'Oh fuck'
Jericho's grip loosened as he was flung into the air. He was airborne for a moment until he was forcefully slammed into the ground.
Without a moment of rest the creature continued to roll and roll. His body continuously was slammed into the ground and then lifted up only to be met with the floor.
'I don't know how much more of this I can take.'
At the peak of each roll where Jericho was in the air he began to scan the creature's body looking for any weak points and parts of the body that he could use to his advantage.
The creature's grotesque long neck was the only part of the body that was twisting and turning to carry out the death roll.
It's tongue was slowly being ripped from the combination of both Jericho's grip and the constant rolling of the creature.
Tightening his grip as hard as he could after being slammed onto the floor Jericho put his plan into motion. As he was flung into the air for the 50th time Jericho used the momentum of the roll to simultaneously pull as hard as he could in the opposite direction the creature was rolling to rip out the tongue of it.
The pain of the tongue being pulled out of it's mouth made the abomination stop and shriek. Jericho continued to tug as the tongue loosened, he pulled as more of the tongue revealed itself from inside of the creature.
The tongue was long and slimy, it seemed like the tongue's length carried throughout the entire body.
The creature became limp and plopped to the floor ceasing the annoying shrieks and cries that rung throughout the sewers.
Jericho fell to the ground after sustaining injuries around his entire body, his neck felt even worse than before, he could barely breathe. Eyelids became heavy, he just wanted to give in and sleep. If it wasn't for his "immortality" Jericho knew he was going to die right there.
As he lay on the floor fighting the urge to pass out right there he felt a knife plunge into his body, he shot up as adrenaline pumped through his body.
He was already in an offensive stance before fully regaining consciousness, as his vision recovered he was met with a shadow like figure standing a few feet away from him
"Welcome back, buster."
Jericho's facial expression quickly turned serious and alert. He didn't know who this guy was but he looked shady-- and Jericho just so happened to have an enormous bounty on his head.
"Who the hell are you"
The man smirked and revealed himself from the shadows.
He wore a cloak that covered the lower part of his face and a cowl that covered the upper half of his head only revealing his eyes. He had light orange eyes with slits for pupils they shone in the darkness. His skin tone was completely black with small amounts of thin fur on the outskirts of his face. The cloak was long and covered his entire body, it flowed with every step.
Before he could answer, a voice echoed from afar. As they grew closer the voice became familiar.
Jericho grimaced as he realized who was advancing towards them.
"You can't run from me! Ya said you wouldn't try and escape!"
Shortly after yelling Etsy and Tsuki arrived where Jericho was.Wasting no time Etsy put Tsuki down and lunged at Jericho with her claws akin to a blade ready to slice him to bits.
Jericho attempted to maneuver out of the way but lost his balance. He looked down and realized his foot was partially severed by the zombified crocodile mutant-- he hadn't realized due to all of the adrenaline coursing through his body.
Etsy caught him before he fell and examined the wounds all over his body.
"So ya' didn't try to run away. You look rough."
Jericho snickered.
"Oh, really?
She looked over at the giant corpse of the disgusting zombie crocodile.
"Ya' really took that thing down? All by yerself?"
As she looked back at Jericho he was already passed out
A gentle smile appeared on her face. Tsuki tugged on Etsy's sleeve, tears filled her eyes.
"Is he gonna be, okay?"
Etsy grinned and ruffled up Tsuki's hair.
"Of course he'll be alright. He's the one who'll fix this broken world after all."
Tsuki stared at Etsy in confusion.
"Just who is he then?"
"Well, he's the king of the Central."
"The True King of the Central, don't forget the true part."
The man from the shadows interrupted. Etsy quickly turned around instantly bursting into tears after realizing who it was.
She lunged towards the man with open arms as if she was a cannonball shot from a cannon. Her embrace was swiftly evaded causing Etsy to crash into the concrete wall.
"Boss, yer alive!"
Etsy proclaimed as she brushed the rubble off of her clothes and hair.
"Yeah, let's not waste time with sentiments, we must get Jericho to the Den and fill him in. For our time is being cut short we must act soon."
His gaze fell upon Tsuki as she came from behind the zombified crocodile mutant's corpse.
"Who the hell is that?"
The boss examined the slender white tiger girl, he noticed multiple stitches that were coming loose covering up a gash on her lower stomach and the many whip marks along her back.
"She's a slave, well she was. Me and Jeri saved her from one of the chairmen pigs."
His expression darkened.
"You kidnapped a chairman's slave?"
Etsy's brows furrowed as she gritted her fangs.
"Well no duh, isn't this our job? Aren't we supposed to be abolishing slavery, liberate the people and such?"
"Well Etsy this is going to put so much damn heat on our backs. You were the only one with any major charges, your face was the only one that wasn't put on wanted posters all around the fuckin' world."
Etsy turned away looking down in disappointment.
"You wanted me to just leave her there? Look at her she would've been dead before our plan even began, I'm not going to just sit there and watch a child die."
"It's going to be a lot harder now that we're all wanted, if you had just left her there we could've started faster. Meaning we could've saved a lot more lives faster Etsy. If she had to die for that I would've just left her."
"What the hell Cypher!"
"One life versus millions, you choose Etsy! You just put our entire organization in danger by kidnapping a chairman's slave!"
"Why do I have to choose when I can choose both, and it's not like that chairman's going to do anything now!"
Cypher froze after hearing those words, his dark face grew pale, and his eyes widened.
"What do you mean the chairman isn't going to do anything now."
Etsy gripped her arm, still looking away from Cypher.
"What do you mean!"
Silence filled the seemingly endless sewers until it was broken from loud bangs above. They sounded as if a giant was practicing
"We'll deal with this later but right now we need to get the fuck to the den."
Cypher picked up Jericho's limp body and began sprinting down the sides of the sewers. Etsy quickly followed with Tsuki on her back.