Chapter 11: Mutreph, found a story to make a choice.
Everyone is looking for Mutreph the decaying mutan.
Team A composed of Sakolomé, Zeltania, Bakuzan, Bakuran and Tanreo are still on patrol on their side.
Sakolomé: Um... Zeltania, I would like to know how you know the name of this mutan?
Zeltania: According to sources he lives in the East he was spotted by acquaintances there where he was already making human and mutan victims, they would have tried to neutralize him but it was impossible, it was them who let me know that Mutreph was his name.
Bakuzan: Seen like that he still seems very strong, unless it was the others who were too weak for him!
Zeltania: I don't know but we will certainly know soon!
On the other side, Team B consisting of ErMut, Mutjack, Saramut, Mertana and Mutana are also on patrol.
Saramut: Hey look, I think I found a clue!!
Saramut alerted.
The others hurry to come and take a closer look.
These are traces of rotting flesh heading straight for the sewers.
ErMut: It's not a good sign if this thing decides to go through the sewers!
Saramut: Really? And why?
Mutana: Saramut, going through the sewers is to be discreet, but city C is an abandoned city, who would want to be discreet in an abandoned city, do you see what that means?
Saramut thinks for a moment then is enlightened.
Saramut: Yes I see, he surely knows he is being hunted!
Everyone nods.
ErMut: Exactly, in short, let's go see if it's really him at the bottom!
The humanoid mutans head straight for the sewers and there, a smell of rotting flesh welcomes them with open arms.
This smell was so strong that Mutana, Mertana, Saramut and Mutjack start to vomit.
ErMut is also extremely disgusted by this smell that makes him dizzy.
ErMut: This is not going to be a fun part of all this!
Then he also starts to vomit.
Saramut: Wait, no one has masks here? Because this smell is unbearable!
Mutjack: and it's not maybe the worst, Mutreph himself is not in front of us but yet the stench is already so great, imagine when he will be in front of us!
ErMut: I have an idea, take your t-shirts and make masks with them to protect your nostrils, Mertana since you don't have a t-shirt and no one wants to see your breasts I'll lend you my jacket!
Things said things wrong.
Mutjack: It's a little better now, even if this stench stings the eyes, besides how is that possible?!
Mertana: It's maybe because of the energy produced with this stench!
ErMut: silence friends, let's keep moving first.
In a deathly silence, they all sink into the sewers.
There was something that could not go unnoticed.
The deeper they go into the sewers, the more heat there is.
ErMut: In the end, you are right, the stench of Mutreph creates energy, and this energy manifests itself in heat, which explains why the smell is so powerful and the effects cause small tingling in the eyes!
Mutana: Maybe that's not all, I also think that the more intense the heat becomes, the closer we get to Mutreph!
The others all nod.
Mutreph was certainly not very far from this area.
Mutjack: We must be even more careful!
Saramut: I think it's time to alert the others, don't you think?
ErMut intervenes directly.
ErMut: No, we're going to beat Mutreph alone!
Saramut: Huh, but that's not what was agreed!!
Everyone didn't understand what was happening to ErMut, his gaze was determined as if he had to answer to Mutreph for a long time.
Mutana: Listen ErMut, I know you were deeply affected by your defeat against Bakuzan killer man but we must not forget, we may not be able to defeat Mutreph alone, we must be very careful for now!
ErMut didn't say anything, he's starting to worry his friends more and more.
Mertana: ErMut still says something, don't stay so silent!
ErMut: You know .... Mutreph was our fight at the beginning, we were all determined to kill him, killer man or not we have pride and dignity as human mutans, Bakuzan is not able to make us believe that we need the killer men, and if Mutreph turns out to be too powerful too bad, I'm not asking you to follow me, you are free to call the killer men and the others and then wait for them here, but me, I'm going to fight now, I'll be honest, I prefer to die killed by Mutreph rather than be saved or helped by a killer man right now!
At that moment, the others were surprised, ErMut had become someone else? He had developed pride and ego despite the killer men, he had them behind his back and at the same time in front as admiration.
ErMut continues to advance under the silent gaze of his friends. They all look at each other for a moment and sigh.
Mutjack: ErMut, wait for us, we'll fight Mutreph with you!
ErMut turns around and smiles.
ErMut: Alright guys, let's go!
They start driving again when suddenly.
Hundreds of rats are running everywhere in the sewers.
Mertana: Do you think we scared them?
_ No, it's me!
A deep and terrifying voice reasons in the darkness of the sewers.
Mutjack: It's Mutreph?!
Boooommmm*
An explosion of energy follows.
Saramut stands in front of his friends and says.
Saramut: Shield!!!
A mana shield covers them all while the energy wave spreads throughout the sewers, exploding rats up to several kilometers from the point of impact.
The explosion was so powerful that it made the ground of city C tremble, attracting the attention of team A.
Zeltania: What's that?
Bakuran: An earthquake, is that common here?
Zeltania: No, it's even the first time that's happened!!!!
The tremor was so powerful that even niyus could feel it.
Back in the sewers, the wave has stopped, Saramut's Shield disappears.
Mertana: Thank you very much Saramut!!
Saramut: It was the best thing to do!
Then they look at the damage around them and see blood everywhere, the rats had no chance of escaping this attack.
ErMut: Where are you Mutreph? Show yourself!!!
The water in the sewers starts to boil then a strange body, skinny and stitched everywhere appears out of nowhere.
Mertana: Do you think it's Mutreph? In the descriptions it's rather big!
The creature is rather tall and skinny, it must have been around 5 meters high.
_ Yes, I'm Mutreph, you still shouldn't believe what you're told haha!!
Saramut: It's strange, the strange heat of energy, it disappeared!
ErMut: hey, you disgusting one, where is Mutreph? If you try to cover for him you'll pay for it!!!
The creature tilts its head and answers.
_ But I'm Mutreph, why would I lie? And it's not very nice to call me disgusting, I'm a humanoid mutan like you!!
Mertana: You mean you have a human parent and a mutan parent?
_ Oh yes!
ErMut: so why are you so disgusting and stitched up everywhere, and why don't you have eyes?!
_ I may not have eyes but I can see you very well, mystery, and as for why I'm like this, it's because my human father had fun experimenting on my mutan mother and me when I was a baby!
ErMut: What? How come?
Mutreph sits on the wet floor of the sewers and says.
Mutreph: I don't want to fight you like this, since we are of the same nature, so I will let you choose whether to fight me or not by telling you my story, or rather a small part of it!
The children remain silent and look at him.
Mutreph: so here we go!!
A long time ago, my father, a genius known in the southern countries, met my mother, a pretty humanoid mutant too.
She found him handsome and respected but had never admitted to him that he was a mutan, yes my mother was 100% mutan but had clearly benefited from a 100% humanoid body, would that mean that in her family she had a human great-grandparent? Whatever, that's not the point.
What made her look similar to her peers was water.
When my mother touched water or got into it, she had scales coming out of her body and her hands and feet became webbed.
She spoke the human language very well and had been able to hide herself for a very long time in this side, always pretending to be human.
One day when she had won a competition to participate in the work and the launch of new learners in the center where my father was, she saw him again and blushed directly.
My father was a genius, he launched conferences and my mother was just under his spell.
One day, my mother went to his laboratory and worked under his instructions.
My father noticed that she was super gifted and diligent in everything she did, so he decided to take her in hand and monitor her closely.
He helped her understand everything she wanted from the system and even more.
One night, my mother had worked super late, she was the very last to finish her work. As she was about to leave, my father and she crossed paths in the office, all alone and there it was even more love at first sight, even my father could not escape the beauty and determination of my mother to work.
He held her and we talked most of the night then they kissed and what happened happened.
A few months later my mother wasn't feeling very well, she went to the hospital and they told her she was pregnant, she was pregnant with me! Her only and first son!!