Chapter 1:
The
End
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The paranoia here was beginning to become suffocating. I could hear things... large clawed monsters... crawling and slithering around the darkened corridor. The blackness was so great, my light amplification gear was doing nothing in an attempt to give me sight. Only four clips remain of my ammunition, including the clip I already have inserted into my assault rifle. I heard something leave the steel plated wall in time to bombard it with the remaining twelve bullets of this clip. Quickly I ejected the clip, listening to it clatter across the blood stained floor, as I grabbed a new one and slammed it in place. I heard more claws press off from the steel to strike. I firmly squoze the trigger against the grip on the rifle, sending a hail of all fifty bullet into the swarm of fiends as the muzzle flash faintly showed me where they were. Several clicks emmanated from the rifle's action, it was trying to fire nonexistant round into the hoarde. Quickly I ejected the empty cartridge as my hand scrambled across my belt for another.
This series of small attacks only seemed to anger the horde of monsters, feeding them with more power instead of weakening them. I heard more claws scratch the metal surfaces as more beasts pounced at me. I slammed the ammunition clip into its chamber and took a step back. My boot lost all traction on the blood of a fallen scientist when I stepped. My back cracked against the steel floor just after I squoze the trigger back once again emptying the clip into the demons. By the muzzle flash I could see several thousand of them filling the corridor until there was a bend, most were arachnid however there were also growing numbers of humanoid beings. The rifle stopped firing and let off more resounding clicks as the action moved to fire bullets that were already fired.
I scrambled to my feet and hit the switch to eject the cartridge, however I didn't feal it leave the rifle nor hear its casing reverbrate off the flooring. Fear took hold in my mind now, and I dropped the now useless weapon and reached to my hip holster for my fifty caliber pistol. Time seemed to have stopped when my hand passed through empty air, I must've dropped the gun back aways. The terror I was fealing now intensified, I turned and quickly ran down the hallway away from the demons. The sound of air being suprheated echoed into my ear as several of the humanoids threw orbs of superheated plasma at me. Several of the white hot orbs shot passed me and ran into the distant wall, however many struck the walls and floor around me as well. I continued to run, I ran for what seemed like an eternity. I began to hear the echoes of my footfalls reverbrating from the nearing wall grow louder. I couldn't stop myself from running so I leapt and spun around so my back slammed into the wall. Th esecond I stopped I could here the scattered foot falls of the demonic swarm approaching me. I look to either side of me at the doors, a blaring blood red light was alite around each door signalling it was locked. I slid down the wall, I was now defeated. I heard the claws growing louder. I knew my death was immenent, I closed my eyes tightly awaiting the final blow.