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Xeno Terra: Dead of Night; When the sun goes away the demons will play....
Topic Started: Jan 9 2013, 08:20 AM (324 Views)
DNArchitect
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Last Descendant of the Post-Nuclear Aberrants
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Feast from Hell

The most important rule here in the city, the one feared and respected by all, shakes all of us to the core at its mere mention. The most important rule: Never go out at night.

No one will last one step outside their door after sundown. Beasts from the deepest pits of Tartarus emerge from the pitch-black shadows as their mortal enemy shrinks back into the horizon. Sometimes I can't sleep as their daemonic howls and screeches fill my ears with unearthly sounds no man should hear. Even the creatures of the day cower into what passes for shelter to avoid being preyed on. To end any superstition I decided to stay up all night to watch these monsters live about their lives under the pale moon.

I managed to drag the corpses of three Flagheads onto the street where my window is facing. They was a fresh, and the time was right enough that scavengers wouldn't scrap it off before those nocturnal beasts would have a go at it. The sun finally set, and the first of the night creatures crawled out of the sewers to feed. As I waited, I noticed that some of the plantoids began to glow. I was aware of botanoid bioluminescence but I rarely saw it. The first to arrive on the scene were Hell Scorpids and Butcher Beetles. Then more weird beasts began to show up. Tricephalous Wormheads began drilling into the soft flesh with their rotary mouths. Tentacles of otherworldly Darkopuses probed around and stole scraps to drag back into the underworld. A flock of Carrion Hawks swooped down and ripped flesh from bone in seconds. This gruesome feast and its cacophony of sounds started to become unsettling until suddenly, everything stopped with the arrival of a loud and horrifying roar.

Lumbering out of the gloom was a massive reptilian creature, propped up on two thick legs. Its neck was long and its head was small. The back was armored and glinted against the moonlight. The other creatures backed off quickly as the beast headed for the most intact carcass. The tiny head bit and started to swallow the corpse whole. But in a sudden twist, its neck started to split into an upper and lower half, revealing a membrane that slowly stretched apart. The mouth quickly grew in size, and I looked into the black pit of its gaping maw. The gluttonous Beelzesaur swallowed the Flaghead in one fell gulp. I turned away from the horrific sight, but I had to look on. The creature, with its swollen belly, slowly crawled back in to the shadows from whence it came.

It was at that moment that I realized that I've had enough for the night. When I slept, those grotesque images could not leave my mind. But it didn't stop me from exploring more of the night life, no matter how terrifying it was.

More tales to come.....
Edited by DNArchitect, Jan 12 2013, 04:15 AM.
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