The Wild Apocalypse (Post-Apocalyptic Wild West Rp, PM Interest)

It is Earth the year 2740, humanity has left the planet they have ruined in their gluttonous greeds and desires, the once beautiful planet is only a hollowed core of its former self. Over a hundred years ago had humanity escaped the dying planet, leaving over half of their population amongst the ruins. But the remaining people survived amazingly enough amongst the desert lands of the planet, but it is a harsh land, the deserts are vast and makes it hard to grow proper food, many rely on artificial ration pills created from factories, they have no taste and nor do they keep your belly full, but they give you enough needed nutrition to survive.

In the lands of America have people returned back to the age of the wild west, the use of high quality weapons no longer usable because of the lack of technology to manufacture them, thus the old guns were once more the prime weapon of the times, although mixed with solar powered vehicles and other types of inventions drawing power from the strong sunlight.

Among the lands of Arizona are people trying to make large herds of cattle to earn a profit and get food for the people that don't leave you hungry. Among these cattle breeders are there a danger known to many, thieves, bandits, desperadoes and many others, thus the hiring of cowboys and mercenaries have become a local thing for them. Of course the cattle in question is not cows as they died out over five hundred years ago, instead it is animals that have evolved from mutations or genetic experiments and become part of the local ecosystem to replace the dying species.

One of the most successful cattle breeders are the MacThane family wh owns more then one third of the total amount of cattle in America, the MacThane family is a big family of many brothers, sisters and cousins working together to maintain the prosperity of their work. Their parents making up the MacThane family's leadership, a sort of council of elders if you want to call it that. One of the younger sisters of the family, who is only about twenty years old, is the beautiful Julia MacThane who works in keeping one of the main herds safe, many people have asked for her hand in marriage as to be part of the Macthane family will result in instant fame and riches, the fact that the woman was sexy as sin was not bad either.

Currently she is taking the herd through the mountain plains, near the small town of Jefferson's Creek, where many hopeful young men will try to get a job as cowboys for the cattle breeders. One of these young men is an eighteen years old near boy named Richard Blackwood, he is partly afro american but his heritage is hidden by the fact that he has several european genes in his blood as well, he is not black skinned as he instead has a bronze like tan. But while he doesn't look very much like he has an afro american heritage at the glances will you notice if you look closer that he does have the body structure of one even if he's not very tall, a 5'5" tall muscular young man who looks like a small ox. His head shaved bald, a thin brown beard growing from his unshaved chin. He wears a black hard leather hat with brown rims, a black t-shirt, a brown leather jacket with chain-mail in the seems to protect from bullets, thick brown leather pants and a pair of black boots, he has a heavy magnum on the holster on his dark green snake belt, several throwing knives and a pair of large combat daggers.

He watches as the herd is driven to the fields and sees how the cowboys and their beasts circle them, forcing them into their place, before starting to put up camp, a small group of the cowboys riding into town to trade some of the cattle for supplies and cash. Jumping down from the rock he had been sitting on Richard walked off towards the town's court house, in which the mayor lived as well.

OOC: Young man gets hired as cowboy by a beautiful woman, they ride across the lands, dangers and mysterious afoot, attraction growing between them until it becomes more then that. PM Interest or suggestions.

These were tough times. As far back as I can remember, just surviving was the best any day could go. Luckily for me, I was much better off than most people. In these lands of Arizona, the MacThane family- My family - owns a large portion of the cattle so desperately sought. My family and I ruled over our land, taking any means necessary to protect. Unfortunately, that means mercenaries.

Here I am, just twenty years old with the responsibility of keeping a herd safe. Not just any herd, but one of the largest. Perhaps my parents thought I was capable? I didn't really like to lead, as I was the type to follow others more. But, whatever makes ends meet, I suppose.

Many men have offered to marry me over the course of my life but I wasn't dumb- I knew it was an attempt to inherit part of the herd. That being said, I never fell for such tricks.

I was taking my herd through Jefferson's Creek. I didn't like it, but I had to...

Things weren't going so well and I needed to find a good guard to help out. Just then I saw him. Something about him told me that he was just the type of man I was looking for and definitely looked like he wasn't afraid of danger.

"You there!" I exclaimed, going to the stranger. "Think you can help me out?"

Richard, who was walking towards the court house stopped at the voice and turned around with curious look in his eyes, the beautiful woman who had called out for him was one of those who had just entered town. He could see she was a beauty but not one of those fragile looking women, no this was a strong woman. "Yes how may I help you?" He asked in a polite voice ,his hands in his pockets.

It was probably to ask for directions, even though the courthouse was the gathering point of newcomers was it not easy to tell which building was which. The mayor was the one who kept eyes on the people, everybody who could work, fight, their skill, backgrounds and even their racial heritage was written up, a way to keep genes from getting mixed up too much by too close relations, fresh blood was always welcome.

"Yes how may I help you?" he asked me in the most polite tone, with his hands in his pockets. I wasn't sure if he was expecting me to hire him, but I went straight to the point anyway.

"I have to be frank." I said, looking around to get a good view of where I was. I then continued on "I need to hire a cowboy- a mercenary. Things aren't easy around here."

I then remembered that I forgot to introduce myself. "I'm sorry." I said, now looking at him again, extending my arm. "I'm Julia MacThane."

Grasping the hand of the taller woman Richard chuckled a little before he spoke up. "I am Richard Blackwood, just your average youngster with no real set future for himself. I'd be glad to accept your offer but I hope you do realize that you need to register my name to your family's worker register in the mayor's office." Jerking a thumb towards the building he had been heading towards Richard spoke up again. "That's the courthouse where the mayor lives. He handles all external affairs of the town, frankly I thought it was like that everywhere, but then again I've never been outside this town's fields so I probably have little knowledge." The young man then noticed a young woman walking out of the court house with a ragged hair and clothes and sighed. "And to warn you, the mayor is a major pervert who got too eager hands for a man in his late seventies, though for some reason he keeps charming the women of the town. So you better keep your hands ready to make sure he doesn't get ideas, he's not a bad man, just very perverted." He then led Julia to the courthouse and opened the door for her. "Ladies first."

"Ah yes the mayor..." I said, now realize the process to register a mercenary. I was hoping that he would be the type of doing things under the table, but it was reassuring that he was legit, nonetheless.

"Ladies first." he said, holding the door.

"Why thank you." I say going in.

It didn't take us long to be greeted by a much older man, who looked like he ran a marathon.

"Hi there beautiful." he said, giving a quick glare at Richard then back at me. "I take it you would like to register?"

"Yes we would." I said.

"Well then come in, come in." the mayor said, motioning us in. Taking Richards advice seriously, I proceeded very cautiously.

Richard sat down on one of the chairs in the office, the mayor was leering on the beautiful Julia as he did every woman, but he kept his fingers to himself at the moment, he wasn't too much of a letch when business was afoot, probably the only reason he made mayor is his great sense for business and trade. "Well then Miss MacThane, we have several available youngsters who needs to do something in their lives, along with some middle aged well hardened fellows who knows their way around. A total of individuals available is forty six, including young Richard here."

The fat mayor then stood up from his chair and pulled out a pair of folders from a drawer and handed it to Julia with a grin. "We also offer payment for trade for some of your cattle, we have several wares that might interest you, not just including water, medicine, furs and the likes that you will need on your journey. We also have spices, alcohol, vegetables and plenty of iron ore from the mountain mines." Richard watched as the two barted and after an hour he was a new registered mercenary, or cowboy as they put it, for Julia MacThane's herd security.

Exitting the office Richard finally let out a chuckle he had spared and looked at julia with a smirk. "I didn't think he'd be able to keep his hands for so long, the fact that he waited until you left to touch your body directly speaks a lot of how he was controlling himself. And that mule kick to the crotch was just what he deserved. But I hope you won't give me any of those, I want to have kids." He stated with a wink before adjusting his belt a little, promising himself to by a cod piece for extra safety. "At any rate Miss MacThane, what do you need me to do until we leave?"

The barters went better than expected, I have to say. I managed to get my hands on quite a few supplies, the most important being medicine as you never know what might happened during these dark times. Before I knew it, I had the papers that was used as proof that Richard would work for the farms.

His caution turned out to be true, as when we were about the leave, the dirty old man grabbed my ass. I was quick though, to kick him hard between the legs and run out with the new mercenary.

I laughed at his comment and right away, I knew that he wasn't all that bad.

"At any rate Miss MacThane, what do you need me to do until we leave?" he asked.

"Just get everything you need ready now and we'll be on our way." I replied.

"All right, I have a horse waiting at the stable, raised her myself." Walking over to the stables he pulled out a regular sized but very muscular looking brown stallion, getting the saddle on along with his gear, supplies and backpack strapped to the saddle he got up on the horse and rode towards the camp of the cowboys. The herd was made up by a kind of odd looking creature that he hadn't seen before, he spotted Julia getting off her own horse at the camp, the night was coming and it wouldn't be safe to leave durign the night as many cattle thieves and wild beasts lurks among the mountains.

"Hey boss, is there any free pace for my tent or should I just sleep beneath the stars?" He asked as he got off his horse and looked around the full campsite, the tents were put up and the men were eating and drinking, while others were taking patrols guarding the herd. The young man noticed that he was the only guy from the town, though it kind of fitted as the locals were not very useful for struggles outside of the occasional barfight, while he had practiced many times to be good at it.

I was surprised to see a mercenary of all people, having taken good care of a horse. I smiled upon seeing it as I was a sort of gift to tell when a horse is happy or not.

"Alright! We're off!"

The journey so far has been pleasant but we didn't move as much as I've liked and obviously, we needed to set up camp for tonight. Everything took their positions and we got ready for the night.

"Hey boss, is there any free pace for my tent or should I just sleep beneath the stars?"

"By all means Richard." I said. Most cowboys wouldn't have bothered asking. "You know Richard, you aren't so bad after all."

"Well you haven't really gotten the time to know me Boss, but I will take it as a compliment." Richard stated with a smirk as he set up the tent right next to hers, by coincidence of course as he didn't knwot iw as her tent, before crawling inside where he rolled out his sleeping bag. Exiting the tent he went over to his horse and made sore to feed him a bag of feeding from his supplies, there was around thirty more to go and even then the horse could live off the grass of a single fields for weeks.

He decided to do some evening exercises before supper, getting onto the ground he began to do several exercises to get his sweat flowing ,he had pulledo ff his hirt to ensure he didn't get it smelly, there was a river by the camp so it wasn't too hard to clean the sweat off. As he pumped his body through the exercises he didn't notice a pair of feminine eyes traveling across his sweating body as he pumped out his sweat through every pore.

"Well you haven't really gotten the time to know me Boss, but I will take it as a compliment.

I nodded and smile before heading to my tent. Eventually I would go out, seeing Richard feed his horse and such. "Well, he isn't bad with horses at all." I thought to myself, as the horse didn't seem cautious at all taking food. At least, not from him.

My eyes quickly caught his incredibly well toned body as he did his workout. I watched for a while until I shook out any thoughts on the matter out of my head and walked back inside.

As the evening came Richard had cleaning himself up and was eating some roughly made but still very tasty stew, the cowboys were discussing the herd and the recent discovery about a handful of cattle disappearing during the night. They were considering it to be theft as no blood had been discovered, and the beasts they were raising as cattle were large six legged pigs that looked like a mixture of ox and wild boar, large hooved legs, curved horns, large snot and two large tusks, with a two feet whil like tail. Taking a sip of his waterbottle the young cowboy looked out at the herd, wondering if there actually was anything that could kill one of those things, even the larger predators of the mountains would have a trouble handling so many herd animals as they would panic if attacked.

His eyes the narrowed as he could have sword he just saw one of the cattle, sink into the ground, but it had been s ofast he didn't know it was possible, there were no such beasts in the mountain ranges. While he was standing there looking over his shoulder at the herd Richard raised his water bottle to close it only for it to hit the underside of a large pair of tits and splash cool water over them. Turning his head swiftly he found himself looking at Julia with herwhite top splashed with water. "A-ah sorry boss I didn't see you."

The night was uneasy.

I had learned that quite a few of our cattle had been disappearing during the night, which was rather worrisome. That being said, like most people here, I grabbed my weapon of choice; my pistol, and headed outside. Over the distance, I noticed Richard and was right about to ask him what he could tell me about the situation when suddenly his water bottle hit my breasts and the water going all over my shirt, revealing my bra and cleavage.

"A-ah sorry boss I didn't see you."

I grunted in annoyance but quickly snapped back to the situation at hand.

"It's...alright. What do know of the situation?"

"There's something or someone grabbing the beasts. It is most likely thieves but we cannot be sure, we haven't spotted any of the cattle leaving the herd nor anyone approaching it, they just, vanish, not even a sign of blood." One of the cowboys stated as he walked over, a rough beard on his soot covered face.

Richard thought for a moment and began to compare what he had seen to what they knew, something was taking the beasts, but they didn't leave the herd. They just disappeared... disappeared. Practically snapping his head upwards Richard looked at the herd and frowned. "I am not sure if it is correct but if it is what I am hoping it isn't then the entire herd is in danger. We will need two buckets of blood to draw it out if it is what it is." Julia looked at him for a moment before nodding and ordered two buckets forth, I grasp the buckets and move towards an open patch of ground at least one hundred feet from the herd and there I pour the blood onto the ground and swiftly move back, drawing my revolvers, waiting.

Someone was taking the beasts? I wasn't too sure of that. Normally, we would have heard something in the campsite; such a cry from one of the cattle, or maybe even a gunshot. This wasn't normal, whatever it was.

"I am not sure if it is correct but if it is what I am hoping it isn't then the entire herd is in danger. We will need two buckets of blood to draw it out if it is what it is." Richard said and was a good plan. After all, even if nothing were to happened, we could rule it out and search the grounds for thieves.

It didn't take long for me to get those buckets. A few of the cowboys looked at me as if I was crazy, but the deed was done.

"Here you go." I said, handing the buckets to the new guy.

Richard stepped back from the circle of blood as he felt a slight tremor in the earth and swiftly stepped back and the others drew their weapons, he spoke as the ground began to vibrate. "Okay keep back, I can feel the earth trembling, no doubt about it it's a slurp worm. Aim for its body they are big but their hides are relatively weak against bullets." Slurpworms were large underground dwelling snake like monsters that had been mutated from regular snakes, they were slimy and their heads were like a snakes only that the jaws were covered by long tendrils which they used to weaken the earth beneath their prey before slurping it down with the tentacles, the earth instantly hardening in seconds by the chemicals of the worm's saliva that covers its tendrils.

The massive thing burst out of the ground, it was easily thirty feet tall, it was a relatively small slurp worm, they normally grew up to fifty to sixty feet. Firing his guns at the beast as its head wiggled around trying to determine where the bloody prey was, slurp worms were blind and hunted by scent and touch, when they smelled and tasted fresh blood but no the physical prey they would erupt through the earth and try to find the wounded prey, this is when they are at their most vulnerable.

To my surprise, the ground began to shake. I wasted no time pulling out my pistol but was quickly warned by my trusted mercenary.

"Okay keep back, I can feel the earth trembling, no doubt about it it's a slurp worm. Aim for its body they are big but their hides are relatively weak against bullets."

That being said, I took a few steps back and to my horror, I saw a slurp worm for the first time. It was a disgusting creature, even among mutated cattle. It seemed to look around for something, therefore I hasted to shoot at the beast, hoping that we could kill it before it would escape or worse; attack one of us.

The bullets penetrated the hide of the worm and it let out a gluttonous groan of pain and began to trash around, thick crimson fluids began to leak out of its body and it tried to slap itself around to stop the pain. "We are well out of its range just keep shooting! it will dry out soon enough!" Slurpworms had a high metabolism that made them unable to go without eating for more then a day and even then it is only after they have consumed around five hundred pounds of meat, including the bones and organs.

The worm soon collapsed and its once large and full body looked like an emptied water balloon, its skeleton showing as the skin and muscles sagged, the beast dead within moments and its remains would bring nutrition to the earth. "It's over, slurpworms bleed very easily and enough wounds and they dry out. but it is strange slurpworms are only located in texas in the north america, it shouldn't have migrated this far."

OOC: Do not forget the other rp.

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