Chapter Eleven
Blood
"Mommy"
"Yes, stay quiet"
"They are coming for us, aren't they?"
"Be quiet"
"I am scared" She hold his mouth. The footsteps were getting louder and louder.
An explosion happened and the door of their apartment flew on the living room.
"Mommy, who are they?"
"Fuck, be quiet, now"
They started walking down the hallway, as the mother and child were quiet in the closet.
Silence, there was just silence. Some grunts were heard, heavy breading. There were no steps, but there was some or something inside the apartment.
The air turned heavy, it was almost impossible to breath, and it was extremely hot.
The grunts became louder as they approached the bedroom, the thing that was there it was one of the shadow army.
Fear was there, it could be scented, it could be flavored, it was almost as sweet as the best candy ever.
There was no more heavy breathing, that thing left the apartment but the mother and son were still scared of leaving the closet of the bedroom.
"It's not gone, they are still here, I do not want to leave this space until they are gone"
A couple of hours later, when there were no more screams coming from outside they decided to go out the apartment and try to find help. The entire complex was in total darkness, there was no light so the mother grabbed a handheld light that she got a while ago and they went down the emergency stairs.
It was quiet, quiet but the rails were really sticky.
"Don't make any noises" She said.
"That wasn't me"
"Let's keep walking slowly"
The goo was everywhere, it was covering the stairs also, the lights, the emergency windows and even the fire extinguisher.
"This is weird"
"Mommy…"
"What it is?"
"I am stuck"
"What do you mean"
"The goo, help me mommy"
"Pookie don't move"
"Mommy, it really hurts, I can't feel my legs" When she aimed the light at him, she noticed his legs were completely melted and that blood was coming from his mouth. She screamed in horror.
His son was laying on the floor, still alive but in shock, behind there was this monster she never saw before it was a big slug, and it was devouring the trails, it wasn't only one they were surrounded by them, they were being hunted and they didn't even notice.
His son was emitting some screams in agony, she realized that he wasn't even moving anymore, much of his lower extremities were already devoured and blood was everywhere. She was thinking where to escape but as soon she tried to run back upstairs she was hit in the head by a ball of acid that one of the slugs threw at her.
"Professor Juniper… Cedric! Come over here! We found the bones of some victims"
"Oh my! Hey this is amazing! This new variant of monster seems to devour his prey with his really toxic saliva; I am completely fascinated by this…"