《Storm of the End》Chapter XXI.VII: Glimmer of Hope
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As the orange glow of the flames flashed up the stairs, we moved past the door on our left and went for the door to the reception room.
"Oh yeah, we never did look in that room, did we?" Sarah asked.
Jared shrugged, "It's too late now, the flames will start spreading. Let's just hope there wasn't anything too valuable in there."
Still... I wonder... were those two things really enough to take out that many people, armed as they were? Most of the corpses were laying on mattresses down there, so I guess the creatures must have attacked them in their sleep. Or going off their appearance and the way they behaved with us, they probably lowered their guards by pretending to be crying women... They were expecting survivors after all, so a creature that mimicked humans was a deadly mix in that situation. If they attacked them at night, it was no wonder they all got slaughtered. Even so... I heard a fifth pair of footsteps behind us. Before I could even react, I heard a crunching sound and Sarah fell to the ground in front of me. I spun around just in time to see a bloated shape come swinging towards me. Just as it was about to smack into my face, something slammed into my side... Jared had tackled me out of the way on instinct, making us both land next to the reception room door. I heard Aaron scream and I instantly leaped back onto my feet in time to see him dragging Sarah's limp body towards us and... a massive, obese figure standing behind him.
It had the same long dark hair as those two other things. Its face... was nothing but fat folds. Its mouth started on its neck and went down to where its belly button would be if it had one.
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So... there was a third ugly stepsister.
Was it in that other room? ...the entire time?
Its bloated fat body lurched as it took another step towards Aaron and raised one of its arms, which was nothing but a digit-less pile of fat, over his head, ready to slam it down and crush his tiny skull. I grabbed Aaron's shirt, and tugged with all of my might to pull him out of danger. As I did, I heard a gun go off, which I assumed must have been from Jared. The thing's arm missed Aaron by a hair as it came crashing to floor, shattering through the wood like it was glass. I practically threw Aaron to get him to safety, and he landed with a thud next to Jared. Something whizzed by my head faster than I could see and buried into the wall next to me, but I payed no attention as I dragged Sarah into the reception room and shouted for Aaron to follow.
All of that... had happened within the time frame of under ten seconds.
"Aaron! Go with Sarah in the reception room, make sure she's alright!" I shouted as I stared at the thing's huge mouth open and close, its body pulsing as it started to lumber towards us. The moment Aaron got inside, the creature suddenly made a coughing noise and spat something out of its throat. I ducked just in time to dodge, but the liquid it spat out didn't go anywhere near me. It landed on the ceiling above the door to the reception room, and dripped downwards. Before I could even realize what was going on, the liquid completely covered the doorway and hardened, blocking our exit.
I cursed.
Why the hell could it do something like that?
The flames had reached the recording studio by now.
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Jared was holding a pistol in his hand, aiming at the creature but not firing with his shaking hand.
"You've got to be kidding me..." he said, shaking his head, "You've got... to be fucking... kidding me..."
"What? What's wrong?! Why aren't you shooting it?!" I accidentally shouted a bit too forcefully.
He pointed at the wall near where I had been a moment ago; there was a fresh bullet hole there, "When I shot the thing... the bullet just caught in its fat for a second, then it bounced back out and went right by your head."
So that's what had whizzed by my head.
"Shit!"
The thing was getting closer, though it moved slowly.
Jared let out a hysteric chuckle, "Bullets aren't going to work on it!"
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