Ah yes, Erok the world of Cores and Magical Tech. The bridge between fantasy and science. Erok; or that is actually called Core, is a planet far from earth. Do not worry Earth still very much exists, just not doing well in many different cases. Y'know the usual, world wars, alien evasions, the well known common galactic wars using big mechs and plasma energy, while just one of them happens to be a symbol of space peace. But Earth has no matter in this story. Hopefully. Like earth and most of the time there, there is always the sad and depraved, and this sad and depraved place is called Doomsday's Apartment.
It might have been either the truck size bionic rat chilling on the other side of the road, or the unclean sources some residents used to fuel their vehicles. But y'know what, this parking lot wrenched of something, enough to leave a sign that warned of poisonous air density. An electric bar scale measuring the current degree, which was considered breathable at the time. The sky was dark, compared to earth even moon light couldn't help to see at least a meter in front. You see here on Erok, what people call The Void exist here. A still unknown, unmoving, and un presidential, unless seen, lives here, before any creatures of different worlds came across it. This leads to the night being darker than ever, even mornings can be hard to predict if you lived close to it. So another great and wonderful aspect of this building, the lovely void will and can consume you. Let's hope this doesn't happen to Jami. Speaking of Jami.
Meet Jami- well let's not meet them, let us see what they are up to.
From the quick steps of military boots, to squashing and the picking up off of electric gravel, a humanoid feline looking alien would come into view of the Doomsday's apartment. Their quick pace would come to a slow and steady stop, right at the large gates that kept outsiders from waddling in. Sparks of friction reaching the disturbed and ruined ends of a classical maid dress. A sudden poof movement of the outfit would occur, as the wearer would pat it off, audible cussing along with cat like punnery talk would emerge. Clawed hands would roughly brush down then up, reaching their clearly bruised and bloody face. Their red and zapped yellow eyes would look off to the left for a few seconds before back at the apartment. His hair was not just a mess, it was ruined, no way it could be a mess because it was always like one. His already uneven raven hair had strands going it whichever direction it pleased, his sweating didn't help, as those beautiful strands that even had glowing undertones, had stuck to his face like glue. Taking one hand to try and move which ever fell into his view as he looked up to one apartment in particular.
"Hey, Epo where am I?"
The user's voice was more than annoyed, out of breath and rasped to the core. Now wishing to know where they are? A soft like ring and a "meow" came alive, from a disk on the maid dress user's back, while lighting up a vivid green.
"We are at the Doomsday's Apartments of course..." The Epo Disc chimed.
"Oh Really~?" The other would respond with a tilted head, slightly shaking it, before straight up yelling at the disc on the back. "Why didn't you tell me!" They fumed, The disc only making a digitized yelp.
"I'm sorry! Meowster! I thought I told you...Unless I Forgot?" It would chime once more and Before the maid could chime back, Their ears would perk up to familiar footsteps. "Maybe...I should...use you as...Bait! And ditch you, you dumb CD DISC!" He yelled as he saw two to three sketchy looking people with helmets stumble out from an alleyway.
"Oh Nyon! They are here! Look!" Epo would squeal
"I know, I'm not looking!..." The dress wearer had already made eye contact with them and did they recognize him? Of course they did. He could no longer just stand here, placing his hands together he would rub them as he looked up the gate, readying to scale the tall blockage. "Alright..One,Two!"
"One, Two!" Epo repeated as Epo's carrier jumped up and swiftly scaled the gate, landing perfectly when flipping up to reach a higher point on the pointed top. Seeing the biker helmet looking fella reach closer to the gate. The cat maid would drop down onto the other side "see ya!" they would scoff.
"Come back here you Bitch!"
"Fuxk!" they yelled from the other side
Epo would chime in as a person with a railgun came walking up, a small light badge was stitched to their jacket along with wearing a hat that said Staff.
"Meow incoming" Epo said
Before The Cat maid could stop the interaction, they would be introduced to the gatekeeper of the apartment.
"Who are you? Are you a runner or something..."
"Me?" they pointed to themselves, with a purr in their voice as they looked around clueless. The gatekeeper rolled their eyes, as they looked to the plated up gate door "I just watched you jump the fence, what is your business here? if you have none, leave. Runners aren't allowed here or do you need me to toss you out to them?" The gatekeeper asked, seeming gladly to do so.
The Cat would hesitate as they slowly shook their head. "I'm actually here to start living here...you see. Along with a man named Dante A8?"
"Dante A8? What a joke, you might have easily hacked the database of the apartment, doesn't mean you can slip past me like that easily. Dante A8 is Anti-social as hell and has always rejected other living things, from a baby left to the void, to a poor puppy dog being tied to high up on the gate left to rot. Come on, look at you. Try again feline seer" The gatekeeper grinned, now finding this somewhat and easy case. Before he could grab the other to escort them out. The Cat maid would step back and look at the gate hearing a bang.
"Feline seer?" they questioned, as Epo would quickly answer.
"Feline seer, a famous adult galactical actor that is known for fighting in a maid dress with a razor gun...always number one in my book" Epo would say happily as the so called Runner would hiss. "Don't call me that, serious though. I'm not joking. Look-" They would reach a hand into a side pocket on their maid dress as they pulled out a crystal. "60 kry...I was told to live here...Dante A8 offer was high but it's worth the price...Ask him since you know him so well..." He finished off as he watched the Gatekeeper eye down the Crystal. In a beat of asking Dante, the Gatekeeper would turn to the Gate "hey you rowdy fuxks, Hold for a second...You might get what you want...no promise though..." He then looked back to the Maid runner. "Alright let's go. Don't waste time. If you do...I might just kill you myself." And with that the Gatekeeper would lead the way. Dante's Place was on the 3 floor of a 4 story building, sandwich in the middle of 206 and 208. Once again this place was consumed by the very Void, Parts of the building where unusable or too risky. Not even light could pierce that darkness and most often things that did go over there would be lost forever or distorted. Dante's was close to it, but not as bad as the door on the left of him.
Reaching the door, the gate keeper would give a strong knock with the back of their fist. "Hey! Open up! Somebody is here for you!" He yelled with a stern voice.
waiting for a good while, the gatekeeper's dirty grin would return. His head cocking to the cat in the dress. "See. This guys wants nothin' to do with you or us. Now which way would you like it? By my hands or theirs?" he jotted his head back to where the gate was. Jami's eyes widened as he raised his hands in defense while backing up, but paused as both the gatekeeper and the Feline seer looked back to the apartment door of 207.
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Science FictionA cat human whose goal is to make enough money and befriend a lonely stray cat sniper named Dante A8 so he could kill the man who killed their boyfriend.