The Spooky Bloodspread

Chapter 2: Three's a Genocide

Skid and Pump made their way through their neighborhood, exhausted and downtrodden. The thought of their families getting murdered and assaulted made their hearts hurt.

"I miss my mom..." Skid sighed. "I just... I wish she never died... I wish I never became an orphan..."

"I miss her too," replied Pump. "Again, I'm so sorry this had to happen to you. She was such a sweet person."

"Yeah... she was... and I'm sorry about your grandpa and sister," Skid said, putting a hand on Pump's shoulder.

Some small tears fell from Pump's eyes.

"I wanna go see my sister again."

Along the way, 3 older boys could be heard laughing mischievously with distorted voices.

"The Hatzgang!" gasped Skid. "We gotta hide!"

Skid and Pump hid in an alleyway, and the 3 older boys walked near them... but something about them was horrendously different.

The shortest one, Roy, was grotesquely mutated, with lumps and scratches all over his body. He was walking in a similar manner to a wild quadrupedal animal. He was the leader.

The middle-sized one, Ross, looked normal at first, not counting the bloodshot eyes, but when he took off his beanie hat, it revealed a huge, sea lamprey-like mouth on the top of his head. He walked like a zombie.

The tallest one, Robert, had the biggest smile, but it was filled with jagged sharp teeth, stained with blood. He was walking with his back hunched over, and he was frail and lanky, his arms being longer than his torso, and his legs being thin and pointy.

And of course, Robert was the one to notice Skid and Pump hiding behind a dumpster bin. He charged towards them, with the other two following behind.

Skid screamed and tried to alert Pump, but... Pump wasn't there.

"Here you go, Ross. This one's fresh from the pumpkin patch," Robert said.

He was holding Pump above Ross's head mouth, attempting to feed him to the monstrous older kid. Pump struggled to escape his grip, but it was no use.

"SKID, HELP ME!!!" Pump yelled.

Skid quickly obeyed, and started searching through the dumpster for an item to assist him.

He managed to find the leg of a broken stool, and charged at Ross, attempting to impale him. He succeeded, and Ross fell over, letting out blood-curdling screams from both his mouths.

Those screams caused Robert to drop Pump next to Ross, and Pump ran to Skid, embracing him tightly.

"Are you okay?" Skid asked.

Pump nodded as a response, being too horrified to speak.

"GOD DAMMIT, ROSS GET YOUR ASS BACK UP!!!" Roy screamed. "WE'RE NOT DONE YET!!!"

Without saying anything, Ross got back up, and charged at Skid and Pump headbutt style, his lamprey mouth wide open.

Skid grabbed the stool leg again and stuck it into Ross's mouth to try and stab him, but he chomped down on it and tried to eat it, starting a tug-of-war game.

Pump held Skid's torso and helped Skid try to pull the stool leg out of Ross's mouth. They pulled and pulled, but they were getting more and more exhausted, as Ross kept chomping down on it.

Pump eventually told Skid to just let go and run away, and Skid released his grip from the stool's leg, distracting Ross and allowing him to eat it.

Skid and Pump took off running, but Roy and Robert chased them down. They couldn't run very fast, as the two Hatzgang members were faster. Roy's running style changed to a more erratic, bipedal one compared to the spider-like one.

They turned a corner and chose to take shelter in an old warehouse, and the Hatzgang lost them. They gave up and walked away.

The two boys breathed an exhausted sigh of relief, but Pump was crying softly.

"S-Skid..." Pump wept. "I'm scared... I don't like this..."

"It's gonna be okay Pump," Skid reassured his friend. "I'll always be by your side... no matter what."

"Th-thanks, Skid..."

Skid and Pump shared a comforting hug, and quietly got out of the warehouse to start the adventure, that would forever change every aspect of their lives.