The Fallen (Remake) Chapter 25

It took just a moment for my eyes to adjust to the dark. The first thing that hit me was the smell. I didn't overreact or anything, but holy cow something died down here!

I could see the freak walking ahead, not bothering to see if I was with him or not. He is an overconfident son-of-a-gun, huh? I followed him through the sewers. Eventually, we reached an opening. The sewer tunnel was now fifty feet in all directions. There were sometimes pipes that reached from wall to wall every now and then. The bounty hunter looked over his shoulder with a grin. "Follow me, if you can." He said. Then he jumped over to the other wall and clung there.

He continued to jump from wall to wall. Swinging on pipes and such. I unfurled my left wing and clicked out my right. I took to the air and flapped my wings. I followed the animal.

Okay, seriously, I need a name for this guy. "So what do I call you? Killer-Claw? Savage Man? Kitty Kitty Pow Wow?" No answer, just the slight tap of his claws and boots hitting off the walls and pipes. Then he finally answered, "I have no name." he responded, "Police reports call me the Predator." I ducked and tucked my wings in as I flew under a pipe, then let them stretch them back out again. I responded, "I knew it. Your mom genuinely hated you didn't she?"

I heard a low growl, but not much else. I kept talking, "By the way dude, what up with that hair? Didn't you hear? Short is in, long is out. So, either get a hair-cut, or start looking for your type of gay-" Predator stopped on a ledge and turned to me in a fury. "Will you shut your intensive babbling?!" He took a deep breath, then continued, "We are here."
He walked over to a pipe entrance and went in. I landed and followed him in. I tucked my wings in, but I didn't hide them. Don't really need to.

We entered a fairly large room. I couldn't tell what it was for, except that it had four different entrances. The two on the far side must have led off to different sewers throughout the city, and they were fenced off, but the fluid was still passing in and out of the room. The little sidewalk of a platform we were standing on had two doors on opposite ends of it. A gate had locked one end, and a gate just fell behind me as I entered. Trapped with a psychopath. I looked at the other door to see Raphael tied to a chair. He was passed out, and there were cuts and bruises everwhere I could see.

I spun to Predator. "What did you do to him?! He looks like he got hit by a car!" Predator only grinned. He jumped to the far side of the room, revealing that the sludge was only knee deep. He said, "Shall we begin?"

I crouched and lunged at him, using flight to cover the distance. He ducked my punch and I had to kick off the wall with my wings tucked to keep from crashing. I landed in front of him. I saw that the gauntlets on his arms popped some claws on his fingertips. He swiped at me and I barely dodged them. I stepped in and punched his abdomen. OW! I jumped back a few steps, shaking my hand. Did I hit his stomach, or a wall?
He grinned again, exposing those sharpened canines. He said, "Perhaps this won't be as enjoyable as I originally thought, but I will enjoy your screams of mercy non-the-less."

I just shook my head in disgust, "Dude. Do you know how wrong you sound?" He continued to slash and even grunted for a second. I fell back with my hands on the ground (and in the sludge water) and curled my body into a spring-loaded ball. I unloaded it and sent my feet into his head. The momentum caused me to pass through the air and land on him with my feet implanted in his head. I stepped off and watched as the monster got back up. He laughed a little. "Barely felt a thing." He said. Crap.

I ran to some nearby machinary. It looked rusted and dated, more importantly not running. I grabbed a pipe that was left dangling. I was able to work it out of its socket I swung it blindly and felt impact. I heard a rather satisfying crack and some vibrations through the pipe. I saw Predator staggering to the side, almost fell, but he stood up strait and glared at me with cruel, colorless eyes. Blood had started running down the side of his head.

He lunged at me with his claws. I dove under his arms and hit his back with my elbow. I heard him scream and I turned around to see him dig his claws into an electric fuse box. No time to think, I used my wings to push myself out of the water (if you can call it that) and onto the ledge. I could only watch as Predator was electrified. He finally fell and he didn't get back up.

I almost didn't want to believe it.

Predator was dead.