6/14/22 The Devourer

 The Devourer

Three giant heads and a lanky brown body lurk behind us in the distance. It is coming for us, the devourer. With massive bowl-like heads that hold only a giant mouth filled with thousands of razor sharp teeth, the devourer roars through the night, almost blending in with the midnight sky, lit only by a street lamp of the small town.

Coming out of a forest of evergreens, we run through the dirt towards our small house, hoping it will bring us safety. The ground shakes as the giant monster slams one of its four arms down onto the ground. Something starts digging through the ground, emitting small bits of purple light through the dirt as it digs towards us, leaving upturned dirt in its path.

As the three of us are about to reach the house, with the trail of rising dirt catching up quickly, two of us jump towards the ground in front of the porch. Huddled on the ground we call to the third of our group who has given up and is ready for the devourer to take him. We cry out in agony as the tunnel of dirt reaches our friend.

The dirt abruptly stops as it reaches our friend and pulls him down. We watch as he emerges from the ground in a ball of light, his skin a pale gray and his eyes closed, no emotion on his face, his body stiff. Little orbs of yellow light swiftly float up around him, dripping trails of silver shimmers. At first the orbs circle only him, but then more pop up. One by one, each flying up higher than the next, the orbs form a path all the way back to the devourer's middle mouth.

As the path of light balls is completed, our friend quickly gets pulled away, dragged by the light towards one of the mouths of the devourer. It was terrifying but beautiful.


The End

6/14/22

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