I moved through the streets at a brisk pace as I headed back to the apartment. It has been a few months since I arrived, but being here reminds me of my past with the zombies. Ivan calls them something else but I stuck with zombies.

I shifted the bag on my back a bit which had some unopened cans of food that I found and some rats strung up from my hunting. I turned the corner and saw one of the zombies walking around and rolled my eyes. I quietly sneaked up to it and decapitated it with my spear, yes a spear I found the equipment to build it. Ivan thought it was a stupid idea but I didn’t care, in the right hands, the spear came be deadly especially this one.

I got to the apartment and took my normal route, up the fire escape and into the building. I walked into the room and set the bag down on the counter. I looked and saw that Ivan wasn’t here. I put the cans away and put some in a place for emergencies when that’s done I looked around one last time and took my spear and flicked it a bit. The blade split open and revealed the barrel of a shotgun. I checked it if everything still worked and reset the spear. I went to a small table and began skinning the rats to make some jerky. I got through three and working on the last one went I heard the sound of footsteps. I had my spear close and slowed my skinning as the steps became louder.

“Why do you always do that?” I heard Ivan said as he entered. I sighed and resumed the last bit of skinning.

“Jerky last longer than most food and I found that smoker that works a while back, hate to not use it,” I said as I began making the jerky part.

“Right, anyways. I've gotten word from an old friend that there are two new scavengers out and about in the city.” He mentioned. I finished up the last bit and put the scraps into a bag of… well, rat hide. I turned to face Ivan.

“And we should be worried?” I asked him. He eyed me for a moment.

“Don't know but by the way, he mentioned them, it was as if they had appeared out of nowhere.” He answered. I stared at him for a minute, appeared out of nowhere? Like me?

“Maybe they are aliens,” I said. He groaned at me as I smiled.

“The one downside with you is that you have awful jokes.” He said to me. I shrugged as I took my spear and meat.

“Be back with more jerky,” I told him as I left the room. I headed two blocks down from the place until I came to an old building. Taking the window I went inside and searched for some boards when I found them I moved them out of the way and saw the smoker. It was in the corner of the building that I rigged that the smoke comes out of the building, it’s one way so no one can come in through the smoke hole.

I opened the smoker up and saw the jerky. I smiled and pulled out more wood chips and refill the tray and replaced the cooked ones with raw ones and reset the whole thing. Putting the border back and turned to leave when I heard something. I turned to the sound and looked around to see a wooden beam that was above me. I climbed up it and hid into the more shadowy part of it, I waited to see who is coming.

I saw two figures coming walking in. With the light coming in I saw that it was two females, one was younger than the other. The younger one have a purple shirt, and orange skirt. She also had black boots on as well. She had red and yellow hair and blue eyes. She also had a small backpack and a two-by-four in her hands.

The other was older with a black and green corset with black jeans and brown combat boots. She had tealish blue hair and green eyes. They look familiar to me, which I figured out when they started talking.

“You led us towards another scavenger.” I heard the older woman growl at the younger one.

“This place was empty, I swear.” Replied the younger woman with hate. I blinked at them. Really, it's Sunset and Chrysalis. How in the hell did they show up… Oh right nevermind. I pulled the walkie talkie out and click the button.

“Old building, two blocks down on the right side, with the red and green sign out front, found those two scavengers.” I said quietly. I put it away and watch them, time to mess with them.

I pulled out a rock from my pocket and threw it towards the door away from them. They heard it and spun around.

“Told you.” Chrysalis spat.

“I told you it was empty when I found it.” Sunset retorted.

“Whatever, be a good child and stay here I'll drive this scavenger out,” Chrysalis said as she walked out.

“Bitch,” Sunset said under her breath. She started to look around and walked towards the stuff covering the smoker. She placed a hand on it and moved it a bit. Oh no, you don't.

I dropped down quietly behind her and lean in. “Hello, Sunny.”

She spun around and swung the two-by-four, I caught it in one hand and grabbed her with the other.

“Ah ah ah, that's not nice, you see I have a few questions for you and bug breath,” I told her. She stared at me as I pulled the makeshift weapon out of her hands and pulled a cloth out. I quickly gagged her and tied her up. When that was done I took her weapon and threw it at some stuff, making a lot of noise.

I went and climbed the wall up to the roof. I saw Sunset watched me go with wide eyes as I waited, sure enough, bug breath came back.

“What was tha- what the hell happened to you!” she yelled at The tied up girl.

“Mhmm mhher!" Sunset tried to say with the gag in her mouth. Chrysalis sighed and walked over to her, Sunset shook her head at this. As soon as Chrysalis walked under me I dropped down behind her.

She spun around as I punched her, I pulled a knife and put it up to her neck. She stopped at this.

“Hello, poppet, nice to see you as I said to Sunny over there I have some questions for the two of you but we'll wait for my friend,” I said to her. I did the same thing to her as I did to Sunset and sat in front of them to wait. I saw they were glaring at me for the whole time.

Ivan

It had been a few months since Jace’s arrival and the Skullz attack. During these past few months, I had managed to get a good route towards the center of the city while Jace kept tinkering with a spear.

Of course, the Blood skullz wouldn't stop sending others to kill me, even after the first few warnings. After I had gone out at night again only a week after Jace’s arrival, nearly dying to the monstrosities. Jace had wondered what had taken me so long but the less anyone knows about those things the better.

Today was another average day for me. Get up, eat, take inventory then head out. Of course, I have extra things to do like make pathways across the roof of the building beside my apartment and to make sure that each building are clear of infected.

After setting a few planks of wood long enough to walk on, I had walked over to the other building before walking back, making sure that the wood could hold.

“Old building, two blocks down on the right side, with the red and green sign out front, found those two scavengers.” I heard Jace through the radio. I raised a brow before deciding to see for myself.

Walking towards the edge, I looked over the edge and saw that I was above the fire escape. Hopping over the edge, I landed on the fire escape before going down the stairs and jumping off before rolling on the floor to break the fall.

I had already wore my mask and hoodie as well has being armed with a Mp5 submachine gun, I didn't need to go to my room first. I broke into a full sprint, heading towards Jace’s location.

It had taken a bit of time but I had arrived at the building with the red and green sign. Once I neared the front door, I could hear muffled sounds.

I opened the door and was greeted with two women tied and gagged next to each other on the floor. Their attention were towards Jace before heading the loud creaking of the door opening. Their heads snapped towards my direction were surprised to see me.

“Am I interrupting something?” I asked, looking over to Jace

"Nope, not really just waiting for you so you can ask questions,” he said to me. I watched him as he went over to them and undid the gags.

“You bastard! Let us go!” the one with bacon hair yelled. Jace ignored her as he undid the others gag, she simply growled.

“There, now I don't think they are with the Blood skullz.” he said as he picked up his spear.

“Who are you and what are you doing in a place like this?” I asked the two of them.

“Who we are is none of your business.” The bacon haired girl answered with a growl. I frowned under my mask before taking a hold of the submachine gun hanging from the strap over my shoulder. I gave a quick look, making sure the girl saw it as well and she did. Her eyes showed fear.

“Really now? My little friend here says it is, you wouldn't want to get him upset, would you?” I asked her. I looked over at the other who just looked annoyed.

“Better answer him, he's not known for his patience.” I heard Jace say as he looked out of the street with his spear in hand. I don't understand why he has that thing, I tried to tell him to get rid of it since it doesn't help him in the long run but he said that since he made it he's going to use it and it has a surprise to it. I stopped asking after that. I heard a sigh from the green eyed one.

“I'm Chrysalis and she's Sunset.” Sunset glared at her as she rolled her eyes. “We're tied up and helpless so don't glare at me.”

“That answers the first question.” I said before straightening back up. “But what are you doing in a place like this?” I asked them again before letting my MP5 hang loosely by the strap.

"That depends, you mean right now, some time ago, or in general, because right now we're tied up answering questions, some time ago looking for a place to stay, in general… what do you think.” Sunset said. I chuckled a bit before saying anything else.

“You don't know what lurks around these streets, do you?” I asked her. The two looked at one another for a moment.

“... Others like you." Sunset said.

“Speaking of others, we got company," Jace said. I walked over to see a couple of runners just across the street. Jace immediately got down onto the floor while I kept looking out.

I slowly crouched down while hiding behind the wall. I took another look just as the Runners looked back the way they came before hearing a gurgled roar. After they heard the roar, the runners quickly ran into the alley across the street.

“That… doesn’t sound good.” Jace said.

“Carrier. We need to move, now.” I said to him. Jace nodded as I looked down the street. I stepped out of the building for a second when…

“Hey, what are you doing!?!” I heard Sunset yelled. I turned to see Jace picking the other two up. I raised an eyebrow as he frowned.

“Don't care what you think I'm not leaving these two here.” He said. I sighed before looking outside.

“Then we need to go out the back.” I said before closing the door and making my way towards the back. I stopped then looked back, seeing Jace holding onto the two women. “Cut their legs loose, otherwise they'll just be dead weight.” I said before finally reaching the door.

Jace

When I was on earth I used to watch zombie movies with some of my friends, now I feel like I’m in one. The four of us went out the back into the alleyways and headed back to the apartment, the only problem was that there was a horde of zombies out on the streets. We ran all around but we were boxed in so we climbed a fire escape to the roof of a building. As we got there I looked down into the streets, holy shit.

“Well, that’s just plain terrifying,” I said as I looked at the horde. I saw one of them were much bigger than the rest. “I guess that’s the Carrier, if so then like a friend of mine would say ‘That’s one ugly son of a bitch.’”

“There's another way in through the subway. I had managed to make a tunnel through the basement, the only downside is that the nearest entrance is about a few miles southeast.” I heard Ivan explain.

“A few miles! Through that!!” Sunset said as she pointed at the horde.

“Got a better idea? Because we’re all ears at the moment.” I said to her. She simply stared at me in silence. “I thought so.”

“Let's go if we hurry we'll be back before nightfall.” Ivan said before walking back towards the fire escape. I looked back in time just as he jumped across to another building. Sunset and Chrysalis watched that happened and looked over the edge.

‘Great I don’t believe they will jump over.’ I thought.

“Then why not you?” a voice said. I blinked and looked around.

‘The hell was that?!’

“A voice in your head, dipshit.” it replied. I frowned at this.

‘Okay, that’s rude.’

“This isn’t a good time to be talking about this, you better get moving.” I looked over and saw Ivan already two buildings away. I rolled my eyes and grabbed the other two. I backed up a bit to give me a running start. I hit the edge and jumped off it, landing on the other side without slowing down. I smiled and continued to follow Ivan.

After roof jumping, for some time we finally found the entrance to the subway. I had to carry the other two all the way which oddly I didn’t feel tired, is my magic slowly coming back? Are these Rifts leaking magic into this world? I looked up to the sky and saw that the sun was setting.

“Alright, I hate to say this but what’s down in the subway? Because I’m getting a bad feeling about the subway.” I said to Ivan as I pulled my bag of jerky out, I handed one to Ivan and the other two. Chrysalis took one but Sunset didn’t, she looks a bit green at the sight of them. I shrugged and took one out and started to eat it… it’s gamey.

“The subways are contaminated with the virus, making the air inside toxic.” Ivan said as he took off his mask. “So wearing a mask is the safe way to go.” He said as he handed me the mask. He then started rummaging around his back before pulling out two more masks.

“These are my last two masks, so don't break ‘em.” He said as He helped put both Sunset and Chrysalis with the masks. I looked at the mask he gave me and the other two.

“Oh hell no I’m not going to take the only thing to keep you alive,” I said as I handed the mask back. Ivan put his hand on the mask.

“I won't need it.” He said, pushing the mask back. I eyed him for a second looked at the mask. I sighed and put it on.

“So… how do I look?” I asked. Ivan groaned, I leaned in a bit. “You’re hiding something, I understand you don’t want to talk about it, everyone has secrets.”

“I will explain later, we need to move before-” Ivan was cut off by a distant howl. Eyes wide, He looked around but saw nothing.

“That, okay let’s go.” I finished him. I went over to the other two and picked them up. “Next stop, evil subway of DOOM!”

With that said I ran and jumped off the roof of the building and landed in front of the entrance of the subway. I looked back and saw Ivan followed behind as I put down my passengers.

“Don’t do that again.” Sunset said to me. I chuckled as I looked over at Ivan.

“Lead on fearless leader.”

“Once we get to the tracks, make sure you have the air canister clicked on,” Ivan said before taking out a flashlight. Another howl was heard behind us.

“Let's go,” Ivan said as he continued deeper into the subway. The three of us followed behind with me in the back with my spear. I heard a third howl coming much closer.

“Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, soooooo much nope.” I said as I walked down into the subway.

We headed through the subway and got to the tracks. I checked if the air canister was on, after that we jumped onto the tracks and headed down them. As we walked down the tunnel I saw that there was a sorta mist in the air. I guess that’s the virus. I did notice Ivan breathing it in as if it was just normal air.

“Much as it’s it really nothing I don’t think we should breathe that in.” I heard the voice again.

‘Yeah, I don’t think I would like being a zombie.’ I thought back.

“What? No I mean if we inhale that stuff we’ll be really weak.” It said back. I was somewhat confused by this.

‘What do you mean?’

“As you know this stuff would turn humans and animals into those monsters we saw before right?” it started to explain.

‘Yeah?’

“Well we’re not human.” It simply said. I thought about it for a second.

‘How am I not human?’ I asked.

“Your fight with the Moon Presence.” it answered. Oh… OHHHH.

‘Right.’ I replied as I continued walking. We walked for about twenty minutes until we stopped, I moved up front to see what’s up, I got there and saw… a pig.

I slowly looked at Ivan as he looked at me, I ready my spear as he did with his rifle.

“What’s wrong with you two, it’s just a pig.” Sunset said.

“Really… really you just said that.” Chrysalis said. Before anything else was said, a rat had ran passed from under me before stopping just ahead of the pig. The rat had begun nibbling while the pig got closer.

Once the pig stopped, it did something I least expected.

Its head split in half, revealing a large fanged mouth before pouncing on the rat, devouring it with ease before the head reformed. No one said a thing at what just happened, a minute or so later I turned my spear into it’s second from.

“Nope!!!” both me and Ivan yelled as we unloaded on it. After a full minute of that we stopped and saw that the pig has more holes than it needed, oh and no head, legs and back as well.

“Pigs! Why always pigs, they are either multi-eyed ones or… or that!” I ranted.

“I’d rather not ask.” I heard Ivan mutter under his breath before shining the light forwards and continued on. I looked back and saw the other two staring at me.

“Don’t ask, just. Don’t.” I said to them. They walked in front of me and we all continued on. We kept walking for what I can guess is a few hours in silence until…

“Are we there yet.” Sunset said. I frowned at her, god is she this whiny in my world?

“No. We're not, isn't it obvious enough?” Ivan retorted. Chrysalis fell back towards me as the other two started fighting.

“You’re not as bother by this whole thing at all?” she asked.

“I seen a lot of shit in my life, I should say that to you.” I replied.

“I've seen my fair share of bloodshed but this...this, unlike anything I've ever seen.” Chrysalis said. I nodded before looking over to Ivan, seeing him standing still with Sunset looking at him weirdly.

“Hey, you arli-”

“Shh, listen.” He whispered. We stood in silence but nothing was heard, Sunset was about to say something but stopped as we heard it. Frog-like croaks were heard just ahead of us. We have seen a pig I really don't want to see what the frogs are.

“Shit.” Ivan whispered. Sunset didn't say a word, probably not wanting to make the situation worse. I grip my spear and looked at Chrysalis, I nodded to the other two to get closer.

“Keep quiet. They can't see or smell you.” Ivan said before walking slowly. I squinted my eyes a bit, seeing a shadowy figure standing in the middle of the tracks.

Ivan had picked up a rock before throwing it further down the tunnel. The figures head snapped towards the direction the rock went before walking towards it.

“What is that?” Sunset whispered. I looked over at Ivan, seeing his once green eyes a bloodshot red.

“No one knows but people had started calling it Monstrosity.” He answered. He took a deep breath before looking at us.

“We can't move on with that in our way,” Ivan whispered. I cocked a brow under the mask before asking him.

“Why not just kill it where it stands?” I asked him. He looked at me with an unamused look.

“If it was that easy, I would've killed it already but it's not. That thing can't be killed with bullets.” Ivan said.

“Great~” I groaned quietly. Another croak was heard in front of us and out from the darkness another had appeared but because it was dark, I could only see the silhouette. Then another croak followed by more and more.

I didn't know how but it was as if they surrounded us.

“The tunnel is located inside a maintenance room next to a small generator.” He began to explain before looking at me.

“I have a plan, just keep quiet and hold still,” Ivan said before straightening up into a standing position.

“What's the pla-” I was cut off by Ivan firing his submachine gun upwards. He then looked at me.

“Keep quiet and don't move until it's clear.” He said before running back the way we came, firing his gun as he did. The creatures around us immediately got all fours before breaking into full sprints.

They howled as they sprinted by us. The howling continued but slowly became distant and so did the gunfire. I watched them chase after Ivan as he and the rest disappeared.

“Let’s move.” I said to the other two. We continued on into the tunnel, I could still hear the gunfire going off for some time until it stopped. As we walk I saw Sunset look back at me at times, after the fifth time I got annoyed.

“You got a question to ask.” I said to her. She jumped a bit at what I said.

“Why did he do that? Using himself as a distraction, I mean.” She asked. I stared at her for a moment and thought about it.

“I can think of many reasons but I really don’t know him that well.” I replied. Sunset stopped walking and looked at me.

“You don’t know him, why don’t you know him?!” she asked.

“I never pry into someone's life unless they allow me to, but jumping topics what got you all pissed off, you sound like someone showed you something you wanted but ripped it away from you.” I said to her. Even with the mask, I saw her face became angry.

“That's none of your business.” She said. I stared at her for a moment and did something dumb.

“Well I’m making it my business, I didn’t say anything due to Ivan but now he’s not here, how did you get here?” I looked over at Chrysalis. “Both of you.”

“I went through the mirror portal.” Sunset answered. I looked at the former queen.

“I had found what could be best described as a rift. I was desperate to get away from everything and went through it.” She answered. That made me raise an eyebrow, a rift huh.

“Well, aren’t you going to laugh or call us crazy?” Sunset said to me. I stared at her for a bit.

“Why would I laugh, you’re one of Tia’s students until you became a spoiled brat.” I said as I began to walk.

“W-wait what!” Sunset yelled. I continued walking until I saw the generator. I got to it and looked around and found the door to the place. It was a big metal door that looks like it can stand up to a hit from a cannon. I grabbed the handle and pushed, hard, to open the door. After that I moved so the other two can get into the room, I walked in and closed the door while pointing my flashlight into the room. I saw what I can guess is the tunnel Ivan made to the apartment. I nodded to it.

“That should lead you to the safe house.” I told them.

“What are you going to do?” Chrysalis asked.

“I’m going to stay here and wait for Ivan for a bit, I’ll be up in a few.” I said to them. I turned to the door but stopped. “If you two take our stuff and bail you’ll find out I’m a lot scarier than these things.”

With that said I went out of the door and waited outside of it. I clicked my flashlight off and leaned onto the wall to wait.

Ivan

Running can take a lot out of someone, especially when their current attire consist of a hoodie, torn jeans and some old shoes not mention having a heavy bag. Despite all that, I could still run a marathon and back, at least when these things are chasing me.

I had used myself as a distraction after seeing no other way to reach the tunnel. I had initially used the MP5 to gain their full attention but after the first seven minutes, I had ran out of ammo and resorted to just yell at them.

Quickly rounding up another turn, leading me to one of the many service tunnels. I had taken out my flashlight before looking back in time to see one pounce.

I had dodged its pounce, making it hit one of the many pipes around the tunnel. Looking back again, this time, I had turned on the flashlight and shone the light at each of the monstrosities, allowing me to its true appearance.

They let out pained screeches as tried backing away. One of them let out a growl at me before being shone by the light, earning a pained screech from it as well.
“Come on you faceless fucks, afraid of a little light.” I mocked them as I slowly backed up. Each time one got closer, they’d be hit by the light. My back was against the wall, next to me was a lever with a warning on it. I knew what it was for, I only just hope this works, if even for just a moment.

I quickly took hold of the lever and flipped it back up, causing it to spark before the light of the tunnel turned on. As each light activated, the monstrosities were growing weaker.

I pulled out a combat knife with the intent to finish the job. Grabbing the nearest one, I jammed the knife into its open maw. I twisted the knife before pulling back out, spilling blood on the floor and knife. I walked towards another and did the same. Then another and another, this went on for at least five minutes before I had finished.

Looking down at one of the corpses, I placed my boot on its head before smashing under the soles of my boot. I let out an audible grunt before heading back.

It had taken longer than I had hoped to get back, I must be suffering from the loss of the adrenaline. With tiredness setting in, I had started yawning but ignored my own tiredness and pressed on.

After finally seeing the area I had initially ran from, I knew I was getting close. After a few more steps, I had squinted to see through the dark before noticing Jace leaning against the wall.

“I thought you’d be at the apartment by now,” I said to him. Jace looked over at me and shrugged.

“Let’s say that if you were running like hell you would need someone to open the door quickly.” he said.

“Right,” I said before opening the door. I walked in before Jace. After Jace walked in, he closed the door behind him.

“So… what the hell were those things?” he asked.

“They're known as Monstrosities. Tall, faceless and slender like humanoid infected with little to no resemblance to a normal human. They're something you would avoid at all cost.” I answered.

“Right, thanks for the info.” He looked over at the tunnel. “So what are your thought’s on the other two?”

“That is a question best asked at another time,” I told him as we began walking through the tunnel. “Why do you ask?”

“Just curious.” he said. He looked at me and pointed at the mask. “You want this back?”

“Yeah,” I said, being reminded by my lack of mask. Jace reached up and pulled the mask off. He turned it in his hand as he pulled his mask that covered his mouth and nose. I saw his eyes narrow as if he was frowning.

“Never like these kinds of masks, always feels uncomfortable.” He said as he handed the mask back.

“Being comfortable doesn't work out here, you know that,” I told him. He chuckled a bit.

“I know,” he said. I rolled my eyes knowing that he was grinning. “I just prefer this kind of mask.”

“Come on. We need to hurry before the two of them break something.” I said as I sped up. I heard Jace follow behind with some heavy steps. As a few minutes past I heard a muffled howling sound coming from above, I stopped to listen. It… wasn’t anything that I heard before, I turned and saw Jace was listening as well but his face didn’t look as confused.

“What was that?” I asked him. He looked at me for a moment before answering.

“I don’t know but when we get up there I’m going to take a look.” He said. I stared at him before resumed walking. I heard him mutter something under his breath before I saw something familiar.

It was the hatch that led to the basement. I ran up to it before opening the hatch and climbing out. I looked around and smirked, seeing the basement.

“Let's go see what was making that noise,” I told Jace as he climbed out.

Jace

Entering through the basement we headed up to see if the other two haven't taken everything and left, lucky they didn't. Chrysalis was sitting by the window looking out into the night while Sunset was staring up at the ceiling. As we came in both heads turned to us.

Both stared with eyes and mouth agape. Following their gaze, I saw that they were looking at Ivan. With the small glance, I had noticed Ivan’s eyes were green again.

Whatever was said between the group was ignored and headed to my little area of the place, a work bench with a chair near the far corner. I went over and open one of the draws, I pulled out a few more shotgun rounds, and two of my creations that I made while I was here, a noise maker and a stake bomb. What? You never know when you need one. I felt someone tap me on the shoulder as I put the bomb into my pocket, I turned to see Ivan standing there.

“What are you doing?” He asked.

“Being paranoid,” I told him as I walked towards the door to leave. I heard him follow so I didn’t stop him from coming.

“What's making you so paranoid?” He asked. We move downstairs and headed outside.

“Everything, throughout my life I was always paranoid about everything and in those times it saved my life.” I looked over at him. “With that howl, it made me very paranoid.”

I went to the building across the street and climbed the fire escape, when I got there I heard Ivan follow behind. We jumped from rooftop to rooftop as we traveled towards the howling, as we did I saw down on the street blood splatters and some body parts laying around. We came to an edge of a building and crouched down. I peeked over and saw something that I didn’t want to see.

… What the living fuck was that? It looked like something from a horror movie. The only thing I saw that looked familiar was that it had a deformed head of a dog and it’s movements looked a lot like the werewolves that I hunted back home. Did one came through a rift and started eating people, even the zombies? If so the virus did an ungodly number onto it.

“What the fuck,” Ivan said as he walked up to the edge. I watched the beast as it ate whatever it got and let out another howl. It then started to smash it’s head on the wall, is it fighting the virus? Or trying to??

“So… remember what I said when we first met?” I asked him without taking my eyes off the beast.

“No.” He answered in a flat tone.

“Okay, luckily I do but to keep it short I didn’t lie to you I just… never told you the full truth.” I explained. I looked over at him as he was staring at him. “If I told you the full thing right there you would've thought that I was crazy.”

“Get to the point.” He said, eyes narrowing. I rolled my eyes.

“I’m from another world with magic and monsters and I lived ten plus lifetimes, know think about what you would've done if I straight up told you that.” I deadpanned. I turned and saw the beast was moving more into the alleyway but shook its head and smashed its head onto the wall.

“... We'll talk later, right now we should worry about that thing.” He said after a brief moment of silence. I nodded as I looked at the beast. It was moving its head back and forth a few times, I narrowed my eyes until it hit me.

“Ahh shit, this is not good,” I said.

“What do you mean?” Ivan said as the beast turned and looked around then at us.

“It know’s we’re here,” I said as I grabbed Ivan and pulled him back. It roared and jumped onto the roof. I pushed Ivan back and ready myself.

“Get back, I’ll distracted until you get a good shot,” I said as I charged at the beast. It roared again and took a swipe at me. I rolled under it and start stabbing it with my spear, I got a few hits in but they weren’t that deep. It tried to squash me with its body, I pulled away and turned my spear into its second form. I aimed and fired a few times but saw that it just pissed it off.

It roared again but the sound of a gunshot made it jerk its head. Ivan, now a few buildings away, was sniping the beast. It growled and began to move towards him but I got it’s attention with a few rounds of my spear. It swiped at me again but I dodge it by rolling to the side, only to hit me again with its backhand/claw, thing and sent me into a neighbor building.

I went through a few walls and floors and stopped at a big pile of rubble. Ow~.

I shook my head and looked around to see two or three big oil tanks, tapping them I heard and they were somewhat full with whatever. A plan formed as the beast crashed into the building and roared.

“I hope this works,” I muttered as I looked up at the roof. I start shooting at it, and reloading, and re-fired at it. The beast charged at me as I shot the last one and heard the beast groan, I rolled underneath it and jabbed the bomb onto its stomach, I uh think, and booked it out of there. It roared again but the sound of the place falling on top of it, I started to climb the building and just booked it away. I saw Ivan standing a few buildings away.

“RUN RUN RUN RUN!!!!!!” I yelled as I got to him, passed him, and jumped onto another building. About fifteen seconds passed as the building that was there exploded as a loud roar was heard from miles. I turned to the blast and saw the place burn.

“Yeah, there’s no way it could live through that,” I said. I sat down and stared at the fire, then started to laugh.

“Come on, you can laugh back at the apartment,” Ivan said as he turned around. I chuckled for a bit and got up and followed him back.

After some time we got to the roof of the apartment. I looked over at Ivan as I sat down on a box. “Well, I guess you have questions.”

“Why didn't you tell me sooner?” Ivan asked. I just stared at him.

“Let’s see, it was mostly the fact that you would have thought I was crazy and shot me in the head,” I told him. “Again, me being paranoid.”

“Like you aren't already crazy.” He retorted. I smiled at him.

“You have to be insane to understand the insane,” I said.

“I've spent the majority of my life living in this hell hole and witnessed the only ones I could call my friends be slaughtered, not to mention living alone for at least five years,” Ivan said. I nodded knowing the feeling very well.

“Well you have the other two to befriend, all I can say is that they have the same thing as me, not from this world I mean, but with some tough reality will help them,” I said looking up at the sky. The clouds moved and I saw the stars and moon.

“Come on, time to eat,” Ivan said before entering through the roof access door.

I looked up at the sky again and stared for a bit until I got up. I headed to the door until I stopped and looked out to the city. If the werewolf came through a rift then maybe I'll find another one and head back.

I sighed at this. “Knowing me, it will pop up at the odd time.”

Author's Note

This chapter was a bit more of a pain to deal with, something went weird from the transfer...

Anyway here's another chapter for you all :). if you see an error please leave in the comments so I can fix it :)

See you all in the next chapter :)