The Last Warm Place by Barry Napier

Author:Barry Napier [Napier, Barry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horror, end of the world, armageddon, kaiju, monsters
Publisher: Barry Napier
Published: 2020-04-27T22:00:00+00:00

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When I made it out of the nest, the scene waiting for me on the road was surreal.

The truck that Riley had driven behind the dump truck had been overturned. Vance, Riley and Peterson were hunkered down behind it. All three of the men were shooting an assortment of weapons at the six tentacles that were currently protruding from the nest. As I approached the scene, on of tentacle-like things slammed down on the truck. One of the tires flew off from the impact and the truck was bent almost perfectly in half.

I heard Kendra screaming but didn’t see her anywhere. I did see Watts, though. He was lying on the road, motionless. His head looked like it had been pulverized; only his chin was recognizable as any shape resembling human anatomy. One of the tentacles was wrapped securely around his waist, dragging him slowly back towards its dark home.

As I watched this, another tentacle came out of the nest. Its end landed on the ground a few feet shy of the wrecked truck. When it struck the ground, I could feel the vibration of it in my feet.

Vance was firing a rifle at it and although I could see every single shot hitting the thing, they did no good. I didn’t even see where the bullets were penetrating the thing’s flesh at all. The tentacle hesitated and seemed to taste the air, searching for where the shots had come from. It then leaped off the ground and seemed to float towards the gunfire.

It grabbed Peterson by the face and popped his head directly from his body. The night hid most of the blood and gore; from where I stood, it almost looked like some strange and comical magic trick. Vance screamed at this sight continued firing, his screams like those of a man possessed.

I looked away from the chaos and tried to find Kendra. I could hear her screams without any problem but couldn’t locate her. As I followed the direction I thought her voice was coming from, I passed Watts’ corpse. I reached down and grabbed the assault rifle that was still grasped in his dead hands. It did almost nothing to make me feel more secure.

I took another running step towards the sound of Kendra’s screams and was tripped by something. I looked down and saw a large grey shape curling around my foot. It was the tip of another tentacle.

I screamed, raised the rifle, and nearly fired. I held off in the last moment, realizing that doing such a thing would have likely blown my foot off.

I felt it slithering around me, roughly the thickness of a baseball bat. I thanked God this was a smaller version of the much larger ones I had seen. Yet, as I stood up and tried to scramble away from it, I saw that others of this size had also come out of the nest. They were still attached to some unseen body further inside the nest, but they came as if of their own accord, slithering like a den of snakes with one mind.

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