The Doctor's Casa

CHAPTER THREE.

The man's face was disfigured beyond belief, one of his eyes was in a disgusting yellow color, the other one had droopy eyelids that covered almost half of the eye. His face was wrinkled with some small pores dotted here and there, and what made it gut wrenching was the amount of pus and blood that kept oozing out of the pores, his mouth was crooked to the left and half of his long thin teeth were showing. His gums were the color of the dark midnight and his hair, was just wrinkly lines that were matted to the middle of his head. His skin was dark with tints of green, it also made him look like one of those aliens you see in children's books.

He snarled and the wind carried off the stench of rotten eggs and decayed materials into their noses and Joe was on the ground all over again.

"Run!" The woman shouted at them, tears cascading down her face, her face carried worry and she was in desperate pain. She had seen her son in the arms of the man on the ground, puking his guts out. She had lured the monster all the way to the middle of the fields, away from her son and she would not just look for him to be slaughtered.

The dark greenish man whipped his head to his prey who had just screamed with anger, he stepped rashly on her hand and a sickening crack accompanied by an ear-piercing painful scream sounded out in the fields.

Tears started running down Joe's face as the act of immense cruelty happened, and he could do nothing but witness it. In a fury daze, he cocked the gun in his hand, aiming it at the monstrosity who was looming over the poor woman, her child who he was balancing on his left hip hiccuping with his tearless cries.

Joe fired and it made a loud sound as the bullet collided with the monster's head. The action shocked everyone present as their eyes found Joe who was still crying but his eyes had a surprising hard look. It sent a shiver down Drake and Elise's spines as they knew how scary an angry Joe could be.

The monster looked at Joe with a shocked expression, his jaw  hanging open allowing a few flies to fly in, the soft breeze blowing in the fields had no mercy as it carried the rotten stench and scent of blood along the nostrils of Joe and his company.

Joe fired again, the bullet situating itself in the monster's head again. The monster blinked and fell by the woman he had at his disposal with a loud thud. A cloud of dust formed and cleared as quickly as it came giving Joe the opportunity to fire his four remaining shots in his stomach and where he believed his heart could be.

Joe glanced at the woman whose eyes found him and gave him a warm bloodied smile as she mouthed a thank you and then finally heaved out her last breath. Joe stood there angry and shocked, he just shot a man- no, monster and he just witnessed the most gruesome death in history. Without a word, he turned and walked swiftly away from where the two bodies were lying, there was only so much his body could take in a day.

Drake and Elise shared looks and they knew something had definitely been triggered. That look on Joe's face as he passed by them gave it all away, they gave a silent prayer in their hearts that Joe wouldn't get a relapse of any sort, they wouldn't be able to deal with it. Wordlessly, they turned and followed Joe, Sean tagged along behind as he fished out his phone,  dialed 911, and droned about the incident to the other person who received the emergency call.

They all arrived at the house of the Eltons and saw Jenna and Phoebe sprawled on the soft cushy lawn in front of the house, they were sharing earbuds and their heads were bobbing as they listened to one of their favorite songs. Jenna was the first to see the little troupe with their paled faces and bloodied clothes, well Joe and a certain kid's bloodied clothes. The rest were fairly clean.

She jumped abruptly drawing Phoebe's attention as her eyes widened when she also saw them. She went with Jenna to meet them halfway but Joe just passed by them, his eyes a little bloodshot and the shine in them dimmed. They glanced confusedly at Drake and Elise and they both shook their heads.