21 Lizard Enthusiast *

"Hey you guys! What are you doing in the open?" Alfredo asked.

"We're hunting!" Hunter shouted.

Everyone on the Rocs nodded before descending, they all landed in front of the six people and sized them up. Of course, they did the same, sizing up Lachlan's group.

"So are you guys the only ones left?" Alfredo asked.

"Indeed, there were a few others, but they've already got in their cars and drove off, hoping to get to a city," Luke explained while clenching his fist, he begun berating the people that left in a harsh voice, "They left us to die, only taking themselves and whatever items they could. There was enough room for us, even if we had to be separated in different cars it would have worked out eventually, but no, they only cared for themselves".

They all felt some sympathy for this group, after all, they were the same in that they only took themselves. However, they didn't feel guilty, this new world doesn't wait for anyone and it certainly isn't a place for soft-hearted people.

"It's alright, we could probably take up with us. However, it's on the condition that you help us should a fight start, okay?" Chloe said.

"That's perfectly fine for us, we just want to get out of here," Luke said.

"What's so bad about this place?" Alfredo asked.

"Well there probably isn't enough food and water to survive for a long period of time, the people that drove away took whatever they could from the stores. There's also this heat. Although we can survive in it, constantly fighting whatever beast decides to show up is exhausting us," Luke explained.

"Okay, well, we'll rest here for a bit as the birds need to rest. We'll also salvage whatever we can from the stores, probably find some bags to put food in," Alfredo said.

"Sure, we'll lead you to the stores," Luke said.

We began to walk down the road towards the central area, there wasn't much happening, although there were corpses everyone's adapted to the putrid smell and gruesome sight already.

It didn't take long, only 5 minutes to reach our destination, an IGA. Walking inside everyone looked around and inspected what was salvageable. There was a lot of water, bags of chips and some sweets. Although there was a lot of different seasoning, the meat in the fridges has already gone off.

Jack went behind one of the counters and grab a bunch of shopping bags, giving one or two out to everyone.

The first thing everyone grabbed was some water and a lot of it, enough to last us plenty of days even in this unbearable heat.

"We'll need some hats and sunscreen, the sun is beginning to reach its peak," Chloe said, "Although the air around the birds is calm and cool the same can't be said about the sun, we don't want anyone burning".

Everyone walked over to the selection of hats available, some grabbed bucket hats while others grabbed caps. Everyone then walked to the sunglasses, grabbing whatever fit and looked alright.

Chloe gave everyone a large bottle of sunscreen to use.

Lachlan quickly told Chloe that he was going to the toilet before jogging over. Opening up the door and quickly looking around Lachlan noticed the toilet was still in good condition, there were no corpses.

When Lachlan finished he went over to the sink to wash his hands and noticed his reflection in the mirror. Taking a closer look he realised he looked a bit manlier, masculine.

"Analyse".

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Name: Lachlan Wilson (Half-Human, Half-???)

Age: 9 (Kid)

Soul Contracts: 1/5

Compatibility: Winged Beasts (Perfect)

Level: 14

STR: 12(+21), AGI: 11(+21), VIT: 50(+30)

INT: 13(+12), PER: 9(+9), WIL: 20(+6)

Weakness: None

Strengths: Lightning speeds and an absolute crushing grip

Descript: A unique being birth between a human and ???, due to the ??? bloodline getting contaminated with a weaker bloodline it caused some of the ??? special characteristics to malfunction. However, due to the ??? bloodline, the body is still stronger than a normal human even at a young age.

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'Huh, well at least this confirms that the three birds only take up 1 Soul Contract, and it also gives a slight description of my father's bloodline,' Lachlan thought. However, what made Lachlan most proud was his stats. After all, three very strong beasts certainly add up to the bonus stats. Now he could protect himself and the people around him.

Walking out he saw everyone gathered together talking.

"So, we forgot to introduce our selves, I'm Alfredo this is Franklin".

"I'm Chloe, don't have a tamed beast".

"I'm Jack, this is Rocky".

"I'm Adam, this is Shadow".

"I'm Dylan, this is Fast and Slow".

Lachlan quickly ran up to the group to introduce himself.

"Hey! I'm Lachlan, this is Calamity, Disaster, and Catastrophe".

"Huh, well those are some terrifying names, anyway, I'm Luke, this is my twin brother Adam and my tamed beast Mike," said Luke.

"I'm Adam as mentioned by Luke and this is my beautiful beast Yeet!" said Adam.

"I'm Hunter Stephen, this is Trick," said Hunter.

The girl came forward to introduce herself, "Hey! I'm Mia Stephen, Hunter's older sister and this is my beautiful companion Mamba".

This time it was Emily to come forward and introduce herself, "Hi there, I'm Emily Hans, just like Chloe I don't have a tamed beast of my own".

The last person was the youngest guy in their group, but instead of introducing himself he ran up to Jack and held both his hands up high, "So you've tamed lizards too, nice to meet a fellow lizard tamer, the names Ryley and I have four lizards one of which you've already met before which was which was surprising. Summon Ambush, Ninja, and Scan!"

Three of the tattoos Ryley had lit up, two were on his leg while one was on his face. In front of them appeared three more lizards, two of which looked exactly like the previous one. However, one of them looked entirely different. It was only 20cm long and 3 – 5cm wide.

"Analyse".

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Name: Ambush (Trickster Lizard)

Age: Adult

Attribute: Rock

Level: 15

STR: 22(+25), AGI: 38(+28), VIT: 35(+27)

INT: 24(+7), PER: 27(+13), WIL: 20(+6)

Weakness: Weak defence

Strengths: Strong teeth, claws and can camouflage

Description: A lizard that evolved to earn the ability of camouflage, which completely erases its presence from anything. Due to its body relying on camouflage it doesn't have much strength.

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Name: Ninja (Trickster Lizard)

Age: Adult

Attribute: Rock

Level: 15

STR: 21(+25), AGI: 35(+28), VIT: 35(+27)

INT: 25(+7), PER: 25(+13), WIL: 21(+6)

Weakness: Weak defence

Strengths: Strong teeth, claws and can camouflage

Description: A lizard that evolved to earn the ability of camouflage, which completely erases its presence from anything. Due to its body relying on camouflage it doesn't have much strength.

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Name: Scan (Detection Lizard)

Age: Adult

Attribute: Rock/Wind/Water

Level: 15

STR: 10(+25), AGI: 12(+28), VIT: 30(+27)

INT: 30(+7), PER: 80(+13), WIL: 25(+6)

Weakness: Weak defence

Strengths: Complete camouflage, undetectable even through special skills, able to detect anything within a 20km range through its sense of sight, smell and hearing.

Description: A lizard that evolved to earn the ability of complete camouflage, which completely erases its presence from anything and together paired with its detecting ability it's almost impossible to find let alone kill.

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