If the monster was a balloon, then it had popped. Popped hard enough to put a mother bear wrath to shame. The balloon floated high up in the air, and there was no trail to latch onto and drag it down.
They couldn't fight this fight, and thankation, they didn't have to. Behind the monster there was a cave, an opening that continued upwards, just the right size to slip through. The monster stood in between that tunnel and Noah.
Then they heard a roar, a roar with a distinct quality. If a mouse could roar, and scare a lion to death, then that was how this roar sounded. Noah began shaking unwillingly. Aza's eyes flipped towards the sound, the place Alice stood.
Instead of a silverback gorilla there was another gorilla there. A gorilla of a completely different quality. Two meters taller, one meter wider, veins of gold, teeth that put a jaguars teeth to shame. Another monster had arrived, and it stood where the gorilla had been.
The tongue which had prepared to lash at Noah again retreated. Slithered away in the air like a scared cobra. A second roar reverberated throughout the cave, Alice had now stood up.
Something was vastly different about her eyes, a change of nature perhaps. If a panda had a glint in its eyes that a brown bear simply didn't, then she had lost that glint. No, she had gone the opposite direction, deep darkness filled that spot.
Wrathful darkness.
The countless white eyeballs on top of it's head had all flown up out of their sockets, now straining the red veins attaching them to their eye sockets. The tongue flew out again.
Alice grabbed the tongue, grabbed it hard, harder than an ape on drugs gripping a banana. Then she flew with the tongue as it returned back, and continued to fly when it had stopped.
Then she smashed into the monster. Her curled fist, which she had held behind her head, flew at the monster's head.
The bone inside of the creature's head had shattered so smoothly due to the force that the punch carried. It continued depeer into the creatures skull, squishing the redness inside of it. Then reality caught up with what had happened and the monster smashed into a wall.
Alice stood on her two legs and began bashing into her chest. A roar that put the previous ones to shame, a roar that made Tarzan not feel at home in the jungle. A roar that the manliest man in a village south of the great river Batanzia(the river that travelled upwards) would lose all courage and pride.
Alice turned her head towards Aza and Noah. She leaped up into the air with her hands raised above her head, she landed a few meters away from them and repeadetly began hammering into the floor.
Noah was shocked, and Aza screamed at Noah to hurry up. Aza ran towards the cave on the other side of the room and Noah followed after her with Alice pounding the floor three meters away.
"What's happening?" Noah asked bewildered.
"She's trying to kill you!" Not quite answering the question Noah aimed after, but he couldn't ask again. They were running full speed towards the entrance now.
In a completely different place and time entirely, there was a little girl sitting on a red bed she had been chained to. She sat on a bed sheeted in red, eyeing her mother. Who was on the opposite side of that room was doing her dishes.
Loud and horrifying and calming steps came from outside the wooden door that had been slammed once to many times. A wheeze of breath, which the girl recognized instantly, a wheeze of breath that continued multiple times. As if the throat tried to breath, but found the task too complicated.
The smell made the little girl wince as the door was kicked open, the smell was that of an electrocuted pig high on piss, drenched in beer. It was her father, the man which she had come to love and see as her savior.
The woman standing on the opposite side of her room had skin too thin, bones too white that showed, bones too long, a mouth very hyena like, eyes filled with jealousy and cynicism. She began shaking at the site of the man.
"Why are you here again!" The lady shrieked, faced with the man.
"I want to see my daughter, marg-ahert," The man was unable to pronounce her name, which he found a little bit too complicated.
Instead of responding she grabbed the pan with roasted horse shit on it, which she had planned to provide as food to the girl, and smacked it into the man. The man fell on his fat stomach and wriggled to get up again. The lady shrieked and began hitting into his head over and over.
Until something changed entirely, something about the room had changed. As if you were in a room alone and then in a room with an invisible man. You can't see him, you don't even know that he's there, but you somehow know that something's off.
The lady's head jerked left, towards her daughter to find a giant gorilla sitting on the bed with eyes vacant staring at her. The chains which had been specially made to be especially hard, were on the floor cracked.
Then a roar sounded which made the entire house shake, and when Alice transformed again. She found herself standing on the corpse of her father and mother which had been smashed so badly that all she saw was bits of red organs, red skin, blood and white pulverized bone which had also been coloured red.
Back to Noah and Aza running away from Alice. They had finally reached the cave entrance and the huge gorilla's arm was all that could fit into it. It flailed around trying to grab them but remaining unsuccessful.