Friday, April 24, 2009 1:19 AM
Chapter Eighteen: Impossible
The god-forsaken abomination was rampaging towards us. The storekeep's rapid array of bullets doing nothing in slowing the monster down. He raised his huge fists into the air and then without warning slammed it down, trying to crush us. But I managed to jump out of it's way in time. The storekeep wasn't so lucky. He couldn't avoid the blow and was killed but it's crushing force.
I looked at his remains and almost vomited. His body was crushed and bones we protruding out of whatever flesh remained. his brains and insides were all over the ground. I imagined the same thing would happen if one brought a hammer down on an orange.
Trying to stay out of sight, I jumped behind a nearby car and hid. Trying to stay low. I peeked from below to vehicle to check where the monster was at but it was nowhere to be found.
Surely it couldn't have left so quickly. I remained hidden for another minute but then suddenly I was covered by a shadow overhead. It figure behind me was huge enough to block my view of the sun. I turned around and there it was.
How could it have gotten behind me with me knowing? No time to think, it was about to crush me like it did the storekeeper. I rolled out of harms way just by an inch. I could feel the impact of the hammer fists slamming into the ground and bits of stone flying into my face. I shielded my eyes from the flying debris.
It has to have a weakness. All 'bosses' in games and movies have weakness. This one shouldn't be any different. I just need to know what. I thought to myself. I realized that it was a foolish thought moments later. This was real. It wasn't some computer generated hologram or a stunt in an action flick. It was all real. And I had to figure out how to survive. There wasn't much time and running didn't seem to be an option. The monster wasn't slowing down at all.