Dressed in just his work shoes, and trouser having taking off his top so he could freely work out his frustrations, Rio, ascended the stairs of the basement and then walked through the corridors of his house.
Just a few steps away from the garage door, the place where the sounds were coming from, he opened a case on the wall and took out the fireman axe within wielding it as he continued his journey.
Grrrr! Grrrr! Bang!
Getting closer, Rio could more clearly hear the sounds that were coming from the garage and though he squinted his eyes, realizing that it might not just be just robbers he would be facing he marched on.
Dog, robber, lion, it didn't matter to Rio, whoever he saw ion the other side was going to offer up his blood in place of Raymond's.
Passing through the laundry room, with heavy kick to the door at its end, Rio opened the door to the garage and though it wasn't his intention, his momentum came to a halt as he stared at the scene within.
On the floor of the garage with their face torn off and guts pulled out was a human body, Rio didn't know whose body it was, but he more than sure it was a human and surrounding this mutilated body was it's architect, a creature Rio didn't know what to call.
The creature closely resembled a hyena, but it's hug body which put it on oar with an adult lion, it's thick fur on its back and its prominently protruding fangs told that it was not part of that species.
With his loud entrance, the second Rio laid his eyes on the creature so did it, and after some seconds of staring they both ran toward each other.
Rio had come up here looking for blood and the fact that creature before him was a certified man-eating animal told him that he had no choice in the matter, whether he killed it or not blood was going to be spilt today.
"With such a size, a drawn-out battle with it is pure suicide, the winner of this fight will be decided in our first clash, so I have to make my attack count. It would be extremely fast so I can't trust my eyes, I have to attack earlier than my eyes tell em to."
Taking just two steps forward, though the approaching creature was still some steps away Rio tightly gripped his axe and swung it forward, and just like he had predicted, with two blurred leaps the deadly creature was before him, leaping into the air and looking to claw out his face.
"Bang"
Without incident Rio collided with the beast, his axe made contact it's neck slicing into but unfortunately, it didn't go deep enough to make an impact and with the heavy weight of the beast falling on him, he was forced him to let it go as both his hand grabbed onto it's head, pushing it away as he was thrown to the ground and mounted by the beast.
"Ahh fuck, I didn't account for such strength" Rio groaned as he with all his might pushed against the head of the beast which was continuously biting downward, looking to snap his head off.
Rio's heart pounded as he had to continuously move his head left and right to dodge the deadly claws which was swiped at it, though he could do nothing about the blood that steadily fell on him from the cut he had made across it's neck.
"Is this how I am going to die" Rio asked himself as despite the adrenaline which was rushing through him, after some seconds, fatigue from the strenuous workout he was doing earlier begun setting in and not just that, but he could feel the ginormous weight of the beast crushing into his ribcage and making breathing a problem for him.
They say when one is close to death, they began thinking of their loved ones and having regrets about not spending time with them, but for Rio it was different because all he felt at the moment was rage.
His mind couldn't help but wonder if he would be in such a position had he been given his promotion.
No he would still be at the office, by now being introduced to his duties while animal control or whichever department of the military handled such things was called to deal with it.
"I hate Raymond, I hate this world" Rio growled within his mind and as his body gave way to the pressure above him, his head snapped forward and with all his might he raised his head and this time instead wrapping his hand tightly around the neck of the beast instead, bit into the cut he had made on it's neck.
Graaaaaaaa!
The beast howled in a surprising cry of pain. Its movement got more frenzy as it stood to it's feet, dropping it's body to the ground and shaking it's body left and right, wanting to throw Rio off it.
The beast swiped at Rio's back digging it's claws into his flesh and making deadly cuts across it
Blood oozed out of Rio, pain flooding his senses but he did not let go of the beast because he knew this was his only chance to end it.
After biting his teeth into the cut he had made, Rio had discovered it's meat was quite soft and with that realization had figured that since he couldn't cut his way into its throat why not eat his way to it.
Other than the disgust that came from eating raw bloody flesh, a burning sensation like he was drinking too string alcohol filled Rio's body as he ate.
Biting and swallowing, not having the time to even chew, Rio urged himself to eat faster but with all the cuts being made on his back it didn't take long for his consciousness to begin swimming.
"Common Rio you can do this, eat, eat, eat"
This was the only thought going through Rio's head, his enraged mind unaware that he had eaten past the beast throat a some seconds ago and that it was clawing at his back out of muscle memory.