Chapter one

...Monster side...

The place is dark, cold and moist. It’s probably some basement. In one moment whole room started glowing… new life appeared. But it’s not human this time. It’s monster. Mindless creature whose whole existence is about killing us. Or at least it’s what I thought… but later. Let’s focus now on our little friend here…

It doesn’t see anything. It’s blind. All it can see is life essence of other creatures.

Squeak

It’s rat.

Squeak

It feel the animal.

Squ…

There was rat.

It, the monster gained some strength after consuming life force for the first time.

For the first few hours it just eat. Eat rats in that basement. Eat everything.

After some time nothing alive was left inside the place. Only monster is left. It consumed so many animals it started to have see more. It can see now barely where it is. But it can see nothing else is left here. It have to hunt.

But how to get out.

The vision of it is still not perfect. It can slightly see surroundings. Whole place is dark so it’s not helping either. It try to get out but all it can do is wreaking havoc and try to demolish walls.

Hours passing

It is exhausted. Nothing left to do. in its fury it groans. Groans so loud everyone in that world heard that. Atleast that is what they say. We don’t know how big that world is. Atleast three towns I have been to heard it.

Not much time passed and it started to smell something. It feels something. It sense life force of 4 creatures. But it can recognise they are different than before. It can feel stronger life force. It can feel bigger hunger for it. But where this is come from.

Time for hunt.

It trying to track the creatures.

Crack

The smell intensifies.

The doors opened.

Behind the corner it can see four creatures standing on two legs with weapons in hands. It can resist the hunger. It intensifies with each sniff of air and scent of them. It can’t think rationally so all it want to do is devour them.

It was about to run into them but it felt the warm. It concentrates its eyes on small light. The torch is glooming lightly making air in the room more warm.

They aproaching.

Warmer.

Too warm.

It is its weakness.

Fire.

But we didn’t knew about it.

...Human side...

ROAAAAAAAAAR

ROAAAAAR

ROAAR

Everyone gets up and go outside of camp.

- What was that?

- Monsters?

- Another horde?

- But it was different sound.

- From where was it?

- It was so loud it could be everywhere.

- We have to check it.

- Let’s split up to teams and scout the land.

- Mark leading to the west, Me to the east, Sfan north and Julia south.

- Let get going everyone, start preparing.

Me and my team of three people going west. All of them are good fighters. From the four of us I am here longest but it is still not that much. Just few months… two or three… hard to say. Every day looks the same. Fight, sleep, eat. We don’t know nothing about each other and we don’t really need to either. We just trying survive together. But for what. No one knows that.

Groans stopped before we dispatched. It will be hard to track the source now.

Eli found tunnel in the mountain. It is weird because I was in this area before and there was nothing in here. Maybe not only human and monsters appears then. We going inside.

It was not too long and all we can see with our torches are stairs going down.

- I do not like it.

- Yea I think we should go back for more people.

- Let’s just take look inside and see what’s there.

I do not like to be leader. But being older in that world make me one apparently. We reaching end of the stairs.

Wall

It’s just wall at the end.

- Wall?

- What now?

- Maybe there is something to push.

- Look everyone.

- There is something.