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After the End of the World
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The footsteps following me sounded closer. I ran through the empty corridors of the hospital, my heart pounding with terror.
I turned a corner and stopped short. I had reached a dead end. Should I turn back and chance running into whom ever or whatever was following me or should I find a place to hide?
No time to think just act and act I did. I decided to confront my pursuer and so I looked for a weapon. Something to protect myself. A pipe was all I could come up with in short order and I thought it would suffice. I was dead wrong. I crouched down behind an old tattered bed to give me the element of surprise. As I waited I could hear the footsteps approaching but as they did they seemed to become heavier and heavier until they no longer resembled footsteps. Instead they sounded more like a sledge hammer pounding on pavement, and then echoing through a vast cathedral. There it was and it was no person. The hulking beheamoth of a monster came around the corner filling the corridor almost completely having to crouch due to it's height. It was humanoid in shape but it's immense hands had claws looking more like knives than fingertips. It's legs looked as trees trunks and it's face. Oh God it's face. I wish I hadn't looked. It had beady red glowing eyes and sharp fangs and looked to have a head Kanine in appearance yet pieces of it's skull shown through it's rotting skin.
Should I use the element of surprise like a had earlier planned? Should I wait for it to look in one of the other rooms and run passed? A bead of sweat trickled down my forehead. It sniffed the air and looked right at the bed I was behind. Oh shit! It knows where I am. I thought to myself. Then it turned...
The footsteps following me sounded closer. I ran through the empty corridors of the hospital, my heart pounding with terror.
I turned a corner and stopped short. I had reached a dead end. Should I turn back and chance running into whom ever or whatever was following me or should I find a place to hide?
No time to think just act and act I did. I decided to confront my pursuer and so I looked for a weapon. Something to protect myself. A pipe was all I could come up with in short order and I thought it would suffice. I was dead wrong. I crouched down behind an old tattered bed to give me the element of surprise. As I waited I could hear the footsteps approaching but as they did they seemed to become heavier and heavier until they no longer resembled footsteps. Instead they sounded more like a sledge hammer pounding on pavement, and then echoing through a vast cathedral. There it was and it was no person. The hulking beheamoth of a monster came around the corner filling the corridor almost completely having to crouch due to it's height. It was humanoid in shape but it's immense hands had claws looking more like knives than fingertips. It's legs looked as trees trunks and it's face. Oh God it's face. I wish I hadn't looked. It had beady red glowing eyes and sharp fangs and looked to have a head Kanine in appearance yet pieces of it's skull shown through it's rotting skin.
Should I use the element of surprise like a had earlier planned? Should I wait for it to look in one of the other rooms and run passed? A bead of sweat trickled down my forehead. It sniffed the air and looked right at the bed I was behind. Oh shit! It knows where I am. I thought to myself. Then it turned...
