Echoes of the Metro

Horrors of the tunnels

The voices echoed through the vacant cascades of the tunnel, the nearby frantic voices of the Metro inhabitants running, trying to escape the creatures that lurked the dark tunnels. A nearby voice spoke through a shaky voice "Asael! Asael run!", Asael's dad ordered as he fired two shots from his revolver at the approaching Watchmen, horrible, powerful creatures that resembled what would be the mix of a dog and a rat, and hunted without remorse. Asael sprinted as fast as he could, seeking to find a place of remote shelter to shake the beasts. But he heard a woman's scream, her voice all too familiar to him, and as he turned around he saw his mama being sworn by the Watchmen. They bit and clawed her to shreds. "MAMA!!- MAMA NO!" Asael screamed as he ran back towards her direction. "YOU FUCKING RATS!" Asael's dad shouted as he unloaded the remaining 4 cartridges in his revolver at the Watchmen that slayed his Mama, he only managed to kill one and lightly disable the other. Asael spotted a Watchman through a hole in a ventilation shaft to the right and he screamed "Papa! Papa to your right!" but it was already too late, the Watchman jumped from the shaft and onto his Papa, and began to immediately claw him with the help of it's other injured beast. Asael ran to help his Papa but was thwarted by his Papa's last demand as he was being attacked "Asael run! Get as far away from he-" his voice was cut short as a Watchman slashed his mouth open. But at the very last second, his Papa managed to throw Asael his revolver, Asael, although bawling his eyes out, grabbed the gun and ran in the opposite direction. He sprinted as fast as he could, away from the beasts, or so he thought. Two Watchmen were chasing him still. "Papa... Mama..." he said to himself as he ran, he noticed a open door in the hallway to his right, and he dashed inside of it and shut the door and pushed his back against it. The Watchmen jumped into the door and slashed, trying to get inside, to claim the last victim. Asael held the revolver in hand, remembering how his Papa taught him to use it, and the four cartridges his Papa gave him, in case an event such as this was to happen. He pushed the cylinder release forward and sprang the cylinder out and tilted the gun upwards, emptying the spent cartridges, and then pulled the four cartridges from his Parka, and loaded the four he had into the cylinder, and released it back into the frame, and then cocked the hammer. The Watchmen were relentless, Asael simply could not hold the weight of the pressure of the two beasts, who were much bigger than him. "Okay.." Asael said to himself trying to calm his nerves, "You're only option is to run forward, wait for them to come in, and then try to kill them!". The move was decided into his head, "Okay, *as he counted* 1.. 2.. 3.." He sprang forward about 7-8 steps, and turned around, and it seemed all at once that time was slowed down, the Watchmen burst threw the door and screeched at him, he lined up the revolver sights through his right eye and aimed at the head of the first Watcher that entered the room, and he pulled the trigger. The loud muffling noise of the gunshot rang through Asael's ears as he fired another shot into the head of the beast, downing it. He pointed the revolver to the other Watcher, and immediately fired a shot into it's neck, missing its head. The Watcher lunged at Asael, and Asael tripped over his foot as he was moving backwards, just as it seemed as the Beast was going to land on Asael, he fired one more shot, which went through the chin, and then through the cranium of the Watcher, the Watcher let out a cry and it fell on top of Asael as Asael's head hit the pavement, making him cry out. But Asael didn't know that he had killed the beast, so he slammed the grip of the pistol on top of the beast's head multiple times, until the realization came to him. "It's dead.. it's dead... you're okay" as he said through short panicked breathes. "Chertov suka must this thing be.. so heavy!" he cursed as he pushed the dead body off of him and stood up. Through the panicked adrenaline that was now starting to decrease, he suddenly remembered the prior events, his Mama, and his Papa, are now dead. He assumed the rest of the people that were with him as well, were now dead, as well. He began to tear up, and fell on his right knee. "What am I going to do? Where do I go...?!" He said through sobs.