The dark and the damp

We spent ages walking through the building calling for names and jumping at the slightest of noises, it was strange, it looked like our school...but it didn’t, it was broken down and dark, very dark.

The smell of damp wood was almost vomit inducing, it wasn’t easy walking through the broken place, avoiding holes and fallen wires that surprisingly were still alive. We were to turn a corner but Benny shot his arm out and the look of horror pulled at his face, I peered around him to see a child, no, a thing hover above one of our classmates

“W...what is it doing to her?” I whispered, Benny looked away as I watched the thing devour our classmate as she shrieked and convulsed, her shrieks must have echoed throughout her whole building because soon an entire swarm of these things surrounded her and fought over her.

It must’ve been a few hours before those things had completely cleared out leaving nothing but her bones behind, Benny grabbed my arm as he pressed a finger to his lips and guided me past the body, I covered my mouth as I felt the sick creeping up into my mouth, the body smelled of multiple dead animals, we crept through the building looking out for whatever these things were. Just as we thought we were safe a damp spot in the roof collapsed and called attention to more of them and they attacked the dead wood as I pulled Benny away. We clung to eachother as they groaned and screamed at the disappointment of no food.

“This wasn’t going to be easy” I looked to Benny then the thin wood that crossed over a dark and bottomless hole. He gave me an encouraging smile as he took my hand and helped me across, the occasional creak of the wood sent panick all throughout my body, it was a nightmare.

As we crossed a hall we heard the tapping of feet, I peered into the room and saw some girls trying to escape from the grasp of these monsters, their faces of worry kicked me into thinking mode and I looked around for something I could use. I found a piece of fallen wood and picked it up and without thinking threw it near the second door, the creature stopped chasing the girls and ran to the door, the girls stopped and looked towards us. Benny beckoned them over towards us while keeping his hand over his mouth as did the girls.

We stood in the hallway with our backs to the wall as the beast searched for its prey, keeping our breathing steady and quiet, this couldn’t be happening, it was a crazy dream right? I thought of all the times I had crazy dreams like this but the girls occasional sniffles brought me back to reality. I knew them, I believe their names were Bethany and Eliza, they held on to eachother with such desperation that it made me feel touch starved. Why us?

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