Ironclaw

"Are you okay!? wait! don't close your eyes!" I yelled, trying to the bleeding. The strange man collapsed on top of me, I tried helping him, I tried patching him up with some bandages I had on me, but "..." He didn't move anymore, he didn't breath anymore, he... "Damn it!" I cursed under my breath, I stand up and leave the body, no point wasting anymore time with it. I go to a corner and observe it from there, if it had any tricks I wouldn't be cut off guard! No more!

"Junior! Junior come in!" a voice cried out, I look around to find it's source, it was coming from my belt.... "Junior, press the blue button on the side of your belt if you can hear me!" it was Pedro's voice, I did as he said, a small earbud popped out from the side of the greenish belt, I placed it in my ear. "If you can hear me, speak your position!" he said, "Emmm, I can hear you loud and clear, I'm in the armoury I think.... there's a body here with me" I replied.

After a few moments of silence, he asked "What uniform is it wearing?" To that I walked over back to the body and observed, it was wearing a silverish gray metal suit, with a claw insignia on its chest. I describe it to Pedro and he sighed "Ironclaws, a rival Familia from ours.... but not the person we're searching for, Stay where you are, we'll regroup there and form a strategy" With that he cut the connection.

With nothing else to do I search around the Armoury for something to add to my Arsenal. "This things look older than me" I muttered, they were mostly melee weapons, all rusty and chipped, this things won't last after 3 swings! I give up looking for one and go back to observing the body, I move closer for a better look, "He doesn't isn't human, he looks like a.... pitbull with human hands and feet. I decide to search the body for something useful, not like it'd be using anything anymore, I frisk the body and find.....

A jar of eyeballs..... "Was it some sort of a freak? no.... but why would it have this?" I look at the Jat in disgust, was it an ingredient for something? or was it a trophy? a collection, lettimg my curiosity get the better of my I open it up "It smells delicious for some reason" My stomach begins to growl, damn it! I ate not too long ago, I consider whether to taste one or not.... "Mmmmm" it tastes good.... like really good, it has an spicy flavour to it, it feels like it'd go well with wine, maybe I'll save these for later, I don't know how long I'll be here after all.

I continue searching the body and find a ring with a diamond ring and a cassette player. I pocket the ring and observe the cassette player intently, it doesn't look like much but I am still curious.... I decide to click on play and listen to it "Sounds like .... pop, I was honestly expecting hip hop or jazz but oh well" the instrumental playing on it pleasant to the ear, i listen to it for a while before deciding to turn it off, I don't know what did that to the pitbull man, whether it's still here and honestly I don't want to find out.

I look at the entrails and bones, this is definitely a feeding station, thankfully it doesn't seem like whatever creature's liar is this, isn't around at the moment, I decide to search the armoury some more and discover a vent.... but it's too small, I cursed and continued searching. After fruitless hour and a half of looking around I decide to take a nap, I would love to go back outside, but I can hear the Duck demon outside still stalking the halls. I close my eyes and hit the hay.

Today's dream was pleasant! I found the kid from earlier, they were roasting the crimson tailed rabbit over an open fire in the woods, they wore bright yellow boots with a great red cloak, that covered their small body, I couldn't tell their gender or age from looking at them, I approached them and they agreed to share the bunny with me in exchange for the eyeballs I got off the pitbull. The meat was delicious! They gave me a present, a piece of pebble, it was reddish in colour, small and smooth,it had a carving on its side, a blue rose. I woke up shortly after, the pebble was in my pocket but the eyeballs were gone.

There was no sign of Anyone having entered the room or been here with me, I go over the possibilities of what might have happened but I get no results and decide to give it up. "Junior! Junior! it's us, Pedro and Barnabas! open the door and let us in!" a voice cried out. I move towards the door and hesitate for a moment before letting them in. They entered and closed the door, a loud bang hit the door as they closed it, it happened a few more times before everywhere went silent.

I looked them over and they were drenched in sweat, they must have been running this entire time. "Vince and I came with a solution, he and Georgie will lead the bio beast out through the back, Bradley will find something to start a fire and the 3 of them set it ablaze" Pedro said. "What about us?" I asked, "What about us? we're to stay away obviously! once that thing starts writhing in pain from the fire, it'd try to latch on to some living matter in a panic, I don't know about you, but I'm not confident in my dodging skills!" Barnabas bellowed.

The three of us sat down in a corner and awaited the signal, Pedro noticed the feeding station and went to inspect the piles of entrails and bones, "This was definitely it's lair, it must have produced smaller versions of itself to deal with smaller preys" Pedro said. "What is that thing?" I asked, " A bio beast, one of the nastier ones at that, it has no desire other than to devour living matter continously, it must have been feeding on this poor bastard before it sensed us and decided to investigate" Barnabas said.

"Say, did you get anything good off him, don't look at me like that! I definitely know you searched him, it's written all over your face!" Barnabas announced, I sigh, cursing my own obvious tells. I reach inside my pocket, the Diamond ring and cassette player are there but the pebble is gone.