Chapter 2
The chemically saturated insects continued to mate and deposit their eggs in and around the pools of poisonous liquid. All the adult insects died off after ending their life cycle and due to the noxious waste many of the eggs would never hatch out but there would be a rare few that would survive but be forever changed from their original forms. One cicada female coated in the toxin crawled crawled off to lay her eggs one of which had already begun to show the effects caused by the industrial pollutant. The egg affected by the noxious waste matter gave off an eerie glow and steadily grow with each rhythmic pulse. A year had passed since the industrial waste had been illegally dumped when strange incidents began to occur. A nearby coal mining operation was destroyed with no apparent signs of foul play, small tremors hit a small town who never had any seismic activity before, and even an incident that involved an under ground mine fire that practically turned a small town into a virtual ghost town. Government officials and scientific experts called in were baffled as to what ignited a vane of coal near the town told residents and news persons that the catastrophe was started by an unattended dump fire. But no matter what the government officials told residents caused the fire and urged the populous to abandon their homes due to the fact that the fire was spreading towards the town a few citizens vowed to remain their homes no matter what happened. One night one such resident was awakened by bizarre sounds coming from his back yard took up one of his firearms and flashlight then went out to investigate the disturbance. As the man turned the corner of his house and entered his yard he was stopped in his tracks by a horrific sight. In the hand held light's revealing beam there stood a man sized creature that resembled a grub or insect larvae looming face to face with the awe stuck man, its eyes glowing bright green. The terrified man leveled his weapon at the creature and fired off several rounds which struck and bounced off the beast's scaled body. The thing then began to slither towards the alarmed man wailing in anger. The creature's cry resembled that of the old emergency broadcasting signal alarm. Then its shrill vocalization began to intensify and concentrate into a beam that reduced the human into nothing more than a pile of smoldering ashes and his weapon into a mass of molten metal.