Unhinged Magic // BOOK ONE

Chapter 17

"Hey, guys, I think we might have some company.." Selen sighed.

"You all look like you have some good money packed onto you. Who do you all work for?" A man said in an evil tone, putting a knife up to Selens throat. "What does it matter to you, sir?" Ao looked down at the man. But in return, all Ao got as a response was a slightly muffled laugh. "Excuse me, sir, what are you laughing about?" Ao said as he closed his hand fan. "You all are really stupid and naive, you know that?" Another man said as he stepped closer to Ao. Selen raised her eyebrow. "Not to mention this little doll you have here, don't you agree boys?" Another man said as they walked closer to Selen. "Who the hell do you think your calling 'doll?'" Selen spat on the mans shoe. "A feisty little woman we have here, don't we?" One man said. That saying made both Selen and Zombie's blood boil. "And whose that behind them?" The other said. "I'd suggest you get that god-damn knife away from her throat." Zombie threatened the man who had the knife up to Selens neck. "And what are you going to do about it, missy?" The man threatened. But as soon as he finished his sentence, he noticed something. Normally, the average person's heart would be pounding when put in this situation, but there was no pulse at all. The man's eye's widened, and he looked over at Ao and noticed the markings on his face, then looked at Selens chest, and legs, where her ghostly tattoos were and her red ruby eyes. He gazed over at Zombie and noticed her silver-white eyes, along with markings on her face as well. "What's wrong, boss?" A man looked over at the ''boss.'' "Took you long enough." Selen said as she grabbed the knife out of the man's hand and stabbed it into his throat. As she yanked the knife out of the man's throat, he fell to the ground with a loud plump noise, and his head started to bleed. "Would you mind joining your quote on quote, 'boss?' I hope you wouldn't mind."Selen started laughing like a maniac. Ao and Zombie sighed as they watched Selen tear through the men but only with a knife, not to give away that ghosts are near to anyone who found the bodies. "This is why I didn't want to come up here... but we did anyway." Ao sighed again, but Selen kept laughing franticly.

As Selen finished dragging the men's bodies into a pile and put the cloak back over her head. "Are you not going to clean the blood off of you?" Zombie asked. "What blood? I managed not to get any on me." Selen admitted as she held the knife between two of her fingers, then released it over the pile of bodies causing it to stab straight into one of the man's throats, but then picked it up afterward. "If I didn't know better, I would've thought you were a serial killer before you descended, honestly," Zombie admitted as they all walked through the alleyway. "ANYYYYWAYYYY! Now, where are they.." Selen put her hands behind her neck. "Don't you think you laugh a bit too loud?" Ao questioned Selen. "Too loud? Wazzat?" She said as she turned around to look at Ao but then turned back to look forwards, hitting Ao in the face with her hair again. "You're on my absolute last nerve today, Selen." He sighed. "I think if you keep saying that I think she's just gonna keep doing that.." Zombie admitted. "Anddddd~ You're correct my dear Zombie! Right on the bullseye!" Selen turned around to look at Zombie and did a finger gun towards Zombie. 

"Selen, behind you?" Zombie pointed behind her. More men had come from that gang of the men Selen had just killed. "Hm?" She turned around, hitting the rest of the men with her hair. "So it was you!" One of the men said, looking at Selen. "Did what? I don't see anything wrong here, we're only looking for some people! And your little group or co-workers hit on me. Well, tried to. You guys really need to work on your flirting skills. Maybe hit up the nearest club? That is if you make it out alive, silly!" Selen laughed like a psycho maniac, but then men just stared at her like she was crazy. (which she was.) "Have you been reading too much fiction, little girl?" One of the men looked at her in amusement. "Who are you calling little girl? And I barely even know how to read! So how would I read fiction if I can barely even read myself!" She looked at the man. "And if you guys are looking for your boss, or either to quote on quote, ''kill us,'' I'd think you better give up on that second option if you knew what was good for you." She said as she threw the knife up in the air and caught it with her hand. "Prick. Where's the boss at?" A man looked at her sternly. "Oh, if you want to see him alive, I think you'd better go to hell with him, you get what I'm saying? Or does that mean I have to deal with you assholes even in the afterlife?" She groaned. "What the hell is she doing?" Ao whispered over to Zombie. "This is how she deals with people, I have to deal with it often, but she hasn't been this crazy, at least from what I've seen-" Zombie answered Ao's question.  "Anyway, how hard are you guys' heads?" She looked at them and then smirked. "Why-?" A man tried to question her but before any of the others, she bashed all of their heads together and then cut into each of the men's heads with the knife.

"Now that their all done with, back to what we came here to do?" She smiled as she signaled Ao and Zombie to follow her. "You do realize we're going to have to stay here for a day or so, right?" Ao asked her. "Of course I do! I might be kinda dumb but I ain't THAT dumb!" Selen exclaimed as she put away the knife in case she needed to use it again. "I mean at least she didn't use cultivation, then we definitely would've been found out." Zombie sighed in relief as they walked in the shadows of the city buildings. "So you think I'm beyond stupid? I mean, you aren't wrong if you are, hell, you heard what I said! I can barely even read!" Selen exclaimed. "Sometimes I wonder why I introduced you to Zombie.." Ao sighed. "Are you saying I'm some type of masochist psychopath maniac? I mean, if you are, you aren't wrong! Right on bullseye!" She threw her hands up in the air. "Out of all of the words, you choose 'masochist?' You should've chosen a better word other than 'masochist.' " Ao said as they all settled at a corner in the alleyway where no one could find them. "What? I'm telling the truth, y'know! I don't tell lies that often! Well, often." She snickered. "Doesn't masochist mean that someone gains pleasure in pa-" Zombie tried to ask, but was instead hushed by both Ao and Selen. "Ehe... let's not get onto that topic!" Selen awkwardly laughed. "So are we staying up all night or are we just resting here for the time being?" Zombie asked. "I'd say we rest our eyes for a bit, then set out for whoever we're looking for," Ao said, and Selen agreed. 

"Well, g'night," Zombie said as she leaned her head up against the wall, and Ao had already passed out. But, Selen remained awake. "Andd, now I'm alone.. yay!" Selen quietly exclaimed as she threw her hands up in the air and removed her cloak.

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