Acacia Thalia Lykaious has been with the ARC team since the very beginning but her walls begin to crumble after watching Stephen lose his life. She's struggling to come to terms with the loss of Stephen and her mother and the years of emotional abus...
Pulling up outside the theatre, we climbed out once more, taking an EMD an turning it on.
"I've lost all contact with the ARC" Becker stated.
"I'm guessing that you and Matt aren't on the best of terms?" Abby asked him.
"Matt's ok but it wasn't the same, but Thalia got to lead us for a while, which was fun" Becker tells her.
We circled the balcony of the theatre on opposite sides, both of us with our guns raised, something caught Becker's attention and he jumped over a barrier shining the torch on his EMD on the floor "Thalia!" He called "he's here".
As I reached Becker, he shook his head and held up his hand, blood stained his fingertips.
I couldn't help but feel guilty, the theatre was left to be looked after by one guard as the rest of us went off to the hospital, but my guilt moved when something moved through the side corridors caught my eyes "don't move!" My voice was quiet causing Becker to froze.
In the doorway stood a Tree Creeper, teeth bared, I slowly raised my gun targeting it's chest, my voice now changed to a whisper "on the count of three, dive" I ordered him causing him to nod not takin his eyes off of me but another screech came from outside and the Tree Creeper darted off, leaving me to lower my gun and for Becker to stand up and turn on his heel, walking to the corridor and searching.
"Cia!" Came Abby's voice as she and Matt walked down the middle seats on the lower level.
"There's two of them" I told them.
"I think one's gone outside, Abby and I will take that one, you and Becker search in here" I can imagine the panic if someone saw a pre-historic creature roaming London but then again it wouldn't be the first time.
"What about the woman?" I asked.
"I'll keep an eye out for her" he said before hurrying out to catch the other Tree Creeper, Abby looked at me and shrugged her shoulders before following him.
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It was difficult to see, the theatre was dark with little light, I ran up the stairs and on to the stage, turning so I had the best view of the seating.
"Is it me or are we completely stupid?" I burst out but still whispering causing Becker to return a look of confusion "this is a Tree Creeper, it will look for the highest point!"
Raising my gun to the ceiling, above me were many ropes and high staging equipment, further up lay metal bridges and poles holding the stage together "brilliant".
The sound of rattling and small clicking noise of the creature but there was no movement, not yet at least but I can hear it, it was a little unnerving but I ran for the back of the stage and through the door, I made my way to the higher level of the theatre, I came to the metal stairs leading to the ropes and hardware, the sound of my footsteps echoed on the metal flooring as I slowed my pace and made my way further along, following the screeches.
