Beast Soul

"Marty! Is that you in there?" The landlord yelled out loudly from outside of the door. She seemed to have heard the loud noises from before, and came to check what was happening. Clarice slowly turned her head back, and her eyes met with that of the monster, who was now a step closer to her.

They made eye contact with each other, and neither of them made a single movement. "Marty?" The landlord yelled out once again, and then began banging on the door.

BAM! BAM! BAM!

As soon as the banging began, the monster shot forward with incredible speed, and Clarice immediately ducked down, her eyes closed and her hands covering her head.

'Sh*t! Sh*t! Sh*t!' Clarice cursed her bad fortune as she laid on the floor, but the monster didn't go straight for her.

Instead, the monster ignored Clarice, who was right next to it, and went straight for the door, where the old landlord lady was still banging.

"SCREEEE!" The monster let out a strange and ear screeching snarl as it spread out both its arms forward, slamming against the door with such force that caused it to burst open.

BAM!

"AHHHHH!" The impact of the strike was so powerful that it flung the old lady backwards, who was screaming in fear until she crashed onto the wall behind her, causing the back of head to bleed out before her lifeless body fell down onto the ground.

"Oh my god!" Clarice, who raised her head from the floor, confused as to why on earth she was still alive, was horrified by what she had just witnessed.

BAM! BAM! BAM!

The monster began walking up to the old lady, picked her dead body up from the floor and held her horizontally, and then pulled her from both sides, breaking her entire body into two pieces with ease, and causing blood and organs to spill all over the floor and the walls.

"What the-" Clarice held her mouth and resisted the urge to throw up. She looked away from the horrifying sight, unable to watch it any longer.

'I can't stay here any longer, or I'll end up like that as well..' The little voice in her mind said to her, and she decided to listen. 

She slowly got up from the floor without making any noise, and then took a step in the direction of the balcony.

Tap!

"GRRRR?" The monster turned its head around as soon as she took a step, and Clarice immediately stopped moving.

'F*ck!' Clarice bit her lips, but she didn't move an inch of her body. The monster stared at her once again, and Clarice could see the blood that was dripping out from its mouth. 'Why the f*ck is this b*tch so cautious now?' She didn't know how on earth the monster suddenly became so agile and quick.

However, to Clarice's surprise, the monster didn't attack her once again. Instead, it simply chose to stare at her cautiously, tilting its head to the side as it did so.

'Why is it not attacking me?' Clarice was weirded out by this once again and raised her eyebrows. She thought to herself, 'Can it not see me?'

"Hey, what the f*ck? Can't you guys be less noisy?" As she was thinking that, another voice suddenly echoed throughout the hallway, which shifted the focus of the monster from Clarice to the room beside Marty's.

BAM!

The monster watched as the door opened with a long noise, and a young girl with black lipstick, face tattoos and nose piercing walked out of the room with a beer bottle and an annoyed expression on her face.

"I don't know what you guys think, but you better shut the f*ck up!" The girl yelled out loudly as soon as she exited her room, which made even Clarice want to yell out in surprise.

'What the f*ck is wrong with her?' Clarice couldn't see the girl as she was still inside the room, but she could definitely hear her. She didn't know that the girl had just walked out of the room, and hadn't seen the monster yet.

"I'm trying to.." The girl couldn't finish her sentence, as she had finally gazed upon the hideous monster that was standing a few feet away from her. At first, it was as though she had frozen in place, with almost no change in her body movements nor facial expressions. 

But then, her facial expressions gradually began to change as a horrified expression appeared on her face. She could see the bloody walls behind the monster, as well as the ripped apart and mangled dead body that was lying on the floor, and the blood drained from her face.

"Wha- wha…" The girl began to mumble gibberish as she couldn't form proper sentences, and her whole body began to shake rapidly. The monster's eyes narrowed down on the girl, and it stretched out its wings, assuming a predatory stance, which only made the girl tremble more violently.

"Hey, babe?" As the girl was attempting to regain control of her body in order to escape the monster, the voice of a tired guy was heard from inside of the room, which made the ears of the monster perk up.

"What's up?" The guy, who sounded like he was the boyfriend of the girl, asked, and as soon as he did, the girl screamed loudly. "AHHHH!"

"GRAAAAR!" The monster let out an ear screeching roar in response to loud cry of the girl, and immediately dashed forward with incredible speed, heading straight for the girl.

"AHHH!" The girl continued screaming as she rushed inside her room and tried closing the door on her way in.

BAM!

But before she could do so, the monster had already caught up to her, and slammed against the door with a tremendous amount of force, which pushed the girl backwards and into the room, crashing onto a bookshelf with a loud noise.

"Wha- what the f*ck?!" The boyfriend of the girl, who was sitting in front of the computer, was caught off guard by seeing his girlfriend get pushed back and slammed onto his bookshelf, and immediately stood up from his chair in order to see who was behind this incident.

"Who the f*ck did this to my…" The guy couldn't even finish his sentence as his face immediately turned pale once he got a good look at the person behind this act. 

"GRAAAAR!" The monster stood in front of the doorway, growling loudly as it stared at the girl's boyfriend with its bloodshot eyes.

"I- I… sh*t.." The boyfriend immediately turned sideways and tried to run away, heading towards one of the bedrooms and trying to lock the door from behind, but the monster was quicker than he could ever imagine, and within seconds, it had caught up to the guy.

Slash!

The monster slashed the boyfriend's back with its sharp winged claws, and the boyfriend wanted to scream in pain.

Glop!

But before the boyfriend could even utter a single word, the monster opened its wide mouth and bit down on the boyfriend's head, biting through his neck and head with a small crunchy noise.

Puchi!

"Ugh…" The girl, who was still alive, groaned on the floor as blood began to drip out of the monster's mouth, and the boyfriend's body finally went limb.

"Is that thing inside the other room?" Meanwhile in the other room, Clarice was still standing still without moving an inch. She couldn't see the monster anymore, but she could definitely hear the loud noises that were coming from inside the other room, which made her assume that the monster had found another target.

"This is my chance," Although she felt guilty for letting other innocent people be the monster's bait, she wasn't about to sacrifice her life for a stranger either.

Swoosh!

She dashed out of the living room of Marty's apartment and headed towards the balcony.

"F*ck! How do I make it out of this room now?" She placed her hands on the railing and looked down, only to realize that there was no easy way of getting down.

She looked back at the hallway and shook her head. She couldn't go through there. There's the monster there, she said to herself. 

This was the only way out.

"F*ck! I guess I have to try and get down the same way I got up.." She mumbled under her breath as she leapt over the railing and stood at the tip of the balcony, her hands still clutching the railings that were now behind her.

"Oh god…" She then began to slowly drop one of her legs down from the balcony floor and onto the garbage bin that was straight down, attempting to get a perfect landing.

"Come on, come on…" She said to herself as she let her other leg free as well, which meant that she was now dangling from the balcony, and her legs were waving in the air, trying to find the top of the garbage bin.