Blood began to seep from inside the creature's mouth, dribbling down its tongue and out of its mouth at a growing rate. I could feel its grip on me lessening, growing weak, its eyes rolling back in its head, a deathly black spreading through its gaze like spilt ink. When the tight grip on me released, I fell down on my back with a rough thud.
Quickly controlling my breathing, rapid and rigid, I sat up on my elbows to survey what was going on.
The creature stood high above me, its head craning backwards before it fell limp, collapsing down beside me, a long deep hole in the back of its skull gushing with escaping blood.
My eyes were wide as I stared at the dead creature, then moving up to the culprit that had killed it.
I worried a deeper more powerful force stood behind it, but to my surprise, stood a man, a human man wiping his long sword blade soaked in blood with a dark cloth in front of me.
"That was close" He spoke unfazed as he raked his long tan fingers through his messy dark brown hair
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Evolution
Teen Fiction2023 is overrun with horrific Creatures that stalk the night in search of human flesh. Survival is harsh, deadly for those who aren't strong and smart enough. Morgan is a self-taught survivor - savvy, brave, cut off from all delicate human emotions...
