The Tunnels

Part 3

I scream the loudest I can hoping to scare off the hideous creatures. They back away for a moment but only to shriek louder this time. They start to circle around me. I cannot leave. One sneaks up behing me and grabs my legs. Another walks right up to my face. My face reflects in its souless black eyes. It grabs my face tightly and screams. I realize something. The beings teeth are incredibly sharp, but fragile. Fragile. I plan out my next step in my head. I act quickely. I grab at its tooth and pull towards me. The creature lets out a shriek, but this one I can tell is in pain. Its razor-like tooth breaks out of its mouth and the creature begins to bleed all on the ground. I take the tooth and jam it into the eye of the creature behind me. The other creatures are horrified. They grab their hurt companions and dash down the dark tunnel. I'm safe for now.

I follow my directions, and I walk into the kitchen. The room is smalled than I imagined. It is maybe 15 feet long and 20 feet wide. The ceiling is high and looks ready to come crashing down. Most of the tables in the mess hall are broken. The kitchen itself is painted in blood. Shotgun shells are scattered around the floor, but I don't see a shotgun anywhere nearby. Oddly, the knives lie perfectly in their place. Another few mutilated bodies lay on the floor. I pick up a knife from the hands of one of the bodies. I look through the cabinets in hope to find water or food. Most are empty, but I find a packet of dried fruit and roasted almonds. A few water bottles lie in the mess hall. 

There is a noise above me. I glance up, but to realize that it is coming from above the ceiling. Footsteps. Growling. Shrieking. A clicking noise. More shrieking. And something hitting the ground. A body, I assume. But who's body? And why? My walkie-talkie begins to talk to me again.

"I assume you want answers where you are. You're in a testing facility. Of monster or man, I don't know myself. But those things are definitely in control of this place. And I'm not exactly sure what they are using this place for. All I know is that our memories before this place are gone and those things have been making us drop like flies. They drag you away into a room, like the one you woke up in, and no one knows what happens next. I escaped from there and left my other walkie-talkie to help whoever got taken into there next. That's where you come in. I've locked and hidden myself with all the security cameras. That's how I've been monitering you. I need you to come and find me, and then we're going to leave this place. Go look out the window at the front of the mess hall."

I look out the window. This testing facility is enormous. It is the shaped of a donut. The facility stretches around in a circle, and a cave system lies in the center of the circle. I cannot tell how far these caves go down. I'm almost certain that facility is underground. I look straight across the testing facility. I see a figure waving at me through a tinted window. I wave back.

"Good. I wasn't sure if you were going to be able to see me through the tinted glass. I need you to come and find me. If you get lost, I'll direct you. You can go one of two ways. 

"You can go through the facility, and I can give you directions. Or you can go across the caves. It could be much shorter. But I have no idea of what is down there. It's risky, but then again, so is going through the facility. The choice is up to you."

I hear a loud banging at the door. The door beings to dent and whatever is hitting at it growls in anger. I know that I have to make a decision fast.

***And here is where the loving fans of the story get to help me write it! Tell me in the comments If you want my character to go through the nightmarish facility or the mysterious caves! Which ever gets more comments is the version of the story I will write! Thank you so much for supporting me!***