Dragon's Soul Chapter 14: Cornered

The man lunged at Zhang with sword in hand. However, before he could even get close to Zhang a blade suddenly entered through his back and ran straight through his heart. The man dropped his sword and used both hands to hold onto blade that was stabbed into him. Moments later, his legs buckled as he lost his strength and slumped onto the ground.

"Quickly follow me!! We are being attacked!", he yelled at Zhang.

"Senior what exactly happened?", Zhang asked.

Upon reaching the deck of the ship one could see a mass hysteria of fighting was occurring. The sailors on the ship were fighting a desperate battle due to the enemies' number of combatants.

"What happened why are there so many more enemies!!!", he yelled.

The sailors were outnumbered 1 to 4 and were fighting a losing battle. Not all of the enemies' fleet had even joined the battle, there were roughly six more enemy ships a short distance away just watching.

Slowly one by one the sailors gathered to where Yan Li was and began descending into the lower levels of the ship.

Their group currently consisted of about 50 people in the front was Jian Wei, Yan Li and the trio, behind them was a mass of what seemed to be battle hardened veterans holding the rear. They were currently headed for the mess hall which was the biggest room on the ship. The plan was to enter and barricade themselves inside.

However, there was a lingering question in Zhang's mind. It seemed that the sailors knew what the invaders wanted and that something most likely was on Jian Wei. The current best situation would be to blend into the crowd and not to stick out and if needed, he would grab Yuying and Ai and jump into the ocean.

But this plan would only be used as a last mean of survival because if they used it they'd most likely become stranded at sea once more.

All of the sailors took up positions around the door with swords and spears raised. Whoever got through the barricade would be met with a wall of blades.

The Underworld Heart being one of the 7 treasures made it unwise to let others know that it's in his possession. Even if it allowed him to escape harm now, there was a chance that some of the sailors would want it for themselves later.

Sounds of pleas for mercy and begging was ignored by the invaders and everyone outside were killed and soon silence filled the hallway.

Suddenly a loud, BANG!!!, could be heard.

They were as tense as could be and could lose their lives any moment now and for this retard to startle them like that. However, before anyone could go and beat up the man another loud, BANG, could be heard. This time it was from the twin doors that lead into the mess hall.

The some of the sailors had a slight smile hanging on their faces. They believed as long as the doors held they'd be safe.

One of the walls had blown up and pieces of wood were flying everywhere. Some unlucky souls were impaled by a few sharp pieces of wood.  A few died almost instantly, while another few were laying on the ground rolling about in pain.

While everyone was still startled a giant man walked in from the hole in the wall. The man was as big as a bear and stood taller than the door. He was walking shirtless so all the folds of fat on his body were hanging loose and squishing around as he walked.  On his bald scalp were two large scars that formed a X.

"Ha ha ha you fools think you can hide in here? Hand over the duke now! And we will spare the rest of you.", the huge man said with a sneer.

"Who sent you!!!", Yan Li yelled.

"Over our dead bodies!!! Men protect the duke and charge!!!", Yan Li yelled as he led the charge toward the huge man.

Yan Li and his men ran quickly towards the huge man and circled him. Spears and swords poked and slashed wildly at the huge man. However, all of this seemed useless against him. He stood there as if he wasn't injured in the slightest.

Some were unlucky and were impaled by the spikes on the club and some were equally unlucky and had their spines and bones crushed by taking the impact of the club head on. The only lucky ones were those who were hit by the bodies of those in front of them.

Zhang had made his way through the sailors and behind the man's back and when he reached his destination, he pulled out a crude looking long dagger. If one looked closely dagger they'd be able to see that it was what looked to be a huge tooth tied between two smooth pieces of wood. This dagger was made from the Voracious Eaters razor sharp tooth.

In fact, if he had gone for the man's heart his dagger most likely would have been too short or maybe only the tip would touch it's target. As for the neck, one would have to ask what neck? Layers on top of layers of fat had made the man's neck indistinguishable from his torso.

"Gahhh you little piece of shit. How dare you injure me!!!!", he bellowed as Zhang jumped back a short distance away.

"You useless fools what are you doing standing there watching HELP ME!!!!", The huge man screamed to his men who were standing at the hole in the wall that he had made.

However, they were ignored as Zhang charged at the man once more this time aiming for his other leg. The man saw Zhang running towards him slammed his club into the ground and swiped to the side.

After being stabbed in the eye and kicked, the man fell to the ground and covered what used to be his eye and howled in agony.

But the man had too much body mass for this to be done. The man waved his left arm wildly trying to strike Zhang. He knew that if he wallowed in his pain and did nothing he might lose his life.

Then hopped off the huge man's chest and picked up his massive club. While on the island, Zhang had trained his body once more from scratch to get it back on par with his previous body. Although it wasn't quite there yet his body now possessed a lot of strength. Enough strength to barely lift up the giant club that was about as big as he was.

The giant clubbed smashed the man's head to a pulp and his brain matter was splattered all over the floor. The entire time, the sailors and their adversaries watched in silence both at awe of Zhang's power and in fear of it.

Five of the invaders was stuck under the giant club and when they fell over, they had knocked down many of their comrades that stood by them.

The sailors rushed toward the invaders and almost systematically killed them. The mess hall was now a bloody mess. Blood, guts, and body parts littered the ground. Anyone with a weak stomach would of have emptied their stomachs a few times by now if they saw this sight. Zhang walked up to one of the corpses and began taking its clothes off.

Without answering, he tossed the clothes toward Ai and began doing the same thing to another corpse.

As if they understood what he was doing all of the sailors including Jian Wei began taking clothes off the corpses and put them on. Yuying and Ai had headed for the kitchen to change. Because there was no way they'd do it here in a room full of man.

All of the corpses had black clothing with an insignia on the right shoulder with a picture of a shark. After donning the black clothes, the group started slowly heading back in upper deck. Anyone who met them along the way and wasn't on their side was taken care of in a swift way.

Above, there were many men in black however, they paid no attention to the group coming up from below.

"Sir we searched the raft that was attached to the ship and found some valuable things where do you want me to take them?", a man asked.

"Follow me everyone.", Zhang whispered.

Once on the raft, he began helping the men in black carried things off the raft. Zhang's plan was to help them carry things onto one of their ship and then sneak aboard and commandeer the ship.

They all walked onto the ship unnoticed and after all the men were on board this new ship they began to disperse. They were going to split up into smaller groups and took care of the men in black on the ship they were on.

Chapter end