FREAK

Noah

     This one was the worst. The pure sight of it made me freeze. It was so tall. Too tall. Midnight colored wings splayed out in feathers on a blood crusted back. It hunched over with the weight of them. A tattered t-shirt and dirty jeans. Claws and talons for feet. Black beady eyes that seemed to pull my soul out of my body. The imprint of it in my mind wouldn't go away no matter how many times I blinked.
     Yet there it stood, looming over Amber like a tower. It just stared at her. Straight into her eyes. Like a conversation with nothing said.
     Then it shook its head and Amber stood without hesitation. The momentary pause was nothing to them. Like the player of the video game just left and came back. The fighting resumed.
     Amber watched it claw at the spot she had just been it before piercing it with syringe.
     It didn't flinch. It just straightened up and yanked the object out of itself. Amber, in shock, was pinned down again by the beast. She shot at it with the little bullets she had left in that gun. When it began to just click, her eyes widened when it wasn't phased by her at all.
     The feeling of helplessness seemed to wash over her and I. I hesitated before attempting to take a stab at it again. It caught sight of me and stopped pining Amber to grab at me. I dangled helplessly. Fear came over me when I met those eyes. My body went limp and I could hear the clank of my weapon fall to the ground. At least I had made a good distraction.
     "You idiots can't seem to remember that, can you?" Amber stood and smiled. I felt fear leave as I looked at her. Only warmth washed over me as I heard her words, "don't touch the kid."
     I kept my gaze locked on her smiling face. I didn't notice when she picked up the knife and stabbed it in the arm it held me with. I didn't notice when she took the spare syringe and threw it behind her. Nor when she took the rest of the 'almost antidote' and force fed the beast. Not when she backed up and fell to her own knees because it had gotten one finale swing at her before collapsing.
     It all blurred out. All of it.