Chapter 8: Kick Bubblegum and Chew A*s

You head down the darkened path, ever ready to swing your axe. You hear faint sounds of crawling and mumbling. 

Suddenly, something leaps out at you and knocks you to the ground. You back up and quickly clamber to your feet.  Before you stands a  deplorable object of a man. His skin is a cold gray color and cracked and dried out in several places. 

His eyes have an animal look in them as he growls at you, bearing a row of filthy teeth filed into points. He is dressed in a tattered blue jumpsuit with the words MAINTENANCE embroidered on it.  He is holding a length of steel pipe that is dented on one end and caked in dried blood.

"Yer a long way from yer hole mousey." He grumbles out in a deranged voice.

He swings his pipe but you jump to the side and swing your axe upwards into his chest.

You hear wet thump and a sickening crack as the figure falls backward.

You look at you axehead. It's covered in shiny, bluish-black blood.

The Gray is clutching his wound, swearing and whimpering.

He looks at with a mixture of rage and fear.

You ready the axe for the killing blow.

You feel like saying something witty before you kill it.

What do you say?

What do you do afterward?

Reviews

[StarNinja]

Love the title of this by the way.
Okay, so we have a Gray Maintenance guy who's just been axed by the MC. Here's the one-liner. Ready?
Hey, Hell froze over and they need you to go fix the thermostat.
Or
You have my sympathy.... And my AXE!!! *LOTR Reference ftw*
Or
Maintain this!
Or
While this has been a stimulating encounter, I'm afraid I'm going to have to cut it short. Get it? CUT it short? No? Okay, I'm chopping your head off now.
Or
*While air guitaring with the axe and in the voice of Bon Scott*
You're on the Highway to Hell!!!!
After that, take a piece of him back to Rico or whatever the hell her name is and then steal her pistol and shoot her in the a*s for being such a b***h to you before.

[northern monkey]

This hits me as well-written and engaging, but not really my genre. Nice job J.R.

[Detective Watts]

Something about it being an axciting fight?