Chapter 34 a bloody walk

"Yo." I said casually to the person closes to me who was covered in blood head to toe.

"Hi?" The person replied back confused. They stood in attention like a solder in the army.

"Sorry about getting blood all over your clothes and face." I said trying to apologies to them.

"Ah no, its not your fault. This was from earlier." They said back bashfully and a little bit sunned that I started to talk to them.

"Earlier?" I questioned which made them seemed to reminisce about something. 

 "Hello? You still there?" I said as I tapped their shoulder since they were spacing out.

"Yes, sorry I got distracted. Is that a dragon" He said trying to change the subject.

I looked at the corps of the dragon and see the black smoke still coming off it. Only one of its heads seemed to be attached as the other were ripped off Its lower half was mostly destroyed in the explosion. I don't see that crystal it had in its stomach though.

Must have fallen off somewhere.

I reach out our right hand to absorb the black smoke coming off it. It slowly entered into the suit. Although this time some smoke was still flowing out of the body and didn't completely disappear like all the other times we did this.

Why is it acting different now.

"Umno, Mister?" Bell said quietly.

"Mark." I said putting our rifle on our side to shake their hand. I got distracted for a while there. 

"Blood...Stalk." Blood Stalk added in as they picked up the guitar ax and put it away behind us. They also took apart the rifle and turned it back into the steam blade, leaving me the gun. They seemed to be more engaged in talking, which was strange.

"Bell, Bell Cranel." He said hesitantly as he went for the hand shake. They shook our hand rabidly up and down.

"Nice to meet you Bell. By the way, where are we? I kind of got lost on the way here." I explained shortly while our hand was still moving.

"We are outside the dungeon entrance mister Bloodstalk." He said back confused pointing to his right. 

"The what." I said back confused thinking I misheard what they said. I turned to where they were pointing to and see a 

Dungeon? Like for torture. Why would they have that in the middle of the city in a sky scrapper.

I turned back to them and Bell Looked at me nervously like I was mad or something.

"Just Mark is fine. What do you mean dungeon?" I started to ask but then got surrounded by people asking a bunch of questions.

Who are you? Do you have a party? Is that a Dragon? What is that doing outside the Dungeon? Can you tell me how much that armor costs? Did you make it? What's your name? It should be 'dragon something'. Maybe 'crimson'. What familia are you in? Did you fall out of the sky? They must be from 'that' familia if they were. Don't say that, that would be the worst and they wouldn't like us talking about it. They don't seem that crazy so it should be fine. 

This went on for a long time until I wondered what happened to the person we were talking to first.

"This seems familiar." I joked getting surrounded by people again asking similar questions. I then turned to find the person I was talking first to has disappeared.

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"Where did Bell go?" I questioned trying to find them through this sea of people.

"Left..." Blood Stalk said in a lower voice.

"Oh, maybe to clean off the blood, We should have asked them that as well since we are also drenched." I said regretting the crowd distract us.

I could hear some foot steps behind us before our body started to move.

Blood Stalk suddenly kicked the remaining head of the dragon up to our left hand and grabed it in one swop. Blood was gushing out of the lower half of the remains from the change in position.

They then swung it's neck over our left shoulder and jumped over the crowd of people. The dragons blood spilling over some of them.

"What are you doing?!" I yelled at their erratic behavior. They started to run at a very fast speed. they moved to the left street.

"Finding... him." Blood Stalk said as we began to run down the street with stalls like the one in Melen. A blood trail forming behind us as we run.

"Who? You mean Bell." I questioned since I did not know if it was someone else.

"Yes..." They said back plainly. We were now running down an unfamiliar street in a zig zag pattern with red sparks following us. 

"Why do we need to find him all of a sudden? Also, are we running?" I asked as we were getting close to the wall on the left side and suddenly jumped onto it. Next we pushed of the wall an onto the roof of some stands and ran across them.

"Because... you asked." They said while parkouring over a stand. That person was laughing a lot for some reason until we showed up. His stall getting soaked in blood from the dragon behind us.

They didn't answer on why we needed to run so I guess their wasn't a need and they just felt like it.

We jumped of the last roof and landed back on the street and continued to run in an unknown direction.

"How are we going to find him like this?" I asked since we seemed to be going in a random direction.

"Trail..." Blood Stalk said while we looked at the ground. I see a bloody footprints going forward and figured out what they meant.

"Look Out!" I heard someone yell as a cart being pulled by horses started to block our path.

Blood Stalk threw the dragon corps above the cart while we slid underneath it between the horses and wheels to avoid getting hit. The carts content getting covered in blood as the body flew overhead.

After we exit the underside of the cart I see the dragon falling a head of us. I use the wires from our gauntlet to grab it and bring it closer.

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As Blood Stalk regrip the corps by the teeth, they break a tooth off. The dragon was about to hit the ground until they kicked it back into the air. I grab it by the neck and it seems a lot lighter than I imagined it to be.

"Why are we taking this with us?" I said while holding the dragon until they snatched it from my grasp by reeling in the wire.

"We... killed it. So.... it is ours." They replied back simply but a little annoyed. Guess I'm asking to may questions. I raise our right hand in defeat and just let them do what they want for now.

As we were talking Blood Stalk used our left hand to take out some of the dragons teeth and put them behind our back, disappearing from their hand.

Blood Stalk then grabed a swinging sign in front of a stone building and back flipped over.

We continued jumping and swinging across the city street trying to find the blood covered person until we spot them running to a building with someone standing at the door dropping papers onto the ground. They were screaming really loud. 

The building was green and white with flags hanging on the front of the building.

We were in mid jump when the person that dropped the papers started to run towards Bell frantically. They seemed to be wearing a black tailored suit and glasses. They then spotted us and yelled again.

"Bell! Behind You!" I herd them yell as we landed on the ground right behind the blood soaked person.

Bell turned seemingly shocked at our sudden appearance.

"Found you." I said after running for what felt like a mile.

Bell fell on his back startled while the person with glasses ran in front with their arms spread out.

"Who are you! Did you do this to Bell. If you think you can get away with this then you are surly mistaken. " The person started yapping at us as soon as we arrived.

"The guild will not stand by as you harass others outside its entrance." They started going on and on about stuff I didn't really get. 

"Miss Eina I'm fine, they had nothing to do with this." Bell said to the person who is yelling at Blood Stalk and I.

"What do you mean 'they had nothing to do with this'. You are covered in blood running through the street looking like some kind of mad man getting chased by this stranger in creepy armor!" The girl started yelling at Bell now while he was trying to get off the ground.

"Creepy!? This suit is one of the coolest suits ever made in all of Kamen Rider, maybe even tokusatsu and belongs to one of my favorite characters of all time! It is stylish, functional, and has saved our butts from death more times than I can count on our journey to this city. How dare you disrespect the beauty and artistry of its design." I yelled back to her as she turned to as and continued to berate me.

I am fine with getting my actions misinterpreted or getting yelled at, but disrespecting something I hold so dear to me is beyond unforgivable.

Blood Stalk nodded to my statement in agreement as Bell was trying to calm down the both of us.

"Miss E-Eina, mister Bloodstalk please stop." Bell failed at stopping us from yelling.

"You are the one who is stalking a young adventurer at the end of the day in that mess of metal covered in blood dripping outside our place of business. Who's blood is that anyways." The girl asked turning to look at us in the face/helmet while poking our chest with her index finger.

Blood Stalk showed the body of the dragon in our left hand and it looks like it is rapidly rotting. No, maybe disintegrating would be a better term with the way it is melting. They put it directly into the women's face getting blood on them as well.

"Ah." She said in a weird way as she fell back quickly. 

"Are you ok?" I and Bell asked at the same time when se hit the ground.

"Right mister Bloodstalk killed a dragon outside the dungeon." Bell tried to explain the absurd situation.

"I said call me Mark, don't call me 'mister'. It sound like I'm some stuck up old guy or an NPC from Bloodborne." I said to Bell where he started apologizing rapidly. 

"But Mister- I mean Mark. why did you want to find me?" Bell asked me 

"Since we just arrived in this city I didn't know where to rinse off the blood on our COOL suit, that maybe you would know because you were also drenched." I said while emphasizing how cool this suit was.

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Suddenly a bunch of soldier in armor started to surround us.

"Halt." One of them yelled as the other were slightly out of breath like they were running for a long time.

"You are under arrest." they said while pointing their swords and other weapons at us.

"For what!" I yelled at them trying to understand what was happening.

"Destruction of property, breaking and entering, along with endangerment of civilians." The solider explain while reading some rope.

"That was the dragon." I said back in protest pointing to the corps on my shoulder.

By now the corps was now gone an nothing more than dust so I was pointing at nothing.

I tried to think of something to get us out of this situation, but I couldn't without hurting these people and possibly becoming a fugitive.

"I want my one phone call."