Hidden (Piers Nivans)

Chapter 8

There were small blockades on each side of the bridge. Just the sad attempts of people who are probably mutated messes by now. The people are so uneducated in just survival. In this day and age, bio-terrorism and other methods of torture are common. It amazes me how people can get so high up on a social scale and then do something like this. Horrifying.

We easily made our way around the boxes and crates that were meant to give safety to this side.

"This is where things get complicated, we have to find our way through some awkward halls and buildings to get closer."

The architecture in this town is already pretty messed up. Since the attack things will be in our way more, but there are bad conditions to begin with. Chris was leading us through the first twists and turns of the inner part of the city. With Chris a few feet away Piers took the time to walk over to me.

"Hey, are you ok? I know it's hard to talk about what happened."

"Yeah it's ok, it kind of feels good to have Captain know."

"After this mission, let's get away for a little while, go somewhere warmer and safer."

Before I could respond, the sound of swords and guns echoed through the twists and turns of the walkway. Piers and I instinctively ran over and began to fight the j'avos placed in every corner. One tried to slash me with it's sword, but I blocked the attempt with my gun. Using the butt, I hit the thing's head and squashed it in to the ground. You gotta do, what you gotta do to keep them from coming back or worse, growing another powerful limp. For the next nine j'avos we fought together and sniped them before they could start some real trouble.

"Are they all dead, like dead, dead?" I called out to the men next to me.

"There's one over here!"

We all rushed to the sound of... wings? When the monstrosity came in to view I noticed a new mutation, they were like moth wings. With every mutation comes more mortality, and with the flight skills of this thing it will take more work than usual.

We had wasted a lot of ammo just on this thing. So, I grabbed a knife from my bag and threw it at the mutated j'avo. As it flew through the air everything seemed to work in in slow motion. The knife hit his face and he was knocked straight out of the air. To finish the job I ran over and stabbed it a few more times. As I took the knife out a final time, I noticed a device embedded in the monster's skin.

"What is that?"

Piers may be smart, but he couldn't tell a tracker from a bomb.

"I'm not exactly sure yet, but I'll take it and look later."

I dropped the small thing safely in to a small pocket in my pants.

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Sorry this took so long
mondays and wednesdays im busy so updating is harder

im trying to keep a good balance between chaos and order bc this would be horrible if it was just chapter after chapter action like
car crash
zombie attack
another crash
dying
resurrection
dying again
so yah i hope you have a good day!!