In the little cramped living room of a house, Zoey was at the dining, her laptop placed on the table, she yawned, using her left hand to pat her lips.
Her eyes could notice someone walk down the stairs, and then into the parlour, walking towards a fridge to take a bottle of water, it was no one other than her younger sister.
"You're still up?" Zoey's sister asked, taking out a jug of water, walking to the dining table, and then lifting a cup that was turned upside down on a tray. She poured water into it.
"Yeah, I got to finish this work," Zoey kept itching her hair, at some point, she pointed at some pencil that was on the sofa in the living room, "Emily, could you help me get that?"
Her younger sister, Emily passed her the pencil and then walked out of the room immediately.
Zoey was already returning to what she was doing earlier when she heard a loud bang on the entrance door of the house. The terror she felt was much, after breathing in and out for a second, she began to sneak towards the door, grabbing a hockey stick from the wall before she got to the door.
When she got to the door, she slowly grabbed the doorknob, turning it slowly to open the door.
She was extremely scared, at some point, she thought it was going to be the doing of the bulldozers, the team that Denzel annihilated some hours ago, but giving it another thought, the bang she heard made her cancel that thought.
"What the hell might that be?" She was about to open the door when Emily rushed downstairs, and the sound she made worked her up. "Get back..." She whispered, placing her index finger on her lips to tell Emily to keep it low.
"Okay..." She mustered up the courage, opening the door as fast as she could, but she couldn't comprehend what had happened.
What she saw was completely different from what she expected. She expected a very brutal fight or a mob or riot, but all she saw was a guy lying down on the ground in front of her door, he kept grumbling and moaning, but the way he lay on the ground was like he was dead, and then after a minute, he began to move slowly.
"Huh?" The guy on the ground, Denzel said, "Help me up... Zoey,"
"Den...zel?! What's wro--?"
"Please... help... me... up," His voice began to fade out slowly, he kept gasping for breath.
"Okay," Zoey rushed to him, bent down and help him to get up, she placed his hand on her shoulder and helped him walk into the house. Immediately they got into the house, she threw him to a sofa in the living room, and almost fell the moment she dropped him.
"Are you okay? What the hell is going on? Why are looking this way? You smell like something burnt up..."
"Zoey...! Chill... First off, I need a place to hide... is there anywhere I could do so?"
"What the hell are you saying? You need to hide? Like..."
"Just please, ASAP!"
Zoey took Denzel up and walked out of that living room, she got a door and opened it, she threw Denzel inside.
"If anyone asks of me, tell them off, in any way you can, please,"
"Just, what the hell is going on?"
"Do it fast!"
Soon, Zoey began to hear knocks on her door, and she walked quickly to open it.
"What's going on? Who is that?" Emily whispered to her, shuddering in confusion.
"Wait a minute," Zoey replied her, walking towards the door to open it up.
When she opened the door, she saw two guys, about the same height, both of them wearing masks of different animals.
The one with the mask of a Viper, Sony had both hands behind his head and the other one's hands were dipped in his pockets.
"Huh... what... who are you looking for?" Zoey tried her best to keep her face as straight as possible.
"Ryder, he can't be here, this young lady looks as innocent and beautiful as ever," Sony said, he looked at Zoey from head to toe.
"Keep it shut," Ryder said, and then turned his face to look at Zoey. "Please do you happen to have anyone in your house?"
"Huh? I and my sister live here, so... what else do you need?"
"Someone must have ended up at your house, like... these feathers out here... do you have any idea?" Ryder said, not even showing any form of gesture.
"Ryder, why are you this dumb? Think she would even answer after showing her all that? Why don't we just search in?"
"Are you planning on entering a house with two females inside? It would seem like a break-in if you choose to search without any form of warrant or reason," Zoey said, pointing in the house, her face looking as serious as ever.
"We are the Zoo Keepers, we are looking for a Beast,"
"Ryder! Do you really have to tell her?!"
"Does it hurt to?" Ryder shifted his head a bit to look into the house, and all he saw was a laptop placed on dining, a jug and a cup beside it.
"You really saw no one?"
"What the hell is wrong this night? I first hear a very loud bang on my door, and then I see no one when I opened it, so, what do you want?" Zoey yelled at them, folding her arms together.
"Sorry for the disturbance, we will be off," Ryder said, turning his back to leave, "Sony, let's go,"
"Okay... Beautiful lady, I am Sony by the way, nice to meet you," Sony stretched his hand to Zoey and reluctantly, Zoey shook her hands with his in reply.
Slowly, Sony withdrew his hands from hers. Before he turned his back to leave, he could see a little drop of blood, and he suspected something.
"What--?" Sony was already saying something when Ryder interrupted him
"Sony, let's get out, we have already disturbed them enough,"
Sony finally turned his back to leave and the next thing he could hear was the sound of the door being slammed.
"Ryder, don't you suspect them?"
"Why? She is obviously innocent," Ryder said in reply to what Sony asked him.
"And I obviously suspect her," From the space in the mouth of the Viper, a very slim long tongue slipped out from his lips, it looked like a snake's tongue. He placed the hand he used to shake Zoey close to the tongue, flapping the tongue and then dropped his hand. "It smells sweaty,"
"What does?"
"That lady's hand," Sony slipped his tongue back into his mouth, "Well, who cares, let's find him quick and get out of here, I can't let that great inspo leave my head."
Ryder's face turned to take a look at Sony and he saw how he used his tongue to smell his hand.
"Sony, you do realize that you have a nose, you don't have to keep showing your snake's weird looking tongue,"
"I have my mask on Ryder... Mask! Use your head,"
"Then just pull it off." Ryder took his face off Sony
Back in the house, Zoey had already gone to the room where Denzel was and brought him out, taking him back to the living room.
"So... Are you okay?"Zoey asked Denzel, her face still looking furious.
"Yeah... thanks,"
"So what the hell is going on? Who are those masked people?"
"I don't know either," Denzel answered, he looked very fatigued.
While they were still talking, Zoey heard another knock on her door, and she told Denzel to get back into that room.
She walked towards the door to open it and she saw another guy standing in the front.
"Oliver?" Zoey said when she saw the person at the front.
"Are you okay? Are you alright? What's going on? I heard a bang, then I looked through my window and saw a man looking injured, then I saw two weird looking men afterwards, what's going on?"
"You haven't slept, why are you still up?"
"I was worried honey, I couldn't sleep after hearing all those sounds,"
"You saw all those?" Zoey asked, looking up to the guy that stood at her front.
*****************************
'What could have happened to Denzel?' Grayson kept walking around the Countryside, looking for where Denzel could have gotten to, 'I wish I didn't leave him alone by himself... but they also seem to be Beasts, what sort of business would they have with Denzel?'
Grayson kept thinking as he walked, until he began to hear voices come from another direction, so he hid, to check out who it was.
When Grayson hid, he took a glimpse to check out who it was, It was Sony and Ryder, walking towards where he was heading to.
"Did they already kill him?" Grayson said to himself and covered his mouth at that moment. He didn't want to be heard or seen.
"We have checked everywhere possible, don't you still think he could be at that lady's house?"
"No, I won't disturb any more person, let us get back and report to Horse,"
Grayson overheard the conversation of those two, and when they had gotten out of sight, he ran to look for Denzel. "He is not yet dead," He said.