Uzi was back down on street level, belly full and ready for the next area, she abandoned the soup can off on the street side.
Maybe something else could make a meal of her left overs.
She walked alone in annoyance, she had maybe two more hours of searching. She looked for old signs, anything that could lead to her old shops or someone's storage with a hand made drawing. Nothing of the sort or complete.
She soon got into a new area, just outside what she recognized. The building was blown open, something from years ago long passed but she was surprised that the building was still standing.
She heard the building shift, at least it meant a better hunting ground for her as no one would dare risk the roof caving in completely.
After all, what are the chances that it would be now that it would cave in after all the years.
She came to the entrance, she had given up for the day and she would rather spend it exploring something then walking the street unable to decide.
Finding it nice and dark inside she readied her touch, shining it in before heading in herself.
The place had been wretched by something years ago, walls had been broken down to allow access into rooms in the back or as a way through the building.
She frowned a moment, looking around. Some sort of substance covered the back area walls, she hadn't a clue what it could be but didn't want to approach. It looked dead, dried and flaking but still not something she wanted to poke.
The rest of the room had some signs of living, or camping. A campfire set up with rubble with the left overs of a fire inside.
Abandoned in the dust sat something she would have ignored if it wasn't for the camp, far too old but it did have a shape she rushed for. An abandoned old model of gun, clearly put together by someone in the past. She turned it right on to test it, nothing came of it. Not even the bother of warming up, she frowned. Blowing off the dust that had been caked on. It did clearly have the part she needed, she just hoped with all she had that it was still able to work. She ripped off the part with care, and put it away into her belt pouch with a little pat.
She had been excited for not even a few minutes before Uzi felt something off. Something wrong and looked around in worry, the building was wide with much of the inside having caved or broken down and becoming a shell of a building.
The place was empty with life, not a single bird song which she hadn't heard in a long while, not even outside when she entered.
The feeling of being watched was strong. She looked behind her in a snap, she expected something to be there. Not seeing anything made it far worse. The building now somehow darker and harder to see.
She swallowed, gripping the touch tight.
She circled as she shone the light, nothing in the immediate area that seemed to be hiding anything.
Making her feel even worse, she had to look behind herself again. She was close to just yelling out for whatever it was to show itself, let the pit in her chest jump somewhere else inside her instead of the bottom of her stomach.
A little voice in her spoke of something waiting to lunge down from above, it was nothing but dark upwards. She tried to reason that the roof likely didn't go too far up, but now she had to look.
An image of a massive flesh monster that covered the whole roof, waiting for her to be able to snatch her up and into a large mouth full of rows of teeth.
A stupid fear, but.
She had to make sure, to just glance up, looking up on its own did show it was dark. There were some thin bits of light above, in the higher levels that had windows.
Uzi let out a large breath, nothing that large. She scolded herself but she still didn't feel better.
She aimed the light up, just to make sure and scanned across the rafters.
As she found nothing but cracked concrete, exposed metal and the quick understanding that there was very little keeping the place upright.
She was starting to worry far more about the roof than anything else.
She blinked as she passed something not concrete, metal or empty space, she brought back the light slowly.
A sort of mass was just there, as the light sat near it for a bit did the lump in the pit of her stomach jump up into her throat. She moved the torch right on top of it and froze it there with the rest of her, both body and mind. Just trying to understand what she was looking at.
It was fleshy, hanging off the exposed part of metal. She flinched as it seemed to be alive, swaying about as it shifted and opened up a bit.
To the point that something's eyes reflected back.
Photos of the animal's reflective eyes crossed Uzi's mind as she stared up as something stared right back down to her, it even blinked as she stared. She didn't mean to but with a twitch of her wrists and a step back she sent the light directly into its eyes.
Making it flinch and it seemed to panic, arms coming out to block the light.
They were human hands at the end, she would have liked to think about that longer if it hadn't disconnected from the roof. They tried to take hold of far weaker bits of cement attached to metal, only to snap it right off and bring a section of the roof down with them.
Falling right into the ground in a yelp, kicking up all the dust in the area as rubble fell on top. She backed right up, almost tripping on old bits of concrete on the ground as her back found the far wall.
She still held the light up but she also wanted her gun, the big one that needed both her hands to fire.
Uzi for once in her life regretted her weapon choice, she could have at least made another far smaller one as a side arm.
Something groaned as the dust settled, she tensed.
Uzi knew this wasn't human, couldn't be so the next logical step is that it's one of the many horrors of the outside. No one had reported anything around, sure a colony or two have fallen in the past but not nearby and with very little information. Barely a message on the web about their downfall.
She had to both find out what is close to the colony and take it out if possible. But also noting that there was a direct line to the outside to her right, just in case of an escape.
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The dust cleared and the rubble that fell sat in a pile. She searched right away, the light scanning across. Looking for anything fleshy. For a moment of not seeing anything right away made her heart leap, as if it hadn't been trapped and creeping its way around.
But then something caught her sight, whiteness or more accurately a pale face with white hair all being backed by a black coat. A hand came up to block the light again.
'Can you please stop that,' came a voice, a young man's. Uzi shifted it upwards.
The young man was in fact pinned down under the rubble faced downwards and once the light moved he was able to place his one free hand back down on the floor in front of his face. He looked human at the distance, she tilted her head in suspicion.
'What are you?' she asked right away and took a step forward. The man glanced back at the rubble before back at her.
'Uh, human,' he said with an awkward smile.
'Don't bullshit me, as if we hadn't made eye contact not two minutes ago as you were hanging off the room.' She threatened him with flicking the light over his face again. 'Tell me.'
He flinched and as the dust landed to the ground, she could see he didn't even have human eyes. Slitted like a cats, just not so thin. But they did dilate thinner as the light flashed over.
'What would you think if even I didn't know,' he said and Uzi made a face, shaking her hand with the torch.
'I swear.' He hissed out, and tried to push himself upright. Only to get stopped right away with a piece of metal stabbed into his back.
'Fine, do you eat people?' she asked and lowered down into a kneel, he wasn't going anywhere for the moment.
The young man seemed to think it over, looking at her. He was taking too long and she sighed, inching the light to him.
'Yes sort of, only really when hurt, otherwise its just blood,' he said and bit the inside of his cheek. He didn't like being in this position, he should have gotten away. Or if he had been smart, should have jumped down on her before the light.
He had hoped he wasn't going to be spotted in the first place.
'So, you're a vampire then,' Uzi said in excitement, he looked at her in confusion.
'A what?' It was her turn to become confused.
'You have never heard of a vampire, have you been living under a rock?' she asked and looked his face over. 'How old are you?'
'I actively try not to think about that,' he muttered and she shuffled forward in interest.
'So, you're old, like before the Fall old?' she asked and he scratched at his face.
'Don't know what you're talking about,' he said and she frowned. His face lit up for a moment.
'You're from the bunker aren't you?' he asked, completely passing by the last subject and Uzi narrowed her eyes.
'And why would you like to know?' she asked herself and the man nervously chuckled.
'For reasons.'
'Oh maybe like killing and eating people sort of reason,' she said and he tried to keep his face neutral but it soon dropped into disappointment.
'I need to stop talking to you,' he said, more to himself and tried to push himself up again, the pile above shifted enough to drop some dust that settled but otherwise didn't let anything move off.
He frowned, realising the position he was in before looking back to her hopeful.
'Could you help me out?' he asked and Uzi laughed.
'You have got to be kidding me, yeah no,' she said and started to get back up. Something in his face fell before acceptance.
'Fair,' he muttered, dropping his chin into the dirt and she got herself up, brushing off some dirt that had settled on her earlier.
'I will be back tomorrow, hang tight,' she said and headed for the exit.
He lifted his head again, using his arm to prop himself up.
'Wait, you can't leave me here,' he called out in a panic and she nodded, starting to head out but stopped at the gun she almost abandoned to pack it away into her bag before continuing out.
'I need to get things to prove you exist so everyone doesn't just think I'm crazy.' she called out. 'Byeee.' She raced outside, into the fresh air.
Once outside she smiled in triumph, looking back for a moment before racing off back to the bunker doors.
Her heart pounding, quickly reminding her that she had a bag of junk and not fit enough to run the whole way back. Soon out of breath but smiling, it was at least the afternoon so it wouldn't be uncommon to be back a bit early.