《The World of Color Kingdom》


 Invesgation of the Blood Hospital

    Inside a hospital room in number 1888, a kid named Jack was unconscious on a bed, and his consciousness was coming back.


    ''Wait, where am I?'' He thought.


    Jack looked around his surroundings, saw he was in a hospital, and thought, ''I don''t know how I got here. But my gut tells me to leave here as quickly as possible.''


    Then suddenly, a scream from outside the area came into his room, so he went to the door to see the commotion.


    On the outside, a man with a white suit and top hat killed a nurse with a gun silencer. And this man smiled when he saw Jack looking at him.


    Jack noticed that and closed the door super fast. After completing the door, he scanned the area to find a weapon. It did not matter to him what type of weapon.


    ''Shit... There is nothing here!''


    There was nothing that he could lift that could protect him from the killer(s).


    His second plan was to escape from the window next to his bed, but when he looked out, it was super high level from the ground: jumping from there would be suicide.


    A few seconds later, the man who killed the nurse entered the room, so Jack had no choice but to fight with the man, but he had trouble luck because after one man entered, a dozen more went inside.


    They all had guns with silencers and the same uniforms as the person who killed the nurse. They surround Jack.


    One of the men started talking, "Are you Jack Bowsmen?"


    ''What should I tell him?'' Jack thought, then answered, "Sir, I am not Jack Bowsmen. But I know where he is. If you follow me, I will show you."


    These guys glanced into his eyes for a super long time. It made Jack uncomfortable with how long they were looking into his eyes. However, Jack acted calm because if he didn''t, they would kill Jack!


    ''I hope this works?'' After his thought, the man in the middle said, "Show us the way." They followed him briefly; many dead bodies were on the floor!


    They stopped when they supposedly reached the "Jack Bowsmen" room. But, in reality, they were in different patient rooms. On the other hand, the men in white knew he was Jack Bowsmen.


    They wanted to see his reaction¡ªtwo white suit men blocked Jack from escaping. And he turned around, but all of the attackers surrounded him.


    One of them grabbed his shoulders from behind. And the middle man grabbed a needle from a doctor who was allied with them.


    Jack saw this, and he kicked and screamed, "Let me go!" He was sweating bullets.


    "Don''t let him escape!" The man with the needle said while approaching Jack.


    The man who grabbed Jack was so strong that whatever Jack did, he didn''t budge.


    "Don''t come any closer, you fuckers!" They didn''t care. He was yelling. End of the day, a man with a needle stabbed Jack with it, making him quiet.


    "Now that''s done, we should go back." The man with the needle said after returning the syringe to the doctor.


    One of the men asked the group''s leader, "What should we do with this monster?"


    The leader replied, "You should release the monster from its cage when we leave here. Then run fast after removing it from its cage!"


    Eleven men in white left the building with Jack''s body; one released the monster and ran out of there later.


    Rooooooaaaaaar!


    This roar echoed throughout the entire building.


    ***


    News reports of the accident happened on every news channel.


    A black man with an afro and brown jacket stepped outside his car. Taking out a cigarette, after the smoke, he threw it to the ground. He stepped on it later on. He walked toward the hospital after.


    Two high school girls saw this man and recognized him.


    "Isn''t he the A-rank investigator James Ross?" One of the girls asked her friend, who replied, "I heard, long ago, on the news that some accident happened at his home."


    The other girl replied to her friend, "Oh, I remember now. Why does he still have a job?"


    Ross heard the girls talking behind his back, so one of the girls noticed.


    "I think he heard us. Let''s go somewhere else, just in case." They left the area after that.


    "Sigh, kids don''t have manners these days!"


    Ross thought out loud. Later, James saw his friend and work partner, Samuel Cliffhanger. His work partner had short black hair, white spiral eyes, and a wedding ring on his ring finger.


    Samuel stood outside the building, waving to Ross, and James did the same thing. Then Ross said, "What happened here, Samuel?"


    "Did you not hear the reports of this situation?" Samuel replied.


    "Tell me the report, Samuel!" Cliffhanger said the whole thing to Ross from beginning to end.


    "I understand. But why is anybody not going inside?"


    Samuel replied, " Everyone is afraid to go in there because we heard a strange noise."


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    "If they are scared. I guess I have to investigate."


    He passed through the cops, Investigators, and detectives and was about to enter, but stopped when a detective from the crowd stopped him.


    "James is dangerous in there."


    "I understand you guys are scared, but why are you trying to stop me?"


    He stopped and continued, "Whatever. I go there alone, even if you try to stop me."


    Ross was about to enter the hospital again but stopped when someone called his last name. It was Samuel.


    "Ross... Ross. Wait, I''m coming¡ª Coming with you."


    "Why are you running, Samuel?" He asked.


    "Because if I didn''t run, you probably... You probably walked inside before for me." Samuel was exhausted from running that fast.


    "I thought you were not coming when you were talking with others. If you are coming, then let''s go."


    Before entering, someone else stopped them by saying, "Wait, you two!"


    "What do you want?" Ross said after stopping.


    "Here!"


    He tossed walkie-talkies and flashlights to two of them separately. Samuel caught them easily, and James failed to do so, so he pretended nothing had happened, and others had done the same.


    "Do you want to give us anything else before we go inside?" Ross said to the detective.


    "I can''t stop you when you decide, but I can help you by giving you these. If you are in trouble, communicate with us on the walkie-talkie, and we will immediately help you!"


    They entered the hospital.


    ***


    A man with binoculars was spying on Ross and Samuel at the top of a building. A white hood covered his head.


    ''Hmmm? Which one did the boss say to spy on?''


    His phone stares ranging picks it up, and later hangs up.


    "Finally, the boss gave me something interesting to do instead of a spying mission. Now then, Let The Hunting Begin!!" He licks his lips after finishing talking to himself.


    Inside the hospital, darkness covered everything.


    "It seems like the lights are off here, Samuel, and we need to stay together to have more firepower."


    Samuel understood him, and they walked beside each other. They wanted to find an electricity room to restore the lights before trying to go to the security room. They found a map.


    "The electricity room is downstairs."


    Samuel was going downstairs when he heard a strange noise. Before trying to


    investigate the noise. He asked Ross first.


    "Ross, did you hear that? That was like someone was laughing menacingly?"


    "Samuel, what are you talking about?"


    "It''s nothing. Let''s move, Ross!" When James said that, Cliffhanger thought his mind was playing tricks on him.


    In the distance, a soft clapping noise formed, making everything dark, and their flashlights died.


    "Shit. It is the worst time for my flashlight battery to die. Samuel, do you have a spare?"


    Samuel responded, "I don''t have a spare flashlight, Ross... Mine died as well."


    Ross took a walkie-talkie out of his pocket, but the sweat on his hands made it slip and fall to the ground.


    Thump!


    It was dark to see, so he asked his friend, "Samuel, contact others."


    "We need help. Our flashlights drained themselves very fast, over."


    "Roger, we are coming to help."


    "Help is coming their way." Samuel said, and Ross replied, "Let''s wait until they reach us."


    They took out their guns. Ross and Samuel stand back to back with each other.


    Outside of the hospital, the police took their weapons and flashlights before going inside the place.


    The white-clothed man heaps from a building. He turned invisible after landing on the ground. He starts running toward the cops.


    Without one cop''s knowledge, a hand spikes this individual''s neck from behind. Without anyone''s understanding, they all drop dead to the floor.


    The only one left was the detective who gave Ross and Samuel items.


    He had bad fleeing after feeling it was too quiet behind him. There was a mountain of corpses in front of him. He panicked and fried his gun everywhere until no bullet was left. Without a glance of the enemy, he died by hand, stabbed in his throat.


    "I will not let people like you disturb its prey!"


    Back to James Ross and Samuel Cliffhanger. Ross heard a strange voice, and he yelled.


    "Who are you? Show you''re yourself!"


    "Samuel, get ready to shoot!" Samuel still needs to respond.


    "Did you hear me?"


    Ross asked Samuel once again. Samuel was silent.


    "Nice joke, now talk!" Ross was getting a little annoyed at Samuel.


    "Samuel, answer me!" James gets a little worried this time, so he tries to find Samuel without seeing anything, but he can''t feel him anywhere.


    "What is going, uh¨C?!" Ross got punched in the gut and then fell to the floor.


    To be continued.

 Trapped In the Blood Hospial

    Ross opened his eyes and saw he was still in the hospital by seeing the ceiling. He tried to move from his bed, but he felt he could not move from the bed, as if something had grabbed his limbs, and he would not let go.


    "When did I get chained?" Ross''s voice echoed after speaking after notching chains imprisoned on his limbs.


    James moved his head to the right from the bed and saw a bottle of poison on a table next to the bed. Before reaching the toxin, he tested which chains could break easily.


    First, he tugged his hands, trying for a minute, and the chain busted into pieces. He tried to do the same with his legs, which were harder to pull.


    ''Wow, these are harder than pulling my hand chains.''


    ''I guess I have to use the toxin from the table


    from the table over there.''


    Ross attempts to grab a bottle of toxins from the table, moving it a little forward, almost dropping it to the ground.


    ''Sigh, that was close.'' After taking a deep breath, he moves it slowly forward toward him.


    ''This is easier with seeing what position the bottle is on.''


    His eyes weren''t focusing on the table, only on the ground, so it was hard, but he continued slowly.


    A minute passes when James finally grasps the bottle of poison and brings it in front of him. He opened the capsule with his hands.


    ''I need to pour the chains carefully so as not to damage myself.''


    After his thought, he pours the venom onto the leftover chains, carefully not melting his flesh. They melted, freeing Ross from chains.


    ***


    James got up from bed, looked around the room, and saw a speaker and a security camera on the wall.


    "Testing... testing... is it working? I see you freed yourself. impressive." From the speaker, a woman''s cute and deadly voice was coming out of it.


    "Who are you? And why are you horrible at trap design? Come on, you make some chains easily breakable with just a pull. But I give it to you for putting a bottle of poison far away from my reach to make it harder for me."


    For some reason, James Ross gives his kidnapper a tip about how to make it hard.


    ''Why am I helping my enemy?'' He didn''t even know why.


    "My name is Diamond, a member of the infamous White Clan, and you are a very funny guy."


    "Wait, what that means? You fools will ruin people''s lives, just as you did to my past! I wish your group had stayed in the past and never returned!"


    "If you have trauma from us, then I don''t need to explain what White Clan is about to you¡­ Thank God!"


    "Where is my partner Samuel¡­ Where is he!"


    "You mean that man that was with you? If you meant him, I will not tell you it''s a secret!"


    Ross''s plans changed when he got caught. At first, he was to solve the murder in the hospital, but now he got caught by the White Clan; he knew who was responsible for the killings, so instead of doing that, he tried finding Samuel and his jacket and exited.


    Without saying anything to Diamond, James left his imprisoned room. The enemy tried to stop him from taking a few more steps by talking.


    "Don''t go any further. You be food for this hungry monster roaming around in the corridors!"


    Ross continued ?without listening to her.


    "Fine, go ahead straight towards the monster''s stomach." She shakes her head from becoming disappointed in James.


    "You are part of the White Clan and kidnapped me and tied me in the bed; you expect me to listen to you."


    Ross ignored her once more, entering inside darkness without any light, all broken.


    As a smart plan, James Ross went toward the wall, touched it, and moved forward slowly. From a distance, Ross''s ears heard a roar and a scream.


    "Yo, I got hungry from that teenager screaming."


    Diamond goes to the fridge and grabs a cold pizza to munch.


    James Ross heard Dimond''s monologue about how she loves cold pizza, and different people''s breathing was coming out of the speakers.


    The most worrying thing for Ross is that the roar he heard has started up again, and it is much, much louder and closer than before.


    ***


    Ross didn''t want to deal with that, so he went


    in a different direction from the noise. Surprisingly, there was another room, and he found it without the help of any light.


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    James heard a thudding sound hitting the hard concrete floor while walking toward the next area.


    "Grand beef is cooking in the next room, Mr. Whatever your name is."


    Diamond still thinks she is distracting James by speaking from the speaker. Ross does not pay attention to her remarks.


    In the area, there is a sphere in the ceiling that opens up, repeatability summoning dead bodies that got killed, going straight toward the ground. Then, the floor opens up, and corpses fall into a vacuum without any trace. The only place that light shines at.


    "Are dead people falling from the ceiling? How in the world did they do this in a short amount of time? And do I feel like I''ve been in this room before?"


    James had a D¨¦j¨¤ vu for this place, and Ross talked out loud without knowing his enemies could hear him.


    Diamond heard Ross thinking loudly, so she started thinking very hard about what he had said.


    ''Interesting. James Ross was supposed to faint in this exact time and place without getting.


    She thought hard until Diamond couldn''t come up with an answer, so she explained it to the person next to her.


    "Hey bro, can you explain why our boss got his production wrong?" Diamond was on an emotional roller coaster from what she heard.


    "Diamond, I''m not your bro. I have a name. One more thing: I''m not going to answer your question." The man behind Diamond spoke in a very deep voice.


    "Oh, for the fuck''s sake, it''s you being in here and not your crazy and fun brother!"


    Diamond thought this guy was boring, and she knew his brother was more fun than him.


    "Do you have any other pastimes instead of being miserable about seeing mee every time, lik little brother?"


    "Anyway, do you need anything else to tell me before I leave?"


    "No, return to whatever you were doing, and don''t return until your bro shows up!"


    He fled before she finished talking, and Diamond didn''t notice him disappearing from the room until she was done praising his brother.


    James Ross left the room with a waterfall of bodies and entered a different area.


    In the room, there was a random brown table in the heart of the place with a chair beside it. At the ceiling, there was a black-and-white ceiling fan. A light bulb was inside the core of the fan, blinking every few seconds and hovering above the table.


    On the chair, there was his brown jacket. James goes towards the table and grabs the coat.


    ''I find my jacket now. I should find my friend. Then leave.''


    He puts it on, searching his pockets to see if anything is missing. Nothing important was lost.


    Now Ross has his jacket on and grabs the flashlight from his pocket.


    "I hope you work." The flashlight was shining like it was new.


    ''It''s working again. When it entered here, it died. How strange!"


    After seeing the flashlight batteries were new. Ross remembered that he didn''t have a walkie-talkie in his pockets. He searched, and there was no talking device.


    Ross''s trusty revolver had all six bullets inside the barrel, and his golden brass knuckles were in his pockets.


    ''Ah, I can''t contact the outside world. How horrible luck. It''s fine. I don''t need help.''


    While he was walking, an item fell from his pocket. Ross didn''t notice it. James heard a whisper, turned around, and saw nobody there.


    ''Weird, I heard a person faintly saying, "Bingo." Whatever, it''s probably my brain tricking me again!''


    An hour he was passed when he found his brown jacket and saw the sign saying exit in Colorlish, the Color Kingdom language.


    Unlucky, he didn''t find his friend, but he made it this far and would not return to search for him.


    ''Sorry, Samuel! That I am leaving you behind. I wanted to find you, but I didn''t expect to find the exit first, so I hope you find the way out.''


    James opens the door to the outside world, and sunlight shines through his beautiful black face.


    He was about to leave the hospital, but suddenly, someone in front of him punched his gut, making him collapse to the ground.


    Before fainting the second time, he saw with his blurry vision the face of the person who attacked him without knowing what they looked like. Then his eyes closed.


    To be continued.

 Iron Jaw Monster

    Once again, he wakes up in the same bed and room, but luckily, no chains are holding him back anymore, so he easily stands up from the bed like it''s another day.


    After he stood up, Diamond started to talk to Ross from the speaker.


    "Welcome, welcome, to your enteral domain!"


    "You''re annoying that you are bringing me here, so don''t talk!"


    ''Now that I''ve returned here, I have to find Samuel. But I also have to fight that monster now.''


    James thought and talked to Diamond simultaneously. After finishing, James went outside of the patient''s room.


    James saw his jacket was gone again, so he went to where he went last time. He reached the area with bodies falling from calling to the void, going straight forward toward the table room where his jacket was sitting on the table.


    A new security camera and a new and improved speaker were added to this area.


    He didn''t notice the banana pile on the ground. Ross approached the table and tried to grab the jacket, but he suddenly fell onto a hard concrete floor.


    Thud!


    Ross''s butt received the punishment for his worse noticing skills.


    "Ouch, what in the world was that?"


    He looked down and finally saw the banana.


    ''That would be embarrassing if someone saw that.''


    Dimond saw him falling from a banana in the security camera room, and she started laughing uncontrollably.


    "Hahaha, Haha... You''re being funny, James Ross. I sometimes wish my clan was like that, sometimes."


    Somehow, her laughter made her hungry. Plus, tears of joy were coming down from her eyes.


    Ross stands up from the fall and pretends he never fell thar a banana. But he couldn''t keep his smile away from his face, so he grabbed his jacket from the table without any casualties.


    He wears his jacket and, again, checks his pockets. Nothing was missing besides the walkie-talkie.


    Before going to the right, he heard something from the exit, so he went, finding a concrete wall inside the doorway.


    "Uh, what? There was a door supposed to be here. What happened?" That sound heard was nothing.


    "I placed this concrete to make you do something different and interesting, and it does protect you from him temperately anyway. Go back to the beginning, Mr. Investigator."


    Ross returned to the beginning, where he was unconscious, and walked to the other side.


    ''Samuel, I hope you are here somewhere because I get hit in the stomach too often to find you. And please, exit on this side, not be covered by a wall.''


    Roar!


    The monster''s roar was too far away from him, sounding like two bears were fighting.


    He tied the flashlight to his jacket and filled the barrel with six bullets from his revolver, going toward the sound.


    Slowly hiding and watching the monster moving to avoid it, but unlucky, the beast heard him


    from the tools in his pocket.


    The thing in the distance made a mad dash toward James after hearing Ross.


    The A-ranked investigator saw and heard the monster was near his nose, so he fired a bullet, jumping out of the way when it tried to ram him.


    However, the monster''s jaw reflects on him, and luckily, he hits the wall next to James.


    He was tired, but there was no time to rest when the monster was close enough to bite his head off. It did try. Ross ducks under attack, avoiding becoming a headless chicken.


    The attack Ross avoided hit another wall, making a crater. He took the opportunity to go as far as possible.


    He got far back and shot the monster''s head, but nothing happened to it. It loosened its head from the wall and blocked it with its jaw. No bouncing happened.


    The eye''s color changed from purple to red, with yellow-orange lighting flaring from its red body.


    Roaring once again, and started chasing its prey. Ross evaded the monster''s bite and ran further away. But the beast still got close, launching itself toward Ross.


    Ross fired all six bullets, but they got blocked or ricocheted by the jaw.


    James Ross stupidly raised his left arm, getting demolished? by the iron jaw! His favorite hand was gone forever!


    Lots of blood dropped into the ground, making him faint from blood loss. Before his eyes, Ross saw two mysterious people and the jaw monster sitting quietly. His eyes shut!


    ***


    In a bedroom, a man and woman are sleeping next to each other on a king-size bed. ?Suddenly, the man woke up while screaming his gut out!


    "No, No, No, No!?!" After the loud noise, the man starts to take a deep breath, which wakes his wife up.


    She put her small hand on her husband''s body and calmly asked a short question while she was a little worried about him after waking up.


    "Honey, did you see the same nightmare you always had?" The man replied to his wife by whispering.


    "This time was different." He was sweating bullets, and the bed covers were wet.


    "Honey, tell me what happened?" Her angelic voice made her husband at ease for a bit.


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    "I''ll tell you the short version. I was in an unknown building, trying to move my body, but I couldn''t. I saw two shadows before me, and one of them had tons of eyes looking at me. It moved toward me, and that''s why I screamed in the middle of the night."


    The man told the woman next to him some parts of the nightmare.


    "If my full memories come back about the nightmares tomorrow, I would tell you, my bumblebee!" The wife takes her wrist off the husband''s body and shuts her eyelids.


    The man approached the closet to change his sweaty shirt into a different-colored and different-textured T-shirt. Then he went back to bed.


    The Next Morning:


    A green alarm clock was ringing to wake the person sleeping next to it. A hand was approaching the clock, pressing it to stop.


    A young man with blonde hair yawned when he woke from bed. He looked at the time and said, "It''s 8.00 am... I have time to sleep!"


    He was about to go back to sleep but remembered it was 8 in early morning.


    "Wait, it''s eight. I will be late for school if I don''t move fast."


    He goes to the bathroom just outside his room to shower, brush his teeth, make his hair with a lot of gel, and finally, put on his school clothes.


    The kid chacks the time again.


    "Yes, under 25 minutes. The school bus would come any minute now."


    He ran downstairs towards the kitchen.


    A man in a brown coat was reading a newspaper, wearing a hat on top of his head. His legs were on top of a long wooden brown table.


    "Are you going to school today, kiddo?" he asks the child after he emerges from the bedroom.


    "You should know the answer, Dad?"


    After he replies to his dad, he grabs a chocolate chip donut from the fridge.


    "Honey, first thing in the morning, you should eat a healthier breakfast than that donut you''re holding." The young man''s mom said.


    "Mom, I don''t have much time left for a time-consuming breakfast when the school bus is about to leave." When the young man was about to leave the house, his father stopped him.


    "Kiddo, the bus left seven minutes ago." When the son heard his dad say that, he worried about being late, but his father reassured him.


    "Don''t worry. I will drive you to the school."


    "Thanks, Dad."


    Inside the garage, only two cars could fit; one of the automobiles was red. A remote opened


    garage door automatically after getting pressed.


    "Did you have the same nightmare again, Dad?"


    He was concerned about his dad''s mental health when, every night, he heard his father screaming.


    "It was different," the dad replies to his son. The kid is curious about his dream, so he asks anyway.


    "Can you describe the nightmare to me, Dad?"


    The father told his son everything he could remember from the nightmare. He made it much shorter than he had said to his wife the night before.


    They reached the school, and the kid exited the car and ran towards it while thinking about getting late.


    He didn''t even wave goodbye to his dad. He would be on time for school. It was about what his dad said before he stepped outside the car.


    Dad said two minutes before, "Do you have a minute, kiddo?"


    The kid stopped whatever he was doing when he heard his dad say, and he replied with a simple word.


    "Yea?"


    "Son, do you smoke at school?!" The son''s emotions went from joyful to guilty very fast.


    "What are you talking about, Dad?!"


    "Stop lying. The cigarettes sent are all over you. Sure, you used strong perfume to cover the smell. You can''t hide it from m-?" The son left the car before his dad could finish what he was saying.


    ''Sigh, Kids these days. I should comfort him later!'' The man was about to leave the school when his phone buzzed.


    ''Hmm? What does my boss want?" He picks up the phone call up. When the boss finished talking, he replied.


    "Understand, I need to call my wife first to tell her that. I am going to work today. Have a nice day!" The man hangs up the call and then calls his wife.


    "Honey, I am working today!" The wife asked him not to go to work, but he couldn''t, so he promised her he would be home before lunch.


    "You know, I keep my words to you. I would be home." After the discussion ended, the man hung up and returned to his job.


    He reached his building and entered the parking lot that connected it to this man''s work. A bald man was collecting money from the drivers to open the parking lot gate.


    It was his turn. A bald gentleman told him how much money it cost to open the gate.


    "Sir, you need to pay me 10 Rainbows!".


    (10 Rainbows roughly equals 1 U.S dollar),


    Finally, the man parked his car. Later, he went inside the building and entered the elevator. That lift slowly went up to the 30th floor.


    5... 10... 15... 20... 25... 30...


    Ultimately, he reached his office, and someone was waiting for him.


    "Glad you made it, James!"

 Phone Call

    Ultimately, he reached the office where he was working, and someone was waiting for him.


    "Glad you made it, James!"


    The boss was seated atop a desk, waiting for James to appear in the office.


    "Sigh, why did you call me Tim?" James asked, and Tim replied.


    "Sorry for ruining your family time, but I called you for this."


    Tim dropped from the desk and pointed his finger toward the papers next to where he was sitting. Ross instantly knew when he saw sheets on the table it was for labor.


    "Sigh? You called me to do the job for you. You are wasting my family''s time. I have no time for you, and I am leaving."


    Tim tried to explain himself, but James did not want to hear what he was saying and went to the exit. Before he could leave, Tim grabbed his left arm.


    Ross felt dizzy and nauseous ?when he felt his hand getting grabbed, and Tim''s words were mumblings to him. James fainted!


    He opened his eyes, seeing the office around him covered in darkness, without anybody except a mysterious shadowy figure.


    It manifested in front ?of Ross and whispered, "James Ross, don''t worry. Everything will be fine." After that line, it vanished and brought the darkness with it.


    James wakes up from sleep seeing his wife and son next to him crying¡ªespecially his wife, whimpering heavily


    Her head was on top of her arms, and her arms were on the bed where Ross rested.


    The son was also crying, but he didn''t flood the bed with tears like his mother. They were tearing up that they didn''t notice him walking up.


    "Guys¡­ guys, why are you crying like this is my funeral!"


    Out of nowhere, his son hugged him tightly, making him tear up, and his son said, "I was worried about you, Dad."


    James squeezes his son back, "Don''t worry about me. I am fine." Ross replied while tears were falling.


    "Dad, are you crying?"


    Ross, without trying to admit, "Did someone cut onions here?" He replied to his son with a joke.


    "Dad, there is no kitchen here."


    Ross makes another excuse, "Oh, right. It''s the dust. The dust went into my eyes."


    "That''s more believable, Dad!"


    His wife was there crying and was about to say something to her husband until the doctor came to ask questions.


    The doctor had pieces of paper on a clipboard and a pen in her hands to write answers.


    "Hello, Mr. James Ross. Can I ask you some questions?" She was getting ready to write the response.


    "Of course, you can."


    The doctor asked the first question, "Do you feel any pain?"


    "Will, doc, I don''t feel any pain."


    She puts down the response on the paper and asks another.


    "Um... The man who brought you here said you suddenly collapsed when he touched you. Tell me how or why it happened. If you don''t mind?"


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    Ross had a hard time answering this question, but eventually, the doctor got her answer.


    "Yes, Tim grabbed my hand, making me faint. I remember having blurry vision and hearing loss for a short period."


    The doctor wrote everything she heard from Ross and said, "Sir, I need to take your blood pressure. Stay here. I would be back in a minute."


    "Honey, did my sister call you?" Ross asked.


    "I called her multiple times, but she wouldn''t answer my calls!"


    Ross''s wife cleaned the tears from her eyelashes with a tissue when she talked to her husband.


    ***


    James Ross''s wife is the most gorgeous lady in the Milky Way Galaxy. Her natural beauty outshines most women with makeup. She is a year younger than her husband.


    Her career as a high school teacher has been very great. The students respect and like her personality and beauty more than other teachers. Secretly, most students have a crush on her.


    Some teachers respect her for her ability to teach kids to learn and for being good with kids.


    Few people are jealous of Ross for marrying her.


    Her natural black hair brightens the night sky, and her lush green eyes make people blush.


    The clothes Shine when she wears them, even if it''s ungodly ugly as if god especially made them for her.


    She is very into nerdy things that her son is into, like anime and video games. The funny part is that she likes those things more than her son.


    Sometimes, when her son puts on a random anime show or video game on the family TV, she forgets what she was doing and does things she likes.


    Another funny thing is that she beats her son in


    any video game all the time, even though he tells her how to play. She knows more about the story of her son''s favorite anime than he.


    Now, James''s son turns. Like his mother and father, he''s a very handsome young boy, making him the popular kid in school in the same place where his mom works.


    His girlfriend turned his hair from brown to blond to fit in with popular kids more.


    Everything is not perfect for him, though. Without his mom and dad''s knowledge, he bullies anyone he thinks is weaker or uglier than him.


    Once in school, he spilled coffee on a student because the student accidentally bumped into his shoulder.


    For starting fights with anyone, he got a nickname, Bloodthirsty Gorilla. His smarts make his actions impossible to find.


    He bullies people in some places that no teacher knows about with ''friends.''


    It''s game over for him if he gets caught, especially if his mother finds out about his act. His fa?ade of being the angel of heaven revealed that he is a demon from hell. His victims hate him so much that they want to kill him if they can.


    His appearance is the same eye color as his mother, the same skin color, and a similar nose shape as his father. His favorite entertainment is anime, and video games, even though he sucks at them. Reading books is also his favorite activity.


    He knows Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu but uses it for the wrong reasons, like bullying people. He goes to tournaments and beats people who are older than him.


    ***


    The next day, James Ross woke up from ringing in the hospital. He heard the buzzing coming from the black jacket on a chair next to his bed.


    He stands up from the bed and gets the phone. Seeing his son was calling him, so he picked up.


    An unknown voice was coming from the phone.


    "Hello? Are you Mr. James Ross? You better hurry before your family burns alive!"


    "Not a funny prank, son. Explain yourself without your friend''s involvement."


    "You think this is a prank? No, this is not a prank but a real event called killing! Here''s proof if your family is trapped inside with burning around them."


    The mysterious man sends the picture of his family, blindfolded and tied in a chair, and cannot move with fire spreading around them!


    From seeing the picture, Ross runs toward his home. A nurse saw him running and tried to stop him with words.


    "Hey, you stop. You can not run away from here when we did not discharge you yet."


    The nurse had difficulty breathing after chasing him like she lost James.


    The nurse tried to call security to stop him, but they were on a lunch break, or they were too tired to help her. The next best thing for the nurse is to call the doctor who treated him to get better.


    "Dr. Monica... Dr. Monica, patient James Ross is escaping the hospital."


    The nurse was breathing loudly and loudly every time she talked, and the doctor replied to the nurse.


    "He was getting discarded today anyway. Let him go."


    James tried to call his sister, but as she was out of the city, the call went nowhere. Remembering that, he instantly called his wife, but it went to voice message.


    He took a taxi to go to his home. He had no


    time to start his car. After reaching it, he rushed into his smoke-filled house without hesitation?; there were no firefighters to stop him or rescue people inside and put the fire out.


    Before entering, he tore a piece of his jacket to cover his nose and mouth from the smoke and yelled his family name after entering the house.


    He checked every nook and cranny of the button floor but didn''t find his wife and kid. Only some and fire were visible


    He was about to go upstairs, but a wooden board from calling fell on him, making him unconscious.


    Ross wakes up from sleeping, seeing no fire and smoke anywhere near him but a monster feet away from him, not moving.


    He noted, after waking up, that something was different about him that he couldn''t have an answer to yet.


    "Huh! What happened to my-"


    To be continued.

 Horse & Shoe

    After waking up, he noticed something was different about his left arm. A steel prosthetic arm replaced it. On the side of it, XIO was written. Ross was confused about how he got a prosthetic limb when he was not conscious and didn''t go limb replacer. It was a mystery to him.


    ''Wait, what happened to my limb?!''


    Before he could answer his question, another one came to his mind, ''How am I still alive, and why didn''t it kill me?''


    His question is answered when the monster dashes toward James, smashing into an invisible barrier and making a loud noise. When hitting the shield, an outline rushes from bottom to top. However, it was damaged so badly that one more strike would shatter it. So, a second later, it went inside the barrier.


    Ross thought of a way to find Samuel and the exit, but his thoughts were interrupted when the Iron Jaw destroyed the barrier. It jumped toward Ross, almost about to bite his head off if he didn''t block the attack. The XI0 was inside the Iron Jaw Monster''s mouth.


    James hit the monster''s side with his other hand, making it fly back. Sparks of dust were created after the beast hit the wall.


    Nothing happened to his left arm when it was inside of the strong monster''s maw. It was strong.


    ''Wow, my new hand is strong!'' He thought after seeing that.


    The monster gets up, and fairs of light come from its eyes, followed by dashing toward James.


    The Iron Jaw Monster jumped over Ross, surprising him when it went behind him, so James clapped his hands. Shock waves from clapping threw James and the monster backward.


    ***


    From the XI0, nanobots dashed toward his back, forming a protective black armor inside his back, protecting him.


    The Iron Jaw Monster prevented it from getting injured by using its jaw, which stuck it into the wall. However, it forcefully removed its jaw from the wall by consuming lots of drywall to get unstuck. After escaping, it rushed toward James.


    When Diamond saw shockwaves, she threw her lunch to the ground in the security room, wasting well-done steak and gravy on top.


    "James, you are a cheater. Whatever that shadow was, it gave you that arm¡ªthen placed a barrier to protect you from my master''s design until you came back." She was walking around while talking to herself.


    "Should I call him?"


    A man appeared behind the darkness and said, "Who are you trying to call, Diamond?" He was always there waiting for Diamond to stop talking to herself.


    "Holy shit! You sacred daylight of me, Horse?!" She jumped up after he suddenly talked.


    He asked again, "Who are you talking about, Diamond?"


    She replied to Horse, "I was talking about your brother, Shoe. Happy now!"


    "Why?"


    Diamond was getting angry with Horse bit by bit, so she was about to snap if Horse didn''t decide to summon his brother, Shoe.


    He didn''t want to deal with her anger, so Horse cut the flesh from his hand with his bare hands without fleeing pain, tossing it in the air, wobbling and wobbling until it glowed green. It formed into a human shape with a mouth, eyes, ears, brain, heart, limbs, and other things humans need to function. The body from the flesh of the Horse was Shoe, his younger brother, who had crashed into the ground from the air.


    ''Talk about a flashy entrance!'' She was impressed.


    "Diamond? What do you want from me?"


    "I wasn''t expecting your brother to summon you." She counted, "Now that you are here, I have an order to tell you about."


    Diamond shared her thoughts about Ross''s situation with the brothers. They listened and left after hearing her.


    Horse and Shoe twin conjoined brothers with complicated bodies of having the same body most of the time. However, the difference between them and common conjoined twins is that they are not stuck. They both are inside of a single body and operate normally. If they want to separate, they need to cut one of their skin and toss it up.


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    The twins have different personalities, with Shoe, the younger brother, being talkative. He will talk for days and nights if nobody stops him. Diamond and Shoe get along very well, even if she sometimes annoys him.


    Horse, unlike his younger brother, is very quiet. Only he talks to Diamond, not even with his brother or the boss. No one in the White Clan knows why he''s not as calm and silent toward Diamond. Is it to annoy her with his question, or does he like her? Who knows how his mind process works? Only Shoe knows. They have the same mind, after all. But he keeps quiet about his older brother''s secrets.


    The twins, Horse and Shoe, always change their control over the body they share. For example, one brother might walk and speak, and the other see, think, smell, etc. They mastered it by constantly doing it for the rest of their lives!


    The shared body''s appearance is different from that of their separate bodies. They have gorgeous red wine-colored eyes, beautiful black hair shining, and a top hat. Armor patches on their elbows and kneecaps protect and boost their attacks, while a white hood covers their faces. In this state, their allies called them HorseShoe.


    Shoe''s speed is slightly faster than his older brother, Horse, when he''s in a different body. He would be dangerous with his primary weapon of choice, his hands! His speed is so fast that people get stabbed by Shoe and don''t realize they are impaled until they die!


    The older brother, Horse, would be way quicker than his younger brother, Shoe if his Flow weren''t wasted too much. However, his ancient dagger helps him when he stabs his enemy with it. Not only does it injure them, but it also drains people''s Flow, which gets penetrated. Only Horse could use it.


    ***


    James was riding the monster back without letting it go, punching it constantly with a robotic fist and right fist with his brass knuckles.


    "Die you, ungodly creature!"


    James and the beast were tired of fighting each other and wanted to finish it off quickly, so the beast violently shook Ross out of its back to throw Ross off.


    That plan failed, so it ran around like a hooligan, breaking a couple of pillars along the way, making Ross thrown out from its back, and hitting many supports. Ross wasn''t fleeing any pain when Model XI0''s powers were active by forming steel around his body to protect its user from injuries.


    The Iron Jaw Monster finally got freed from Ross. It got tiring doing the same thing, so it opened its mouth, a railgun raised from its stomach to its mouth, and charging quickly. Without warning, it fires a boiling-temperature beam of light from the railgun toward Ross, which hits his left arm without anything happening.


    James and Diamond were surprised that Model XI0 did not melt from the attack, which made Diamond remember what her boss said.


    "The boss said that the railgun from the Iron Jaw only melts human skin and human-made technology! It is good to know that stupid shadow wasn''t a human. You might as well have plot armor, Mr. James Ross, or should I call it plot arm?"


    The monster wasn''t smart enough not to do the same thing to fire another hot temperature beam at James, which Ross blocked with his left hand, reflecting it to the monster. The laser''s hot temperature stabbed into the monster''s skin, causing a small molten pimple to grow rapidly until it turned Iron Jaw into ashes and fell into the ground. Diamond was wrong; XI0 easily could withstand it.


    "Do I remember what he told me, right?" Diamond questioned when Iron Jaw died by the same beam.


    "I need to copy that overkill power into my attacks." Ross loudly spoke to himself.


    Clap!


    Clap-clap!


    Clapping sounds from two directions were coming closer to Ross. When the cheering ended, a person from the shadows started talking.


    "We are impressed that you killed our boss''s creation without effort."


    James started being on edge when he felt two strong auras around him. He looked around at two entrances where people could enter that area and yelled, "Show yourselves!"


    "As you wish!"


    Their voices faded, and they appeared in front of his ears and whispered into his ears, "Your sentence is death!"


    Before getting stabbed by the enemy''s hand, he grabs the enemy''s hand and throws it into the ground, blood pouring out of the enemy''s mouth from the impact.


    "Your Sight is impressive." They clapped their hands.


    "However, can you defend yourself from two people? Horse, it''s time to attack!"


    From behind, Ross gets stabbed, but armor protects him, so seeing that the twin brothers, Horse and Shoe, retreat into darkness.


    "Diamond was right about him having plot armor, right Horse?" These brothers have telepathic abilities when they separate.


    It doesn''t matter if he has the most powerful armor. Together, we can still kill him," Horse said.


    They lose track of time when they start discussing Ross''s weaknesses and how to stop armor from forming when he gets attacked.


    "Who are you, two?!" Ross said.


    Shoe responded cockily, "HorseShoe... Now you know our name. It''s time to say goodbye!"


    Ross cracked his fingers, not the robot ones, and answered,


    "Let''s see if you guys can!"


    To be Continued.

 Shy Cliffhanger Ross

    "Let''s see if you guys can!"


    Ross punched one of the twins, but the attack failed, and Shoe did a knife-hand strike on Ross''s neck, making him get thrown backward.


    Shoe teleports toward Ross, and he calf kicks Ross into oblivion, making James not react quickly. Then he kicks him again, but Ross grabs Shoe and is about to smash him into the ground, but the enemy teleports to his behind.


    The older brother, Horse, and his younger brother, Shoe, attacked Ross simultaneously behind and in front.


    ''James Ross is so weak, brother.'' He said in a communication with his brother from his mind.


    ''That''s why I regard my congratulations to our enemy Horse!''


    He was talking to his brother with his mind while hitting Ross with both hands, and his brother Horse was using the dagger. Ross had difficulty focusing on his enemies when they were teleporting everywhere, damaging him without the nanobots of model XI0 protecting him.


    Ross tried to focus, but Shoe appeared behind his back and tapped his back, making him turn around. However, when he did that, Shoe was nowhere to be seen.


    After being teleported, Shoe said, "I am here, not there." After James followed the voice, HorseShoe hit him front and behind. Then Horse appeared in front of his face, and his feet smashed James''s chin.


    ''We need to finish him quickly before we connect. So I have an idea.''


    "Hey pal, look down!"


    James looks down, making Shoe not suspect anything, so Ross grabs the enemy''s neck when he teleports from above his head and says, "Gotcha!"


    Smashing him into the ground and making his bones break from the impact, making him unconscious. The older brother, Horse, tried to help his brother by stabbing his dagger. Without moving his legs, James Ross captured Horse with his hand, looking down on his younger brother Shoe.


    Looking up at the older brother''s face, Ross threw the White Clan member into the air, and a kick flew into his stomach, making Horse crash into many walls, breaking them.


    Ross approached Horse and said, "Hmmm, what should I do to you?" He saw Shoe''s body on the ground and had an idea. "I have an idea!"


    Grabbing Horse by the collar and dragging him to his brother, Ross tossed him onto his twin''s body when reaching Shoe.


    When he did that, a woman''s voice came out of the siblings'' bodies, repeatedly saying, "Time up," while smoke emerged from their bodies. James was surprised and wanted to know what was happening, so he went closer.


    A bright light suddenly shone from the brothers, blinding Ross for about a second. When his eyes adjusted, HorseShoe vanished into thin air.


    "Your tricks wouldn¡¯t work anymore. Come out!¡±


    Ross thought they were tricking him again, but he got nothing out of it until sudden pain accrued in his mind, bringing a little information about Model XI0¡¯s abilities and how the nanobots form.


    Any impact James Ross receives, the nanobots traveling with his red blood cells, the shining black armor forms in his skin to protect the body part that''s about to receive damage. The only weakness that information gives Ross is that his armor can''t protect him when his Flow energy is low. It¡¯s true for every Flow user.


    The sudden information made Ross faint once again. He wakes up an hour later. ''I need to see a doctor or something after I find Samuel.''


    However, Ross searched every nook and cranny of the hospital without finding Samuel, so he decided to leave.


    "Sorry, Samuel, I am leaving here without you. I searched this hospital for five hours to find you, but you are nowhere to be found." After saying that, he left the place after being there for a day straight.


    After not seeing it for a day, he finally saw the beautiful sunlight and stepped outside, seeing someone familiar. There was a group of police officers outside, keeping watch of the exit, but he didn''t notice them when nonexistent people blamed their misfortune on him.


    James wasn''t bothered about them anymore, so he ignored his thoughts, and eventually, they disappeared.


    ***


    After ignoring his mind, his sister''s happy face became more visible to him than before. His younger sister, Shy, hugged him when he went toward her. Her long blonde hair touched Ross''s back.


    "I was so worried about you when I heard the news about the police outside, got slaughtered, and they couldn''t find you and Samuel... Now that I mentioned Samuel, where is my husband James?"


    "He was with me inside the hospital this morning, but we separated. I tried to find him but couldn''t. I searched everywhere, and the White Clan was getting my way from looking for him sooner. Sorry, Shy, for losing Samuel!"


    "Don''t be sorry, James. It is not your fault. That''s why they are searching for you two. Now you here, Samuel, be next. The only thing I hope is he''s okay."


    An investigator emerged from the police and said, "Mr. James Ross and Mrs. Shy Cilffhanger Ross. The man you mentioned is with us in the next hospital."


    Two hospitals were on the same street, standing on the other side facing each other.


    James and Shy need clarification about how they found Samuel quickly and why they did not inform them earlier. The investigator said he didn''t want to stop the happy reunion with more good news.


    After explaining, they went toward the hospital next to the slaughtered one. It was tiny compared to the other one, but people were living. It is a good trade-off.


    The investigator didn''t know where Samuel was at the entrance, so he asked a nurse.


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    "Excuse me, sir?"


    "Brother, what do you need?" The nurse asked, confusing the investigator.


    "I not your brother!"


    "Come on, man. I know you are not my brother; it''s a form of speech."


    "Anyway, brother, I can''t help you. If I had the list, I could help. Go and find a nurse who might have a list of patients."


    "Thank you, brother." After the investigator said, they went to find someone who might have one.


    A nurse was about to check the patient''s room to see if they had stopped her. Shy asked the nurse to give her the list she was holding, and after a few questions, the nurse gave it to her.


    Samuel''s name was nowhere to be found, which disappointed them, but the woman remembered and said, "Oh, this list needs to be updated. Find someone who has an updated version."


    They left and reached a receptionist''s desk. Shy approached the lady with red high heels and said, "Excuse me, ma''am. Do you have a moment?"


    She crossed her legs and said, "Young lady, what''s the problem?"


    "Do you have a list of updated patients today?"


    The lady questioned Shy until the investigator came and said, "Madam, my friends and I are investigators investigating the murder case from the hospital next street. We want to know which patients were victims of that incident."


    "Oh, shooks. If it''s for an investigation case, then here it is." The female nurse gave Shy the list of names.


    They looked at the list and saw her husband, Samuel Cilffhanger''s name on the clipboard and the room number where he was. When she saw this, Shy was happy. She hugged the investigator and wanted to hug Ross, but he wasn''t there. She puts it back and tries to find Ross to tell him the good news.


    She saw nurses, doctors, and investigators in shock around the hospital. Shy went forward, asking one of the nurses in the area.


    "Excuse me? What''s going on?"


    "A man named James Ross suddenly disappeared after going into that room." After hearing that, Shy ran quickly to the room where the nurse pointed.


    "Be careful... not harm yourself, and your-"


    Shy entered the room to which Ross went. She fainted when she also heard Samuel Cliffhanger with James Ross vanish into thin air. The investigator caught her before she hit the ground.


    "How did James Ross and Samuel Cliffhanger vanish into thin air?"


    A nurse replied, "I was cleaning and saw Mr. James''s left hand connected with Mr. Samuel''s skin."


    Ross appeared in the air, heading toward the ground, but the Model XI0 formed the armor, saving James from the impact.


    Before he could question what had happened, someone called his name, "James? Is that you?" A 70-year-old man with white hair and a cane stood 4 feet away when Ross fell.


    At first, he didn''t recognize the person until he said his name, "You don''t remember your dad''s friend... Mike?"


    Ross remembered him after he said he was Mike.


    "Ohh. Mike, how''s it been?"


    ***


    After knocking on the door multiple times, a woman''s voice spoke in an unknown hidden place.


    "Can I come in, Sir?" The woman had a tiny top hat tattoo on her cheek and a rose tattoo on her arm.


    "Ms. Rose, you may enter."


    Ms. Rose entered and saw a man with a top hat on his head sitting on a comfy chair looking at his knight statue.


    After entering, Ms. Rose said, "Mr.- The A-ranked Investigator, James Ross, killed the Iron Jaw Monster!"


    The man was flaming after what he had heard from Ms. Rose, but he calmly asked, ¡° Is there Anything else?"


    She replied, "Not to make you mad, but the heads of the Japanese Pantheon and the leader of the Persian Pantheon failed to exterminate the target!"


    It made him even angrier, and he yelled, "Ms. Rose, leave before I harm you!" She instantly left.


    "I will punish Horse, Shoe, and Diamond!"


    Ms. Rose came inside and said, "Sir, before you punish them, look at why they got defeated."


    When he saw what Ms. Rose showed him, he relaxed and said, "They need to thank you for making me stop thinking about their punishment, and thanks for the info, Ms. Rose. You can now leave!"


    She left, and the man stared, laughing wildly.


    To be continued.

 9 Hour Show (1)

    "Oh Mike, has it been?"


    Ross said, and Mike replied, "It''s been great. James, I''m happy to see you again after such a long time. I still remember you showed us you were newly married." After saying that, he gave his hand to James.


    James took his hand and said, "Thank you!" But he fell back to the ground when he tried to walk alone.


    "Oh, no! Your bones are broken from the fall. Don''t worry, and let me carry you."


    Ross was hesitant to get carried by an elderly person, but Mike said, "Do not worry. This old man is still strong from Flow training with my wife. These couple of months." He carried Ross toward the lighthouse he and his wife call home.


    Mike Old-city is a 70-year-old man who still can kick ass. He doesn''t let his age distract him from his training on his body and Flow. The only thing that could stop was his vision, which was a little blurry, but wearing glasses has helped. He wears everything comfy to him. He has hundreds of the same clothes, driving his wife crazy.


    Reaching the lighthouse, he goes to his room without seeing his wife, puts James into his bed, and says, "James, what happened to your arm?"


    Ross explained that a monster bit off his arm but could not explain how it became attached in the first place.


    "Hmmm, interesting? James, wait here, watch TV. I will return with a bandage."


    Mike turned on the TV and left the bedroom. Ross wondered how his bones broke when the nanobots saved him¡ªfor other times, so he focused on watching what was on the TV.


    It was a live broadcast of the 9-Hour Show. The new host talked about the old guest, Jeff Spot, with a special guest. The old host did something he shouldn''t have and got fired, so we are going back a few years when Jeff Spot was still the host.


    "Welcome... Welcome, everyone. To 9-Hour Show! I am your host, Jeff Spot, and we have a special guest today!"


    He paused a bit, then proceeded, "Can someone in the audience guess our special guest?"


    Adults and children raised their hands to get picked, so he chose a green-haired girl. She was sitting next to her parents, not expecting to be selected. She said, "You choose me?" While pointing at herself.


    "Yes, young lady! Who is our special guest for today?


    Her parents tried to help her, but she did not didn''t like that, so she said, "Ummm...? My favorite character is Lollipop Girl! She is cool and so heroic. I want to be like her."


    After hearing that, Jeff tried to stop himself from laughing, but his uncontrolled mouth bettered himself and left very strong laughter.


    "You are funny, kid. Very funny. A fictional character from a children''s book coming to life on our live TV is a very foolish thing to say."


    She started crying when she heard Jeff''s lines. The audience''s laughter turned to anger. Her parents stared at Spot deeply and left the place. Everyone started going after that, too.


    Jeff panicked when the producers looked at him angrily, so he tried calming things down by saying, "It''s a joke, everyone! It''s just a harmless joke; don''t take it seriously!" That didn''t work.


    "You guys have yet to see our special guest." They are still not stopping, so he said, "Fine, leave. You guys wasted your money on a stupid joke."


    A security whispered into Jeff''s ear, "Sorry, sir. Our special guest left a while ago!"


    Jeff got mad at the security for telling them important information late. The live broadcasting was off then, so one person who didn''t like him came to him and said, "Well, well, guys. What I told you. Jeff Spot ruined something for himself. Great job, buddy."


    Everyone in the camera crew clapped after the vice president said, "I told the president to fire him, but he never listens to me by saying stupid shit, and now see what he gets us. People are leaving because you were making a child cry."


    Again, everyone clapped after finishing talking. "As the vice-president of 9-Hour Show... I fire you, Jeff Spot! Never come back!"


    He turned around and walked away from Jeff, and before he could tie his tie, Spot choked him. He heard the warring from the guard, but he was so slow to let it happen.


    "G-g-get of-of-me.... yu-you bas-bastard!"


    "Why would I? You always try to fire me, so the overreaction from the audience was it you''re doing to ruin my image?! I would rather go to jail with a bad public image than see your stupid ass face! So please die for me!"


    The vice president saw that the cameras were still on and people were watching. Sure, people saw Jeff trying to kill a man, but people saw the vice president was not a good person either.


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    So he tried to move his finger to tell the camera crew to stop the live broadcasting, but Jeff Spot noticed and knew what that meant. From that, he understood that they were still in the air and were trying to stop it, but he focused on the finger. He hadn''t noticed a kick from behind.


    Then, people turned off the camera after seeing his finger where it was pointing. Reactions were wild all around the globe¡ªpeople spotted Jeff or the vice president.


    ***


    The kick made him skip a couple of steps forward. Who kicked him was a security guard.


    "Thanks to my Tom. It''s your turn now!" He was drinking water and going toward Spot.


    Approaching him, he said, Tom roll him over." The guard did what he said.


    Jeff Spot''s stomach was before the vice president, so he sat on him, took out a lighter and a cigarette, and lit it. He smoked for a little bit and then asked for a tray, but nobody had one, so a guard said, "No smoking in this building, sir."


    "Do you want to be my tray then?" By saying that, the guard quit the job and ran out.


    "If nobody has it, then I have no choice but to use you as a tray." Jeff tried everything to stop him, but Tom was so strong he couldn''t. Nobody came to help him. They were scared.


    He was enjoying it so much that he burned one of Jeff''s hands, making him scream so loud that one of the guards stopped him by holding his shoulders, making it fall. Another hold, Tom.


    "This is way too far, sir. We watch and do nothing about it. So, sir, why are you doing this?"


    "I will tell you if you unhand me!"


    "Don''t believe this Ass Hole! If you let him go, then he will kill you too!"


    The vice president giggles, "You should not listen to this man. He wants to fire you and bring you to his level. No one would hire you, and you will go to prison. If you let me go, I would not let that happen."


    He released after what he had said to the guard.


    "I will call the police if you harm me¡­ you snake!" He laughed.


    "Jeff... Jeff, Jeff. Do you think cops would help you, my ugly pig? When countless people saw you choking me to death! You know that includes cops, too, you know? It doesn''t matter if they see me. After I finish with you, I will erase everyone''s memory, including you."


    Tom threw Jeff outside while it was raining at night. The guard went back to the studio.


    "Enjoy the rain and my burning cigarette!"


    He did it again, but no one was there to stop him, so he continued until he got bored and left. But before that, he said, "Memory Change!" Jeff Spot''s hands were in even worse shape.


    Memory Change erases the target(s) mind by giving them fake memories. Everything that happened to them was a dream, and the ''real thing'' was different. However, the only three weaknesses are anything that happens to the physical body stays, and the individuals will sense something is missing in their memory. At the five-year mark, their real memories will come filling in and wouldn''t work for the same target for the second time.


    On the current day, the new host of the 9-Hour Show says to the guest, "It''s hard to believe that Jeff Spot, out of nowhere, kicked an innocent child like that. Anyway, I want to ask you, Excalibur. You were one of our guests back then, so I want to know when the Jeff Spot snapped."


    "I-I don''t know... I left early for the intended to rush emergence. But, if I were there, I would stop things from getting out of hand."


    After he finished talking, gunshots could be heard outside the recording place, making everyone panic. The door swings forcefully, and a couple of people come inside.


    "Sorry, we have to crash the party! We are. The White Clan is here to do something important, so seat your asses back down before I blow your heads off!"


    Meanwhile, the broadcasting stopped after the shooting, so Ross didn''t know what happened. Before he could question it, Mike suddenly rushed inside the room, looking for something quickly.


    "Mike? Mike, what are you in a rush?"


    "Sorry, James. You can''t do much for me anyway with that condition." Ross stands up from the bed, surprising Mike.


    "Wait? Huh? How did? H-h-how are you standing up without any h-help?!"


    Model XI0 helped my bones heal very quickly. But I want to know why you are super panicking."


    "B-b-because they t-too-took my wife, and they would not-not give-give her back until I give them money?"


    "Who''s they?"


    "The Seven Dragons of the Sea!" Mike replied.


    To be continued.

 The Hatchling!

    "The Seven Dragons of the Sea!" Mike replied.


    After saying that, a man from outside the lighthouse yelled, "Mike, I am not a patient man... Please hurry up and give me the money. Or your wife gets it!" His voice echoed all over the place.


    "Let me help you, Mike," Ross said, but Mike replied against it by saying,


    "No, you need to rest, and this is my problem, so let me handle it."


    "Mike, I already healed."


    "But, you need to rest, James. Your arm might have healed your bones, but you still look tired, so please rest, and I will handle it on my own."


    The man outside was running out of patience, so he yelled, "Mike, I''m counting down from 9. If you don''t bring the money to me after I count to 0, then your wife is dead!"


    As he said, the man began his count from 9. Mike is trying to make Ross rest and let him handle the problem alone without help, but James says he should help Mike because he can''t face this alone.


    Eight.


    Seven.


    Six,


    He counted faster to make Mike rush out of the lighthouse.


    Five,


    Four,


    Three,


    Two,


    One.


    "Sorry, your husband was too cowardly to show up to help you. Now your death is on his hands." After he said that, he opened his hands, and one of the dragon eggs (The lowest position of the criminal organization, Seven Dragons of the Sea) gave him the gun.


    "My husband a coward? Hahaha, you are the ones who are more cowardly." Her hands were locked in handcuffs so that she couldn''t fight back.


    It made the guy, who is rounded in the stomach area, very angry, and he put the gun on her skull and said, "Any last word, you bitch?!"


    After saying that, he was super impatient, so he pulled the trigger of the gun before she could say anything, and nothing happened.


    "Lucky bitch!" His gun didn''t have bullets, so he returned it to a dragon egg to reload it.


    "What''s funny?" She replied with even more laughter, making him more furious; he yelled, "Say it, or you die, woman!"


    She replied, "Well, that happens if you don''t allow people to say their last words!"


    "Also, you are not going to kill me this easily. My husband would not allow it, but somehow, if he failed. I will beat you fools by myself."


    He was so angry that he forcefully pulled a gun from the goon and put it in her skull again, "You think you can beat me with your hands tied? Don''t make me laugh!"


    Then he was about to pull the trigger the gun, but Mike suddenly came outside with a bunch of money cases and yelled, "Don''t pull the trigger! I have the money you asked for. Now free my wife."


    He stopped and said, "Late as ever. Your bitch is lucky you came out last second."


    "Before I free your wife. I need to know how much it is." He pointed to a blue-haired egg and said, "You over there. You take the money and count it."


    The person followed the order of the dragon hatchling (Dragon hatchlings are superior to the dragon Eggs; they give orders to the eggs)


    "Um, Dragon Hatchling, Sir? I count them, and it''s short about 5 million rainbows. Here, it 85 million rainbows."


    "Where the hell is the other 5 million? If you don''t give me the money in five seconds, your wife will get a bullet through her head!"


    Mike pointed toward the ground and said, "The rest of the money is not with me! It''s with him."


    He was not patient, so he was about to fire the gun, but suddenly, from the ground, James Ross came out and kicked him in the chin, making him fly backward.


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    The woman escaped him when he was shaking his head from the kick.


    "Ugh, what are you guys doing? Get them!" From his commands, the dragon eggs attacked Ross.


    Ross protected them and said, "Let me handle them, you two. You guys should go and remove those cuffs and rest."


    "But, James?!"


    "Bell, there is no time for arguing with him; let''s do what he says." They left for the lighthouse, and a few of the eggs tried to stop them from going, but Ross punched them unconscious.


    "No one is going past me!"


    "Tsk! Don''t play the hero, you fucking bastard."


    "And what are you guys doing? Kill him? He''s only one guy."


    They surrounded Ross with their melee weapons, swinging the knives at James, but the goons failed to kill because the nanobots protected his skin. He killed the blue-haired woman first because she attacked him first, then killed others.


    The hatchling was aiming his gun toward Ross, but when fired, he killed one of his men who was holding a gun. He tried again, but there was no bullet in the gun. A different dragon egg fired the weapon at Ross when he was fighting another, but the Model XIO protected him again. James pulled out his revolver and instantly killed the man aiming at him.


    An egg with a katana slashed toward James, and he dodged it, kicking the goon in the head and killing the person.


    "Anyone else?" The remaining dragon eggs saw Ross was strong, so they ran away.


    "How useless you fools are! Fine, I do it myself."


    He takes two miniguns from nowhere, aims toward Ross, and says, "Your party tricks block nonautomatic fire, but what about rapid fire?" After saying that, the hatchling pulls the triggers.


    The bullets were hitting Ross rapidly, making the steel from his left protect him. By doing so, it was wasting flow. Would the hatchling''s mini guns overheat, or James Ross''s Flow drown to zero first?


    But for now, Ross was running at the man while getting a bullet smashing into his body without getting killed, but it was still painful.


    "Shit!" His guns overheated, allowing Ross to punch him with the brass knuckles because he didn''t want to drown his flow completely dry.


    "Ugh? What?!" Ross was disbelieved after punching the fat body of his enemy, obliterating the impact of his attack.


    "Are you surprised?"


    The man dropped the miniguns and swung two battle axes toward Ross''s head. James dodged.


    "Don''t undermasted, us Hatchlings!"


    After saying those words, he swings the battle axe toward Ross, not letting him breathe. James tried again, but the fat did the same as last time.


    ''He''s strong? How can I beat him when his fat blocks all my attacks.''


    The hatchling suddenly started spinning and spinning like a tornado, and he hit Ross in multiple places. There was still flow left, so the nanobots were blocking any attack, but it was a matter of time before his flow dried.


    After a while, the enemy''s attacks stopped; he was dizzy from all that spinning around.


    ''Thank God he stopped; my flow completely dried."


    James, without hesitation, punched the hatchling''s chin with brass knuckles, the only area where the fat was not involved, smashing him into the ground.


    "You finished. Don''t ever come back here." Ross turned around to return to the lighthouse, but somehow, the hatchling stood up and said, "You will never defeat me, never!"


    He fired uzis at Ross, but suddenly, the katana blocked the bullets from going toward James, and a shotgun was pointed at his head. Mike said, "If you fire that weapon again, you are dead."


    "Never!" Before he could pull the trigger, Bell, Mike''s wife, knocked him into sleep.


    A few hours later, after getting knocked out, he saw a new, different person with James, Mike, and Bell. A man with a blue suit, sunglasses, and a suitcase was looking at the hatchling''s body naked body being tied up to a chair.


    The man pointed at his belly and said, "Are you part of the Seven Dragons?"


    Mike answered for him, "Yes, he''s part of that organization." The mysterious man looked at Mike and said, "I want to hear from him... not from you."


    The hatchling giggled and said, "What if I am pa-?!" Before he could finish his sentence, he got interrupted by the blue gentleman.


    "You take long to answer... I don''t care about you being part of that shit. I want to know where is your boss?"


    After he finished talking, he yawned. The hatchling laughed and said, "I will never betray my boss."


    "Fine, don''t give leader''s base. How about giving us information about a Dragon you want to eliminate, and we will give you a chance?


    There was no single answer from the hatchling, but when he said, "We will not give you any food for about a month if you don''t answer."


    Still, there was no answer from the enemy, so they left, and Mike said,


    "Are we going to leave that guy there?"


    "Yes. What will you do?!" Mike didn''t complain after seeing the blue gentleman''s scary face.


    The next hour, the man yelled, "Okay... Okay, I will answer you, so please give me lots of food."


    After hearing that Mike and Bell cooked food for the hatchling, with many dishes, it took them two hours to cook them.


    While eating, he said, "There is one Dragon I want you to eliminate. He has a big skyscraper called Blood Bar in the Corner Sea city. And you need..."


    He shakes his head, making four things fall from his hair, "You need these, pieces of the Broken Heart, to enter the place."


    "What about the other dens?" The blue gentleman said.


    The man replied, "I only know this one because of my hatred."


    They knew he was not lying because they used an advanced lie detector connected to his head.


    "You heard, the man. Let''s hunt some dragons!!"


    James Ross, Mike, the Bell, and the mysterious blue gentleman would infiltrate the first Dragon''s den, Blood Bar.


    To be continued

 9-Hour Show (2) The Invasion of White Clan!

    "Sorry, we have to crash your party. We are¡ªthe White Clan, and we are here to do something important, so seat your asses down before we annihilate your heads!"


    Quickly after they saw the White Clan, the cameras turned off before the man who spoke killed them.


    "Like I said, if anyone moves-?!" Suddenly, an arrow was fired toward him, but a huge and buff man protected him by grabbing it.


    "Anonymous pay attain."


    "I can''t believe I have to say this, but thank you, Steel."


    Anonymous is tall, and people need to look up to see him. When looking at his face, they see a white fox mask with red dots covering his identity. A black glove on his right hand had a shiny blackish gem in the middle of it, and on his back was his sniper rifle inside a case.


    Once again, Excalibur fired an arrow at Anonymous, and Steel split it in half with one hand and said, "Anon, let me handle him."


    "I guess I have to thank you, Steel."


    "Hahaha, what''s getting into you? You never thank me, but today, you said it twice, so never say it next time. Makes me creep out from hearing it from you."


    "Whatever, it''s not like I wanted to say it again. Anyway, stop talking and fight the S-ranker."


    "If the boss says to follow your orders, then I have to."


    Steel wears a torn tuxedo, showing his six-packs to impress ladies, but he fails. Women don''t like him, but only one woman wants him, but not for the reason that he thinks. He wears sunglasses inside and outside of places to avoid getting blinded by the sun and the lights inside.


    He looks at Excalibur and says, "Are the famous S-ranked archer, Excalibur? Or was I mistaken for someone else?"


    "If you know my name and rank, you should know you can not defeat me without help."


    Steel grinned when he heard what his opponent said and replied, "To think your enemy can''t defeat you with help is sad; I will destroy your confidence without getting help from anyone. Let''s see if your words are true or if you are talking."


    His muscles got beefier after he finished talking and charging at Excalibur with his fists. The archer, however, avoided the attack by doing a backflip and then firing his bow after landing.


    The target wasn''t Steel but Anonymous because Excalibur knew he should stop him instead of fighting with Steel. Like others, Steel got its way; it hit him.


    "You are fighting me, not that fucker!"


    He removed the arrow from his beefy body without fleeing pain, snapping it in half, and Excalibur fired multiple arrows at Steel by taking them out from the purple pouch.


    His effects were getting wasted. His arrows weren''t damaging Steel for a bit. The archer needed to do something else instead of endlessly firing his arrows until running out.


    Slowly and slowly, Steel reached Excalibur and tautly said, "What happened, huh? You said I can''t beat you without my friend''s help, but you see, nobody is here to help me kill you! In the past, a girl of a lower rank than you said I couldn''t defeat her alone, and guess what? She was right. I didn''t even touch her with or without help. She could prove her actions. How about you? Are you all talk but no bite?"


    Excalibur backed away from Steel every time he went closer to him while firing his arrows without getting through him.


    While Excalibur was distracted by Steel, Anonymous easily grabbed the host to get information about the president of the 9-hour show.


    "Please release me! I have a family at home!"


    Anonymous smiled and said, "Okay," and released the host. After getting free, he quickly ran, but before he could go far, a woman''s voice said, "Thunder Clap!"


    The host''s limbs suddenly stopped moving, falling to the ground, and he asked, "Huh? What did you do to my body?" He was sweating bullets and tried to move again, but his limbs felt freezing in place.


    "This woman behind you uses her power on you."


    "Diamond, you are late." Diamond was the woman on the speaker talking to Ross in the hospital.


    Her blue eyes were the prettiest to look at, seeing the ocean in them, and her lush blond hair made her look different.


    "Tsk... You sent me to paralyze people in here not to let them escape, and now you are asking me why I''m running late."


    "Sorry, I thought you were watching those screaming cartoons from Japan."


    She shook her head back and forth and said, "Really, you thought I was watching anime time like this?"


    "Let''s do our mission, Diamond."


    "Now then, tell me, where is the president?" Grabbing the host''s collar while dragging him, forming injuries.


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    Going back to the fight, Steel activated "Guerrilla Style: Guerrilla''s Fists." After reaching closer to Excalibur, Steel''s punches became even stronger, and he gained extra hair on his arms.


    Steel''s punch broke the archer''s right arm like a tree twig and said, "Oh, wow. How are you, S-ranker? If this is how easy it is, then I will be S-rank in no time. But that doesn''t matter. You die regardless!"


    He was breaking Excalibur''s other arm when he was about to grab an arrow, dropping the bow and arrow in his hand. Steel threw the pouch farther away from him and the enemy.


    He grabbed the S-ranked archer''s neck with his hand and said, "How disappointing. You were only a talk!" Throwing his head into the ground, killing Excalibur.


    "Now he''s dead. It''s time to he-?! Huh?" Excalbur''s body started glitching, shouting errors loudly and constantly until it vanished.


    Excalibur''s laugh echoed in the room, and after he finished laughing, he said, "Don''t be disappointed. It''s too easy to be killed like that, mate."


    "Stop hiding and come face me with your real self if it''s too easy for you."


    The archer replied, "This is why I said nobody can defeat me one-on-one because I do not play fair. But honestly, my clones are weak and stupid without me commanding them! So, what will you do with that information, you dumb terrorist?!"


    Steel got mad at the comment, "dumb terrorist," and yelled, "Tsk! I hate people like you the most! Thinking I am stupid because I have these muscles! No matter how often you send me your clones, I will destroy them repeatedly!"


    Excalibur replied with claps and said, "Please, you wouldn''t have a chance to know which one is a clone. That''s why I called you stupid. But if you are that confident, let''s play a game. How many clones of mine can you destroy before you can''t anymore?!"


    Excalibur''s bow, "King Arthur," is a legendary bow that can fuse any regular arrow with Flow Energy, giving them special powers, like cloning the archer.


    He puts an arrow in the bow, and it transforms the regular arrow into a clone arrow when it gets fired, creating fake versions of himself and his weapon.


    After thirty clones were created, the archer fired another arrow simultaneously with his fake versions of himself. Steel couldn''t tell which was real or fake while getting hit, so he decided, "Bat Style: Echolocation!"


    His ears become like bats, and he has the ability of echolocation, making him hear the sounds of where the projectiles are coming from. In total darkness, Steel then closes his eyes, seeing nothing but the sounds of the arrows coming at him and the sounds of the bows firing.


    "Now I know where you are, archer!" Grabbing the arrows near his body, breaking them into pieces, and a few projectiles, Steel flings at the sound of a bow getting fired, killing a few clones.


    Steel smirked when he noticed one of the sounds differed from the others.


    ''Cheetah Style: Cheetha''s Legs!''


    Steel now opens his eyes when the bat ears transform into normal human ears, making the end echolocation. However, his legs transformed into cheetah, gaining the animal''s speed. He went into all fours like a wild animal.


    He is destroying the clones, getting his way by approaching Excalibur. He jumps up when close to the archer, switching his cheetah legs into gorilla fists.


    After landing on the ground, he punches Excalibur, and the S-ranker sees the attack coming, so he avoids it by jumping out of the way.


    Steel wasn''t that dumb; he knew what his opponent would do, so another punch went into Excalbur''s face, smashing him into the ground.


    "Look who is the dumb one, now!"


    "Now, any last words, archer?"


    Steel grabbed his opponent''s neck, noticing he''s not a clone when he''s not glitching when getting hit. He sees Excablur''s smile, making Steel angry.


    "Stop smiling, you are dead!"


    Excalibur said something, making Steel giggle and say, "You are the one who¨C?!"


    From behind, a dagger stabbed him, making him drop Excalibur. He yelled, "Y-you mother f-fucker!"


    The wound opened, causing blood to drop to the ground, forming a blood puddle.


    "T-t-thank you. If you were one second late, I would have become into the soul by now."


    The person who stabbed Steel was the S-rank investigator Merlin, and he said, "Remember my face and name, you murderer before you die! I, Merlin, will kill you."


    ''Why does his name seem familiar? Stop worrying about past Steel, and remember you a device to escape.''


    He grabs a big red button and smashes it before the police can do anything to him, and vanishes into thin air after.


    To be continued.

 9-Hour Show (3) The Invasion of White Clan!

    Steel takes out the remote control with a substantial purple button in the center of the remote. He presses it before the cops can question him about the White Clan. After he pressed the button, suddenly, he vanished into thin air.


    A few minutes before Steel escaped, Anonymous was still dragging the show¡¯s host, and Diamond was behind them.


    ¡°Where are you, people pulling me too?!¡±


    Anon looked at the host and said, ¡°To your grave! However, I promise you, you can go if you say where your boss is.¡±


    ¡°You mean it?¡±


    Diamond smiled and replied, ¡°Yes, he means it. One thing Anonymous hates is lying to people. I respect him for that, even though he¡¯s a creep.¡±


    ¡°Okay, first free me, then I will tell you where he is?¡± Anon replied in an angry tone.


    ¡°No! How would we know you are not lying? What if we free you, and you will run away and not tell us anything.¡±


    ¡°Fine, there are...¡±


    The host told them everything, and after Diamond turned off the paralyzed points of his body, he could move freely without worrying about getting dragged by Anonymous. However, the host didn¡¯t move as far away from them because he got Thunder Clapped again.


    Diamond approaches the host¡¯s face and says, ¡°You know what? I changed my mind about letting you go. Suppose you led us to a trap. We¡¯ll let your family go if you promise not to screw us over!¡±


    The host replied, ¡°O-okay, I-I understand.¡±


    Anonymous grabbed the collar again and dragged him, and they followed his direction to the president¡¯s office. He can¡¯t risk lying to them. If he does or lets them in a trap, his family will die at the hands of the White Clan.


    They reached their targeted destination, and Anonymous removed his hand from the host¡¯s collar. Later, Diamond turned off her power. He was free again, and he ran away.


    Diamond wanted to use Thunderclap on the host again to stop him from getting far, but Anon stopped her from using her power.


    ¡°You would waste it from using your Flow too much, and besides, letting him think he can escape is much funnier than doing the same thing again.¡±


    The host was farther away from them after Anonymous talked to Diamond. The sniper took the opportunity to take his gun as slowly as possible to waste time.


    When the host is nowhere in sight, he moves to the perfect position, puts on his silencers, refuels the ammo, and puts the scope on top of the gun. He does this all slowly.


    Making the host think he escaped from them is far from the truth. When Anonymous has sight on you, he will kill you no matter how far you go.


    Then, he lies on the ground for a clear shot at the target. He waits for the perfect moment to fire his rifle, which comes a few seconds later.


    The host was not visible to him, so if he were a normal sniper, the mission would fail, but he was not. He was the White Clan sniper.


    He calmly took a deep breath, knowing the bullet would kill the host. Without any thought, he pulled the trigger.


    The bullet fired, twisted, and turned in the exact path the man took. At some point, the shot broke the concrete walls until reaching the target, nearly hitting his skull without killing a person who was not the target.


    A blue flash ignited from the pellet when it was between the eyes of the head. The blue glint completely swallowed the man¡¯s head and teleported him to Anonymous and Diamond. Before he processes how he¡¯s alive, he gets shot in the head by Anon.


    ¡®I must tell the boss that the Teleportation Bullet works after this.¡¯


    Diamond was confused about why he had wasted a teleportation bullet when he could kill the host easily without using the modified shot. But she didn¡¯t want to question him because they were running out of time from their mission if they started arguing.


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    Anonymous returned his rifle to its den. He kicked the office door open when he took everything out of the weapon, then flung it toward the person sitting on a chair.


    ***


    ¡°Come on, knock before breaking my door.¡± The man in the chair said.


    There were two men in the office. The person sitting in the chair was the president of the 9-Hour show. A portrait was lying down on the desk. Next to the president was the vice president. His foot was on the wall, and he had many tattoos and black clothes. People, the first time seeing him, think he¡¯s the boss¡¯s bodyguard, but nope, he¡¯s the co-leader.


    Anonymous replied, ¡°No, I don¡¯t need to knock on the door to kill you!¡± After hearing that response, the man returned to finger-tenting with a slightly evil smile.


    ¡°If that¡¯s so. Then get ready to defend because we are not going to die easily. Tom, show these rats what we are capable of.¡± Tom stopped leaning on the wall and walked toward them.


    Anonymous looked an ant toward Tom, noticing how tall he was. That said a lot when Anonymous wasn¡¯t small. And Tom looked like he could slay a dragon with one punch.


    Tom went for a punch. Cracking the floor around them, Anon didn¡¯t let him attack again by touching his hand with his glove. When the glove touched Tom, he started to hover in the air. He was stuck in one place and couldn¡¯t go down or up.


    Until Anonymous yelled, ¡°GET LOST!!!¡± A ¡°hook¡± caught on Tom¡¯s collar and forcefully flings him out of the window, dying after hitting the ground.


    After seeing his vice president get defenestrated out of the building, he started clapping and said, ¡°Impressive, you disposed of Tom quickly.¡±


    After speaking, he moved his hand under his desk secret, to which he pressed a button, opening a compartment with a hidden shotgun. The president was about to grab the gun but suddenly got paralyzed. His whole body couldn¡¯t move. He could not even speak.


    ¡°What were you trying to press, the panic button?¡± Diamond asked.


    ¡°Diamond, make him talk.¡±


    She nodded, circled with her finger on the mouth area in the distance, and said, ¡°Paralyze off.¡± Now, he could speak again.


    ¡°Speak,¡± Anonymous said while approaching the president.


    The man said nervously, ¡°Why did I do to the White Clan that you came after me.¡±


    After Anonymous heard that, he said, ¡°You are the one who used Memory Erase on me, but you forgot what happened that day¡ªthe irony.¡±


    The host was confused when he heard those words from the enemy.


    ¡°What do you mean?¡±


    ¡°What do I mean? You made a fool of me and made me forget everything that happened that day. That is not the worst part. The worst part was that everyone treated me differently when they saw me in the streets, and I didn¡¯t know why. When I tried to return home, my wife kicked me out, and you fired me. But one day, my precious lady saved me and let me join White Clan.¡±


    The man laughed and replied, ¡°I¡¯m sorry if I don¡¯t know you because it¡¯s hard to remember people I burned in the past few years!¡±


    ¡°And here I thought I was the only one who you ruined, but there were people you did too. But that doesn¡¯t matter when I¡¯m here to see you die anymore. Before I kill you, let me show you this.¡±


    Anonymous took the glove off to show the burned mark. When the show¡¯s president saw that, he remembered who Anonymous was.


    ¡°It¡¯s you... the first one, Je¡ª¡±


    The glove was back on when the president spoke. Anonymous intercepted him by saying, ¡°I don¡¯t want to hear that name from your filthy mouth.¡±


    ¡°Silent him, Diamond!¡± She nodded and turned on the paralyzing point on his tongue, making him unable to speak. After this, Diamond reminded him about their mission.


    ¡°Oh, I forgot about that. Thank you for reminding me.¡± Diamond was a little annoyed that Anonymous forgot about the most important part of the mission. But in the end, all was good.


    Anonymous returned, taking a remote control with a blue button in the middle. He clicked it, making a blue portal appear behind the entrance. A woman with a red scarf around her neck entered the room by the portal.


    This woman wanted to kill the president immediately after seeing his face, but she remained calm and said, ¡°I was waiting for this day to watch my father¡¯s killer die a horrible death! Oh, thinking about it makes me excited!¡±


    After talking, she stayed silent, watching Anonymous approach the president. He touched the man¡¯s cheeks, making him levitate, and he got stuck mid-air.


    After that, he takes out his sniper rifle, lies on the ground, and kills him with no scope headshot. Then, the body fell to the floor.


    The woman with the scarf wanted to thank them, but he stopped her by getting a phone call.


    The investigator team went inside the show¡¯s president¡¯s office, but there was no sight of Anonymous and Diamond. It seems they escaped. Not everything disappeared anyway. The dead body of the president and the host¡¯s body were brought with them in a body bag.


    ¡°Who are these two?¡± Merlin said.


    One of the officers next to Merlin took out a tablet to check the bodies. A green laser came from the tablet, scanning the bodies. It showed lots of personal information like date of birth, relationships, jobs, how much money earning, and their names.¡±


    ¡°This one is..., and this person is..., sir.¡± After that, Merlin left with Excalibur. The non-ranking investigators stayed to find more clues.


    To be continued:

 Disguise Rings

    "You heard him. Let''s hunt some fucking dragons!"


    James Ross, Mike, Bell Old City, and the blue gentleman Hein Eduard, along with a few police officers, were close to the Blood Bar. On a rainy day, the police car stopped in the road, making Hein Eduard stop his car and talk to a walkie-talkie.


    "Why did you stop, Alpha Two, over?"


    They responded, "Alpha One suddenly stopped, sir, over."


    "Then don''t stand there, Alpha Two. Check on Alpha One, over."


    "Copy that." The cops from the front car exited and went toward Alpha One to find out why they stopped.


    Ten minutes later, the cops from Alpha Two weren''t reporting back to Hein Eduard, so he walked out of the car and said in a walkie-talkie, "Alpha Two, why is it taking so long? Over." No single commutation came back, making him and others worried.


    "Mr. Eduard, why aren''t they saying anything? I''m getting worried?!"


    "Mrs. Bell, I don''t know why they aren''t answering either. Did something happen to them?!"


    Ross exits the car and says, "Eduard, this needs investigation. Let me check what''s going on."


    "More help is better for me when I wasn''t planning to go alone when it could be dangerous."


    "Wait! Don''t go yet."


    "Mike, what is it? Do you want to come with us?"


    "No, no, no. I don''t want come with you. I just want to say, you should be careful, and I''m not being scared. I am here to protect Bell."


    "Hell, I need your protection from you!"


    Eduard and James didn''t want to hear the argument, so they left. When he saw Ross didn''t have one, the blue gentleman gave James an umbrella.


    They walked toward the car and saw a couple of officers, and Hein said, "Why did you guys not answer?!"


    "Sir, you have to see this."


    Eduard and Ross saw a figure with a plague doctor mask and costume while holding a lantern in the right hand. On the ground, where the person was standing, there were dead bodies, from police to civilians.


    The front of Alpha One''s car was badly damaged; it looked like it crashed into something, and the cops of that group were all dead.


    "Who the hell are you?!" Hein and Ross said it simultaneously, but they did not respond.


    The cops were waiting to shoot if Plague Doctor moved or did something. In front of James and Eduard, a cop said, "Put your hands in the air!"


    "We have the right to shoot if you don''t as we say!"


    The plague doctor refused to put his hands in the air, making the cops fire. The bullets passed through its body without impacting it. Then suddenly, the light from the lantern turned off, making it total darkness.


    A cop panicked after the light turned off, firing it randomly. The only available light was when the gun was shooting. Other officers did the same.


    For some reason, Ross''s Model XI0 wasn''t working, angered him. He hit his arm to make it work and said, "Work, work. Why are you not working?"


    ''You worked perfectly before this, but you don''t want to work when I am in danger.''


    An evil liquid came out of the plague doctor, going toward the cops from the smell of blood from their bodies. The cops screamed when it connected to their bodies. The figure disappeared after the liquid came out.


    A few officers fired at liquid when they heard the screams of their fellow men, but it was failer when it touched them, making them into skeletons.


    "James. What are you doing? Help us!"


    Hein Eduard was annoyed that Ross hit his arm, which did not help. Ross noticed and stopped, then took out a flashlight.


    Seeing Hein wasn''t there, he lit up the area and said, "Eduard? Where did you go?"


    A crashing sound came near him, making Ross scared. "What was that? " He flashed the ground, seeing a cop''s skeleton. The light showed more skeletons on the ground.


    "Shit! Not good!"


    A flash revealed the plague doctor standing still, with many skeletons around them. Ross quickly grabbed his revolver and fired at the figure.


    The bullets went through the doctor and vanished. They reappeared next to James and whispered, "The Great Darkness is coming... the great darkness is coming, James Ross!" They whispered into his ear, tapping Ross''s forehead, then vanished into thin air.


    ***


    "Wake up, James. We arrived at our distension."


    "Huh? What was that nightmare?" He saw a dream that he had forgotten.


    After leaving the vehicle, they were outside near the skyscraper the hatchling mentioned, but not too close to avoid being discovered.


    "The city of Coner Sea, the trading city of the Color Kingdom."


    "Isn''t that skyscraper the Blood Bar?" Ross asked.


    "Yeah, that''s the one he said it was."


    "Here are the Broken Hearts, but before we go inside like this..."


    Eduard opened up the trunk of his car. Inside a secret compartment were 12 golden rings glowing from the moons above. He took them out, giving them to James, Mike, Bell, and the 12 cops and leaving one to himself.


    "...Here, take these."


    They left only eight extra people who didn''t have the rings and found eight pieces of Broken Heart.


    "Question, is these disguise rings?"


    "Of course, Mrs. Bell."


    "Oh, have you met the king of the Color Kingdom to get these?"


    He nodded to Bell, making Mike and Bell shocked that he had met the king. They said, "Wow, you met the king Romeo the Second."


    "James, you are the same rank as me. You could have met the king by now."


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    Ross didn''t answer, so Hein changed the topic, "Eight of you need to stay here to look out, and the rest of us should go in the den."


    After going to the skyscraper''s entrance, they put the rings on their fingers. When the rings were on, a flash from them came out, scanning people the whole building.


    [Scanning the area]


    Information about people''s appearance and genetics inside the building transforms the ring wearers into different people in the skyscraper. It could change them into other skin colors, sexes, ages, postures, heights, etc. The only disadvantage of the rings is that if the disguised individual meets the real person, it will be very awkward.


    [Scanning complete]


    [Disguses complete]


    Ross turned into a pretty young woman with hair wrapped in a ponytail. She had a business uniform.


    ''Interesting, I turned into a woman.''


    Bell was a middle-aged man with tattoos on her body; no, I meant his body. Mike was nine years old and wore a red shirt, saying, "I love Dinosaurs." A green dino saying.


    Hein Eduard''s skin color changed entirely, and his hair with braids was getting darker than before. The other eight cops turned into people inside.


    "Get your pieces of Broken Heart ready, guys."


    The people with rings went to the entrance; the rest stayed behind. A line of people was standing around, waiting to be let in by two massive security guards with tattoos.


    "Do you have a ticket?"


    "Ticket... ticket as you mean this?" Ross showed a piece of Broken Heart, letting Ross in; while waiting, he went to the men''s bathroom, forgetting he was in a woman''s body.


    Others went inside the skyscraper, where a man on a stage with a microphone said, "Welcome... welcome, guests, to our fabulous place, where you can eat, drink, and party for all for free."


    "Where is James?" Mike asked.


    "He probably went to the restroom," Eduard replied.


    "I''m going to look for him."


    Nobody was Inside the restroom, and when he looked in the mirror, he remembered he was a woman with that ring on.


    ''Shit! How am I this dumb?''


    ''At least no men is-?!'' Ross spoke too soon. A man suddenly entered the restroom.


    When the man saw Ross''s woman''s body, he said, "Hey, lovely lady. Do you want me to kiss you?!" Grabbing his arm forcefully.


    ''Why is my luck so shitty?'' Ross pretends he is scared and weak to make the creep think he is strong, which works.


    "Please, let me go?"


    "No, bitch! If you don''t kiss me, I won''t release you."


    Ross was getting annoyed and wanted to beat this guy to a pulp, but he needed to be calm and not do anything reckless to expose himself as the enemy.


    James got an idea after calming down. He whispered into the man''s ear and said, "Then I will kill you if you don''t release me."


    "If you want to play that game!"


    The creep went on top of Ross''s woman body, got topless, and said, "Take your fucking clothes off, or I will force you to do it!"


    Ross giggled and quickly got the creep out of his way, and before he knew what had happened, Ross kicked the private part, making the man drop into the ground in pain.


    He took out pepper spray from the purse Bell gave him after he put the ring on and sprayed it on his face and eyes, making the man unconscious.


    He left the restroom, but two bald men were blocking his way with guns pointed at his head.


    At the same time, they said, "We will fire if we don''t see your hands in the air! A-rank investigator."


    They were the same people who collected the tickets from the entrance, pointing their guns at James Ross.


    "Huh? Who''s James Ross? What are you talking about?"


    "Tsk, show him the tablet."


    "See, if you don''t follow us, your friends over here will get killed."


    The tablet showed that Mike, Bell, and Hein were tied up without disguise rings.


    ''How did they find out about our disguises that fast?''


    "Fine, fine. I will follow you."


    Ross approached them to grab the gun, but it didn''t work. The other guy slammed James'' body into the ground before he could do anything.


    "Brother, he was trying to grab your gun. Let''s show him what happens if he miss with us."


    The other brother said something to a walkie-talkie, showing a tablet to James. A cop who was also tied up in a chair with ropes, a bullet went flying toward his head.


    "Don''t kill him, brother. We need him with the rest of them."


    They put handcuffs on James when he was smashed into the ground, taking out his ring and transforming him back to his original body, the 37-year-old male.


    They slowly grabbed Ross from the floor and pushed him to their destination. He couldn''t use his Flow energy or escape from them when the brother on his back was pointing a gun at his head.


    They reached a secret place in the skyscraper''s basement that few know about. When they entered, everyone got caught.


    "This is the last one of the intruders, Sir"


    A Russian woman inside the room was sitting on a barrel, and a floor block opened, raising a glass table and a chair; on it was a man with a red fedora and suit with whine glass in his hand.


    "Good job. Ariadna bringing me the intruders."


    "Now I want to know why it brings the police and rankers to my bar?"


    "Blood Dragon Alucard, we are here to arrest you for being an associate of a criminal organization, The Seven Dragons of the Sea."


    To be continued.

 Infiltrating the North Dragons Den (I) School bullies

    The Russian man took his white glove from his other hand, put it on the table, stood up, and said, "Too bad, that will be difficult to arrest me with you being caught and all."


    His Russian accent showed when he spoke the Color Kingdom''s language, making Mike ask a dumb question, "Wait? Are you part of that band named Russia?"


    Alucard needed clarification about what he meant, so he didn''t answer. Mike''s wife, Bell, yelled, "Why are you this stupid? Russia was a country from Earth, not a band; Mike, did you not learn about Earth''s geography?"


    ''Why did you marry a stupid idiot, Bell?¡¯ She regretted marrying Mike at that moment.


    "I-I was joking. I know Russia is a country on Earth."


    Mike was lying. He never knew Russia was a country and thought it was a music band his entire life until now. Alucard stood there watching them fight until he used a tape to tell two women next to him to shut their mouths.


    The women put tapes on the intruder''s mouths and left the room after they were done. He showed them the Disguise Rings from his hands and threw them to the floor, smashing them into multiple pieces with his foot.


    "No more masks for you fools!"


    "Now then, It''s time to feed my dear children!" He raises his sleeves, transforming them into a baker''s dozen tiny bats.


    The "Meal Leader" of the bats found a tasty food, telling others to get ready to feed. That food was a human police officer who was tied up and couldn''t do anything, only watching himself be eaten alive while screaming in pain!


    Making the cop into a skeleton after they were done with the cop, but their hunger wasn''t satisfied, so the meal leader of the bats found other food.


    They flew to the Egg, not next to the intruders, stinking their sharp teeth on the person''s skin and started consuming the blood. Alucard was watching that a goon was getting killed in front of his eyes without doing anything to stop it.


    The Egg tried very hard to stop the bats, but in the end, it was over.


    They were still hungry. They wanted more human blood. The bats needed blood that satisfied them. The meal leader of the bats was looking for their next meal. Its eyes glowed yellow, singling other bats that it found their next good food.


    The other dragon eggs saw what the bats did to their friends, and Alucard didn''t stop them; they ran away before becoming the next target.


    The food the bats found was another police officer tied up, so they started killing the cop, while Hein Eduard was becoming sad that his men were dying.


    "I can''t take this anymore. Stop this shit!"


    The bats were still hungry and went after the people who ran away by order of Alucard, and The Blood Dragon replied with laughter, "Why should I stop? When they are giving me lots of Flow for each kill!"


    "The only ones I would never allow my babies to kill is when they targeted my right hand, Ariadna, and the king of the 7 Dragons, Immortal King Dragon."


    Ariadna heard that and smiled at what Alucard said.


    "Now that I have the perfect amount of Flow..." He slammed the table with his hand, "I summon you, The Vicious One!"


    The small bats that consumed the most blood shifted into blood, going into Alucard and restoring his energy to summon a bigger and stronger bat.


    After the summon, Alucard commanded, "Vicious, annihilate my enemies without letting a single one escape alive!"


    It made a screeching sound fly to James, Mike, Eduard, Bell, and the officers.


    The bat had a very interesting look that the small bats don''t have. Black plug earrings are poking out of its ears. The bat''s eyes had a unique color.


    The Vicious One grabbed a cop''s head with its feet, cutting it clean off from the rest of the body. Holding on the skull in its wings, it went to sit and munch on it.


    Before doing that, it looked at Alucard and wanted to know if it had permission to eat. When the bat got approved, it swallowed the head whole.


    Vicious One rips the other cops'' head clean off, giving it as a present to its master who created it. Alucard looked at the face and saw that it was not one of the hostages but a dragon egg face on his hand.


    He saw the intruders weren''t there anymore, so he said, "Shit!" Then he looked at his right hand and saw she was not conscious on the floor, making him think.


    "When did they knock her out and escape without me knowing?"


    "It doesn''t matter how they will never allowed to leave this place anyway..."


    "...Vicious One, find them and kill them!"


    The bat flew to find Alucard''s enemies, and he went toward Ariadna, making her conscious again. He said what happened, so she apologized for letting them escape and teleported somewhere.


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    "I guess I should go too." He teleported to somewhere else will.


    Meanwhile, James, Mike, Hein Eduard, Bell, and the other cops were on the main level, seeing the guests were all gone; even the security wasn''t there.


    "Is everyone not hurt?" Bell asks everyone in the group who is still living.


    "I am not hurt, but is anyone other than me hurt?" Ross asked everyone after replying to Bell; they all were okay.


    "I want to ask you, Mike and Bell, ever since I fought the Hatchling, how did get you to get into debt?"


    "James, It''s a very long story! We will tell when we arrest the Blood Dragon and leave this place."


    "Okay! I got it."


    He approached Hein Eduard and said, "Since those two didn''t tell their story. I want to know your story besides wanting to arrest Alucard."


    "Seems we are running forever. I will tell you why I want to hunt down all of the Seven Dragons of the Sea."


    "The story goes way back when I was a high school student."


    ***


    Ten years ago in Germany, a brown-haired girl with glasses was doing her homework in an empty classroom. The classroom door opened, but the girl was so focused that she didn''t notice a boy enter the room.


    The boy yelled, "Sister! Mama is worried about you staying at school to do your work. Come home and do it there. I am also worried, too."


    He was speaking to her sister, and she replied in German, "Leave without me, Eduard! I need to finish this work before I go home."


    "No, no, no! Mama will be angry with me if I show up without you, so I will wait for you to finish."


    His sister nodded. He called his mother not to make her worried and sat down, watching his sister doing homework.


    Eduard was sleeping when his sister woke him up and said, "Brother. Wake up. Let''s go."


    They left the school and walked toward their home, but bullies from their school came near them with smug faces. The group of four bullies were two boys and two girls, and they blocked their path.


    "The bitch and her pet!"


    "What do you guys want from us?" Hein Eduard said.


    "Oh, the pet is barking!" One of the girls said.


    "We want you shitheads to entertain us with your tricks!" The girls laughed when one of their boyfriends said that.


    This group is the popular kids in their school, and most students look up to them.


    One of the boys went to Hein''s sister, touched her hair, and said, "Hey, be?!"


    Before he could say anything, the brother grabbed the man''s arm aggressively and said, "Don''t you ever touch my sister!"


    "Oh, look. A hero!" They all laughed, and then Hein got kicked in the stomach by another boy, flying into a lamp pole.


    The bully who kicked him went toward Hein Eduard, and the other one who grabbed his sister''s hair went toward him, too, but his sister tried to stop him, so she grabbed his leg.


    "Move, you bitch!"


    The boy slapped her onto a trashcan, and her body impacted the can.


    One of the boys was clutching Hein''s arms, exposing his body.


    "This better wake him up!"


    Eduard was unconscious from getting kicked into the light pole. Another kick impacted his stomach, bringing him into consciousness.


    "Get off me! My sister is in danger!" He saw his sister getting beaten by the girls.


    "You will forget about your sister when you start doing tricks!"


    Eduard tried to kick the boy, but it didn''t reach the bully, making the boys laugh.


    "Stop trying fucker! You were fucked the minute we saw you two.!"


    Hein blamed himself for being unable to help his sister and himself from these bullies. He started crying.


    "Look, he''s crying!"


    The boy forcefully opened his mouth and put a dirty sock inside his mouth to see if he got choked or not. The first time, he was a failure, so he tried again. It was a failure again, so he was angry and punched Eduard in the face.


    "Fine, if that doesn''t work, these boots will." The boy removed his boots and tried shoving them down Hein''s mouth, but it was the same result.


    "Fuck! None of my tricks are working. I guess I have to kill you!" Grabbing a knife from his pocket, he charged and was about to kill Hein if his girlfriend didn''t stop him.


    "You dummy, stop! The boss is here!"


    Those words that escaped from his girlfriend''s mouth made him and the other boy and girl scared, dropping his knife to the ground. They bow down after feeling their boss''s presence.


    "Sigh! Why are you school punks bowing down to me?"


    "Blaze, show these eggs how to respect me properly!"


    Next to the boss was Blaze Dragon, and he went to them. Flames were blazing out from his hands, and he touched the bully''s hands, burning their hands.


    "Don''t scream! Don''t yell! Don''t say anything! If you don''t, you burn into ash!"


    "Maestro doesn''t like seeing you Dragon Eggs bow to him. That''s more of an insult to him. He wants you lower beings to feel pain without saying anything!"


    One of the girls suddenly dropped to the ground and died, "Mestro, I didn''t need to burn her into ash. She died by herself."


    Making the boss angry, "You idiot! You killed her!"


    Blaze Dragon bowed to him and said, "Sorry, I will be careful with my flames!"


    "Whatever, get up."


    "Sir, I can bring her back to life!" A woman was speaking next to his left hand.


    "It''s fine, Healer. I didn''t need her anyway. I have found someone else to replace her." Pointing toward Hein Eduard''s sister''s cold body.


    Blaze went toward her and grabbed her, and he then said, "What about him?"


    "Don''t need him. However, heal his wounds and put a note beside him, Healer, saying we have the girl."


    "Don''t burn her now, Blaze!" She said that after passing toward him.


    They burned the bullies into ash to not leave any clues that they had done this.


    Going back to current times, Eduard finished telling his story, and suddenly, Alucard appeared, hovering with vodka in his hand while wearing a Hawaiin shirt.


    The Blood Dragon poured the vodka onto the floor, teleporting the intruders to different floors inside the skyscraper. They were now split up, and Alucard vanished after that.


    To Be Continued.

 Infiltrating the North Dragons Den (II)

    Bell was separated from the group after appearing in a dark room with few lights shining. She looked around for others and saw no one was there with her, so she yelled.


    "Mike? James? Hein Eduard? Where are you guys?" No one responded; it needed to be quieter.


    Bell worried when no one responded, making her think, ''Did something happen to them? Did the Blood Dragon kill them?''


    ''No Bell. Alucard can''t kill everyone for that short moment. If he didn''t kill my husband and others, then where did he send them to? Did he teleport all of us to different places in this place?''


    ''The answer will not reveal itself if I stay here and think, so I have to explore this place.''


    She went forward, and a woman''s voice in the distance said, "I have to fight you, chosen by master Alucard. And don''t worry about your friends. They will fight others."


    After leaving the barely lit hallway, Bell saw a Russian woman with black hair, green eyes, and two swords in her back; a special aura came from those two swords. Bell recognized the two swords from the Russian woman''s back, hers long before she lost them.


    She told the woman, "I guess I must fight you to pass you?"


    "Before we fight. I want to introduce myself. I am Ariadna the right-hand of Alucard. Now, what''s your name?"


    "Bell... Bell Old City."


    "You have no weapon on your. Here, take this." She threw one of the swords on her back toward Bell.


    ''I don''t think she realized I was the perverse master of these swords.''


    "I-?!" Ariadna didn''t let Bell speak, so she dashed toward her, not giving Bell a chance to block, only dodge.


    "Not fair! You didn''t-?!" The sword swung from upwards, getting close to her head, but she stamped Ariadna''s foot, making her stop and jump backward to collect herself.


    "Tsk!"


    Bell took the opportunity to strike, but Ariadna blocked the sword with her sword, and Ariadna''s hair was only cut from the slash.


    "You are strong for using that sword for your first time."


    After saying that, she charged at Bell, and many clashed with the steel without hurting anybody. Ariadna saw that those clashes were not going anywhere, so she jumped in the air and flew straight down toward Bell.


    Bell expertly defends herself by swiftly striking Ariadna''s chest with the sword handle. This powerful maneuver sends her hurtling backward toward the wall, a testament to Bell''s remarkable skill with the sword. Without her quick reflexes and razor-sharp technique, Ariadna''s attack could have been devastating.


    "Why did you not kill me right there?!" Ariadna asked Bell.


    "Because..." Bell holds the sword differently than before. This stance brings out a powerful aura. When Ariadna saw that pose from Bell, she was baffled and momentarily speechless.


    "...Because I want you to want to defeat you with this powerful stance."


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    "You have no right to use that stance! Only the great Immortal King Dragon can use that stance, not a stranger like you!" Ariadna was angry that the grey-haired woman with a ponytail was in that pose.


    Without saying anything to her, Bell said, "God Speed Slash!"


    A light from the sword emerged, turning Bell into that light. Bell swings her sword toward Ariadna''s leg, but she blocks it with her sword. Her leg was safe for now.


    ***


    "Tsk! You can see my attacks by holding that sword." Bell said.


    "Oh, you know about these sword''s powers, don''t you, Bell Old City? That makes me believe that after seeing you use the great Immoral King Dragon''s stance and have knowledge of these swords, Means that you were?!"


    Before Ariadna could complete her sentence, Bell leaped into action, transforming into a beam of light and charging towards her. But the Hatchling quickly reacted, blocking the attack and countering with a swift strike towards Bell''s side. However, Bell was equally skilled, landing a powerful kick that sent Ariadna flying through the air.


    "You are strong for an old woman!" She stands up and continues,


    "However, can you dodge this?"


    "Hell Flames!"


    Flames fled straight from Ariadna''s sword towards Bell, but she swiftly slashed them out of existence with her blade.


    "I sound like a broken clock, but you are good at using Heaven''s Holy Sword. But not good enough as me!" She dashed toward Bell while flames were emerging from her weapon.


    Their swords clashed, producing a symphony of clinging sounds that echoed in the arena. Bell and Ariadna were both equally skilled, and their fight was intense. Despite the fierce exchange, neither seemed to have sustained any visible injuries.


    "Honey! Please, I have been training with Heaven and Hell blades in my younger days before you were born, so you are not better than me!"


    After saying that, Bell attacked Ariadna, but she moved her shoulder from the flying strike, and her sleeves got cut, revealing a tattoo of a cross brace. Ariadna jumped backward when she saw her tattoo was showing.


    "What! What! What should I do? My tattoo is showing." Mumbling to herself.


    Bell''s eyes caught a glimpse of the tattoo on Ariadna''s shoulder before she quickly covered it with her hand. Despite knowing what that tattoo meant, Bell charged towards the enemy without hesitation and swung her sword.


    Ariadna reacted quickly by blocking the attack and stabbing Bell''s skin, burning it. She screamed from the pain. Alucard''s right hand laughed when she saw her enemy was in pain and on the ground.


    "See how strong we are! This what happens-?!" Before she could finish her sentence, her head spilled off from her body, rolling on the ground.


    Bell was behind her after cutting her head clean off from her body. She puts the sword on her back and says, "You shouldn''t have given me Heaven''s Holy Sword to fight when it counters Hell Unholy Blade attacks. That''s why you lost Alucard''s right hand, Ariadna."


    The unbreathable pain in her body was gone, but blood was still dripping from her arm, so she bandaged the wound and picked up Hell''s Unholy Sword from Ariadna''s hand.


    "It''s been a long time since I held these two."


    She went straight, forgetting about the tattoo and exploring to find her husband and others; she started yelling their names again.


    "Mike? James? Hein Eduard?


    "Where did Alucard teleport them to?" She yelled her group names while walking straight forward in a hallway where the lights flickered frequently, which annoyed her. "Shit! These lights aren''t helping either."


    "I have to find them quickly."


    As she walked through the pitch-black area, she unknowingly turned around and returned to where she came from. The lack of light made it impossible to navigate, leaving her feeling lost and disoriented without those pesky lights to guide her.


    As Bell walked down the hallway, she couldn''t help but notice a painting on the wall. It depicted an epic scene of an elf attacking a white unicorn with a sword while another enemy approached. The snowy mountain in the background only added to the drama, with three mysterious figures standing on its peak. And one of them seemed to be wielding a scythe.


    But Bell knew better than to let herself get distracted. She pressed on, determined to reach her destination. However, after a while, she realized that something was amiss. Despite walking for what seemed like forever, she was still in the same hallway. It was time to retrace her steps and determine what was happening.


    "Why is this hallway so long? I have been here thirty minutes straight, and still not a single exit of this place?"


    Bell was getting tired of being in the hallway for so long. That''s why she decided to rest for about ten minutes. After the rest, she calls her husband and others'' names, but there is still no response. Finally, she reached the end of the hallway, but then she saw Ariadna''s dead body.


    "Fuck! Fuck! Why did I ignore that tattoo."


    Bell saw the tattoo on Ariadna''s shoulder, which was glowing, and voices of strange language were enchanting, but Bell was alone in the room, so it wasn''t hers, and the enemy was dead.


    When she heard that voice, Bell took a deep breath and said, "Fuck. I have to fight again."


    Bell was waiting until the enchantment would end after it got brighter and brighter as time passed. It stops. The room was quiet for a moment until a creepy laugh vanquished the quietness of the area.


    The tattoo''s glow stopped when a mysterious voice echoed, "Rise, my child! Show you strength!"


    Strings from the ceiling came down, linking to Ariadna''s body like a marionette. After connecting to her body, her skin turned into wood, and her eyes became soulless. She was no longer human.


    Standing up, she grabbed her head and connected it with the rest of her wooden body, and after doing that, she threw a punch at Bell Old City.


    To be continued.

 Infiltrating the North Dragons Den (III) The Wooden Marinette

    The tattoo glow stopped when a mysterious voice echoed, "Rise, my child! Show you strength!"


    Strings from the ceiling descended, entwining Ariadna''s body like a marionette. Her once supple skin morphed into wood upon contact, her eyes losing their spark. She was no longer human. Rising to her feet, she grasped her head and fused it with the rest of her wooden form, then launched a punch at Bell Old City.


    However, Bell stopped the fist with her sword and slashed Ariadna''s head, falling to the floor. She moved, picked up her head, and restored it.


    "It will be default. But I have to try."


    Bell was using Hell''s Unholy Sword to slash the marionette''s head; nothing happened, so she tried using the Hevens''s blade, but that one didn''t also didn''t work.


    ''Zombi strengthened the marionettes, so it''s harder for my blades to slash it!''


    ''Fuck, whatever! Let''s try punching it.''


    Bell punched the marionette''s body without any effect, only making it angry and attacking her back. The punch smashed into her stomach, and Bell threw up from the impact.


    Another attack flew, but Bell blocked it with her swords and jumped backward to stop the pain. Light from the blade emerged from the blade when Bell stabbed herself in the gut, healing the pain she felt without causing new wounds to form.


    ''I need to figure out how to stop it until it arrives.''


    Bell considered possibly defeating the puppet forever, and she knew it would take a long time to reach her. Every step Ariadna took vibrated the ground.


    One thing Old City didn''t expect from the wooden puppet was running toward her, taking its arm, and throwing it at Bell.


    She blocked the arm from hurting her, but Ariadna threw a punch from her other hand, speeding up until it broke the sound barrier.


    The sword Bell holds warns her by telling her where the attack is coming from. Ariadna''s punch hit the blade''s steel. It glued its hand back together.


    Bell cuts her arm, which is glued back together again. Still, Ariadna, without a care in the world, punched her again. Alucard''s right hand grabbed Hell''s blade and threw it away from her.


    ''Zombi has even improved their intelligence, not just strength.''


    Ariadna swung the Hell''s Unholy Sword with her other arm; flames released from the weapon and went toward its enemy, Bell.


    ''But I was wrong about intelligence. It didn''t learn from the past.''


    She slashes the flames with her sword, destroying it, then zooms toward the puppet, swinging her sword at Ariadna''s heart. However, she blocks Bell''s attack with her sword. The puppet throws the Hell''s Blade into the air and, at the same time, takes her head off and throws it at Bell.


    Bell dodged the head and zoomed toward Hell Blade, grabbing it before Ariadna attacked her again. Then, she slashed her swords into the puppet''s wooden skin.


    Flames and light came from the blades after entering Ariadna''s skin, weakening the marionette. However, it wasn''t dying.


    "Why don''t you just die?" Bell tried her hardest to make the enemy die, but it wasn''t attacking her, moving, or trying to attack. Was it because the blades were pierced into her skin, which made it freeze?


    ''Shit, why can''t I take out my swords?'' Despite her tries, Heaven and Hell Blades were stuck in the marionette''s skin, and Bell couldn''t remove them.


    ''What should I do? I don''t want to leave my swords in her body when I finally hold them again, and also, how do I defeat this puppet without my swords? Could you punch it?''


    ''Bell, think what weakness these puppets have that Zombi changed.''


    Bell thought so much that she didn''t notice that Ariadna started moving again, and it threw a punch at her.


    Bang!


    Shells from a shotgun from a distance made a big hole in the wooden puppet''s head, killing it and saving Bell from losing her head completely.


    "Bell, your hero is here to save you!"


    The one who used the shotgun was her husband, Mike, wearing sunglasses, a black jacket, and an oak tree shirt.


    Before Bell could thank her husband, the same mysterious voices that turned Ariadna into a wooden puppet spoke. Their voice was echoing.


    "Mike! Mike! Mike! Why do you always interfere with my fun?! I was going to kill your traitor''s wife and make her my slave to kill you, backstabber!"


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    "Well, stop hiding behind your marionettes and face me. Or are you too scared, Zombi, to meet me because you remember I beat your ass last time."


    Mike heard no response from Zombi and said, "Well, it seems you are still a coward."


    He approached her wife and said, "Bell, are you okay?"


    "Do I look good to you?"


    "No, you don''t."


    "Then why on Armora did you ask me that useless question?" Without saying a word, Mike lifts his wife''s body with his arm and carries her.


    Bell wasn''t happy that Mike was carrying her without asking her, so she yelled at him, "Mike, what are you doing? I am not a little kid."


    Mike puts Bell to the ground, and they look for James Ross, Hein Eduard, and the other cops. He grabs her shoulder to help her keep her balance.


    ***


    Meanwhile, Alucard was using telepathy to talk to Zombi while walking back and forth in a big room full of pillars and windows, and he was biting his nails from hearing what Zombi had said.


    "You are saying Ariadna died, and you controlled her and still lost? Stupid green skin, why are you even a Dragon Rider?"


    "Alucard, you are the one who isn''t talking. If it weren''t for your dad, you''d never be a Dragon in the first place, and please train your useless Hatchlings better if you don''t want them to be my slave."


    "Don''t talk about my dad without knowing he didn''t help me my entire life of being born. I work for this position, Zombi. If you want to talk about being unfair, then let''s talk about you. Getting promoted while doing nothing, letting your puppets do your work. So I don''t need your help to kill those intruders."


    "If you don''t want my help, then die."


    Zombi was about to stop telepathy with Alucard, but he remembered what he wanted to say to the Blood Dragon.


    "Oh, forgot to mention, Healer, arriving at your skyscraper. You better clean up when she gets there."


    Zombi left the conversation after delivering his message to the dragon.


    "Ugh, today is turning out to be bad. First, it was that those goddamn cops infiltrated my den. Then Ariadna got killed by an older woman and an older man and turned into a mindless slave to that fucker green skin. And now that annoying bitch is coming here. Can this day get any worse?"


    Hein Eduard was approaching slowly toward the Blood Dragon, but he was somewhere that Alucard couldn''t see him. Only the blue gentleman could see the enemy.


    He talked to a walkie-talkie in his hand, "Alpha one and two, this Hein Eduard. I see the Blood Dragon Alucard on the skyscraper''s top floor. I will wait until a few shows up to fight Alucard together."


    "Hahahaha, you would not hear from those cops, Mr. investigator!"


    "Who are you, and what did you do to my men?"


    "I didn''t do anything to your men. Tell that to the Blood Dragon, and it''s none of your business who I am."


    The walkie-talkie carried a woman''s voice, and Hein spoke to her. However, she dropped the walkie-talkie and broke it with her feet.


    Hein Eduard''s voice was still coming from it before it got destroyed. After destroying the walkie-talkie, she looked up toward the skyscraper. Her name was Healer.


    Many orbs with different shapes and sizes circled the Healer''s head, and she chose four orbs with her pink star-shaped fingernail and said, "My babies go and find Vicious One."


    The four spheres circling her head flew into the skyscraper; when she saw the orbs enter the place, she also went toward the building.


    Hein Eduard noticed no response from the woman, so he thought, "I guess she left me hanging, but who was that? Anyway, I hope what she said was a lie about my men."


    "But if my men were alive, she wouldn''t answer my call, and they would."


    "I have to fight Alucard alone, but how do I cut him off guard?"


    Hein Eduard figured something out when he entered the room where Blood Dragon Alucard was in. It didn''t take the enemy long to see the blue gentleman.


    "You thought you could do a sneak attack?"


    Alucard launched into Hein Eduard, trying to stab him. However, the blue gentleman dodged the attack by slowing down time when he closed his eyes and kicked the enemy''s high hip.


    Alucard got flung far from Hein, but this did not stop the Blood Dragon from getting up with his two feet and zooming at his enemy again.


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 Infiltrating the North Dragons Den (IV)

    Alucard launched into Hein Eduard, trying to stab him. However, the blue gentleman dodged the attack by slowing down time when he closed his eyes and kicked the enemy''s hip.


    Alucard got thrown far from Hein, but this did not stop the Blood Dragon from getting up with his two feet and zooming at his enemy again.


    Hein Eduard could only block some of Alucard''s attacks when he was moving too quickly for Eduard to react.


    ''Shit! He''s strong.'' The blue gentleman thought Alucard could be easily defeated, but the Blood Dragon showed him how wrong he was.


    ''I have to get away until I figure something out.''


    Hein dodged an attack that would kill him and ran away from Alucard. He stayed in the same area, not leaving, and watched what his enemy would do.


    "You coward! Don''t hide run from me!" Alucard was so angry that he made himself a bat and flew toward the blue gentleman.


    Alucard transformed the Hawaiian shirt to fit his new size. The wings made a small dent in the shirt''s back where they were located. After he changed, Alucard''s fingers became bat claws.


    The Blood Dragon reaches the enemy and swings his claw at Hein, but it is slow, so Eduard ducks quickly. Alucard transforms back into a human and swings his dagger at the enemy.


    It got blocked, so he changed back into a bat and swung its claws toward Hein''s face. Eduard dodged the attack and ran away again.


    Hein Eduard took a fully reloaded revolver from somewhere and closed his eyes, slowing down time.


    Everything around Hein Eduard was slowed down. Alucard was flying toward him at slow speed.


    ''I don''t want to keep using this. But you are too quick.''


    ''I have enough time until you reach me, so I must check... How much Flow did I waste from this one ability?''


    "How much of Flow I have left, system?"


    A floating system appeared before his vision, showing how much Flow he had until it reached zero; it was 89%.


    "How much do I have until my ability expires?"


    Before he could see what the system told him, Alucard flew toward him, but he easily avoided it and saw it. The system said he had 30 seconds left until the time resumed its original speed.


    After seeing it, he snapped his finger, making the system vanish.


    "Perfect!"


    Alucard''s wings line up perfectly, causing Hein Eduard to fire all the bullets at Alucard''s bat wings.


    The bullets'' speed was the same as normal, so the Blood Dragon couldn''t react when they snapped his wings, and he fell to the ground.


    Before Alucard smashed into the ground, he transformed into blood, saving himself. He returned to being human on the ground, and the time resumed to its normal speed.


    "You fucking bastard, you will pay for destroying my wings."


    Alucard''s body wasn''t injured, but he couldn''t transform into a bat anymore when his wings got damaged. The Blood Dragon slaps his hands together and summons blood-covered hands from every direction, from the ceiling to the floor to the walls.


    Hein dodged most of them, but there were too many hands to avoid, so hands from the ceiling grabbed his legs, and two more hands gripped his arms, lifting him.


    ''Shit! I am in trouble!''


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    Eduard was struggling to escape the blood hands; they weren''t budging.


    "Fuck! Get off me!"


    Alucard was smiling when he saw the blue gentleman struggling to leave. More and more hands were piling up, causing him difficulty breathing, and more hands meant it was more challenging to escape from them.


    Hein Eduard couldn''t move his single limbs.


    "Your struggle improved my bad day, but I can''t forget you for destroying my wings."


    Eduard suddenly giggled to himself, making Alucard replay, "Laugh and laugh until your death comes!"


    ***


    Eduard had enough time inside the bloody hands until his breathing stopped, so a silver ring appeared on his finger. A thin string could be pulled. The blue gentleman pulled the string, causing Eduard to vanish from the bloody hands'' grip.


    Alucard sensed the enemy''s presence was gone from the hands. He stabbed his hand, and blood started dripping from his hand.


    "I will not let you escape from me!" Alucard brings his bloody palm above.


    The blood on his hand transformed into a dozen sharp blood spikes. They were in the air, not moving until Alucard commanded them.


    The bloody hands were still there, searching for Eduard, but they couldn''t find him, and they were way fewer than before.


    Hein Eduard suddenly appeared, and Alucard threw one of them, missing when he vanished again. He had eleven spikes left.


    "Where are you?" He was looking everywhere for the enemy and couldn''t find her, even with the help of his bloody hands.


    "I should-?!" An uppercut into his chin from Eduard after becoming visible, throwing him backward.


    One of the spikes vanished after he got hit, so Eduard punched him more, making the projectiles above disappear one by one with the hands.


    They went from a dozen spikes to five and finally reached none, and the bloody hands were no more, too.


    Alucard punched Hein''s stomach, allowing him the opportunity to summon daggers that were made from his blood. There was a bit of blood in his palms, and that dried up after the weapons were created.


    Alucard swings those daggers at Hein''s sides, but Eduard closes his eyes before the dagger impacts his body, slowing down time and lowering his Flow.


    The daggers were still coming toward him but were slow, so Hein tried to get up from Alucard, but the Blood Dragon didn''t allow his enemy not to get wounded, so one of his blades stabbed Eduard''s shoulder.


    "Huh? What da fuck?"


    Instead of stabbing the blue gentleman''s skin, the weapon pierced into a button that Hein was holding, making him teleport behind Alucard and swap with a Dragon Egg.


    The ability to slow down time ended. Now Alucard could move at normal speed again.


    "Stop slowing time down."


    "But if you want to play that, then we play." The Blood Dragon called back the bats by biting his wounded hand, and more blood came out from his hand.


    The bats slowly returned to his body, trying to restore his Flow to 100 percent, but before they called back, they were making multiple Dragon Eggs and the police dry.


    His body was producing sparks after the bats were getting consumed inside of him. Alucard saw Hein Eduard trying to stop him, so he summoned bloodied hands.


    There were fewer than before, but they did the job by delaying the blue gentleman from reaching him until all the bats went inside him.


    "Tsk."


    ''I don''t want to close my eyes again.''


    Eduard got grabbed from the legs by bloody hands from the ground. However, Hein easily destroyed the hands, grabbed his gun, and shot at Alucard.


    A hand stopped the bullet, and the sparks in Alucard''s body increased until it ended.


    ''Huh? I thought that would recharge his Flow, not change him.''


    Alucard became a full vampire when the rest of the bats, who were full from consuming too much blood, went inside his body. He grew black wings from his back without transforming into a bat himself. Like a vampire, his teeth became shaper than they had been before. He was shirtless after becoming a vampire, and his Hawaiian shirt was destroyed. Alucard''s eyes were now entirely black with red pupils.


    After the transformation, the Blood Dragon flew quickly, and when Hein Eduard blinked, he was in front of him. To the blue gentleman, it seemed like he had teleported.


    Alucard grabbed Eduard''s neck and lifted him, not letting him go. He stabs his teeth at his enemy''s neck, consuming his blood.


    "Hmmm? You are not him?!" Alucard recognized that man he sucked blood from wasn''t the intruder but a Dragon Egg from his Dragon''s Den.


    "Whatever! You are a resource anyway!"


    Alucard sucked the goon''s blood completely, drying him up. He dropped the body after producing more Flow Energy.


    "Where are you, intruder?!"


    "I see you are hiding from me."


    Alucard raises his hand and summons the blood spikes in the air without cutting his hands like last time. These spikes were larger and more shaper than previous ones. Hein Eduard slowed down time and activated an item before his neck was grabbed.


    ''I didn''t have the choice to use Time Slow again when Alucard was transformed.''


    "System, how much time is remaining for time slow end?"


    The system popped up in his vision when he said that.


    [One Minute!]


    ''I had the right call to put more Flow into my Time Slow. But this ability is drowning my energy into the drain.''


    ''Those things look like they are still getting summoned. I still need to be careful when Alucard throws them at me inside my ability.''


    When he opened his invisible briefcase, he found many unique objects and weapons inside. He grabbed the useful ones and returned the silver ring.


    ''It is useless now. There are better items for me to avoid Alucard like this.''


    He grabbed a random thing, and time resumed back to normal. Alucard quickly went toward him and swung his dagger, but Eduard pressed a button. The blue gentleman swiped with a random Dragon Egg. The weapon stabbed the goon''s neck, killing them.


    "Tsk! Stop running away from me."


    Alucard saw Hein in the corner of his eyes, flew toward him, and said, "This is the second time you use that shit!"


    "I would not let you run away from me no more."


    After saying that, he summoned bloody hands from every direction; there were more of them than before.


    Hein dodged the bloody hands, jumped up above Alucard''s head, and fired his revolver, and it was fully reloaded after slowing down time.


    Alucard avoided the bullets and kicked the enemy''s head, launching him into the air sideways, and the bloody hands grabbed Hein''s legs, swinging him to the ground.


    Hein Eduard hit the ground hard without dying, but his bones were damaged. Finally, Alucard throws the bloody spikes at the blue gentleman.


    To be continued.

 Infiltrating the North Dragons Den (V)

    Hein Eduard hit the ground hard, breaking his bones, and couldn''t move. Alucard took this opportunity to throw bloody spikes toward the blue gentleman. It went toward his heart, supersing Alucard.


    "That''s it? You me think you were a difficult challenge!"


    Alucard turned around, but a paranoid feeling gripped him. He thought, ''Don''t tell me you swapped places again.'' He went to check if Hein was dead.


    The Blood Dragon confronted with his eyes that the blue gentleman was dead, so he turned around to go and catch the other intruders. But instantly, when he turned his shoulder, a bullet wounded it.


    "Fuck!" When turning around, Alucard saw his enemy alive and questioned, "How are you alive?!"


    Eduard was holding a remote that Alucard recognized.


    "Don''t tell me you pressed the button again?"


    When Alucard swung his dagger to kill Hein, his quick thinking blocked the stab by the remote button, swapping him with a Dragon Egg who was ''marked.'' Alucard didn''t notice that he swapped, so he stabbed a random goon''s heart instead. They had the same clothes and everything, and the Egg couldn''t react quickly.


    After a couple of seconds of waiting for Alucard to turn around, Eduard pressed the button again, teleporting him back to the same spot, and pulled the trigger of his gun, wounding Blood Dragon''s shoulder.


    At present, the Blood Dragon said, "Whatever! I will kill you for good." After saying that, he stabbed his other hand with his dagger, making it bleed, then he sucked it. By sucking the blood, his wounds healed instantly. The bullet wound closed, and his dagger evaporated.


    After his wounds healed, he flew toward his enemy, Eduard, and summoned blood daggers again. After getting closer to him, he swung his weapons toward him. Hein Eduard saw it coming, so he punched, making Alucard fly into pillars, breaking them one by one from flying through.


    "Ugh."


    "You are making it boring, Alucard. I don''t need to slow down time if I can easily tell what you would do."


    The Blood Dragon Alucard got up from the ground and said,


    "Well then... If I am boring to fight with. Then let me show you how wrong you are!"


    Alucard threw his blood daggers straight at Hein, and he dodged it, but the daggers turned and targeted his back. Eduard immediately turned around and fired his revolver at the daggers, making them vanish.


    "Jeez, to eas-?!" Before Eduard could finish talking, a spike destroyed his invisible briefcase, surprising Hein. By doing that, Alucard took the opportunity to destroy the remote from his enemy''s hand, giving him the upper hand. After ruining it, he swung his dagger at the blue gentleman.


    Hein Eduard had nothing to protect himself with, so he had no choice but to close his eyes. After shutting his eyes, time started going slowly, making the dagger stabbing him slow down, and that helped Eduard to


    launch himself a few steps back.


    "Sigh," He breathed heavily after seeing his life flash before his eyes, ''That was close. If I didn''t activate my ability, I would be dead.''


    He continued, ''That''s it. That''s how to bring enjoyment to me. If you keep this up, It will be fun.''


    By clapping his hands, Alucard summoned blood hands from the ground and blood spikes from above, and they moved slowly. He was floating.


    "System. How many times can I use this again?" Between his two eyes, a system popped up; only he could see.


    [You have one time to use it again, and your Flow is reduced to 10 percent. Use it wisely!]


    "Shit! I guess, I will be careful not to use it."


    He looked at the system and said, "What''s the time limit on my slowing down ability?" The system showed him 30 seconds to return to normal.


    Hein Eduard dodged the spikes and fired the last bullets from the revolver, destroying his wings, and Alucard smashed into the ground after.


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    Before the time resumed normal, the blue gentleman put the golden brass knuckles that James Ross had given him in the lighthouse before coming here. Then he threw an uppercut toward Alucard, flying him into a pillar.


    ***


    ''Thank you. James, for giving me these babies.''


    The Blood Dragon got some of his blood from the ground after getting hit in the chin, healing his wings.


    After seeing Eduard''s face, he laughed and said, "Are you surprised?"


    Alucard flew toward Hein Eduard, grabbed his shirt''s collar, and lifted him. He was fast for the blue gentleman, and he avoided Alucard. The Blood Dragon smiled as he lifted the blue gentleman. Hein couldn''t escape the vampire''s grasp.


    "My smile is the last smile you see ever!" After reaching the center point in the air, he lets go of his hand and releases the blue gentleman.


    Alucard made a finger gun, pointed at Hein, and said, "Bloodshot!" From his long nails, blood gathered around, forming into a bullet, and fired.


    ''What should I do?''


    Hein was thinking about how to survive this situation. He wanted to use his Flow, but he knew he would not survive the next attack if he did it now. But on the other hand, if he didn''t slow time down, he would be dead after this. It was a lose-lose situation for him. Either way, he would die no matter what he chose!


    ''I have no choice but to use it. I will rest after I survive this.'' Eduard slowed time down before the bullet could hit him.


    If Eduard didn''t activate his ''Slow Time'' ability, the impact of hitting the ground would destroy his body. The power lessers the effect.


    Eduard rolled out of the away from the bullet, which time resumed back. Alucard saw his enemy lived, so he dived toward him. He opens his teeth to suck Hein Eduard''s blood after he lands on him.


    Hein Eduard wasn''t quick enough to escape from him, so his blood got consumed, making his body dry into a skeleton.


    "Now that you are dead. It''s time to kill your friends."


    "Huh? What''s that?!"


    A green orb rolled out of Hein Eduard''s pocket. A red cross was marked in the middle of the glowing green orb.


    "What the hell?!"


    It blinded Alucard for a moment when he touched it. The green orb circled Eduard''s corpse after the Dragon touched it. After completely rotating, the glowing grew and consumed the blue gentleman''s whole body.


    ''Was that a mistake?''


    Alucard thought to himself after he got blinded by the light. Suddenly, his blurry vision cleared up, and he saw Hein Eduard''s body had vanished.


    "Fuck! I have to fight him again!"


    "Whatever, Bloody Hands, find my enemy and kill him."


    Alucard''s blood materialized as hands, emerging from everywhere in the area. They searched around to find Hein Eduard, and one of them did so by grabbing his limbs.


    After healing Alucard''s enemy, another hand held the broken orb pieces on the ground. After feeling broken, the hand put it on the ground and went toward Eduard, grabbing one of his limbs.


    Bang!


    A bullet got fried from a revolver toward the Blood Dragon Alucard, but a hand stopped it. It becomes blood after blocking it.


    "It seems you have nothing else on your sleeve."


    He flew straight into the air and continued, "I will send you to meet god!" Alucard returned the bloody hands to blood and turned them into a sphere on his hands.


    The blood was boiling to the point that it would burn the human skin if a single drop touched the skin.


    ''Oh, I am screwed. I have nothing to survive if it touches me. My only hope is to be alive until others arrive.''


    Alucard smiled after seeing Hein Eduard''s hopeless face, which was complete. He said, "Crimson Blood!"


    After saying that, it got launched at the enemy. It smashed into the floor, melting the panels while following the blue gentleman.


    Alucard laughed and said, "You don''t know what to do? Good! That''s why I will make it harder for you to struggle more."


    He pointed his finger at his enemy and fired blood like a bullet toward Hein. It missed, but he shot it again, over and over again. Eduard was running from a sphere following him and trying to avoid the bullets coming from Alucard. Hein''s arm was wounded.


    ''Shit, This is very bad.''


    Alucard was smiling when his shots were wounding the blue gentleman. The wounds slowed down Hein Eduard. The Crimson Blood touched his left foot, spreading into his left leg, dissolving his limb. He yelled from the pain.


    Alucard stopped it before it could burn Hein Eduard, and he stepped on his body.


    "Why did you stop it? Kill me already!"


    The Dragon laughed and said, "I want to see your sorry face after I kill you."


    The Crimson Blood returned to him, formed into daggers, and stabbed Hein''s gut. Alucard didn''t penetrate any organ that would put Eduard''s life in danger. He made him live.


    "Come on, do something to survive like you did multiple times. Oh, right, I destroyed those items. How about slowing down?"


    "I guess your flow drained completely by using it too much."


    "What bad luck."


    "Die!" He swings his dagger at the head.


    Before Alucard could kill Hein Eduard, a huge piece of the ceiling fell to the ground, making the Dragon stop and look at the figure holding on for his dear life.


    To be continued.

 Infiltrating the North Dragons Den (VI): The four-color orbs!

    Suddenly, before Alucard could kill Hein Eduard, a huge piece of the ceiling fell to the ground, making the Dragon stop and look at the figure holding on for his dear life. That figure was James Ross.


    A few minutes later, he was separated from others before James Ross fell. He was in a black area where he couldn''t see anything.


    James yelled everyone''s name one by one, and there was no answer from anyone.


    "Hmmm? It seems like Alucard separated us, so where am I?"


    Ross walked around the area without seeing anything.


    ''Why, whenever I am alone, I''m in dark places.''


    "Whatever. Bell, Mike, Eduard, everyone. Where are you?"


    He yelled, and there was no response, making Ross think, "I hope they are not hurt."


    He entered a place where lit torches were on the arch. The flames illuminated a tiny area. When Ross saw them, he picked one up from the wall.


    "Good light, but why does this place look like a cave?" When he shone the area, it looked completely different from the skyscraper he had entered.


    Sounds of wings flapping from the distance were arriving closer to Ross. James felt the vibration of the closing figure.


    "I don''t know what that sound is, but I ne-"


    The giant bat, Vicious One, charged toward James and swung its claws at him. Ross dodges it, and it smashes into the rock behind James.


    ''It''s fast.''


    ''But thanks Creation.''


    Ross jumps and hits the bat in the face, recognizing the bat is Vicious One.


    "Crap, this will be difficult."


    The Vicious One was angry at Ross, so it raised its head and charged at him, which James was ready to block. Instead of attacking, it grabbed him, surprising him.


    "Huh? Where are you bringing me?" James tried to stop the bat by attacking its arms, but it wasn''t budging.


    When they reached the area, it dropped its enemy from its hands. The nanobots formed an armor around his body, protecting him from the ground. The Vicious One brought James to an empty room with many windows illuminated by light from them.


    The bat opened its mouth, and a gold and silver artillery gun was raised after dropping its enemy. It made James a little grossed out after seeing its mouth open.


    ''What a hideous-looking thinking.''


    ''Hmmm? It''s charging-?!''


    The big gun in its mouth fired a red beam. Ross was avoiding it by running. With one wrong step, James would die when they followed him. That''s why Ross was getting closer to the bat. To make it not follow him. It worked when the Vicious One turned off the artillery after the laser was getting dangerously closer to it.


    "Thank you!"


    James said when the bat allowed him to punch it. He jumped above its head when it would charge the weapon again. Ross turned his feet into armor and kicked the Vicious One''s head.


    After the kick, the giant bat smashed into the ground, and Ross landed on the floor near it. He transformed his right hand into steel and shifted his feet back to normal skin before attacking again.


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    Boom!


    Ross smashed his fist into the bat''s giant ear, and the impact made the Vicious One fly. The XI0 brought out a gun from his arm, and numerous bullets were fired.


    The bullets pierced its body many times, killing it before it could recover from the beatdown Ross did to it. After slaying the giant bat, Ross thought loudly, "Now that no one is not in my way. I have to others."


    ***


    Ross left that room and explored the floor he was on. After five minutes of exploring nothing, a panicked noise from the distance approached.


    Three people are running while yelling at Ross, "It''s coming! Run!" They were coming closer.


    Ross also yelled, "What''s coming?!"


    "Vicious One!"


    Those words from the man confused James Ross, so he said to the man, "Huh? What do you mean, Vicious One?"


    Before the man could speak to Ross, he fell to the floor from his untied shoelaces. James was about to help the man if a speck of wind dust didn''t slash his head off from his body.


    The dust of the wind also went through James, but his armor protected him from death, so it killed the other men who were also running.


    "Shit?! What''s happening?!"


    The Vicious One revealed itself after killing the men with a wind attack, and James saw it and said, "Huh? How are you still alive?!"


    Without answering his question, it sent a red orb toward James Ross that was spinning around its head. Two other orbs circled the bat''s head with different colors. These orbs were turquoise and blue.


    James dodged the attack from the orb, and he was thinking, ''What is this? It didn''t have these things before. Maybe that-?!''


    The turquoise orb glowed, making the red move more quickly. The speed boost caused the red sphere to fall into the dust of wind that was hard to detect, making Ross''s job harder. He looked around for the orb but couldn''t see it anywhere.


    ''Where is it? Where did it go?''


    He was so focused on the orb that he forgot the bat. The Vicious One used its claws to slash down Ross'' body.


    The nanobots protected him from the slash attack. However, the ball crashed into Ross''s body from the side. He flew into a room and broke the wall outside of it. Ross entered an area of the skyscraper being worked on; everything was empty. There needed to be furniture to make it look full.


    ''Shit, they are fast. I need to focus.''


    Ross takes a deep breath and closes his eyes. He could feel the sound waves of his enemies'' movements. When he felt the waves of the sound were close to him.


    James swings his fist toward the red orb, breaking it into pieces. It was already damaged from hitting Ross''s body, but that attack was the final to smash it completely.


    After destroying the red orb, he punched at the bat, which was about to impact.


    Ding!


    However, the blue orb blocked the jab, protecting the bat from the attack. The Vicious One opened its mouth again, and an artillery bullet fired at James.


    James Ross saw the bullet coming and jumped up, avoiding it, and fired a laser at the bat. The turquoise glowed, making the giant bat prevent the attack.


    After dodging the laser, the Vicious One changed the projectile type from bullets to laser, charging it.


    Ross saw it and tried not to let it happen. He was on the floor and clapped his hands after transforming his right hand, creating sounds of waves.


    Ding!


    The blue orb stopped the sound waves from harming the creature. The Vicious One fired the laser. Ross ran when he saw that. Cracks were forming into the blue orb.


    ''Shit, how am I supposed to kill it when those things are protecting it.''


    The bat flew up and sped up, creating a wind dust around it. It flew toward Ross, and he needed to focus on using his Sight to feel his enemies coming, but he couldn''t do that.


    ''I need time to focus, but-?!'' The dust of the wind slashed his skin, but nothing happened because his nanobots protected him; they were fast, not letting Ross activate his Sight.


    ''Tsk, I must defeat it before my Flow energy drowns to zero.''


    His armor shielded another attack from the bat, lowering his Flow even more. James threw a random punch, and it almost hit the monster, but the blue orb protected its master for the last time until it broke into pieces.


    After one of the blue-colored orbs broke, James'' armored fists moved into the Vicious One''s chin. However, the bat dogged the attack by the power of the turquoise.


    The turquoise orb again glowed, cloning the Viscous One into four clones. Each clone looked the same. They all looked real. After the fake bats appeared, the real ones changed position with the fake ones to confuse their enemy. The orb was also spinning around on the fake Vicious One, but they were not the real one either.


    ''Fuck, clones now!''


    The giant bats attacked James simultaneously, activating Model XI0, protecting Ross from one bat''s attack, and lowering his Flow energy even more.


    "Hmmm?"


    Ross noticed that his arm didn''t respond to every Vicious One, only to one. James concludes that the nanobots protect him from the real bat or that the clones don''t do damage, only distracting the enemy so that the real one can attack.


    Ross grabbed the Vicious One from that knowledge, but the turquoise orb glowed before he could, making it dodge.


    ''Good. My gut was right.''


    After it appeared, it opened its mouth and fired a beam at Ross while the other Vicious Ones spun around, making dust of winds around him, blocking his path from the giant bat.


    "Great. You fools don''t want me leave before that one kills me," James pointed to the real one and continued, "I will kill you before you can kill me!" He was saying that to the real one.


    A compartment opened from Ross''s left arm, raising a gun. He waited until the Vicious One fired its beam. It did, and when the projectile went inside from a gap, Ross noticed and fired his own.


    Ross''s beam was stronger, pushing it back toward the Vicious One, killing it instantly by turning it ash. The clones vanish after the real giant bat dies.


    "Shit!"


    ''My Flow drowned from that.'' The ground suddenly started breaking apart.


    "Huh? What-?!" Before he could do anything, the floor collapsed into the lower level. He grabbed a big piece of falling ground so as not to fall.


    From the button, he saw Hein Eduard was about to die from Alucard.


    To Be Continued.

 Infiltrating the North Dragons Den (VII) Blood Bath!

    The ground suddenly started breaking apart, shocking him. He dropped to the lower floor while trying to hold on to the falling debris. From above, a green orb with no energy fell into the ground, breaking into pieces.


    "Huh? What was that?"


    The big piece hit the ground, shattering in half. The nanobots protected Ross''s legs and feet from breaking by forming soft armor, leaving a tiny crater. Dust clouds rose from the ground after the debris smashed to the floor.


    After clearing, Ross ran toward the blue gentleman who was injured to the point that he couldn''t move from the place, and blood was coming out. Alucard was on top of Hein Eduard.


    Small falling derbies were blocking his way before he could reach his friend. He needed to clear the falling pieces off to get closer to Hein.


    "Get out of my way!"


    Alucard couldn''t kill his enemy when objects distracted his eyes, so he destroyed them with daggers. He was annoyed. Ross didn''t want to drown his Flow even more, so he broke the falling obstacles with his left hand.


    After Alucard and James Ross destroyed them, no debris was left, and that was when the Blood Dragon noticed his enemy.


    "Good, good, they were a hindrance," Alucard said while smiling, "Now, we have an audience for your last breath. Goodbye!"


    The draggers made by his blood went toward his enemy, Eduard''s neck. However, before the sharp end of the weapon reached the blue gentleman, it slowed down. Hein''s Flow recharged a tiny bit, so he used it.


    Everything slowed down around him, and even he was affected by his power. The only one who wasn''t affected by the energy was Ross. For the last Flow, Hein Eduard selected James Ross to move normally in his ability, Time Slow.


    James was a little confused about why everything around him started slowing down, but when he saw Eduard in a bad situation, he ran toward them. Before the time resumed to normal speed, Ross dragged Hein''s collar with his hand and tossed him before the slow-moving dagger could pierce the blue gentleman''s throat. Eduard''s Time Slow was disabled after that.


    "Lucky bastred. You survived again. Oh, well you both will die in my hands!"


    Quickly after finishing talking, he slashes Ross''s neck, thinking he won. However, his smile didn''t last forever when the nanobots protected Ross, drowning his Flow.


    "You have tried hard enough to kill me, or anyone for that matter."


    ''Crap, my Flow almost to the button. I need to be careful.''


    Ross punched Alucard''s guts after seeing he was about to swing again; from the impact, Alucard flew, bleeding out, making his Flow drown before he could consume blood.


    Alucard thought about refilling his Flow of energy without letting Ross know that he needed to drink blood to restore it. Also, he thought about something else. Alucard flew toward the blue gentleman after seeing him on the ground, not moving. He was an easy target for the Blood Dragon now.


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    Alucard needed a way to avoid Ross for a couple of seconds to get his easy blood supply, so he summoned his last bloody spikes in the air before he could refill again. That was his idea.


    After the few bloody spikes were created above his head, he shot toward Ross and flew onto Eduard, grabbed his neck, and said, "Hahahaha. Nobody can stop me from sucking his blood!" Raising the enemy to the air with his hand.


    ***


    Ross did not have enough Flow energy to fire any long-range powers. James couldn''t reach them from the ground.


    The Blood Dragon continued, saying, "You are super lucky in this battle." He said, "I said this many times, but oh, well, die."


    "Futher we do. Die!" Alucard opened his mouth, showing his sharp vampire teeth, and went to bite Eduard.


    Bang!


    From a distance, shotgun shells smashed into Alucard before he could get a bite in, making him drop Hein to the ground. Ross saw his friend falling. He ran to grab Eduard.


    "Who ruined my feast?!" He yelled.


    A 70-year-old man was holding a newly fired double-barrel shotgun. The gun was smoking from the barrels. His sunglasses and biker jacket complement each other. Next to him was a 69-year-old woman with gray hair in a ponytail who was wounded. These two were the married couple, Mike and Bell, Old City.


    Alucard, seeing Mike and Bell, started cruising in Russian. Mike smiled and said, "I don''t understand you, but you look angry because we killed your Hatchling?"


    "Fuck you, you killed Ariadna and ruined my feast!"


    Alucard flew angrily toward the married couple, and he couldn''t use his Flow to activate his abilities; he needed to consume more blood.


    Mike fired his shotgun near his foot, making him jump into the air, reloaded his shells in mid-air, and pulled the trigger at Alucard.


    Alucard was wounded, but the Dragon kept flying without stopping. His wounds didn''t mean anything to him, so he summoned a bloody dagger from the blood of his wounds. That was it, the last Flow he used up. Until he consumed blood.


    He slows down a little bit from the wounds, and Mike swings his shotgun by blocking Alucard''s dagger. Mike Old City smiled and fell. He reloaded his weapon before hitting the bottom. Before Mike could fall to the floor safely, Alucard davies to him.


    "Oh, oh, oh." Mr. Old City''s reaction after seeing the Dragon diving to him.


    A laser hit Alucard from the ground, stopping his tracks from attacking Mike. It was Ross''s doing, and his friend landed safely. The laser slowly consumed Alucard from the inside, adding a new wound for the Dragon. That made him angry.


    ''These bastards are annoying. I have to finish this before the sun rises.''


    After that, James needed to wait for his Flow to be restored, so he waited to return.


    Mike was firing many bullets at him without running any bullets. It seemed like he had infinite ammunition.


    Alucard wasn''t falling, even with the many wounds he was receiving from Mike and Bell. The Blood Dragon flew toward James Ross when he saw Ross running, making him think that his Flow was running low or had already reached zero. Also, if he was right, then he could restore his power by sucking James'' blood.


    ''How can he move? From those wounds?'' James thought when he saw his enemy was coming at him.


    Mike also thought the same thing as Ross.


    "James! James! James!"


    Hein Eduard called James while he was bleeding to the ground.


    "Eduard, what is it?" Ross asked.


    Hein held the revolver in his hand when Ross gave it to him and said, "I don''t need it anymore, but thank you for sharing it with me. It helped a lot."


    Ross hastened to take his gift from the man he had given it to. Hein saw this and continued, "I want to return it to you. Could you take it? It will help you defend yourself before your Flow recharges."


    From those words, Ross returns his gun from the blue gentleman''s hands and reloads his gun before firing at Alucard. Tearing the Dragon''s wings, he fell.


    Alucard is mad about Ross destroying his wings, so he dashes toward Ross to get his blood to heal his wings back. He flew and grabbed James'' nick and about to suck his blood.


    However, James Ross rapidly punched him with his left hand in the sides.


    "How many times you try I won''t let you to get blood from me."


    Aluard was laughing, which made Ross ask, "What''s funny?" He replied by showing a small blood drop on his sharp fingernail. Ross touched his head, and a small amount of blood was on his hand.


    "When did you?"


    Alucard smiled and consumed the blood, restoring his Flow and healing his wings and any wounds from his body.


    "I''m back, baby. I wish I got more, but oh well this will do for now."


    "You intruders are trouble."


    "Bloody Hand!" The small amount of Flow summoned many blood hands from the ground and in every other direction. Mike and Bell struggled after the hands formed and got caught.


    "Shit." The married couple said.


    The hands also grabbed Ross, "Are you gotta kidding me." They are holding him tightly so that he couldn''t move.


    Alucard was smiling and said, "How disappointing. If I got my Flow back, you fools would be challenged, but no, you losers are weak and wasted my time."


    "Whatever, I should kill you fools and fill my Flow energy. I don''t want to waste time."


    The bloody hands dissolved into the blood and came back and said, "Go, my babies, I summon you to bring me blood to the point my Flow fully recharged."


    He then continued by speaking in Russian, "Blood Bath!"


    After saying those words in his language, bats emerged from his body. This ability completely drowned the Blood Dragon Alucard''s Flow into zero, but he didn''t care. It will bring more Flow to him.


    To be continued

 Infiltrating the North Dragons Den (VIII) Sunlight!

    After saying those words in his language, bats emerged from his body. This ability completely drowned the Blood Dragon Alucard''s Flow into the drain, but he didn''t care. It will bring more Flow to him.


    The bats were making them move farther away from Hein by annoying them, flying everywhere to suck their blood. Alucard was slowly walking toward the enemies.


    "Shit, these things are annoying." They said all together.


    Ross, Mike, and Bell were fighting the bats not to let them drink from their blood. After getting fed up, Mr. Old City destroyed all the bats surrounding him and approached Alucard.


    James was fighting the bats when he saw a giant Vicious One fly to Hein Eduard. Bell noticed and said, "James, leave me to fight them, and you should go and help him."


    Ross nodded and ran as fast as he could toward the blue gentleman before the bat could reach him. He quickly grabbed Hein Eduard before the bat reached him.


    "Just hang on until we get out of here, so don''t make it your final resting place!" He said to the blue gentleman.


    After hearing what Ross said to him, Hein smiled and said, "Thank you (Cough), James. Thank you for thinking about me. I am losing so much blood I don''t think I will survive."


    James was angry about what he said, but Hein continued before he could say anything, "James, promise me you will save my sister from Seven Dragons of the Sea." He died smiling.


    Ross was so focused on the bat that he noticed the blue gentleman, Hein Eduard, took his last breath.


    "Don''t die on me, Hein. You will survive and save your sister; hold on tight." Ross gently puts Eduard down, puts on his golden brass knuckles, and jumps on the bat, smashing its head into a pumpkin after he avoids its claws.


    The smaller bats saw what had happened and tried to escape if Mike and Bell had stopped them. Shotgun shells and blades killed the bats. Alucard takes a deep breath after seeing his bats beaten without getting a single drop of blood, but he swings his claws at Bell.


    Mrs. Old City blocks the attack and says, "You have no shame attacking an injured lady?"


    Alucard laughed and replied, "You are an easy target." He said this while launching rapid-fire attacks on Bell.


    ''He''s strong, and even his flow is drained.''


    Bell thought while deflecting his attacks. Mike jumped to help his wife fight the Blood Dragon, but a Vicious One stopped him by slashing his skin, getting blood on its finger. Ross was also trying to help if small bats weren''t surrounding him. Alucard summoned blood daggers from the Vicious One, consuming from Mike''s wound. He sneakily attacks Bell''s side but gets blocked by the woman, and from above, Mike fires his shotgun. Alucard got cut off guard and got wounded, pushed backward from the shells.


    "Tsk, how annoying. Stop playing around, Vicious!" The giant bat was behind Mike and would kill Mr. Old City if Ross didn''t jump up and smash its head into pieces.


    Bell dashed toward Alucard and slashed the Blood Dragon, wounding his arms.


    "D-d-Don''t come any closer, y-y-you monsters!"


    He started shaking from fear after seeing them beating him way badly, so he was crawling back when James, Mike, and Bell were coming closer to him. After a certain point, he got blocked by a wall; his body was shaking too much. Mike and Bell were going to finish him off, but Ross stopped them and fired a laser from his left arm, going above and breaking the ceiling and the top floor''s window, which a shine of sunlight illuminated at the exact spot Alucard stayed. His Flow went into the drain.


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    "Ho-how did you know I was acting?!"


    He started turning into ash from the sun. He would be alive if Alucard had never turned himself into a vampire.


    ***


    "Your face told me you were not afraid but the opposite."


    "James, how did you know he was a vampire? I never had guessed." Ross told him how he guessed when he saw Alucard had sharp teeth and drank their blood for Flow.


    Suddenly, Bell screamed. They turned and said, "Bell-Bell, are you okay?"


    "Mike and James, Eduard is de-de-dead." She trembled from putting words in her mouth, but in the end, "Mike and James, Eduard is de-de-dead."


    Those words horrified Ross and Mike, and they rushed to where Bell was. Before they could grieve, the skyscraper collapsed, making them rush out.


    Before Ross left, he picked up the blue gentleman''s body and started moving. Eduard''s body slowed Ross down a lot, but he wanted to bury his body properly without caring.


    "James this way," Bell yelled, and Ross followed, avoiding falling debris from above.


    When the three of them were about to enter the entrance of the stairs, the floor under them collapsed, making them fall.


    "Not again," Ross said when he felt the ground crumbling underneath him. Ross''s skin turned into nanobots after he smashed into the ground, saving himself and bringing Hein Eduard to safety. Mike fired his last shotgun shell, and he safely landed on the ground. His wife, Bell, stabbed the ground with her swords, saving herself.


    They fell to the bottom of the underground skyscraper, where Alucard tied them.


    "Is everybody okay?" Ross said, turning his skin back to normal.


    "We are okay?" Bell said, and Mike asked, "How about you, James? Is Eduard damaged?"


    "I am fine," Ross said. "Eduard is safe. I protected him from the fall."


    "We have fallen too far from the entrance. Ross said. "We have to hurry before this building caves in."


    They entered a stairway that led back to the lobby, where they entered the skyscraper. The building was shaking, making it unstable. With each step they took, the ones behind them broke apart.


    "We need to?" Mike yelled in pain, scared Bell, and said, "Mike. Don''t tell me... Why now? Why did your Flow drown now, Mike?!"


    Bell ran back to Mike, picked him up on her back, and ran fast before they fell.


    When Mike Old City''s Flow emptied, his body returned to being old, and he couldn''t walk because of so much back pain. When elders lose their flow energy, they return to their original state, meaning they no longer have a prime state. Mike is experiencing that.


    Ross tried to carry Mike to help Bell from curring him, but Mrs. Old City said, "James, don''t worry. We are okay. Go ahead." Ross listened to her and went ahead but was going slowly to see if nothing wrong would happen to them.


    Mike felt guilty about his wife carrying him on her back while he was injured in a fight, so he asked, "Am I a burden on you, Bell?"


    "I would not be your wife if I were a burden to you.


    "What?!" Mike said.


    They finally arrived at their destination; it was a close call for Bell, and Mike would almost have fallen if Bell hadn''t jumped into the safe zone. They arrived in the lobby and needed to descend from the mezzanine to exit the skyscraper. However, that task proved challenging when the stairs were split in half. The building was collapsing quickly. Ross needed to hurry up to escape before it collapsed on itself. Ross put Hein Eduard on the floor, jumped from the railing, and shocked Bell.


    James said, "Don''t worry, I will catch you three."


    "No, no, no, don''t throw me, Bell."


    Mike feared for his life when he was above his wife''s head. Bell smirked and confidently threw Mike; for a second, Mr. Old City''s soul raised. Lucky Ross catches him, and his energy returns to normal, making his body young again. Bell jumped down with the blue gentleman in her hands and said, "Let''s go." They started running to the exit, and the building collapsed quickly. Bell, Eduard, Mike, and James escaped. However, debris fell from above, so they weren''t safe yet.  Many firefighters, police, and ambulances were around the building, not letting anyone get any closer to the skyscraper.


    Suddenly, a mysterious man ran past Ross and others closer to the building.


    "Aren''t you-?!" Before Ross could speak, the man raised his wounded hand and said, "Paste!" From his hand, a black hole emerged and went flying toward the collapsing building, sucking falling debris, and when it got closer, it dragged Blood Bar into it, making the skyscraper disappear. The black hole also vanished. The mysterious man suddenly split out of blood from his mouth from using that ability.


    Ross went closer to the man and said, "Do you need help?"


    "I am fine. Thank you for asking."


    Up close, the man looked wounded everywhere, with dozens of scars on his face and body, and they were newly formed cuts.


    The man stands up from the ground and says, "I am here for my friend, Eduard, to bury him."


    To Be Continued.

 Leo Vortex, the N-Ranker

    "You useless piece of shit, I have to find another Dragon to replace you, Alucard."


    "But who should they be?" She thought about who would replace Alucard as the Blood Dragon and remembered a person.


    "Oh, right. Why did I forget the previous Blood Dragon before you, Alucard? I just decided he would take your place as Blood Dragon. He had been once, but why would he decline a second time?


    "It will take a little bit of convincing to bring him back, but when I mention you turned into ash by the hands of the intruders. He will seek revenge on the people who killed you, Alucard. So, be patient with me and see, in the future, your dad will kill intruders!"


    After speaking, what came to her was that she ordered a black orb to absorb Alucard''s burned body. She destroyed a window and jumped out.


    ***


    Returning to the present, the man who used the black hole said, "I''m going to bring Hein Eduard to the cemetery. Would you three help me to carry him there?"


    Ross looked at the man and said, "Yes, I will help you." Then he continued, "However, who are you?"


    The man with many scars answered Ross'' question, "Oh, sorry. I am N-Ranker, Leo Vortex."


    Ross was shocked when he heard N-Ranker from him, so he didn''t believe him. Why didn''t James believe him? N-Rank is a very special rank in the Color Kingdom; it is rarer than S-Rank. Only two known people ever reached N-Rank in the county''s history. That''s why James didn''t believe him, not just him. Mike and Bell also thought Leo was telling lies.


    After Leo saw their faces disbelieving, he knew that would happen, so he changed the topic by saying, "Whatever, believe me or not, it would not bring my friend back."


    He grabbed Hein Eduard''s body and said, "Not coming, then I going to bury him alone."


    Leo took a few steps forward before Ross grabbed him from his shoulder, stopping him. He turned around and looked at James''s face.


    "I can''t trust you yet?!" Ross said.


    Leo got irritated, "Tsk. Look. Stop grabbing my shoulder if you three are not coming to help me."


    Ross recognized his mistake and took his hands off his shoulder, but he punched Leo Vortex to test him. He was no longer there before the punch could connect to N-Ranker''s gut. Leo reappeared, grabbed his hand, and threw him to the ground. Mike and Bell attack after seeing James Ross on the hard floor.


    "Don''t," Ross said to Mike and Bell, making them stop. Leo takes his hands off his shoulder and gets up from his body, smiling.


    "Now you understand why I am the N-Ranker?" Ross nodded his head after standing up.


    "Anyway, without wasting time. I''m going to the graveyard." He stepped forward and said, "Oh, before I forget." He tossed a paper from his hands, flying toward Ross, and he disappeared after it hit the ground.


    Ross grabs it from the ground and reads what''s written on it. It was the address written on it. The last line of the message read, ''This is the address if you want to come.''


    ***


    They discussed leaving the place, and Mike suggested calling the automatic driver. It picked them up and took them to the address''s destination: the cemetery. The police and firefighters near Blood Bar started questioning everyone near the skyscraper.


    They met up with Leo Vortex and watched Hein Eduard''s burial in a blue casket. After they buried him, everyone put their flowers on the ground and cried. Leo cried the most because he had known Hein for a long time, but that didn''t mean others didn''t cry.


    Ross remembered Eduard''s final words, "Promise me to save my sister, James."


    "I will," Ross whispered to himself, making him cry even more. Besides these four, no one else is in the graveyard. This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.


    After mourning their friend''s death, they went their separate ways. Mike and Bell returned to their home. The N-Rank went his way, and James returned to the same hospital.


    He took a deep breath before entering the building, ''How should I explain my disappearance.'' After thinking about it, he went inside the hospital and was instantly recognized by two nurses near the entrance.


    Ross didn''t notice the nurses'' presence, so he went to find his sister''s room.


    "Sir, Excuse me," He stopped by a nurse''s words.


    After seeing him stop, the nurse continued, "Aren''t you the patient who escaped the hospital?"


    Ross, joking, said, "The seas were calling. I would be king of the pirates, but I got lost and returned here." The nurse didn''t laugh.


    Ross yelled, "Whatever, don''t talk to me," He continued, "My day was grim!" He wanted at least to see a smiling face, but when he didn''t get one, it made Ross remember the tragic event of the Blood Bar.


    He continued walking, but the nurse stopped him by saying, "Sorry for offending you, Sir, but please keep your voice down."


    Ross glanced behind a counter, where a nurse was on the phone, calling security to stop James from yelling. He stopped after seeing her speak on the phone.


    He looked at the clock near the counter, figuring out that his sister wouldn''t be in the hospital anymore when it was night. He slapped himself after recognizing that later.


    ''God, where did my sense of time go.''


    He was about to leave the hospital if it wasn''t for suddenly getting unconscious.


    ***


    On the morning of the next day, James woke up in a hospice bed. His vision was a little burly, and he saw two unrecognizable people. After one of the figures hugged him, his vision became clear, and he recognized his sister, Shy, who hugged him. Near her, the other person was the doctor.


    "I was worried about you, James." She was crying after seeing her brother.


    "I don''t want to lose you like Samuel." She said sourly.


    James blinked. How did he return to the hospital when he returned home at night? In his sleep, he saw a strange dream or nightmare; he doesn''t remember, but his mind visualized figures covered in darkness.


    ''What''s going on? How did I return here when I remember I went back home.''


    When he saw his sister smile, he said, '' It doesn''t matter how I got here; seeing my sister smile makes me happy.''


    He gets up from bed and talks to the doctor, who is still in the room, which he was told he could leave. He talked to his sister about everything that happened to him and Samuel''s whereabouts.


    Her sister then tells her brother that she is pregnant and James will become an uncle, and he is happy. Shy is sad. She thinks her child will not see their dad, but Ross tells her she has nothing to worry about; Samuel is strong.


    She left the room and was about to go when two men entered, stopping him from leaving.


    One of the men said, "James. Long time no see."


    "Do I know you?" Ross replied that he had no memory of these two men.


    "You forgot about your Flow training buddies, James?"


    Ross was still blinking and couldn''t remember. They saw this and said, "I guess the names Jole and Gwyn would make you remember?"


    After hearing those names, he instantly recognized them: "Oh, it''s you two."


    "You two changed so much."


    Gwyn smiled and said, "Yeah, you changed too."


    "What are you brothers doing these days anyway?"


    "It''s been great with our families and business, and I heard you were married and had a son. Why didn''t you invite us?"


    Ross became sad remembering his wife and child, so he explained to the best of his abilities without crying, "Sorry, sorry. They are both of are dead. They died a few years ago at the hands of the White Clan. I am sorry. I would invite you two sooner if my family were still alive."


    Joel opened his mouth and said, "I am glad you still remember their deaths. I even remember their sweet screams of burning¡ª?!"


    "Fuck?! What are you saying?" He looked at Gwyn and yelled, "Bring some sense to your¡ª?!"


    Gwyn removed his ring from his ring finger, transforming him into a pretty woman with red hair and a top hat tattoo. After changing back from her wrist, thorny vines came out and tied up Ross.


    "You two are not my friends; who are you!" He yelled.


    Joel laughed, "I-I..." removing his ring and turning him back into his original body. The man "Joel" turned into had white hair on one side and black hair on the other, with some silver hair on the last few hairs. His top hat mostly hides his hair, and his clean white suit is there to match the white part of his hair¡ªa black glove on his one hand.


    He continued, "...I''m William J. White, the leader of the White Clan."


    He pointed to the woman, "Here is my secretary, Ms. Rose." He went closer toward Ross, "Just call me Mr. White."


    "Damn you. I will kill you! I will fucking kill you!"


    "What are you going to do? When you are tied up," He laughed.


    Ms. Rose, however, took the threat seriously. "Don''t talk to him like that. I will kill you!" She tried to sharpen the thorny vines, but Mr. White told her not to.


    William grabbed Ross''s head, "Let''s say you were freed. Would you kill me?"


    "Because I know you would not, but I will." He forcefully smashed Ross''s head to the ground.


    "Oops, I lied," He stopped Ross''s head before hitting the ground.


    "I am not going to kill you for now. Become stronger and find me." After saying that, he put his Disguise Ring back, and Ms. Rose called the vines back, and then they left.


    Ross stands up to go after them, but when he looks outside, there is no trace of them. Ross tried to find them but failed and left the hospital.


    He entered his home, turning his light. A man was waiting for him on the couch.


    "Hello, James!"


    Ross was surprised by who was sitting on his couch. He yelled, "Samuel," in a surprising way.


    To Be Continued.

 Mysterious Photo

    In Majestic, the capital city of the Color Kingdom, a giant floating island, Catstle Island, hovers above the land, where a big castle is located, the home of every generation''s monarchs of the Color Kingdom. The current ruler of the country and resident of Castle Island is King Romeo the Second.


    A young blond man sitting on a lush throne, wearing a rainbow crown, has two beautiful women on his lap. These two women are sisters; their white wings protect his body, only showing the king''s head.


    Their brother is scanning for dangers on the other side of the throne. His leg is on the wall, and his arms are crossed. His wings touch the wall, and his face has a Rainbow Phoenix tattoo covering half of his face. In front of the king, the N-Ranker, Leo Vortex, he was bowed down to him.


    "Why did you call me, my Majesty?"


    The king instantly replied, "I heard that the Nightcore Empire wants to start a war against the Color Kingdom. As the king of this beautiful kingdom, I order you, Leo Vortex, to go undercover and infiltrate their ranks to stop them ever thinking about war."


    After hearing those words from the king, "All due respect, my Majesty... how long will it take?" He asked.


    After speaking, the siblings looked at the N-Ranker like he had killed the king before them. They were about to yell.


    "You three, stop, he asked a question." They calmed down from those few words.


    "Sorry about my Primary Colors."


    "It will take you a long time. Could you please look at the future...? If it is possible to stop this war, I hope you accept it."


    Leo thought and replied, "I accept it. My Majesty!"


    He got up from all four and was about to leave the throne room, but the king stopped him by saying, "Leo, Wait."


    "Take this before you leave."


    The man with the rainbow phoenix tattoo on his face was given a ring from the king, and he went toward the N-Ranker and gifted him the ring. After he was given the ring, Leo left.


    *** ''Why is it dark in here?'' James thought.


    The sun was as bright as ever, brightening the streets. However, in James'' home, it was so dark that he couldn''t see anything. He was blind until he turned the light switch, illuminating his whole house and revealing a man sitting on his couch.


    "Samuel?!" He yelled in a surprised way, never expecting his friend to be his couch.


    "Where have you been?" He asked.


    Instead of answering Ross'' question, Samuel took a photo from the sofa and shoved it toward James'' face.


    "James," he pointed to three mysterious figures near his friend inside the picture, two men and a woman, who couldn''t tell their faces when darkness covered them.


    The photo was decolored and ripped in many places. Although it was old, it showed Ross''s arm was robotic, Model XI0 in the picture.


    Ross didn''t notice the picture Samuel was holding because he was happy to see his friend, who was fine and alive.


    "Thanks to Creation. You are okay, Samuel." He continued, "Shy is worried about you; see her." "I don''t care about her! Answer the damn question, James! Who are these people?!"


    After hearing those words, James instantly punched Samuel and yelled, "What did you say to my sister?!"


    Cliffhanger was holding his face, turning his finger into a gun, pointing toward James, letting his friend know that if he tried attacking him again, it would not end well.


    "I thought so." Ross stopped his next attack when he saw Samuel''s finger gun pointing toward him.


    "Don''t play games with me. Answer my question: who are these people?!"


    Ross had no idea who the figures were in the photo and why he was with them and yelled, "I have no idea who they are and why I am with them, but tell me, Samuel, why are hang up with this?"


    James was so confused and infuriated by Samuel that he didn''t know what to say about the photo he was holding. Cliffhanger approached Ross and said, "Look closer. You may recognize them."If you encounter this tale on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    "Why?" He gave up and agreed, "Fine, give it."


    Samuel gives him the photo, and he looks closer but does not recognize the figures with him. The darkness also makes it impossible to see the faces.


    Ross was only confused about why he was there with strangers he didn''t know. That didn''t matter to him for now. What mattered to him the most now was why Samuel was so focused on the photo.


    Ross shook his head several times and looked at the picture. "I have no idea. I have nothing to say," he yelled, continuing, "Happy now? Samuel?"


    "Leave and go back to your wife. She worried about you, and I will keep secret about what you told me to, Shy."


    Samuel smiles, points his finger gun at James, and says, "No! I am not leaving until I get answers!"


    When James loses his patience, he punches Samuel but misses, which causes his friend to fire an explosion from his finger. The blast destroys the TV near them, but it is tiny and doesn''t cause too much damage to the TV''s surroundings.


    "Don''t do this again, James. If you don''t want your house to be full of trash!"


    "Leave!" He yelled at Samuel.


    At first, Cillfhanger didn''t listen to his friend, but the yelling continued, growing and growing louder, which made Samuel leave.


    Cilffhanger''s head started hurting, dropping to the ground before he could step outside of his partner''s home. Ross saw this and rushed toward him, trying to help him, but he couldn''t hear anything James was saying, hearing mumbled words. His surroundings became too quiet, as someone who lowered their TV volume to nothing.


    After a few seconds of quietness, a demoniac voice spilled into Samuel''s thoughts, making him a little scared.


    "Who are you," He yelled at the voice.


    A minute passed, and Samuel grabbed Ross''s shakey hands.


    "James, don''t worry. I am fine." Ross calmed down, and Samuel stood up, taking the photo from his friend''s hand.


    "I am sorry for today." After saying those words, he left Ross''s house. ***


    Samuel returned home, went to bed, and saw his wife resting on the bed, not to wake her up. He quietly tried to go to bed. However, Shy was awake and instantly hugged her husband. She kissed him and returned to sleep like a baby without worrying too much. Her shoulder stiffness vanished after seeing Samuel.


    Samuel Cliffhanger slipped to the next morning. He had been so tired the day before that he had slept the whole day.


    His wife was sleeping toward him. He went to the kitchen, making breakfast and fresh orange juice for Shy. He wrote, "I LOVE YOU"! in big red letters. In the end, he drew a heart. He left the note beside her breakfast, brought it to the bedroom, and went to work.


    Samuel went to work to meet his boss, Tim Skyfather, the former boss of James Ross. Tim asked about Ross, but Samuel ignored Skyfather and walked past him.


    ''Is he in a bad mood today?'' Tim was thinking, twirling his brown hair, which was dyed.


    "What is for me today?"


    "It''s an easy day. We... I mean, you. Teach these noobies what they should and shouldn''t do in crime scenes while trying to find evidence."


    He snapped his fingers, opening a fake tile and raising a dummy covered with fake blood, which was tomato sauce, and near it was a bloody knife. In the background''s sense, there was broken glass on the floor from a window.


    "Is this school or something? Why am I teaching these people what they already learned?"


    Tim dodged the question and excused himself by leaving the office. Samuel sighed after seeing Tim leaving, ''Noting new, he''s been like this,'' he thought.


    A few minutes later, Tim returned, "Samuel, have a minute?"


    "What''s up?"


    Looking up at Tim, a beautiful 27-year-old woman with pink hair tied into a ponytail was near him. A green lollipop, the same color as her eyes, was in her mouth. Her white skin shined bright from the building''s lights.


    "I''m going to introduce you to this lovely lady." Tim moved his head slightly toward the woman by, saying that.


    Samuel recognized her immediately. "Aren''t you the famous S-rank actor who played with James Ross in the popular show Mystery of Murder?"


    She nodded and said, "What''s your name, sir?"


    "Samuel Cliffhanger," He stopped and continued, "What yours?"


    The noobies saw her and instantly ran toward her, surrounding her and kicking Samuel out of the crowd.


    "Oh my god, Junon Acadia, I am your biggest fan! Can I get your autograph?"


    "My daughters will be happy to see their mom take a picture of Lollipop Girl."


    The woman took her phone, trying to take a selfie with Junon, but when Tim saw Acadia was uncomfortable being surrounded, he yelled, "Stop fooling around! Go back to work if you don''t want to be fired!" He made them leave her alone.


    "You can still say your name," Samuel said.


    She chuckled and said, "As they said, my name is Junon. Nice to meet you, Samuel." She held her hand and waited for Cliffhanger to shake it, and he did.


    "How did you and Tim meet?"


    "Well..." Tim struggled to say, but Acadia said, "Before my acting career, I volunteered at a park where he used to work."


    "You two get along." Tim started moving to the exit, "I am going to smoke." He left the office.


    Instantly, before anybody knew it, the floor started shaking badly for a short minute, and everyone felt it. Before anyone could process what happened, a giant worm rose from the crater blow and crashed into the window, killing a single person inside the office.


    The worm''s head was covered with a futuristic helmet, the visor of which read "Death IS Here."


    People started running when they saw the monster, but some froze from fear and did not move. Those who were frozen were crushed.


    Samuel wanted to use a big explosion to kill the worm on the first try, but he remembered that firing it inside the office would endanger people. Without any option, he threw himself from the window at a considerable anomaly, holding on to its skin.


    The worm shakes its whole body to drop Samuel off from its body; he is still holding on to it and starts claiming it up toward its head with his bare hands. Harsh winds made claiming difficult, and the slippery body added to the problem.


    It took serval trials and errors, and almost falling to reach the top of the worm''s head, he was exhausted.


    "The head is always the weak spot," he said, making his fingers gun shape. He pointed toward the worm''s head, and he fell from the monster''s movement.


    However, he held on to the worm''s body and tried to return to the top, but he spilled and fell toward death!


    To be continued

 Humongous Gaint Worm!

    Junon Acadia sensed that Samuel Cliffhanger was about to fall, so she tried to save him by biting on a lollipop. It took longer than expected to unwrap, so she failed to stop time, but when she gazed out the window, she saw Tim rescuing Samuel.


    Meanwhile, the inscription on the monster''s helmet visor shifted from "death is here" to "rocket launchers!" From its sides, two big rocket launchers open from its skin.


    "Target Find!" After the written words change, a red light points at a kid''s head¡ªthe same kid who had hugged Junon.


    Junon noticed and yelled, "Hey, kid, run!" The launcher fired its rockets toward the kid, and this time, Acadia crushed the already unwrapped lollipop, stopping time. After activating her ability, she ran forward, saving the kid from danger by dropping to the ground.


    Time quickly resumed, and rockets went over their heads. The boy got scared and instantly hugged Junon, who was crying.


    "There, there, don''t cry, kid. It''s okay. I''m here."


    "Where are your parents, child?" Junon said.


    "I have no idea. But I don''t want to go. I want to stay here forever." He was happy he was hugging a pretty woman, and his face was between two giant melons.


    "Your parent might be worried about-?" Before she could finish saying ''you,'' the worm fired rockets, killing other adults for being in its way.


    The child''s dad came to the room and yelled, "Where is my-? Suddenly, the red light aimed at the kid''s dad and fired.


    "Get down, sir!"


    Acadia said while running and trying to unwrap the lollipop''s wrapper, but she was not fast enough. Fortunately, someone else pushed the dad away to safety¡ªthat person exploded in the process!


    "Huh?! Huh?!" The child''s dad was horrified to see the lump of flesh on the ground.


    Junon held the kid''s hand, and they went toward his dad, who was happy to see him. He hugged him tightly, and the kid cried to see his dad. He felt true happiness from hugging his dad than Junon.


    "Take your son''s hand and leave!" He did what she told him.


    Junon faced the worm and said, "Now that I have no one to protect, get ready, worm. You are about to die, monster!"


    "I have no one to protect. Now get ready, worm. You about to die!" After firing the missiles, the monster was too busy, causing havoc on other floors, so it didn''t notice Acadia was rushing towards it with sharp lollipops.


    She threw herself from the broken window and stabbed the lollipop through the skin to climb up, but it would not let her. It was shaking itself to throw out Junon from its body.


    But she was determined to go up, but a new obstacle got her way. The rocket launchers were giant steel blocks with a rocket on them. She couldn''t climb up, so she tried to go another way. She tired to climb the skin.


    There was another problem, though. The only skin part to up was in the noise of the rocket launcher''s barrel. If Junon climbs up from there, she will die when the monster decides to fire!


    ''Shit, what should I do?''


    She thought about it while holding her dear life. Acadia looked down to the ground and saw nobody there. Not even police or ambulances were standing by. She thought about it later. First, she decided how to climb up.


    Acadia flung herself inside one of the rooms of the buildings when she got momentum from the wind. Before she could stand up, the worm changed one of its weapons into [Mini Gun!]


    "Shit, shit!"


    Junon panicked after seeing the minigun about to fire toward her, so she bit the blood-covered candy. The time stopped after the bullets got fired. The tale has been illicitly lifted; should you spot it on Amazon, report the violation.


    Junon went to a cover, and then the time resumed, and Acadia threw up from bitting the blood-coated sweet. The bullets were destroying the place she was hiding in, and in some cases, they were going through. The ammunition annihilated the table in seconds, revealing Acadia''s back.


    However, the bullets were hitting something hard instead of her skin. That something was a giant lollipop. She stands up and runs toward the worm while holding the big candy to protect her.


    The oversized lollipop was crumbling apart from each projectile attack, but Junon jumped from the window and grabbed onto the worm''s helmet before it completely got destroyed.


    She ascended its head and said, "Go to hell!" She stabs its head with the giant lollipop''s sharp stick, going through the helmet and into its brain, killing it!


    ***


    After the monster got its brain skewered in, it tumbled onto an empty road where no one was. The only people in this area were people in the building and people who died outside.


    Junon hops off the giant monster''s head and lands on an empty road. She looked around to find Samuel and Tim.


    They were nowhere to be found, so stated, "Tim? Samuel? Where are you?"


    Acadia walked around, seeing cars damaged and flipped upside down. Their owners were dead! In the center of the street was a huge crater from which worms came.


    As she neared the crater, she speculated whether Tim and Samuel had entered it. The last time she had seen them was when Skyfather rescued Samuel from a fall. Junon contemplated whether to descend into the hole to search for them.


    A man approached her and called her name, "Junon, what is going on over here?" She turned around and saw the man who acted as her husband during the show Mystery of Murder. It was James Ross.


    "James, I missed you so much!"


    She goes to hug Ross, but he lightly pushes her away and says, "I don''t like people hugging me!"


    "Oh, okay. Anyway, should we jump in there?"


    "Hmmm, if you''re sure this is where Tim and that bastard Samuel are sure." He was still salty about what happened last night. Junon smiled and dropped down to the hole, and seconds later, Ross did the same thing.


    ***


    A few minutes before, Samuel fell and was saved by Tim. He put his hand on the ground and said, "Oh, Holy Creation. Please give me the strength to transform this ground into something soft. Let the man who falls survive without getting killed or injured."


    After his sentence finished, a 10 x 10 square ground turned smooth and soft, so Samuel could easily land on the ground without dying or breaking bones.


    Samuel bounced up like jumping on a trampoline after hitting the ground, slowing down the speed, and every time he hit the ground, the bouncing eventually stopped, and he landed safely.


    After Samuel stood up, the bouncy floor returned to being hard, and he said, "Thank you, Tim, for saving me."


    "Anyway, what should we do with that thing?"


    Samuel asked, and Tim replied instantly, "Leave it to Junon. She is a giant monster slayer."


    "If you say so. What now?"


    "Hmmm, we can go to the source of the monster and how it came from." Samuel agreed, and they started walking toward the crater that the monster had made.


    Samuel noticed Tim suddenly stopped, and he said, "What are you doing? Let''s go."


    Tim looked at Cliffhanger and said, "Samuel, you didn''t notice something was off. Why are there no police or ambulances around here?"


    "Now you mention it. You are right. Is it because of the worm? But whatever the case is, we can figure out after we go where this mysterious hole goes."


    After he spoke, Samuel jumped into the hole instantly, and Tim went in, too.


    When he jumped in, he was falling.


    "I didn''t expect to be this bottomless, but whatever, this will help." Tim touched his skin, making it soft, bouncy, and smooth to survive without breaking any bones and becoming a pancake when he impacted the ground.


    Tim fell straight to the bottom of the hole without difficulty and bounced for a few seconds until he slowed down. Then he stands on the underground floor as if nothing happened.


    He looked everywhere for Samuel, but he was nowhere near him, so he called his name,


    "Where are you, Samuel?" His voice echoed through the underground cave, so he said a second time, again, no response.


    ''Where did he go?''


    Tim looked elsewhere near him until he decided to move forward and look for him. Unfortunately, it was dark as he moved forward, but luckily, the darkness ended after he entered a place full of small abandoned and damaged houses. Dry blood was everywhere on the ground.


    ''All this time, a village like this was hidden underneath our feet?'' When he thought about it briefly, he remembered, "Don''t tell me this place where the elves lived before they got wiped out by Pangea!"


    Before humans immigrated to Armora, Pangea was one of its four moons. Historians believe the moon''s crash led to the elves'' extinction. The fragments of Pangea scattered in space and eventually became three distinct moons of Armora: Aporia, Eden, and Stem.


    "It doesn''t make sense. Why would their houses be underground when Penga killed all the elves? Something isn''t adding up from Armora''s history, I learned."


    He heard a couple of booms in the distance, so he stopped thinking. He investigated the sound and wanted to see if Samuel was there. Without Tim noticing, he stepped on a tread teddy bear on the floor.


    Tim moved away from the broken village and saw explosions near him.


    ''That''s Samuel''s Flow. Who or what is he fighting?''


    Tim went to where the explosion happened and saw a pale man with a white hood punch Samuel''s gut, damaging Cliffhanger.


    To be continued

 The Underground Cave!

    Tim went toward where the explosion happened and saw a pale man in a white hood punching Samuel''s gut, feeling the pain. After Skyfather saw Samuel''s gut getting punched, he went to help Cliffhanger deal with the pale man. However, the man glimpsed at Tim, disappearing from the spot and reappearing next to Tim, turning his hands into fists and throwing a punch at Tim.


    "Cra-?!" Surprising Skyfather after getting hit in the gut, making him tossed backward into a rock near the cave''s wall


    The man opened his mouth and spoke, "You ruined humanity by not letting the worm cause chaos around here. I have to choose now to kill you two before my master makes a new one." He stopped and counted, "My master''s prophecy is always true, and I will be the one who will fulfill it."


    Tim gets up from the ground, cleaning dirt from his body, and he questions, "I don''t understand what your fucking goal is here, but I will stop it." Tim tried to move his leg, and he fell to the ground.


    ''Shit!'' Skyfahter looked at his leg, annoyed.


    After seeing that, the man chuckled and said, "You can try!" Before he could teleport, an explosion went off his face, angering him: " You''ve done it now, you fool!"


    He said to Samuel, teleporting toward his enemy. But Samuel was smart and grabbed his collar perfectly after the pale man reappeared briefly, throwing him face-first to the ground.


    Cliffhanger taunted him, "What happened? I thought you could tell the future from the prophecy, so why didn''t you predict my attack?"After silence, Samuel said, "Time to end this!"


    He made his finger into a gun shape and pulled the trigger. A bomb launched from his finger toward the pale man''s head, exploding his head like a watermelon getting crushed.


    He approached Skyfather and said concernedly, "Tim, are you breathing okay?"


    "I didn''t expect to fall over, but I am okay now." He tried to walk again, and he didn''t fall this time.


    Samuel smiled. "Good, now let''s go." They dug deeper into the hole to find the worm''s source and solve some mysteries, but they ended up dead.


    "Shit, we are at a dead end. Let''s go back, Tim." They turned around and went to their left.


    Tim, while walking, was in deep thought.


    ''In history books, every Elven society lived on the surface of Armora. So, why was there a village this deep to the ground? And how did they survive?'' He continued, ''How did elves who lived in these villages die from asteroids when they lived underground?''


    ''It''s full of mystery like someone purposely erased this part of history? Why are they trying to hide this part of history?''


    Samuel saw the person near him deeply, thinking, "What are you thinking, Tim?" he said.


    "Nothing, nothing at all." He lied to figure out the purpose of erasing elven history.


    When they were walking straight, they saw in the distance a pale woman holding a closed, clear jar in her right hand. Inside of it was a small worm. She was blocking their path.


    She frowned after seeing these, "You two killed Omega and my precious worm!"


    Samuel looked at Tim and said, "We found where the giant worm came from." He continued, "Now we have to defeat them."


    The pale woman crashed the jar with her hand. After the glass broke, the worm grew much bigger. It was larger than Tim and Samuel but much smaller than the Worm Junon fought.


    It swings its humongous tail toward them. Samuel avoids it and fires explosions at it. His Flow was decreasing so badly that it didn''t do as much damage as before. If he keeps using his powers, his Flow would be empty.


    ''This is the worst time for my Flow to decrease.''This novel is published on a different platform. Support the original author by finding the official source.


    The beast attacked Tim, and explosions were not doing anything. The worm didn''t feel any explosions.


    Tim stood straight, looking at Worm''s eyes confidently, waiting for the monster to approach him. When it swung its tail toward Skyfather, he still stood there, not caring if he became a pancake.


    Samuel saw this and yelled, "What are you doing, Tim?" "Fight!" He ran toward Tim to save him from death.


    Skyfather smiled at Samuel, "Don''t worry about me, Sam. Go and stop that woman¡ª?!" Before he could finish, the worm''s tail smashed into his body, turning him into a pancake.


    After seeing her enemy getting transformed into a flat human, she became way too happy, laughed weirdly, and said, "That''s what happens to get our way." She said. "My beloved son, kill the other one."


    From underneath the worm''s tail, a man''s voice appeared; it was a little quiet but not much not to understand. "You thought wrong of me being killed by this monster!"


    "I will turn your happiness into sadness."


    Tim''s legs turn pink, and he swings back like a spring and launches himself through the tail. By the power of his Flow, he survives by getting smashed when his body becomes a robber. From mid-air, he dropped to the ground, grabbed the worm with rubbery hands, and threw it to the ground, smashing its head. It was still alive.


    The woman was angry, "How dare you attack my beloved son!"


    Tim didn''t care what the woman was saying. He bounced everywhere, wall to wall, hitting the worm''s head and damaging it even more. Eventually, it died by getting in the end in the final bounce of Skyfather. The bounces felt like bullet shots, feeling pain until the monster''s final moments. It only took ten bounces to defeat the giant.


    ''Shit, It died early.'' He was disappointed he couldn''t bounce more and landed on the ground after defeating the worm. He picked forward, grabbed its body, and threw it toward the pale woman.


    She was annoyed at how her worm had died and grabbed a different jar from her pockets. Inside it was a different creature, a tiny black widow. Before she could break it, Samuel punched her face, dropping the jar on her hand, blowing her away from him, and shattering the terrain behind her. She made a new path.


    ***


    Tim saw the new path created by Samuel''s punch and was surprised: "What the hell, man, how strong are you?! "


    Samuel looked at Tim and asked, "Where do you think that path leads?" Then he changed the topic. Skyfahter answered, "We may find out?" He continued, "I hope we find a way out."


    After moving forward for a few minutes from the path, they reached the end of the tunnel. They entered an area where artificial stone pillars supporting the cave ceiling were not falling. In the farthest part of the area was a man with bad posture, a monocle in one eye, and an orb on a table near him.


    James and Junon emerged from another path.


    The man with a monocle looked at the four facing him, "How unlucky you four made it here. We will deal with you!"


    The hatchback grabbed a gun and shot it multiple times in random directions, creating five blue portals. Five Men in White emerged from them. He entered the closet one and smiled, saying, "I already completed my mission, so you five should do the same¡ªkill them!"


    Don''t let them escape!" The portal closed, and the monocle man was gone. He should have brought the orb with him.


    These five Men in White had one of each weapon, from guns to swords, mace, and axes. The man with the minigun fired countlessly at James, Junon, Tim, and Samuel.


    Ross turned his skin armor, blocking the bullets, and Tim turned his skin into rubber, bouncing the shots back to one holding a minigun of the heads of the enemy; two down, three more to go. Ross killed the other after blocking the projectile.


    One of the Men in White saw what had happened to others and said, "We should not let them scare us. In the name of the White Clan, we would fight and defend for the prophecy of our leader!" The other two are motivated by their college speech and dashed toward their enemies, Samuel and Junon.


    They swing their weapons toward both of them. Samuel dodged the guy with a sword and punched him on the right so heavily that any Flow his enemy could use would be useless. Samuel Flow was nearly empty after fighting the worm and the pale woman. That''s why he''s not using his explosion but his fists¡ªthey are as affected. And he''s saving up!


    On the other hand, Junon blocks the ax by making the lollipop bigger and stabbing the enemy in the foot with extra sharp candy in her left hand. After the man dropped his ax from the pain, stop and swing toward Acadia. She then turns the giant lolly smaller, biting it and stabbing it into her enemy''s neck!


    There was only one of them left. When he saw that he was the only Man in White left, he got scared and yelled, "Stay away... stay away from me!"


    The man who motivated his colleagues was trying to find the inspiration to overcome fear, but nothing helped. Because of this strong emotion, the Man in White couldn''t fire his handgun.


    Ross went closer to the man and said, "Don''t worry, we are not going to kill a defenseless person. Leave." The man, too, Ross''s suggestion, dashed out.


    "What if he comes back with more people, James?" Samuel said.


    "Don''t worry, Samuel. I know he wouldn''t return."


    Tim and Junon saw the orb and went closer. Tim tried to touch it, but Acadia said, "Wait!"


    Skyfather looked at her. Junon said, "It could be a trap if you touched it."


    "What''s your suggestion?" Tim asked.


    Before Junon could suggest, suddenly, the ground violently shook, and they looked at Junon. "What did you do?" Acadia asked Tim.


    "I promise I didn''t touch as you said."


    Ross yelled, "You two be ready to fight. Spiders are coming toward us!" They turned around and approached them where two gigantic black widows blocked the way they came from.


    To be continued

 Black Widows!

    Ross yelled, "You two be ready to fight. Spiders are coming toward us!" They turned around and approached them where two gigantic black widows blocked the way they came from.


    Smaller spiders, still larger than humans but not as large as the two massive black widows, were also advancing toward the room. The medium bugs approached the Man in White, who ran away.


    "Get back... Get back!"


    The man tried his best to escape from the spiders advancing toward him, but his bad luck struck when three smaller black widows bit his shoulder. He yelled in pain as the venom flowed into his skin and spread into his whole body from the spider''s fangs.


    He was unlucky that smaller spiders attacked him instead of the giant black widow. He would die immediately from getting bitten rather than slowly dying from the venom.


    The Man in White could only scream, "No, No, No."


    The venom slowly dried the man''s body until it left only a skeleton. After finishing, they moved again.


    James saw what happened and said, "Everyone careful not to get bitten."


    Junon replied, "I understand."


    Tim and Samuel fought medium spiders, while Junon and James battled the same-sized ones as the other two. One of the giant bugs shot webs from its abdomen.


    "Tim dodge!"


    Samuel warned Tim about webs coming toward him. Tim is facing the other big widow and doesn''t know he is a target until he hears Samuel.


    Skyfather ducked out of the way a second before the projectile was about to hit. The web landed on the ground, melting the floor and supersizing Tim, "Oh, good lord," after seeing the ground liquidating from the webs, killing a few medium-sized arachnids.


    He warned, "James and Junon, be careful about the spiderwebs. They are very dangerous."


    Ross fired lava and other lasers from his Model XI0 arm, muffling Tim''s words with the loud beams. Junon blocked a massive spider''s leg with her lollipop.


    After realizing that most of the projectiles he fired failed to damage the


    big spider before him, he noticed his Flow rapidly decrease. When his energy falls, he must wait for it to recharge, but he can''t afford to wait when his life is at risk.


    ''Fuck!'' James thought.


    Junon saw Ross''s attacks not working. She said, "James, do you have anything else in your arsenal?"


    Ross was thinking about what to use that doesn''t use his arm.


    ''Would my revolver work?'' he asked, removing the gun from his pockets. ''Why do I think a normal firearm would work when a special arm couldn''t?''


    But he had no choice. A giant spider leg was about to crash him, "Fuck it," he fired all the six bullets at the legs.


    He signed, "Great!" after seeing the bullets were not powerful enough to destroy it.


    The spider fired its venomous spider web at them, but Junon blocked it with her giant lollipop. However, it melted into pieces and would drop on Acadia''s face if she didn''t bite on a different sweet. Time stopped!


    "That was close. I would be dead if I didn''t bite the lollipop."


    "How much Flow did I waste?"


    "I will check later; I have no time." Junon ran and unwrapped another lollipop. She approached Ross and said, "James, throw me." You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.


    Without saying a word, Ross ran toward Acadia, throwing her at the spider. Time resumed.


    A medium-sized spider tried to block the woman with its legs. Tim flew in, smashing through it. Junon looked at Skyfather and said, "Thank you."


    "You''re welcome!" Tim replied.


    A black widow Samuel was fighting ran toward the Lollipop Girl to stop her, but Cliffhanger stopped it.


    "Buddy, where are you going?"


    He irritated the black widow with all its legs and attempted to stab Samuel. However, none of its limbs struck him as he dodged everything, like playing wack a mole. The spider then turned around and shot venomous spiderweb.


    Samuel ducks and says, "Oh, sorry. You almost¡ª?! Watch out, James." He saw another spiderweb going toward Ross. It was quick.


    Samuel was so focused on the spiderweb that he forgot the thing fired the web. It was standing next to him. With a slight, quick motion, the black widow slashed Cilffhanger''s arm off completely.


    The beast looked at the ranker with shock, hearing no noise from him when his arm cut off, not a single scream.


    He smiled, "What?! Do you want me to cry or scream?" He continued, "That''s not happening. Because..."


    Black lighting emanated from his body, wrapped around his arm and regrowing it to its normal state. The lighting vanished after its healing was complete. Nobody, except the spider, witnessed what had happened.


    "...it can grow back!"


    ***


    James Ross saw Junon dropping to the ground, so he ran, helping Acadia step on his hand and flung herself into the air, "Yoho!" She articulated.


    She bites on a sweet, making her fly a longer distance. Junon landed on its back. Then, she got another lollipop out and pressed a red button, turning it bigger.


    After it got bigger, she unwrapped it and stabbed it straight through the red hourglass mark, killing the spider and leaving only one giant black widow and two medium bugs. After doing that, Junon found the insect''s weak point and explained why everything Ross tried to do with it wasn''t working.


    "Samuel, watch out, falling giant bug!"


    Cliffhanger was finished killing the medium arachnids and watching Junon. After seeing the falling spider and hearing Acadia, he moved out of the way so as not to get crushed. She jumped off the spider''s back after it landed on the floor.


    "Guys, Tim needs our help." She said to James and Samuel.


    Tim was struggling to fight a giant widow. He kept avoiding the attacks, but his Flow was completely drained to the ground after helping Junon pass through. Tim''s bouncing ability needs fifty percent of his ebb to activate, so waiting to recharge will take longer. Even if it meets the precedence, he has to wait for his skin to turn pink to become bouncy, smooth, and soft.


    ''Why do I have less Flow than normal? It could take forever to increase to the perfect percentage by using it. I wish my Flow would grow faster like some people who can eat or drink something to raise it without waiting.''


    He is thinking and avoiding the black widow''s attacks, but Cliffhanger yells, distracting him by saying, "Make the floor bouncy? Like you did when we came here."


    He continued, "It will not cost you more to do it on the ground than to turn your body pink."


    Skyfather got distracted. That medium-sized four-legged beast bit his arm, and Tim crushed it with his hands. He was lucky that only one small spider attacked him; he would have died if more had. The mother spider, the massive one, would dry Tim in seconds.


    "Are you all right? Do you need to go to the hospital, Tim?" Samuel asked, looking concerned.


    "No need only got itchy nose." They talked while killing the smaller ones and dodging attacks from the giant.


    "Samuel, get ready to jump," Tim said while watching the spider''s front limbs move separately.


    "I know what will happen, but thank you for reminding me about this attack again, Tim."


    Samuel and Tim were waiting to jump when the spider smashed its two front limbs into the ground, creating a massive shock wave that killed the baby spiders. Samuel and Tim hopped right after the ripple came close to them.


    The move weakened the giant black widow, and they took the opportunity to kill it. Samuel finally fired an explosion at the beast, which was severely damaged. This black widow was weaker than one Ross and Acadia battle angst.


    Tim put his hand on the ground and said, "In the name of holy Creation, God give me strength to make the hard land soft and bouncy!" When he finished, the floor underneath him turned bouncy like a trampoline.


    Tim can turn solid objects into bouncy things, but unlike his body, it doesn''t decrease ebb as much. However, he always needs to say the sentence above to transform the thing he touched into a bouncy, smooth, soft object.


    "Samuel, I did thing you said." Tim continued, "What are you planning?"


    Cliffhanger glimpsed at Skyfather, ignoring Tim''s question, and dashed toward the arachnid. He leaped onto the transformed ground, propelling him into the air. While airborne, he shaped his finger like a pistol, aiming at the black widow''s weak spot¡ªthe red hourglass mark.


    "Night Demon Bomb Shot!" He yelled.


    A big, glowing red bullet emerged from his finger, targeting Samuel''s aim. When it was moving, it attacked Tim, and he was avoiding slashes. The shell was following it.


    After firing the projectile, Samuel looked down, scanning where to land. He moved himself to the spot where the floor was transformed into a soft, bouncy, and smooth, landing on it without any trouble.


    Tim Skyfather saw the bullet flying down, so he flung his body out of the way when the strike hit the mark and demolished the spider.


    To be continued.