I've Been Out For So Long

I cant sleep
Since I stopped caring
No, I can't breathe
Since I stopped caring

Callum pulled his hood up and his cap down as he walked out into the streets of Calous, he could see his hotel, where the Minotaur killed his mother, the vampires that had killed his brother, they were stampeding from the museum, ripping to shreds anything in their filthy demonic path. The particular street Callum was on was coated in a fine layer of rubble, Callum jumped up on top of it, Careful not to make too much noise, I mean granted it was bright day light, any enemy could see him, they wouldn't need to hear him, but the safer the better, what if there was a particularly saw of sight Cyclops? Callum, moved a chunk of rubble, looking for any kind of bag, any kind of weapon, or any clue to why this had happened and how Callum was going to help set it right.
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Callum looked behind him as the wind bristled through the dead tree's lining one side of the street, the branches looking like claws as the sun clashed through them, 'If there is a god, why hasn't he helped us?' Callum thought to himself lifting another pile of rubble away, If he wasn't dead in a few days, he could survive this wasteland, he knew it, He would come out of here victorious, and all of these demons would be defeated, and we would pile their bodies to the sky and burn them, for his dead family and all the dead families, Callum span as he heard a loud bang, coming out of his day dream of victory and he realised - this isn't going to be that simple.

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"Damn" Callum muttered as he saw the Minotaur, it raised it self up making itself bigger than necessary, the beast was easily bigger than Callum, the taunt was just to shove fear into his face, "Well I'm Callum, nice to mee-" Callum jeered as the Minotaur charged him and swung a fist at Callum, Callum ducked down beneath the fist, his eyes widening at the sheer size of it, Callum picked up a handful of rubble from the floor and launched it towards the Minotaurs face, if Callum could disorient it, He would be able to take advantage of the beast's weak points, which Callum guessed were the horns, due to them being bone matter, wouldn't they have nerves going through them? Callum dived to the side, not bothering to wait to see if his trick worked, Callum spotted a car down the road, Plan.

Callum noticed the front windscreen of the Car had been smashed out, so he dived through it landing in the passenger seat, he still wasn't looking at the minotaur, it reminded him of his mother, it may even have been the beast who killed her. Callum looked in the driver seat, a half eaten corpse, Callum checked the glove compartment - empty, He checked the back seats - empty, "Oh For the love of god" Callum began to search the corpse's pockets, looking for either a weapon or the keys, If he couldn't physically hurt the minotaur, he could run the brute over, then how clever would he be, with Red Painted Aluminum sticking out of him.

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Callum eventually found the car keys - in the ignition, "Wow, Im stupid" Callum sighed, opening the car door and pushing the corpse out, "Many apologies" Callum muttered under his breath as he pushed the car into automatic, accelerating as hard as he could, gaining wheel spin he turned the car towards the Minotaur and slammed it into him, The Minotaur barely moving began to lift the Car up, "I find this slightly erotic" Callum said to the Minotaur before winking, Callum, turned the CD player up to full blast, only playing white noise, but because the Minotaur was part animal, its sense's should be more advanced than humans, and it should distract him again, so Callum could come up with a plan, 'Okay, Dust doesnt stop them, neither do cars' Callum rolled to the side, falling out of the back window, he rolled across the concrete before running again, this time to a seperate pile of rubble from a half torn down block of flats, getting both hands underneath a large rock he shoved a chunk of Rubble away, finding the remains of a smashed up bed, picking up a broken wooden beam from the bed, he turned to see the Minotaur flipping the car.

"You never give me a break do you? you remind me of my ex-girlfriend, guess what? I killed her too" Callum shouted, brandishing the sharp end of the beam at the Minotaur, "Come On Then Honey, Come and Get me!" Callum shouted, kicking dust into the air, If the Minotaur charged Callum, he would launch the jagged end of the beam straight into the demonic beast's stomach, so that he could finish him off, in a incredibly - kinda - heroic manner.

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"AAAH" Callum screamed as the Minotaur charged him, he thrust the beam forward, barely making a dent, the wood snapping, The Minotaurs charge sending Callum spinning into the air, Callum landed on his back and rolled back up onto his feet, "Ow, Okay, Your a tiny bit tougher than my ex-girlfriend" Callum cracked his neck, and took a deep breath and noticed the Minotaur was readying to charge again, Callum backed up against a lamp post, "Come on big boy!" Callum teased laughing, "Big girl, i dont know, I dont care" As the minotaur charged a second time, Callum dived to the side, hoping that the Minotaur would knock himself out on the Lamp Post, a new note for Callum's mind 'once it starts charging, it can barely stop until its hit something'

Callum rolled across the floor scrambling to his feet, his chest aching, one of his ribs probably cracked, Callum dived under a car and began kicking at the engine, springing a leak he rolled out of the side, He reached into the car window, grabbing the car keys from the passenger seat he clicked them into the ignition, turned, the car roared into life, Callum, stood behind the low lying car, If the Minotaur took the lamp post, it should charge him again, and that bitch should go boom, "You minotaurs are too clingy, I think we're gonna have to start seeing other people"

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Callum realized the Minotaur was down and out for the count, but over the sound of the car engine, Callum couldn't hear the Minotaur grunt, and Callum's little victory celebration was brought to a close as he saw its hand rise to its head and it wasn't unconscious. Callum sighed and kicked a rock across the road, "am I going to have to keep on making these over generic ex-girlfriend jokes?" Callum sighed, Opening the car door, He glanced up, the Minotaur still wasn't over its lamp post contact, 'good, that is good' Callum pulled a loose brick from a wall, it crunching ever so slightly, Callum put the brick in the driver seat as he picked up his cap and put it back on, pulling it down over his forehead, he put the brick on the accelerator pedal.

If Callum had sprung the leak right, then the car should explode near or on the Minotaur, catching it in the blast, hopefully the burning fuel would coat it, stopping the beast once and for all, 'Come On, You are the beast which killed my mother, and for that you shall pay' This was the first beast Callum had fought and aimed to kill, most he'd done before is wounded and ran, but Callum was sick of running and he couldn't do it anymore, not his families memory, he was the last generation of Winsons, and he was going to avenge them.

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Daytime. The sun high in the sky, and there was no sight of clouds. It was going to be a nice day… Pff, yeah right. In fact, a lot of survivors would call this a bad day. There was no darkness for cover, or rain to disguise footsteps. Just you, a wreckage of a city and the monsters.

Callum wasn’t the only one out that day, in fact, another survivor was not too far from him. Hunter would usually go out in the evening or at night, but something was bugging him, he couldn’t sleep today. So, with nothing worthwhile to do in the Bunker, he’d venture out. Being an arguably selfish individual, he wasn’t out looking for supplies for the survivors in the Bunker, he was planning on finding himself something of use to kill the wretched creatures that have been roaming the city.

Currently, the ‘lone wolf’ was indoors, having a quick look round someone’s home. The building itself was in fairly good condition, but inside it looked like it had been raided a hundred times over. There were a couple of bodies in the living room, stinking of rotting flesh, decaying in a dried up puddle of their own blood. Hunter hadn’t got round to checking upstairs yet, but there was no sound of movement, however, there was then the sudden sound of a smashing car outside.

This particular street appeared completely abandoned when he got here, but there was something going on outside. He even thought he caught the sound of a voice. Regardless, he wouldn’t just waltz out there to see what was going on.

He kept calm and took a casual stroll through the kitchen pulling open the draws as he went, until he stopped at one with a tray of knives. There weren’t many, and they weren’t in any order, just scattered about like someone had rummaged through them already. He just took one in his right hand, a relatively small but sharp looking knife, now held in a reverse grip. He then pushed open the door he had left ajar as he entered to see an empty car cruising towards a stunned Minotaur…

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Callum smirked as the Minotaur was crushed by the car, "Wow, you died just like my ex-girlfriend did" Callum smirked strolling up to the dead minotaur, its neck bones sticking out at weird angles, he pulled its head to one side to look at the damage. Both horn's torn clean off, "Good car" Callum laughed patting the trunk of the car, He picked up both the Horn's putting on in his belt, the other in his rucksack, they were sharp enough, he looked up, noticing a man watching him from the shadows of a goodish condition building, "Are you a vampire? - because if you are, I will turn this car around Mr" Callum smirked.

He may have been of the Joking nature, but he didn't care, 'what if he's another hunter? - wanting to steal my kill, ha, he probably expected me to die, so he could get in while the minotaur was distracted with the ripping and eating of me' "Well, what are you then Soldier, Speak up?" Callum grinned, his hand tinkering the 'handle' of the would be Horn-Knife.

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Hunter's eyes followed the car until it slammed into the Minotaur, tearing it's horns off and breaking it's neck with a violent twist.

'Hm, not bad.'

He thought, seeing the teen take care of the humanoid bull without any sort of conventional weapon. Taking out a Minotaur single handed without a gun is quite a feat, maybe he was quite skilled, but perhaps he was just lucky. Either way, the beast was dealt with, and so, Hunter and his kitchen knife weren't needed... Yet.

"You talk to much, kid."

Hunter replied bluntly, not actually answering any of Callum's questions, as he paced out of the building's doorway, loosening his grip on his knife's handle as he relaxed a little.

"You don't expect to stay alive out here on your own, do you?"

He asked rhetorically, not actually wanting an answer. Especially not if it was going to be another of his girlfriend jokes. But, it was actually almost a fact that people couldn't survive out in the streets alone, especially without a decent set of weaponry. Luckily, this street was almost completely empty, but if you ended up with a street full of Zombies, building filled with Werewolves, and a fire-breathing dragon in sky, you’d be toast… Literally.

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Callum nodded at his first answer, a thin smirk spreading across his face, at the talking comment, when the question was asked, Callum pulled his collar up more and said simply, "I'd rather be alone - I've been alone since this shit went down, I've survived this far, why wouldn't I be able to survive long enough for some actual military operation happens?" Callum said, semi-sarcastically, knowing that the most likely answer to that would be - no military action is going to happen, and that the military in a few months are going to come strolling in to find a handful of survivors hiding in a military bunker, cornered by lizard men, golems, minotaurs and a dragon, and there isn't going to be a thing the government can do about it, as far as Callum was concerned the only way to hurt a dragon was for it to be attacked from the inside, if anything can get passed its flames that is.

Callum looked round at the empty street he was surprised that he hadn't seen a gargoyle screech past or a zombie lurking, maybe hearing the minotaur charge scared them off, maybe, just maybe, it was either that or they were just waiting for the right time, when Callum's or this new comers backs were turned, it wouldn't surprise me, the demons of this world are devious as they are surprisingly stupid.

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Hunter's head dropped to look at the ground, a very slight smile crawling it's way onto his face, finding the cocky teen's optimism fairly amusing. A military operation; pff, yeah right, if they were going to do anything they'd have done it by now. Besides, what could they do...?

"Every survivor knows that the military don't give a damn about us, they've got their own problems; anything that flies they try to shoot down, everything else is stuck here with us. You can forget them saving us, we're on our own."

He replied, again quite bluntly. He wasn't the sort to dance around the topic, and instead, got straight to the point. Though, Hunter took note of Callum's words, especially the fact that he preferred to work alone. And, well, Hunter didn't blame him, he was the same. But there was one thing that Ash had learned: it doesn't matter how much you want to work alone, there are some things now strolling these streets that no one man can handle alone. Sometimes you have no choice but to cooperate with others... To an extent.

"Y'know what? If you wanna hunt alone, I'm not gonna stop you. But if you ever find yourself in trouble, ask around in the Bunker for 'Hunter', I'm always up for a challenging monster hunt..."

With that said, Hunter turned away from Callum, taking a few steps before waving his hand behind him;

"Good luck..."

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