The Adventures of Rose Hood

I was walking down the street towards Amanda’s house, when I saw Erica. I was going to say hi, but I got a sense that I should merely observe.

I followed lightly so she wouldn’t be able to tell.

Then I saw her get grabbed.

Not wanting to misunderstand, I got to the alleyway and listened.

“This isn’t Rose.”

“Huh? But she looks-“

“Rose is disguising as a catkin not as a human.”

“Hm… Well, how could we use her?”

“Wait, her eyes widened when you mentioned Rose, maybe she knows where she is.”

They uncovered her mouth.

“Where is she?”

“I’ll never tell you.”

“Listen kid, YOWCH!!! ****ing kid!”

He started a kick, but I blocked the kick.

“Well, there you are, kid.”

“God Slayers I’d assume?”

“Rose, what’s happening?”

“Erica, run and get help.”

“Okay.”

She ran as fast as she could and they tried to chase her, but I blocked them.

“How did you even get to this world?”

“Well, it was quite simple, we found a hole in the shield. It’s the same one that allows residents to get in.”

“I see, so you utilized it.”

“Yep, and now we will bring you to our boss and he’ll torture you.”

“That is of course, if you can bring me in.”

I let my aura shine, but the higher beings weren’t intimidated.

“Charge!!!”

One rammed into me, throwing me out of the alley, and I blocked another’s blow.

The one woman of the group did a spin kick, but I caught it and spun her into another fighter.

We stood and stared. I gave no opening, but neither did they.

“Come on, Rose, just give up. There’s no way you can win.”

“Incorrect.”

They charged again and I blocked all three, then I dashed back and kicked up dust which then I charged and grappled one of the guys. He fell back and I kicked him in the face. He flipped and I changed direction mid-air to the woman.

“Huh?”

I slashed, and she dodged narrowly, but I wasn’t done with the charge. I kicked off the air and punched her gut, causing her to cough.

“She can use magic? No fair.”

I smiled.

“One last chan-“

A roundhouse kick to the face decapitated me.

A scream leveled out.

Erica had come back with a force of officers.

“What the **** did you do to that child?”

“Rose, No!!!”

“Crap, the cops.”

“Nah, don’t worry, we can ki-GRK!!!”

“What, she can even use regen?!”

“No, she’s still headless. The ****?!”

“Well boys. You are fully aware of who I am.”

The man I impaled on my fist crumpled as I walked over to my head and picked it up.

I put it back on and smiled.

“Don’t think you can stun me so easily.”

“****, Celia, she killed John.”

“Did we actually sign up for a suicide mission? This was supposed to be easy.”

“Hm. Caleb thought the same thing.”

The remaining duo realized my implications before their auras flared with rage and they charged me.

They must have been low, as a master wouldn’t make that much of a mistake.

I dodged the guy’s blow and ripped his arm off, causing him to scream in pain. Celia realized her mistake and tried to run, but I wasn’t just going to let her.

Celia, however, was smart. She grabbed Erica and leveled a high-power art at her.

“One move and your friend is dead.”

I smiled.

“Why should I worry about that?”

Everyone looked at me in horror, so I continued.

“I’m pretty sure you need an arm to hurt someone.”

I held up Celia’s now missing arm and she screamed in agony, dropping Erica and giving me the chance, I needed.

“Goodness, the whole lot of you are amateurs.”

I impaled her heart and then used flame on the guy who was also trying to flee. He screeched in agony before being reduced to ash.

The cops and Erica were in shock. On one hand, it was quite clear who the aggressor was, on the other hand, I had been decapitated, and then I simply put my head back and crushed them all in less than a minute.

“Goodness, they couldn’t even spring for 400s to face me? Maybe then I’d actually have trouble.”

I gained one level from killing all three of them, so they were at max 250.

“The **** are you?”

“The name’s Hood, Rose Hood.”

“Was that a James Bond reference?”

“Hehe.”

“Anyways, what are you?”

“Well, I suppose I should be a bit more honest.”

“Hm?!”

Erica looked shocked.

“I am The Core Truth, Purity, core shard of the World Mother, Kala.”

“Uh, what?”

“I’m a deity.”

“Like a god?”

“Somewhat similar.”

“Okay? What are you doing here?”

“Trying to find a way back home, and those guys were trying to kidnap me. Potentially to use as a bargaining chip.”

“What’s the other option?”

“Their leader’s torture doll.”

“The ****?!”

“Eh, the multiverse is messed up. Anyways, you guys wouldn’t happen to know what hole they jumped through.”

I smiled. They seemed focused on something.

“The heck do you mean by torture doll?”

“Exactly what you are probably thinking.”

“But you are a kid?!”

“Calm down, I’m almost a million years old.”

“I thought you said you were one?”

“My being independent is one year old. But Kala, the World Mother is a million.”

“Oh.”

Erica seemed to be reconsidering everything I had said.

“Wait, doesn’t that make you the regent of that kingdom?”

“Yep. At least a 10th of her, and the only one that can stay awake.”

I mostly muttered that last part.

“Either way, doesn’t matter, do you guys know where they came from.”

“No?”

“Gosh dang it.”

I looked at the corpses.

“I should have left at least one alive…”

“Why didn’t you?”

“They threatened my friend, no one does that.”

Erica was touched. But I had one last thing to say.

“Oh, and could you please not mention this? Chock it up to supernatural stuff. I want to relax until I’m able to go.”

“Um, sure.”

“Hey, Erica, I should walk you home, so you feel safer.”

“Cool.”