《Convenient Chainsaw》 Chapter 1:Whats your wish? Heavy rain pouring down against the the trees. Heavy footsteps followed by splashes of water-each step another breathless huff followed by a thud. Shrieking. Something is shrieking behind him, he needs to run faster. Faster and faster then it all when dark. He must have feel down the hill, mud and water covered all across him face and clothes. Everywhere else is blocked by old rusty walls-too high to jump, to slippery to climb over. thud....thud Looking back to only meet a face ,a flat look with such a peaceful frown, yet behind that face all grey and bulking with muscles. Large arms hand on both sides with such mass stretching wide across the shoulders. A small head with a beautiful smile and a beastly build. Cracking knuckles, with echoes weaving across all these junk around them. The storm only roaring louder in respond with thunder following after. Just a blink, then a swipe off the ground without a chance to gasp for anything. His being tumbling towards a pile. This pain in his right arm, all caught deep within the pile of metal and scrap like a bite that doesn''t seem to let go. The smell of blood leaking from inside the pile. The pieces of junk and trash all clog up against him, like a helpless deer trying to free itself, behind him another thud... then another, before the sound of a car behind crushed down. Its muscular hand reaching forward for such an easy snack. clank... His arm was free with something joining along side him in this opportunity of freedom. Grip tightly around his finger, he could tell its old and dirty, must be in the gutter here for awhile-the reflection on its blade all scratched up and brittle but being desperate has other plans. From that small beautiful face, shouting a roar of inpatients followed by the thunder. A pull of that old chord, all sounds including the pouring rain hitting the land, all consumed by that malicious laughter of that engine. ...... Eyes annoyingly peered open by the ray of sunlight coming in from the window, along with the irritated voice of his teacher slamming against a rolled up set of notes. Actively banging it against his desk trying to ruin his sleep. Hino! Class in sessions! W-what? yes yes Good. Now on todays class with the rise of multiple incidents around the area lately. Too improve youth morality, todays class is simple. What is your wish? In big text written complete across the chalk board. Essay submission next Tuesday, everyone. You may begin now! Pencil tip tapping against the sheet of paper on his desk, sounds simple Hino thinks but the answer doesn''t seem to be quite clear or simple for that matter. He doesn''t know what words or even what his wish even is. By wish does it also mean goal or what I want? He wondered maybe it could also mean like that, it is an essay he''s writing so he get to call the shots around here. But write what? Just write something dude. Josh called out to him from a desk over. Its not like its compulsory right? Ash chimes in in front of Hino-clearly trying to catch the attention of a classmate on the other end of class. I''ll think about it. Hino answered, clearly knowing he''s not even going to do it. .... The bells rang with everyone excitedly tidying the classroom before spring out of school to whatever they had plan in store for the weekend.Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. Walking into bustling crowds before taking a few right turns then a left. Passing a huge monsoon drain-crossing over it with one of the interconnecting bridges then passed the recycling center, remembering to wave hello to the old neighbor that also works close by. Only finally reaching the building a far miles out of the city state with still a few houses around but further far out would be rivers and wide expanses of grassy fields. Today the elevator was under service. Stairs it is, he whispers-dreading the idea of taking 12 flights of stairs. Eventually he did. Apartment house 12-13. Sliding the keys in, he enters to a pretty decently kept home only a minor amount of thing scattered around the place. At least there won''t be cockroaches staying here but whats important now is a shower and todays dinner. The shower seems way easier. Strip to the bare now submerge in one of the worlds blessings, a warm bath. Overjoyed and relax, Hino screams and laughs-even singing a song terribly, with lyrics covering his personal expenses and all his favorite types of food to eat to how this apartment is covered by a distant relative, to the finally his essay. Drying himself with a towel, inspecting himself at a mirror-brushing his hand with his hands and checking his face before looking at the thin line that wraps awkwardly around his right arm. So thin that even he forgets its there sometimes. Ahh whatever! he laughs before laughing to himself, now homework is his next priority. I can''t wait for dinner! he shouts. ..... Yawning in boredom at his empty head, blankly looking at an empty assignment. Still nothing ,huh? he muttered. Why am I even trying? Why bother. I got until Tuesday. Piece of cake! rin-ring- ring 5pm!! Dinner search time!! Leaving his the apartment with a few bags of plastic bottles-dressed in nothing fancy just a shirt, some old pants and slippers. I''ve save enough this time, he proclaims before dashing down the stairs. Reaching that same recycling center earlier with a worker having his smoke break interrupted by Hino''s sudden presence. You sweat alot for a kid, the guy admits before huffing a cloud of smoke in his face. 10, that all he got for six bags of plastic bottles. Should be enough Hino hopes, his stomach seem to also hope but somehow todays dinners wasn''t the main issue that sat on his mind today. Its that stupid childish essay. That wouldn''t matter now, he wont even be able to spend his earnings for anything with this sudden car flying into everyone around before crushing straight into the hardware store. Landing on his butt, daze from the sudden disaster at his feet. Whats worst was he''s only down to six, the other four missing in the attack. Vibrating through the ground, a ripple occurred-leaving a trail of shattered roads and sinking earth around the place. In Hino''s eyes, people where frantically running for their lives before some unknown force flew passed them, squishing them on the road. Faced covered in the remains of someone poor soul, panic seems to rush inside-he can''t stand up. From far ahead, some large Crustacean-like man stood there. With a large harden crab head with two clear eyes elongating from its face. Below its head a muscular build with a pair of heavy claws on each side. Red in colour with a clear texture of roughness all across its body mindlessly shouting for a challenger to come fourth. No one came closed. A few more buildings and roads were crushed or demolished with such deadly force before back to its shouting. I Cancer! Great warrior of the seas! Come fourth great fighters of this earth. Punish me!!! Not again. Hino muttered to himself, too soon he admitted. He only wanted dinner but now this crab is ruining it, right then and there something landed on his lap. From that high it should have hurt but it gracefully planted itself on his lap. Orange in colour with a grip on its end and another on its top with a long blade reflecting Hino''s face on it. Line with so muched teeth on its chain, its sure to pierce any person closed by. Finally!! Yes! Finally!! Yes you! bloody boy Fight me!!! The crab guy Cancer was looking at him with clear excitement in his face. There''s clearly no choice now. Drenched in the blood of some random poor soul with the only feeling he has is annoyance, for one good reason. He made him lost some money. Dragging the chord a few rounds with the roar of its engine, maliciously laughing as Hino chuckles. .... The smell was potent, with a strong stench of rot and wetness from the storm prior. It had been obviously been sitting here quite awhile now with most of its flesh all mangled and shriveled up beyond recognition. The only thing recognizable was that beautiful small face, now sliced clean off-splattered on the ground like a thin piece of paper. Minced pieces of its flesh seem to be under investigation with all squad members present having their feet sink in red. Status report? Detective Andi asked before taking a gulp from his canteen. Sir we had identified the beast but no causes found yet. Sir is this bad? Connor chimes in. Obviously. The two of them, feet planted against the rubbering mass of muscle with more blood still managing to ooze out from between the gaps. Its quite hard to make out physical body with how brutally mangled it is. Parts that seem to looked like an arm seem to bare a hole right where the palm would have been. While other areas like the neck and torso seem to completed lost in the mound. So its true sir? Apparently so. This is that beast that terrorize four separate towns around here, its quite unexpected too. What do you mean? Dosing another sip down his throat he sighs before continuing. When haven''t had enough man power to take this boy down for several months now. So your saying? Yes. We are screwed.... Author''s note: My favorite fruits are kiwi and watermelon :) .. Chapter 2:Shatter Tons of panic faces, plenty of screaming pedestrians all scattering away from the scene. Other few unable to even stand up or even run. A shocked man with half his head blown off leaving his jaw still dropping. A woman being crushed under fallen rubble along with the pile of others. A kid was crying for her mother with that crab-man came charging in towards her-in a flash, the tip of Cancer''s claws being sliced off with Hino standing over the child. Bloody boy!!! the crab yelled in enthusiasm. Fucking finally!!! Sparks continued to to burst out from the chain''s constant movement-spinning against the rough shell of armor. Run! Kid run!! Hino''s cries out, only for a piece of stone to be thrown at him. Scuttling away from the scene, with relieve in Hino''s eyes. Thank god she''s gone, he admitted before coughing blood out from his mouth. Huh!!? .....bleugh... Concentrate here! Boy!! Bamm!! Another punch towards the gut, now flying across the streets before crashing back on his back. Coughing more blood out, Hino quivering in his lower body and his fingers numb to even reach for the kill switch. With another strike bursting into his face. Bleugh!!! More blood began to trail out along with bits and pieces of flesh inside his mouth, he unintentionally bit off. Looming over him, an unharmed crustacean stood there before beating his clams together is own head before wavering it down at him. Miss!! you cockroach!!! Appearing from behind the dust with a grin on his face before driving a left hooked in. snap Argggh fuck! fuck! motherfucker!! Hino looking over the bruised up knuckle of his-now his own blood bursting and leaking from the cuts between his skin , panicked at the look of their twisted shape. "What a waste" his opponent sighs before launching Hino back across into a hiding crowd. Huh? Hino opened his eyes, he wasn''t dead yet but he sure is surrounded by many. Cushion by the many soft bodies of random on lookers and innocent civilians. All innards for all to see, mixed into a messy pile of string. Some familiar clothing could be seen in the pile along with the surviving remains of these individual. Man with their lower halves pulverized, others with nothing left just pieces of visible bone or what could manage to survive his crash on them were the heads. A familiar face seem to sit just right between his legs. That kid from earlier-now stucked in a permanent shock, staring back at Hino. Holding back at much as he could but he could anymore. He chuckles before breaking into a grin-staring back at that giant crab taking his sweet time over to him. I guess this is where I kill you, huh? Hino nods. Pretty fun I guess, wasn''t expecting any big deal but you did your best. Can y-you listen to me for a second Mr crab? Hino muttered, struggling to bring the words together. With soft mumbling between the moving pieces of its mouth-trying to figure if its even worth letting Hino have a say in his final words. Before finally agreeing to Hino''s request. I figured out my wish! huh? For my essay....Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. ? and for myself. ? I fucking did! Goddamn it!! YOU KNOW WHAT I GODDAMN WISH? I WANT TO FALL IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE. NO I DON''T WANT SOMEONE TO GODDAMN LOVE ME,I WANT TO LOVE THEM!!!! AIN''T THAT AMAZING? I want to be by someone side!!! Hino laughs. "He lost it" the crab thinks perplexed and disturbed. A moment of silence, with Hino taking in deep breaths before starting to put some more words together." Thats why you can''t kill me" he jokes. Huh? ..bleugh.... Clogged deep between rough shell parts and rubbery flesh something pierced through all that. A chainsaw. "Let it rip!" Hino laughs-immediately mowing through carcasses and viscera and all the good meaty parts. Launching himself back not before Hino manages to snag more pieces of flesh out with the other arm. Tugging the chord with his teeth before laughing in a moment of blissful pleasure as Hino charges in. Sweating Cancer ask. Where d-did that came from? How would I care!? Hino answered-driving the thick blade through the other side of the crustacean''s body. Seemingly lifting it completely up into the air into a bitter tasting shower of shell and everything soft. Before falling apart vertically from the middle. Argh ha ha ha ha Hino, drenched in the bright blood of his enemies. Somehow sadden yet relieve of getting to live for another day. Cowardly faces were starting to peer out from their hiding spots to inspect the danger, Hino couldn''t be bothered by them-inspecting the two broken fingers on his left hand, without question snapping them back to right place as he fishes out a tattered piece of clothing to wrap around it. He laughs, then cries. Knowing he lost todays cash but at least dinner is solved. The idea of that made him puke on the spot while chuckling to himself. ...... Bells ringing. Its lunch time now, Hino couldn''t feel like eating lunch currently, he has that essay due today. Rumors had been spreading about the school ,teachers, students and even local neighborhoods were joining in on the crazed. With recent papers discussing the potential sighting of a new creature in town, some say he''s human other says he clearly monstrous but both sides can agree on one definitive. Human or any other, everyone is screwed. Debates between individuals on what to do with this new face in town as become a source of celebrity with many few taking opportunities to voice in on the chance of attention. Some with false claims of seeing this figure while others claim that their family suffered tragedy because of it, but overall its just a rumor. "Its just a rumor" Hino repeats to himself, being more motivated and attention all caught up in completing his essay by today. "I got this, I got this" he repeats to himself . And there. All done. He proclaims to himself, all proud for actually trying in his school work now there''s time to enjoy himself. Strolling around the empty floors, passing by empty classes-occasionally walking into a few students. There he made it to the teacher''s lounge. It''s quiet here too, he thinks. Before reaching towards the knob of the door, only hesitating to do so hearing odd sounds from the other end of the door. Pressing his ear against the door managing to hear the blissful satisfaction of his teacher''s voice and another more unfamiliar feminine voice. The sound of slurping and sucking could be heard before reaching a sudden stop. The door slams opened with that unfamiliar girl waving goodbye before leaving for lunch. "Who is that?" "New student?" "Weird" There''s to much things running inside Hino''s mind to make clear on what he''s even trying to figure at all, the essay is more important. Thankfully, his teacher is still there-seemingly like nothing had ever occurred in the first place. "Maybe it isn''t a good idea to ask" Hino thinks, just entering to deliver his essay. Oh Hino. Well great work today, you did homework. You can go now. Hino wasn''t sure if it was the weirdness of his mind leading him around toward these conclusion or was that really what it seems to be. "Ermm sir. Who was that earlier?" Oh her. That''s Nana, she''s a transfer. Play nice with her. Err Ok? Closing the door behind him. He wasn''t know what he was supposed to feel at all. Maybe that essay wasn''t really worth doing but he did put the afford-maybe he should be proud of that. Yawning and with lunch not ending in another 40 minutes, perhaps he should just head back to class and take a nap while waiting. thud thud thud Huh? fwoosh.... Hold still Hino. That voice spoke with a knife pointed straight towards Hino''s throat. Short hair a nervous smile and a mole as small as a dot that sits right below her right eye. This is his classmate. Emily? Why? Her eyes soften before switching back to a defensive glare, the knife still held firmly in her arms. "Don''t play games" she scowled "Follow me if you don''t want this in you". No choice he complied. "Where we going to?" Caught frozen in the moment leaving Hino nervous on what her response would even be. Slowly she turns facing towards Hino with both eye stucked in constant glare, poking the tip of edge against her finger. In a monotonous tone, whispering a few words. Nana just wants to meet us....... "She''s cold-" Hino thinks. . Chapter 3:All the girls Above the school roof. The sun blazing down on everyone working hard on the roof tops new flooring and the installment of a school green house for the students. To the workers its a worthy sacrifice for those kids, recent days had been rough on everyone. Higher monster attacks and now with that supposed rumor of this figure that kill other monsters and humans alike, time has been way scarier lately. "Hey Aaron, watch for the tools and everything over there. Make sure not to let anything drop down there." Thats what his boss told him before him and a few others head for a smoke-with him working on the green house. He wasn''t sure how but possibly an accidental push in order for him to reach for something else or it was just that. Coincidence. The chainsaw fell but shouldn''t be an issue, peeking down a little, it was empty and the coast is clear-plus its not that important, there''s a spare chainsaw. "It''ll be fine" he says, promising himself he would retrieve it later before anyone notices, especially his boss. Back to work for him it is. ..... Down the stair they when, taking a left turn into the hall then a right into the entrance of the cafeteria hall. Familiar faces were everywhere with also the entire school students and staff all stationed here. In the sea of nervous faces, Hino notices a few odd one-" Ahh you! Nana!" he realize, the same girl making up with his teacher from earlier now standing cross legged on one the lunch tables, both arms wrap around a dead faculties shoulder. Their faces pale and droopy with a hole in their foreheads. Nana didn''t react. Her girls did. Fauna and Luna both grabbing him on either sides before pushing Hino down against the floor towards Nana. The rest of the students held hostage could only watch in pity and fear for themselves. "Never disrespect the new Evol of greatness " both in unison. Wa-what? Evol? greatness? "Evolution of greatness" Nana clarified. "I am the better of your species". "She''s crazy too?" Hino thinks "What wrong with everyone else, she clearly just a person" he questioned himself. fwoosh.... A student dropped dead followed by panic gasp by everyone, even Hino felt petrified there he noticed a tendril slithering in the air with a sharp point on its end and the other end connected to Nana''s index finger. "She was looking at me the wrong way" she coldly remarks. "Shit" This is obviously not good for him or anyone right now, scanning the crowd managing to find some of his classmates, Ash , Josh and surviving teachers. Further more he counted up to a total of six girls on standby including Emily, all standing above everyone else with menacing intent in their eyes? Accept for Emily''s, all their eyes including Nana''s all looking flat without a pupil, instead taking its place was an odd flower shape-like spiral resting in each of them. "Emily must be human then" he concluded but what now, he doesn''t plan on getting killed. "Your greatness" Fauna asked "May we remove this disrespectful runt here?" With a finger over her lips, Nana sat there silent-contemplating Hino''s fate while her eyes all move in varies different directions like some sort of chameleon. I volunteer!! "Emily?" Hino thought "Is she going to take my place?" I volunteer on the execution on this runt "Shit" "I absolutely disagree. Your greatness please allow me." Nana still silent. One hand covering over her mouth as to hide her laughter the other squeezing tightly against the neck of one corpses-trying to break it but not to. "Emily you go....Prove me". "Hey hey I didn''t agree to-" "Shut up you sick child!" she yells before kicking Hino in the face, stepping over his chest with the knife floating right above his forehead. "I''ll kill you"Support creative writers by reading their stories on Royal Road, not stolen versions. ..... Swinging a leg into his gut, a fist straight to the jaw and another at the shin. Laying in the grass outside the school ground, no one would find him over here, the only way out would be that door standing right behind Emily. "I''ll be watching" Fauna scoffs. "Lost lost, get lost" Emily swinging her knife around the air before pointing it towards Fauna before chuckling. Leaving the door locked behind them. Now its only the two of them, Hino needs a quick plan now-with both his hands gaged together, his body swallowed over by Emily''s shadow as she stood way above him. fwoosh... Huh? His wrist feels light and less constraint, Hino confused without any injury or cuts on him. Just bewildered by the teary eyes on Emily leaving her fallen against the grass with the knife still held towards him. I just want some friends......I don''t wanna die.......but Nana dies, I''ll be screwed, Ok. I feel lonely.....I just can''t kill ok Do you understand that!! What was he supposed to feel or do? There''s his classmate right there kneeling in front of him- still her hands shaking, pointing the knife straight towards him. The look in her eyes filled with guilt while fighting her own insecurities. "you good there?" He wonders what was he supposed to say, its obvious that she''s more troubled then him. Is it his right to pity her? "Hey you could always lie to the whole school" he chimes in her crying episode. "Really?" eyes red from all the hand rubbing around her face. "Yeah pretty much. I mean your a real person-plus if it works you could actually look like some kind of hero" he adds on, feeling this immense awkwardness with every word spoken. "Hey you know I have a little experience with monster " Hino add rubbing against the back of his neck. "Maybe I could help?" Are like friends? Sort of.... Oh that''s great , she spoked. For once she sounded like a real person, suddenly a few words had dropped inside his thoughts "I want to protect her". He smiles , looking up towards the sunny skies with this feeling of hope in him. Maybe after this is all over, it would feel wonderful. There''s even a dreamy picture of it would all go down in his mind. From ambushing Nana and her girls leading to some heroic stand off that ends in victory, with he and Emily fighting side by side and finally the praises. All the praises anyone could get. Its not something he''s sort of into but that would still feel great. Gathering close with a plan forming in their mind. Fauna and Lana are the main duo so the plan was set to divide them, Tina should be near the hallway closed by to the door their at, so she''s first to be picked off and finally Rana patrol around the upper floors. Tina first, both saying in unison. "I''ll distract her over and you go behind with the knife" She spouts with a little confident "I just need to lure her in". "This feel exciting" he thinks, way more better then the previous other times, now there''s really someone to be with. "Hey Hino" in a shy tone. "Do you think...we could make?" "If we believe in ourselves then nothing could stop us. Its like eating a vegetable" he respond "the moment you convince yourself that it ain''t bitter the more you would eat" smiling at her. She smiles. "Thank god, what a relief" Hino smiles "Yeah me to-" "Wait Emily you you lo-ok.....WHAT FUCKING THE FUCK!!!!" Distraught. Covered in blood, bits of flesh and pieces of broken bones. Laid against the sheet of grass, so desperately trying to crawl away from whats in front. A single eye laid bare closed by the other one squish into wet substance beneath his shoe. The taste was in his mouth, gaging at it before spitting a tooth out. Pupil''s shaken, he needed to puke but he couldn''t there''s to much of a mess here right now. Arms and legs dangling freely, she was still perfectly in one complete piece. Only her head and everything was mutilated, tuffs of her hair were still around, parts of her lips ,ears, nose ,brain and everything. The cause of it? Just sitting there, untouched by nature. Her blood covering across its blade. Standing above his once classmate, now in a much worst sight then he ever witness first hand. Tears started to pour out from his eyes along with his hands shaking, hesitant to pick up the chainsaw that just killed his so called friend. It much worst then any of those people he laid a top on because atleast does people were almost completely gone , their just flesh blobs now. But Emily! she still looks like goddamn Emily! Her head below all intact but her face now just torn apart but if you press or put them together, she still would like Emily. She looks to alive. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!!!!! WHY WHY WHY SHE LOOKS LIKE EMILY!!!!! he cries out rubbing off his tears and the blood on his face. WHAT KIND OF FUCKING CURSE IS THIS!!!!!!!!! ..... Tension rose within the cafeteria, Hino was about to get killed by Emily and no one could do anything about it. Fauna and Lana had started picking off a few the hostages. There they heard a loud cry echoing the halls. "What the-" they spoked in unison. Its clear everyone heard it, its not in their imaginations-everyone heard it. "A strange presence has made arrival" Nana spoked busy focusing on playing with the jaws of her dead companions. "Girls get Rana and Tina on it" "Yes!! your greatness" "Good" she said. "It smells familiar" ....... A corner from the hallway, there was a sudden crash outside behind the door Emily was busy at. Zooming over towards the door with the sound of metal rubbing against and engine, before a loud heartbeat like roar could be heard-repetitively echoing from the other side of it. "Maybe I should come closer" Tina told herself-reach her ears towards the door as it slams opened. Dazed with something hard sticking through her- the end of this object, a bloodied kid with tears in his eyes. "Why so sad?" she whispered to this guy, he looks hurt to her and that deserves pity. "i killed emily" he whispered before revving the engine up once again. "i killed emily" he repeats again standing over someone but who even was that? Chapter 4:Reject all "Tina must have died" Nana motionlessly spouted-standing a top everyone else leaving her dead shoulder supports face flat on the cafeteria''s tile. "Should we go?" Fauna and Lana in unison, concern about the crying and now the potential death of Tina. "No" walking over towards the two of them, "Let Rana take care of it" she chokes the two of them between each of her arms-setting them free. "Lets eat" Quivering voices filled the cafeteria''s environ with everyone squeezing next to one another trying to stay far back from the trio. "Fauna, Lana. Eat!" she points towards a group of students. Both eyes darken and grey. Standing perfectly next to another, raising their hands towards the students. all their faces filled all sorts of terror in their eyes-emotions coming to the surface on faces. "Savourez le go?t d''un bon repas" Nana whispers before waving a goodbye to them. Tears began to drip of the faces of the others-legs caught in the fear. Josh, Ash and many others could only watch or listen to the sounds over there. Nana!!!! Huh? Looking over cafeteria, that middle age man of a teacher. "Still alive huh" she thinks, looking at that school teacher she forgot to deal with. Nana! Stop this let the children go. Please! Why is this thing commanding me? Why is he telling me what to do? Why do I have these thoughts? Nana asked herself, lost in her own mind-he was just a pawn but what is this feeling she having inside, is this conflict? So much pleading with just a single question between the two of them. Forgetting everyone around her, Fauna , Lana, Rana, Emily even her panicked hostages, those she can forget. In the middle of her chest, something lurk between her flesh, it beats and punches against her. It so hard to understand or even comprehend what was this supposed to be of her. Nana-not the "Your greatness" part of her, the next evolution of humanity part of her or even the fake transfer student persona she has, this was question is only for Nana-just Nana. "Why do you love me?" ....... Stepping down the hallways in heels. A beautiful pair of red stilettos-with this bright glimmer across the whole set, with the perfect shape for a feet-like Cinderella and her glass slippers. thud... thud... thud... The stilettos weren''t the only thing she wore for this occasion, wrapped around her feet to her thigh. Fishnets really compliment the redness of her shoes. "Enough about the shoes" she told herself, while wandering around the top floor of the school, she heard a faint cry and she want it. plink... plink.. plink... plink.. The sound of liquid falls repetitively against the floor, leading itself up the staircase with groaning also present. From the side Rana stood still arm crossed, anticipating the source of all those rumors she so heard about. thud.. thud.. thud.. Wah what? You? Expectation ruin it wasn''t what she imagine to be this rumor savage of a beast. Its just that student that Emily wanted to kill so badly, "I guess she failed" but somehow this kid looks kind of cute for Rana. He looks sad but where would the fun be without that element, "Hey Hino come over here. Let me give you a little love" A confused look sat on Hino''s face, his eye seem to loose the color. Dropping the chainsaw on the ground, leaving both his arms dangling on the side-this feeling of shame seem to loom around him. "I know I ain''t a psychic but looking into your eyes I see a future between us" Rana flirts-putting her hand together against her chest before shooting toward Hino''s direction in a shape of a heart. "So what do you think, huh?" "i killed emily" Her right eye twitched. Hearing that name triggers her, Emily is a human person, she''s a way better looking then her. Why was he talking about her, forget the what else he said that name "emily" is going to be death of him-she decided. Her eyes twitched, the flower shaped pupil''s rolling up behind as a new pair take their place. Deep red spiral eyes. On both sides of her hair now floating in the air-growing in size. "I''ll show you something beautiful" her voice now hoarse "Want last chance answer me"-adjusting her body with one hand rest against the side of her hips with her body in a lean provocative position. "Are my hips your taste?" Like hell I care...... Repeat that!!! Not my type..... i killed emily "I hate you humans" with that strands of hair stretched out their way towards Hino-ingulfing him and everything in a silk of black. Clicking and twisting sounds emit from Hino''s body now wrapped and constricted, then a pop sound.This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there. Seeping out on to the floor in gurgling ooze-leaving Rana disturbed, "That''s my blood!!" More continued seeping out from down below-Rana tightens her grip, Boom! In a blood of blood and tuffs of hair drying up. The walls all painted, Rana was no where in sight only Hino standing around, his uniformed torn-forget shoes and shirts, he told himself, pants are all he needs now. "I am gonna do this" "Like you could!" Looking over the hallway covered in purple too with an angry look on her face and those odd red eyes. "Who even are you?" "I am the goddamn lady who gave you a shot!! You ungrateful bitch!!!" "Yoo calm down, I was feeling sad and plus your the want acting like the bitch here" Revving the chord as Hino talks-readying to run forward. "Plus unlike you I have some responsibility right now. I guess your to dumb to know the weight of killing a friend" "And unlike you, I actually give a shit. That why we are trash together" MOTHERFUCKER!!!! Seven tendrils shot forward out from her back, all incoming like a bullet-cutting through the air. Hino flipping himself in the air-dodging a few with the rest still coming. "IT''S NOT SO EASY!!" she screams with the tendrils in the ground bursting the floor with multiple spikes soaring towards him. Propelling his body from wall into the classroom adjacent before the windows and walls burst into a million shards with more tendrils breaking in before expelling more spikes. With the tables, chairs, books and other student belongings flying up into the air as he charges straight towards the other entrance she at. "Hey want a relationship-try fisting" he yells bringing a punch straight to her face. Bleugh.... Hino continues striking her in the side with her legs. This was perfect she was open, thank goodness this chainsaw as a strap to wrap around him. Revving it up, with the engine growling as Hino charges in with the blade slowly pressing into a flesh but it couldn''t get deeper, now matter how much he pushes in would go far as grinding a surface level of her flesh. hrrrk...hrrrk.. "What is this" he asked "Why does my neck feel tight?" "Because I dominate here" Rana with her remaining tendrils wrapped around Hino''s neck and limbs. Too tight on his arms, his fingers unable to hold tightly wavers. The engine quiets down sitting diligently between her feet. Limb stretched wide apart with the remaining tendril wrapping itself around his neck. "I am gonna enjoy this" she flirts again. "Kinky" he respond before spitting in her face. "Now I really wanna kill-" blitzing through the window from the outside, faster then sound, going straight into Rana''s neck-severing her head. Finally stopping after perforating itself into the wall. Freed and gaging from getting himself choked out like, only to noticed the stem all around his face, coming from that spear. Its texture like molded iron, all bendable and degrading. Turning his head to the source-only a hole revealing the outside with no sender in sight. He wasn''t sure to feel thankful all nervous standing open to the outside "what if another one comes?". "Well nope I am running" not before kicking the head of Rana down the hall for fun. ..... "Why do you love me?" Thats the question Nana wishes to figure out. She can''t understand these feelings-their foreign to her, she needs to know why did she continue to sleep with this school teacher, he was a mere pawn, so why? "I..I-I am not so sure" Its obvious to her, to them all in this room currently listening is a taboo of a subject. Even is she isn''t human to them the look was all that really effects this bias. Coming a little closer to her pawn, with one hand squeezing against her uniform, her eyes only filled with mixed unknown desires and feelings." answer" "I....I can''t" Why?....Whats wrong with humans? Aren''t there all just low-life animals. These sentimental feelings for this specific creature, is this how they survive? Or is this how they die? To bad I ain''t interested in dying, I am the future. Sweat drip down his throat, this feeling of shame and all this watchful eyes all looking back at him, every pair a different opinion but all leading to the same feelings, disgust. Fingers trembling, shaking and rubbing against one another, what was he gonna do if he makes it out of this alive. He can''t imagine the future living like that. "I know why you love me" Nana claims, the hair blocking everyone from the view of her eyes. "It should have been obvious, I was so blind" "Its because I am tight! I am goddamn tight! That why!" "Aged 43. Quite closed to your 50s. Married approximately around early 20s, happily with 2 children. You all must be confused with why this is all important, well its obvious...." Adjusting her skirt properly she continued "Your wife must feel pretty loose aren''t I right?" "B-but but I love you" his words all choking as he stumbles around. "No" "You just like how it feels inside of me. Tight" "Tight ass" "Tight hands" "And how tight I suck" "No n-no no NO!" everyone watches disturbed to see the breakdown of a teacher and a person-it even feels pathetic to feel pity for such a person. Everything feels so wrong. "Don''t worry" Nana whispered towards him "I still love you-in my heart" "R-r-really?" "Yes. Come here now" arms opened in a warm smile. thud.. thud.. thud.. FWOOSH! Retching for air with blood gushing out from the hole in his neck. Nana stepping closer for an embrace with the crowd all in awe. "Let go now, it over. The light is coming" she whispered only for him to hear, moving her soft touch over to his hands. "Let it all out" she continued as he struggles, body shaking, mouth wide opened. "Let me grant you one final moment of endless ecstasy....before the light finally goes dark" as she reaches her tongue closer to his, slurping and sucking against it. Finally with a final desperate attempt of survival- reaching for the light hung above them, a last ditch effort of hope before the dark reaches him. No more struggle, his hand laid there lifeless as she continues. Wiping the stickiness of her lips-"So this is the taste. The taste of shame, despair, hopelessness and love. Such a blissful moment" Looking at him for a final time, somehow the words manages to get out "I love you". What a feeling. So blissful, I want more but I am better. "Your greatness!!" Fauna suddenly shouted "Did you felt it? Rana has-" "Yes. Rana has died. I feel everything" Her eyes twisting and shifting left right up down at everything with a faint smile. "Girls. Eat all you need. We have an intruder." "Yes ma''am" they spoked in unison. Nana smiles-tilting her head towards everyone, smiling ever more. "Au revoir les cerfs" she spoke looking at them all. The grand expectation for this monster killer seem to loom deep inside her heart. Chapter 5:Fair fight Stampede of footsteps beginning to rock the ground. Stumbling himself into a ground of students running the opposite direction from the cafeteria, no one seems to pay him any mind at all. Covered in deep purple yet no one sees him, isn''t it obvious. He''s that monster killing person right here. "Move aside, that monster killing beast!! Is coming!!" some kid yelled out in the crowd. The rude comment didn''t really bother him that much, he come to it. What shakes him the most were the blood covered across them." Josh Ash" Hino questioned himself "Are they there?". Sound seem to become blurry, in his head he couldn''t hear a thing-just white noise, just little nonsense around him. His foot taps against the blood floor with everyone around him ignoring and moving pass him as Hino stood there. His heart echoes out a beat ,"This is strange. Why do I feel like this?" . "Why am I thinking? I should just go." "What if I run?" "No. What about Josh and Ash?" "If I run, would they survive?" "What if their already dead?" "Screw it" Strapping the chainsaw on his back, he charges-running pass crowds of student and teacher, even jostling a few against the wall." Out! Out! Out!" he yells "Coming through!". Taking a left then right towards the next hallway. Beneath his feet, he felt something shake before the wooden floor tiles burst over into splinter with a slender peach-colored hand rising from it. In the shape of a nude women-lacking the features. Long slender limbs, a skirt of tentacles around her waist and a familiar face. "Fauna?" Hino perplexed. "Good eyes" she responded with piercing red eyes. Her head nearly probed the ceiling as she rises up to her full length. Eight feet, Hino guess. "I am gonna kill you now" she spoked with her face slowly unfolding like the petals of a flower in a mouth with line of needle like teeth decorated around. Her red eyes sprouting out their sockets, leaving her similar to those of hammerhead sharks. "You can''t hide now. I have the vision here" she laughs-her organic-like skirt whipping around the area, leaving injure students and damage structures. "Fuck your vision" Hino shouts "I have a chainsaw" "Your the one to talk" she spoke finally taking notice of him. "Your seem to lack strength for such a rumor " Fauna mockingly questions, her head bend to the side as her glowing eyes peered at him in a devious looks with her flower shaped mouth mimicking a smile. "You must have quite the luck I see". "Well that ends here-all luck ends with me, right here". Raising her longs arms on either side of her body, in total pride "As I the right-hand lady to Your greatness, shall end you now. For I would be her guardian to her new paradise- and together we shall..." "Shut up!!!" he yells, throat itchy from all that yelling." I didn''t ask". Finger folding in a fist, quivering in frustration. "Your a rude one I see. DIE". Flooding the halls in a wave of tentacles ripping and tearing the floors and walls of this, to kill such an disrespectful runt. "Fear me" she spouted before whipping him through a class. There''s no time to recover, he still has two broken fingers, now worsen in state after punching someone in the face. Without a chance to breath, Hino managing to stay in pieces for another minute, thanks to the chainsaw taking in the impact with-bursting out into the field of his school. With Fauna stepping out into the sun for another round. Her eyes gleeful as she arrives. A few blocks over another wall burst open with a similar slender figure rising out the dust. "Lana?" Fauna asked surprised to see her in full form. "Yes" she responded. "Great now there''s two of them" Hino whispered to himself with dirt still in his mouth. Another slender figure like Fauna now with a ring of finger wrapped around her neck like some decorative scarf, adorn with oversize palm and thin slender claws. Her eyes weren''t visible but Hino feels their just hiding somewhere around her body. Face eyeless with her other sensory organs remaining. "Lets go/kill him" they said in unison. "Wait wait hold on time out time out" Hino objects with his hands placed in the shape of a T. "Wait this ain''t fair. Two against one?" "Who bloody cares" "He''s right" Lana corrects Fauna leaving her flabbergasted and lost for words. "This ain''t a fair fight" "I know right" Hino''s agree. "Are you move insane!!" Fauna complains "Your both think this is some fucking game. Your both insane"Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there. "Shut it" Hino and Lana spoked. "Err ok?" Fauna could only respond. "Do you have any other chainsaw lying around?" Hino shakes his head. "Will a shovel do?" Hino nods in response. "Fauna pass him a shovel, will you?" "Why don''t you do it?" "My palms are to large" "Fine..." Now with a shovel he''s ready to go. Dashing forward with incredible speed managing to land a slash on Hino before dodging Hino''s strikes. Immediately she her mouth pouts before spitting a fountain worth of acid towards Hino. "Huh not dead yet?" she sighs seeing a still standing Hino smiling at her. Fauna strikes, sending waves of tentacles in his direction with a new dose of acid comes flying. Between the clash only two things manage to survive, both now flying into each of their directions. The shovel pierced Lana''s throat leaving on the ground choking from it, the chainsaw on the other hand came spinning forward in the air, landing in between Fauna''s two eye, permanently stucked-the chains and flesh clinging to one another. Out the dust, Hino charges pulling himself up from with Fauna''s tentacles, up her chest reaching for the handle as the engines roars. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Falling on the ground, breathless with the now halved Fauna splitting to two sides before breaking apart on the ground. "Looks like you cut me a bit" Hino admits referring to the gash on the side of his stomach. Bleugh.... he coughs up a bit of blood on the ground, kneeling on the ground his chest hurts as he notices the weakness in his right hand. "Can''t last long" he imagine, he needs to be quick now. "I don''t wanna die" "Damn" she said, choking with every word she says. "Damn" she tried reaching for the shovel, her fingers too thin to pull. "Damn. Looks like you and I are about to die too." Staring at her as she smiles back at him. Nothing malicious or life threatening just a genuine smile, like Emily''s. Oh Emily? He nearly forgotten about Emily, oh right he killed Emily. He chuckles for a bit, a tear flowing down his eye. Then he laughs, "I don''t have that kind of thinking"- with more blood dripping off his lips. "No one is dying today" Nana spoked walking out the entrance hall, tainted red head to toe, with a single tear running down her left cheek. "I''ve killed something I love" he spoked-extending one of her finger straight through Lana''s head. "I ain''t in a great mood, to deal with you-so be it" "Tell me what did you lose?" she asked. "Amuse me as I kill you right here" ...... A while now. A little boy used to cry every time in the dead of night. No one was really sure who but many suspect to be the resident living in room 12-13. Rumors said that before that boy started to howl in tears, he smiles alot back then. Was it that major tsunami or that typhon that hit here? No one could recall which was it, but the same feelings remain in all. A great river festival was being held back then, back when it was quiet. People should have scene the signs-maybe more people would have survived then. The crickets chirp only eleven times before pausing for awhile then again eleven more times. Crows seem to circle across everyone at the festival, staying far above the water as they could. A boy and his family where one of these guest, sitting so close to the shore for the annual river show with all sorts of entertainments. Dancers on large floating platforms for all to watch or even fantasy plays with the children cheering on for the hero to win against the evil that stand in his way. Too the prayer ceremonies and finally the release of paper boats into the waters. Pink, white, blue ,green all the color of boats floating being release out. Cheers and laughter then water begins to bubble up, then the water rose upwards, reaching up towards everyone. There within the water a single image ripples across the surface of the river, a single eye stares at all of them. Maroon in color just looking at all of them as the water fills with murky substance as it rises above everyone. Evacuation sirens blare with the river rising higher and higher, swirling and wrapping itself around those to slow to escape. Held in the arms of his parents, the boy could only watch as childhood friends and others a like all envelope in living waters, their body floating in its murky dept before vanishing within it. The weather changed also, the clouds swallowed the sun-for a temporary moment the river retreats quivering behind the banks. What wasn''t clear about this rumor were what happen to the parents. Whats guaranteed was the boy was the only survivor of their family. No one knows whats behind them causes, the walking wind or the living ocean, both plausible but not proven. That was a decade ago now. Currently no known disaster had occurred but surviving victims could still hear their distinct laughter. Whether it be the flow of a stream or river, a light gust of wind blowing by or even the sounds from a house fan or sink. Somehow they never left. ...... Down old alley ways, the only sign of life around here were the rats, savaging around for any scraps left. Her forehead bleed, one hand pressed against her side as she stumbles-needing to cling against a wall for support. "Taken to long" she weakly spoked before coughing up more blood. "Not enough time, but I won" she continued to move her way towards the road. Maybe she could hop on a car and escape. Behind her someone stood behind her. She couldn''t see who but its not him, standing tall over her before walking away from her. "Huh?" she spoke before abruptly collapsing to the ground. Unable her limb, her eye looks about-nothing in sight, there''s no pain, only white noise from cars to other bustling activities in this place. "How pathetic of a way" she thought-dying in a alley just like that without getting to see who killed her. "How shameful" She could hear sirens making their way towards the school, she wonders how that would be. Never mind that, she could barely care-its obvious she''s bleeding out right now. "How could I not see it?" she whispered with blood dripping from her mouth. Chapter 6:Bruised and Battered Light What else was more present to him then light. From the rays of sun shinning over his face, to the dim lamplight that hover over his head as he sleeps. Even the moon could be considered as light but he digress. The smell of disinfectant really bugs him. Eyes peered open with this feeling of weakness in his bones, since when was it so hard to move his arm? Why is there stiches all over him? Where was he? Why is he stuck? Was he in a hospital? Hino wondered. What happened to me? The place seems to be jam packed with injured people, with so many others stucked in bed just like he is. A nurse came over, she looked pretty-just here to examine his condition and health status. She scribbled something on his patient card leaving for something else. Surprisingly for him. He''s in pretty good condition, no complications or anything, even his two previous two broken fingers seems to patched up well-only just a scar line across it. There he notices it, the many stiches line across his legs-there''s even one line across his abdomen although hardly visible. "Support screws and minor nerve damage" the doctor spoked, busy studying Hino''s medical status, "You heal quite fast, compare to your peers over there" he points over to the many rows of people line up in hospital beds. Only Hino and the doctor in this room conscious currently. "Well I also have bad news for you-" "Which is" Hino asked finding difficulty in speaking. "We have alot of people needing a bed outside and from your files here, your in good shape. You can go home now-I''ll get so meds before you leave" he says before waving him goodbye. Dressed and waiting at the lobby for his number with the lobby packed to the brim with injured students and teachers and even the cops are here asking questions and such. Even representee of insurance companies are also present trying to woo in the victims here today. Its surprising that a hospital would have so many option of spare clothes but in a time like this who isn''t surprise. More nurses rushed towards the entrance of the building assisting more injured folks into the building, Hino could only watched at these nurse''s panic faces. "Must be stressful" he imagine. "Number 247" the reception calls as Hino arrives receiving some pain killers and other sort of meds. There he left the building greeted by night. "Err excuse me police here" a man showing his badge towards him as he approach. "Names Andi. Hino? Right?" "Yeah? Am I getting arrested?" "Do you want to?" He continues with Hino silent. "We are under investigation of a certain someone" he spoked. "Never heard off" Hino answered. "Did you even heard the question?" "Did you?" Hino asked. Pulling a gun out towards his face with the sound of the trigger clicking into place "Speak again" Andi dares him. "Whatever" Hino spoked before leaving with his stuff. "Hey what do you think treating an officer like that!!!" his assistant yells trying to grab Hino before Andi stops him. "Take a card and go" Andi spouts before together with his assistant returning back into the hospital. "Detectives?" Hino wonders, choosing to keep the card in his drawer after reaching home. ........ Midnight. A steady drive to the station with empty handed as always. After discovering the corpse of a beast with such force, not even man power could hold it, all for something much more mysterious to come by. On the wheels, Andi''s assistant-Connor asks "You seem to know alot somehow but yet you don''t seem to speak a thing. Ain''t that strange?". "Not really" Andi answered lighting up a smoke as he does so "It ain''t strange to stay silent, even if you have something to say". Puffing a cloud of smoke'' "Sometimes its even survival". The car stops at a junction "Turn right would ya. I need a burger". Green light hits as they sway right towards Happy Family Burgers. Parked at the side of the building where a feel seat were placed outside as he smokes and chews on his burger. The streets were empty yet somehow he feels distracted maybe spending his time in the hospital with a bunch of sickly injured kids really messed his mind a little. He could still recall the sounds of the ER monitor beeping then suddenly dropping to a declining zero and where panic nurses come rushing but it was to late by then and how all those people seem to cry out for their friend. Even in all this sadness he couldn''t even be bothered to feel a sense of pity for these kids more so he was curious of one thing. The rumor monster killer, there were myths about it but no physical ones but now these kids are his witnesses. Some kid name Minako talked about seeing similar that guy looks to those human monster that attacked the school, hearing a loud roar before appearing. She always recalls partly how it wasn''t interested in humans but her own theory seem to say that it targets monsters then humans later. Another kid name Ben, grieving over his Nick who died due to a lost of blood from one of the school monsters oddly name Luna or Lana it wasn''t that important. The main key point to take away here were his personal grudges he held not against the school monsters but this guy. Claiming that he could have save Nick but yet he''s out here playing superhero. He suspect that Ben is just so sad loser that is all, but the claims of this so called hero''s personality seems interesting.If you encounter this narrative on Amazon, note that it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it. Then there''s Josh seeming to some sort of fan boy of this violent hero, claiming that he did nothing wrong and it was all that student Emily''s fault for siding with the monsters and some now disturbing news of his teacher having slept with one of these school monsters, those still can''t be proven with the teachers corpse found undrain-unlike the others. Overall no useful info came out of him but he did drop someone likely interesting about one of his classmate/friend Hino. Being able to survive an attempted murder from Emily-currently that boy is a rude nut-loose but he may be helpful somehow. "So what your thought on today?" Connor asks also looking towards the road. "Not alot just tons of kids dying. I couldn''t care" he answers wiping the sauce off his face, "Quit being curious on what I do" Andi spoked tired of how many times this has happened. "I am the detective here" he claims. "Nah I am just curious" Connor claims "Just wondering why a former government agent would be working down here at a station". "So it just like that" Andi spoked relieve and finally done with his meal-deciding to leave on foot then stay another road on the road with Connor. "Hey I could drop you off. You know?" he offers-"I am a pretty good walker and plus I live nearby". "Doing to much, again" Andi narrates to himself-walking down narrow alley ways, zipping passed quick corners and even climbing over fences to save a few seconds. Finally he reached home, finally being able to be safe behind familiar walls. Closing all the curtains to his home, blocking anyone from looking in. There''s this feeling he has while walking home for the last few nights now, he knows he''s being followed and thank goodness he was lucky to see it this time. Just a small car hiding in the dark of one of the alley ways-the front nose sticking out open. Its obvious that is Connor right there. ..... Pancakes. Maybe He should have some pancakes for breakfast tomorrow, Hino thinks. He should probably have enough-for once he manage to eat up a week worth of food during his recovery. Now he could savor something a little exotic. Soft fluffy texture of the pancake with the inner warmth form it escaping once you cut it open. Such a sweet aroma coursing out with every cut against its surface, alone with the fine powder of sugar dusted lightly on top its surface. Even the the burn edges seemingly invoke a universal moment of comfort with the warm fluff and the perfect balance of melted butter further amplifying the taste in your taste buds. Thats all without the main show-the syrup. Brown and light in colour-endlessly flowing across it surface before seeping its way down-together forming a new. Hino needs to stop thinking about pancakes, he''s already half way covered the amount of stairs before reaching his home. Apartment 12-13 stood silently, with stacks of mail pilling up inside the door''s mail box. "Stupid ads" he muttered before entering his room. "Still same as always" Hino smiles "atleast no cockroaches" he feels being greeted by a decently clean home. Entering the bathroom stall burning and hurting from the water hitting against his stiches. Then brushing his teeth and taking some pain killers, he laid in bed. Why can''t he recall what happened? He remembers Nana, he recalls being at school but he couldn''t remember finishing Nana off. Did he lose? but he''s alive currently so maybe he really did won that fight. Hino doesn''t know, he really couldn''t be bothered to know-whats currently set on his mind is keeping is life stable and with school closed for a few days, there''s the opportunity to make some cash. Just how? knock.. knock.. the sound echoed from his room, it sounded serious but it couldn''t be a distant family only cover the housing bills and even fee aren''t due yet so why the sudden knock? Hino curious on whats going on out there, could be a robber but he has nothing to be rob of maybe the pity of the robber? "Hello?" he innocently answered before dropping the act as a girl stood right back at him-silently judging her. "Who are you?" Hino question wondering to grab the baseball bat hiding behind the door. "Name is Princi!!" she spoked, to Hino she looks like she seen something horrible but the way she greeted him feels odd. Before even thinking of inviting her in, she enters seemingly like she owns the place. "No drinks?" she ask inspecting the fridge to cold air. "The hells her problem" Hino wonders "Why is she treating my fridge as hers and when am I supposed to serve her?". "Look I have enough trouble for today so could you please leave. Please" Hino asked with his hand begging as Princi looks on from the window. "But I need a good worker" she spoked her two hands pointing guns at him with her face doing kisses in the air. "Come on I need a worker" "Come on" "You kill things before. I kill things before we should work together" "Come on" "If you want to say a series of rock-paper-scissors. I think I gonna have to kick you out" Hino exclaims having a palm over his face. "Well I guess I just have to spoil the news to everyone." Princi spoked threatening him "Look if you don''t want to be my worker fine. How about a partnership?". Worker. Partnership. All these stupid words with so many things wrong with them. Hino sighs. "Is this job offer illegal?" Crossing her arms, she answered confidently "Oh well definitely". The job being illegal doesn''t seem to bother him, he''s done it before-even earlier selling half his pain killers for a little cash to some addict on the street. "Specific?" he asks. "Monkill.com" "What shit is that?" "It a site. You make money. Killing monsters" "So?" "You get recognitions? God how dense are you, I can''t believe you kill a whole bunch of monsters without reason." "What is she spouting about?" Hino wonders-now there''s even more words he don''t know, maybe she''s just way smarter then he is. Currently she just standing there endlessly blabbering about her achievements. Something about being the best in school, sports and not bounty hunting. "This woman is sick" Hino thinks how could anyone be proud of killing? "I don''t think can deal with her" he admits. "Ok I''ll do your partnership thing just why me?" Hino spout-sick of her blabbering. "Simple. You and I can attract weapons but mine is way better then yours" she explains-looking at the time, proposing to meet up at the fountain park tomorrow morning. That excited look he notices on her face, seem to excite him also even knowing that those round shaped eyes would never different between good and evil. Seeing her left just like that, really relieves Hino. "She''s so hard to deal with" he thought before sleep took him somewhere else. His last thoughts-what did she meant by "way better?". ..... Violence violence Let there be violence!!! A man shouted in the rain-facing the rapid river as it passes by through the monsoon drains around the city. The storm was brewing, with wild howls and growls mixed between its endless whistle. A nearby building once dark now claim to life, lighting up in this dark part of town. Three man arrive with another waiting inside. One in office wear with water dripping off from his skin, another more refine adorn in egg shell white and sliver clothing. Next to him was a hooded figure, the neck below human the top an endless void. The last one, hidden behind the shadow with a monotone voice speaking for all. Their latest topic : a chaotic hero. Chapter 7: Under weather The sun barely rose up, there won''t be school for awhile, Hino could be at home sleeping yet he''s here waking up early to meet Princi- a girl he technically broke into his home at the fountain park. What a strange world he lives in. The only others awake were Princi waiting and a small flock of quacking ducks. "Have you ever eaten a duck?" Princi asked, sitting against the edge of the fountain, Hino''s response "Who ask a question like that." "Me" she confidently answered. "Your 30 minutes late then I expected" she spoked like its even normal to get up ridiculously early. "I vomit" Hino answered. "Medicine or something you ate?" she asked trying to hold back a laugh with her hands. Turns out its not what Princi could imagine-somehow this morning before leaving the apartment Hino had the sudden urge to throw up with purple sludge and pieces of shrivel upped flesh pouring out in the toilet. "You don''t wanna know" Hino claims. On todays set of classes with Princi, first period is now in session-todays lesson: Knowing the material. An individual may be bless with a certain flow. This flow as an object for Hino its a chainsaw, for Princi that''s a secret for now. The best way she could describe this phenomenon are magnets, to be more accurate Hino and Princi do have control over this flow. "Wait wait, so your saying I could control chainsaws" Hino asks, lost in the sea of information. "Ok the main thing is we are blessed people. You may have awaken a few weeks ago but I''ve been awake for longer" . "Wait so how did I and you? Became bless?" Jumping up from the fountain with her hands raised up towards the sky shouting in pride. "Because I am Gods chosen warrior!!!". Pointing towards Hino yelling "And you will be my recruit as part of my grand army towards the apocalypse"-punching her fist in the air. "Shit. She really is crazy" Hino thinks, realizing that he screwed up agreeing to this. She''s bloody crazy. Second period: Utilization. If the flow is able to controlled, the user can call its object over. "Call your chainsaw out" Princi asked-now Hino''s confused for so many days he never even considered the odd coincidence of chainsaws appearing when he needed them. "How do you know so much about me!!?" Hino interrogates her, wondering if he needed to be more violent. "Easy. I stalked you" Princi answered with any OK sign and smile. "How?" "Binoculars?" "Err o-ok?" "Come on call the chainsaw over!!!" she pesters Hino. "How should I know?" he argues back, "Look" was the only answer he gets. "Look" she repeats now pointing towards the bank of a river. "Its just trash over there" Hino answers "No look!!" "Fine". Looking with surprise to see between the wreckage rusted blade stood out. " Now look over there" fingers pointed towards a car speeding its way across the road before abruptly hitting the brakes as a nearby truck comes into view, thankfully no casualties but the sudden brake did cause something to fly over-gently landing near his feet. "Is this bad?" Hino asked profusely sweating, needing Princi''s wisdom to guide him. "Did anyone die?" she asked-Hino could only nod no before the two of them quietly sneak off away from the park. "What am I doing?" he wonders as they stroll through the streets mindlessly walking around the place-somehow he feels conflicted on what was he even trying to accomplish right now. Princi that was obvious to him, she wanted the glory and now he part of this dream plan of her''s but what about him? What was Hino''s own dream plan? There was that moment where he scream loudly in public on wanting to love someone maybe even being devoted to that one person, thinking about it really sounded embarrassing to him, right now but that was just in the moment. He didn''t had time to think-maybe he really never actually put though in it. "Hey hey!!" Princi calls out to Hino before charging away towards a noise she heard-"Hey wait" Hino yells tailing behind her as she scales over fences and other obstacles around the city, zipping through parks and and rushing across bridges before reaching a car park isolated by the buildings that surrounds it. Panting from all that running, meeting Princi standing tall over a large octoid creature with four legs lifting its heavy body up with a single eye on its side. "Go kill it" Princi spoked her voice suddenly becoming cold-"What?" "Like I said. Go kill it" "What about you?" "I only kill big" she muttered before pushing him forward towards the beast. "I hate you" Hino sighs. "Do that later" she answered. "Fine" Hino mutters as he approaches the monster with no chainsaw in hand-hopefully it would reach him. Running towards the monster without a plan in mind. Hino with a stone in his hand, chucking at it as he suddenly flew up into the air before landing against the ground. Oddly the ground is the only thing that hurts not the blow dealt to him earlier-"Your soft" Hino realizes "That means I can kill you with my hands" he smiles. - The afternoon already begin with a nice scope of soft-serve ice cream in her palms. Princi sat a nearby bench patiently waiting for Hino to be finish with an electrical pruning saw laying just close by-not the type of chainsaw she would expect to come but since it appeared flying from somewhere. Finally landing stucked in a tree it could count. The odor reeks as Hino appears hands covered in guts and blood with a good amount all over his mouth. "Finish" he hastily muttered before laying against the bench panting. "Your chainsaw arrived" she muttered between licks pointing towards the so called mini-chainsaw. "Your not strong enough" she admits to him, "So do 10 push-ups, 10 sit-up, 10 squats then a kilometer run everyday".Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. "Thats absurd " Hino thinks, unable to counter her with anything before just agreeing. Then she left leaving Hino there-dirty. "Screw you!! Why don''t you tell that to yourself. How about you do a few push-ups and explain yourself!!!!!" he yells leaping a top the bench as he does so. Stopping from his yelling she turns, "I smell them" she says with that look from yesterday. "Also I am gonna look for us a job. So get good". "Whats up with her?" Hino questions before leaving separate ways with mini-saw in hand. ...... "How many children of the living sea did you find" Andi asked towards the person on the other end of the line. "Two sir. One on the loose. The other unsure" the speaker answers. "Tell HQ that I''ll getting a few gifts this few weeks" Andi answered-ending the call before the other side could answer. "Management?" Connor asked with a cup of coffee for each of them. "So whats new today" Andi asked taking a sip of that aromatic taste coming from that coffee. He''s stuck in thought-worrying about that rumor killer in town and now with new rumors of monsters occurring left and right, its starting to get out of hand. With the hospital case still ongoing and without any clue on what their culprit even is. The only thing they could go by is he looks human but human isn''t enough, indeed able to cut rip apart monster is scary it isn''t a characteristic t go by. The only solid evidence is this long black spear all charred up from potentially high velocity of speed. "I am taking a smoke" Andi informs before leaving Connor alone at the station. Walking passed the few pedestrians that were somehow still commuting on foot, Andi cigarette in hand leaving a cloudy trail of smoke in his way. Trotting pass shops and building with the sudden feeling of rain dropping on his skin, its odd to rain so suddenly just like he swears to himself that he could feel the warmness of the sun brushing against him a minute ago. "Why is there suddenly no one around?" Andi asked himself seemingly everyone had just disappeared like so, the rain has gotten heavy now with large puddles forming all over the place and large bodies of water pouring out from the gutters. "Why is no one here?" he questions trying to light his cigarette with his lighter that continues to extinguish itself whenever he starts it. Thats strange, he swears to himself he just gotten a new lighter it can''t be already empty so quick. There he notices it the odd flow of water, it isn''t following gravities rules. The road leads down but why is the water following the opposite? Whats upwards? Andi wonders noticing from the corner of his eye the image of someone walking by with light splashes as it happens. He turns-only to see some lowly office worker walking by, also caught in the rain. "He looks alright" Andi thinks inspecting the man from the way he looks to how he walks around the place. "Must be some slacker" he thinks "Work isn''t over for today yet". Reaching towards the man, Andi hesitates noticing his skin. Yes its wet because of the rain just like him but why was there more water leaking off him. Before anything rash he could do, the sound of regurgitation echoes loud over across the rain. Distracted the office man was just gone only an empty street remain. Bleugh.....!!!! Andi turns noticing someone busy vomiting in one of the public bins, finally stopping with a small drop of purple covering his mouth. Looking closely he notice the familiarity of this kid, short shaggy hair with an average build and those rude eyes, its no surprise that''s one of the victim of the recent school massacre incident ,Hino. Andi remembers him the most for just walking away from with like its nothing, now he''s here maybe its perfect to get so words from him. "Woi Hino" he calls as he approaches him with the best friendly look he could muster up, Hino looks before beginning to walk off from him. "Hey get back here!! I can buy you dinner" he calls racing towards him before stopping near the zebra-crossing as the light turns red. They both looked at each other before sighing. "I just need a few words that is all" Andi explains. "So i ain''t getting arrested?" Hino asked with a faint smile. "We can arrange that if you want" Andi answers. "Fine" Hino agrees "Make it quick. I got things for a girl here" as he raises a plastic bag of things. "Could you explain where you were during the school incident?" "Nearly died" "And where were you after that?" "Hospital" "Your not doing a good job here" "Your doing a bad job asking" "Just go I have all I need" Andi told Hino "Stay safe okay". "Nah I am pretty good of getting by" Hino told him before the green light hits as he left to the other end of the side walks. "Getting by" that sounded pretty outside for someone who witness death just a few days ago, it should have still remain fresh in his mind-why was he just fine? He called having to visit other victims a few day after and to be honest with himself, he really admires Hino for that. From up ahead he could still see shape of Hino as he walks a further away. Curious he looks at the trash can seeing a purple mess, disgust but curious he took a sample before returning back to the station. "I got my lead" as he returns back. ..... Surrounded by millions of options, it was hard to pick out the best option with the amount of money he has in his hand right now. Why was he so impulsive to just run out the door before informing her? How dumb could he bed. he can''t return now! He needs to get her some cabbage and other food ingredient. Is it bad to buy cheap food for people? For him it wouldn''t a problem but he isn''t sure for her at all? Would that be bad? Maybe the price shouldn''t be factor, it should be cuteness of the cabbage. Grabbing and feeling the texture of every cabbage in the aisle, finally landing on a medium size one. "This should do" he hopes, crap why was he blushing thinking about the right vegetable for her-he should be more mature yet he''s here embarrassed over picking a vegetable. "You can do this" he tells himself continuing to roam around the super market looking for the rest of the ingredients, fish stocks, tofu ,eggs and salt. Ringing up at the cash registry, with the cashier looking at him asking for if had an extra. The answer was no, thank god the cashier was an calm guy letting him off the hook but with a warning to bring extra cash next time. He thanks the kind man before leaving into the rain. Vomiting a few times and nearly being pulled over by the detective near the hospital from a few days prior. To his surprise his weirdly attached assistant was no where in sight. "Keep on running" he called to himself "she''s probably hungry" "Keep running" "Keep running" "Run Run Run" Finally patting and soaked in rain, he made it. To her apartment-looking close to his own yet feeling so different. He knock her door again, he was here an hour ago now he''s back again. He could hear footsteps on the other end as she opens. Greeted to a smiling Hino deluged in rain. "I got groceries" he smiles, making her laugh as she invites him in for a second time. Chapter 8: What goes below the storm "10 push-ups, 10 sit-ups......" it all rings in Hino''s head as he woke up early again for a jog. How long has it been since he seen Princi? Three? Four? It doesn''t matter, she would come looking for him when its necessary, he just needs to be prepared before that happens. Jogging out from his apartment apartment building, remembering to saying hello to the old neighbor that worked closed by on his usual route to school. Recently he heard that there is a memorial being held at his school while its still being refurbish after recent events, maybe while on his jog he should go ahead and visit there, Hino thinks-wondering how everyone else would be doing. A short cut through the park, hearing the quacks of duckling at the pond with so few people at the park at this time. Passing by the fountain, needing a quick break before running once again. Taking a sip of the water he recalls a plan Princi had discussed with him awhile then, "You need a lot of stamina as I with the power, I would need you to be able to run". "How strong could she be?" Hino wonders taking another sip before leaving "What could she draw towards her?". For a few days now, his arms and legs had been aching with all his muscle all pressing in him. Still after so long, not a single chainsaw managed to reach for him but mostly they seem to be frequently appearing around him, if he knows where to look for. Stucked inside rivers, hanging near alleyways or even noticing them moving by through human means like cars and even just people carelessly dropping them near Hino''s vicinity. Even still, he couldn''t fathom how to even call an object over to him within a second-now he wonders what Princi could even summon? Maybe she''s lying? Oddly enough through out the constant thinking, he made it to school. Not much people were around but a few familiar faces were there. Plenty of flowers were laid across the ground with rows of many of his classmates and school faculty being on the frames. Weirdly he didn''t felt anything, all around him atleast a few had crying faces the rest like him just stood there looking at it. One of the builder on the roof seem to be sawing his way at some wood, the tool he''s using and the height he''s makes Hino uneasy. What if I done better? Hino wonders. What if I was actually trying? Just the rolls of confirm death all looking back at him was enough to unsettle him but it really didn''t bother him that much, the idea of more faces added to the roster made it seem like this amount was inevitable to begin with. There he noticed a rowdy crowd gather not t far from the main memorial. He prays before walking towards them. All students. They don''t seem to be sad. They look more angry somehow. Some were throwing rock and stones at it and other were kicking up dust and yelling insults to who? Someone who has passed? Hino head peeking through the rowdy crowd all their faces frustrated and others crying through their anger, all at one singular person, one who was already dead a long while, Emily. A faint crack crossed across her smiling look with a layer of dust and dirt sitting on its surface with students some even her own classmate kicking away at it. What was he supposed to do here, their just grieving people too-Hino had grief over people too this is normal of a reaction. Yet why is this so so wrong to watch?, he remembered Emily during class-not really he has to admit he barely knew her before all this. "I can''t kill ok.....what a relief" he recalled that conversation at the worst moments possible but he understood her, even if it isn''t the full picture, atleast he understands enough to cry for her. Wiping away the tears, fist clenching with images of her final moment playing in his head he charged forward. "She''s only people" he yells throwing a punch to one of the guys before being dragged away. "She nearly killed you too Hino!" one of them yell, "Why you hit him!!!" another called out, "She let those things in the school!! You of all should know that!!" a girl cried out with a hammer in hand. Spitting on the floor Hino got up with the guy he punch earlier coming at him. "My girlfriend died because of her friends. Why are you defending her?" he cried punching Hino in the stomach. "Can''t you understand we are all grieving here!! How could you be so selfish!!" another called out. "Fuck your... Fuck that...I am gonna defend her cause she saved me" Hino muttered his lips bleeding "And screw your girlfriend!!" he shouted towards the guy. "Wait? saved her?" one muttered, "Don''t you think that means?" another join in. "Your selfish" a girl muttered "You left her to die didn''t you!!" she pointed accusing Hino. "This guy here abandon a hero to die!!" she shouts to the others. "What?" Hino could only answer, flabbergasted at the sudden switch but if it keeps Emily''s name from being tarnished so be it. "Fuck yeah. You know I did and you would too" he yells trying to force a smile even if its wrong. "I though you were a decent guy" someone else spoked throwing a rock at him. "Yeah me too" another agree and now all the rocks and dust were coming at him, even the guy earlier has came to give him a few rounds to the face, including other guys. Hino fought back, trying to hold back as them came-one after another, finally faltering after the girl earlier came at him with a hammer, leaving him free to trample all over. "So this its how it feels. So humiliating" he imagine laying there, eye up towards the sky at dust and dirt get caught all over him with continuous kicks to his stomach and all that stepping over him. "This is worth it" he told himself smirking as the rain falls all over him, like ants they dispersed away-leaving him cover in rain and all that wet dirt. He could hear their footsteps trotting away in the rain before rising up. An umbrella was held over him, an old woman stood in front of him with the same look of grief like everyone else. Laying in her other arm, Emily''s cracked but still smiling photo laid there-looking at him. "I am not sure who to believe" she whispered trying to hold her feelings back, "but would you tell me how she was at her last?" . This must be her mom, Hino realize, this is too hard for him-partly he knows its true that her daughter did let the monsters in but remembering the first and last conversation with her, it feels arduous to hurt her own mother too.This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there. Silent he left the shade of the umbrella leaving a grieving mother behind. "If it weren''t for your daughter I wouldn''t be walking right now" he turned before running away-heart hurt, knowing that, that was a lie also. The rain had gotten heavier then before, covering across nearly the whole place. Water were rushing out from gutters even roads were beginning to fill themselves up with all this water. Soaked and tired, Hino could only walk back even after all bruised and battered up- collapsing on the side walk with water washing over him and passer by walking just by him even the store owner from a few blocks down was kind enough to raise a piece of cardboard over him. His stomach growls. What time is it even? splat.. splat.. splat.. Hino could here someone walking towards him, it sounded fast and in a hurry. "Are you alright there?" a voice called out to Hino, in such a dark unfulfilling today her voice sounded out of place. Quickly he fumbles about, unintentionally splashing water over her. Looking at her, she seem nice even cute to him what can''t his intention the most were her eyes-faintly green. "Are you alright?" she asked her finger perched gently against her lips as she looks at him. "Its nothing" he muttered looking to the side before getting up and walking off-waving his hand to ask her to leave. Suddenly she grabbed him by the sleeve, holding tightly before turning him facing her. "Your sick and that''s bothering your mind" she confidently proclaim-her eyes intently looking at his palm as her fingers wraps around his. Pulling back, shoulders raised, "Whats up with this chick" he questioned "why is she kinda nice...to me? ". Stumbling on to the ground looking at her reaching forward with her hand, he couldn''t help look at her in awe. Awkwardly his stomach growls, "Oh your hungry? Well I am cooking today, why don''t you head back with me" she smiles pointing towards the corner of the road "My house is quite near". "Ok" Hino could only answer trying to adjust his wet hair. "Hey wanna run home?" she asked eyes wide in excitement. "Say what now?" being to late to ask as she grabbed him by the arm as they ran, fast. Throttling pass people and making sharp turns as the surroundings from shops and office buildings transition to houses at they zip around alley ways with the rain all over them and this wave of sudden excitement in both of their eyes. Finally entering an apartment complex no similar to Hino''s own one they make it, finally shielded from the rain as thunder erupt. Apartment 8-7 the door to her room seem make Hino nervous not that he dislike the idea of someone making food for him, its not that she''s a girl its he never been in someone else house before. Somehow he now feels dirty. "Your nervous" she teased-whispering in his ear. "The name is Mariko by the way" she whispered once more as she unlocks the door. What was I supposed to say? I am in a girls home, this looks like a normal house. Stepping in to faintly size home with not much to be hold- looking over to the other end of the wall from the entrance the curtains flow as the sound of weather could be heard outside. "Let me get that" she spooked tip toed over to shut it "Dude relax I am not gonna kill you" she spoked noticing Hino''s look. "Are you gonna too?" he asked not wanting to fighting her. She burst laughing, leaving Hino lost. "Dude seriously. Are you gonna too? Damn" she impish spoke "Do you wanna want me to?" -laughing again needing to lay against the wall to not fall. "Am I funny?" he wonders "Why is this girl laughing?". Now actually looking at her, with the flow of her slightly wet hair as she moves so freely across her home, too the way she walks and even the way her fingers reached out towards the cabinet for a towel. She looks so put together just by being herself, Hino concluded before noticing the little space between them as she step towards him, snapping her fingers at his blank expression. "Wah what?" Hino answers still stuck selfishly looking at her. Her figure looks regular but that normal, he thinks. He doesn''t have any preference at all plus he wasn''t interested in the first place. He''s cold and hungry, it just so happen she offered him food, if someone else were to come by he would have done the same and follow them home. Its not that I like her. I have to admit for feeling the slightest desire for human touch for just this moment, with the added moment of getting my ass beaten by my school mates. It was sure to happen. Right now I am only feeling this feelings because I am in an unfamiliar place away from the public''s perception with a member of the opposite sex accompanying me for this period of time. Its just the hormones kicking in, its expected around my age. I''ve even learn this in class, this is not surprising this would all go away after I eat and leave. Yeah that''s right. Its only the Hormones!! "Hormones?" she questioned wondering why did he yells Hormones so loud for, "Are you sure your okay there?" she asked, eyes attentively staring into him. "Can we just eat. Please?" Hino asked, unable to handle with all that staring he''s getting. "Oh that well we have an issue" she chuckles nervously looking at him still with a smile on her face, "We are short on ingredients but don''t worry I have some home made fruit juice you can have while I figure something with what I had" she said looking through her pantry after serving Hino a smoothies. Without noticing she heard Hino leaving not before yelling out he would get what she needs. She smirks at that....liking the idea. -- An hour later Hino returned as Mariko invites him for a second time, not more wetter then she first met him. "I got groceries" he yelled out exhausted, "Cute but your a bit of a rude guest" she spoked. Eyes shocked thinking he had unintentionally committed a crime, "What did I-I do?" he nervously muttered. She laughs once more louder then earlier, "Now I really think you actually did commit a crime" she wipe her tears away "No its rude to leave empty cups on the table" she said, pointing towards the glass where she serve him a smoothie. "Oh I''ll get it" Hino blushes, "And I''ll cooked" she smiles pushing against his shoulder. Dinner was great atleast Hino seems to think so on the other end Minako couldn''t understand the enjoyment her food is giving. "You look healthy" she said "a little more joyous" she added. "I do?" Hino answered between chewing his food, "Well I just like your food that''s it" he answered "Dinner always makes me happy". "Oh" blushing at his words "At least your a little more positive". "Thats thanks to you" he corrected. "Oh I see" she answered as fall of the rain consumed the eerie noise around them. "Sorry I have go soon" Hino spoked breaking the silence. "Oh its cool" she answered "You can come here again if you wish too". "Don''t you live with others?" Hino asked, "Not much just my brother that''s it. But you don''t have to worry much, he''s busy at work". "Oh" Hino answered, "Thanks for the food" Hino tells, moving the plates and cup towards the sink. "Oh its still raining" she noticed leaving the table to search for something, leaving Hino alone for a moment-unsure on what to do. "Boo" she popped out from the hallway smiling. "Here have this" she said handing him her umbrella as they walked out the entrance. "Wait I don''t need an umbrella" Hino answered "I''ll be alright in the rain". "You can return it to me next time" she smiles. "Oh....I guess I''ll be coming back" he smiles. ..... "Took you long enough" Princi said laying against the door 12-13, her umbrella on one side and her school bag on the other. "What you need?" Hino asked just coming back home after getting through the rain for so long. "Nice umbrella" Princi complimented. "I''ve got great news" she whispered "We are so in!!! So in!!!" she yelled, jumping and shaking as she goes. "What?" Hino asked through all the excitement. "Starting midnight, I got us a job to go" she pointed at him, "I am gonna be the greatest." she admitted pressing her fist against her chest in pride. "There goes my sleep" Hino whispered below his breath-sighing. Chapter 9:Service 12 am. His clock rang-shutting it down as he awoke still tired from before, filled with a great meal and not so much of sleep. Maybe it was only just four hours or was it three? Hino doesn''t need to know, he needs to get going Princi had gotten them a job to do. She had already told him the address and everything when she visited him and with a fair warning. "We''ll be competing with many others" her words played in his head, looks like they both need to work harder. Dressed and with his teeth brush and a round of barfing out all that unwanted stuff floating around his insides. He was ready to go. Sneaking out from his home, slowly tip toeing across the halls and down twelve flights of stairs he was on the streets of midnight with him being the only life around here. Walking through fountain park reminding himself that the ducks could be like him also awake and hiding around the park grounds. There he climbs over a fence, slowly descending near the banks of the river as he fishes something out with his eyes closed, concentrating on it to just come. "Just wish for it with your eyes closed" Princi''s voice spoked in his mind as he feels around the water for it before touching it as he pulls on it. A burst of water blew over him, thank goodness he were a coat over his clothes. In his hands a faintly colorless chainsaw held tightly in his hand, the blade scratched but still in perfect condition. "Good enough " he told himself as he left the place on his way towards a bus stop waiting for the night bus to turn in. The driver seem shocked but didn''t protest against Hino instead just ignoring him and driving towards the next stop. Looking as all the houses and building around turn to blur as they gain speed, Hino just sat there forehead press on the glass looking around. "I really wanna see Mari" he wished before closing his eye to dream just a little. His dreams are a mess. In here everything looks the same just the winds are more noisy and the water don''t make much sense at all. He was sitting at a table and Mariko was sitting opposite to him just looking at him with her light-green eyes, smiling all the way. Dream Hino was smiling also. No no not true..... The bus made its next stop as the driver calls out to Hino. Annoyingly he woke up remembering to grab his chainsaw and hoping off, annoyed that he couldn''t keep dreaming yet relieve to be interrupted. He walks on towards this meet up place, just some kind of mall Princi had said before, some old mall holding on before being sold for demolishment. Unfortunately there''s some monster needed taken care off and officials were to busy to assist so illegal hires was the next best thing, on that website Hino forgotten its name already. Monkey.com? or something he imagines. The Jin Xuan mall seems to loom ahead with a gathering being obvious at its entranced as Hino reaches over. Tons of unrecognizable faces seem to gather around here, Hino counted to about sixteen-there he ran over to Princi as she stood looking at the entrance of the mall with something like a golf bag sling over her shoulder. "Ah there''s my second in command" she yells before wrapping her arm over his shoulder, fist butting him. "What going on here?" he asked. "Owner trying to make sure all this goes silent" she answered eying towards a feeble man nervously greeting everyone one by one trying to keep this whole thing a secret. "Hey hey there...remember keep this under wraps alright. Do you need cash?" the owner nervously sneaks behind Hino, his gripping hands wrapping around his shoulders as he rose from behind, faking a smile. "He''s with me!" Princi scoffs getting him to leave them alone. "Offered me an extra hundred to keep me quite" she muttered, "So did you take it?" he asked. "Nah I just asked for a thousand" grinning as she spoked. "Thats smart" Hino thinks pulling the fished out chainsaw closer to heart as he looks on towards the Jin Xuan mall, wondering whats inside. Standing still, half dreaming while half listening to Princi''s introduction of everyone around as he hugs against the chainsaw. The man in all black is just name Pink or Mr Pink, just a thirty year old with some bad stuff inside. Then one with the oversize beanie and a baseball bat is Ken, he''s just that Ken nothing notable. The couple furthest from the group are Moe and Jess, Moe as combat experience while Jess is there just to support, their both dress in matching clothing. The one endlessly lighting and closing his lighter with oversized scruffy hair covering his eyes along with glasses is Fuji, he''s well known on the Monkill.com website. Aside a couple few others around, the most notable Princi wanted Hino to be aware of is Con. The one currently speaking with the mall owner, the one with the highest rank among all of them, the most muscular and experience of them all except for Princi........and Hino of course.Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. Hino looks on still hugging against the chainsaw as he watches dazed as they all began to gather in front even Princi was already ahead of him running forward with whatever that thing she has sling on her back. Somehow someone managed to sneak up behind him again and its not that old crusty looking mall owner, instead its the scruffy glasses dude Princi explained about. "Hey now don''t keep everyone else waiting" he lazily spoked with this smile dragged across his face as he wrapped his shoulder around Hino. "So what brings you around" Fuji asked as they walked behind the group, Hino''s eyes wandered for awhile before answering Fuji. "Princi invited me over" he answered. The perplexed looked on his face made Hino wondered if he said anything likely rude towards Fuji as he stands there spinning his lighter across his palm as he tinkers with whatever goes about his head. "I do this for action figures" he chuckles. Staring straight at Fuji, Hino asked "What kind?"-"The exotic kind of course" he smiles putting his hands as if he gotten caught. Reaching towards the entrance with shutters blocking anyone from entry as the owner shuffles his way in front of everyone. "Hello everyone" he nervously smile as it wavers in front of everyone "Like I said before keep this silent and after today I''ll pay the one what I owe" he nervously chuckles while clapping to a staring crowd. "Alright Hino this my big day. Got it? " Princi pounce at him with her shoulders knocking against his, "Find that sucker and let me kill it" she commands. "Wait aren''t we workin-" Hino wanted to ask before being cut off by another argument between Moe and Jesse. Now with a better view of the couple, he notices a gun strapped around Moe, shouldering Princi he whispers "Ain''t guns illegal?". Holding her laughter she answers "Is this legal?"-smacking his back as she laughs. "Quiet you two!!" Cob yells at the four of them. The four cluelessly look at him, all in sync "Which two?". Flabbergasted he turns away from them, calling everyone to listen up as the shutters open up. Hands raised forward as Cob stood tall "Hold it down, we can do this quick and easy or hard. Your choice, you choose". "I pick hard" Mr Pink yells running passed and in. "I too go hard" Ken yells rushing passed Cob with everyone else rushing else following the two behind. "Wait guys?" he stood there lost for words with Princi dashing pass him yelling something as she laughs leaving only Hino, Fuji and Cob behind at the entrance. "Hey wait up" Hino calling tagging behind Princi as they get lost within the place. "She''s gone now" Hino spoked to himself surrounded by desolate stores with footsteps of others all through out the place. Stepping across debris and kicking up untouched dust, Hino carries on even without light, he could still see a little there he heard a click sound repeating itself somewhere within the solid black that ingulf this part of the mall he currently stands now. Preparing for his finger around the chord, he stood there readying to charged in. "Hey dude what you looking at?" Cob stood next to him wondering what he''s staring at. "Ehhh what you here for?" Hino jerks back falling to on the floor. "His job?" Fuji answered materializing from within the darkness. "Rawr" he says before walking off as he tinkers against his lighter. Cob follows Fuji leaving Hino to tag along behind them hoping to stumble upon Princi somehow but right now his mind is currently occupied on something. No someone. "Hey you guys got anyone?" Cob asked as they walked. "I only got my figurines " Fuji answers "The naughty ones " he added. "You need help " Cob in disgust, "How about you, Hino right?" switching his attention to him. "I live alone" Hino answered. "That''s a shame. I bet my kids would love to meet a guy like you" Cob answered. Curious Hino followed up "What you mean?". "I don''t know you seem quite calm for a kid" Cob answered as they walk next to one another. "Shhhh do you hear that?" Fuji stops, listening his hand raised towards the air as he slowly turns to find the sound. "I don''t hear nothing" Cob protest. "There-!" he yells pointing between Hino and Cob as he charges forward pass them. "Why is everyone always running?" Cob asked as Hino follows on. "Hey wait Hino you too!!!". "I hear it too" Hino mutter to himself charging pass Fuji before taking a quick turn down the powerless escalator, down another floor then another block forward before stumbling to a group already standing there. "Princi!!" he cries out only to look more in shock at her expression. It wasn''t fear or shock or anything good, its a look they he could only describe as "We''re fucked". There he look over again, he could see Moe shooting up towards the air with a few others standing. His legs felt wet so looked down-petrified at whats he just step into. Ankle deep all around him Princi''s and everyone else in this area, then the lights turn on, erasing the dark with old lights. Now he can see it clearly now, all over the floor is filled with water-red water-dark murky water-with the smell of iron. Blood? Now he could really see what Moe was shooting and why everyone was looking up. Cuboid in shape with one of its corners pointed towards the ground, the opposite up with a ring of red wrapped around it, suspended in the air. Bubbles of this red water seem to float up in bubbles soon becoming part of the ring. A few holes scattered across its fleshy symmetrical being, a few miniature bullet holes that scatter across its surface with drops of the same water spilling from it but most prominently was the large hole that splits through to the other end with a waterfall worth of it pouring out from it. "What is this?" Hino questions. "We gotta to run" Princi stares back at him, now he notice her bag was now open with a about four sturdy polls sticking out. "Spears?" Hino asked still in shock on what he''s in, "Yeah pretty much, I dented that thing" she admitted before pointing towards the bottom of its shadow, something was rising out from the water.... first a hand then the top half of a head finally a full body and many more, rising up. Chapter 10:Bloody Diabolical "That isn''t real right" Jesse cries out, rooted to the ground out of fear as she points it out to everyone around. "Shut up!!" her boyfriend yells towards her-stucked emptying his shells after round of round. "I swear it died earlier.." he admits, "This all your fault!! Fiend child" accusing Princi. "Go screw yourself" she pointed at him. "Your shitty bullets couldn''t gave it a reason to stay alive." She yells. "SHUT IT " Hino breaks- grabbing Princi by the sleeve of her clothe. Staring right at her, he questions on what the hells going on around here. Disgusted she grabs at him by his own shirt, "We are going to die soon, its best we move now". "Childs play! All freaking Childs play you all" someone yelled from above them. Aghast, all of them looked up towards the second floor, laying against the parapet holding him from falling down, in his all black suit looking down at whats going down. Mr Pink stood there laughing to himself-the others all at lost of the punch line. "Incompetent fools " he spoked "Get your shit right and that running, the dead are there." he yelled in a derisive tone before taking off in the other direction. "Dead" they all wondered its only red water around here and this fleshy cube, what does dead mean? Confused one of the hunter turn to look back only to fall flat into the waters. "Hey you alright there?" Con nervously asked staring at the panic man as he scrambles to stand upwards from the water. "Help" he panics "Please" he beg before falling once more. "Something" "My leg!!" he cries as he rapidly thrust his legs away from nothing. Grabbing Hino by his shoulder in a serious tone Princi asked "Hino we have to run now". Why is she so worried? Hino wonders, maybe she smell something he couldn''t perceive she did state she could smell their scent. An epiphany hit leading Hino to wonder, "How many do you smell?" he questions. "One right there" she pointed to the bleeding cube "and about 500 down there" she pointed towards the water. "500?" he muttered before his attention was called for else where. Looking at the man now being pulled across the water''s surface as red splashes over the air. From within the color hands rose over him with girl in long greasy hair biting away at him. Even with the familiarity of death, it still feels a first to witness someone die so slowly. Like fish gather around a meal drop into the water many more swarmed out around the man or human with different article of clothing and all very much dead. "RUN!!!!" Cob yelled before anyone else started move a muscle. Still more immerged from the water now walking , running, crawling towards them. "Screw this" Moe yelled after finishing another round. Bursting from other area more dead corpses stood around them all, "Hino" Princi whispered hugging him from behind "Now its time to defend your general". "Wait wha-" before he could respond his worries were cut short with Jesse still crying on the floor and Princi pushing him forward. You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story. "Wait....... Why the fuck am I going first?" Hino yells with all their hungry growls distracted by Jesse''s fear. "They smell fear" Princi answer. "Your much worst then that" frustrated as he points towards the floating cube still crying out red. "Well why do this for once ok, you need the money don''t you?" she retorted. Somehow she''s right, Hino admits he needs the money to maintain his current life style and maybe even his future one, also he can''t die someone is expecting him alive. "Fine" the engine laughs as he said those words "but your helping". Somehow after hearing those words she smiles-"Bold of you to think I would leave a fight" as she drag one of the spears out from behind. "Guys what you doing go I''ll handle this" Cob spoiling their moment. "Shut up " they both yelled-charging straight towards the largest group. Laughter filled the mall and the sound of splitting flesh as it follows behind. Heads, arms, guts you name it all bursting up in the air before falling into the waters as in sinks bank to its unknown depths. Hino-slashing and dashing a million times, never enough to make a dent in numbers. More just emerge to take lost space as the numbers build up. "I''ll help" the boy in the beanie came in with a baseball bat, clubbing through. Hino could hear Jesse''s screams but there wasn''t a need to care for that, "We are gonna have competition" he recalls her words. Priority 1 is killing the source. Priority 2 are these zombies then finally Jesse. From the corner he could see Princi striking and hitting dead with her spear as she goes at it. Its pretty scary to see her eyes as she goes, there''s no evil or sense of malice in them but certainly no good either. There he sees a particularly large zombie charging in her direction, without care he leaps forward the blade of his chainsaw gliding in the heads of unlucky zombie as he charges forward into the belly. Covered in intestines and other organs all over him and a shocked Princi. Staring at her irises he couldn''t tell what she might be thinking but all he feel being stared like this is that moment he laid there battered and bruised on the school ground. She snaps and laughs. Huh?.... why is she laughing, he wonders its so wrong looking but he likes it-now he really wants to laugh also. "Diabolical" she laughs "Maniac!! I fucking love it. Kill more for me Go Go Go" she cries in laughter as she rubs her face. Hearing that he couldn''t help but like her "Go Go Go" he repeats as they continued. As he slash and smash and dash across over and over again. Something feels wrong for Hino why does everything feels like paper to him-this feels to simple and why are even more now. How many had I killed? Turning a quick glace, expecting to see mounds of bodies all over the place, to his shock it was all clean with nothing not even a finger in sight only just the red water. "Dodge dodge!!!" he could hear Princi yelling out close by but dodge what? Their only zombies. Oddly his right arm felt numb was it the lack of painkillers had he forgotten his dose? No Wrapped across his right arm like a snake on a branch. He flow around his arm, tightening as it goes. Stucked and wrapped in red water, being able to see his arm through the red water. Huh?..... he wonders before feeling his bone twist and turn-feeling every crack and wrong turn his arm goes while guarding himself from the dead with his good arm. Screaming at every bone, he could only watch as his shoulder twist before Princi yells then a shockwave. .... Deep in red, he couldn''t breath well as he sinks lower and lower. Around him he could make out shadowy shapes of corpses floating about. He could feel something floating around him. No. He''s floating within it. He could hear someone''s voice in the distant. Hollow and prideful yet childish in nature. Are you I?..... Chapter 11:Cry, Cry, Cry Floating in nowhere. He felt like he couldn''t breath but there wasn''t a need to breath now. Buoyant on wherever he''s on, only the voice of an angry woman pierced through his bliss. "Wake the hell up-Slacker!!" "Come one get the hell up" "Woi woi get up!!" she repeated slams fist after fist into Hino''s forehead-not waiting to stop before going at it again and again. "Stop it. Your gonna kill him" Jesse cries out to her before shivering in panicked once more-"Shut up!! Crying bitch, Hino''s mine and he''s gonna get up. I know it" Princi yells back before punching the unconscious Hino again. "Hey should you be doing something?" Cob whispered towards Fuji. "I already have a solution" he smile-opening his lighter as he said. Walking over to a hurtling Princi-pushing her aside before step over Hino and lighting a fire an inch away from his nose. "What are you trying here!!" Con questions watching the whole thing unfold-"simple. I am gonna bug him till he wake up" Fuji smiles. "Fucking genius" Princi muttered. "Don''t just let him!!" Cob objects. Face filled unruly excitement without any morals, jaws drop at a wonderful idea-"Your light his nose then move and I punch him!!" she smiles. Placing a hand on her shoulder and the other pointing at towards her. "Your a genius" Fuji claims. "Lets do this" they both agreed. "How does this make any sense?" "Thats your friend ain''t it?" "Where is the damn correlation?" Cob question watching the two of them taking turns waking Hino up. "i-is he-e going to be alright" Jesse nervously asked, occasionally taking quick glances at her boyfriend along with Ken and the others discussing current situations, with Mr Pink standing mysteriously in the corner of their hiding post, smoking. Knowing Hino could be dead because of her really brings weight down on her, unable to hold on she sobs on the floor leaving Cob to comfort her. "Woi woi please be quiet I need some sleep here" Hino whispered before tasting the shoes of Princi. "You fucking bitch what was that even for?" he shouts getting on his feet as Fuji and Princi wrapped themselves around him. "Glad your back. Hey you know what this means?" she asked leaving Hino to wonder what. "It means god has brought you back in order to assist me" she proudly proclaimed "Gods chosen one" . "More like God''s final choice" Fuji answers, snatching Hino closer to him. "Give him back. He recruited him first" she yells pulling against the confused Hino''s legs-"Nah I think your mistaken, I am the one who woke him up" Fuji retorts "Plus he''s just like me." he claims. "How?" Hino questions. Nervously Fuji answers "Your like exotic figurines?". Breaking free from their tight grabs not before throwing a punch into Fuji''s face, leaving him laying on the ground for his glasses. "I can''t afford that shit" he yells back, then turning towards Princi "Sorry I died" he admits. "Well don''t next time" she answers, "How''s the arm?". "Arm?" he question somehow he couldn''t recall what''s even wrong with it, noticing their looks of concern he looks at it. Deep cuts and tears all over the sleeves but no visible scars on the surface, What happened? Looking at all their faces. A concerned Cob-a panicked and sobbing Jesse-a fascinated Fuji and a wide smile Princi, all looking at him. Sighing. He walks over towards a a pieces of a broken chair leg before beginning to pummel it against his own hand. "What are you even doing!!" Cob yells covering Jesse''s eyes. Fuji too stunted to speak and Princi laughing off at the sight, screaming "Shock value "as she takes a pause. Focused he continues hitting harder and harder-no matter the pain and the blood drops painting all over the place. Now with bended fingers like tree branches growing out it separate directions-all slowly wiggling their way back in place with a snapping sound and a crack. "Looks good" Hino claims, raising his unbroken hand up. There wasn''t much to feel in his hand, twitching and cracking as he moves his fingers. Oddly even the wounds on his skin begin to slowly patch themselves up. Looking at the four of them, seeing their looks before deciding to walk away. "Hey wait up" Princi called following behind Hino. "Your gonna kill me aren''t you?" he muttered walking away from wherever they were posted at. Second floor seem to be safe for now, up here they could see the murky red liquid perforating all across the ground floors. Now even more hordes of zombies all immerging from the shallow surface of the water-walking around, aimlessly growling. Even a situation like this Princi laughs. "Kill you?" she mocks "like I care. Your gonna help me be seen and that''s how that be" she laughs. "Even if you die a million. I expect you to be back in a million" she said leaving Hino speechless. Assured and a little confident, now ready to go for another fight. "So where''s the chainsaw by the way?" he asked, "Good question" she spoked nervously looking to the side, away from him. "Well their certain ain''t here" she muttered "their most likely already gone". Crouching down, hands over his face in utter defeat. "Fuck fuck fuck I am screwed here!!!" Hino panics-"Shut up and summon another one!!" Princi snaps, punching Hino across the face "Did dying make your fucking brain dead!!!!!". "No" he spoked exhausted and dishearten from losing that chainsaw. Somehow being trapped in this runny place surrounded by zombies all over seem to made the feeling a little more worst. "Hey its cool" in a calm voice she came closer, patting Hino''s shoulder "You and I got this". Her eyes intrepidly looking back his own, a unbreakable smile-"And plus I am gonna need you yo fight anyways. So you really have to call out another one soon." she adds. "Ohh right" taken back to their situation "Oh yes right!" he repeats. "Definitely" Princi answers, kicking him in the shin for good measure, "Now its the time to be serious" she adds. "Your never serious" Hino answers in his head, not ready to risk being skewered by one of those spears she has on her. Returning back to their hiding spot, a little hallway between two dilapidated store fronts. Looking over at the surviving group. Ken and Moe both busy arguing about what to do, Jesse crouching down with her hands covering over her head as she cries from her lover''s clamorous voice. "No no no" she whimpers leaving Cob trying to calm her down, without results.Ensure your favorite authors get the support they deserve. Read this novel on the original website. On the other hand, Fuji focused on pouring gallons upon gallons of petrol over the floor. "Ehhh?" Hino blurts out, wondering what he''s even doing while Princi lowers down to poke at it. "What even is this?" she questions him. "Oil?" Fuji answers. "Shut up you little bitch" Moe yells out kicking Jesse to the floor with Cob following behind, face covering over a broken nose with Ken walking behind them all , holding back himself from trying to stop anyone. "Couldn''t shut up huh!!" Moe yells stomping against Jesse as he yells. "Please" she took a kick to the face-shaking as she tries to stand, one eye bruised. "P-pl-please can we go home?" she sniffles, holding back tears with her lips bleeding trying to push out words after words, finally collapsing below him, beginning to cry once more. Wearing a disgusted grimace, slowly pulling out the gun next to his side. Loading the trigger, gently hovering over her temple. He whispers in her ear "Like I care", shocking her. "We need the money. So wish me luck". Loading the locking mechanism, creating a doomy sound that echoed around, unsettling everyone with gruesome anticipation. "Ever wonder how fast a M1911 could go?" he chuckles looming over Jesse. "430 rounds per minute" he answers as Cob charges onto him. "Grab her and run!!!" he yells as Hino mindlessly grabs Jesse, running along with her with Princi sprinting behind. "Bad smell! Bad smell!!" yelling her soul out as she runs, signaling Hino with Jesse by his side. "Wait" his inner voice spoked to him, something does feel right the way Princi said that phrase. "Bad smell?" the look she has looking at him, its like she seem something-unable to describe it with any words. Cranking his neck back behind to the rest of them, trying to find the right word to spout out to them. Widening his mouth-stucked opened after hearing a familiar voice, in mellow melody, singing a distorted tune. "Four everee lie you tell you-re gonna cry, cry, cry" a childish voiced sings, with an empty gap in his voice-arrogant as he could be. Doubt spread through out everyone''s faces, abruptly nobody moved an inch. Sweat rolled off Moe''s forehead, down from the side of his nose like a slide, hanging below his lips before leaping of his chin on to the ground. "Yourre gonna cry, cry, cry and you''ll cry alone" his disembodied voice sings once again, chuckling a little with every "cry". Partly after his little tune, his hand breaks the surface, reaching the air as he grabs hold of the second floor. His grey complexion bubbling into red, a million silhouettes looming behind his every surface-pushing through like the birth of a child. bang.... his skin burst opened, a thousand growls, crying out for a taste. Scrawny hands reaching out towards the first on sight, locking on to those they lay eyes bare to their first. Growling, crying and begging to feast on the gun men''s flesh. All he could do facing a trillion maws was to only cry, cry, cry and cry-stucked in endless gunshots against the undying. Like a pile of snow slowly building to the top, where the inside forever dark. "Yo-u''re gonna cry, cry, cry and you''ll cry a-lone" he repeats,, laughing and laughing as the bodies pile over. "When your fickle love gets old, no one will care for you" mocking over the man buried in corpses with these ants running for their lives. His message to them "You''re gonna cry, cry, cry". "Run run run!!!" Ken yells dashing away seeing the zombies materialize from the giant hand rising from the shallow water below, once shallow now rising rapidly-tipping close to the second floor their on. "Cry cry cry" a million voices spoked their rotting faces growling still as they spoke as one "Cry cry cry"-bursting into a frenzy as they charged, running towards them like an incoming tide. "Tell why and cry" they sang mindlessly, incessantly on the move towards them, jostling one another, pushing and squeezing to reach forward. Waaaaah..... Jesse tripping on her leg, without time to get back up, her face breathless and blushed. Bones too weak to stand, hands betraying her only able to rub herself an inch at a time. Waaaah.... she cries out, sticking her hand out for anyone. The voice laughs, singing his sadistic tune. Footsteps skipped over, Hino grabbing her by the hands, pulling her forward with his back turned towards open arms, thirsty for him. "Too young" someone whispered in his ear. Hino could feel himself being lifted up, his grip on Jesse severed, seeing Cob pulling him by the hood, with all his strength pulling the two of them an inch away with the light burning where they once stand. Smoke and ash filled his face, eyes looking in the deep sockets of one of the burning dead, growling at him in flames. Thud.. thud.. thud. Fuji steps in behind Hino before opening and shutting his lighter in quick successions with the flames burning brighter then ever. "Fire?" he was to stunted to speak, "Yeah just the lighter that''s all" Fuji answers lighting a flame. "Works only with a source" Fuji answers getting them back on their feet before more break through the burning wall. "Thanks" Hino could only response, unsure if that even is the right thing to say. "You owe me a sexy figurine" he smiles, "Pervert" Hino could answer. The four catching up to Princi and Ken, far ahead with the sounds of aggressive growls pushing through as the water rises, reaching their ankles. "Third floor" Ken yells scaling the elevator as the same hand explodes out of the water towards him, knocking him back down. "When I remind you of all of this and you''ll cry, cry, cry" the voice spoked again gesturing a sign of displeasure before breaking their only means to the third floor. In such a beleaguer a situation, a plan B is always advised. Thankfully plan B was right next to them-noticing the elevator, Hino calls out to them to get in. With he and Cob prying the thick doors for the rest as the zombies rain ever closer and their owner begins to sing his next lyrics. Finally the six of them in with the door leaving a little gap for the dead to squeeze through their hands extending out for their throats. "Shaft!" Cob yells bosting Jesse and Princi upward while the boys push back. "This ain''t the right way to treat your glorious hero" Princi protest before forcefully being push up to the top. Batting against the poking heads of the dead with still a thousand arms and legs rigorously squeezing through. "Four eyes do something" Ken cries his hands giving way. Splashing a bottle of liquid at the mass before lighting a small flame as it burns and squeezes the agony out. The flames die. He lights once against. The agony intensifies. The flames die out. He continues. Between the dying and the birth of a new bonfire. One half managed to squeeze through, reaching for Hino as he resist, inching closer to the others as he levitates from the ground. Panicked with the other unsure what to do, Hino palm over the forehead of the tremoring dead, resisting from losing parts of his neck as he get every closer to other impatient faces. Breaking into focus with his eyes staring intimidatingly at this growling mess with his tongue sticking. "Wanna bite?" he asked "Ok then!!!". Swinging his head back simultaneously seeking his teeth in to a rotting face. Chewing and pulling with his teeth locked deep into rotting flesh as he mauls and rips apart the zombie''s face in intimate fashion. Finally pulling the tongue off as he drops down. "Hino!!" Cob''s voice called from above with his hand reaching down for him. The gap widening every second he stands, Hino jumps-catching Cob''s hand-hanging with the elevator crashing down below them as Hino held on, suspended in the air. Seeing everyone else looking down from above them, all glad to see them from the third floor. "See I told you Hino would survive!!!" Princi yells as she boast in Ken''s ears. "Guys" Jesse''s screams, whimpering as she brings everyone''s attention to down below. Back at the bottom, the bloody hue of the water glows, illuminating the darken shaft with the zombie''s growing silent, individually sinking back into the waters. "Get up here!!" Fuji calls discovering something going on in the main center of the mall. Helping themselves up with worried looks on all of them as they got closed to the edge looking down. Frighten as giant rows of teeth forming a mouth, smiles back at them in the water. Princi squeezing Hino''s sleeve as she whispers into his eyes "Now its time to get serious" before smiling at him. Breathing in, he relax himself. "Its coming" he confidently spoked. Chapter 12: A thousand-and-One Telephone rings with a middle age man picking in up. "What?" yelling to the machine with his finger blocking the other ear "By Monday?" he agreed, hanging the phone up. Walking over to the employee room with his shoulder''s slacking as he pushes the door. His collogues, lounging and sitting around waiting for the time to momentarily pass. One focused on the game currently on air-eagerly standing in front of the hanging television, waiting for his favorite team to score. The other of his co-workers all quietly sitting around the table drinking coffee as they stared back at him-"Got a new delivery tonight" he answers, watching everyone shifting their gaze away back to their own ordeals. Inviting himself to use the coffee machine, he stood there for a few moment, feeling the vibration coming from the machine, moving up to his finger tips. Quick Fly.Co -a moving company for businesses, now he needs to make a quick delivery by tonight before deadline. "Hey the truck isn''t done with repairs yet!" a service men called out to him as he ignores the guy and hops behind the wheel. Adjusting the rearview mirror, popping a smoke-hanging from the side of the window, he answers. "I got shit to do, I don''t care" he smoke calmly, laying against the chairs neck support, now driving off leaving the service man lost and confused. The radio playing all the crappy songs as he puffs out a cloud of smoke. Taking an abrupt turn to the side before returning back to his lane, the equipment he''s delivering seem to gotten heavy-what was it again?-Oh right, power tools and machinery. A mile away he could see the lights of a building, probing the wild darkness around it. The Jin Xuan mall center, he recalled making trips there and now today he''s doing the same. Gritting his teeth together, feeling annoyed having to be on the job at a time like this. Speeding faster just wanting to go back and do nothing, he steps on it-the truck shakes, wheeling onward faster and faster. The entrance glowed brightly-without a stop the truck caves in. Leaving a seism across the building. ...... "I think the roof is the best bet" Ken suggested with Cob agreeing. "Nah we shouldn''t" Fuji rejects "Its very likely with the elevator shaft now exposed, our red friend down there" finger directing towards the ground floor. "If we act to fast, he might bite" he added on. "We can''t just stay here" Ken added trying to get direct eye contact with Fuji. "That''s true" he admitted, "What do you think Hino?". Trying to be a recuse from the whole event, choosing to stare down at the watery mass down below, Hino shakes his head, without an answer-choosing to close and open his palm in an endless loop. Laying against the wall with her legs tugged in between her arms, Jesse remained there with exhaustion in her eyes. "There''s nothing to care about here" he spoked to himself, rubbing the surface of his finger against the barrier that separates him from a fatal fall. "Fatal" would be the right word, there''s water down below that could cushion anyone''s fall, its more a brutal spot to land with a sadistic water demon ready to bite and sing his songs. Like an infant, Hino recalled how it used to look. Just a floating cube that bleeds an undefined amount of blood but now its like a whole river-a river of blood-a living one. A demon pool with zombies around in it as part of its form, an odd amount of quirks-Hino imagines, in his twisted mind he somehow was reminded the image of the barfs he had after recovering from the hospital. Now vomit reminds him of rain and rain reminds him of an umbrella. "Shit" Hino whispered under his lips, "I got to return that umbrella to her" he admitted, suddenly feeling desperate. "Shit Mariko is going to so mad at me" he panics, able to see those green eyes imbedded in his head, forever mad at him. His heart quivers leaving him laying helplessly on the floor in childish panic. "I need to return her umbrella" he panics, the floor beneath him being jar against his fist. Princi with every step she takes, catching Hino''s attention as she approaches. "Pathetic" she voices out at him "Come and help me make up finishing move" she demands, grabbing confused Hino by the leg as she casually drags him away from the rest. "Come on, come up a finishing move with me" she demands "I''ll show you my powers" she switch her tone to a softer one. Seeing no changes from Hino, she switched her approach. "Take that!!!" she yells-karate chopping Hino in the head. Confused at the gesture, rolling his eye up to face her "Whats the point of this?" tired and hungry as he ask her. "The point is simple" she pointed out pointing a finger at him. "The goal is to look cool. Nothing more nothing less" she admits, striking a pose to prove her point, "Don''t I look cool?" bragging with Hino still unsure how to call over his weapon like Princi could. "Does calling a weapon involve brain cells?" Hino asked leaving Princi perplexed as he was. "If its true then I need to borrow yours!" Hino claims, "if I have extra brain cells then I could really call over my weapon like slice cheese!!" he begs.This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. "I really think you got brain damage" Princi scoffs "But ok!!!" she switches around "With the power of the chosen one, I shall bestowal upon my gifts!! " she claims, looking up to the air for a blessing. "With my 1001 brain cells, full of intellect" lying as she brims with confidence and pride, she twirls around in excitement as Hino cheers her on with a million "Yes". Clapping hands together, taking a deep breath before piping up into the air with all the feelings trap inside-letting loose. His chest empty, his stomach once begging for food now silent, his shoulders and back feel perfect all of a sudden-perfectly stretch and flexible-his head feels clear as they end their yelling. Breathlessly silent only a few huffs and puffs were exchange between them. Hino breathless, slowly cracking into a smile once he caught a glimpse of Princi as she broke out into a laughter-he laughed louder. "I am surprise this is how you guys react to things like this" Fuji popped out breaking their chain of laughter. "Huh? Who are you again?" they both question in unison, sharing the same grimace look. "You both suck" Fuji admits opening his lighter, "Especially you Princi!! What makes you think you could steal my precious boy Hin-" before he finishing his words a bang gone off inside the building-startling everybody to check what goes down below. "Is that a Quick Fly delivery truck?" Ken questions with sweat all over his face in a confused look. "I guess" Cob agrees-leaving everyone unsure what''s really going on anymore. "I can''t believe it my thousand brain cells really work" Princi surprised grabbing on to the railing, jumping and down with excitement. "Hold on to theses. They cost 15" Hino rushes to inform Fuji as he tosses his jacket on to him. "Hey that''s my kill!!" Princi objects. "Don''t care. Grabbing chainsaw" Hino answers running over the railing as he takes a leap in the air. "Hino!" he could hear Cob yelling to him, his arms are probably trying to reach out towards him-before gravity reached him as he drops in. SPLOOSH!! The ripples that remain drawn all across the surface of the water but no Hino in sight from above where they stand. "He didn''t die right?" Ken asked, feeling this sense of fear building inside of him as he wondered if he should follow Hino''s example. "I am not even sure anymore" Cob answers, as he stands there a hand over his own heart, whispering to himself "Hino". "Ahhh this is my fault!!" Jesse screams out panicked and about to break down once more. "Shut up!!" Princi shouts back, only being stop by Ken trying to hold her back from Jesse. "God hel-help me" Jesse begs on her knee, tears and sweat dripping of her face-"I shouldn''t have fall. No he shouldn''t have save me." she spouts tearing over the floor as she spoke. "What the?" Princi mutter to herself as Ken loosens his grip on her. "I-I don''t wanna die." "I want to leave" "I though my boyfriend would get it" "I am so small" "I needed someone like him and Hino to keep me safe" "Som-one kill me" she cries out. Splash.. Splash.. They could hear from down below. "Hino!!" Princi rushes over to look, witnessing Hino in freestyle-swimming his way quick as possible toward the caved in truck. "Are you insane.? Get out of there!!!" Ken yells out from beside her. Catching notice, she charges at him-holding his mouth over him. "Shut up!! Shut up!!! Shut up!!...." she repeats over his muffles. "Your not messing with our plans" her words ring in his ears. "Our?" he could only respond. Swinging both arms rapidly, arms digging deep into the water as he pushes forward at constant odds with the current against him. "I though you died" the same voice spoked to him. "Fuck off" Hino spoke through the water still swimming as he goes, "You look fun" the monster admits "Need help?" he asked again with a hand rising out from the water lifting the truck on its palms. "Sing your shitty song" Hino retorts, taking the full force of the truck down on him. The truck sat a top Hino as it slowly sinks into the water. "That''s easy" the voice spoke, with his body fully rising out the water a second at a time. "Its time to cry now" Dacry admits, his full form rising from the water around him. "A million corpses" Dacry admits. A large chest with muscular arms, without a head-instead six eyes, three on each side of his body-now peered open for the world to see. The lower torse, without flesh but a red waterspout-funneling upwards, connecting the two halves. The water around, driving up to full speed dragging debris caught in its being. "Princi do something!!" Ken panics seeing Dacry''s full form. "We wait" she could only say. "As the child of the ocean" Dacry spoked raising both his arms up, all six of his eyes peering at them "I renounce the right to kill you". Palms raised. Several bubbles formed on the surface of it, bang... they launch upwards towards Princi and the rest-stripping apart the area their on. "Huh? Not a single hit" Dacry admits, preparing for another round as laughter catchers his attention. The water around in his control, yet something within his domain was churning against his flow. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!! The sounds of an engine was ever present. Where Hino was earlier a loud splash burst up, raising the water up to the third floor and beyond. Flabbergasted, Dacry in full form looked over being sure to remove Hino before fully appearing his full form. "I wanted that Princi girl that''s all" Dacry admits asking him to just run away. Vroom Vroom Vroom...... "I said start singing your song" Hino yells out as he pulls on the chord a few more times. "Grow some ears then eyes!!" he laughs BANG!!!!! flooop.... Floating on the surface of the water, chainsaw in hand and half a head. Hino''s body stayed buoyant on the red water for a minute. "Should have killed you with my hands" Dacry admits setting his attention back to the rest. "I couldn''t forgive you for that spear!!!" he calls to Princi. "Look again!!" she yells back. "What do-you speak?" Dacry wonders turning his front towards an assumedly dead Hino, all six eyes twitching and adjusting to their separate independence. Sqwelp!!! A piercing sensation reached deep into one of his eyes. "Huh?" he looks moving the others to see his own. Hanging on to the handles of the chainsaw, a semi-conscious Hino without the top half of his head appeared in his sight. What!!! How? From the lower parts of his head, vessels and tendrils sprout like small bean plants, intertwining on one another, wrapping and growing in size. The skin begins to cover the meaty areas as parts of his ears, nose and hair began to grow out. Eyes opened, Hino smiles-ripping the chord as he does so. Chapter 13:Silence of Hino "Filthy! Filth!!!" Dacry screams grabbing onto Hino as he swings him across the air an eye missing-the blade of the chainsaw seem to dragged it out along with it. "Do you know how long it takes to regenerate that eye?!!!!" he cries, extending his hand out as sows of red flew over the air, striking Hino to the ground. Riddled with holes-all from does arrows made of the water around. Flesh expanding over-patching all the holes, Hino stood still. Head facing the floor with his shoulders hanging on without afford as his body swindles side to side. "SLACKER!!!!" Princi yells out to him, chucking a rock at him for good measure. "Huh? I am alive... I-I I" a quiver in Hino''s throat. "I-I I?" "I AM FUCKING ALIVE!!!!!" rejoicing with himself. Laughing to himself, without care of who watches over him. "Fight!" Cob struggles to call out to him with his side bleeding out and Jesse and Fuji him on either side. Hino smiles. "Woi Woi" he calls out to Princi "I taking all of it". Piercing the spear to the side of a column. Weighting it down with a little push, Princi stood still with the spear descending down, pin deep into the wall, stopping as it reaches the floor. "There I am here now" she scoffs, pulling the spear as she spins its around. "Lets do this". Waves of tendrils shoot forward in their direction. Using the spear to leap up, Princi fires first-striking another one towards Dacry with a BOOM as the spears crossed the air in high velocity. A gentle poked, leading to shockwaves, rippling across the place at full power. "600gm Long Shot" Princi claims watching her results as the fallen hand of Dacry breaks apart. "Hino! Other arm!" she calls out "I need a clear shot". Brrrrrrrrrrr The chainsaw roars with Hino charging behind for the next wave of arrow fired out from that massive body of water-now concentrated into a funnel, suspending Dacry over them. "Die die die die" in a childish manner, with his remaining up, swiping and forwarding waves of red arrows and spikes his way. The constant state of wearing and tearing of the flesh, pains Hino but he continuous on-seeing a pair of green eyes through the carnage. Swiping and slashing. Hino facing the full might, charges on-loosing parts of himself before returning back. Tears stream out from his eye lids, still he kept a wide glee, choosing to keep on charging with his right eye dangling out from his face-held by a nerve. Coughing blood, his movements weakens tremendously. Suddenly loosing the energy to run ahead now all that pain he was ignoring are starting to reach out to him. Hino caught heal anymore. Slouching down with the chainsaw as his only support, shouting that his muscle''s are aching before coughing blood out. Before he could reach his hand out to warn Princi, Dacry caught on-breaking his left arm, leaving it to dangle. Needing to pull the chord, Hino tries to use his mouth as Dacry''s crimson appendages wrapped around his neck, keeping him still. A thin layer of red beamed across the ground once more-"Princi!!" Hino yells out with the tendrils tightening from voice. Spikes busted up from the water covering the area in a field of thorns. "Thank goodness" Hino spoked in his mind, feeling relieve seeing Princi standing a top her spear, erected on the ground above the thorns. "No where to go spear woman" Dacry laughs in triumphant, his remaining five eyes rolling around in excitement, "One shot isn''t enough" he claims "I''ve basically remove you the privilege of space". Pointing at her "Surely not enough to make an effective shot" he added.Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. "Your right" Princi unwantedly admits leaving Hino lost for words. "As clearly I am the main reason for you to come up with this elaborate plan to give you a chance of subduing me" she proudly spoke, a single foot standing on the base of the spear. Both hands raised in a symbol of surrender, "Why don''t you kill Hino and the rest. Then leave me as the last, a true warrior''s death" she glees. "Fuck you!!" Hino struggles to say the words out with his biddings tightening, trying to even spit an alphabet out. "Tough consideration" Dacry ponders about it. "How is there a consideration here?" Hino yells, opposing the idea-he was right from the start, he always was, Princi is a bitch. "Shit for heads" he repeats and scream, shaking and trying to break from his restraints. Only able to nudge and swing the chainsaw with low effort, unable to pull the chord and direct it at the same time. "Fair enough" Dacry agrees, raising his hand over Hino-slowly descending down on him, "Cry cry cry" he laughs at Hino-watching him raised the blade towards his arm, without the its engine roaring the blade won''t do to his flesh. Neck unable to move. Left arm broken in several places, taking on the weight of a mountain as it slowly descend upon him. Silence There wasn''t any silence earlier. Now this soul crushing weight has brought back this silence inside. What was he up too? He could remember the spell of rain. He recalled the desire to have some pancakes for breakfast. There''s even the time he decided to get groceries for someone. When was he so kind? Why was it so noisy earlier? Why be quiet now? Returned to his home, he laid there for a moment-lost in thoughts-staring at the ceiling fan-obsessively watching as a spider goes about its day at the corner of his wall. Apartment 12-13 sure was silent during the night, when did it became so noisy, was noise ever good? Am I afraid of noise? He hasn''t ever considered himself a thinker but when thoughts like these do occasionally sprout up in his mind. He can always promise himself that they are sure to be staying around for awhile. Sometimes lingering for more then a year or so. What was it his mom or dad? always used to say? Think to much. You might attract? Something of that sort, his head is blurry inside. Eating food in a different place, somewhere like his own but somehow safer? Hino could cook but he couldn''t afford it all the time. Her food wasn''t special, he always has a weird thing for remembering the detail of food but this one was a blur also. There''s this girl with green eyes that looks at him. He hates to admit but he likes how she looks at him, the attention feels real to him. Abruptly he needed leave her, even if the storm was telling him the opposite. "That umbrella" he mutters with Dacry''s calm pushing his to the ground. "Go fuck off" he grunts, ripping the chord with his toe. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!! Blood poured down onto him as he drinks it like a baby. "Mariko!!" he whispers in his mind, recovering his body as he slashes upwards-slitting straight through the middle, palm to shoulder. All these noise, the flowing of crimson, the panic voices of Cob, Jesse....., the sudden shock in Dacry and Princi. All these sounds, faded to oblivion-the only-one true sound to pierce their senses, the laughter of his engine. Blitzing forward with the saw cutting passed air, guided by Hino brining down a slash, bring silence around. Severed from the waist below, the water free as it rushes everywhere to fill the space. He swings again, chopping a clear path towards Dacry with the water to afraid to fill back the gaps. "Wait wait wait" Dacry pled, eyes shaking-trying to bend the water towards Hino. Seeing the gash inflicted on Dacry''s sixth eye, he smiles-looking just like a helpless fish out of the water, Hino places a foot over the giant chest of a monster. "Lets continue where we left off" in a sadistic smile. A single tear dripped from Dacry as the chord was pulled once more. ...... "You awake?" Fuji asked patting Princi to wake up. Head hurt from the incoming rush of water, she questions Fuji on what''s going on. "No clue" Cob weakly mutter, stumbling over with Jesse catching him. Pushing Fuji off, Princi charges towards the wreckage. Seeing a bloodied Hino, a broken chainsaw and a pool of flesh and blood scattered around the area. Five eyes laid around, all facing Hino, with horror in each of them. "You stole my kill!!" Princi yells over, jumping onto Hino as she pummels him with a fist full of annoyance. "Screw you!!" Hino fights back getting into another brawl. Freeze!!! A man from the entrance of the mall came through followed by a group. Surprised by the coincidence, such an unlikely path to cross. Lights shine over all of them, revealing Hino, Princi, Cob, Jesse and Ken. "Everyone remain calm" the man''s voice spoke "and for you two knuckle heads, your under arrest!" referring to Hino and Princi. "What!" they said in unison as the man step forward into the light with his partner following behind. "A-Andrew?" Hino questioned. "Shit the cops" Princi reacted. Chapter 14:Arrest "The injured had all been taken to immediate healthcare" Connor informs over the walkie-talkie. "Handle the mess" Andi answers on the other end "I''ll handle the idiots". Rattling around at the backseat, kicking among one another. "Hey let me go! I did nothing here!! Its only this guy!!" Princi shouts at the back, hands cuffs as Hino struggles to shut her up. "Quit touching me!! You thief!!" she shouts once more. "Your going to put us in more shit!! If you keep talking" Hino fights back, shouldering her against the window. "Listen I ain''t a thief" his tone changed "Sorry I got carried away". "Fine" Princi with her head turn against the window-clapping his hands together as if a movie had just ended. "That''s all sweet and all but-" Andi spoked, stopping at traffic. "Your still under arrest" he continue, taking a sharp turn from his original course. "Wait! This ain''t towards the station" Princi shouting her head towards the front, only to gain a swift elbow to her forehead. "I need a burger" Andi replied, turning is way onto a local fast food place. "Each of you order one thing only" as he lets them out of them car, hand cuffs still on. Entering the place with only a single person registered at the counter. "A burger please" Andi ordered, "Err I''ll take a fish sandwich" Hino picks. "Cheap. But a good choice" Andi acknowledges. "I''ll take the coffee milkshake!!" Princi swiftly answers. "No. Expensive" Andi denies "Why no! Hino got to pick!!!" she questions "No" "Yes" "No" "Fight me!!" "Hey come on now, just pick something else" Hino chimes in. "Shut up" she scoffs back "Don''t you see, he''s taking away my human rights!" pointing towards Andi-leaving him and Hino both confused at the words she just said. Lost at the words she just said. "Are you brain dead" Andi wonders, taking a cigarette out his pocket before lighting it. "Come one say yes!!" she demands, raising her fist and stomping against the ground. "Fine" Andi unwelcomely agrees. .... Burger. A bite at a time. Occasionally the sauce drips off the side, leaving a moody feeling. "How is it Hino?" Andi asked, stuffing his face full before talking again. Looking at Princi asleep with drink in hand, he wonders what he actually meant? "To kill?" Andi adds taking a sharp turn away from the towering buildings around them, slowly morphing in distance as he drove further from the where the station sits. "Where we going? This ain''t the station, Is it?" Hino questioned, staring at the back of Andi while he drives. Taking in the subtle taste of his cigarette, "You might be helpful" he answered-huffing a cloud of smoke in the car. "Helpful" that word stick in his mind, what kind of helpful could he had meant? Dizzy and exhausted from what happened earlier and with it being passed midnight, the thought of being in potential danger slipped his mind as he never questioned Andi''s words. "Helpful?" he repeats, wondering if its some kind of joke on him. There, they made a stop at the edge of a tunnel, that seems to stretch itself across to the other side of the mountain facing them. Surrounded by familiar trees, an image of himself running profusely conjured up inside his head, before being snuffed out by the waking of Princi. Yawning loudly, she questions Andi, reaching behind only to recall her spears were confiscated. "Where are we!" she demanded. "Government soil" was the answer she gets. Right before she could question the logistic of what he said, a light beamed over them. Looking between the gaps of their finger, covering over their eyes-only to be greeted by a truck, reversing itself back towards them. "Don''t move" Andi warns the two of them. Pulling closer as it stops right where there''s an inch of space between the car and the back of the truck. Getting on the platform laid for them on the trucks back as in scurries back into the dark with the three of them standing as it goes. Eventually the car slowly looses its size the deeper they go, eventually being a small speck of what it once was. "Hey ain''t this kind of creepy" Hino tries to point out, only to see Princi in total fascination. "We are still in cuffs you know!!" he tries to point out to her, only to fall on deaf ears by Princi. Base 12-a large label, painted in white on the tunnel''s wall. Eventually after listening to the repetition of gears turning as they go, with a quick halt. It all came to a stop. "Now we get off and walk" he spoked as he hops off the platform and walking behind the wall. "I''ve never been arrested before but I don''t think this is how being in one is." Princi whispered in his ear-"Maybe we should follow him?" she adds before tagging along with Andi. "We still have cuffs on" he thought, before following along. Base 12. One out of thirteen total bases, currently in the country. The only one around this area. After the region wide disaster, across half the country within a moment of a day. 714500 people, confirmed dead. 357250 in urban areas. 340192 in rural areas and 17058 of unknown specification. All in a day. The culprits? Only two. Walking Wind and Living Ocean. ........ Midnight. Under heavy down pour and man cries to himself. Face submerged in a shallow puddle as water covers over him. "My child" he yells, voice distorted by the water "My poor sweet boy" he adds.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident. "Enough about your son" another man calls out to him, his silver suit seemingly untouchable. Stepping closer with the water around his feet retreating back with each step, rain drops from above seem to slide away, the moment before impact. "You still have a daughter around." the man spoke, "Well atleast she''s running around somewhere". "You don''t get it, do you W?" the man said between his teeth, eye glaring straight at W. Water continues pour over him, though not by the weather but from his own being. "You don''t know the value of a son" he shouts, causing the water around them to react with fury before settling back. "Don''t hit something you can''t touch" W declared, standing over him-head raised high, while maintaining perfect eye contact with O. Abruptly the scene changed. Once a dark-grassy landscape with a monsoon river dividing up the area, trapped in a constant rain now warped into a town hall with warm lights. "Dominion, is this you?" W questions, turning his striking gaze towards Dominion. Dressed sharply in dark formal wear from top to bottom. Wearing a pair of gloves over his hand as he adjust his tie and vest before acknowledging W. Featureless, even the shape of a head was hardly visible to most-just a void looking back at those who look, the eye''s of the looker looking at their own. "Boss is coming" Dominion''s voice echoed to all their ears, a voice so foreign, it couldn''t even match the person who said those words. "Your one creepy fellow, I tell ya" W respond, wiping a bit of sweat off himself. "Shall we have a seat?" W add, bringing attention towards the discussion table set up behind the three of them. "Affirmative" Dominion adds-waving his hand over the air, with chairs materializing from thin air. "What a surprise" somebody in the hall spoked, somehow already sitting there-on the main spot, overlooking the three of them. Eying one of them at time before sighing in a moment of weary. "Its nice everyone is together" speaking tiredly with an uninterested smile. "Boss..." W in a nervous tone, trying maintain eye contact. "Don''t call me boss. I am not that old " he corrects the walking wind. "Right... Morri" W corrects himself-adjusting his clothing and any oddness in his appearance. Slouching off his seat, pushing the chair back to stand right. Clearing his throat as he called all of them, to greet their new guest. "Wind. Ocean. Dominion." he called out to all of them. Brushing his fringe, revealing pale green eyes. "Say hello to the rest for me". ..... Isolation. Cut off from outside, now placed in temporary containment-in a room, cuffs free, left to his own accord. "Atleast I not with her" Hino grumbles thinking of Princi, sometimes he thinks, he could hear the echoes of her shouting from another room similar to his own nearby. "Hino correct" Andi enters his room, followed by Connor behind him. "Not a Demi-human, just regular. Nothing ordinary. No special case. Health all regular" he repeats from the report done on Hino. "What and how? Is not what I want to know." he admits looking at Hino with intimidation. "I didn''t think you were a liar either" eye telling Hino what he should do to him. "But killing a monster like that single handedly is alarming " he turns away, huffing a smoke. "Can you do it again?" Andi wonders, his back turn towards Hino. "Well Princi certainly would be interested" Hino scoffs. "Don''t bring her up" Connor chimes in "She nearly kicked me". "Well I would do the same" Hino adds. "You wanna try?" Connor fights back. "I dare yaa" "Point number 1!" Andi raised a finger for the two of them to see. "Witness number1. The disturbing sight of a man biting the face of another man. Dead or alive, man is man" Andi spoked leaving the two lost for words. "Point number 2!" he raised a second finger. "Witness number 2. The unspoken absurdity you posses. The means to constantly stand after fatal injury". "Point number 3" now three fingers were raised for all to see. "This is by Princi''s own two eyes. The power to call over a chainsaw!". "Fucking Snitch!!!" Hino yells, his heart racing as he broke free from his chair before Connor immediately pins him to the floor. "Hey pervert get off me!! God dammit off me!!". "There''s two ways to go by" Andi looms over Hino, blocking the light-leaving a silhouettes over Hino. "You help me with something and I let you go. You took the job of killing a monster before, so do it one more time." Hino could believe the words coming from Andi, "What is it then?" he struggles to say the words out. "Who is it then?" he questions. "That''s classified. Yes or living here for your life, no third or fourth choices" Andi answers, sprinkling the ash from his cigarette onto him. "Fine then". "Good" ....... Strolling. Free from the room, now walking aside the two man threaten him a minute ago. "We are gonna get the girl out now" Connor spoke as he unlocks the door. "Your hero has once again broken free of her shackles!!" Princi jumps out yelling onto Hino. "Oh there you are Hino" she later notices. Anti-Damage Monster Activity or ADMA for short. A governmental policy soon to be put into full action in this region of the country. With up to 37 of the 60 votes needed for its full effect. Recently, 24 of the supporter had died within the last two weeks from so called "Incidents". "I need you to guard this man right here" producing a picture of a man in his mid to late 40s. "He looks kinda old" Princi spouts. "Doesn''t look like he aged well at all" Hino chimes in. "There''s no reason for you to be making fun of the client" Andi butts in, "But if it make working with you two easier, say all you want". Leaving instructions for Connor to take charge of explanations as he take his leave for a smoke. ..... Yawning over and over. Over the non-stop bombardment of information Connor has been pilling inside their mind for the past hour. "I wanna go home" Princi growls, burying her head into the table before yawning again. "Can we go home now? I agreed so let me leave." Hino questions. "Executive Chairman Philip is man that is of great importance." Connor took a stand against the two of them. A confused "what?" was exchange between the two of them before looking back in Connor''s direction. Slamming his fist against the table in perpetual anguish. "You kids need all this info for this job and even for your education. Don''t you care about school?" in a fit of frustration. "I mean a little" Hino answered, scratching the back of his neck-"I get good grades" Princi with a smug look, raising her feet on the table. "Atleast just listen for a minute" Connor whispered in defeat. ..... "Are you sure?" Andi chimes in on the phone. There''s this feeling sitting inside of him, sitting there soundly, so silent now disturbed from its slumber. Anxiety has its hand on him now. "Explain" his voice from calm shifting to desperate. "How long?" he adds on, pulling out a pen and paper-drawing lines of words and numbers, he heard on the other side of the line, in swift pace. "Inform the chairman of my help" he adds, before ending the call. Slouching down with a hand pressed against the wall for support. Somehow he could feel the quiver of his heart, banging against his chest. White noise seem to fill his head. A pencil drop with a thud echoed all through out the floor. Then that piece of paper, sliding off his finger tips-gently landing on the floor. "The wind sure is about to hit this place" he chuckle himself towards the dark-lighting another as he chuckles. Chapter 15:Coincidence "Say Hino" Mariko asked, string a cup of tea with one hand while the the tosses a coin up the air. "Do you believe in coincidences?" she ask, eye sharp as glass, directly staring straight at Hino, with intense focus. "I don''t think so?" he answers. "Wrong" the coin lands on top of her palm. "That wouldn''t explain why I found you exhausted on the same street, during the same weather and while I need to get groceries" she adds before taking a sip. "How''s the tea anyway" she asked, now tired of her rambling and focused on Hino. "It taste better then water" Hino answers with a smile, noticing the sad look she''s clearly hiding. "Crap did I upset her or something" he wonders in his head, somehow the look of discontent deeply troubles him. "I barely know her" Hino admits but somehow he feels responsible for her feelings. What he did wrong was all he wanted to know. "I could fix it!!" "Huh?" Mariko respond. "Why say that?" Mouth covered, in a fit of embarrassment. Hino curses himself for blurting such private thoughts out without reluctance. "Sorry I have to leave", Hino recline the chair. Thanking for the tea and her hospitality once more, trying to get out of this awkward predicament. "Wait" Mariko reaches out, her fingers wrapped around the cloth of his shirt, tugging at it. "I am visiting your home two times" she said, "To balance it out" her eyes serious with a cheerful demeanor. "Am I enchanted?" -"I can''t say no"-"Ahhhhhhh", these thoughts piled up in his mind. "Ok" he agrees. Carrying himself towards the front door with Mariko following behind her, hooking one of her fingers on his. "Huh?" he questions, her soft touched wrapping serenely around his own. "What for?" Hino tries to speak up-losing strength in his word from her embrace. Hands jittering from this surge building up inside of him. "Your hearts beating" she whispered, green eyes peering right at him. "Is it a coincidence mine was too?" she asked, face blushed, her green eyes seem to sparkle within his prospective. "What is this?" he questioned himself. "What am I doing?" "Someone help me" Hino begged silent, hoping for anyone to get him out of here. "Help Help" he kept calling out internally, trying to not incur her attention and potential wrath. "You seem very red. I should let you go now" the atmosphere switches along with her words. "Oh right" Hino nervously left out the door-still nervously pressing against his chest. This anguish shiver in his heart would sure to leave him crumbled like snow. "I want to cry" he admits to himself as he wave her goodbye. ...... "Hey Andi" Connor asked his superior a question. "What if things go south?" "Depends on what you see as going south" Andi answered, taking in the parks scenery as he spoke. "Ducks sure are lucky" he admits, looking at some old folk coming over with pieces of bread, even the school kids nearby are coming over to feed them. "Isn''t it weird that the four prisoners escaped?" Connor asked. Jumpy from the sudden question, he clears his throat before lighting a cig. "How did he know that?" Andi wonders. "What about it?" he asked.If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it. "Well to me after we got new recruits for this bodyguard mission. The news of the four breaking out was announce" Connor in a serious tone answered, "You knew the reasons behind those murders don''t you?" he adds. Puffing a smoke, unfazed by his question, eyes solely on those ducks. "I only got the news yesterday" Andi admits. "News is fresh for me too" dusting the ash dusted on his pants. "As for things going south. If that ever happens, I have no choice but to go with the semi-human group. Division C" Andi answered. "The one from Base 11?" Connor thinks, before taking a bite of his sandwich. "That''s only for bad news" Andi reassures him. Feeling relaxed, Connor smiles, feeling calm hearing his words. "What''s Division C like anyway?" he ask. "Their just experimental" Andi answers, "Plus I am not the head of Base 12, just an important guy there". Looking over towards Connor with tired eyes, "If you like to know. Well to be honest currently there''s five members, all inhuman in their own ways". "You really like to be dramatic don''t you?" Connor wonders, his thoughts moving on to worry for those two. ....... Lock within the many rooms of a dilapidated apartment complex. Water begin to seep from below a man''s door, vapor perforate behind from the door-slowly condensing to more water. ten ten ten ten...... A man kept on repeating the word, bowing and tugging himself together before rolling around the floor. "Quit being weird!!" Ocean yells out, his voice bubbling from the water flowing invitingly into the man''s home. His form crawling itself out from the pool of water in the middle of the room. "Ten. I got a job for you" Ocean spoke his watery form slowly contorting into a simple man in a suit. "You should adjust your glasses" Ten points out to Ocean, watching him quietly arrange his glasses right before stepping on all four, avoiding the growing puddle of water. "What you want!" Ten questions, crouching against the wall with a mug held against Ocean. "A job?" Ocean confusingly answered, "Do you want to die?". "What job?" Ten agitated, dropping the mug on the floor. Biting his lip, appearing behind Ocean with fork. "Stop!! I have job, you might like the prize I have" Ocean stops him, materializing a watery spike closed towards Ten''s head. "I''ll kneel" Ten eventually calms down. "Good. Now where''s your chair at?" he asked. "Oh, the kitchen over there, its the only one there" Ten answers. "No family huh?" Ocean asked adjusting his glasses once more with water running off his being. "I kept forgetting your made of water and not sweaty" Ten points out, ruffling through a pile of his clothes, producing a can of soda. "A human form always has its quirks, example is my wet skin." Ocean spoke, receiving a can of soda, opened with the help of Ten and the fork on hand. "So you monster''s naturally look weird in people shape huh?" his body jerks with the pungent taste of every sip. "This taste bad" Ten thought to himself, lost in his own head-constantly looking at the hand''s of the clock ticking as it swung by. "What''s the job anyway? You usually visit to beat the crap out of me." Ten wonders, pulling the fork out towards Ocean. "First have some respect and call me Boss man" Ocean sighs, a drop of water hanging from the ceiling right above them took a leap-breaking the fork apart like grains of sand. "Second. I need you to kill some evil man." tears began to build in Ocean''s eyes, "He killed my son" he weakly mourns, leaving Ten lost for words. "And track down and return my daughter" he adds. "And my prize is I get to kill you?" Ten questions. "No" Ocean''s eye glowed red. Rings of blacks seem to circle over one another on his irises. "I''ll give you the power to do so" the tone in his voice changed, sly and arrogant. "Isn''t she your daughter though? and what about this evil guy?" Ten ask. "A good father always loves his children, to bad Dacry was killed by that slug of a creature." Ocean slyly answers. "My daughter is a rebellious teen, even if I hold no love. Family is family". "You sound possessive" Ten points out before all criticism was cut short by laughter. "You wouldn''t understand. What do you know about family?" Ocean ask. "You killed them" Ten quietly admits, eyes oddly strain from the lack of sleep. "Who''s this dude I'' am supposed to kill anyway?". "I''ll send pictures later but if you need the name call him Hino". Chapter 16:Bad feeling 9 o''clock. Hino thinks, standing around the side walks, mindlessly looking about at people minding their own. "Crap or was it 9pm?" grunting to himself, maybe the note he sent through her mail, didn''t spell things out correctly. No its much more easy to say, that he spelled wrong. Maybe I should give up, his thoughts told him. Digging deep in his pocket, managing to pull out the money he managed to save up from the recycling center. He even brought the umbrella from the last round they met. Maybe I really did screw up. Feeling defeated and just deciding to just go home. "Hey sorry" a man unknowingly bumped into him. "Its cool" Hino respond, watching the man in an odd looking raincoat with the number 10, printed at the back. "Sports fan" he thinks before brushing the whole notion off and continue going home. "Hey wait up!" the same guy called out to him. "Do I know you?" Do I know anyone who looks like they haven''t shave in a month? Hino asked himself-to him this guy is way weirder then he is. Stucked looking at one another, shoulders slouched, absent mindedly looking at one another. "Sorry I think I need some glasses" the guy said with a smile before walking off. "Where''s Mari?" he could only wander before walking away, completely given up on meeting her. "Dude?" a girl called out to him, bringing excitement back to a full hundred only too drop lower then before. "Oh its just you" Hino sighs seeing Princi walking over in typical student uniform. "Your a bitch for being moody to see me" she spoked, swinging around her bag. She laughs seeing Hino''s look of being stood up by a girl she never heard off. "Shut up!" he tries to shut her up, using his hands to shut her mouth-while the crowd watches at their antics. "Both of you need a muzzle!" Andi scoffs, walking over to separate the two, holding both of them apart by neck. Caught between a tight squeeze, unable to break free till agreement of good behavior. "Princi why aren''t you at school?" taking a sip from his canteen. "I woke up late" she confidently responded. "Is that so...." Andi could only say. Opening the car door, making the two weary on what he''s about to do next. "Get in" were the words he only said. Not before dragging Princi into the backseat, locking her behind the door while Princi knocks against the window. "Kids must always go to school" he proclaims. "I may not be a real cop but I know when education is important" he told Hino as he looks at Princi kicking against the glass, ignoring the crowd actively diverting their eyes. "Your should reopen soon, Hino. Get some education" he said before driving Princi to school. "I should go home and study" Hino muttered to himself, sweating as he left the scene. ..... "Do you ever had a bad feeling?" Connor asked, standing at the entrance of the Mega mall. "I got kicked by a girl" Andi answered on the other end of the phone. "We are agents, we eliminate threats. Results justify the means" he said, clearly aware of what Connor is thinking about.This content has been misappropriated from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere. Looking at all the guards and plenty of set up being done for Chairman Phillip''s public event. Observing the 10 psychic joining the security team for public sweeping, the rows of armed guards-lined up outside the entrance being brief of positions and possible danger across the environ of the mall. The train manager of a nearby station, coming over to be brief over by the secretary of the chairman. No chairman in sight. Walking around the cross walks, endlessly listening to the his seniors rambling. "What about the experimental division and those two?" he finally asked. "I don''t trust the public''s power" Andi answers. "The main goal for us are the elimination of the four criminals, not a political agenda" the words seem to send a cold down Connor''s spine. "The chairman is mainly cheese" "The girl is prideful but is quick to kill" Andi mentions Princi in a tired tone. "That boy has a higher chance but chances are unknown" mentioning Hino. "One does it for the fame, the other to improve their life style. Both are simple motivation" Andi indicates to Connor. "Simple motivation goes a long way" "As for the Experimental Division. Their the Doctor''s hand" Andi answered before ending the call. "The Doctor" Connor muttered to himself, looking at a piece of trash on the floor. Then turning his head at the Mega mall, wondering if 10 psychics and the best security could even guard a man. If its all for the elimination of the four criminals, where would they be at now? There''s so much uneasiness inside of him. "I need to buy some lucky tokens now" he admits to himself. ..... "Ocean isn''t joining" Morri said, contently smiling atop the roof. "So its still on?" W laying against the parapet, looking the opposite direction from Morri. Down, adjacent towards the building their on. A convenient store sat there, few kids were out and about, hanging around the outside. "What are we standing around her for?" W asked, his feline-like eyes peering intently at the doors of the store. Two man left out the store, one with his shoulders tucked together, nervously looking left and right before crossing the road. Standing beside him, a blonde haired man with round glasses and wide shoulders. Donning a black coat, covering a white uniform, teeth making a grinding sound as he rubs them against each other. "You hear me! Next time I get back I want to see all your inventory organized!" a short-tempered woman with neck long hair yells out, scaring the children away. "All the labels facing outwards perfectly! You hear me!!". Trying to calm her rowdy antics, was a man of average height with an arm cast sling over his right arm. "What even is this?" W questions Morri, "These nutjobs?". "Relax, the four of them are equal to you" Morri response. Pointing towards the nervous man with his shoulders tucked, "His name is V". Weaving over towards the lady and the guy Morri smiles, "Their both disastrous. Comparable to you even". Comparable? W perplexed being called similar to those two he barely seen or heard. "Oh and that''s DW" W watches the last person getting name dropped, the blonde in the coat standing still. "He''s gonna kill plenty" Morri claims. Hearing the confidence in his boss''s words, he couldn''t help but laugh at the prospect. "Shall we test that out?" he asked, turning one of his hands, from solid flesh to a grey-hazy shape that ripples and floats. Piercing its way out from his palm, a semi-translucent blade shoot forth, in the direction of an unsuspecting DW. BANG An bang filled the air for a second before the evening got quiet once more. Morri laughs, pointing the confused W towards the nearby wall. A small hole imbedded the stone-bricked wall, with cracks stretching out from center point. "N-no way!!!" W with sweat forming on his forehead. "I couldn''t see" was all he could say. Looking back at the blonde guy from earlier, now walking along side the other three-whistling and laughing along with the lady. "Now you see" Morri chuckles, "aren''t they such fun?". What is this bad feeling? W question himself, the weather of the evening seem to calm his nerves down a little but his pride feels weak. How? Chapter 17:Do you know a girl with pigtails? No shops opened around a time like this. 11pm sure is a moment, Hino note to himself-rummaging through his pockets for that coupon he saved up for awhile. The moon seem to have gotten bigger over the night, oddly enough the street seem to be empty then usual. The large monsoon drain, seem to be drained dry. Over the the small bridge over to the other side, Hino continue too walk and walk still trying to find that coupon in his pants. "Hey you" a voice spoked beside his left ear. A blast of wind brushed into Hino''s face-breathing against his neck, on hind legs towering a head above Hino. "Do you know a girl with pigtails?" this mysterious person questions Hino, knuckles cracking before stretching its arm back before yawning loudly. "Who?" Hino asked, unfazed by this mysterious person. Face to face with a clearer view of each other, all Hino sees was a tall muscular man with hind legs, long muscular arms ending with sharp claws. That wasn''t what weirded him out, its head the shape of an almond with three eyes opening up to look at him. "Do you know a girl with pigtails?" it asked again, this time baring a set of teeth. "Xenomorph?" Hino thinks, before walking away. fwoosh The mysterious guy appears in his face in an instant. "Do you know a girl with pigtails?" it asked once more. "Dude I don''t know any girls, go to a school of something!" Hino responded, noticing the guy actually took the hint and vanished-the sound of a vacuum in the air present for a second. Unfazed, he continued to walk off-eventually paying full for a burger and heading home for the night. ....... Luck must be on his side today, the apartment''s lift is working steadily today. Hino down the halls in his slippers, taking a step at a time, the next one more louder then the previous. Hurt from loosing the coupon, he stood outside room 12-13 in a tight grimace. Every time he closed his eyes, he could see everyone in a void. Andi, Connor, his school mates-"Oh right school might reopened" he recalled- Princi with her face full of glee and that sadistic look in her eyes, how did he get along with her, he has no idea. Finally the biggest of them all, Mariko smiling back at him. Somehow his eyes twitch and that same urge to cry wanted to break free. Reminded that he isn''t invincible, he brushed away that image of her in his mind. "No cockroaches for a month!" he sings, happily opening the door. Aghast with his mouth hanging down. Across the living room, sitting next to the coffee table, inviting herself with a glass of water. A girl, about a year or two below his age with pigtails and dressed in an over sized jacket. "Huh?" Hino sneers at her, closing the door behind him. Like in one of those national geography episodes on how to react to a wild animal, Hino lowers himself, crouching down to a comfortable position. "Eat coke!" he yells out, throwing the cup of coke towards her direction in full force. Raising her hands, the girl with pigtails reacted oddly. Still sipping on her glass, as the two of them watch the cup of soda slowly shrivel upped, all its contents bursting out forming a shape. A hatchet, Hino realize, managing to dodge it-an inch from his nose, now imbedded to the door. Grabbing the dark brown handle, fizzy bubbles still visible inside. Hino leaps over prepared to finish this. Using the coffee table as a barrier, the girl splashes her water, forming a translucent knife, charging towards Hino. Dodging and leaping back in circles, occasionally taking a few swings and slashes at one another-unable to land a hit on one another. "Is she a girl or something else?" Hino kept wondering, one part hesitant to take her out in one go, the other part of him wanted to finish this, so the burger could be enjoyed. Both valuable arguments made. The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation. Landing a swift blow to the gut. "Gottcha" he excitedly proclaims, readying to strike down with the Coca-Cola axe. Ptooey ...... she spits a burst of water out of her mouth, forming it to a dagger and placing a small cut over Hino''s cheek. "You should have gone for the head" she said-dropkicking him out his window at full force. "That''s Thanos''s line" he yelled, falling downwards. Catching himself on one of those balcony railings the lower floors have. Bare feet touching the air and a hatchet that tasted sweet in his mouth, Hino held on. Pulling himself up, standing on the railing, hatchet in mouth, looking up to see the girl with a pair of bottle water in each hand. "Please don''t jump down here" Hino begs. She jumps, releasing the water in free fall, forming a staff of liquid before sprouting scythe-like blades on either end. Jumping towards the railing next to him, Hino wonder if he''s like a monkey-leaping on all fours with an axe between his teeth. Grabbing one Hino''s neighbor''s flower pot and kicking in towards him. Laughing at the sight of the pot exploding before making contact, he soon dreads. Reminded of the fact that his neighbor tends to over water her plants. Piercing through the cloud of dirt that filled the air, six murky colored blades broke passed the cloud, each piercing Hino. "Ninja" was all he could say, wishing for the fact instead of only net geo wild, he should have watched the history channel as the sound of a vacuum catches him. ..... Exhausted with his wounds already healed back. Hino awoke, greeted by the scene of that xenomorph guy from earlier chocking the girl as he held her over the edge. "Daughter of the sea! I have found!! Glory is mine!!!" the guy was yelling to himself. "Go kill yourself" the girl struggles to speak, helplessly hitting against her captor. "A person in danger" Hino worries, but she did try to kill him earlier but he also attempted the same. What would Princi had done? Kill both of them, was what Princi would have told him in this situation. "Fuck it!". Charging forward with the same hatchet. Hino swings only to touch air, with Mr xenomorph standing next to him, girl in hand-yawning. "Dude I thought we were a team?" he asked "Do looks really matter?". "What?" Hino flabbergasted at the topic switch, suddenly feeling a force so strong he couldn''t react in time. In the air he dropped, this time without anything to reach for. Looking down as the earth rises up to catch him. "I thought we were friends" Xenomorph man teared up for a moment. "I''ll kill you for this" he roars towards the girl. "Daughter of the sea, your father wishes for blood!!" he laughs. "And that I''ll earn a place in his friend group!!!" he kept laughing, eyes tearing-reminded of Hino. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... The chainsaw''s engine response to the laughter. "Both of you only know how to waste time and food" Hino muttered under his breath. "Let the girl go. I''m gonna need her to clean my house" Hino adds, revving the engine with a dead stare towards the girl, as she smiles in shock. "I''m speed" Xenomorph man said, getting on all fours-blitzing forwards. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr..... Hino cuts through, severing an arm. "That''s Lightning Macqueen''s line" Hino said, slinging the chainsaw on his shoulder. "And this thing is from the trash down there" pointing towards the apartment''s trash dump. "So you lost an arm to a piece of trash, dude" he adds to the wound. With fear in his eyes, Xenomorph man crouches-pressing hard on the roof, leaving cracks branching and spreading around him. BAMM... he leaps upwards, speeding away, leaping from building to building. "Maximum effort" Hino whispered towards the chainsaw, lips closely touching the machine. "Remember the best final moves are those with great names to back them up" he recalled Princi''s words during his introduction to her. Widening his stance, twisting his body towards the right, pulling the chord a few times. 1...2...3!!! Hino swings. "Maximum Chainsaw Hammer Throw!!!" he yells out, sending that rusty piece of machinery into the air. Watching it spin around in the air, bouncing like a ball from building to building without any sense, tailing behind Xenomorph man. Finally landing the killing blow. A truck was closed by to the scene, unknowably running over the dead guy''s corpse, leaving jam all across the streets. "Well that''s done" Hino patting his hands. "Are you gonna help clean my room?" he stares at the girl, shyly agreeing. Caught in a moment of Mariko appearing in his mind, the frustration dropped. Sighing, he corrected what he said. Now inviting her for some snacks and drinks........after cleaning his place. Chapter 18:Red eyes from the relative Dust kicking up in the air, leaving Hino dumb founded at the struggle she''s having-adjusting the living room. "Just go and have the soda" Hino sighs-taking her place to just do the cleaning. "Why did you break into my house?" he asked, on his knees, picking up the stacks of newspapers and other pieces of junk, littered around. "And what did that guy meant by you being the daughter of the sea?". She laughs, beating on the sofa. "Cause I really am. Now I need a bodyguard" she explains. "Well good luck with that" he respond, finish cleaning the place. Deciding to head to the showers, exhausted from earlier. From the living room, he could hear the news in the background. "Hey what should I call you?" he ask. "Remi!!" she yells out. "Remi, huh" he whispered to himself, inviting himself into the bathroom. Doors locked behind, crouching down with his knees between his arms. "Holy shit. Holy shit. I invited a beast into my house!!" his words echoed internally inside. "So arrested, so arrested" Hino repeats his mind, Andi might kill him if he finds out. "What would Mari do?" he questioned, tears in his eyes as he lay face flat on the bathroom''s floor. "Crap she''s still in my head" Hino panics, thrashing his legs and arms around the air. "Hey body guard guy!!" Remi yells, banging on the other side of the door. "Don''t call me that! I ain''t one!!" he yells, leaving the bathroom. Noticing Remi''s sudden disappearance, the house seem to have gotten quiet or of a sudden. This cold sensation, enticed his senses. Ding dong..... the bell rang, surprised at the proper functionality of his apartment''s door bell, Hino loitered forward having his fingers wrapped around the knob. "Who else knows my apartment?" he questioned himself, excitingly opening the door. "Is this you?" Now face to face with a picture of himself, staring with an odd smile at him. "I guess?" Hino agrees. "Good. Now I''m gonna kill you" the man spoked. Zipping the mask-part of his jacket upped, kicking Hino back across the living room. Noticing Hino left stunted on the floor, the man with the number 10 carries on. Pulling a knife and charge forward. Missing by an inch, Hino dodges-sliding below the man''s arm. "I just clean this place!!!" he cries out in annoyance "This is a no knife zone, you hear me!!!". Dropping the knife, the man continues on, spinning and kicking as he goes. Dodging on all fours, Hino leaps across his home before seeking refuge in the bathroom. "Hey get out there" the man called out to Hino. "Are you gonna kill me?" Hino yells from the bathroom. "Definitely" he heard his reply. "Well then I ain''t coming out!!" Slamming opened the bathroom door, where he heard Hino''s voice earlier. An empty bathroom with no Hino in sight, drop of water repetitively fall from the faucet, leading him to close it tightly. Lights on. Standing at the only exit out of the room, scanning the perimeter before looking upwards. "What are you Spider man or something?" he asked, seeing Hino-stretched out at all fours, clinging to the corner of the ceiling. "What are you the Hulk?" Hino retorted-looking in deep discomfort at his position. Hurt at the comment and looking at himself in the mirror, face covered over by the jacket''s mask with a hood over his head, leaving his eyes visible. "Moon Knight or Taskmaster would have been better!!" he argued back "I''m wearing white over here!!". "Haven''t heard of them!!!" Hino yells-swinging down-legs straight towards his killer. "Fuck you!!!" Ten yells, hurdling he and Hino out the window, into the night. "Not again!" Hino yells. Air passes by his ear in rapid speed. 11....9..7....he counted the floor before hitting solid ground. Ten was above him a little, falling down with him. "Crap what should I do?" Hino tries to figure, seeing Remi looking at him on the railings from one of the lower floors. "Focus" he kept repeating to himself, loosing track of his enemy in the air. Where did he go too? There''s no where to go in the air? Had he landed?This book was originally published on Royal Road. Check it out there for the real experience. Abruptly his descend quickens with an unknown force pressing down on him. Thunk!... The back of his head burst out. Unconscious on the road, his arms and legs loosing strength as he laid there like a dead deer. Appearing over him, Ten stood over him-heart hurting with a sharp poked. "Over 30 seconds" he struggle to say, gripping tightly to his chest. "Atleast one over". Before letting him walk off, Hino reaches out-holding him by the shoulders. "How!!" he reacted, hiding his surprised. "You didn''t hit me hard enough" Hino claims, ready for round two. A shadow engulfed the two of them, having to seek upwards to find the source. A large cylinder, connected by a thin pole-purely out of water. Remi crashed down swinging her gigantic mass onto to the streets. The dust dissipate, reveling no witnesses or injured participants. A total miss. "That''s the guy!!" she pointed for Hino to see. "That''s the reason I need a bodyguard" "Like I''m one" he replied laying on the road exhausted. "Got to clean again" Hino said in a dull tone as he get to his feet. "Like no one else is watching. No one can stop me from doing too much". "I need to be serious now" Ten sighs. "You alright?" Hino concern. "He might be bad in the head" he thought in his head. "I need to put in more effort" Ten said, readying himself. Running away from the two. "Tactical retreat!" he repeats as he runs off. The two of them looking at one another, flabbergasted. "I''m not chasing after him" Hino points out, tired from all of this. Remi agrees, explaining that she''s hungry of some bread. "Your cheap" Hino comments, accepting her desire for bread. "I like them toasted" she comments as they walked in together. ..... Laying in bed, with Remi having the couch and all the blankets and pillows-leaving him laid empty on an empty bed, staring up at the ceiling. "What do I do?" he kept thinking, the snores outside by Remi managed to distract him from his thoughts a little. He still kept on thinking about it. What was "it" he''s thinking? Hands folded behind the pillow, crossing his right leg over on top the left. Silently staring up at the ceiling. "Oh wait she''s the Living Ocean''s daughter" he recalled. The word "Ocean" repeated in his mind as his eyes weight down. ....... The calm before the storm like they always said. The warm sensation of the sun basking over him, the roar of ceremonial drums banging with dancers on rafts, in coordination. The softness of his mother''s hands, the protective roughness of his dad''s. That rushed of being pulled along right behind his parents. When was the last? The rush, the wind weaving all around them like snakes around their prey, the wetness of the earth below them-effortlessly sinking down with every step. The terror on their faces as he blissfully smiles. Had he not known what happened? Oh they died..... Red eyes. A single large one, he recalled looking straight at it once, where was that. He even recalled a great shaking, followed by wind carrying buildings up into its vortex. The people were screaming also. The storm ate the sun. Red eyes Red eyes Red eyes Ocean! He yelled to himself inside. Eyes twitching, his arms shaking. His heart seem to beat louder then his breath, did he even slept at all? Ocean! Ocean! Ocean! What are these thoughts? Kill Kill Kill Kill No... No.... Family. Die Die Die Die Die No..... Can''t Family. Gone. Take family...... Like a zombie, groggy and half awaked. Opening the door without a single creek, Hin step out. A step at a time, makes his heart race. Acquiring a kitchen knife, he continues towards the living room, looming over a fast asleep Remi. Her breath going at smooth pace. Finger wrapped tightly around the handle. The moon light peering through the curtains, illuminating over him. Light reflected off from its silver surface. Raising up above her, readying himself, the beating in his heart-silent then before. "Is this it?"-"Am I really"-"Am I going to?"-all these thoughts came flooding at the last moment. She looks human but she clearly isn''t. He could kill Rana, Fauna, Luna or Lana and possibly even Nana he had killed but every time he tries, he sees Emily. All those from school, the hospital, everyone. "I can''t" he regretfully sighs. Guilty. He left the knife, deciding to grab a coat and head out for someone. Looking back at the sleeping Remi, unknown to what could have happened, he tearfully closes the door behind. Chapter 19: Crazy Normalcy Stepping out the convenient store with a pack of groceries for everyone. Lighting a cigarette as he trots through the streets, taking right turns, ignoring the moving cars as he skips over to the other side. Abruptly, a man yelled towards him, poking his head out while banging violently at him. "Can''t you see I''m driving here" the driver managed to scream before falling silent. Hand hanging off the window with his head lazily press on his shoulder. The center of his forehead, a distinct hole. "Its rude to be loud in public" DW responded, dusting his coat before whistling away. "Hey! What took you so long!! " a woman with shoulder length hair, standing tall close by to a restaurant. "You got ban from that store" DW response pushing pass her into the building-" I got your sandwich Blythe!" he calls out towards the other two inside the restaurant. Boots soaked in the blood of many dead customers, leaving him annoyed at the fact, that they killed people without him. "Morrigan said your not allowed too" the woman announced to him. "How long do I need to wait!!!" he questions, slamming the groceries on the table in front for all to see. "If you were organized like yours truly. Maybe you would get too!!" she retorts, pressing her hand onto her chest in pride. "I''ll tear apart that skin your wearing" he quietly answered, handing the store sandwiches to Blythe. "I got store ice cream for you too. V"-handing a cup of ice cream to the nervous man seated on top the last remaining waiter with a tight grimace on his face. "Nice chair" DW thought before pulling a seat over. Watching the two guys casually devour the meals he had gotten for them, he sighs-lighting a cigarette for himself and another for the woman. "So how long do we need to wait?" he asked. "A few more weeks, heard its getting pushed to an earlier period" Blythe answered, struggling to remove the packaging. Watching Blythe receiving help in opening his sandwich. DW sat there ruminating to the first time he meet him-the Morrigan-"Do you like crazy?" he recalled him saying those words to him, behind bars. Remembering the feeling of being shackled up in an iron box, he rubbed against his wrist. "I''ll have you someone crazy enough to satisfy" the Morrigan told him-he could still hear his weak voice in his head, dry and rusted from confinement-he agrees. Those gaps in his memories, hand reaching out towards the Morrigan, guiding him out from his chains. "Don''t kill till I bring your gift" he recalled him saying. Rubbing his fingers between locks of blonde. Noticing his cigarette had died out, huffing out all the smoked build up inside his artificial lungs, he sighs-" I''m the Joker". Looking at the confused looks at all three of his comrades, each showing a deeper level of concern and confusion-"What?" he asked, crushing the dead cigarette bud in his palms. "I''m Morrigan''s wild card aren''t I?". "Y-you me th-the boss?" V profusely corrects him. "Yeah whatever" DW brushes him off, "I''m his first choice". "And what does that have to do with anything, your messy and inefficient" she argues back, shoving Blythe away from stopping her. "Like you knew anything Zhang-Min. For all I know you were chosen third!". "Well security was easier there because your not a threat!" slamming the table. "Bitch you wanna fight!!" DW yells back, adjusting his glasses. "If wolves are civilized so can you two" an exhausted voiced spoked, followed by a tapping of a cane. "Zhang-Min. DW. Blythe. V." Morri called out to them. Immediately the four of them got down to their knees, heads down facing the floor. "Pretty messy here" he acknowledge the bloody place, "You didn''t kill anyone here DW?". A simple "no" DW answered. "Good good" he taps against his shoulder. "I''ve secured your crazy" his boss whispered. ..... 2am? 4am? Fuck who knows! Hino panics, laying seated against the door, far from home and surrounded by the current rain. He at there helplessly waiting. "Thank god" he said to himself, his mouth quivering in guilt, thank goodness his hands had stopped shaking. Embarrassingly. He sat there trying to hold the pain inside. "Would I really kill a person?" "I can''t kill a person." "Can I?" All these questions seemed to bother him, trying to figure out how to navigate around all these thoughts. Pressing his fingers into his head....... "Hino?" her voice pulled him to attention. "Mari?" he automatically spoked, an invisible string seem to tucked against him, leading him forward-towards her. Hands stretching towards such unreachable lengths-somehow she seem to drift further and further from him, into a blur-before collapsing beneath her feet. Her footstep''s ran steadfast towards him, her touch seem to wrap across his being as the doors opened.This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings. "This is uncalled for!!" she annoyingly stated as she drags him in. The smell of earl grey seem to fill the air as they entered. "I just when out for groceries and before I had night school and now you" she chuckles, getting comfortable laying against the wall. "You must really be in love with me" she jokes, looming her face over Hino''s. Blood boiled below skin of of cheek, now glowing a bright red as he desperately covers himself. "Wait here for me" Mariko pokes the tip of his nose. "Where you going too?" Hino in a lower tone. "To freshen up. Of course" she said, making her way to the bath. "Every time I come into her home. I feel I lack something in mine. Its small but somethings missing?". Staring at the ceiling with the buzzing of the fan in the back of his mind, he wonders what does he even feel? "I nearly killed a person" he repeated to himself. "I feel happy being here" he admits it. Stretching his arms out. "I have a house. I live comfortably, no need to pay rent just dinner. I get to pick dinner." "Why do I feel not enough?" Stuck in thought, abruptly the bathroom door burst opened with Mariko walking out with a towel wrapped around their hair. "I said wait for me, not staying on the floor for 10 minutes" she laughs. "I''ll make tea!" Hino abruptly sprout up from the floor. "Err Ok?" she agreed "The top carboard" she said. "Ok" ..... "The water is a bit cold" she judge "That''s ok". Dressed in comfortable clothes, with the look of admiration in her eyes. "W-what were you doing out?" throwing out a regular question as he looks at her processing his words. "The latest news got out on the paper" she pointed towards the stacks of paper, poking out from the bag she carried. "There''s the news of chairman Phillip''s upcoming announcement to the public" she further adds. "Right". He could only answered that, recalling what Andi briefed him about, the bodyguard thing. Looking over towards Mariko, taking in her presence and everything around her. He couldn''t help but feel this sense of confidence being closed to her, suddenly and those negative thoughts and feelings don''t seem to exist, when he has eyes on her. "You Ok?" Hino asked, noticing the look of lost all over her face. "Just thinking about-" she paused, swallowing down her throat and picking the words carefully. "Everything". "I''ve read an article about monsters getting smarter these days" she pointed out to Hino, "And the rise of people turning into monsters", her look of now concern. "Do you believe those monsters, could still be considered people?" she asked, drawing a circle around the rim of her coffee cup. "Did I struck a conundrum?". "What?" was all that was present in his head. What was he supposed to say? He sure doesn''t know alot about a topic these hard to grasp. The look on her face seem to really want an answer from him, all he could do was look at her lips. "Look at her eyes" he warned himself. "That''s all right" she responded. "Oh look the storm is still on. Looks like you wouldn''t be able to go home." she said, hands held together. Leaning in, she whispered in a soft tone "Do you wanna sleep with me?". The question sounded simple, but the response couldn''t reach him. "How did this happened?" "Wasn''t I confused earlier" "Am I confused?" "Someone help tell me what to do?!!!!" She yawns, getting up to put the two of their cups in the sink. "Oh" she responded to herself, staring at a calendar. Memories must have flooded inside her, noticing that tears were seemingly forming in her eyes. "Do you recall that disaster incident?" she asked "The day the Walking Wind and the Living Ocean made a visit?". Hino nods, with his own memories trying to break to the surface. "My parents died" he admits facing the wall. "Me too" he was shocked to hear. "My parent left me this house right here" she added. The sensation of eyes looking at him, brings fright to Hino. "Red eyes" he recalled in his head, red eyes-their owner killed his parents. How was he even able to survive that? "How did you kept going?" Hino asked, restraining his voice and so as his words from flooding out to chaos over Mariko. "I didn''t" Thud.....His back braced the fall. Hand gripping against his chest, his breath chaotic. Rubbing his feet against the ground, breaking into tears of guilt. "What''s wrong" Mariko came over, holding Hino still as she comforts him. "The daughter of all this is in my home" his words echoed in his mind, from deep within his thoughts. An image of Remi with the same, red colored eyes staring with a sadistic smile in his home, another of Mariko''s severed head cuddle between Remi''s arm and a laugh that stretches horizons. "Would would you take revenge?" he asked between the tears. Pushing away both of his arms and sandwiching her''s on either side of his head. She pulled closer. "No" "I survived" "I''ll live my life" "And so should you!" Seeing this closeness shared between them, all these tears pouring out just for him. Why wasn''t he strong like her? "I''m sorry" Hino begs, only for it all to be ignored by her-silencing him with a tight embrace between the two of them. "Can you stand?" she asked. Hino nods. Walking side by side through the narrow hallways with Mariko leading him an inch forward towards her room. "Its quite small" she chuckle about her room. "It''s bigger then mine" Hino said. Laying in bed with blankets over them. The idea of being in the same bed with a girl would have excited anyone of his age but somehow those feelings seem to non- existing. What happened to me? Was all he wished to know. "Am I broken?" he turned his head towards a dead corpse staring back at him. "No" her voiced spoked, snapping him back "There''s no such thing as broken". "There''s not even such a thing as perfect" she added. "If I had another house" Hino said, eyes up towards the ceiling, deep in his thoughts. "I would love it to be cozy and be able to afford enough that the only thing I worry was what to eat or wear." he admitted. "It sounds lonely living like that forever, I wouldn''t mind living with someone like you". Facing her back towards him, she chuckles "That''s a nice dream". Those words seem to brought a deep soothing feeling, finally the tears stop and sleep can finally reach him once more. Chapter 20: Musica "Oh look that smile of yours is back" Happiness was all over her face, so was his. Wearing a confused smile, Hino''s eyes peered opened, annoyed at the morning light sneaking in between the curtains. "I made eggs." Mariko informed him. "Join me at the balcony"..... Scruffy hair and the dry smell of saliva in the back of his throat, made him seem unappealing. Mariko doesn''t seemed bothered by his lack of morning hygiene. "It isn''t hot outside. The weather is cooling!" she called to him, the glass door leading to the balcony, now wide opened. The wind messing around with the curtain, greeting Hino as he steps out. A small table was set with two chair on either side and a great view of the morning. On the middle of the table, a miniature glass vase with clear water in it, for a purple flower to sit in. "Eggs are getting expensive right now" she sighs. "So eat up!" she corrected herself. "Its been awhile since I had eggs" Hino thought before gorging down on it. Breaking apart his meal into bits and eating it one at a time, having the occasional glance towards Mariko. "This tasted so good" he admits to himself, observing closely towards her-holding a slice of toast towards her lips as she bites down. "So soft" he whispered to himself, restraining his voice from travelling further away from his own lips. There''s so many things he could say right then and there. What was the right one to say at this moment, everything felt so perfect. Was a one in a million? The sky has just started to brighten itself up, the wind was calm and near. Its still early, the feeling of privacy feel stronger then ever. There''s so much Mariko did for him, finding and taking him back to her home not once but three times. It has to mean something in his head, it has to be..... A thump has set itself deep inside his chest, calling loudly to break free. Without realizing everything had been finished on his plate, with only a few crumbs to remember their existents. "Help me" he cried out inside. There''s this deep cold growing inside of him, going against the warmness of his blood-leaving him in sweat. Nothing feels right to say, neither his own thoughts feel like his own. A bird once perched on one of the buildings not too far out in the distances, took flight. "I love you" The words came pouring out like vomit after an upset stomach. Sweat covering his face, Hino with only his eyes looking forward, anticipating her reaction. "No." Who knew a simple word could strike so deep. Immediately his head gone blank, nothing could pass through his head, its like his head had already reached up into the clouds, with no intent of coming down. "It''s just I''m two years older then you" Mariko said, "I hope you could understand". "There''s a lot of things out there that you don''t know about. I can''t risk letting you experience all that so fast". I understand. Atleast that what he hoped to say at that moment, instead his head hurts, hand shaking and one of his eye momentarily twitched. Nothing was going on in his head. Unable to speak a word, Hino nods, standing up from his seat and inviting himself out. Not before giving a faint smile and a wave goodbye to her. ...... Stopping at a cafe this early in the morning with a blank expression still on his face. "One black coffee" Hino orders from the waiting before continuing to loathe in silence. Staring out the window, watching at all the people getting out of their home to begin their day. Some kids in school uniforms walking pass the cafe towards class, a office worker rushing early and even other shops besides the cafe starting to open up. "Chairman Phillips latest announcement would seen heard by all in a week" the radio at the cafe''s counter announces as Hino''s coffee is served. Bleugh!!! He coughs out all of its contents, weirding out the waitress serving him. The bitterness tasted awful. How could anyone drink this? he asked himself before paying the bill and leaving that place. Promising himself to not come back again. Down the streets he ran. Crossing over the bridge above a drain, pass the recycling center and eventually towards home. Behind closed door with no Remi in sight. He laid right there, back turned against the door. A beam of light had invited themselves into his home through the still opened window. There''s still no sign of Remi or even a trace she could have left behind. Too bad, Hino doesn''t plan on looking at her also. He nearly planned to kill her in sleep. Why was that again? His thoughts couldn''t place a reason on it. Silently sitting there. Time must have passed but who knows how long that has been going before a knock from outside caught his attention. At this moment? he questioned. It couldn''t be the neighbors, he didn''t owe them a dime or any. "Woi!! Woi!!! Its Princi!!!" she yelled before kicking against the door. "Fuck you!!!" Hino yells from the other side, later deciding to look at her in the face. "What do you want?" Hino asked, voiced groggy and his head lowered. Dropping down stack of books and papers on the floor with the name of his school etch on the cover of one of them. "Connor told me to drop off your school work" she said. "And to hand you this" she added dragging out a large black case, comparable to a standard guitar case from out the corner. Unauthorized usage: this narrative is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. "What that for?" he asked. "I don''t know" Princi admits "but the old guy said who couldn''t risk precious time for you to call out a rusty tool". "Andi?" Hino wonders. Placing her hand on his shoulder, trying to assure him that she tried to vouch for him. "Hey I tried to defend you but comparing between the two of us. I''m more efficient at calling a spear then you" she smile, nudging at his shoulder before skipping around the hallway. In a somber mood, Hino staring at the black case in sharp focus. Am I not strong enough? he wondered to himself, as he gotten weaker? So much to worry and think about, not enough time to be himself. "Hey why don''t we get all this inside" Princi proposed wrapping an arm around Hino, "Then we hit the road, I brought my spear!!". Silently he agrees. ...... Whistling loudly. Resting a short spear against her back. Princi traipses through alleyways with Hino struggling to avoid the many small corpses of monsters-littered all over the place-most of the corpses pierced with a gaping hole. "Hey Princi? How old are you?" Hino asked. Stopping towards a dead end. "About 15. Same age as you" she answered ,taking a stretch then spinning her spear around her shoulder. "Why? Interested?" she responded with a perky smile, having a hand pressed against her chest. Staring at said chest, before quickly shifting his eyes away, giving a short answer. "Gross". "You don''t know quality when you see one" Princi responded, offended at the comment. "Your speaking like a kid" Hino retorts before falling silent once more. "Sounding like a kid!!" she repeated. "I have you that I''m what you call hot stuff!!!" she retorted again, not getting Hino''s reaction or attention-yet still soaring high in the sky. "Still childish, I think way older then you" Hino responded, choosing to keep it within himself. Amidst her constant rambling of her beauty and achievements she receive at her school, a scent caught her attention, putting her on high alert as she charges off. "Kill! Kill! Kill!!". "There you go running again" his voice lowered as he follows behind. "Fucking bitch stop going so fast" he tries to get the words out towards her as he tries to catch up towards her, slowly loosing her in the crowd. "Where the fuck did you go!!!". "princi?" "Princi?" "Princi!!!" "Where did you go?" Walking aimlessly without any signs of her to be found. Where are you? Without a clue on where he should go, where should he face to continue his search. What if she had already gone after another fight? Being on the grassy field outside of town, a forest surrounds the perimeter of field. Behind his back, the town, standing tall in their dilapidated glory. Infront of him was just the edge of that forest, the rustling sounds of grassy brushing against one another by the wind. The continuous sound of an unseen stream, feeling his ears with this serene feeling-yet that forest up ahead, shakes him. Right there. A young girl stood there, within the grasp of the forest, with messy dark hair and eyes that never know the difference between right and wrong. Taking notice of his presence, she ran deep into the maw of darkness-leaving him standing there, stuck between staying or going for the chase. "Excuse me" "Excuse me" a man called out to him. "Is this seat taken?" He asked. Stunted from initial confusion for a moment, eyes disturbed by the light blinding on to him. Noticing the darkness surrounding him and the soft comfort of sitting on a chair. "Yeah sure" he nervously respond, unsure how he was here. Staring at the big screen, currently on a scene of a man sitting in his room. Wearing a brown suit, his hands crossed over his face, hiding his mouth as the man on the screen cries. "What is this film?" "Where am I?" "Ermm excuse me, what am I watching?" Hino asked towards the guy seated next to him with a single empty seat between them. "Perks of being a wallflower?" the guy answered "First time watching I assumed?". "Can''t you recall what you were watching?" he asked, "No not really, don''t feel good in my head" Hino respond. "Mine if I catch you up?" the guy asked. Seeing nothing that would go wrong and with the lack of other audience member in the theater, he agrees. "The name''s Mill" he introduced himself. "Mine''s Hino" he responded, even thought he didn''t caught the name. "Well the main character is someone you may is troubled. Personally I find him realistic in a sense. The regular struggles, misunderstanding, love, rejection, pain-its all realistic. So the film is about a boy that struggles alot and the ending, is well, its life " Mill explained as Hino listens. "I guess I could see myself in the main character" Hino acknowledge. "Its feels real" . "I think I could understand the feeling of rejection" Hino said. "Yeah its a driving plot of the film. Love" Mill answered "But we shouldn''t hate the opposite for rejecting us. You see Sam is a real person, not just a love interest in the film. We should treat who we love as an individual". "You really love this fil don''t you?" Hino chuckled silently, still staring deeply at every movement on film. "Yeah this film really does change a person" Mill jokes, "Have you ever been rejected?". "Rejected" that word cuts deep in him. Gulping down the shame, he laughs it off-denying the fact. "No I''m busy" he said. "That''s okay. There''s alot going on these days. Sometimes a film could give you this moment of temporary peace". Mill uttered. "Yeah it does feels peaceful here". Silently they sat there, watching till the movie ends. "Thanks" Mill shakes Hino hand, finally the two being able to have a clearer look at each other. Hino with his dark hair and being only a high schooler and Mill, looking in his early twenties with long strands of hair sitting over his eyes, needing him to adjust his fringe occasionally. "I''ll see you around then Hino". "Hey wait sorry, I couldn''t recall your name again." Hino calls out towards him as he''s leaving the theater. "Morrigan" he smiled, walking off. "I don''t recall you name sounding like that" Hino muttered to himself, now unable to seem him. With no more distraction, not just the empty feeling of shame. He stood there, recalling what that guy said about Sam from the film. Seeing Mariko in his eyes, what was he supposed to do? How what he needed to feel then? "I want to be older" he confessed before walking home. Chapter 21: Guns, Swords, Chainsaw "You two follow me" Connor calls the two of them over, only to receive disappointment from Princi and Hino as they tag along behind him. "Don''t drag your tools around!" he scoffs again. "Hino that cost alot!!! and Princi stop poking random object around with yours!!". "I can''t believe I''m dealing with you two" covering part of his face as he sighs. "Just count your blessings that I''m keeping you alive" Princi response, poking the ground with her spear. "Are you even allowed to carry that around?" Hino asked "Why do I need to carry a case??". "Because your not stupid!" answered Andi, popping out from nowhere and joining their group as they head down towards the Mega Mall. "I think he''s talking about me" Princi whispers in Hino''s ear. "I think your the stupid" Hino thought. Showing a number two with his finger, Andi explains the need for the group to be split apart. "We''ll be having new members joining our group" he adds. Without a moment to digest what was just said, a few familiar and unfamiliar faces appear to be coming towards them. Two obvious agents and two others familiar to the duo. A squirmy lady and a man with puffy hair. "YOU!!!" Hino calls out. "Four eyes!!" Princi joins. "What the hell is he here? I though he''s de-", cut off by Princi as she continue to yell out disagreement with the arrangements and other profanities. "He''s horny!" Hino yells again. "Quite both of you!! You want to make a scene or something!!" Connor chimes in, only to be left ignored and forgotten by the duo-pushing against one another and charging towards the other group. "Hey wait up" Connor words reached deaf ears. "Oh don''t you two miss me" Fuji exclaims, receiving two punches to the face as he said so. "Fucking perv!!!" "Four-eyes load of crap!!!". "And that why I''m splitting the two of you" sighs Andi, lighting a cigarette-greeting the other two agents. "Have you brief on our two new recruits?" Andi asks. Pam, the female agent, flicking her short hair as she answer of the progress of the recruits. "As for yours?" she asked. "Connor go answer them" looking at Connor. "Their both shit for heads but they get the job done" he nervously answers, looking away from the others. "So we are doom?" Iku asked, adjusting his tie. "Relax, you can take the two boys with you to the train station" Andi assured "The rest will patrol the mall." "And if that all goes wrong" Andi''s tone changes, tilting his head down. "I guess I''ll use the experimental group 5". Chuckling nervously , Pam gathering everyone together and dividing everyone into groups of two. Pam, Jesse, Princi, Connor and Andi. The second group, Fuji, Iku and Hino. One within the mall and the other around the train station that passes the mall. Confused, Hino attempts to protest but halted himself from doing so. "Both of you come with me" Iku commands Fuji and him to follow along. "I don''t think I can get along with him" Hino thinks, following behind like a dog. ...... "I like my job to be perfect, I can''t stand a change of plans" Iku narrates, "I''ve created a plan for the three of us, we will be rotating around, on and off the train". Dragging that heavy case around on his back, every step heavier then the last. "What about food?" he asked. "We will have a break between rounds, sandwiches and black coffee. Nothing fancy" Iku answered. Hino''s believes are confirmed. Stepping on the train with a violent crowd trying push in and push out. Shoving the case forward, he made it in-angering a few commuters-exhausted from all that carrying. "I''m depressed now" he whispered to himself, seeing the other two walking through each train carts one by one as he laid they tired. The face of Mariko feels real to him, staring directly at him. "I feel depress". Today waking up early really was a hassle. For once, he decided to make breakfast with whatever he has at home. Canned tuna and toast he made for Remi and himself. He recalled the confused look on Remi''s face, knowing he isn''t the type to use the small kitchen he has. Too Hino, he doesn''t know his reasons for his actions today. "Don''t do anything dangerous while I''m gone" Hino informs Remi, "I have a job for a day". Enjoying their toast, spread with a warm layer of tuna on it. "Eat properly" Hino reminds her, watching her gorge down another slice, leaving a crummy mess over the table. "Your cleaning that up" Hino mutters. "So you would be fighting?" Remi asked. "Probably " he response "And that chainsaw? What about that" "I''m not sure. A buddy of mine told me that I could attract it, if I''m strong enough" Hino answered between each bite, readying for his second slice. "I think your a violent person deep inside" Remi answer, peaking Hino''s curiosity. "What does that mean?" The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement. "I believe what your buddy said is rubbish. She holds a spear right? Spears are a strong weapon, especially if you throw them, those are dangerous" she explains, "That''s why I believe your friend is an ignorant person". "What?" "A spear in the air, can''t be change in its direction until it lands. That''s why I believe your friend is ignorant" Remi points out. "You talk to much during breakfast" Hino brushes off her claims, deciding to get up and leave early. "You wash the dishes, stay out of trouble and don''t let your dad find you" he moans, dragging the heavy case with him. "Am I a violent person? Is that why Mariko....." too much question inside his head. How many rounds has he been going around for, seeing the same things over and over, break time still hasn''t reach yet. "This is exhausting, man" Fuji moans, sitting next to him. "Iku is going to check the entire train by himself. There''s nothing going around, on or off the train". "Why are did took the job?" Hino asked. "Initially you were right, it was the action figures" Fuji admits "then things gotten harder I guess". Hearing that made Hino regret asking in the first place, there isn''t enough space to feel bad for someone else after feeling bad for himself. "What about you?" Fuji asked. "Forced into it" he wanted to say, now thinking about Mariko, he switches his response. "Too protect and get back home". "Woah someone''s acting like a hero" Fuji jokes, giving a light push on the shoulder. "Wanna know why I do what I do?" a guy in regular white jacket sitting opposite to them. "I do mine for revenge" the guy answered without either of them responding. "Do I know you?" Hino scoffs. "How could you forget me Hino, I''m the one to kick you out your window" feeling hurt by Hino''s comment. "No I don''t know you" "Oh sure you do" showing the back of his jacket with a number 10 printed on it. "Yeah I''ve no clue" "Is your memory broken or something" the guy asked Hino once more. "No" "Then why don''t you remember me!!" "Because I don''t!!!" "Put the lighter down, glasses" pointing towards Fuji, sneakily pulling out his gold lighter. Wearing the hood over his head and zipping the zipper all the way up, cover his face like a mask, now only his eyes are visible through the clothes. "Your that guy that attempted to kill me by throwing me out my very own window!!" Hino figures out who he''s seeing. "What''s all this bickering about!!" Iku returns seeing the three talking among themselves. "Do we know you?" taking notice of the assassin in white with the number 10. "Sir I''ll have you know, causing fights with governmental associates may lead you to- " BANG! A hole going through the other side of his forehead, face drench in his blood as Iku collapses on the ground. "Did you do that?" Fuji asked. "Do I look like I have a license?" the assassin response. "I did!" the voice of a blonde man yelled out. Dressed in dark coat with his finger pointed in a shape of a gun as he adjust his glasses. Standing in the middle of the train, smiling "I''m here to kill you all but that''s disrespectful". "They call me DW, I prefer to be called the Joker. If your human, you''ll know me as the Weapon Demon". "One of the four" Fuji mutters grinning his teeth, sparking his lighter as the Joker''s gun hand catches on fire. The assassin''s presence disappeared for a moment, reappearing behind the blonde man-snapping his neck. Abruptly the shocked expression on the Joker''s face spoked. "I have an artificial spine" he said before exploding. Disturbed by the small impact created from the small detonation, the surrounding train carts rattled before returning to its steady pace. "Oh thank goodness I got out of there" the assassin muttered having some dust brushed on him. "He''s still standing" a passenger points out. "Want to know why I call myself the Joker?" a disembodied voice spoke from somewhere inside the headless corpse. From the neck, strands of wires and metallic plates began to sprout, gears turning, armor plating forming the shape of a head. Like a helmet, protecting the fleshy insides of a person the Joker stood tall, eyes covered by armor, a heavy jaw lined with rolls of small knives and three long dreads made of bandoliers-each with a bullet-bursting out from the back of his head. Loud gears grin themselves inside his head. "Well because I''m full of surprises!!" his voice echoed inside his mechanical throat. Looking at his charred arm, without hesitation, he removed the layer of burnt skin on it-exposing the three barrel gun under it. "Light up!!" he yells, opening fire everywhere. Fuji shielded by Hino, who is not riddled with bullet holes and a train filled with the dead, the injured and the carnage. "Mega mall!" the train announced on the speaker as the automatic door opened for the crowd to run out off. "Find Princi!!" Hino yells, pushing Fuji off the train. "What about?" adjusting his glasses, huffing from the shock. "I have alot of emotions to work out" Hino smiles, the door of the train closes. "The name''s Ten. How about a truce?" a hand was given out to Hino. "Do I have a choice?" he asked before shaking. Ten unwrapping the bandages over a tall object he has by his side since the start. The handle long with it splitting out to two directions and a straight long blade ending with a point. "A medieval sword?" Hino chuckles. "What do you got then?" Ten wonders, staring at that large case that''s been bugging him since the moment he found him. Unlocking the buckles, pushing the lid opened. Finger wrapped around a long handle with a trigger to press on attached to it. A small engine was visible but what was more ridiculous to Hino wasn''t them not trusting his ability but the sheer size of it. Similar to a cricket bat not lined with the hooked sharp teeth of a chainsaw. Pressing the trigger the sword roars. "Chainsaw-sword" Hino answers. Laughing. The Weapon Demon laughs in happiness. Removing his tie, whimpering to himself. "Oh Morrigan, I thank you for promising my Crazy". Chapter 22: Down "I''ll kill him" Hino urges himself. Pressing against the trigger. Charging forward towards the Weapon Demon, struggling to balance the mechanical sword in his arms. Missing the first shot, with DW shifting to the side. Pressing his three-barreled gun arm, against Hino''s gut. "Boom" the mechanical voice spoke directly inside, leaving a confuse look on Hino as he lay on the floor-watching the Weapon Demon walked passed him-unable to feel the lower half of his being. "That was quick" Tapping the gun''s barrel against his metallic head, stretching his arm out towards Ten. "Shall we go ahead then?". "I''m tired" Ten sighs, walking passed the Weapon Demon without a second in between. Back arching all the way to the back, gagging from the blood coughing out from the inside. "You ninja" he mourns, hand pressed against a large slash drawn across his chest. "I''m gonna kill you now" he turns back with a punch towards the face. "I though it would last another round" he sighs disappointed, staring at a smoking knuckleduster, beginning to crack. "I''m gonna have to kill you" pointing the tip of the sword towards DW. Repositioning his lower jaw and smiling, the demon charges. Guns blazing, swinging and striking the barrel towards the ninja as he blocks and parries everything against him. "I''m gonna rip you into pieces!" a hook opens up from the side of his arm, locking against the blade. Pushing pressure forward with the blade of the sword, pressing lightly against the surface of the Weapon Demon''s metallic neck as subtle spark begin to fly from it. Showing his knife like teeth with his bandolier braids begin to slither in the air around the two. "Don''t take my heroic spotlight!!!" Hino yells along with the engine blaring loudly as he charges forward. "No distractions" the Weapon Demon stretching one of his leg towards an inch from his face. Stunted from the sudden action, entrance by what was unfolding in front of him. Legs unfolding like the skin of a fruit peeling backwards, inside the leg a narrow barrel sprouted out from it. "Boom" DW mutters, firing from his leg-sending his sword out the train with Hino fumbling down on the floor once more. Kicking Ten aside, turning his focus towards Hino. "What are you gonna do now?" he asked towards Hino, wondering what he would so now. "Why would you care?" Hino scoffs. "You caught my interest". Getting up on his legs, clenching his fist together. "I still have hands to use" spitting a drop of blood from the back of his mouth. Surprised and proud at the response, "I like it" he smiles with his teeth reflecting the face of Hino on all of them. Running and leaping towards his foe, with fists pummeling without effect towards DW''s metallic face. "That doesn''t work" Ten sighs "You should stop". "Yeah listen to your friend" the Weapon Demon stood still, disappointed at Hino''s unaffected attacks. "Balls then!!!" Hino yells, striking into the crouch. An echo rings through out the train. "Fuck my leg" Hino cries out on the floor, holding on to his foot. "I don''t have any balls" DW reveals "This is just human skin" he points out towards Hino. Reaching hand towards Hino, sinking his fingers into his neck as he struggles. Hands throwing out towards the air, fingers trying to claw out at everything. On another compartment of his arm, another gun opens out pointed towards Hino''s forehead. "You wear skin?" Ten asked, uninterested to do much. Ignoring Hino''s struggle in the grip of his arm, the Weapon Demon turns his head a full 180 degrees. "This skin''s owner was a Russian survivor during the disaster" the demon admits "I bet you never heard about that country anymore, it isn''t on the maps". "Now shall we?" asking Hino, receiving nothing as the window their standing next to shatters. With the shards spreading everywhere as if something as just invited themselves on to the train. "I just needed time" Hino answers, holding up his returned chainsaw-sword. "How?" the demon and the ninja both asked. Blood was splashed inside the train, the source from the severed arm of the Weapon Demon, then something else started to grow from the truncated parts. Sharp pieces of metal and wires, wrapping themselves up around one another, a scene so organic in nature yet so alien. "Cutting my arm off" he chuckles to himself "Your fun". Pushing hard as he groans with the metal growing in size. Growing and pulsating in a shape of a cocoon. Right from the stump of it, five smaller looking cocoon-slowly wiggling out between the plates, spilling blood out from the gaps between. Grotesque in looks as they stretch and contorted into fingers. "What the hell?" Hino questions, gripping tightly against the handle of his weapons-wondering whether to press the trigger now. Why was he hesitating? Pressing his free hand as his stomach starting to feel uncomfortable. Clawing his fingers into the metal, shedding its layer of the wall. Watching as the demon yawns and stretches his limbs before reaching to the back of his nape-untangling a stitch behind it. "What''s that?" Ten questions, pulling his sword forward watching as the demon undoes the strings-opening up a slit as he squeezes his fingers inside. "What the hell are you!!!" disturbed as bits and pieces of flesh begin to shake and leak, the deeper his fingers go, with the sloshing sound of flesh being move about inside. "Be quiet" the demon responded "Hang in a minute" he added, somehow choking himself before beginning to raise out what was inside. A visible bump was noticeable. Bulging out from his back, even the his large coat could cover the oddity as it slowly makes its way up to the top of his neck. Black in colour, covered in bits and pieces of flesh and blood vessels wrapped around its cylindrical shape. Pieces of flesh and skin drip from between the many spikes decorated around the pole like object, ending with a curved blade that raises the hair on Hino''s neck. "Spinal-chord sword" he announces. "How are you standing?" Ten asked, dropping his sword on the ground. "Who know?" the demon sarcastically remarks, chopping his other arm off. "Wait what?" Hino realizes, seeing the Weapon demon''s gun arm falling off. Unauthorized reproduction: this story has been taken without approval. Report sightings. "Surprised?" DW asked, looking down as Hino stumbles to the ground. Trotting towards Hino''s ignoring Ten as he drags his sword on the ground as a trail of sparks begin to form. "Listen! Get up I want a round two this instant!" he orders with his severed arm fully regrown. "I expect you get up a thousand and one times" Princi''s words spoked to him, biting his teeth as he stands. "Yeah" his tone lower then before. "I need something to kill". "That''s why I love yaa" he smiles, pressing both his feet against Hino, staying momentarily in the air with steam bursting from his knee. Baaammm!!!! like a piston, pushing up-launching Hino with unimaginable force out the train with the sudden change of pressure-ripping the rest of the train apart into the air. "I love yaa Hino!!" he could hear his roar somewhere in the air. "Show me more!!!" he appears swinging his sword down at him, teeth an inch away from his face. "Your breath stinks" he managed to say, struggling to go up against gravity and the impossible weight of the Weapon Demon stacked on him. Vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmmmm!!! the chains on the chainsaw-sword clashes against the metal with sparks burning their way into his flesh. His arms burn and ache, with the strength in his arm beginning to dwindle every second. "I got people to protect you hear me!!!" Hino shouts in frustration. "Harder Harder" "SHUT UP-" slamming his head into the teeth of the demon, incapacitating him before kicking himself away from the demon. With one of the knife-like teeth, imbedded in his left eye and a few other ones, broken with their shards caught between his flesh. "I''m gonna enjoy murdering you!!!" Hino yells crashing his way down on the demon. "I''m not done yet!!" charging forward. The feeling of weakness all forgotten with this surge of adrenaline and strength flowing in his being, as he swings and swings. "I''ll cut! I''ll slash! I''ll chop you to a million pieces!!!" Hino chants swinging one after another without rest. Seeing an opening he swings once more. Somehow out of reach from where too hit. Had his body failed him? Did he swing to early? Was he too far? "Sloppy move" the Weapon Demon notices, punching the knife deeper into Hino''s faces. "That should put you down". "No no no No!!" he panics, ignoring the eruption in his eye as he charges forward, taking a final swing. Shards ran passed the two of them in the air, some grazing passed by others managing to embed themselves onto them. A strong gust of air, absorbed the two of them into his sudden vortex before sending them both flying back. The broken handle of the chainsaw-sword gripped tightly in his hands and the spinal-chord sword landing a far from the two of them. "Look at this mess" the demon spoke, taking noticed of the fallen wreckage the surrounds them. Broken debris and even the landscape around had warped into a dysfunctional mess. Parts of the train''s car still remained intact, now flips on its side or half buried in the ground. "What a masterpiece we have created. Don''t yaa think so?" "Now what would you do now-" his words cut short with blood bursting out from his teeth. "This" Hino answered, the top of his head covered in his blood. Without hesitating, Hino strikes, throwing blow after blow, left and right, up and down, the teeth, the head, the jaw, everywhere. "I have to kill here now!!" he yells to himself. "Here!" "Here!" "Here!" "Here?". "This should be what you would doing" the demon spoke, catching Hino''s punch. "You were exciting. I give you that" he added "But can you do this" he laughs, sinking his fingers into his knuckles, snapping them all. "Ohh you think that''s painful? I''ll show you something more!!!" he laughs, twisting his arm-allowing the pain to bite down against his arm. Sticking out from his elbow, the snapped bones of his forearms laid spit apart for him to witness. Now without his body recovering from the damage...... "Now ain''t that lovely?" the Weapon Demon ask-listening to Hino crawling around the dirt, in agony. "HEAL!" "HEAL!" "HEAL!" he continued to cry towards the ground. "Grow a pair" the demon retorts, striking down Hino before clobbering him again and again. "Come on you got another hand" he yells, punching his lower jaw "Get up!! Entertain me!!" he continues to strike against his head. Dripping off the end of his lips, blood and cracked pieces of teeth spilled over. "What are you gonna do next?" he asked, blocking his view of the afternoon sun above them. Holding back tears with his remain arm, clawing onto the Weapon Demon''s coat. "This" he cries out, ramming his head the jaw once more-"And this!!" he cried out, throwing a punch. "This again" sighing, catching another punch. "Don''t you get sick of losing a hand?" before sinking his teeth into it. "Tell me isn''t this art?" he continued to spout over Hino''s cries and pleads. Guiding his metallic bulky fingers between Hino''s with a width that fits tightly between already mangled fingers. "Ain''t this beautiful?" he asked sinking his teeth back into the areas that still hold themselves together. "No stop!! Stop!!!" the words couldn''t leave his mouth, fallen caught between fits of intolerable agony and the begging for death to just reach its palms out. "Why aren''t you smiling?" the demon question, perplexed at the lack of reaction in Hino. "Why aren''t you laughing!!" stomping on the ground "Don''t you enjoy this?!!". Swept by the wind with the grass ruffling around them with the smell of burnt remnant mix in between. "Do you see that over there?" the Weapon demon pointed out towards a few set of buildings so far out, its shape thin as a line drawn on a piece of paper. "I think that''s where your friends are at"-catching Hino''s attention. "Honestly I don''t want to go over there, does low idiots can handle all that" the demon sighs, lighting a cigarette from a build in lighter in his finger. "You know. You must have made Morrigan very scared to have him send me over, you know that?" the demon laughs, swallowing his cigarette down. Clapping his hands in a gesture of thankfulness, wearing a morbid grin on his face-drops of blood seem to slide down from the tip of his jaw as he crouches over Hino. "We made such a wonderful experience don''t we?" he asked only to receive a chipped tooth spat at him. Ignoring it he continues speaking, somehow facing nobody else as he spoked. "You know I wished this could last forever? Well I finally though of an idea. Want to hear it?" "Yeah ok, I''ll begin now. I''m gonna split you apart and since you can''t heal, the feeling is gonna be exciting for you. First you bone would slowly feel like their about to pop then you muscles will stretch out like a rubber band as you feel every fiber beginning to snap. One strand at a time.... " Clapping his hand as he clears his throat. "Then your skin. That''s the last one to break apart. Finally I''ll keep you alive, semi-conscious, no body but you will get to see what I will do" he clinches his fist high. "First I''ll scoop your brains out and preserve them, then I''ll slaughter every single life you have ever touch or will touch and finally..." he chuckles to himself, pressing against his stomach "I''ll rebuild you" "So we could play.....forever and ever" Unclenching his jaw, with the chain on either side of his jaw beginning to turn-widening the chasm that laid dark within it. More gears began to turn and grind themselves, echoing out into a melody of a massacre with the barrel of gun poking itself out in daylight. "G00D 3YE! H1n0" a radio like voice announced, coming from a speaker somewhere in his chest. "S13EP W311. 4 M3" Reaching out. His mangled hands, trembling. "Is this it?" he asked, unable to see with the blood covering over the remaining good eye he has, now only seeing a shadowy figure looking down at him, in a crimson view. Standing behind this figure, a hooded figure, a head above the one that crouches down toward him, with such an abrupt present he could react or mutter out anything. In a quick flash, the first figure collapsed to the ground, now only the hooded figure was watching over him now. Had death finally answered his prayers?