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Chapter 1: The Hollowing Part IV

  I hear the shabby thing rattle and screech, it's a little unnerving but it isn't a problem for me. I climb up onto the elevator roof, readying myself peeping down the ma seems we've climbed up five stories, it fuses me a little maybe there's unofficial levels to this pce. So, it seems this building must be highly valued with how much resources went into all of the sub-floors. Then i expect what korosu to be said is true, i will face danger. I feel my chariot start to slow down. I grip one of my grenades and just as the door tings. I hear korosu bellow out the rgest cry as i throw the grehrough the elevator doors.

  "Ats is in the elevator shaft!!!"

  Well Fuck! that little Rat. I turn my attention to esg, i start climbing the dder that's imbedded into the structure of the shaft. I reach the third floor door and i hook my right arm in the dder and pry the door open with a knife in my left hand. I make enough room for my left foot to sneak in and i push the door's open enough for my body to fit through. I crawl into the corridor Then the gravity of the situation shows itself to me.

  I taste it.

  The air, ead every tone of every colour and shade.

  I feel astonished...

  All i see In front of me is a bnd and small waiting room, but as i've do i'm above ground. All five senses are living and breathing, i hear a mob of footsteps climbing up the stairs. But, they don't deserve my attention.

  I relish this moment... For i am so fortuhat they uimated me and as such i enjoy this small win without some random guard shooting at me. although... i am still at a severe disadvahey have the numbers, homebase advantage and a wild card that manipute electricity. it's a more than reasoo state that i'm in utter danger. I gain nothing from whiniher, guess i'll just have to put the odds in my favour. Not like i have a choiot to.

  hahah so theres a unknown amount of fodder and five tricksters. seems like a fair match up sihere oppo, Is Me!!

  The stairs are to the right of me and i hear five or so pairs of footsteps. I move away, running down the corridor with rooms on both sides of me. I'll have to keep my distance for now since i don't know what kind of strategies they will employ. I knock a door in and hide my person ihe doorway. I take a quick peer into the room and i see two used hospital beds with their respective bedside table o them. The room has a window too. it's nighttime but the moon is out but i still 't really see out of it. there's some sort of support pilr but it seems far te to be scaffolding si wouldn't be cost effective. I hear footsteps above me, they must be trying to trap me on this floor and sihere taking their time there likely setting traps above and below. Well at least there anised, pying by the book a fair bit but it's solid he less. Thankfully i exploit the fact that there retarded and kill them. I know what i'm dealing with now.

  They've shown themselves but, there's only four of them... There standing proudly in the middle of the corridor about twenty meters away. One male and Three female's It seems the girls have taken to the front line fighting. I stand out in the corridor holding the rifle up into my shoulder, i speak.

  "So what's your name?"

  "Meta"

  Really?! "Feel free to give me a handicap and reveal your onry "

  "No"

  well, i guess it's always worth being proactive and ask anyway. You never know.

  "Nothing else to do now but to take them out" I sigh as i say this

  'What?! ... on a date?"

  "No to put a fug bullet in your skull!"

  I'm actually getting irritated by how everyone is making up there owence's i frankly don't uand. As i think this, i see one of the batants bring a radio to their mouth. They must be activating the traps! I Race to the room on my right then BOOM! explosives tear up the ceiling, debris falling like rain. I peer out into the corridor with all the rubble in the middle and i look to the right, it seems meta is making a move.

  I toss mreo slow them down and i bolt down the left er. I get a good three meters in and another explosion goes off. Rubble falls, I Go to move out of the way but some of it hits my left shoulder . I let my rifle hang on my neck as i situate myself in another room a little further up to pop my shoulder bato pbsp;

  It was a strange and painful feeling, but i he useless thoughts for now and focus in.

  I'm ready again. It seems that there trying to capture me sihese traps and strategies suggest so. Hard sprinting es my way, it's Meta. She's carrying a rge nce shaped like a cross. She takes a massive swing , It cuts through the door and wall, i go in for the attack. I hold the h my right hand and i drop kick her into the wall.

  we both yell. "AAAUUEEGGGHHH Fuck!"

  What the fuck is this hat i'm holding. It feels like a thousand pins and needles are going off at at once, a lifetime of it is in my hands.

  I 't help but Smile

  "But... how you should be paralysed"

  " Do you know how long I've been in that shithole! because i don't. But i know i carry the weight of a thousahs!"

  "He's jacked up on phantom pain. The fubsp;

  I Fug rip the nce around and out of the wall

  "haha Seems the prey shows itself huh. Here to protect yirlfriend ying on the ground for you. You wouldn't mind if i put you under would you?!"

  I swing the , i feel the the tip of it cut through the crete wall as i go to hit them. I hit both of them with the ft edge, the irl took most of it. with that much force i definitely caused enough truma to her upper body to kill her. But surprisingly she's still alive though, that would've and should've killed her. If she was normal though. Both of them are snt up against the wall with one of them bleeding heavily.

  "So you still have some life in there huh"

  she tries to move out of the crater in the wall but she's just too weak, she's situated to the slight left of Meta.

  "Bye, Bitbsp;

  I take the nd i shove it down into the woman's chest, it pierces her bosom. The resistance she puts up is weak, she tries to pull the as i push in. I feel her rib cage start to crad shatter inside of her. I feel the down into the floor, it's prying dowa's right arm. But still i tinue, i'm cutting deeper carving through her colr bone and a little of her lung a. Blood starts spurting out of the girls body onto her rades face. The life fading out as i use my foot to stomp down on the o ly cut through her body and subsequently Metas right arm. blood spurts out of the pirls mouth as i cut her in half. one of them is now dead and the other is the most alive they have ever been.

  Meta keeps repeating 'No' a thousand times. She's in utter denial over the death of her rade and the loss of her right arm. You see it on her face... she's scared. I kick off the corpse leaving its upper body on the floor, and i see Meta cradle her arm or well what's left of it. I grab metas arm and i i it. It doesn't have the same teal color like the ohat corpse. I drop the arm and the nd go to-

  "Oh Fuck!"

  my stomach sinks deep, my footing slipping. I'm falling. I try to move away But its futile sihere blowing up the whole fug corridor. If i fall straight down then i'll be caught underh all of the rubble i have got to get a footing! As my feet are underh the third floor my eyes look straight at the window still. The window still yes! As i fall down to the sed floor i reach my left arm out to catch myself. The gss on the sed story is broken from the explosives. It carves and cuts up my left hand, my muscles tense up to tighten my weak grip. I chip of the gss off with the barrel of my assault rifle and i chuck it away since i t use it effectively with a damaged hand. With my free hand i pull my bodyweight up and i perch myself ihe window still. I look outside and the road is littered with the military, they have these rge bricks on wheels. well, the ground is certiently out of the question. Hmm... That pilr, It's a train line! I leap three meters and i've made a retively safe nding. I start climbing with some difficulty, it's a bit awkward climbing with this hex shape. It's takes longer with only one hand but i do make some det progress until. I hear a voice bellow out and alert everyone just as i'm about to reach the top.

  "He's climbing the support pilr! he's going to be orain tracks!"

  I quickly lift my body up onto the train tracks and i bring myself up and stand, i hear them yelling and moving.

  I breathe it in.

  It's cold...

  The air..

  The colour..

  The refle off the gss on every skyscraper and building filtering the moons light into both of pupils. I just started to run, I don't know why but this feeling.

  The life i lived before 'this'

  I feel it

  It's different

  This feeling is superior in every ossible.

  ...

  I feel light, i feel fast. I could run as fast as 80km if i learnt the proper form. I don't feel any fatigue, it seems that i have a higher threshold than before. I genuinely pte going bad killing them all I feel so reassured in myself. I could catch a bullet between my teeth!

  ...

  I made some good distaween us, i've ran for about five minutes now. I'm genuinely surprised by how much stronger i am, such a feat shouldn't be possible. But, i know i ran that distand at that pabsp;

  I look to my left towards one of the tall buildings and i take aim with my small arms in my right hand and shoot the window. I cracked the window to soften the breach impact, then i take a few steps backwards for a run up. I assume a sprinters stand i bolt and leap forward off the tracks. I lead with my left shoulder, tug my left hand deep into my chest to protect it from mss shards. I quickly recover as i nd ihe building, as i go to look around this boy office hall. Three secutive explosions rattle the buildings on it's way towards me. guiding is load boom! along the railway i was running along earlier. I feel a little uneasy, that shockwave did something to my stomabsp;

  There's something going on here.

  I imagihe faint screaming ing from that cursed hospital, Karma's a bitch huh. I should get some more distahen, But i decide to just have a quick look. Information is the basis of sound judgement. I go to the broken window awo women oized bike? Their bunking together but one of them is sitting backwards. I see her say something, then out of thin air. Some sort of fireball realises iend hurdles itself at me!

  "What the fubsp;

  I was utterly stunned, Fbbergasted even. but not for long, my nervous system punches a hole in my gut to make me move. Did i really just enter a unrealistic hazard? What the fuck i even pare that too. certainty nothing i already know. I dash backwards towards the stairwell i saw earlier. Just as i'm about to reach the door handle. I'm lifted of the ground and a excessive burst of heat blows me away. It shatters mss windows. Then i'm blown away again and my body is truck violently do-

  I hear voices. no no no no no no no don't take me back ...

  "Hey Tai, i found him"

  I feel a hand caress my fabsp;

  "Yes that's him, good job we tell Jamen and Tusaba"

  "All right Iki, Sink him"

  I start to find it hard to breathe, i must not be getting enough oxygen to my brain. augh... I'm losing it...

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