Compass
Supply Closet
The storage room is dark, and deeper than it appears to be. There is shelving lining the room that is bolted to both the floor and the ceiling, though many of the bottles and boxes lining it have been swept on to the floor. To the left of the door leading back to the pharmacy is a heavy metal door leading into the freezer and in the far back of the room along the right a part of the wall seems to have been forced through, leaving a large, gaping hole.
Hmmm...
Silera looked around the room curiously as she waited on Marcus to follow her. She drifted slowly towards the whole in the wall, all the while wondering what the hell had made it.
"Damn, I really hope whatever did that is no longer about."
Marcus said after he entered the room behind her. "Well, we should be thorough and check these as well as inside the freezer. Who knows we might find you something to snack on." he teased as he opened the door to
Lab 218: Freezer and went inside.
He did make sense...
Silera thought quietly to herself before shrugging and leaving the hole to follow him into the
Lab 218: Freezer
After coming out of the freezer
Marcus slipped the ID's and credit cards into the pocket of his scrub shirt and took the opportunity to warm up a little while Silera poked around for something to eat. It didn't look like they'd have to punch in the code to exit the room so there really wasn't any rush.
As Marcus reentered the supply closet, a low, rumbling noise could be heard, so strong that it vibrated the shelves and the floor beneath his feet. From the other side of the hole came the sound of something rustling about, followed by a series of louder, wet slaps that sounded progressively closer the longer they went on.
Quickly,
Marcus drew the scalpel and chisel like instruments he had found in the room when he found the scrubs and moved to one side of the hole. Silently he hoped whatever the hell it was went the opposite direction from the hole so he and Silera could make tracks outta this horror story, but he prepared to fight none the less.
Silera walked obliviously into the room, she was contentedly gnawing on the tidbits she'd stolen off the body, though Marcus may not have been able to tell what it was, it wouldn't be hard to guess where the snack had come from. She crunched through the knuckle and then realized that the sound of her chewing was joined by some type of wet slaps and she growled. Whatever was coming was interrupting her snack and that annoyed her, she moved to the opposite side of hole as her claws emerged and her eyes slowly started lightening to blue.
The sound steadily grew louder and, from the darkness, a head appeared. Only that wasn't right. What appeared first with a massive, gaping mouth, large enough swallow a man whole, lined with teeth and multiple thin, fleshy tongue-like muscles protruding from the seemingly bottomless hole. Surrounding it was a mass of writhing, brownish-grey tentacles and a dozen blinking, yellow eyes that rimmed the top of the thing's head. Those eyes seemed to fixate on the pair simultaneously as is plodded forward into the light on stubby legs covered with wrinkled skin. The creature looked almost like a thick, fat worm with legs and sagging flesh and gurgled loudly as it neared before suddenly dashing forward, faster than it should have been able to with a lurching movement towards Marcus.
"Oh fuck."
Silera muttered in disgust as she stared at the creature. She had moved slowly as the creature neared them but when it made a sound she returned the gesture, as her feathers flared up and she hissed threateningly. The disgusting thing seemed to be headed for her companion and for a second she considered letting it happened, the whole run faster than the person with you sorta thing. Sadly, she wasn't quite prepared to watch someone die in front of her, so she circled around until she was able to slash at the back with her claws.
Marcus jumped forward and with both weapons slashed at the things eyes, he hoped one of them would connect with the things eyes. He hoped this wasn't the thing that broker the hole in the wall or else they both were in trouble.
It let out a sharp whine, trying to turn when Silera's claws dug into its flesh. A sudden, hot spurt of bright yellow sprayed out of it, splashing her hands and arms. It looked and smelled like pus, but as soon as it landed on her skin it burned as acid does. It was clumsy, too slow to reach her with its mouth and devour her as it clearly wanted to, those tentacles reaching frantically. Marcus's slash caught it right where he wanted it too, accompanied by a popping sound like burst balloons. The shriek of pain it let out was one of the most terrible sounds. It pierced their ears- needles jabbing in. Rearing back, it came at him again with a bellow.
Silera shrieked in agony and jerked back as she wildly scrambled to get the disgusted stuff off her skin. She fell back as she forced herself to swipe the burning liquid off her skin and shuddered in pain. She didn't have much of a relief before she was unable to stand, clutching her head in pain as the creature's screams cut through her ears. She blinked hazily when the scream finally ended but only saw that it was headed for Marcus again. Stubbornly she hissed, baring her fangs as she pushed herself to her feet and leapt on top of the creature and started shredding the skin, her stubborn rage fueled by the agony of the acid blistering her skin.
After hearing Silera cry out and smelling and hearing what passed for the things blood,
Marcus knew this had to end quickly. And when it jumped at him he brought the chisel down hard in the center of the head behind those eyes and hoped it did the trick. If they couldn't kill the thing then they would need to find an escape and fast.
More pus burst from the skin Silera was tearing into. It soaked her body, burning through the clothes and onto her bare flesh. Wiping it away had done no good. This strange substance stuck to her wherever it touched, though her body would no doubt work quickly to restore itself. As Marcus tried to end the thing its tentacle grabbed at him. Again he landed his blow but it did not but earn him a burst of its foul blood all over his face and chest and arms. It wailed again- dragging him in towards its gyrating teeth all the while.
Realizing those teeth were getting closer
Marcus changed his plan of attack this time slashing at the tentacles pulling him toward the mouth. He hoped the foul burning crap would land on the floor and not on them this time, if he kept this up he might do something desperate and foolish to try and survive.
Silera screamed, a mixture of rage and pain. This wasn't working and it did was drive her further and further into a frenzy. She clawed her way up the creature's body until she was perched above its eyes. "Give me one of those!" She shouted hoarsely at Marcus, referring to the weapons she had. If those failed she was prepared to start ripping apart the creature's eyes.
Marcus's slashes at the writhing appendages gripping his arms and legs worked to an extant; though their grip tightened he succeeded in separating them from their host and fell backwards to the floor in front of the beast. His female counterpart however, was getting no where fast. She drew more blood as she tore into it, but the hide was thick and the fat like tissue beneath it thicker yet. In its pain it again turned its head about to the current source, its remaining tentacles grabbing at her in another attempt to eat what was attacking it, and all the while that shrill scream grew louder and louder in the small room.
Marcus threw the chisel up to Silera and went after what he hoped was a muscle behind the leg hoping to keep it confused. He wondered how much of this goop there was inside the thing. The noise was horrendous and he hoped it wouldn't draw anymore to them.
Silera grabbed the chisel but didn't have much time to do anything else but latch on with her claws and hold on as the creature started moving its head. She hacked and slashed at the tentacles come her way but the pain was rapidly getting to much to handle. She was soaked in the burning blood and she was suddenly couldn't keep the idea of cooling water on her skin. She wanted to get out of this nightmare! She glanced towards the door, checking to see if the exit was clear before she buried the chisel as far as it could go into one of the eyes and then started pushing it in further.
The attack on the creature's leg by Marcus worked well. Its leg gave out and with another roar it tipped towards him with Silera still on it's back, lurching towards the pain but slipping in it's own blood which had begun to eat into the floor beneath their feet. The thing was clearly in misery as it fell with the chisel shoved deep into its eye socket and, after rolling onto its back, pinning Silera beneath it's massive weight as well as one of Marcus's legs, it wriggled and screamed at the ceiling above. Its belly now exposed, it's two assailants could spot the bright red, throbbing mound just under its jaws. The floor underneath the trio was now making a noise of its own, groaning and creaking as gallons of acid poured down, now threatening to give way.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK!
Silera was silently screaming in her head as the creature started to fall. She tried to leap clear but she wasn't fast enough and felt the smothering weight of the creature cover her. She was in agony, the acid was eating at her even while she healed rapidly, it just made it harder for her to die and prolonged her pain. She caught sight of the pulsing mound under it's throat and lunged for her target, her twisted fingers were tipped with evil looking talons that fell short from her target and she growled in frustration. She was desperate to get away before the floor fell in on them and they fell to their death, at the same time she was trying not to breath or open her mouth in a bid to keep the acid from burning her lungs and throat as she struggled not to black out.
Marcus caught sight of the mound and came up with a quick plan as he also feared falling through the floor. He placed his free leg against the thing and before trying to push it away from them he sat up and plunged the scalpel into the pulsing mound. "Silera push with all you got!" he cried out hoping this would work in their favor.
Silera nodded, barely hearing him speak through her burned ears but she placed both her hands against the creature and pushed as hard as she could. She wasn't ready to die, and she'd made up her mind that at the first chance she got to get free she would take it... regardless whether Marcus got out as well.
The thing continued to wriggle and screech, twisting its body this way and that, pushes Silera further into the floor, which was quickly disintegration underneath her. When the scalpel plunged into the bulging, scarlet growth on the underside of its chin it gave a terrifyingly loud scream that pierced walls and momentarily deafened everyone within the near vicinity, followed by a death rattle as it breathed its last. Unfortunately, the pairs attempt to push the dying creature off of her also put too much pressure on the floor beneath. Just as they'd managed to roll the still-twitching corpse and before Silera could escape, it gave way and she went tumbling down into the Lab 218: E-4 Secure Storage.
Marcus rolled onto his stomach trying to catch her, "Silera!" He needed to find a way to get down there to her, they were in this together and he wouldn't leave without her. Quickly he considered his route and gathered anything else he could use for a weapon, and grabbed any clothing he could scavenge to dress any of her wounds. Once prepared he called into the hole, "Silera I'm coming stay put." then headed back into
Lab 218: Pharmacy
Laboratory #218
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