Chapter 4 A coward

Flashback to before disappearance of humanity)

*Thwack! "Ah!"(male scream)

The sound of wood landing on his leg as Daniel fell backwards in pain before looking up with fearful eyes at the person in front, their staff pointed at his face as they look back with a mixture of pity, disappointment and disgust in their eyes as they speak with a firm and feminine voice.

"Pathetic, can you even try to stay on your feet for more than a minute without being defeated by me, else why bother trying."

Anger could be heard in the woman's tone as she speaks with familiarity with Daniel while he was still on the ground holding his leg, aching with pain as he dare not look into the woman's light blue eyes. looking as though she wasn't even tired one bit her Long pink dyed hair tied behind her head into a ponytail and wearing nothing but a black sports bra and shorts while holding a 2-meter brown coloured staff as she plants it on the floor gripping it so tightly that her knuckle turns white with each passing moment he stays silent as he opens his mouth to speak in a quivering voice.

"I- I'm sorry Ashley I-it's just that I'm not as g- good as you. You're so much more talented than me after all." As he stops talking his eyes stare at the end of the room, looking at a see-through cabinet filled with golden trophies and medals with first place written on some of them while others have a hashtag and next to it a 1 meaning the same thing. As his sister follows his gaze to her awards anger flows from her eyes onto her brother right shoulder as she pulls the top half of her staff back and partly like a throwing spear stance as she plunges the bottom of it into his shoulder, as a pop sound can be heard followed by a loud screaming coming from Daniel as he feels a tremendous amount of pain from his shoulder being dislocated, kneeling on the floor connecting his forehead with it as he closes his eyes tightly as tears spill from his eyes.

"Huh? Do you think because I have more experience than you that means you can't beat me? Do you think because I've held the spear longer than you, you can't hit me you little shit? " As she speaks down on him she lifts her foot and steps on his head hard making it impossible to lift his head up as he holds his dislocated shoulder she then hears her voice once more.

"Let me tell you, it doesn't matter if you can beat me, fight anyway, even if you lose you can still hurt me, but you don't, you cry and moan and bitch about how weak you are because you Daniel. You. Are. A. Coward."

She finishes speaking and lifts her foot off of him and as he sits up, thinking it's over he sees an enlarged foot coming to his face, then everything goes black.

Flashback over)

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Daniel wakes up sweating from everywhere around him inside the training room, having slept here for years now as he sits forward breathing heavily, trying to calm himself down after remembering that time his sister sparred with him. His chest heaves up and down as his cheeks flushed red as he reaches up with his left hand and grips his right shoulder as though the same thing happened. As he looks out the window and notices the sun has just risen he takes one last breath and lets out a large sigh of relief.

It had been a long time since he last remembered any of his stepfamily before they disappeared suddenly as he had been focusing on survival till now as he thought back to the events after that fight. His parents took him to the hospital after his sister knocked him unconscious and they popped his shoulder back into place and bandaged it and put a cast on it, as for his swollen cheek they put a bandage on it as well then they went home. Daniel still remembered how his parents only scolded his stepsister on how she went too far before they let her off with a warning. " I say scolded but it was more a light telling off and they didn't even punish her at all. While they were telling her off she looked at me with anger the whole time as though I did something wrong, well a couple of days later it went back to the usual avoiding then punching, she never asked to spare with me again and just beat me at home or when we go out" 

As Daniel reminisced he remembers how his parents gave him looks of pity when they took him to the hospital and when they went back home but didn't bother saying anything then and after.

He stops thinking about this and stands up as today's the day he acts out his plan to defeat the other monster which he was humiliated by, the massive cat-like monster

which he made his goal to kill and prove to himself that he wasn't weak or a coward.

Armed with a butcher's cleaver r

Tied to his waisted, A 2-meter spear with a 7-inch blade as well as a large black duffle bag he then walks out of his house and looks in front of him before closing his eyes and inhales deeply for a moment before exhaling and opening his eyes which emit a determined glare as he steps forward into the street and closer to his destination in town.

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As he walks past large building  some connected other not, with narrow pathways which he walks into one of them and unzips the Duffle he brought with him showing a large amount of rope, spikes and lighter fluid he sets up in preparation for the coming battle as he pulls out the rope with a confident and determined gaze shone looking out the narrow path and onto the streets. before his sights lands on a near by car as he looks between his rope then the car and an alleyway close to him and grins.