Akira is obedient and young, it makes me wonder how he got here. But I guess it still too early to ask something like that. It's not like you lose a hand every single day, right? I'll wait for the moment to come. 

For God’s sake! It smells horrible down here!

We've been searching for around 10 minutes, the others probably found each other and soon will start asking for the presence of the medic. I wonder if the soldier, at least the one that survived, counted how many people were inside the bus, if he did it, then he's going to make a recount. What if, when they start searching us, they found themselves with the...

-Ki... Kitt! -That stutter!

I follow the voice of Akira. 

-Where it is? 

There's nothing on his hand, Damian is at the side of Akira. 

-Is inside this blood clot. It looks like he's hiding.

-No doubt he is! He is so fucking tiny and adorable! Look, Kitt, I'm not mad, but, are there more of these guys? Because, it'll be sad for this little guy to be alone. 

Wait, are those, mews, what I heard? 

-Woah! Kitt, slow down I told you to take your leg easy!

-Damian, stand up!

-What it is now?

-You're crushing some of them!

-What?! No!! -Damian rapidly stands up. 

I drop myself into my knees and start moving away the blood clots. Akira starts to do the same, and seconds later, Damian joins us. 

I read about these things too. They are called "Cats", but not the one that you could find in the ruins, at first, they look like normal cats, their fur is white, their eyes are completely black, their size depends...but all their existence depends on their "Mother" who also has to be near here. This little cat over here his sleeping, one of them is awake. 

-Did any of you touched him?

-No. -The both of them answered.

-He looks so little and weak that I was afraid I could kill him.

-Yeah, same. -Damian said. 

Good, then the Mother still needs to be asleep.

-What are we supposed to do now?

I move another piece of blo...

-Fuck! 

A  Cat head from the size of my torso appears. I don't need anything more to know she is the Moth...

-What the fuck is that? -I don't recognize the voice!

As if our minds were connected, at least them, stand up and point at Chris and the others with their guns. I feel how the eyes of the Mother are glaring at me, and I don't fucking know if this is a part of my mind breaking or if it is real, but I see how the Mother moves her feet to protect her sleeping children, now, this is an opportunity to win her.

-Cats, what more idiot?

-Tsk, do I have to remember you that I am the reason why you're standing on your feet?

-Oh please. You wanted to kill me along him. -I point to Akira with my other hand. -I don't own you anything, so go fuck yourself.

-You and your group of cripples have some big balls. Don't you know who I am, dammit?!

-No. 

-No clue bud. -Damian said.

-Tsk. You, the no-hand, are you the medic? 

-Yes... 

-Put your fucking gun down and come take a look at my men. Some of them are hurt. And kill that fucking demon.

Akira stares at me, waiting to say something to him, or waiting for the cats to do something. But they just got here, some of them are dead. The Mother is still recovering herself, and she still needs to do...

-AGH, FUCK!!! FUCK!!! 

-Shit! 

My fucking leg! That bastard just shot at my fucking bad leg...!

The Mother started to stretch at the point she surrounded the body of Chris, his helmet started to get dirty with his own blood, I could see how his eye just pop out. His ribs hitted against the heavy vest and clothes. When she dropped Chris, his blood gave such splash that woke up the asleep cats. Right, now I remember, they are divided in two species: Cats, and Centipede Cats. Looks like we got both of them.

The two guys who were behind Chris ran away. The Mother rest her head in the blood, her "torso" started to raise, showing us holes where Cats were sleeping, one of them jumped to Akira and started to purr. 

-Kitt... What do I do...?

-Pet him! -Damian screamed.

-Go on... I don't think she'll do anything to you. 

It was a friendly attack, and it also hadn't any recharge, so the shot only made pressure against the wound I had before. Now, the real pain in the ass will be the disaster the others will be stuck in, by itself we were already bad organized, now what are we supposed to do.

-Kitt, I have an idea. What if, we go and kill Clerish with the Cats? 

-Damian... Are you dumb? Look at their size, plus, they just got born... 

-We'll have to wait a couple more of hours, their body size will increase. You guys... can help me stand up?

-Of course.

Akira puts the Cat inside the holes and this one rolls himself and falls asleep. 

-We have to bury the ones that are dead in the blood. There's a possibility they could wake up. 

-Poor guys. 

-Akira, can you check the leg, please?

-Yeah... Kitt, do you think the others will give us their back?

-Yep, but that's the only thing they can do. 

-But we can't do anything, just the three of us...

-We are not three anymore, right, Kitt? -Damian once again decided to join the conversation.

-They'll still need us, though. It is more dangerous to go without a medic. It may be cruel, but if they decide to give us their back, then we'll just leave the injured ones to die, at least the ones that swear to stay by our say will live.

-Eh...? Kitt, you have a Cat in your wound. 

He's so tiny... He tried to protect me, filling the wound with his body, but ended dying from the pressure of the shot. 

I grab the corpse of the Cat to bury it on the blood near the Mother. Fuck... the rain seems to be getting worse, and a frost is falling on us. At this rate, they're going to die. 

When I thought this was a lost of time, the Mother started to cover all the Cats inside the holes on her stomach. She looks at Damian, waiting for him to do something, but then he looks at me. 

-Kitt, you know more about demons, what does he want?

Fuck, what do I know?

I put my hands on the blood and try to stand up, Akira puts his hands on my shoulders. 

-Kitt, please, you have to rest, if you keep forcing your leg like that...then you could end losing it.

Whatever... 

Akira slowly started to push me back to the blood. 

-According to the current weather, she probably wants us to carry her to a place of more warmth. But as you can see, she's from the size of the three of us combined.

-Oh, didn't know she was a female. Whatever, we could drag her to a cave or something with these things, maybe? -Damian takes metal strings along a Controller, looks like he wasn't the scout.

While Damian and Akira drags the Mother with the strings, I'll go and try to make a deal with the others.