People dashed around in fear and panic, their nightmarish screams filled the night, drowning out the river which ran red with blood and the bugs that avoided the heavy tread of running of fleeing victims.Men in dark blue robes flew in the air upon swords that gleamed against the crackling flames. They uttered incantations using a vile language, summoning balls of fire that they rained down upon the houses and walls of the city. The city streets were littered with debris from buildings and dismembered bodies, the flesh still crackling from the searing heat of the mages in the sky.
"Mina, Rachel, stay by my side and don't let go of my hand!!" A woman wearing seductive makeup and robes grabbed the hands of two young teenage girls.
Mina's mother looked out from underneath her cover up at the sky. Mina could see at least a hundred blazing reflections painted against the pitch black night sky. Not even the moon shone for their escape. Mina felt her hand get tugged on and she went with it, she was running with her mother and sister in the street, following a raucous crowd.
A sword flew from the sky and stabbed a man before them. It squelched its way down through his throat, making him gargle and scream. His arms spasmed wildly from the pain
Mina gripped her mother's hand tightly and blinked tightly, holding back tears and a scream of fear.
"The red light district is disgusting as always."
Mina opened her eyes and looked up to the sky, a middle aged man with a beard floated down on his sword, his robes swayed mesmerizingly in the wind. The man spat giving them a disgusted look.
"What did the Fiva Red Light District ever do to your Water moon sect?!" Mina's mother yelled angrily.
Mina felt comforted as her mother clenched her hand tighter.
"What else? You disgusting whores are making our students stray from the path of cultivation. We can't allow such disgusting behavior to withhold their path to immortality. And if we let you sluts go away some of our students would come searching for you lot, so it's better to kill you all."
The Water Moon cultivator smirked.
"Your lives aren't worth much anyway,"
Mina trembled.
"Mina, Rachel, run!" Mina's mother yelled, suddenly Pushing Mina and Rachel away with force.
Mina fell backwards, landing in the dirt. Her mother took her hairpin from her hair and nimbly dashed forward, aiming to stab the cultivator but he caught her arm as she swung.
"Let me go.You bastard!"
The man holding her held an amused expression on his face. He raised his sword and brought it down onto her neck, cutting off her head. Her body stopped moving as blood sprayed in a torrent into the air. Her lifeless body slumped to the ground and blood ebbed from the finely sliced stump atop her shoulders.
Mina stared in shock and felt herself about to vomit.
"Mina let's go!" Rachel yelled.
Mina turned around to see Rachel had been running…like their mother had ordered.Her face was full of fear as she looked at the cultivators coming towards them.
Mina scrambled in the dirt, struggling to stand so she could run away. Run away with her sister. She could run like her mother had said… no, ordered. She could hear the heavy tread of the cultivator behind her. She turned around and tripped backwards. The cultivator raised his hand, the shining sword floated in front of him before it dashed towards her.
"Sis!"
Before the blade stole her life Rachel leapt in front of her, stealing the blow from the blade. She croaked, looking down at the blade in her stomach. Mina sighed in relief, seeing that Rachel was still alive, then the sword began to move on its own, slicing through the soft flesh of her stomach. Rachel's top half fell backwards and into Mina's arms. A vile stench arose, as her innards spilled out from her lifeless body. Rachel's eyes had rolled into the back of her head and blood trickled from her mouth. Mina blinked, the reality that her sister's dark pink eyes would never look into hers with the affection that only a sister could provide. She looked at her brown skin, it was stained with the blood of her sister and she was too stunned to even move.
Her smooth brown skin was stained with the blood of her sister and she was too stunned to even move.
Mina couldn't even scream. There was blood pouring out of her sister's cleaved torso and covering her feet with blood and intestines and coating her. She did not even want to live anymore. Her mother and sister had died, what more did she have to live for? She remembered her mother telling her of her life, she had said she always wanted her and Rachel to live better lives, to somehow, get out of the red sect district. How could she let herself die and fail her mother's dream and not acquire the dream that Rachel so desperately wanted?
She looked back at the cultivator that walked towards her still, a silhouette with flames in his spectacles. Mina shivered. How could she get away from that? Before she could think of any way out of her predicament a building beside her was struck by a fireball which blasted the base of the building from underneath it. The building groaned and creaked before toppling down towards Mina. She screamed as it collapsed atop of her.