(Play this song during this segment of the story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnezQVvUDdY )

Date: Sept. 9, 2023 5:47

On a bizarre Tuesday evening, Zhu is in the ruined park sitting on a withered-looking bench located in the Western Section of Fluidia, he heard reports of innocent bystanders being brutally murdered by an unknown entity representing a worn white gown and a noose wrapped around her neck. This kind of thought disturbs him, but also puzzles him for how can one person can kill so many people in a matter of hours. One report tells about an RHG named Hatchet Haro who went missing without a single spec to leave with, then another came when Travis, another RHG, disappeared after he was cast out of the grand capital for his acts against one of the administrators.

He stood up from the bench and opened his umbrella as the clouds begins to turn grey and starts to pour upon the capital. He strolled along the broken path that leads him into a forest, where they once held a small petting zoo and some spots for performers to entertain the crowd; it is now flourish with vines and forgotten memories that they once had. Zhu is still wondering why she would do such acts of slaying in just one day. Not everyone’s an innocent civilian for some RHGs they’re here for murder, money, and supremacy among others. There’s only a few of them who are actual heroes who just came here for social interactions, practicing, and friendly fights.

Thunder roars throughout the sky and the rain grows heavy, the gust of wind sends leaves everywhere and the treetops are shaking violently by the extreme force of nature. Zhu’s umbrella slipped from his hand and soars through the sky, now he’s completely drenched in the heavy downpour.

Dammit. There goes my good umbrella. >.>

He turned his head towards his path and continued walking; the cold breeze brought a chill up his spine indicating that something ominous is ahead of him. He proceeded with caution as he unexpectedly hear rips and gushes somewhere in the forest. He follows the mysterious noises and as he got closer, he takes quiet footsteps to prevent “it” from running away. He peeked through the bushes and was thunderstrucked by the horror his eyes have laid on.

The grass is stained crimson by the blood splatters; Zhu sees two bodies lying on the ground looking like someone have mercilessly bashed them to death. He got a closer look and with such intimidation and dread, he knows those two! Hatchet Haro and Travis, two missing RHGs are now lifeless shells in such an obscene state. Their limbs are twisted and mangled, noses were ripped from their faces, and their eyes have appeared to be repeatedly stabbed by something sharp by the looks of it. He whispered;

Who could’ve done this abominable act?

His eyes have caught an unknown figure standing behind Travis’s body, the figure’s appearance looks more… feminine, but young by its small stature. She appears to have very long hair that reaches to her kneecaps and some kind of rope that is wrapped around her neck. Zhu made a stuttering whisper due to his surprise.

It….it’s…. it’s h… he… her!!

She made a quick turn and possibly saw him in the bushes, her red eyes just made her look more dismaying than before. Since she was spotted by Zhu, she dashed into the woods at a fast pace. Zhu snapped out of it and went after her, not knowing where she has gone to; he kept looking into the wild green yonder. The rain poured down harder as the weather grew even worse, lightning strikes at his feet with no warning. It scared him, but he’s willing not to lose her, he proceeds with this “cat and mouse chase”.

The raindrops temporarily distract him from finding Nina, he also heard that she likes to play with her victims first before she jumps into the killing, so with that kind of advice he went on with his vigilance on his side. It’s problematic to hear her with all the howling of the wind and the impacts of rainwater hitting the ground. He ran at a very fast velocity as he tries to catch her, but all the branches and leaves of the woods slowed him down. He can’t see by the rain and the leaves and branches that are holding him back as if Mother Nature is trying to warn him. Refusing to stop and rest, he grew exhausted as he runs out of stamina to go forward.

He is now cramping as he ran, he feels the pain from his chest muscles tightening with every step he takes. With persistence going through his mind, he finally stops to catch his breath and now lost in the forest of pine and shrubbery that surrounds him. He now hears faint echoes of some dreadful giggles and snickers from Nina who is somewhere hiding. Ambulatory as she is, it’s hard for him to track her down with such speed and endurance.

Damn! I’ve lost her! Where could she be?

Zhu starts getting sniffles and violently sneeze, since he’s been out in the rain for too long he caught a small cold.

Why now? This is unbelievable. -.-

Unable to continue forward, he turns to go back home, but once he made a turn she leaps out of the forest and latched directly at Zhu! He is losing balance as he tries to throw her off, but suddenly she began to gnaw on his left ear. The pain is agonizing, he feels her jagged and rotting teeth sinks into his ear, and then with full force, she rips part of it off. He screams in anguish like a banshee crying in the night; Nina is seen eating his part of the ear, her lips are covered in blood as she chews the flesh in a voracious manner. Covering his bleeding ear, he looked directly at her fiendish, red undead eyes and cursed her.

You… freakish bitch!!! Come over here and I’ll grant you a swift death!!

Nina got up and gave a sportive whisper.

Come and get me! >;)

(Play this song during this segment of the story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bc0Byn7Rx0&feature=related )

Nina then charged at Zhu and attempts to use her noose to wrap his neck around it. Zhu also charged, but he is about to copy what power she has. Nina then slide between his ankles and kicks him in the back. He plummets to the ground and quickly recovers. Zhu turns to see Nina holding a tree branch in her small hands and gave a swing at him; heavy it is, she threw off balance and tumbles.

Zhu sprints towards and out of nowhere he feels something big piercing his foot, he again screamed as he looks down and sees a rusty caltrop covered in his blood. When Nina lost balance, she threw the caltrop at the spot where Zhu will step on. He fell back and landed on his abdomen, attempting to remove it from his bleeding foot. Nina rose and grabbed her noose, but before she could make a move, the wind got a lot more violent. The thunder’s roar is ear-deafening, the rain got a lot heavier, and the gust has become something bigger.

Turns out today Fluidia will be experiencing a Category 12 hurricane named Lucy; her violent waves of air have pulled trees from the ground, cars are now flying everywhere, and not to mention that she has given birth to 16 powerful typhoons that surrounds the grand capital. They are now trapped within her fury and that can only mean one thing: One of them is not going to make it out of this storm alive.

Nina spots a tall tree behind from where Zhu is sitting, regaining her stance and balance, she focuses on killing him. Zhu finally removed the caltrop and tries to stand, but the wind cause him to put pressure on his injured foot. The rain and wind and leaves temporarily blind him, not noticing Nina running around him. She grabs on to the trunk as the wind tries to blow her away; she carefully wraps the noose around Zhu’s neck without him realizing and starts tugging. Nina then ascends to a high branch and ties the end of the rope there while Zhu is now being hanged as he tries to loosen the noose.

The turbulent storm has now grown stronger, and the tree Nina is sitting on has begun to shake. A powerful wave of air has tilted the tree, causing Nina to fall from the branch and grip onto Zhu’s legs. The raging gusts are trying blow them away, but she kept her grip on Zhu; trying not to let go. Her weight is constricting Zhu’s neck even more, the circulation and focus is being cut away from his brain. Everything around him is fading, blurring into the dark; his heartbeats has become sluggish, he’s slowly dying.

The branch Zhu is being hanged on is starting to snap by the combined weight of him and Nina and, without warning, it broke of and they flew into the sky. Debris are flowing within the air like a rapid river, and the fighters are trying to avoid the trash that’s been throwing around by the violent winds. Nina is still hanging onto Zhu while he, still subconscious, is struggling to get the slipknot off of his neck, yet it’s still tight and can barely breathe. Nina scans around to find anything to put him out of his misery, but the rapid turbulence confuses her, making it impossible for her to find even a small piece of shrapnel to cease him for good. Her grip is beginning to loosen as she tries to reach for her noose for a better grip, as for Zhu he’s almost out of the ropes; it’s a close encounter for both of them, for one will make it out of this deadly hurricane alive.

She stretched her arm out as far as she could and grabs the loose ends of the rope, but Zhu finally manage to free himself from the constriction. They both flow in separate directions, unknowingly realizing what fate they have in stored for them. As Zhu is recovering from his subconscious and regaining his breath, the storm slowly ceased the destruction and he violently plummets to the concrete; blood gushed out of his mouth, eyes, ears, and nose as the backside of his head, neck, and spine completely shatters in contact of the stone flooring. The pool of crimson flows around him as others slowly surrounds his lifeless body. It was a brutal sight for the faint of heart, but at least he found everlasting peace in his life.

Nina, on the other hand, used her noose to grip on one of the flagpoles that’s standing on the walls of the grand capital. The noose snaps and she fell into the fallen trees; there she was punctured by branches and splintered trunks that once stand on the soil of Fluidia, but she is still fine, for she can’t feel the slightest sting of pain in her nervous system. She carefully pulls herself out of there and removed the remaining pieces; her white gown is wet, but drenched in red by the blood stains. She looked at her broken noose and drops it, feeling that it’s getting too old and weak over the years; she needs a new one, but thicker, stronger, and a lot more deadly. As she slowly walks away, she gives a small unreasonable smirk as she disappears into the woods, now looking for a new victim.