Wudang: Legends Of Qi Earth 114 Macau X : Out Of Time

[Demons are complex creatures, one that can't be quantified or categorized using normal means. They could be nothing more than animals, mindless, senseless, brutal, and bloodthirsty. They could be intelligent beings, smart, sinister, conniving, loving, hateful, shrewd, down right evil. But they could also be viruses, poisons, thoughts, urges, sins.

This more than proved that humanity is not really the most versatile race in all of the cosmos, but rather the demons. They can exists in any shape or form, live for thousands of years with a life that's practically immortal, without the need for them to do anything other than live, eat, sleep, breathe and f.u.c.k! If a demon dies it could be attributed to nothing more than their incredibly violent and vile nature, they thrive on chaos, on anger and on pain, and very much on hate, greed and pride.

But never the less Demons are living intelligent beings, and entire face with a different set of rules and powers.......maybe that's why we hate them so much, because wen we look at them we see a face that's lost the balance humanity has been able to achieve. They're practically the full sum of every bad in us, staring right back at our faces, our darkness given flesh and given form in the most grotesque and ugly manner possible. A true look into the heart of man and how incredibly twisted and ugly it is, it tells one fundamental truth....and that's that deep down..... we're all demons.]

THE JOURNAL OF A RANDOM DEMON SUMMONER

Louis and Yun Fao were gathered around Alex as the rummaged through the storage rings, trying desperately to look for any sort of healing pill or potion to help him. But quite frankly they knew that no type of pill they currently had in their position would be able to heal the amount of damage Alex had sustained.

His entire chest had been crushed to bits, his bones were digging into his internal organs and his blood had flooded his lungs. The fact that he was still alive and conscious could only be attributed to his strong body and strong will, but even those wouldn't be able to hold up the young Master and Childe of Spirit Wind Peak for very long, he was running out of time.

The triplets were sprawled on the ground having delegated themselves from their merger, there was always a long period of weakness after they've used that technique, and it's always more extensive the longer they stay in that combined form, which is why it came as no surprise that on Sabrina was conscious, they really had their hands tied in this matter as half their groups was pa.s.sed out or currently dying. There was a flash in the air and suddenly the woman they had met before; Kimiko showed up with the rest of her team, all ten of them were in top shape, except for the ridiculous amount of demon blood and guts still covering their bodies.

She didn't say anything as one of her comrades rushed to Alex's side, said comrade was obviously a woman , but with that mask on her face it was hard to tell. Louis and Yun Fao were short off words as she placed her hands on Alex's chest and released a blue glow, it felt as if all of the water in the air was slowly being converged on Alex's body.

It didn't take a genius for them. To know that this woman was a healer of the water element, and even though the water element healed a whole lot more slower than the light and wood element, it was actually what they needed as it would put Alex's injuries in a state of stasis and slow healing until they could get him proper and more rapid help. How they couldn't have an ultimate healing pill with them was an oversight they didn't understand, it was freaking ridiculous.

"I take it you guys have taken care of that demon commander?" Kimiko asked, however Yun Fao and Louis were still too focused on their friend to answer so it was up to Sabrina. But all we have as a reply was a nod of the head as she focused on her sisters.

"Very well then, Jodha hurry up with the healing, Mathias go and prep the transport vehicle, we only have fifteen minutes to get out of this city before it's nothing more than Ash and rubble, the rest of you get a me a perimeter and five minute recon report! Cover as much ground of the city as you can and get back here, at the very least if we can find even a little bit of an explanation or an origin of this crisis, we should be able to prevent it from happening again. Now move out!" Kimiko ordered with so much charisma the Young groups of warriors couldn't help but look at her.

"Wait! I don't understand! What do you mean rubble and Ash?" Louis asked in surprise, asking the question in the minds of Alex, Yun Fao and Sabrina.

"The empire has decided that Macau is a lost cause, while it wouldn't take them too long to send an expert to come clean this place up, there's too many variables and they would prefer to keep the demons within the city, and prevent that spell circle formation above our head from getting to completion. Imperial mages have discovered that's it's a summoning seal for a legion of greater demons and their arch-demon prince. Basically it's demons all in the heaven's gate of cultivation with a leader that's transcended the cultivation limit of this world. Such a scenario only means one thing, the fall of the empire and all life on Earth.

So they're bringing it down, every square in of the city would be burnt to a crisp by orbital satellites hanging just above the atmosphere. Those satellites are in a formation, and it would take a severe amount of energy to use them, they're s Trump cared of the empire against invasion of any sorts, this seems as good a time as any to use it. The emperor is giving us time to get out of the city, and that's fifteen minutes, but I want us out of here in eight! No more questions Lord Louis, we're moving now!"

Just as she finished speaking an Airs.h.i.+p the size of a large boat flew to the front of the cathedral, none of them had noticed when the guy called Mathias had moved, or how he was ale to get an airs.h.i.+p back here so fast, but none the less they had a true out of here. The others who had gone for recon came back, and cradled in one of their hands was a dead body, Kimiko just looked at it once and then inclined her head, forcing everyone to get on the Airs.h.i.+p. The sisters were helped in, and Alex was floated in, his body somewhat paralyzed as it underwent the slow healing from the woman called Jodha, but still he had something to say.

"But what about the others?" Kimiko looked at him just as the bay door of the Airs.h.i.+p was closing.

"What others? We're all accounted for."

She said to him in a dull tone that left him feeling chills, this woman was years upon years older than him, heck he suspected she was older than even his mother. But the look in her eyes...they were so cold and unfeeling, so dead and empty.

"The civilians and other people in the city! The tourists! The kids! The elderly! Aren't we going to help them, or isn't the empire going to send an extraction team?" Alex asked, his voice a little bit more frantic than normal.

"Collateral damage!.....There's no time to extract all of them, you can't save one and leave the other. Besides my orders were to get you and your friends out of here, nothing was said about any others, so I'm afraid every other person in this city; man, woman, child, dog, cat, reptile! If they're not already dead yet would be dead very soon. This in turn is a mercy, their deaths will be swift as opposed to what the demons will do to them. Mathias take us out of here!"

There was a shocked look on the face of everyone else but this team of secret guards. Logically speaking this was probably the best choice, it wouldn't have been wise to put the entire empire at risk on the idea that it would be possible to save the civilians in the city, just like Kimiko had said, they were collateral damage, the fate of the many outweighs that of a few. This much they all understood, this world wasn't as perfect and as good as they hoped it was, it was tough call, and it was made without hesitation. They didn't like it one bit, but this was the only other option available to them, to prevent an empire wide genocide, this kept everyone else and the world safe.

*BOOOOOOOM!*

Alex couldn't see it, but an intense pillar of light shot do an from the sky, scorching the once beautiful city of Macau till it was nothing but sincere, Ash and rubble, just like Kimiko said.

The city wide beam of light didn't stay for longer than 5 seconds, but in it's aftermath all that was left behind was nothing, just the sea. Macau was an island after all, but right now there was nothing but little crag of rocks and the fading spell circle in the sky to prove that something wonderful and beautiful once stood here, and now it was all gone.

None of them knew what to feel, they didn't really feel guilty, after all they did the best they could buying time for the genocide of a city full of people. But they felt hollow, this amount of death was not something to laugh about or be unfeeling about either, it was sad. And they felt helpless, a month of training later and Alex was already in the fifth level of the open meridian realm, Louis in the sixth almost seventh realm, and Yun Fao squarely in the ninth about to enter the true essence realm. They were stronger than before, but it was just not enough not even the triplets who were all at the first level of the true essence realm could make a difference.

In the end it seems that everything that happened always boils down to one fundamental tenet of truth and knowledge. Without strength, it was next to impossible to change anything in this world, you would be helpless to the plight of people, and could nothing but watch people die around you while you wished so hard for a chance to be able to save them. What they've seen today, none of them would ever be able to forget. Zhang Sanfeng had allowed Alex and his friends to go gallivanting around in a stolen car because he felt he should give them one final chance to enjoy whatever Innocence they had left...…however they ran out of time way to fast and in a manner Zhang Sanfeng would never have been able to imagine.

These children, had no innocence left, all this trip had done was force to grow and truly face the Reality of the world they've become a part of. It was really unfortunate, but they truly have...…run out of time.