Fox Girl In An Apocalyptic World

Chapter 14: Close call

The mutant jumped up in front of Akira and Reia swinging its arms towards them. The hand of the mutant also turned into a glowing bright green blade.

Reia jumped into Akira, getting them both out of the way.

Reia quickly got up and helped Akira up from the ground.

"Thanks."

"No worries, but we need to run, so let's take our chances and make the jump." Reia saw the mutant fall back down and grab ahold of the ledge.

The mutant lion was also close, giving them even less time to choose, and ultimately forcing them to go for the jump.

Akira taking the initiative, sprinted and jumped across the gap first so if Reia needed he would be able to help her up if she didn't quite make the jump. The gap was about 4 meters making the jump rather difficult, but Akira being tall was able to clear the jump much easier.

Reia shortly after, followed Akira, jumping across the gap. However, the mutant had pulled itself up and leapt at Reia as she jumped.

Reia's heart dropped, seeing the mutant behind her.

'Shit I might not make it.' Reia reached out her hand to Akira as her jump fell a little short.

Akira grabbed ahold of her hand and Reia's body slammed into the side of the building. The mutant also followed the same trajectory and as Akira was pulling Reia up the mutant grabbed a hold of her foot.

"Get your fucking hands off me." Reia used her foot to kick the mutant's hand and made sure its mouth did not get close to her. Akira using one hand pulled out his sword while giving Reia one last pull to get her up.

As Reia was being pulled up, Akira swung down at the mutant's arm, cutting it off. The mutant fell down to the alley and Reia was safe.

"You okay Reia?" Akira had a worried look and was checking to make sure Reia was not bit or scratched.

"I'm okay but the dangers are not over." The mutant lion they had been running from, caught up and jumped onto the building they were just on, this time the building not collapsing under its feet. The mutant lion's face, however, was half-eaten by Akira's corruption and was close to getting its other eye.

"ROAARRRRR!!!" still being able to roar despite the half-eaten face was just as loud as before attracting even more mutants, creating a sea of mutants below Akira and Reia.

Akira during the roar quickly pulled out his rifle to fire a few more corruption bullets at the lion, but this time aiming for its legs.

The bullets landed piercing through its leg, planting the corruption that slowly started eating away at the mutant lion's leg.

The lion became enraged from Akira's bullets and its chest started to glow a bright green. Akira and Reia took the hint, and not wanting to find out what it was doing, started running.

The mutant lion after a few more moments spewed out a green flame from its mouth setting the surrounding buildings on fire.

"Since when did dragons in disguise exist?" Reia was shocked to see the lion spew flames and felt like she was in a fantasy all of a sudden.

The flames just missed Akira and Reia, almost burning their tails, but were able to just manage to get far enough away.

The buildings that were set on fire started to turn into the same substance as the mutant's body. Akira noticed what the flames were doing and more questions popped into his head.

'More and more questions keep popping up, going to need some people to sacrifice so we can find out more.' Akira thought about the rebel forces who would be good candidates for testing, however, now wasn't the time to play around with the fire.

While running they noticed the roofs were a lot closer making it easier to traverse, allowing them to gain distance while the lion was breathing fire.

The lion eventually stopped spewing fire and ran through the flames with ease, but the corruption on its leg was starting to hinder its movements.

The lion started to chase Akira and Reia while mutants were starting to make their way on to the roof. Stacking on top of each other and climbing up any stairs that were on the side of the building, mutants started filling the roof.

Reia pulled out her rifle and shot mutants while running, preventing them from getting up on the roof. Akira also did the same thing and thanks to their lightning bullets, if they did not hit the core the mutants would get paralysed.

"At this rate, we might be at our end." Reia did not like their odds and was looking for a way to escape the mutants.

The lion was slowly catching up and if they did not find a way to shake the lion off, they would become its meal.

Akira while running spotted a few buildings up ahead that had a metal staircase leading to a higher up. There was also a construction site filled with something on the bottom floor, but Akira was unable to see what it was.

"I have a crazy idea but you need to trust me with your life." Akira was going to take a gamble and hoped his idea was going to work.

"As long as we live, don't worry about how crazy it is." Reia did not care what it was, as long as they both got out alive.

"Alright follow me." Akira picked up the pace going into a full sprint.

Reia doing the same followed Akira and when they reached the metal stairs thought he was crazy to even climb up them.

Having no time to waste they climbed up the stairs while the mutant lion tried to use it as a ladder to climb up. The stairs came off the wall and the lion fell back onto the building causing it to collapse and get buried by the rubble. Reia and Akira had just made it to the top, with Reia almost slipping, but Akira was able to catch her and pull her up.

"Looks like your idea worked. Thought we were going to die while climbing." Reia was not confident they would be able to make it up before the staircase was ripped off the wall.

The mutants had no way of getting up, making them mindlessly scratch and reach up the wall.

"My plan isn't over." Akira walked over to the other end of the roof, looking down and saw a building that was under construction. The building itself was an empty husk but there was still a lot of equipment surrounding the building.

"Are you kidding?" Reia looked down and the drop was at least over 3 to 5 stories.

"If we are going to escape the lion, what better way to get away than to hide." Akira noticed that mutants are reliant on sight and hearing so with all this chaos making a lot of noise, and sound would not be an issue.

"I see why you said, do I trust you with my life." Reia grabbed her head, but they were cornered and didn't have much longer before the mutant lion escaped the rubble of the collapsed building.

"Well, do you?" Akira held out her hand to Reia waiting for her choice.

'We should be fine, let's just hope no bones break.' Reia was more concerned about the long term effects of the fall rather than if they would live or not.

"Fine, but if any of us are seriously injured, I'm going to kill you." Reia reluctantly grabbed his hand, but what she did not expect was Akira pulling her in.

"Sounds like a deal." Akira wrapped his arms around Reia and proceeded to fall off the roof towards the construction site.

Akira decided to take the brunt of the force by turning his back towards the construction site. Reia, having no real control over their fall, freaked out as she did not want Akira to be taking the full blow.

"You dumbass!" Reia called out just before they hit the roof of the building.

Akira crashed into the roof falling right through with Reia in his arms. It did not stop there as Akira also hit the second floor and broke through, but because the building was not finished the floor easily caved in due to lack of structural support.

Akira and Reia landed in a massive pile of trash bags that were stored in the building cushioning their fall.

After landing Akira and Reia rolled out onto the floor with Akira still holding Reia, continuing to keep her safe.

Once they stopped moving Akira was on his back with Reia on top of him.

"Fuck, that sure was a fall." Reia got out of Akira's hold but she noticed something when getting up.

"Wait Akira? Are you okay?"

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"They jumped off the roof." A man laid on the roof of a building and was looking through a pair of binoculars

"Did they look like they had weapons?" Another man who was standing next to him spoke up.

The man standing wore rather casual clothes with a gun on their back as well as many pouches around his body.

The other wore an old looking military uniform with a coat and looked rather old.

"They had swords and guns, so they must be rather strong." The man laying down pulled away the binoculars revealing a scar across his eye.

"Alright let's get some extra hands and once the mutants clear from the area we investigate to see if we can take their equipment." The man walked towards a door that led to a set of stairs going down.