The Intruder
"Great party Cal!" A heavy set man with a long white curly beard complimented the hotel owner who's name was "Cal Keelson." Cal was a man in his mid forties with a slender build, short brown hair, and brown eyes. Cal was hosting a dinner party inside the Victorian style hotel named the "Hollow Point Inn" that he owned and ran with his wife, Violet, in the year 2018 A.D on planet earth.
"Thank you, said Violet, we like to host these kinds of formal dinner parties about once a month here at the hotel." She was a woman in her early forties sitting beside her husband at a long dinner table filled with party guests.
The party went on for several more hours until the guests departed, except for one young blond woman who took the opportunity to go sneaking through the hotel in search of things to steal. She wandered about, and snuck through the hotel, snatching up anything she could slip into her purse and coat pockets. She stopped when she came to the end of an upstairs hallway where she spotted a candlestick holder that hung on the wall. She pulled on it and before she knew what was happening the wall spun around one hundred eighty degrees. She found herself standing before a long dark winding concrete stairwell that lead down into thick inky darkness. She turned and pounded her fist against the wall but it was useless, the wall wouldn't move. Reluctantly she descended the steps. When she reached the bottom she found herself standing in the middle of a large dark concrete room. She pulled a cigarette lighter from her pocket, flicked it and saw what looked like the lab of a mad scientist. There were many stones crystals, scrolls, bunsen burners, and strange kinds of equipment. There were bookshelves against the far wall. She stepped carefully around the basement looking for an exit. She froze when she heard a hissing sound coming from behind her! She turned, and a hand grabbed her throat. She was lifted off her feet. She struggled and tried to scream, and beat on the arm of the creature. It had a gray, stainless steel, chain wrapped around it. She pulled and tugged on the chain frantically! An eerie green mist surrounded and enveloped the woman. Something unseen in the darkness, connected to the arm, then inhaled the mist, leaving nothing behind but the woman's pale skeleton, and her clothes that hung from it.
The creature then saw that the chain around it's wrist was loosened. He slipped it off, then freed himself from the rest of the chains that bound him. He walked over to one of the tables and picked up a fist-sized green crystal and used it to open a portal in the middle of the dark basement. The creature hated being confined in that cold dark lab! It longed to be free and to feed on it's prey. It stepped through the portal just as Violet Keelson walked down into the basement.