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with the pub,
precinct, shopping center, lay in ruins, engulfed by a blaze of
fire. But thanks to the powerful blizzard, the fire wasn’t as bad,
or powerful enough to spread to the other side of the town. I
blitzed forward, shooting three chimeras that were cornering
Salyanna and three other men, my lungs filled with cold air. I
pulled out a dagger, and threw it a white furred chimera that had
taken for the air, with its eyes on Salyanna. It fell in front of
her feet, its tongue sticking out of its open mouth, twitching
uncontrollably. Upon joining her small platoon, we began to fight
off the remaining chimera battalion, stopping them from advancing
towards the remaining side of the town, which was behind us. A good
number of people had been slaughtered by the chimeras, and the only
remaining people, who had been maimed by the creatures, were left
with horrid, bloody scars all over their bodies. Most of the mutant
chimeras had retreated into the forest to stalk us from the
shadows, waiting for the perfect opportunity to ambush us
again.
    “Goodness, are you okay, Rave?” Salyanna
asked, reloading a new magazine into her gun, her eyes fixated on
my bloody chest. “Do you need to see a doctor? That wound looks
rather serious; you better let someone see you before it’s
infected.”
    “I am grateful for your concern, milady, but
it is not that bad,” I lied, a fake smile on my face. “Most of this
blood belongs to the chimeras I killed.”
    “Are they coming back?” an older man, with
woolen hat, black overcoat, and a large caliber rifle, asked, his
eyes upon her. “I don’t know how long we can hold them back
for.”
    “Darren, no, why,” a man screamed, kneeling
by a dead chimera, both of his hands wrapped around its head. “This
was my best friend—why was he killed? Why did you do it?”
    He laid the cloaked chimera down, looked up
at me with ferocious eyes, and began to plod towards me with his
fist clenched. Before he could slug me, his comrades intervened,
stopping him from making a terrible mistake. Had they not stopped
him, I really think I would have taken his life.
    “Why are you protecting this monster,” he
exploded, wrestling two of his comrades, while looking at me with
murderous eyes. “We all know that this is his fault, that if he
hadn’t shown up, then none of this would have happened. I say, we
capture him and take him to the madman—he might be willing to
forgive us if he hand him over.”
    “If any of you attempt to restrain me, I
will claim your life,” I warned them, the nozzle of my gun facing
the ground, my index finger on the trigger. “I am a very good shot
with this rifle, and if you feel the need to test my skills, I will
be more than willing to oblige you.”
    “Shut up, Jutcer,” Salyanna roared, stopping
the irrational man from spouting more nonsense. “What’s done is
done; there is nothing anyone can do to reverse this misfortune
that has befallen us. All any of us can do now is make sure that
none of our brothers and sisters spewed their blood in vain. We
must stop the madman from doing any more harm to anyone else.”
    “Great speech, Salyanna, but how do you
suppose we do that? I mean, look at us—we have barely less than a
dozen men left, not including the children and the wounded, and
this is not even enough to take the outer post.”
    “If you say one more thing, I will have your
head, Jutcer,” I yelled, walking over to him, my arm twisted to
imitate the shape of a talon. “Want to see how I take off my
opponents’ jaws?”
    “ That’s enough, Rave,
scaring him will do you no good,” she sighed, turning her head to
the right, her gun holstered above her chest. “To all of you who
are having doubts about this action, I will assure you that the
mayor, using his own voice, proclaimed that we should all take arms
against these chimeras. We might have known them in the past, but
this is war—we must win it for the sake of the