Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-31749612-20170704020654/@comment-32773838-20170812135145

We all stand there dazed for a second, before a thunder booms overhead, blinding us momentarily. And then the lights briefly flicker before going out.

We hear glass shattering and a cry of fear from the guy in the middle. Then silence, with only the rain to provide some white noise in the still night.

-"Guys", Tony whispers loudly in a terrified voice,"he's gone".

-"Wait, we can't be sure just yet" I say in a voice a bit lower than his.

-"Let's light our phone's flashlights and check out" Jakob says and I can hear a sound of fumbling through clothing beside me, before I feel a slight movement from his direction from him lifting his phone.

-"No!" I whisper yell at him as I blindly grab his hand before he opens it. "Right now we're on a dead bus in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by gods know how many semen thirsty mamono, and you're going to light up your phone? Should we also start blaring 'You can leave your hat on' on full sound too to make sure they won't confuse the bus rows?".

-"Alex's right, Jacob" Tony says as he seems to be looking around. "We must attract the least attention possible on us".

Jacob stands there frozen for a few seconds.

-"Fine" he finally says and puts the phone back into his pocket. "So what's the plan?".

-"We'll snuck under the seats and wait till sunrise comes. We have the turf advantage right now, and if we act smartly we can get through this. Plus, even if something goes wrong,we still have a metal shield around us till we think of another plan" I tell them after bending forwards and making them lean in too, to avoid being heard upon, just in case. "Now follow me" I say as I start moving towards the very back seats while crawling, and my friends do the same.

We ball up under the last row as best as possible and try to hear for any weird sounds.

An hour or so must have passed before we start hearing a quick, foreboding sound as if something large is sliding with great force towards the bus.

-"What is that?!" Tony asks in a frenzied whisper.

-"Holy shit" I mutter as realization sinks in. "Guys, grab the rails, now!" I say in a very urgent whisper and grab the metallic poles that are wedged between the seats, and Tony follows my example

-"What is going on guys?" Jakob asks. I don't have time to answer his question before a lightning reveals the moving blur a split second before it hits us.

-"WURM!" I yell and then the bus is hit and tossed on its side, glass shards flying everywhere like rain, before the real rain starts falling inside the bus from the windows that ended facing up to the sky.

-"Ugh..." Tony groans as I try my best to hold me and Jakob from falling on him, which is very difficult considering how we are positioned.

-"Tony, crawl out, I can't hold us much longer!" I hiss at him while desperately trying not to fall on him and keep Jakob on my back at the same time.

-"O-okay" Tony stammers before getting out from beneath the seats.

I let my legs dangle, and Jakob slides down on the back wall. We get out from under the seats bottom and the windows glass cracks underfoot.

-"Guys, we have to get out of here" Jakob says as he looks up at the shattered windows. "Now".

-"Yes, but how? That thing blew off the bus from its wheels, and it's still out there" Tony says. "What do you propose to do? Rape it to death? That thing can take us all on the same time, and still go on!".

-"Shh" I put a finger to my lips and motion them to be silent. "Tony's right, the thing is circling around the bus. It's a matter of time before it finds its way in. I've got a plan, so listen to me".

After that I motion to them to follow me as I walk as lightly as possible on the already damaged glass to avoid attracting the mamono's attention. "There is a hatch on the corridor's floor that leads to the baggage compartment. I can open it for you and then unlock the compartment's outer doors from the inside. You stay in here and I will make a run for the town that we passed before, since I'm the fastest runner from us. After I have lured the mamono away, you will get out of here and find shelter somewhere else, okay?"

-"But you will never make it!" Tony objects. "The monster's too fast!"

-"Yes, but the ground's wet and it will be difficult for it to take turns" I say with a shrug. "Plus, even if it catches me, once you two reach the town you can send a rescue team".

-"That's true, but..."

-"Tony, Alex's already decided to do that" Jakob says as he places his hand on Tony's shoulder. "And you know that once he decides on something there's no turning him back".

-"That's true, but..." Tony protests once more, but after seeing that none of us is going to back down, he gives in. "Fine".

-"Good" I say and nod. "I'll open the hatch for you. Follow me" I say and move to the hatch and ease it open with my fingers.

I slid through the hole and into the baggage compartment, and start jiggling the locks of the doors with my fingers, until they unlatch and the door opens a crack.

-"I will go now. Don't get out until I have taken the monster far enough" I tell them one more time before sliding through the hatch back to the upper part of the bus.

-"Alex" Tony calls out to me. I look at him. "Good luck".

-"You too" I say and move to the driver's seat, before kicking off the remains of the windshield and running off to the jungle.

-"Hubby?" a female voice asks from behind me and then the same sliding sound comes from behind me. I run as fast as possible considering the condition of the ground, but she is hot on my trail and she's gaining on me.

She's almost upon me when I kick a rock and jump abruptly to the side, but she's moving too fast to be able to react, zooming past me and mowing down trees and rocks on her way. I run to my left without any ado, and I can hear her trying to turn to my direction from a good distance behind me. That will give me a bit more time.

After a few more repetitions of this, I have moved into rocky soil and I have finally outran her by far, giving me a couple of minutes before she reaches me again. I slow down and stop on a clearing as in front of me lies a dead end of a cliff side with a hot spring on its base.

I turn to run back from where I came, when I hear female voices chatting loudly coming from close by, and closing in.

'I've got to hide!' I think an scan the place for any potential hiding places, and my eyes land on a small thicket of cane like plants growing out of the hot spring water. I run and jump in there, sitting down on my knees, but the water goes just above my nostrils, and the rest of my head is completely visible.

The voices are now nearly out of the trees, so I grab a cane and snap too of its ends to use it for breathing and a small dried grass thicket from the ground and drape it over my head hastily, praying to the Creator that they wouldn't notice this out of place occurrence.

I made it just as they pass through the tree line, and through tiny gaps between the dried grass covering my head, I can clearly watch the group of women approaching. It's a group of mamono that consists of a Demon, an Inari, a Salamander, a Dragon, a Zombie and a Mantis. All of them continue chatting cheerfully, unaware of my presence, and start taking off their clothes. I squint my eyes and try to remain as calm as possible. Since my ears are over the water, I can hear crystal clear what they say.

-"Well, it was really a pity that the bus had only so little men inside" the demon says as she removes her extremely skimpy string swimsuit like clothes and her voluptuous breasts jingle, now freed from the restraint.

-"Yes, we only managed to get that old man and the younger one" the Inari replies as she gracefully removes her yukata and the white skin stabs into my eyes.

-"None of the looked up to a challenge, either" the salamander sighs in disappointment as her scale bikini-like armor falls to the ground and she leans her sword against a stone.

-"Why art thou so fixated with men?" the Dragon asks as she takes off her loin cloth bottom and then the top with dignified movements and steps in the hot spring.

-"No...fair..." the Zombie mutters a somewhat coherent sentence with a pouty(?) expression as she removes the tattered looking clothes that she's wearing. Her body may be grey and not as developed as the other mamono's, but her figure still has a unique charm.

-"I don't understand why do you need men that much..." the Mantis says in an emotionless voice as she strips off her clothes and shin guards.

-"Won't you take off your blades too?" the Salamander asks her with a puzzled look. The Mantis simply looks at her without replying. "Oh, sorry, I forgot that they're affixed, my bad" the Salamander apologizes as she realizes her wrong.

All of the girls have sat down and soak in the hot water as steam rises. Now that I mention it, I'll have to do something about my phon-

Shit.

I stealthily pat my pocket to find it empty. I must have dropped it during the chase! Shit, and I had just bought that! Oh, crap, the temperature and the sight start getting on me and I feel a bit dizzy.

'Stay calm, me' I keep repeating that makeshift mantra in my head as I try to calm down, and the dizziness subsides quite a bit.

-"That Wurm though was pretty lucky" the Salamander remarks as she waves her tail in the water. "I heard that the three ones inside the bus put up quite some resistance and they couldn't find them".

-"That seems to be the case" the Demon nods in agreement. "And one of them actually lured her away so the others could escape. The Goblins gave chase, but it seems that they managed to reach the town".

'Tony and Jakob are safe!' I think and perk my ears for any interesting info.

-"They seemed to be quite athletic too" the Inari adds with a bright smile. "It's no easy feat for an ordinary man to outrun a whole Goblin group".

-"That sounds commendable" the Dragon says absent mindedly.

-"Fast..." the Zombie groans a comment.

-"...Not that it matters..." the Mantis says emotionlessly.

-"It seems though that the one that the Wurm is after was the best of them" the Demon says with a mischievous look on her face. "She had a hard time catching him from what I've heard".

-"Is he such a fast runner on par with her?" the Salamander gasps in surprise with an interested look on her face.

-"No, he certainly is faster then the other two, but from what the Werewolves told me, it's his fast reflexes that allowed him to avoid her catching him the last moment".

-"Huu, interesting" the Salamander says and a smirk stretches on her face. "I may challenge him to a duel if I run across him later".

'I'm getting the hell out of here once they're out of earshot, even if I have to rape half the forest on the way out! It's getting more and more dangerous with so many of them having their sights on me'.

-"If the Wurm doesn't get him first, that is" the Demon says and turns to face to the trees. "Speaking of the devil. Hello Wurm" she says at the Wurm who comes out of the trees, now slithering in a normal pace.

-"Have you seen hubby?" she asks in a cute child-like way of speaking.

-"No, we haven't" the girls shake their heads.

-"How does he look like?" the Salamander asks as she turns and leans on the edge of the natural pool, her breasts pressing against the rock.

-"Hubby's handsome" the Wurm says with a dreamy exression on her face. "And fast".

-"Wait, so you haven't caught him yet?" the Demon asks in surprise and turns to face the Wurm, her breasts going 'boing' from the sudden motion.

The Wurm shakes her head as her shoulders drop.

-"Don't worry, Wurm, we will help you find him" the Inari says in a soothing voice. "Do you know anything that could help us find him?"

The Wurm seems to be thinking about it for a moment before her face lights up and she reaches towards the valley of her breasts, from where she fishes out a white palm sized rectangular object.

That's my phone! She already found it! Now I'll have to buy a new one, if I make it out of here that is.

-"Hubby dropped this" Wurm says as she hands the phone over to the Demon.

-"Hmm, that seems to be a human device called phone" she says as she gives it a long look.

-"Humans tend to make a lot of fuss about it lately" the Salamander says as she gives a look at the phone.

-"Wonder why" the Dragon says in an uninterested voice. "It's not made from gold, and once out of human territory it's completely useless".

-"Shinny..." the Zombie says as her eyes sparkle at the view of my phone. Maybe she had one too before dying?

-"Well, since he dropped it, he won't mind if you call his family and tell them that you found it. Plus," she winks at the Wurm playfully, "you can also announce them the good news about you two".

-"Wealy?" the Wurm asks with a strange pronunciation all of sudden.

-"Yes, really" the Demon says and extends her hand. "I know how to use this device, so give it to me and I'll call them for you".

-"You know how to use it?" the Salamander asks.

-"I thought that it couldn't work out here" the Dragon says with a frown.

-"Indeed, you did say that" the Inari nods in agreement with a cute frown on her face.

-"That certainly may be so, but since this place is relatively close to another town, there is a very weak connection, but that is enough for a call to be made" the Demon says as she starts taping at the screen of my phone. "Let's see... Contacts... Family...Here it is! 'Mom'! Let's give her a call, shall we?" she says at the Wurm and she starts nodding really fast.

'Shit! I gotta do something!' I think, the mantra kicked out of my head. 'Mom's gonna get a heart attack if she calls and tells her 'Mother in law, your son is my hubby!"

-"Okay, here you g-"

-"Put the phone down!" I yell as I jump to my feet and throw the grass thicket away. My clothes are heavy and clinging tightly to my body since they're soaked through and through, but that's not important right now. "That's a personal object! And what do you plan to do by calling my mother? Give her a heart attack?!"

All of them have turned to look at me with the word 'surprised' practically written all over their faces.

-"Hubby!" the Wurm exclaims excitedly.

-"See? The phone did help us find him in the end" the Demon says with a triumphant smile on her face. "Though I could've never imagined that he would be hiding here for so long without us noticing him".

-"My my" the Inari says as she covers her mouth with her fingers. I believe that there are a hundred other places that you should be covering now instead of the mouth.

-"Hm, these are some great hiding skills you've got there" the Salamander says while standing up with her fists on her hips. "If you were a woman you would make for a great Kunoichi. I would really like to challenge you right now, but you don't seem to have a sword, and alas, I don't carry a spare".

-"How dare you... to peek on us as we bath..." the Dragon snorts as she covers her upper body with her wings as her face gets red, her dignified picture crumbling.

-"Handsome..." the Zombie mutters. "Fast... man..."

-"...Pervert..."

-"The pot's calling the kettle black!" I rebuke her with a flustered look on my face. "If I'm the pervert here, than what are you?"

-"Haven't your parents taught you that it's uncouth to call a lady something as vulgar as a 'pervert'?" the Demon asks me the a raised brow. "It not may be right to barge in Wurm's personal matters, but you shoul-"

The Demon suddenly stops and quints her eyes as she stares at me fixedly, before her eyes widen and her face changes in surprise.

The other girls don't fail to notice the change in her friend's way of acting and start staring at me, before their faces turn like the Demon's.

Now I'm getting a bit creeper out, and turn to look on my body to check for any anomalies.

No, everything is just like usually, except that the cloths are clinging on me since they're soaked but-

Damn.

I couldn't stay calm after all.

-"Hubby♥!"

-"Please put here a drop of your blood and the contract will be complete".

-"Oh my oh my♥" the Inari says with the edges of a lovely smile appearing from the sides of her fingers that cover her mouth.

-"Hoho, I see that I can challenge you after all" the Salamander says as her tail starts to get brighter. "You do carry a sword with you, and a longsword to that".

-"Humans seem to be worthwhile after all..." the Dragon says with a completely flushed face.

-"Biiiggg..." the Zombie says and her eyes become like that of a doe.

-"...Target acquired... " the Mantis mutters something very frightening in the same monotone voice.

I turn and jump out of the spring and sprint out of the clearing and into the forest. From behind me I can hear splashing sounds as the girls one out of the spring and start giving chase.

-"Damn!" I curse through gritted teeth as I run between the trees, the soaked clothes dragging me down, and, well, the state that I'm in doesn't help either.

I take off my jacket as I keep running and throw it on the forest floor. I feel a bit lighter right now, but the monster girls are hot on my trail, and way faster than I can handle. Despite having the head start, I doubt that I'll be able to outrun them for more than a quarter if this goes on.

Considering what will happen if all of them get me, I start taking off more clothes, so I'm off of my hoodie and undershirt, leaving me only with my jeans, the boxers underneath it and my trainers along with the socks in them.

The sound of trees being mowed down reaches my ears and creeps closer with each passing second. My feet are sloshing and slipping on the soles of my shoes. This is a difficult choice, but seeing that I'm treading on rocky ground and not wet soil I take off my shoes and shocks and throw them aside before sprinting towards a more elevated area that will make it more difficult for the hellbent Wurm to slither upon.

As I run while zigzaging between trees, a branch that I hadn't noticed pierces through the side of my belt and cuts it. I slow down to inspect the damage, and see that the belt is ruined, and now the jeans are hanging from my waist. The only problem of having a lean body.

-"To Demon Realm with it" I curse as I pull the remnants of what used to be my belt from the jeans and throw them aside and run, now holding my bagging jeans with one hand.

From the distance overhead I hear the sound of a helicopter's engine coming closer, and soon enough it passes overhead, briefly blinding me as its headlight hits me on the face.

-"Found him!" a frantic voice yells. I look at the helicopter and notice the Anti-mamono Rescue Missions Sector's insignia on the hull of the vehicle.

-"He's being hunted by a bunch of mamono's!" another man says. "Commencing visual contac-"

-"Gods have mercy on us" the first one says as the headlight shines on a spot some distance behind me, with the light spot moving closer, always concetrated on a moving target.

-"We have visual contact!" the other voice yells frantically. "Sightings of a Wurm, a Demon, an Inari, a Salamander, a Dragon, a Zombie riding the Wurm and a Mantis have been confirmed!"

-"We cannot land here!" a third man shouts in protest. "I will search for a landing point close by!"

-"Kiddo, did you hear that?" the first man yells to me. "Try to follow the helo, okay?"

-"Found a point!" the pilot yells. "There's a cliff on eleven o'clock, we can't land but he can jump in!"

-"Heard that kiddo?" the first man shouts out to me once again. "Follow the help and we'll take you out of here!"

-"I heard!" I yell in response as I keep running under the choper while holding my jeans to prevent them from falling.

The helicopter then turns to the direction of a small rocky mountain that looks like a certain cartoon studio's castle logo. Are you kidding me? Now I have to rock climb too?

I run to the bottom of this rocky tower and start jumping up from boulder to boulder and from ledge to ledge, and before long I stand at the top of the small mountain, but the mamonos have already reached up to the middle, and the Wurm will be here within a minute.

Just in time the helicopter comes and stops in mid air, hovering a few meters away.

-"Jump, kiddo!" the man shouts as he extends an arm towards me. The jump is a good five meters across.

I take a step back to have enough force for the jump when I hear the sound of rocks cracking behind me, and as I turn I come face to face with the wurm.

-"Hubby!" she yells with a happy look on her face as she reaches out towards me.

-"Wash!" I scream as I turn and dash to the edge before jumping over.

The air whistles in my ears and my stomach feels to move upwards as time slows down as I reach for the helicopter.

I fall and my upper body hits the helicopter's floor, but my body from waist down is dangling from the edge.

-"Got you kiddo!" the first man, a dark skinned bald man that looks very muscular says as he pulls me in completely.

-"Woohoo!" the second man, a blonde guy with ablue eyes and a three days worth of an attempt into a beard cheers as he helps me up on my feet. "Nice jump, boy!"

-"Good job, kid" the pilot, a guy with an exotic complexion and a faint moustache says as he looks at me briefly before turning back to the front. "Now we'd better scram".

The helicopter than turns away on the hill and we are about to sit down when a shout is heard.

-"I WON'T LET YOU TAKE HUBBY!" the Wurm shouts and she lunges for the helicopter, bashing the tail with her giant scale covered fist before coiling her tail around the rock and slithering down the small mountain.

-"Damage report!" the first man shouts.

-"The tail's busted, we're going down!" the pilot shouts as the helicopter starts to shake violently as we start loosing height rapidly. "Strap down! Jason, come help me land this flying coffin!"

-"Right away!" the blonde guy says as he lops down in the co pilot's seat and puts says the headphones before flipping through various switches.

-"Kiddo, get hold from somewhere!" the first man says as he closes the side door and tightly hugs a pole near the back of the cabin.

-"Okay!" I reply as I an the pole behind the co pilot's seat and look at the fast approaching ground.

-"Hold tight, we will crush in less than a minute!" the pilot says with a nervous voice. "Here we go!"

The helicopter's gliding down, quickly approaching the forest. With so many trees the fall will be reduced a bit, so I don't think that there's a chance of us dying.

I just hope that we will be able to get away before the mamonos get where the helicopter crashes.