Pov kidnapper

Running through the sewers always felt like going through a maze even if I had a map.

It took me a bit to arrive under the correct exit, couldn’t blame me. There was so much shit to deal with here. From giant rats to Cleaners that could make you disappear in a second.

The freezing cold of the metal ladder assaulted my hands making me grimace once more.

Damned Depths, is winter coming soon? The stupid leaves haven't even fallen yet.

I grumbled at the obscenity of it. The creature started moving again after so long, almost making me fall into the shit water below.

“STOP FUCKING MOVING UNLESS YOU WANT TO FUCKING DROWN YOU DAMNED BEAST.”

That seemed to stop the creature. Climbing with the creature in a potato sack was already hard enough, I didn’t need it to fucking sabotage me.

The rest of the climb was filled with silence and the clacking of my boots against the cold metal.

After what felt like forever, we finally reached the top, or at least it should be the top considering my gloved hand hit a solid and rough surface above me. I placed my entire forearm on the closed opening above me.

“Alright, I got this.”

I mumbled under my breath, before shoving into the hatch. My efforts were futile as the hatch barely moved. I stopped to catch my breath.

“Alright fucker... just...”

With a grunt I shoved it again.

“If only I didn’t have dead weight this wouldn’t be so...”

I shoved again before giving up completely.

“HARD!”

I quickly made my way down the ladder, the dim lights in the sewer allowed me to see. I placed down the sack and the creature inside immediately started moving around.

“Stop FUCKING moving, I could always cut one of those wings of yours and blame it on the Merc that was with you.”

Once again it stopped moving.

“Good, now stay here or I’ll keep my promise.”

The creature of course didn’t reply, but I went up the ladder anyways.

Climbing the ladder was so much easier without dead weight, it didn’t even take a minute to reach the end this time. I wrapped both my legs around the ladder and started using both hands to push upwards.

This time I was able to lift the tile and to the side, the sun greeted me as I stepped out of the hole.

I looked around as I took deep breaths in, not a soul in site, just buildings surrounding me. This was another alley way.

After a moment, I went back down and paused as I heard a clacking sound down below.

No, it can’t be... The Cleaners don’t clean until night...

Not wanting to tempt fate I sped up my descendent and the sound got louder every second. The hum flooded the sewers in no time. Just as I reached the ground, what I saw rounding the corner not too far from where the ladder was, caused panic.

The thing that rounded the corner was the bane of anything in the sewers, a Cleaner. The name isn’t official, Cleaner just stuck, and it made quite a lot of sense since anyone could guess what it does, and yes it cleans, but that cleaning only includes alive things as anything that is seen by that monster is killed and eaten. Doesn’t matter if it’s a human or not.

The little I saw in the dim light was a monster that was a mix of metal and flesh, four metal legs holding up a fat green body with metal armor fused into its skin. In addition to this monstrosity, whoever made it, decided to add two metal arms ending in three claws in each hand. It had a long metal tail and spines protruding from its back all the way down to its spine. It looked like a mix between an exceptionally large cat and a lizard due to how its head looked.

Just as I saw it, it saw me, it didn’t announce its presence or anything, it just started running and boy is it fucking fast.

Shit shit shit it’s a fucking cleaner, what is it doing here?!

Panicking, I grabbed ahold of the potato sack and started climbing before the cleaner could get either of us. I looked back down when I heard the monster crash into the wall below me.

“YEAH, can't get me now you fucker!”

I taunted the monster knowing it wouldn’t be able to chase after me. Its legs pierced the wall for an odd reason, then the motherfucker started climbing up the side of the wall.

How the fuck is a fat ass like you climbing?!

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I hastened my efforts in climbing, almost slipping a few times.

Fuck fuck fuck, I knew this job was too fucking easy, why is the world always trying to fuck me over?!

I thankfully was able to make it out of the hole before the shit bag was able to get me. I hurriedly moved the cover over the opening and started running, I was not taking any more chances.

Thankfully, I ran as I heard the cover behind me get thrown to the side before a small bang sounded. I looked back and saw the monster's head missing, greenish blood raining down, causing me to stop. I took the time to lean against the wall and slid down to catch my breath.

I looked back at the corpse curiously and saw the flesh still pulsating, I was thankfully too far to see in detail of the flesh, but scene of gore was too much causing whatever little lunch to come back out.

After that entire ordeal, that I didn’t want to remember, I took another look at the corpse and flipped it off.

“Fucking Cleaners”

I had moved away from the corpse and my former lunch, but I was still trying to catch my breath. The sack in front of me got my attention. It was eerily still even after all of that. I couldn’t tell if the creature inside was alive or not. Hesitantly I unraveled the sack.

The sack should be breathable right? I made sure of it. Worst case scenario the creature is dead and we get payed for its parts...

I looked inside and saw the creature called Eclipse staring at me. I couldn’t see any other details other than the emotionless eyes staring. I hurriedly closed the sack as my gut told me something bad was about to happen.

Shit this thing is so fucking uncanny.

I stood up and started heading closer to the location, which wasn’t too far from the entrance to the sewer. But it would get dangerous after this point as this is the entrance to the slums.

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After a couple of minutes of walking carefully through the grim streets of the slums, I made it to a broken-down house. I sighed in relief as the job was almost at its end.

Just have to meet up with the buyers now.

I knocked on the door 5 times, 3 knocks with a long pause, and 2 knocks with a short pause. The door immediately opened and a shorter man than me, but fatter, opened the door.

“Trev you fucked up the info, the Merc was not Gold, at least she didn’t act like it.”

I immediately said, pushing past him.

“Not even a hello? Quite harsh man.”

He replied hoarsely as I left for the living room.

“Shut your trap Trev.”

I said sitting down on the rotting coach.

Trev was my brother from another mother, sure we bickered a lot, but we were good friends considering that we both grew up together here in the slums.

“Anyways, I got the target, can you tell the buyers with the fancy thing they gave you?”

I said as Trev closed the door and entered the living room.

“... First let's check its condition.”

I rolled my eyes

Of course, the fucker is interested in the creature. It has been the talk of the city ever since The Reaper and The Merc Princess were seen having it. I wouldn’t be surprised if word reached the greedy pigs... I wonder why a supposed Gold Merc has the creature now? I do know that The Reaper had left the city, after all that’s why I took the job.

I stopped my inner thoughts and stood up and opened the sack on the ground, taking a step back immediately just in case.

“Scared of some small fry?”

Trev chuckled. I was about to say something, but the idiot already put his hands into the sack.

“See it's not that- OW FUCK.”

Trev suddenly yelled aloud, quickly bringing his hand out of the bag, profusely bleeding from the hand.

“FUCK FUCK FUCK, THIS PIECE OF SHIT.”

I hurriedly stood up and blocked the kick that was coming.

“TREV CALM THE FUCK DOWN, DONT DAMAGE THE PRODUCT. THINK OF THE MONEY YOUR GONNA WASTE.”

“SHITTTT, THAT FUCKING HURTS.”

Even though Trev didn’t reply directly to me, he did move away from the sack, holding his palm in the process. I quickly ran to the half-rotten kitchen and opened the medical cabinet, grabbing the only health potion before running back. It was cheap sure, but it should do the job.

“HERE”

I handed Trev the bottle, that he looked at longingly.

“JUST DRINK IT, WE ARE GETTING PAID A SHIT TON TODAY”

With that Trev threw his head back and chugged the entire thing grimacing at the horrid taste, I'm sure. Not too long after the sound of panting filled the room as Trev stared daggers at the open bag.

“What are you doing just standing there?! Hurry and close it!”

He finally said aloud, prompting me to close it quickly. Silence filled the room again.

“I’ll go tell the buyers that we have the target; you watch that bloody thing.”

Trev said before stomping out of the room, I just plopped down on the couch.

Can this job get any worse?

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Pov Eclipse

It tastes so good...

I was talking about the liquid the human had in its appendage when it tried grabbing me. I didn’t know why it was so angry with me stealing its liquid, after all, they stole me, something I was unhappy about.

It was fairly strange that biting the human caused it to give me a sweet liquid. But I have seen weirder not too long ago. That dried human I was with suddenly started melting and turning into a dirty human, that lost all its dryness. Not moments after everything turned dark. I, of course, panicked as darkness overtook me, I had thought I died, but that was easy to prove wrong as I looked through whatever I was enclosed in.

It was a boring adventure, considering this was the second time I was grabbed and moved without my permission, this time I could barely see though, which might be better than when I was kidnapped from Mother’s place. The experience, however, was horrible as I was constantly flipped around, even one of my wings broke!

Or at least I think it broke, I can’t feel it whatsoever.

Anyways, the human carrying me in this thing was quite annoying. Whenever I moved slightly so I wouldn’t break my wing further, it would yell loudly at me and tell me it would cut off my wing. It even made a really disgusting noise at one point.

Then a new voice came by, Trev or something, and it decided to open the thing holding me, last time I missed my chance with revenge, but this time I was able to enact my revenge. As fast as I could, I chomped down at the large appendage and that was it.

I hate humans... not Silven and Alea though, Rod doesn’t count as it is a dwarf. Maybe Gerald, Lex and Max, I don’t know them too well, they didn’t try kill me or take me away though so that’s good.

I grumbled as I heard the yelling of the humans, something that made me happy as finally humans will understand not to bother me. At least I think they are unhappy.

Soon after silence filled the air and my last source of enjoyment left, hopefully not for too long. Just in case I shuffled around the thing holding me hoping to receive some sort of response.

Sadly, nothing happened, I guess I’ll just go into torpor until something happens.