“There’s a fucking claw in my arm!” Jason screamed.

“It’s okay, we just have to kill it and take the claw out!” I tried to calm Jason down.

“HOW DO WE KILL THAT CLAW-THING WITH A TROLL AND A DRAGON RIGHT FUCKING BEHIND US!!!???” Jason yelled at me.

“SHUT UP AND RUN!!!” I yelled back at him.

He grumbled to himself. Ha, suits him. With a snap, he tore off the claw inched deeply within his hide. The claw with its long slender knives flew back to the Reaper, a piece of meat was stuck to the claw.

I looked at Jason. Jason’s Bicep was partly ripped out, and he already muttered something under his breath. Soon his bicep molded together and there was no trace of Reaper’s claw anymore. I looked behind. His fiendish face was devoid of emotions, one might think he didn’t recognize it at all.

Well, Reapers are known for being dumber than bricks.

I shook my head. Now wasn’t the time to think about stuff like this. It’s running time.

I ran. My legs carried me further than ever before. The buildings passed by me, the streets were endless. We sometimes went in zig-zag, but they always managed to find us afterwards.

Out of the corners of my eyes I saw a dark passage. I gestured to Jason to go through the passage, maybe the buildings will stop the dragon. We entered the dark side passage, and I noticed the ground was made out of dirt and sand.

As we ran on the end of the passage was in sight. As we neared it, the ground in front of us rumbled, and as we peered closer, a giant worm erupted from the rumbling spot, flying in a giant arc over us and crashing into the buildings behind us.

“What the…” I began.

The dragon and troll crashed into the building, destroying it instantly.

“We… have to keep… running” Jason said, clearly out of breath.

“Just, one minute…” I said, as I sat down, breathing heavily.

“Idiot, if we don’t go now, we’re gonna die!” Jason said, clearly angry.

“Would death really be so bad?” I said.

He walked up to me, slapped me across the face and said:

“It’ll be the single worst thing you’ll ever feel.” he said with a bit of fury evident in his voice.

“Worse than this?” I said, revealing a piece of debris stuck in my stomach… I was bleeding heavily, I knew that I was going to die.

“Jesus, Ash… when were you hit!?” he suddenly got worried.

“Running… a piece of debris hit me, I just kept running… ignored the pain… it hurts a lot more, now.” I said, painfully.

“Just stay there, I’m gonna try to heal you!” he said.

“If you can heal… me, do it.” I said.

“Oh holy gods, heal this young one with your almighty power!” He said, as soon as I finished speaking.

…

It didn’t work…

“Shit, let me get that fucking thing out of you!” He said, pulling the piece of debris out of my stomach.

“AAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!” I screamed, in pain.

“You’re gonna be okay, Ash?... Ash!?” He said, worried.

“I’m… not… dying… yet…” I said, in pain. I feel my mind slowly fading...

“I’ll try it again!” he said, hope evident in his voice and eyes.

“Oh holy gods, heal this young one with your almighty power!”

It felt… better… but the bleeding didn’t stop.

“Shit! You’re gonna live, just stay with me! Goddamnit stay with me!!!”

He kept healing me… until I was finally able to get up… without instantly screaming in pain.

“Just sit down, I’ll heal you some more!” he said, still worried.

“We have to run, they’ll get here soon… we’ve been here longer than we should be… let’s go!” I said, slowly walking through the backdoor… only to see a zombie right there!

“FUCK!” I yelled out, punching the zombie in the face… and falling on my ass.

“Ash!” Jason shouted as he ran to the zombie and kicked the living shit out of it.

“You okay Ash?” Jason said.

I got up with a few grunts of pain coming from me, and said:

“Just… great… ha.”

Then, I proceeded outside and said:

“Come on, let’s go!”

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