The Awakening
I woke up on my back, and the light was barely hitting me, causing me to stir a little. I sat up, and stretched, popping my back and arms at the same time. I looked to my side. Haley wasn't there. I got dressed and walked into the living room. Haley and Brittney were talking to each other. I couldn't hear them, so I snuck up on them because their backs were facing me. I got so close to them they could feel my breath, but I was breathing to keep them from hearing me. I inhaled as quietly as I could.
"WAZZUP!" I yelled.
They both jumped out of their skin. Brittney jumped up to her feet; Haley swung around almost on her back.
"I'm gonna kick your ass!" Brittney yelled.
"Let's get him." Haley hissed.
"Oh, come on you didn't have a heart attack, so why should you hate on me for?" I said crossing my arms.
"Lots of reasons." Brittney growled.
"Well if that's what you want to do try to catch me." I said getting ready to run.
"Well I guess we will it's two against one." Haley said.
"There's no strength in numbers." I said leaning on the couch.
"We'll see." Brittney said grabbing for me.
I stepped back, and she cut short. She grabbed for me again. I stepped to the side and tripped her. Haley jumped over the couch, and tried to tackle me. I ducked, and ran for the door. I slung it opened, and pushed the screen door open. Haley and Brittney were walking toward me.
"Can't catch me can ya?" I said
"Stand still for just five minutes." Brittney said through clenched teeth.
"Sorry you had that chance a long time ago, and you didn't take it, so you sure as heck ain't getting that chance again now." I said grinning knowing this remark would make her mad.
She stood there here mouth hung open, and her eye twitching.
"I'm gonna tear your head off." She yelled through clenched teeth.
"With your hand or your mouth?" I said grinning.
Her face got so red I thought her head was going to explode.
"Haley I'm going to bury you boyfriend." Brittney hissed.
"I'll help." Haley said.
"Ooh, I'm shaking in my fur." I said pretending I was scared.
They both ran after me. I started jogging backwards, and smiling. I stopped after a couple of feet, and they came at me as fast as they could. I waited till they got to me. I jumped at the right moment, and flipped over them. I landed gently on my feet, and they almost tripped trying to stop. I stood there waiting for them to come at me. Brittney whispered something to Haley. Brittney darted toward me. I stood there, and waited. She came at me about to tackle me. I grabbed her shoulders, slid my foot under her stomach as I fell back, and threw her, rolling back on my feet. I turned around to say something to her, and something hit me in the back of the head. I stood there trying to shake it off. I started wobbling, while holding my head. I was about to look back up, and got hit on the head again. I hit the ground with a thud, and everything went black.
(Thud).
"Ow! What the crap? Uhh, Haley hit my head with something I know she did."
I stood up. My pants nearly fell down, but my waist held them. I looked at them, and they were unzipped, and wet. I walked into the laundry room, and threw my pants in the washer. I would've got another pair of pants, but that was the only pair I had. I went back into the living room, and sat down on the couch. I was about to fall asleep a few minutes later, but I heard the washer ding. I walked in there and pulled them out. I evaporated the water off of them, and slid them on. I walked out and into the living room, and Brittney tackled me against the wall. I grabbed her arms, and got her against the wall.
"I'm going to kick your ass for knocking me out!" I growled.
She swung her foot up, and caught my groin. I let go of her, and fell to my knees. She ran outside. I got up, staggering from the pain. I got to the door. Brittney was crying on Echo's shoulder, and Haley and Riley were comforting her. My jaw hit ground. I stomped over there.
"YOU FUCKIN SET ME UP!" I yelled at her.
Before I had a chance to think Echo swung a hook to my jaw. I swung back at him and he ducked and slammed his hand in my stomach. He knocked the breath out of me, but I caught my breath shortly, and grabbed his neck. I was about to slam him in the ground, but he used his Sonar on me, and I couldn't move. I stood there struggling to move. He opened my hand and fell to his feet.
"You'd better calm your ass down when I let you go!" He hissed.
He let me go. Haley walked up to me, and smacked me as hard as she could.
"What was that for?" I growled rubbing the place she smacked.
"Ask Brittney you bastard, I'm leaving." She said in tears.
She ran off. I turned my head toward Brittney. Echo was staring at me, while holding Brittney, and Haley was petting her. I looked very carefully at Brittney. She was…grinning…evilly. My rage took over me before I could think.
"YOU BITCH!" I yelled swinging my hand for her throat.
Echo caught me with his sonar right as my hand connected with Brittney's throat, but he stopped it in time before it hurt her, meaning my hand was touching her, but I didn't punch her. He put my hands behind my back.
"What do you have to say for yourself?" Echo asked.
"She's lying." I hissed.
"Then why's she cryin?" He yelled.
"She's faking it." I yelled back.
"GET THE HELL OUT!" He shouted.
"FINE I WILL! THE FURTHER AWAY FROM HER THE FUCKIN BETTER!" I yelled as loud as I could.
He let me go, and I stormed off. I walked through the forest, uprooting the trees as I pushed them out of my way. I soon came to a river. I looked in it, and studied myself. I splashed water on my face to cool me down.
"Man that fuckin bitch lied to them, I didn't touch her, I was knocked out the whole time, and she attacked me first. AARGH! WHAT'S THAT FUCKIN NOISE!? AARGH!" I slammed my fists in the water, and saw one last reflection of me. My eyes were a bright red, and then my vision went red then black.
I woke up later. It was dark, so I couldn't see much. My face was wet and sticky. I found a tree and broke off a branch and set it on fire. When I my eyes got used to the light I looked around. As I looked around I got chills all over me. There were bodies everywhere. They were bloodied, and mutilated. Guts were hanging from the trees. Brain matter was all over the ground. Heads were mangled so much you couldn't tell what they looked like. Blood covered bones here and there. Organs were lying around. Some bodies had missing arms, some were missing mouths and eyes, some had bite marks on them, some had holes, some were cut to pieces, some were hanging from the trees by their intestines, some by their necks, and torso then I noticed one hanging on a branch even with the ground, and his feet were touching the ground. He was still breathing. I walked over to him, and cracked a branch on the way. He woke up, and started screaming bloody murder when he saw me.
"STOP SCREAMING!" I yelled. I noticed my voice was deeper and it reverberated more than normal, but I was paying too much attention to the bloodied mutilated guy.
He wouldn't stop screaming. I couldn't imagine how much pain he was in. He was missing his legs, he had gashes in his stomach and his guts were hanging out. He was missing fingers, and his jaw was disconnected with his top on the right. His left arm was dislocated, and his right eye was hanging out of its socket. I put my hand on his mouth to shut him up, and I noticed it was covered in blood. Suddenly I had a flash in my eyes. I saw all of them getting mutilated. And I was the one who was doing it. I came back to my senses and the guy was crying. I ripped his head off to put him out of his misery. I walked over to the river, and saw my reflection. My eyes were still red but they had flames coming out of them. My spikes were longer and floating around, and wiggling. My hands were claws, but they weren't bones like normal. I looked at my legs. They went down then bent up in an acute angle, and bent back down in another acute angle. My tail was eight feet longer, and scaly, and it had a really sharp blade at the end. It was covered in blood so much I could only see a little bit of bone. I looked around some more, and it made me sick to my stomach. I puked up everything in my stomach. I looked at my puke and I noticed blood, guts, bones, and skin in the pile.
"That's why some had bite marks." I mumbled to myself.
My stomach churned, and I puked again.
"I have to get rid of these bodies." I mumbled to myself.
I threw all the bodies in the fire, and made it hotter. The bodies turned to bone real fast. I put the fire out, and walked out of the forest the way I came. I noticed blood all over the trees and the ground, along with some bones and some arms and skin. I started running, and tripped over the asphalt. I landed on my side, and a rig was coming to a screeching halt. It stopped inches in front of me. The driver got out, and came up to me. He saw me and started freaking out. I was going to say something but he jumped back in the rig before I could say it. He started peeling out, and it hurt my ears, throwing me into a rage. I jumped to my feet, and slammed my hand in the motor. The rig bowed up with the trailer, and slammed back on the ground. He opened the door, and nearly fell out trying to get away. I picked the rig up, and slammed it in the ground. It busted to pieces and cracked the asphalt. The trailer wasn't connected to the rig because of when it bowed up it disconnected. That truck driver had some guts to shoot me. Where he got the shotgun I have no idea, but he pissed me off. I slung my tail, and impaled him on it through the stomach.
I brought him closer to me, and asked, "Where's the closest town?"
He started screaming.
I dug my hand into his stomach, and said, "Answer the damn question."
"It's just right up the road. P p ppp please have mercy?" He pleaded.
"Sorry, all out." I said incinerating him.
I walked to the doors of the trailer, and opened them. I couldn't see so I made a flame in my hand.
"Wow, explosives. I can put these to good use." I said ripping the doors off the hinges.
I grabbed as many as I could hold in my arms and tail. I was about to walk up the road and got an idea. I walked back to the doors, and threw the explosives back in the trailer. I picked the trailer up, and sat it on my back holding it up with my arm. I proceeded to the town the truck driver told me about. As I started walking with the trailer I crushed the burnt skull underneath my foot. As I was walking up the road, a green Escort rolled up to me. They got out, and started looking at me.
"Take a picture it'll last longer." I said pressing forward.
They got back in the car, and started following me. At first I didn't mind, but the hum of the engine was becoming a nuisance. I turned around, and turned the car around with my foot. I started walking again, and they got right behind me. I stopped, and turned around and they hit my foot with the bumper. I put the trailer down, and picked the car up. I ripped the doors off, and made them get out. I held the car by the hood, and the trailer on my back as I walked up the road. The guy driving the car walked in front of me and stopped.
"Give our car back." He stood there in front of me. I could tell that he was scared, because he looked like an ant.
I threw his car down. I think I broke the shocks. "Stop following me, and you can keep the car."
"And if we don't?" He said
I leaned down to where my face was just inches from his, "If you want to know try it."
I continued walking up the road, and then that guy was dumb enough to ram the car into me. I turned around and walked on top of the car, crushing it under my feet. I walked to the side, and crushed the side he was on with my foot. I kicked the car to the side of the road, and it took out some trees, and ripped some bushes out of the ground. I continued walking up the road, talking to myself.
"Ok, I have nowhere to sleep so I need a mattress. I need some food, and some blankets, and maybe get some clothes just in case I don't stay like this then I'll have some fun with these explosives." I smiled as I thought of what I'd do with these explosives.
I came up to a sign that said, "Welcome to Marlin County."
I started running to get to the town. Every time my foot hit the ground it cracked the asphalt, and made a pothole. I got to the town. It wasn't very big, so destroying it would be pretty easy, but fun. I put the trailer of explosives behind a building, and proceeded to the closest clothing store. I knocked the wall and door down to get in. I stomped through the store looking for the men's clothes. I found them and got five pairs of shirts, and cargo pants then a black zip-up hoodie. The manager pulled out a gun, and I decapitated him with the blade on my tail. He grabbed for his neck as his head stared up at him between his feet then fell down. I went back to the trailer and put the clothes in it. I walked to the closest gas station, and ripped the doors down with the wall. I stomped to the back crouched down because the ceiling was too low to stand up. I grabbed as many two-liter cokes as I could get, and started to walk out. The manager pulled out a pistol, and shot at me. I picked him up with my tail, and crushed him. He didn't die, but he passed out. I kept him constricted in my tail as I made my way back to the trailer. I put the two-liters in the trailer with the unconscious human. I went to a house store, and got some blankets while getting the manager in there too. I brought the blankets back to the trailer, and crushed the manager unconscious then laid him in the trailer. I went back to the house store, and got three mattresses. I took those back to the trailer. I threw the mattresses in the trailer, and carried the trailer to the middle of town. I pulled out all the explosives, and laid them in a pyramid right in the middle of the road. It was the only four-way intersection in the whole town. I put the crap I looted from the stores back in the trailer, and got a safe distance from the explosives so the trailer wouldn't get damaged. I made a fireball in my hand, and threw it at the explosives in the middle of the street. It exploded making a crater in the asphalt, and leveling the buildings around it. I stood there in awe at the destruction. I put the trailer in the crater, and fixed it where the mattresses were closest to the door, and the food was in the back. I laid the blankets over the mattresses, and crawled under them drifting to sleep afterwards.
I woke up a few minutes later, maybe hours because the managers I kidnapped were screaming from their broke backs. My stomach started growling, and for some reason I was craving blood. I picked one up, and stared at him hungrily. His heart was beating so fast I thought it was about to explode. I squeezed him in my hand as hard as I could, and it killed him. I slammed my teeth into him biting him in half. I swallowed his top half then ate the rest. It filled me up that one, so to save the headache and the misery I crushed the other ones head under my foot. I grabbed one of the two liters, and drunk the whole thing in one gulp. I crawled back under the blanket, and fell asleep again.
I woke up again, but this time light was coming through the hole where the doors were on the trailer. I got up, and when I got to my feet I noticed the trailer ceiling wasn't as close to me as last night. I looked at myself, and I was back to my regular infected self. I put some clothes on, and walked outside. I climbed out of the hole in the ground, that you could call my new home, and proceeded to the closest building. I walked in, and looked at the destruction I caused. I noticed a TV in the corner that was still working perfectly. I flipped it to a channel, and it was the News.
"Last night there were multiple reports of an attack on Marlin County. We don't know what it was that attacked because it seemed to blend in with the night, but we do have one way of identifying it, it has flames around its eyes, and its voice seems to echo every time it says something. Other than that keep a flashlight around, so you can see it easier, and stay away from Marlin County, we'll have more information on this at Live at Three, now for the weather reports."
I turned kept watching as they showed pictures of the mauled bodies, and the car. I had a feeling they were coming this way, and if they were they would bring cops, and cops carry tazers. I need to set up some way to defend myself and keep this town, or see if I could go back to Echo's place. Echo wouldn't let me back in because of Brittney. Haley thinks I cheated on her. There's no way I could go back to my house. So I guess I'm staying here.
"Ok need to find a gun store, and some things for a sandbag wall. Maybe even bricks would work. Ok where's a gun store?" I said as I looked around.
I walked down the block and found a tiny gun store. I walked in and grabbed as many guns and ammo as I could. I hauled them back to my trailer, and loaded them then went back and grabbed more guns and ammo, and loaded them. I found some rubble around the area the bombs were, and made an adequate makeshift sandbag wall with bricks. I walked around some more, and found some cars. I carried one over to the trailer and set it on its side for a wall, and brought another one for the same reason. I picked up another car, and dragged it to the trailer, and turned on the battery. I turned on the radio, and listened to the music as loud as it would go as I looked for barrels and stuff. I walked to the gas station with the barrels and filled them with as much gas as they would hold then dragged them back to the trailer. I set the barrels on each side of the road in front of the trailer were most traffic would come from, which is the road to the highway. I found some propane tanks, and carried as many as I could to my trailer. I went into the clothes store, and got a bandana then wrapped it around my head. I got back to my trailer, and pulled my shirt off. I walked over to the car with the stereo blasting, and ripped the door off, and laid down in it. I turned the volume down, and waited for the news crew, along with some police.
I waited maybe an hour, before they showed up. I walked down to my trailer, and got a shotgun, and an AK 47 then got behind the car, and waited for them to get close enough to the barrels. They got within rang of the barrels, and I threw a fireball right at the barrel then another at the one adjacent to that one. They exploded and got most of the crew, but the police cars remained. I burned the tires down to the rims, and threw a propane tank near the cars. I shot it with the AK, and got the one closest to it. I leaned from around the car keeping myself hidden so they wouldn't know it was me and shot with the AK. I started thinking "I wonder if they'll think it's X-istence instead of me?" I threw another propane tank, and nailed the last cop car in the roof with it. I shot it, and it blew up the car. I looked around to make sure no one was still alive. I doused the flames on the barrels, and looked around to make sure I didn't make anything look too unbelievable. I walked back to my trailer, and put the gun down with the barrel facing up, and laid down. I started thinking of what I would do to get back at Brittney, or at least get back into Echo's house and drifted to sleep.
The end of chapter 14