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Mono and Six were running.
Now that wasn't anything unusual for them considering the world they inhabited wanted them dead or worse but in this case it was a special one.
They had tried to gather some supplies for the surprisingly early cold weather and Six's nose (and with that her enhanced senses) was a truly indispensable help in that matter,being able to sniff out the faint hints of a stew not far from their direction.
Neither of them really questioned as to 𝘸𝘩𝘺 in a city like 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴,with mold,waste,decay and death on every corner,someone would brew something like 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 and if they did it was outwaged by the promise of finally being able to eat a warm meal.
They arrived in front of a run-down diner,its sloping roof having collapsed inwards lengthwise.
The not so silent growl Six gave turned into a proper one as the smell became so strong that even Mono could start to smell it.
He extended his hand,brushing reassuringly through her hair.
"Calm down! I'm as hungry as you are but we still have to be quiet,there's definitely someone in there" Mono whispered and pointed at the Kitchen in the backroom,in which a hazy yellow light illuminated its interieur and a patch of light before it.
They crept up to the door, trying to push it open,surprised about how it was unlocked.
Then the ring of a bell rang through the silence of the room.
Their eyes shot upwards and towards the upper parts of the door, seeing the small entrance bell jingling.
Six's shadows flared up immediately and tried to rip the bell mallet out of its belonging bell but it was already too late.
A high pitched screech echoed through the diner and a shadow appeared on the patch of light.
Both of their eyes widened in panic and they whipped around,attempting to pull open the door into freedom.
Attempted because the bar handle was missing.
As was the entire decorations the other side had,it was completely blank.
How could they have allowed themself to be so blinded by the sole 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 of food?
The door to the back rooms were pushed open abruptly and a crooked monster rushed forwards.
It was clothed in tattered rags of what seemed to be a employee uniform with the corners of what used to be its face being forced into a overstretched smile by a couple of staples stuck deep into its flesh.
So Mono and Six had to run.
The only problem was that the checkered floors provided zero place to even 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵 any dodging,so they jumped over the red,stained,cushioned seats and tables.
The monster was currently chasing after Mono and seemed to have no intentions of slowing down,so Six resorted to throwing the leftover cutlery that remained into its direction.
Even though they were flung with her,due to the hunger weakened,shadows,the knives bounced off easily, but as soon as they hit the ground the creature stopped its chase.
It crooned down and picked them up one by one,an opportunity which Mono tried to seize by sprinting past it,but the Monster was far quicker than him and snatched him up from the ground,holding him tightly in one fist.
Something within Six snapped,maybe it was her hunger breaking her first barrier or it was simply the fact of Mono being in danger,but she jumped forward and scratched everything exposed by the ragged uniform.
Although the Monster screeched and yowled it still managed to not only hold its grasp on her friend but it also managed to grasp Six and hold her in an equally crushing grip.
Mono's sighing brought her back to her senses.
"Its nice that you at least tried" he said,in a for him unusually hopeless manner.
"Are you giving up? What's with your powers? Can't you just zap him away?"
He looked at her,a tad ashamed,his powers had ironically always been one of his weakpoints "I-I can't,i can't concentrate enough for that,it's far more complex than yours Six" he said,a tone of voice which she couldn't quite place snaking around the last area.
She opened her mouth for a retort but shut it immediately,she had to think of a way out of this mess.
The monster had waddled back to the Kitchen,the stew which Six had smelled earlier bubbling and boiling over.
She assumed that this is where they were going to end in if they didn't do anything now.
Fuck
𝘍𝘶𝘤𝘬
𝗙𝘂𝗰𝗸!
She had to think of something,find a way of avoiding a painful death.
She hastily looked around before spotting the ceiling lamp,the type that's lengthy and if it would collide with her captor it would surely set them free.
The pot was getting closer,the smell now unbearable in her nose.
In her last ditch effort she send a shadowy tentacle,nearly invisible and eel-thin,to the wires holding the lamp up and,despite being so weakened,tearing through it with practical ease.
Just like she predicted,the impact alone made their monstrous captor drop them to the ground,but it also did something that neither of them expected.
The lamp sent a huge bolt of energy through the monster's body killing it,as well as the diner's fuses which in turn blanketed the whole place back into pitch black darkness.