5 First Encounter

I stared hard at the boar before me, my mind racing trying to come up with a plan of action. Thinking at a thousand miles a minutes the most sound plan I could come up with was waiting for it to charge at me before I attack.

"All of you back up slowly don't give your backs to it, Dimitri stay next to me and when it charges jump out the was that's when we'll attack it." I said

My grip tightening on the knives, mind blank I stopped thinking about possibilities and just focused on the now. I'm gonna have to do this through pure instinct, no use overthinking.

The boar roared one last time before charging at us. It's speed was incredible, before I knew it the boar had covered half the distance to us.

'Fuck, activate swan walk, activate piercing sun!' I thought with all my willpower hoping this was how you activate skills.

Immediately I noticed the difference, everything around me slowed down to a noticeable degree, the blades I was holding turned a bright red and my hands a shiny black. I jumped to my left right after and rolled as I landed, I turned rapidly just in time to see the boar narrowly miss Dimitri. It ran past him and used its front legs to stop, I ran to it right away with all my strength, covering the distance in no time surprising myself to no end.

Once I was next to it, before it had time to face me, I stabbed the kunai aiming for its throat.

Puchiii

The knife went in beautifully, no resistance whatsoever, soon after blood spurted and the boar jerked so hard I had to let go of the knife. I jumped back and switched my second knife onto my right hand, I didn't have much time left at most 25 seconds I have to hurry.

At this point the bot had turned its full attention to me, hatred evident in its eyes it wanted to kill me and shred me to pieces. 'The feeling is mutual buddy'. I readied myself for a second charge, the good thing about beats like these is that they're stupid and don't learn from their mistakes, at least that's what I've read.

Right before it charged though Dimitri jumped on its back, grabbed the kunai and stabbed it in its eye. 'Fuck yes!' I rushed full speed ahead. The boar thrashing and turning crazily with pain filled roars resonating throughout. My blood and adrenaline so pumped up that all I could do was focus, 'what do I do? Attack the eye? Maybe run to it's side and try to get the other eye? No! Under, that's where it should be the softest.

I put my plan into motion and when I was mere feet away I slid splendidly if I do say so myself, under its belly while at the same time raising the bright red knife.

Shiiiick

The blade slid with little to no restriction, blood started to rain down soon after while its intestines slid out like worms on a rainy day.

Soon as I was out from under I rolled to distance myself a little more and then turned to face the boar.

I managed to see the boar falling in time and Dimitri rolling of its back, I approached slowly crircling to the side where Dimitri cut its eye. The boar was bloodied to hell, it's life slipping from it by the second it breathed forcefully still, barely even clinging to life.

"So umm who gets the kill?" I said while breathing heavily 'fuck I'm out of shape'

"Well if we're going by damage done I believe it's yours, you did the most to it" he said also while breathing heavily

At this point I saw asshole get closer to it before saying "well I think one of should get the kill since you know you two already have some strength and seeing as how I'm in the best shape after you two, I think I should get it."

'This motherfucker has the audacity to say some busllshit like that after seeing us fight with our lives for it.' I have to stay calm think.

"Look dude no offense but not this time. This kill was hard earned so how about you back off and after this we look for something easier to kill and we'll help level you guys up a bit." I said after thinking a little. It made sense to me , sounded like a solid plan. We help strengthen them up a bit before having the face a boar themselves.

"Well why don't you just give it to me right now and then I can help you guys later" he said inching closer to the boar without even looking at us.

I walked over to the boar with the skill still active so I was there pretty fast and delivered the finishing blow. "'No is no, now if you can't play nice and follow the rules, then I suggest you fuck off." I ignored a couple of singing sounds while saying this.

I stood up and faced the rest of the group "listen up, this fight made me realize something. We can die at any moment and I don't trust none of you aside from Dimitri with my back. That being said it's not your fault, we'll all of you except for asshole here. I want to make something clear, if you want to stay with us you gotta pull your weight and follow my words." I turned to Dimitri "would you happen to know how to butcher?"

He smiled "lucky for you I actually do know how to butcher, gonna need to borrow the knife you're holding it's better than this one for the job" he said handing me the kunai. I gave him my knife and received the other putting it away for the moment.

"Let's set up a perimeter while we get some of the meat all of you take a side and lookout for anything." I said while helping Dimitr. Meanwhile everyone did as I told them and so he and I were left alone with the carcass of the boar.

"So tell me, how do you know how to butcher if you don't mind me asking" I said while helping him hang the corpse on a nearby tree. We used some vines as rope to tie its hind legs.

He busied himself cutting and skinning and doing all sorts of precise cuts I wouldn't understand. "My father owns a butcher shop down in Brighton beach, been working ever since I was little to help out." He said

"Oh shit you're from New York? That's cool" I said while paying attention on each stroke of the knife, I needed to learn how to butcher I'm case anything happened to him.

"If you're from there it's cool but how things are right now it's like a war zone, by the way how do you know how to fight like that." He said while giving me a side glance.

"Oh yeah I heard the mafias started up again there. Well you know Cali ain't the safest either, you got your mafias we have the gangs plus the cartels started pushing into LA when I was 12 so you know picked up a few things here and there. My uncle worked for one of the cartels and he taught me most of what I know." I said reminiscing about those years, shit was tough back then.

"Yeah I feel you, but do you think it's a good idea to tell me about your uncle? I mean I ain't no snitch but still." He said

"Yeah I don't mind he passed away a couple of years ago anyways. Plus I don't see is getting out of here anytime soon so why not you know? Better to open up a little to someone I trust." I said seriously.

He stopped and turned to look at me, his eyes dead cold as he stared into my eyes. I stared back, my gaze serious too.

"You trust me?" He said

"I got no choice, from what I feel about you, you've been through shit like me. I can tell there's more to you than what you show, hell we're probably more alike than we know. " I said.

"Well you're right about that" he stood up and extended his right hand "I got your back if you got mine" he said with a smile.

"Haha I've got you bro" I shook it. From now on I've had someone I could trust my back on, I know not to fully trust him yet but still, it felt good knowing someone had my back. I was gonna survive here, I need to survive.

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