Nightshift 34: Main Hallway, 1-West

[hajike-tobiume.livejournal.com]

[from here]

The shinigami padded silently down the hallway, keeping to the left-side wall and her hand upon her sword's hilt. Her eyes scanned the area surorunding her as she continued on to the next hallway, especially the nurses' stations as she neared them. This would be a horrible time for her to get attacked by a nurse or two. Thankfully, the halls were empty, btu she didn't drop her guard. She knew better.

Almost there.

[to here]

Comments

[jokers-wildcard.livejournal.com]

This was exactly she was trying to head for that shack outside in the first place. Harley was completely unarmed! Even a rake would have been better than nothing. Using the flashlight might have been a good enough solution for a person, but she wasn't sure what it would do up against a cat.

...What was a cat doing in there, anyway? And not just any cat, but a monsterous freak cat not even that CatChick could love. First monster bugs and now monster cats?! Like it wasn't complicated enough worrying about security guards, and orderlies, and grumpy patients who stand in the middle of the hallway for no reason.

Speaking of said grumpy patient, he had actually been able to kick MonstroKitty away. Impressive as that was, it didn't seem to want to stay down and somehow managed to get back up. It was about here that Harley realized they should probably be making a run for it already.

She scrambled to get up from the floor as fast as possible, but even as she did so, she could see that thing charging right for her again. She wouldn't even be able to make it all the way to a standing position before it pounced on her at this rate, let alone turn around and run successfully.

Purely out of instinct, Harley ducked her head down a little and lifted both arms up in a futile attempt to protect herself.

[damned-monsters.livejournal.com]

With its prey was so close it could almost already taste it, the cat wasn't willing to let anything stop it. Now that it knew that the other human was a threat, it was more ready for possible attacks.

Besides, a cat's strength was in its speed and reflexes, and though something cold was heading right for it, the creature managed to skid across the floor and get out of the way while continuing to head right for the female.

Seeing how the feline was already rather low to the ground, the patient's attempt to shield herself didn't do much good. Once close enough, the cat leaped in the air right for the girl's chest, intending to knock her back.

[icy-demise.livejournal.com]

So now the cat was going to dodge his attacks? It figured that it'd dodge the more important one, normally he would've just followed up with another blast but he couldn't just do that all night like he had once been able to.

Punching was out of the option, so SubZero chased after the cat, jumping and twisting his body mid-air to add leverage and momentum to his next kick. The girl apparently made for a really good distraction. In fact, so far she was as good at keeping the cat's attention as HK was keeping the bird-monsters.

Why, he had no idea, unless the cats had a taste for women. Or fear, perhaps.