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My favorite steel toys

They all ran after Blade , their feet pounding loudly on the pavements .

As they ran forward , the whirring from the golem grew louder .

The golem sounded enraged and on a rampage .

May took out her guns as they rounded the corners of a deserted street and came face to face with the golem .

It stood in the middle of the street and had successfully destroyed about half of the houses on the street .

It was looking at them with it's freak of eyes shaking quietly, but even though it was looking at them , it refused to turn it's attention away from the house that it was currently tearing apart .

Jade nudged him from behind and Dean turned to look at him .

Jade pointed towards one of the house windows .

The curtain was drawn back and someone was peering out , it must have chased someone through the street .

Dean signalled for Jade to move back and hide , Jade handed him the bow and did as he instructed .

Dean waited till he had gone far enough before turning his attention back to the golem .

" Do you see the person in the window ? "

Blade nodded and he got no answer from May .

He turned to see her looking over the building or trying to look really , she was squinting badly .

" May , it's the middle window on the ground floor ".

She focused her attention there and nodded .

" I see the curtain is raised ".

She couldn't see the person's face ?

No wonder she had been leading them awkwardly last night .

He wondered just how bad her eyesight was , she was probably uncomfortable .

" We need to get the golem away from the house and coming towards us ".

" I could use a grenade ".

May tutted .

" Haven't you learnt anything Blade ? The golems prefer to fight long ranges , throwing a grenade from this far might not harm it and then it would already have one of its weapon ready to turn us into ground beef ".

" May's right , We need from get it to come closer to us ".

The golem stopped groaning and lifted its hand , the hand began to morph .

" Let's get closer ".

They were all running in plain sight of the golem, focused on other things like slotting arrows in the bows hatch when May yelled , cursing loudly at the same time that the whirring loudly intensified .

Dean looked up and saw the cause of the noise .

The Golem's hand had settled into the revolving gun and now it's other hand had began to whir as it began to morph .

Shit! This was bad .

Even in the journal , only one of the arms had been labelled as weaponry .

Was this an exception to all of the other golems ?

Or had all the golems always had two weaponized arms had just chosen not to use it ?

This was infinitesimally bad .

" Let's split up . Blade , you go to the right and cause as much damage . May , you do the same to it's left , I'll work my way from it's middle up ".

They split up their horizontal formation just as the other arm slowly settled into the dreaded rocket launcher .

" Be careful guys ".

They were already far gone and the noise from the onslaught of bullets from the revolving gun had drowned out Dean's voice .

When Dean had reached beneath the golem , he lifted his bow to shoot but was flung back from the force of the steel releasing a grenade .

His head hit the asphalt and pain blossomed behind him , reminding Dean that he had an outstanding head injury already .

May's loud cheering came from his side as she began to laugh hysterically .

If she was laughing like that , she was probably running out of options on what to do .

There was no time for Dean to lie around , nursing his head .

Dean got up and slung the bow behind him after removing the two arrows he had wanted to shoot off .

He ran back between the legs of the golem and with the first arrow , he jumped and stabbed the sinewy part of the golems leg .

Since the golem could not feel pain , it did not pay attention as Dean stabbed it higher with the other arrow and transferred his weight to that arrow .

He pulled out the previous arrow and stabbed higher .

The stabbing spots where limited and far between because of the amount of exposed sinews on the golems body .

The next available sinew was too high off but Dean had to make it because he had already come too far .

If he failed to stab properly , he would plummet to the ground .

He pulled out the previous arrow and exhaled softly before jumping .

An explosion shook the golem just as he was about to stick the arrow in it causing Dean to lose his balance and fall .

Blade ! f**k !

Dean pushed his body forward and immediately reached out for anything to grab on to .

He caught hold of the arrow that he had jumped from and held on to it waiting .

The smoke from the golem cleared and it immediately began to pour out bullets from both arms .

Dean could not hear May or Blade anymore , he hoped that it was only because he was far from the ground .

Dean regained his footing and momentum and began to stab up the golems body .

Finally , Dean Stood on the shoulder of the golem but he had no time to enjoy the scenery .

He climbed up the jaws and the bridge of the nose , finally the Golem noticed him .

Its freak eyes crossed as it tried to look down its nose at Dean , but Dean had no time to play house .

" It's a bright , sunny day , isn't it ?"

Dean jumped again , but this time when he jumped , he was holding arrows in both hands .

When he landed , he was In the space between the golem's eyes and its eyes were pouring out mush .

Dean brought out a grenade he had taken earlier from Blade, he pulled the pin only halfway and forced the grenade into the golems eye socket , within the mush of the eye ball.

He slid down to the shoulders and ran behind the head , stuck his arrows into the back and pushed himself forward with as much force as he could gather .

He slid down the golems bumpy back while yelling .

" Get away from the golem ".

" Get the f**k away from the f*****g steel ".

He wasn't as fortunate though .

His propelling force slowed down just before he reached the golem's shin , leaving Dean hanging on his arrows just a moment before the top half of the golem exploded .

Dean got his much needed propelling force after all.

He was propelled off the golem and again , on to the asphalt .

Dean cringed as he imagined his head turning into a bowl of mush.

When Dean opened his eyes again , he could hear sniffling and he wasn't on the hard asphalt ground anymore.

He sat up and saw five people hunched over his bow , touching it .

" What are you guys doing ? "

They all whirled around and Dean gasped , they all had horrible looking faces .

Dean realized a moment later that it was their crying faces and two strangers had joined them , a female and a male .

May rushed towards him .

" We thought you were dead !!! ".

Dean rolled his eyes .

" Did any of you think to check if I was breathing ? "

Blade came closer and examined Dean's head .

" We all saw you fall and just made deductions ".

Dean scoffed , deductions , really ?

" Are they the ones from the house ?"

He nodded at the strangers as he asked .

Jade nodded, he was smiling .

" I got them out while you were fighting and I tried to tell them that you were not dead but it seemed like they had been looking for an excuse to cry for a while ".

Dean pushed himself off his feet and walked to where his bow lay , he picked it up and slung it over his shoulders.

May looked up at him and Dean quickly looked away , she needed to wipe her tears really fast.

He bent down and grabbed her arm , pulling her up with him .

" What are you doing ? "

Dean blinked as he looked around them , everyone was looking at him like he was the weird one , when they were the forgetful ones.

" What ? Aren't we getting food anymore ? I'm starving ".