The Space Between

Chapter Twenty-Five: "For Family..."

Sean shifted to block Logan, yelling out. "Wait! Don't!" The woman pulled the trigger. Sean screamed as a nail shot into his shoulder. Keeping the nail gun aimed in Logan's direction, she snapped out. "What are you doing?! He's one of them!" Logan let out a throaty growl, but Sean pressed his back to Logan to keep him back. Raising his arm to the woman, he stated out. "He's on our side." The woman's eyes narrowed, uttering out. "What mind games is it playing with you?" Sean winced, clutching his wounded shoulder, before telling her. "Trust me. I need to find Mark." The woman shook her head, saying defensively. "I don't trust anyone that I don't know. And I don't know you. If you were me. You'd do the same." Logan rose up to his feet, his tail flicking behind him as he growled aggressively. Sean staggered to his feet, pointing to the dead blue lizard as he rushed out. "Look! Why would he kill his own kind if he wasn't on our side?" She huffed sarcastically, snapping out. "They are bloodthirsty. Probably were fighting over who eats you! Or maybe you are one of them too. Trying to kill the rest of us..."

Sean shook his head, saying as honestly as he could. "I'm human. Logan was born on Earth. We're here to help." She shook her head, shooting a nail at Logan's head but he turned his head enough that it impaled the ceiling instead. Logan put a firm hand on Sean's good shoulder, telling him seriously. "She's not going to believe us." Sean resisted being pushed aside as he pleaded with Logan. "No! We don't have to hurt her, we can-" Logan glanced at him, retorting a bit coldly. "She's never going to stop, right?" Sean's blood turned to ice. The thought that he had taught Logan to judge people like that was a bit frightening. He raised a hand to touch Logan's chest to try and counter that phrase, when Logan's head jerked up in her direction. Logan sniffed the air but winced as the smell of hot sauce still lingered. The woman shuffled her feet nervously, raising a hand to mess with something on the outside wall as she said coolly. "Ok. Here is what we are going to do. You claim you are friendly... Fine. Then you won't mind if I lock you in here until we deal with the others."

Sean followed Logan's eyes to the woman, announcing to her quickly. "No! You can't do that! I have to find Mark! And Logan has to find his-" Sean stopped talking as the woman suddenly dropped the nail gun with a soft painful gasp. Blood leaked from the sides of her mouth and then from her reddening eyes. Her blood running like dark rivers down her pale face and then down the sides of her neck as her ears began to bleed. Sean froze, unable to see what had happened to her. Backing up into Logan, the woman fell to her knees... but her arm was still up in the air... like something was holding it. Along her pale arm a row of punctures appeared and began to bleed like she had been bitten. Logan let out a soft whimper, huddling behind Sean a bit. Sean had never seen Logan so scared. His eyes reflected the fear of a young child and his breathing turned to heavy panting. Sean swallowed, looking back at the woman as the thing released her body to let her fall across the floor. As her blood pooled on the floor, an invisible foot stepped into it. Revealing a large dinosaur looking footprint.

Sean couldn't breathe. Whoever made this was far bigger than Logan and the others he had seen. From the footprint, scales began to ripple upward to reveal large black scales. Sean followed the scales up to the head that appeared inches from his face. The lizard's lips parted slowly revealing a row of sharp teeth and releasing a fowl stench of bad breath. The lizard's breath smelled of blood and decay. Sean stayed still, holding his breath as he stared into its bright reptilian eyes. From two of the lizard's fangs, a sinister green liquid was leaking from them. The lizard's lips curled into a terrifying smile as it said in a deep bellowing voice. "Perfect timing, boys. Or should I say... very poor timing." From behind him, Logan whined out. "Sean. I can smell my dad's blood on him..." The Lizard turned his head slowly to glare at Logan as he hissed out. "That's probably because I'm trying to KILL HIM!" Sean slowly side stepped to block the lizard's view of Logan's face. He knew he was no match for this thing, but he had acted unconsciously.