Dead man's town

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Guardian 121 arrived on Earth, in the outskirts of a small town in an open field. Stepping out of the portal, the atmosphere felt empty. Earth didn't contain the magical energy she was used to, just like she was told, it now felt like she wasn't breathing.

As the portal closed behind her, she had seven undead humans in front of her. The sight of corpses controlled like puppets forced to kill their own people, made her blood boil. This crime against life was unforgivable. The undead raised their guns and fired. Bullets cracked her armor, as she ran towards the undead. Her sword cut one of them in half. Still getting shot at by the others, she ignited her arm and sent a stream of fire towards them, setting three of them on fire. Before burning to ash, they still managed to shoot her a few times. The armor was breaking, guardian 121 had to act fast, she ignited her sword, and with one swing sent a wave of fire at the undead, but it was weak, it only burned the arms off of one of them leaving it unable to shoot.

Knowing she was out of options, guardian 121 ran towards the undead, her armor now broken to the point where she was defenseless. The injuries she sustained from bullets piercing her skin were painful, but she endure it as she charged on and cut down one of the undead still holding a gun. Now barely able to stand, guardian limped towards the last one with a weapon. It tried to shoot her, but the gun was empty, giving her enough time to get close and stab it in the chest, pin it to the ground, and use all the strength left in her to smash its head in with her fist.

Barely alive, covered in her own blood, she knew she would not survive if she went on like this. she needed energy, so when the disarmed undead got close to her, she grabbed it by the neck and tried her new ability. The energy flowing inside her made her body feel weird, like needles stinging her in multiple parts of her body, it didn't feel right, even with the feeling quickly disappearing, but she did feel her energy recovering. What she regained was enough to close all her wounds, but her armor was still heavily damaged.

Knowing she needs to save energy, she took one of the guns from the corpses. It didn't take much thinking to figure out how to use the assault rifle that she picked up. After seeing how they held it, she placed her hand on the same handle that they held it in, and pulled the trigger. Multiple shots came out making a loud noise. A demon was flying by and heard it. As it was approaching from the sky, she pointed the assault rifle towards it and held down the trigger. Several bullets hit the demon causing injuries to its body and wings, making it to fall. When the gun was empty guardian 121 stabbed through the demon with her sword as it fell. With the demon barely alive and still grasping with its claws trying to kill her, guardian 121 placed her hand on it's head and took all the energy it had and used it to repair her armor.

Dropping the empty husk of the demon she just killed, guardian 121 headed for the town. There she saved human from a demon that was about to kill him. Finding out that there are humans that are still alive was a sign that they can still be saved, it warmed her heart to hold him in her arms. The moment of happiness was interrupted by a large group of undead approaching down the street. Guardian 121 turned to face the walking corpses and threw a fireball at the closest undead, when it exploded, she ran up to it and picked up its gun with the intention of killing everything that would want to harm that human.

While the undead were raising their weapons, she flew to a nearby roof top. With the rifle she picked up, she was able to kill 3 of them before it was out of bullets. Knowing her armor wouldn't last forever against the amount of bullets that were being fired at her, she tried to remain out of range and think of an effective way to fight. The human realized that he wouldn't survive if he tried to fight and ran off while the undead were distracted.

The shooting stopped for a second, guardian 121 leaped off the roof, stabbing one of the undead and held it as a shield, she ran up to the next one to cut its head off. She then ignited her sword setting the undead in her hand on fire and threw the burning corpse toward two nearby undead and with a swing of her burning sword she sent a wave of fire across the street, setting fire to five more undead.

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