Tournament of the Gods

Ashley

     A brunette-haired young woman, possibly 17 years old, ran as fast as her legs could carry her, she wore glasses which even highlighted her already beautiful emerald green eyes, she had braces on her teeth and freckles on her two cheeks.

She appeared to be in a haste as she was dressed in an oversized white shirt and brown leggings with small white sneakers, she carried a stack of books as she kept running forward.

"Damnit, I have to hurry up, else I am gonna be late," she muttered to herself as she kept running, about six metres from her position was a bus-stop, people around her age range both male and female were getting on and it looked like it would be full in a matter of seconds.  "s**t, I have to hurry up, I can't afford to miss the school bus, it will soil my attendance record." She ran as fast as she could and just as she was about to reach the bus-stop, something suddenly appeared in front of her, she rammed into the object forcefully causing the books she held and also herself to drop to the ground, she was annoyed as she was sure there was nothing in front of her, she looked up at the figure, it was a 6'3 tall White-haired Asian, he was dressed in a white and blue Samurai wear, he had a sword sheathed in the right side of his waist, he has strong deep sea blue eyes, heart shaped pink lips and a well defined oval shaped face.

"He's really cute, he looks like Kim from BTS," she thought to herself as red creeped on her cheeks.  "Ooh s**t, the bus!!!"  She thought as she quickly rose to her feet leaving her books on the ground, she chased after the bus but the vehicle was already full and moving speedily away from her.  "No, come back!! you will ruin my attendance!! my dad will kill me!!" She shouts at the top of her voice as she kept running but all she saw were some male heads poking out of the windows laughing at her.

"Damnit," she said as she finally got to a stop knowing she could never catch up to the bus, she put her head down as she was devastated.  "My dad is gonna kill me."

"Hey," she heard a deep barritone voice call out behind her, it was the deepest she had ever heard and just hearing his voice sent shivers down her spine, she turned behind her and it was the same figure she had bumped into earlier, but he was holding her books all stacked up in his left hand.  "You forgot this," he continued.

"Thanks," she mutters as she collected her stack of books from him.  "What's the point, I am already late for class."

"So my sudden appearance must have prevented you from catching up with the vehicle which just left, am I correct?" The white haired figure asks.

"Yes," she mutters but then she thought.  "Sudden appearance, he's speaking like he actually just appeared, so I am not crazy, I didn't imagine it, he actually just..."

"Allow me to redeem myself, the name is Zhangshun Shan," the White-haired Asian said with a demeaning grin, she looked at him, unsure of how to react, his facial expression was full of pride and she couldn't sense any feeling of guilt from him.

"I am Ashley but my friends call me Ash, not like I have any friends but I am hoping to get some, gosh, I really need to stop talking," she said as she palmed her face, Zhangshun Shan didn't appear fazed about what she had said as he began to speak.

"Based on the appearance of that vehicle and the banner," Zhangshun Shan began as he pointed to a banner which was directly in front of them. "I take it it has an already set destination and judging from the individuals in the vehicle, I say the destination of the bus is a citadel of learning for young teenagers."

"Duhhhh, it's a school bus, obviously," Ashley was clearly unimpressed.  Zhangshun Shan ignored her remark as before Ashley could comprehend what was happening, Zhangshun Shan was already behind her, his arms wrapped tightly around her waist.

"Stop harassing me!!" She shouts aloud but there were red on her cheeks, she could feel her n*****s getting hard, his strong sturdy arms grabbing her waist brought her this strange warmth she had never felt before.  "Is this how it feels to have a boyfriend?" She thought.

"Martial arts : beyond light speed," Zhangshun Shan smiles and as he said that, every object around them stopped moving, Ashley was amazed as she looked over at the numerous crowd which had been walking on the pavements, they were all frozen, the dancers and street singers were also paused, even the vehicles had halted in their positions.

"What's happening?" Ashley asked still clearly shocked.

"It's a form of cultivation, it's known as Krigo, at the moment, our perception and body movement have been heightened so much they now surpass the speed of light,"Zhangshun Shan explains.  "If you are wondering why I held onto you, it's because different body positions contain various concentrations of energy and as much, some connect with certain organs of the body while some don't at all, for the beyond light technique to work without killing the caster, energy has to be sent to the heart as the heart is responsible for pumping blood around the body, if you begin moving at light speed while your heart is still as functional as the average human, one would die almost immediately, that's why I put my hands on your waist to transfer some of my innate energy to your heart."

"That was still very rude," Ashley pouts.  "You could have held another place to transfer your so called innate energy."

"The only place which connects to the heart is the chest itself and being the fact that you are who you are, I couldn't afford to touch your chest."

"He's quite chivalric," Ashley thought to herself.  "You realized it would be wrong to touch me there right?" She asks.

"Na, not at all," Zhangshun Shan begins with a demeaning grin. "I am not just not a fan of flat surfaces."

"He's a real f*****g bastard," Ashley thought, red getting on her cheeks, she was obviously infuriated.

"Hang on tight, this might get a bit rough," Zhangshun Shan smiles as he gripped her waist more tightly.  

"You bastard, unhand..." But before Ashley could finish her sentence, Zhangshun Shan leaped off the ground, they must have risen at least 37,000 feet high in the hair as Ashley could see a plane in the sky a few inches below them, Zhangshun Shan at a point even set the two of them down to walk on the plane before jumping back higher in the atmosphere, her hair was flying wild, she felt a mixture of both fear and excitement, she looked down and the houses on the ground appeared like matchboxes.

"AHHHHH!!!!" She screamed in excitement.  "Thank God I wore leggings today, would have been really embarrassing if I was in a skirt."

"That must be your destination, the citadel of learning," Zhangshun Shan smiled as he motioned over to a big building with several sporting fields located inside, the bus had reached the gates of the building but no student had highlighted.

"Yes but..." Before Ashley could finish her sentence, Zhangshun Shan dropped speedily to the ground, Ashley was scared as she screamed on top of her lungs, her hair running wild as she pissed herself.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" she kept screaming until she realized she didn't feel the cold breeze brushing her violently like before, she opened up her eyes and to her amazement, she was surrounded by several teens which were emerging from the school bus, they each wore a surprised look on her face, there were also several middle aged men an women around, each shooting her a puzzled look.  "This is embarrassing," she mutters to herself until she realized the shocked looks of those who were looking at her had vanished especially amongst the teens, now it was replaced with a mocking and sneering laughter, Ashley had never felt so embarrassed until the teens who were laughing were laughing so hard to the extent that they began to piss their pants, as if that wasn't enough, they began to vomit but they still couldn't stop laughing, they began to cry profusely as their eyes turned red, soon, it looked like the laughter on their faces was actually more of torture as they looked pitiful, soon, they all bent to the ground as they began to defecate while still laughing.

As some of the middle-aged adults saw what was happening, they quickly ran inside the school as what was taking place before them looked unnatural and strange, Ashley ran with them but she couldn't help but have a few laughs as she watched her tormentors become tormented.

Zhangshun Shan who was standing on top of the school building, watching what was taking place as he was the orchestrator of the strange events couldn't help but smile.

"I shall need to gather information about this world," Zhangshun Shan thought to himself.  "The child I rescued, based on the way she acted and how her stomach suddenly turned hot as I touched her waist has some affection towards me and seeing how she was scorned by several of her colleagues, also, she kept making reference to her dad and all the writings in her book were of the same handwriting meaning she has no friends or younger siblings as if she had younger siblings, once in a while, they would have tried to make a few scribbles in her notebook and another obvious pointer to that was that when she spoke about her list of friends, she didn't make reference to any siblings whatsoever as friendless individuals tend to count family as friends, she also has no mother has she kept referring to her father, therefore I shall manipulate her to my will and use her to gain as much knowledge as possible about this world." Zhangshun Shan ends with his most demeaning grin.

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Ashley held her books tightly to her chest as she left her class, she couldn't help but think about what had happened in the past as she giggled merrily.

(Earlier,)

When Ashley had ran into the school as she was laughing at what happened to her tormentors, she had found her books neatly arranged in her locker, as if that wasn't enough, the leggings she wore was now completely dry, when Kate, the Queen of the cheerleader squad and arguably the hottest girl in the school was approaching her, Ashley was scared because she thought Kate was going to make fun and bully her as she had always done but instead, when she got to a few feet away from her position, Kate slid on the floor and fell to the ground like a klutz causing several people to laugh at her and leave her infuriated as she quickly got to her feet and ran away in shame.

(The present,)

Ashley was really excited as she walked towards her locker still hugging her books tightly.  "Today has been the best day of my life," she thought to herself.  "But I wonder who that hunky Asian is, he's really so hot, is he some sort of genie or like my fairy godmother, ooh, I said godmother, I guess he can't be called a mother as he's a guy, it should be godfather but he's so young to be a father, I am thinking of God hunky totally hot Asian but that's so long so maybe it's something really simple," Ashley thought, the red on her cheeks deepening.  "Maybe he's my God boyfriend," she giggles mildly as she approached her locker, she opened it.  "But why couldn't my Godboyfriend come in a Caucasian form like Tom Cruise or Cristiano Ronaldo, I would have also liked a black hot hunko like Will Smith or Neymar Junior but still, he's really hot, Zhangun or is it Zhangshan, ugghhh, I can't pronounce his name." she mutters to herself.

"It's Zhangshun Shan," she heard Zhangshun Shan's deep barritone voice call beside her, she turned and Zhangshun Shan was standing directly beside her, resting slightly on the locker, he wasn't longer dressed in his samurai wear and the sword hitched on the right side of his waist had vanished, at the moment, he wore a red shirt with a black biker jacket on top of it, he complemented the dressing with black skinny jeans and white Nike sneakers.

Ashley's face wore an uneasy grin as she muttered.  "I don't know how much of that you heard..."

"Everything," Zhangshun Shan smiles at her, he didn't appear the least bit offended.  "This is great," he thought to himself.   "This world is almost the exact same thing as the previous world of mine before Renkui destroyed it and restarted it all over again as she had made mention to four significant characters, Will Smith, Neymar Junior, Cristano Ronaldo and Tom Cruise, I shall make other enquires later on but this is a good help." Zhangshun Shan smiles to himself.  Ashley could feel her cheeks getting red and her heart thumping harder, she didn't know what to say and being in Zhangshun Shan's prescence gave her butterflies in her stomach.

"If you won't be so busy after school today, would you accompany me to this great place? it's a restaurant, the french one on the opposite side of Mayfair street" Zhangshun Shan asks maintaining eye contact with her, Ashley was so excited she could burst.

"This was the first time since seventh grade someone asked me out, I guess I was right, he's really my godboyfriend," Ashley thought excitedly as she squealed for delight internally.  "Yes, we should hang out today, we shouldn't just hang out but both of us should hang together more often, I don't mean literally hang as that would mean our deaths but we should really hang, I mean hangout, uggghhh, I should stop talking," Ashley ends, her face red from embarrassment as she palmed her face.

"Alright then," Zhangshun Shan smiles deviously.  "I will drop by your place at 7 to pick you up," he ends as he turns away.

"Wait," he heard her voice and the voice didn't sound intimidated, it sounded calm and Zhangshun Shan actually feared that he would actually be shot down or turned down.

"Fudge, he thought to himself, is she now immune to my charm or what?" he thought to himself but he quickly regained his demeanor as he turned towards her, putting up his most devious smirk.  "Anything?"

"Yeah," Ashley said as she quickly turned her face away from him, she was playing with her messy hair as she spoke, her voice getting high pitched.  "Your name is too long and frankly, it's hard to remember so I will just call you Zan," she ends but before Zhangshun Shan could speak, she closed her locker as she ran away from her position, waving at him.  "I will be expecting you by 7 today, better don't keep me waiting."

"Oooh, I won't," Zhangshun Shan puts on his most wicked smile.