4 Blood

Lucas felt his body tingle, it was like he was numb, it was strange but also relaxing. He opened his eyes slowly and saw a faint white light and wondered:

'Already happened? Well, that's what death is like… it was calmer than I thought.'

He believed that death would be very painful, but now he was reviewing his thoughts about it. He looked around and realized that strangely, he was still in the same bed in the same room in that same bunker where he hid with his father, or that would be a copy. As soon as he remembered the bedroom and the bunker, he remembered his father.

"Father? Where are you?"

The young man looked around looking for his father, not seeing him, looked at the bed and what he saw would probably never forget. Beside him was a corpse, but it didn't look like a normal corpse, it was shriveled up, dry of flesh and blood, with only skin and bone being almost impossible to identify, but he would recognize this body no matter where or where it was. It was his father! His father, who always accompanied him, was there beside him.

He widened his eyes, couldn't think of anything, just stood there and continued like that for a few seconds when he finally came to. He then despaired and moved his hand to touch his father's body, when he touched his arm, it shattered into dust.

The surprised young man withdrew his hand quickly, afraid of turning the rest of his father to dust, and wondered:

'What is going on? Why that? Aren't we in heaven? Is this hell? What did we do wrong? Didn't we go to church? I COULD NOT EVEN LEAVE THE HOSPITAL! HOW THE FUCKING WOULD I GO TO CHURCH?'

He was almost going crazy, the person he loved the most in the world, his father, was by his side probably dead, but he couldn't touch him and worse, he didn't even know why.

With a few more seconds of thinking about what he should do, he decided to at least touch his father one last time. So he hugged him at once, his tears drenching his face as he felt his father turning to dust in his arms and there was nothing he could do.

Even after the whole body turned to dust and dispersed in the air, the young man remained in the same position, he did not dare to move, as he wanted to remember every moment he had with his father.

After a few minutes he finally raised his head, wiped his tears and got out of bed, walked towards the door with light, slow steps, opened the door and entered the hallway. It was empty and dimly lit giving a tone of terror and melancholy.

He walked down the hall aimlessly, just walked around. Curves and curves later he realized. Why was he walking?! Hadn't he lost the movement of his legs? What was happening?

He hasn't had time to think about it clearly since he heard crying sounds, it seemed to be close and it really was. A few seconds later, when he turned in the hallway, he saw a nurse sitting on the floor leaning against the wall, her head was between her legs and her crying wasn't loud, but it was audible.

Approaching the woman, he said:

"Hi, how are you?"

The woman was startled and quickly raised her head, however, this young man would most likely not forget this vision. The woman's face was deformed, she had no eyes, more precisely there was no room for them, since antennae belonging to insects grew in place, these antennae were about ten centimeters long and one wide, her mouth was human-shaped, but the teeth were pointed and the two central teeth in front of the top were shaped like fangs.

It was a frightening sight, he could barely move, but instinctively took two steps back. His heart beat so fast he thought it would explode. Fear crept up his spine, his body froze.

The transformed woman abruptly stood up and reached out to touch Lucas. At that point, with fear permeating all her cells, her instincts 'said':

"Not! Don't let her touch you!!"

This strong feeling made him regain some of his movements and partially deviate from the hand, but the woman still managed to scratch his left shoulder, removing a good amount of skin leaving three well-defined scratches.

He felt this excruciating pain, something he had never felt before and quickly came to his senses. He turned and ran, didn't look back and just concentrated on running as far as possible.

Unfortunately, the woman didn't give up and continued to pursue him. She was much faster than he was, but it looked like she didn't have complete control of her body and would often hit the walls in the hallway, but wouldn't give up on her target.

He ran, not just in a straight line, whenever he felt the woman approaching he did zigzags and when he found a bend in the hallway he didn't hesitate to follow her so he could buy more time.

Unfortunately the bunker was not very big and he soon reached the end of one side of it. With only one room left to enter, he did not hesitate to enter and close the door and lock it. He looked around, realized it was a kitchen and thought:

'Kitchen, knives!'

With that thought he looked for one, after reading so many novels, watching so many movies, he kind of acted instinctively, he knew he had to defend himself. While looking for the knife the woman arrived in front of the door. Lucas thanked the gods for locking the door; as he listened to the hideous woman banging and scratching on the door to get in he looked for a knife and finally found it.

At that moment he thought:

"She's faster and stronger than me, I can't let her take the initiative!"

So he moved towards the door and stood to one side, waiting for the woman to break down the door, but suddenly she stopped and he thought it strange. Of course, he didn't dare open it, he knew he had no chance in 'open field', so he waited.

After about three seconds he heard rapid footsteps coming from behind the door and finally understood what was happening, the woman had moved away to gain momentum!

*boom*

The door fell and revealed the woman half deformed, with some insect parts mixed with human parts, the young man had no time to think about these details and quickly moved the knife with all his strength towards the woman's head, but the knife didn't hit her, the woman dodged at the last second!

The young man despaired, he didn't plan anything after the first blow. The woman didn't give him time to think, and she quickly stretched her clawed hand back toward him, more precisely aiming for his chest; pushing his leg against the ground with all his strength, Lucas tried to dodge the blow, but he couldn't do it effectively.

The hand still reached him and five puncture marks appeared on his chest and by its quick action it didn't penetrate deep, just enough to pierce the skin.

He threw himself into a closet with his leap and the strength of the woman's hand. She didn't hesitate and moved forward to kill her prey. The prey didn't stay still and she jumped forward also holding her knife in both hands. He was surprised by his quick decision, in fact he didn't 'decide' it, he just followed his instincts.

In the confrontation, the woman's claws completely penetrated the shoulders and collarbones of the young man, he felt so much pain that he howled, amidst the mixture of fear, pain and despair he stabbed with all his strength the woman in his head. The knife was stuck halfway in his skull, making the woman stop moving, still full of adrenaline and pain he sighed, but before he could feel relieved, the antennas that were taking the place destined for the insect eyes of the woman moved, she was not dead yet! The woman withdrew her hand and stabbed Lucas in the stomach, he no longer felt his arms, the pain was excruciating in his shoulders, collarbone and belly due to the injuries. Feeling that death was already hitting his face, he felt desperate, he didn't want to give up and die like this, so he literally used his head. He pushed with all his strength her head on the knife hilt in a desperate attempt to kill that monster, her forehead hit the hilt of the knife making it completely enter the head of that thing. The blood from the woman's head splashed on her face, after which the 'insect woman' stopped moving. When she stopped, the bloodied youth finally breathed a sigh of relief. He survived this!

The young man then struggled to move and remove the woman's claws from his body, but suddenly he felt the same tingling as before, it was something strange and delicious at the same time. He then looked at the woman below him, her body began to wither at a speed seen by the naked eye!