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The creature pounced, claws flailing. She whacked it again with the pipe.

It didn't get back up.

She inspected its morbidly captivating corpse. Without warning its mouth ripped open; organs gushed out of its mouth in a bloody waterfall. Elle heaved, vomit touching her tonsils.

She ran back out onto the main streets. Lights and noise whirling around in her mind like it was a faulty carousel.

"What the hell was that? Oh God I killed it... it would have killed me... it has to be some really sick joke... no, seems pretty real to me." Elle thought.

She made herself run, she couldn't stay alone. She thought about going to see Deputy Sheriff Wheeler, he'd know what to do. That was the best bet, so she set off for the police station, clutching the pipe like a lifeline.

Elle checked her jacket pockets for her phone; it never had a signal anymore, but she still kept it anyway. She tried not to think if there were any more monsters out there.

She passed her favourite restaurant "Solar".


Elle was sat alone surrounded by textbooks. She was the sole waitress on this gloomy Sunday afternoon. She had worked part time in "Solar" for 5 months, the pay was ok and the hours weren't bad. She was only 15, but Shepherd's Glen was so small that the shop owners were ridiculously short staffed.

"Solar" was usually busy, but they were some slow days; like today for instance. No one had come in for an hour. That wasn't a disaster for Elle; she was using this quiet time to study for her English test, on "Catcher in the Rye". She just finished reading a page on how teenage angst, when the door opened. She walked over to the customer.

"Hello, I'm Elle and welcome to Solar, I'll be your waitress, wait... Alex is that you?"

"Elle I just need a drink." Alex collapsed into his seat, looking like death warmed up.

"You look awful. Sorry. Really thin and pale. When was the last time you eaten?"

"2 days ago, before Mom left to visit her sister. Dad is not letting me eat until I stop being a failure"

"What the hell! Alex that's just wrong! Tell the police"

"My Dad is the police!" Alex said grouchily.

Elle strolled into the kitchen to get as much food for him as possible. She was disgusted that a human being could do that to their child. She brought him out 3 plates of fries and 2 burgers. He devoured all of it in minutes.

"What have you done to be a failure?"Elle asked.

"Well...when I scrubbed the floor I missed a spot. And I put the groceries in the fridge wrong. So he has reasons." Alex looked ashamed. Elle had read that children in Alex's situation blamed themselves to justify what their parents did to them.

"Are they major crimes? Don't make excuses for him Alex! Deep down you know you've done nothing wrong. You aren't the failure; you get good grades, a job and you're a nice guy."

"Thanks for that Elle. I appreciate it, but I'd best be off, Dad can't find out I've been here"

"You're staying with me. Please, I won't rest otherwise." Elle said firmly.

"I'll just get some stuff together. Thank you, you really are my best friend" Alex ran out of the restaurant, usually he refused to stay with Elle because he didn't want to be a burden, so his Father must have been more awful to him than usual. Elle got out her cell phone and rang her Mother.

"Can Alex stay other for a few days? It's really important; his Dad isn't being too good."

"I'm out of town the next few days on business. As long as you two keep everything clean and keep Nora safe, its fine with me." Margaret Holloway replied down the phone.

"Out of town again! You always seem like you got work on. I'm not Nora's nanny you know." Elle said frustrated.

"I appreciate you work Elle. I'm just really busy at the moment." Elle's Mother hung up. Elle sighed; her Mother never said "I love you".


She was about 2 streets away when a static erupted from her cell phone. Out of the fog two of the skinned dogs and a tall man with a sharp pendulum head sprinted towards her.

Elle swung at the dogs in quick succession; they fell to the floor like bowling pins, letting out a primal howl as she lowered the pipe down into their skulls. Crack! She screamed in relief. But it was far from over, the pendulum head began charging.

She ran, the monster on her tail like Pac-Man, his footsteps were getting louder as he stalked her through the fog.

Finally! She arrived at the police station. She spotted a pistol and an assault rifle on a crate by the entrance. The pendulum head swung for her, she ducked and leaped out of the way. Elle yelped as she was almost decapitated.

She reached for the pistol. And fired. She jumped due to the surprising recoil on the pistol, the monster staggered backwards. She fired another round at it; it stumbled to the floor dying. She finished it off with a pipe blow to the chest. The noise of the pipe crashing through the ribs was a massive splat, like boulder hitting wet mud.

Before she could exhale, Alex ran out of the police station, chased out by a massive ape like creature covered in bondage tape. He ran out backwards, firing shotgun shells into its torso, but the beast knocked him over.

Elle aimed at the ape's eyes and fired; its massive body pounding to the concrete. Arcs of blood shooting everywhere. Alex leapt up to his feet and ran towards Elle, without thinking they burst into an embrace.

"Alex, what the hell is going on here? The town is falling apart and these things are..."

"I don't know. I saw them too. Now, I gotta go off and search for Josh. Come with me if you want". Alex replied as he hugged willowy body. She let go of him.

"I more or less saved his life and still he only cares about finding his brother!" Elle thought, before she instantly feeling guilty for it.

But before she could say anything, dozens of monsters began to circle them like vultures stalking a dying calf.

"We got to run, there's too many of them!" Alex grabbed Elle's hand.

"The sewers! They'll be the safest place." Elle yanked his arm and lead him to the nearest manhole. They jumped down, falling into the soft dirt below.

Elle sobbed softly. Alex knew something was wrong; her tough girl act was fading quickly.

"Elle... we can survive this, I promise you, when I get Josh, we're going to escape."

"So you're promising that you're not going to disappear and join the army for 2 years, without even telling me! Wait what am I saying... Alex I'm sorry, I'm just a little crazy at the moment. I just don't want to lose you again, because..." Elle's sobbing stopped her from continuing.

Alex noticed a missing person's poster stuffed in her jacket pocket, he took it out and looked at it; Nora's smiling face was on it.

"I'm sorry Elle. I didn't know. All this time I've said about Josh, and she's missing too."

"It's hopeless. The town is hell. We can't do anything, and we'll never find anyone." Elle lamented.

"Don't say that, we can find Josh and Nora and then the 4 of us can leave this hell together. We need to stick together, there's safety in numbers. First of all we have to find Doctor Fitch, apparently he has answers. Your Mom told me so" Alex helped her to her feet.

And so, they began to make their way through the sewers, together.


Redrafted as of 14th March 2011. I'll be doing the rest ASAP. If you want to read the rest when it's redrafted, message me and I'll tell you when it's done.

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