Blood-of-Silver, I told you I was gonna publish last Wednesday... Sorry, something came up... But at least I updated, right..? Thanks for everything..!

CHAPTER SEVEN

The creature's six tentacles shot out in different directions, each trying to grab one of them. All of them managed to get out somehow, but the house was beyond repair. The whole front wall had gone and the furniture inside were covered in debris.

"What's that now?" Danny asked.

"That's a Chimera," Austin answered. "They come in different shapes and sizes. Colors, too."

"Was that supposed to be a joke?" Cathy asked.

Austin frowned. "And I thought I was pretty much serious."

"If you guys are done with that, I would like to inform you of a more serious problem," Anne said.

"I know that there's a Chimera…" Austin began to say, but trailed off when he saw what Anne was talking about. Several Quallians emerged from the shadows. His eyes went wide. He knew that they couldn't defeat all of them, not when there's a ratio of more than 10 enemies for each ally.

"You have no means to escape, Heavenians," the Chimera said in a low throaty voice. "You better surrender now."

"A time does not exist when we will just go down without fighting," Louis said.

The Chimera laughed. "There's a paper difference between being brave and being foolish, boy." His eyes narrowed and flung a tentacle in Louis's direction.

Louis dodged, but the end scraped his arm. Almost immediately, the skin turned scaly green.

"Are you alright?" Sam asked as she rushed over to his side.

"Yeah," he answered, his breaths coming in shallow gasps. "It was just a scrape. It's going to be a while before it spreads to my neck or gem."

Sam took out her blaster and aimed it at the Chimera. "I am not going to miss this shot for the world." She began to shoot, but a Quallian's arm swung to her abdomen. She hit a tree and was immediately unconscious.

"Sam!" Chris shouted. He tried to get to her side, but a tentacle grabbed his foot and lifted him off the ground.

"Let go of him!" Clyde shouted and cut the tentacle holding Chris. Chris fell with a thud and Clyde stood in front of him protectively. "You're going nowhere near this human."

"We'll see won't we?" the Chimera chuckled and released a fury of tentacles in the Heavenian's direction. Clyde cut the tentacles again and the Chimera smiled. "You're stupid, you know that?"

As soon as the Chimera said that, the fallen pieces of his tentacles moved and wrapped themselves around Clyde's ankles. Clyde immediately fell to his knees. The tentacles moved again and wrapped themselves around his arms. The Heavenian groaned as he watched his skin turn dry and scaly under the tentacles.

"Clyde, hold on!" Austin shouted in between grunts. Quallians were circling him in every direction, and he's finding it hard to fend them off. The three humans were out of commission since long ago, and the twins were busy with their own pack of Quallians. He knew Louis was trying to keep a barrier around the area to limit the damage to surrounding houses, but Austin also knew that the boy wouldn't last long.

Austin punched and kicked in every direction, but the Quallians weren't fazed. His knuckles were already bleeding and even though he can't look down and see for himself he knew his legs were in the same shape. Still, he had to fight. He knew that they can't win this anymore, but still, he had to fight.

He felt something lean on his back and he knew help had come. He let out a small chuckle and whispered, "Took you long enough."

"It's not easy taking care of Chimera poison and you know that," a voice from behind him replied.

Seconds passed and the atmosphere became quieter and quieter. One last screech was heard, then silence.

Okay, that was short... It's obvious who the alien really is now right..?

Reviews, please..! I'm getting pretty desperate...