The Terror That Came To Amber

Chapter 5

"What should we do sheriff?" " keep your eyes peeled and shoot anything that moves." Ben was sweating, he had an itch on his neck that pricked from every distant sound, something like a soft clicking against the tile steps in the distance. Slow and moving with a strange rhythm of three sometimes four of the strange clicks followed by a pause. Followed by a loud blast of a gun, perhaps somebody survived the initial attack the sheriff thought getting ready to take a step towards the darkness when the blast was followed by a spine chilling howl and a man screaming in terror. A scream cut off in the dark emptiness ahead. Nobody could move. Except Ben. whose gun was raised and ready when it reached the doorway, the only way they knew it was there was that it's hair or body was darker than the blackness of the stairwell. It bent under the doorway and stepped through the hallway. It was nearly ten feet tall and it appeared to have been shot in the head. Any normal creature would be dead but this thing. 'Snap out of it.' Ben told himself and took a deep breath. 'It has to be a lunatic in a costume.' "Get the fuck on the ground!'' The monstrous creature lifted it's shoulders as it inhaled a breath and took a step forward. The massive claws on its feet clicking on the tile as it stepped forward. Most of the skull was exposed from whoever wounded it. It had one yellow eye on it's left side that blinked at the sheriff. The right side of its face was almost devoid of flesh and fur but was somehow bare bloody bone. A snarling skull with smoke tracing from bits of buckshot lodged in the thick bone that sat atop a dark monstrous body resembling some ancient, forgotten personification of death. 'Snap the fuck out of it.' Ben told himself again as Cole and Delton raised their guns and fired at the hulking creature with little hesitation. The bullets slowed its movement but it wasn't even stopping. Gina raised the shotgun in her hands, gripping it tightly and fired two rounds into the creature's neck and head blowing away chunks of flesh and fur before reloading. The buckshot had a slightly stronger effect than the handguns but they still failed to stop it. "Why isn't it working?" Delton was clutching his wounds tightly and firing his gun with his free hand, the pain felt unbearable. they were forced to retreat around the corner to the room they originally were holed up in.

"Do you think he toughened up to bullets?" Cole asked Delton as everyone quickly flowed into the room and a chair jammed under the door "the fuck are you talking about Cole?!" "I'm saying what if they adapt you know?" "What?!" "We blew them to pieces! they got back up, Now we can't blow them to pieces! You understand?" "yeah, yeah i think you might be onto something." Delton said nodding in agreement with Coles theory. "but what the fuck should we do? taze it?!" "Delton you're a genius!" the sheriff gave Cole a confused look. "Sheriff, I have an idea!" "Is it good?" Ben asked. "Look earlier Delton and I blew one of these things brains out with a shotgun. Now nothing even seems to break through it." the door smashed again, the metal chair cracking as Cole continued. "It might have adapted to firearms, at least the ones we're packing right now. The creature smashed into the door, not quite taking out the chair under the handel. "What's your point?" "my point is if you, Delton, Bernard and I all taze it at the same time-"

"that's your plan! This is-" "Sir we can't stop it with these rounds! What else can we do? The creature smashed a second time into the door completely taking off the hinges and launching it at the window. "Zap him!" Cole, Bernard and Delton all had their tasers ready as the creature took three steps into the room. Sarah screamed loud and just as Gina was reloading the shotgun, eight metal hooks flew into the creature as all four fired their tasers. Loud popping noises filled the air from the blood vessels and nerves exploding from the electrical overcharge. Around five hundred thousand volts shocked the creature into a twitching mass on the ground. Everyone rushed out the door around it as smoke rose from the twitching monsters body. "Holy shit it worked. "I can't believe that fucking worked!" Delton yelled. "Come on let's go, Now!" the sheriff yelled as the four officers, and the three survivors fled into the hallway and made their way to the stairwell, staying close to one another as they ascended. Ben and Cole lead the way, with Delton and Bernard in the middle while Sarah, Gina and doctor Rosenthal, followed. They ignored the noises as they ascended. The sounds of more of those creatures below. It sounded like they were fighting over a meal at the bottom of the staircase. Nobody wanted to think about how many more of those things were lurking around the hospital. As the group reached the top of the staircase they stopped, readying their weapons not knowing what effect they would have if they came across any more of the creatures. Below they could hear growling along with a slow clicking of it's claws on the brick stairwell.