2125 New beginnings.

Wanchancy

(Unlucky, dangerous, risky)

After what must of been hours of hopeless scratching, the vampires gave up , probably for easier prey. My mind was still racing, who had sent the message? Vampires are bad enough, but if there were worse creatures my chances of survival were diminishing quickly. I tried to occupy my mind by cleaning and checking and rechecking my weapons.  Having a working PAR (Particle accelerator rifle) was a brilliant bonus. The PAR was one of the last designs from Earth before it descended to chaos, it fired solid slugs of metal at high speeds. Like many of the weapons now used it fired slowly, yet each was a kill shot. The pistol was just a typical, average sidearm, but I felt the more firepower on my side. 

Bing... The screen glowed with a fresh message. I hoped it had better news.

New message from.....?

Ran into some trouble with the Vamps, more of them then I had expected. I won't be able to reach you, so you will have to come to me, ok? or don't and die. I kind of hope you stay in your room like a coward and die ...buuut of course it is up to you. If you go back to the storeroom where you stupidly opened the window, out the tear that that the Claws made and up the dune I will wait up there. Or I might not, so we will see, wont we? Take all the supplies you have and sneak out, If your found,  you will be ripped to shreds, which would be fun. Anyway toodles for now.

The way he said just sneak out made it sound easy but I felt sure I couldn't do it. The calm part of me was in control. I was distressing at what to do. I shut my eyes and let the rage consume me. Guns loaded and Viperblade within reach I unlocked the door expecting trouble. I was right. A vamp was hiding in the shadows on the left. It swung, I ducked and stabbed it across the face, I didn't want to use the gun in case it alerted the others, I sidestepped another lazy swipe and gave a cross in return. The vamps head smashed against the steel wall and caved in. I darted down the hallway, past the disfigured bodies and blood that I was sickened I had gotten used to and down to the Hold again. I met no Vamps on my travels, I was unsure if it was a comfort or a threat that they could be in wait ahead. The hold was dark, the only light now was coming from the tear in the wall. I edged outside and gasped.

There were Vampire corpses everywhere, at least fifty, no a hundred, on top of each other, unmoving dead? impossible, they were tough opponents even just one on one but something had killed them as though they were nothing. I stepped over them. The ship was almost saddening to look at, the missing decks, the rips along the hull. The Arbiter would need major amounts of work to be space worthy again, if it was at all possible. I spotted the dune that whoever sent the message was on about, as the pile of corpses led up to it. Fantastic I thought. I traversed the hill of corpses and reached the brow. A fierce battle was occurring between a man and another inhuman creature. It had long arms, almost clumsy looking, that were currently trying to rip into the man dancing around it. Each of the arms had massive, deadly looking talons. The.... thing was covered in sandy looking fur, if it was unmoving I would never had seen it at all. I anything the man was even stranger then the creature. He was dressed in what must of been a .....surfer outfit? Flowery shorts and sandals with a yellow sleeveless t-shirt. What the? My brain must be concussed, maybe I'm dreaming all this, maybe someones just writing a book, or film and I'm a character. No this is to stupid and silly, but those non sparkly Vampires were real and dangerous so why not a weird guy in shorts fighting a horrible monster?

I walked forward and halted just outside the fight zone. 'Hey need a hand?' I said to the man. He quickly glanced at me, swinging around he jumped out of range of another swing that would easily of decapitated him. 'Not from you of all people, no, I will deal with you in a second., let me finish off this Claw and Ill be right there.' He resumed his strange dancing motion with the creature, almost taunting it, yet he always seemed to evade all of its fatal swings. After a while I noticed that the creature was slowing, it's swings were having less punch and power. Yet the man never faltered, still dancing, twirling, evading the blows, until eventually, the beast fell, exhausted. The man walked up to the creature, only breathing slightly faster, he whispered in it's ear and put out a small strange gun from his pocket. He put the to the Claws head and fired.

Then walked up to me smiling a strange looking smile, looking me strait in the eye. 'Know that I killed all the Vamps you saw on your way here, and you saw that I bested this Claw, one on one without a weapon, so have no doubt I can best you, agreed?' I nodded, still amazed at what I had seen.' Yet I noticed that you bested two Vamps after surviving what was a pretty crap landing, so I'm cautious about you as well, but i hate you, Ill have no love lost if you die ok? I was happy here, until you crash, stirring up all these creatures again. The Goliath has even landed here on Crey, so you owe me a great deal, don't forget that.'

'UMmm um surf shorts?' I mumbled still in amazement.'yeah cool are they not ?' 'You wont believe how I got them, but I don't feel like telling you so I wont' 

Grrrrr I turned and noticed Vamps were stalking up the hill behind us, 'Run' The shorts man started sprinting into the area behind the Claw, an area I noticed, with a drop.... A large one. I had somehow got in front if him, I turned 'Where are we sup....'He pushed me, off.

Splashh.. I landed in a pool that wasn't visible due to the overhang from the cliff. Then another Splashhh 'Hey sorry for pushing you but I didn't think you were brave enough to jump, you know, cause your a coward' He smiled and I splashed him in response. After wading out we looked like a sorry pair, soaked and cold. However I looked worse then him as he actually looked ok soaked with the surf outfit. 'we can camp here for tonight and I will tell you a few things in the morning.' 'How can we camp here? If we have no supplies?' I shouldn't of asked, he brushed away some sand near the pool, and lugged out a large chest. He pulled out a tent and a few poles, which he threw at me.

'OWWW warn me first...idiot' 'Stop whining and set it up before I throw you back up there with the Vampires.' I doubted him but did as he asked. The twin suns began to set and the shadows started to creep along the ground towards me. I lay in my pink sleeping bag, a fact that surf boy kept reminding me about. I couldn't close my eyes though. I had a similar feeling as I had gotten in the hold, like someone looking at me, out of the edge of what i could see. I turned, even slower then I had before, eyes, all I could see were eyes looking from the shadows. Then nothing, gone as quick as I had seen them. 'Ahhh so you can sense them as well?' 'Interesting, I could almost see that one as well, seems to be drawn to you, Strange.' 'I call them the Unknown as well ....they are. They are there yet not there, I'v had friends who lost there minds trying to see them so don't even bother. Sleep well Scar, by the way you can call me Psycho, short for Psychopath.' He started giggling madly then quieted. 

I knew I wouldn't get much sleep, with the weirdo just feet away, and the fear of the Unknown.