...And Hell Followed With

Chapter Seven:"To Be Forged In Fire"

Quickly getting to their feet, Maddi and Wes begin to run towards the main square. As they run towards the main square they can hear the shrieks and screams of the monsters coming towards them from the other direction. Yet Wes is hurt pretty badly and is leaning up against the wall as they run, to hold himself up. Suddenly Wes falls and nearly hits the ground but Maddi catches him.

"Maddi, we need to find somewhere where we can hold up, I don't know how much further I can go." Wes says, breathlessly.

"I know Wes... What about your house? It's only a few blocks away." Maddi says to him, while holding him up and watching for monsters.

"M-My dad has a helicopter, he just got his pilot's license. We might be able to get out of here."

"You think they are still alive, Wes? What if they left without you."

"Our house is built like a fortress, Maddi and they would never do that to me."

"Ok." Maddi agrees reluctantly. She pulls him back to his feet and they start heading towards Wes' house. As they round a corner, they see a sight that boggles the mind, the Library had been, not just completely leveled, but seems like the earth had opened up and swallowed the whole thing. Yet they keep pace, as they continue past, Maddi starts thinking to herself. "What in the hell is going on? Was the crazy cook right, is the world ending?"

They make it to Wes's street, to find that his house looks more relatively untouched oddly enough. Wes gives out a relieved sigh, however as they run up to the door, Wes can see the door is open a crack. Wes pushes the door open, and slowly it opens to a hope destroying sight, of the house being completely destroyed.

Wes looks about the room awestruck and in utter disbelief of what he is seeing. The couches are upside down, in splinters or tossed around the room. Blood drenching the walls, in viscuse red slime, that caked the walls in places, like the inside of a meat grinder.

Seemingly unable to move, Wes just stares around the room. Maddi noticed that around where the couches were, viscose iridescent-black goo splattered around the floor, marks cutting up the floor, and signs of a struggle, it appeared a person changed into a monster and attacked the other.

"Wes, It looks-" Maddi begins to say, but a soft crunching sound comes emanating from upstairs, and without thinking Wes drops the chainsaw, running as he does, darting up the stairs.

"Mom, Dad!"

"Wes wait!" she yells after him, and starts running up the stairs after him. Running up the stairs after she gets to the top of the stairs, she finds Wes at his parents door, standing still and trembling. She runs up to see Wes's mom, whose body has been horribly contorted, into the hideous vistage of the monster's, her neck completely covered in bone armor that was also formed around her head.

Wes' mom and the other monsters around Wes' fathers body, eating it, or ripping it apart...

"Mama..." Wes whimpers, the monster that was his mom looks straight at them having heard him and lets out a horrid demonic shriek. It's so loud Maddi and Wes have to cover their ears. Maddi falls to her knees holding her head in her hands. The shrieking stops, and the monsters lunge at them.

Wes slams the door pressing himself against it as he does, shutting the monsters in the room, a hard thud comes from the door as the monsters slam into it. More slams and thuds come from the door as the monsters try to break down the door, cracks start appearing in the door's wood.

Maddi jumps to her feet and pulls out her guns.

"Run, get the saw!" she yells to Wes, and as he jumps out of the way she starts firing into the door. Wes nearly falls as he runs down stairs. Maddi runs her gun's magazines dry into the door. For a moment, silence falls inside the room.