Eclipse

Chapter 16

Place: The Tower

Time: 7:30pm

While it was evening time, there were still quite a few people working in the building, rushing around to their destinations, coming in and out of the office building, minding their own business.  A few feet from the entrance was a receptionist desk with a security guard on duty watching his monitors.  He looked up toward us and back down to his computer monitor. 

"Did he not see us?" Tamara asked. 

I shrugged, knowing full well how we looked, blood and soot covered, one with a gun exposed an another with a sword drawn. If I were that security guard I would have been freaking out and probably pulling my own weapon at this point.

We looked around as we walked to the desk. We could see up to floor three. There were escalators going up to each floor and an elevator on either side of the building bringing people up and down.  In the center of the building, decorative lighting provided the illumination to the three floor. To our front behind the front desk against the fall wall were the bank of elevators that went to the upper floors beyond the third. 

It seemed that these three floors that we could make out were a shopping center with many different sorts of stores including food, clothing toys and art. The business centers were probably on the fourth floor and above. 

I tried to wave at the man at the front desk to no avail. He didn't even blink an eye. I reached over and turned his monitor off. His eyes furled in confusion as he looked around the monitor trying to see what happened and finally pressed the power button restoring the image.

I looked at Tamara. "He can't see us at all."

Tamara got a bright idea, reached over and completely shoved the monitor off the desk sending it crashing with the keyboard onto the ground. The officer jumped and and threw his handed onto his hostler. He examined the device on the ground and even nudged it with his foot. 

A sound above me pulled my attention away from the somewhat hilarious sight. A saw at first, what appeared to be a black dot moving through the sky dancing around the elaborate light fixtures above, then the dot stopped moving around and fixed near the tip of the light. I had to squint now just to see it. The dot grew in size in a flat circular shape until it was reminiscent of a black whirlpool.

I nudged Tamara and pointed. 

"Shit, here we go." She said. 

The blackhole had dimmed the lights and I could see it clearly now. A metal crescent moon shaped object slide through, then another. They were appendages that grabbed onto the edges of the circle and puled through a small skull in the shape of an large bird, its eyes hollow. It continued to pull its body through next in the form of a feathery human, but as it pulled more and more, the body stopped and what trailed behind was either the creatures spin protruding from the torso or a skinless tail. The creature had no lower body. 

It fell through the air to the ground on the other side of the circular receptionist desk to where we couldn't see it. 

Tamara, gun at the ready, went to the right and I started walking to the left. We both jumped back as it leaped onto the counter, the security guard jumped back and screamed at the sight of the creature. The creature jumped on his front piercing his chest with the cresant moon shaped blades. It pulled the blades out and stabbed him over and over again as he fell to the ground. 

Tamara fired a few shots but they went right through the creature, not even touching him. The creature jumped back onto the table, bolted for the nearest wall and scurred up and out of sight. 

"What the hell!" I yelled. 

"My bullets didn't phase it at all. I couldn't save him. He was slaughter right before us. I even has his blood on me but he couldn't even see us." Tamara cried.