"Monster!" A pig man in a gray sweatshirt charged through the crowd, screaming. “There is a monster on this train!”

After he ran past Rei and Luna, other screaming passengers followed him, pushing and shoving as if their lives depended on it. Rei huddled against Luna so the panicking mob wouldn’t push her to the floor and tremble over her.

With a grin, Luna pulled out her E-gun and turned the dial on her weapon. “It’s showtime!”

Rei held out her hands. “Wait! Luna-”

But her partner raced to the other cart without questioning the passengers. She just wants to attack whatever was on the train.

“Uooooooooooooo!” Rei shook her fists and followed her partner’s lead.

Her stomach burned, thinking the monster could be the blob creature, although she wasn’t sure. It could be anything until Rei sees it for sure. But she wanted to warn her partner before she run into trouble.

Luna was careless and overconfident, always desiring to jump into action before she watched where she was going. Sometimes she was smart, but her thrill for an adventure could blind her from danger. Whatever the creature could be, Luna has encountered nothing like it before. She will die if she doesn’t watch her step.

The next carts were empty. All the passengers were probably at the back, waiting for help or trying to break through the emergency exit. At least nobody blocked Rei and Luna’s path.

Toward the conductor's doorway, Luna stopped and aimed her gun. Black liquid shadows swirling behind the door’s glass windows. Something was inside the conductor cart.

Rei changed the dial on her gun to lightening. A fire shot could burn the creature alive, but Rei doesn’t want to blow up half the train. Hopefully, her partner knew not to do the same thing.

“Remember, don’t use the fire shot yet,” Rei told Luna.

The panther woman rolled her eyes while aiming her gun at the door. “I know, I know! Don’t screw this up like last time!”

Rei growled softly through her pursed lips. Ileon! She’s still going to blame me for our failed bounty?

Black goo crawled through the door cracks. It expanded, pushing the door open, revealing its full slimly form.

Rei’s heart pounded as she lower her gun a bit. The thing attacking her inside the bathroom flashed back to her. Its unnatural oil smell, and its wet tentacles trying to enter her body. Seeing those flashbacks sent shivers through her spine like a needle, piercing through her soul.

The black blob slithered forward as two yellow eyes appeared. A wide slimy mouth opened below its eyes, releasing a hollowing moan, shocking Rei’s ears like nails on a chalkboard.

“Holy shit!” Luna shouted as the blob crawled toward her.

“Shoot it, Luna!” Rei cried behind her. “Shoot it!”

Luna grimaced and fired one bolt, hitting and shocking the creature. It screamed and slithered back. However, the shock sizzled into smoke, cooling off the creature.

Rei thought electricity could put the thing down permanently. Maybe they weren’t strong enough to zap a large pile of goo into dust.

Luna aimed her gun again, preparing to fire another shot. The blob glared at her and shot a mucky fist toward her, punching her with a wet slap.

The panther woman groaned as she flew backward and bumped into a metal pole. Her body hit the floor where she remained unconscious.

“Luna!” Rei glared at the creature and aimed her gun. She couldn’t standby and do nothing like a frightened kitty.

The blob’s yellow eyes glanced at her, dropping its droopy lipless mouth. “Yooooouuu!”

Rei felt like the creature’s haunting words pushed her into a freezer. Sharp chills prickled all over her fur, and her bones rattled with frustration.

The monster wasn’t an illusion! He was real! Real as her eyes could see him. Real as his foul stench reeked her nostrils. Real as his voice spooked her.

Rally is wrong! He is real!

The blob laughed in its watery tone. “Thisss time I will finissh you!”

Finish her? Did he mean to eat her?

Rei’s crotch tingled between her shaking leg, remembering the monster’s tentacles barely reaching her sensitive spot. It will happen again if she doesn’t fight back.

After its head touched the ceiling, the blob charged while opening its mouth wide open.