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When the creature shrieked and lunged, Casey screamed, "Okay, that's aggressive-" and took off running behind Zaelia who was a good way ahead of her.The second those porcelain cracks split across that angel's face,and it started changing into something hedious, Zeala's survival instincts had clocked in and she was gone. If Casey wanted to talk, okay, she could stay there and talk with it. Zaelia was ten feet away and accelerating. Her feet pounding on the ground.

"Zaelia don't leave me! Shit!" Casey yelped, trying to catch up.

Zaelia, wasn't playing. Ent no way she was going to be monster food tonight. She didn't know where the hell she was running to, but wherever her legs chose to carry her, she was going, with Casey screaming behind her.

She ducked and stopped low behind a tree and Casey scampered down right next to her."YOU COULD HAVE WARNED ME, YOU WERE LEAVING." Casey whispered breathing hard, her eyes wild.

"I DID, WITH MY LEGS! Casey, it's gonna hear us!" Zaelia was figeting, looking all around in a panic.

"YOU LEFT ME!" Casey peeped around the tree.

"You SAW THE FACE PEELING!" Zeala whispered back fiercely."THAT WAS YOUR CUE!"

"SHIT!" Casey's head ducked back behind the tree and she scrambled back on her hands.

"WHAT...WHAT IS IT." Zaelia scrambled back too, Casey's fear feeding hers ever more. "And she took off running with her again.

"IT CAN FUCKING FLY!!"

"WHAT! OMG. WE'RE GONNA DIE!"

A shadow swooped overhead and the thing landed right in front of them in all its horrific glory, causing Zaelia to crashed into Casey and they went down in a tangle of limbs.

The creature was fast. Just as Zaelia was scrambling up and away it slashed its claw across her upper arm, slicing clean through fabric and skin. The force spun her sideways, and she hit the mosiac grass hard, skidding.

"ZAELIA!" Casey 's voice cracked into something raw and panicked. "Oh MY GOD! YOU'RE BLEEDING, YOU'RE BLEEDING!!"

"No kidding!" Zeala winced, trying to steady herself.

She rushed to Zaelia, who was struggling to stand clutching her arm. Dark blood spilling between her fingers, dripping onto the mosiac surface where it sizzled faintly on contact.

The creature sniffed the air and released a shrilled scream. Zaelia swore it was the blood doing something to it because it rushed for her again but Casey was in the way. She tried to blocked it, but it grabbed her by the neck and threw her aside, all its focus on Zaelia, who was qivering in fear.

"NO!!" Casey screamed, just as it grabbed Zaelia, dragging her toward it, skeletal fingers tightening around her neck. Its hollow eye sockets burned with a faint, sickly light. Its jaw stretched open, unhinging impossibly wide as it let out a piercing shriek inches from her face. The sound felt like knives in her ear.

The creature leaned closer. Its breath rancid, like decay and something metallic. Then its long, dark tongue slid out-

Cold. Wet, and dragged slowly across the side of her neck.

Zeala gagged, a hysterical sob bubbling up as she accepted the fact she was going to die.

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