Beast Soul

"Ugh…" The girl groaned loudly as she tried to get up from the floor. She was completely exhausted, and her head was spinning.

"What the hell… what the hell just happened?" She began to mumble under her breath as she held her head and bit her lips.

She knew that she had been lying unconscious until now, but she couldn't immediately remember how she fainted, as her memory was a bit blurry in her head. It wasn't easy to recall things, especially when there's a loud ringing noise echoing in her ears.

"Ugh.. my head…" She groaned once again and massaged her head with a frown on her face. "It still hurts…"

As she was massaging her head, her eyes suddenly widened, and she let out a loud scream.

"AHHHHH!" Her hands were trembling uncontrollably as she screamed, and her eyes were now full of terror and anxiousness.

"The monster.. the monster.." Her words were slowly turning incomprehensible as she continued muttering. The speed at which she was speaking was slowly increasing.

"It- It went into my.. my.." She stopped mumbling under her breath, stretched out her hand and inserted her finger into her throat, which after a while made her cough out loud and throw up onto the floor.

"Guah!" The girl continued throwing up, as though she wasn't intending on stopping until everything in her stomach was emptied, and her eyes began to get all teary.

"Oh god… oh god.." She continued muttering even after finishing throwing up, and she wiped her mouth with a terrified look on her face.

She had remembered what had happened right before she fainted. Her memory was finally becoming clearer to her, and now, she wished that she had remained ignorant. 

"Oh god.. it went into my body…" She said with a horrified expression as she tightly gripped her stomach, unaware and filled with terror thinking about what's going to happen to her.

The monster had opened its mouth, which caused the tentacles to exit out from its throat and enter into her own mouth. Although faint and blurry, she could still remember what was happening to her.

"Where.. where did the monster go?" She looked around, afraid of the creature still being present near her, but to her relief, she couldn't see the monster's figure anywhere.

She then touched her face and rubbed her hands all around her mouth, hair and her cheeks with a confused expression. 

"There's- there's no injuries either…" She didn't understand. She had remembered the monster grabbing her by the hair and slamming her head repeatedly on the floor. She remembered her spitting out blood and multiple teeth. And yet, for some reason, there were no signs of any injuries on her face, which was confusing to her.

"Did I perhaps dream all that?" The girl had doubts as to whether what she saw was real or not, but the broken floor and walls as well as the sticky substance that was spread all over the floor and on her hands would imply otherwise.

All of a sudden!

"Urgh…!" The girl squinted her eyes as she suddenly fell down onto the floor, her head now touching the floor as she groaned loudly.

"What- what is happening to me?!" She screamed in horror as she stared at her hands, which were rapidly growing in size as scales began to cover her skin. 

"AHHHH!" The girl yelled out loud helplessly, but unfortunately for her, the transformation did not seem like it would stop.

Crack! Crack!

The sound of something hard breaking was heard, and the screams of the girl became even louder, and her expression turned to one of pain as the skin on her back began to stretch outwards like a cloth. 

RRRRRIP!

Her skin ripped open, and from underneath it burst out two long and solid bone structures that looked like the bone structure of the wings of a pterodactyl. 

The bones had pierced through her clothes, making two holes in them, and the girl began slamming her head on the floor like a crazy person. 

BAM! BAM! BAM!

"Get out of my head! Get out of my head!" She began to yell out, screaming the same words repeatedly over and over, as even her face began to morph into a monstrous figure.

"GRRRRRAR!" A loud and unexpected roar escaped out from the girl's lips, which turned her silent all of a sudden, and her eyes, which were black in color all this time, had suddenly turned red.

"... I guess I did end up winning the fight!" Noah nodded his head after a brief period of shock. Right then!

Noah's eyes narrowed down, and a frown appeared on his face. He then turned around and faced the apartment building that the monster had previously made him crash into, and his frown deepened even further.

"What was that?" Noah muttered to himself. Although he was far away from the apartment complex, he could nevertheless sense a beastly energy emanating from within the building, which made him squint his eyes.

Although there wasn't anything too suspicious about the whole situation, Noah nevertheless decided to check it out one last time in order to make sure that there wasn't anything shady going on.

WHAM!

He stomped on the ground with intense force, which made the dust around him spread out right before he launched forward, heading straight for the apartment building.

"GRRRRRAR!" As he appreciated the building, the loud roar of the monstrous creature entered into his ears, which made him widen his eyes in surprise, before immediately increasing his speed.

"Sh*t!" He cursed out loud as he bit his lips. "There was another one of those things in the vicinity?" He didn't expect there to be two monsters roaming around the same area. 

Whoosh!

Within seconds, he had reached the front yard of the apartment building, but right then..

BOOM!

A loud explosive sound rang out from behind the apartment complex, which made the facial expression of Noah worsen, and he immediately darted to the back of the building, which had now been completely covered in dust and debris.

"This is…" Noah looked at the dirt and the concrete blocks that were lying on the floor, and his gaze then immediately shifted to the sky, where he could see a monstrous figure flying through the air. 

"Damn it.." Noah gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. It seemed as though the monster had broken through the walls of one of the apartment rooms and escaped!

He looked at the direction where the monster was heading towards, and he immediately stomped his foot on the ground and took off, leaving behind a giant crater in the spot where he just stood!

'It seems like the creature is aware of where the crowded places are…' Noah thought in his mind as he tried to keep up with the monster by traveling through land.

He had used his enhanced senses to map out the surroundings, and had found out that there was a higher concentration of people in the direction where the monster was heading towards, as there were more sound waves and seismic waves propagating from that location.

"I have to stop this thing before it hurts anyone.." Noah reminded himself of his responsibility, and he continued following the monster.

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Beep! Beep!

The sound of horns echoed throughout the atmosphere, which made the boys turn their gaze in the direction of the noise. 

"It's the ambulance!" Harold yelled out, and a smile appeared on Alphonso's face. An ambulance had appeared in front of the apartment complex gateway, and was surrounded by the crowd of people. 

Right then, Max's face turned serious, and he turned around to look at the sky.He could sense something sinister approaching.

He narrowed his eyes, trying to get a good look at the sky. "What the hell is that?" He muttered to himself, as he continued gazing at it.

Whoosh!

Far away, in the air, Max could see a strange bird heading in their direction. 

'No wait,' Max squinted his eyes once again. 'That was a bird,' he said to himself. That was way too big to be a bird. And its wings were completely different to that of a bird. In fact, the wings looked kind of similar to that of a bat.

'Wait a minute,' Max's eyes widened, and fear began to spread all over his gaze. 'A bat winged creature…'

Max still remembered the creature that he saw Noah fighting just a few minutes ago, and he immediately began to sweat profusely.

"Max?" Gerald, who saw that Max was staring at the sky and not even making a single movement, raised his eyebrows and pulled him by the shoulder, asking, "What's wrong? Why are you standing still?"

"It's.. it's a monster…" Max mumbled under his breath, and Gerald widened his eyes in surprise. "What did you say?"

"It's a monster!" Max screamed out loud, and everyone's attention turned to him.. Alphonso and Harold also turned their gazes at him, their faces filled with anxiety, as they all stared at the sky, where they could see the figure of a terrifying creature with wings, heading straight for them.