User blog:Reuben Medik/City Life, Chapter 1

I wake up to the screeching of my alarm clock, reading 7:00AM. I reach over to my bedside table, turn it off and sit up in bed. I lazily look around my room. Door closed and still locked, window still shut tight and nothing appears to have been moved. I grab my watch and look at its underside, the seal still working. I strap it on and get ready for my day.

Wearing concealing clothes, I wait at the bus stop. There are a few other people waiting with me, all but one of them I have had issues with in the past. But those monsters know they can’t touch me without risk. This new one however…

“Hi there, cutie. Doing anything special today?” she asks slyly. I turn to face her, my eyes instantly drawn towards her chest. She wore a tank top, which just barely contained her behemoth bust. Each breast would easily be big enough to fill both of my hands. Quickly averting my gaze, I look at her face, not wanting to give her any signals I was interested but also not wanting to be rude. Her white hair laced her pretty face. I would might of thought her human if it were not for the 4-inch horns protruding from her temples, the wings on her hips or her tail.

“Not really, just going to work,” I say in an unenergetic tone as the bus pulls up to the curb. “How about you?”

“Well, I think I found something I can have fun with” She steps forwards and into the bus, her tail swishing behind her. Just as one of the other monsters there was about to warn her, the tips of her tail brushes against my groin and she jumps form the shock. “Ow! The hell was that?”

Walking past her, I point to my watch. “Sorry, anti-D.E. seal” and take a seat at the end of the bus. Looking slightly annoyed the Succubus walks to a seat two isles behind me. After 5 minutes, she gets off at the centre of the city. I have to wait another 10.

I work in a shitty office at the edge of the ‘Safe’ part of town. Just a 2-minute walk and I would be surrounded by Pharaohs, Dark-Matter and other D.E. rich monsters. Not a place I would want to be near but work is hard to find.

I get into the building at my usual 7:50 and get to work. I’m pretty much a paid intern. I go get lunches, coffee, refill the printers and all that. Once I do all my usual jobs, it is around 9:30 and I get a call from Janice asking me to get her some food from the Subway down the road. This is probably some scheme to get me into her office; she’s been trying to get into my pants since I started here. My main reason is that she is a snake, and only needs to eat a full meal about once a week.

On my way there, I get looks from about half the monsters on the way, staring at me, my ass, and my crotch. Once In get there I see Claire, a Were-wolf I went to primary school with. There is not much difference in her appearance since then; the main difference is the height and the boobs. Not as big as that succubus before, but not too far off. Her hair is the same colour as her fur, a light brown. She has a hairnet on and long, clear gloves that go up to her elbows so that no hair got into the food. Mainly because that is disgusting but also so no one got monsterized.

We did not get along at school too well, as she had a minor crush on me and I was not interested. She is probably the main reason why I have an anti-D.E. seal to begin with. I go up to the counter and wait for her to take my order. “Hi, how can I-” She takes a second to look at me inquisitively “Sorry, uh what can I get you?”

I place the order (toasted meatball), and walk back down to the office. As I am about to cross the street away from the sandwich store, I hear the Emergency P.A. system “Warning, a Mamono with High Demonic Energy has forcefully entered this section of the protected area. Repeat, a Mamono with High Demonic Energy has forcefully entered this section of the protected area”

Everything that was in my hands at that time was suddenly dropped to the floor as I start sprinting across the road. Cars are speeding and people are running all in the same direction towards the closest Human Safety Shelter, made specifically to protect Non-Monsters from these sorts of situations. A small group of people and I are just across the street from it when an angry Ushi-Oni comes rushing towards my general direction “YOU FUCKING BITCH!” she roared as she stampeded right past me.

Grabbing one woman by the throat, the Ushi-Oni slams her into the sidewalk “I TOLD YOU HE’S MINE, YOU SHOULD OF LEFT HIM ALONE” The Ushi is about to punch the shit out of the woman when she suddenly bursts into bright light and launches the crazed spider off of her and into the air. Once the light clears up, I can clearly tell the woman to be a Kitsune, with her fox ears and four tails that came out of nowhere. Another powerful monster that should not be here.

“He was such a hottie, how could I resist?” The spirit says with a malicious expression “Besides if you wanted him you should have done a better job to stake your claim”

This gets the Ushi even madder as she charges towards her opponent. Seeing that they are between the shelter, and me I pick myself up and haul ass as fast as I can down the road but as I do, the Spider is once again launched in the air and smashes into a car, with me sandwiched in between them.

My body breaks as glass and metal pierce my skin, the force of the monster at my back pushing me deeper into the fresh wreck of a car. However, as she jumps off me I feel no pain, except on my wrist. I pull myself from the car and tear my watch off my arm. Once off, I notice something that looks like a burn scar where my watch was bound that quickly fades away. I also notice massive, gaping holes in my clothes surrounded by my red blood, yet no new holes in me.

As the fight carries on around me, a Mamono Detainment Unit surrounds the two, catching the attention of the Fox. But I do not notice this. Looking at the car, I see a whole lot of red dripping blood and only a small amount of a black oily substance. I was only forced into the side of the car, nowhere near where any Oil or Gas would be, and so the only place it could have come from is…

I turn around as the Kitsune vanishes, and the Ushi frantically looking for where she went only to find herself surrounded by people who could easily overpower her. The specially trained police had equipment on par with an Order Paladin mixed with a human tank. Realising her situation she turns tail and tries to run over the smallest of her potential captors. But as she gets close, a Magical riot shield blocks her path, as she is swamp by Tasers and entrapment snares all over her body. Except in her back, where a massive shard of metal is protruding like sharks fin.

As I am on the floor contemplating my current situation, one of the Police turns to me, and shoots me with a magically enhanced Taser, and I pass out.