Shattering Humanity
Chapter 186: Shelly In The Big City
A panting young woman is running through an empty dark hallway, alone. Her breathing is fast and wheezing as she’s clearly trying to get to safety.
The tired woman takes a moment to catch her breath, leaning up against the wall for support.
The echoing growls of Icemen are growing louder by the second and her brown eyes widen. She looks around, seeing a push door with a ’Stairs’ and ’1st Floor’ sign.
The first few Icemen that were chasing her turn the corner. The blood drenched monsters see the human female as she moves to the stairwell.
The amount of pursuing aliens completely fills the hallway and slam through the same push door to the stairs.
{East Roronora/1 Mile From Roronora City Park - 8:15 PM}
Icemen continue to cause havoc around the defenseless city, and Shelly with her Golden Pink SoulSeiõrShield is on top of the park ranger’s office building.
From all the Roronora citizens being killed by the Icemen, scattered dark, sad aura clouds are constantly floating into the star filled, SeiõrSnow falling sky.
Takamagahara’s MVP has her single up-to-date SunSword unsheathed and hot. Madame Fryer’s golden sheath on her other hip, is empty except for the crackling flames within.
With a half impressed smile, Shelly looks at her new orange blade with the bright red flame design.
Shelly(to herself): "Wow! It’s been 10 minutes, I’ve cut down over 50 Icemen since I unsheathed it, but this SunSword is still useful. I am a little worried to keep swinging it around, not knowing how much longer it’ll stay effective, but we’ll cross that bridge..."
While safe from enemies, she takes advantage of the spare time to sheath the SunSword so it can regain a bit of heat.
Madame Fryer’s popping flame covered blade, cutting down Icemen on ground level, is heard.
Shelly turns around to see her legendary weapon behead a couple more aliens down below then quickly floats up to the roof to hover beside the blonde warrior.
While scanning the area, countless people are being caught and jumped. Unable to save anyone, Shelly gets a look of disappointment.
The constant shouting and glass breaking is over shadowed by the sound of crashing cars and catches her hawk-like attention.
After the one minute of charging, the SunSword is brought back out, and her blonde hair flows as Shelly jumps down off the office building and heads in the direction of the commotion.
With grace and ease, she’s cutting down all Icemen in her path, with assists from her helpful sentient sword.
More blood red aura clouds join the sad blue and purple colored aura clouds in the sky, but not just from where Shelly is.
A few pop up, here and there, randomly around the defending city. It’s atleast a sign that there are other humans fighting back.
Shelly: "I have no idea where to start looking for him, Madame Fryer.
If Saku’s Anjell Eye has taken over his body, then the first question I have is, ’why’?
The second thing I’m trying to understand, especially if it’s the ’loose cannon’ of our group, is ’what are the triggers that allows his Eye of Wisdom to take control’? So we can avoid this in the future."
As she cuts another Iceman, uses the head of another as a springboard (Madame Fryer decapitates it right after), and while a group of 6 are halfway done ’juicing’ a person, a flash of Golden Pink Seiõr skims the top of the pile.
The 6 now headless Icemen fall on top of each other as the flying sword of fire catches up to her owner, still in full sprint, but not using her Mach speed.
Shelly: "But...
My most important question is ’Can something like this happen to Katsu too, since he also has one of those Eyes of Wisdom’?"
Just before she takes a lunging long step to the street corner, a frantic woman crosses in front of her, running for her life.
Shelly is ’in the zone’ when she turns the corner of the building, already prepared to kill the unsuspecting gang of 4 chasing the outnumbered woman.
Beheading the first unsuspecting Iceman, flipping over the next enemy, but Madame Fryer takes care of it.
As Shelly lands an Iceman swipes down to hit her. The elegant fighter takes a quick step and does a quick spin to decapitate her attacker.
The last two of the smaller group both pounce in the air to overwhelm her.
Shelly smiles and jumps at them in confidence.
Thinking they’ve got the upper hand the Icemen lash their tongues with smiles, but when they go to raise their arms to attack... the unintelligent aliens haven’t realized Madame Fryer had already cut their arms off while in mid air.
Their IceEyes grow wide as their fate is sealed and then their vision rolls as the heads fall separately to the ground than their bodies.
Feeling good about saving someone, with dead Icemen around her, a smiling Shelly turns to look at the lady she had saved.
Her gorgeous smile slowly relaxes back to the same look of disappointment in herself from before.
The woman Shelly had "saved" has already been ambushed by another crew of killers on the other side of the street. Twitching legs are exposed while the savages are making her top half into into bone filled jelly.
The prideful blonde grits her teeth, clenches her fist, and her beautiful thin layered SoulSeiõrShield that covers her body thickens.
adame Fryer takes out 2 of the next most recent enemies attempting to ’test’ Shelly. A 3rd goes airborne to jump on the pissed off warrior.
Unfortunately for the poor little guy, Shelly turns, and looks directly at the Iceman’s symbiotes with her own gorgeous blue eyes filled with pure human rage.
Using almost the same type of incredibly comedic strength TayTay uses to crush the diamond/ice aliens, Shelly throws an viscous right handed haymaker, coated in her distinguished SoulSeiõrShield.
The punch cuts the wind with a whistle and lands perfectly on the forehead of the unprepared Iceman. The impact obliterates it’s entire ice/diamond head.
The two Eyelien symbiotes land and roll on the bloody footprint covered sidewalk.
Just like when Shelly had first caught Katsu’s IceEye, one of the beings opens it’s body, showing it’s ’tentacles’, ready to find it’s new host. For the 2nd ’poor little guy’, a black sneaker with the same distinguished SoulSeiõrShield that just destroyed it’s home, stomps down on the pitiful being trying to survive.
There’s a *SQUEAL* to *SQUISH* of it’s own and Shelly lifts her foot to see the red blood identical to the other creatures on Earth.
Another strong tremor is felt throughout the city and Shelly stops her examination of the crushed IceEye.
Moving her view to the sky, knowing the total number of aura clouds, also resembles the total number of dead human and Icemen.
After a calming deep breath, the female fighter proceeds to make her way through the city to find Saku.
In the parking lot of Roronora Park, half full of cars, a male Roronora officer with a right Eyelien and left yellow eye is in it’s base-kit is fighting for his life against multiple groups of Icemen. Two of the same high quality SunSwords that Shelly was able to acquire, is in his grasp to help fight off the incoming threats. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
For the moment, he seems to have full control of the situation. Cutting down Icemen with confidence, then jumping over a parked car to create separation.
To the chagrin of the officer, he is not paying attention to the fading flame design that indicates to the wielder when the sword goes ineffective. Mid cut through an Iceman, his momentum stops and his grip slips from the handle, blade stuck inside the smiling ice torso.
It is a repeat of all the other murderous cases happening around the city.
He is immediately overwhelmed, beaten, and torn apart. Bones snapping, the man’s short screams of pain and terror gurgle then go silent.
The Iceman with the sword stuck in it’s torso pulls the blade out at the perfect time so a few drops of the man’s flung blood lands on the blade.
The ’wound’ to the IceEye host is immediately fixed and the creature throws the weapon off to the side.
*CLINK* *CLANK* *KRRRRRR*
It bounces off the concrete before sliding to a stop at Shelly’s feet once she lands from above.
Seeing her reflection in the polished blade, but half her gorgeous reflection is blocked with the past owners smeared blood.
Now too late to help the valiant officer, the thick skinned Shelly watches a final spray of dark red blood, squirt up from the occupied Icemen. As if it were some sort of sick twisted geyser made of huddled, bloodied monsters.
With Madame Fryer continuing to cut down the Icemen trying to sneak up from behind, Shelly picks up the available useful weapon.
Shelly: "Atleast I’ll have an extra SunSword now. Just in case this first one starts to go out."
The battle conscious Valkyrie descendant, puts the cold sword in the compatible, empty sheath strapped to her left hip.
There’s a sound inside the advanced sheath indicating it is "charging" the blade with heat.
More Icemen come to ambush the MVP, but with a single 360° spin and the help of Madame Fryer, all the hostiles fall.
Shelly once again takes time to survey her area.
Fires have begun to break out in a few buildings, lighting up the view of people being dragged into a blender of a beating.
Blood continues to run through the streets, while scared humans and chasing Icemen cover dry spots with wet red footprints.
Every 2-3 yards in the streets, whatever direction looked in are mashed, mangled, impaled, and crushed piles of meat, innards, teeth, hair, and bones.
The two azule eyes lock on to the archway entrance to the Roronora City Park.
With Madame Fryer by her side, Shelly looks at her sword and both ’nod’ in agreement. Shelly takes one powerful leap towards her next search area.
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The body of a the woman who ran up the stairs to escape *SPLATS* on the sidewalk where Shelly had just left from.
The Icemen who were chasing the jumper still follow her and shatter into pieces.
One of them lands on a person already being chased.