DIRE
DIRE
(Xian's story)
Part 1
Its so beautiful here
That is her first thought every morning. The Chinese beauty works in paradise. At least it feels like it. Xian has been employed by the resort hotel for several years by now. Her superiors felt it necessary to get her out of China. They brokered a deal to get her a position here.
The reason for it is obvious to her. None of them felt that a woman should be a police officer. Never mind the fact that she graduated at the top of her class and can out duel a seasoned veteran in the martial arts. It all came down to her being female. She was sent here as a spy.
Now Miss Mei can be a model if she wants. She has her ethnic darker skin tone. Her alluring brown eyes. And a figure that attracts attention from men and women alike. Her jet black hair is always in a bob style cut. She wears a typical office worker outfit. It consists of a white button down blouse and a red skirt. Said skirt falls to just below her knees. Her feet sit comfortably in a pair of black heeled pumps. A red tie and belt complete her outfit.
She doesn't mind the job. It's the spying she hates. She is allowed to mingle with the guests when she isn't working. Xian usually lays out on a beach towel. As previously stated, she is gorgeous . Whenever she dons her bikini, she gets flirted with from the time she arrives at the beach until she leaves. She actually enjoys most of the flirting. She has mastered the ability to tell someone to "go to hell" in a way that they look forward to the trip. She doesn't have to do that much.
Occasionally she will agree to meet someone for drinks later, but she doesn't do that a lot. Usually the guy turns out to be interested in only one thing. That's why she politely refuses most of the time. The entire time she has been here only two of them have gotten a second date. Only one has made it further. He surprised her. He was a gentleman in and out of the bedroom. She misses him. He left to return home several days ago.
Right now she is hanging out with Alice. She is her primary coworker. It was Alice that taught her the job. They get along quite nicely. Its why they are hanging out.
Alice is an overweight lady. Despite carrying more weight, she is attractive. Her sandy blonde hair frames a cute face. A pair of black rimmed glasses adorn her eyes. Speaking of which, her eyes are a deep blue. Her typical outfit is the same as Xian's. There is one difference. Her heels are red stilettos. They have a six inch heel. This makes her already imposing six foot frame even taller. Xian has no idea how she can stand wearing them.
At the moment, both women are wearing bathing suits. Alice's is a one piece black number. Xian's is a blue bikini. She likes to show off her nearly perfect body on occasion. They are laughing and joking as they always seem to. Eventually they realize its time to part ways. They say farewell with the typical, " see you in the morning."
That night everything changed.
Xian could hear the concert outside. She didn't have any interest in seeing it again. Sam B has performed the past three nights already. Tonight she headed to bed immediately after returning to her room. She was asleep in seconds.
The next morning she wakes with a start. There Is definitely someone else in her room. Somehow she just knows. A guttural growl gets her to jump out of bed into a fighting stance. Her uninvited guest immediately charges. The person keeps attacking regardless of how badly she hurts them. In the end, she has no choice but to kill them. She runs to the bathroom and pukes her guts out. It's the first time she has killed anyone.
After she takes a shower and gets dressed for work, she examines her knife more closely. That person's blood doesn't look quite right. She can't put her finger on exactly what is wrong with it. She just instinctively knows there is. The unexpected attack causes her to grab a machete that James, the man she slept with, gave her. She also thoroughly cleans the knife.
Xian exits her room cautiously. She makes her way to the front desk. Several more of those strange creatures block her path. By this point she has concluded, they are no longer people. It makes cutting them to pieces easier. She gets close to her station at work. The area is crawling with them! Her machete gets stuck in the neck of the fifth or sixth enemy. She loses her knife when one of them tackles her.
The creature is much bigger than she is. Xian is barely five feet tall after all. She might weigh a hundred pounds. This creature is at least three times that. She can't move it. Then she notices several more approaching. Even her adrenaline fueled burst of strength isn't enough to move the thing off of her. A sharp pain in her shoulder causes her to cry out. That thing is biting her! At least three more of the creatures latch onto her body. She groans in pain. It is excruciating. Finally the pain becomes too great. She passes out.