chapter 6

Ari kept walking to the front of the group, while keeping her eyes peeled to the front and Len would go with the light at every turn of Ari's head. There were lights but not all of the area was visible from the shadows, Thea kept glancing behind them to make sure nothing was coming from the rear, even though they blocked the door that led from the stair well with the furniture from the office, those things seemed to be unworldly strong.

" hey keep that light shining behind you to be sure nothing is coming up behind us, what are your names" Thea said while Ashley held on to the hem of her shirt.

" I'm sam, this is Racheal and the one with the flash light is Sia" Sam said while holding Rachel's hand, Sia kept shining the light behind them and making sure to sweep the whole hallway.

Finally Ari came to a door at the end of the hallway, a large metal door with no glass or anyway to peer in to see what was in the next room.

" I'll go check it out, you guys wait here until I come back" Ari said while taking the flashlight from Len, she slides the door open and quickly shines the light around. When she turned to shut the door, Len was right behind her and slid the door shut while looking ahead in the large room.

" what are you doing Len, wait with the others" Ari hissed, Len glared at her walking forward and Ari's face turned red with anger. Len looks around the large shelves that filled this room, then walks closer to the first one, She sees athlete equipment from badminton to hockey sticks, she picks up a bat and does a mock swing with it.

" Ari we should let them in, if something comes and were too far ahead they might get lost" Len said walking back over to the door.

" guys come on" Len said while standing by the door, when Sia enters she quickly shuts the door back and walks over grabbing the badminton net.

" Sia help me tie this to that steel pipe running down beside the door." Len said while the girls secure the door in place, she shows the others hockey sticks and bats and they each grab one. Thea sees a basket for tennis balls, she places all the bottles inside and grabs a metal bat. Ashley grabbed a hockey stick, Ari waited for all of them to get situated and Len carried an extra bat under her arm for Ari.

" now stay together, try to watch the shelves and if you see movement let me know" Ari said while they make their way through the maze of shelves.

They didn't know something was on the ceiling, watching them from the shadows and drool was dripping down hitting the floor as the group made their way deeper in the large room filled with shelves.

Lillian parked her car at the back, she grabbed her flashlight, attaching it to her shotgun and didn't see the team or other cops anywhere.

(" maybe there inside, since the phones went down she had no way to contact her partner and sister in law") Lillian thought about Evelyn breaking down, I have to get her out and screw work. Evelyn has money out the ass, they just wanted their own careers and to pursue a dream of theirs since college.

She makes her way inside the basement door, no one was in sight and nothing moved and her radio broke the silence.

" ahhhhhh he-HELP !!" a voice rang out across the radio with gunfire in the background, she quickly turned her radio down while leaning her back against the wall and tried to listen to the noise she heard during the radio transmission. Now she can hear radios squawking from up ahead, all of them seem to be coming from the door up ahead.

Lillian felt a cold sweat covering her body her hand was a few inches above the door knob, fear was surrounding her and her gut feeling told her to not open that door. Lillian slowly walks away from the door on the right and walks to the door straight ahead of her, she quietly walks over to the door and opens it.

It was clear she proceeded ahead, when she heard a crunching noise behind her and behind the door she just came through. She puts her ear against the door to listen, she could still hear the crunching noise and also someone whimpering.

" wh-what are you things pl-please just kill me, ahhhhhh I-it's eating m-" the man was screaming out then a loud crunch was heard and silence was what followed. She quickly backs away from the door and heads out through another one, she hears someone whispering to someone. She quietly opens the door, when she walks in, there were some couches and chairs along with Tables. A light flickered to the floor in front of her, she closes the door and locks it. An officer comes out from behind a couch, then she sees twelve others and a man in a janitors outfit.

" he needs first aid, what happened to the rest of your team" Lillian said while getting the first aid out of her bag, she throws it over to a young man who is standing by the janitor.

" Whatever those things are, they're not human.... my lieutenant and his men were put down within a few minutes, this man pulled me through the door and its tongue that had some kind of teeth or hell I don't even know what it had all over its tongue and it pierced him. I got off a few rounds, it retreated back to the room on the right where it took all of my teammates to" The man said while scratching his nape, he looked back at the people and then toward the other door.

" that thing will not let us through, we need to head up to the ground floor" the officer said while reloading his machine gun, he nodded to the group behind him.