Chapter 88: "It" Comes Calling

Chapter 88: “It” Comes Calling

The heroes have reunited but something is pursuing them!

As the heroes stand on the balcony, a low rumbling occurs through the structure beneath their feet.

“What was that!?” Zeth shouts.

“Get back inside!” Kurt orders.

They sprint back into the mansion, making their way through more hallways as a roar echoes through the walls around them, followed by heavy, shaking footsteps.

“What the hell was that!?” Joe yells.

“I’d rather not find out!” Kurt replies. “We need to get to the upper floors!”

A wall crashes down near them, and a giant monster crawls out into the hallway. It has a deformed-looking, human-like face with very sharp teeth. With no legs, it drags itself forward on its hands. Its skin looks almost like a reptile’s, and a dark pink aura clings to its massive frame. It’s too big for the heroes to run past in the hallway.

“What the hell is that!!!?” all five heroes shout.

They turn and run, having no choice but to find a different path.

“This is the thing of nightmares!” Emily cries.

“What do we do!?” Sasha shouts.

“All we can do is run!!” Zeth yells.

“It” gives chase, its size tearing through parts of the mansion as it forces its way after them. Notably, the damage doesn’t regenerate.

“I can’t believe Daykona was able to put something this large in the mansion!” Kurt shouts.

They rush into a medium-sized room, but “it” smashes through the door and the surrounding wall to enter. Neither the door nor the wall regenerates.

“It can destroy stuff to get in? Why is nothing it destroys regenerating?” Zeth asks with a mix of surprise and fear.

His intense thinking slows his reaction time, and “it” slams into him as the others dodge aside. Zeth flies back and hits the wall hard.

“Zeth!!” Sasha screams.

“It” lunges to devour him, but Joe snaps his arm forward and releases a burst of wind that shoves Zeth out of the way.

“This is no time to be thinking about that!” Joe shouts. “Focus on survival!”

Zeth pushes himself up.

“You’re right,” he says.

They dash out of the room, desperately trying to get away from it.

***

They run for what feels like a long time. Eventually, they lose sight of it and stop together, bent over and breathing hard.

“What could that thing possibly be?” Emily asks, still catching her breath.

“My best guess would be a science experiment gone wrong,” Joe replies.

“Something tells me that might actually be the case,” Kurt says.

The other four look at him.

“Think about it,” Kurt says. “That ‘thing’ looks deformed. It looks like Daykona tried to create something and didn’t get the results she wanted.”

“What could she have wanted?” Sasha asks.

“And if so, why use this failed experiment on us?” Zeth adds.

“There are a number of possibilities. What she wanted to make, I have no idea. Why she is using it on us? She is probably getting desperate,” Kurt replies.

“I hope so because it means there must not be much left. I’m getting tired of this place,” Zeth says.

They start moving again, but it’s not long before they hear a quick rumble again.

“That sound is from above!” Kurt urgently whispers.

Just a moment later, “It” drops through the ceiling behind them.

“It’s back! Run for it!” Zeth shouts.

They sprint down the hallway with “it” chasing after them, and soon they reach the end of a hallway that has nothing but a door. They rush it and try the handle.

“Damn it, the door is locked!” Joe shouts.

“Looks like we have no choice but to fight it! You ready, everyone!?” Zeth calls out.

“Yeah!” the other four heroes answer.

The heroes are now trapped by “it”! What can they do to defeat the large monster?!

Chapter 88 END
To be Continued in Chapter 89: Heroes vs “It”