The Terror That Came To Amber

Chapter 11

The creature roared and leapt down. "Look out!" Ben yelled as the group leapt out of the way in different directions as the monster that was Gerald crashed down on all fours, his legs were bent backwards and arms were like thick massive tendrils covered in eyes and tipped with several bone like claws that spread from flat palms. The leather coat was in tatters and thick ribs pierced through the jacket. The creature let out a low roar as it crushed the fountain with a large arm. The group scattered and raised their weapons and began to open fire as the bullets pierced the creature. Abe raised his gun and the creature sniffed, smelling the stinging silver in the old man's gun and let out a roar as one of the massive arms smacked Abe into a wall sending the gun into the air. "Abe!" Ben called firing his revolver into the creature's skull which dripped black blood as they fired every bullet they had at the creature.

Abe slowly picked himself up and ran for the revolver which Gerald smacked into a distant building setting it off as it collided with the wall. Abe looked down and saw a patch of blood leaking from his coat before falling to the ground with a groan. The massive skeletal beast snarled as the others reloaded their guns. Sarah emptied the high caliber pistol into the massive beast head blowing away pieces of bone as Gerald groaned in pain, turning his attention to the red haired woman who stared the creature down and threw a heavy tendril like arm towards her and she ducked out of the way. The arm penetrated a crashed truck. Soaking it in gas and other fluids. "Sarah get out of the way!" Claude yelled and with Donny right behind him, Claude fired at the creature's oil soaked arm which ignited in flames. The flames quickly spread along the monster and the rest of its body was set ablaze. The arm pulled back drenched in flames as it shook and writhed in agonising roars of rage. Donny ran to Abe and dragged him away from the chaos by grabbing the collar of his coat and dragging him out of the way just as Gerald rolled a truck in a fit of rage over the spot Abe was laying just as the dog yanked him backwards.

"What the? Holy shit." Abe said becoming conscious and with a pained gasp. Sarah and Claude were to Ben's left and Lydia was rushing to Abe to make sure he was okay. A loud rumble was coming from behind Ben. he ignored it thinking his ears were just ringing as he loaded his revolver with a speed loader and fired into the sockets of Geralds blackened eye sockets. The eyes were still there just too dark to see. Though both seeped black blood where Ben's bullets hit and the monster threw its arms up over its face and turned to hide its pained head. With growls. Ben realized what the roaring noise behind him was. He turned and saw a police car speeding towards the steel police barricade behind him as the driver slammed hard on the horn repeatedly to get him out of the way. Ben dived out of the way as half the barricade came down and the speeding police car soared across the roundabout and into Geralds massive body, sending the hulking creature and the car smashing into a building behind them both creating a heavy cloud of dust and debris.

Delton grabbed the weapon and kicked the door open as the car skidded to a stop on a creaking weak upper floor. Flipped the safety off stepping out of the car as the massive skeletal beast pulled itself together. Groaning as it pulled itself from the brick wall and turned back to the others below, ignoring the driver. Abe groaned in pain as he picked up the small revolver. The creatures' two thick tendril-like arms split into four arms with a long bone-like claw at the end of each one. Abe raised the revolver and fired into Gerald who let out a deep agonizing cry before Abe fired another and another and another into Gerald who roared in anger as he turned his attention to Abe, the massive beast lowered it's gigantic body leaning back on it's backwards legs and launched itself into the air with it's spiked tendril arms towards Abe who fired two more shots ready to be crushed before an explosion collided with Gerald's body blowing a large chunk of flesh and bone out of his behemoth body. "Holy shit. Delton!" Ben called pleased to see at least one of his fellow officers survived this horrific ordeal. Gerald's body was a smoldering pile of flesh bone and leather, impaled on what was left of the stone fountain in the round about as Delton pushed a narrow green projectile into the rocket launcher and fired blowing up what was left of Gerald's gargantuan skull as the tendrils flailed violently from the still body.