CHAPTER 4: Rising Protection

  Avory And Lilly Hide In the broken buildings, as the parasites continue to Search for victims to Consume, Oblivious Of their Presence, The creatures continue to march forward, Avory Keeps watching them Through a broken window, Seeing one Abruptly Stop, Shaking, as the metal starts to break, all of the metal snapping and falling off, revealing a..

  Grotesque Fleshy Skin, Bulging with veins, And A hard Shell Protecting the nearly Visible Heart

  With a large Jaw, and One Large Eye

  Lilly Nearly Throws up, Instead covering her Mouth and gagging.

  "T-That?! That Is what they Look like Underneath?!"

  Avory Grunts, Pulling out a Revolver, Aiming For The eye.

  "Disgusting Little fuckers.. Disgusting.. Just.. Stay.. Still..."

  Avory takes the shot, Hitting it directly in the eye, The creature Yelling, Thrashing around Then biting a bit of the building they were hiding behind Off, it Pausing for a minute, Then Turning over to their Breathing, Then in a heartbeat, Biting The building once again, Swallowing a chunk, And them

  A MINUTE OF A BLACKOUT LATER

  Avory Woke Up, Looking around the Blue glowing Veins Lighting up the Stomach inside,

  He quickly Looked around For Lilly, Seeing her, Still Unconscious, He runs over to her, shaking her back and Fourth, Letting out a large sigh of relief as she Groans, Slowly waking up

  "Thank God.. Lilly- Lilly Are you Okay..?"

  Lilly Groans, Waking up

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  "Yeah, Kinda.. Excluding the Headache..."

  Avory Pulls her back up, Now turning to Slimy Tunnel.

  "Ladies First."

  Lilly Looks at him With genuine Worry

  "W-wait.. Are- Are you being serious?!"

  Avory Chuckles

  "Of course Not, We are going together, Another thing we need is a wounded person,

  maybe Infected or dead."

  Avory And Lilly walk down the tunnel, Reaching another room, Filled with Strange Essence, Glowing red, Now shaping the form of a human-like creature, With four arms, Looking at them, With a smirk

  "Visitors..? How.. Delightful."

  Avory Tightens His Grip on his revolver As the Essence Formed Creature Speaks

  "With your Little Girlfriend! How.. Romantic.. And Pathetic, I thought you would've had better taste.. Avory Wilson Moore."

  Avory Takes a step back, Pulling out his revolver and pointing it at him

  "How the FUCK Do you know my Name, FREAK?!"

  The creature Laughs, putting his hands behind his back

  "Take the shot, Either way you'll Burn Fighting for your PATHETIC planet, It's quite Hilarious Actually! You All are probably still at war! whats the problem with me just Joining in the Fun?"

  Avory Shoots him, The creature fading into dust, the bullet going through

  the creatures stomach, Creating a finger sized hole.

  "That's Our ticket to freedom I guess."

  2 MINUTES OF CUTTING THROUGH LATER

  Avory and Lilly Emerge, Climbing out of the now Dead Parasite Looking at all of the other parasites Eating It's kin, them now Taking notice of Avory and Lilly, Now stomping the floor to Get rid of them

  Avory Tackles Lilly Behind a Wall, The parasites Slamming against the wall, Then Abruptly stopping, Gunfire Covering the rest of the noise, They Peek out from the wall, Seeing People On the hill, Firing down the parasites, Avory and Lilly run out, Towards the hill, Taking a few Hits While shielding Lilly, Successfully making it to Them, As the cease their fire after they eliminated all of them

  Avory, Walks over to one of The Soldiers

  "Hey, who the hell are you people?"

  The Soldier Turns to Avory, Putting his mask on

  "We are A corporation Known as the E.P, Stands for Earth Protector, your One of the Only People

  Who aren't in the Safety Bunker, Ask one of our Leaders, He has a X Sign on him, It'll be pretty easy to find him here"

  Avory and Lilly Search around, Finding him Nearby

  The leader Taking quick Notice of them

  "Hey, You aren't In the safety Bunker, What are you doing here?"

  Avory Winced, Covering his bleeding arm

  "We weren't aware of your existence really, One of your soldiers told me you'd take us there."

  The leader sighed, Starting to walk

  "I'll bring you There."

  Lilly sighed With Relief At the thought of Safety, at least for awhile

  Taking Avory's Arm And putting it over her Shoulder

  "Just lean On Me, I'll Help the rest of the way."

  Avory Couldn't Help but Smile at her Persistence

  "Alright."