Downfall

A blackened sprint

          Light shines into the shadow riddled cave. My eyes twitch to the sun as it begins to aluminate my body. It took a moment for my mind to realize where I was at. Still at the same place, still in the unknown. I slowly get up to look around the cave's exit. The coast is clear. I then walk out of the cave with a now wide-eyed expression. The noises of the forest did not ring within my ears, yet they rang around me. It sounded to be of searching. Multiple voices to be heard, yet there was nothing to understand. More and more whispers and yellings began to turn into a more undecipherable noise. To remind me of TV static, the noise piercing the brain and ears. To always notice, yet to never get away from it. I look to my right to where the monster had fled. I see a streak of red, it looks to be human. It even looks to be of my own. I look around to see if anything looked like me. Nothing; yet when I looked around my body I witness a gash dug deep within my right leg. Enough to fit the description of the grounds red painting. Through time, the wound has become dry, I was lucky for it not to be infected. Adrenaline runs roughly within my body, never to give up with this constant fear of death. I move forward throughout the forest. I begin to hold my body as if I'm shivering. The noise is getting to me, this static has become too much. To the left of me, I can hear a group of those creatures. All riled up by the forest, their screams have become piercing to my ears. Inch by inch I can hear them creep closer. I run to one of the nearby trees in panic. My heart races once again, I cannot stop its noise. I crouch to try and calm myself down, I close my eyes to think of my past back before hell has arrived. I begin to think of my family, my brother. Clyde Newbold, I can't wait to see him again. He's about to all that I remember now. I've been here for about a couple of months now. It's just blurry. Eventually, I calm myself down to control my movements once again. I open my eyes to see that three of those monsters were to my left as one were to my right. I couldn't think clearly, yet I didn't care if I was sneaky or not. My mind was sporadic in choice, so I began to give up on knowing what was safe for me. I bolted past the creatures as fast as I can. To never look back, yet I could still hear the screams of the forest. One of them witnessed me running towards the right side of the trees. I could then hear a clicking noise that seemed to be near me each and every time that I took a step. I looked around the sky and floor to see that my shoes were beginning to tear up. I kept going, no matter the inconvenience. From the screams, I could see that only one of them were after me. The creature never alerted the others, as this one creature looked to be smaller compared to the other three. It was fast yet I could still outrun it for only a few more moments. The purple sky began to change color, from the pulsation of purple to a now corrosive black. This began at the center point of my vision, to then spread outward like a spider's web. Eventually, the sky would become a place of the blind, I couldn't properly see anymore. All that was left for the source of light was the creature that created the chase of I and it. Eventually, the creature slowed down in tiredness. Strange I thought, since these creatures aren't human, yet they have more energy than any normal animal. Once the creature slowed down, I began to catch my breath at the walking pace. I kept my focus upon the creature at all times, whenever it moved closer, I moved away. Along the barely seeable path, I tried my best to grab a few stones off of the ground. The first of the stones were hurled at excessive force, to suddenly become non-existent at the end. They just disappeared, vanish into nothingness, where did they go? For the monster to never flinch when the rocks came close to contact. It became close in contact its one bleeding eye. I tossed as many rocks as I could find, eventually, I could not find anymore. I was running out of options, so the only one that I had left was to run. To run away from the monster, yet in vision, it was still of the unknown to me. The swaying ground had stopped, yet the screams became even louder. I looked up at the blackened sky to see that it was evolving across the trees and into the ground. The array of colors that cursed my vision all began to turn into black, yet in contrast, the only visible thing was the creature. A bright white body, my only vision. I looked upon the creature to pan down at its claws, they were sharp yet looked to be unused. Not to be used for killing, just naturally grown. I look at its bleeding eye to see that the blood still gushed from the tear duct. No wound could be found as these creatures looked to be something that can naturally produce a liquid tear as well as the bloody streaks of red. The teary eye stares at me calmly while the bleeding eye becomes frantic. To look pissed off at everything it sees, no matter how much it looks around it's always searching. The white body glows with its natural color, but in a deeper inspection, its chest looks to be moving with dirt and mud slightly smushed together. Not to encase the body, but to look as if he was rolling around in the ground upon the search for his next victim. I've had enough, I had turned back around to just keep on running. Purely into the darkness I jump and leap to whichever I felt a presence towards. No matter the effort I still kept smacking into whichever held to be an obstacle. The trees, the stumps, it was mainly wood that I came in contact with. I hit something of the unknown, pure black to the useless vision I hold onto the strange wall with a dazed expression. I grunt in pain and frustration as I pan my hands around the wall to find a door. I shift to my right in a hope to find a way through it. To my avail, I press upon the wall to then fall into the deep dark abyss. I am now fully blind, yet I can still feel everything. Falling and tumbling into a sprawl, I stay on the floor to almost accept my fate. "I've been running from this for months, just kill me already." I say to myself. I was in despair, my will to live was diminished, yet I still kept on going. I get up as fast as I can to run straight into another wall. To hear the jingles and cracks of what's to sound like many toys and figurines. All of them hit the floor to bring the familiarity of Earth back to my mind. I begin to tear up from the memories back home, my family, my friends, all of them. I punch the wall that I recently came into contact with. The pain split open my middle knuckle, the cut felt to be safe. Another human emotion, another human fallacy, another human remembrance.