Chapter XVIII: Ruzal Sallone

Chapter XVIII: Ruzal Sallone 

“Are you sure you can do this?” Ballester asks Ruzal. 

“Yes, dad, it’s been a month, way longer than ‘a few days’ like Serge and Nyvar said it would be.” 

“Ok, just making sure. This is your first solo mission, and last time, you had me and your uncle with you and things went wrong.” 

“Yeah, yeah, I know, I got this.” 

“You got your short range weapon?” 

“Yeah, mom gave me her Corrodium pistol.” 

“Ok, just making sure.” 

“You said that already, dad.” 

“Well, you’re my son. I’d be a worse father than mine if I didn’t check up on you.” 

“Alright, I get it. Well, see you later.” Ruzal leaves the building and heads towards the gate. “Hey, Chimmy.” 

“No escort today?” Chimmy asks. 

“Nope, going solo today!” 

“Cool! Good luck, and remember to watch your six.” 

“Huh?” 

“Just make sure Scott can’t sneak up on you again.” 

“Jeez, does everyone know about that?” 

“Well, it’s not like there’s a ton of people here.” 

“Yeah, you’re right. Can I have some bread in case I get hungry?” 

“Yeah, sure, no problem.” Chimmy takes some of his hot dog bun bread off and hands it to him. Ruzal puts the bread in his backpack and heads out. He comes across a pack of Scotts eating a Scott corpse. They immediately look up and see Ruzal approaching them. Ruzal climbs a tree, and sets up his gun, and the Scotts continue to stare at him. He picks them off one by one, killing them all. 

“Well, that was easier than last time. Weird. So, that’s four Scotts down, let’s see if I could find more.” He continues on his way, when he comes across a few more Scotts. One of them approaches him and sniffs him. Scott starts humping Ruzal’s leg, and Ruzal uses his Corrodium gun on Scott, melting him. The other Scotts see this, and cower. Puzzled, Ruzal approaches the Scotts, who recoil. “What the hell?” 

“Duh, scared.” One of the Scotts says. 

“Scared?” 

“Duh!” The two Scotts bang their heads together and pass out. 

“Weird.” He shoots them both in the head and continues on where he comes across some more Scotts fighting off a fire breathing bear. Ruzal snipes the bear, its head exploding. The Scotts cheer and rush Ruzal, humping his legs.  

“Friend!” They say. 

“Friend?” One of them unzips his pants and starts sucking his dick. “Woah, what he f**k?” He shoves Scott away, and they recoil. He starts walking and they follow him. He tries to evade them, but they keep following him. He points his gun at them, and they stop. He continues to walk, and they cautiously follow him. He turns around and shoots them both in the head. “Another three down. Weird, why are they acting like this?” He keeps walking, and encounters a group of about twenty Scotts having group sex with each other, when they stop and look at Razul, who is setting up his sniper rifle. They rush towards him, and start grinding and humping all over him. He pulls his Corrodium pistol out, and they recoil again. All of a sudden, a chinging sound is heard. A Ching makes its way towards the group. The Ching opens its mouth, and another, smaller Ching comes out, and it opens its mouth, and yet another smaller one comes out. Like a nesting egg, seven Chings in all surround the group. The biggest one shoots fire out of its mouth, burning a couple of the Scotts. Ruzal shoots it in the eyes with his Corrodium pistol, burning them. The Scotts start throwing s**t at the other Chings, which don’t do anything to them. The smallest one spits acid and melts a Scott. 

“Help friend.” One of the Scotts says to Razul as he picks up a log and smashes the smallest two Chings. 

“The Scotts are helping me, that’s weird, I thought they were feral. Maybe...” He looks at the bite mark scar on his leg. “Maybe they smell their scent on my scar.” He uses his pistol to finish off the biggest one. One of the Chings flattens itself and becomes a floating sawblade and decapitates two more Scotts before Ruzal shoots it down. “Alright, three to go. One of the Chings gets surrounded by Scotts, and it explodes, killing them all and itself. “Ok, two.” One of the Chings starts shooting bullets out of its mouth, killing another few Scotts, before it’s taken out by Ruzal’s pistol. “One to go.” He shoots it, but it has no effect. He takes his rifle, and shoots it, still with no effect. “How the hell are you supposed to kill this thing? Oh, I know!” He tosses a grenade, and it blows up, kills another Scott, but the Ching is unaffected. The remaining Scott s***s in his hand and throws it at the Ching, and it slows down. Scott keeps picking up and throwing s**t, finally killing the Ching. “Thanks, Scott. I never thought I’d ever say that!” 

“Friend.” 

“Come on, let’s go back to the lab together. You want some bread?” He takes the hot dog bun bread out of his backpack and tears a piece off for Scott, and eats the other piece. Scott s***s on his bread before he eats it. “Come on, you’re coming with me.” So, Scott follows Ruzal back to the lab, and they get to the gate. 

“Is that what I think it is?” Chimmy asks. 

“Yeah.” Ruzal asks. 

“You know it’s against the rules for Scotts to be on the premises, right?” 

“I’ve discovered something that Serge might be interested in.” Chimmy radios Serge. 

“Alright, Serge says it’s ok, but I have to escort you in.” He lets them in, and closes and locks the gate behind him, and turns on the electricity. He cuffs Scott, and they head into the building and into Serge’s lab. 

“Alright, what’s the news?” Serge asks. 

“He followed me here.” Ruzal says as Scott cowers behind him. 

“Friend.” Scott says, pointing to Ruzal. 

“It has to do with the bite, doesn’t it?” Ruzal asks. 

“Yeah.” Serge answers. He examines the Scott, who is still hiding behind Ruzal. “Do you understand me?” 

“Friend?” Scott asks. 

“Yeah, sure, friend.” Serge reaches out his hand, and Scott breaks his own neck and dies. “Oigres?” Oigres walks over and tosses Scott into the Grinder. “So, what, you’re not gonna kill them anymore?” 

“Well, I don’t know, they’re not hostile towards me anymore, they see me as one of their own cause I got bitten.” 

“Well, with that Ching you killed today, that means there is only seven remaining. It wasn’t the nesting egg one, was it?” 

“Yeah, why?” 

“Damn, I was saving that for an anime episode. You know, everyone takes a different one, and they all fight and stuff, it was gonna be epic, now I’m going to have to find something else to do...” 

“The Scotts helped me defeat it.” 

“What? Really?” 

“Yeah, most of them died in the process, but yeah.” 

“Damn, there goes my big reveal, too.” 

“What, a Scott was supposed to join the fray and kill the last one?” 

“Yes, exactly! Now I’ve gotta come up with something new by Friday, or people will be pissed.” 

“What are you talking about?” 

“Nothing, I’ve said too much already, just...I don’t know, what do you wanna do?” 

“I don’t know, I know I don’t wanna hunt Scott anymore, now that they’ve befriended me.” 

“P***y.” Ballester says. 

“Oh, it’s just so easy for you, isn’t it? They’re all faceless copies of the same guy to you, but they’ve attached themselves to me, and I understand how Nyvar was feeling that day of our first family hunt.” 

“So go ahead and be a nurse for your sister then!” 

“Look, don’t get me wrong, I still wanna kill things like you, I just- I just can’t kill Scotts anymore.” 

“Well, I figured since the human population decreased, the animal population exploded, so I could just kill animals instead.” 

“Is that alright with you?” Ballester asks Serge. 

“Yeah, sure, whatever. I’ll just have to pay you depending on the animal you kill.” Serge says. 

“Now, you’re not going to get attached to animals, now are you?” Ballester asks Ruzal. 

“I don’t think so.” Ruzal answers. 

“So, are you going back out there, or are you done for the day?” 

“I- I think I’ll just go out and see what I can find. Oh, what do I get for killing the fire breathing bear?” 

“Ooh, that’s a rare find.” Serge says. “Big bonus for that one, and for killing the Ching, and the Scotts you killed, you’re on a roll today!” 

“Sure, I guess.” Ruzal leaves the building and heads toward the gate again, with Chimmy escorting him. He shuts off the fence, and lets Ruzal go. 

“I hear there’s some acid spitting deer in the woods.” 

“Yeah, a Scott was humping a dead one when I went through earlier.” 

“Well, good luck out there.” 

“Thanks.” Ruzal heads towards the woods again. It takes him awhile, and he doesn’t find any deer, but he comes across more Scotts who stop what they’re doing and look at him. “Duh, friend.” 

“Friend!” Scott says excitedly as he rushes and starts humping Ruzal’s leg. Ruzal starts kissing Scott and they make out. 

“I love Scott!” Ruzal says. 

“I love Scott!” Scott says. 

“Yay, friend!” The other Scotts say as the rush over and get into an orgy. 

“Duh!” Ruzal says as he starts drooling. He starts masturbating and all the Scotts join in. Ruzal s***s into his own hand and eats it. Ruzal and the pack of Scotts go through the woods, and find a deer. The deer, a buck, looks at them, and charges them. It impales one Scott with its horns. Another Scott starts f*****g it. Startled, the deer starts spitting acid at the other Scotts and Ruzal. The acid only hits one of the other Scotts, melting him. 

“Help!” A Scott yells. Ruzal picks up a log and smashes the deer’s head in, killing it. Ruzal and the Scotts start eating the deer, while the other Scott is still f*****g the dead deer. Ruzal gets up, and starts f*****g the Scott f*****g the deer. 

“Wheeeee!” Ruzal says. A Scott rips off his own dick, and hands it to Ruzal, who eats it. “Yummy!” 

“Yummy!” 

“Duh, friend!” Ruzal s***s into his own hand, and offers it to Scott. The Scott eats the s**t.  

“Friend!” the Scott getting fucked yells. After their little orgy, they continue through the woods, finding more Scotts along the way, and losing Scotts along the way too. They f**k animals, themselves, poopskins, s**t, corpses, anything repulsive to a normal person. Ruzal, surrounded by Scotts, loses his cognition, becoming stupider and stupider the more time he spends with the Scotts. He doesn’t return to the lab. While it’s worrisome to his family, Serge isn’t concerned at all, and neither am I. After all, it’s just Ruzal, it’s not like it’s Oigres or Nyvar or Nogal. I can be quite the dick when I wanna be, huh? Besides, any scientist worth their salt can deduce what happened to Ruzal. I guess what worries them the most is whether he’s alive or not. He may be stupid now, but he’s still smarter than all of the other Scotts. They see him as some kind of leader or something. Anyways, I’m sure Ruzal will show up in the future...