"What, you killed one of them!?" Jimmy looked around the cafeteria, trying to keep his voice quiet.
"Hey, don't shout so loudly, just let me finish, it was this ugly monster of Spider and Rat, it was man-sized, had like 10 limbs, a fleshy and hairy butt that looked like a rat tail, and a spider's butt at the same time, it was so disgusting." Nolan swallowed a piece of bread, while Jimmy put down his fork with meat, a gagging expression on his face.
"... so I punched it head-on, pulverizing its brain," Nolan said, as he ate Jimmy's lunch who was too engrossed in the epic battle of a man vs monster.
"How can you be so strong, I don't believe you for a second!" Jimmy said vehemently, sighing a second later as he saw his plate empty.
"Well you don't need to believe me now, I plan on hunting more of them soon, then I'm gonna take a pic of the body and show it to you." Nolan stood up, beginning to walk out of the cafeteria.
"Wait a second! are you really gonna hunt them down by yourself!? Why would you endanger yourself just to fight them!?" Jimmy ran behind him, his small frame quite a contrast to Nolan's.
"Don't worry about that," Nolan smiled mysteriously, entering their social studies classroom.
"You bastard, I knew you were hiding something, so what is it!?" Jimmy stood in front of his desk, shouting excitedly and loudly in the classroom.
"Another time, class is about to start." Nolan shook his head, knowing his friend couldn't keep a secret for long.
Jimmy was disgruntled, spending the whole class about how unfair he was hiding something so important, but Nolan ignored him the whole time, his mind filled with thoughts,
'I have brought extra clothes and shoes, all I need to do is find a location to hide them, go into the sewers where these monsters seem to dwell, and then hunt them down.' He remembered a short video he saw.
Recorded inside a bush, and a little distance away, men in armor, heavy-duty guns, and gas masks with oxygen backpacks entering a sewer tunnel, 30 of them.
'The video was taken down a few minutes after it was released, which means someone is trying to hide the fact that monsters are living under our feet.' Nolan thought with calm efficiency, fingers entwined.
RINNG!
The alarm rang, announcing the end of the school day, Jimmy and Nolan walked out of their classroom, Jimmy jumping around Nolan.
"Come on man! take me with you, I can fight as well!" he did a little boxing as a demonstration, punching the brick-like abs of Nolan.
"You will be eaten the second you step foot in the sewers, so I suggest you cherish your life and go home. I mean it." Nolan said with a serious voice, staring down at Jimmy who was shaking his hands in pain.
"FINE! Just get me my pictures!" He huffed, watching Nolan's back as he disappeared into the afternoon sun through the front doors.
Nolan with his backpack rode on his bicycle, 'Where should I enter the sewers from?' he thought, passing through the streets.
'I should start from the other side of the district, the monster's screams would cause attract attention with their howls and screeches this close to the populated area.' With a plan, he looked at his phone's satellite map, choosing between 2 points when where he would enter, and the other where he would exit.
Parking his bicycle and locking it in a random alleyway near the center of the district, he began to change from his uniform.
The pedestrians passing the street next to the alley were bewildered by a built hunk of a man changing clothes in mid-daylight out in the streets.
Wearing rough black leather jeans, tight fit full arm black t-shirt, and a dark blue water-resistant leather jacket and boots, all of which he bought for the apocalyptic zombie scenario he thought would occur.
'They should the job good enough.' He thought, feeling envious of the 30 armored men's gear.
Calling a cab, he went to the other point he marked, reaching it in half an hour in afternoon traffic. Paying for his cab fare, he found himself on a remote street surrounded by old abandoned apartment buildings.
After a short walk into an alleyway between two debilitated buildings, he found the place desolate, garbage was the only thing that could be found inside it.
With a calm face, he walked toward the manhole cover, easily peeling off the heavily rusted metal, a waft of disgusting smell escaping the manhole.
'Ugh! Should have at least bought a mask with this fit.' scrunching his nose, he climbed into the manhole through the ladder, covering back the manhole with the cover.
To his dismay, the tunnel was completely dark, the light bulbs on its walls shattered or missing altogether.
He waited in the darkness, his nose acclimating to the horrible smell, and lighting his phone's flashlight, shining it around the tunnel.
It was thick with brown water in the center of the tunnel, the walls and floor were hidden behind green algae and moss, and the ceiling of the tunnel was high, reaching 3 meters in height and four meters in width from wall to wall.
With a calm face and fisted right hand, his left hand holding the phone lighted the way, and he began to walk through it.
It wasn't long before he reached an intersection of tunnels, choosing to randomly go left, he walked and walked, no creature in sight, no bugs, no rats, nothing.
it was at his fourth intersection and quite deep into the tunnel system that he heard a strange gurgling noise, shutting off his flashlight, his eyes able to see in the darkness like a moonlit night.
He stretched his neck at the tunnel to his left, seeing a giant lizard abomination bathing in dirty brown water, drowning another less-sized feline-like monster.
Nolan watched with a calm face, the lizard abomination with six legs, and feline-like ears, hairy and scaly at the same time, was bashing its 2 front paws yet claw-like hands at the feline-like monster's head into the water.
Then it removed its weird paws from the feline's monsters head, letting the feline monster it sat on top of take a few breaths of air, bashing its paws on top of its head again, drowning it, loud gurgles and bubbles of air emerging from the water.
Nolan kept watching as the lizard played with the feline-like monster for a few more minutes, biting its head off in one chump when the feline monster's head emerged from the water for the last time.
Crunching sounds reverberated in Nolan's bones, watching coldly at the lizard abomination. He watched as the lizard abomination began feasting on the body after consuming the head, rummaging through the feline monster's rib cage.
Nolan sprung toward it as it was ribbing the feline monster's heart, punching the side of its neck in a second of running from his 20 feet hiding location.
Only one goal was on his mind, to finish the fight as quickly as possible, and he punched with immense force, knocking the lizard monster to the other side of the tunnel, and burying its body in the crumbling tunnel wall it collided with.
The monster crawled out of the rubble, its neck bleeding, but it roared viciously, charging at Nolan with all its six limbs.
Nolan rushed at it head-on, the lizard monster using its left paw-like limb to sever him in half.
He jumped upward, putting his palms on the paw-like limb, and jumping into the air and behind the monster's head, readying his fist, he clutched his left hand on the air on its forehead, legs braced against its neck, punching with all his might at the back of its head.
BOOM! CRACK!!
The skull and brain of the monster caved in, the lizard monster coming to a complete stop, falling to the dirty shallow brown water like it was cut from strings.
SPLASH!
Nolan jumped a little as the lizard monster was falling, avoiding the dirty water from drenching him from head to toe, the giant 3-meter-sized monster causing a huge splash as it fell.
Standing on the back of its neck, he crouched, rummaging through the mush brain, finding a palm-sized red crystal.
'It seems this thing is only found in the brain,' shaking the brain meat from his hand, he jumped away from the body and into an elevated corner of the tunnel.
'One down, more to go.' he pocketed the palm-sized red crystal, and began to walk through the tunnels in complete darkness, his shadows merging with the dark tunnels.