-This Town Is Mine-
Day 1
Jaynis and Taylor walked back the way they came from and crossed the drawbridge. To their left there stood a small bandit tower. It was unoccupied and it probably had been for years. Jaynis scaled the ladder while Taylor covered him. Scythids could jump up from anywhere underground. Jaynis called Taylor up while Jaynis covered him from above. Taylor joined Jaynis who had found a container full of weapons. Taylor buried his hand in the pile of weapons and picked out an assault rifle. It had an incendiary elemental effect. Jaynis had already taken his ideal firearm, a twelve-shot semi-automatic shotgun. They both checked their weapons and ammo before sliding back down the ladder and returning to their original spot. They both started walking to the entrance of The Refuge and Jaynis started conversation.
"This is how it goes: Go in, kill 'em all."
"Done, survivors?" Taylor replied
"They die too." Jaynis said coldly. The plan sounded good to Taylor. Taylor was as cold and violent as Jaynis; this would be the perfect way to see who the ultimate killing machine between them was. Both were confident, it was no secret to anybody who knew them that they enjoyed to kill. Taylor and Jaynis had different methods of killing. Taylor was calculating, methodical and patient. Jaynis was cold, ruthless but he was patient.
They entered The Refuge and surveyed the immediate area. People were walking across the clearing. Weaving around the pillars and rocks that were stuck in the ground. Buildings were made out of scrap and didn't ascend higher than three stories. Everything looked worn out and beaten. The people of The Refuge were miserable and sad; they wore hard hats with overalls. Some looked like ex-hunters and bandits with their mercenary clothing. Jaynis and Taylor looked at each other and moved out in opposite directions. Jaynis went to his right where a long single-floored building stood near him. Taylor went to his left where two three-floored buildings stood either side of him. Taylor assumed the killing would begin anytime they felt like so Taylor gunned down a civilian ahead of him. The gunfire alerted everybody unfortunate enough to be in The Refuge. Jaynis started firing wildly at anyone he saw, strafing his aim to follow a running group which hailed bullets across the wall of a building. Jaynis could tell these people weren't fighters, despite the background of some of the residents they didn't want to fight. Those who saw both Taylor and Jaynis could easily tell the differences between them. Jaynis visually enjoyed the mass murder, shouting obscenities and flaying his arms in the air. Taylor was silent and precise with his aim and made sure everybody got a clean quick death.
Despite the differences, the residents of The Refuge were lambs to the slaughter. No mercy was ever shown by the Kobb brothers and no mercy was shown here. People begged for safe passage but were answered with gunfire. In Taylor's area nobody was alive. Taylor thought about logic: if there were bandits outside and you were inside, where would you be hiding? Taylor kicked down the door to the building nearest to him and kept his sights up. He cleared the ground floor room by room and moved to the next floor. He found a group of three people hiding by a window shivering. Taylor was merciless but he understood emotions. He had no problem killing people who were running away but people who were hiding and scared to death always caught Taylor off-guard a little. He unloaded on them, quick killing. Taylor left the building and he felt a blunt force strike his face. Taylor fell back into the building with his gun lying on the doormat. The resident who had struck him was a builder; he had worn out overalls with a yellow hard hat. He didn't look frightened instead he looked angry. He kicked Taylor's leg- the leg that Taylor had almost lost. Taylor grabbed his leg and rolled into the room beside him which was the kitchen. Taylor scurried behind the open door and hid. There was a blind spot where the builder was standing in relation to the open kitchen door so he couldn't see where Taylor had gone. The builder took Taylor's gun from the ground and tossed it way over the tall fence dividing the town overlooking the swamp which the gun landed in. The builder stepped inside and stopped on the spot. He was standing in front of the open door. Taylor kicked the door forward which crashed into the builder. The door caught the builder's right elbow which splintered through the door. Taylor ripped off one of the splinters and stabbed it in the neck of the builder which brought him down on one knee. Taylor pushed down hard on the splinter to increase the damage. He then ran into the builder using all his force, the builder was driven into the counter where a magnetic metal plate stood on the wall with knives stuck to it. The builder was incapacitated against the counter until Taylor took a knife from the magnetic plate and planted it in the back of the builder's head which pinned the builder brutally in place. Taylor bent down favouring his knee; he raised his head and breathed heavily into the windowpane clouding the glass with his breath. Taylor rubbed his hand against the glass and saw a group of residents running away to the exit. That wasn't what caught Taylor's attention. What did were the residents who stayed behind from the running group with buzz-axes in their hands. Again, they were builders. Practically identical to the builder Taylor had just killed. They knew Taylor was in there and Taylor was outnumbered. His firearm was gone; he only had a knife remaining on the magnetic wall which he snatched from the wall. Outnumbered in a certain melee fight, Taylor breathed deeply and steeled himself and wondered how Jaynis was doing.
Jaynis had walked a warpath. He made it all the way to the fence which ran all along the end of The Refuge. The fence that divided the swamp below and The Refuge. There were a few people in this area but they all fell before Jaynis. Jaynis had been throwing grenades through the upper floor windows of the buildings to scare people hiding into running away. Jaynis couldn't be bothered to clear out each building. Jaynis was completely unaware of Taylor's new problem which had now entered the building. Taylor had by now left the kitchen and ran up the stairs to the first floor. The two builders acted like bloodhounds. Overturning every piece of furniture, ripping open any kind of door like they were trying to catch a scent. Taylor observed their behaviour; he concluded they would find him wherever he were to hide. The builders quickly ran up the stairs. Taylor, suddenly knowing the danger dived backwards into the bathroom and kicked the door shut. As soon as his foot touched the door he knew it was a mistake. Sure enough the builders heard it and found their target. Taylor in a slight panic cleared out the shelves and cupboards in hope to find something useful. He did. He found a bottle of piss and wire cutters. Why such a tool was stashed in a bathroom cupboard, Taylor didn't know and Taylor didn't care and the bottle of piss was because of the blocked up toilet. The door opened on Taylor who immediately plunged his knife into the throat of the builder. The builder dropped his buzz-axe and gripped his neck in a futile effort to stop the massive bleeding. The builder dropped to his knee and fell sideways slumped against the wall. The builder at the top of the stairs saw Taylor and charged at him. He was clumsily running around the banister to get to Taylor. Taylor threw the bottle at the builder's face which caused him to slip on the floor from the impact. Shards of glass were scattered all over his face and his eyes were blinded by the foul liquid. Taylor jammed both blades of the wire cutters into the eyes of the builder killing him instantly. Carnage on both the ground and first floor of Taylor's location would be Taylor's signature on the massacre of The Refuge and Jaynis' would be the path of blood and bullet shells that littered the direction he had taken through The Refuge.
Nobody could argue, nobody could negotiate who The Refuge belonged to. This Town Is Mine Taylor recalled to himself what Jaynis had said earlier. That's damn right Taylor thought.
