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The Reaper	By : crystalwind Category: Final Fantasy VII > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 676 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy VII, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

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Warnings: Zombies. Kind of.

Chapter Sixteen – Claster, Part Two

…he turned around slowly, only now registering the quiet sound of ragged breathing coming from behind him. "Oh. Shit."

The creature standing in the doorway was only vaguely recognizable as having once been human. Two eyes, two arms, two legs… actually, the only thing that really made Rude sure that it had been human was because it was wearing the remains of clothing. Apart from that, it didn't really bear any resemblance to any human being that Rude had ever met, with the possible exception of Hojo; he got that same crazy look in his beady little eyes when he was obsessing over his latest experiment.
Now was probably a really bad time to be thinking about Hojo's eyes… Blinking to clear his head, Rude continued to stare at the creature, not daring to move lest it decide to reach out and claw his face off. He only hoped that Reno would be as cautious…
Something shifted in the rubble behind him, the creature jerked towards the noise, and the remains of a laptop flew past Rude's head and into the monster's face in a shower of sparks. Reno flew by a moment later, grabbing Rude's arm and zapping the beast with his EMR on the way by. It only took Rude a moment to realize what Reno's plan was, and a moment longer to decide that he agreed with it and to put all his effort into reaching the car before the monster reached them. They might even have made it had the thing not brought along a friend…
"What the fuck, there's another one!" Reno stopped and turned, crashing into Rude on his way up a jumble of boulders alongside the path. Rude sighed, hearing Thing 1 crash down the path behind them and watching Thing 2 begin to mutilate the SUV. He highly doubted that climbing on top of a rock would deter the creatures.
"Actually, Reno, there's probably a whole town full of them; the first one was wearing a comm. center uniform I think. Anyone who isn't a mutant was probably lunch." Reno stopped scrambling up the rocks to turn and look at Rude, realizing that the bald man was serious, and wasn't bothering to climb up behind him. Below them, Thing 2 remained happily oblivious to the pair, chewing on one of the car's front tires; Thing 1 would soon round the bend in the path and be on them.
Reno sighed, hopping back down to stand next to Rude. "Being lunch really wasn't on my list of things to do today." Rude smirked, withdrawing his gun from its holster beneath his jacket. Reno rolled his neck, hefting his EMR to rest on his shoulder. His thumb rested lightly on the switch, prepared to crank it up to full power. "Let's fry this thing."

Rude decided that "Let's fry this thing" probably fell somewhere along the ranks of "No problem" or "Hey, watch this!" In short, he never wanted to hear that phrase come out of Reno's mouth ever again. Thing 1 hadn't rushed headlong into Rude's bullets or Reno's bolts of electricity; it had rounded the bend, stopped, and screamed. Thing 2 promptly spit out its entrée of tire and dashed up the trail towards them (and it was fast), and Thing 3… apparently had been napping behind the boulders that Reno had previously been climbing up, and popped up right above them, snarling and slobbering. One vaguely humanoid monster with serrated teeth and claws the size of steak knives was bearable; disgusting, rank, and painfully loud, but bearable. Two were okay, so long as one was a little ways away from the other. Three was nearly too much, and Thing 3 damned near gave Rude a heart attack when it suddenly appeared above them.
Fortunately, Reno had long ago trained himself to equate "surprise" with "oh shit kill it", and snapped around in time to send a high-powered Bolt3, boosted by the EMR's power, straight into Thing 3's drooling mouth. It toppled back over the boulder from whence it came, and didn't resurface. Things 1 and 2 weren't as easy to dispatch.
A bullet to the throat stopped Thing 1's screeching, but regrettably pissed it off at the same time that Thing 2 arrived on the scene. That left two hideously deformed monsters attacking the pair of Turks at the same time, and they were unfortunately much faster than the Turks.
There weren't many people in the world capable of body slamming Rude into anything, and he was colleagues with most of them, and had so avoided the unpleasant experience for most of his life. Now, however, he lost count of how many times he was thrown into the rocks that were slowly becoming covered in blood. Reno, smaller and slightly faster and more agile than Rude, was able to wriggle his way out of being forcibly hurled into anything, but he wasn't quite fast enough to avoid the slashing claws that shredded clothing and skin alike with equal abandon. Needless to say, it was an unpleasant experience for both of them.
Thankfully, when Rude's gun was knocked out of his grasp it landed far enough to the side that it wasn't trampled and crushed. Several painful body slams later and Rude found himself lying next to the weapon; two quick shots later and he finished the job on Thing 1 that he'd started, watching its head disappear in a spray of red mist. He turned in time to watch Reno alternately stabbing Thing 2 with his blade and bludgeoning it to death with his EMR, which emitted golden sparks every time it came into contact with the creature's body. It took Rude a minute to realize that the monster was already dead; he stepped in quickly and wrestled Reno off of the thing's inert body.
Reno swung around, wide-eyed, and for one heart-stopping moment Rude was certain that he was about to be blasted by the EMR. He tensed, waiting for the surge, but Reno calmed, recognizing him, and turned back to Thing 2. He stared for a moment, taking in the gaping wounds and crushed head. "Oh." That was all he said, in a voice small enough that Rude wasn't sure he heard it at first. Reno wiped his knife and EMR off on his trousers before sheathing the blade and allowing the EMR to dangle from the strap around his wrist. He turned to face Rude, stuffing his hands into his pockets. Rude frowned, unable to tell if Reno was embarrassed or afraid. "Now what?"
'Embarrassed', Rude decided. "Tseng wanted us to check out the reactor for leaks."
"'Kay." Reno turned down the path, spotted the remains of the vehicle, and turned back to Rude. "Guess we're walking?" Rude sighed.

Reno wiped at the blood congealing in his hair in irritation. Why the hell had he ever wanted to go on a "real" mission anyway? His wounds were healed, courtesy of a Cure materia, but his clothes were practically destroyed, and it was tough to wipe blood off of your face with a blood-soaked sleeve. The reactor, like the satellite site, was located on the edge of the reservoir, but there were nearly three miles of town between the reactor and the site. The two were carrying what seemed like a half ton of equipment from the back of the destroyed SUV, and it seemed like every few minutes they were running into another mutant… or five.
'So much for this being a ghost town... At least the mutants we're running into now aren't nearly as fast or as big as those first three.' Reno sighed, giving up on getting the blood out of his hair and hefting his bags again. Rude glanced over at him when he heard the sigh, concerned. Both of them had needed to be Cured after that first fight, but Reno had lost a lot of blood and was looking paler than normal. His reaction times didn't seem to be hurt by the blood loss, but Rude worried that the continuous battles were starting to take their toll. The two were leaving behind a trail of 47 bodies, and counting. It was Rude's turn to sigh now, and he turned back towards the reactor, hoping that there was a secure room there that they could rest in. What should have been an hour-long walk was already three hours long, and dusk fell early in the mountains. He didn't want to know what kind of mutants would appear under the cover of darkness.

A/N:
Sorry about an even shorter chapter, but I'm flying north for the holidays tomorrow morning, and need to (re)pack my stuff, and get ready for dinner tonight, so this is where I stop for now. The places I'm staying at the next two weeks have some pretty iffy internet connection (one has dial-up, one has no internet except little bits of the neighbor's wireless, and the other has a single Ethernet-connected computer that I have to fight the entire family for time to use), so while I can probably find time to type in the next couple of weeks, I won't be able to update again until after Christmas (unless I manage to pack in a decent time tonight and have a writing spree :p). Aaand I find out my final grades tomorrow... everyone cross your fingers for me passing my Intro Analysis class -sigh-
Anyway, not a whole lot that happened this chapter, except Reno going a little psycho on some mutant…
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