Chapter 4

Waking up the next morning was as not easy, as usual. I turned on the TV and woke up to a shocking development. The news was all over the early morning disaster that struck the oil rig just off the coast. The shock was enough to make me sit back down on my chair. The pictures that came from the choppers only showed a black column of smoke rising from the ocean. I knew something was not coming through. I picked up the phone, called to where I really worked and gave them all the information I had and told them I was on my way over. I figured the company knew they were in some deep trouble and the government decided to make the whole thing disappear in the form of one of their famous accidents, but I wondered how much the destroyers actually knew about their actions, how much did the company keep from them, how many lies were told. I kept close attention to the radio that seemed to just be on a loop of the same information, tragedy at sea, lives lost. Horrible accident the same old song and dance the ones in charge allow us to know.

I pulled into a parking spot, I put my hand on the key to turn off the car when all the sudden the radio announcer took a grim turn, the report was frantic, nearly insane. I couldn't make most of it out, but it sounded like something was coming out of the ocean, something big, but before a good report could be made, everything went silent. I was worried, but I had to do my job. I quickly made my way up the building. Soon the drive was being studied by the tech guys and all I had to do now was wait. The news room was in complete chaos, something big was happening and I had no idea what it was. "Oh..no..." One of the guys said and stood up immediately, it got my attention. "According to this, Vitamin Z is blood of some kind! from something unknown, but alive!" I read very little, but there was so much more to the files I didn't bother to read. This was bad, and I highly doubt the government knew anything about it. I found the TV and turned it on. What I saw next shocked me, I had to sit down.

The scene was that of horror, in the ocean, where the rig once stood now stood a towering and demonic beast! The frantic words of the reporter seemed to escape me at the moment. It's eyes were a dead kind of yellow, sunken in and terrible, the mouth was filled with teeth that seemed ancient. Its skin was horribly burned and stretched thin over it's massive structure. I couldn't look away from it, then it screamed it high pitched screech that forced me to cover my ears, it was as painful as it was loud. That is when the signal cut out. It wasn't long after this the air raid sirens began to sound. The sound of war was everywhere and it wasn't long before there was panic in the streets. Chaos had fallen upon the city and most people didn't have any idea of just what was going on. But I knew and I wish I didn't. The human soul has one thing it likes to do more then any other. It likes to be afraid. Everybody around me went from the work place chaos, to the idea that every person was out for themselves. I decided that I needed to leave, now.

The beast itself didn't have a name. Nobody bothered calling it anything other then what it was, a monster. I escaped my work place just in time to get a radio report saying it landed in the harbor, it reminded me of one of those old monster movies I've seen as a kid. The sky erupted with life, jets and helicopters were everywhere, I wondered how many people were aware enough to notice it, I doubt many were. I wanted to run away from the disaster. You would have run away, but I still had a job to do as a reporter. I had my camera, and everything I needed to document the event as it happened. Going towards the danger was something I was used to, but even this would be a first for me.

It wasn't hard to go towards the danger. Just avoid the routes panicked people would take through the city back, on foot of course. It wasn't worth getting my car destroyed by an overgrown thing. As soon as I saw it though, I could swear those dead eyes could see me too. Like it knew for a short time I was responsible for it's torment. Then a terrible thought hit me. If the oil rig maniacs could extract its blood, the military shouldn't have a problem in destroying the monster, but the blood itself was quite worrisome in it's after effects on the human body. The line of defense on the harbor was beginning to form. I could see the beast standing there, scanning everything before it and it seemed unimpressed with what it saw. The loudest thing in the world made by man is the sound of war. The cannons and the other weapons the military makes. At least it sounded that way to me nothing could be louder. I recorded it all though. The weapons slammed into the beast and for a moment it seemed the battle was going to be a short one. The attack shredded the monster's flesh with ease. I saw the blood spray out into sea and over the land. I could hear small bouts of cheering from the attack source, I got the first glimpse of the true threat though. The flesh was healing at once! The wounds had nearly healed already. The others saw this too as well and they prepared to fire again. The beast shook itself and seemed to take notice that it was attacked. I assumed it didn't feel pain, with a healing speed like that, why would it?

The blood of the monster fell into the sea, on to the land, and on to the people who hadn't for what ever reason escaped the attack or the approach of the monster. The after effects were immediately seen. Men and women who remained and had been touched by the blood of the beast were beginning to panic, and run away at a greater intensity then they had before. It was too late for them. My camera recorded their transformations. I didn't know what to think to see it happen right in front of me. Their flesh began to grow as their fleeing slowed down. I could see their faces change from terror into those of someone who hasn't eaten in days. The beast screamed once again and I decided that it was enough to make me want to get further away from the action. I made a wise choice as the beast struck back against the beings that had attacked it with some strange deep orange beam from it's mouth that completely destroyed the weak line of hasty defense made. There was no explosion of fury that followed this attack. The people who had been struck by this terrible weapon simply turned into skeletons and dropped to the ground. The structures of buildings seemed to decay under the attack of the mysterious weapon as well. It was time to leave.