Chapter 5

I looked around the room for something to use as a weapon, the only thing that I could find was a piece of wood shaped as a cross. I ran in front of Andrew and stood sturdily as the figure came towards us. I could hear the raspy breathing, the shuffle of footsteps and it crash into different things as it came closer as though it couldn't see where it was going.

The heavy breathing continued but the shuffle of footsteps seemed to have stopped, I didn't know where this thing was anymore, the breathing was coming from behind but when I turned to face the thing, the breathing changed direction. Each time I turned the louder the breathing seemed it was getting closer. My heart was racing as I realised that I had no idea where about it was.

Andrew had now gotten to his feet and luckily nothing was broken, his ankle was just a little bruised. I turned away from Andrew to look back into the darkness that was surrounding us, and noticed two yellow dots in front of me, a few inches above my eye level. Now and again they would blink out and then return, as though looking straight at me. I had no idea what they were, only that they were getting more and more enticing every time I saw them reappear.

My feet moved forwards on their own and the hand that was holding the wooden cross-seemed to go numb and I dropped my only source of protection. But I felt so happy, I felt as though I had been searching for this thing my whole life. A warm fuzzy feeling seeped through my skin, running from one limb to the next through my blood. My arms became a little red with the pressure this feeling was putting on my veins, and on my wrists and hands blue veins were clearly visible.

I needed to know what this thing was, it wanted me to find out and I couldn't hold back against it. I moved closer and closer, the little yellow dots becoming more like marble sized orbs in front of me. I was only a few feet away from touching them when I felt a hand on my arm. I spun round quickly, the hand cold and clammy. I looked up into the eyes of the owner of the hand and saw scared and worried looking eyes.

"Serena lets go!" Andrew shouted down at me, and eventually I realised what was happening. Again I felt a hand on my arm, but this time it was my other arm and the hand felt so horrible, the feeling that went through my body is almost indescribable. Almost instantly I knew this was not Andrews hand nor was it human. I turned my head slowly around to look at what had hold of me, my movements slow and shaky, my head not really wanting to see what could be the owner of the hand. My eyes slowly focused on something that was as white as a sheet, scars seemed to have been painted on this creatures face at a random aim and the eyes were as yellow as the sun. Huge white teeth smiled down at me, the gums invisible under the length of the huge fangs staring down at me.

I gasped and tried to pull myself away from it, my whole body falling into Andrew in the process and the arm that was held by this creature shaking violently as I tried to make it cease its grip. I could feel Andrew behind me trying to find something to steady his self with, I knew I was not heavy but I was also pushing against him, trying to get away from this… this beast.

"Stay still!" I heard a raspy voice and it sent shivers down my spine as it passed through my eardrums. I tried to push back even more knowing that it could understand and probably could do worse things to be with a brain. I ended up pushing Andrew back even further and he fell against a bookcase next to us and banged his head on one of the bottom shelves and was out cold.

"Andrew." I squeaked, not sure whom to be more afraid of, Andrew because he was unconscious and he couldn't defend himself, or me who couldn't even defend myself when I was conscious.

"Now look what you did. And I thought this would be fun." Came the voice again and Serena shivered from nerves and knelt down next to Andrew and looked up from her position on the floor.

"I wont let you touch him." She said, trying to sound calm, but it was more of a whimper. She could see bright white teeth as the thing smiled, they were unnaturally long and Serena gasped at such a sight.

"I'm not after him." It replied, the smile getting broader and broader as it descended on her.