“The video I watched on social media was taken an hour ago from somewhere around here.” My search across Bark Point led me to a local mart that was still open at such a late hour. I went inside to try and pick up on the scent trail of my target.

I was sniffing about the air when the guy behind the counter saw me and said, “Hey, man. Are you ok? Do you need something to help with your sinus?”

“No, I’m good.” I continued to walk around while sniffing the air. I found nothing inside, so I went back outside to sniff around the corner.

The Blood Seeker Title that I earned recently came in handy at the right moment to put me on the scent of my target. While I was walking around the side of the mart, all of a sudden, a potent trail of bloodlust entered my nostrils. My eyes became bloodshot immediately as I started perceiving a vibrant gaseous crimson trail.

“I’ve locked onto the scent.” I followed the trail to the roof of the mart. From there, the scent trail separated into different paths. “Huh? There’s more than one of them in the vicinity.”

Looking out into the distance, I saw that the separated scent trails meet up at a dark intersection before splitting apart again. I decided to start my search from there instead.

I was hopping from rooftop to rooftop as I tracked down my prey. The scent trails led me beneath an old overpass where a tunnel was present.

Getting closer to that area, a horrid scent bombarded my nose that caused me to mitigate the effects of the Blood Seeker’s influence. I no longer needed it to be on high volume because I’ve found the Smokepires’ den.

Poking my head into the tunnel made me figure something out. “It’s dark in there and it smells like shit.” I started to consider whether or not I should go into the eerie orifice. Because I feared nothing, my confidence and bravery directed my legs into the tunnel.

Once inside, I began experiencing a sort of negative shifting within the atmosphere. The ambience was complete shit and it got worse and worse the deeper I went.

“This place is disgusting.” I accidentally stepped into a shallow stream of sticky substance that was running along the base of the tunnel. It soiled my new brand kicks.

A feeling of agitation overwhelmed me to holler, “Where the hell are you bastards? I know you are in here?”

My abrasive voice echoed throughout the tunnel for some time until it eventually died down. In return, I started hearing faint indistinctive sounds coming from the path ahead.

“So they are over there, eh?” I stepped into a more spacious area where lots of rusted pipes were barely keeping together. The most shocking thing I’ve come across was 2 grotesque cocoon-like contraption that was slowly pulsating around 2 dead bodies.

“Those must be the people they abducted. Could they be trying to turn them into Smokepires?” My curiosity drove me closer to inspect the gestation cocoons. Last time at the clinic I didn’t have the opportunity to do a full analysis due to that female detective’s intervention. But now I could explore as freely as I wanted or so I thought.

“Where are those bastards?” While I was observing the fascinating specimen before me, I realized that there wasn’t a Smokepire in sight, which was rather strange considering that their scent trails were present in the chamber a moment ago.

“Did they run away because they are scared of me?” If this was the case, I didn’t spend much time thinking about it because before me were 2 exemplary samples that could boost the potential of the research I was working on.

“How do I get these out of here?” Obviously, I couldn’t leave without bringing back these samples to my lab. There were too valuable for me to leave behind. As I was thinking of the most suitable ways to transport the gestation cocoons without drastically destabilizing their composition, I was rudely attacked from the side by one of the Smokepires.

“GRAH!”

I knew this shit-for-brains was still lurking nearby in the shadows, so I was already prepared for its attack. My Rigid Body took the full brunt of the fierce frontal claw slash. I didn’t bother dodging just because I wanted to preserve the state of the gestation cocoon.

Shaking off the hit that only damaged my clothes, I glared at the lanky Smokepire before grabbing its arm and kicking it in its crotch. Its sex was male, so I dealt it a seriously low blow that popped its balls.

“GRAH!” The Smokepire hollered hotly while cringing on the ground in pain.

“That’s what you get for sneaking up on me, you bitch! Had you come at me like a man, I wouldn’t have low-blowed your ass. Now prepared to taste the afterlife.”

I rolled back my right hand to generate enough impetus to punch a hole in this beast’s chest. This was when the thought came back to me that I needed to capture this thing alive.

“What the hell am I doing?” During my moment of hesitation, another Smokepire jumped me from behind. The sucker was concealing its presence behind the gestation cocoons. It went directly for my head with its sharp claws. Luckily for me, my Rigid Body skill was still active. However, after that sharp blow crashed into my neck it forcibly deactivated my protection ability. I had to be extra careful not to make these bastards land any fatal blow.

“You sneaky fucks want a piece of me? Come on then. I’ll take you both on!” I released a resounding war cry that bolstered the rampaging spirits of the Smokepires. They took my threat very seriously to where they began executing very wide and heavy attacks that were very dangerous, but at the same time, it left them wide open for me to counter.

“GRAH!”

“GRAH!”

Boom! Boom!

The Smokepires were kicking up a storm in the tight space that we were in. Wild and uncalculated attacks were being tossed all over the place. Once such attack inadvertently punctured one of the gestation cocoons.

“No! Look what you’ve done!” I couldn’t afford for the other gestation cocoon to go to waste. Therefore, I upped my counteractive game and started pushing back at my vicious opponents.

“You lucky son of a bitches! If I didn’t need you both alive. I would have ripped that cube out of your chests!” The Smokepires seemed to have understood somewhere within that corroded brain of theirs that I wasn’t taking them very seriously. This compelled them to go all out with their attacks. They started charging at me with everything they’d got.

Boom! Boom!

The lethal dosages of animalistic attacks that they were dishing out were laying waste to the interior of the tunnel. Not wanting them to do further damage to the gestation cocoons, eventually, I led them outside to where I had more room to flex my destructive muscle.

“This is more like it.” I stared at both Smokepires and said, “Prepare to get your lights knocked out.” After saying this, I tossed off the training wheels and began unleashing my Rage Vapour.

An eruption of infernal smoke burst out of my chest and coagulated around my arms. They were drastically enlarged to where they were touching the ground. I was 6 –foot-5 so imagine the length my empowered hands had.

“GRAH!” I watched as one of the Smokepires leapt at me. Both of them had similar build but the one who rushed at me was more on the lean side.

“I see that you want a taste first. Very well, come!” I waited for this sucker to arrive in my proximity before I fucked his face into next week. “Hellish Fist!”

Boom!

Upon taking my vaporous punch head-on, that Smokepire crashed into a supporting column of the dilapidated overpass. It certainly broke a few of its bones. Despite the loud music that was playing in the background, I heard multiple cracking sounds on its way down to crashing into the ground. It immediately lost consciousness.

“That’s one down.” I shifted my eyesight to the remaining Smokepire in the vicinity. When it caught me staring with thirsting eyes, it turned tail and began to flee.

“Where the hell are you running off to, you coward?” I observed the Smokepire transition into a blur of smoke that was soaring through the air like clouds. “You’re not the only one who can smoke dash!”

I showed that meat gobbler that I could contend against its speed by also utilizing my Smoke Dash ability. We were playing cat and mouse across several houses in the neighbourhood. The speed of this coward was startling. Eventually, I caught up when it slowed down to absorb smoke rising from a chimney.

“You’ve made a big mistake stopping to replenish your vapour. If you were smart, you would have kept on going. Although, I would have still caught up to you.”

Becoming more menacing, I shouted, “Bring that smelly ass over here!”