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Chapter 2 - Blood Hood

"Who are you?," asked the red hood girl.

The armor did not respond for it doesn't have a function that creates a speech nor it would have understanding of gestures.

The red hood girl tilts her head in confusion. She wonders what she is looking in front of her.

Few moments later, the red hood girl said, "So you won't talk to me? I am sad."

Loud roars can be heard in the distance. The red hood girl looks up to the black sky and said, "It will rain soon."

She looks at the armor and asked, "Do you want to come with me?"

The armor didn't understand.

The red hood girl grabs the armor by the gloves and pulls it over. "It is dangerous when it rains. We need to take shelter."

The armor and the red hood girl enter the castle ruins, the same ruins that the armor made its exit. Before long, the rain has started. Each droplets produce a bright glowing red color. The energy it produce are many and crushing. Being exposed to that amount of energy can implode someone.

The red hood girl feels down. She said, "I hate it when it rains."

She looks at the armor staring mindlessly. She pouts and she asks if it won't talk to her. The armor, again, did not understand so the communication failed. The girl just sighs in disappointment.

Waiting for the rain to subside, the girl attempts a small talk with the armor.

The red hood girl introduces herself. "My name is Alice.," said Alice.

Alice wears a red hood over her body. Her blonde hair is sticking out of the hood. She is shorter than the armor, about the height of a young teenager. She also holds a basket of red apples. They're for some reason still fresh. Alice shares some of her apples but failed to give it because the armor does not eat food.

Alice sighs. She says that the armor is boring for not attempting a conversation. If she knew that the armor is like a newborn toddler, she wouldn't say that.

The rain eventually stopped, and Alice stretches her arms and her back. Her red hood falls, revealing her blonde braided hair and dark blue galactic colored eyes.

"It is nice meet you so, goodbye mister.," said Alice as she walks out of the ruins. The armor follows but witnesses a signt where Alice is in front of a giant cyclops with its red eye staring at her.

The cyclops is agitated and growls maniacally. It stomps its feet and scratches its chest. Alice gazes on its eyes, still smiling.

She sighs, she said, "You are so rude, I will make you sleep."

The cyclops attempts to grab Alice with its big hands but Alice instantly moves out of the way. The movement is instant.

Alice drops her apple basket and picks up her carving knife. She hums a light tune with a joyful tone. The blade of the carving knife is reflecting the light, making a mirror that shows Alice's dark blue eyes. Her gaze is focused on the cyclops' arm.

The cyclops swings its arm backwards, hitting Alice with a backfist. Alice flies to the debris and crashes there. The dust cloud obscures her. The cyclops roars and begins stomping his feet and scratching his arm. But something wet and goopy droops down on his left arm. Crimson blood.

The cyclops is stunned. The pain just registered. It lost its right arm. It flails frantically and holds its wounded arm. Alice slowly appears out of the dust cloud, only been dirtied by the dust. Her carving knife is very bloodly.

Alice makes an innocent smile. "Come now, don't be a baby. Its not right for you to cry when you bullied first," said Alice to the cyclops.

Enraged by the audacity, the cyclops charges at Alice. Alice puts her knife behind her back and slips under, slicing the legs as she slides. The cyclops kneeled from the lost of balance.

In an instant, Alice climbed on the cyclops back by using the carving knife as a tool for climbing. Each stab goes deep and Alice yanks it out instantly to another spot. Blood gushes out from the poked holes, splashing her bright red hood.

Under the bright red crescent moon, Alice climbs at the top of the nape. The cyclops failed to realize this because it happened so fast. Alice, with a sweet smile, she said, "You all fall down~♪"

Stab, after stab, after stab. Alice rips off the nape of the monster. The cyclops tries to grab Alice to throw her off but Alice chops off the fingers that want to touch her. Even as far as chopping off the entire hand so that the cyclops couldn't do anything. The cyclops is too paralyzed to move. Despair and agony are written on its anguished face.

Alice continues to stab until its spine breaks. The cyclops fall down, with its entire body paralized. Its tearful eye gaze on Alice's blood coated face. A light on her hand. It quickly flashes and the entire world goes red. Alice killed the cyclops mercilessly. Its dark energy feeds her.

The armor looks at Alice, feeling awe. Her destructive power to overpower a beast that is thrice her size. Something it look forward to reach. Alice, still bloodly, sees the armor and she waves at it happily.

She carries her apple basket and quietly walked into the mist in the dead forest. The armor looks at the wounds of the cyclops.

The cuts are not that clean. Every cut was done by sheer brute force. Alice is strong.

There are some remaining dark energy that remains of the corpse. The armor absorbs the remaining dark energy. His power grows a bit.

The armor looks forward of this world. What kind of monsters will it meet? How much could it endure before being scrapped. The armor, desires to go forward. Its legs begin to walk, and confidently walks towards the dangerous ruined world surrounded by evil and darkness.

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