"He might die at this rate Petra" Issel told me as I kicked him the 3rd flight down.
"Maybe you're right. I need him to be alive as the bait at least. What monsters going to snack on a corpse"
Mark stood walked silently. "I could carry him" his deep voice filled the air.
I paused for a second and asked "are you sure? He's disgusting, and I've made him actually horrendous. His balls are falling out"
Mark clenched his jaw tighter. "I'm sure"
I stabbed into Zhou's final functioning elbow and handed mark the body.
Mark's eyebrows furrowed and the color from his face drained.
"you're a massive sadist. He deserves it though. She was helpless and died to a horny fucker instead of a monster" Issel kept walking.
"I saved him only so he could do this? He's disgusting."
"He's so bad. By the way, do you know if the others are alive?"
Issel and I enjoyed changing the conversation topics quickly like this. It was something we liked about eachother.
"Not really. They haven't contacted me like you did and i couldn't contact them either."
"Aricel and Kayleth haven't really been in touch with me since the exams started before this"
"that's weird... but it's the same for me. I haven't talked to them for a month or so. How were the exams going girlie"
"Horrible, Pet. I wasn't preparing nearly as much as I should. I've been procrastinating so much."
"Hun aren't you the smartest person in your year? I bet you studied like 5hours instead of 6"
Issel's face scrunched up like I said the truth.
Quickly realizing I was right, I changed the topic before she slapped the back of my head.
"what are we going to do when we get out there?"
"I think we should look around the area first, then we try fighting in a mostly open area"
"Remember to throw the monkey. I kind of want to make him into an explosive." Issel and I exchanged glances and looked dead at the semi-conscious Zhou "Also why are we defending the people here anyway?"
"Good question. to be honest I just want to be useful rather than just sit around. Considering I can do something with water. Also I'm not blowing him up"
"aww too bad. Its going to be my first time throwing someone into things though."
"you already did that. With your own body."
"we are not talking about that"
"Honey that is the only thing we are talking abou- this is the bottom floor"
Issel opened the door of the building and what was waiting for us was a couple of rats. Human sized rats. Actually, green ogre sized rats. They towered at 3 meters tall and their skin was stained in blood. They were feasting on green monsters.
Issel shut the door immediately.
"Nope. Nuh-uh." Issel shook her head.
"didn't you want to make yourself useful?"
"look at the size of that shit. And did you see its eyes?? They looked like they were staring into my soul. She cussed a bit after
"hear me out Issel. We can make daggers out of their teeth"
"those loony toon teeth are not coming anywhere near me."
"mike can you hand me zhou?"
"its mark, and here." mark knelt down and carried zhou into my arms. I slapped his cheek and woke him up.
"petra wha-"
"morning monkey" i poked into his stab wounds. "are you awake?"
He screamed pretty hard and had his pupils dialate. He didn't stop screaming either
"so im going to toss him at the rats"
"shouldn't we save him for later?" Issel seemed worried
Zhou stared at me incomprehensibly until I opened the door. Then he screamed harder.
"I mean. We gotta start moving somehow." I threw him into a wall opposite the ogre sized rats. He spat up blood and the rats stood on their hind legs and noticed him.
The rats started running at him and pounced on him. They bit through his arms and worked his way to the body.
"look an opening!"
I ran to the rats which were about 20 meters away. Several times almost slipping on the pool of blood and bodies scattered on the ground.
I pounced on the rats, my spear stabbed through the head of one during the impact. And I latched to the back of another.
"Issel! Mark! Help me!"
The two seemed shocked but also ran towards me. the remaining two rats seemed shocked at the surprise attack, which allowed Issel to use her bat and smas the body of one rat.
Mark on the other hand, using pure brute force, smashed into the body of one and the impact forced them both on the floor. They grabbed each other like wrestlers and started beating themselves. Mark landed several hits and endured the dozens of bites he received all over his upper body.
The one I grabbed went feral and started running around into walls. I felt like I was on the back of a mechanical bull.
I thrust my fingers into its eyes and up its nose to make it stop running. There was a popping noise as my hand burst its eye. The rat let out a scream that shook my ears. It was one of the high-pitched ones that make your ears ring.
The rat started convulsing and moving faster and harder until I was thrown off its back. I slammed against a wall and lost the air in my lungs. The rat was screaming in the center of the room not knowing where I was. It looked like a demon with its bloodied eyes.
I threw my spear into the face of the rat, and low and behold; I missed. It felt like the rat felt the air current the spear traveled by and started running towards me. i prepared myself for combat but a metal bat swung over my head into the rats nose. Issel ran over to help me while escaping her own situation.
"I uh… I poked its eyes out"
"mine cant bite. I broke its jaw."
We put our backs towards each other and crouched, preparing for the next attack.
"mark?"
"hes still on the ground with the other one. He's drenched in blood"
I looked over and saw a pool of blood between a squirming rat and mark beating the hell out of it.
"grea-"
The rats let out a ferocious scream and ran into us. Issel blocked a swipe from one with her bat while I had to use my fists and punch its stomach.
"agh my wrist!" my wrist had a sharp pain in it after impact "fuck my forms bad"
"eat pussy, whore!" issel smashed into the head of the rat, knocking it unconscious. It lay on the ground, unmoving.
I, on the other hand, tried to grab whatever physical object I could find on the floor. This one happened to be a severed arm.
"Woah! A whip!" I exclaimed as I charged into the rat.
I held the hand of the arm and swung what exposed bone it had into the rats body. It let out another screech as there was a large cut through its torso.
I could hear metal hit something soft and squishy in the background.
"eat shit, asshole!" Issel was beating the head off of an unconscious rat.
I jumped behind the rat and beat it again with the arm in hand. my spear was located just next to Zhou's body. Is he dead?
I had a faster chance of winning if I just used my arms here.
I stepped up the rats back and sat on its shoulders. It opened its mouth one more time. I was waiting exactly for this. I stuffed the corpse arm right into the rats teeth and grabbed its jaw. It couldn't bite my fingers off as I tore its jawbone from its socket. The rat was now blind and couldn't bite.
It started throwing its hands around trying to find my face. I stuffed my hand deeper into the throat of the rat until I was elbow deep. The flaring arms started to move more violently and began to find where I was. I started beating my body. it didn't have the hand size to grab me.
I began to claw inside the rat. Open the the throat from inside. If I could suffocate it here, then Il win without weapons.
I couldn't use the energy whatever this early into the fight.
I jumped off the rat's shoulders, my arm still elbow deep, and forced the rat to fall foreward. I grabbed its torso and plunged my arm shoulder deep into the rat's throat.
Its arms flared up in pain for a moment before slowly dying down and falling onto my body.
I looked over and saw mark on his knees looking at the ceiling with his arms bloodied.
Issel was still beating the shit out of a corpse. I walked over to her and put my hand on her shoulder.
"whoop whoop hoe we won."
"this fucking whore almost killed me!"
I walked over to mark and told him he did a good job. He looked at me with a blank expression and traces of tears in his eyes. He must have had a really hard time doing harm to anything. He was a good person.
I stuck my hand up to him and he accepted.
I grabbed my spear along with zhou's body and met the two by the exit of the building.
"petra… there's a massive horde and a huge fire outside"
"fuck. We run when it gets hard ok"