Monstro City

Chapter 5 - "Everybody dies . . ."

   I feel uneasy staring up at Deathwish after the incident yesterday. Nothing was ever explained to me and I'm not holding my breath for an answer either. I know that to most creatures here I am nothing but a bag of meat ready to be slapped on a grill on a hungry day. I am a nobody, an insignificant human amongst trillions, but it wouldn't hurt to know what I'm walking into.

   Krom doesn't stick around after he drops me off, he has his own business to attend to. He's a busy wolf keeping the city safe from witches and bitches who want to curse the land and destroy everything that brings balance and order.

   Or something like that.

   Would be nice if witches destroyed these streets. There are like twenty lanes between me and Deathwish. And I swear to everything dark and unholy that more lanes get added randomly. Trying to walk across is dangerous and hell doesn't care about safety measures. There are no traffic lights or stop signs. You just pray and run.

   I watch hundreds of vehicles pass by, waiting for an opportunity to cross the road, but the moment never comes. Instead, when I think I can finally step off the sidewalk and make a run for it, I feel a large hand squeeze around my neck and pull me back to the sidewalk.

   I start screaming violently as I'm raised in the air. The pain brings back memories of everyone warning me that this day would come. Most new souls die hours within their arrival, but I managed to slip by death for a few days. It's an accomplishment. A world record even. I'll be known as the newbie who lived the longest.

   That being said, I still don't want to die. I know I'll come back again, but it sucks! I don't want to be ripped, shredded, or snapped in half. If it's up to me, I rather never go through this experience.

   This gives me the strength to fight back instead of surrendering to the inevitable. The monster becomes furious when he senses my struggle and turns me around to face him. He looks like a demonic gorilla with a creepy white mask. His fur is pitch black and shadowy, his eyes are even darker, but the horns on his head are massive and on fire.

   "Let me go," I try telling him, but my influence doesn't work. This is the one power I don't understand.

   He makes a growling noise behind his mask that actually sends shivers down my spine. He doesn't like being told what to do? Well, I don't like being murdered, so one of us is going to lose.

   He uses all of his strength and sends me flying through traffic. I roll over the pavement and get up quickly as hundreds of cars start coming at me. I jump around avoiding all of them, and this just pisses him off more.

   "Anger issues," I whisper.

   The demon gorilla rages madly and runs straight through the traffic on all four, pounding his knuckles on the ground and leaving trails of burning fire. He rips through cars and tosses them aside like they're plastic toys.

   I blind him purposely as I switch forms, causing him to stumble backwards while shielding his eyes. A few blind drivers collide with him and I take this time to run towards the club.

   The gorilla recovers quickly and leaps into the air, coming down on me and pinning me against the road. My transformation finishes, but not before he bashes my face until one side goes completely numb and my vision goes red with blood.

   "GET OFF ME!" I scream, raising my hands and using my powers to throw him high into the air. Eventually he comes back down while I'm coughing blood.

   This monkey isn't going to give up. I have to kill him like I killed that monster on my first day. It's not illegal to kill, I remind myself. This is how I defend myself in this world. Kill or be killed. It's quite simple.