This is from one of my other stories. I grabbed it and fixed it a bit for a short story contest. The rest of it is in my story called "found". Im posting it here as complete, but Its not in the main story.
Nicole ran hard and fast as she held the gun tightly in her small hands incase someone wanted to harm her again. The long black braid bounced on her back as tears of anger fell down her flushed cheeks. She had never felt so angry in all her life. What the hell was wrong with all these people? Why the hell were they trying to kill her?
With a scream of terror Nicole stopped abruptly, almost falling onto her ass when the ground exploded in a sudden shower of dirt and rock.
Her hand trembled as she stared at the giant thing that had emerged. It was definitely bigger than her, it was tan with huge claws and a wicked looking tail that ended in some kind of oozing needle.
Shaking with pure terror the small woman aimed the gun and pulled the trigger.
Nothing happed.
With a scream she threw the gun at the abomination took a few steps back and watched helplessly as the gun bounced comically off one of the massive claws.
The creature snapped each claw and reared its evil looking tail higher. It rushed at the woman, its mandibles grinding together dripping with fluid.
Panic and fear were racing through her mind as she turned to run. She felt pain explode from her face as she collided with a wall that was behind her. She turned to face the monster and gasped in pain. She threw up what little food she had eaten as her leg radiated with what felt like fire. Looking down she saw the needle tip of the tail was buried in her leg. She started hitting and scratching the thickest part trying to get the pain to stop.
It suddenly ripped it's tail out of her leg making her scream out in fresh unknown pain.
Nicole thought she was hallucinating when a tall well trimmed man in a crisp yellow suit ran out of an alleyway and looked in her direction. Nicole's head was spinning as she tried to scream for him to help. She watched as he ran up behind the monster, stomping on its tail as he buried a single blade into the head. He then pulled out a gun and unload bullets one right after another into the remains.
Nicole watched as the monster went limp, gave a shudder and stopped moving.
She stared at the monster for what felt like an eternity when she finally looked up at a hand that was reaching for her. She quickly grabbed the hand and held tight. In a soft melodic tone he smiled as he helped her across the oozing remains. "My my, what is such a beautiful woman doing in such a dangerous place, may I ask the beautiful woman what her name is?"
Nicole looked up at a handsome dark haired man and smiled as he helped her walk away from the dead creature. "My name is Nicole…...I was trying to get back home and I got lost. Thank you…" she let out a startled gasp as she stumbled and fell to her knees.
The man knelt down and gently looked her over and saw she had a wound in her leg from where the creature had struck her.
The man smiled at her as he pulled out a handkerchief and held it firmly on her leg. "Your welcome Nicole, it was because I heard your screams that I came to help. Looks like you were stung, I've got some medicine back at my gallery, if you don't mind I can help you." He smiled and tied the handkerchief tight around her wound.
Nicole smiled at his soft blue eyes and nodded as she brushed her hair back out of her face with her hand. She had a cut on her hand from falling on glass earlier and left a drip of blood rolling down her cheek. She started wipe it away but the man stopped her.
The man smiled as he watched her blood ran down her porcelain face. "You are absolutely stunning, the way your pale skin makes your blood stand out is truly mesmerizing." He stopped talking for a moment and watched her blood drip down her chin and on to her neck. "My name is Pickman. I'm an artist and I'm thinking of starting a new line of art with you being the main feature." He reached his hand out to her face and ran his finger through her blood and put it in his mouth.
Nicole stared at the man in silent horror. Her eyes widened as she felt goosbumps explode across her skin. Nicole tried to push the crazed artist away as she tried to get up and run. She felt her legs fail and she collapsed into Packman's arms.
He wrapped his arms around her and spoke softer as he stoked her hair. "It's the Radscorpion poison darling, makes you week and hard for you to run." Pickman kept an arm wrapped around her and used his other to pullout an ornate leather case. When he opened it He pulled out a syringe and pulled a cap off the needle. "This will make you sleep, cant have you panicking and dying from the poison before I can start my new gallery of paintings."
He pushed the needle into Nicole's arm and pressed down on the plunger. He pulled it out and rubbed where he had injected her. "Soon you'll drift off into a dreamless sleep. Ill take you to my gallery and fix your leg. Then ill start painting." He rocked her as he held her in his arms.
The beautiful woman in his arms started to feel heavy. She looked up at Pickman with tears of fear in her eyes as she took a deep breath and yelled out "JOHN!" she felt her eyes close against her will and passed out with her face on Pickman's chest.