Starting Over [Archangel] [Discontinued]
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He's surprised for a moment, then sighs. "Fuck. I saw this coming." He groans, before sitting up and rubbing at his eyes. "Well... I suppose I better stalk him till he comes back..." He murmurs to himself, before getting up, taking his machete, and packing some of the venison. With that, he puts on his shoddy wooden armour, and climbs down the tree and starts looking for Max's tracks.
He sighs in frustration. "Stupid kid... I'm going to kick your ass when I find you..." He grumbles, before checking for broken branches around the area.
Far to the north the vegitation lightens up a bit and he sees te ruins of an old city. The name is lost to time now and the once mighty buildings are now in disrepair and most have fallen in on themselves. The roads are littlered with large metal shapes that you father called cars and old bones from the millions of people that dropped in the streets are still scattered about. Vines, moss and large tree roots have carved their way into these ruins long ago.
Kaizen feels nervous when he enters the city, constantly glancing around the place and jumping at every little shadow. Too many ambush points... Way too many. Rather than walk down the street, he decides to go to the roof of one of the taller buildings to take a look around.
The closest building that looks remotely stable enough to enter and climb is a... star... something, the rest of the sign is long since faded away. Regardless, the inside is full of dusty old tables and busted chairs, behind a counter is a bunch of old rusted gear which purpose is unknown to Kai. The only way further back is a door in the back.
He carefully walks to the door, tiptoeing so that he doesn't make any noise, before opening the door just a crack.
He shrieks with terror and quickly scrambles away from the skeleton until his back hits a wall. For a minute, he's breathing quickly, his heart nearly out of his chest, before he finally calms down enough to get up and check the room, making a point to avoid the skeleton on the floor.
He considers looking through the files... But there was the slight problem of him not being able to read very well. He just shrugs and walks to the staircase, before climbing up.
"Hmm... That's gotta be him. He's the only idiot who'd do something like that..." He mutters to himself, before getting a good layout of the streets while he's up there. Then, he goes back down and heads towards the smoke.
Heading toward the west he eventually comes to what looks like a three way cross road and finds that it isn't Max at all. Sitting at a make shift fire is a dirty, wiry built man. His clothes are patch work from being sewed up time and time again with different clothes. Dirty blond hair sitcks out in every direction and a huge bag sits on the floor next to him. he certainly looks human save for the missing left arm that seems to just have a metal cap over the stub.
His eyes go wide, and he quickly backs out of sight, leaning against the wall.
"Crap. Crap crap crap. Who the hell...?" He thinks to himself, before taking another peek around the corner. Deciding to risk it, he taps the wall with the hilt of his machete to alert the man to his presence.
"Crap. Crap crap crap. Who the hell...?" He thinks to himself, before taking another peek around the corner. Deciding to risk it, he taps the wall with the hilt of his machete to alert the man to his presence.
The man lifts his head and turns around. He has a pointy chin, pointy nose and pointy ears... he is just kind of pointy all together. "Eh what now? Who is you? Why you over there smacking that wall like that? you going loopy these days? I sure hope not, loopy is hard to deal with!" He says before cackling like he has gone loopy himself.
"Uhh... Hello. Seen my brother around here by any chance? Looks a bit like me, blue eyes, messy brown hair?" Kaizen asks, deciding the man wasn't a threat, and moving closer to sit in front of him.
"Uhhh... Yes. I can see that. But my brother kinda ran off. He wanted to see the city. And I didn't let him." Kaizen murmurs, sighing. "That idiot. I knew he would do it, but... Ah, I should have set a trap or something below..."
"Yeah. Hard way indeed... What kind of help?" He asks, tilting his head.
[Brrrr! I'm fucking frozen! Wet shirt + Wind = Human popsicle! And I live in a fucking desert!]
[Brrrr! I'm fucking frozen! Wet shirt + Wind = Human popsicle! And I live in a fucking desert!]
"Uhhh... How many punks are we talking about here?" Kaizen asks, wondering if the man was talking about his organic arm, or did he perhaps have a mechanical one.
"I think there was... three of them? Yea that sounds about right. Normally I could take them but they got the drop on me and stole my damn arm! You can't miss it, metal arm, looks like its made of scrap."
(sorry, not really in the mood today, on tomorrow hopefully.)
(sorry, not really in the mood today, on tomorrow hopefully.)
"Ah. Yeah, sure, I could probably take them out for you. You want me to just steal the arm back or... Kill them?" He asks, raising an eyebrow at the man.
"Ah. I see..." He murmurs, sighing and getting up. "I'll scout their camp first. See if I can scare them or lure them away." He says, walking in the direction the man indicated.