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Elitemage14

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John scanned the area, looking for anything that they could use. The park was pretty clear with not much other than a small children's area and a few miscellaneous shrubs and tables that they could take cover behind. He thought they were both goners until he noticed a tree line to the north. It was a pretty good distance away and there wasn't much shelter between there and where they were now, but if they could reach the forest they might have a shot at getting away.

He and Sarah's worked in bursts, waiting until the creature had their back turned to them and then slowly crawling across the damp grass from cover to cover. It was a slow process and they spent most of the time on their stomaches, barely moving, but their focus was on stealth, not speed. After several minutes they managed to cross half the distance. As the creature wandered off in the other direction they prepared to move again, but as they did so John could hear the small crunch of a twig as it broke under Sarah's knee. She froze up, a look of dread on her face.

The super mutant turned and began moving towards the origin of the noise. This was it. They had been found.

"Run," John whispered, and at that moment both he and Sarah jumped to their feet and made a mad dash for the tree line. The creature let out a thunderous roar and charged after them. The two still had several hundred feet to go, and even with their head start the mutant was quickly covering the distance between them with its monstrous legs. John didn't think they would make it before the creature ran them down, and in that instant had a tough choice to make. Keep running and pray that both of them could escape into the forest, or try to buy some time so Sarah could get away safely? Maybe it was some sort of chivalry, but he wouldn't be able to live with himself if he let that thing hurt such a sweet, innocent girl.

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"Keep running!" he yelled, and pivoted towards the mutant, gun raised with both hands on the grip and feet shoulder length apart, just as he had been taught. It was like staring down an incoming train as he squeezed the trigger. John had tried to fire too quickly after turning so his first few shots went wide, but against such a large target he managed to find his mark, hitting it twice in the torso and once in the thigh. The creature let out a painful grunt and staggered slightly, but it kept moving. It ran right through John, bringing its club left arm into his side and sending him tumbling into the grass.

The creature seemed to have no interest in him, and kept running straight at Sarah. John, wheezing sharply, managed to get his feet under him and look up just in time to see the creature catch up with her. She had stopped running and looked back as John had faced down the mutant, and with her moment of hesitation the creature was able to catch up to her.

It grabbed her by the arm with its good hand and hoisted her up so that she was face to face with it. The mutant seemed to study her for a moment, then opened its mouth and growled, revealing rows of horribly decayed teeth. Sarah screamed, turned her head away, and raised her free arm that still held the container of pepper spray and pushed down on the cap. A stream of burning liquid shot forth, catching the mutant directly in the eyes.

It dropped Sarah and rubbed at its eyes. As she hit the ground the mutant roared in pain and kicked her savagely, knocking the wind out of her and sending her sprawling to the ground, clutching at her side.

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"Get away from her!" John yelled. He had managed to hold onto his gun, but the creature was too close to Sarah for him to risk taking a shot. Instead he ran forward and flung himself at the mutant, aiming low right for its knee.

He could hear ligaments ripping and the creature's kneecap popping as his shoulder rammed into its leg at an awkward, diagonal angle. The creature screamed, dropping to its hands and knees. John tried to take advantage by lifting up its leg and working one of his many wrestling moves, but the creature was way too big and way too strong, and John could barely make it budge.

John could feel a massive hand grab him by the ankle, and he was thrown forward, over the creatures head and at the ground next to Sarah. His left shoulder was the first thing to land. Hot, warm pain spread from his torso all the way down to his fingertips. He tried to scream, but his voice caught in his throat and all that came out was a haggard gasp.

Sarah was beside him, crying softly and still clutching at her ribs. He looked around and saw that the super mutant was coming right at them. Its eyes were burning, partly from the pepper spray and partly from overwhelming anger. John tried to lift himself up, but depilating pain spread across his collarbone as he did so, and he collapsed back down to the ground. He had lost his gun as he fell, and had no hope of finding the black object in the dark. He had to buy them some more time and give Sarah the opportunity to escape, but without his shoulder and busted arm there wasn't much he could do.

John was about to force himself up and make his last stand when a spear flew overhead. Blood sprouted from the mutant's chest as the leaf shaped blade fully buried itself inside the creature's body.

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Someone vaulted over John's head. The figure landed on its heels, hunting knife in hand, gripped blade back and eager for a fight. It was Leon Seronka, the man from the restaurant.

The mutant grabbed the handle of the spear and ripped it from its body, taking a chunk of meat with it, and tossed it to the groundr.

"You two, get out of here," Leon muttered. "I'll take care of this."

John got up, and resting Sarah's head against his good shoulder, the two hobbled off. As they left, he looked back in time as Leon pounced on the mutant. John watched them as they rolled to the ground, Leon working his knife with lightning speed, and then they disappeared from view.


John still didn't know his way around the town, but Sarah seemed to know where they were going. After about a mile and a half they arrived at a large church to Saradomin and they went inside, locking the doors behind them. Sarah led him to the back of the church and then down the stairs into the basement, which looked like a teen's area for a youth group. Once they were inside she let go of him and collapsed onto a nearby couch.

"Oh my God, oh my God," she trembled, breathing deeply and trying to get herself back under control. Even with her hair in a mess and her makeup smeared, John couldn't help but notice how pretty she still looked. "What was that *thing*?"

"No idea. You handled yourself pretty well back there, you know."

"After being stalked for the past week I had mentally prepared myself for something, but not this. This can't be real. None of this can be real."

"It's real. Either that or we're both going crazy together. But don't worry; we're both safe now."

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"Alright," she said, taking one last deep breathe. "We're safe now. How's your shoulder doing? I noticed you grabbing it on the way here."

"Not so good. I can't much move it and it's bleeding pretty badly."

"Bleeding? Here, lift up your shirt and let me take a look at it." John did as he was told, although even just taking his shirt off hurt like hell. Sarah stayed strictly professional about it, but he couldn't help but notice her eyes widen slightly as she noticed his muscles.

"Oh my God," she said. "You've been shot!" John looked down. Sure enough, there was a bullet hole right beneath his collar bone.

"That's what I thought. I think I sort of landed on my gun when that thing threw me and the gun discharged into me."

"Why didn't you say something earlier? We've got to get you to a hospital immediately!"

"It's just a flesh wound. Nothing to worry about," he replied.

"Flesh wound? You've been shot! How are you not freaking out about this?"

"I dunno. I guess I still have some anti-anxiety pills in my system or something. But we can't go to the hospital. It's too dangerous to go back outside, and even if we reached the hospital, what am I suppose to say? We were attacked by some monstrosity and during the battle I accidentally shot myself with a gun that isn't registered to me? They'd send me to jail, if they didn't send me to the insane asylum first that is."

"Well what do we do?"

"Don't worry about it. I don't think the bullet hit bone, but there is definitely still something in there. You got a pair of tweezers and some antiseptic on you?"

"I don't have any antiseptic, but I've got a pair of tweezers right here in my purse."

'Typical girl', John thought. Even after being attacked by some hulking beast she still somehow had her purse on her.

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"Just hand me the tweezers, then," he replied as he stood up and went over to the youth group's refrigerator. "I'll just need some vodka or something so this doesn't get infected."

"This is a church! There won't be any vodka here."

"Doesn't matter. Teens are still teens." After removing the false backing to the fridge he found exactly what he was looking for: a stash of alcohol, along with some other less than legal items. John grabbed a container of vodka, and then took a bottle of whipped cream and set them both on the table. There was also flat topped stove in the room, and he turned it up to full blast. Taking a kitchen knife, he gently set the flat of the blade on the stove top and let it heat up.

"Oh no, don't even think about it!" Sarah yelled, now realizing what John intended to do.

"I use to be in the Boy Scouts. I know what I'm doing." He sat down, and then took off his belt, folded it over once, and stuck it into his mouth as he took the tweezers to his bullet wound. He bit down and screamed into the leather as he poked around inside the wound. The pain was nearly unbearabe as the tweezers clamped down and pulled out the crushed fragment of a bullet, but it faded quickly once it was out of his body. Next came the vodka, which he poured into the open wound. Although he didn't need the belt for this part, it still stung horribly as he cleaned out the wound.

Satisfied that any possible infection had been killed off, John went to check on the kitchen knife. The blade was now white hot.

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"Sarah, I'm going to need your help for the next part."

"No. Please don't make me do this. I can't do it. I just can't."

"Sarah, please, I have to stop the bleeding," he said, handing her the glowing knife.

She took the handle silently, looking as if she was about to vomit.

"Good luck," John told her as he sat down. He raised the bottle of whipped cream up to his mouth and sucked down on the nozzle. Pure oxygen rushed through his lungs and up to his brain, and within moments he was unconscious.


End of Chapter 2

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Dudeski

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Hah, awesome adds so far, Elite. And I've been doing pretty well. Last summer I got hooked on Arcanists and lost my interest in writing, but I dropped it when school started. I've been planning out my first story for a few months, and I'm just getting it started now.

I'm glad you're still here. I notice that a lot of the veteran guys are gone :( .

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