A deal

Johna and Walker were both huffing for air, waiting for the group of beggars to come close, and when they did.

Walker was the first to take action, he rush his fist toward one of the beggars shoving him into the desert sand.

Aside from the beggar's determination and their pain tolerance they were pretty weak.

Walker outpowered the group of beggars, he rush to take another one down making the others back away from him.

Seeing this johna pat the metal barrel before running towards his enemies, his punch isn't that strong but with how weak the beggar's malnourished body was his punches could take them down pretty easily.

"Ahhhh!" Johna yelled beating up anyone that goes near the metal barrel.

They fought for minutes until Johna could hear his fist aching from the uncountable punches.

"This is ours back off!" Walker tried to reason with the beggar's exhaustion has already taken hold of him, one more push and he might faint.

The group of beggars begin to circle them and the two was too weak to react, those that walker and johna hit all begin to stand up.

Their face showed anger and greed, they run toward the two with no care for their safety.

A beggar with a handful of sand shoves it directly into walker's eyes.

"My eye!" Walker exclaimed before another beggar tackled him down.

Walker fell to the ground and the beggars who he beat up a while ago begin to take their revenge.

"Get away from him!" Johna tried to attack the group of beggars that were circling walker's weak body but before he could take action a fist flew towards his face.

He wasn't fast enough to react as another fist punched him at the same spot, with one hand on the metal barrel Johna yelled

"We surrender!"

He caught a glance of walker both hands on his eyes not responding to the beating he was receiving, the beggars in front of them is getting larger in numbers the more time that pass.

'We can't win this' Johna thought putting weight on the barrel so that when the beggars begin to creep closer he could spill its content

No one will win.

A familiar beggar rose from the group, his left eye was pure white he showed both his thin trembling hands shouting

"Wait, wait don't move!"

All the beggars looked at him with confusion, while johna tighten his grip on the barrel.

"We won't attack anymore, so get away from the barrel!" The white eye beggar spoke.

Hearing his words the group that was beating walker begins to retreat leaving the poor guy's body covered in wounds, the most visible wound is the violet mark located on his face.

"Hey!, hey! get up!" Johna shouted but the man wasn't responding.

The white eye beggar stared at walker's lifeless body before looking at johna.

"You want him alive?" He asked.

"If you want we could make a contract?" The white eye beggar suggested, having no courage to step close to johna.

"Contract?" Johna repeated, he looked at the barrel full of herb blood before answering

"We will get half of the earnings"

Seeing the distasteful look of the beggar Johna rephrases his words.

"Don't worry we have more, you guys will be the seller of our herb blood while we supply"

"That's the content of the contact?" Johna said unsure of his words.

"More" The white eye beggar mumbled, before introducing himself

"I'm Laster and this are my son's"

'sons?' Johna looked behind laster and all he could see is monsters in human skin.

Laster flashes his yellow set of teeth

"and we accept your deal"

Dark came, and the hot temperature of the desert dropped to freezing point.

The lively city turned into a ghost town, the silence made the two brothers feel like their alone in this place.

Hans body couldn't take the cold any longer, his hands were trembling, he put them near his face using his warm breath to somehow keep his hands usable in this temperature.

Hans could see his breath turning to white mist hitting his cold trembling hands, he glanced at Johny and he was just as miserable.

Johny wrapped his body with a paper you could see in the trashcan of the shopping district, the typical scent of trash covered him

"Johna!" Johny yelled his voice trembling, must be cause his cold or maybe it was because he was scared, or both.

"Show up!" Johny yelled in desperation going deeper inside the alleyway Hans was behind him trying not to faint from the cold.

As they got deeper and deeper everything becomes darker until all Johny could see is darkness.

"Johna!" Johny yelled his voice echoing back at him.

He looked back to check on Hans who is not in the best condition,

His heart sank when he noticed there was no one behind him there was no trace of Hans being together with him.

He looks down at the sand washing away his footstep.

Johny's heart accelerates, and his mind shut down.

He tightens the wrap of the sandpaper on his body to make him feel warmer in this dark cold alley.

"Johna!, Hans!" He cried, going back thinking he could see Hans if he retrace his steps.

Johny walks until his leg goes numb and he saw from afar what seems to be fire.

Three shadows were behind that small torch, Johny smiled wiping his swollen eyes before losing consciousness.

...

Johny woke up hearing a loud sob, he open his now weak eye to see Hans crying tightly hugging johna.

"there, there"

Johna pat Hans back, he glanced at Walker signaling him to help calm Hans down.

"Sorry," Walker said cleaning the bruises and wounds on his body acting as if he was not there to give the brothers some sort of privacy.

he wanted to leave but on how dangerous it is outside he wouldn't want to risk it.

Walker could also be seen using a broken mirror to look at himself pinching his face as if he was new to how he looked.

Seeing Walker full of injury, Johny looked at johna and saw that his brother was also injured.

Confuse and curious, johny asked

"What happened to you two?"

The two looked at each other, Walker was the first to look away as he was focused on tending to his injuries.

"You don't need to know" Johna said patting Hans on the back.

He was crying, his always calm older brother was in front of him tears in his eyes on the verge of collapsing, seeing it johna concluded that maybe it was better if he doesn't say a word.

That what happened become a secret between him and Walker.

"Jeez Hans stop already" Johna gently push his brother away

"Look" He grabbed something from his pocket and showed it to Hans.

He thought it would calm his brother down but he got worse his cry got louder and Hans hugged Johna tighter.

"Urrk!" Johna tried to break free but his brother was too strong the shiny coin in his hand slipped and fall on the bed letting johny catch notice of it.

A rusty coin coated with what seems to be blood

seeing it Johny made a conclusion.

A sad one, that maybe his brother suffered just to get this coin.

Johny jumps grabbing Johna's shoulders and riding his back.

"Sorry!" johny cried out tightly hugging johna's neck.

"Stop this, I can't breath!" Johna yelled but no one heard him, his voice sank from the loud sobs of Hans and Johny.