Oh my apocalypse [YiZhanFF]

Part 19. Gray and Black

As Zhan slowly woke up again, he listened to hear if it was still raining or storming. But it was silent. The two gates no longer moved, nothing rattled, and no more raindrops pattered on the roof of the hangar.

Zhan wanted to get up and get a bottle of water, but everything hurt. He had sore muscles all over his body, especially his abdomen. He almost had to laugh when he realized again how many muscles a person has and where they were most strained.

Yibo, who was also slowly waking up, looked questioningly at Zhan, straightened up and felt sore muscles all over his body as well. "This is like doing extreme sports, isn't it?" Zhan asked, chuckling as he struggled to get himself into a sitting position.

"Worse. I feel like an old man right now." Replied Yibo with a laugh. Yibo gave Zhan a kiss and asked, "And besides sore muscles, are you in any other pain?"

"No, I'm fine. Just sore muscles."

"Good." Replied Yibo and scrambled out of the tent on all fours. Whereby he felt as if he had aged at least 60 years in the last few hours, the way his body felt.

The two walked slowly to their car and took out two water bottles, which they drank almost immediately. Yibo's gaze turned to the two gates of the hangar as he did so, and he almost choked when he saw that the gates were open a bit.

Immediately he pulled Zhan to him and pointed at the gates. They weren't open very far, not far enough for a creature. But a human could have easily fit through the gap.

Hastily, the two looked around the hangar, but they were and are alone. No one but the two of them is there. And that means there may be a creature outside that was trying to get in here. Even though both didn't understand why it didn't just come in, after all creatures were much stronger than humans and so it could have easily gotten the gates open.

The two walked slowly towards the gates, watching every step. They looked out through the gap, but couldn't see anything at first. Until something flew past the gates.

Immediately, they both jumped back a step and were about to run back to their tent when something caught Zhan's eye. "It's a gray creature." He whispered.

But Zhan's whisper was apparently not quiet enough, because the creature suddenly appeared at the rift and stuck its nose through. It sniffed and then took a few steps away from the gates. Zhan and Yibo watched it and saw the creature, apparently playfully jumping back and forth, fluttering its wings excitedly and turning in circles again and again.

Again and again, the creature looked toward the gap in the gates, tilted its head, fluttered excitedly, and repeated itself. Zhan was completely fascinated by this creature and said to Yibo, "I think it's the same creature as in the apartment."

"Are you sure? They all look the same, don't they?"

"Not exactly. There are gray ones and black ones. But this one I'm sure is the same creature."

"And what if you're wrong."

"I'm not wrong. Just see how it behaves." Replied Zhan. He ran to the car, got a can of ravioli, opened it and threw it outside. The creature sniffed it curiously, pushed its tongue out a bit, tasted the ravioli and spat. But immediately after, it tasted again. And it did so until the ravioli were all eaten, and then played with the empty can.

The creature romped around until it discovered something. It disappeared for a moment and then came back. In its claws was a bird. It placed the dead bird in front of the gap and pushed it further into the hangar with its nose, then hopped around excitedly.

"Um Zhan, I think it wants us to eat the bird." Said Yibo as he looked at the dead bird in disgust.

Zhan slowly walked to the gates, took the dead bird and showed it to the creature. The creature came a little closer to the gates, sniffed, went back a little, sniffed again, and then came closer. Zhan threw the bird to the creature, it caught it with its mouth and ate it. "wow, this is amazing." Said Zhan.