Chapter 23: Let’s be civil now
After having the delicious soup with Gloria and David, the two of us sat on the couch. However, the atmosphere wasn't calm, it was tense.
And for the reason why is simple, I was teaching David how to fight. Gloria was staring at me, even while enjoying the soup I made.
"So, how much did you teach my son?" She asked, I was curious on why she asked that at first, but then it turned into realization.
She wasn't asking that, if you read the lines in between, she was asking how much harm I did to David. I only took a small amount of the soup and stared back.
"Just the basics, I didn't want him to lose any focus from his studies." Hearing this, Gloria hummed in acceptance and soon turned to her son.
Without saying anything, she stood up and lunged at David without warning. Raising her fist to strike her own son, only to be blocked when David crossed his arms and jumped back to create a small gap.
This however didn't stop Gloria, for she jumped over the small coffee table and knelt down to sweep David's legs.
Seeing the attack, David jumped up and raised one of his legs up as well. As David swung his leg down, Gloria rolled to the side and reached behind her, wanting to pull out her pistol.
As soon as David landed on the ground, he looked to the side to see the bowl that fell. He then dived towards it.
As soon as the bowl was in his hand, he quickly threw it at her, striking her right in the forehead.
"Augh!" Gloria held her nose and began to stumble backwards, giving David the chance to run from below, seeping her from underneath.
As soon as Gloria landed on her back, David had his knee on Gloria's abdnomen, preventing her from getting up, while in his hand was the pistol Gloria hid.
"Okay, I can tell you're relatively safe for the most part." She groaned, rubbing her nose while pushing David off her.
"S-sorry mom, you just…" Gloria only gave a small glance that was enough to make him lower his head.
"Now, I appreciate the thought that you taught my son on how to defend himself…" She began, but then gripped my collar and stared into my eyes.
"But that doesn't excuse the fact you've been seeing him without me knowing, so fess up, there's got to be a reason for doing this." I gripped her arms and jumped up, kicking her away.
"David, this isn't personal, but I'm going to fight your mother!" I shouted, while jumping back as she grabbed a hidden knife from below the couch.
Rushing at me with the intent to kill, she held it backwards and slashed towards my chest. I bent my knees bending backwards, watching the knife fly bye.
Gloria then raised it high and brought it down, I didn't waste a second and gripped her wrist, stopping her from stabbing me.
I then let my legs go limp, pulling her with my as I fell. With the unexpected fall, Gloria felt my feet against her stomach, pushing her into the air.
With the small breathing room, I kick up myself up, and knelt down, grabbing a hidden knife that was under my pants and stepped back.
As soon as Gloria landed on the floor, she stood up and stared at me. The two of us began to circle around the living room, our hands gripping our knives tightly.
However, when Gloria had her back against the window, she looked behind me. I was worried that someone was behind me, but I didn't turn, only keeping a close eye at her.
"David, open the door!" I was confused at first, but I didn't have a chance to react when I saw Gloria taking off her jacket and tossing it at me.
I was now blinded, not knowing what she was doing. But it didn't last long when I felt something slamming against me, knocking the air out of my lungs.
The sound of the door opening and closing was heard, and I knew what she did. Before I could say anything, I felt my back slam against the wall.
The impact caused me to loosen my hold on my knife, letting it clatter onto the floor.
"Fuck!" I grunted, shoving the jacket off me, I saw the knife close to me. I tilted my head to the side, seeing small sparks fly when the knife made contact against the metal.
I kicked one of Gloria's legs to the side, causing her to loose her balance, with her now sliding to knee level, I took the chance to grip the back of her head, slamming it against my knee.
"Gah!" She slashed at my arms, wanting to stab them, only for the tip to slam against metal.
"Shit!" Gloria then swung her fist to my stomach, causing me to let go and snand on the other side.
"So, you got implants. What kind?" She said while wiping the blood off her nose. I didn't bother to respond, only kneeling down and grabbing the knife.
"Sorry, I'm not one to reveal my cards." I got into a fight stance and raised one of my hands, flicking my fingers to tell her to come at me.
She only scoffed and rushed at me, stepping side to side to confuse me. I didn't want to be left confused, so I did the same, only stepping in the opposite direction.
As soon as we met in the middle, the two of us clashed our knives. The sound of metal scraping against metal was heard, and neither of us backed down.
"I'll be honest, I have no intention on harming the both of you." I said while pushing forward, Gloria could only step back slightly at my push, but then gritted her teeth.
"Bullshit, I know how people act in this city, and I won't believing the shit you spit out!" She pushed me back and tried to swing at me again, only to be met with my knife clashing against hers.
The two of us stood in the hallway, a few inches apart with our knives clashing with one another.
A few tenants that were close by, began to run, not wanting to be a part of the fight the was happening in between us.
But some actually made their way towards us with their own knives or melee weapons. One of them raised a rebar behind her, wanting to strike her on the head.
I gripped her wrist and pullled her behind me, thrusting my knife forward and lodging it in the man's throat.
From behind, Gloria also saw a man sneaking up behind me. But when I pulled her past me, she ended up slamming into him, causing the two to fall to the ground.
She didn't take long to stay down and pushed herself up, she raised the knife and pierced the man's throat, twisting it for extra precaution.
"Hey, watch your back asshole!" She shouted, pulling the knife out and wiping it with her jacket.
"The same could be said for you!" I said, twisting the man's neck, and letting the corps fall.
More people began to make their way towards us, ready to kill the both of us. Gloria and I only looked at one another, silently agreeing to a small truce.
The two of us ran in the opposite direction, rushing towards the two groups. The same could be said for the groups who tried to ambush us.
The first person I ran into was a man who looked fat, his stomach was bulging out of the tank top, and his feet slammed with each step.
"You know.." I slid underneath the man, passing through his legs, while gripping the knife and slicing one of his tendons, causing him to stumble.
"I'm not gaining anything from this!" I shouted, standing up and blocking an attack from a woman who used a wooden leg of a chair.
I gripped the woman's arm, and slammed my elbow against her face, breaking her nose while also snatching the wooden leg.
"Bullshit! There's some things that you…." She stops a man who was trying to tackle her, by pulling a large air tank, and pushing it towards the man.
"Can do to us!" She raised her hand and used the butt of the knife to break the handle, causing the air to forcefully push the man back, knocking down a few more people that were coming close.
"Name a few!" I shouted back, already strangling a woman with an iron chain, who swung her arms behind her to grab my arms.
"Prostitution…!" She grabbed a hammer, slamming it onto a man's leg.
"Selling our organs..!" She grabbed a woman's leg, placing the foot on a plastic chair, slammed the hammer on her knee.
"Or selling us to scav's!" She tossed the hammer to me, which I caught it, using the sharp end to dig into a man's throat.
I spun him around to the group charging and pulled the hammer to the side, spraying the group with blood.
As the blood landed on them, some began to stumble onto one another, tripping and falling. Injuring themselves or others.
"Those… are!" I then swung the hammer in a underhand swing, slamming a man's testicals, causing him to scream and land on the floor.
"Valid points!" I then gripped the iron chain from before, wrapping one end on her leg, and the other end to my arm.
I pulled hard, pulling her leg forward and causing her to do a split. She screamed in pain at the sudden change, but it didn't last long when I rushed up and slammed my foot against her head.
"However!" I unwrapped the chain and began to use it as a whip, slamming the end against a few legs, arms, and even head.
"…it's….not…a…crime…..to…help!" I spoke each words while whipping some of the people, and ending it by wrapping a chain around a person neck, and tossing the other end to Gloria.
As soon as she caught it, the two of us pulled, I also tossed her the gun I took and pulled out my own, aiming at the people behind me.
"Not..really…!" She grunted, tugging the chain while shooting behind her, struggling to aim at the crowd.
"But I…don't…trust anyone!" She didn't bother to aim and switched her focus on pulling, the man began to turn purple from the lack of air, soon, the sound of a crack was heard, and the man's head slumped forward.
"Still…!" I untapped the chain and tossed my gun to the side, leaning down and widening my arms.
"You got to open up!" Inside my skull, passing by the tissues of the brain, a small signal was being sent through my brain.
The signal soon made its way towards a small black box that was imbedded into my spine, making its way through small wires that began to travel towards my arms.
As soon as the signal reached into my arms, metal could be seen instead of flesh and bone.
A blade that was inside my began to heat up, while multiple gears began to spin, moving the two metal panels to the side, and two springs releasing the blade.
"And take the risk!" I then rushed forward with my mantis blades, jumping onto the wall and began to run.
As soon as I felt gravity pulling me down, I leapt off the wall with the two blades raised high.
I landed feet first onto another fat man, digging the two blades into his chest. Hearing the heated blades sizzling his flesh and pulled my arms to the side.
I could see the flesh being cooked well done, which was oddly disturbing. But I leapt to the side to avoid a hammer, which crushed the man's head.
Looking up, I saw a muscular woman, not as muscular as the animals, and swung my arms. Slicing the pole of the hammer and her head.
Before she could collapse, she stumbled, the blood spraying out from her lower half of the head, and raised her hand, lifting the middle finger.
"Fuck...you…." Was all she said before she collapsed, seeing this, the resort of the people began to run.
"Well, I guess we can say that today was interesting." I sighed, calling back my mantis blades.
Only to be smacked on the back of my head, turning around, Gloria had a look of annoyance, and soon pointed at the corpses.
"So, how are you going to fix this?" Gloria asked, I only sighed and heard the sign of sirens.
"Well, a little money can't hurt." I replied, walking back to her home. Gloria only scoffed and began to follow me back.
"Well, at least you know when to take responsibility." She muttered.
"Careful now, some people will misunderstand your meaning." I teased, I only received a look of disgust.
"Like that'll ever happen." She punched me and began to walk quickly, I only sighed and followed.
"Eh, your right, the chances are slim to none."
(A/N) Hey hey, here's todays chapter, sorry for the late upload again, I am ashamed for my procrastinations.
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