Hello readers. I read all your comments both good and bad. The constructive criticism has been noted and I will apply it to my story. I apologize for taking so long, one of my editors took long to respond with the edited copy so I had to change to my other editor but a few days had already gone by delaying the process of editing. Thank you Felicia for the work you did with this part.
Warning: this chapter contains some graphic acts of violence that may be disturbing to my more sensitive readers. You can skip the first part and start from the line you will see on wards.
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The calm sky cracked as the clouds split up. A hole began to form in the sky disrupting the night sky. The circle became bigger, yellow and black light swirled in the portal, a low pounding sound could be heard coming from the circle as it touched the ground finally.
A man dressed in dark grey robes stepped out of the circle, a smile crept up his handsome face. He walked forward scanning his surroundings taking in the lights, the smells, the strange shaped buildings.
Another man came out of the circle a few seconds later; he looked behind him and then proceeded to stand behind the first man, he raised his hand towards the circle.
Almost immediately, hundreds of people dressed in simple clothes with chains on their feet stepped out, some larger than the rest. They filed out of the spinning portal to stand on the left side of the man who still raised his hand in silence. As soon as the last person stepped out, he raised his hand slowly, he began to chant an incantation softly, the spinning portal shrank closed as though there had never been one.
"This is it Kazith?" the first man to come out asked kicking a loose rock laying on the ground in the forest clearing.
"Yes Lord Anouk," Kazith(Stan) said bowing his head low.
"I am glad we arrived earlier than expected, I was getting tired of torturing the slaves. Make sure the warriors are well rested today, we begin the hunt tomorrow. But first, my pets are hungry and need nourishment," he smiled as his first in command went to watch the warriors, he laughed when Stan shocked a young sleeping woman awake burning her hair.
Lord Anouk lifted the sleeve of his robe, revealing a tube containing black liquid. He walked off a distance and poured the liquid out, absently he noticed a house in the distance, 'that will do nicely'. The sweet smell of decaying flesh reached his nose as the liquid seeped into the soil; he stepped back from the melting ground.
The clouds began to bleed droplets of blood around the area he stood hitting his pale face. Lightning and thunder could be heard for miles, but what could not be heard was the low growling and rattling noise coming from the earth.
As the thunder got louder so did the rattling. A sound of cracking began to be heard, an eerie fog formed that seemed to come out of nowhere.
At the exact moment that another lightening flash struck the sky a hand burst from the earth, it was not a human hand. It was a mutant hand that had scales, parts of flesh and bones stuck out of the wrist. Another hand came seconds later scratching the ground as though trying to get leverage, a few minutes of scratching before the creature caught onto a large boulder. Once it had hold of the boulder, the back covered in scales and humps came out followed by feet that were covered in scales. But looked like the hind legs of a lion that had broken its legs at the ankles, the legs bent away from the body.
As the last parts of its legs were coming out, it pushed forward landing on its belly.
Looking at it, one might say the creature had mated with a crocodile and lion, the body was infused with a crocodile and the short fur of a lion.
It walked on hands and feet pulling itself forward leaving a trail of black liquid that disintegrated the soil, it sniffed the air and turned around.
It started digging, throwing dirt over its deformed shoulder, finally it caught something with its sharp teeth and pulled, a deafening growl came from below, it pulled hard with its teeth, another croc creature came flying out of the ground. When it landed, it launched itself at the other creature; they landed against the side of the house.
Lord Anouk walked toward the creatures still fighting; he touched each one causing them to stop fighting.
"Now play nice my pets, you must be hungry," he paused as the creatures growled showing sharp teeth, as they clawed at the ground.
"Good, your food is in this building my pets, go on," Lord Anouk said motioning with his long hands.
The creatures stared at each other; one of the creatures nudged the other in the belly with its nose. They turned black eyes at the building; the croc creatures got on their hind legs and held onto the wall with their glue like palms.
Slowly, they scaled the wall grabbing the window; one creature pushed itself inwards and crawled down, jumping to the floor with a barely audible thud which was a fit for such bulky monsters, the other followed close behind.
Sleeping peacefully on a large bed was an older couple. The husband had his arm around his wife; she had her hand on his shoulder snoring slightly.
One creature approached the couple moving lightly on all four sniffing the air. The other creature followed twisting its neck left then right.
When they reached the bed they stood on either side of the bed and looked down at the couple still soundly asleep, the one standing near the wife leaned forward and sniffed her.
It touched her graying hair with its claw, the soft strands slipped through its rotting claw, it growled loudly grabbing a fistful of hair, the woman woke up screaming in pain as her hair was pulled.
The husband woke up immediately, the other creature grabbed him by the neck piercing through his skin, blood gushed out of the wound profusely. He yelled as he was dragged out of bed, the creature sunk its sharp hind legs in his stomach, causing blood to pour out hitting the wall close by. The creature tore through his arm removing flesh from his arm chewing and swallowing as it held him down with its weight.
"Argh!!" he yelled struggling with the creature.
The other creature jumped on the bed holding the wife down with its body, it clawed at her pajama cover thigh with its claws, she screamed on top of her lungs as the creature tore through her legs. Their bed was covered in blood as she bled, she cried as it tore into her flesh removing a large chunk of her muscle above her knee.
"Help! Somebody help us!! Please!" she screamed as she was eaten alive. The creature turned its head to look at her terrified face before returning to its meal.
She hit its fur covered back with all her might as she felt excruciating pain, she looked over at her husband, his chest was torn open by the other creature that was currently eating his liver on the side. His face was partially torn from the cheek down to his jaw blood covered his lifeless body.
She screamed turning her face away from his broken form in despair and sorrow; she saw a man in the corner of the room lurking in the shadows relief flooded her.
"Please help me!" she screamed at him. She screamed louder, tears falling freely as the creature broke her knee splitting her knee bone with its sharp claws.
The man stepped forward his dark coat moving to reveal his glove covered hand; he stood by her head smiling down at her.
"Now why would I do that my pretty?" he asked grinning at her.
