The Meeting

Bill ran as fast as he could with his stumpy leg. Despite all his bluster, he didn't move too fast. It didn't help that he had to run in the night, where holes in the ground and hidden rocks tripped Bill up.

"F*ck! F*ck! F*ck!"

He ran away, holding Vanessa's soft body close to his chest. Her platinum blond hair flowed backwards, tickling his neck. As he angrily swore, he appreciated the delicate, ahem, curvature of her figure. Vanessa wrapped her arms around his neck and gazed into his dirty brown eyes and dirty brown hair. His bushy beard brushed against her skin, feeling surprisingly smooth.

'He really does care,' she thought. 'Someone that sees me for a person, instead of a tool…"

The older woman's screams tore her out of her thinking. Now wasn't the time to ponder qualifications. Shouts of other women and men filled the Woods. The Tao Sect arrived.

Bill breathed heavily as he jumped over fallen branches and logs. He hopped over rocks and boulders. In the distance, he could see a Dove Tree. Vanessa turned away from Bill's face and to the Dove Tree. There, Caleb and Amanda turned to look at them. Caleb furrowed his eyebrows.

He shouted, "I see it's you again!"

'Oh no! Not now!' Vanessa thought. 'Forget about it, please! I'm not interested anymore!'

Sadly, Caleb couldn't read her mind and continued confronting her.

Bill asked, "What's he talking about?"

Vanessa played with her fingernails. They stopped short of Caleb, who angrily glared at Vanessa.

"So she's the one who tried to r*pe you?" Amanda questioned Caleb.

He nodded and pointed at the culprit.

"I hope you came here for an *ss kicking, b*tch!"

He popped his shoulders and then cracked his knuckles. Amanda posed menacingly, left hand on her hip and right hand stroking her chin.

"Make that double the *ss kicking," she added.

Bill looked at Vanessa, confused at the situation. She put her face on his chest and blushed.

"Vanessa, you tried to r*pe this guy? Why?!?"

She didn't respond and continued to rub her face on his chest. She wanted to die from embarrassment.

"Long story short, we're gonna bust her *ss a new hole, you understand, man? If she's got her hooks into you, leave now. All she does is hop onto whatever man she can. Then, she gets her 'groove' on, you understand? Don't trust any of her lies."

Vanessa cried onto Bill's shirt and gripped tightly onto his collar. Bill's face stiffened and he stared down at her.

"Is what he says true?"

Vanessa took a small peak at the disgust in Bill's eyes. The betrayal broke his heart and trust.

"I— I didn't have anyone there for me. No one treated me like a person. Not until you came along," she said, tears smudged on her face.

The indistinct shouting from afar disappeared. Still, four old men dressed in fraying brown robes materialized into existence behind Bill. The dangerous vibe emanating from their bodies instinctually scared Bill and Vanessa. Bill slowly stepped aside and looked between the old men and Caleb.

The oldest man laughed, "Oh, hohohoho! What's this?"

He stroked his long white beard that hung down to his chest. His bald head had a long ponytail tied on the back.

"This must be a joke, no? What kind of drama is this?" wondered the second oldest man.

He rubbed his glabella as the moonlight shined off of his totally bald head.

"Demons, that Bufford said. Che! I thought I could play with an evildoer, not upset Gods!" grumbled the youngest old man.

He shook his head and the bundle of grey hair on his head bobbed up and down. He pinched his thin mustache.

"Pardon the other Elders, Gods," spoke the last old man. "These slow fogeys don't mean disrespect."

He bowed deeply to Caleb and Amanda, causing his luscious locks of white and black hair to curtain his face. The other Elders followed suit.

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Caleb and Amanda gave them blank stares, but then grinned while exchanging looks. Bill's mouth gaped wider than a fish out of water.

"Do you understand now?" Caleb leered. "Drop the woman and leave. It's for your own good."

Bill misunderstood the old men's arrival as confirmation of their identity. He complied and started walking away.

"Wait, you can't leave me! I thought you loved me!" Vanessa wailed.

Bill turned his head and glared at her.

"I thought I loved you, but I learned you didn't love me."

"But I do love you!"

"Like I can trust you anymore. Two Gods hate you and Elders of a Taoist Sect confirmed it. I'm no braindead fool you can play like a flute. I hope to never see you again."

"Bill!!!" Vanessa screamed. "Please!!!"

She outreached her hand to his retreating back. Bill bit his thumb, but he never turned around…

The old men watched as he left and then bowed once more to Caleb and Amanda.

"Finally some people are giving us the respect we deserve. I got fed up a while back, so those Mortals that dared to question my authority? Eradicated! No exceptions!"

"You better believe it!" Amanda added, causing the old men to shiver.

They remember what happened to Bufford's Great-Grandpa. Gods usually were unreasonable and didn't care about the difference between Mortals and Immortal Cultivators!

"We dare not question anything, Gods," said the last old man. "Your orders are our Will."

Caleb nodded his head and pointed his chin at the crying Vanessa.

"See that harlot there, simpering to herself? Slap her until she breaks a new hole in her *ss. I promised that she be punished for trying to touch me with her lewd hands!"

Amanda giggled as Caleb grinned. The last old man kneeled and cupped his hands. He ignored the fact that Vanessa did not actually look flirtatious. Rather, she looked like her World ended.

"I will do as you say."

He paced over to Vanessa and opened his hands. A tendril of vitality shot forth, picking her up with her naked behind showing. She gritted her teeth and shut her eyes in preparation. The last old man readied his palms and set them ablaze with the fiery glow of the Sun.

He roared, "Buddy Technique: Twelve-Thousand and Eight Hundred Palms of Hellish Torment!"

He swiped his right hand on the right cheek!

Pah!

"Ah!!!" Vanessa screamed.

He swiped his left hand on the left check!

Pah!

"Ah!!!"

Swiped right, swiped left, swiped right, swiped left!!!

Pah, pah, pah, pah!!!

"AH!!!!!" Vanessa screamed louder!

The last old man increased his attacks exponentially as his luscious white and black hair flung wildly about! He swung harder! He swung better! He swung faster! He swung stronger! His mastery increased as he integrated his power in delivering strike after strike!

"AHHHHH!!!!!!!" Vanessa screamed even louder!!!

PAIN! The pain of shame! The pain of heartbreak! The pain of disappointment! The pain of getting spanked! This culmination made her screams ungodly loud!

"AHHHHH!!!!!!!"

Her mind turned blank and then into mush. She convulsed, but stayed stuck in the last old man's binding. Foaming saliva dribbled from her mouth.

"May your Wisdom, Ethics, and Mind be cleansed! Buddy Technique: Reeducating Slap!"

His arms bulged its muscles with vitality! The last old man's hands glowed even brighter and seemed to carry the weight of a giant! His white and black hair spiraled, forming a circle of white and black! An illusory wheel of vitality hovered behind him! The speed of the swing was so fast, it disappeared faster than an eye could blink!

PAH! PAH!

Both of his hands separately swiped left, drilling past Vanessa's left buttcheek! As commanded, the last old man gave her *ss a new hole! The last old man dropped Vanessa to the ground. She limply plopped, twitching every so often.

The oldest man was so shocked that he ripped half of his beard off!

The second oldest man was so shocked that all he could do was rub his glabella!

The youngest old man was so shocked that he tore off the right side of his mustache!

Caleb was so shocked, his jaw dropped and slammed into his Adam's apple, which sent him into a coughing fit!

Amanda was so shocked that she went slack-jawed!

The last old man rubbed his hands on the sides of his robes and then noticed everyone staring at him.

"Hm? Ah, this faithful servant has completed your order, Gods."

The last old man bowed.

Caleb stopped coughing and finally said, "In what manner of my speech did I ever say to do THAT!!! I said punish her, not destroy her!"

Caleb felt a cold feeling crawl across his back and he shivered in disgust and horror.

"She might have tried to lewd me, but I didn't literally intend for you to rip her a new *sshole!'

The last old man coughed shamelessly and nodded.

"This faithful servant apologizes! How could I interpret the words of a God so erroneously! How may I atone for my failings!"

"Fix her! F*ck! Only a soulless and unrelenting person deserves such a punishment! How stupid do you have to be when punishing a woman that tried to lewd you! Only the most sensitive and irrational person could do a cruel and excessive punishment! Hmph! Elders, please! If you are Elders, I am sorely disappointed!"

The three other Elders shamefully ambled over to Vanessa and started chanting healing Sutras. The last old man nervously whistled as he casted incantations on Vanessa's butt.

Amanda hugged Caleb from behind and held a hand over her own left buttcheek. Caleb flinched but then relaxed after noticing it was only Amanda. Just watching the incident gave both of them trauma.

"I know we're scamming these fools that we're Gods, but when they find out we faked it…" she whispered in Caleb's ear.

Caleb turned his head to hers and whispered back, "That's why we will act as Gods uninvolved in Mortal matters. It's the easiest way, since no God casually deals with Mortals because it's too bothersome."

Amanda nodded as she looked over at Vanessa. Despite her dislike of the woman, she feared the punishment that the old man dished out!

Vanessa stopped convulsing. The hole in her buttocks healed, but the damage to her heart and mind remained.

Previously, the rampant vitality of the last old man coursed cyclically throughout her body! It grew and raged inexorably, like a ceaseless parasite! By draining Vanessa's own vitality, the Buddy Technique fueled itself and then it stimulated her nerves connected to pain!

To Vanessa, this felt like microscopic needles ripping through every fiber of her body, starting from her butt and then burrowed invasively elsewhere! It was like all of her burned on fire and tore apart as something ate her existence! When the last blow landed, the infectious vitality self-destructed, causing agony on the level of ten simultaneous childbirths!

At the time the old men started healing the damage, Vanessa was irreparably crippled! Her body lost the ability to store more vitality than one at the stage of One With The Body! Never could she progress past her mental trauma or connect to the greater vitality beyond her body! If the old men hadn't interfered, it would be a miracle if Vanessa could survive the damage at all!

The oldest man shook his head in sympathy.

The second oldest man sighed and rubbed his glabella in annoyance.

The youngest old man glared at the last old man, indignant at the terrifying attack he unleashed.

The last old man breathed easier, relieved that Vanessa survived.

Caleb and Amanda walked over to check on their work. The old men bowed and the last old man spoke.

"We have successfully saved her life! Her body has a strange constitution, which allowed us to counteract the aftereffects and revitalize her body. As for her mental state… Only time will tell."

Caleb grunted after seeing Vanessa breathed easy now that it was all over. He waved the old men to follow him to the Dove Tree. They complied, and so, in the darkness, Vanessa remained weak and forgotten.

"Let's go talk elsewhere," Caleb commanded.

Bill watched them leave from behind the Fir trees. He stayed there, watching everything that happened. Of course, he felt heartbroken at the tragedy. His feelings shook at the knowledge that he was her rebound guy, but Vanessa showed she truly loved him back. Although she had a dark history, Bill couldn't forsake her completely. He was a romantic and steadfast man, after all.

Bill slowly snuck over to Vanessa and picked her up in his arms. He touched her neck and confirmed she had a steady pulse. He sighed in relief and began sneaking away. With all the amends paid, there wasn't a reason for the Gods or Elders to come after Vanessa. Hopefully, she would forgive him for abandoning her. If not… Bill would try again and again.

His loyalty depended on his feelings being reciprocated. He never could forget her sad and pain-filled screams. Nor did he forget what she endured at the hands beyond her own control because of a lapse in judgement in the past...

She wasn't perfect, but Bill wasn't perfect either.