"Hurr".
"Hurr".
"Hurr".
Echoing down the corridors.
The thing was breathing, labored it would seem but alas, twas the sound it always made.
The Stomps that accompanied the sounds made the floors shake and the doors rattle.
The Beast was huge.
It stank.
It was Hungry. It was always Hungry. It never stopped eating. It would eat the world if it would fit in its jaws.
No one knew it truly, the only ones to see it ended their lives in its gullet and their afterlives in piles behind it.
Animal? ROBOT? Alien? Demon?
It came from the Darkness. These fools had opened a doorway. Stupid, stupid men.
It was a simple enough assignment. Fifteen men and women headed out to the Frozen Wastes of the South Pole to investigate a disturbance with the Earth's Magnetic Field. Granted, it was dangerous but it should have been Mother Nature they feared.
Not some god forsaken Beast born from Chaos.
The machine was experimental, paid for by Frost Tech Inc. It was supposed to measure wavelengths and spot weaknesses in polarities. Sadly, it did much more than that. It did its job well, too well...perhaps it truly did what it was supposed to all along...perhaps this was all a lie...
The life of a man is cheap when compared to the benefit of science.
They did something, they opened something...they let something loose.
A horrific, shambling Lovecraftian beast. Black as night, teeth the color of Onyx and able to bite through steel. It did not sleep, it did not dream, it did not rest. The cold phased it not at all, it was built for it perhaps with its think coat of razor sharp quills which shed everywhere it went, still it remained covered...
Where once there were fifteen, now there two.
The project director and his daughter.
They had named this beast...they called it Lucy.
She was out there somewhere, she had torn through the compound to make her own doors. She wandered where she please, always looking for something to eat...or someone.
Trails of her slime drool were everywhere, pools of foul smelling liquid that had its own unique glow. It was they only light that they had. The Beast had eaten the Generators.
When they were certain that it was out in the Wastes they would move from room to room, looking for food or weapons. Something to fight the Beast or even a way to contact someone.
Anyone.
They knew they could not run. The Wastes would take them withing hours of leaving the walls.
They were trapped with this Horror.
They prayed it would leave. Just go back to where it came or find somewhere new to terrorize but inside they knew it couldn't go back. It had eaten all they equipment. If it made for a new land, they couldn't warn anyone and the cycle would begin again.
Stopping the Beast was their only hope.
They made their way quietly to the Comm Room at the South End of the Compound, always with both ears open. The slime pools lit their way.
Strangely enough, there was silence.
The director began to cobble parts of the broken gear together, hoping to repair the Comm unit enough for them to get a signal out. The girl watched dutifully out one of the windows. Looking for any sign of the Horror outside.
Nothing.
After awhile she began to drift...
Darkness took her...
A loud clang woke her from her slumber, startled, she turned to see her father smashing what he was working on to bits. Furious with his failed attempts to fix the machine he had decided it better to destroy it.
She moved to stop him, before the noise would attract attention but it was too late.
"Hurr".
"Hurr".
"Hurrrrrrrr".
It was close. It was hungry.
The man grabbed his daughter in his arms and ran for the door as the Beast came crashing through the wall.
They ran from room to room with the Beast right on their heels.
In the Darkness they ran, making blind turns and trying to stay ahead of the Horror behind.
The chase ended in the Kitchen. The Freezer.
The door slid shut and all was quiet...
It seemed like an eternity had passed before they felt the familiar tremor from the footfalls of the Beast...
It was here, right outside the door. It could smell the fear behind the steel.
It was soon to be over.
A loud howl went up on the other side of the door followed by the scraping of metal on claw.
The Beast's enormous head broke through the door, its teeth gnashing and its tongue lolling lazily in its maw. Bio-luminescent slobber ran from its jaws like a small stream...
It pulled itself through what remained of the freezer door...it pinned the girl down with its enormous paws...she looked into its giant yellow eyes...its head lowered....
"Lucy! Leave her alone!"
The Horse of a Dog looked upon the man with that silly dumb dog grin as she cocked her head to the side. The girl wiped the slobber from her face, giggling and all smiles.
"Stupid Dog".
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