They all knew that there was no rescuing Jennifer as Mr Victor urged them strongly to keep moving.
He was not intent on watching the demise of Jennifer.
But his eyes which were bloodshot, spoke volumes of his pain and sorrow.
They all kept hurrying towards the back entrance as people were being torn to pieces by the monster horde.
"Jennifer is dead"
"I can't believe she is dead" Bayo kept muttering with tears pouring out of his eyes as they rushed along.
Suddenly, an elongated and slimy organ which looked very much like the tongue of a huge frog wrapped itself around Tunde's waist and pulled with a swift and strong force.
Without warning, Tunde, Tisane and Ibrahim fell backwards while Tunde was being dragged by the slimy and elongated tongue.
"No please! Don't let it take me!!" Tunde screamed at the top of his voice as Tisane and Kunle rushed and began to pull at Tunde's arms with all their strength in order to free him from the slimy tongue.
"No you can't take him!!" Tisane screamed in defiance as he tried to make sure that the slimy tongue doesn't pull Tunde one inch more.
Mr Victor rushed back with a sharp object in order to cut off the disgusting tongue from Tunde's waist when all of a sudden, the ground behind Tunde burst apart as a creature that looked like a fox with four horns on it's head emerged out of the floor and snapped it's huge jaws over Tunde's head.
The fox monster tore Tunde's head off his shoulders and swallowed it whole.
Blood sprayed out of Tunde's decapitated head like a red fountain.
"Ah!!!!" Melvina screamed in horror as she watched Tunde die.
At first Mr Victor froze in shock as he watched Tunde's dead body being dragged all the way into the huge wide open mouth of a bloated creature which looked like a limbless toad until he quickly regained his wit as he screamed.
"We have to keep moving! Now!"
"B--but Tunde!!!...." Bayo felt as if his soul had left him.
"He's gone, there's nothing we can do but keep moving!!" Mr Victor roared with blood shot eyes.
The rest of them knew that Mr Victor was right because there was nothing that could be done to save those that they had lost.
The monsters attacking them were too strong for any human to contend against.
At this point, the only thought that they had on their minds was to run to safety.
As they were finally able to push through the back exit of the dome, they emerged outside only to see multiple numbers of helicopters which hovered in midair with ladders extended all the way from the helicopters to the ground.
The helicopters were here to rescue the surviving humans.
Mr Victor and the rest hurried to one of the helicopters as they climbed the ladder into the helicopter.
On getting into the helicopter, everyone broke down in tears.
The view down below was quite chaotic.
As humans scrambled to each helicopters.
And once a helicopter was full, it would lift up it's ladder and take off to the sky.
As time went by, the helicopters began to reduce in numbers but the number of humans were hardly reducing.
After some time, the available helicopters began to be overloaded, which prevented the helicopters from successfully taking off.
And it was at this point that monsters bursted out from the back entrance, the top entrance and other sides of the dome to chase after the humans who were trying to get to safety.
Tisane and the rest watched as a huge bear monster dashed and jumped in the air, propelling itself towards a particular helicopter that was struggling with the problem of overloading which was not allowing it to takeoff on time.
~Roar!!!~
~Bam!!~
With a roar and a swipe of it's large thick arms, the tail of the helicopter was instantly destroyed as the helicopter began to spin uncontrollably.
Some people in the spinning helicopter began to fall out as they fell into the waiting jaws of the monsters below.
~Crash!!!~
Finally, the helicopter crashed and exploded in a cloud of smoke and flames.
Mr Victor shook his head in tears as he watched the tragic deaths that were occurring below them.
_So many had died._
_Their friends._
_And their families._
_How would they ever recover from this?_
They all sat in the helicopter in silence as they shuddered in fear and terror over what they had been experiencing for the past one hour.
One of Mr Victor's daughters suddenly asked in a trembling voice and with teary eyes.
"Are we going to die?"
That question quickly struck a cord in the hearts of everyone present in the helicopter as they all exchanged horrified glances.
"Death would be a relief from this nightmare"
They all turned to the speaker as they saw an old man whom apart from Mr Victor was the only adult male in the vehicle.
As he saw everyone staring at him intently, he felt he had become a center of attraction as he continued his dirge.
"Death is a necessity that all men ignore. It is a visitor that all men turn away. But we all forget that death is a certain law placed by the will of the gods. And despite our insistence not to speak of it or associate with it, it will surely come for us all"
At this point, Mr Victor couldn't take it any longer as he snapped.
"Enough!!"
The old man gave a wry chuckle as he saw the hateful glare in Mr Victor's eyes.
Tisane watched all this with terror churning in his heart.
He remembered the horrifying premonition that he had while they were still in the dome.
And now he was beginning to have that same premonition. Especially when he listened to the scary speech of the old man.
He suddenly felt his heart fall to the pit of his stomach when he exchanged glances with the old man.
In the old man's eyes were not fear but.... expectation.
He was expecting something.....but what?
Tisane saw the old man smile and wink at him as he heard the deep guttural voice which spoke to him earlier at the dome.
_{Surrender...}_
Tisane's eyes widened as he muttered more in extreme fear than in sorrow.
"Oh no"
_{.....or die}_
And then it happened.
~Bang!!!~
A large and scary sound was heard as the helicopter spun out of control amidst the screams and cries of it's occupants.
Few minutes after the helicopter began spinning out of control, a large crash ended everything in darkness.
Tisane woke up with a start as he saw himself on a patch of grass with debris scattered all around him.
He tried to move as extreme pain prevented him from doing so.
But lying there was very uncomfortable, so he made another attempt at moving.
Braving the pain this time, he lifted himself up in a sitting position as he took a look around his vicinity.
He gasped in shock and sorrow as he witnessed the scene before him.
Scattered pieces of the the previously large helicopter was strewn everywhere.
And most horrifying was the lifeless and mutilated bodies of it's former occupants.
"No no no no no" Tisane muttered absentmindedly as tears pooled in his eyes.
He forcefully stood up, ignoring the sharp and throbbing pain that he felt as he began moving towards his family and friends who were looking more dead than alive.
He was not even aware of the fact that he was limping greatly as he first moved to his mother's body which had debris on her.
He managed to remove some of the heavy debris as he with much effort turned her body to face him as she was lying on her chest face down.
When he finally saw the state she was in, his eyes quaked greatly.
There were slashes all over her body. With two fatal ones across her neck and across her face.
"M----mom?" Tisane felt like his mind had gone blank as he saw his mother in the state that she was in.
She had blood all over her body. And due to how soaked her body and the ground where she lying was, it was evident that she had bled out.
_She was dead._
_This was his mother._
_His mother!!!_
First he lost his father to this tragedy and now his mother too.
His eyes became very blurry as they were covered in tears.
But suddenly, he heard movement as he lifted up his head in alarm, only to see someone crawling painfully few meters away.
When Tisane looked closely, he discovered that it was Melvina.
Slowly, he rose up while placing his mother's body carefully on the ground as he moved briskly to where Melvina was.
When he got closer to her, he noticed that she was crawling with her back facing him and sobbing weakly.
"Mel---Melvina it's me. Are you okay?"
When he touched her, he felt her body stiffen in fear as she involuntarily gasped.
But when she heard his voice, she gradually relaxed her muscles as she allowed herself to be turned over by him.
"Tis---Tisane?" Melvina's eyes quaked when she looked at him.
Her face was disfigured with various deep cuts and slashes.
Even her perfect body couldn't escape the injuries.
On seeing her in this state, Tisane couldn't help but remember the night that they made love.
_Her beautiful face._
Her smooth skin.
_Her mesmerizing smile._
_It was all gone now._
With what he was seeing now, Tisane was quite sure that the Melvina he once knew was long gone.