pain from my wound along with the amount of blood that I've bled out. My frontal body soon fall on the ground. I tried crawling for my life, it was proved to be unsuccessful due to me carrying Yun as his weight is shown to be exhausting the hell out of my physical being to the point where I can't move any of my limbs anymore. The vision of my sight is blurring quite fast along with my hearing and sense are quickly fainting away as I'm breathing desperately to keep going before my both eyelids eventually closed themselves, bringing only just darkness for me.
Author Note : So how was it, do you like it? This is may be the second time I've wrote something intense like this chase scene and I hope you all enjoy that chase scene as well as I when I was writing it. To add more somewhat more 'suspense' in it, I just made that Lukas got injured on the back of his right shoulder and start bleeding till he fall unconscious at the end. The fight that Lukas had with Qin-Ju was a pretty good I suppose and I hope you guys like the scene where he tapped into the Power Of Nothingness for a very short period of time. Additionally, I'm still learning about writing out 'emotional' scenes and stuff related to that, was the one about Yun losing his men a good one? Please leave your thoughts for it and I'll respond back soon.
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