He sat by a fire within an old fishing hut, chains hung from the ceiling, gently, swaying with the wind that crept through the cracks in the rotting planked wall.
Alpha had flown from Dover to Newcastle without much incidence, occasionally flying low when he saw a group off dactyls flying nearby, the giant vulture like creatures, wouldn't care his aircraft was made from metal, they were extremely aggressive, almost hairless, sharp talons curved and about a foot long. It's beak jagged along its edges like a buzz saw. They had a nasty habit of pulling appendages and limbs from its prey, wounding them but not killing straight away. Alpha had pondered why that was, wether it was to keep the kill fresher for longer, or for the young to practice on, or maybe they were just god damned cruel. Neither would surprise Alpha in this new world, where even the most innocent looking plant would poison you with a venom, that would cause your body to turn inside out.
He had refuelled, and set of towards Iceland, a compass was no good anymore, with these electromagnetic storms, but he had good reference points as long as the shore was in sight, and traveled during the day so he could see the sun, it would have been a risk at night.
Once he had reached Iceland and emptied the random assorted containers onboard full of fuel into the helicopters tank, he had set off on the last leg of the journey. He knew he had just enough fuel to make the journey, just. But he had to avoid a storm and the winds were against him, all resulted in him travelling further than he hoped.
After he went down the water was freezing, it sapped him of his breath and his energy but he knew it was swim or die. The funny thing is, it wasn't the cold that worried him as he swam, but the things that lurked in the deep, he felt so vulnerable, miles of sea around him and below him, and no place to hide, waiting for something to grab him and drag him into the deep. Alpha didn't like that feeling, of not being able to fight back.
So he was glad to get to shore and find shelter. He had pulled off some roofing, and apart some rotted wood from an old hulk, and the walls, used a battery, and thin wire to get a fire going. He had managed to set up fishing lines from a jetty nearby, and caught several tiny fish, just enough to give his body the energy to warm up.
He now sat waiting out the night, and a snow storm that had started. With the dying light and snow, you could barely see five metres, and all you could hear was the muffled wind speeding past the ruins around him.

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That's when he heard it, a deep rumble, barely audible over the storm. Alpha had to strain to hear, he thought he might be hearing things... Again. He opened his jaw to allow more sound to pass. This time there was no mistaking it a low rumble that he knew would probably carry miles if not through the filled air, but through the ground, he could feel it now getting stronger, vibrating under his backside as he sat crossed legged, stone still. A behemoth, they were the reason he had set westward through the bleak nuclear wasteland of Russia, rather than brave the journey over the pole to get to what remained of North America, and back to where it had all started. Again he heard it closer than ever now, there was no doubt it must be able to smell him by now, knew that it had prey nearby. Alpha knew he had to move, but to,outrun this thing would be some feat, and there would be no where to hide for miles around.
Somewhere nearby Alpha heard a crash, a building had collapsed. Alpha ran grabbed up his make shift satchel and ran outside, pulling an old tattered waterproof across his face peering into the squall. He listened and looked it seemed like an eternity before he saw it, a brief pause in the wind and snow. The giant bear what resembled a polar bear but bigger than any elephant. And an extra pair of legs, it's teeth overlapping and jutting out of its mouth.
Alpha broke out in laughter, the absurdity of it's odd walk, and how this thing had hunted and found him, and now he would probably die, as not even a mouth full, he hoped it would choke on one of his leg bones. He laughed again, his ribs hurt. He started reminiscing about his little castle he had, had it was relatively peaceful there, he could have just stayed there in peace... No no he had to come here, he wasn't meant to die there, and he didn't die here either not now.
A giant paw came crashing down half a yard away form Alpha. He snapped back to reality, and rolled to the side before another clawed pas swept where he's head would have been. He scrambled off all fours and went to run forward he's feet slipping in the snow, and receiving a powerful smack to his side, as he was sent spinning through the air. It took him half a second to realise what had happened. He was lying in a snow drift quite some distance from the bear. He looked around for cover, anything, he saw some type of old coal shed, he scrambled into it, somehow he had lost the blanket that he had wrapped around him, and the waterproof, was ripped almost off him. Cover and move, cover and move he thought to himself, what cover he heard himself say as the shed seem to explode, as the almighty beast smashed its head through the entrance, lifting its head up, raising the entire building, leaving Alpha standing in the snow, while the bear tried to shake the wreckage off so it could see. Alpha looked around
where can I go?
"Over here!" He heard a young boys voice call over from a snowdrift that had a few bits of twisted metal jutting out from it. He could just about perceive an outline of a person, a dark shadow made out of the falling snow. He ran towards it, but found nothing, darting his head left and right looking for the source of the voice, but then Alpha saw it a chain laying in the compacted snow, inside a giant paw print, the giant must have disturbed it. On the end of the chain was a hook, he wasn't sure where the other end was, but he grabbed it and spun as he raised it high, and placed it over his shoulder, the cold metal almost burned his hands and skin by his neck.
By now the behemoth had freed itself from the remnants of the old shed, and began to pound it's way towards its prey. Alpha ran towards it pulling the length of chain as he went, he aimed right between its front legs, the bear almost toppled as it stopped abruptly to get a purchase on the little thing darting beneath it. Alpha just about dodged its legs, and moved aside eloquently as a middle paw reached under to get him, he wasn't so lucky a microsecond after when the other claw belonging to the middle pair of legs dug deep into his calf. Deep red claret ejaculated over the snow, one burst of blood, sprayed then diffused into the white powder .Alpha growled with pain, and almost lost the chain and his footing, his knees twitched, with a heave he pulled himself straight and dodged the next blow, this time Alpha was ready and swung the chain with all his strength around the foot, it didn't catch, but the momentum of the swipe, sent the chain darting full length out of the snow and up into the air, coming down on the animals neck, it looked around as if slightly startled to see where this thing had come for, that hesitation gave Alpha the chance he needed no time for hesitation he thought, that was your mistake bug guy. He grabbed the chain, and clambered up onto the beasts back just behind its neck, it's fur and hide were so thick, and oily, but if he could just get to the eyes perhaps. But he would never get that chance, the behemoth realising it had a unwanted rider immediately went to roll, as it lurched side wards, it's neck stretched backwards it jaw wide open to make a snap at Alpha. He stood up letting go of his purchase on the coarse fur. And he leapt with all his might left in him, he flew through the whiteness pirouetting, and came crashing down against a sheet of corrugated metal, it's rusted edged lacerating his arm and shoulder, as it gave way and buckled.
The animal went to roll completely over, but as it went to get back up, it snapped back down to the ground, entangled by the chain around its neck, it had somehow got caught. It saw Alpha and let out a deafening roar, phlegm and a foul smell erupting towards him. It went to rush at him, as Alpha jumped back ready to dart out the way, he need not had worried the creature snapped back again the chain digging tighter into its fur. As the animal thrashed, Alpha saw a long piece of square metal tubing, it's end snapped to a sharp,point, instantly he seized it and running with a blood frenzy and a howl like some zulu warrior he rammed the metal deep down into the bears side, deeper and deeper it slid, the blood pressure squirting out the fluid from its veins, over Alpha, he tried to pull it back again, he's hands slippery with the blood. He just managed to do so, about three foot had penetrated its skin. The blood ran freely from its side. It writhed in pain and agony, once again making a charge at Alpha, this time the chain dug in hard, blood stared dripping from somewhere under the fur, as it cut in. Each time it moved, getting weaker and weaker, eventually after ages of Alpha standing staring at it, the whole area turning pink with it and Alphas blood. It lay still panting. Alpha walked over to its head
"We shed blood together today big fella", and brought the metal down through its eyeball, splitting it like a rubber ball.