Never one to be left behind, John fired off two rounds before cursing himself, holstered his pistol and drawing his two-handed sword for the second time in five minutes. Fucking typical, a horde of gorilla-men were coming to kill him and he was faffing with his equipment. Out of the ruins of a suburban house, just across the street from the entrance to the bunker, came a pair of manapes, clearly outriders or scouts for the horde. Finally seeing the creatures up close for the first time, John noticed that they did not truly resemble any of the Great Apes, but nor did they resemble Men. It was as if some cousin of humanities, perhaps something somewhere between a gorilla and human, had been allowed to evolve unchecked for a few million years in a particularly harsh environment. The creatures were both large, standing slightly under seven feet in height. While their bodies were heavily muscled and their movements quick, they had no grace about them. Their arms were made for the brutal smash, not the quick parry or cunning riposte. One's fur was a deep deep coal black while the others was the brown of fresh dug earth, except where it had been shaved and the exposed skin tattooed with disturbing images. Upon noticing the survivor's presence, Brownfur immediately grabbed an arbalest that was strapped to his back and cocked it with one hand. The damn thing must have had a five-hundred pound draw.
While Brownfur fooled in a sack tied to the belt at his waist for a bolt, Blackfur ran towards the survivors, a club made of five pieces of rebar welded together in his hand. Before he could reach them, Brownfur had finish loading his crossbow and fired at the group. It missed all present, flew into the ruins of a wall and exploded into a million shards.What the fuck? Was it a glass bolt? As Brownfur reloaded furiously, Blackfur ended his charge with a flying leap, a terrifying, inhuman cry and a mighty swing of his crude bludgeon. As it turns out, this wasn't the best maneuver in the history of hand to hand combat, because John proceeded to step neatly to the side, severed the creatures weapon arm with an efficient downward blow and take the things head off with a backhand swing. While all around him John's companions began to join the combat as more manapes came out of the surrounding buildings, he took a moment to muse to himself, quite understandably when you know that he had never before killed a, presumably, sentient creature.
"It's like not using a sword, but with a sword."