Enemy

"Do you need that many papers!?"Mary asked loudly, shocked.

Lucius looked at her, confused and put the stack of paper on the floor. He lay down on the floor and took a paper.

Do we not need that much? He wrote on the paper.

"Well, duh! It's only you who uses it."

He stared at the stack of paper on the floor and took half of it up. Mary let out a sigh.

"So, you're still going to take that much?"

He nodded and wrote. I can do some drawings on it.

"Fair enough. Let's go!"

They walked along the corridor, going back out to the main entrance of the mansion.

When they arrived there. There were holes everywhere on the floor and stained blood. The smell of the blood was horrible.

Mary covered her nose with her hand and asked.

"What happened here?"

He looked at her and shrugged.

He wrote. Maybe there was a fight between experiments.

"Do they fight each other?" Mary asked, curiously.

Well, yes. They do. He wrote.

"I see."

Mary tried her best to avoid the holes and bloodstains. While Lucius just slithered through them like they were nothing.

Mary reached the stairs and walked up. She didn't stop to wait for him. As she was about to reach the top of the stairs.

She heard footsteps slowly getting closer. She wanted to run down the stairs but it was too late. A girl(black hair, wearing a blindfold, mantis raptorial hands and a monkey tail) was standing there.

Mary didn't know what to do. Mary stood there staring at her. Suddenly, she slowly turned in Mary's direction and dashed toward her.

Mary yelled loudly and felt a pull on the back of her clothes. She was pulled down by a huge force and was thrown backward. She could see Lucius dashing next to her, towards the girl.

Mary landed on the floor, at the bottom of the staircase. Mary yelled "Ouch!" and rubbed her lower back and her ankle.

She looked up and saw both of them fighting.

Lucius used his claws to try to scratch her but she used her mantis-like raptorial hands to block him. He nearly hit her with his tail but she managed to escape.

She jumped up and stood on top of his tail. Lucius was about to scratch her. But she backflipped off his tail and dashed away. When she was running away, Mary saw, she was holding her stomach in pain, blood dripping down from her stomach.

When she vanished, Mary could hear Lucius growling at her like a warning. Then, he turned around and looked at Mary with a worried expression.

He slithered down the stairs and bent down.

Mary said, looking at him with an annoyed expression "It hurts, you know!"

He looked at Mary and bowed down, apologizing. She looked at him.

"It's alright. Since you were trying to protect me but geez, you could do it a little more gently than throwing me off my feet."

Lucius looked at her with his cute sad round cat eyes. Then, he reached out his hand in front of her, wanting to help her stand.

Mary took his hand and stood up.

"Ouch!" She yelled. "I guess I hurt my ankle when you pull me."

He looked at her with a more worried expression. Then, he put one hand on Mary's back while the other on her legs. He carried her up like a princess and slithered away.

"Hey! Let me down! I can still walk, you know! Hey! Don't ignore me!" Mary yelled, embarrassed.

Lucius looked at her and smiled. While Mary kept struggling. He carried her back into the corridor and slithered along the corridor again.