I walk along the path and see a broken down carriage in the distance. I run over to them to see if I can help and I see two people. I see a man and a woman trying to fix two wheels that have fallen off.
"Hello! Is there anything I can do?" I ask as I approach.
They look up frightened, but then look relieved.
"Sorry young man, I didn't hear you approaching. We are traveling to the south and this damned thing broke down. Our horses ran off, so we are trying to fix the wheels, but we don't know what to do after that." He said with despair on his face. His wife just looks down at the ground wearing a cloak.
"Here, let me help you." I say. I grab the wheel and he tightens up the latch. We do the same on the other.
"Thanks, It's easier with two sets of hands." He says.
"I can go look for your horses if you wish." I say.
"No need, it doesn't operate with horses." He says smiling.
"I'll just take everything you have on you." He says as he pulls out a bolt gun.
This surprises me, not just because they appeared to be a nice couple in need, but because only reapers own these. Where the hell did he get one?
"Where did you get that?" I ask shocked as I hold out my hands.
"Doesn't matter. Hand it over!" He says.
I reach for my gun, while pretending to reach for my belongings, but at that moment the ground starts to shake. We all loose focus on each other and look around.
"What's that? What are you doing freak?!" The old man asks.
His wife stands up, and reveals that she is a reaper. The moment she takes off her hood, I can see her face. I can't believe that one of us has resorted to being a bandit. Ground still shaking, she grabs the gun from him and jumps onto the wagon. It's no use, because as soon as she does, a giant worm with copper teeth emerges from the ground swallowing the wagon whole, with her inside, killing her instantly. The man turns around to see this monstrosity and starts to run. I can't let him go, but I now have to face this monster. I take out my gun, take aim, and shoot the man down killing him in an instant, making him turn to a burnt corpse, from the electricity.
The worm now twenty feet tall, starts heading back down on top of me. I dodge out of the way and the worm borrows into the ground. I can feel and hear it moving just beneath the surface, so I dodge out of the way again. It emerges from the dirt, but instead of going upward it goes right for me. I take my sword, jump into the air, landing on top of it, and I stab my sword into it, running down it's back slicing this thing open. It screeches and tries to shake me off of it's back. It nearly succeeds, but it's been long enough for a iron rod to have appeared in my gun. I hold onto my sword tightly and shoot downward into the gaping wound with blood pouring out of it's back. I get blown off of it from the electricity landing on the ground. I expect to see this thing explode like the wolf, but it doesn't. After the shock ends, it turns to me ready to attack again. It's fangs looking ready to bite.
"What the fuck is this thing!" I yell out. I realize my sword is still sticking out of it's back. My gun had almost no effect on this worm, so I highly doubt my bow would do anything. I keep myself running around it trying to not get eaten, while I think of a plan. I look through my satchel and see my toxins. I have three of the multiplying acids, two green ones, one yellow one, and a blue one. The red ones are cures for me, in case I contract anything. I once more jump onto its back and grab onto the open flesh so I don't get knocked off easily. I take the purple toxin, open it up, and pour it into the long wound. It sizzles as it starts to smoke. The worm roars in pain as it's skin starts to turn black instead of the red it has been. I can see the worm starting to melt from the inside out and I start to jump off, but then I notice that it stops. It's still alive and isn't melting anymore. "Damnit! So it has a limit?!" I yell out as the worm is still traveling around, wind blowing in my face, and it violently trying to shake me off. I take out one more purple toxin, but this time, I pour it all along the entire cut I made earlier all the way to my sword. I take my sword out of it making it scream even louder and I jump off. I land on the ground, rolling so I don't break my legs, and look back. The worm stops moving forward, but it rolls around. The entire worm now starts smoking and melting. After a few minutes even the skeleton turns to dust. I walk up to where it was and the ashes remain to see a red crystal sparkling in the sun. Again, it appears to have a liquid inside. It's another monster core. The moment I touch it, one of the silver nubs on my wrist implant glows. The crystal also glows and it gets atomized, as it goes into my implant. "Well, that's new." I say.
A screen opens up, from the silver nub that the core went into.
One monster core stored.
"That's beyond useful. I wonder how many I can store?" I ask out loud.
I continue on the path to the west, now not knowing what humans I can trust. I now realize that I can't even trust other Reapers. I will have to let the Reaper Organization know. I finally come across a small village, after days of traveling, to see a giant bat flying over head. The bat sees me and lands on the ground in front of me. Blood dripping from its mouth, razor sharp fangs, wings with decaying holes, yet still able to fly, and red eyes. It's head has long white hair going in a line from the top of it's head to it's tail down it's back. It stands my height with it's wings extended. It's claw on it's wings looks like steel. It opens it's mouth unnaturally wide, letting out a scream that hurts my ears. I can actually see the sound waves coming from it. I cover my ears, trying to figure out how the hell I will take this thing down. I look over at the village behind it, realizing that this vampire has killed every last person. The whole village in torn down, with bodies sprayed across the ground and buildings. Blood and guts sprayed everywhere. I have seen this before. This is when I realize, a vampire is the monster that destroyed my village.
"I'll kill you, you motherfucker!" I scream out in anger. I run up to it and it swipes it's wing at me sending me flying back.