The New Old World

Chapter 3. "Running" is my favorite word

Im not sure if a few seconds, a few minutes, or even hours passed by but the intense heat from the fires stirred me up and scrambling to my feet I ran for it the smoke was blinding and suffocating but I kept running as I was choking for air. A maze of fiery objects and bloody bodies some humans some monster were everywhere and for some stupid reason I followed, and they led me to an echo of screams a few streets over.

Like the carnage at the stadium people were running in every direction more bodies together than I have seen so far in the city. They came at me like a train and turning I ran but soon enough I was during the mob. Back and forth and in circles we went as dragons, and those female monsters, as well many others swooped from above clutching onto people or monsters. They chased us from street to another and forced us back, I couldnt even run to the side noticing that some people did that but made it an easy target for the monsters to scoop them up. This time though there were gunshots from people who were fighting back, they either turned and fired their guns or shot blindly behind them sometimes shooting randomly into the crowd making the innocent drop like flies. Some of the dragons were fighting each other now in front of us and as I looked around in all this confusion, I bumped into a young woman who appeared suddenly in front of me.

She was standing straight as pole and I had accidently pushed her into a massive monster with feathery white wings, a crimson red snake for a tail, and the head of lion with horns like a goat. The snake head sprung out at her and bit into her body and then threw her into the air. The lions bloody teeth catching her in midair and shaking her body like a rag doll.

Falling back on all fours, I screamed crawling backwards, and it starred right at me as it swallowed the woman, but I was pulled safely to my feet someone. I couldnt even get a good look at the person if it was a man or women, we just ran, and I was so thankful he or she saved me. In a confusion we split up and I ran away as people ran to the lion monster but then more people came from the side running from a raging monster somewhere down from there.

This led on from some streets as new monsters terrorized the streets and people ran everywhere. In that maze I saw a few monsters fall from being pierced by bullets. In one corner street I saw a mass of people shooting and kicking at a small dragon as it lay bleeding onto the street. Its scales were a silvery rainbow, it may have looked beautiful, but it swiped at people with its talons and then lay still as a woman riddled it with a machine gun to the face.

A huge explosion came from behind and keeping my eyes in front somehow, I was in front of water. The building that once stood here was probably a warehouse but was reduced to rubble and it led directly to the ocean. People were jumping in but first they had to cross this smoking ruble over dangerous pillars and concrete sticking out in sharp jagged corners and then cross a street with another destroyed building laid out before us.

That must be a way out, there is probably a boat somewhere there, I happily picked up speed. Seeing people also picking up speed those way ahead would jump over the rails and jump down the paths making their way threw the ruble and sliding back or down hills made of the ruble.

I felt at first a sudden gust of wind from behind and I turned behind me. I closed my eyes shut grabbing onto a piece of metal railing but then was engulfed in a thick haze of dust and smoke before I literally flew forward. Hundreds of us men, women, and monster were thrown forward probably from a collapsing building near us. When I looked back a few feet in the air I caught a glimpse of a giant body made of the smoke walking away, thats literally a monster made of smoke a damn monster made of smoke! I just couldnt comprehend this world now.

I felt the impact of hard body as we crashed onto a car and other bodies came falling beside me. As soon as I caught my breath, I heard groaning and misery people in pain and gasping for air. In that blinding dark haze, I could feel and hear huge shakes of footsteps receding.