Zero lightly ran his dagger across Tyler's arm, the grown man screaming like a small child at the sudden arrival and pain. "AHHH!" Zero watched as everyone turned towards the sudden noise, only to see Zero and quickly avert their gazes. "How did you suddenly appear?!" Zero shrugged as he started walking in the direction of everyone else, Tyler quickly matching his steps. "It's not important, What I want to know is if the two messengers I sent arrived, or ran away."
"Do you mean Quin and Josh? They arrived before demanding to speak to the leader. After that, the leader paused all plans to come to investigate the mall. However, no one has any ideas as to why she did that." Zero nodded, 'Seems like she agreed with me, however, this sudden invasion may cause her to change her mind.' Zero continued to walk, only to start hearing people talking in front of him.
"Everyone! The leader has decided to move home base! Take only what you need to survive!" A figure in the now-rushing crowd suddenly shouted before everyone else agreed with the question. "Where are we heading to now?!" The scattering crowd slowed, as they all tried to hear the man's response. "From what I have heard, we will be making a frontal assault on the spawning point of these monstrosities before holding up in the mall. From there, we will move to the hospital a block from the building."
Zero continued to walk with the large group of people as they moved back into the high school before separating. Without pause, Zero made his way towards the throne room, not surprised in the slightest that it had multiple people all in a heated debate. "We don't have the manpower to assault the creatures!" "I second that decision! I say we simply retreat for now. There are other places we can defend with more cert-"
The light in the room suddenly dimmed, and Zero watched as bones slowly crawled up and over the windows. "I will remind you all that I am the leader of this group, and although a council has been created, this is still a dictatorship!" Everyone quickly nodded before a man quickly squeaked out. "I second the leader's decision!" Once everyone had voiced their support for Gem's decision, the bones that had now reached and were crawling over the ceiling were suddenly, and rapidly retracted into the ground below Gem's feet.
Zero simply watched the entire interaction with a blank expression. Gem laughed before speaking once more. "We will completely clear the mall of all valuables before moving them to the hospital. As for the assault, I will participate in it." Zero noticed that as soon as she said she would participate, everyone seemed to think the idea was a good one.
Everyone started moving out of the room at a rapid pace, two of them slamming into Zero's shoulder as they passed. Once the room was empty besides the leader, Josh, Tyler, and Zero, Zero stepped forward towards the Gem before simply staring her in the eyes. Zero held her eyes for another moment before Gem let out a laugh and spoke. "I know why you're here kid, but plans change."
Zero simply stayed silent as he watched the group leader. After multiple moments, he finally spoke. "The mall is empty." Silence followed his words before Gem let out a laugh. "That is impossible. It would take multiple people to simply clear a single floor." Zero shrugged. "You can go look for yourself, however anything of importance is gone." Zero kept his face void of any emotion, and Gem seemed to slowly realize he was being serious.
In a split second, Gem's face morphed from amusement to evident anger. "Hand it over." Zero raised an eyebrow at her words. Gem scoffed before speaking again. "I already know you started collecting everything on the top floor. So it was no doubt you that took everything. Hand it over, or we will kill you and simply take it all."
Zero's focus was suddenly pulled towards Gem's feet, where he noticed multiple bones starting to crawl towards him. Zero sighed before slowly walking towards the window as he spoke. "I moved it all away from the mall, and am willing to trade with you. However, first, I will give you what we previously agreed upon." Zero had already put his hands into his pocket, so he simply pulled out the timepiece before dropping two duffle bags packed full of snacks onto the ground.
"I said five bags, however, I could only carry two bags. I will go now." Without giving anyone time to respond, Zero locked onto one of the Qwulvises in the far back of the attack force before blinking behind it. Zero simply turned around and started walking away, even as he noticed a chunk of the high school exploded outward.
Zero took off running as soon as he had turned around. Every time he would see a party of creatures running to join their kin, he would blink behind the farthest one before killing it and continuing to run. Zero's entire body was halfway to breaking by the time he could see the mall and the large mother standing in front of it.
Zero felt sad at the loss of profit, however, he simply sighed and blinked behind the large mother. Without a second thought, Zero pointed three of his left-hand fingers down before a single large beam exploded downward. Zero quickly turned before targeting a small Qwulvis that had just been born. What Zero didn't expect was a Window.
-Notice-
A Sponsor would like to send you a message. Would you like to accept the message?
(Yes) (No)
Zero accepted the message as he pulled the dagger out of the now-dead Qwulvis, reading it as he quickly started slicing the Qwulvis into pieces before placing them into his shop.
-Notice-
(I suggest you retrieve the souls before they are waisted)