《Ghoul Rising by(Tailspindark)》Chapter 2: Part Of The Family (edited)
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Chapter 2: Part of The Family
When I opened my eyes, the first thing I saw was a status widow and three skills reminiscent of a game.
All four Windows flashed before my eyes, and in an instant disappeared as I blinked in surprise.
I couldn't even read the information presented before it had disappeared. I tried to blink my eyes again hoping to get a better look, yet nothing happened, I tried saying status in my mind yet no result came from my attempts. Finally, I opened my mouth to speak out the word.
Shriek
A gentle shriek was expelled from my mouth like the exhalation of air and nothing happened.
In novel situation like this it usually should be easier than this to see the status bar, yet nothing was working. I started to wonder if my inability to speak was the reason.
As I experimented I was frustrated by this conundrum, enough to not pay attention to the truly important matters at hand.
And suddenly while I was thinking a greyish white hand broke through the insulation in front of me.
I knew before that whatever waited on the other side of the wall wasn't human, however when I saw this hand, the share size of it was alarming, along with how the bones of it hand seemed to extend from its flesh forming pointy spear like talons. I was so shocked that my reactions were slowed.
Reaching through the insulation it stabbed with it talon through my chest and griped into my body. I shrieked in pain as I was roughly pulled through the wall smashing past all remaining obstacles, and falling on the ground like a corpse.
'What was going on?' I questioned in my mind. I couldn't help but tense up.
'Are these creatures planning to kill me after all?'
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I looked at my body which currently had four bloody holes opened into my torso, and instead of bleeding out, I watched as the holes sealed themselves.
I was shocked and unsettled by what I saw, but it wasn't the injuries closing that unsettled me. It was the pale paper white skin that I was looking down at that made me anxious.
'what am I?' I thought to myself as I slowly lifted my head to see monsters.
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In a dark room with dust and rubble littering the floor I looked up at monsters of multiple sizes and builds, as they looked back at me with emotionless dull faces and glowing red eye's.
The creatures had skin a shade of greyish white. And while the intermediary size monster looked intimidating like nightmares. The biggest one in the back of the room stole my attention.
There was about eight of those masses of muscle, each of them being at least three meters tall, with forward slumping spins and backs covered halfway by hard greyish protrusions.
Their hands were long and stretched down past their knees like Neanderthals, and their talons were several times longer than the one that bore into my flesh moments ago.
Each talon grew forward then curved down towards the floor, in addition their teeth extended downward from their mouth's like individually sharpened blades.
Looking at the entire group of monster what terrified me the most were their faces resembling a cross between a ghost and gargoyle.
Especially the bigger ones, their faces were so humanoid that it felt out of place on their hulking greyish bodies. My heart beat rapidly and I swallowed saliva down my suddenly dry gullet.
They all looked at me for a moment then shifted their gazes from me back onto the wall behind me. I slowly became calm again, of course these creatures wouldn't hurt me. We were one big scary family now.
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I turned and looked towards the side, watching as the creature which clawed my chest did the same towards several dwarfish white creatures.
I studied the appearance of these creatures as they were pulled roughly from the wall, to gauge the current level of horror my face possessed.
They looked even less human than the elder generation, more like wingless gargoyles or a cross between ghost and goblins, some of them had surprisingly adult like faces, but every now and then I saw a rare one that had an almost cute face.
Now that I think about it, the adult looked a little like gargoyle too, but the bigger they became the more human their faces looked, also this race didn't really have a uniformed look.
the dwarfish creatures had bodies that slanted in weird direction and distorted limbs, they were long, short, slim, wrinkled and otherwise, it was a race of many different individuals.
I finally looked away from the younger creatures being drag out of the wall, and slowly turned my gaze towards the center of the room. There in the center of all the monsters stood a beautiful silver-grey woman with glowing red eyes.
Majestic and perfectly unafraid she stood amongst monsters. Her back straight and hand placed on her voluptuous thighs. I couldn't help but wonder if she was part of the family too.
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