Disclaimer: I only own Lily
~Dream~
I was in a cornfield in front of weird looking scarecrow. All around me was a field of wheat and corn. As well as hundreds of corpses with their lips moving but no sound came out. Some were missing there teeth, others their arm, leg, eyes, heart, etc. but I payed no attention to them. My eyes were on the scarecrow.
He had an old coat that was tattered and torn. It covered his whole body. As well as a fedora but his was head down so I couldn't see his face. Then I finally noticed his feet, only they weren't feet. They were like harpies feet. Long with long toes and sharp talons. A dark grey almost black color.
A toe twitched. I gasped and looked up at his face which was now looking at me. He smirked. Then these giant demon wings unfurled from his back. I took a step back. He didn't like that. He wanted me closer.
He growled then launched himself at me pinning me down. His hand held down my wrists and his knees were beside my hips. This all happened so fast. He roared at my face to force me to stop struggling.
~End dream~
I shot up gasping. I was covered in sweat. I looked around to find everyone staring at me with concern. But I noticed that the bus driver was missing as well as the coaches. And Scotty had blood on his jacket.
"What happened? Where are the coaches and the driver?" I asked panicked. Scotty looked at me. Then slowly explained what happened.
"Oh my god." I whispered putting my head in my hands. Bucky tried the radio for help while Minxie had found a spear. Then Scotty talked about escaping.
"No." I said strictly. He grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the seat I was laying in. He pointed to outside.
"You see that?" he asked pointing to a beat up mail box. I nodded.
"That means that there's a farm down at the end of this road somewhere and that's as far as anybody'd have to get to."
"With that thing out there? It has wings! It can swoop down and snatch you up in a second! Do you really wanna take that chance?" I asked. He went silent and stared at the mailbox.
Suddenly I felt something in my nether regions that I should have noticed before. Just like all animals at there time of the year or month.
I was in heat. "Oh my god." I said sitting down in front of the bus, away from everyone, crossing my legs. Though Scotty thought I was in disbelief over him.
"That thing hasn't been back here in over an hour." he said.
"That still doesn't mean that it's not up there." Rhonda argued.
"And that doesn't mean that it is!" he replied sharply.
"Hey, this isn't about who can run the fastest, OK?" D spoke up.
"Or being a pussy." Izzy replied.
"What is your problem?" D asked angrily.
"You tell me, Izzy or isn't he?" Izzy replied.
"Check yourselves, both of you!" Big K shouted at them from behind D.
"Do I make you nervous? Thinking you're going to come onto me?" Izzy teased. He looked around saying,"And every other swinging dick on this bus makes me nervous."
"Yeah, it makes you fucking stupid, too!" D said. Then Scotty tackled D the pole in front of me holding him down. He was sticking up for Izzy and Rhonda tried to stop them.
"Scotty, stop it! Stop it! Scotty, come on." she shouted. Big K put his hand on Scotty's shoulder to put an end to the fight.
"You get that hand off of me or we're gonna have one more missing person out here." Scotty threatened.
"There's nothing about any of us on this bus that's more important than sticking together. It's the only way we're going to get through this." K informed looking into Scotty's eyes angrily.
"You want to play cock of the walk now, huh?" Scotty challenged.
"Now's not the time for this shit, Scotty." I said. "Big K, sit." I commanded but they didn't listen to me.
"I'm serious." Big K said seeing that Scotty wasn't getting the message.
"You want to play cock of the walk, bro?" Scotty repeated.
"Why do I think you want to call me something else? You want to call me something else, Scotty?" K asked narrowing his eyes and turning his head slightly. "Cause I don't think you get I can see you thinking it whether you say it or not." he said.
"Just stop it right now. Both of you, stop it! You guys all worked together today to win a ball game. Now that something really serious happens you can't even be civil to each other?" I argued.
"You tell him not me." Big K replied.
"Whatever your trip is, we don't have time for it! We should all be looking for ways we can defend ourselves until help gets here." I said. Scotty took his hands off of D and K took a step away from Scotty.
"We have got to move this piece of shit!" Jake said from a couple seats down.
"On what the rim?" Izzy asked sarcastically from near the back of the bus where Minxie and Chelsea were with him. Bucky was behind the steering wheel.
"Can you drive this thing or not?" Jake asked him.
"We wouldn't get two feet, man! What do you want me to do?" Bucky argued. I was so distracted by the boys fighting I didn't hear or smell the creature. It was right next to me at the entrance door sniffing the air.
Nobody noticed him until Minxie had backed into Izzy. Then some of us screamed slightly before hopping to the back of the bus or getting to the ground trying to stay out of sight as it sniffed.
I did my best to keep my legs crossed but even I could smell my heat. I grasped onto the pole beside me in fear as it continued smelling.
They moved quietly behind seats to hide. Then it suddenly jumped to the side of the bus above me and Jake, who was a seat away. I looked to see Rhonda shaking her head at Jake. It then stuck it's nose in the window and smelt the air. I saw it's nostrils flaring as it located scents.
It grunted then climbed on top of the bus making us move again. Izzy forced me to come over to him. He held me close and down to the ground. For now I relied on his protection. "We need to move this god damned bus!" Izzy whispered over to Bucky.
"It won't move because of the rim!" Bucky replied stretching the words as if he were talking to a retard.
Then we heard a creak. The thing had moved to the back of the bus and was upside down sniffing. I jumped to the very front and grabbed onto my pole like before. D got in front of me and K got across from him with Bucky and Minxie in front of him and Izzy in front of her.
Dante shined his light on it. "What the hell does it want?" Scotty asked. The thing just stared.
"What the fuck?" Jake said. "Is it looking at me?" he asked freaked out. The thing winked and Jake hid in his seat.
It began sniffing again. "Whatever it is. It is a smell freak man." Dante said.
It stopped sniffing and looked at us again. I grasped my pole tighter shaking in fear. "Get that light off of it!" Izzy commanded after the creature had smirked at him showing its sharp teeth.
Izzy moved out of the way and then it looked at Minxie. The thing made a complete smile closing it's eyes. Minxie sat down not taking her eyes off it.
The creature made a hand gesture for Bucky to move so Bucky sat down in fright whimpering a little.
The creature made a gesture of cocking a gun at K and K sat down.
The thing gestured a gun shooting at Doubled D while licking the window a bit. Then D sat down leaving me to stare at it in fear.
The thing put it's hand back up to hold it from falling. He looked at me with wide eyes. Then he took a huge sniff letting his eyes roll back into his head. I whimpered. Then he licked the window making sure to swirl his tongue. Then the bus began moving from side to side.
"Is he...humping?" Izzy asked freaked out. I let out a sob looking back at the thing.
The movement stopped. Then the creature put his arms on the sides of the emergency exit door and began to shake the bus. Jake got out the flare gun and pointed it at the thing.
"Hey don't shoot that thing in here. It'll fill this thing up with smoke." Scotty said grabbing the gun.
Then a bolt fell from the door and the shaking stopped as the creature stared at me. "Did that just come off the door?" Minxie asked.
"Bucky get on those front doors and get ready to open them." Izzy commanded.
"What you think we're gonna run outside!" Bucky replied.
"If it fucking comes inside." Izzy said. Then the thing got back on the roof making the bus lurch again.
We looked at the roof as the footsteps traveled to the front near where I was curled up on the ground against the pole. Then we heard him flap his wings and begin to fly away. Everyone but me slowly stood up.
Minxie then fainted. "Minxie! Minxie!" Chelsea shouted. They all crowded around minxie so I couldn't see her.
"Oh shit!" I heard Scotty shout. I heard minxie gag a bit before everyone left her alone. Half hour later I was still curled up against the pole just staring blankly at the ground while Rhonda rubbed my aching back.
I heard a gasp as Minxie shot up. She gasped and stared at the ground. "Are you okay?" Chelsea asked. But Minxie didn't answer. "Look at me. I thought you were gone, girl. You passed out. Look at me. Are you OK? Your eyes went all the way in the back of your head." Chelsea said making Minx look at her.
"I think he's gone, man. I'm willing to bet money on it." Dante said looking out the window.
"You're willing to bet stepping off this bus cause that's the real bet?" I asked with an emotionless face looking up at him from my spot on the floor. He gulped.
"How long's it been?" he asked looking around avoiding my eyes. No one answered. "It's gone. It came, it did its thing, it went away." he said.
"It went away, but what the hell was it doing?" Izzy asked from beside me.
"What do you think it was doing?" Minxie asked sarcastically. Everybody turned and looked at her. Izzy stood up and took a couple steps foward. "It was picking people out." she finished.
"What?" Izzy asked in disbelief.
"It can smell something in people, in their fear- something that helps it pick people out." Minxie replied.
"Pick people out for what?" I asked trying to hide the fear in my voice.
"I don't understand how you would know that, sweetie." Rhonda said. Minxie looked at her.
"A dead boy told me. I think he was trying to warn me. He was trying to warn all of us... that this thing has been around for thousands of years... and that nothing has been able to kill it." She said.
"This is a dream you had?" Scotty asked.
"Well, the boy was dead, so, yes... I am assuming that it was a dream, Scotty." She replied sarcastically.
"You were waving pom-poms at people this morning. Now all of a sudden you're a psychic hotline?" he asked angrily.
"I don't know!" She replied just as harsh. "You want to explain it to me? Because I can't. The boy was trying to warn us... that by morning it has to go back into the earth." Scotty snorted.
"Oh, come on. Into the ground for twenty-three more years. And then what? Lives happily ever after? Huh? Why don't you clean out your bong, all right?" He told her.
"Scotty listen to her!" Rhonda said to him.
"It is coming back." Minxie said.
"This is a dream she had, Rhonda. Are you going to believe it?" Scotty asked.
"And it doesn't matter if we're hiding on this bus... or if we're hiding under our beds. It'll find us- the ones that it picked out." Minx finished looking at me.
I let out a shaky sigh and looked away from her to hide my fear.
"Minx. Take it easy okay?" Rhonda asked.
"The boy told me that... it can smell in our fear who it wants... and what from them... it wants to eat." Minx said after taking a breath.
Bucky panicked and ran back to the radio trying to call for help. "Hello. Is anyone out there? Hello. We have a serious problem out here. We need help right away...Can anybody hear me? Is anybody out there, please? We have a- This is Andy Buck. We have a serious situation out here. Is anybody out there? Does anybody hear me?" after some statice we got a reply. Everyone looked up hopeful.
"Hello? Hello? Can you hear me? - are you still there?" a man asked.
"I'm so fucking still here." Bucky replied.
"OK, OK. Just say again what you just told me. We're not playing games here, right?" he asked.
"We are trapped in a broken-down school bus out on east 9... and something is going to kill us... if we don't get help out here right away." Bucky informed him.
"Where on east 9?"
"In Kissel County. Are you the cops?" Bucky asked.
"What's trying to kill you? What are you talking about?"
"Just tell me, are you the fucking cops?"
"Look, now listen to me. I'm already on the 9 ... but it's a big highway and so is Kissel County. Are there any landmarks near you? Are you close to anything?"
"Yeah, I'm close to peeing in my fucking pants, man. Can you just please tell me that you're on the way?"
"I can't really judge the strength of your signal... but it doesn't sound close."
"What does that mean, man?"
"It means it's going to take me a while to get to you."
"Look, we kind of have a time-critical situation here."
"Roger that."
"And please tell me that you're coming with backup... because if you're not the cops... you got to promise me that you'll call them... and you'll tell them that we're stuck out here."
"I'll call them. I'll call them right now... but what you've got to do is hang on. Can you do that? Hang on." then he got cut off by all the static.
"It's fucking happening, man! It's fucking happening! We're being fucking rescued!" Bucky said standing up happy as hoots were heard in the bus. I smiled a bit. But the joy was short lived when a clawed hand punched through the roof and latched onto Bucky's head.
"Help me! Get this thing off me! Help! Help! Get this thing off!" he shouted panicked grabbing onto the other pole so he doesn't get pulled through the roof. D and K ran over and began pulling on Bucky to pull him away from the thing.
I heard grunting from the roof showing that the creature was having a hard time pulling the boy up.
"Look out!" Rhonda screamed running over and grabbing the spear. Then she shoved it into the roof. A growl was heard from the thing showing that the spear made contact. She pulled it out after some effort.
She plunged it upward a second time and Bucky was released. Rhonda let go of the spear letting it stick in the creature. K and D pulled Buck away as I was frozen in fear where I was still curled up latched onto my pole.
The spear wriggled as the creature tried to pull it then the spear disappeared into the roof. I heard some crunching from above. "What's happening?" I whispered. I tried to look through the whole with K but couldn't see anything but stars.
Then the thing popped up and looked down at us dazed. "Half it's fucking heads gone." K said.
Then it stood back up and jumped off the bus flying away. All we heard was silence. D, Rhonda, Izzy, and Jake ran to the hole looking through it but not seeing anything. Then we all looked up hearing a sound.
It was wind whistling as if a jet was flying by but the sound was getting closer. I gasped realizing it was the creature diving or falling.
"Get down!" I screamed as it crashed into the roof causing everyone to fall to the floor and the windows shatter. Once it was done I pulled my head from Izzy chest and shook off the glass. Izzy took his arms off me and coughed a couple times looking up.
"Oh shit." he whispered looking at the ceiling. Dante and Izzy inched closer to the cloth hanging from the ceiling. Dante shown a light on it. There was a clawed tip of a wing hanging outside the window. "You gotta be fucking kidding me." Dante whispered looking at the wing tip.
I stood up for the first time in a while a went to the other pole. I climbed up and slowly poked my head out gasping at what I saw. The creature landed face first onto the roof and one of his wings were broken.
They all looked at each other nodding. "Get that door open. Now's our chance." Izzy said. D ran over and tried to open it.
"It's dead right?" Rhonda asked.
"Don't know. Don't care." Izzy replied.
"It won't open!" D shouted. K and Scotty ran over to help him and tried pulling the lever to get the door open. Then Bucky came over to help and D began pushing on the doors.
"Stop pushin' on 'em! They open in!" Bucky shouted. "Something got screwed up." I sat back down worried. Then Dante and Jake tried the emergency door in the back. But even that won't open.
"It only opens from the outside!" Dante panicked.
"It's an emergency exit, idiot." Jake said.
"Then you fucking open it." Dante said moving aside.
"Get that door open!" Izzy commanded then he tried to get the door open himself by using his shoulder. I could only watch from my seat.
Izzy kept trying. Then Scotty picked up the nail that came from the door. "He jammed it." Scotty said looking at the nail. "We thought it was trying to come in... but this frickin' thing was making sure... we couldn't get out." Scotty said.
"Break the fuckin' doors!" Izzy shouted running back to the other door but everyone froze when we heard a creak from the roof. Then the whole bus lurched, causing me to scream a bit as a wing fell in blocking the path.
We all stared at it and Dante shined his flashlight on it showing all the veins, bones, and a couple holes at the edges on the wing. It looked a lot like mine only a different color.
"Holy shit man." Jake whispered looking at the wing.
"Hey, we can pry this thing open. Give me a pole or a bar or something metal-something big. Yeah, yeah. That'll work." Izzy said using a crow bar to get the door open. I got up and got close to the wing. I ran my finger on it. It felt like a thin piece of rubber and seemed to shudder at my touch but I think it was my imagination.
"Come on, D. You need to get to this side." K said looking at double D and everyone else on the other side of the wing.
Then Jake touched the top of the wing near the floor to move it. When it didn't attack him he continue to push on it to make a whole for him and the others to go through. The wing's skin creaked and moaned against pressure.
"Come on, everybody. Come on." K ushered.
"This thing is like a fucking shower curtain man." Jake said pushing on the wing more. Then D climbed over the seats keeping an eye on the claws at the wing tips.
"Come on." Jake ushered the rest under his arm. Then Dante came and took over pushing up on the wing more.
"Shower curtain? This thing's like a fucking piece of toilet paper." Dante teased then suddenly the wing wrapped around him tightly trapping him inside making everyone scream and back away from it.
"Get him out of there!" I screamed. D and K latched onto the wing to make sure the creature didn't pull Jake up onto the roof. Thought they weren't having much success. Dante screamed against the wing. Before half the wing was pulled up. There was a crack then the wing let go of Dante only to leave a headless body the flung its arms before collapsing.
The guys screamed and backed away from it. Then we all froze hearing more crunching from the roof. I inched towards the whole to see what was happening. K got the flare gun and bullets from Dante's pocket.
"Whats it doing Minx?" Rhonda asked. She panted and didn't reply. I shouted Rhonda's question at her again.
"What's it doing up there!" I shouted. Then I went over to the pole and climbed up it slowly and stuck my head out. The creature reached up it's hands and began taking it's head off. My mouth widened.
Once it's head was torn clean off he threw it. I screamed and ducked down as the head flew over me and hit the hood of the bus before rolling onto the road.
"It just took it's fucking head off." I whispered. We then heard ripping and looked up. Then shifting of something. I backed away from the pole as I heard creaking and slurping sounds.
We looked up through the hole and it once again took flight but stayed close cause we could still hear the wings flapping. Everyone went to the windows looking for it. Then Scotty pried the door open with a crow bar.
"It's time to go." Scotty said shaking his head. Some people stood up.
"What are you talking about, man? Help is coming." Ducky said.
" The 9 is big. Remember? What if he's an hour away? What's if he's going in the wrong direction?" Scotty argued.
"There are fucking cops on the way, man!" Bucky replied.
"And you want the rest of us... to sit underneath that big hole in the roof... and hope that thing doesn't come crashing in here?" Scotty shouted turning to Bucky.
"What do you mean the rest of us?" Bucky asked.
"I mean... it's time to stop being polite. There are two classes of people on this bus now. It had its pick of twenty of us back there... and it picked who? Dante was one. Another one was you, Jake." he said counting them.
"Oh, god damn it, Scott. Don't-" Jake shouted standing up but Scott interrupted him.
"And we all saw him go for you, Bucky." Scott said.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean, huh? Two classes of people? What, the "will be eaten" and the "won't be eaten"? Fuck you, Scotty." Bucky retorted.
"Minxie says this thing... gets anybody it picks out, no matter what." Scotty said.
"Don't you dare bring me into this." Minx said glaring harshly at him.
"She also said that after tonight... it goes away, and for a long time, Scott." I said. Scott ignored me.
"You tell us, Minxie. Are we safe if we can hide out till morning... or is this thing gonna come after these guys... with everything it's got 'cause it only has till morning? Huh? We're screwed, right?" Scott asked. It was silent for a while before Minxie replied after shifting uncomfortably.
"Yeah."
"Scotty, you're not talkin'... about throwing people off this bus?" I asked.
"It's funny you should say that, D... 'cause the only other one... we know it picked out for sure was you." My breathing quicken as he said this. "We all saw the way it sniffed you out back there. You were the only one it gave tongue and humping action." he said. I looked away from him.
"Scotty! I don't understand what you're trying to do." Rhonda said to him.
"I'm trying to stay alive." he said looking at her.
"You're trying to split us up!" Rhonda shouted.
"We have just dropped a notch on the fucking food chain, man!" he said looking at Rhonda. He put his hands on her cheeks. "This is about living or dying now, OK? And if this bus is the only thing... keeping that fucker away for us... how safe are we, you guys... with everybody it's hungry for sittin' inside it?" he pulled away from her. "I want to see hands. I want to see hands...'cause as shitty a deal as it is... I gotta say I'd like you, Bucky, and Jake off this bus" Scotty said glaring at me.
I glared right back just as harsh then pushed him onto a seat hard with my inhuman strength and said, "You listen to me, you piece of shit!..He looked at you, too. I saw him, and you did, too. He looked right at you and smiled...And when you made Jake take the lights off it... he could've looked at you twice and licked his fucking lips... but we don't know that...So you keep your little blacklist. 'Cause when he takes you out- and I hope he does- I'm gonna be the one gettin' as far away... from your sorry ass as I can." I slammed him against the wall again before standing up. ""Time to go" is right." I said.
"I'm gonna find that farm." I said.
"I'm going with you." Jake said.
"You know I'm coming." Scott said standing up.
"You want to keep this bus? Then you sit in it. Right under that big hole. See how long you last." I challenged then I stormed out of the bus with everyone else following.
"Look, I'm sorry Lily." Scott tried apologizing.
"You are so right about that." D said walking out as well. While everyone piled out I looked through the skied for the thing but couldn't see it. I heard Bucky try to stop us.
"That bus is a death trap Bucky. Use your head!" I shouted over to him. I continued sniffing, listening, and watching for the creature as I walked down the road with everyone following and watching out. Rhonda argued with Scott inside before she came out and followed us.
'Where is it?' I asked myself mentally. Scott climbed out of the bus and chased after Rhonda.
"Rho... tell me you're really walking away from me." Scott said grabbing her arm. I turned my attention to them.
"You used me. You used all of us! All you care about is yourself." Rhonda shouted at Scott.
"Rho..." he tried to reason.
"You want to know, Scotty, what I found out today? When people get really scared... it's just like when they get drunk. The real person comes to the surface. We could've protected D and Jake and all of us... if we'd stuck together! You know, like in a team." She said. Before they could continue Johnny had his mouth open and was pointing at something in the sky.
I looked and saw the creature right in front of the moon watching us. I froze in fear while everyone else ran to the bus trying to get the doors open.
Then the creature dived towards us. Everyone notices and ran. I ran along with them. My back screaming in pain wanting to let go of the wings and be carried away by the wind that was flying by as I ran.
I was at the back of the group and I could hear the flaps of the wings getting closer. Black spots clouded my vision. I tried not to faint but just as the creature swooped me up I fainted into blackness.
R&R it took me hours to make this! 14 pages on WordPerfect. I need sleep. I caught a chest cold a.k.a. Bronchitis so I'm gonna be sick a while but luckily my doctor caught the first signs of it and he gave me an inhaler with medicine to fight the bacteria and to clean the mucus out of my lungs. Ugh, it keeps making me cough, and sneeze, and all that shit. It sucks. But at least I'm getting my schooling switched to home health bound k-12. I've heard that it's easier but I'm not so sure. My doc also gave me anti-depressants so hopefully my mood will boost.