The American Demon Waltz: A Survival Horror and Science Fiction Thriller by David Feuling

Author:David Feuling [Feuling, David]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2021-10-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 28

“You’re not Paul.” Bobby said it to herself rather than the creature. The Prometheus had anticipated the human form at which she would be most hesitant to shoot. To attempt violence against something that looked so much like her brother felt unthinkable.

But the creature was right about something else too. This was the crucial moment for Bobby to make a decision, if she wished to survive. She dove to retrieve her weapon from where she had dropped it to the ground nearby. Spinning back around to face the Prometheus, she emptied the magazine into the hallucination of her dead brother’s body. It was a wild gambit, but Bobby could not think of a better one. The entire room was surely filled with unmarked illusions.

At first, Bobby was sure that she had failed by the way the image of her brother did not react in the slightest to the shots passing through his torso and chest. But suddenly the hallucinations faded around her, and she found that she was back in the cave. The bedrock itself was now quaking, and produced a sound like bellowing rage from somewhere beneath her feet.

The gargantuan eyeball of the Prometheus loomed two stories tall above her, socketed in the stone formations of the cavern itself. Bobby now saw it for the first time, having finally regained her senses and grip on reality. It had always been there – watching her approach – but delusions had clouded her perception of it.

The eye was rolling wildly in its stone socket as she looked up towards it in disbelief. The Prometheus had apparently been blinded by the gunfire she aimed at the hallucination of Paul. She had gouged it with a full magazine’s worth of 5.56 NATO slugs. This was not the thing’s heart, as she had imagined in the early stages of her approach.

Lidless in the enclosure of the cave, the eyeball had a strange horizontally-elongated pupil, much like that of a goat. Thick, cordlike arrays of muscles anchored into the surrounding rock held the eye in place. These muscles now strained and tensed in sequence to spin the eye around in its blind spasms. The gargantuan orb moved in a way that was somehow more disturbing than her visit with Paul had already been.

Flecks of stone were falling from the cave as the Prometheus entity roared and thrashed in anger. Bobby feared most of all in that moment that a cave-in would simply bury her. The pain she had caused the Prometheus formation had clearly broken the thing’s concentration, because her delusional thoughts were gradually receding, and her rational mind began to return. Bobby scrambled to reclaim her discarded leg and the other gear she had cast off in her hypnosis. As the cave continued to quake around her, she worked feverishly to get everything back in working order so that she could depart.

The light on her O2 monitor had changed from solid red to flashing yellow. This change confirmed her suspicion that the Prometheus had momentarily lost some of its strength.

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