Ellen was Strolling through the tight alleyways that made her feel claustrophobic. She could see dried blood in several areas from time to time.
Ellen arrives at her home but gasps as she saw her dead teenage brother and his friend.
Her body shakes on closer inspection. they had many wounds. It seems like they died to blunt force and biting. Coming from the house she can hear discreet chewing sounds.
Ellen steps over the bodies still in shock by her dead brother. She opened the front door carefully, afraid of what was inside. What she saw gave her further trama. Ellen's mother is being eaten by another Zoman with black skin but she can see her mother is still breathing. In a hurry to save her mother she grabs a broomstick nearby. She then charged at it, banging it across its back and head. Her mother's guts were exposed. It was no way she could save her, but she didn't care. At least she would get her revenge.
The beast was able to raise its hand and stand. Ellen beat him as much as she could with full force, knocking his head around while at it. The beast did a mad lounge at Ellen. They both fell to the ground. Luckily for Ellen, she had the broom stuck in his mouth.his drool mixed with blood was pooling all over her face. He was squeezing with his jaw on the broom causing splinters to form. Ellen tried to scoot over to the wall to get a better position but it was too late. the beast broke through and shot his jaw into her shoulder and dug its nails into her back. It hurt a lot. She was scared. She believe she was gonna die here, with her family. But..she thought
'You first!'
She scooted over to the wall while holding the beast into her shoulder. She still had both sticks of the broom. Once she stood up the beast's legs weren't stable so she took the opportunity to stab it in the back of the head as hard as she could. It skewered the beast finding a soft part somewhere under the neck while it simultaneously wounded her. His jaw went slack and he fell to the ground.
Ellen's mother coughed. Her mouth was coated with her blood. Her body now lies cold and is no longer breathing. Ellen was slumped over her mom's corpse holding her hand. tears draped from her eyes.
After a while, Ellen grabbed her mother's necklace which was a simple metal heart. That didn't matter to Ellen. She just wanted something to remember her.
<***>
"His glory has sat in the holy chair!"
Inside the church that now had black egg sacks lined up on the walls and beasts can now be seen scattered across them.
A male was bowing with his head firmly to the ground. This man had bandages wrapped all around him under his robe. He was Bowing to our Monster Emperor. If our monster could raise his eyebrow he would. But at least this one spoke English.
"We all should be worshiping the almighty. But we showed him disrespect. We deserve punishment!"
'Almighty? Deserving of punishment? What is he talking about? But this one is amusing. I'll keep him around since he seems to be fanatic about me.'
Our monster decides to give him ear candy.
"You learn quickly, unlike these other fools."
The priest looked up happily upon hearing those words.
The smaller door on the larger one opened. it was a Zooman man from earlier who spoke English.
" Oh, powerful one. My name is Forbide."
The priest frowned
"Ahem, I humbly ask you to please stop the killings of the townspeople. Your be- uh your men have been killing and eating without care around town and people still have families out there."
"How dare you request to end our punishment! I should end you here and now." the priest draws a knife.
"Alright."
"Huh."
"Huh."
They both were surprised by how easy our monster accepted.
'maybe I shouldn't speak next time' The priest thought.
Our monster stood up at stepped out the door. he made a mental command to round up all people who are alive to his location and if they are dead they may eat them. Around the church, it was patrolling large beasts. none of them were bigger than our monster but they were big. Some even had wings. Our monster was jealous as he didn't have that but even if he did, would he even be able to fly.
The Zoman's were disturbing food as it has been several days and they had to live around the perimeter to avoid getting eaten.
"Food is getting low and we have to leave the perimeter to get more."
said Forbide at the side of our monster.
"That won't be an option, look"
in the distance, there is a large military convoy. tanks, a vehicle with mounted turrets on top, and plenty of soldiers.
"Sorry, you're tall. I cant see over the. building"
"A military convoy is coming to rescue you. I'll get your food myself."
'I also didn't want to get rushed by the military all at once so I'm going to tell a flying beast to take a child hostage at the top of the tower. No, Multiple children to the top. They need to know I have hostages and that they aren't harmed so I can buy some time. There are plenty of eggs inside that will produce more monsters. Once that happens I'll send the stronger-looking ones to the front lines and if the fight is looking bad I'll bounce.'
Our monster saw how many monsters arrived back. It was a lot.
'It is obvious that most people in this town died from my attack. Ironically this is good. I need this amount otherwise this army would kill me. Maybe it still might.' he thought.
"No Stop! Please don't eat him!"
when our monster commanded one of his minions to take a kid the mother held on for her dear life.
"You dare resist our god's knights!" the priest again was at his antics, ready to threaten someone else life.
"Silence priest"
Our monster looked at Forbide.
"Tell her that I won't kill him. Just show him as a hostage and return him." Our monster not wanting to start kicking people to death again gave Forbide an order.
they spoke and she calmed down. still crying after letting her son go. The children weren't too happy about it either. They cried as they began to rise to the top of the tower. the beast held them up and made a galactic scream that reverberated loudly.
<***>
"Sir. you wanna look at this"
A military geared Zoman handed his commander high-tech binoculars.
he could see several children being held in the sky.
"Sir, I think these things are holding hostages."
"A meteor can lead to something like this so fast. This damn galaxy is going to shit."
the commander kept observing, looking for more details. He suddenly noticed a lone wounded survivor coming out of the city.
"Give orders to detain that woman and give her medical aid. After, learn as much about the enemy as you can."