8 Naked-Crab-Man
"How much is it?" Jason asked the guy standing in front of him, while trying to avoid looking at his long hair but failing miserably.
Shopkeeper:- "That would be seven bucks." He replied with a professional smile which has a tint of pity after seeing the thing his customer was buying.
"I guess I will buy it then. Here." Jason said while handing over the money to the shopkeeper before grabbing the hair conditioner labelled 'SMOOTH AND STRONG' for himself and started leaving the store.
Before he could leave the store though, a voice that belonged to the shopkeeper stopped him on his tracks.
Shopkeeper:- "Um....So you are having that issue too huh. Don't worry my guy, you still have a lot left which means you can still be saved. I recommend eating a lot of walnuts. I did so too and you can see the effect." He said the last part while pointing at his long hair with his index finger.
"Oh...I guess I will do that too then. Thank you." Jason said with a grateful nod towards the shopkeeper who just smiled in return.
Jason then left the convenience store to go back to his house where he has been living for the past 2 years.
Yup, It has been about 2 years since Jason started his training.
During this time many things changed, one of them being Jason's strength.
Jason did not stop training for the past 2 years and did not take rest for a single day which resulted in him getting fairly strong....
Strong enough to square off and possibly win against The Hulk himself.
There were also other changes that occured beside him getting stronger.
Those were the changes that took place in Hell's kitchen after his arrival.
The criminal activities were still strongly active in Hell's kitchen; but something else was taking the spotlight of being the reason for the pretty bad condition of the said neighborhood.
That something being the rise of Monsters.
Like actual, real monsters.
These said monsters have the features of sea creatures which consists of Octopus, Sea horse, Starfish, Frog and just Fish; the last type of them creeped out Jason to no end.
At first, the residents of Hell's kitchen had no idea how to survive against those creatures; The Creatures that were Strong enough to flip cars into the air with their bare hands, fast enough to dodge bullets as well as durable enough to not die after falling off a three story building.
Residents of Hell's kitchen were always feeling unsafe even before the arrival of these monsters; but the existence of such horrendous beings made them feel helpless.
But I guess you can say that they got lucky because Jason was there to help them; considering he was the only one who 'could' and 'was' stopping those monsters from attacking them, by killing those monsters himself.
Yup, you read it correctly.
Jason Andrews was Killing these monsters since their arrival all alone!
During the first year of his training and Hero work, he thought about quitting because he was scared of dying while fighting such creatures; but his unrelenting will and his dream of becoming a Hero stopped him from doing so.
He fought them knowing that he was outmatched, but he didn't care and why would he?
He was the hero in this after all.
His occasional bouts with the monsters gave way to many injuries to take place on his body....
Which resulted in him not getting recognised by the people who came out of their hiding spot after every monster attack.
How did they not recognise him just because of his injuries you ask? Well, it was because he was covered in his own blood after every fight.
He was also always keen on leaving without talking to anyone because he wanted a bath after fighting the monsters resembling Fishes!
Anyways,
He didn't seem to care about getting recognition for his actions though; not because he didn't want it, No.
It was actually because it didn't occur to him at all.
He was just doing this because he wanted to. Any other reasons did not even come to his mind.
Time passed and a whole year ended with him just doing his training everyday while fighting these monsters whenever they attacked; which was always after a whole week or sometimes a month.
During this time, his fights started getting shorter and shorter.
At first, it took more than a 1000 punches and many injuries on his body to win against those monsters.
But as time went by, his number of punches and injuries kept on decreasing.
After another year, You can say that he is now strong enough to defeat the weaker one's among these monsters within ten punches without getting injured at all. [These weaker one's are strong enough to clap Spiderman so they aren't actually weak.]
After doing this work for the past 2 years, he can finally say that he is doing this for fun.
Him fighting against these monsters is not a fight to death anymore and he doesn't have to worry about saving the civilians while fighting these creatures either; as living with such monsters appearing in their neighborhood made the residents a lot more cautious and fast in hiding when these creatures arrive.
Which made every battle a lot more exciting for Jason!
People were still not able to recognise him though.
Because he still gets covered in blood after his fights.
But its not his own blood anymore....
Rather, it is the blood of the monsters that he kills which covers his body after his fights nowadays.
The Police wanted to investigate him but were stopped by the authorities who somehow knew the identity of their resident Monster Slayer but did not want to share it.
Why you ask?
Well, that is a talk for another time.
Currently, our resident Monster Slayer is moving towards his home while thinking about the problem he is having.
Which is if you were to ask him; is something which bothers him a lot.
That problem being his hair loss.
He was experiencing Hair loss at his age which was a problem; as it was also not a small amount of hair he was losing.
He was losing a LOT of hair after every bath he took.
At first he ignored it, but after a while he started feeling concerned.
Which led him into not taking bath at all.
It didn't help however, as he was still losing his precious hair EVERY SINGLE DAY.
So he decided to consult a doctor; which was not possible because he didn't have enough money.
Which led him to use internet to know how to stop his hair fall and that's how he ended up purchasing this hair conditionor called 'SMOOTH AND STRONG' for himself today.
He was walking faster than usual towards his home because he wanted to use it as soon as he can, but he ended up stopping after hearing a creepy laugh behind him.
"Kakakakaka" Someone laughed behind Jason which made him turn his head to look at the person who has such a stupid/creepy laugh.
It was not a person though; atleast half of it wasn't.
Because it was a Crab with human legs...
Who was standing in front of Jason in nothing but it's underwear!
Jason:- (–_–)
Naked-Crab-Man:- ( •̀ᴗ•́ )
*sigh*
"Where are your pants?" Jason asked while trying to break the awkward atmosphere their silent staring created, which also prompted the crab to look down at him and ask
"Huh? You sure you don't want to run away?" It asked this question which was followed with its signature laugh while it purposefully ignored the question Jason threw at it.
"Sigh~" Jason sighed after understanding that he had to fight this thing first before he could go home and decided to end this as fast as possible.
He was still creeped out by this thing's lack of clothing though, which made him pause for a moment.
'Naked-Crab-Man' after seeing Jason sigh and pause afterwards, thought that Jason was scared of his situation but still accepted his end, so it decided to scare him further by saying
"I bet you are a newly employed man tired of work. I am-" Before it could start it's monologuing Jason cut him off and said with a bored tone
"You are wrong. I am not a newly employed man or anything like that. I am a hero for fun and an experienced one at that. Now tell me why the hell are you not wearing any pants?" Jason corrected after hearing the Crab guessing wrongly about his profession and asked his earlier question once again.
It being almost naked was really starting to bother poor Jason now.
But the Naked-Crab-Man decided to ignore his question once more and said instead-
"A Hero for Fun you say? You are one delusional fella aren't you." He said, once again following it up by its signature creepy laugh.
What the Naked-Crab-Man said made Jason sigh again; because that's exactly the same thing all the other monsters said when they fought him.
"Why are only weak one's appearing nowadays instead of the real deal? I really don't want to waste my time on this one. But I guess I will still need to kill it in the end. Man, but this thing is just so disgusting that I don't even want to touch it! And Why the hell is it not wearing pants!?" Jason said all these things to himself while ignoring the Naked-Crab-Man completely.
Jason was actually used to talking to himself; Living alone for two years kind of does that to you.
Anyways,
The Naked-Crab-Man opened its mouth to say something, but before any words could come out of it's mouth, Jason cut it off by punching it and launching it towards a nearby car which shocked and stunned the Naked-Crab-Man for a moment.
And that moment was all Jason needed to end the fight.
If Jason's strength can be compared with that of The Incredible Hulk's, then you can say that his speed is even faster than Iron-Man's top flying speed!
He was too fast for the naked eye to see when he fought; which was the reason why the Naked-Crab-Man didn't see another one of Jason's punch coming towards its face, which also ended its life.
Jason was once again left standing alone at the road while covered in his enemy's blood.
*Sigh*
"I didn't even get to know why it didn't wear pants. But knowing these creatures, it would have probably answered me with a long monologue. And now that I think about it, I guess I don't really want to know the actual reason behind it either! So I guess it's alright that he didn't tell me. All ends that ends well I guess." He said after completely forgetting about this question that will always be left unanswered and decided to go home and take a bath.
He needed to use this hair conditionor after all!
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The next day, Jason was woken up from his sleep by the sound of his doorbell.
He just groaned in annoyance after hearing it and decided to ignore it completely; thinking that it was another salesman who wanted to swindle his money.
But the doorbell kept ringing so he decided to get up and answer the person on the other side of the door and kindly tell them to Fuck off but his words stopped in his mouth after seeing the person standing in front of his door.
It was an African-american man, with his left eye covered by a black eye patch. He was wearing a black leather coat which had a kind of logo on it.
He was bald. [The reason why Jason's words stopped in his mouth]
Seeing that Jason was not saying or doing anything other than staring at his head, The mysterious man decided to speak first
"Its nice to finally meet you Mr. Andrews. My name is Nick Fury and I would like to have a chat with you."
The man named Nick Fury, said without any expression on his face.
