4[]Paiŋ

With more than three injuries even with the gem in my chest, pain was dragging me back chaining me to the ground, it was hard to see hard to breathe and hard to even run, yet I ran and ran and ran and r...

Through the woods minute after minute for hours to come, my injuries healed slowly, with the gem I was able to run with a torn leg somehow.

I was getting closer to the mansion, my hope is to get inside the it and there I could play as many tricks as I want, like burning him again or back stap him or other possible traps i could use.

As I ran through the woods I passed through the spot where I saw a dead human for the first time, it was surprising and scary especially when I saw that terrible vision... actually it was a great vision in it's own way.

I ran away from him once and now I run away twice, how horrible.

After twenty or so minutes, that's just how long time I felt this took, I was finally there.

In front of me is a vast empty land with no trees nor bushes and nothing at all, it was big enough for an entire hospital at least or two.

The ground on the other hand was covered with dust exactly as I remember it, the dust seemed to still have the marks of my footsteps from long ago.

After a second I looked deep into the distance, and I saw... nothing, there is no mansion, my eyes widened in horror.

I could think of only one explanation and that that's the mansion is an entity... well that's just obvious at this point, still it's not easy to accept that.

What now? What can I do, the damn Dweller is coming, 'shit shit shit' .

I looked around and tightened my grip on the knife, I am not sure what's worse to fight in an empty grounds or to fight within the woods, either option is deadly.

With the Dweller being stronger than Cerberus and me being weaker at the moment, more over I lack options preparations and weapons, at the moment all odds are against me yet I must find a way, a solution.

Sweat kept forming on my skin slowly accumulating and drops slid down my face, my breathing got faster and I was tense, I also took a few steps back getting deeper into the empty grounds and away from the woods.

As I expected a few more moments and he came, I just felt his presence closer and a moment after that I heard the sound of a broken stick.

This version of Cerberus is careless as it seems, maybe too careless.

I acted as if I didn't notice, instead I kept naturally looking around, a second later he dashed forward attacking me head to head.

I obviously couldn't see him which meant that I was obviously a second too late to avoid or dodge the attack, Cerberus bit into my shoulder and my blood flew outward.

His teeth tore through my flesh easily and reached my solid bones, the pain was indescribable burning my flesh like burning paper, I screamed in agony.

I know he probably aimed for my neck but I was a slippery fish to catch, as he attacked I moved my head away by just predicting the direction of the attack, and now as his fangs are stuck in my flesh I tensed and pierced his chest with my knife, and with contracting all my muscles I forced the knife to move across his chest making the cut as long across his flesh as possible.

When I did that the Dweller let go of my shoulder and took multiple steps away, the bastard is probably bleeding, maybe bleeding even more than a normal Cerberus would bleed, but that's mere speculations.

Soon the results of this fight will be determined, Cerberus was very hard to kill I injured him burned him and pierced his chest to kill the damn cockroach, and now I am facing a stronger one.

Instead of waiting for the next attack I Instead fought through the pain, and I considerated on the presence of the Dweller, the second I found him I lunged towards him full force, the second I felt the slightest movement from the ground underneath Cerberus I twisted my body hoping to avoid his possible attack.

The end of my shirt got torn with his claws, and the second I fell to the ground I rushed to pierce his flesh again to hopefully tear him more.

And a second later my knife slid through his flesh obstructed only by bones bones that I forced my knife to break and go through.

As I did this his body moved both away from the knife and to face me with his claws, but I already made deep injuries to the bastard...

A second later my vision started to be blurry and dim slowly going away, my control over my muscles went weaker and weaker making my body sway, and the pain that was subsided by the gem and my dopamine is now back full force.

I fell to the ground twitching with death-like-throws agony didn't allow me to even scream, I just lost way too much blood and the injury is too deep in my shoulder as if a piece of my flesh is gone.

A few seconds later I lost consciousness...