-a classic massacre at your local mall
In the belligerent land of Naranjia, the Oviedo Mall is a large circular mall surrounded by a moat of parking spots. It sits next to a highway and across from a another plaza of mid tier shops. Entering the mall from the highway exit brings you into the east side. There was a banner over the top which said ‘City of Citrus’ hung from one tree over on each side that had a series of mixed citrus fruits. A silver sedan came though and entered the parking lot. She was lucky in finding a space nearest to the mall. Once she parked, she texted her boyfriend “yeah, I just hit the mall to pick up something and then I’ll be ready to camp”, as the All Time Low song ended from the radio.
Being an o shape, all of the major stores on the periphery serve as entrances. Dillards, Macys, Target, and Regal Cinema are at each cardinal point. Walking through the Dillards, then you will reach the inner circle that the little shops are in. There’s two levels with stairs, escalators, and a wide elevator in the center. The ceiling was glass allowing the sun come blazing in if it wasn’t overcast today. Little food carts and mini-vendors all around along with benches and couches to lounge on. It was very full today which was not entirely inviting to this young woman.
“Storm Chaser” Sydney was a pale girl standing around 5’8″ with straight brown hair boxed around her head and green eyes. She was wearing black rain boots, a grey skirt, and a blue sweater. She carried a purple umbrella with one hand and a Green Day tote bag over her other shoulder. Good steal that company made using the Green Day band as their image for a reusable bag. Sydney was a magical meteorologist but that shouldn’t come up today as she only needs to purchase some special candles at the Bath&Body Works. She quietly strolled past the good smelling Auntie Anne’s cart, completely avoided the fragrance alley, and then unfortunately bumped into what seemed to be a cloud of furries.
She shivered as she back away from the green and blue colored dog. The dog person turned back and barked at her as if apologizing which made her freeze. But then the dog turned away joining the mosh pit with the other furries. Sydney looked around and she was a bit trapped if not for some magic. She spelled her umbrella with Boyar which caused it to float away from the Earth. She used it to sail above the thick cloud of furries. As she sailed above, she noticed the party was trying to enter the local Game Hive (a trading card game spot) but the whole place was already full. She landed on the other and sighed, “at least I don’t have to go in there today”.
As she passed by the central lounging place, a kid crashed into her and they both fell on their asses. Sydney watched as his cash flew to the side. The kid tried to reach for it but then a condor came in and snagged the bills. It flew through the glass ceiling and disappeared in the sky. The kid slammed the floor with his hands exclaiming “damn”. Sydney groaned but decided she would ignore him. You should watch where you’re going next time. The kid basically argued against her thought, “it’s your fault now I don’t get the new Beyblade. I begged my mom so much for ten dollars and she was already super pissed today! Now I”ll never be cooler than the fifth graders!”
Sydney rolled her eyes as she stood up. “Jeez fifth grade, I feel old already. You should just go back to your mom. Don’t cry just cause you bumped into me.” The kid began to tear and then fully cry but he wasn’t loud at all. Sydney did get nervous, looking all around the lounge, but nobody looked away from their phones or books. She facepalmed as she realized how much noise he was not making. “Okay fine, I’ll pity you.” She took out ten dollars and handed it to him. “But you gotta promise me to buy the best Beyblade that never loses. I don’t make thousands of dollars everyday.”
The kid was shocked and jumped up in excitement. “YAAAAAY, thank you granny.”
“What the hell!? I’m twenty.”
“Act like it,” he said dashing off. She growled to herself. The kid’s name is Jones.
Jones found the furries blocking the entrance to the Game Hive and became perturbed for the moment. Sydney finally spotted B&BW although there was a crowd of wine moms before it. She fired the Congelar spell freezing some of them. Jones got on all fours and planned the perfect route. Sydney slid between the women and found herself inside. She melted the ice off of them with Quemar. Jones made himself some space before running forward and sliding in between the legs of all the furries before finally ending up in the Game Hive. Inside, there were still many moms that Sydney slid in between. She grabbed the big cannister candles she wanted and made the long way around to the register. Jones continued crawling along the floor before making it to the toy isle. There he found the Stormfront Leo he wanted and collected. Then he wormed his way to the register. Sydney ignored all of the cashier’s promos and upsell opportunities before finally paying and turning around in an attempt to leave. But the moms stood together as a wall. “You froze us,” they reminded. Sydney hung her head back in a groan. Jones showed the Beyblade to the register person and then handed over the bill. “Keep the change”, he said before trying to worm his way out. He backwards slided out of the furries and then skipped away.
A man came up to the Game Hive register, “hey, don’t you have anymore Stormfront Leos? I’ve been waiting all morning for mine.”
“Sorry dude, that kid just bought the last one. We don’t get more shipments until Evergreen-“
“WHICH kid!?”
“Bruh. The kid that skipped over to the white mom store, I didn’t even really see him.” The customer spread his arms out and howled so loudly you could hear it outside. The cashier did a double take and realized, “wait you’re not even in a fur suit. You’re a…man-bunny?”
“HARE!” This was a white fur covered man wearing a red tie with huge ear lobs over his also white hair head. He wore just the red tie but his nether region was covered in white fur. His legs were always bent like a rabbit’s while his hands and feet were replaced by paws. He did had a big poofy tail. He had human eyes on his bunny face but they were practically glowing red. “I was blessed by the Lepus constellation so it’s form can possess me!” He turned to his group, “Now since that kid stole my fucking beyblade, let’s go kill him.” The roared in unison. Everyone else were furries. The cashier yelped so the hare turned around and chomped his head off. “Don’t need you spoiling it to the Samurai.” Marked on his back was a tattoo that read ABC making this man the Alafaya Biker Club member Luken the Lepus. With his roar, the furries stormed out of the Game Hive ready to hunt.
Rewinding just a minute, Sydney lowered her head to the crowd of moms again, “sooo? I didn’t literally steal your time in line, you were frozen. Just get back to buying your dumb shit. I could’ve left you frozen.”
“No and you’re gonna actually apologize or we’ll call down a daimyo.”
“You magicians can’t just walk over civilians like that,” another stated.
Sydney tried to walk to the side, “what’s the daimyo gonna do? Get frozen like you guys?” she said bluffing. “Just go or I’ll do it again.”
A team of moms threw a table set at Sydney who was surprised by the attack. She was crushed under the table before hitting it with the spell Boyar. Then the set started to float away. Some moms were in awe at the magic while others were still frustrated. Sydney undid her umbrella and it allowed her to float up as well. Syndey folded her legs and held onto the umbrella with both hands as she rose. Then a sudden breeze just push her over the crowd and she blew raspberries at them. “Get to shopping, the sale could stop at any time!” she advised. The started to throw all types of shopping items at her. She fired them down with the Talla Chico spell which miniaturized the items.
Sydney spotted Jones crawling into the store as when she past through the door. Jones made his way to his mother as other women started to chase Sydney. “Mommy mommy, I got my beyblade.”
“Whatever, give me something to throw at that witch.”
Jones looked over to Sydney and muttered, “but I got the best beyblade because of her.”
Out the door, Sydney floated higher still making it to the second floor in the main area. She set her feet on a railing and a lamp just missed her. It shattered on the floor before her scaring some stupid infant. Sydney turned around and shouted, “you idiots are doing way MORE damage to the store than to me. Just give up.” Then she fired Esconder on herself thus making herself invisible. But she still stood on the railing and saw what happened next…
The Oviedo Whales (high school) football team were in one section of the mall floor flexing and celebrating a recent victory. The local news, the Sentinel, was there doing interviews as the boys were catered by a restaurant. The cheerleading squad was there as well doing their routine. Pouring out of B&BW were the moms as the spread out to find a way to get to Sydney. Then the crowd of furries came racing down the way, led by Luken. Luken hopped on all fours in great leaps and bounds. The army of moms look at them in disgust and took out pepper spray to defend themselves.
Luken leaped once more and smelled the air. He could smell a younger kid toward the back of the crowd. This was not because of a superior smelling ability but because Jones is less hygienic than these women who practically smelled the same. Luken landed on all fours together. Then he punched high over the moms. He started to spinning with his claws out and his fangs bared. He landed into the crowd and dismembered arms, legs, and heads exploded out. Blood sprayed everywhere as he continued to tear threw the women. Some started to instinctively spray pepper or shoot bullets at him but he was much faster than their intuition. The other furries then broke through the first distracted line of mothers with punches and slashing attacks As they got deeper, some would be felled by the heavy arm carrying mothers. The football captain noticed the head of his mother fly off and rose with a whistle. “Steamroller” he shouted and the team organized with efficiency. The next second, they charged into the flank of the death pit. They bodied the furries as the pushed through, ending them to the ground and then body slamming them. Some furries were tackled into pillars and mushed inside their suits. The quarterback spotted Luken still drilling through maternity and sent a football over. The Wide receiver understood what to do and followed the ball as it sailed through the air. He weaved inbetween mothers and furries until he dived to catch the ball and headbutt into Luken.
They rolled on the floor before rising. The kid chucked the football at Luken who ducked. Then Luken pounced at him but he moved out of the way out of the way and kicked Luken in back of his head. Luken landed on two feet, backflipped, and then bounced off the air tackling into the linebacker. Luken mauled him to death leaving just bones and some organs.
Meanwhile, the attendants of the mall were in disarray. The ones on the top floor were safe to record the event while those on the bottom floor dispersed and tried to escape. Some folks had their own guns which they tried to snipe with. There was just one team (4) of samurai nearby who rushed in upon getting alerted. Sighting the massacre thus far, they went ahead and called their commander. The medic on the team went to work with the help of the two cadets while the captain headed into the fray.
This battle entered the fifth minute when Luken finally saw Jones and his mother in sight. Jones was holding the Stormbreaker Leo in plain sight. Luken pounced at them but the two suddenly floated upwards. He watched as the floated onto the second floor and then fell back behind the railing. The people up there were surprised and made sure they felt okay. Invisibly, Sydney then pointed her umbrella at Luken and said “Tor….” then she slowly raised it to the roof, “…men…” and brought it back down to Luken, “…ta…”. A pillar of lightning descended from the sky, through the glass ceiling, and rained on Luken for the next couple of seconds. No one was around him and so his screams alone echoed through the whole mall. People watched in awe and after the lightning transpired, they looked around to see if there was a magician nearby or daimyo nearby. Luken collapsed, completely darkened, and reverted back to a human form. Strangely he had no red tie. From Sydney’s position, she heard the commentary of the attendees,
“Holy shit, that was wicked!!”
“Who did that???”
“Doesn’t Daimyo Yoshimatsu only do martial arts? And he wouldn’t just kill someone in secret.”
“That was badass. Did you see how he tore one of the women open?”
“Tore that pussy open…”
“Gross!”
“That was crazy, what a nightmare. At least my mom’s at the spa.”
“Hilarious, all the women that died were white. What a stupid store.”
“See, this is why furries gotta perish. They’re just like rabid animals sometimes.”
“Yo that guy is a Bike Clubber. I never seen him before.”
“Good work guys, We stopped the other furries and saved some moms. Let’s help the samurai make sure they are arrested.”
“Good throw JB.”
“Great catch Prince.”
The captain sighed, “what kind of Pandora spawned this chaos?? Hey rottweiler, whose you’re leader?” The furry pointed over to Luken in weakness. “Oh the one that got blasted. You guys need to take off the fursuits, the handcuffs aren’t gonna fit. And I mean real handcuffs, not no bdsm shit. Weirdos.” The captain walked over to Luken and turned him face up. “Hey you’re a stupid idiot, attacking folks outside of Alafaya. There you have all jurisdiction to kill wine moms who want their house to smell good for bookclub. These whining bitches filled up the parking lot all today and I had to show up just to direct traffic. I’m mostly mad that now their cars are gonna stay in the lot until family reclaims them. For what reason did you cause that problem?”
Luken opened his eyes and spotted Sydney just as the invisibility spell wore off. If I were a magician, which person in the crowd would be me? Obviously, the girl on the railing with an umbrella. “Robbery.”
“Really? That’s it? Huh, and who would be the worst actor? Annoying moms or annoying furries? Well, legally you’ll get punished the most but I will also mentally place all of my emotional burden of today on your soul.”
Instantly shifting into a hare, Luken decapitated the captain and then caught his body to use as support in standing. Luken looked up at Sydney. Sydney noticed her one boots thus realizing she’s not invisible anymore. She redid the spell and fell back into the crowd behind her as Luken jumped towards her. Sydney rolled away groaning at herself, why did he have to see ME? Luken slammed on to the ground and the crowd spread out from him. People pointed their phones at him as he looked around for Sydney although he knew she was invisible.
Sydney thought, this guy should be handled by Chris with his Flash powers. Why did I have to be at the mall right now? Even Thierry would have fun too but now I get to be bogged down by a fight.
Luken warned, “You guys know I’m not against killing civilians? I’m just looking for the umbrella girl.”
A civilian looked up, “umbrella? It’s not even gonna rain today. Clear fucking skies.”
Luken pounced at this man causing the crowd to screech. Luken was frozen midair, by Sydney, and the crowd spread out allowing him to shatter into the wall. The ice fell off his body as he rose. What a cowardly magician, why are they fighting me at all? I didn’t even know magicians could go invisible but the spells should still be visible. Just a problem that spells fly at the speed of light. So I should bulk up–and he took a flexing pose and doubled his upper body in muscular size while his legs got thinner–and then I’ll just tank the next spell she throws at me. I just need to see the single second flash of the spell to know her location.
The crowd encircled him and kept the circle wide as he tried to move closer to them to protect himself from a potential Tormenta. Sydney stayed in the corner she was, behind a pillar, as she would not get stepped on there. Wait a second, what is he even after? All of the furries were at the Game Hive like that kid…hmmm.
Luken stopped but studied the ground. He looked at the spacing between the people which was very tight. She’s not here anymore. Where’d she go? Inside the store? Behind the plant? Behind the pillar? With the power of the Hare….
Luken dug into the floor he was on and then kept digging underneath. “Holy shit, he’s digging like a real rabbit,” someone stated. Sydney was in distress, where the hell did he go? Across the walkway, Luken’s fist punched through the potted plant. People scattered and screamed as his fist disappeared. What’s he doing? Then Luken dug into the pillar. He burst out behind Sydney. His arms reached around basically trapping her. Sydney yelped, breaking the spell, and rolled away bringing him with herself. They fell on Sydney’s back and she decided to say, “what’s up doc?”. Then he spread his arms as he sat on her and threw his hands down to claw her out. His claws would just barely pierce her skin as he floated away. Sydney then miniaturized herself and sailed over to someone’s shoulder. Almost fricken died, this guy’s cold blooded. The crowd was amazed
Luken reached the ceiling and bounced off that. His feet touching any ground breaks the spell. “I see you!” Sydney freezes Luken again but his flexed through the ice with ease. What the hell? The civilian looked at their shoulder and screamed, “AHHH, you’re the magician! Don’t cling to me!” And the civilian threw Sydney at Luken. Luken narrowed his eyes and readied his hands to catch her. “Martillar” hit Luken with a force wave sending Luken back down. Sydney regrew to regular size and landed as well. Then she shouted at the civilian, who was running away, “don’t throw me at him! And my boyfriend doesn’t find me clingy at all!” but the man just threw two middle fingers up and kept running. The rest of the crowd also gained distance from the fight. “I thought you would ignore me since I was just a tiny problem,” she said.
“Don’t treat this as some joke. I’m drenched in blood but you’re preventing me from reaching my goal.”
“Where is that? There’s no soccer field in here.” Luken stopped. “Hey you don’t look so good, you should go to the hops-pital.”
Luken looked at her up and down and then lowered his arms. “Alright. I was mistaken to attack you. You just want some entertainment.”
“What I really want is for you to stop killing people. This is really ruining my camping trip.”
Luken exhaled and his legs grew in mass while his upper body shrunk. “Then close your eyes and count to ten. Surely I will be done by then.”
“Seldom of me to trust any men who looks like a lost toy in a playpen.” Luken raised an eyebrow. “What? You rhymed first. At least I was being funny.”
Luken bended his legs and touched the ground with his hands. “An unintentional mistake.” Suddenly, Luken was gone! He had super jumped and bounded well past Sydney. She turned around much after he scratched her face when he flew past. Blood exploded off her face and she yelped in pain as she sighted Luken nearing Jones and his mother. She pointed her umbrella but had to close her eyes now, as her body naturally reacted to the pain. What would be a good spell for right now? Especially since she can’t name? Well, you wouldn’t know. “Mandar” instantly teleported Sydney to the railing just before Jones . From there, Sydney fell in the way and Luken tore his paw into her. She opened her eyes and aimed at Luken with “Quemar” causing the Hare to burst into flames. Then Sydney crashed to the ground and Luken was sent away.
“Lady! You died!” Jones exclaimed while his mother screamed and tried pulling him away.
Eyes barely open, Sydney smiled at him, “nope, still in massive pain. Are my guts spread everywhere? Cause I really don’t have the guts to fight him anymore. You know what I mean?”
Her intestines and stomach were bulging as fluids leaked onto the floor. Jones was almost crying but he responded with, “you’re not funny!”
Sydney used reparar on herself so that her open stomach started to mend. “Tough crowd.” She looked over to Luken who was patting the fire off of himself. “Child, which one was it? The best Beyblade in the world. Show me.”
The mom said, “Jones, get away from her. Disgusting fighter, she’s gonna get killed by the bunnyman!”
“Here, it’s Stormfront Leo!”
“Gimmie! Doesn’t even look cool.”
“What?!”
“No but seriously, give it to me. He’s gonna kill you for holding it.” She swiped the beyblade and applied Bloquer to all three of them. This covered them in a blue armor that would protect them from one aggressive attack. Luken bounded again breaking the bloquer as he flew by in a twirl. He landed on the wall at the end of the walkway. Standing on the wall upright, he looked up to Sydney who held Leo above her head. “Ripping through my sweater and all these people for this? That’s not very berry bunny of you.”
“Just let it go,” Luken said bending low again.
The mom and Jones made their journey away from Sydney. She pointed her umbrella at Luken who now bounded toward her. She fired, “reflejar” at him thus reversing his momentum so he flew back at the wall. Sydney hid the bey in her subpocket, a personal pocket dimension hidden in own’s mind. Then she started spraying the salpicar spell all over the upper level. “Watery we gonna do about the rabbitman? He’s not a very hoppy guy so I don’t snow, maybe a fucking bath to clean up all this blood. And Beyond.” She ended with a wink. Stupid ass… walked toward her floor was well drenched.
Luken walked toward her while looking around at the mall’s new wet park. Shit now Sydney is affecting my writing! He was thinking a subpocket is a simple problem. When she dies, anything she has hidden there will spill out. He looked down below at all the dead moms with vibrators and tasers scattered between them. It’s a simple spell anyone can learn. I can’t just tear her though, I forgot they had that spell to stitch anything together. But ripping out her heart and eating it will suffice.
“Are you thirsty for more of me? I got two big jugs not just filled with water.” Then she giggled at her own shit,”ehehehe.”
“I am a bit confused but I will not be lulled into another trap by you. Hand over the beyblade.”
“No!”
Luken sped beyond her sight. Then he was right in front of her with his left leg on her left side. Bloquer on herself. He planted that foot on her face and smushed her head against the stone railing breaking through it. The kick sent her flying over the central galley. Her teeth now dyed red due the blood falling out of her mouth caused the spectators below to gag in disgust.
But, Sydney opened her umbrella and was now sailing across the mall. Out of her pocket, she took out a light bulb and flung it up high. “Hard headed girl,” Luken said getting ready to bound.
“Sorry I’ll make it softer for you next time, not like my skull is split open. But now at least you’re as smart as me.” Sydney closed the umbrella and hopped on it to ride lite a witch on a broom since boyar was applied on it. She pointed up at the light bulb and fired quemar. Since magic travels as light, magicians uses glass to increase certain aspects of the spells. A light bulb’s shape is perfect to increase the Area of Effect for a spell. Luken bounded at her and then the fire exploded from above in a massive sphere. A part of the fire caught him and he flew downwards barbequing. The water evaporated into mist which Sydney spun around the room with “soplar”. The mist went round and round. With “tener” or just telekinesis, she moved the spinning mist into clumps in order to continue the cloud building . Her hands moved in a frenzy and she kept a solid crazy face. Tongue out in between red teeth and eyes crossed in between blood ruined makeup. Her fingers were fixed a certain crooked angles despite her hand movement. Oh and she cackled, she definitely cackled.
Down below, the commentators said, “whoa she’s like Zeus. But instaed of stoming for lightning, she cackles and the air sparks.”
“I remember that weirdo, she chased a tornado out of town.”
A footballer said in a pose, “throughout Heaven and Earth, she truly is the Hot Mess one.”
Jones jumped on his moms shoudlers, “look at her gooooooo!”
Luken rose in a fury and bounced twice to get toward the center. Magicians have a hax factor while being blessed by a constellation gives me a beast factor. I’ll use the Rabbit’s Foot now to land a lucky hit on her but I’ll never be able to use it again for the rest of my life. It makes me lucky for a full 24 hours.
To make a nimbostratus cloud, Sydney took her cloud clump and allowed it to orbit her in an artificial breeze. The mall is enclosed so, with higher skill than most other magicians, she even telekinetically grabbed plain air to push it into the breeze or to collect moisture from. She had a sense of taste for humid air. But at the same time, the air in the cloud cell but keep cycling between warmer zones and colder zones. With a/c vents blowing some colder wet air, there was more support. The cell started to rise. The cell started to darken. A shadow formed over the mall and the people were in awe. Freak weather is 100%! There is nothing to stop this storm. My meteorology is certainty! The cloud started to rain in the mall. The people started to freak out.
Stranger blood covered all over his white fur and that same fur retained some static. Below, his skin was charred from the lightning and fire. “Bound Factor!” Luken jumped to on pillar and then bounced off at high speed. He bounced at and off another, at and off another. With every bound he got faster and faster. It still rained on him!
Blood gushing out the side of her head, seeping through the scratches on the face, and still drooling from the mouth. Her insides were still torn apart and her sweater still cropped. “If I had a dating profile, this type of weather would be my only interest,” she said as the rain poured harder.
The footballer below said, “nevermind, I hate the damn rain.”
She took out a new light bulb and then set it to hover in the air. Then she used bloquer on herself. “Hey dude, what’s a rabbit’s favorite aircraft? A hareplane! What do you call a bunny in a kilt? A hopscot!”
“WITCH!” Luken’s voice echoed through the mall with multiple reverberations. “Don’t joke around with me like I’m some fodder. I am another great biker of Alafaya. With our tyranny, we keep the place in Anarchy! I am not be be victim to your tricks and puns! I will own that Beyblade!”
He did a final bound at 500 mph at Sydney. In the motion, he flipped in order to dropkick her. In the blink of an eye, Sydney crashed into a wall across the way. The people yelped in shock. Crashing into the wall did break her back a bit. She was stuck in a crevice there and pointed, with her finger, at the hovering lightbulb. Her umbrella fell to the ground. Luken bounced off the air heading to make the final hit on her. Luck is great. Reflections on glass and water…well…
“Martillar” spread from the light bulb to the water drops falling in the air. Every drop. So the spell was basically multiplied as the reflected off the raindrops and hit either the walls or Luken. “Like mochi on the moon, get pounded you harebrain!”
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The spells hitting Luken sounded like gunfire as his body vibrated back and forth from each spell. Bones broke with a comedic shatter sound and blood vessels exploded like volcanoes. Then a final spell hammered him into the ground. He reverted into human form and then fucking died as double checked by the samurai cadets who ran over to handcuff him.
Sydney floated down to the ground and the people cheered. “YAAAAAY SYDNEY SAVED OVIEDO!”
“Call the doctors. Call the hospital,” she groaned while in immense pain.
“Yaaaay, thank you lady,” Jones said running in. “I didn”t know old people like you could fight.”
“I’M TWENTY-TWO!” Then she fell back in pain. She reached behind Jones’ ears and brought out the Stormfront Leo. “Keep it safe, he just killed like dozens of people for it.”
Then the footballers carried her over to the hospital. She wouldn’t be arrested for this but later a reporter would be the one to inform her that she killed a man. She made an L on her forehead and said in response, “Peace be on Earth, dummy”.
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