The Zombie Tournament

Act 40 : An Unknown Ally

 During the crest of nightfall, Zeno Gunnar’s group proceed to pursue a hunt for Damon’s medal in Ofta’s domain. Much to their cognizance, however, the team’s target is nowhere to be found within the borderline of the city. Wristwatch’s marker stated of their position beyond the city’s feeble stronghold. Hence, an aid from their zombified henchmen will be complimentary to their objective in general.

(beep-beep)

“Target has been loafing around the western areas outside.” Tanya Rushdi read her own wristwatch’s findings aloud,”What should we do, Zeno?”

Zeno Gunnar adjusted his own binocular to the direction that his teammates mentioned. As the lens’ vision were occupied with lots of high-end redwood trees, Zeno Gunnar activated x-ray feature to override its blockade and peeking far into the realm of the forest,“Flank them, of course. We can’t let them have an upperhand to escape.” He replied,”How about you, Frank? Meeting the target’s position?”

(bzzt)

“Yes, I can find three hostile target. They have a wagon beside them, I repeat, they have a wagon to the right and might be living dead to fight against.” Frank Terino answered,”I could bombard them first with Goni. How’s it for you?”

“Affirmed. Wait for my cue.”

Zeno Gunnar climbs down the golden monument once everything was settled. Damon followed his lead and bring himself to the bottom shortly after. Tanya Rushdi has began roaming around the target’s location and sheltered nearby with magician and Rio the fist-fighter zombie on her side. She fixated her vision to the lone ranger’s tent in the middle of redwood forest. There has been no distinct activities over the sole camp in blue. A campfire was lit, back then, but gradually ceased out as no man kept it illuminated for hours straight.

“Is this the same pattern to the black ninja, Zeno?” Tanya Rushdi insinuated,”I smell something fishy.”

“Could be, could be not.” He replied in brief.

(tap-tap-tap)

Zeno Gunnar is on the trail to the western gateway. He released Roman the lion-zombie for this sole objective. Deino Gunnar and Giga will be rampant across the redwood forest, might be also an overkill for their cause, so the young knight estimated that it would be too much firepower to their end.

“Stop Roman for me, Tanya. I’ll be there in ten minutes with Damon.” He muttered.

The torch monument’s distance to the western waygate is estimated around 10 kilometers straight to the edge of the city. Their enemies’ location is extended to five kilometers beyond, seemed quite far-fetched for a night hunt to be directed above the highest point of Ofta, yet Frank Terino’s firearms could reach more than three-fold of their current distance to the target. Goni’s mortal shells soar to the same extent of space, as well, so their stature are pure and perfect for the cause of battle.

“Alright. Roman is with me.” Tanya Rushdi rubbed the lion’s mane with her dagger-holding palm of the right,”We’re ready to engage.”

“Me too, Zeno, all set and go.” Frank Terino ensued.

Within their straight-forward route to the gate, The young knight and his half-zombie cohort heard a few numbers of clash around the neighborhood’s main street. A rag-tag assault occurred on one of the tight passageway across the left-side area. They bullied him out to yield, as the unfortunate warrior’s company has been deceased way before his own situation goes in peril.

(s***h)

In short, the head goes splintered by considerable pressure from one of the burly warrior’s mace. No time to bargain in the cruel world of Minopia, only shadows of revenge and competition that may preceded their battle to the death.

Across the right, a close-match between two range-human gunner were stirred up. They were even in tactical prowess and using identical types of firearms for the brawl by utilizing automatic rifle on their arms. At times, one of them from the southern axis overwhelmed his opponents by pure deceit. He used fake shot voice records to administer fear towards the enemy’s ground. When it was subsided, the man stood up for his true attack to commit, creating a disturbance towards the opponent’s prediction of his assault and pummelling a withdraw to save himself out from harm.

Because of that, the southern gunner could get closer and approaching the foe’s hiding platform, to dominate him and finished off their battle by a shot to the head.

“We’re out of the city. Commence a welcoming fray when I said one, Frank.” Zeno Gunnar ordered,”For you, Damon, disperse to the south. I’ll go on the north. If you haven’t stay across the west, please move along and does that in place, Tanya.”

Tanya Rushdi nods,”Going to the west, confirmed. You’ll get my coordinates on the wristwatch, so I don’t have to speak it aloud.”

(bzzt)

“One, Frank. Bombard them to smithereen.”

(swoosh!)

Three instances of mortar shells has been summoned in an instant to Zeno Gunnar’s command. A tail of red flame shines bright on the rearmost side of the projectiles and torn up the sky with its beautiful line. To eyewitnesses of such phenomenon implied, Goni’s shots will be deemed more to be an unidentified flying object’s sightings than an actual long-range weaponry of the competition at the time. Or else, arrivals of two huge meteors into the atmosphere, if they thought so during the callout that happened in almost instant fashion.

(boom!boom!)

Goni’s acute precision located the blue tent and its wagon seamlessly, hitting them hard in direct contact against the barrage of shells from above. The tent has been completely gone to dust by immediate impact from the living dead’s long-range explosives. Otherwise, the wagon was somewhat unscathed under the shower of fire from the mortar-operator in spite of its blatant collision awhile before.

“The wagon wasn’t damaged at all, Zeno. What should we do?” Tanya Rushdi reported. Her painstaking breath was running to the voice receiver of the helmet,”It’s definitely has the same pattern to the ninja yesterday for me.”

Hearing Tanya Rushdi’s raw deduction, Zeno Gunnar activated his white aura to detect their precise situation on the battlefield. Rows of redwood trees are all in subject of the young knight’s widened perception. None of them could be seen on the top of tree trunk across. Within the wagon, Zeno Gunnar found nobody inside to be harmful against, as the projection presumed no further aspect of threat within the metal chamber at the moment.

This time around, Zeno Gunnar has felt a strain of doubt marched into his mind. He saw no menace above the soil, yet their team had a taste of underground enemies awhile ago. What about the one below, then?

(zuuu)

“Three, I looked at the three of them now. They are staying hidden down below.” Zeno Gunnar murmured,”We could pretend to not seeing them at all. Their wristwatch will never warn of any enemies next door if nobody is sitting into their trap.”

“How about your fist-fighter one, Tanya? Those improvements gonna be useful to blast them off.” Frank Terino proposed. Pertaining to his suggestion, Tanya Rushdi was humming to herself for some time in contemplation. Rio the fist-fighter zombie has been tweaked for the sole reason of being useful on the battlefield. Tony Simmons has added a bunch of features to the beast’s specialty, as well. It is indeed the time for him to be a star on the warfare that they have at the time.

(click-click)

‘Swollen-bomb mode activated.’

Tanya Rushdi put a number of instructions into the fist-fighter zombie’s mind. Rio’s eyes shifted into red by the end of his master’s list of command. He drives out from the bushes subsequently and strolled across the pointers that Zeno Gunnar has sent into their wristwatch.

(bam!)

Suddenly, a pair of humongous palms appeared on either side of the fist-fighter zombie’s position and clasped him tight within a thunderous clap. It triggers the counter-act mechanism from the fist-fighter zombie’s figure and switched on the mark of spine across the back. The sharp end of the spine’s wing-like structure goes enflamed and turned up to be the fuse for the forthcoming blast.

(boom!)

The two enlarged hands shattered to pieces by the drastic countermeasure from fist-fighter zombie’s body. Rio’s limb flies out in disarray because of its own detonation and broken apart by the blast that he caused. It breaks the solid structure of the ground at the same time, revealing the three enemies below the ground to be fought onwards. The explosion directly struck a figure with rather-stout torso down the fist-fighter zombie’s feet. He wears a loincloth armor along the waist to protect its own manhood and a light fortification that covered his entire body to the brim. Despite its palms being vanquished by upside-down destruction, the fist-fighter zombie’s late combustion failed to penetrate much into the beast’s entire body frame. The opponent still owned half of the entire arm to push forward and influence its own stature against the invader’s demand.  

To the left, a zombie was adorned with straw-hat as an accessories on the top of his forehead. Of the beast’s regular-sized armor, its most noticeable part are a pair of straight-edged sword on either side of his waist. Indeed, it has been unearthed by the blast, yet none of the fire lashed a wound across the beast’s rotten skin.

For the last, one of them is their human collector, yet he goes blacked out considerably after the blast has occurred. He wears a similar tone of attire to the jet-black ninja warrior a day before. However, he used a metal bat as his melee armament on the battlefield and a light-red one as a suit, sounds peculiar to engage against.

“Release the roar, Ramon.” Zeno Gunnar instructed. The lion-zombie moves forward immediately in regards to the strings of command from his master and unleashed a blast of howling wind afterwards.

“Roar!!”

In the wake of the lion’s rumble, their enemies’ handicapped situation has gone worse to their favor. The beast’s vibrant noise was intended to disable any opponents at the earliest moment that they could find. Either one of them has been under the lion-zombie’s influence at this point, as they were enforced to lean down by the breeze of pulsation upon the crater.

(zuuuu)

This is the tight gap of time that their melee attacker need to comply. Ramon’s pulse will be ceased out in thirty seconds to give Tonado’s main firepower an early chance to pummel the enemies down to their favor. Before their opponent could lay a defensive posture, or even putting their own mode of assault to the battle in response, Tonado’s fastest sword-wielder will slice their throat and being victorious in the most efficient manner there is.

Zeno Gunnar and Damon are the best warrior in that regard. Their technique are deemed to be the top-class amongst any short- range attacker of their group. With two daggers in hand, Damon’s dexterity could topple almost anyone along the way. The same tone of expertise was ornamented to Zeno Gunnar from the beginning of the game. His capabilities in swordsmanship could even defy many powerful opponents without breaking a sweat.

(s***h)

The young knight has chosen the two meters’ beast for the target. In white aura’s speed, He decapitates the creature by a sheer force of momentum from the dashes that the man has done earlier. In around fifty meters of distance, Zeno Gunnar could reach the beast in two seconds to use his dexterity in finishing him off.

(jab!)

For Damon, his keris never goes better to lay a sweep. Its curvy design was meant to penetrate, hence its mystical properties to pierce through his enemies after a death of teammates occurred. The half-zombie plunged its tip to the swordsman zombie’s heart to end his miserable life.

“And now, for the human ones....”

Out of the blue, a shrieking tone of a woman appeared to their radio transmission,”No! He’s our friend, don’t kill him!”