Waiting. The opportune moment would undoubtedly rear its head soon. I watched as the black creatures walked down the corridors under me not even knowing I was there. I was waiting to see how this would all play out. Knowing already that the human and the giant alien would survive the temple I wanted to see what they would do as soon as they got to the surface. I saw the human and the alien run past me. They seem to be in a hurry. I looked down through the corridors and saw why. There was a device laying in the egg room making a beeping noise. How quaint, there is now a bomb. I shifted myself out of the temple onto the top of one of the many buildings in this abandoned human station. As little damage as a bomb would do to me I wanted to see how the mortals decided to get out of the cavern in time.

A few moments later I saw them flying out of the ice tunnel on a strange machine. The human toppled off and went rolling to the side. They were running as the blast from the bomb hit them sending them to land on their faces in the snow. I laughed to myself at their weak and fragile bodies. I felt the building under me shift from the weight of the blast and I shifted to a spot still hidden and out of range of the blast.

When the mortals reached safety they stopped. I watched a strange ritual as the alien took his mask off. He roared and flared his mandibles at the human. What a strange pair of miscreants. Pulling something from a wire around his waist, he drew my attention back to them. He put the mark on the humans cheek that he had burned into himself inside the temple. How sweet, they're bonding. I yawned, almost bored with the way things were going. That's when I heard a loud crash and the ground to my left erupted. As the debris rained down I saw what had caused that. The huge black beast reared up. I flashed my glance at the two figures standing a few yards away. The human was panic stricken and the alien was close to it.

I smiled. This should be good. The alien was the first to act. He threw his shuriken and it sliced the huge beasts neck open. He threw it again only to hit the giant crest. The shuriken was returning to him the tail of the beast hit him and sent him sailing through the air. I watched the human stand there in bewilderment for a few moments. My attention went back to the alien and the beast that was about to impale it. The human charged yelling loudly. The makeshift spear of hers was thrust up into the beasts neck. It went dancing backwards grabbing at it's neck. The beast turned its attention to the human and charged after it. The human took flight with no hesitation.

I laughed out loud as I watched her running for her life just barely staying out of the beasts grasp. She took shelter under a large circular object and tried her best to dodge the attacks from the beasts tail. The alien appeared out of nowhere jumping high into the air and ramming his spear into the monsters head. She did that funny backwards dance again and fell into a burning building. I was willing for her to get up and attack again. This was amusing me quite a bit. Those mortals had gained some of my respect during their little ordeal.

The two small mortals were looping a chain around the circular object attaching the beast to it. I reveled in their actions as I realized their plan. They were going to use the object to send the monstrous creature down into the depths of the water. The basin shifted, but stopped. I watched as the tail of the beast went to impale the alien. I shifted into it's path and grabbed the tail. I wrenched it and the monster screeched as she was dropped to her knees. I looked over at my shoulder at the mortals. They were staring at me dumbfounded. I roared at them to get moving, I didn't want to stand here holding this thing at bay all night.

The human disconnected the chain that had kept the basin from slipping off. It fell, dragging the behemoth down towards its icy grave. Turning to face the human and her alien companion I found their faces filled with many emotions. Fear, admiration, wonder and the thing that I found most amusing, confusion. I turned to walk off.

"Wait!"

I stopped and looked back at the human.

"Who are you?"

I laughed. Obviously she thought that I was something like her.

"I am a nightmare efreet."

"What is that?"

"The highest class of demon and the most powerful creature you will find anywhere. I am the only one."

"You look human enough to me."

I tried not to take offense to this. She is a stupid mortal, a human. They never know anything outside of their small fragile worlds.

"If you don't believe me, then maybe I should prove my status to you."

I took a step towards her and received a warning growl from the tall alien. I looked at him and laughed.

"What are you going to do?"

He brought his arm up and extended a set of blades from his gauntlet. This sent me into a fit of laughter. This is the most entertainment I've had for about a thousand years. I lifted my fist up and held it in front of his torso. I opened my hand and sent him flying a few yards backwards. The human backed away from me. Reactions like that are what keep me going sometimes. The alien stood up and walked over. He just growled and grumbled, but didn't threaten me again.

"What are you doing here?"

"I came to see the show."

"The show?"

"Yes, I wanted to see how you would fair in this whole thing."

I saw anger enter eyes.

"You were here the whole time and only helped with that?"

"Yes, why? Should I have helped before?"

"All of my friends were killed in there."

"Not much of a loss, really."

I was examining my claws when her hand came towards my face. I shifted behind her and shoved her onto her hands and knees. I laughed again. She stood up and spun around to glare at me.

"Just leave!"

"I'll leave when I want."

I heard a strange noise and watched as the alien fell to his knees and started grabbing at his chest. Oh this is a sight. The humans panicked voice rang out.

"What's wrong?"

The human had dropped down next to him and was looking at him worriedly. I listened as something started to ram itself against his ribs. I stood there fascinated.

"Help him!"

I looked at the human.

"What do you want me to do?"

"I want you to help him."

I took my sword out of the sheath and stepped towards him.

"No! Not like that!"

"Then what?"

"I don't know."

I remembered what I had seen in the temple. Miniatures of the black colossus had come popping out of the chests of the human hosts. I knelt down and looked down at the alien who was now roaring, laying on his back. I reached my hand into his chest and felt the creature that wanted so badly to get out. I pulled it out and looked at it. It flared its little mandibles at me and screeched.

"How cute."

I was caressing its little head when the alien jumped up and reached for the creature. I roared and sent him flying backwards again.

"He's mine."

I shifted out of there before anything else happened and I was forced to kill the subjects of my entertainment. I looked down at the little abomination that I held in my hands and smiled.

"We're going to have fun."

End.