Lucky and the Killer ✔

Shadows

Lilly and Sarah stood back-to-back in the middle of a circle of newly-spawned shadows. Cars were squealing and honking. Brakes were screeching. People were screaming as, one-by-one, they were cut down by these monstrous beings that fell from the sky.

"What. the. ever-loving. hell. is this?" Lilly said as she grabbed Sarah behind her and tried to back away from the group that was quickly encroaching on them. Sarah screamed. Her brave front was gone, and she didn't hold back the tears as the faceless things began to suck the life from anyone they came across.

"L-lilly!" Sarah hiccuped behind her. "What do we d-do?"

"Stay still," Lilly snapped. "Stop crying! I need to think."

"W-what are th-they?" Sarah sobbed.

"I don't know!" Lilly half-yelled. She squinted her eyes shut and screamed inside her own head for Zee, but he couldn't come. "Get away!"

Lilly tossed candies, newspapers, and her shoes to keep the black figures at bay. Anything, she thought, that would buy her time to get back to Zee was worth it. She unclasped her beaded bracelet and tossed it. It fell into the grass—not even heavy enough to make a sound.

"Cute," one of the shadows smirked.

"They can speak!" Lilly yelled, and as much as she wanted to shrink back into the corner, she knew she couldn't. She yanked Sarah along behind her and burst through the crowd of deviled-assassins.

"Of course we can," the shadow said as it began to run alongside the girls.

"Who are you? What are you?" Lilly gasped as they tried to out run their pursuer.

"Wouldn't you like to know," the shadow said as it flew ahead of them: faster, flying, gliding, and slicing at their skin.

"St-stop!" Sarah cried as a shadow tore open her shoulder.

"Why are you doing this?" Lilly gasped, clenched her eyes, and pounded the sidewalk harder. They were demons. They were some sort of demons. She had to get to Zee. She had to. Stopping wasn't an option. Escape was a must. Sarah was depending on her and so was Zee. She tried not to imagine his face. She tried not to think about what Zee might look when she found him. They ran past body after body. It was an all-out massacre. She'd never seen anything like it before—maybe on television.

"Because we're mad," the shadow said.

"About what!" Lilly yelled.

"Everything," the shadow grinned and swiped at her side.

It moved so fast. She couldn't tell if it had a knife—or talons like some kind of animal. She just knew it wasn't human. No human ever moved like that. It was a black blur that danced along the side of them like a puff of smoke, but it sounded and acted like a man. Lilly shook her head and pulled Sarah even harder.

The little girl cried and wailed as blood spilled out into the air. She stumbled in her small boots, but she kept running. She kept trying. Ahead, she could see Zee, and for once, she didn't call him 'Wicked Lord'.

"Zeeeeee!" she screamed. "Help us!"

He sat still against the telephone pole—his hands still bound behind his back. But, he was far from beaten. Lilly almost forgot to run as she stared at the blue aura beating into the air around him.

"What...is that?" she asked.

Zee's blond hair fell over his eyes, and he stared down at his feet—completely ignoring the chaos around him. It didn't take Lilly long to figure out that something was still wrong with him, too.