The Zombie Tournament

Act 34 : A Ninja's s***h

A vibrant noise of conflicting metals were filling up the night breeze of the shoreline. Zeno Gunnar and the gang’s leader has been fighting for a quarter hour straight, yet no one deemed to overpower another in this game. The person’s ability in using his kunai dagger is staggering. He could drive them upwards, bent down and parrying across them with its hilt, even knocking the man’s sword away by sole force of might alone.

“Heh, you’re good at using twins, but never close to me in terms of skills.” The man teased,”My grandma could do fine with one of your weakling sword.” He continued, pressing Zeno Gunnar’s sword edge in tight confrontation to his kunai dagger.

“You’re being rude to me, means you know nothing about my strategy.” Zeno Gunnar replied.

“What strategy? You’re even having a hard time to put a blow-“

(tang!)

Zeno Gunnar’s glowing white aura has emerged. After two weeks of rigorous training in Gastamo’s spa house, the young knight could initiate his own enhancement without a need to take a rest beforehand. His speed and strength become steadily increased in aftermath of the man’s mystical properties. He could move at better velocity and exerting more pressure to his opponent, laying extra damage against them in rapid fashion of attack.

(tang!tang!)

“What the heck? How did you-“

(s***h!)

The young knight pierced the opponent’s jet-black robe after constant assault from the twin swords in hand. He has to bend backwards slightly for avoiding Zeno Gunnar’s remaining strike, only to be pummelled with a direct jab to the man’s throat.

“Gotcha.” Zeno Gunnar’s eyes glistened blue pupils gazed at him deeply to the eye,”How’s your sulky mouth now, puny ninja?”

(poof)

Out of the blue, his enemy’s lifeless body has been exchanged with another sort of substitute. Zeno Gunnar’s black sword was penetrated into a pineapple-like container, stabbed them up as a replacement to the person’s actual body.

“damn it!”

(boom!)

It is an explosive grenade, and the bomb detonates right in front of the young knight’s eyes. Luckily, his emergency mechanism activated the armor’s helmet visor at once. The outbourst still knocks him to more than a hundred meter distance away, yet it caused no further harm on his figure anyhow.

(brak!)

Zeno Gunnar crashed into rows of tents after such mind-boggling switcheroo over their course of battle. He rolls backwards numerous times due to the blast’s sheer impact. To avoid being drown into the horrendous weather of the sea within a medium armor, the young knight stabs his sword to the sand for a quick mitigation against such horrendous push from the wind.

“Ugh, it stings.” Zeno Gunnar rattled, driving away sand’s pebbles on his armor,”What should I do? That’s truly a ninja.” He mumbled.

As he ventured out from the water, the fight has gone intense to the other teammates on the beach. Juno Rumondor’s battle was hanging into deadlock. The captain’s scimitar could apprehend dark-green ninja’s baton on chain. Yet, it is fairly on the par against the person’s ability of utilizing nunchaku into some sort of hindrance towards him. When Juno Rumondor decided to fly his blade upwards, the opponent simply put a counter with two consecutive strike against the captain’s edge. At times, the dark-green ninja utilized his nunchaku’s chain on the middle to block Juno Rumondor’s diagonal s***h.

Tanya Rushdi has no such difficulties against her opponent’s kama. Her shield plays a prominent role in this chapter of warfare. The dark-blue ninja posed no exact velocity and brawn to be compared with scorpion-zombie of the desert. A basic blow from the shield could lessen the opponent’s attack as soon as it goes sour.

And for Frank Terino, the bazooka-man defeated his opponent’s crossbow attack completely by the time of the young knight’s glance. The wooden projectiles were overwhelmed by continuous wide-array explosion from the man’s missile launcher. It goes homing, as well, for the opponent to lose in rather instantaneous manner after his attack was obstructed under the wrath of flame.

“Ha-ha, look at those!”

The man seemed in considerable victory as the maroon-red ninja engulfed in one of his missile’s combustion. Yet, the person’s remains was somewhat missing from sight and goes vanished after the blast. Of course, it does intrigued Zeno Gunnar’s eyes, as much, since he was fighting against somebody with similar prowess from the beginning of their brawl.

(tang!)

Zeno Gunnar’s knight sense incited his reflex to put off an arrow from afar. Indeed, it was strange for Frank Terino’s opponent to disappear, but it is even more confusing if such person returned to fight another person on the other end of their battle zone.

Frank Terino, on the other hand, has to block away the jet-black leader’s kunai dagger with his bazooka. They have been exchanged position with each other at some point and did it in a matter of seconds. Zeno Gunnar has no further issue against the maroon-red crossbow with his own swordsmanship. Instead, their swap has put a sense of concern for the black-haired explosive master on the other area of their fight.

“Bring it on!” Shouted Frank Terino to their opponent’s leader. He unsheathed a broadsword for fighting such melee enemy up front,”I’m not totally range-guy, you know?”

“Heh, we’ll see, hotshot.” The jet-black robe person replied.

(tang!tang!)

The bowman was crouching on the highest point of cliff nearby. Zeno Gunnar fends off many shots from the person’s range assault and proceeded to run towards them in haste. Certainly, the opponent’s projectiles feels more rapid and deadly when the young knight goes closer. He could still parry most of them, indeed, but there were several that survived and hitting his armor in the process.

(jump!)

Zeno Gunnar springs on the formations of rocks and climbing it up by jumping across protruding ones that his legs could reach. Showers of arrow were raining above, but none of them appeared to be lethal for the young knight below, until a different form of projectiles beckoned.

(boom!)

“Whoa!”

An explosive projectile has been unleashed. It missed the target completely, but still capable on thrashing down the rocks and pebbles to bring him slipped away at once.

(bam)

“Ugh....”

The young knight falls down on his head first. It does no fatal injury to the man, yet a scar from the collision still persists anyway. For the opponent above, his plummet means a barrage of projectiles will follow. The bowman puts down many flaming arrows to Zeno Gunnar’s direction and pursuing him out with them in a streak.

(tang!tang!)

Zeno Gunnar evades many of them with ease. Its flames ceased out upon contact to the man’s armor. His helmet visor protects the face from further harm caused by the tip of the bowman’s arrow. The man’s speed derived off his own aura has started to wane away, gradually bringing him into normal form of battle prowess as a consequence.

“It’s finally the stage for me to use this, huh.”

The young knight shuttered both of his eyelids. He lays concentration around inner force stationed inwards. An imagination of Zeno Gunnar’s late teacher perseveres, and the old man pointed across his arm muscles to enact a blue aura out from its layer of skin afterwards.

(buff)

In difference to white aura of Numonia, Zeno Gunnar’s blue power promoted better prominence in attack power and laid its utmost focus to the brawn. He will be much slower in terms of movements, as flows of blood are mainly resoluted on both arms under this form, so Zeno Gunnar has to be certain on its safety beforehand.

(s***h!)

One vertical strike from the man, and the cape that lies around 12-meters tall before him immediately torn away to half. The extreme vibration from his attack shakes off the entire cape’s surface. It made the bowman’s stance gone a little bit wobbly by the intense earthquake that catched along.

(s***h!)

Zeno Gunnar laid a second in diagonal fashion, forming a horizontal cross to the middle section of the cliff soon after. It summons a massive tremble upon the flat surface of the cliff above and disabled the bowman’s attempt to follow suit. Learning of the immediate impact of his invoked ability, the young knight waits for no further exercise and performed various technique to his attack subsequently.

(s***h-s***h!)

His enormous strength brought the rocks to shatter. Its vigorous force of the continuous assault bashed every stones and pebbles out at once, splintered them away towards the front of the young knight’s stance. Of course, the bowman’s body was also thrown out from the safe haven of the high ground. He falls down before Zeno Gunnar’s attacking position, who was more than ready to greet him with a clean strike below.

(jab)

Zeno Gunnar decided to stab him directly on the middle of his eyes. He adds the other twin to the bowman’s weapon, breaking it whole in an instant, before then putting its tip to the bowman’s throat to decapitate.

“Let’s test my theory. If it’s true, then...”

The opponent’s figure started to deteriorate. The bowman’s head dissolved to thin air in following of its defeat, within conjunction to the entire physique that goes vanished in a blink of an eye, leaving only Zeno Gunnar’s swords behind.

To the result that arrived, Zeno Gunnar smiles in triumph. He discerned on many compelling distinction of their enemy’s behavior and navigates across its perpetual silence. Frank Terino’s foul-mouth was failed to taunt his foe over for a small discussion in their battle. Tanya Rushdi’s steady complaint was unsuccessful in making terms with her enemy earlier. Finally, Juno Rumondor’s constant attempt to invite his opponent into a talk fades in the dark-green’s indefinite speechless attitude.

It is helpful, and the young knight has an answer in hand right now.

“Kill the rest of the jet-black ones.” Zeno Gunnar communicated his conclusion to the group within their connection under the helmet,”He’s the actual person, and the rest is merely mirror of his image.”

“Nice deduction, Zeno.” Juno Rumondor replied.

“I’ll smash this petty man for you, honey.” Tanya Rushdi teased. For the end, Frank Terino’s transmission yells.

“Your power rocks!” He shouted.

Juno Rumondor begins to gain an upperhand against his opponent before him. A nunchaku would never protect in full against a sharp-edge scimitar in the captain’s hand. He cut down the dark-green ninja’s weapon in one s***h, handily shifted his aggression by spinning to the right, and commenced an ultimate blow across the head straight away to slit its throat as follows.

On the other hand, Tanya Rushdi has been slightly overwhelmed by her foe’s endless assault. She could defend herself off from it, but still insufficient to counter-act against the dark-blue ninja’s forte. Naturally, Juno Rumondor is there to help out, as he was liberated from duty to pummel the dark-green warrior’s out from contest.

(s***h)

The captain adorned two instances of diagonal strike to the dark blue ninja’s figure. His towering strength carved a pair of perfect incisions to the waist and upper-side of its torso. Its entire body goes obliterated instantly afterwards, putting their last target on the hinge.

As expected, the jet-black ninja happened to stuck in between, holding himself against Frank Terino’s broadsword and incapacity to move away.

Against the ganged-up opponent, Frank Terino guffawed,“Haha, you’re all alone now, big guy!”

“Damn it, how could all of you disposed me?” The jet-black ninja rattled. However, there is no mercy for the man’s insolent actions, as Juno Rumondor’s scimitar quickly disseminate his body into half.