10 Old Man Alfredo *

Sleeping in this new world is horrible. Throughout the night there was constant noise, sometimes it would be an animal roaring, other times it might just be a large animal passing by. Whatever it was constantly woke up the family, after all, they don't want to be eaten in their sleep.

When the light of day finally came it was extremely relaxing, seeing beams of sunlight shoot through the gaps between the tables and chairs.

It was 7:00 am when everyone was awake, Chloe was in the Roadhouse's kitchen using whatever was there to cook up a meal.

Lachlan yawned and finally got up, walking towards the kitchen he could smell baked beans, hash browns and sausages, causing his stomach to gurgle.

Sitting at the desk, Jack and Adam were already halfway into their meal, mowing it down as if it might be their last, which it might.

Sarah was on top of the desk, in a little self-made bed Chloe made for her.

Chloe walked out of the kitchen after she finished cleaning up, even though she knew very well that there wasn't a need to, just habits.

Rocky seemed to have been de-summoned throughout the night, which Jack explained that keeping it summoned mentally exhausted him. When he did de-summon him though there was nothing flashing, Rocky's body seemed to have been consumed by the shadows before merging with Jack's.

"Good morning Lachy," Chloe said walking up to Lachlan and giving him a bear hug.

"Morning mum," Lachlan replied.

"Anyway, get ready, we'll be going in 30 minutes," Chloe stated.

Lachlan nodded and begun eating breakfast, constantly looking through one of the unconcealed windows, trying to see if he can notice anything.

By the time Lachlan finished his breakfast, Chloe had already packed a few bags full of foods and drinks, mainly water.

Jack was removing all the tables and chairs used to barricade the door since he was the strongest one there.

After he had done so he grabbed some of the bags, Adam grabbed two bags and Sarah while Chloe was carrying a total of five bags. Lachlan was only carrying one bag filled with snacks.

Walking outside they noticed there were more animal corpses littered around the area. Some had missing heads, others had missing arms and legs, while there were a few that didn't have anything missing, meaning they probably died of poison.

Although after last night's incident they found it easier to stomach such a sight, Lachlan however, threw up again.

Looking around for their car they realised a massive scorpion corpse crushed it, the scorpion was about 3 metres long, light brown and missing its tail and a pincer.

Looking around they noticed a brown Toyota Hilux that was almost untouched, just having a few blood marks.

Checking the inside there was no one in there, and obviously, there were no keys in the ignition.

"Ah!" Adam shouted and stepped back.

Walking over Chloe questioned him, "What's wrong Adam".

"There's a man in the back," Adam replied.

Hearing that Chloe looked through the window, she quickly realised they were mostly covered but she quickly managed to find a gap.

Looking through she indeed saw a man, sleeping. He looked fairly old, maybe in his 50s, had a black well-trimmed beard with a few strands of grey. His hair was cut at a decent length and it had been pulled back. Knocking on the window she tried to get the man to wake, which failed.

Jack gave it a try, slamming on the metal caused a loud bang, shocking the man right awake.

Noticing there were people he opens the back and shouted angrily, "What are you doing?"

"We were just seeing if you were alive sir," Jack replied.

"There's no need to slam onto the car then boy, you can just knock," the old man stated.

"Tried it, failed, decided this would work," Jack said.

"Huh, well I suppose it did work," the old man said, getting out from the back of his car.

Finally seeing the old man properly shocked Lachlan, although he was old he had well-defined muscles covering his body, grey hair the descends to his shoulders and a few scars on his face. Not to mention he seemed to be about 6'7, towering over them. However, that's not the main reason he was shocked, but rather his stats.

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Name: Alfredo Jackson (Human)

Age: 57 (Teenager)

Soul Contracts: 1/5

Compatibility: Dogs (High), Wolfs (Moderate)

Level: 9

STR: 14(+11), AGI: 10(+12), VIT: 9(+9)

INT: 15(+3), PER: 17(+9), WIL: 16(+4)

Weakness: Foul Smells

Strengths: Accurate nose, and strong bite.

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This old man had some insane stats, Lachlan didn't even think human's natural stats could be so high, not to mention his bonus stats, he would have had to kill quite a few beasts.

However, that's not all, he also had a soul contract, which meant he had a tamed beast. Taking a closer look at the old man's body, Lachlan noticed the tattoo on his legs, most likely from the taming.

"Franklin!" The old man suddenly shouted, confusing the rest of the family. But then surprised them when his leg tattoo began to emit an extremely bright light, a large Wolf emerged from the light.

Gathering around it everyone finally managed to get a good look at it. It looked like a massive wolf with dark-grey fur that had a metallic shine on it. It was 2 - 3 metres tall when standing and about 5 - 6 metres long.

Lachlan quickly analysed it.

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Name: Franklin (Iron-Fur Dog)

Age: Adult

Attribute: Iron

Level: 5

STR: 40(+6),AGI: 37(+7),VIT: 25(+6)

INT: 24(+1),PER: 39(+5),WIL: 34

Weakness: Foul Smells

Strengths: Accurate nose, and strong bite.

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Seeing such stats made much more sense as to why the old man was able to survive. It also made Lachlan for some reason respect this stranger more, although he was old he was very strong.

"The names Alfredo, you can call me old man, old man Alfredo, or just stick with Alfredo, I don't mind. This is Franklin, he was an Australian Cattle Dog but changed into this after everything change," Alfredo said.