Sacrifices
Holly gave her partner a grim look as they made their way down the hall. They called him Striate. His muscles were always twitching, giving him the name. Holly could sense the frightened but courageous aura around him and gave him a reassuring look. He nodded in thanks.
The other two team members, Carbon and Typo pushed through a door to find a pedestal with an hourglass of pure gold with a black liquid as the timer. Carbon stepped up to the hourglass and lifted it off of it.
"What is it? YO, Typo, what you doin?" Carbon shouted. Typo hit the button on his earpiece screaming in a frightened and hushed whisper.
"Carbon! Get out of there! There's something in the room with us, my hawking detectors are picking up a biological anomaly in your AO!"
Carbon only heard static.
"What, what is it?" He turned around and saw a dark form dart across the room. His eyes couldn't keep up with the figure. He twisted around as fast as he could and saw the creature.
It looked like a nervous system that was lining the skeletal structure of the creature which was the only thing showing and it glowed a fiery lava color. It's bone structure was a deep black. It had a set six arms and four legs.
It had six fingers on each appendage with glowing hot talons at the end that shown a bright hot fire glow. It's skull showed no facial features except for a wide but skinny slit for a mouth with the same texture as lava.
It emmitted a bloodcurdling scream, and by doing so, revealing a mouth of razor sharp fangs, lining its mouth. Carbon tapped his headpiece, taking a snapshot of the creature, knowing it would be the last thing he would ever do. It stabbed Carbon in the chest and ripped out his lungs. It put its mouth to his and breathed fire down his windpipe, and into his lungs which exploded as his blood boiled.
Typo watched in horror on top of a scaffolding, in a prone. He threw up. The creature became alert and snarled, looking around. It ran off into a doorway. Typo was breathing hard only to stop breathing as he was liffted up, being impaled by one of the creatures talons.
It used its other limbs to slice off all of Typo's legs and arms. In a dazed look, he glanced at the creature. It then swiftly decapitated him.
Holly's monitor showed that the names of Typo and Carbon went red. Dead. She became worried, not sure what could possibly be happening. They stopped at the crossover where the entrance split up into five hallways.
"Artemis, do you copy, over. Artemis, do you copy?" Static. Striate stuttered and fired rounds off frantically. Holly whipped around to see the figure and she fired the weapon at it as well. The light from the weapon burned areas of her cornea.
The rounds bounced off the creature as it walked towards Striate. It raised all six claws but was halted as it knocked to the ground. Artemis shook his hand from the pain of the punch.
"You should look for a new line of work," Artemis said to the creature. It snarled and gave off a foghorn noise. It teleported next to Artemis and swung at him. Artemis was knocked back by the blow, but immediately rammed into the creature sending it into the brick.
Artemis yelled at the others to run. They sprinted down the hallway to the opening. Artemis looked off into the distance to see the aircraft.
He tapped into his earpiece.
"Evac, get us out of here now."
"Approaching evac site now." the pilot calmly replied. Artemis swiftly launced himself onto the plane everyone else closely behind. The plane sped off as a thunderous screech sounded off.