A few weeks have gone by.
I still haven't seen anyone or anything alive to this day.
Well...there are some things still alive but-
N is running out of a building while wearing a backpack.
A giant naked woman with the bottom half of her body is that of a spider running towards N.
Yeah...these...things? they're the only things that roam this city.
"Note to self"
N pulls out a notebook with a sketch of the naked woman on the right side page of the notebook.
"Tends to hide underground, wakes up based on vibrations."
N closes the notebook and puts it back in the backpack then turns the corner with the giant woman still chasing him around said corner.
"Come on...just a little further"
N looks around for a rope and then immediately finds it sticking out of the ground.
"Gotcha!"
N cuts the rope which causes the pillars under the building to first crack, then completely crumble, causing the building to fall as the giant woman runs to N and gets crushed by the building.
"Cough cough, holy shit that actually worked!"
The dust clears to reveal the giant woman crushed while bleeding out pink blood. N walks up to confirm if the giant woman is dead. He pulls out a notebook.
"Now then...the fuck do I call you?"
The giant woman struggles to grab N and then dies from the amount of blood loss. N thinks to himself about the name.
"Hmm, I'll call you...Arachnipussy, cause you’re a spider and I can see your...ahem, yeah"
He notices a strange smell coming from the giant woman.
"The fuck is that?!"
The giant woman's body starts to quickly decay and burn with N jumping away in response.
"The hell?!" The giant woman screams in agony and then turns into a giant pile of ashes. He picks up a pinch of the woman's ashes in curiosity.
"Ashes?" He jots down in his notebook at the bottom of the giant woman's sketch the words "burns when dead"
N walks away from the destruction and reads through his notebook about the different creatures he's discovered.
I found this notebook around 2 weeks ago. or was it 3? Time is hard to follow nowadays...but anyway, it's been hard trying to live around these parts nowadays. I found the edge of this city to have these walls but clearly, it didn't age well.
I could always leave to see if there’s anyone else out there but...I think it's best to stay where I am, besides, who knows how far the next piece of civilization is. I found plenty of supplies including a knife I found in an apartment, at least a few weeks' worth of food, maybe even a month if I'm lucky. This backpack I found smells like shit but it’ll do.
N turns the pages of the notebook to the numbers "place #1, place #2, place #3, place #4, place #5," all scratched out then writes "place #6" and crosses it out.
Out of all the homes I've stayed in, number 5 has lasted the longest. The longest being is a week until all the food left had gone bad, the shower ran out of water, and everything else?...just couldn't be bothered anymore. This was supposed to be number 6 but until-
A flashback occurs of N entering the apartment building and stepping on a string causing the giant spider woman to wake up and crash through from under the building.
It turned out that building was this...thing's nest or some shit. That wasn't even the first I saw of these things. Different flashbacks occur of N walking into a fronills only to find all the food and drinks have gotten bad except for bacon soup.
"Better than nothing I guess"
A chainsaw is seen sneaking through the floor toward N. He looks down the aisle to see where the sound of buzzing is coming from but the sound stops and nothing is down the aisle besides destroyed groceries.
"This whole apocalypse thing is really messing with my head…"
N walks away from the aisle and explores the rest of the fronills. The buzzing sound appears again but N ignores it this time, thinking it’s just his imagination. The chainsaw sticks out of the ground again and this time, speeds up towards N.
N turns around to see the chainsaw sticking out of the floor chasing him, then runs away in response.
“WHAT THE FUCK NOW?!”
N trips on the floor from a ball of lettuce and then attempts to get up but the chainsaw sticking out of the ground jumps up, revealing a giant great white shark with a chainsaw sticking out of its head, its sharp teeth that are so long it goes over its mouth.
(Welp…it was a great run, I thought I would survive…but no, I’m about to die to something that looks like it’s right out of Buzzsaw Boy…)
The Shark suddenly lands across from N and then starts flopping on the floor as if gasping for air.
“What the?”
The shark continues to flop around the floor until eventually using the chainsaw on its head to dig into the ground and start to swim again.
“Shit…shit shit shit!”
The chainsaw shark starts to move towards N and then drifts away to the right.
N slowly crawls over, grabs the ball of cabbage he tripped on, and throws it in the same direction as the shark. The shark comes to a stop, indicated by the chainsaw in the ground not moving.
It slowly turns around and heads in the direction where the ball of cabbage landed, jumps out of the ground and drags the ball of cabbage into the ground. It’s silent for a little while but N is still hesitant to move.
Shredded pieces of cabbage come flying out of the ground as they slowly float back down from the air. The chainsaw comes sticking out of the ground again and starts swimming around the market.
“So you move by sound, or is it vibrations, maybe?”
The shark continuously jumps out and back onto the floor as it chases N through the market.
N slowly and quietly picks himself up from the floor and slowly takes a step. The shark is left unaffected and continues to swim through the market.
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“Sound it is then.”
He continues to sneak through the market without making any noise. Until…
“SQUEAK!”
N looks down at his feet to see his foot squished into a furby toy.
“I WOVE YOU! HEHEHEHEE”
“You gotta be fucking kidding me…”
The shark starts to swim quickly as it continuously jumps in and out of the ground.
N runs in response as the shark follows from the sound of his shoes. He continues to run throughout the market until eventually jumping out of the back exit.
The shark crashes through the nearby wall and starts to flop on the ground as it slowly starts to flop towards N.
“Oh, you just won’t give up, will you?”
N pulls out his knife but the shark suddenly comes to a halt as its eyes start to dilate. He’s confused at the sight so he pokes the shark but the shark doesn’t respond at all.
He looks over at the clean smooth floor of the market.
“Was that like…your water?”
"Not going in there again but at least I got something out of it" He puts the pack of bacon soup into his bag and runs back home.
*other flashbacks*
N is walking down an alleyway to get to his home, his home being place #3 at this point, until suddenly he feels a drop of water fall on his hair.
"Rain?" N looks up to see a purple chameleon revealing itself out of its camouflage. Its giant feet and its long and sharp claws, with its sharp and pointy tail, almost like it’s built like a whip.
N pulls out his knife and prepares to fight.
"Listen big guy, the sun’s getting real low, we can do this the easy way or the hard way, I just wanna live, like you probably want to do too right?" well living if you want to count living until I can suicide then sure.
The chameleon gives no response at first then notices the knife in N’s hand, causing it to view N as an automatic threat, then points his head up and spits green spit.
N barely dodges the green spit by ducking to the ground and then turns around to see the green spit starting to melt the nearby wall.
"Okay…the hard way it is!"
N on instinct throws the knife toward the lizard’s eye but the lizard deflects it with its tail, causing the knife to be jammed into the ground.
“Worth a shot…”
He attempts to run away but a loud noise of crunching is heard. He looks down to his stomach area to see the lizard’s tail covered in blood and piercing his stomach.
“Aw…shit…welp…if I wasn’t dying before, I am now…sigh…it’s…going…dark…”
N’s body feels cold as everything around him goes blank and quiet. It feels so peaceful but…
“What?”
N opens his eyes to see the hole in his stomach gone, his hands covered in purple blood.
“What…happened?”
He looks up to see the giant lizard scrambled all over the alley. Purple blood, limbs, and guts everywhere.
He slowly backs away from the lizard’s corpse and then drops, hitting his butt on the ground.
“What? When did I…? Didn’t I…”
The more he looks at his hands the more he can clearly remember killing the lizard, step by step, limb from limb.
Yet, he feels nothing.
"Huh?"
The crab shakes at first then drops and squirts out blood from its head.
From the realization that he doesn’t feel anything and doesn’t wanna focus on this too much, he gets up and slowly walks away from the alley as he scrapes away the purple blood along the nearby wall to his left.
Once out of the alley, he looks up to see the sky covered in grey clouds, almost like it’s about to rain. N continues to have flashbacks of a woman, she has big puffy blonde hair then a flash of a burning house and the woman back and forth, back and forth, getting faster and faster. His right eye that’s covered with an eyepatch starts to ache. He feels no pain from it; he covers it anyway in an attempt to calm it down.
“What the fuck is wrong with me?”
*back to real-time*
"Ok, so we've got the Whipard: a big ass lizard with a big ass pointy tail, who can spit acid. The buzzark: prefers to swim through surfaces than fucking water for some reason, but it can't see for its life so it goes for the loudest thing near itself."
"Then there's-"
N points at the giant woman with his pencil.
"Arachnipussy: uses its webs to find its prey. weakness? No fucking clue."
N comes to a realization as he drops his arms.
"fuck...what am I doing? I'm fucking noting down a spider with a vagina for fucks sake."
N takes the knife out of his backpack and looks at it with curiosity.
"Would using this be painless? only one way to find out but-"
N looks around to see another abandoned apartment with its top half destroyed and aims at that as his target.
"Not here at least" he gets up to head towards the apartment.
N enters the lobby and jots down "place #7" in his notebook.
"Let's hope lucky number 7 lasts longer-WAIT" he looks at the floor and drops his knife on the floor to check for any strings.
"No vagina spider? check." N looks around to see for any signs of claw marks, property damage, etc.
"Nothing out of the ordinary besides the destroyed environment...this might just be lucky after all!"
N follows the sign to the stairs but finds out the stairs are completely destroyed and blocked off with a giant boulder
N has a face of disbelief the longer he stares at the blocked staircase and begins waving his arms around in anger.
“WHA-HOW-WHEN-"
He takes a deep breath in and out.
"Not even gonna question but how am I gonna-"
N gets an idea and heads to the elevator and attempts to pry the elevator doors open and struggles at first but successfully opens the elevator door.
The elevator doors reveal the elevator wires dangling in the middle of the elevator shaft.
"Got nothing to lose I guess"
He jumps onto the wire and almost slips in the process then slowly begins to climb the wire to the upper floors but each floor is blocked off by pounds of rubble.
"Did a fucking meteor hit this place? like fuck" N continues to climb up the floor until reaching the 19th floor.
"That...didn't take as much energy as I thought it would.." he looks down the hallways to see scratch marks all over the entire floor as if it's forming into a spiral.
"So much for lucky number 7" N starts to open each door to find which he can stay in.
"What's behind door number 1-" 2 skeletons are seen in a sexual position both looking at the entrance. N stares for a bit then slowly closes the door.
"Didn't see anything....yup, nothing at all" he continues opening doors until finding the right one being the number "19341"
"ok...no horny skeletons..." he turns on the shower to reveal water and turns it off again.
"Water seems fine" he checks the laundry to reveal it's working properly.
"Laundry is good" he opens the fridge to see food seemingly perfectly packaged.
"And the food? sniff sniff actually smells edible! This almost sounds too good to be true!"
N sits on a couch in the living room and begins to rest but notices something on the tiny table in front of the couch.
"Huh?" N grabs the item revealing it to be a pack of cigarettes.
"Hmmm....welp, end of the world so might as well give it a try." N takes out a cigarette and uses the stove to light it.
N takes a bit to taste the cigarette.
"Huh, doesn't taste half bad" N lays down on the couch and pulls out his knife.
"Nothing else better to end it with so...let's hope I'm a gusher" N hears a faint noise.
"The fuck now?" The noise is heard as screeching and echoes louder and louder by the second.
"JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS THAT-" Suddenly, a giant crow with giant pointy teeth in its beak flies through a large portal and dives into the apartment building N is staying in and CRASHES directly into the building sending N flying out of the building and lands on a nearby roof and is bleeding all over from the crash.
"knew...it....was too good....to...be...true..." huh…it’s this familiar feeling again…except…I don’t feel anything…this is death, huh? you know what? Maybe I can finally get some peace and quiet for once.
He opens his eyes to see a colour he’s never seen before. The colour is dark yet bright at the same time. N sits up to see a figure sitting on the other side. They have no face, only a long and gummy grin with his bright white teeth. They wear no clothes, their body is pitch black but it glows with a white outline. Their body is thin with a slight hint of muscle, but they seem small like a little teenager.
N darts his eyes around to see 3 giant doors behind the figure. They’re all grey with a dark line drawn in the middle of them.
“What is this place?”
“Tell me…” The voice comes off as a mix of a high pitch voice but also what sounds a little like N’s voice.
He focuses back on the figure, but they’re hard to figure out.
“What’s your meaning of life?”
“What? What kind of question is that?”
The figure notices a bright light behind N then his long and bright smile fades away.
“I suppose I must give you time for your answer. Until we meet again!”
N gets dragged back into an empty void as he floats among the darkness.
The faint voices of a male and female are heard.
Male: "Is he dead?"
Female: "Just barely breathing...but I think I can manage"
Male: "Good, add him with the others"
Who said that?
N wakes up in a pitch-black room.
N: "Is this the afterlife? if so, I wish to be reincarnated as a bird"
??: "Sorry to burst your bubble bud!"
N: "Huh?"
Lights appear revealing the room to be a cafeteria with a crowd of people surrounding N as he lies on the floor and jumps back in response.
N: "Who the-how the"
??: "WELCOME EVERYONE!!"
N: "Now what?"
A shadowy silhouette appears and lights appear revealing the shadowy silhouette to be a young white teen with spiky hair and the front of his hair so long it covers his left eye and is wearing a pitch black hoodie with dark pants and dark red shoes with white laces.
??: "Ahem, like I was saying-"
The young white teen raises his arms.
??: "WELCOME EVERYONE!!-"
Lasers appear behind the young white teen.
??: "TO THE SHITTIEST PLACE ON EARTH!!!"
The crowd goes silent.
N: ".....huh?"
Ep 2-End