MHOS Part 9: Returning to the hunt

With a head full of new information and a stomach aching for some food, I take Gary for a ride to make my way to Lust. On my drive to Lust I enter a wooded area and hear a woman screaming. I stop the car to get a better idea of what is happening when I see a woman running with panic across her face and she spots me. I get out and open the back seat door for her to run in to and I begin running into the woods to investigate armed with the jack from the car and my handy dandy talons.

It's not long before I run into three men looking like they were looking like they lost their prey. Just as I had spotted them, they too had spotted me, and with a few glances and smirks they had decided to take aim on me. Exactly like I had hoped they would, because this is going to be fun. It's been too long since I had a good bit of violence.

Two of the men start trying to make their way around me so the three of them can have me surrounded when I leap on the first man, grab his neck to sturdy myself and maintain eye contact as I jam the crow bar into his torso. He stares as he in shock and horror as he falls backwards with me landing on top of him. I roll off taking the crow bar with me, leaving him injured to bleed out on the ground as I swing the crow bar at the second mans ankles on my way up. As he falls to the ground I swing at his head and silence consumes him.

I turn around to look for the last guy to find that he was already running away.. Coward.

I look back at the two on the ground and when I make eye contact with the first one he shields his face and starts begging for his life. I look down at his dead buddy and say "Well.. Waste not, want not." and begin searching him for valuables. As I do the first guy starts protesting. I look at him and say "Hold on, you'll get your turn!" and as I finish grabbing everything of value from his friend I toss his arm and shove his body aside with my foot.

"Oh real nice, real respectful lady" the injured man says. As I begin walking toward him and he shut the hell up and fear washed over his face. I then opened the flaps of his jacket and began fishing for his wallet. He began arguing with me when he realized I was looting his still living body "Stop!" he said as he tried to close his jacket and stop me for searching for anything else.

"Stop?" I slapped him on the forehead & continued to search as I said "Did you stop when she wanted you to? Did you stop when she asked you to? Did her consent matter to you at all? What makes you think yours matters to me?" as I began taking off his watch. I could see his eyes beginning to water. Was it realization? shame? humiliation?

It didn't really matter to me, he wasn't going anywhere, he had a chest wound and was abandoned his one living cohort.. so I whispered to him "I should put you out of your misery, you have no one left in the Hellaverse to look out for you.." and I saw the tears begin to fall as he waited for the final blow and here it came.

I leaned in and licked up a tear off his salt stained cheek and said "Instead, I'm going to let you live, knowing that I'm new here, I'm here to stay, and I know exactly what you look like." I begin putting his watch on my wrist and get up to walk away & start laughing. "I think I'm going to like it here." and head back towards Gary. I see the woman standing with her hand on his car door, in total disbelief of what she had just witnessed.

As I get back to her and Gary I say "Hey, I'm headed to Lust, are you getting in?" as I hop in the car and turn the key in the ignition. She slides back into the back seat & closes the door behind her.

"Good girl, I'm starving, do you know a place we can grab a bite to eat?" I say to her through the rear view mirror as we make our way to Lust.