"You have killed my team and my husband. Now I will slaughter you all." said the sniper, Danielle. She had hazel eyes, and long dirty blonde hair pulled into a single braid that touched several inches below her ass.
Danielle laid over a mile out in the hot sands of the Mojave Desert. In her arms was a railgun sniper rifle with a 4 feet long barrel. A riffle codenamed God Killer.
Danielle fired a series of shots and completely disabled Team China's vehicles with a sharp eye and a rapid trigger finger. Like Tie Ta, no one in Team China could sense Danielle. She had chased after Team China when they first escaped the battle against the angels.
Danielle fired another shot, and Reika was forced to make a split decision. Using her TK, Reika could only knock the bullet of its trajectory. The bullet eviscerated Tengyi in the passenger seat and Haung Lilin, who sat directly behind him.
Lingyue was panting as she wiped Tengyi's intestines from her face. She jerkily looked to her right to see her dead lover as GOD's voice sounded to everyone.
'Two Killed. Team North America: 2 points. Team China: 16 points'
En route to his Team, Tie Ta, and Ouyang Di looked at each other with confusion. Tie Ta then searched his ring and noticed that two people in Team North America were not wearing watches.
"Created Humans don't count," said Tie Ta.
"But who could have escaped our senses?" asked Di.
"The sniper isn't among the dead, Danielle."
"This could be bad, Captain. We should hurry." Said Di.
The two men sped up and made haste as another kill pinged in their minds. Danielle was picking off the team, slowly but surely.
When Tie Ta and Di arrived, Tie Ta stopped a bullet right before his eyes. He tilted his head and looked around the desert to find Danielle.
Danielle held her breath and went undetected. She watched as Tie Ta searched for her.
"Rei!" Tie Ta called out, "Who has been killed?"
"Qi Tengyi, Huang Lilin, and Zhao Heng," she replied.
"Pull their bodies from the vehicle. Ahmanet, Ouyang Di, Yinkong, erect a barrier." Tie Ta ordered.
Tie Ta turned around, but his sense never stopped scanning the desert. He first checked on the Charlie and Jeep. They were in the same vehicle as Micheal and Zhu Wen. Tie Ta then turned away looked at the three bodies on the side of the road.
Tie Ta pointed at Tengyi and told him to arise, though nothing happened. Confused, Tie Ta looked at Zhao Heng and ordered his resurrection, nothing happened.
Suddenly, a strong force tugged on Ahmanet's soul. She fell to her knees, and then the sands took her. Once Tie Ta lost her presence, his eyes snapped open and looked to where Ahmanet used to be as anger boiled within him.
Reika looked to the point of Tie Ta's anger, and a psionic force burst forth, clearing sand to the bedrock beneath her. She then looked at Tie Ta with Ghoulish eyes.
"We have to find her, Tie!" Reika shouted.
Team China was confused by the series of events. Lingyue held Tengyi as she cried for Tie Ta to revive him. Team China wasn't sentimental. But they were a family.
Unfortunately, Tie Ta's head was spinning. Three dead players that he could not revive, Ahamanet stolen from beneath his nose, and a sniper that couldn't be found. He wanted to fly into a rage, but it would not help. Tie Ta calmed himself, then pulled the bodies into his storage pendant.
"We will find her, but we have business that must be finished." Said, Tie Ta. " I can't find the sniper, and we are not safe here."
Once the barrier was erected, Ouyang Di used his magic to repair the vehicles. Tie Ta then summoned a sand storm that cloaked the convoy. He now sat in the vehicle with Michael as the archangel told him that Charlie's baby wasn't due for another two and a half months.
But what piqued Tie Ta's interest was the political landscape in heaven. Apparently, before Tie Ta started killing higher angels. The archangels were divided, splitting heaven four ways. Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, and Raphael each had their own factions. When Micheal went against God, most of his faction defected to the remaining three. And now it seemed that they had united with the common goal of whipping out Tie Ta, the players, and the humans.
"Is there any way to hide from their sight?" Tie Ta asked.
"Yes, but I need a room with four walls and a lot of blood," Michael replied.
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-1st POV-
Following Zhuiyu's plan, we arrived at the survivors camp in the middle of the desert. It was an old western town long forgotten. Besides the folks who lived in the old buildings, most people lived in tents.
However, the group couldn't fit in my tent, so I decided to take the salon. And, of course, even in the apocalypse, humans managed to start a brothel in the rooms above the salon.
Zhuiyu took care of the men by enslaving their minds with her song. In a matter of moments, the men cleared out. Then the whores were pushed out as we took over the building.
Charlie was quickly taken to a room where Michael began to ward it from heaven's watchful eyes. I then worked on calming Lingyue down. It wasn't easy, but when she calmed, I gave her a few angels' corpses to feed on, then sent her on her way.
"What now, Captian?" asked Wutong.
I knew Zhuiyu did as much as she could do. I had to take control. "We get rid of the civilians."
The team looked at the Anderson family, Bob, Percy, and Kyle.
"That's fine by me," said Kyle, "I have to find my son, anyway."
I looked at Percy and said, "I'm sure the camp could use a cook. And no more of that praying shit. We don't need you evoking angels here."
"Can we stay?" Howard asked in a shaky voice, "You guys are like demigods are something. You can fight the angels and protect us."
Howard then pulled on his wife and daughter. "You can have them. As payment, offerings."
Fear made people do and say stupid shit. I looked at Zhuiyu. "You should have let him die," I told her.
"What would you do if I sold you off like a whore?" I asked Amber.
She didn't reply. But her light disc cleaved through the man's dick. He collapsed in so much pain that his mouth hung ajar, but not a sound was produced. Howard then lost his head.
"You stay here. You work." I told them.
I looked over at the homemade distillery and wall full of bottled moonshine. Behind it was a mirror fogged with age. The salon also smelled of must, and the wood looked like it had termites.
"Bob and Percy can work the bar and kitchen. Audrey and Sandra will work the tables. These people have nothing we need. So you can whore at your discretion. Yinkong, fill the SUV with some fuel for Kyle."
The orders didn't stop there. There was a lot to be done, and the war was coming.
The next day people tried to come and take back the Salon. I killed them with overwhelming might. I accepted the whores back and reopened the Salon, but the place was still mine.
Using magic, Ouyang Di created a series of tunnels underneath the camping and was tasked with making a tunnel from the camp to Las Vegas. Yinkong and the Twins that she was charged with, gathered all of the weapons in camp and managed the people.
Wutong worked on studying angelic swords. As a chemist, Wutong is the closest metallurgist the Team has besides me. But I had better things to focus on besides the secrets of angelic steel.
I had to focus on Ahmanet and finish tempering my marrow. Both of which would be hard as I had to cast a sand storm to surround the camp to protect against the sniper.
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-Third POV-
Four days had passed since Team China arrived in the camp. If it wasn't for Yinkong drilling everyone and the massive sand storm surrounding the camp, people would have forgotten it was the apocalypse.
In Tie Ta's Salon and Brothel, Ouyang Di was sitting on the bar telling the team of the Army in Las Vegas. He had made contact with the people in charge. They wanted to meet Tie Ta before joining the fight.
Tie Ta simply chuckled. Then he told Zhuiyu to journey to Las Vegas and take it over. And that was the last Tie Ta spoke on the matter. He then told Di to make more tunnels to towns on the map. They needed more people to fight.
Zhuiyu happily accepted. After using her Siren power so much around the camp, Zhuiyu was becoming thirsty for the blood of men.
Tie Ta was just about to warn her to tread carefully in Las Vegas when he was distracted by a ripple of Qi. He then smiled to himself as Lingyue had finally broken through Early Pulse Condensation. Tie Ta was relieved that the blood of the angels supplemented her cultivation.
But that wasn't the only surprise. Tie Ta had felt the air become energetic. Then it took on a burnt scent. Tie Ta quickly moved and appeared above the camp. When he looked up, he saw three archangels formed in a triangle as layers upon layers of Enochian magic circles appeared stacked in the middle of the sky.
Tie Ta's Alpha Stigma expressed, but he couldn't copy the magic as it took the power of multiple Archangels to conjure.
"What is it?" Ouyang Di and Wutong asked as they appeared next to their captain.
"The closest anyone would ever get to true heavenly tribulation. Lightning brought down from the heavens in rage. Ouyang Di, not even you at the second stage of unlocked mode could face it. But I want you to cast a barrier to protect the camp."
"Captain, you aren't..."
"I am. If our mission ends now, How can we kill the bitch that killed Tengyi and Heng?" asked Tie Ta.
Di and Wutong smiled at each other.
"Yes, Captain," they replied, then vanished.
Tie Ta stood alone in the sky. The sand storm vanished, and Tie Ta pushed his Qi to the limit. His Spiritual power then burst forth. The power of the Ghoul was still present, though his Kagune still refused to show itself.
"Break..." Tie Ta muttered.
The first and second stage unlock modes activated, increasing his power. He looked at the magic circles nearing completion and knew he needed more power.
With no alternatives, Tie Ta called forth his Zanpakuto. He drew the katana and instantly morphed it into a black and Han Jian sword.
"Kid. It still isn't enough. You know what you must do." Shi Long Di spoke out.
Heeding the words of his Zanpakuto, Tie Ta said, "Spear like Dragon, Shi Long Diguo!"
His spiritual power erupted again after releasing his Bankai, and his sword morphed into a spear as Shi long Di's manifestation grew wings. A manifestation of Tie Ta also appeared with a crown of bloodied bones.
"Cosmic Heart Sutra: Threefold Convergence!"
All of his energy merged together and underwent a qualitative change. He then took his stance and launched himself higher into the sky as the archangels finished their magic circle and fired a stream of white lightning that collided with Tie Ta.
The shockwave was too much for Di to handle. The barrier shattered. The pressure of the clash crushed humans one by one. Di worked on getting the group to the tunnels, But the Twins under Yinkong's charge were crushed to mush as the door of the Salon. Taking another two people from Team China.
In the Sky, Tie Ta directed the lightning energy to be stored in the Belt of Beloth the Wise until they threatened to shatter. Tie Ta then divided the energy between his body, Dantian, and mindscape, which housed his spiritual power.
Angered by Tie Ta's unwillingness to die, the Archangels double down. The camp was obliterated. Nothing remained, but particles smaller than the naked eye could see.
Tie Ta roared as his Zanpakuto formed splinters, the shattered. His vessel couldn't hold on much longer, as it and the stream of white lightning soon exploded into nothingness.
Feeling the explosion, Ouyang Di went into his unlocked mode and created a chute that caused Team China and the movie cast to fall deep into the earth to escape the blast that stretched for miles outward across the land and into the ground.
When everyone finally landed, Amber began to cry as Reika was no longer with them. She had vanished during the fall.
"T-Tie Ta. He...He's gone." Yinkong stammered. "Created people die with their creators."