Yus blinked the remaining mist from her eyes, and saw that 'it' was a monstrous figure, which hulked in at around nine feet tall. And it was lurching its way directly towards her. It emerged from a swirl of fog, morphing gradually from Distant Shadowy Blur, into Chilling Stuff-of-Nightmares Creature. Disgust played Yus's spine like a sick xylophone. The soul gutting face came fully into focus, unashamedly displaying its hideous, scaled, bug-eyed and craggy visage to Yus with what appeared to be an almost proud leer. The Thing's lurch evolved to a speedy stumble, and, as it closed the gap between itself and the shocked girl, it reached one webbed hand out as if to grab her. "Fluccck!!!" screeched Yus somewhat uncharacteristically, and, rooted no more, began pelting the opposite direction. She may have somehow, miraculously, become abruptly sighted but she ran blindly through her terror, and the mist. Her footsteps thudded and echoed, and her breath reached her ears in an unnaturally loud rasp which, had her brain been able to focus on anything other than survival at that moment, might've put her in mind of Cap. It is a shame she didn't think of Cap's breathing, as the notion may have comforted her. As it was, she felt like hot green fire was pulsing through her veins, tracing a roadmap of terror throughout her body. Got to keep going. Dont stop. Don't stop. Don't stop. She thumped on. Each tuft-smacking step unstable, inspiring the fear that she could twist her ankle at any moment. Now you see me, now you don't. It finally clicked that she was running through pockets of fog, and it was those which cruelly obscured her newfound vision. A little thing like horrifying, horrifying ethereal fog wasn't going to stop her from escaping the creature though. She sped on, managing to make out snatches of grass sprigs and mud which formed little ridges and tiny hillocks below her fleeing feet. Her lungs burned as harshly as her veins but she tried to fool herself into not noticing. At times she could see the dark shapes of trees looming not far off. In fact there was a thicket, and it looked like a good hiding place. She made her way towards it. A sudden movement amid the undergrowth caused her to skid to a muddy halt. Yus had grown up on one of Eryth's least formidable continents and while she had heard tales of unusual and dangerous fauna from other land masses, other planets, she'd not encountered much exotica in person. Not even in the Zoological Gardens. She'd certainly never come across the beast she'd just seen flit between trees. Most of her friends back home would have called it a myth. "Gigantoe..." she breathed. And quickly assessed her options. A little way behind was the Lizard Creature from Hell, in front was Gigantoe, around her the mist was thick, swirling in little curls and patterns that would have been pretty if she wasn't so panicked. Can't go forward, can't go back... Only one thing for it then. She plunged sideways, deep into the fog to her left. ... And right into the arms of the nightmare lizard. To Be Continued... |
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