Chapter 2: What the f*ck just happened

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_____________________ Last time on The Titan's Chronicle _________________

Mustafa snapped out of his trance when he felt something moving behind him, he turned around and saw a scene that he would only see in the various anime he had watched...

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It was odd enough that someone had managed to follow him here without noticing since except him, their maids and butlers -who are currently busy cleaning the house- cooks in here. And that's exactly what surprised him.

When Mustafa turned around, he saw a green anthropomorphic lizard with one horn on its head. The lizard was wearing a wear armor that consists of a cape, baggy pants and a fury neck warmer. The lizard also had a pretty long spear that was on its left hand. It was eating the food present in the fridge.

The lizard was the size of a normal human being, around 5.11 ft. After looking at it for awhile Mustafa did not make any rash movements. Instead, he walked near the lizard while making sure he stayed out of the range of its weapon and decided to test some things out.

It's not like he wasn't scared or anything like that, actually, Mustafa was pretty scared and you could see the wariness in his eyes. It's his first time seeing a walking lizard in real life, but he can base himself on how these creatures, in the various anime and games he had seen, behaved around humans to make his decision on what to do. If he's wrong, then he is f*cked. Mustafa approached the lizard man while making sure to stay out of its range.

While he was busy trying to approach the creature, it was eating everything it could see in the fridge which was making Mustafa kind of furious since he hated losing his properties, particularly something he had gained through his own effort. Except for the people who he shares deep relationships with (AN/: that would Only be his mom, his dad, and his five other friends.) he does not like to give anyone free meals. Even though he does it when the time is critical and the other guy needs it asap or he would lose something important.

The lizard man noticed the human coming towards him and took his head out of the fridge to look at him. After seizing the man in front of him for a second, it took one piece of fresh meat from the fridge and offered it to Mustafa with a smile showing its dirty teeth.

Finding the actions of the lizard man suspicious, Mustafa decided to be cautious and stay the hell away from it. For an entire minute, they stayed like that, not one of them was moving, he then decided to take the risk and tried to take the meat. Of course while still having his guards up and prepared to counter any attacks that would come his way.

Mustafa started advancing slowly towards the lizard man while his mind was having wild ideas about how to deal with this creature if it suddenly attacked him. The lizard man just continued smiling at him, when Mustafa finally took the meat and was about to retreat he suddenly saw a huge image of a spear in front of him ready to pierce his head.

At that moment memories started to flow in his mind, the reason why he went abroad instead of staying back home, the hellish training he has done to be able to compete at a high level, all the errors he did during fights and how he would always try to train harder to never make those errors again. A lot of memories came in his mind and it looked like time started to slow down, without knowing it his body managed to move on its own barely dodging the attack.

After calming himself down, Mustafa found himself some meters away from the creature in front of him and he saw it take a fighting stance, even though it looked surprised by how this human managed to dodge its attack. Hell! Even Mustafa was surprised by that, his body moved on its own.

'Looks like the hours of training paid off'

Mustafa thought after realizing what happened and without wasting any time he took his stance waiting for his opponent to move. He is using the Thai boxing stance, this is the stance he has been perfecting his whole life. Looking at him right now he looked like a tiger ready to pounce at its prey at any given moment.

Seeing the human in front him take his stance, the lizard man's smile faded and his body became tense. It became much more serious and with a sudden movement, it kicked the floor and advanced towards Mustafa ready to thrust its spear toward him.

Mustafa concentrated on the creature's movements and thought 'it's a feint, he's gonna attack from the left'. As he predicted, the lizard man feinted and sidestepped to the left where it slashed the spear downward.

Before the spear could touch him, Mustafa took a step back to dodge the slash and when the spear touched the floor he countered with a high kick hitting the creature straight in the face. Feeling the intensity of the kick the lizard man tried to avoid it but was a tad bit late.

*PAH*

The counter hit it in the face and a clapping sound could be heard throughout the room. The lizard man took several steps back, Mustafa decided to finish quickly before it could come back to its senses so he continued attacking. A low kick, making the lizard man kneel on the floor, followed by a roundhouse kick hitting it straight in the face also making it loosen its grab on the weapon and both of them fell on the ground -the lizard man and the weapon-.

Mustafa picked the spear up and went for the killing blow, but he hesitated a little bit. Fortunately, as soon as he saw the lizard man open his eyes, he thought back to when it tried to kill him which angered him and quickly made him dispose of the lizard man's life by cutting its neck. Blood gushed out and some of it splattered on his shirt, staining it.

He sighed, feeling his legs weakening because of the lizard man's scales he had to destroy with his bare legs to injure it. He sat down on the floor and contemplated on the event that had just happened.

'What the f*ck just happened'

he thought to himself, he had not thought of it back then because of the dangerous situation he was in but now that everything is over he could let his brain go wild and search for a reason this had happened to him. Recalling things he had read in novels and manga he read, his eyes went wide open as the realization hit him.

'Don't tell me, something like a gate appeared in my house. Nah, they are probably all over the world now. It can't be here alone'

After thinking that far, he looked around the kitchen, searching for some sort of gate, but he didn't find anything. He started doubting his trail of thought but quickly shook his head and decided to go out and search around the house. Mustafa was about to head out and search for the gate he had thought of earlier, but as soon as he got out of the kitchen he heard a loud Thud sound coming from the living room making him remember that Ahmad was still there.

"F*ck, I hope nothing happened to him"

He said out loud and started running towards the living room and once he arrived and saw the scene in front of him, he sighed in relief.

"You scared me, man and I forgot totally forgot that you could fight too"

Mustafa said smiling towards his friend, who had blood all over his hands and tears flowing out of his eyes. A sudden memory of a situation similar to this one appeared in his mind and felt the urge to hug his best friend. Not wanting to resist, he advanced towards him and hugged him tightly.

"Calm down, bro!"

"*sniff*...I killed...*sniff*... a..."

"You know what, I'm not good at consoling people so just think of it this way. The creature you just killed isn't human, it's as if you have just killed a roach"

"It... it's not human, and I kill roaches every day!"

"And you dead-ass look like a baby right now!!!"

________ Three hour later _______

"So, you're saying that two lizardmen came out this huge gate that just appeared out of thin air in our living room, one stayed to 'take care' of you while the other one went pass you, when you were still dazed, to search the house and ended up in the kitchen?"

Mustafa asked Ahmad again just to make sure he did not miss any information. During the last three hours, while Ahmad was still calming down, Mustafa called all the personals of the house to have a little meeting and talk about the things that just happened.

"Albert, what do you think we should do?"

Mustafa asked a middle-aged man gracefully dressed in his traditional black uniform. Albert has black hair with no mustache nor beard, he makes sure to clean it every two weeks, he has visible wrinkles which makes him look quite gentle, but his black eyes are as deep and sharp as a lion's.

Albert looked at his young master, bowed his head and started talking.

"Young master, I think that we should check if this is the only place where this phenomenon is currently occurring"

Albert said while looking at the TV who was on and showing one of Ahmad's last fight.

"Can you stop calling me 'young master'?"

Mustafa said as he felt a little embarrassed from the title he was given. He did not want to be a young master nor did he behave like one.

"I'm sorry to say that I wouldn't dare step that line!"

"Oh come on!... Whatever! And to answer your question, you don't need to worry about that, we saw a lot of people post pictures of gates appearing everywhere, there are even one who appeared in the bathroom of a guy who was taking an sh*t. Fortunately, no monster has gone out of it, yet"

Albert nodded his head and started thinking about what to do. Mustafa looked at the other ten people in front of him and asked.

"What about y'all?"

a fairly beautiful young lady who seemed to be around 20 to 25 years old raised her hand.

"Yes, Evelyn!"

"I think that the young master should start streaming as soon as we finish talking to prevent a disaster"

Everybody nodded

"That's a good idea, but what if another monster appears from the gate while I'm streaming?"

He asked and Albert smiled at that.

"Young master, you don't have to be worried about that. The personals of the Ndoye household aren't that weak..."