Homeless man!

As Nathan laid there a person had turned the corner and saw him laying there so he did what every sensible person does in this type of situation. He approached Nathan slowly while trying to see if he was alive or not I mean come on he is literally smoking.

As he crouched down next to him he decided to check if he had anything on him.

While he was doing that Nathan started waking up from his beauty sleep and felt something in his back leg pocket causing him to roll over and discovering a homeless looking man with stains on various parts of his clothes and little to no teeth.

"YOUR STILL ALIVE" the man yelled while falling onto his back.

Nathan replied with a tinge of pain "Can you keep your voice down I'm trying to think here! Wait? what where you doing to me?

Nathen suddenly placed his hands in front of his little brother while saying fearfully "I'm sorry I don't swing that way man!"

Man "...."

Nathen"...."

"What the fuck" the man replied with a vein popping out "WHO THE HELL WOULD DATE A RETARDED PERSON LIKE YOU!*cough* Don't mind what I said" he changed the subject. "let me ask you something why the hell was your clothes smoking? and why are you laying on the floor?".

"It all started when I was a little boy."

Man "....."

Nathan "...."

"I don't have time for this" the man said while standing up and patting of the dust that collected onto his clothes.

"Wait where are you going?" Nathan asked while getting up and following him.

"To the first floor? Everyone is down there I just came back to collect some *cough* *cough* magazines to past the time you know!" The man replied ignoring Nathan's questioning gaze.

"Well let's go I don't want to get into trouble."

He said changing the conversation.

"What makes you think I'll follow you? I just meet you for crying out loud!" Nathan said while taking a few steps preparing for the man to make a surprise move.

"I don't think you want to stay here haven't you heard what happened to the world? it's going to hell with these weird monsters popping out of nowhere and killing people! There is even some monsters in this building I even seen them myself! Look!" The man said while they were walking back down the hall he suddenly stoped next to a melted part of the floor in the shape of a shoe.

"A couple of minutes ago I found these and followed them to here and suddenly they disappeared and look there was a body early it belonged to one of those monsters but it turnt to ash right in front of me I swear!.

He said after seeing Nathan look of disbelief suddenly Nathan froze.

In his head"wait why am I down here wasn't I on the roof?" He grabbed where he was Pierced feeling around discovering the hole was gone.

"What are you doing?" The man asked while questioning himself if Nathan is crazy or not.

"Nothing I was just checking something!"

Nathan replied while walking past the man with a straight face.

"....ok." The man said wishing he just had walked away instead of approaching the passed out man.

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After reaching the first floor they saw a lot of people starring outside.

"What are they doing?" The man asked while walking towards them.

As they got to the crowd they saw the hotel's shutter down keeping the monsters out.

"so that what they where doing." He said to himself while starring at the blockade.

As they stood there watching them a voice yelled "hey don't just stand there bring me something useful!"

As he said that a a cubby middle aged man wearing a green jacket with strips going from his shoulder to his wrist went to get something.

"And you go help him!" The man said to Nathan who was throwing small pebbles at the monsters.

"Do you mean me?" He said pointing to himself.

"Yes you now go before they break in!"

As he said that Nathan ran after the older man.

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After they finished covering the shutters Nathan collapsed next to a wall in exhaustion.

In his head he felt something move around thinking it was his system he said "hey what happen when I passed out? hello? You there?"

•oh your looking for that annoying bastard! don't worry I got rid of him for a while now•

"Y-you got rid of my system!?" Nathan yelled in his mind.

•no I said I got rid of the annoying bastard! what system? Oh this system!•

"Who are you? and don't you dare touch it!"

•or what you can't do anything to me but I can't say the same for you• as it said that Nathan started feeling like he was being burnt alive right before he screamed out he realized he couldn't move his mouth.

•now don't do that we might be called a monster like one of those freaks outside and who knows what they'll do! So I advise you to shut your trap! Oh wait I already did it for you•

The voice said sarcastically.

•if you speak a word about this to anyone you won't just feel like your burning! Now I'll take my leave for now see you later bye•

As the voice left Nathan released his jaw that started bleeding from how hard he clutched it.

"What was that?" Nathan said out loud as he said this the homeless looking man appeared.

"It was just a few things! How are you so dame weak? Why are you bleeding I thought it was light work I guess not!"

"....."

"What? Did I say something wrong?"

The man said while taking a seat next to Nathan.

"Here" he said giving Nathan a water bottle.

"There giving out food and water over there" he pointed down the main lobby "thought you might want one."

"Hey old timer what's your name?" Nathan said realizing he never got his name.

"Is that really important? Well if you want to know it's Anthony! I'll forget for now that you called me old timer I'm only in my late 30's I'm -"

He kept rambling on and on causing Nathan to subconsciously smile.