Chapter 10

When I woke up it was mid-day. I stood back onto my hind legs and did an uncharacteristic stretch. I looked down the building I was on to see if any rippers had found me while I was asleep.

I started climbing down from the building to make sure nothing was there. I paid attention to anything that moved. When I made it down the streets were quiet. Not one to push my luck, I started moving to another part of the city.

While searching around I made sure when possible to be on rooftops. I jumped over an alleyway. And saw something go into a manhole. I stood above the alley and sniffed to make sure it was not a kaiju.

They tend to have a smell because they never ever bathe. I can to the cover of the man-whole and peered into it. Using my tail I lifted it up and moved it out the way.

I then climbed inside. I jumped down into the whole and saw it was pretty bright. The lights were still on. Inside looked like an underground lab with complete white walls and lab equipment.

I started looking around to find anything useful. In my jaeger pilot building days I remembered you could exchange parts for better ones. Maybe I could find something like that for my tail. 'A grappling hook would be preferable.'

I looked around a bit before heading deeper. I found a glass door and side there being what looked to be kaiju organs. I kept walking down and heard a noise from down the hallway.

I went down and found a closet. I heard whispers spanning from "shut up it's gonna hear us" to "we're gonna die it's the end we're gonna die" I got close enough to we're I guess they could hear my footsteps.

The closet went completely silent. Only the sound of heavy breathing was still there. I grabbed the door bob and opened the door. 3 men jumped out and tried to pin me while screaming for others to run. Keyword "Try".

I threw them off with my tail. They got back up and started charging me again. A woman from inside the closet charged out with a spear and stabbed me with a spear on my leg.

'Ah, that hurt' see now I'm just gonna fight back. I flicked my tail hitting them all into a wall. I heard several cracks and knew I broke something. I heard a whimper coming from behind me and saw another woman, a little girl and 4 little boys.

'Now I feel bad but they attacked me first' kidding. I didn't feel emotion when my "dad" died, if he was even my dad. Why would I feel bad now? For some reason they decided to go on a tangent saying goodbye to each other and then rushed at me again.

This time I just stabbed them through the stomach. Like it's not my fault they kept going. I just stood here. The children and woman started crying pretty loudly. I heard footsteps coming from the end of the hall and a ripper had found us.

I looked behind me and saw the woman and kids and ran right past it. It didn't pay attention to me and went to attack them. 'I really just got an entire family killed.' I ran until I was on a rooftop and sat down.

'It wasn't really my fault, they attacked me 3 times. I only defended myself. They made the noise and attacked the kaiju, not me.' It couldn't be my fault could it?

'Kaijus attacked me and humans. I'm on my own and they can rely on others. I have it worse, they just made bad decisions.'

With that in mind I started my trek back to the waste land. With a goal in mind. "They attack me, I attack them, I will protect me and only me. I will leave this place and find somewhere to call home"

Oh my god is that what I think it is? CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT, was it rushed yeah but who cares it's an emotionally stunted 19 year old with no human interaction in 5 years aside from 3 people who abandoned him and then turned kaiju. Attacked by more kaiju and humans. So yeah he ain't gonna wanna defend either of them.