I might aim for a chapter a day for the weekdays. A less violent chapter now but I hope it is still enjoyable 

Chapter: 5: Fighting and Decompressing

In one quick fluid movement I get within striking range of its head and swing my right arm down as hard I can with the flat end of the hammer right in the middle of it's head.

TIIIING the hammer seems to do almost no damage at all to it and it starts to hiss at me and struggling even more. The entire window frame is shaking now. Little pieces of glass are falling on the floor.

Titus fucking hit it harder!  Hit it lots more before it gets into the fucking room!!! “Fuck Tye, I got it!” Leave it to him to point out the painfully obvious.

It's easy to give instructions and advice when you aren't doing it! Of course I need to hit it harder and more!!!

I hold both of my hands with the hammers in them behind my head.  "AHHHA!" I yell and swing the hammer in my left hand down as hard as I can.

There is another Ting sound but it seems to be getting duller. It's almost the sound from metal hitting metal. I don't think things can get much weirder than iron skeleton mutant rats but if I say that out loud I'm sure it will be.

I pull my left arm back and at the same time swing my right arm as hard as I can. The Ting sound is getting softer and softer with every hit. It's hard to identify or categorize it but with every hit it's like I'm hitting something super hard and it's slowly getting softer and softer. It must be getting ready to break! With renewed vigor I keep the motion of left hand right hand swinging over and over up. The Rat’s struggling intensified at first but after about 30 seconds in it started to slow down.

After a full minute and a half of me swinging as hard as I can at its head as it struggles to get in I finally hear it.

CRAACK it’s head is cracked open and blood starts to splatter all over.

Oddly enough it sounded the same as cracking a nut. It's weird the simple things you notice at what should be extremely traumatizing moments.

Instead of being grossed out by the giant red mass of blood squirting everywhere I'm just thinking about how it sounds just like the noise my dad's nut cracker would make when he was eating Walnuts after work.

I  can feel a small sheen of sweat covering my face, chest and arms but I continued to bash its head and more blood flying everywhere on me but I ignore it.

I lost in the blood lust. How dare this filthy rat try to enter my home and attack me!

I hear yelling from Shin and feel his hand on my shoulder. I stop and let both of the hammers fall on the ground.

“I’m fine ,I don’t know what came over me but at least we know it's dead”.

"Who knows maybe with magic it could of survived somehow man?" I just blurted out one of the lamest excuses possible but I don't want to creep Tye out in this kind of situation.

I take some deep inhales of air and try to calm down my heart. When it finally slows down we  both look up to see some of its teeth and most of its brain laying against the wall and ground.

There is even little tiny bone fragments from its skull laying around. Much less than what I would of thought seeing as I'm not exactly a pushover when it comes to raw strength.

“You need to clean up some Titus”. I look down at my arms and chest covered in blood and nod my head.

“Make sure to clean up well and change your clothes. We don’t know if this rat had any diseases or something that is transmittable and now you are wearings its blood like a new coat”.

"Good idea. I have some gloves for cleaning in my closet along with bleach, sponges and everything else you could need to clean up the floor and guts."

“If I clean myself up in the shower, can you handle cleaning this up until I'm out? I'll finish it once I'm prim and proper.”

Tye nods his head and I walk into the bathroom while he rummages through my closet grabbing different bottles of bleach, soap, buckets and the like.

I turned the water on and up almost as hot as it would go . Slowly I take off my clothes and as I disrobe I see how messy that really made me.

My clothes are ruined. There is blood all over my arms. From my chest down my shirt is covered with the rat's crimson blood. My pants are doing no better with blood covering my crotch area and even on my thighs too!!!

I look at my palms and see bruises on my hand from me gripping the old well worn handle of the hammer so hard.

Hopefully I didn't get too much blood or anything in the cuts.

I stand under the shower head and let it wash  over my head and drip down the rest of my body. Staring into the drain I see a lot of blood flowing down it This is when it really starts to sink into me….

The world as I knew it..as we knew it is no longer the same. Sure I have read and played a lot of games with similar storylines to a degree but it's completely different This is real life. There is no extra lives, restart, checkpoints or anything like that. We really don’t know how this world has changed but if something as simple as a rat has turned into a 5 foot long killing machine then what about things that use to hunt rats?!?! are cats going to turn into tigers? Are we fucked……………………..

I try to get a handle on my emotions. This is no time to lose control of myself or breakdown.

It's odd, mentally I've always considered myself pretty tough but the fear of the unknown out there is really nagging at my conscious.

It may be simple for something I would of laughed at before to eat, kill me or do whatever it wants but it isn't what I know that's scaring me but the unknown out there that is so terrifying.

I shake my head  under the water. This is not the time to think about all of these things.

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I grab my fluffy loofah and soak it in some cheap all purpose industrial soap I ordered.

I couldn't pass up the savings and it can be used on your body or to clean so it's two birds with one stone. Not to mention it smelled like delicious peppermint.

I slowly scrub my arms as hard as I could followed by my chest, legs and hands. To the point that I thought that i may have peeled an extra layer of skin off.

I wash my hair and face just to be extra careful. Then step out of the shower and throw my bloody clothes I had on into a plastic bag then another plastic bag before it ends up in my garbage.

I finally feel clean again! There isn't a spot of blood on me. I'm feeling a little nervous though. Just to be safe I should disinfect any cuts I have.

I mean if regular rats are known for carrying a ton of diseases and even things like the plague in the past then these super rats might be some next level disease carriers

I get some peroxide and rubbing alcohol and slowly wipe my cuts clean using them and a clean washcloth. It burned a bit more than usual but that's a good sign right?

I made sure to wrap the cuts on my hand with some  waterproof bandages to be extra safe and careful.

I stare in the mirror for a few seconds before  I decide it's probably a good idea for me to brush my teeth and use some mouthwash in case anything got in my mouth from when i was trying to not die from a mutant killer rat attack.  Plus magic and mutants or not I'm gonna take my hygiene seriously.

I brush my teeth and swoosh mouthwash around in my mouth and gargle with it for at least 200 seconds.

I rinse out my mouth with water after. I never really understood why they always make mouthwash taste so minty. It leaves such a terrible aftertaste in your mouth.

I wrap a beach towel around my waist because when you are over six foot a regular towel feels like you are wearing a mini skirt

I walk out and I can see Shin on his hands and knees with a medical mask and gloves on scrubbing the floor really hard with a couple of foamy bubbly buckets. one of which is already starting to turn red.

“I am pretty sure I got all the blood off me Shin”. He looks over at me and nods his head.

“This stuff is really hard to clean up so I have been using a mix of bleach and soap to make sure it kills anything left over”.

“Smart idea” I yell to him as I pick through my closet in attempt to find something comfortable to wear.

I should pick something that will protect me but not make me look like a dumbass.

I grab some men's running tights and sweat pants since I figured the extra coverage would be very useful in the event that i get blood all over me again it won't have a chance to go directly into any small cuts on my legs. That means I won't hopefully get any weird rat diseases or anything else terrible from another mutant animal.  Something as simple as an infection could cause huge problems now.

I grab a long sleeve dry fit shirt and cover that with a hoodie.

“Shin you aren't going to like this but I have an idea that may be extremely stupid or genius for whenever you are done cleaning that up”.

Hopefully he didn't notice how I'm weaseling out of the cleanup.

He looks at me and mutters what I am pretty sure was just “probably an idiotic idea but rather then some ideas I could use some help cleaning up rat blood and pieces from your floor”

“Say anything Tye? Ahem Ahem no nothing just got a little bit of a cough right now.... No biggie."

I  have to grab a few things and then we will see if I'm a genius or idiot.

I rummage through the bottom of the sink and grab a few thing and throw them in an empty crate from my room. It used to store a lot of my workout gear, boxing equipment and such but I don't see how that stuff is going to help much now.

I grab the rest of the tools from the toolbox and throw them in the crate too and a few things from the cleaning closet before I walk back into my room.  

Tye is pretty much done cleaning up the mess at this point when I just drop the crate right next to him and he jumps back and gives me a dirty look.

“Thanks for the warning Titus we wouldn’t want to scare someone during the mutant monster killer apocalypse because that would just be dumb huh?”

‘First of all it's not my fault you weren't paying attention. Second of all Mutant monster killer apocalypse sounds very redundant to me. Wouldn’t Monster apocalypse work fine as a name?”

"Fuck you!!!" He says while shaking his head. "What was your idiotic idea this time anyway?"

“Well the voice before said life was like a game right? Right.."

“So in most games when you kill an enemy monster what happens?” "You get an item drop and some copper usually or whatever currency they use in game."

“Right my boy Shin but you are forgetting something important..” hmmm well depending on the monster you get a special item from it.

“Exactly!!! I don't know what kind of special item a rat would have but obviously it didn't magically drop a rat potion, armor  or anything when I killed it……”

I reach down into the toolbox and grab an old saw from carpentry class I took  and his eyes get wide when he realizes what I want to do.

"You mean you want to…..?" I nod my head in response.

“You are exactly right, I want to dissect it to see if we can figure out how these things work for the future. Secondly and almost more importantly I want to see if it will have anything of use on it that we can harvest for the future”

"Fuck, this is going to get nasty Titus."