In an instant, I'm on my feet and running to the truck on my injured legs.
I slide to a stop on the gravel driveway, flinging open the truck hatch.
Looking behind me, I notice the rest of the kids are right on my heels.
My hands ache ever so slightly, each time I grab a weapon, but I keep passing them out.
Through an upstairs window, I can see that the lights have been turned off.
When I get to Nora's shovel, I realize that the youngest of the children is still in the bathroom.
Leila looks at me with wide eyes, and I can tell we're thinking the same thing.
I toss the shovel at Gray, running towards the building with my crossbow.
With Leila right beside me, we run through the lobby, calling Nora's name.
As soon as we round the corner, we see Nora, unharmed, skipping towards us with a smile on her face.
I bend down and hug her, "Little flower, you're alright!"
"Why wouldn't I be?" She asks, confused.
At that moment, the clanking of a night-shadow answers for me.
Nora's lip begins to tremble. I scoop her up and we quickly run back to the lobby.
Gray hands Nora her shovel, and we move slowly towards the elevator, clumping together in a cluster.
Everyone jerks and jumps at each little sound.
We take the elevator upstairs. The doors open to reveal darkness.
The lights are still out.
Ryith turns them back on, and around 10, possibly more, night-shadows are revealed.
Everyone gasps, and I can tell even they have never taken on this many before.
Based on the last attack, I know it takes two of the older kids just to kill one.
Unless you get insanely lucky, like me.
Nox fires his gun, and everyone snaps out of their terrified trace.
I quickly begin firing my crossbow, but the creature barely even flinches.
Hissing, it crawls towards me, eerily fast. I aim my bow, but fast as lightning, it whacks it out of my hands.
Weaponless and scared, I don't move a muscle.
The night-shadow appears to smell me, only 2 inches in front my face. I stand frozen, trying not to breathe in its rancid stench. Now that it's this close, I notice that the whole creature is practically dripping with black slime, the same colour as its scaly black skin.
A fat droplet of slime drips onto the ground with a splat, landing dangerously close to my sneaker.
The night-shadow pulls away, and straight up moves on to someone else. I look at Gray, who saw the whole thing. He shrugs back at me, swinging the wrench at a night-shadow.
Why did it let me go?
I shake it off, running to help Mercedes and Nora, struggling to fight off a night-shadow together.
I shoot a couple arrows at it, giving Mercedes a chance to dive in and tase it. Nora joins in, straight up throwing the shovel at the creature.
The taser, combined with the shovel and the arrows are enough to knock the creature to the ground, limp.
YOU ARE READING
Anomalous
Teen Fiction{COMPLETED!!} Autumn is ordinary. Completely ordinary. She goes to school, gets yelled at by her mom, comes home, gets yelled at more; normal. One day, the chain of mundane breaks, when she comes home to find two teens with a pitch in her house. ...
