Omega

Lily's feet shot up from under her, red vein-like vines entangled her feet and began dragging her away. My eyes bulged from my skull and I stumbled after her, yelling her name. Her screams began to fade away before I realized that whatever was kidnapping her was fast. I rushed to my car, which was strangely outside my garage like always, threw my seatbelt on and began rushing down the street.

When I turned a corner and saw the burning I knew something was very wrong. The clouds were blood red and glitched from place to place as it rained. People walked aimlessly through the streets until I passed, traumatized by the flames and the memories it brought. A man screamed as he burned and no one helped him. No, they stabbed him.

I was slammed back into reality when some crazed child tried to jump onto my car. Cracks riddled my windshield and blood was smeared on it before another person, a woman, nosedived with a knife into me.

"Out of sight, Out of mind!" She roared demonically flailing her knife around. Screaming curses, I tried to bat her attacks away, and deflected her knife into my seatbelt. The car swerved before I hit a guardrail and the girl flew off before she was impaled on a tree branch. I lost sense of gravity and front flipped into the air, hit the tree the woman was on, and rolled into a stream.

I groaned as I pushed myself up, my vision blurred and I hobbled over the a small tree. Stepping on something hard, I looked down to see the glint on the woman's knife looking back at me. I discreetly looked both ways, heard a gunshot, and picked the knife up. Then my car exploded from behind me and spilled me back into the dirt.

I muttered a curse, spitting mud, before almost going unconscious. I heard a guttural roar from behind me.

"You're gonna die!" A crazed man said before charging me.

"Hey!" I tried with a cough, pointing my knife at him, "Stay back!"

For a moment I hoped my knife would scare him away until he ran straight through the flaming gasoline on top of the water. He didn't even care if he was burning up and my eyes widened before I tried to stumble into the woods. Before I could however, the woman impaled on the tree grabbed my shirt.

Cursing and in intrinsic fight-or-flight or both mode I slashed at her hand. A chilling sensation washed over me when she laughed. I started slashing in panic, causing blood to squirt into my face making me gag, but she groaned; no, not in pain, but in ecstasy. I finally cut her hand off just as my flaming pursuer dived and missed.

I stumbled back and fell down, shuffling backwards on my behind as I spied more of them coming. I tried to run but half-hobbled to a abandoned shed with them close on my heels. Once there I slapped the door shut and pushed just enough to manage to lock it.

After that they stopped immediately and I turned around to the halls of a Catholic school that I used to teach in.

"What. The. Hell?"

I unlocked the door and peeked out just to make sure it was real and nothing was on the other side. As in, nothing but darkness. I shut the door tentatively and sat against the wall, mud caking onto the wall as I did.

I tried to rub my face but then realized that woman's hand was still stuck to me and yelped. I threw it across the hall and returned to a fetal position looking at the severed hand in horror. Breathing heavily, a door creaked open farther down the hall and I slowly turned my head towards it.

I quietly got up once a strange pumping sound grew closer. A horrific figure with metal sewn over damages to his head shuffled out, dragging something tethered to the hole in his chest via fleshly ropes. I gagged as he dragged what looked like an enlarged, stabbed, hardened, and impaled ball-and-chain of his own heart.

Hearing me gag, it's head slowly turned in my direction and I realized that it didn't have eyes. I began stepping towards it, as the only escape was a side hallway between us. Once at the corner I began to run for it and the creature roared from behind me. I burst through a set of double doors and slipped in my knife as a jam. Huffing, I slowly backed from the door, regaining my breath.

The I jumped as the door shuddered violently from the blind monster colliding into it. There was a moment of silence until the huge half-metal and half-meat wrecking ball broke through the door and knocked me back. I touched the spot rebar had jabbed me in my chest and pushed myself back up, my bloody hand slipping on the snapped knife blade harmlessly as I scrambled.

I took a few steps before accidentally tackling someone.

"Mr. Camilius?!" She said.