50. Join Us

 

My name is Nathan.

And I’m all alone now.

I’m holed up in this God forsaken cabin... I can hear them now.. Clawing at the walls and door, twitching, moaning, biting… They are BITING ON EVERY INCH OF THE OUT SIDE OF THIS CABIN Trying to find any kind of way in! While I take cover in one of the bedrooms, armed with a small axe.. God help me, I’m so screwed.

Why why I keep asking myself, I don’t know why this is happening?! I don’t know what these damn things are, or where they come from… They must come from the deepest gore filled pits of HELL! But I think these things come from a far worse place.. I never got a good clear look at these monsters, but from what I gather they seem to be around 6 foot tall, very pale and sickly looking, little to no hair, elongated skinny arms with dagger like claws, constantly twitching, hyper aggressive, tiny beedy black eyes and a HUGE gaping mouth full of jagged teeth bursting everywhere. They either run hunched on two feet or skuttle and climb on all four limbs. I don’t know if they are even capable of speech or not, the only sounds I have heard them make is a horrible guttural moaning sound, they have these big ghastly wounds on their necks, like someone ripped their vocal cords out and they are trying to talk still, but all that comes out is that terrifying sound.. One more thing, they are definitely carnivorous.

I would know.

There used to be four of us in total. 

USED to be. 

It was supposed to be a fun relaxing trip.. A few days out in this cabin on this mountain. We had heard rumors from the locals, this place might have been dangerous.. That evil spirits have cursed thus place, that there is something here. But we took them for just stupid urban legends.. If only we had listened.. They would all still be alive with me! DAMNIT! Kyle, Clark, and Julia… They were some of my best friends, I had known them since Middle School… I wished I could have saved them.. But they took them, those Goddamn monsters took them away… Well except one, Kyle they did not take away. What I saw what they did to Kyle, the screams I heard from him… I will never heal from it. Several of those abominations simply tore into him, ripping off limbs, gnashing teeth, blood and body parts thrown around.. A pride of starving lions on a buffalo, couldn’t hold a candle to the ferocity of this “feast”. I can never truly put into words what I seen, poor Kyle.. He was just a few bloodied bones left on the floor by the time they were done.

Where was I during this time? Well before this had happened.. I had gotten up in the middle of us hanging out in the front yard by the fire, to go use the restroom and when I was done and returning.. I heard the screams, they had commenced their attack… I had just barley missed it. Maybe they waited for me to leave? Maybe they excluded me out of mercy? Or maybe they are just saving me for last? Regardless, I ran back outside to the front yard where we had our fire and everyone was.. And thats when I froze, petrified in fear… Witnessing them taking Clark and Julia way, and devouring Kyle. As I watched the carnage, I could feel my body shut down and my soul die.. I was afraid.. PRIMAL FEAR and I was enslaved by it. I froze solid.

….

I failed them.

I failed them all.

I should have been there.

I couldn’t save them from these monsters from the netherworld. 

I couldn’t even save myself.

I’m so sorry guys… You didn’t deserve this fate. 

Nobody does.

After they finished with kyle, they turned their dark beedy eyes towards me at the same time.. I, for the first time hear their angry almost choking moaning growl.. They saw me. Oh God no… I immediately snapped out of my fear induced trance and ran back inside the cabin and locked all the doors. I hurriedly barricaded what I could against the front door, grabbed an axe, and locked myself in the bedroom.. Thank God this dump of a cabin has no windows. Now here I am… Hiding in this room, waiting for these foul creatures to finally break in and tear me to pieces.. Or take me away, to God knows where to do, God knows what to me… Maybe, I should save myself the agony and end my own life with this axe. 

*BANG*

*BANG*

*WOOD BREAKING SOUNDS*

I want too so bad. 

It just want it to end.

This whole nightmare.

I put the blade to my throat.

Please… Just let me end it all. 

…

No.

I cant do it, not like this..

I cannot go out like this, not after how I failed my friends.

I don’t deserve an easy death.

I deserve their demonic hunger.

Then let me satiate it.

But not without a fight.

I take my axe, I unlock and open the bedroom door.. As I start walking towards the front door, all the sounds stop. It’s completely quiet and still outside now… They know. I reach the front door and start removing all the furniture and cabinets in the way. I unlock the door, pause for a moment……… “This is for you guys, I’m coming”. 

Then I open the door.

I walk outside, and nobody is there.. No creatures to be seen.. Its nearly pitch black and quiet outside. I don’t feel fear, I feel burnt out.. I feel nothing at all, I feel numb. I walk out toward the middle of the front yard of the cabin, now totally empty. I look back at the cabin and it looks like a tornado hit it. I’m surprised it didn’t come crashing down on me, the damage was so extensive.. 

*snap*

I quickly turn around and look out into the woods. Its hard to see.. But I see two pale naked creatures, emerging from the brush.. Slowly and methodically, nothing like the savagery I saw before. I ready my axe, and think “this is it”… But as they come closer, they stop under the moonlight and I get a better look at them.

Oh my God.

ITS CLARK AND JULIA!

But they looked awful, they looked so much like those monsters.. But not fully.. Its like they were half human and half “monster”! I had assumed when they were taken away, that they were torn apart and eaten.. I could have never imagined they would still be alive! But from the looks of it… They got a fate far worse then death. It looks like were are being “converted” or “assimilated” or something.

“Join… Us…..”

What!?!?

They can talk! 

I call out to them, saying their names! Trying to reason with them! Anything to see if they are alright! 

But its like they dont even hear me, or just aren’t listening.. Just nothingness.

If this really was Clark and Julia, its not anymore.

They have become something else.

They have become these things. 

Just then I hear more rustling… I look around and I see a bunch of those creatures emerging from the brush, these are the ones from earlier. But they do not rush me or attack.. Totally quiet. They simply walk while twitching closer, towards Clark and Julia.

I have no idea what is going on, but I wont let them take me.. I wont let them do that to me! Just as the creatures reach Clark and Julia, they extend their sickly fouls hands and grab onto a portion of Clark and Julia’s necks… What the hell is going on…? Just then they both have big grins on their faces.

“Nathan….. Join……. Us.”

I can’t take this anymore.. WHY DO YOU WANT ME TO JOIN YOU?! WHAT ARE YOU?! WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?!

They finally answer. 

“In… The... Beginning… When… The… Earth… Was… Just… A… Formless… And… Lifeless… Planet… God… Created… Us… The… First… Original… Immortal…Humans… To… Exist… Not… In… His… Image… But… In… The… Image… Of… His… Most… Beloved… Angel… Satan… But… When… He… Rebelled… Against… His… Creator… God… Decided… to… Abandon… Us… For… He… Saw… Him… In… Us… So… We… Retreated… Under... This… Mountain… Our… Birth… Place… Our… Own… Garden… Of… The… Forsaken… After… Eons… Of… Being… Deprived… Of… Gods… Love… We… Began… To… HATE… And… In… Our... Insanity… Driven… Hate… We… Tore… Out… Our… Own… Voices… So… That… We… May… Never… Worship… Gods… Name… Again…”

“JOIN……. US.”

“JOOOOOIIIIINNNNNNN UUUUUUSSSSS.”

“Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehe”

Then suddenly the Monsters besides them violently rip out their vocal cords!

“Hhshhsshshaajhaahahah”

“Hssjhsjaajshehshheeagaguuuuuh”

WHAT THE HELL!? They didn’t even react, they just kept LAUGHING! Now they are making those same guttural moaning sounds just like the other creatures. Thats it isn’t it.. The final step in their “transformation”, to be a foul speechless creature like them.. Thats why they have those neck wounds and make those horrible sounds! That was it for them… 

They seem to be some kind of savage primordial “human” like creature that existed before us, and they were so foul just like the one they were molded after, that God himself abandoned them! And they degenerated into these flesh eating humanoid horrors over the millennia in hiding! Eating and “converting” random people grow their numbers!

This… 

This is a nightmare I cannot wake up from.

Kyle, as awful as it is to say.. 

You were the lucky one.

More of these pale humanoid monsters start coming out of the woods… Behind me, in front of me, besides me… Everywhere. 

Twitching and moaning.

On all fours and two legs.

They are coming for me.

Their final victim. 

Heh.

Well… They are going to have to work for this meal! As they close in on me, I lift my axe up and proclaim to them all.

COME AND GET ME YOU MOTHER FU-

The end?