No shops opened around a time like this. 11pm sure is a moment, Hino note to himself-rummaging through his pockets for that coupon he saved up for awhile. The moon seem to have gotten bigger over the night, oddly enough the street seem to be empty then usual.
The large monsoon drain, seem to be drained dry. Over the the small bridge over to the other side, Hino continue too walk and walk still trying to find that coupon in his pants.
"Hey you" a voice spoked beside his left ear. A blast of wind brushed into Hino's face-breathing against his neck, on hind legs towering a head above Hino. "Do you know a girl with pigtails?" this mysterious person questions Hino, knuckles cracking before stretching its arm back before yawning loudly.
"Who?" Hino asked, unfazed by this mysterious person. Face to face with a clearer view of each other, all Hino sees was a tall muscular man with hind legs, long muscular arms ending with sharp claws. That wasn't what weirded him out, its head the shape of an almond with three eyes opening up to look at him. "Do you know a girl with pigtails?" it asked again, this time baring a set of teeth.
"Xenomorph?" Hino thinks, before walking away.
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The mysterious guy appears in his face in an instant. "Do you know a girl with pigtails?" it asked once more. "Dude I don't know any girls, go to a school of something!" Hino responded, noticing the guy actually took the hint and vanished-the sound of a vacuum in the air present for a second.
Unfazed, he continued to walk off-eventually paying full for a burger and heading home for the night.
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Luck must be on his side today, the apartment's lift is working steadily today. Hino down the halls in his slippers, taking a step at a time, the next one more louder then the previous. Hurt from loosing the coupon, he stood outside room 12-13 in a tight grimace.
Every time he closed his eyes, he could see everyone in a void. Andi, Connor, his school mates-"Oh right school might reopened" he recalled- Princi with her face full of glee and that sadistic look in her eyes, how did he get along with her, he has no idea. Finally the biggest of them all, Mariko smiling back at him. Somehow his eyes twitch and that same urge to cry wanted to break free.
Reminded that he isn't invincible, he brushed away that image of her in his mind. "No cockroaches for a month!" he sings, happily opening the door.
Aghast with his mouth hanging down. Across the living room, sitting next to the coffee table, inviting herself with a glass of water. A girl, about a year or two below his age with pigtails and dressed in an over sized jacket. "Huh?" Hino sneers at her, closing the door behind him. Like in one of those national geography episodes on how to react to a wild animal, Hino lowers himself, crouching down to a comfortable position.
"Eat coke!" he yells out, throwing the cup of coke towards her direction in full force. Raising her hands, the girl with pigtails reacted oddly. Still sipping on her glass, as the two of them watch the cup of soda slowly shrivel upped, all its contents bursting out forming a shape. A hatchet, Hino realize, managing to dodge it-an inch from his nose, now imbedded to the door.
Grabbing the dark brown handle, fizzy bubbles still visible inside. Hino leaps over prepared to finish this. Using the coffee table as a barrier, the girl splashes her water, forming a translucent knife, charging towards Hino. Dodging and leaping back in circles, occasionally taking a few swings and slashes at one another-unable to land a hit on one another. "Is she a girl or something else?" Hino kept wondering, one part hesitant to take her out in one go, the other part of him wanted to finish this, so the burger could be enjoyed. Both valuable arguments made.
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Landing a swift blow to the gut. "Gottcha" he excitedly proclaims, readying to strike down with the Coca-Cola axe. Ptooey ...... she spits a burst of water out of her mouth, forming it to a dagger and placing a small cut over Hino's cheek. "You should have gone for the head" she said-dropkicking him out his window at full force. "That's Thanos's line" he yelled, falling downwards.
Catching himself on one of those balcony railings the lower floors have. Bare feet touching the air and a hatchet that tasted sweet in his mouth, Hino held on. Pulling himself up, standing on the railing, hatchet in mouth, looking up to see the girl with a pair of bottle water in each hand. "Please don't jump down here" Hino begs. She jumps, releasing the water in free fall, forming a staff of liquid before sprouting scythe-like blades on either end.
Jumping towards the railing next to him, Hino wonder if he's like a monkey-leaping on all fours with an axe between his teeth. Grabbing one Hino's neighbor's flower pot and kicking in towards him.
Laughing at the sight of the pot exploding before making contact, he soon dreads. Reminded of the fact that his neighbor tends to over water her plants. Piercing through the cloud of dirt that filled the air, six murky colored blades broke passed the cloud, each piercing Hino.
"Ninja" was all he could say, wishing for the fact instead of only net geo wild, he should have watched the history channel as the sound of a vacuum catches him.
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Exhausted with his wounds already healed back. Hino awoke, greeted by the scene of that xenomorph guy from earlier chocking the girl as he held her over the edge. "Daughter of the sea! I have found!! Glory is mine!!!" the guy was yelling to himself. "Go kill yourself" the girl struggles to speak, helplessly hitting against her captor.
"A person in danger" Hino worries, but she did try to kill him earlier but he also attempted the same. What would Princi had done? Kill both of them, was what Princi would have told him in this situation. "Fuck it!".
Charging forward with the same hatchet. Hino swings only to touch air, with Mr xenomorph standing next to him, girl in hand-yawning. "Dude I thought we were a team?" he asked "Do looks really matter?".
"What?" Hino flabbergasted at the topic switch, suddenly feeling a force so strong he couldn't react in time. In the air he dropped, this time without anything to reach for. Looking down as the earth rises up to catch him.
"I thought we were friends" Xenomorph man teared up for a moment. "I'll kill you for this" he roars towards the girl. "Daughter of the sea, your father wishes for blood!!" he laughs. "And that I'll earn a place in his friend group!!!" he kept laughing, eyes tearing-reminded of Hino.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... The chainsaw's engine response to the laughter. "Both of you only know how to waste time and food" Hino muttered under his breath. "Let the girl go. I'm gonna need her to clean my house" Hino adds, revving the engine with a dead stare towards the girl, as she smiles in shock.
"I'm speed" Xenomorph man said, getting on all fours-blitzing forwards. Brrrrrrrrrrrrr..... Hino cuts through, severing an arm. "That's Lightning Macqueen's line" Hino said, slinging the chainsaw on his shoulder. "And this thing is from the trash down there" pointing towards the apartment's trash dump. "So you lost an arm to a piece of trash, dude" he adds to the wound.
With fear in his eyes, Xenomorph man crouches-pressing hard on the roof, leaving cracks branching and spreading around him. BAMM... he leaps upwards, speeding away, leaping from building to building. "Maximum effort" Hino whispered towards the chainsaw, lips closely touching the machine. "Remember the best final moves are those with great names to back them up" he recalled Princi's words during his introduction to her. Widening his stance, twisting his body towards the right, pulling the chord a few times.
1...2...3!!! Hino swings. "Maximum Chainsaw Hammer Throw!!!" he yells out, sending that rusty piece of machinery into the air. Watching it spin around in the air, bouncing like a ball from building to building without any sense, tailing behind Xenomorph man. Finally landing the killing blow. A truck was closed by to the scene, unknowably running over the dead guy's corpse, leaving jam all across the streets.
"Well that's done" Hino patting his hands. "Are you gonna help clean my room?" he stares at the girl, shyly agreeing. Caught in a moment of Mariko appearing in his mind, the frustration dropped. Sighing, he corrected what he said. Now inviting her for some snacks and drinks........after cleaning his place.